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THE MOST RELIABLE NEWSPAPER AROUND YOU
New Light of MyanmarVolume XXI, Number 263 4thWaxing of Pyatho 1375 ME Saturday, 4 January 2014
Esteemed people,
I would like to greet
all national peoples
across the country on the
auspicious occasion of
the 66th Anniversary of
Independence Day of the
Republic of the Union of
Myanmar.Myanmar governed
by its own monarch had
long been standing as
a sovereign nation. In
the 19th century, Myan-
mar fell under British
colonial rule and lost
her sovereignty. Today
marks 66 years since
Myanmar regained her
independence through
Union spirit, sacrice
spirit and the national
spirits of all national
peoples during the inde-pendence struggles.
Esteemed people,
Taking the lessons
of the past events, all our
people are to uphold our
national duty: non-disin-
tegration of the Union,
non-disintegration of
national solidarity, and
perpetuation of national
sovereignty to continue
standing as a sovereign
state.
It is high time all
national peoples seek
every possible ways to
Government could lay down plans
for development tasks and dailyexistences of people across the country
reach genuine and eter-
nal peace after ending
the decade-long internal
conicts. Coordination
is being made for signing
a nation-wide ceasere
agreement.
Thanks to the resto-
ration of peace and sta-bility in the country, the
government could lay
down plans for develop-
ment tasks and daily ex-
istences of people across
the country. The govern-
ment is making reforms
in the political, economic
and social spheres and
in the government and
private development to
fulll two desires of peo-
ple: becoming a peaceful
country under the rule of
law and the socio-eco-nomic development of all
people.
In economic re-
form, great importance
is attached to the socio-
economic improvement
of the rural people, the
poorest population of the
country, while foreign
investors are invited to
obtain capital and tech-
nologies to revitalize the
countrys economy. As
a healthy and intelligent
citizenry would shape the
future of our democratic
nation, we are initiat-
ing pragmatic efforts in
national health develop-
ment and the national
education promotion.
Esteemed people,
As the nation de-
velops, the international
community respects our
country and all its peo-
ple more. Myanmar took
over the chair of ASE-AN from Brunei on 10
October, 2013. Chairing
ASEAN is a major duty
for Myanmar on the in-
ternational stage. As it
is a proof of condence
in the countrys politi-
cal process and political
developments, the duty
is proudly assumed. The
onus is on all national
brethren to develop the
nation as there are sound
foundations for develop-
ment.Esteemed people,
To develop a peace-
ful, modern democratic
nation, I hereby urge all
the national peoples to
implement the follow-
ing 66th Anniversary
Independence Day ob-
jectives dutifully and in
harmony:
(1) living through thick
and thin together in
the Union;
(2) upholding non-dis-
integration of theUnion, non-disinte-
gration of national
unity, and non-dis-
integration of sover-
eignty;
(3) participating in the
peace process to
end armed conicts
and ensure eternal
peace;
(4) ensuring the peace-
ful, modern, disci-
pline-f lour ishing
democratic nation
with the power of
the people.
Passport ofce
opens in Haka
Nyaunglebin gets new street
Final Sepak Takraw match
concludes in Nay Pyi Taw
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Saturday, 4 January, 20142 New Light of Myanmar
N A T I O N A L
New Light of Myanmar
The President of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar has conferred religious titles on the follow-
ing Most Venerable Sayadaws, Ganthadhura Pari-yatti Lecturer Sayadaws, Vipassanadhura Patipatti
Kammathana Instructor Sayadaws, Mobile Dhamma
Preachers, national foreign missionary gures and out-
standing donors of the Four Essentials to the Buddha
Sasana.
Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Title
1. Bhaddanta Nandobhasa, TheingiU Monastery,Chaukhtetgyi Pagoda Taik, Central ShwegondineWard, Bahan Township, Yangon Region
2. Bhaddanta Ariyavamsa, Inner Padamya PariyattiMonastery, Letthamar Ward, Hinthada, AyeyawadyRegion
Agga Maha Pandita Title
1. Bhaddanta Nanginda, Myoma Pariyatti Monastery,Ward 4, Shwegu, Kachin State
2. Bhaddanta Nandobhasa, Okkan Tawya PariyattiMonastery, Myawady Ward, Monywa, Sagaing Re-gion
3. Bhaddanta Vimalabuddhi, Pali Tekkatho Mingala-zeyon Pariyatti Monastery, Ywagauk Ward, Pyin-mana, Nay Pyi Taw
4. Bhaddanta Nayaka, Maha Wizayarama (Pali Tek-katho) East Building, Ward 1, Pakokku, MagwayRegion
5. Bhaddanta Paajota, Maha Withutayama (Central)Building, Ward 10, Pakokku, Magway Region
6. Bhaddanta Revata, MyoU Pariyatti Monastery, EastMyoma Ward, Myittha, Mandalay Region
7. Bhaddanta Dhammapalabhivamsa, Maha ShwezediMonastery, Kyetmintun Ward, Kyaukse, MandalayRegion
8. Bhaddanta Jotika, State Pariyatti Sasana University,
Ward 7, Mayangon Township, Yangon RegionDhammakathika Bahujanahitadhara Title
1. Bhaddanta anasiri, Thiri Mingala Hsanhsai Monas-tery, Hsanhsai Ward, Tachilek, Shan State
Agga Maha Ganthavaaka Pandita Title
1. Bhaddanta Ketumala, Dhamma Rekkhita WunthoMonastery, North Shansu Ward, Myitkyina, KachinState
2. Bhaddanta Khemindabhipala, Pobbayon Monastery,Minagala Ward, Loikaw, Kayah State
3. Bhaddanta Silananda, Maha Zawtikayama Monas-tery, Phonesoe Ward, Monywa, Sagaing Region
4. Bhaddanta Jotipalalankara, Saddhamma Pitzaw-tayon Monastery, Aungchantha Ward, Monywa,Sagaing Region
5. Bhaddanta Neminda, Shwein Yeiktha Pariyatti Mon-astery, Saya San Ward, Tatkon, Nay Pyi Taw
6. Bhaddanta Kundala, Phyaukseikbin Pariyatti Mon-astery, Letpanton Village, Natmauk Township, Mag-way Region
7. Bhaddanta Nandiya, Naya Monastery, Dekkhinay-ama Phayagyi Monastery, Kyunlon Okshaung Ward,Chanmyathazi Township, Mandalay Region
8. Bhaddanta Asabha, State Pariyatti Sasana Univer-sity, Dawnabwa Ward, Aungmyethazan Township,Mandalay Region
9. Bhaddanta Kovida, Nyeinchan Yeikmyon Dham-maariya Training School, Saya San Ward, Bilin,Mon State
10. Bhaddanta Nandasenalankara, State Pariyatti SasanaUniversity, Ward 7, Mayangon Township, YangonRegion
11. Bhaddanta Tejadhammabhivamsa, Shwehintha
Tawya Monastery, Ward 7, Nyaungdon, AyeyawadyRegion
Nun
12. Nun Daw Puavati, Ayethu Nunnery, Leti Ward,Monywa, Sagaing Region
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
President OfceNotication No. 1/2014
4thWaxing of Pyatho, 1375 ME
(4thJanuary 2014)
Maha Ganthavaaka Pandita Title
1. Bhaddanta Sopaka, Khemarama Monastery, Ward 9,Hpa-an, Kayin State
2. Bhaddanta Viakkhana, Aungsitha Pariyatti Monas-tery, Aungsitha Ward, Pobbathiri Township, Nay PyiTaw
3. Bhaddanta Indaaralankarabhivasa, ThamanekyawPariyatti Monastery, No. 6/18 Ward, Oktha Myothit,Bago, Bago Region
4. Bhaddanta Paasami, Mezebin Pyinnalinkara PariyattiMonastery, Yesu Ward, Kyaukse, Mandalay Region
5. Bhaddanta Nandasara, Alekyaung Monastery, Myo-ma Market Ward, Kyaikkhami, Thanbyuzayat Town-ship, Mon State
6. Bhaddanta Indaara, State Pariyatti Sasana Universi-ty, Ward 7, Mayangon Township, Yangon Region
7. Bhaddanta Nandaka, Maha Bawdi Pariyatti Monas-tery, Ward 14, Yankin Township, Yangon Region
8. Bhaddanta Sunanda, Myole Pariyatti Monastery,Ward 2, Lashio, Shan State
9. Bhaddanta Nayaka, Minkyaung Pariyatti Monastery,Kanauk Ward, Taunggyi, Shan State
Nun
10. Nun Daw andasiri, Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha nun-nery, Ywama Ward, Nattalin, Bago Region
Ganthavaaka Pandita Title
1. Bhaddanta Kheminda, Weluwun Taikthit Pali Tek-katho Monastery, Ward 1, Shwebo, Sagaing Region
2. Bhaddanta Pandava, MyoU Pariyatti Monastery,Myawady Ward, Tatkon, Nay Pyi Taw
3. Bhaddanta Jotika, Sasana Mandaing Pali TekkathoMonastery, Myodwingyi Ward, Bago, Bago Region
4. Bhaddanta Uttamamamoli, Bawdi Yeiktha Monas-tery, North Ywama Ward, Gyobingauk, Bago Region
5. Bhaddanta Revata, Shwedaung Pali Tekkatho Mon-astery, Ohbo Ward, Yenangyoung, Magway Region
6. Bhaddanta Sumanasaralankara, Gandayon BonkyawMonastery, Hsatthwa Village, Taungdwingyi Town-ship, Magway Region
7. Bhaddanta Sumangalabhivamsa, Sasana MulikayamaNew Monastery, No. 3 High School Ward, Taungtha,Mandalay Region
8. Bhaddanta Janinda, Maha Thandayon Monastery,Nyaunggwe Ward, Aungmyethazan Township, Man-dalay Region
9. Bhaddanta Vimala, Shwedaung Monastery, HlineWard, Mawlamyine, Mon State
10. Bhaddanta Kusala, Aungmyethazi Pariyatti Monas-tery, Dwayawady Myothit, Thandwe, Rakhine State
11. Bhaddanta Indavudha, Pyinnyamandaing PariyattiMonastery, Baungdutthasu Ward, Sittway, RakhineState
12. Bhaddanta andasiribhivamsa, Mingalathiri PariyattiMonastery, Faukan Ward, Insein Township, YangonRegion
13. Bhaddanta Kesara, Mahatheintawgyi Pariyatti Mon-astery, No.2 Ward, Pabedan Township, Yangon Re-gion
