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THE MOST RELIABLE NEWSPAPER AROUND YOUNew Light of Myanmar

Nay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb—President U Thein Sein met Norwegian Prime Minister Mr Jens Stoltenberg at the government guest house in Oslo in Norway yesterday evening.

Also present at the meeting were Deputy C o m m a n d e r - i n - C h i e f o f Defence Serv ices C o m m a n d e r - i n - C h i e f (Army) General Soe Win, Union Ministers U Wunna Maung Lwin and U Soe Thane, deputy ministers and departmental heads.

The President said that it was his first-visit to Europe, thanking the Norwegian people and government for support in Myanmar’s democratic transition. He also said that the Norwegian PM’s visit in the previous year was a historic visit in the mutual ties althouth it was a short stay. He also acknowledged that Norway played a key role in

Myanmar thanks Norway’s help in democratic transitiondiscussions with Paris Club members for lifting sanctions and resumption of low-interest loans by the World Bank and other international monetary institutions.

He said Norway’s clearance of Myanmar debt had impacts on other debt clearing. He also proposed cooperation for political reforms, peace building, economic reforms and environmental conservation. He was also eager to learn from Norway’s experience of clever management of natural resources for development, he sa id . He inv i t ed Norwegian companies to invest in energy, information and technology sectors.

The Norwegian PM pledged continued support for democratic transition, economic reforms and peace process and improved diplomatic ties.

He also said the Norway would share its experience

of management of natural resources to Myanmar and helped end conflicts in Rakhine and Kachin States.

He also said Norwegians would be creditable of their social and environmental responsibilities.

The two leaders met the press after the meeting.

The Norwegian PM hosted a dinner to the

President and party at historic Akershus Castle in Oslo.

MNA

Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives delegation of US Chamber of Commerce

Na y Py i Ta w, 27 Feb—U Nyan Tun, Vice-President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, received a delegation comprising businessmen from 20 US companies led by Vice- President for Asia at the US Chamber of Commerce Ms Tami Overby

President U Thein Sein holding discussion with Norwegian Prime Minister Mr Jens Stoltenberg.—mna

at meeting hall of Myanmar International Convention Centre (MICC), here, this afternoon.

Present at the call together with Vice-President U Nyan Tun were Union ministers U Tin Naing Thein, U Than Htay, U Win Myint, Dr Myint Aung, U Win Shein

and Dr Kan Zaw, deputy ministers U Han Sein, U Aung Than Oo, U Myo Aung and U Sat Aung.

On the occasion, they frankly discussed bilateral c o o p e r a t i o n b e t w e e n Myanmar and the U.S. Chambers of Commerce, current economic investment

in Myanmar and future prospects.

Later, the Vice-President posed for a documentary photo together with the Union ministers, deputy ministers and US delegation members in front of the conference hall.

MNA

Vice-President U Nyan Tun poses for documentary photo together with Union ministers, deputy ministers and delegation members of US Chamber of Commerce.—mna

yaNgoN, 27 Feb—State-flag carrier Myanma Airways of the Ministry of Transport has made charter flights available to tourists and local business travellers. New arrival EMBRAER-190 AR aircraft of the Myanma Airways will fly the charter

Myanma Airways hires out aircraft

flights.EMBRAER-190 AR,

ATR, MA-60 and BEECH CRAFT-1900 D are also available for the service. Those interested may contact Myanma Airways (Head Office) and dial ph-371587, 371131 and 377843.—NLM

Assignment and formation of supportive committees

for development of township/ward/village-tract

Under Section 36 (a) and (c) of the Constitution, the President Office assigned a task of forming supportive committees for development of township and ward or village-tract to be able to bring about better socioeconomic status and living standard of the people in cooperation with forces like regional organizations and private sector, aiming at national economic development to Region/State government, Nay Pyi Taw Council and leading bodies of self-administered division/zone through Notification No (27/2013) dated 26-2-2013.

The supportive committee for development of township is to be formed with seven members in minimum or nine members in maximum and the supportive committee for development of ward or village-tract is to be formed with five members in minimum or seven members in maximum not later than 31 March 2013.

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LocaL newsNew Light of Myanmar

Photo shows a Htamane-making event in progress at ward-5 of Myawady Township on

24 February. Ward dwellers led by U Sein Thaung, ward administrator, made 20 bell-

mouthed pans of htamane for donation. Kyemon

School for the Disabled Children gets new school building

Nay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb — Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin and Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe attended the handing over of new school building to the School for the Disabled Children at Kyaikwaing Pagoda Road in Mayangon Township in Yangon on 22 February.

They unveiled the bronze plaque of the new school building and viewed round inside the building which was built and donated by Shwedaung Group.

Next, the chairman of Shwedaung Development Co., Ltd explained the purpose of donation and handed over documents related to the new school building to the headmistress.

In her speech, the Union minister said that the issue of the disabilities was concern of each and every citizen. She spotlighted contributions of the disabled persons in nation-building endeavours, saying that genuine development could be made with the participation of their efforts.

On beha l f o f t he g o v e r n m e n t a n d t h e

Lashio anti-narcotics squad seizes 924 grams of heroine HsiPaw, 27 Feb —

Members of Lashio anti-narcotics squad seized 924 grams of heroine worth K 17.5 mill ion while conducting a search of a motorbike driven by Swe Myint together with Soe Tun out of Hopeik village in Lashio Township of Shan State (North) at about 6.30 pm on 20 February.

The squad arrested Swe Myint and Swe Tun together with the seized heroine which was being kept in 77 soap containers packed with a plastic bag.

No (2) Police Station in Lashio filed a lawsuit against Swe Myint, 36, of Minkin Township of Sagaing Region and Soe Tun, 49, of Shwebo Township.—Kyemon

ministry, she expressed thanks for donation of the new school building and CCTV camera system.

N e x t , t h e U n i o n m i n i s t e r r e c e i v e d a delegation led by Ms. Irene Caroline OVONJIODIDA of Action Aid International at Women Development Centre on Thanlwin street in Bahan Township. They held talks on disaster response measures and program on cooperation in gender equality.

The Union minister presented a certificate of honour to them for donation of lifejackets and educative publications on disaster. Then she visited Day Care Centre and Ahlon nursery.

MNA

Young man stabbed to death in the festive ground in Bago

Township Bago, 27 Feb — A

young man was stabbed to death in the festive ground of Kyaikthiri Dhamathike Pagoda where the pagoda’s Buddha Pujaniya festival was being held in Inndakaw Model village-tract in Bago Township at 2 am on 25 February. The man was pronounced dead on the way to Bago Hospital.

The man who had

sustained a fatal knife wound in the festive ground and died of the serious injury was identified as Chit Oo Naing, 27, of Taunggyikwe village in Inndakaw village-track.

I n n d a k a w p o l i c e s t a t i o n i s m a k i n g investigation into the knife attack in which the suspect is still at large.

Kyemon

Drug suspects sentenced to 14-year prison term each

yaNgoN, 27 Feb — Yangon West District Court sentenced drug suspects— U Win Htay of Thingangyun Township, Nay Myo Lin

(a) Ko Myo and Sithu Zaw (a) Bo Mya of Pyay — who were charged with seizures of narcotics on 19 February as they were found guilty of their offences.

They were arrested on seizures of narcotics by a combined force led by Police Captain Khin Maung Thein of Yangon West District Anti-narcotics Squad and police members led by Police Sub-inspector Tin Hlaing of Bahan Township.

On 18 November 2011, the combined force seized 184,800 Tramadol HCI 50 mg tablets and a mobile phone and arrested Win Htay and Sithu Zaw while

conducting a search of a vehicle at the corner of Bo Teza and Bo Thura Streets in Bo Sein Hman ward of Bahan Township. According to information given by the suspects, they carried out a search of the house of Nay Myo Lin where 526,000 Diazepam tablets, 56,000 stimulant tablets, 4510 injections were found at the bedroom.

Nay Myo Lin was arrested together with narcotics and a mobile phone. Bahan Township Police Station filed a lawsuit against them and the case was brought to court.

Kyemon

Car crash claims one life in Myinmu Township

MyiNMu, 27 Feb — A light truck carrying passengers crashed into the back of a stationary trailer carrying bamboos on Monywa-Myinmu-Mandalay near Alakapa village in Myinmu Township of Sagaing Region at bout 10 pm on 22 February, claiming life of a woman on it.

The stationery trailer was hit in the back by the light

truck driven by Soe Zeya Tun, 30. Daw Aye San, 50, of Tesu village of Toungoo on the light truck was killed in the crash and 14 others, including the driver So Zeya Tun wounded. The injured were sent to Myinmu hospital.

Myinmu Police Station filed a case about the crash between a light truck and a stationery trailer.

Kyemon

ICT Exhibition to be held on 1-3 March in Mandalay

MaNdalay, 27 Feb — The 11th ICT exhibition, j o i n t l y - o r g a n i z e d b y Mandalay Region Computer Professionals Association and Mandalay Region Computer Industrialists Association, will be held on a grand scale at Mandalay City Hall on 1-3 March.

The main a im of the exhibition which is held yearly is to widen the horizons of computer enthusiasts in ICT and enable them to have access to the service and products offered by ICT developers.

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companies will take part in the exhibition where computers and accessories, notebooks and digital gadgets in wide variety and ICT software will be on display at 73 booths.

Luck draw program for members will be conducted by computer associations at the exhibition.

Visitors will be able to receive information about internationally-recognized ICT courses. The exhibition will be kept open from 9 am to 6 pm during the prescribed period.

Kyemon

Illegal drugs confiscated from two drugstores in PyinmanaNay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb

— Various kinds of illegal drugs were confiscated by police in Pyinmana on 20 February.

A combined force comprising police officers of Nay Pyi Taw Police Force, Pyinmana Police Station and Dr Aung Naing of Pyinmana 200-bedded hospital seized 24 kinds of il legal drugs while conducting a search of a drugstore owned by Zaw

Zaw, 41, in Ywakauk ward of Pyinmana Township at about 12 noon on that day.

Likewise , pol ice members confiscated 49 kinds of illegal drugs at Swam Htet pharmacy on Pyinmana-Taungnyo road near Hsinyadana traffic lights in Pyinmana at about 1 pm.

Act ions are being taken to open a case about the seizures of illegal medicines. —Kyemon

Vehicle at breakneck speed overturns, kills couple on

expresswayNay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb

— A car crash on Yangon-Mandalay Expressway claimed lives of a couple at about 12 noon on 24 February.

The ca r acc iden t happened to a Probox driven by U Sein Win Than of Lanmadaw Township of Yangon plunged down the embankment at a place beyond mile post No (190) and overturned after

knocking down Maung Swe Naing Oo on the bicycle of Lewe Township.

Accord ing to the investigation into the case by Pandin expressway police station, driver U Sein Win Than and his wife were killed in the car accident. Due to the road accident, the cyclist suffered injuries and he was taken to Nay Pyi Taw 1000-bedded hospital.

Kyemon

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

Afghan insurgent attacks misreported, did not fall in 2012

US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta gives a thumbs-up to US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization Ivo Daalder before boarding his aircraft and departing in Brussels, Belgium on 22 Feb, 2013.

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Washington, 27 Feb — The NATO-led force in Afghanistan said on Tuesday it had incorrectly reported a 7 percent drop in the number of attacks by Taleban insurgents last year, acknowledging

that in fact there had been no decline in the closely watched statistic.

The disclosure raises questions about recent US claims of progress in the costly, unpopular war. It also serves as a reminder

of Taleban resiliency as withdrawing US and NATO forces prepare to declare the combat mission over at the end of next year.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, pointed to a record-keeping mistake which failed to take into account some data from Afghan forces, which are increasingly bearing the brunt of the conflict as Western forces move into a support role. After updating the figures, last year’s 7 percent decline in so-called enemy-initiated attacks — key data used to help assess progress in the war — was shown to have instead remained unchanged between 2011 and 2012, ISAF said.

“This was a record-

keeping error that we recognized and have now corrected,” an ISAF spokesman said.

