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MYANMARS OLDEST ENGLISH DAILY

President U Thein Sein

felicitates Ukrainian

counterpart, PMNAYPYITAW, 24 Aug U Thein Sein, President

of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent

messages of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Petro

Poroshenko, President of Ukraine and His Excellency

Mr. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine, on

the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine which

falls on 24 August 2014.MNA

NAYPYITAW, 23 Aug

A respect-paying cere-

mony for the village elders

aged 75 and over in nearby

villages of Latpadaung-

taung copper mining pro-

ject was held at a hall of

Latpaduang Taunggya Pa-

goda on Friday, attended

by Union Minister at Pres-

Respects paid to Latpadaungtaung village elders

ident Ofce U Hla Tun to-

gether with Union Minister

for Religious Affairs U Soe

Win and Sagaing Region

Chief Minister U Tha Aye

and ofcials.

In his greetings, the

Union minister, who is

also the chairman of the

Committee for Implemen-

NAYPYITAW, 23 Aug

Health condition of the

suspected patient who is

receiving medical treat-ment at Waibargi Hospital

in Yangon has improved

on Saturday, becoming bet-

ter than yesterday while his

four close contacts are in

good health, said the Min-

istry of Health.

According to the min-

istry, the male patient had

normal body tempera-

ture and blood pressure at

120/80 millimeters of mer-

cury (mm Hg) and he was

able to walk and normally

ate food on Saturday morn-

Suspected patients health

gets improved

tation of Investigation

Commissions Report on

Latpadaungtaung Copper

Mine Project explained

the purpose of holding the

ceremony, saying that the

committee was taking re-

sponsibility for the good

of local people, promising

all-round development of

Latpadaungtaung region.

During the ceremony,

ofcials presented medi-

cines and gifts to 662 vil-

lage elders aged 75 and

over from 49 villages near

Latpadaungtaung, Sabe-

itaung and Kyaysintaung

copper mining project.

MNA

Union Minister U Hla Tun cordially greets village elders at respect-paying ceremony in

Latpadaungtaung region.MNA

ing. The man has not expe-

rienced any bleeding symp-

toms since he was admitted

to the hospital on Tuesday,it added.

The male patient who

arrived in the country by air

on Tuesday is being given

appropriate treatments at

the hospital in accord with

the instructions of consult-

ants as he was diagnosed

with a severe and compli-

cated malaria with mixed

infection of Plasmodium

falciparum and Plasmodi-

um vivax by lab tests on

Wednesday.

MNA

YANGON, 23 Aug

Myanmar holds the

Hassanal Bolkiah Tro-

phy 2014 champion after

beating Vietnam 4-3 on

Saturday night at the Na-

tional Stadium in Brunei

Darussalam.

Myo Ko Tun from

Myanmar opened the

scoring in the 17thminute

to lead Vietnam 1-0 but

Phan Van Long from Vi-

etnam leveled the scores

1-1 in the 38th minute.

In the second half,

Vietnams Ho Tuan Tai

kicked the ball into the net

in the 48thminute, giving

Vietnam a 2-1 lead.

Myanmar answered

back with two consecu-

tive goals of Myo Ko Tun

and Maung Maung Soe in

the 58th and 60th minute,

securing a 3-2 lead over

Vietnam.

Striker Cong Phuong

from Vietnam scored in

the 71st minute to draw

Myanmar holdsHassanal Bolkiah

Trophy3-3. But in the 82nd min-

ute, Myanmars Aung Thu

scored the winning goal to

grab the trophy for Myan-

mar.

Myanmar claimed as

the winner for the rst time

in this tournament.

Myanmar is also the

only unbeaten team in the

group stage of the event.

NLM

Myanmar celebrate

victory after beating

its counterpart

Vietnam inHassanal

Bolkiah Trophy 2014

championship fnal

match.VFF

Myanmar

Myo Ko Tun 17', 58'

Maung Maung Soe 60'

Aung Thu 82'

Vietnam

Phan Van Long 38'

Ho Tuan Tai 48'

Cong Phuong 71'

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Workshop on health care for sub-urban population held in YangonByKhaing Thanda Lwin

YANGON, 22 Aug A

workshop on health care

for the sub-urban popula-

tion aimed at identifying

and tackling health-relat-

ed challenges was held

on Thursday in Yangon,

organized by the Peoples

Health Foundation (PHF)

and with support from

the Three Millennium

Development Goal Fund

(3MDG).

In his speech at the

workshop, Billy Stewart,

Board Chair of the Three

Millennium Development

Goal Fund (3MDG), said,

It is essential to build

health care systems that

can adapt to the challenges

of rapid urbanization.

The 3MDG Fund

reducing child mortality

and improving maternal

health as well as combating

HIV, tuberculosis and ma-

lariaprepares to provide

nancing for health inter-

vention for needy people in

the region including refur-

bishment of existing public

health centres, added Bil-

ly Stewart.

According to a 2012

survey in Yangon, Twan-

tay township has the high-

est abortion rate among

sub-urban townships in

Yangon while South Da-

gon Township tops the

chart of crude birth death

rate, Dr Than Sein, Pres-

ident of Peoples Health

Foundation (PHF), said at

the workshop in Yangon.

The meeting also fo-

cused on reviewing roles

and responsibilities of each

stakeholder in governance

and provision of health

care of the sub-urban pop-

ulation.

Dr Than Sein also dis-

cussed the current situation

and challenges in the health

sector, strengthening health

systems, public health

management and role and

responsibility of stakehold-

ers as well as strategic in-

terventions.

During the workshop,

experts from different de-

partments and agencies

also made recommendation

on policy options to im-

prove health care.NLM

A participant from Yangon City Development Committee discusses

improving health of people in sub-urban areas.KHAINGTHANDALWIN

Skilled

workers of

electronic

engineering

ofce in

Mingaladon

township

replace old

power lines

to prevent

threats of

electricity.

KHINZAW

(MINGALA)

YANGON, 22 Aug In

a bid to prevent potential

threats of electricity, oldpower lines were replaced

with insulated wires in

Paukkon of Mingaladon

township, Yangon Region,

on Saturday.

According to an of-

cial, the replacement of

worn power lines, a project

YANGON, 23 Aug

Myanmar and Japanese stu-

dents on Friday participat-

ed in a Cultural Exchange

Programme at Sangyoung

BEHS No (1) in Yangon,

Myanmar, Japanese students build cultural bridge

Two Japanese students dance for a Myanmar song together with Myanmar students during

Myanmar-Japan High School Students Exchange Programme.NLM

Paukkon people appreciate

replacement of worn power lines

performing traditional danc-

es and music to build a cul-

tural bridge between the two

countries and bring about

better understanding of the

two cultures.

The ceremony took

place, with Headmistress Dr

Sandar Mya Nyein and Ms.

Noniko Endo, ofcial from

Japanese International Co-

operation Centre, extending

greetings. During the cer-

emony, Japanese students

demonstrated ceremonies

and traditional Japanese

dances and music.

Sangyoung Township IPRD

supervised by the town-

ships electronic engineer-

ing ofce, will preventpower waste and enable lo-

cal people to use electricity

to its full potential.

A person who lives

in the area expressed his

delight on behalf of the

townspeople.

Khin Zaw (Mingala)

A group photo of Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs

Association (MWEA) with Mi Kyi Kyi Han who won

two-year Japanese Development Scholarship leaves

for Japan on Saturday via Yangon International

Airport to attend MBA (Economics).MNA

H.E Dr. Ito Sumardi,

Ambassador of Indonesia

to Myanmar, and his

wife welcome U Thant

Kyaw, Deputy Union

Minister for Foreign

Affairs of Myanmar at

69th Independence Day of

Indonesia on 22 August.

MNA

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L OC A L NEW S

Nay Pyi Taw

Mandalay

Yangon

TODAYS

MYANMAR

NEWSSITES

MANDALAY, 23 Aug

A ceremony to form Upper

Myanmar Journalists Asso-

ciation was held at Oriental

SINGU, 23 Aug

Mandalay Region Minis-

ter for Transport U Kyaw

Hsan provided foodstuff

to ood victims from Sib-

inkyun Village of Hinthapo

Village-tract in Singu

Township of Mandalay Re-

gion on 21 August.

The Mandalay Re-

gion Government provid-

ed K50,000 to each ood

victim household. The re-

gion government plans to

prevent landslides in the

region and will demand

funds for prevention of

bank erosion, said the

minister.

As of 13 August, 47

houses of 75 have been

THATON, 23 Aug A

ceremony to commission

the rural health branch

Upper Myanmar Journalists Association

established in Mandalay

House in Mandalay on 20

August.

In his address, Man-

dalay Region Minister for

Finance and Information

Dr Myint Kyu said he wel-

comed the formation of

media organizations. The

media pillar should abide

by the prescribed ethics

and present correct news

as well as rebut the wrong

information.

Patron of the associa-

tion U Sein Win Aung and

chairman U Htay Aung

gave speeches.

The association wasformed by founder of the

Mandalay Daily U Sein

Win Aung (Sein Win

Aung-Mandalay), who is

former Ambassador and

former Mandalay City

Mayor, together with

Chairman U Htay Aung

of former chief reporter of

the Mandalay Daily. The

executive committee of the

association released a ve-

point statement.