14. Bhaddanta Surinda, Sagaing Monastery, Hninzigon(Ka) Ward, Thingangyun Township, Yangon Region15. Bhaddanta Sijjana, West Phayagyi Pariyatti Monas-
tery, Chantha Ward, Taunggyi, Shan State16. Bhaddanta Subhoga, Hawkham Pariyatti Monastery,
No.1 Ward, Laikha, Shan State17. Bhaddanta anasiri, Taikthit Pitzawtayon Monas-
tery, No.3 Ward, Myaungmya, Ayeyawady RegionNuns
18. Nun Daw andasiri, Theravada Buddha MissionaryNunnery, Chanmyaeaungsi Ward, Kalay, SagaingRegion
19. Nun Daw andakalya, Pariyatti Monastery, No. 3Ward, Pakkoku, Magway Region
20. Daw Viitta, Myawady Nunnery, ChanmyathayaWard, Pyigyidagun, Mandalay Region
Abhidhaja Agga Maha Saddhamma Jotika Title
1. Bhaddanta Vijaya, Maha Wizayayanthi Sale Mon-astery, Chantaung Ward, Chanmyathazi Township,Mandalay Region
2. Bhaddanta Kesara, Winsein Tawya Monastery,Myainggon Village, Mudon Township, Mon State
3. Bhaddanta Dhammasara, Tawtaik Dhamma YeikthaMonastery, Dhamma Yeiktha Street, Tawtaik Ward,Mingaladon Township, Yangon Region
4. Bhaddanta Anadhivara, Dhammayon ShwekyinMonastery, No.2 Ward, Maubin Township, Ay-eyawady Region
Agga Maha Saddhama Jotika Dhaja Title
1. Bhaddanta Janindadhipati, Dawtangu TheravadaBuddha Missionary School, Dawtangu Village,
Dimawhso Township, Kayah State2. Bhaddanta Vanna Kotpaukshwe Monastery, Kotpauk
model Village, Kawkareik Township, Kayin State3. Bhaddanta Uttamanaabhivamsa, Mogaung Monas-
tery, Bo Aung Zeya Ward, YeU Township, SagaingRegion
4. Bhaddanta Obhasa, Thirimingala Monastery, Chon-inn Village, Yedashe Township, Bago Region
5. Bhaddanta itraana, Inbattaw Monastery, InbattawVillage, Kama Township, Magway Region
6. Bhaddanta Paavamsa Ywatha Monastery, YwathaVillage, Pwintbyu Township, Magway Region
7. Bhaddanta Vepulla, Shwekyina Monastery, Yanna-ing Ward, Singaing Township, Mandalay Region
8. Bhaddanta Jawtika, PhaungtawU Monastery,Dawnabwa Ward, Aungmyethazan Township, Man-dalay Region
9. Bhaddanta Puananda, Thirimingala MansushanMonastery, Lashio, Shan State
10. Bhaddanta Kosalla, Dhammatheidpan ShwekyoepinMonastery, monastic post basic education school, Chin-gon Village, Yekyi Township, Ayeyawady Region
Title recipient Sayadaws from Abroad
11. Ven. Mok Tak (Sang Kyoung Chan), Hey-Eun Mon-astery, Seokyo Dong Ward, Mapa-Gu, Seoul, Repub-lic of Korea
12. Most Ven. Shi Chang Zang, Buddha Tooth RelicTemple, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
13. Bhaddanta Swandesaphara Maharaz, MingalakyanMonastery, Phasi Charoen Township, Bangkok,Thailand
14. Bhaddanta Dhammainna, Watsikyaunglian Monas-tery, Maeton Village, Pharong Township, Thailand
15. Ven. Bhikshu Sheelabhadra Mahasthavir, Mani-mandap Mahavihara Monastery, Patako Ward, Lal-itapura Town, Nepal
16. Most Ven. Maha Vanna Soriyavong, Maehsai Mon-astery, Vientiane, Chanthaburi District, Laos
17. Most Ven. Ambevela Pannasara Mahanayaka Thero,Buddha Lawka Mahavihara Monastery, SuwayapulaTown, Piliyandala District, Sri Lanka
Maha Saddhama Jotika Dhaja Title
1. Bhaddanta Revata, Theravada Buddha MissionaryMonastery, Waingmaw Township, Kachin State
2. Bhaddanta Vepulla, Yadanathiri Pariyati Monastery,Lawdhamma Ward, Loikaw Township, Kayah State
3. Bhaddanta Nandobhasa, No.1 Parahita monastic ed-ucation school, Shwetheintaw Monastery, Nyaung-pinkan Village, Myinmu Township, Sagaing Region
4. Bhaddanta Javana, Sispyetaik Monastery, SispyeVillage, Launglon Township, Taninthayi Region
5. Bhaddanta Vilasa, Shwetaung Pariyati Monasteryand No.1 monastic post basic education school,Zaingganine North Ward, Bago, Bago Region
6. Bhaddanta Viittasara, Pattapaing monastic edu-cation school, Phulon Village, Yesagyo Township,Magway Region
7. Bhaddanta Kissana, Shitmyithna Pariyati Monastery,Mahlaing Township, Mandalay Region
8. Bhaddanta Visuddhasara, Thadaryon Monastery,Phalangon Village, Natogyi Township, MandalayRegion,
9. Bhaddanta Varinda, Tharagayama Ywakyar Monas-tery, Ywakyar Village, Thaton Township, Mon State
10. Bhaddanta Visesa, Zeyathiri Withaythayama Monas-tery, Zeyathiri monastic education school, Zeyathiri
Ward, Mawlamyine, Mon State11. Bhaddanta Vijaya, Mawyawati Theravada Bud-
dha Missionary Center, Mawyawati model Village,Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State
(to be continued)
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Saturday, 4 January, 2014 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD
Latvian Prime Minis-ter Valdis Dombrovskis
speaks during an inter-view in Riga on 1 Jan,
2014, the day his country
adopted the euro as itscurrency.
KYODONEWS
Cambodian
forces open
fre on
protesters,
at least
three deadPHNOM PENH, 3 Jan
At least three people werekilled on Friday when
Cambodian military policeopened re to try to quella protest by garment fac-
tory workers, two witnessessaid.
Two human rights
workers who witnessed thechaos said three or four pro-testers had been killed as
security forces armed withassault ries and pistolsshot at demonstrators who
hurled rocks, bottles andpetrol bombs outside a fac-tory in the capital, Phnom
Penh.The workers are among
350,000 on strike, demand-
ing higher pay.Military police spokes-
man Kheng Tito said onlyone was killed and severalwere wounded.
Reuters
Afghan president meets visiting US senatorsKABUL, 3 Jan Af-
ghanistan President Hamid
Karzai on Thursday metwith the visiting US sena-tors in Arg, the country s
Presidential Palace.
President Hamid Kar-zai met with Senator John
McCain, Senator LindseyGraham and Senator JohnBarrasso in Arg this after-
noon, the presidential pal-ace said in a statement.
The two sides dis-
cussed the Bilateral Secu-rity Agreement (BSA) be-
tween Afghanistan and the
United States, the mattersabout Bagram detention
centre, and the situation inthe region, the statementnoted. In regards with the
BSA, Karzai told the visit-
ing delegation that the Af-ghans want to sign the BSA
with the United States butthey want to be assured thattheir demands are met and
that the agreement bringspeace and stability for thecountry, the statement said.
The Afghan govern-ment in the past said that
the United States must put
an immediate end to mili-tary raids on Afghan homes
and return nearly two doz-ens of Afghans held by USin Guantanamo base to the
Afghan side before it would
sign the accord.Local analysts said
if the two countries fail toreach the deal which gov-erns the presence of US
troops after 2014 pullout ofthe NATO-led forces, theUnited States will consider
the complete withdrawal oftroops, similar to the pull-
out of US troops from Iraq
two years ago.Regarding the Bagram
prison, which was handedover to the Afghan armyearly last year, the Afghan
leader said that the innocent
prisoners would be releasedin accordance with the Af-
ghanistan laws and perpe-trators would be prosecutedand punished. Over the past
one week, more than 650Taleban inmates were re-leased by a joint team set
up by the government fromBagram prison, local media
reported.Xinhua
A strong snow storm has swept the northeast andmidwest areas of the United States, affecting about 100
million Americans in 22 states. Strong winds and heavysnow have brought down the lowest temperature to
minus 20 degrees Celsius in some places. About 2,000ights have been cancelled due to the storm by
Thursday afternoon. XINHUA
State of emergency declared in
New York State ahead of winter storm
NEW YORK, 3 Jan New York State GovernorAndrew Cuomo on Thurs-
day declared a statewidestate of emergency as a ma-jor winter storm has already
started to bring heavy snow,sub- zero temperatures and
high winds across New YorkState. A state of emergencymobilizes resources to lo-
cal governments that other-wise are restricted to stateuse only and allows the Gov-
ernor to suspend laws andregulations that would im-pede rapid response.
The governor urgedNew Yorkers to avoidtravelling and stay inside
their homes until the worstof the storm has passed.
As this winter storm
unfolds, bringing heavysnow and high winds to
many parts of the state, Istrongly urge all New Yor-kers to exercise caution,
avoid travel, and stay in-doors, Cuomo said.
The four New York
City airports are open,but airlines are operatingon a signicantly reduced
schedule, with more than
412 ights cancelled as of
mid-afternoon. Crews areapplying anti- icing chemi-
cals to runways and taxi-ways to keep them free ofice, said the Governors Of-
ce.In the event that some
travelers become stranded,
airport personnel are prepar-ing cots, blankets and otheressentials to assist custom-
ers. All air travelers areurged to check with theircarriers before traveling to
the airport. The Metropoli-tan Transportation Authorityadvises customers that cold
temperatures and blowingsnow may require suspen-
sion of some portions of theregions bus and commutertrain operations, in order to
protect customers andemployees.