Pentagon spokesman George Little called the error regrettable and played down the impact on the overall upbeat assessment of progress in America’s longest war. “In spite of the stated adjustment, our assessment of the fundamentals of progress in Afghanistan remains positive,” Little said.During a December trip to Kandahar, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta noted that “we’ve seen levels of violence go down” in Afghanistan, vague comments that could refer to a number of indicators, not only enemy-initiated attacks.

Reuters

US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Berlin on 26 Feb,

2013.—ReuteRs

Russia wants US to urge Syria rebels into peace talks

M o s c o W / B e r l i n , 27 Feb—Russia called on the United States on Tuesday to press the Syrian opposition to hold direct talks with Damascus, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents must appoint negotiators.

The crisis in Syria made up “the bulk of the conversation” between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at talks in Berlin

on Tuesday, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. After talks she characterized as “really serious and hard-working”, Moscow and Washington sounded a rare note of accord over efforts to launch talks to end the nearly two-year-old conflict, in which 70,000 people have been killed.

Lavrov said the new US top diplomat seemed to grasp the gravity of the crisis in Syria and that the former Cold War foes had agreed to do everything in their power “to create the

best conditions to facilitate the soonest possible start of a dialogue between the government and the opposition.”

He said Russia wanted to see the Syrian opposition name its representatives for talks with the government at a meeting in Rome this week between the Syrian opposition, and Western and regional powers favourable to their cause. Moscow and Washington have been at loggerheads

over whether the Syrian opposition’s calls for Assad to step down should be a pre-condition for talks. Lavrov, ahead of the meeting with Kerry, said he would urge Washington to lean on the Syrian opposition to drop requests for Assad to go, a demand he characterized as “unrealistic”.

Russia has been one of Assad’s staunchest ally and, with China, has blocked three UN Security Council resolutions aimed at mounting pressure on him.

Reuters

US Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman.—ReuteRs

Syria civil war threatens to pull Lebanon into conflictUnited nations, 27

Feb —The United Nations expressed renewed concern on Tuesday that Lebanon could be drawn into Syria’s worsening two-year-old civil war, which the world body said had developed sectarian overtones and been aggravated by foreign fighters and extremist groups.

The United Nations says almost 70,000 have been killed in the war.

“The destructive military spiral churns more forcefully each day and threatens to pull its neighbours, most notably

and worrisomely Lebanon, into its vortex,” Feltman told the UN Security Council during a Middle East briefing.

“The war has also taken on sectarian overtones, permeated by opportunistic criminality, and aggravated by the presence of foreign fighters and extremist groups as well as by some actions of the government, including its affiliated shabbiha” militia, he said.

With the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam, dominating power in Syria, the conflict has deepened the Shi’ite-

Sunni divide in the Middle East. Lebanon, where Shi’ite Hezbollah backs Assad, is deeply divided over the Syrian revolt.

Feltman said the situation in Syria was a source of “extreme concern” for the United Nations.

“Even tentative steps to dialogue are struggling to take root,” he said of recent offers by both sides of talks. “Regrettably, the warring parties remain locked in military logic which is bound to bring more death and destruction.”—Reuters

Egypt balloon crash kills 19, mostly foreign tourists

A resident walks past the wreckage of a hot air balloon that crashed in Luxor on 26 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

lUxor, (Egypt), 27 Feb —At least 19 people, most of them Asian and Euro-pean tourists, died on Tues-day when a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed near the ancient Egyptian town of Luxor after a mid-air gas explosion, officials said.

The balloon came down in farmland a few kilometres (miles) from the Valley of the Kings and pharaonic temples popular with tourists. Rescue work-ers gathered the dead from the field where the charred remains of the balloon, gas canisters and other pieces of wreckage landed. One Egyptian was also killed, Health Minister Mohamed Mostafa Hamed told Reu-ters, listing the other vic-tims as tourists from Japan,

China, France, Britain and Hungary. Earlier, officials had said all the dead were foreigners.

The balloon crashed on the west bank of the Nile river, where many of the area’s major historical sites are located. Konny Mat-thews, assistant manager of

Luxor’s Al Moudira hotel, said she heard an explosion at about 7 am (5:00 am Brit-ish Time). “It was a huge bang. It was a frightening bang, even though it was several kilometres away from the hotel,” she said by phone.

Reuters

Hundreds of quakes shake villages around smoking Peruvian volcano

liMa, 27 Feb —Hundreds of small earthquakes have shaken the earth around the Sabancaya volcano in southern Peru over just a few days and the rumbling, along with plumes of smoke spewing up to 320 feet (100 metres) high, have put officials on alert to evacuate the area.

Peru’s geological agency Ingemmet recorded some 536 quakes, about 20 an hour, on 22 and 23 February and periodic movement is ongoing.

Thousands of people live in the valleys surrounding the volcano. Some have already started to leave the region because the unusual seismic

activity has damaged their homes. About 80 homes were damaged by one temblor on 22 February, Peru’s national defence office said. The 20,000-foot (6,000-metre)volcano Sabancaya, which means “tongue of fire” in Quechua, has not had a significant eruption in nearly a decade. It sits atop the South America tectonic plate, which forces magma to the surface when it clashes with the neighbouring Nazca plate.

Ingemmet said the volcano has been releasing huge smoke trails intermittently since 15 January and current seismic activity is similar

to that which accompanied an eruption in 1986.

Sabancaya, active historically, was dormant for 200 years before erupting into activity several times in the 1980s and 1990s. No casualties were reported at that and the volcano has only experienced small eruptions since.

Southern Peru is the home to more than a dozen volcanoes.

Sabancaya is about 62 miles (100 kilometres) from the city of Arequipa, one of Peru’s three largest cities, which was recently hit by heavy rains and flooding. About 1.2 million people live in that city.—Reuters

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Science & TechnologyNew Light of Myanmar

Russian scientists find largest fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite

Moscow, 27 Feb—Rus-sian scientists have found the largest fragment of the meteorite which exploded over the Ural Mountains on 15 February, a member of the Russian Academy of Science said on Monday. “The largest piece’s weight

is over one kilogram,” Vic-tor Grokhovsky, a member of the Academy’s Meteorite Committee, told the Inter-fax news agency.

The search team of the Urals Federal University, with the help of 30 skiers, covered 50 km in search of

the debris of the meteorite, whose blast wave had in-jured about 1,200 people in the city of Chelyabinsk. Over 24,000 workers and 4,300 pieces of equipment were involved in clearing up the damage caused by the meteorite.

The stone meteorite disintegrated while pass-ing through the lower layers of atmosphere and the main “package” of the debris landed near the Chebarkul lake west of Chelyabinsk. To date, about 50 small pieces the size of coins have been found. More pieces in the area were hopefully to be found, Grokhovsky said.

Xinhua

Samsung unveils upgraded tablet PC to beat Apple’s iPad mini

seoul, 27 Feb—Sam-sung Electronics, the world’s No 1 smartphone maker, said on Monday that it unveiled its new, upgrad-ed tablet PC at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) to beat Apple’s iPad mini.

The 8-inch Galaxy Note 8.0 was officially launched at the 2013 MWC held in Barcelona, accord-ing to an e-mailed state-ment. The model came with 1.6 GHz quad-core proces-sor, running on 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, the latest version of Android operating system (OS).

The 8-inch display with a resolution of 1280 by 800 features a pixel density

pected until the second quarter, the Galaxy Note 8.0 should in-

crease its mar-ket share in the

7 to 8-inch tab-let PC catego-

ry,” Cho Jinho, an analyst at Mirae Asset Securities in Seoul said in

a report.The analyst

forecast that Samsung’s tablet PC shipments would surge 64.2 percent in 2013 to 30 million units, predict-ing the company’s global market share in the tablet PC market to rise to 20.5 percent.

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of 320 ppi, higher than 149 ppi of its predecessor Gal-axy Note 10.1. It has a kill-er application S-Pen stylus and a closer resemblance to the company’s Galaxy smartphone series.

“As the launch of the next iPad mini is not ex-

BlackBerry launches first BB10 device in India at $800

MuMbai, 27 Feb—BlackBerry launched its first smartphone from its BlackBerry 10 line in In-dia on Monday, pricing the phone at 43,490 rupees ($800). The touch-screen BlackBerry Z10 phone, which goes on sale in In-dia from Tuesday, will

compete with Apple Inc’s iPhones and Samsung Elec-tronics Co Ltd’s high-end Galaxy series phones.

The Z10 has already gone on sale in the United Kingdom and Canada, and is expected to hit the United States in mid-March.

Reuters

Blackberry Z10 devices are

displayed at a Rogers store in Toronto

on 5 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

Intel takes big step in chip foundry business

san Francisco, 27 Feb —Intel Corp has agreed to make chips on behalf of Altera, a significant step toward opening its prized manufacturing technology to customers on a larger scale, potentially including Apple. Sharing its manufacturing plants, or fabs, to strategic customers could help the world’s top chipmaker offset

willing to open its facilities to carefully selected custom-ers—as long as doing so does not its help competitors.

Intel has announced agreements to manufacture on behalf of Achronix Semi-conductor Corp and other small chipmakers but Mon-day’s announcement with Altera, one of two leading programmable chipmakers,

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul on 21 June, 2012.—ReuteRs

Verizon Wireless eyes first international LTE roaming

partner this year

barcelona, 27 Feb—Verizon Wireless expects to sign its first international roaming agreement later this year for customers of its fastest wireless service who travel overseas, ac-cording to a top executive for the No 1 US mobile provider. While Verizon Wireless has 200 partner-ships with overseas op-erators for its older, third-generation mobile service, it has not yet been able to set up agreements for its fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) data service, which was first of-fered in the United States in

late 2010.Verizon Wireless Chief

Technology Officer Nicola Palmer said on Monday that roaming agreements have been delayed because many operators are behind in upgrading their networks and some countries have yet to auction the wireless airwaves that carriers would need to upgrade to LTE. “So getting 4G roaming for our customers is going to take a while,” Palmer told Reuters at the Mobile World Con-gress trade show in Barce-lona. “These relationships will take some time to put in place.”— Reuters

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network

in Boca Raton, Florida on 10 Feb, 2011.—ReuteRs

Seals take scientists to Antarctic’s ocean floor

sydney, 27 Feb—Elephant seals wearing head sensors and swimming deep beneath Antarctic ice have helped scientists better understand how the ocean’s coldest, deepest waters are formed, providing vital clues to understanding its role in the world’s climate. The tagged seals, along with sophisticated satellite data and moorings in ocean canyons, all played a role in providing data from the extreme Antarctic environ-ment, where observations are very rare and ships could not go, said research-ers at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystem CRC in Tas-

mania.Scientists have long

known of the existence of “Antarctic bottom water,” a dense, deep layer of water near the ocean floor that has a significant impact on the movement of the world’s oceans. Three areas where this water is formed were known of, and the existence of a fourth suspected for decades, but the area was far too inaccessible, until now, thanks to the seals. “The seals went to an area of the coastline that no ship was ever going to get to,” said Guy Williams, ACE CRC Sea Ice specialist and co-au-thor of the study.—Reuters

A Southern Ocean elephant seal wears a sensor on its head as it sleeps on an island in the Southern Ocean,

Antarctica in this handout photo taken on 27 Feb, 2012.—ReuteRs

the growing costs of develop-ing new technology and help keep the plants running near capacity as Intel’s traditional PC business loses steam.

Intel will make Altera’s programmable chips using its upcoming 14 nanometre trigate transistor technology, the most notable agreement of its kind announced so far by the chipmaker. “It’s a step in terms of building into a business level we wish to achieve,” Sunit Rikhi, Vice President and General Man-ager of Intel custom foundry, told Reuters on Monday. “There’s no doubt in my mind the foundry will be a significant player in the fu-ture.” Building new genera-tions of chip manufacturing plants is becoming more and more expensive, and Intel has said in the past it was

is potentially much larger. “They’ve crossed over the line from it just being a ques-tionable experiment to—we’re going to do this for tier-1 customers,” said RBC analyst Doug Freedman.

With Intel struggling to find its footing in smarptho-nes and tablets with its own processor designs, some investors believe Intel may eventually agree to make Apple’s processors for the iPhone and iPad.“If and when we are called upon to serve large mobile custom-ers who can drive a lot more volume, we could serve them today in terms of capability,” Rikhi said. “I’m confident we have a very strong plat-form of offering upon which we can scale.” He declined to discuss Apple specifically.