Min Htet Aung

(Mandalay Sub-printing

House)

Foodstuffs provided to ood victims in Singu Tsp

moved to the safe plac-

es due to landslides. The

Township Administrator

and ofcials of the Relief

and Resettlement Depart-

ment gave necessary sup-

plies to the ood victims.

Min Htet Aung (Man-

dalay Sub-printing House)

Thaton Township opens building of rural

health branchinto service was held in

Donwun Village of Thaton

Township in Mon State so

as to give health care ser-

vices to over 6,000 people

from four villages.

On 22 August, Mon

State Minister for Social

Association Dr Hla Oo and

ofcials formally opened

the health unit.

Managing Director U

Nay Myo Aung of Shwe

Nay Yaung Construction

Company handed over

documents related to the

building to ofcials of the

Health Department.

The Ministry of Health

funded K60 million for

construction of the build-

ing for rural health branch

in 2012-13 scal year.

There are 29 health

branches in Thaton Town-

ship. Of them, Donwun

Village health branch will

be benecial to over 6,000

people from Donwun, Yay-

wai, Kamasai and Zayatk-

yun village.

Thet Oo (Thaton)

Myeik Township

to get modern highway

bus terminal

MYEIK, 23 Aug My-

eik Public Corporation Ltd

has completed land prepa-

rations for construction of

an international level high-

way bus terminal in Myeik

of Taninthayi Region.

A ceremony to sign

the contract for construc-

tion of the bus terminal

and all-round development

project was held at Mya

See Sein Hotel in Myeik

on 20 August.

Chairman of the cor-

poration U Hla Than said

that project will be im-

plemented on 46.40 acres

of land beside the road to

the industrial zone in south

Myeik village-tract within

three years.

Managing Director of

Erawati Projects-Projects

Manarement Ltd U Thaw

Zin explained the drawing

of a master plan and de-

sign for the project.

Managing Director

U Soe Win and Manag-

ing Director U Thaw Zin

signed a contract.

The highway bus ter-

minal will comprise the

highway bus compound,

brokerage, warehouse,

fuel station, residential

buildings, supermarket,

grocery and market.

Khaing Htoo

(Myeik District

IPRD)

Thaton

Myeik

Singu

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Female members of a Philippine peacekeeping force bound for Liberia stand at

attention during a send-off ceremony at the military headquarters in Manila on 28January, 2009. REUTERS

MANILA, 23 Aug The Philippines on Sat-urday ordered 115 troopsto return home from

peace-keeping operationsin Liberia, spurred by aworsening Ebola epidem-ic in West Africa that has

killed almost 1,500 people.The Philippines has

about 800 to 1,000 soldiersand police ofcers servingunder the United Nations

ag in conict and disas-ter-stricken areas, includ-ing Haiti, Sudan, East Ti-

mor, Cote dIvoire and theKorean peninsula.

Philippines recalls peacekeepers

from Liberia over Ebola threat

The president is get-ting worried over the Ebolaoutbreak in Liberia and hasordered all 115 Filipino

troops to return home assoon as possible, a seniordefence ofcial told Reu-

ters.

The Philippine con-tingent would cut short itstour of duty, added the of-cial, who declined to benamed because he was not

authorised to speak to themedia.

The Philippines hasbeen sending soldiers to

Liberia since 2003. A

Philippine seaman is be-ing monitored in Togo forsigns of the disease butauthorities say the country

is still Ebola-free, despitedozens of workers return-ing from Liberia.

Another 331 Philip-

pine troops deployed inthe Golan Heights will re-turn home in October aftercompleting a tour of duty,defence ministry spokes-

man Peter Paul Galvezsaid.

Amidst the volatile

security environment inthe Middle East and West

African region, the Philip-pines prioritises the safetyand security of its troops,

but remains committed tothe peace keeping missionsof the Union Nations, hesaid in a statement.

The Philippines hasbeen sending a battal-ion-size contingent to theGolan Heights since 2009.

In March 2013, Syrian re-bels briey held 21 Phil-ippine peacekeepers andkidnapped four more twomonths later. All Philip-

pine peacekeepers havebeen freed.

Peacekeepers havebeen caught in the middle

of ghting between Syri-

an troops and rebels in thearea of separation, whichhad been largely quiet fornearly 40 years.

Israel captured theGolan heights from Syriain the 1967 Six-Day war,and the countries techni-

cally remain at war. Syriantroops are not allowed inan area of separation under

a 1973 ceasere formal-ized in 1974.

The United NationsDisengagement Obser-vation Force (UNDOF),which has been monitor-

ing the ceasere, has about

1,000 peacekeepers and ci-vilian staff from India, Ne-

pal, Ireland, Fiji, Moldova,Morocco and the Philip-pines.Reuters

BANGKOK, 23 Aug

Thai junta leader GeneralPrayuth Chan-ocha, in anaddress to the nation a dayafter he was elected prime

minister by a legislature hehand-picked, asked Thaisnot to dwell on the dramat-ic coup he led in May.

There is no point

saying whether a coup isgood or whether it is bad,Prayuth said in his Fridaynight speech.

I have never said thatall my actions are corrector incorrect. I take respon-sibility for my actions. Oth-

ers must take responsibility

for theirs, he added with-out elaborating.

In a rambling, 90-min-ute speech Prayuth, who is

also Thailands army chief,touched on a number of

Thai junta leader tells

nation to move on

from coup

topics ranging from Thai-

lands illegal ivory trade topractices of human trafck-ing in the shing industry.

Prayuth did not men-

tion his appointment asprime minister.

His election, whichstill needs to be endorsedby Thailands king, adds

a veneer of legitimacy toa military council, formal-ly known as the NationalCouncil for Peace and Or-

der (NCPO), that has ruledunchallenged since it tookcontrol.

It comes at a time

when Thailands economy,

which narrowly avoided atechnical recession in thesecond quarter this year, isstruggling to get back on its

feet after months of some-times violent street demon-strations.

The military staged

a coup on 22 May aftermonths of turbulence pit-ting protesters, includingthe urban elite and southernThais, against supporters of

ousted Prime Minister Yin-gluck Shinawatra.

Prayuth has outlined ayear-long roadmap includ-

ing the appointment of a

council to oversee nationalreforms, an interim govern-ment and elections in late2015.

Reuters

Prime Minister PrayuthChan-ocha

TOKYO, 23 Aug TheDefence Ministry plans to

use space more effectivelyto detect early signs of bal-listic missile launches byNorth Korea and bolsterits defence capabilities, a

draft of Japans new spacepolicy showed on Friday.

In the basic policyto be formally adoptedby the end of August, the

ministry hopes to promoteempirical research withthe Japan Aerospace Ex-ploration Agency. It willalso consider setting up

a special force for spacesurveillance within theSelf-Defence Forces, and

developing smaller satel-

lites that can be lifted offeasily, according to thedraft.

Currently, Japan has

four information-gatheringsatellites.

The Defence Minis-

try plans to load its infra-red sensors onto JAXAsnew satellite to conduct

research and improve itscapabilities to analyze sat-ellite images, according tothe draft policy.

Prime Minister ShinzoAbe is trying to rework thecountrys defence postureas North Korea has repeat-

edly deed internation-

al pressure and launchedmissiles and other projec-tiles. Japan is also vigilantagainst Chinas possiblemilitarization of space.

Japan and the Unit-ed States are set to revisetheir defence cooperationguidelines by the end of

the year, with bilateralcooperation in space ex-pected to be one of the keyitems.

So far, Japan has ena-bled JAXA to do researchfor the countrys defence

since the law concerningthe agency was revised,and aimed for greater use

of space under the latestdefence programme guide-lines.

The ministry and

JAXA have been conduct-ing joint research sinceApril last year.

The draft states it isextremely important to

use space to prepare forvarious contingencies, in-cluding ballistic missiles.It goes on to say there ex-

ist grave threats to stableuse of space, citing fac-tors such as an increase inspace debris, and moves to

develop weapons to shootdown satellites.

The ministry craftedthe rst basic policy in2009 after Japan enacted

the Basic Space Law in2008.

Kyodo News

Japan eyes effective use of

space to detect missilesNEWDELHI, 23 Aug India Saturday inducted itsrst home-made stealth an-ti-submarine warship INSKamortainto its navy.

Indian Defence Min-ister Arun Jaitley com-missioned the warship at

the naval dockyard in the

India launches maiden stealth

anti-submarine warship

Some 300 stu-

dents from 84

countries and

regions attend an

opening ceremo-

ny for a Japan

TENT event in

Kanazawa, Ishi-

kawa Prefecture,

central Japan,

on 20 Aug, 2014.

The weeklong

event till 26 Aug

is designed to

allow the students

to experience

local culture andtraditions.

KYODONEWS

southern state of AndhraPradeshs port city ofVishakapatnam.

INS Kamorta will

serve this country effective-ly for a very long time. Inrecent months, amongst thevarious initiatives that the

government has undertaken

is indigenous manufactur-ing of our defence deploy-ment, the minister said.