The New York State
Department of Transporta-tion (NYSDOT) and NewYork State Thruway Au-
thority said plows are avail-able statewide to clear snowand treat roads with salt
and are sending additionalplows to assist with snowoperations in Long Island.
Reuters
Fire near JR station
suspends shinkansen
bullet train servicesTOKYO, 3 Jan New
Years holiday travellers
were affected on Friday asTokaido Shinkansen bul-
let trains connecting Tokyoand western Japan citieswere suspended for around
ve hours due to a realong the railway in centralTokyo, operator Central Ja-
pan Railway Co said.The re broke out in a
building near JR Yuraku-
cho Station at around 6:35am and extended to threeother buildings nearby,
prompting reghters todeploy more than 50 re
engines.
It also burned transmis-sion cables of East Japan
Railway Co, which oper-ates railway services in theTokyo metropolitan area.
While the shinkansenoperations were resumedshortly before noon, many
passengers were strandedat each station before thereturn rush peaked in the
afternoon, when reservedseats for shinkansen trainsbound for Tokyo were al-
most fully booked, accord-ing to JR Central.
At Nagoya Station, Hi-
romu Yamada, a 32-year-
old ofce worker who hadplanned to visit his wifes
family in Yamaguchi Pre-fecture, said, As we were
concerned about the healthof our 1-year-old childamid this crush, weve
postponed our departure totomorrow.
At Shin-Osaka Station,
a 42-year-old man who vis-ited Osaka with his family,said, We hope we can return
home by tonight because mywife needs to work tomor-row.
The re did not causeany injuries, according toreghters. In the metro-
politan area, meanwhile, theYamanote Line was entirelysuspended, and the Keihin-
Tohoku and Tokaido lineswere partially suspended due
to the re, before resumingoperation by 1 pm, accordingto JR East.
A total of 125trains were suspended,affecting 270,000 people.
Kyodo News
Madagascars presidential candidate Hery Rajaona-rimampianina arrives to cast his ballot at a pollingcentre in Tsimbazaza area of Madagascars capital
Antananarivo on 20 Dec, 2013.REUTERS
Ex-fnance minister wins
disputed Madagascar votesANTANANARIVO, 3 Jan
Former Finance Min-
ister Hery Rajaonarimam-pianina won Madagascarsrun-off presidential elec-
tion, the electoral com-mission (CENIT) said onFriday, but his main rival
claims the vote was rigged.CENIT leader Beatrice
Atallah said Rajaonari-mampianina, the candidate
backed by President AndryRajoelina who ousted hispredecessor in a coup in2009, won 53.5 percent of
the 20 December vote.
He beat Jean LouisRobinson, who ended up
with 46.5 percent but hasdemanded a recount. Rob-insons camp has led al-
most 300 complaints to theelectoral court, which nowhas to rule on the result.
The poll, the st sinceformer disc jockey Rajoeli-
na grabbed power, is meantto end a crisis that has
driven out investors, cut aidows and sharply slowedthe economy.
A disputed result could
prolong the malaise on the
politically volatile IndianOcean island and delay re-
storing the external budget
support needed to drivepublic spending and boost
anemic growth.Reuters
Photo shows a bullet train
of the Tokaido ShinkansenLine passing by a fre thatbroke out near JR Yura-
kucho Station in Tokyoon the morning of 3 Jan,
2014. Some operations onthe Shinkansen line werelater suspended for more
than fve hours due to the
fre. KYODONEWS
BRUSSELS, 3 JanLat-
via became the 18th euro-zone country Wednesdayin a manner to help the eu-
rozone restore condenceafter being pushed to the
brink of collapse on thesovereign debt crisis.Its joining the euro-
zone has a political effectthat demonstrates the euroas still attractive even after
the crisis, an analyst said.Latvia is the rst new
eurozone member in three
years since Estonia, anotherof the three Baltic coun-tries, introduced the euro in
January 2011. Lithuania isseeking to become the lastBaltic country to join the
eurozone in 2015.The three Baltic coun-
tries won independence on
the breakup of the SovietUnion in 1991 and accededto the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and the Euro-pean Union in 2004.
Latvia becomes 18th
eurozone country
Latvia plunged into aneconomic crisis after the
2008 Lehman Shock, post-ing a 17.7 percent contrac-tion in its gross domesticproduct in 2009.
Kyodo News
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Pope Francis draws 6.6
million for Mass, other
events at VaticanROME, 3 Jan Pope
Francis drew more than 6.6million people for Mass andother papal events at theVatican since his electionin March 2013, VaticanRadio said, quoting gures
released by the Pontical
Household on Thursday.The sum is more than
double the around 2.3 mil-lion attendees in the wholeof 2012 for his predecessorBenedict XVI, accordingto Reuters news service,pointing to the strong popu-larity of the new pope.
The gure is based on
the number of tickets issuedfor Masses, general and pri-vate audiences and otherevents as well as estimatesof the number of people at-tending events where suchtickets are not needed in-cluding weekly and othercelebrations in St PetersSquare, according to Vati-can Radio.
It does not include thecrowds who came to see thepope during his trips to Bra-zil, Assisi, and elsewhere inItaly, it said.Kyodo News
Panama President Ricardo Martinelli gestures as he
delivers his last State of the Nation speech during thenational congress opening session in Panama City
on 2 Jan, 2014.REUTERS
Panama presses Spain and Italy to resolve
canal cost row
PANAMA CITY/MADRID,3 Jan The president ofPanama said on Thursday
he would go to Spain andItaly to pressure compa-nies to honour contracts toexpand his countrys canal
Female priest servesfor temple in Nara for
5 decadesNARA, (Japan), 3 Jan
Hinonishi Koson, chiefpriest for Chugu temple inthe ancient town of Ikaru-ga in Nara Prefecture, hasserved at the temple formore than ve decades.
I must be the happi-est person in the world asI am allowed to live each
day in the arms of the Bud-dha, said the 83-year-oldwoman, who has served atthe temple since 1961.
She recently compileda photo book about her lifeat the temple known for aBuddhist statue designatedas a national treasure. Shesaid she hoped the photocollection, which is not forsale, will serve as a usefulreference to those who aredestined to serve at tem-ples in the future.
Hinonishi Koson,whose grandfather waschamberlain to Emperor
Mutsuhito in the Meiji era,said she had no hesitation tobecome a priest for the tem-ple which has been servedby daughters of the imperial
and noble families.When people heard
the words a nun, they mayhave a sad impression, shesaid. But as I had relativeswho were nuns, I didnthave any special feelingsabout them. Regardlessof whether you are a malepriest or female priest, your
task should be to save peo-ple from pain, she said.
Hinonishi Koson losther mother when she was 3and her stepmother duringthe war. Then after becom-ing a priest at the age of30, she trained and workedhard while loving the tem-ples smiling Buddha as if itwere her mother and hopingto become a person whoseexistence simply can makepeople happy like the Bud-dha.
But Hinonishi Kosonthought of killing herselfwhen she had problems in
relationships at the templeand when her prayers werehampered by her own earth-ly desires.
Kyodo News
Students are busy studying in the Anhui Agriculture
University on 31 Dec, 2013, in preparation for thepostgraduate exam from 4 to 6 Jan, 2014.
XINHUA
Death toll rises to Six in Beirut bombingBEIRUT, 3 Jan The
casualties in a car bombexplosion in Bir El Abdneighbourhood in thesouthern suburbs of Bei-rut on Thursday rose tosix killed at least and morethan 70 injured, the healthministry said.
The Lebanese armysaid in a statement thatthe car bomb detonated atabout 4:10 pm. local time(1210 GMT) in Haret al-Harayks Areed Street.
The statement addedthat the explosion wascaused by a 20-km bomb
placed within a SUV.Investigations are
underway to nd out the
method of detonation, thearmy said.
The state-run NationalNews Agency reported thatthe explosion caused mas-sive material damage in
The Xue Long (Snow Dragon) Chinese icebreaker, as seen from Australias Antarc-
tic supply ship, the Aurora Australis, sits in an ice pack unable to get through to theMV Akademik Shokalskiy, in East Antarctica, some 100 nautical miles (185 km) eastof French Antarctic station Dumont DUrville and about 1,500 nautical miles (2,800
km) south of Hobart, Tasmania, on 2 Jan, 2014, in this handout courtesy of FairfaxsAustralian Antarctic Division.REUTERS
Chinese icebreaker stuck after helping inAntarctic rescue
SYDNEY, 3 Jan AChinese icebreaker that
helped rescue 52 passen-gers from a Russian shipstranded in Antarctic icefound itself stuck in heavyice on Friday, further com-
plicating the 9-day roller-coaster rescue operation.
The Snow Dragonhadferried the passengers fromthe stranded Russian shipto an Australian icebreakerlate on Thursday. It now
after a building consortiumbehind the project threat-ened to suspend work be-
cause of a row over costs.The consortium
Spains Sacyr, Italys SaliniImpregilo, Belgiums Jan
De Nul and Panamas Con-structora Urbana said onWednesday that $1.6 billionin cost overruns on the $3.2
billion plan to build a thirdset of locks for the canalshould be met by Panama.
The consortium,known as Grupo Unidospor el Canal, said the Pana-ma Canal Authority (PCA)had 21 days to respond toits demands during whichwork would continue, butthe project would be sus-pended if that requirementwas not met.
Just a few hours later,the PCA rejected the de-mand, hinting it couldnd others to complete
the job. Shares in Sacyr,
which heads the consor-tium, slumped 9 percent onThursday.
Panamanian President
Ricardo Martinelli accusedthe companies of great ir-responsibility and saidthey had endangered the
massive construction pro-ject, which has been a majordriver of the Central Ameri-can nations economy.
Martinelli, who tookpower in 2009, said he ex-pected Italy and Spain touphold commitments toback the project which thecountries leaders made tohim during his rst year inofce.
So Im going to go toSpain and Italy to demandthis from them, because acompany should not be ableto put such a high amountof overrun costs on a pro-
ject that belongs to human-ity, he told reporters inPanama City.
