Volume XXI, Number 191 5th Waning of Thadingyut 1375 ME Thursday, 24 October, 2013

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Today, we mark the 68th Anniversary of the United Nations. We have witnessed that the United Nations, since its inception, has been resolutely implementing its noble objectives of maintaining international peace and security and promoting friendly relations among nations. Additionally, it is also working resolutely to achieve international cooperation on economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and also on promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without any distinction.

One of the core responsibilities of the United Nations is to build a safer and more secure world. To us, the United Nations is satisfactorily fulfilling this mission. Peace building mission being implemented by the United Nations is based on, among others, prevention, mediation, negotiation, laying foundation for clean government and good governance, encouraging increased role of civil

Myanmar to join all member States and peoples in supporting UN in taking up challenges

Nay Pyi Taw, 24 Oct—The following is the full text of the message sent by U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the United Nations.

societies, rule of law and preservation of peace. At the same time, disarmament and non-proliferation efforts are being pursued.

Millennium Development Goals were adopted to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, as well as for the advancement of social and economic development of the people of the world by 2015. The historic implementation of MDGs help saved millions of the poor from severe poverty. However, development efforts need to continue and intensify beyond 2015. It is also important that it must be done through sustainable development. In deterring adverse consequences for development, we must also redouble our efforts on disaster-risk reduction and preparedness for disasters. Other important areas which need our closer attention are mitigating the impact of climate change, education for women and health for children. Encouragement and assistance to countries in

transition must be continued.While progresses have been achieved in implementing

these goals, new challenges are also emerging with time and under changing circumstances.

The future United Nations should be responsive to these challenges and be better positioned to meet these expectation. It is pertinent that the member states provide the organization with necessary support and means. Myanmar will join all member States and peoples in supporting the Organization in taking up these challenges.

On behalf of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and its people, I would like to put on record our recognition and appreciation for the United Nations for its unwavering support to our political and socio-economic reforms.

On this auspicious occasion, I would like to reaffirm our commitment and support to the United Nations in its quest for more prosperous and peaceful world.

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein received an Aus-tralian delegation led by Hon. Bob Hawke, for-mer Prime Minister of Australia, at a hall of the Presidential Palace, here, this morning.

They held discus-sions on friendship and amity between the two countries, Australia’s assistance to counter-narcotic activities in Myanmar during the

President U Thein Sein receives former Australian PM

and party

time of the visiting for-mer prime minister and Myanmar’s drive to eliminate narcotic drugs throughout the succes-sive governments and Australia’s aid to Myan-mar for education sector and scholarships.

Also present at the call were Union Min-isters U Soe Thane and Dr Pe Thet Khin, Acting Union Minister Dr Myo Myint, Deputy Minister U Tin Oo Lwin and of-ficials.

MNAPresident of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein poses for a group photo with an

Australian delegation led by Hon. Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia.—mna

I N S I D E

Japan to move up start of English

course to 3rd grade

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Chinese premier holds talks with Indian PM

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Australians evacuate homes as hot winds

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US, NATO officials expect

approval for Afghan troop deal

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China stresses auditors’ role in guarding fiscal stability

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Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—The Union Election Commission has granted formation of political par-ties.

A 19-member group

UEC allows formation of political partiescomprising U Maung Maung Aye has applied for registration of Dawei Na-tionals Party as a political party to UEC.

As the registration of

the Dawei Nationals Party is in conformity with laws and by-laws, the UEC al-lowed it to form a political party today.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 24 Oct—U Min Thein Zan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Union of

U Min Thein Zan presents Credentials to Sri Lankan President

Myanmar to the Democrat-ic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, presented his Cre-dentials to His Excellency Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa,

President of the Demo-cratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, on 4 October 2013, in Colombo.

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Kalay to get modern design of traffic lights

KyaiKto , 23 Oct—B u d d h a P u j a n i y a o f Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda was opened on the Fullmoon day of Thadingyut, 19 October, in Kyaikhto of Mon State, crowded with pilgrims and Buddhist devotees from various parts of the nation.