The warship, which is rstin a series of four planned

corvettes, can carry short-range missiles and an inte-gral anti- submarine war-fare helicopter.Xinhua

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Obama may seek new funds to battle Islamic StateWASHINGTON, 23 Aug

President Barack Oba-ma could ask the US Con-gress in coming weeks to

approve new funds for air-strikes against Islamic Statetargets, according to a con-gressional aide, followingthe militants beheading of

an American journalist andactivities in Iraq.

A Senate Democrat-ic aide on Friday said the

Obama administrationcould detail by early tomid-September the amountof additional money itwants for the military op-

erations, although the aidedid not estimate the sizeof the possible funding re-quest.

The administration hasindicated it does not wantto put combat troops intothe region, although it hassaid it is evaluating all op-

tions on how to deal withSyria.

The request wouldcome as some inuential

members of Congress call

The wreckage of a car belonging to Islamic State militants lies along a road after it

was targeted by a US air strike at Mosul Dam, northern Iraq on 21 Aug, 2014.REUTERS

on Obama to step up U.S.military pressure againstIslamic State ghters. OnThursday, Republican Sen-

ator John McCain of Ari-zona called for a signicant

increase in air strikes, in-cluding bombing missionsagainst targets in Syria.

Youve got to dra-matically increase theair strikes. And those airstrikes have to be devoted

to Syria as well, McCaintoldReutersin a telephoneinterview.

Democratic SenatorBill Nelson of Florida, a

senior member of the Sen-ate Armed Services Com-mittee, earlier this weeksaid, We have to continueto take the ght to ISIS, not

only in Iraq but in Syria aswell.

The Senate aide, whoasked not to be identied,

said additional funding formilitary operations overIraq and Syria is likely tobe one of a few unrelated

spending matters Congress

could debate in September,after returning from a ve-week summer recess.

One year ago, Con-gress returned from itslong summer recess hav-

ing to deal with a requestby Obama for the backingof US air strikes against

Syrian President Basharal-Assads forces. The re-quest came after the United

States alleged that Assadhad used chemical weap-ons against civilians.

That effort sputteredfollowing British oppo-sition to air strikes and a

deep lack of support amongUS politicians.

General MartinDempsey, chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff, told aPentagon news conferenceon Thursday that the Penta-gon would examine wheth-er additional funds were

needed for operations inIraq in the new scal yearthat begins on 1 October.

I think were ne forscal year 14 and well

have to continue to gatherthe data and see what it doesto us in 15, Dempsey toldreporters.

Aides to Senate Major-ity Leader Harry Reid andHouse Speaker John Boeh-ner were not immediately

available for comment.Don Stewart, a spokes-

man for Senate Republicanleader Mitch McConnell,

said on Friday: The ad-ministration still hasnt putforward a plan for deal-ing with the wider threatposed by the Islamic State.

Reuters

US Deputy Defence Secretary Robert Work (far L) holds talks with Japanese SeniorVice Defence Minister Ryota Takeda (far R) at the ministry in Tokyo on 22 Aug,

2014.KYODONEWS

US deputy defence chief hails progress

on Okinawa base relocation

European powers oat idea of

Gaza monitoring mechanismUNITED NATIONS, 23

Aug Britain, France and

Germany have oated the

idea of creating a monitor-

ing and verication mecha-

nism for any future cease-

re between Israel and the

Palestinians in the Gaza

Strip to prevent future con-

icts, a senior British dip-

lomat said on Friday.

The proposal was con-

tained in an outline for a

possible draft resolution

prepared by the three Eu-

ropean powers. UN Secu-

rity Council diplomats said

on condition of anonymity

that the trio is discussing

the proposal with several

of the 15 council mem-

bers, including the United

States and Jordan, as well

as non-council members

Israel and Egypt.

The European 3

countries have been dis-

cussing with other mem-

bers of the Council ele-

ments for a resolution,

Britains UN Ambassador

Mark Lyall Grant, council

president this month, told

reporters.

We hope that the

council will come together

around a single draft reso-

lution that can be adopted

quickly, he said. That is

what were working on.

Israel launched its lat-

est offensive against Gaza

on 8 July to halt missile sal-

voes by Hamas militants,

who have been angered by

a crackdown on its support-

ers in the occupied West

Bank and suffering eco-

nomic hardship because of

an Israeli-Egyptian block-

ade of Gaza.

Reuters

TOKYO, 23 Aug US

Deputy Defence Secre-tary Robert Work said on

Friday there are signs oftangible progress towardrealizing the long-stalled

relocation of a key US base

in Okinawa Prefecture afterJapan started a seabed sur-

vey despite local protests.This is a major ac-complishment that opens

the way for us to make

substantial progress in re-alignment of US forces on

Okinawa, Work told re-porters after meeting withJapanese Senior Vice De-

fense Minister Ryota Take-da in Tokyo.

Takeda said bothcountries reafrmed their

commitment to the relo-

cation plan for the US Ma-rine Corps Futenma AirStation. To ease the burden

on Okinawa of hosting thebulk of US military fa-cilities and training, thetwo defense ofcials alsoreafrmed plans to move

some training exercises byMV-22 Ospreys out of thesouthwestern prefecture.

The Defence Ministry

is now conducting a drill-ing survey at the relocationsite off the coast of Henokoafter Okinawa Gov. Hiro-kazu Nakaima approved alandll project for building

the replacement facilitythere in December.Kyodo News

First trucks from aid convoy to Ukraine cross back into RussiaDONETSK - IZVAR INO

BORDER CROSSING, 23 Aug The rst trucks from aRussian aid convoy started

crossing back into Russiaon Saturday after ignitinga storm of anger in West-ern capitals a day earlier by

driving into Ukraine with-out the permission of thegovernment in Kiev.

The return of the trucks

may help ease the tensionto some extent in time forthe arrival of GermanysChancellor Angela Merkel

in the Ukrainian capital lat-er on Saturday for talks onhow to end the crisis overUkraine.

Western leaders hadjoined Kiev in calling theRussian convoy about220 white-painted trucks

loaded with tinned food andbottle water an illegalincursion onto Ukrainessoil, and demanded that

they be withdrawn as soonas possible.

A Reuters journalistat the Donetsk-Izvarino

border crossing, where theconvoy rolled into Ukraineon Friday, said about 10trucks had passed back into

Russia and more could beseen in the distance arriv-ing at the crossing.

Russian state televi-

sion had earlier broadcastfootage of some of thetrucks being unloaded ata distribution depot in the

city of Luhansk, easternUkraine. The city is heldby separatist rebels whoare encircled by Ukrain-

Trucks of a Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid

for Ukraine drive onto the territory of a Russia-Ukraineborder crossing point Donetsk in Russias Rostov

Region, on 22 August, 2014.REUTERS

ian government forces,and has been cut off frompower and water suppliesfor weeks. International aid

agencies have warned of ahumanitarian crisis.

NATO said it had ev-idence that Russian troopshad been ring artillery

at Kievs forces insideUkraine - fuelling Westernallegations that the Krem-lin is behind the conict

in an effort undermine theWestern-leaning leadershipin Kiev.Reuters

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Ferguson march muted, police ofcer

disciplined over videoFERGUSON, 23 Aug

Protests in Ferguson,

Missouri, were muted fora third straight eveningon Friday as the National

Guard began withdrawingfrom the St Louis suburbracked by racial turmoilafter a white police of-cer shot dead an unarmedblack teenager.

Hundreds of protest-ers marched in the hotsummer night near the siteof the 9 August slaying

of 18-year-old MichaelBrown, chanting Handsup, dont shoot, whilepolice vehicles observedthe demonstration, without

intervening. Clergy volun-teers wearing bright orangeT-shirts discouraged pro-testers who wanted to defy

police orders to keep mov-ing, while live singing and

drums boomed out from aat-bed truck.

At St Mark Family

Church, a hub for protestorganizers, activists andresidents met to pray andwork on plans to improvethe predominantly Afri-can American communi-

ty of 21,000 in the wakeof unrest that has focusedinternational attention onoften-troubled US race re-

lations.Despite a notable

easing of tensions in re-cent days police madeonly a handful of arrests

on Wednesday and Thurs-day authorities bracedfor a possible are-up ofcivil disturbances ahead of

Browns funeral, which isplanned for Monday.

Police in Fergusoncame under sharp criti-cism, especially in the rst

several days of demonstra-tions, for arresting dozensof protesters and usingheavy-handed tactics andmilitary gear widely seenas provoking more anger

and violence by protesters.In the latest

embarrassment for locallaw enforcement, an ofcer

from the St Louis CountyPolice Department wasremoved from active dutyon Friday after a videosurfaced in which he

boasted of being a killer.Ofcer Dan Page,

a 35-year-veteran of thepolice force and a US

A member of the National Guard stands guard at a staging area inside a shoppingcentre parking lot in Ferguson, Missouri on 21 Aug, 2014. REUTERS

UN nuclear inquiry on Iran seen

making slow headway diplomats

military veteran, wasrelieved of patrol duties and

placed in an administrativeposition pending an internalinvestigation, a policedepartment spokesman

said.In the video, Page is

seen addressing a St Louischapter of the Oath Keepers,a conservative group offormer servicemen, saying,

Im also a killer. Ivekilled a lot, and if I need

to Ill kill a whole bunchmore. If you dont want toget killed, dont show up infront of me. Reuters

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director

General Yukiya Amano talks to the media as he arrivesat Viennas airport on 18 Aug, 2014. REUTERS

VIENNA, 23 Aug The UN nuclear watch-dog appears to have madeonly limited progress so far

in getting Iran to answerquestions about its suspect-ed atomic bomb research,diplomatic sources said onFriday, three days before a

deadline for cooperation.Under an accord

reached by the UN agencyand Iran in November in an

attempt to revive the long-stalled investigation, Tehe-ran agreed in May to carryout ve specic steps by 25

August to help allay inter-national concerns.