Reuters
the area, especially to thebuilding that houses the Al-Jawwad Restaurant.
Lebanons caretakerHealth Minister Ali Khalilasked all Beirut hospitals totreat the injured on the ex-penses of the ministry.
Xinhua
had concerns about its ownability to move through
heavy ice, the AustralianMaritime Safety Authority(AMSA) said.
It will attempt tomaneuver through the ice
when tidal conditions aremost suitable during theearly hours of 4 January2014, AMSA said.
The Australian ice-breaker carrying the res-cued passengers, the Au-rora Australis, will remainon standby in open waterin the area as a precaution-ary measure, the rescueagency said. The Aurora
Australis had meant to sailtowards an Antarctic baseto complete a resupsplybefore carrying the rescuedpassengers back to Aus-tralia.
A helicopter from theSnow Dragon carried the52 scientists and tourists insmall groups from the ice-bound Akademik Shokals-kiy to the Australian supplyship late on Thursday.
The rescue, delayeddue to weather and ice con-ditions, took around ve
hours to complete. It hadbeen a roller-coaster res-
cue, said Greg Mortimer,one of three expeditionleaders on the AkademikShokalskiy.
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Newly-married couples attend a group wedding ceremony in Yangzhou, eastChinas Jiangsu Province, on 1 Jan, 2014. Altogether 13 newly-wed couples took
part in a group wedding of traditional style at Geyuan Garden in Yangzhou on therst day of 2014.XINHUA
Slovenian ex-president Turk bids
for UN SecretaryLJUBLJANA, 3 Jan
Former Slovenian presi-
dent Danilo Turk won onThursday the approval ofthe cabinet to bid for the
2017-2021 post of Secre-tary-General of the UnitedNations.
Turk will have ad-equate support from thegovernment during his can-
didacy for the top post ofthe United Nations, the Slo-venian Government Com-
munication Ofce said in aPress release.
Turk, born in February1952, served as Sloveniasambassador between 1992
and 2000, and then as UNAssistant Secretary-General
for Political Affairs from2000 to 2005.
He became presidentof Slovenia in December2007, and held the presi-
dency until the end of 2012.Under the UN Char-
ter, candidates for UN
Secretary-General are putforward by geographicalgroups rather than individ-
ual countries.The United Nations
consists of ve regionalgroups Western Euro-pean and Others, East Euro-
pean Group, Latin Ameri-can and Caribbean Group,Asia-Pacic Group, and
African Group.Unlike its counterparts
that has at least one personelected as UN Secretary-
General since the foundingof the United Nations inOctober 1945, East Euro-
pean group has never hada Secretary-General in theglobal body before.
The incumbent UNSecretary-General is BanKi-moon of South Korea,
who took ofce on 1 Janu-ary 2007. His second ve-year term is due to expire
on 31 December, 2016.UN Secretary-General
serves for ve-year termthat can be renewed inde-nitely, although none so far
has held ofce for morethan two terms.Xinhua
China continues to support all peaceful effortstowards resolving crisis in South Sudan
ADDIS ABABA, 3 Jan China likes to share itstraditional wisdom of re-
solving conicts towardspeaceful resolution of thecrisis in South Sudan, said
Zhong Jianhua, ChineseSpecial Representative forAfrican Affairs.
In an exclusive in-terview with Xinhua on
Thursday in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia, the Special Rep-resentative said being con-
cerned with the situation inSouth Sudan, China sup-ports all peaceful efforts
to resolve the crisis in thatcountry.
The purpose is to
understand the situation;to show our concern and
show our support for all thereconciliation efforts. So,I came here also to listen
to the Ethiopian govern-ment, listen to AU, and alsoI heard that talks could be
started here for both sidesin South Sudan, he said.
All the important
countries in this area, all in-volve in the efforts to push
for peaceful solution forthis conict. It is quite com-prehensive visit for me,
he said. Emphasizing thatAfrican problem must beresolved by African people,
the Special Representativenoted that China is keen toshare its wisdom of solv-
ing conicts to help Afri-cans solve their problems
in African way.And we show that
we will be happy to be me-
diator. If any party has anymessage to want to bring tothe other side, as long as it
is towards a peaceful solu-tion, we would be happy todo that. And of course, we
have admitted that this isan African problem; it must
be solved by the Africanpeople in African way. Wefully respect that, he said.
The Special Represent-ative underscored the needto have collective efforts
for peaceful solution for thecrisis and reconciliation inthat country.
All efforts are needed;all efforts are necessary. I
A massive drugs operation ends in the seizure of threetonnes of crystal meth, or ice, and 182 arrests, inBoshe Village in the city of Lufeng, south Chinas
Guangdong Province, local police announced onThursday. It involved more than 3,000 personnel in
109 separate raids with the help of helicopters andborder speedboats.XINHUA
Algeria condemnsBeirut bombingALGIERS, 3 Jan The
Algerian government on
Thursday strongly con-
demned the deadly bomb
attack that shook the Leb-
anese capital of Beirut,
which left six killed and
more than 70 others injured,
APSnews agency reported.
Algeria strongly con-
demns the suicide car bomb
that targeted on Thursday
the southern suburbs of
Beirut. While reafrm-
ing full solidarity with the
Lebanese government and
the brotherly Lebanese peo-
ple, Algeria extends condo-
lences to the families of the
victims, APS news agen-
cy quoted the Foreign Min-
istrys spokesman Amar
Belani as saying.
Commander of DR Congo forces killedKINSHASA, 3 Jan
Colonel Mamadou Ndala,commander of military op-erations of the Armed Forc-
es of the Democratic Re-public of Congo (FARDC),was killed on Thursday in
an ambush by members ofthe ADF-Nalu, minister ofmedia and spokesperson of
Cyprus radio mistakenly
airs New Year message
from ex-presidentNICOSIA, 3 Jan Cyp-
riot state radio publicly
apologized on Thursday forinadvertently broadcastingthe opening remarks of a
New Years message fromthe countrys former presi-dent in the place of a mes-
sage by current PresidentNicos Anastasiades.
The Cyprus Broadcast-
ing Corporation (CyBC),which runs both televisionand radio broadcasts, said
in its apology that the mis-take was realized withinseconds early in the night of
31 December, 2013, and thetransmission was halted.
CyBC said in a state-
ment that the error wasa very serious one and
an inquiry was orderedto ascertain the cause.CyBC sources dismissed
think in this crisis, we needevery party to join us, to jointhem, to push for peaceful
solution; all are very, verynecessary, he said.
The Special Repre-
sentative also revealed thatChina is happy to work
with others towards peace-ful resolution of the crisis inSouth Sudan.
We put forward ourwish to meet with anyonewho wants to meet with us.
I think, we have been verywarm welcome by all par-ties, all countries necessary.
And as long as we can haveour message be channeledto the parties we are satis-
ed, said the Special Rep-resentative.Xinhua
Afghan men walk on the snow in Bamyan Province ofcentral Afghanistan, on 1 Jan, 2014.
XINHUA
allegations of foul play andsaid the erroneous mes-
sage from former presidentDemetris Christoas wasstopped within seconds.
The message dated back to2009. The error was spot-ted by listeners who poked
fun at CyBC on social net-works.
According to CyBC
sources, the message wasbroadcast by mistake be-cause a radio presenter
clicked on the wrong head-ing of an item. They saidthat the old message, which
should have been removed along time ago, was errone-
ously left on the broadcast
computer. Christoas didnot contest re-election and
was succeeded by Anasta-siades who won the electionin February 2013.Xinhua
The ofcial further re-
iterated the North African
nations strong commit-
ment to the stability of Leb-
anon, calling on all Leba-
nese people to work for
national unity and cohesion
through strengthening se-
curity and civil peace amid
the alarming recurrence of
terrorism movement.
Thursdays bombing
is the second attack target-
ing the Lebanese capital
this week, and the fourth
since July in the neigh-
bourhood of Haret Hreik,
which is a stronghold of
the Shiite movement of
Hezbollah, said Lebanese
Minister of Health Ali
Hassan Khalil.
Xinhua
the government told Xin-hua. Colonel MamadouNdala was killed, it is true,spokesman Lambert Mende
said in a sad tone. He addedthat these are ADF- Naluwho killed with two of his
bodyguards. This is trulya great loss for the ArmedForces and the Republic.
Mende said that Colo-
nel Ndala was on the wayof Eringeti for the deploy-ment of a battalion of com-
mandos when his jeep wasambushed.According to a military
source, ve FARDC soldierswere seriously wounded inan ambush by the Ugandan
rebel ADF-Nalu, before be-
ing taken to hospital Beni.According to the se-
curity manager of the UN
Mission for Stabilization ofCongo (MONUSCO), thereis a high concentration of
ADF-NALU rebels in thearea where the colonel Nda-la was killed.Xinhua
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World manufacturing ends2013 on a strong note
NEW YORK/LONDON/
BEIJNIG, 3 Jan Globalmanufacturing ended 2013on a strong note, as major
exporters like the UnitedStates, Japan and Germanyall saw demand pick up,although Chinas perfor-mance remained modest,surveys showed on Thurs-day.
Years of loose mone-tary policy, along with soar-ing stock markets, appearto be bolstering economiccondence. That bodes wellfor a global economy thathas struggled to shake offthe effects of nancial crisis
and recession.Chinas growth rate
fell to a three-month low,
though the index was stillabove the 50 mark that in-dicates expansion. Weak-ness in global equity mar-kets was blamed in part onthe Chinese data, though
markets were also taking abreather from recent gains.
US manufacturing ac-tivity grew in December
at its swiftest pace in 11months and the rate of jobgrowth was the strongestsince March, according toMarkits Purchasing Man-agers Index.
Other US economic g-ures, including constructionspending and the Institutefor Supply Managementspurchasing managers sur-vey, also pointed to steadygains in the worlds largesteconomy.
We have had a wholestring of strong ISM num-bers. This is a gauge ofsentiment and sentiment
is improving, said ScottBrown, chief economistwith Raymond James in StPetersburg, Florida.