Reuters

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

Vodafone says can invest in Europe without Verizon sale

Barcelona, 27 Feb—British mobile operator Vodafone said it did not need to sell part of its stake in its highly profitable Verizon Wireless joint venture in the United States to bolster its business in Europe. Chief Executive Vittorio Colao told reporters on Monday Vodafone had a healthy balance sheet and could invest when it needed to, adding it could step up its range of services without having to make acquisitions.

“The two things are not totally linked,” Colao said, on the sidelines of the

Mobile World Congress when asked about the need to sell down the Verizon stake which contributed over half Vodafone’s adjusted first-half operating profit.

“If it is right to make some investments, we will make some investments.” Facing falling revenue in its core European markets from economic pressures and fierce competition, Vodafone has come under pressure to cut its 45 percent stake in Verizon to fund the purchase of fixed-line assets to increase its product range.

Vodafone’s CEO Vittorio Colao speaks during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,

on 25 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

Vodafone has hired Goldman Sachs to advise on a possible 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bid for German cable operator Kabel Deutschland, a source with direct knowledge of the matter has told Reuters. It

has been linked with deals in Spain to consolidate a market which has been hit hard by the economic downturn, with consumers cutting back on making calls and sending texts.

Reuters

Mediterranean diet can ward off heart disease

new York, 27 Feb—A Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits and vegetables may help prevent heart disease and strokes, according to a new large study from Spain. Past research suggested people who eat a Mediterranean-like diet have healthier hearts, but those studies couldn’t rule out that other health or lifestyle differences had made the difference.

For the new trial, researchers randomly assigned study volunteers at risk of heart disease to a Mediterranean or standard

He and colleagues from across Spain assigned almost 7,500 older adults with diabetes or other heart risks to one of three groups.

Two groups were instructed to eat a Mediterranean diet —one supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil and the other with nuts, both donated for the study—with help from personalized advice and group meetings. The third study group ate a “control” diet, which emphasized low-fat dairy products, grains and fruits and vegetables. Over the next five years, 288 study

Food is seen on a table at a restaurant at the port of El Masnou, near Barcelona on 16 May, 2008.

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low-fat diet for five years, allowing the team to single out the effect of diet, in particular. “This is good news, because we know how to prevent the main cause of deaths—that is cardiovascular disease—with a good diet,” said Dr Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, who worked on the study at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona.

participants had a heart attack or stroke or died of any type of cardiovascular disease. People on both Mediterranean diets were 28 to 30 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those on the general low-fat diet, the researchers reported on Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Reuters

Carlyle prepares to sell

Arinc, hires banks

new York, 27 Feb—Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP (CG.O) is preparing to sell aerospace and defence company Arinc Inc and hired JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) and Evercore Partners Inc (EVR.N) to advise on the process, three people familiar with the matter said on Monday. Arinc, which the buyout firm bought from six US airlines in 2007 for an undisclosed sum, is expected to draw interest mostly from larger aerospace industry rivals and may fetch $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion in a sale, the three people said.

The latest attempt to find a buyer would come more than two years after Carlyle’s previous efforts to sell Arinc failed over a price gap, as well as lack of interest by potential buyers in pursuing the entire company. Carlyle, however, sold Arinc’s government consulting services division to Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp (BAH.N) late last year, getting rid of a business that potential buyers found unattractive in the previous auction, the people said.

Reuters

A general view of the lobby outside of the

Carlyle Group offices in Washington, on 3 May,

2012.—ReuteRs

CNOOC closes $15.1 billion acquisition of Canada’s Nexen

of CNOOC’s financial advisors on the deal.

“What they (CNOOC) had signed up for in the beginning, they got in the end, only it was a bit more rigorous than where we had started,” said Barclay. The Nexen acquisition gives CNOOC new offshore production in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off western Africa, as well as producing properties in the Middle East and Canada. In Canada, CNOOC gains control of Nexen’s Long Lake oil sands project in the oil-rich province of Alberta, as well as billions of barrels of reserves in the world’s third-largest crude storehouse—the oil sands in the Province of Alberta.—Reuters

ToronTo, 27 Feb—The contentious $15.1 billion takeover of Canadian oil and gas company Nexen Inc (NXY.TO) by Chinese state-owned entity CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK) closed on Monday, more than seven months after China’s largest-ever foreign takeover was announced. Nexen, based in Calgary,

new Nexen board will be Reinhart, Fang Zhi, Barry Jackson, Thomas O’Neill and William Berry. The takeover, originally announced in July, won approval from Canadian regulators in December. Earlier this month, CNOOC overcame its last major hurdle after the deal was cleared

A logo of China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) is seen at the top of its headquarters in Beijing

on 14 Nov, 2012.—ReuteRs

BPA may affect developing brain by disrupting gene regulation

washingTon, 27 Feb—Environmental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a widespread chemical found in plastics and resins, may suppress a gene vital to nerve cell function and to the development of the central nervous system, according to a study led by researchers at Duke University. The findings was published on Monday

in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Our study found that BPA may impair the development of the central nervous system, and raises the question as to whether exposure could predispose animals and humans to neurodevelopmental disorders,” said lead author Wolfgang Liedtke, associate professor of

medicine/neurology at Du-ke.

BPA, a molecule that mimics estrogen and interferes with the body’s endocrine system, can be found in a wide variety of manufactured products, including thermal printer paper, some plastic water bottles and the lining of metal cans.

The chemical can be ingested if it seeps into the contents of food and beverage containers. Research in animals has raised concerns that exposure to BPA may cause health problems such as behavioral issues, endocrine and reproductive disorders, obesity, cancer and immune system disorders.

Xinhua

Alberta, said in a statement on Monday that the deal had closed and its shareholders would receive $27.50 in cash for each Nexen share. Nexen said its common and preferred shares would be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange in a few days, while its common shares were expected to cease trading on the New York Stock Exchange prior to the market opening on 26 February.

The company said Kevin Reinhart would remain chief executive of Nexen, which will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC. Nexen also said it would have a new board chaired by Li Fanrong, who is CEO of CNOOC. Other members of the

by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which had a say because of Nexen’s exploration and production assets in the Gulf of Mexico.

The two companies have not disclosed what conditions were imposed by Canadian and US regulators for the deal to win approval, but one of CNOOC’s advisers said the parameters around the assurances were largely in line with expectations. “The level of detail that was negotiated and the time-frames of those commitments, that was a bit of a surprise though,” said Dan Barclay, who heads BMO Capital Markets’ Canadian M&A group, which acted as one

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One dead, hundreds of homes flooded in Macedonia

Skopje, 27 Feb—One man was drowned and sev-eral hundred homes in Mace-donia were flooded on Tues-day as two days of heavy rain drenched farmland and caused power outages in the Balkan country, authorities said.

Macedonia’s Crisis Management Centre said more than 10 rivers had burst their banks, destroying at least two bridges and flood-ing homes and thousands of hectares (acres) of farmland in the northeast.

A 51-year-old man from the north-eastern village of

Cvetisnica drowned after he tried to cross a rising river.

“The villages of Opae and Lopate are badly hit — the height of the water is al-most one metre (yard),” the crisis centre said in a state-ment. The government said it was acting to alleviate the crisis.

“From the data on the ground we have already given direction to use state-owned machinery to aid the situation, and we have dis-tributed materials to prevent further flooding,” said gov-ernment spokesman Alek-sandar Georgiev.

A family assesses the damages to their home in the town of Sveti Nikole, 60 km (37 miles) northeast from capital

Skopje on 26 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

Rising water levels put pressure on dams, and at least two were described as critical. Nearby residents were evacuated.

The crisis centre report-

ed power outages in some areas. North of Macedonia, in the southern Serbian re-gion of Bujanovac, 40 homes were evacuated due to flood-ing.—Reuters

Egypt-Gaza tunnels must be destroyed

Cairo, 27 Feb—A Cairo court ruled on Tues-day the government must destroy all tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, removing a route for smug-gled weapons but also a lifeline for Palestinians.

President Mohamed Mursi’s national security adviser Essam Haddad has said Egypt will not tolerate the two-way flow of smug-gled arms through the tun-nels that is destabilizing its Sinai peninsula.

Egyptian forces flood-ed some of the tunnels ear-lier this month.

“The court ruled to make it obligatory that the government destroys the tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip,” Judge Far-id Tanaghou said.

An estimated 30 per-cent of goods that reach Gaza’s 1.7 million Pales-tinians come through the tunnels, circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel

and Egypt for more than seven years.

“I filed the case be-cause I was worried about the state of national secu-rity in my country after the rise of the Muslim Brother-hood to power and it’s un-clear policies and links with Hamas,” said Wael Hamdy, a lawyer who brought the case.

He said the case had been brought after 16 Egyp-tian border guards were killed last August by mili-tants near the Gaza border that highlighted lawless-ness in the Sinai desert re-gion adjoining Israel and Gaza.

Cairo said some of the gunmen had entered Egypt through the Gaza tunnels, an accusation denied by the Palestinians. Dozens of tun-nels have been destroyed since that incident, but, ac-cording to Hamdy, 2,000 are still open.

Reuters

A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on 19 Feb, 2013.

ReuteRs

Chilean city reborn after 2010 quake and tsunami

ConStituCion, 27 Feb —The 8.8-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit the coast of central Chile in the pre-dawn hours of 27 Feb, 2010, has left swaths of death and destruction in the city of Constitucion, but three years on, its fu-ture looks promising.

Home to 46,000 peo-ple, where most make a living on farming, fishing and tourism, Constitu-cion was battered by large waves that killed some 100 residents and devastated coastal buildings.

That night, nature’s force razed the traditional hotels and restaurants that hosted thousands of tour-ists each year. One of the 10 strongest quakes ever recorded, the jolt destroyed about 222,000 homes and caused nearly 30 billion US dollars in damage.

Most of the people killed in Constitucion were Chilean tourists on Orrego Island at the mouth of the Maule River.

The government has expropriated the island and Maule’s riverside to build a buffer-zone park to avoid destruction in case of a new tsunami.

Post-quake recon-struction has also been a chance for local citizens to live better.

“The reconstruction process has been a suc-cess, because it took into account people’s opinions in the selection of their new homes,” Clarisa Aya-la Arena, Maule Region housing director, told Xin-hua.

Xinhua

Russian PM sees no backslide to Cold War in relations with US

MoSCow, 27 Feb—The relations between Mos-cow and Washington will not slide back to the Cold War stage, because they are able to tackle various pro- blems together, says Rus-sian Prime Minster Dmitry Medvedev.

“There are no deeply rooted, fundamental rea-sons for the ‘Cold War.’ On the contrary, we are capable of jointly tackling a large variety of issues in many areas,” Medvedev told Bra-zilian TV channel Globo in

an interview to be aired on Tuesday.

In the interview, con-ducted during his Latin American tour last week, Medvedev acknowledged that Russia-US relations have recently been soured over the child adoption is-sue, the missile defence problem and others.

The United States was to blame for the difficulties in bilateral ties, said Med-vedev. “We were forced to respond to these decisions.”

He mentioned the so-

called Magnitsky Act as an example of unfriendly moves by the United States that have triggered tit-for-tat retaliations from Mos-cow.

The Magnitsky Act targets Russian officials be-lieved to be involved in the death of a Russian lawyer named Sergei Magnitsky in detention in 2009. In re-sponse, Moscow introduced the so-called Dima Yakov-lev Act, banning adoptions of Russian children by US citizens.—Xinhua

Ten Taleban militants give up fighting in

S Afghan provinceGhazni, 27 Feb—Ten

Taleban militants gave up fighting and joined the government-backed peace process in Ghazni Province 125 km south of Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday.

“Today 10 dissident brothers gave up fighting, laid down arms and joined the peace process. We wel-come them,” provincial governor Musa Khan Ak-barzada said in a ceremony here to welcome the former militants.

Akbarzada also called on all anti-government militants to give up fighting

and join the peace process.Meantime, the com-

mander of the group Mullah Habib in talks with media called on the government to find job opportunities for the former militants and en-sure their security.