They include provid-ing information about twoissues for example, al-

leged explosives experi-mentation that are partof the inquiry by the In-ternational Atomic Energy

Agency (IAEA) into whatit calls the possible mili-tary dimensions of Iransnuclear programme, whichTeheran says is peaceful.

The diplomatic sourc-es said Iran and the IAEAmay have begun discussingthe two topics, but they did

not believe Teheran hadprovided the requested in-formation or explanationsyet.

They said there was

still time for Iran to imple-ment the measures, notingthat it had occasionallywaited until the last minute

to make concessions in thepast.

But slow-paced coop-eration would tend to rein-

force Western impressions

that Iran is reluctant to givethe IAEA the informationand access to sites and peo-

ple that it says it needs forits investigation.

There was no imme-diate comment from theIAEA or Iran.

Iran denies the nu-clear programme has any

military objectives, but ithas promised since Has-san Rouhani, a pragmatist,was elected Iranian presi-

dent in mid-2013 to workwith the IAEA to clarify itsconcerns. Western ofcialssay it is central for Iran to

address the suspicions forthe chances of a success-ful outcome of the paralleltalks on a diplomatic set-tlement between Iran and

the United States, France,Germany, Britain, Chinaand Russia.

With major gaps re-

maining over what will bepermitted in Irans urani-um-enrichment programme activity which can haveboth civilian and military

uses those negotiationson ending the decade-olddispute were extended last

month until 24 November.IAEA Director Gener-

al Yukiya Amano said after

he held talks in Teheranon Sunday that implemen-

tation of the ve steps hadbegun and that he expectedprogress to be made overthe coming week, but he

did not give details.Speaking after talks

with Rouhani and othersenior ofcials, he said hehad received a rm com-

mitment by Iran to coop-erate with the long-runninginvestigation. He also said

he hoped for an agreementsoon on future steps byIran. Amanos trip to Te-heran was an apparent at-tempt to push for progress,

after diplomatic sourcesin July said that the IAEAwas concerned about Iranslack of engagement withthe probe. After years of

what the West saw as Ira-nian stonewalling, Iran asa rst step in May gave theIAEA information it had

requested about Teheransreasons for developing ex-ploding bridge wire deto-nators, which can be used

to set off atomic explosivedevices. Iran says they arefor civilian use.Reuters

India minister stirs anger by

making light of Delhi rape case

Indias new Finance and Defence Minister ArunJaitley speaks during a news conference in Srinagar

on 15 June, 2014. REUTERS

NEW DELHI, 23 Aug Indian Finance Minister

Arun Jaitley faced criticismon Friday for making lightof the gang rape of a Del-hi woman in 2012 and her

subsequent death by sayingit was a small incident thathad cost India billions ofdollars in tourism.

Jaitley, who is also

defence minister and a keylieutenant of Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi, deniedhe was trying to lessen the

magnitude of the crimewhich shook the countryand turned the spotlight onwomens safety.

I am sensitive to

these issues myself, noquestion of trivialisingany incident, he said af-ter his comments sparked

outrage including from thevictims mother, who saidpoliticians had a tendencyto forget. Five men and ateenager lured the 23-year-

old physiotherapist and amale friend into an unli-censed bus and repeatedlyraped and tortured her. She

later died of her injuries,provoking an outpouring ofanger and soul-searchingabout the place of womenin Indian society.

Four men have beensentenced to death while afth suspect committed su-icide. The teenager was re-

manded to a judicial reformcentre. While laws relatingto assault on women havesince been toughened, thecrime also exposed social

attitudes in a country wherethe victim has often endedup being found responsible.

Jaitley, addressing aconference of state tourismministers, said improvinglaw and order was neces-sary to help bring visitors

to India. One small inci-dent of rape in Delhi adver-tised world over is enoughto cost us billions of dollars

in terms of global tourism,he said.

The assault and sev-eral similar attacks in Del-hi and around the country

have helped reinforce theimage of India as unsafe forwomen visitors. Reuters

Brunei, Indonesia hold inaugural Joint Defence

Cooperation Committee meetingBANDARSERIBEGAWAN,

23 Aug Brunei and In-donesia have held the inau-

gural Joint Defence Coop-eration Committee (JDCC)meeting at the BolkiahGarrison, according to a re-

port posted on Saturday onthe website of the DefenceMinistry.

The meeting was co-chaired by the Permanent

Secretary (Defence Policyand Development), Colonel(Rtd) Pg Dato Paduka Haji

Azmansham bin Pg HajiMohamad, Ministry of De-fence, Brunei Darussalam

and Defence Secretary Gen-eral of Indonesia LeftenanJenderal Ediwan Probowo.The two sides discussed bi-

lateral defence and militarycooperation, including pro-gress and activities underthe BRUNESIA- High Lev-el Committee, such as joint

operations and exercises, aswell as training and educa-tion. They were also briefed

on the upcoming event onthe ADMM-Plus EWG MS/CT FTX and the Technical

Workshop on EstablishingA Direct CommunicationsLink in the ASEAN De-fence Ministers Meeting

Process.The meeting marked a

signicant milestone in thestrong bilateral relationshipbetween the two ministries

and further enhanced co-operation between the twoarmed forces.Xinhua

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Gaza gunmen execute collaborators;mortar kills Israeli boy

Hamas militants grab Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel, beforeexecuting them in Gaza City on 22 Aug, 2014. REUTERS

Arab states, Israel set to clash

at UN nuclear meeting

The ag of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) ies in front of its headquarters in Vienna

on 28 Nov, 2013. REUTERS

VIENNA, 23 Aug As

war rages in Gaza, Arabstates will likely try toheighten diplomatic pres-sure on Israel over its as-sumed nuclear arsenal at

next months annual meet-ing of the UN nuclear agen-cys 160 member states,diplomats said on Friday.

An Arab initiative tosingle out the Jewish statefor criticism was defeat-ed in voting last year. But

Western diplomats opposed

to the Arab move said theunresolved Gaza conictmay inuence any waver-ing countries at this years

debate, although there wasno direct link between theissues.

It is all about getting

out the undecided vote.And it will be all about Is-rael widely and not aboutthe actual nuclear issue,one Vienna-based diplomat

said. I would expect on-going conict to lead many(Arabs and any others criti-cal of Israel) to want to lash

out in any forum availa-

ble. Israel and Palestinianmilitants who dominate

Gaza have been ghting for

most of the past six weeks.

Over 2,000 Palestinianshave been killed to 67 onthe Israeli side, and Israelishelling has destroyed wideareas of the small enclave.

An Arab resolution onwhat it calls Israeli Nucle-ar Capabilities would benon-binding even if it were

to be approved by the 22-26September General Confer-ence of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency

(IAEA).

However, lobbying byboth sides underlines itssymbolic signicance aswell as deep divisions.

Israel is believed topossess the Middle Eastsonly nuclear arsenal, draw-ing frequent condemnation

by Arab countries and Iranwhich say it threatens re-gional peace and security.

US and Israeli ofcials who see Irans atomic

activity as the main prolif-eration threat have saida nuclear arms-free zonein the Middle East cannot

become a reality until there

is broad Arab-Israeli peaceand Tehran curbs its pro-gramme.Reuters

UN says Syria death toll tops 190,000, rights envoy raps world powers

A general view shows damaged buildings in Mleiha,which lies on the edge of the eastern Ghouta region

near Damascus airport on 15 August,2014.REUTERS

GENEVA, 23 Aug More than 191,000 people

were killed in the rst threeyears of Syrias civil war, aUN report said on Friday,and the world bodys hu-man rights envoy rebuked

leading powers for failingto halt what she branded awholly avoidable humancatastrophe.

UN High Commission-er for Human Rights NaviPillay said war crimes werestill being committed withtotal impunity on all sides

in the conict, which be-gan with initially peacefulprotests against PresidentBashar al-Assads rule in

March 2011.It is a real indictment

of the age we live in that notonly has this been allowedto continue so long, with

no end in sight, but is alsonow impacting horrendous-

ly on hundreds of thousandsof other people across theborder in northern Iraq, and

the violence has also spilledover into Lebanon, saidPillay.

Pillay, in a statement

issued a week before leav-ing ofce, added: The kill-ers, destroyers and torturersin Syria have been empow-

ered and emboldened by theinternational paralysis.