Europe has turnedthe corner. Its not
contracting at least. Theemerging markets are do-ing better. We are lookingfor growth to pick up once
again in the new year andwe have few headwinds todeal with, especially lessscal drag. The US Insti-tute for Supply Manage-ments manufacturing PMIindex dipped slightly to 57from 57.3 in November, butthats still well above the 50level that indicates growthin the sector. Constructionspending rose 1 percent toa four-and-a-half-year high.
A Reuters poll ofeconomists taken in mid-December forecasts annual-ized rst-quarter economicgrowth of 2.5 percent,
reaching 3 percent by year-end. Since then, economicdata has tended to exceedforecasts.
US stock markets havebeen on a tear, even as the
US Federal Reserve easesoff on its monthly stimulus.The S&P 500 benchmarkclosed at all-time highs onTuesday, even though eq-uities dipped modestly onThursday.
Factory sentiment hit a10-month high in Mexico,with the HSBC MexicoManufacturing PMI risingto 52.6 in December, thanksto improved new orders and
output. Euro zone manufac-turing grew at the fastestrate since mid- 2011 in De-cember on brisk business inGermany and Italy, MarkitPurchasing Managers In-dexes (PMIs) showed.
Add in the fastestgrowth in 7 1/2 years forJapanese manufacturingand no major slowdown inChinese manufacturing out-put, and the stage is set for a
solid start to the year.Looking ahead, the
hope for the euro zone is thatrecent improved condence
will encourage businessesto lift their employment andinvestment plans as 2014
progresses, and will also en-courage consumers to spendmore, said Howard Archer,the chief European and UKeconomist at IHS Global In-sight.Reuters
Electricians assemble a new Porsche 918-Spyder sports car at the production line ofthe German car manufacturers plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen on 2 July, 2013.
REUTERS
UK lawmakers criticize govts stockpilingof Roche drug Tamiu
LONDON, 3 Jan British lawmakers on Friday
criticized government spend-ing of 424 million pounds($702 million) to stockpileRoches medicine Tami-u, saying doubts about the
drugs effectiveness suggestit may not be money wellspent.
Parliaments inuentialPublic Accounts Committee(PAC) said it was surprisedand concerned to discoverthat information on methodsand results of clinical trialsof such prescribed drugs isroutinely withheld, and saidthere was a lack of consen-sus over how well Tamiu ...
actually works.The case for stockpil-
ing antiviral medicines atthe current level is based onjudgment rather than on evi-
Four capules of Tamiu are pictured on a Tamiu box
in Burbank, California, on 31 Jan, 2013.REUTERS
Asia shares roiled by
risk aversion; yen ralliesSYDNEY, 3 JanAsian
share markets were underwater on Friday after a sud-den reversal in some verypopular, and thus crowded,trades sparked a bout ofglobal risk aversion.
The net result was apullback in the euro, sterling,and stocks and a bounce for
the yen, gold and bonds. Oilprices had also taken a spill,though for purely idiosyn-cratic reasons.
MSCIs broadest indexof Asia-Pacic shares out-side Japan shed 1 percent,with markets from Shanghaito Sydney all in the red.
The various movesseemed divorced from thenews ow, which was most-ly upbeat with global manu-facturing ending 2013 ona strong note as the UnitedStates, Japan and Germanyall saw demand pick up.
The y in the ointment
was China where a measureof activity in the servicessector eased back in Decem-ber, just as one for manufac-turing had on Thursday.
A pedestrian looks at an electronic board displayingvarious countries stock market indices outside a
brokerage in Tokyo on 24 Dec, 2013.REUTERS
Relapse of cured HIV patients spursAIDS science on
LONDON, 3 Jan Sci-entists seeking a cure forAIDS say they have beeninspired, not crushed, bya major setback in whichtwo HIV positive patients
believed to have been curedfound the virus re-invadingtheir bodies once more.
True, the news hithard last month that theso-called Boston patients two men who receivedbone marrow transplantsthat appeared to rid themcompletely of the AIDS-causing virus had
relapsed and gone backonto antiretroviral treat-ment.
But experts say the dis-appointment could lay thebasis for important leaps
forward in the search fora cure. Its a setback forthe patients, of course, butan advance for the eldbecause the eld has now
gained a lot more knowl-edge, said Steven Deeks,a professor and HIV expertat the University of Califor-nia, San Francisco.
He and other experts
say the primary practicalmessage is that current testsdesigned to detect evenvery low levels of HIV pre-sent in the body are simplynot sensitive enough.
As well as having thehuman immunodeciency
virus (HIV), the Boston pa-tients both also had a typeof blood cancer called lym-phoma, for which they weretreated using bone marrowtransplants one man in2008 and the other in 2010.
They continued tak-ing the antiretroviral AIDS
drugs, but eight monthsafter each patients trans-plant, doctors found theycould not detect any sign ofHIV in their blood.
In the early part of
2013, both patients decidedto stop taking their AIDSdrugs and both appeared toremain HIV-free prompt-ing their doctors, TimothyHenrich and Daniel Kuritz-kes from Bostons Brighamand Womens Hospital, toannounce at a conferencein July that they may havebeen cured.Reuters
The next hurdle laterFriday will be a spate ofspeeches from top FederalReserve policy makers, in-cluding outgoing ChairmanBen Bernanke. Any com-ments on the outlook fortapering could affect marketsentiment, for good or bad.
On Thursday, the Dow
had ended down 0.82 per-cent while the S&P 500lost 0.89 percent. MSCIs45-country share indexslipped 1 percent.
In Asia, anxious eyeswere xed on Thailand as
deepening political uncer-tainty lopped another 0.5percent off stocks, on topof a 5 percent decline onThursday. The Thai curren-cy also took a bath, hittingits lowest since early 2010at 33.03 per dollar.
Shares in South Koreashed 1.1 percent, thoughthere the problem was oneof a strong won and a weakyen undermining the com-petitiveness of the countryshuge export companies.
Reuters
dence of their effectivenessduring an inuenza pandem-
ic, said Richard Bacon, aleading member of the com-mittee.
He added that as wellas spending more than 420million pounds on stockpil-ing Tamiu, an antiviral
medicine, the Department of
Health was forced to writeoff 74 million pounds of that
as a result of poor record-keeping by the NationalHealth Service.
Before spending mon-ey in future to maintain thestockpile the (health) depart-ment needs to review whatlevel of coverage is appro-
priate, he said. Tamiu has
been approved by regulators
worldwide and is stockpiledby many governments incase of a global u outbreak.
Sales of the drug hit close to$3 billion in 2009, due to theH1N1 swine u pandemic,although they have since de-clined.
But some researchersclaim there is little evidenceTamiu works and have lob-bied since 2009 for Swissdrugmaker Roche to handover all its data from clini-cal trials of the medicine.After a lengthy ght, Roche
agreed last year that it wouldhand over the data to outsideresearchers at the CochraneCollaboration, a non-prot
group that reviews trial datato assess the value of drugs.
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FireEye Inc Chairman of the Board, David DeWalt (R)
and Founder Ashar Aziz (L) pose with Nasdaq CEORobert Greifeld outside the Nasdaq Market site in Times
Square following the companys debut on the Nasdaqexchange in New York, on 20 Sept, 2013.
REUTERS
FireEye buys cyber forensics rm Mandiantfor about $1 billion
BOSTON, 3 Jan Cy-bersecurity company Fire-Eye Inc has acquired Man-diant Corp, the computerforensics specialist bestknown for unveiling a se-cretive Chinese militaryunit believed to be behind aseries of hacking attacks onUS companies.
FirEye shares jumpedmore than 20 percent af-ter Thursdays announce-ment of the $1.05 billioncash-and-stock deal, which
FireEye said closed onMonday. It unites two com-panies with relatively newtechnologies for thwartingcyber attacks, and bringstogether two of the most-respected executives in thesecurity industry: FireEyeCEO Dave DeWalt andMandiant founder KevinMandia.
While sales of olderanti-virus products havebeen on the decline, secu-rity experts expect stronggrowth in both FireEyescloud-based systems for de-
tecting malicious softwareand Mandiants software
Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Chinas mobile companyXiaomi, poses for a photo ahead of an interview during
the Fortune Global Forum (FGF) in Chengdu, Sichuanprovince, on 6 June, 2013.REUTERS
Chinas Xiaomi says to
more than doublesmartphone sales in 2014
BEIJING, 3 Jan Chi-nese budget smartphonemaker Xiaomi plans tosell 40 million handsets in2014, more than double thenumber it sold in 2013, itschairman said on Thursday,reinforcing the companysambitions to outsell moreexpensive offerings fromApple Inc and Samsung
Electronics Co Ltd.Lei Jun, who is also
co-founder of the tech rm,made the projection on SinaWeibo, Chinas most wide-ly used microblogging site,and it was reposted on Xi-aomis website.
We again promise, wewill at least supply 40 mil-lion phones in 2014! hewrote. China is the worldsbiggest market for smart-phones.
Lei said privately heldXiaomi had sold 18.7 mil-lion smartphones in 2013, a160 percent increase from2012, and that sales rev-enues, including taxes, rose150 percent to 31.6 billionyuan ($5.22 billion).
Xiaomis sales growth
Over a thousand candidates shortlisted for life on Mars
Jacqueline Storey, a press ofcer at the National Mari-time Museum, poses for a photograph in front of images
of Mars generated by NASAs Curiosity Rover at theirnew Visions of the Universe exhibition, in Greenwich,
London on 5 June, 2013.REUTERS
Ride service Uber, brash darling of Silicon Valley, stalks new marketsSAN FRANCISCO, 3 Jan
Uber Chief ExecutiveTravis Kalanick knows thevalue of a good controver-sy. After his upstart com-pany, which lets peoplesummon rides at the touch
of a smartphone button,provoked a urry of social
media outrage in Decem-ber over pricing policiesthat can result in exorbitantfares, Kalanick addressedprospective New YearsEve customers.
If you absolutelyneed a ride between 1 and3 am, Uber will be veryreliable, Kalanick said ina YouTube video. But itwill be a pricey ride, andyou just have to accept
that. The companys pric-ing policies can sometimesresult in fares that are eighttimes higher than usual.
Like the message ornot, plenty of people heardit and fewer complaints
emerged about Ubers NewYears Eve rates.