Taleban militants fight-ing the government have yet to make comment.

More than 3,500 Tale-ban fighters, according to government officials, have joined the government-backed peace process over the past year, a claim re-jected by the armed outfit as groundless.—Xinhua

Meat plant shutdowns inevitable in budget cuts

be determined but there is no question sequestration will have an adverse effect on food inspection services,” said USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe. “USDA is taking steps to minimize the impact of the furloughs on consumers, our employees and the meat industry.”

Even so, there would be some shutdowns, USDA said, because there is no way to stretch the workforce to cover all plants while reduc-ing outlays enough.

The administration es-timates some $10 billion in production would be lost if inspectors were laid off en masse for two weeks, or their agency’s share of cuts. Stores and restaurants could run short of meat temporarily.

The USDA did not re-spond to questions about how it would approach pos-sible furloughs at its Agri-cultural Marketing Service (AMS), which among other things generates prices used as benchmarks for livestock futures at CME Group Inc. The USDA has not men-tioned AMS in its com-ments about the sequester.

Reuters

waShinGton, 27 Feb—US meat packers and pro-cessors face short-term shutdowns because of im-pending federal budget cuts but the administration will try to minimize the impact on the industry and con-sumers, the Agriculture De-partment said on Tuesday.

The automatic cuts, also called sequestration, are due to take effect on Fri-day because Congress and the White House are unable to agree on other ways to reduce the federal deficit. USDA says the cuts would force it to lay off its 8,400 meat inspectors for 15 days

to produce the savings or-dered for its food safety agency.

Early this month, the White House raised the pros-pect of a mass layoff, which would shutter the meat in-dustry for two weeks. Plants cannot operate without USDA inspectors.

A House subcommittee chairman, Texas Repub-lican Michael Conaway, said on Tuesday that USDA might order furloughs on non-consecutive days to mitigate their effect and keep plants running.

“Specific furlough dates for (inspectors) have yet to

Butcher Brett Marley holds the freshly ground beef at Casey’s Market in Western Springs, Illinois,

on 25 April, 2012.—ReuteRs

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Mandalay, 27 Feb—Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kovida (from Maha Dhammika Monastery of Toronto of Canada) donated K 1 million for construction of religious buildings on

Cash donated to construction of religious buildings

Mandalay Hill and offering of gold foils to the pagoda to Chairman of Mandalay Hill Pagoda Board of Trustees U Thein Tun and office staff on 15 February.

Myanma Alinn

TaMway, 27 Feb—The community-based first-aid course 1/2013 was opened at the delivery room of Tamway Township Maternal and Child Welfare Association on 13 February.

The course was jointly organized by Tamway Township MCWA and Township Red Cross Society.

A t t h e o p e n i n g

First-aid course opened in Tamway Township

ceremony, Staff Officer Grade-II U Kyaw Zaw of Yangon East District Red Cross Brigade explained the purpose of conducting the training course.

Township Medical Officer Dr Daw Mi Mi Tin made a speech. The course lasted from 13 to 19 February, and it was attended by 50 trainees.—Myanma Alinn

yangon, 27 Feb—A passenger by the name of U Tin Win of Hline Township taking seat No 20 of ordinary class No 4 of No 89-up Yangon-Mawlamyine train that left Yangon on 31 January unexpectedly suf fered f rom los ing consciousness while the train passed Toegyaunggale Station. Railway workers and passengers gave a helping hand to him. So, he escaped from the critical condition of health.

The duty assigned ticket inspector informed officials of the Bago Station of illness of the passenger with a use

of a mobile phone.As soon as the train

had arrived at Bago Station, officials moved the ailing passenger from the train to the station.

At first, the Assistant Surgeon of the Myanma R a i l w a y s p e r f o r m e d necessary medical checkup on the patient. Then, the patient left for Yangon of his own accord.

Whenever passengers were ill onboard the trains, officials and staff of Myanmar Railways provided necessary assistance to them as much as they could.

Myanma Alinn

Ailing passenger receives helps of Myanma Railways

FalaM, 27 Feb—Surbon mountain range where Surbon Airport is located is six miles from Falam and 38 miles from Haka.

It will be the first-ever airport in Chin State.

Land survey team of Department of Civil Aviation conducted the land survey for the second time to construct the airport from 22 December to 16 January.

“ W e w o r k e d conveniently in conducting land survey. It will be the first-ever airport in Chin State. It is wonderful for place of airport on the mountain range. We are

satisfied with cooperation of local people in our works,” said U Tin Tun of the survey team.

The airport will have one runway between 6000 feet and 10000 feet in length.

It may handle the landing of ART or MA-60 aircrafts.

Upon completion, the airport will be a focal point for transport of domestic goods to the whole nation and for creation of tourist destinations in historical sites such as Reed Lake, Canady mountain, National Sanctuary and others in Chin State.—Myanma Alinn

Land survey conducted for construction of Surbontaung

Airport in Haka

HoMalin, 27 Feb—A fire broke out at Namtaw Model Village of Mongkai Village-tract in Homalin Township at 11.40 pm on 17 February.

The fire was put out at 5.30 am on 18 February.

The fire reduced 100 houses, 72 shops, one administrator office and one Dhammayon into

Night fire leaves over 380 people homeless

ashes, leaving 387 people homeless. Due to the fire, the people lost K 6228 million for their property. The Township Administrator and departmental officials opened four relief camps and provided 469 bags of rice, 150 viss of edible oil and clothes to the victims.

Myanma Alinn

MCDC supplies water to wards

Water and Sanitation Department of Mandalay City Development Committee supplies 1200 gallons of water free of charge to Minte Ekin Ward in Aungmyethazan

Township from 18 to 20 February.Myanma Alinn

Union Cup Games Dates and Venues for Sports Events

Nos sport categories Event Period Venue Remark

From to

Opening ceremony 28-2-2013 - Wunna Theikdi Stadium (Zabuthiri Township)

1. Track and field 3-3-2013 7-3-2013 Wunna Theikdi Stadium (Zabuthiri Township)

2. Badminton 23-2-2013 27-2-2013 TC-1 Badminton Training Hall (Zabuthiri Township) 3. Basketball 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 TC-1, Basketball Training Ground (Zabuthiri Township) 4. Billiards and snooker 23-2-2013 2-3-2013 TC-2 Billiards Hall, Lewe Township 5. Physical fitness 12-2-2013 - MCC (Yangon, Thingangyun Township 6. Boxing 24-2-2013 1-3-2013 TC-1 boxing training gym

(Zabuthiri Township) 7. Chess 26-2-2013 2-3-2013 Gold Camp (mess hall) (Zabuthiri Township) 8. Cycling (Cross Country) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 Mount Pleasant cycling ground (Ottarathiri Township) Cycling (Down Hill) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 Mount Pleasant cycling ground (Ottarathiri Township) Cycling (BMX) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 Mount Pleasant cycling ground (Ottarathiri Township) Cycling (Road Race) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 TC-1 Cycling training gym (Zabuthiri Township) Pinlaung road/ Taungkya Village

and Leinli bridge 9. Football (Men/women) 20-2-2013 7-3-2013 Wunna Theikdi Stadium (Zabuthiri Township)/ Paunglaung ground (Pyinmana Township) Training grounds (1) and (2) (Zabuthiri Township) 10. Fustal (Men/women) 23-2-2013 6-3-2013 TC-1 Fustal training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 11. Judo 25-2-2013 27-2-2013 TC-2 Judo training gym (Lewe Township) 12. Karatedo 4-3-2013 6-3-2013 TC-2 Karatedo training gym (Lewe Township) 13. Sepak Takraw 25-2-2013 5-3-2013 TC-1 Sepak Takraw training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 14. Table Tennis 23-2-2013 27-2-2013 TC-1 Table Tennis training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 15. Taekwondo 1-3-2013 3-3-2013 TC-1 Taekwondo training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 16. Tennis 23-2-2013 28-2-2013 TC-1 Tennis training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 17. Pancek Silat 2-3-2013 6-2-2013 TC-2 Martial Arts training gym (Lewe Township) 18. Traditional Boxing (Muay) 3-3-2013 5-3-2013 TC-1 Boxing training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 19. Volleyball 27-2-2013 7-3-2013 TC-1 Volleyball training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 20. Weightlifting 1-3-2013 3-3-2013 Paunglaung Gymnasium (Pyinmana) 21. Wushu 1-3-2013 3-3-2013 TC-2 Wushu training gym (Lewe Township) 22. Wrestling 4-3-2013 7-3-2013 Paunglaung gym (Pyinmana Township) Closing Ceremony 7-3-2013 - Wunna Theikdi Stadium (Zabuthiri Township)

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Thursday, 28 February, 2013

Get the people happyIt has been 133 years since Thomas Alva Edison

patented the first-ever electricity distribution system. And it has been exactly 137 years since Alexander Graham Bell shouted to his colleague, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you,” through a device which would later be known as telephone. Still a large piece of Myanmar’s population, ever boastful of rich resources, is living without electricity and many more without access to telephone communications. We have lagged for more than one century behind other human beings on the planet. If you think it is all but materialism of the modern society, how far will our quality of life figures hit in psychological terms?

Gross national happiness, the quantitative measurement of well-being and happiness of a nation, originated in Bhutan consider seven measures: economic wellness, environmental wellness, physical wellness, mental wellness, workplace wellness, social wellness and political wellness.

After more than five decades of mismanagement, the economy is still prone to many issues which include cronyism and land ownership. As new foreign investment law has been passed and the economic sanctions eased, the economic recovery is expected in a few years to come.

The environmental issue is the more fragile one in nature-loving Myanmar. Unfortunately, many natural areas are facing various risks, especially from extractive industries, after years of apparent lack of conservation. The government will have to smartly balance economy and environment to get its people happy.

As for physical wellness, we can not only count the number of hospitals but the quality of healthcare. We need to ensure that the citizens in the country are not living in stress and depression to claim that they are mentally fit.

The country must turn every workplace into a sound working environment and cut the unemployment rate by generating decent jobs for each worker. We have to build up the society of zero discrimination where the rule of law prevails as well.

The political wellness is measured mostly by quality of localized democracy and individual freedom. The quality of democracy can be raised by all the citizens and institutions by burgeoning of democratic practices, respecting the law and enjoying their rights.

To become a developed country in psychological terms, we have many more to do, but beyond any doubt we can.

Nay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb—Chairman of Union Election Commission U Tin Aye accompanied by Sagaing Region Chief Minister U Tha Aye, North-West Command Commander Maj-Gen Soe Lwin and officials attended golden umbrella hoisting ceremony o f M a w d a w m y i n t h a Myodaunt Pagoda o f Shwebo in Sagaing Region yesterday morning.

UEC Chairman attends golden umbrella hoisting ceremony of Mawdawmyintha Myodaunt Pagoda

After receiving the nine precepts from State Ovadacar iya Sayadaw A b h i d h a j a M a h a Rattha Guru Bhaddanta V ima labh ivamsa , t he congregation presented offertories to Sayadaws.

On behalf of Vice-Senior General Maung Aye (Retd), U Kyaw Nyunt and well-wishers donated K 10 million to the Pagoda and the board of trustees

returned certificates of honour.

The chairman of UEC and members donated a day meal to Sayadaws after the ceremony.

He met officials from township sub-commissions of Shwebo District in Shwebo on 25 February.

The UEC chairman urged the staff to do their best while discharging their duties. He then heard

reports on progress of works by officials.

T h e o f f i c i a l s from Shwebo, Wetlet , Kh inU, YeU, Tanse , Debayin, Kanbalu and Kyunhla townships sub-commissions discussed the tasks being carried out.

He said he would provide the staff with necessary requirements while discharging their duties.—MNA

Chairman of Union Election Commission U Tin Aye donates offertories to Sayadaw.—mna

Na y Py i Ta w , 27 Feb—Protestors clashed with securities near 500-acre fish farm in Palaung village in Maleto village-tract of Maubin Township in Ayeyawady Region yesterday. After the meeting between Region and district departmental personnel and

One killed and 45 injured in clash between police and protestors

the local people of 150 over the land ownership of the fish farm owned by Awkchad Company in the afternoon, the deputy commissioner issued the state of emergency.