It is essential govern-ments take serious measures

to halt the ghting and deterthe crimes, and above allstop fuelling this monumen-tal, and wholly avoidable,human catastrophe through

the provision of arms andother military supplies.

The report by her Ge-

neva ofce was based ondata from four rebel groups

and the Syrian government.They were cross-checked

to eliminate duplicates andinaccuracies, includingnon-violent deaths or al-leged victims later found tobe alive. It said the number

of men, women and chil-dren killed in the conict asof 30 April, 2014, totalled

at least 191,369. Of them,some 62,000 both ci-

vilians and combatants were killed in the past yearalone, Pillays spokesmanRupert Colville said.

The gure is more thantwice the number of deathsdocumented a year ago andis probably still an under-es-

timate, Pillay said.Colville told a news

brieng in Geneva thataround 5,000 to 6,000 peo-ple were being killed on a

monthly basis.Men and boys account

for the bulk of the deaths butnearly 18,000 women and

more than 2,000 childrenunder the age of nine arealso among those killed, hesaid. Assads government

supplied just one set of g-ures on killings to the Unit-ed Nations in March 2012,Colville said. We considertheir information important

because its a little bit of adifferent perspective andpossibly different groups ofpeople that they focus on,

he said, adding they werealmost exclusively mili-tary or police.

All groups involved in

the ghting including

the government, the army,police, Islamist militants

and other opposition groups have committed killings,Colville said.

The UN report said ithad excluded from its anal-ysis an additional 51,953killings that were reported

but lacked required infor-mation of full name, dateand location of death.

A further signicantnumber may not have beenreported by any of the vesources, it added.

The highest number ofdocumented killings were

recorded in Rural Damas-cus province, Aleppo andHoms. Pillay repeated herlongstanding call on world

powers on the UN SecurityCouncil to refer alleged warcrimes and crimes againsthumanity committed by all

sides in Syrias conict to

the International CriminalCourt (ICC).Reuters

GAZA / JERUSALEM, 23Aug Hamas-led gunmenin Gaza executed 18 Pales-tinians accused of collabo-

rating with Israel on Friday,accelerating a crackdownon suspected informers afterIsraeli forces tracked down

and killed three senior Ha-mas commanders.

Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahuthreatened to escalate the

ght against Hamas, vow-ing the group would paya heavy price after a four-year-old Israeli boy was

killed by a mortar attackfrom Gaza, the rst Israelichild to die in the six-week

conict. Shortly after his re-

marks, Palestinian ofcialssaid Israel had attened ahouse in a Gaza City airstrike, wounding at least 40people.

With protesters fromrocket-hit southern Israeli

communities gathered out-side his residence in Jerusa-

lem after the boys killing,Netanyahu was under pres-sure to take tougher steps toend the rocket re.

Israels military

spokesman said anotherground war was possible ifnecessary to stop the rocket

re.Earlier in Gaza,

masked militants dressed inblack executed seven sus-pected collaborators, shoot-ing the hooded and bound

victims in a busy squareoutside a mosque after Fri-

day prayers.Television footage

showed a crowd of young

boys gathered where theexecutions took place mo-ments afterwards, bloodstill running on the street

and bullet casings scatteredaround. Those deaths fol-lowed the killing of 11 al-leged informers at an aban-

doned police station outsideGaza City, marking thethird time this month thatHamas-led operatives haveexecuted people suspected

of providing intelligence toIsrael.

Al Majd, a websitelinked to Hamass internal

security service, said theresistance a term for allPalestinian militant groups had begun an opera-

tion dubbed strangling thenecks to clamp down onanyone collaborating withIsrael.

Over the years, Israel

has established a network of

contacts in the Palestinianterritories, using a combina-tion of pressure and sweet-eners to entice Palestinians

to divulge intelligence.They provided the en-

emy with information about

the whereabouts of ght-

ers, tunnels of resistance,bombs, houses of ghtersand places of rockets, reada conviction letter post-ed near those killed at the

mosque and signed ThePalestinian Resistance, aterm for the Hamas-led ex-ecutioners.

The occupation bom-barded these areas, killing anumber of ghters ... There-fore, the ruling of revolu-

tionary justice was handedupon him, it said.

The Hamas crackdownon suspected collaboratorsfollows the killing of three

of Hamass most senior mil-

itary commanders in an Is-raeli air strike on Thursday,an attack that required pre-cise on-the-ground intelli-

gence on their whereabouts.After the executions, a

statement obtained by Reu-ters from the Palestinian

Resistance said a numberof other collaborators hadsurrendered to the author-ities. Human rights groupsdenounced the killings.

Sarah Leah Whitson, Mid-dle East director at HumanRights Watch, called it ahorrendous abuse.

Raji al-Surani, chair-man of the PalestinianCentre for Human Rights,demanded the Palestinian

Authority and other armedfactions intervene to stopthese extra-judicial execu-tions, no matter what thereasons and motives are.

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best teacher for him. Through fairly negative

sense, lessons seem to be quite bitter for us.

The Oxford Dictionary simplies that an ex-

perience, especially an unpleasant one, that

somebody can learn from so that it does not hap-

pen again in the future. From this point, we want

to learn by experiences, not by lessons, if possible.

However, both lessons and experiences are

like day and night in our life. We cannot avoid

both. Those who cannot stand rm among bad

consequences will experience their end in failure.

Lessons are nothing to be ashamed of. But we can

avoid doing shameless behaviours.

Normally, we hope ways to enjoy greater

happiness, create more leisure time, or increase

our level of success. It will be more sensible to say

we can take lessons from bad results. The benets

of a negative life lesson are more subtle.

Lessons are quite bitter but are positive if

we apply what we learn. Lesson or experience

with negative or positive result is a personal de-

velopment treasure in life. But just to manage

them with optimistic approaches.

ByAung Khin

Bitter lessons should

be handled with positiveapproach

Life is not too long for human beings.

Good and bad deeds we have encoun-

tered in many occasions. We are cheered

for good results, while frequently slammed for

bad outcomes. An experience of ones own is the

In answer to Sayar (U) Maung

Hlaings articles, Aspira-tions for Future, Pre-school

booksA Prerequisite For Chil-

drens Literature and the writing

of U Nyunt Maung (Advocate), I

would like to join them in their

contributions. Though not being

an educational specialist, I gained

a vast knowledge on the language

skills of the youngsters ranging

from primary school level to

graduate level through the experi-

ence of teaching English. Our

country now abounds with thou-

sands of graduates as well as high

school students who are trying to

follow higher education. Undeni-

ably, all these students, apartfrom ambitious affordable ones,

possess average level in language

skill in English that is the only

compulsory foreign language in

our schools. It is not an exaggera-

tion in such a claim that language

skills of the many are found to be

poorly bad. Among them, we

must admit that remarkably smart

boys and girls are eagerly learn-

ing English and reading a lot of

English books. Admittedly, they

are praiseworthy children, but I

would not like to claim that they

are prodigies. They were blessed

with excellent families who can

bolster their condence for theirambitions. They were given the

best education that money can

buy. They are learning at over-

seas - educational - institution -

linked elite private schools and

getting state - of - the - art learn-

ing systems. They learnt to use a

computer since their childhood

days and they grasped very good

language skills through studying

under the guidance of native

speakers. Here, I would like you

to know that the student of that

kind, ipso facto, cannot be as-

sumed to be the best of all. Gen-

erally, we must admit that they

are better at language competen-cy compared to most of ours. We

even darent think of sending our

An Advice for Beginner-readers As to What and How to Read Englishchildren to learn at these schools.

Why? It will cost us at least 2.5

lakh kyats per month with trans-

portation charges excluded, for agrade ve student to be sent to a

third-class private school. I had

ever heard that parents must pay

100 lakh kyats or so, for an aca-

demic year if they decide to send

their child at the most famous

school. Only a few percentage of

the populace can manage to do

so. For ordinary people, such a

school campus seems to be a for-

bidden area. Then, will we have

to give up our aims and desires?

No, no! There used to emerge and

are appearing outstanding stu-

dents out of poverty-stricken

families and bourgeois ones.

I have been teaching Englishto various kinds of students for

over a decade. Having assessed

their language skills, sometimes I

felt elated at their excellent re-

sults. Generally speaking, many

are in an unsatisfactory state.

They include graduates and many

a university student. Some may

disbelieve my saying. If so, I

would like them to go into web-

site and take a glance at face-

book comments. They seem to

neglect the importance of the arti-

cles, a, an, the, and determiners.

They pay no attention to, or rath-

er know little about grammar.

That is to say, they cannot distin-guish countable nouns from un-

countable ones, transitive verbs

from verbs intransitive and the

use of passive forms and inected

forms of words. Believe it or not,

I nd such mistakes very often:

will went, was stood, he beat me

because his anger, and so on. For

what did they make such mis-

takes? By seeing Future Perfect

Tense in the sentence, She will

have done homework by now,

they seemed to think that modal

verbs can be used together with

simple past tense verbs. It ap-

peared that little was known

about the difference betweenconjunctions and prepositions. I

asked them whether they had

ever read other books such as sto-

ries and newspapers written in

English. Unlike our childhood

days, there are nowadays manyreadable books and bilingual

reading material for beginners

available around them. Not un-

like us, todays youths as well

want to know English. The dif-

ference, however, is that nearly

all of us used to spend our leisure

hours reading those days pa-

persthe WPD or the Guardian

Dailies whereas the present days

youths prefer subscribing to a

newsgroup to reading both My-

anmar and English newspapers.