Kalanick has taken asimilarly tough tack withregulators, local ofcials,
taxi-company foes andemerging competitors as hemoves to build Uber into aglobal force.
But it will take a lotmore than a popular smart-phone app, a loyal SiliconValley following and aknack for turning free-mar-ket ideology into publicity
to fulll Kalanicks vision
of a lifestyle and logisticscompany that delivers farmore than rides.
Uber has entered morethan 60 markets, rang-ing from its hometown of
San Francisco to Berlin toTokyo. Leaked nancials
in December indicate thatthe company, which beganconnecting passengers withdrivers of vehicles for hireabout 3-1/2 years ago, isgenerating $200 milliona year in revenue beyondwhat it pays to drivers.
Investors, led by Goog-le Incs Google Ventures,have given Uber around$400 million and valuedit at $3.5 billion. With a
Transportation app Uber is seen on the iPhone oflimousine driver Shuki Zanna, 49, in Beverly Hills,
California, 19 Dec, 2013.REUTERS
service that stitches togeth-er the buzziest categories inentrepreneurship amongthem mapping, smart-
phones, and local services Uber is widely seen asone of the hottest propertiesin Silicon Valley.
Yet Uber still facesdaunting regulatory hurdlesthat have left it shut out ofmajor markets such as Mi-ami. Lawsuits, many fromtaxi companies, are pil-ing up. Competitors such
as Hailo, Sidecar and Lyftare coming on strong. Andaside from publicity stuntsinvolving delivery of kit-tens, ice cream and Christ-mas trees, Uber has yet toprovide anything beyondrides. Delivery can be-come an extremely complexthing, said Kerry Rice,a digital media analyst atNeedham. Its about thescheduling and the softwareand the ability to manage aeet.Reuters
that analyzes cyber attacks.About a year ago the
two companies entered intoa technology developmentagreement that made it eas-ier to deploy their productstogether. With the merger,FireEye will gain Mandi-ants team of forensics in-vestigators.
They have these verystrong Navy cyber Sealswho respond to breachesand are very good at whatthey do, DeWalt said
about Mandiant. He hadpreviously served as chair-man of Mandiants board.
My aim is to createthe strongest security com-pany in the world, DeWaltsaid in an interview.
FireEye, which hasyet to post a prot, said theacquisition will be immedi-ately accretive to earningsand expects the combinedcompanys revenue to growabout 50 percent this year.In comparison, SymantecCorp, the biggest makerof anti-virus software, has
said it expects scal 2014revenue to drop 3 percent to
4 percent.Mandiant is best
known for its forensics ser-vices. The company roseto prominence in Febru-ary 2013 when it publisheda report detailing what itsaid were links between aShanghai-based unit of thePeoples Liberation Armyand a long list of attackson US companies. Beijing
denied all allegations in thereport.
If you combine Fire-Eyes advanced persistentthreat technology withMandiants endpoint pro-tection, it really makesthem a major force in thecyber-security industry,said FBR analyst DanielIves. Mandiant, which haslong been protable, gener-ates sales of more than $100million a year, according to
DeWalt.Reuters
far exceeds projections forthe global smartphone mar-ket, which is seen expand-ing at an annual rate of 18percent a year until 2016,according to research rm
Canalys.Xiaomis cheap yet
sleek phones are popularin China, where SamsungElectronics remains the
market leader. Xiaomishandsets sell for between$130 and $410, much lowerthan the $740 price tag forthe least expensive iPhone5C model or a SamsungGalaxy Note II, which canretail for $570.
Xiaomi even managedto briey rank sixth by
market share in the secondquarter of 2013, one notchabove Apple.
Apple is poised toboost its sales in China afterit signed last month a dealwith China Mobile Ltd, theworlds largest mobile car-rier by subscriber numbers.The deal could generate $3billion in revenue in 2014for the US rm.
Reuters
than a thousand candidateswho will now be tested tocome up with a nal list of
24 would-be Mars-dwell-ers. Mars One was set upin 2011 by two Dutch menwith the goal of establish-ing permanent human lifeon Mars in 2025. They hopethe project will be fundedby investors and the rightsfrom the documentary-cum-reality TV broadcast-ing of the tests, training andnal selection.
The 1,058 candidateswho got through to the rst
round come from all overthe world. By far the largest
number - 297 - are Ameri-can, followed by 75 Cana-dians and 62 Indians.
They must now under-go rigorous tests, includingsimulations of life on Marsand coping with isolation,co-founder Bas Lansdorpsaid.
The challenge with200,000 applicants is sepa-rating those who we feelare physically and mentallyadept to become humanambassadors on Mars fromthose who are obviouslytaking the mission muchless seriously, Lansdorpsaid.Reuters
AMSTERDAM, 3 Jan A mission to put humans on
Mars that drew 200,000 ap-plicants has selected more
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Saturday, 4 January, 20148 New Light of MyanmarNAT IONAL
Saturday, 4 January, 2014
Sixty-six years onSixty-six years ago, 4:20 a.m. 4 January.
Deep was the darkness in the cold morning, but
it was just the darkest hour before the dawn in
Myanmar.
The entire people of Myanmar passed a
sleepless night on 3 January 1948, being eager to
witness the would-be historic moment of them-
selves and their motherland. It was completely
dark in the streets, but glittering hopes were
aring up in their hearts.
At 4:20 a.m. on that 4 January, Myanmar
people shed emotional tears as the Union Jack
was lowered and Myanmars own national ag
was run up the agpole. For more than a cen-
tury, they had waited for that day to free them-
selves from the yoke of colonial rule and to walk
with their heads held high on their own soil.
Since then, Independence Day is celebrated
annually in Myanmar. Writers give talks and
newspapers feature articles and editorials on
how important it is to preserve independence on
this red-letter day. There also are games, shows
and fairs as part of Independence Day celebra-
tions.
But, has anyone seriously thought about the
essence of independence?
Independence is like health; people do not
know its value until it is lost. Again, it is as frag-
ile as life. It can shatter all of a sudden. How-
ever, the overwhelming majority of Myanmars
population today was born after independence
and therefore dont understand how bitter be-ing subjugated tastes.
Countless numbers of lives and limbs, innu-
merable drops of blood and immeasurable mis-
eriesthe price of independence was high.
But, is this hard-won independence real?
National brethren were united against co-
lonial rule, but have then turned into foes in
reconstruction of the nation. The lingering in-
ternal armed conicts born with independence
have claimed as many innocent lives as, or per-
haps even more, than the independence struggle
did.
Sixty-six years on, people are still eeing for
their lives.
Sixty-six years on, people are still ghtingfor their land.
Sixty-six years on, people are still searching
for a sense of security.
Sixty-six years on
Final Sepak Takraw match
concludes in Nay Pyi TawNAYPYITAW, 3 Jan
The Inter-Ministry Sepak
Takraw tournament to
mark the 66thAnniversary
Independence Day took
place at Wunna Theikdi
Gymnasium-3 here this
morning.In the nal, the team
representing the Minis-
try of Transport won over
the team representing the
Ministry of Construction
while the team represent-
ing the Ministry of Home
Affairs stood third after
defeating the team rep-
resenting the Ministry of
Industry.
The prize presentationceremony will be held to-
morrow at the same venue.
MMAL-Khin Zaw
(Mingala)
Nyaunglebin gets new streetNYAUNGLEBIN, 3 Jan
To mark the 66th Anniver-
sary Independence Day, a
4thstreet paved with gravel
opened in Minte Ward,
DaikU Township yester-
day.
The 985-foot long
street passes through
Kyungon, Bamakyungon,
Shankyungon, Oakwin,
GANGAW, 3 JanA
ceremony to extend pipe-
lines to deliver river water
took place in Shoneshi Vil-
lage in Gangaw Township
yesterday as part of efforts
for marking the 66th Anni-
versary Independence Day.
The extension work
was nanced with K 3 mil-
NATOGYI, 3 Jan For-
esters at the Mt. Minn Sone
Wildlife Sanctuary, with
the help of the Wildlife
Conservation Society, are
moving to protect star tor-
toises, which can each fetch
up to US$ 20,000 on the in-
ternational black market.
They have been giv-
ing educative talks to stu-
dents and youth in Natogyi
Township in the MandalayRegion and volunteers in 13
nearby villages are joining
in the conservation project.
Star tortoises face a
threat to their very exist-
HAKA, 3 JanA My-
anmar Passport Issuing Of-
ce (Section) was launched
in Haka in Chin State yes-
terday.
The branch has been
established with a view to
enabling accommodation
and food for the people in
Chin State without muchcost.
Applying for a pass-
port will cost K 25,000, In-
Hnetthikepauk, Palakekwin
and Pyinpone villages and-
will becomea main route
for better transportation for
the villagers. Resurfacing
of the street was supervised
by the DaikU Township
Development Committee.
Amyotha Hluttaw Rep-
resentative U Tin Myint and
Township Administrator
U KyawSwa Aung spoke
at the road opening and
engineer U Thant ZinOo
recounted the construction
work. U Tin Myint cut the
ribbon to open the street.
Department ofcials,
residents of Minde Ward
and members of social or-
ganizations attended the
ceremony.
Nay Linn (Nyaunglebin)
charge Police Captain San
Oo said.
He said it takes about
10 ten days to get a passport
and reiterated that the new
ofce will the best services
for the convenience of the
local people.
Plans are also un-
derway to open similarbranches in other states and
regions.Haka IPRD
Pipelines extension provides
drinking water for Gangaw
residents
(from page 16)
tarps strewn on both pedes-
trian and trafc thorough-
fares are a headache as the
city tries to modernize.
After series of negotia-
tions with vendors, the Yan-
gon City Development Com-
mittee has proposed a plan
that would allow them to lay
their trays on the lanes, but
only at certain times. And to
enforce the proposal and to
improve the common good,
amendments must be madenow in the City of Rangoon
Municipal Act, which dates
to 1922 - a very different
time, with very different
Only cooperation will allow ...
lion from the Magway Re-
gion Government and K 10
million in local contribu-
tions.