Two police officers, 28 police members and 15 protestors were injured in

clash as the police tried to disband the crowd.

One police member died this morning in Yangon General Hospital. The injured villagers were admitted to Maubin Hospital. The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the stability was restored in the area.—MNA

yaNgoN, 27 Feb—Union Minister for Religious Affairs U Hsan Hsint met responsible persons of M y a n m a r C h r i s t i a n Churches at YMCA hall at the corner of Maha Bandoola and Theinbyu Streets in Botahtaung Township, at 10 am today and also met Islam leaders and responsible persons for re l ig ious organizations at the head office of Islam Religious Council on Bo Sun Pek Street in Pabedan Township, at 2 pm.

MNA

Union Minister meets leaders of Christian, Islam religions

Cash donated to No 1 Military Hospital (300-bed) Nay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb—

Kachin State Chief Minister U La John Ngan Hsai together with Commander of Northern Command B r i g - G e n T u n T u n Naung comforted patient Tatmadawmen at No 1 Military Hospital (300-bed) in Myitkyina and presented gifts to them yesterday

afternoon.At the hall of the

hospital, the Chief Minister explained the purpose of donations and presented K 6 million donated by the State Government for purchase of hospital equipment and Managing Director U Tun Sein of Myinzutha Construction Company K 10

million for Tatmadawmen from regiments and units which are discharging duties in Northern Command area to the commander who returned certificates of honour.

Commandant of the hospital Col Win Htay Aung spoke words of thanks for cash donations.—MNA

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Proposal on adopting policy for competitiveness of SMEs in 2015 ASEAN Economic Community approved

plan to designate Awaiyar Konethayar hot-air balloon ground in Kyaunggyisu ward of Taunggyi Township as public use, Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Chief of Myanmar Police

Region Constituency No.12 on reviewing the reduction of police strength from 18 to 6 in police stations and police outposts, the Deputy Minister replied that Myanmar Police Force

did not reduce the number of police members in police stations and police outposts.

U Tun Myint of Sagaing Region Constituency No. 6 on if iron chains can be put on the criminals awaiting the trial while appearing in court, the deputy minister said that according to the police manual, police members are to put handcuffs and iron chains on all prisoners

who are believed to be delinquent based on their backgrounds and their cases.

With respect to the question of U Tin Maung M y i n t o f T a n i n t h a y i R e g i o n C o n s t i t u e n c y No.3 on if there is any p lan to f i l l a vacant post of doctor in Station Hospital in Thayettaw village-tract in Launglon Township, appoint more hospital staff and provide hospital equipment, Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin replied that the plans are underway to implement them as quickly as possible.

B i l l C o m m i t t e e submitted the committee’s reports on the Bill amending Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association Law and the Bill amending the National Food Law, and Amyotha Hluttaw a p p r o v e d t w o b i l l s . Hluttaw representatives held discussions on the proposal on urging the Union government to

No plan to supply water at spillway to neighbouring country: Deputy MinisterNay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb

— Deputy Minister U Myint Zaw of Electric Power said that there was no plan to supply water coming out at the spillway of the dams to a neighboring country in his answer to the question raised by U Khine Maung Yi of Ahlon Constituency. Six hydropower plants to be built along Thanlwin River with foreign investments would be for generating electricity only, he added.

With regard to the answer, U Khine Maung Yi said that the answer was

incomplete to be able to estimate how much benefit the nation could have and loss the people were to suffer as benefits and impacts of the dams were not answered in detail.

In answer ing the question raised by U Aung Thein Lin of South Okkalapa Township Constituency, Depu ty Min i s t e r fo r Agriculture and Irrigation U Khin Zaw replied that actions would be taken against the use of farmlands in other ways without having permission. Farmland law

Deputy Minister for Electric Power U

Myint Zaw replies to questions.

mna

U Khine Maung Yi of Ahlon Constituency

takes part in discussion.mna

U Aung Thein Lin of South Okkalapa Constituency taking part in discussion.

mna

had already been enacted and region/state/district/township/ward farmland management committees formed in each region and state including Nay Pyi Taw Council Area.

Regarding the answer, U Aung Thein Lin said he was not satisfied with the answer. How the ministry concerned was exposing the violation of farmland law and taking actions in cooperation with the region government were not included in the answer, he added.

MNA

U Hla Swe of Magway Region Constituency

No. 12 asking question.mna

Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Chief of Myanmar Police

Force Brig-Gen Kyaw Kyaw Tun replies to

questions.—mna

U Tun Myint of Sagaing Region

Constituency No.6 asking question.

mna

Na y Py i Ta w , 27 Feb—Amyotha Hluttaw continued its 20th day session today. With regard to the question of U Nyan Lin of Shan State Constituency No.1 on if there is any

Force Brig-Gen Kyaw Kyaw Tun replied that continued actions would be taken in line with the laws and procedures.

Regarding the question of U Hla Swe of Magway

Deputy Minister for National Planning and

Economic Develop-ment Dr Daw Khin

San Yi making discus-sion.—mna

supply chain management, vocational training, laws and policies for SMEs.

Regarding the proposal, Deputy Minister for National Planning and Economic Development Dr Daw Khin San Yi highlighted seven strategies for ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC); (1) direct assistance to the entrepreneurs; (2) creating favorable environment for markets and manufacturing; (3) inviting investments; (4) technical transfer and manufacturing of value-a d d e d p r o d u c t s ; ( 5 ) manufacturing of marketable and quality products; (6) market expansion at home and aboard; and (7) capital assistance. She also pointed out technical assistance, establishment of fund, SMEs centre and vocational training center, research and development centre, electricity policy, financial policy, retail and wholesale, development of local SMEs.

NLM

adopt the policy for the competitiveness of SMEs in 2015 ASEAN Economic Community, which was submitted by Dr Myint Kyi of Yangon Region Constituency No.8.

T h e d i s c u s s i o n focused on trade policy for free flow of goods, banking, unemployment, per uni t cos t , power demand, banking and loan, microfinance, logistics and

Chairman of Pyithu Hluttaw IRC holds talks with former Japanese Ambassador,

Counsellor of Korean Embassy in MyanmarNay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb—

Chairman of Pyithu Hluttaw International Relations Committee U Hla Myint

Oo received a delegation led by former Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Takashi TAJIMA at Hall-1 of Hluttaw Complex, here, at 8 am today and discussed the tasks of international relations committees and cooperation in Myanamr-Japan’s parliaments.

Chairman of NIINO PEARL CULTURING CO; Ltd U Ye Tun (NIINO) and

wife presented ten sets of computer to the chairman of the committee.

Likewise, the chairman of the committee met with Mr Kim Dong Bae of Korean Counsellor in Myanmar and party at 9.30 am at the same venue. Both sides focused on parliamentary affairs and bilateral ties between the two parliaments.

MNA

Shan State Chief Minister attends coord meeting for oil and gas pipeline

in LashioNay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb —

Shan State Chief Minister U Sao Aung Myat addressed the coordination meeting for installation of natural gas and oil pipeline at the meeting hall of General Administration Department of Lashio Dis t r ic t in Shan State (North) on 24 February.

An official of the M i n i s t r y o f E n e r g y explained the installation of

pipeline and departmental personnel participated in discussions.

The chief minister attended to the needs. He

also visited the commercial orchid plantat ion and construction sites of Mansu market and Lashio district education office.—MNA

Old warehouse in 39th Street on fire

yaNgoN , 27 Feb— An old warehouse of the agricultural produce trading at No. 42 in 39th Street (Lower Block) in Kyauktada

Township, caught on fire at 11 am today.

The fire was put out by the firefighters from Yangon Region Fire Brigade and the

township fire brigade and locals.

It is learnt that the fire started from a cigarette’s burning to ravages inside t h e w a r e h o u s e . T h e investigation into the cause is now underway.—MNA

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WikiLeaks soldier’s request to dismiss case rejected

Fort Meade, (Mary-lond) 27 Feb—A defence request to dismiss the case against Army Private First Class Bradley Manning in the mass disclosure of mili-tary and diplomatic secrets by WikiLeaks was denied by a US military judge on Tues-day.

Manning’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss all

Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (C) is escorted in handcuffs as he leaves the courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland on 6 June, 2012.—ReuteRs

charges against him, arguing the government had violated their client’s right to a speedy trial. Ruling at a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, military judge Colonel Denise Lind said that the case took only 90 days to come to trial, well within the 120 day “clock” rule that exists for a court martial, in reference to the time between pre-trial con-

finement and arraignment.Lind also said that Arti-

cle 10 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Sixth Amendment, both of which deal with speedy trial rights, were not violated.

Manning, 25, is ac-cused of releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents, including US diplomatic cables and vari-ous military reports. He faces 22 charges including aiding the enemy, which carries a penalty of life in prison. US government secrets exposed by WikiLeaks beginning in 2010 staggered diplomats across the globe and outraged US officials, who said damage to national security from the leaks endangered US lives.

At this week’s pre-trial hearing, Manning was slated to enter a plea to the charges on Thursday, Lind said.

Reuters

A girl plays with a deer at the 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in Houston, the United States, on 25 Feb, 2013. The 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

kicked off on Monday and runs through on 18 March. It is the world’s largest livestock exhibition and the largest Rodeo event and expected to draw over 2 million

visitors.—Xinhua

Cyclone intensifies, Australia’s iron ore mines

bracePerth, 27 Feb—A pow-

erful cyclone headed for Australia’s Port Hedland, that has brought half the world’s seaborne-traded iron ore to a halt, has intensified and is set to make landfall late on Wednesday, threaten-ing to flood inland mine op-erations and rail links.

Weather warnings ex-tend as far as 500 kms (310 miles) inland to the massive mining camps and towns of Tom Price, Mt Newman and Nullagine, operated by Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Fortescue Metals Group.

Hardest-hit areas could receive up to 600 millime-tres, or 2 feet, of rain in 24 hours, said the Bureau of Meteorology.

Such extensive flooding threatens to submerge hun-dreds of kilometres (miles) of rail lines owned by the

Indonesia appointed

official partner in

world’s largest

Jakarta, 27 Feb— In-donesia was appointed by the organizer of the world’s largest tourism exhibition, 2013 Internationale Tour-ism Borse (ITB) Berlin, as the official partner, paving the way for Indonesia to grab more foreign tourists, a senior official said here on Tuesday.

Deputy Minister of Tourism Sapta Nirwandar said that Indonesia had to lobby the organizer to get the prestigious status in the event since 2011.

“Indonesia has been participating in the ITB since 1967. In 2011 ITB we proposed to become the official partner country for the first time. At that time Indonesia was offered to become official partner country in 2017 or 2018,” he said.

The 2013 ITB is slated to be held from 5 March to 10 in Berlin, Germany. The organizer changed their minds and decided to ap-point Indonesia as its offi-cial partner after witnessing enormous potential of tour-ism in Indonesia when they attended ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) in Indone-sia’s North Sulawesi prov-ince’s capital city of Mana-do last year, Sapta said.

Xinhua

Italy debt auction to show cost of political crisis

Milan, 27 Feb—Italy will pay the price for its latest political crisis with higher borrowing costs on Wednesday when it sells longer-dated bonds to inves-tors worried about an incon-clusive election. The vote cast over the weekend gave none of the political parties a parliamentary majority, raising the risk of prolonged instability and a rekindling the euro zone crisis.

The results, notably the dramatic surge of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement of comic Beppe Grillo, left the centre-left bloc with a majority in the lower house but without the numbers to control the upper

5.4-magnitude quake hits near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

hong kong, 27 Feb—An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale jolt-ed near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Rus-

sia at 05:43:48 Hong Kong Time on Wednesday (21:43: 48 GMT on Tuesday), the US Geological Survey said.

The epicentre, with a

chamber.“Markets have been un-

derpricing Italian political risk for months and are now struggling to come to terms with an extremely unstable and fluid political situation,” said Nicholas Spiro, manag-ing director of Spiro Sover-eign Strategy.

The political stalemate could halt reforms needed to spur growth and help Italy cut its massive 2 trillion euro debt pile.