For us who dwelt in a small town,

it was less than available for us to

get old books and back issues in

English. Thus, we had clung onto our old habit of reading news-

papers up to now.

I myself had ever conceived

a thought that our country was

facing a dying breed of language

experts like our late famous g-

ures and it was impossible to ll

this shortage. Now we must get

rid of that opinion. From news

writings and articles written by

our young prolic writers, report-

ers and newsmen from news-

rooms, we came to know that

they are vying for the top posts. It

is a heartening thing for us so far

as it goes, but we need more and

more youths like them who knowEnglish, so as not to lag behind

the advanced world. First of all,

we must make them know that

we can get all things we want to

know through newspapers. From

the side of our newspapers too,

necessary arrangements should

be made for our youngsters to be-

come interested in their papers by

including a special readable col-

umn for beginner readers like

Easy Listening Program of the

VOA, if possible. I dare say they

will surely learn to love reading

papers once reliable ones hop

into their hands inasmuch as a

mosaic of news itemssports,technology, culture, education,

art, economics, politics, war af-

fairs and etc. reach before their

eyes at the same time. For saying

so, I do not mean that we no

longer need to use Net.I ever heard a noteworthy

saying of a language expert that if

we teach todays students as we

taught yesterdays, we steal their

tomorrow. I accept that idea to

some extent. Getting used to our

deep-rooted conventional meth-

ods and approaches to the study

of the language, I may be named

the one who cherishes the centu-

ry-old method, the Grammar

Translation Method, which is

detested by some linguists. As for

me, I rmly believe that we must

accept any ideas, advices and

methods to make our language

skills improve. Based on my nd-ings about teaching English to

students of different levels

from LEP [= Limited English

Procient] students to Mediocre

or Advanced learners, let me dis-

close my personal attitude, opin-

ion and advice, such as they are,

toward the subject.

Why is the gap that great be-

tween their language competence

levels? To my mind, children of

the First Minority group have to

read many English books under

the guidance of hardworking

teachers. For fear of losing their

well-paid jobs, they themselves

are trying their best to improvetheir abilities. Schools provide

uniformly reading material for

students to read and make them

recount of what they have read,

every week or fortnightly. Except

for Myanmar subject, all others

are taught in English, hence get-

ting accustomed to the language

and the possession of language

prociency. I asked one student

of that kind to read a booklet by

Lu Hsun, titled Wild Grass. He

is now studying in grade four of

the above-said No.1 school.

Wonderfully enough, he could

retell about nearly half of the

contents out of 23 short stories inthe booklet just prior to the end of

one lecture time. Knowingly

what his response will be, I asked

him whether he knew all the

words in the pieces he read. He

replied, No. He gave me briefaccounts. He said that he did not

understand the stories verbatim.

According to the context, he

came to know the words roughly.

The same book was given to a

student who recently passed his

BEHS exam with 4Ds2marks

short of 25 scores in total. You

can guess the result. As expected,

he could retell me about two sto-

ries only, albeit reluctantly and

vaguely. Not being in the habit of

reading a good or interesting read

apart from school subject books,

he tried to nd out the meanings

of unknown words while reading.

For that he read at a snails pace.I am not blaming him for his slow

reading speed. And I did not

mean that all who passed from

State High Schools would be the

same like him. There were and

are some who remarkably excel

in English. We need to collec-

tively nd out the solution.

Most of the children in

schools generally develop the

habit of memorizing texts of all

subjects, without trying to know

the essence of the subject. As a

result, those students can do noth-

ing if they are assigned to write a

paragraph or an essay ad lib. As

known by all, todays childrenare trying to score high marks to

be admitted to their favorite insti-

tutes under the present need-blind

education system. So I would like

them to commit all the texts to

memory, having acquired all the

grammatical knowledge. Then

what s[he] is required to read for

the exam can be said to be equiv-

alent to several books of medi-

um-sized volume. The worst

thing is that most of the primary

assistant teachers are very strict

with the accuracy of the words so

much so that they never allow

their students to interchangeably

use even the Myanmar verb -ending particles (onf? \).

(to be continued)

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NATIONAL

YANGON, 23 Aug The

Ministry of Labour, Em-

ployment and Social Securi-

ty has urged the South Ko-

rean embassy to bring back

the owner of Master Sports

Factory, who returned to

South Korea after closing

his factory on the western

outskirts of Yangon in Junewithout paying outstanding

salaries and compensation

to more than 750 Myanmar

workers.

Ofcials said the Yan-

gon Region Labour Tribu-

nal Board has ordered the

factory owner to pay the sal-

ary for June and to compen-

sate the workers according

YANGON, 22 Aug Chi-

na Union Pay International

(UPI), in cooperation with

Myanmars Cooperative

Bank (CB), will introduce

EASi Travel Union Pay card

for the rst time in Myanmar

starting on Sept. 1 to facil-

itate Myanmar citizens in

domestic and international

payment, a bank ofcial saidhere Friday.

The EASi TRAVEL

Union Pay Card issued in

Myanmar is deposited with

Myanmar Kyats and can be

used in and outside China,

U Kyaw Lynn, executive

vice chairman and CEO of

the CB, told a press brieng.

Accepted by over 140 coun-

tries and regions, the China

Undertakings for border region

development discussed

China Union Pay International

card to be introduced

in Myanmar next monthUPI card is being issued in

more than 30 countries in-

cluding Myanmar.

In December 2012,

China UPI and the CB

signed an agreement to open

ATM business in Myan-

mar. In May 2013, the UPI

also signed agreement with

Myanmar Payment Union

(MPU) for payment at ATMand points-of-sale (POS) of

its member banks.

At present, there has

been 800 ATMs and 3,000

POS across Myanmar. My-

anmar introduced Master

Card as the rst international

electronic payment card in

November 2012, followed

by Visa card in December in

the same year.Xinhua

NAY PYI TAW, 23

Aug Union Minister for

Border Affairs Lt-Gen Thet

Naing Win held a coordi-

nation meeting with lead-

ing bodies of self-adminis-

tered zones and regions on

Friday in Nay Pyi Taw.

During the meeting,

the Union minister re-

viewed border region de-

velopment works being

undertaken by the ministry

in the self-administered

zones and regions. After

hearing reports of the coor-

dinating teams, respective

committees and leading

bodies of self-administered

zones and regions, he held

talks with the chairmen of

the leading bodies and the

ministrys ofcials. Then

the Union minister coordi-

nated matters related to fol-

low-up tasks and ndings

of the committees.

MNA

Coordination meeting held to undertake for border region

development plans.MNA

Shwe Yaung Hnin Si Cancer Foundation givesmessage that a healthy diet can stave off cancer.

PHOTO: KHINGTHANDALWIN

South Korean embassy urged to summon fugitive

Korean factory owner to settle labour issuesto labour laws.

The revenue ofcer

of the Factories and Gener-

al Labour Law Inspection

Department sent a letter to

the South Korean embassy

today and urged the em-

bassy to bring back factory

owner Mr Jeong Hae Un to

settle the issue, said U Win

Shein, the Director-General

of the Factories and GeneralLabour Law Inspection De-

partment under the ministry.

The revenue ofcer

sent the notice from the

Yangon Region Labour Tri-

bunal Board to the factorys

former export and import

manager and also the repre-

sentative of the owner of the

factory on Wednesday. Ac-

cording to the notice, the tri-

bunal made the decision that

the factory owner must pay

the salary for June to 757

workers as well as compen-

sation stipulated by labour

laws for closing the factory

without giving prior notice.

As the representative of

the factory owner denied to

accept the notice, the ofcer

has asked the Korean em-bassy to summon the man,

authorities said.

The ofce has also

sent the notice to other

governmental departments

concerned with settling the

issue, according to the FGL-

LID.

The Ministry led

a lawsuit against Master

Sports Factory on July 25 as

it failed to pay the salaries

for June and compensation

to the workers after closing

the facility on June 26, fail-

ing to comply with the regu-

lations of the law.

Regarding the closure

of the factory, which opened

a year ago in the Hlinethaya

Industrial Zone, Master

Sports Myanmar Co Ltdissued an announcement at

the beginning of July, say-

ing the factory was experi-

encing nancial problems

due to the production of

low-quality products which

were not marketable, add-

ing that agreements with

potential buyers had to be

revoked.NLM

ByAye Min Soe

ByKhaing Thanda Lwin

NAY PYITAW, 23 Aug

Myanmar will host the

46 ASEAN Economic Min-

isters Meeting and its side-

lines from 23 to 28 August

here.