The platform of the pagoda, hotels and lodgings near the pagoda were crowded with the visitors.

The ceremony was attended by Chief Minister of Mon State U Ohn Myint and ministers, together with pilgrims.

They offered gold foils to the Pagoda and took Nine Precepts and donated alms to members of the Sangha as meritorious

Opening of Buddha Pujaniya at Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda crowded with pilgrims from regions across nation

deeds in commemoration of the Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut.

The local national races residing near the pagoda performed entertainments

of Kayin don dances to the visitors.

Kyemon-Moe Wai

K a l a y , 23 Oc t—As number of cars and motorcycles is on the increase in Kalay of Sagaing Region, it is projected to install the traffic lights at Bogyoke Road Junction to prevent traffic accidents and to equip the town with characteristics of a town.

“The number of cars and motorcycles are growing day by day in the town. A total of 1686 vehicles, 814 tuk-tuks, 53805 motorcycles, 180 trawlergy and 59 heavy machinery have registered at Directorate of Road Administration in Kalay. Moreover, vehicles from Tiddim, Falam, Gangaw, Tamu and Kalewa townships flow into the town daily. The junction of town is the

most busy place. Kalay is the most bustling in Upper Chindwin region,” said local people.

“The traffic light to be installed at the junction is similar to that of Thailand. We will install it with Thai design. It will be supplied electricity with solar panel. With regard to the traffic light, LED board bears K 360,000, four sets of LED traffic light (yellow, green and red) K 4,725,000, Power System K 367,500, transport K 200,000, totally amounting to K 6,126,500 without labour charges,” said officials of Township Development Supportive Committee.

Kyemon-Linlet Kyei Sinn

Field Day of sugarcane GAP model plot in Kanma

Kanma , 23 Oct—Organized by Industrial C r o p s D e v e l o p m e n t Department , the f ield day of sugarcane GAP model plot was held at sugarcane plantation field in Minbyinthit Village of Myinbyin Village-tract in Kanma Township of Thayet District in Magway Region on 21 October.

It was attended by Township Administrator U Kyaw Soe Moe Tun, Secretary of Township Management Committee Police Major Bo Win, members of Township Agricultural Supervisory Committee, members of Township Development Supportive Committee and

sugarcane growers totalling about 120.

T h e t o w n s h i p administrator explained tasks of the agriculture sector for rural development, poverty alleviation, and improvement of social economy of farmers.

I n - c h a r g e o f Township Industrial Crops Development Department U Myo Thiha briefed those present on thriving sugarcane p lanta t ions through good agricultural patterns for production of 50 tons per acre.

Officials explained quality of sugarcane grown through GAP to the local farmers.

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Inya Village-tract of PyinOoLwin Tsp to get Post-

Primary School P y i n o o l w i n , 23

Oct—Mandalay Region Government undertakes improvement of inter-village roads to be used all the year round and upgrading of Basic Education Primary Schools to post-primary schools for enhancement of economic, education, social and health sectors and socio-economic life of the local people.

The Chief Minister of Mandalay Region on his tour to Phathin Village-tract of PyinOoLwin met with local people and

HRD

village administrators and attended to the needs of education, economic and health for the local people. The local people submitted the report on requirement of BEPPS in Inya Village-tract. The Chief Minister allotted K 21.6 million for upgrading the school to Basic Education Post-Primary School.

Therefore, the school construction committee was formed by Village Administrator U Myo Lwin and officials. They constructed the school building spending K 21.6 million allotted by the region government and K 5 million by local people.

The school building will have one 100 feet by 30 feet five-classroom building and one four-room toilet. The buildings will be opened soon.

O n c o m p l e t i o n , children from Thingaton, Hmyintaung and Kyeekaing villages will have easy access to education at Inya Village PEPPS.

Kyemon-District IPRD

Nation-building Endeavours

Photo shows new school building to be commissioned into service for Basic Education Post-Primary School in PyinOoLwin Township.

Preparations being made for installation of traffic lights at Bogyoke Road Junction with modern

design in Kalay.