As stunned parties look for a way forward after the messy result, the treasury will seek to sell between 3 billion and 4 billion euros of a new 10-year bond and between 1.75 and 2.5 billion

euros of five-year paper. The sale comes in a challenging environment as the outcome of a six-month bill sale and a sell-off on secondary market showed on Tuesday.

“Italy’s debt market is facing its most serious chal-lenge since the announce-ment of the European Cen-tral Bank’s bond-buying programme last summer,” said Spiro. On Tuesday Rome’s six-month borrow-ing costs rose by 0.51 per-cent compared to a similar sale at the end of January and reached their highest level since October 2012, shortly after the ECB pledged to buy bonds of struggling euro zone countries.—Reuters

Passengers walk out of the railway station in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Re-

gion, on 26 Feb, 2013. Lhasa rail station saw a daily of some 3,700 arrivals as migrant workers returned Lhasa

to work after the annual Spring Festival holidays. Xinhua

Brazil unveils new plan against human trafficking

rio de Janeiro, 27 Feb—The Brazilian govern- ment on Tuesday an-nounced a three-year na-tionwide strategy to fight human trafficking with tougher laws and tighter controls.

The new plan foresees a series of actions, includ-ing proposing laws in Con-gress to increase penalties for such crime, creating a specialized police force, and setting up a govern-ment hotline for victims to call from abroad.

Under the current law,

only human trafficking for sex exploitation can be con-victed, while such crimes as domestic or slave labour, children adoption and hu-man-organ selling go un-punished.

In border towns, ten police units will be orga- nized to attend to victims and confiscate property of those suspects involved in human trafficking.

The government has also published a full report on human trafficking in Brazil that shows the crime is widespread and authori-

ties find it hard to fight be-cause of the difficulty in collecting evidence to pro- secute those accused.

According to official figures, 2,072 victims of human trafficking were re-corded in Brazil between 2005 and 2011, most of whom were taken to Suri-nam, Switzerland, Spain and Holland.

The government also said that during the period, a total of 381 people were charged with human traf-ficking, with only half re-ceiving jail terms.—Xinhua

depth of 133.80 km, was initially determined to be at 53.0124 degrees north lati-tude and 158.0453 degrees east longitude.—Xinhua

miners and used to transport ore to the ports.

“Extreme weather prep-arations continue across our mining operations in antici-pation of the cyclone moving further inland,” BHP said in a statement emailed to Reu-ters. “Additional operations will be suspended if neces-sary.” The Pilbara, a sparsely populated and inhospitable outback part of Australia, is the world’s largest source of iron ore.

Australia’s three main iron ore ports, Port Hedland, Dampier and Cape Lambert, were closed on Monday. Off-shore oil and gas fields have also been shut down.

Australia’s biggest iron ore miner Rio Tinto plans shipments of 260 million tonnes of ore through Damp-ier and Cape Lambert this year.—Reuters

Thursday, 28 February, 2013

Regional

11New Light of Myanmar

Leung Chun-Ying (R), Chief

Executive of China’s Hong Kong Special

Administrative Region, meets with visiting Thai Prime

Minister Yingluck

Shinawatra in Hong Kong, south China, on 26 Feb,

2013.—Xinhua

Three killed in S Philippines landslideDavao City, 27 Feb—

Three people were killed in a landslide along a moun-tainside road in southern Philippines late on Tues-day, a military official said, adding that several others were believed missing in the incident. According to Lieutenant Hermie Montel-ibano, an officer of soldiers who participated in the

search and rescue opera-tion, the avalanche, which occurred at about 1:00 pm in Mati City in Mindanao’s Davao Oriental Province, also covered a national road in Tagabakid village, and buried several vehicles.

“Three bodies have been recovered, all motor-ists. We’re still digging for possible more victims as

several vehicles have been reportedly hit by the land-slide,” Montelibano told Xinhua by mobile phone.

Authorities suspected a crack from the portion of a hill overlooking the high-way had given way follow-ing last week’s continuous rains in southern Philippine due to a tropical storm.

Xinhua

Vietnam’s stone stelae

received World Documentary

Heritage certificate

Hanoi, 27 Feb—A cer-tificate awarding ceremony was held in Vietnam’s capi-tal Hanoi on Monday night to recognize the 82 stone stelae in the historic Tem-ple of Literature as World Documentary Heritage.

These steles carve per-sonal information of over 2,000 doctoral laureates who passed the royal exami- nations between 1442 and 1779 under the early Le, Mac and restored Le dynas-ties.

The temple was built in 1070 as a Confucian temple and was being served as Vietnam’s first university, educating royalty, manda-rins and other members of the elite.—Xinhua

Indonesia urged to cultivate more skilled workers to maintain growth

Jakarta, 27 Feb— In-donesia needs to intensify its skilled labour buildup efforts in a bid to sustain the economic growth, the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) said here on Tuesday.

“We are lacking of skilled labours not only in mining industry, plantation industry, but also in capital industry, service industry and other labour incentive

Journalists check data at the Telecom & Network Service Room of the Press centre for the 2013

sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative

Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, capital of China, on 26 Feb, 2013. A Press centre for the upcoming

annual sessions of the NPC, China’s top legislature, and the CPPCC, the country’s top political advisory

body, opened on Tuesday.Xinhua

industries,” Sofjan Wanan-di, Apindo Chairman said here. The Chairman added that around 60 percent of Indonesia’s 110 to 150 mil-lion workforces have only got junior high school edu-cation or lower which is un-able to fulfill the increasing demand.

Wanandi said the sup-ply of the local skilled workforce needs to catch up with the demand, other-

wise Indonesia will not be able to manage a growth of 6 percent.

Indonesia, a 240 mil-lion people country with rich natural resources, is lagging behind with its human resource develop-ment, the World Bank and Indonesia’s statistics bu-reau have predicted that the country will suffer a short-age of 10 million skilled workers by 2025.—Xinhua

India ready to induct BrahMos cruise missile into Air Force by 2014

new DelHi, 27 Feb— India will be ready to induct BrahMos supersonic cruise missile into its Air Force by the end of next year, a top official has said.

“The programme for induction of BrahMos su-personic cruise missile with a speed of Mach 3 into the Indian Air Force will be

Fishermen lay straw-made spill-containment barriers on fishing boats

at the entry of Xiuhe River to the Poyang Lake,

the largest fresh-water lake in China, in Yongxiu

County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, on 26 Feb, 2013. A total of six

spill-containment barriers have been established at the mouth of Xiuhe

River, to prevent the oil contamination flowing into the Poyang Lake.

Xinhua

Mongolia suspends issuance

of mining licenses

Ulan Bator, 27 Feb — President Elbegdorj Tsakhia said on Tuesday that the government won’t issue any more mining licenses until Mongolia’s mineral laws have been revised.

“We have 2,253 exploration licenses, 1,255 mining licenses issued out in Mongolia now,” Elbegdorj said during a public discussion on the issue held by his office. “That’s enough. Why do we rush to dig our mineral wealth? No more licenses will be given. Let’s improve our law.

The president, who has spearheaded the drive to upgrade Mongolia’s mineral alws, said he was discouraged by the the lack of “common understanding over the law” and “unsuccessful policies on Oyu Tolgoi.”

The discussion was held one day before a scheduled meeting of the government and Rio Tinto, the country’s largest international investor.

A dispute over the daily management of Oyu Tolgoi, a joint gold-copper mining company owned by the government and Rio Tinto, has escalated in recent months.

Critics say the revisions, “over-politicized due to the upcoming presidential election in late June,” would halt mineral exploration and development in the inland country and block future investment.

Xinhua

ready by the end of 2014.BrahMos will be up-

graded to a hypersonic cruise missile with a speed of Mach 7 by 2017,” Sivathanu Pillai, the chief executive of BrahMos Aer-ospace Private Limited, was quoted by the local media as saying in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Monday.

He added, “While Europe, the US and China are in the process of develop- ing such missiles, efforts are under way in India to make on Mach 8 possible.” The land-launched and ship-launched versions of BrahMos, the world’s fast-est cruise missile in opera-tion, are already in service.

BrahMos is named after two rivers, the Brahmapu-tra in India and the Moskva in Russia. The BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited is a joint venture between the state-owned Defence Research and Development Organization and NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) of Russia.—Xinhua

Hanoi, 27 Feb—Ex-perience sharing and sup-port from the United Na-tions (UN) Department for Peacekeeping Operations over the past time will help the Vietnam People’s Army complete its preparations to participate in the UN’s peacekeeping force in early 2014, state media quoted a senior official as saying.

The Vietnamese Depu-ty Minister of National De-fence and Senior Lieuten-ant General, Nguyen Chi Vinh, made the statement in Hanoi on Monday when

Vietnam to join UN peace keeping force in early 2014

he met with Assistant Secre-tary General for Peacekeep-ing Operations at the United Nations, Edmond Mullet during the latter’s visit to Vietnam on 25-28 Febru-ary, according to state-run Vietnam News Agency.

At the meeting, Vinh also informed the guest of the training of officers, who will work as observers at the UN.

Mulet said that the peacekeeping department will work closely with the Vietnam People’s Army and create favourable con-

ditions for the Vietnamese side to send officers to visit a UN peacekeeping mis-sion.

Mulet also met with Assistant to Vietnamese Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc, during which he spoke highly of Vietnam’s role, international prestige and contributions over the past years, adding that he hoped Vietnam will con-tinue to contribute to the UN’s activities, especially in maintaining peace and international security.

Xinhua

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ADVERTISEMENT & GENERALNew Light of Myanmar

The hague, 27 Feb—The fast-bred broiler chick-en will disappear from Dutch supermarkets from 2015 and will be com-pletely banned by 2020, the Dutch Central Bureau of Food Trade (CBL) said on Tuesday.

The CBL said an agree-ment was reached among supermarkets, slaughter-houses and poultry farms.

From 2015, all Dutch supermarkets are supposed to sell chicken of slower-growing breed.

The new chicken should gain up to 50 grams per day in weight, while the fast-bread chicken, known as “plofkip” in Dutch, gains 65 grams per night.

By 2020, all the chick-en in the Dutch supermar-kets should be of the slow-er-growing breed.

In 2015, the number of chickens per square meter will be reduced by 10 per-cent. Strict requirements for the use of antibiotics were also agreed.

Last year, the super-markets already said they would no longer sell the “plofkip” in 2020 and the change will now happen faster.

According to Wakker Dier, a Dutch animal wel-fare organization, the meas-ures are not enough.

The organization be-lieves that the supermarkets should speed up the change, but according to the CBL that is not possible.

Xinhua

Fast-bred broiler

chicken to be banned from

Dutch supermarkets

Four killed in C China elementary school stampede

Wuhan, 27 Feb—Four students were killed in a stampede accident in an el-ementary school in central China’s Hubei Province on Wednesday morning.

The accident has caused the death of four

People visit the 50th Paris International Agricultural fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, Feb. 25, 2013. The annual fair with the

participation of more than 1000 exhibitors from 22 countries and regions, runs till on 3 March, 2013.—Xinhua

UNICEF appeals for 45 million dollars to aid Malian children

uniTed naTions, 27 Feb—The UN children’s agency is launching an ur-gent appeal to raise funds to help Malian children and women in need, a UN spokesperson told report-ers here on Tuesday. “The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that it was issuing an urgent 45-million-US-dollar appeal to meet the immediate needs of chil-dren and women affected by the Malian crisis over the next three months,” said Eduardo del Buey, depu-ty spokesperson for UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, at a daily briefing.

According to del Buey, the UN agency said that the appeal will cover emergen-cy programmes inside Mali as well as humanitarian as-sistance for 170,000 Malian refugees in Niger, Maurita-nia and Burkina Faso.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been dis-placed and others forced to flee to neighbouring coun-tries as fighting continues between government forces and armed rebels in Mali.

The spokesperson quoted UNICEF as say-ing that an estimated 660, 000 children under the age of five are expected to face malnutrition this year

in Mali. “The funding is needed for an integrated re-sponse to the nutrition cri-sis,” said del Buey.