During the rst day

of coordination meeting,

ASEAN senior economic

ofcials discussed and ex-

changed views on the re-

ports to be submitted to the

council of the 28th ASEAN

Free Trade Area, the council

of 17th ASEAN Investment

Area and the 46th ASEAN

Economic Ministers Meet-

ing, as well as the agenda

and joint announcements to

Seminar on cancer awareness held in Yangon

YANGON, 23 AugAs

part of the effort to raisethe awareness of cancer in

Myanmar, the Shwe Yaung

Hnin Si Cancer Foundation

organized a health seminar

at the University of Nursing

here on Saturday, aiming

at giving people a message

that a healthy diet can stave

off cancer.

Speaking at the sem-

inar, Prof Dr U Myo Win,

member of the foundations

executive committee quot-

ed a WHO report as saying

that thirty-ve per cent of

the cancer-related deaths

are attributed to food, 30per cent to cigarettes and

tobacco, 10 per cent to vi-

ruses, and seven per cent to

sexually transmitted diseas-es.

He advised people to

balance their daily intake

of vitamin and mineral ob-

tained from wholesome

vegetables so as to maintain

health but urged them to

avoid eating junk foods and

carcinogens and aatoxins

in food.

Prof Dr Daw Yin Yin

Tun, Chairperson of the

foundation, also shared her

knowledge on biological

links between diabetes and

cancer, adding that the high

insulin level and the insu-lin-like growth factor in

people with diabetes are the

main causes of cancer.

Dr U Ye Tint Lwin,

Retired Deputy Direc-

tor-General of the Medi-cal Research Department

(Lower Myanmar), urged

people to weigh every early

morning and take moderate

exercises, such as a half-

hour walk a day to prevent

cancer-related diseases.

At the seminar, U Yan

Linn, Chairman of the My-

anmar Consumer Union,

also shared his experience

on how to choose a safe

food as a customer, urging

people to avoid drinking

puried water from plastic

bottles with prolonged ex-

posure to sunlight.Shwe Yaung Hnin Si

Cancer Foundation has

future plans to provide

training to enthusiasts for

sharing knowledge of the

awareness of breast cancer,Dr Moe Kyaw Naing, Gen-

eral-Secretary of the foun-

dation, said.

Cancer is one of the

most common non-commu-

nicable diseases (NCDs).

Scientists estimate that only

about ve percent of all

cancers have a genetic ori-

gin, meaning our nutrition

and lifestyle choices play

a major role in the ght

against cancer.

A 2012 report shows

that death rates from cancer

in men and women in My-

anmar is ranked third andfth highest in South East

Asian.NLM

Preparation made

for ASEAN high-level

economic ofcials

be discussed at the second

Regional multi-economic

cooperation meeting of the

46th ASEAN Economic

Ministers Meeting and its

sidelines.

The meeting was

chaired by Daw Than Than

Linn, senior economic of-

cial of Myanmar, with the

present of senior economic

ofcials from 10 ASEAN

countries, vice-general sec-

retary of ASEAN and 114

delegations of the bloc.

The coordination meet-

ings will continue on 24

August.

MNA

FM felicitates Ukrainian

counterpartNAYPYITAW, 24 Aug U Wunna Maung Lwin,

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of

the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicita-

tions to His Excellency Mr. Pavlo Klimkin, Minister

of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on the occasion of the

Independence Day of Ukraine which falls on 24 August

2014.MNA

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Most German

consumers rarely shop

at big department stores

BERLIN, 23 Aug Almost two-thirds of Ger-

mans rarely go shopping inbig department stores, saida representative survey onthe future of the Germandepartment stores on Fri-day.

According to the poll-ster YouGov, one in fourrespondents still goes regu-larly to shop at big German

department stores Kaufhofand Karstadt, while one inten respondents never does.

As the survey showed,especially young people

aged between 18 and 24years steer clear of theshopping malls in Germa-

ny, as more than 80 percentof them said they rarely ornever shop in big depart-

ment stores.Furthermore, people

aged over 55 are foundmost frequently there inGermany.

With regard to thethreatened closure of theKarstadt branches, 14 per-

cent of respondents saidthat the time of the big de-partment stores like Kar-stadt was denitely over,

while 53 percent said thatthe branches should bemaintained because theyare an important part of at-tractive downtown areas.

For the survey, You-Gov interviewed a total of1,023 consumers in Ger-

many from 19 August to21 August.

Xinhua

Mammography false alarms linked with later tumour riskNEWYORK,23 Aug

Women whose screeningmammograms produce falsealarms have a heightened

risk of being diagnosed withbreast cancer years later, but

the reason remains mysteri-ous, researchers say.

An increased risk ofbreast cancer among wom-en with a false positivemammogram has been re-ported before. Whats new

about this study is that theauthors tried to gure outhow much, if any, of theextra risk is simply due to

doctors missing the cancerthe rst time they investi-gated the worrisome mam-mogram ndings.

But mistakes fromdoctors missing cancersexplained only a small per-

centage of the increasedrisk, according to lead au-

thor My von Euler-Chelpin,an epidemiologist from theUniversity of Copenhagenin Denmark.

She told Reuters Healthin a telephone interview thatshe could not explain mostof the increased risk of lat-er breast cancer in women

with false-positive mam-mograms. (A mammogram

is considered false positivewhen it suggests possiblebreast cancer but additionalscreenings or a biopsy fails

to nd it.)Of more than 58,000

Danish women who hadmammography between

1991 and 2005, her studyidentied 4,743 womenwith suspicious ndingsthat were eventually de-clared negative.

By 2008, 295 of those4,743 women had been di-agnosed with breast cancer,von Euler-Chelpin and col-

leagues reported in CancerEpidemiology.

Radiologists reread theoriginal mammograms and

found that doctors had ac-tually missed the cancer in72 of the 295 women, for

a false-negative rate of 1.5percent. Even after taking

those missed cancers intoaccount, however, the re-searchers found that womenwith false-positive mammo-

grams were still 27 percentmore likely to be diagnosedwith breast cancer yearslater, compared to womenwith only negative test re-

sults.The risk was slightly

higher in women who hadsurgical biopsies that turnedout to be negative.

Von Euler-Chelpinthinks a smaller percent-age of American women

would have an elevatedrisk for breast cancer af-

ter a false-positive test be-cause the US has a higherrate of false positives thanDenmark. The risk of a

false-positive test over 10mammograms ranges from58 percent to 77 percent inthe US, while it is around16 percent in Denmark, the

study says.Dr Michael Alvarado, a

breast cancer surgeon fromthe University of California,San Francisco, agreed that

the risk of being diagnosedwith breast cancer after afalse positive mammogram

is probably lower in the USthan in Denmark.

Its hard to translatethe data to the US popula-tion because we have sucha different screening pro-

gramme, we tend to biopsyeverything, and were muchmore aggressive, he toldReuters Health. Alvaradowas not involved in the cur-

rent study.Is there some inherent

biology of the breast thatmakes it suspicious and itputs you at higher risk? I

dont think anyone knowswhat it is, he said.

Alvarado wondered if

women who get false-pos-itive mammograms should

be followed more closely bytheir doctors, or if false-pos-itive patients should bescreened differently.

Von Euler-Chelpintold Reuters Health the ex-cess rate of breast canceramong women who havehad false-positive mammo-

grams points to the needto personalize screening

programmes for women and Dr Karla Kerlikowskeagreed. Kerlikowske, fromthe University of California,

San Francisco, is develop-ing a risk calculator app to

guide women in decidinghow often to get mammo-

grams. The calculator con-siders a range of factors, in-cluding age, race, previousbreast cancer, family histo-ry and breast density. Ker-

likowske was not involvedin the current study.

Although having hada false-positive mammo-

gram is associated with awomans breast cancer risk,Kerlikowske points out thatthe actual risk of being di-

agnosed with breast cancerremains low.

The average ve-year

breast cancer risk for a50-year-old white woman

with no prior family historyof breast cancer is 1.25 per-cent, the calculator shows.It ranges from less than 1

percent, to 2.70 percent, de-pending upon breast densi-ty, for the same woman witha history of a prior breast bi-opsy, regardless of whether

the biopsy was positive ornegative.Reuters

LONDON, 23 Aug The European Union willdecide next year if legal

changes are needed to boostthe market for securitizeddebt, a sector seen as keyto injecting funds into the

economy and encouraginggrowth, an EU documentshowed on Friday.

The document is an-other indicator that concern

over the level of funding tothe EU economy, particu-larly in the agging euro

zone, has reached the high-est political level.

The Roadmap for Se-curitisation, drawn up forthe blocs nance ministersand seen by Reuters, says

the recent economic and -nancial crisis had consider-ably reduced funding to thereal economy.

The European CentralBank (ECB) is also mullingpurchases of securitiseddebt such as asset-backed

securities to help boosteuro zone growth.

Securitization, whichturns pools of loans into

interest-bearing bonds tohelp raise further funds, hasdwindled in Europe due to

A huge euro logo is pictured next to the headquarters

of the European Central Bank (ECB) before the banksmonthly news conference in Frankfurt on 7 Aug, 2014.

REUTERS

EU sets out roadmap to boost

securitized debt marketthe 2007-09 nancial crisis.

The market was tar-nished by the so-called

sub-prime crisis, whensecuritised debt based onpoor-quality US homeloans became untradable in

2007, sowing the seeds forthe ensuing global nancialcrisis.