Platform of Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda filled with pilgrims from various regions across the nation on Fullmoon Day of Thadingyut.

Break failure of car kills one nay Pyi taw, 23

Oct—A case of overturn caused between mile posts 123/7 and 124/0 on Yangon-Mandalay Expressway in Ottwin Township of Bago Region on 18 October morning.

Accord ing to the information, policemen from Bawdigon Expressway Police Station inspected the incident.

A light ace driven by Tun Aung Zaw, 25, of Maudan Ward in Chanmyathazi Township of Mandalay Region hit the traffic island in the incident due out of control and overturned.

I n t h e i n c i d e n t , Daw Kyaw Mu, 55 from Bawdigon of Mandalay sustained injuries to eyes, nose and bruises on left ear and Ma Shan Ma, 45, to right forehead, cheek and eye. Although authorities

transferred Daw Kaw Mu to Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital via Pyu Hospital, she died at the hospital. The vehicle’s windshield, door shields and body worth K 1.5 million were damaged.

B a w d i g o n P o l i c e Station opened a file of lawsuit against Tun Aung Zaw under the law.Kyemon-Police Information

A town ace seen at traffic accident on

expressway.

CRIME

Bikers die in crash of motorbikes

thanlyin, 23 Oct— Two motorcycles bumped against each other on the middle way of the six-lane road near Thanatpin Village of Thanlyin Township of Yangon South District,

Yangon Region, at about 11 pm on 20 October.

JLM 110 motorcycle driven by Zin Min Tun heading for north from south and Kenbo-125 of Soe Min Oo accidentally hit each other

due to out of control.In the accident, both

motorcyclists died on the spot.

Thanlyin Myoma Police Station opened files of lawsuit against them under the law.—Kyemon-Tada Kyaw Lwin

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Japan and UNESCO hold a signing ceremony in Kabul on 22 Oct, 2013, for their joint literacy programme to be

implemented in Afghanistan. Japan pledged to provide about 2 billion yen (about $20.34 million) in grants over the next three years for the programme. —Kyodo News

Japan to move up start of English course to 3rd

grade

Tokyo, 23 Oct —The education ministry of Japan has decided that the teach-ing of English should start from the third grade at el-ementary level, rather than the fifth grade under the current system, a ministry source said on Wednesday.

The ministry, which plans to introduce the new system by 2020, aims to better prepare students for an international environ-ment in the future.

Third and fourth grad-ers will study English once or twice a week, while fifth and sixth graders will do so three times a week, accord-ing to the source.

While English is not

currently designated an of-ficial subject, the Minis-try of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Tech-nology will upgrade it to an official course for fifth and six graders.

The senior students of elementary schools will use government-approved text-books and receive grades for their study, which will cover basic reading and writing skills — what Jap-anese students currently learn at junior high schools.

In preparation for the new system, the ministry will review curriculums for teacher training so all teach-ers will be able to teach English.—Kyodo News

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) holds a welcome ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

before their talks in Beijing, capital of China, on 23 Oct, 2013. —XiNhua

Chinese premier holds talks with Indian PMBeijing, 23 Oct —

Chinese Premier Li Ke-qiang held talks with visit-ing Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday morning.

During the talks, the two sides exchanged views on bilateral relations and

other issues of common in-terest.

This is the second time this year that the heads of government of the two countries have met follow-ing Li’s visit to India in May. It is the first time since 1954 that a Chinese premier and his Indian counterpart

have met in each other’s country in the same year.

Singh arrived in Bei-jing on Tuesday night for a three-day official visit to China.Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with the Indian prime minister. Top

legislator Zhang Dejiang will also meet with Singh.

The Indian prime min-ister will deliver a speech at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Xinhua

120 to evacuate Izu Oshima Island as another

typhoon may approachTokyo, 23 Oct—

Around 120 residents will evacuate storm-battered Izu Oshima Island south of Tokyo on a chartered ship on Wednesday afternoon following predictions that another powerful typhoon may arrive later this week.