The extended pipelines
will bring easy access to
safe drinking water for the
local residents.MMAL-Kyaw Than
Swe (101)
Local youth, students take part in
campaign to save star tortoisesence overall and because of
illegal exports they are al-
ready near extinction in the
township.
Ofcials concerned are
also launching a campaign
to provide the endangered
tortoises with a safe haven
in the sanctuary and the
Forest Department, work-
ing with the local youth and
students, is increasing colo-
nies of star tortoises in theregion and raising aware-
ness among the local people
of the threat to tortoises.MMAL-Khin Zar Mon
Myint (Law)
challenges than those todays
Yangon now faces.
In pursuit of modernity,
strict adherence to a develop-
ment affairs law by residents
and cooperation with of-
cials is much needed.
Putting aside the con-
cerns and differences of each
individual and each group
is imperative if Yangonites
are to take part in the beau-
tifying, cleaning and green-
ing that will transform the
city and allow Yangon onceagain to rightfully claim its
title as Princess of Asia.
Kyemon: 3-1-2014
Trs: YM
TATKON, 3 JanAs
Myanmar marks the 66th
anniversary of its independ-
ence from Britain today,
Tatkon Township in the
Nay Pyi Taw Council Area
has organized a number of
sports events to celebrate.
Saya San Ward will
continue holding Sepak
Tatkon Township marks
Independence Day with sports eventsTakraw competitions that
kicked off yesterday at a lo-
cal school. It is tradition in
Myanmar townships to mark
Independence Day with
street games such as Chin-
lone, a cane ball game, box-
ing and Chawtaingtetpwe,
traditional pole climbing.
Tatkon Township IPRD
Passport ofce opens in Haka
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9Saturday, 4 January, 2014New Light of MyanmarL O C A L N E W S
Four objectives of 66thAnniversaryIndependence Day
- All the national people to live together in the Union forever
in weal or woe;
- All the national people to strive together for non-disintegra-
tion of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity
and perpetuation of sovereignty;
- All the national people to participate in efforts for ceasing
armed conflicts and gaining genuine peace;
- All the national people to work hard in building a developed
and discipline-flourishing democratic nation
66thAnniversary Independence Day
2014
Photo: Kyaw Swe
Moe (IPRD)
ASEAN Summits and related meetings will be held at
Myanmar International Convention Centre (1), Nay Pyi Taw
Historic pagoda built on Independence
Day has become tourist magnetSAGAING , 3 Jan
As Myanmar celebrates
Independence Day today,
one sight in the Mingun
region gets special attention
as it was built on the sameday the country declared
independence from Britain.
Pyidawthein Lutlatyay
Datu Pagoda located on
Momeik Hill in Sagaing
Township was built by a
monk and over 60 disciples
in the night from the 3rd to
the 4thof January 1948, with
the umbrella of the 14-feet
high pagoda hoisted atop
at 4.20 a.m. on 4 January
when Myanmar regained
Independence.
The pagoda which turns
66 today has in recent years
attracted more and morevisitors and pilgrims as the
Mingun region is famous for
its ancient cultural sites. Other
places of interest in the areainclude the Mingun Stupa,
Mingun Bell, Lion Statues,
Myatheindan Pagoda,
Settawya Pagoda, MomeikHill and Dhammanada
Monastery.
Kyemon-Nanda Min Lwin
Mohnyin ofcials urge calm as township
elects reps for Myanmars general electionMOHNYIN, 3 Jan
Officials in Mohnyin
township have clarified
that each township in
Myanmar can only elect
two representatives for
next years general election,
following protests by several
township sub-committees
that demand the election of
their members.
Each political party
is allowed to display one
election poster in each
village-tract, explained U
Di Sim Ram, Chairman
of the Mohnyin District
Election Sub-commission in
a meeting with political party
members on 30 December.
He added that according
to t h e co n s t i t u t i o n ,
representatives cannot be
elected on a sub-township
level. Following the protest
by several township sub-
committees demanding their
representatives should be
able to run, District Law
Officer U Bo Wai Lwin
urged them to remain calm
and abide by the law.
Among the protesters
were members of the sub-
committees from Mohnyin,
Mogaung and Phakant
Townships.
NLM-001
Rare books donated to new village library in Kachin StateMOHNYIN, 3 Jan Rare
books on history, literature
and culture of Myanmar have
been donated to a library
in Mohnyin Township in
Kachin State.
The Abbot of the
monastery Bhaddanta
Nandiya received the books
on 30 December from a
private donor on behalf of the
Bawa Uyin Library which is
located in the vicinity of the
monastery.
The 850 books were
printed in Myanmar from the
1960s to 1980s.NLM-001A building for Bawa
Uyin library opened at
monastery in Mohnyin
Township.
MONYWA , 3 Jan
Monywa University has
welcomed freshman students
of the 2013-14 academic year
with an ofcial ceremony.
The rector and other staffmade speeches to welcome
the students and explained
matters related to the
science subjects taught at
the university. Registrar U
San Win Hlaing claried
academic affairs and faculty
members were introduced
to the new students. The
ceremony was held atthe convocation hall of
Monywa University on 30
December.Kyemon-Myo
Win Tun (Monywa)
Monywa University welcomes
freshman students
KALAY, 3 JanA new road is
under construction that will link 17
villages in the Kalay Township of
the Sagaing Region in northwest
Myanmar. Officials from the Kalay
District Management Committee
and the Rural Development
Depar tment inspected on 29
December the construction work
met with local people.
Upon completion, the road will
be eight miles long and benef it 17
New road to link 17 villages in
northwest Myanmar
Course for Buddhist culture
instructors kicks off in Kayin StateMYAWADY, 3 JanA course for
people interested in teaching Buddhist
culture has started in Myawady in
Kayin State.
The first batch of instructors
has been taught since 25 December,
organizers said.
The course is under the supervision
of township education ofcials and
instructor Daw Nu Nu Khin of the
Yangon Dhamma Byuha SasanaMamaka Association. A private donor
has provided note books, stationery and
textbooks for the trainees.
Tun Tun Oo (Myawady)
villages on the eastern bank of the
Myittha River in Kalay Township.
It is being constructed by
Htet Nay Lin Co in line with the
instructions by the Chief Minister
of Sagaing Region U Tha Aye.
The villages that will be
c o n n e c t e d i n c l u d e U d u ,
Kinpunchon, Pauktaw, Indin,
Shadaw, Hsinywa, Kokko, Yayshin
and Mandar.
Kyemon-Chindwinthar (IPRD)
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Reporters stand by the front gate of the Chinese Con-sulate-General in San Francisco, the United States, on
2 Jan, 2014. The United States is deeply concernedby reports that the Chinese Consulate-General in SanFrancisco was damaged in an arson attack, the State
Department said on Thursday.
XINHUA
China urges US to
ensure safety followingconsulate arson attack
BEIJING, 3 Jan Chi-na on Thursday urged theUnited States to take ef-
fective measures to protectits diplomatic institutions
and staff, and prevent simi-lar incidents following anarson attack on a Chinese
consulate-general.The Chinese Foreign
Ministry and Embassy and
Consulates to the UnitedStates have lodged solemn
representations to the USside, demanding they solvethe case as soon as possibleand severely punish the cul-
prit, said Foreign Ministry
A resident walks in the rain in Buenos Aires, capitalof Argentina, on 2 Jan, 2014. Storms landed in part
of Argentina and have lowered the temperature hereabout 20 degrees Celsius. National Weather Service(SMN, for its acronym in Spanish) issued an alert for
possible severe thunderstorms in Buenos Aires andve provinces of Argentina. XINHUA
Oil ow via pipeline starts from
northern Iraq to TurkeyANKARA, 3 Jan
Crude oil ow from north-ern Iraq to Turkey started
via a new pipeline onThursday, Turkish Energy
Minister Taner Yildiz said.The oil started to ac-
cumulate at the TurkishMediterranean export hub
of Ceyhan but will not beshipped to world marketswithout the consent of Iraqi
government, Yildiz told re-porters.
The minister said that
oil ow through the pipe-line would start at 300,000barrels per day (bpd) and
rise to 400,000, expressinghis hope that a deal with
Nigerias
new year
attack
kills Two,
injuring 12LAGOS, 3 Jan
Unidentied gunmen onWednesday attacked agroup of young people inNigerias central north Pla-
teau State, killing two peo-ple and injuring 12 others,local police said on Thurs-
day. Dominic Esin, thestates police spokesperson,told reporters in the state
capital of Jos, that someyouths, who were danc-ing in a village square on
Wednesday, were assaulted
by the gunmen, leading tothe death of two dancers
and a score injured, whohad been rushed to hospi-
tals for treatment.To hunt down the as-
sailants, the police have
stepped up patrol and sur-veillance in the area, wherenormalcy had been restored,
Esin said. He also urged thepublic to provide the policewith useful information that
would lead to the arrest ofthe perpetrators.
Plateau falls on the
dividing line between Ni-
gerias mainly Christiansouth and predominantly
Muslim north. Mostly Mus-lim herdsmen from theFulani-Hausa ethnic group
have been blamed for scoresof attacks on mainly Chris-tian agriculturists from the
Berom ethnic community.Xinhua
spokesman Qin Gang.On Wednesday, a
person got out of a mini-
van parked in front of themain entrance of the Chi-
nese consulate-general inSan Francisco, poured twobuckets of gasoline onto
the front door and set it onre, severely damaging thedoor, but fortunately caus-
ing no casualties.The Chinese side will
release information in atimely manner as it be-comes available, Qin said.
Xinhua
The MV Cape Ray is seen before its deployment fromthe NASSC0-Earl Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia,
on 2 Jan, 2014. REUTERS
US ship to depart soon on
chemical weapons mission
to MediterraneanPORTSMOUTH, (Vir-
ginia), 3 Jan The US-owned cargo ship with the
capability to destroy thenastiest of Syrias chemi-cal weapons will depart
for the Mediterranean inabout two weeks, ofcialssaid on Thursday as ship-
yard workers readied thevessel for new sea trials.