The document, whichEU nance ministers will

discuss at a meeting inMilan next month, lists 19initiatives underway in Eu-

rope and globally to kick-start securitization.

The EUs executiveEuropean Commission isthe best body to coordinatework on these initiatives,

the document says.The Commission,

along with the ECB and theblocs markets, insurance

and banking watchdogs,should review progressbefore the end of 2015, itadded.

The review shouldhelp identify persistingshortcomings and shouldhelp inform any further

action where needed, in-cluding the merits of an EUharmonized framework,

the document said.The ECB and the Bank

of England have already

called for steps to boosthigh quality securitisa-tion, noting the high capitalcharges on banks who issue

securitised debt, and on in-surers who buy it, are keyimpediments to the market.

Such a segment couldbe more leniently treat-

ed from a capital chargespoint of view.

But banks are worried

about how the authoritieswill dene high quality,fearing the rest of the mar-

ket will be permanentlyshunned by investors.

A key ... step will be

to agree at EU level uponthe most appropriate cri-teria to designate soundor qualifying securitisa-

tion instruments across theboard, the document said.

These criteria could beincluded in the blocs newcapital rules for insurers,

and in new rules requiringbanks to hold a buffer ofbonds, including some debt

backed by home loans,to withstand short-termshocks, it added.Reuters

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Galileo satellites start operational

deployment phasePARIS, 23 Aug A

new pair of Galileo satel-lites, Galileo 5 and 6, hasbeen successfully deliveredinto orbit on Friday, which

marks the start of a newphase in the European sat-ellite navigation program,said the European Space

Agency (ESA) in a Pressrelease.

Galileo 5-6 satellites,which are the rst two of aseries of 22 satellites FOC

(Full operational capabil-ity) built by prime con-tractor OHB-System (Ger-many) with the payloads

being supplied by SSTL(Surrey Satellite Technolo-gy Ltd, UK), were carriedaloft on a Soyuz rocketfrom Europes Spaceport in

Kourou, French Guiana, at12:27 GMT on Friday.

All the stages of theSoyuz vehicle performed

as planned, with the Fre-

gat upper stage releasingthe satellites into their tar-get orbit close to 23,500km altitude, three hours 47

minutes after liftoff, saidthe ESA. On completion ofthe initial checks, run joint-

ly by ESA and the Frenchspace agency CNES, the

two satellites will be hand-ed over to the Galileo Con-trol Centre in Oberpfaffen-

hofen in Germany, and theGalileo in-orbit Testingfacility in Redu in Belgiumfor testing before they are

commissioned for oper-ational service in the au-tumn, explained the ESA.

Following the suc-cessful qualication of thesystem during the In-OrbitValidation (IOV) phase,achieved with four satel-

lites launched in 2011 and

2012, the Galileo satellitesare being produced andreadied for the launch padin series.

The deployment ofthe constellation will nowgather pace, with six toeight satellites launched

per year using a series ofSoyuz and Ariane launch-es from the Guiana SpaceCentre, along with nal-isation of the remaining

elements of the groundnetwork, added the ESA,saying that the next Galileolunch is scheduled for the

last quarter of 2014.Galileo is Europes

own global satellite navi-gation system, providing ahighly accurate, guaranteed

global positioning serviceunder civilian control. Itwill consist of 30 satellitesand their ground infrastruc-

ture. Xinhua

Amazon developing

own online advertising

software

A zoomed illustration image of a man looking at a

computer monitor showing the logo of Amazon is seenin Vienna on 26 Nov, 2012. REUTERS

NEWYORK, 23 Aug Amazon Inc is planning todevelop its own software

for placing advertisementsonline, The Wall Street

Journal reported, citingpeople with knowledge ofthe matter.

While the in-houseplatform is initially plannedto replace ads supplied byGoogle Inc on Amazonsown website, the new sys-

tem could challenge Goog-le and Microsoft Corpsadvertising business in thefuture, the newspaper cited

the people as saying.Amazons system

would resemble GooglesAdWords, and is planned

to make it easier for mar-

keters to reach the com-panys users, the newspa-per reported the people as

saying. The retailer is alsobuilding a tool that wouldhelp advertising agenciesbuy in bulk for thousandsof advertisers, the Journal

said, citing the people.Amazon is known as

a sleeping giant in the adindustry because it has richconsumer data but has been

tentative about using it fora lot of advertising.

The company alreadyhas an advertising service it

employs chiey on its ownwebsite.

Amazon did not imme-diately respond to requests

for comment. Reuters

Obama tech policy maven moves to Silicon Valley roleWASHINGTONDC / SAN

FRANCISCO, 23 Aug Todd

Park, President BarackObamas chief technologyofcer who played a role

in xing the awed Health-

care.gov website, is mov-ing to a new job recruitingtop Silicon Valley talentto government, a source

familiar with the situationsaid on Friday.Park, a successful tech

entrepreneur who became a

Computers reshaping global job market, for better and worse

top adviser to Obama, willmove to the West Coast at

the end of the month as partof a White House team, thesource said on condition ofanonymity because it has

not been made public.Park became a polit-

ical target last fall as Re-publican lawmakers tried

to assign blame for theglitch-ridden rollout of thewebsite, the main portal tobuy healthcare coverage

through federal exchanges.Park was heavily involved

in the effort to try to x thebugs. His move to Califor-nia signals a growing effortby the government to try to

recruit from Silicon Valley.Earlier this month, Parkhelped the White Houselure Google engineer

Mikey Dickerson to Wash-ington to take a role bol-stering the governmentscomputer systems.

In his new assignment,Park will help channel ide-

as from the tech communi-ty, the source added.

It is unclear who willreplace Park. The White

House has held discussionswith former executivesat Google, LinkedIn andTwitter about a potential

replacement, according toFortune, which rst report-ed his move on Friday.

Reuters

NEW YORK, 23 Aug Automation and in-creasingly sophisticatedcomputers have boosted

demand for both highlyeducated and low-skilledworkers around the globe,while eroding demand for

middle-skilled jobs, ac-cording to research to bepresented to global central

bankers on Friday.But only the highly ed-

ucated workers are benet-ing through higher wages,wrote MIT professor DavidAutor in the paper prepared

for a central banking con-ference in Jackson Hole,Wyoming. Middle- andlower-skilled workers are

seeing their wages decline.That is in part because

as middle-skilled jobs dryup, those workers are morelikely to seek lower-skilled

jobs, boosting the pool ofavailable labour and put-ting downward pressure

on wages. (W)hile com-puterization has stronglycontributed to employment

People use computers at a job fair in Detroit, Michigan on 1 March, 2014.

REUTERS

polarization, we would not

generally expect these em-ployment changes to cul-minate in wage polariza-tion except in tight labourmarkets, Autor wrote.

Any long-term stra-tegy to take advantage of

advances in computersshould rely heavily on in-

vestments in human capital

to produce skills that are

complemented rather thansubstituted by technology,he said.

Recounting the longhistory of laborers vilify-

ing technological advanc-es, Autor argues that most

such narratives underesti-mate the fact that comput-

ers often complement rath-

er than replace the jobs of

higher-skilled workers.People with skills that

are easily replaced by ma-chines, such as 19th-centu-ry textile workers, do lose

their jobs. In recent yearscomputer engineers have

pushed computers fartherinto territory formerly con-

sidered to be human-only,

GM opens

IT centre in

Phoenix,

Arizona

The General Motors logois seen outside its head-quarters at the Renais-

sance Center in Detroit,

Michigan in this flephotograph taken on 25Aug, 2009. REUTERS

PHOENIX, 23 Aug General Motors Co said itopened a fourth IT centre inthe United States in Phoe-

nix, Arizona as it aims toimprove performance andcut operational costs.

The automaker said itexpects to hire 1,000 em-

ployees at the centre overthe next ve years. It al-ready has about 500 em-ployees at the site.

Reuters

like driving a car.Still, computer-driven

job polarization has a natu-ral limit, Autor argues. For

some jobs, such as plumb-ers or medical technicianswho take blood samples,routine tasks are too inter-

twined with those requiringinterpersonal and other hu-man skills to be easily re-

placed.I expect that a sig-

nicant stratum of middleskill, non-college jobs com-bining specic vocationalskills with foundational

middle skills literacy,numeracy, adaptability,problem-solving and com-mon sense will persistin coming decades, Autor

wrote. Autor, who has beenstudying technology and itsimpact on jobs since beforethe dot-com bubble burst,

notes that some economistshave pointed to the weakUS labour market since the

2000s as evidence of theadverse impact of comput-erization.Reuters

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Poland keeping foot in door to euro zone membership Finance MinisterWARSAW, 23 Aug

Poland is keeping the door

open to euro zone mem-bership, but joining thecommon currency will notboost the countrys status

because it is already a sta-

ble and developed econo-my, Finance Minister Ma-teusz Szczurek was quotedon Friday as saying.

Poland, which joinedthe European Union in2004, is legally obliged to

join the euro zone at some

point. But it has not set atarget date and says it needsto see the nal shape ofnew euro zone institutions

before it takes further stepstowards adopting the com-mon currency.

In 2004 the euro zonea