In addition to the nutri-tion specific interventions, the integrated response will also include safe water for displaced people and refugees, plus prevention against malaria, cholera and other water-borne diseases, according to UNICEF.

Support to education and protection services are also part of the planned response. The UN spokes-person added that so far UNICEF has received less than a million dollars for 2013.—Xinhua

Minibus plunges off cliff in SW China

Rescuers work at the accident site where a minibus ran off a road in Libo County, southwest China’s Guizhou

Province, on 26 Feb, 2013.–Xinhua

guiyang, 27 Feb—Seven people have been confirmed dead and another two injured after a minibus fell from a mountain high-way in southwest China’s Guizhou Province on Tues-day, local police said.

The minibus carrying nine passengers plunged about 250 metres off a cliff in Libo County, Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefec-ture of Qiannan, at 2:10 am

on Tuesday.The public security de-

partment, fire department and traffic police rushed to the scene to carry out res-cue efforts and investigate the cause of the accident.

Firefighters pulled two people that had been trapped in the crushed vehi-cle to safety, and they have been sent to the hospital for treatment, firefighters said.

Xinhua

students and injured several in Qinji elementary school.

The school locates at Xueji Township of Laohe-kou City that is under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang City.

Relevant departments

of Xiangyang have rushed to the scene to carry out res-cue efforts, and the injured have been sent to hospital for treatment.

The cause of the ac-cident is under investiga-tion.—Xinhua

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21 Sri Lankan fishermen held in India released

Colombo, 27 Feb—Twenty-one Sri Lankan fishermen have been re-leased from India and are due to arrive here on Wednesday, a Fisheries Ministry spokesman said here.

Along with the fisher-men, four fishing boats that were taken into custody by the Indian Coast Guard have also been released, said ministry spokesman Narendra Rajapaksa.

The Indian Coast Guard has taken measures to hand over the fishermen and their vessels to the Sri Lanka Navy at the Interna-tional Maritime Boundary

Line (IMBL) off Kankasan-thurai, said Rajapaksa.

The Indian Coast Guard unit on patrol off Krishnapet near Visakhapa-tnam in Andhra Pradesh, north of Chennai, arrested the fishermen on 18 Janu-ary, according to local me-dia reports.

They were detained along with their four boats and equipment and brought to Chennai where they were remanded for 15 days by a court order. Tension pre-vails between the fishermen of the two countries who regularly cross into each other’s territorial waters.

Xinhua

Thursday, 28 February, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT

13New Light of Myanmar

Kareena Kapoor to be the show

stopper for LFW 2013

MuMbai, 27 Feb — Actress Ka-reena Kapoor will be walking the

ramp for Lakme Fashion Week Summer/ Resort 2013 which kick starts from 22 March.

Kareena will be the show stopper for the grand finale which will be pre-sented by designer Nam-rata Joshipura.

Last year too Karee-na had walked the ramp for grand finale design-ers Kallol Dutta and Pankaj and Nidhi.

“Yes this year too Kareena, being the brand ambassador of Lakme, will be walk-

ing the ramp for the fi-nale. ”

PTI

Want to spread the passion of dancing: Madhuri

MuMbai, 27 Feb — Madhuri Dixit has her

hands full with two films, a reality show,

endorsements and now an all new online dance acad-emy, which she wants to use as a platform to reach out to those who want to learn to shake a leg.

Post her marriage, Madhuri had relocated to the US for almost a de- cade. It was in October 2011 that she shifted her base back to Mumbai along with her family.

PTI

Jennifer Lawrence’s clothes from “Silver Linings” up for auction

Los angeLes, 27 Feb — Clothing worn by Jen-nifer Lawrence in her Oscar-winning role as an outspoken young widow in comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” went up for auc-tion on Tuesday, just two days after the Academy Awards ceremony. Memo-rabilia dealer Nate D Sand-ers put the skin-tight white dance pants, winter coat and sports bra Lawrence wore in the film up for sale in the online auction that will end on Thursday.

The items are expect-ed to fetch between $500 and $1,500 following the 22-year-old’s Best Actress win on Sunday. “She’s now on the record for hav-ing an Academy Award, which definitely gives it (the items) status now,”

Jennifer Lawrence, best actress winner for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook,’’ poses with her Oscar

backstage at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on 24 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

said Laura Yntema, spokes-woman for auction house Nate D Sanders. “The Hun-ger Games” star also won awards from the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild in January for her

“Silver Linings Playbook” performance.

Five items, either worn by Lawrence or from her wardrobe on the film, are up for auction with starting bids at $100.—Reuters

Seth MacFarlane says “no way” he would host

Oscars againLos angeLes, 27 Feb

— Comedian Seth MacFar-lane said on Tuesday that he would not host the star-studded Academy Awards ceremony again, after TV critics panned Sunday’s show. “Family Guy” crea-tor and star MacFarlane was asked on Twitter whether he would host the Oscars a second time after making his debut in Sun-day’s show, and replied: “No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though.”

MacFarlane’s re-sponse came after TV crit-ics slammed the telecast, in which 40.3 million Ameri-cans saw Iran hostage thrill-

ner and the “Star Trek” star told him he was in danger of being deemed “the worst Oscar host ever.”

While some critics lashed out at MacFarlane’s hosting, others placed more blame on the overall song-and-dance-heavy show, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, which ran for 3 1/2 hours. MacFar-lane’s appeal among young people did though provide an 11 percent bump in the 18-49 demographic coveted by TV networks and adver-tisers. And overall viewer ratings were up, making for the largest Oscar audience in three years. MacFarlane

Oscar host Seth MacFarlane speaks on stage at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on 24 Feb,

2013.—ReuteRs

er “Argo” take home the top prize for Best Picture. In a night of risqué jokes about female nudity and zingers about gays and Jews, Mac-Farlane, 39, poked fun at himself in an opening sketch with William Shat-

was also a hit on social me-dia, where 13 percent of conversation across Face-book, Twitter and blogs rat-ed him the “best host ever” according to social media research firm Fizziology.

Reuters

A quiet wedding anniversary for Ajay and KajolMuMbai, 27 Feb —

They say families that eat together, stay together. To celebrate his 14th wedding anniversary with Kajol, Ajay Devgn shared a quiet dinner with his wife in Bhopal. The star also spent quality time with his two kids Yug and Nysa on the sets of his next film, Satya-graha.

A source from Bhopal says, “Ajay is in the city for a month-long schedule for Prakash Jha’s film. He and Kajol had dinner at a city hotel, where the entire cast has been put up.”Ajay took Yug and Nysa to watch the shooting at Minto Hall. Post dinner, the actor called it a night, as the cast had an early morning schedule the next day.—PTI

The couple spent their anniversary in Bhopal, where Ajay Devgn was shooting for Satyagraha.— PtI

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Thursday, 28 February, 2013

SPORTS14 New Light of Myanmar

Ozil (C) of Real Madrid

breaks through during the

Spanish King’s Cup semifinal second round match against Barcelona at Camp Nou

stadium in Bar-celona, on 26

Feb, 2013. Real Madrid won 3-1 and advanced

to the final with 4-2 after two

rounds.Xinhua

I’ve had bellyful of cheating jibes, says Bradley

Palm Beach Gardens, (Florida), 27 Feb —Ameri-can Keegan Bradley says he is sick of being called a ‘cheat’ by fans for using a long putter, as the con-troversy intensifies over the rules on anchoring the shortest club in the bag. Bradley was the first play-er to win a major using a belly putter, at the 2011 US PGA Championship, but has since been followed by fellow countryman Webb Simpson at last year’s US Open and South African Ernie Els at the 2012 British Open.

Golf’s governing bodies, the United States Golf As-sociation (USGA) and the Royal and Ancient (R&A), proposed a ban on anchor-ing putters to the body in

Keegan Bradley of the US reacts to his tee shot on the sixth hole during the final round of the World Challenge golf tourna-

ment in Thousand Oaks, California, on 2 Dec,

2012. —ReuteRs

Krzyzewski squelches report he will return as US coach

new York, 27 Feb—Mike Krzyzewski said on Tuesday his successor as coach of the gold-medal winning US Olympic bas-ketball team will likely be named later this year, un-derlining his earlier deci-sion to leave the job.

The Duke Univer-sity coach, speaking to ESPN Radio, denied a report that he might stay on with the US national team after a seven-year run that included two

Mike Krzyzewski watches his team against Spain during their men’s gold medal basketball match at the North Greenwich Arena in London during the London 2012

Olympic Games on 12 Aug, 2012.—ReuteRs

Olympic gold medals and a world championship. “My stance hasn’t changed,” Kr-zyzewski said in the tele-phone interview. “I’ve loved, loved, loved, and it’s been an honour being with the USA Basketball team. “And to coach the team and work

with (chairman and presi-dent Jerry Colan-

gelo) these seven years have been marvelous.” Ac-

cording to Kr-zyzewski,

whose U S

team

beat Spain in consecutive Olympic finals, his succes-sor will likely be named by mid-2013 in preparation for the 2014 world champion-ship in Madrid. In conjunc-tion with Colangelo, Krzyze-wski helped turn around US basketball fortunes after the

team’s disappointing sixth-place finish at the 2002 world championship in Indianapo-lis and a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Reuters

Djokovic and Del Potro go through in DubaiduBai, 27 Feb —Novak

Djokovic trounced fellow Serb Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-4 in the Dubai Championships first round on Tuesday as the world number one extended his unbeaten run to 14 match-es. Djokovic, whose winning streak stretches back to Oc-tober and includes claiming a third straight Australian Open title, was broken once in the second set but was oth-erwise untroubled in his first match since Davis Cup duty in early February.

“I had three or four weeks of no tennis, so I was extremely focused to start well and I did re-ally well in the first set,” Djokovic, 25, said in a courtside interview.

“I was right behind his serve and I’m very sat isf ied with my performance and hopefully I can continue.” Few would bet against the top seed meeting Roger Federer in Saturday’s final, with the pair having won eight of the past 10 Dubai titles, although the Swiss did need three sets to get past wildcard Malek Jaziri on Monday.

Also into the second round is former US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro, who saved three match

points on his way to beat-ing Marcos Baghdatis

4-6 , 6-4 ,

7-6.

Fourth s e e d

Del Potro recovered from

4-1 down in the deciding set, the Argentine’s superior ground strokes ultimately wearing down his Cypriot opponent as dusk fell.

“Marcos also deserved to win but the luck was be-hind me and I played better in the big mo-

ments,” D e l Potro

s a i d in a c o u r t -side inter-view. “In the tiebreak I was solid.”

The opening two sets were decided by a service break as both players opted for a serve-and-volley ap-proach, Del Potro losing the first with a double-fault. In the deciding set, Del Potro misjudged a Baghdatis lob that drifted in after the 24-year-old pulled his racket

Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina hits a return to Marcos

Baghdatis of Cyprus during their men’s

singles match at the ATP Dubai Tennis

Championships, on 26 Feb, 2013.—ReuteRs

Novak Djokovic of Serbia hits a return to compatriot Viktor Troicki during their men’s singles match at the

Dubai Tennis Championships, on 26 Feb, 2013.ReuteRs

Bolt to run 200 metres in Paris Diamond League

meetingParis, 27 Feb—Six-

times Olympic champion Usain Bolt will race over 200 metres at the Paris Golden League meeting on 6 July as part of his buildup for the Moscow world athletics championships in the follow-ing month.

The Jamaican world-record holder will compete against France’s European 100 metres champion Chris-tophe Lemaitre in the final race of the evening. Lemai-tre finished third in the 2011

Jamaica’s sprinter

Usain Bolt speaks dur-ing a news conference in Stock-holm on 5 Aug, 2010. ReuteRs

Struggling Flyers bring back Gagne in trade with Kingsnew York, 27 Feb

—The Philadelphia Fly-ers brought back a familiar face to help them fight for a playoff berth by acquiring left-winger Simon Gagne in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday.