Forklifts movedequipment and sparks ewas workers welded con-
tainers and other gear onthe deck of the MV Cape
Ray, which is being out-
tted with modular hous-ing to accommodate three
times its normal comple-ment of personnel, plustwo hydrolysis units fordestroying Syrian chemi-
cals used in mustard and
nerve gas weapons.
Without this ship, thismission is not possible, top
Pentagon arms buyer FrankKendall, who has oversightof chemical, biological and
nuclear arms, told report-ers who were invited totour the vessel at dock in
Portsmouth, Virginia.This avoids having to
put these materials on some-bodys territory, where youhave to deal with all the
political and environmentalconditions associated withdoing that under local law,
he said.Damascus agreed
to eliminate its chemicalweapons last year in theface of threatened US mili-tary action following a Syr-
ian chemical attack against
rebels and their supporters
in a civil war aimed at over-throwing President Basharal-Assad.
The United Stateshad developed a portablemachine for destroying
chemical weapons precur-
sors and offered to neutral-ize the portion of Syriasagents that were too toxicto be dealt with directly
by companies that process
hazardous materials.
Syria failed to meetthe 31 December deadlinefor removing the chemical
agents, but ofcials havenoted that the time framewas always going to be
challenging and arms con-
trol experts say deliberateand safe handling of thematerials is more importantthan doing it speedily.
Reuters
Baghdad can be reachedthis month for exports tobegin. Turkey and Iraqi
Kurdistan regional gov-ernment signed six energy
contracts last month on ex-ploration and purchase ofhydrocarbon resources.
Following Nechirvans
visit, Turkeys Foreign Min-istry said that Ankara andArbil had agreed on some
commercial deals but hadyet to nalize them and thatTurkey would seek Bagh-
dads cooperation on the is-sue. The agreement irked
ofcials in the Iraqi capital ofBaghdad, which claims soleauthority to manage Iraqi oil.
Baghdad said Iraqi Kurdsefforts towards oil independ-ence could lead to the break-
up of Iraq.The Turkish energy
minister paid a visit toBaghdad in December tobrief the ofcials on thedeals. In response to Bagh-
dads concerns, Turkey hasproposed a formula to bothparties underwhich oil and
gas money will be tied up ata Turkish state bank in linewith the agreed share of 83
percent to the Iraqi centralgovernment and 17 percentto the Kurds.Xinhua
S Korea, US to reopen defence
cost-sharing talks next weekSEOUL, 3 Jan SouthKorea and the United Stateswill resume the 10th round
of senior-level talks overhow to share costs for the28,500 US troops stationed
here, after the prior ninerounds of talks failed tonarrow differences between
the two sides, local mediareported on Friday.
The new round of ne-gotiations for the ve-yearSpecial Measures Agree-
ment (SMA) will be startedon 9 January in Seoul and
possibly last for four days,in a last-minute effort tomake a nal deal.
The two allies will
decide how much SouthKorea will pay for the pres-ence of the US Forces Ko-
rea (USFK) after their SMAexpired earlier this week.
Seoul has reportedly
offered to keep its pay-ment share at 869.5 billionwon (820 million US dol-
lars), but Washington hasdemanded a hike to around1 trillion won considering
what it called the increas-ing security threats fromthe Democratic People s
Republic of Korea.We have yet to
bridge our gaps. But we arepressed to wrap up the ne-gotiations soon, given the
many (rounds of) talks sofar as well as the (need to
uphold) the South Korea-US alliance, Yonhap newsagency quoted a Seoul gov-
ernment ofcial as sayingon condition of anonymity.
The rst negotiation ofthis kind was held in July
last year to revise the ve-year SMA, while the latestround of talk collapsed at
the end of 2013.The United States faced
growing nancial burdento station its 28,500-strongforces in South Korea asWashington was hit hard
by the partial governmentshutdown amid lacklustereconomic growth.
US President BarackObama has sought a rebal-
ancing towards the Asia-Pacic, but Washingtonasked its Asian allies such
as South Korea and Japanto contribute more to its
policy shift.South Korea and theUnited States singed their
rst SMA in 1991. Thelatest deal was reached in2008, with Seoul agreeingto pay 4.07 trillion won for
the next ve years through2013.
Xinhua
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Indian PM rules out 3rd
term in ofceNEWDELHI, 3 JanIn-
dian Prime Minister Man-
mohan Singh on Friday ruledout a third term in ofce,saying he will hand over the
baton to a new prime minis-ter after the upcoming gen-eral election in May.
He told a Press confer-ence that he hopes the nextprime minister will alsocome from the incumbent
Congress-led United Pro-gressive Alliance (UPA)
instead of the oppositionBharatiya Janata Party(BJP).
The BJP prime minis-terial candidate NarendraModi is campaigning strong-
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
ly for the election.
Singh also said that theCongress will soon nominatea PM candidate.
The Congress lost in
four key local legislativeelections, including that of
the capital region, late lastyear. BJP won all the elec-tions.Xinhua
JAKARTA,3 JanA fer-ry travelling between two
islands in eastern Indone-sia sank early Friday withscores of people still miss-ing, a search and rescue of-cial said.
Lalu Wahyu Efendi,search and rescue coor-dinator in the West NusaTenggara provincial capital
Mataram, told Kyodo Newsat least three people werefound dead and 46 oth-
ers survived after the ferryMunawar sank at around 2a.m. on its way from Lom-
bok Island, next to Bali, tonearby Sumbawa Island.
How many people have
Scores missing as ferry sinks in
eastern Indonesiagone missing, however,was not immediately clear.
I havent been able toconrm how many peoplewere aboard when the ferrysank, Lalu said.
Ofcials and mediareports gave conictinggures on the missing peo-ple, ranging from 11 to 40people. The state-run newsagencyAntaraeven quotedpassengers as saying theferry was packed with about
150 people when it sank.The reason the ferry
sank is not yet known, al-
though passengers told lo-cal media that leakage hadcaused the accident.
The ferry leaned tothe left, then the engine
didnt work and it sank,Lalu quoted one of the wit-nesses as saying.
Ferries are a common
form of public transporta-tion in Indonesia, particu-
larly in the eastern part ofthe archipelago, due to badroad conditions in someregions. Lack of adequate
public sea transportation, aswell as efforts to increase
prots, however, promptsome shipping companiesto let passengers and vehi-
cles board already-packedships and ferries.
Kyodo News
Customers buy lucky bags at the agship outlet of
Kintetsu Department Store Co in Osakas Abeno Wardon 2 Jan, 2014. Major Japanese department stores
kicked off business for 2014 that day.KYODONEWS
Truck bombing kills twoin NW BangladeshDHAKA, 3 Jan At
least two people were deadand three others injured af-ter a bomb was thrown at
an onion-laded truck in anorthwestern Bangladeshdistrict on early Friday, the
third day of Bangladeshoppositions countrywidenon-stop blockade, police
said.Charred bodies of the
trucker and an onion trader
were retrieved from insidethe damaged vehicle, thepolice ofcial told Xinhuafrom Dinajpur District,some 338 km northwest ofcapital Dhaka.
As the truck caught re,
he said its driver lost con-trol over the steering wheel.According to the police, the
onion laden truck, bombedby pro- blockade activities,veered off the road and fell
into the ditch at about 1:30am (local time) on Friday.
On receipt of informa-tion, the police ofcial saidreghters rushed to thescene and doused the re.
Three more peoplewere also injured in the in-cident, he added.
Stray incidents ofclash, arson, vandalism,explosion and detention
in Dhaka and elsewhere in
the country have also beenreported in the early hoursof third days blockade
program which came afterthe end of the oppositionsa two-day March for De-
mocracy on Monday de-manding polls under a non-party caretaker government.
Khaleda Zias opposi-tion alliance had earlier en-forced blockade for a total
of 22 days in phases sinceNov. 26 after the ElectionCommission announced
schedule for the 10th parlia-mentary polls.
Xinhua
BEIJING, 3 JanBei-jing will extend its air qual-ity monitoring network withmore stations and focus on
vehicles with high emission,conrmed the city environ-mental authority on Friday.
These stations will bealong the fth and sixth ring
roads and other highwaysheading into the urban areas,
the main routes of heavy die-sel vehicles, said Zhang Da-wei, director of the BeijingMunicipal Environmental
Monitoring Centre.Xinhua
Beijing to
control
vehicle
pollution
Chinas Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang reactsas he attends the Hebei delegation discussion sessions at
the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party ofChina at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing on 16
Oct, 2007.REUTERS
China tells police to be
loyal to party amid
graft crackdownBEIJING, 3 Jan Chi-
nas police chief wrote onFriday that his ofcers must
uphold the leadership of the
Communist Party and beloyal to it, as the govern-
ment targets the domes-tic security apparatus in acrackdown on corruption.
Sources have told
Reuters that Chinas for-mer security tsar, Zhou
Yongkang, one of the mostpowerful politicians of thedecade, has been put undereffective house arrest while
the party investigates cor-ruption allegations againsthim.
Last month, the gov-ernment began a graft in-
vestigation into a one-time
deputy public security min-ister, Li Dongsheng, an ally
of Zhous.Li held a rank equiva-
lent to cabinet minister, and
state media says he is the
rst member of the rulingpartys Political and Legal
Affairs Committee, the in-
uential domestic securitybody which Zhou used to
head, to be investigated forgraft.
Writing in the partysofcial Peoples Daily,Public Security MinisterGuo Shengkun said his
more than two million of-cers had to be absolutelyloyal and absolutely clean
and stand steadfastly in linewith the orders and politicsof President Xi Jinping.
All public security per-sonnel must take real ac-tions to resolutely defend
the leadership of the Com-
munist Party, Guo said.Unswervingly be a loyal
defender of the party andthe people. Guo made nodirect mention of Lis case
or of Zhou. The government
has yet to make any ofcialstatement about Zhou.
President Xi has made
ghting deeply ingrainedgraft a central theme of hisnew administration, and
has promised to take downhigh-level tigers as well
as lowly ies.Zhou had expanded
his role into one of themost powerful, and con-troversial, efdoms in the
one-party government, and
under his stewardship thedomestic security budgetexceeded that of the mili-
tary.But Zhou was implicat-
ed in rumors in 2012 that he
hesitated in moving againstBo Xilai, who had been a
con