The Flyers sent the Kings a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2013 draft that will improve to a third-round choice should they reach the playoffs with Gagne, who spent the first 10 years of his NHL career with

Philadelphia Flyers Simon Gagne celebrates the game-winning goal on the Boston Bruins during the third period in Game 7 of their NHL Eastern Conference semi-final hockey game in Boston, in this file photo taken Massachusetts on 14 May, 2010.—ReuteRs

Philadelphia. Expected to be

one of the top teams in the East, the Fly-ers have struggled to a 9-11-1 mark and were tied with Tampa Bay on 19 points, though the Lightning hold three games in

hand to slot into the eighth and

last playoff

Daegu world championships 200 metres which was won by Bolt.

Bolt, 26, who became the only man to win the 100-200 metres double at successive Olympics during last year’s London Games, will compete in a 150 meters race on Brazil’s Copacabana beach on 31 March.

His only other con-firmed race this year is over 200 metres at Oslo’s Bislett Games on 13 June.

Reuters

berth in the conference. The Flyers have been in 16 of the last 17 Stanley Cup playoffs including two trips to the finals. Gagne, 32, had five assists in 11 games with the Kings this season, but never really hit his stride after suf-fering an injury during the 2011-12 Stanley Cup cham-pionship season for Los An-geles. The versatile forward has appeared in 772 career NHL games, scoring 283 goals and 586 points.

Reuters

November. However, US PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem has come out against the change, raising concerns about different rules emerging in differ-ent competitions. Bradley is against the change and is also upset by the reaction of fans and some in the me-dia.” I take great offence to people calling me a cheater. I think that’s unbelievable,” he told reporters ahead of this week’s Honda Classic.

“It’s been pretty dif-ficult especially lately. I’m being called a cheater more than ever by fans, by some writers. It’s really tough. I can’t imagine how people can say that to me or to any-body out here. I’m sick of it to be honest.”

Reuters

away at the last moment to allow the Cypriot to break.

The 2006 Australian Open f i n a l i s t

then

held for a 4-1 lead, but Del Potro stormed back to level at 4-4.

The Argentine had been guilty of making too many unforced errors but was nerveless in saving suc-cessive match points, then a third, to hold for 5-5 as some brutal serving helped him survive.—Reuters

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McClaren quits as coach of FC TwenteThe hague, 27 Feb —

Steve McClaren has quit FC Twente with immediate ef-fect following disappointing results in this season, it was reported by the Dutch club on Tuesday. The 51-year-old English coach handed in his contract which ran until 2014. McClaren had re-turned to Twente in January 2012. After a disappointing 6th place in the 2011/2012 season Twente seemed to recover this season.

However, in 2013 the club has not recorded a win yetanddroppedtothefifthposition. Twente lost 2-1 to sc Heerenveen last Satur-day.

“After the defeat to

Heerenveen the board of FC TwenteandItriedtofindasolution to the difficult pe-riod the team has been go-ing through,” McClaren said on the club’ s website. “We talked about the expecta-tions of the club, how Euro-pean qualification was keyeachseasonandfinishinginthe top 4.”

“Despite being joint top at the winter break and second four weeks ago, recent results and performances have seen criticism, protest and dem-onstration from both sup-porters and the media,” he added. “Saturday’ s result has seen further adverse re-actions and with two home games coming up we feel

the team needs the support and backing from the sup-porters.”

“I also needed assur-ances about my position both now and in the future which I know in the present situation is difficult,” Mc-Claren said. “After much discussion and deliberation those assurances weren’ t forthcoming and we have agreed it’ s in the best inter-est of the club that I leave. We agree the club is big-ger than any one individual and Twente is too big in my heart to stand in the way of its progress.”

McClaren already coached Twente between 2008 and 2010 and in his last year he led the club to theirfirsttopleaguetitle.

McClaren also worked as coach of Nottingham For-est, Middlesbrough, VfL Wolfsburg and as England coach. His assistants Alfred Schreuder, Boudewijn Pahl-platz and Youri Mulder will provisionally take over his coaching job at Twente.

Xinhua

Japan to take part in 8-country meeting in Ulan Bator

Tokyo, 27 Feb—Japan Wrestling Federation pre-sident Tomiaki Fukuda said on Tuesday that a meeting of wrestling federations from eight countries to lobby to keep the sport in the program for the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Ulan Bator to coincide with the upcoming women’s World Cup.

The Mongolian wrestling federation has contacted the JWF, and executive director Yuji Takada is scheduled to attend the meeting at the competition running from 2 to 3 March . “We want to lobby hard through athletes

and coaches to keep wrestling in the Olympics,” said Fukuda, who is also a vice president for the wrestling world governing body FILA.

The number of the countries participating in lobbying efforts to retain wrestling for 2020 has been growing with a huge push coming at the men’s World Cup in Tehran that was held last week. Even the United States and Iran, which have ho diplomatic ties to speak of, are finding commonground in thefight tokeepwrestling in the Olympics. Japan, Russia and China have also jumped on the

bandwagon. Wrestling has been forced by the International O l y m p i c Committee to lobby for

a spot for 2020 after the governing body’s decision earlier this month to call for the removal of the sport.

It is competing for the last of 28 spots for 2020 against the joint bid of baseball and softball,

squash, karate, roller sports, wakeboarding, sport climbing and wushu.

Tokyo News

Maradona denies he owes tax on return to Naples

Naples, 27 Feb—Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona denied he owed millions of euros in unpaid Italian taxes on Tuesday after he was mobbed by media and fans on his return to Naples where he twice led the local team to league titles. The tax collection agency says it is owed almost 40 million euros ($52.3 million) by the

former World Cup winner, most of which is interest built up since 1984 when he joined Serie A club Napoli.

“I am innocent,”

Maradona told a news conference in the southern Italian city. “I want to believe in the Italian justice system — I don’t owe them a lira.” He said he wanted to clear his name so he could return to Italy, a nation he loves, without being chased for the debts. The country’s authorities have long pursued him, seizing diamond earrings when he visited a weight-loss clinic in northern Italy in 2009 and stripping him of two watches when he went to Naples for a benefitmatchin 2006.

“I wanted to tell you all that I can feel, again, the air of Naples in all of my body,” said Maradona.“I have wanted to come to

Naples for a long time but there was something that wouldn’t permit me and I can’t understand why.” Maradona, one of the world’s greatest players, is still Napoli’s all-time top scorer and is venerated like a saint in the city for leading the club to the Serie A title in 1987 and 1990. The 52-year-old, who also led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, was mobbed by photographers as he arrived for the conference while Napoli fans chanted ‘Diego! Diego!’. ($1 = 0.7649 euros)—Reuters

Former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona gestures during a news conference in Naples on 26 Feb, 2013.

ReuteRs

Escalator set up in zaygyo and Yadanarpone

markets in MandalayMaNdalay, 27 feb--With the

aim of easy shooping at zaygyo and Yadanarpone markets in Mandalay,Mandalay City Development Committe set up new escalators in there.

Shopsatthefirstandsecondfloorwere crowded with shopper but upstairs floorshasafewshooper.

New Escalators were build with the aim of more new commers to markets.—Kyemon

3rd Waning of Tabodwe 1374 ME Thursday, 28 February, 2013 New Light of MyanmarPresident U Thein Sein meets Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister

that it was also important for the people to have remarkable benefits in the process of economic reform. That was why, it calls for foreign investments. The President invited Norwegian companies to make investments in Myanmar where Norway continues engaging in the present reform process.

The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, for his part, said that Norway contributed much to the reforms in Myanmar at first recognizing them and having no doubts at all. It can be said that making their decisions was true thanks to the reforms in Myanmar during the previous two years. He said that Norway continues to make contributions to Myanmar in collaboration with EU member countries, ASEAN

member countries and Asian countries. He assured that Norwegian companies have a great interest in making investments in opportunities that can be responsible for social and environmental conservation in Myanmar.

Next, the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs hosted the luncheon to the President and his entourage.

Also present at the call together with President U Thein Sein were Deputy C o m m a n d e r - i n - C h i e f o f De fence Se rv i ce s C o m m a n d e r - i n - C h i e f (Army) General Soe Win, Union Ministers U Wunna Maung Lwin and U Soe Thane, deputy ministers, Ambassador U Kyaw Myo Htut and departmental heads.

MNA

Dinner to mark 66th Anniversary of Mon National Day hosted

Nay Pyi Taw, 27 Feb—Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint, Speaker of Pyithu

U Mya Nyein and Union Ministers U Nyan Tun Aung, U Win Tun and U Aye Myint Kyu, chairmen of Hluttaw Committees,

Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone yesterday evening. Hluttaw representatives Mon national famlies sang Mon national songs to open the ceremony

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Dinner to mark 66th Anniversary of Mon National Day in progress.—mna

Chinese bus drivers sentenced to 6 and 7 weeks in Singapore

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Nay Pyi Taw , 27 Feb— President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein met with Norwegian Min is te r o f Fore ign Affairs Mr. Espan Barth Eide at Holmenkolln Park Hotel in Oslo at 12:30 pm yesterday.

On his arrival at Holmenkolln Park Hotel, President U Thein Sein was welcomed by the N o r w e g i a n F o r e i g n Minister. The President then had a look a t viewpoints of Oslo.

During the meeting, the President expressed thanks to Norway for the support of Norwegian government and its people in the reform process in Myanmar. He said that Myanmar political reform process had made significant progress and

Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann and wife Daw Khin Lay Thet, Deputy Speakers U Nanda Kyaw Swa and

Mon cultural troupe and guests attended the dinner to mark the 66th Anniversary of Mon National Day at

and Hluttaw MP Dr Banya Aung Moe extended greetings. Pyithu Hluttaw MP Nai Hla Maung read out the message sent by the Central Organizing Committee for holding the 66th Mon National Day and Amyotha Hluttaw MP Min

Myo Tint Lwin the message sent by the Chief Minister of Mon State Government.

A f t e r d e l i v e r i n g speeches, the speaker of

Pyidaungsu and Amyotha Hluttaws and the Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw had the dinner together with the attendees. The Mon cultural troupe entertained those present with songs and dances.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw , 27 F e b — A 7 1 - m e m b e r de legat ion of Union Solidarity and Development Party in Pyinmana Township

visited 20th day sixth regular session of first Pyithu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw being held today.

MNA

US-Myanmar holds Trade and Investment Conference-2013

yaNgoN , 27 Feb— US-Myanmar Trade and Investment Conference-2013 was held at UMFCCI on Min Ye Kyaw Swa Road, here, on 25 February morning.

It was attended by Union Minister at the President Office U Soe Thane, Yangon Region Minister for Electric Power and Industry U Nyan Tun Oo, UMFCCI President U Win Aung and Vice Presidents, CEC members, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Mr. Jose Fernandez, representatives from UN agencies and businessmen and media men.

On the occas ion , the UMFCCI President said that the conference was meant to create good opportunities for mutual trading and investments. It is sure that there would be much economic benefit if the US and Myanmar make bilateral economic cooperat ion because Myanmar is a resource rich country and US with full capacity of technical knowhow, finance and management has a large market. This would be highly beneficial to the rapid

developments in Myanmar. The Assistant Secretary

of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Vice President Ms. Tami Overby of US Chamber of Commerce made speeches.

The MoU on economic c o o p e r a t i o n b e t w e e n UMFCCI and US Chamber of Commerce was signed.

The resource persons from Myanmar and US read out their papers— Creating an Attractive Investment Environment, Exporting to the United States, Developing Myanmar’s E n e r g y R e s o u r c e s , Information Technology: P rope l l ing Economic Growth, Building a Viable Financial Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Myanmar in ASEAN.

MNA

SiNgaPore, 27 Feb—Four Chinese bus drivers charged with instigating and inciting an illegal strike in Singapore in November last year were sentenced to between six and seven weeks in jail on

Monday.All the four drivers

p leaded gui l ty to the charge of conspiring to instigate an illegal strike, while one of them, He Junling, pleaded guilty to an additional charge of

inciting an illegal strike.The judge said that

He was sentenced to seven weeks in jail for each of the two offences, but said that the sentences “will run concurrently, having regard to the

fact that his two offences were par t of the same transaction.”

The four men were among 171 Chinese bus drivers who failed to report for duty on Nov. 26 last year in protest at inequitable

pay rises and allegedly discriminatory policies of their employer SMRT, a local public transport operator. Eighty-eight of the drivers continued to stay away from work the next day.—Xinhua