The evacuees are el-derly people and their help-ers, according to the munic-ipal government of Oshima, which will also assist hand-icapped people and preg-nant women who wish to leave the island temporarily to avoid the year’s 27th ty-phoon, Francisco. Izu Os-hima is located about 120 kilometers south of Tokyo.

The death toll on the is-land from the 26th typhoon, which last Wednesday brought torrential down-pours leading to mudslides, has reached 29 so far, while 15 others still remain unac-

counted for, according to the municipal government and police. Francisco was located some 210 kilom-eters south of Minamidaito Island, and moving west-northwest at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to the website of the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Kyodo News

The remains of a home that was destroyed by a bushfire can be seen behind two letter boxes in the Blue

Mountains suburb of Winmalee, located around 70 km west of Sydney, on 21 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Australians evacuate homes as hot winds fan Sydney fire threat

Sydney, 23 Oct—Thousands of Australians were urged to evacuate their homes on Wednesday as dry winds threatened to fan a firestorm in mountainous bushland around Sydney, where firefighters battled to control blazes which have been raging for a week.

More than 200 homes have been destroyed in

New South Wales (NSW) state since last Thursday, when bushfires tore through Sydney’s outskirts, razing entire streets. One man died from a heart attack while trying to save his home.

Wednesday’s fire con-ditions were shaping up as the worst so far, prompt-ing authorities to warn of more property losses and

advise residents of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney to abandon their homes.

“If you don’t have a plan, let me give you one,” NSW Emergency Minister Michael Gallacher said. “Get into the car, drive down to the city metropolitan area and let the firefighters do what they can do to protect the commu-nity, should this turn for the worse.” Temperatures in the Blue Mountains, a popular weekend getaway for Syd-neysiders, are expected to reach up to 30 degrees Cel-sius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). In Sydney itself they could hit 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit).

There were 59 fires burning across the state on Wednesday, with 19 out of control, according to the RFS. Over 2,000 firefight-ers were battling the blazes across a vast area, backed by 95 helicopters and re-inforcements from other states.—Reuters

Economy, energy centre stage as German coalition talks begin

German President Joachim Gauck (R) and German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic

Union (CDU) Angela Merkel, Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler (2nd L) and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) arrive for a

ceremony to formally releive outgoing cabinet ministers of their government duties, at the presidential residence

of Bellevue Castle in Berlin on 22 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

Berlin, 23 Oct—Ger-man Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) start hammering out compromises on economic, energy and euro policies on Wednesday, the opening day of talks on a coalition government that should be in place by Christmas.

Germany’s European partners will be watching the negotiations closely, hoping for a swift deal that allows the bloc to meet looming deadlines for its ambitious banking union.

Some allies are hoping a government that includes the SPD will take a softer approach towards strug-

gling southern euro zone members, but any changes are likely to be more subtle than substantial.

The parties, which ruled together in Merkel’s first term from 2005 to 2009, set out a timeline for the negotiations on Tuesday which foresees a deal by the end of November.

That would give the two biggest groups in par-liament a fortnight to sell their “grand coalition” agreement to ordinary party members. Merkel could then be formally voted in as chancellor in parliament’s last session of the year, the week before Christmas.

Merkel’s conservatives

easily won elections on 22 September but fell short of achieving a majority. Exploratory talks with the Greens collapsed last week, allowing Merkel to focus on opening formal negotia-tions with the SPD.

Among the central themes will be agreeing a minimum wage, overhaul-ing a renewables law that has sent energy costs soar-ing, and finding funds to raise public investment on infrastructure, education and research — a major de-mand of the SPD.

Europe will also fea-ture, with the SPD expected to push for a European fi-nancial transactions tax, harsh rules for creditors to bear the cost of failing banks, and a renewed effort to stem youth unemploy-ment in southern Europe.

“The new govern-ment’s domestic policy agenda should bring a modest shift to the left with stricter labour market regulation and a minimum wage,” Barclays econo-mist Thomas Harjes wrote in a research note this week.

“At the European level, the Social Demo-crats started to lobby for an economic growth strat-egy, but they also may be reluctant to push for sig-nificantly higher German transfers to other parts of the EU.”—Reuters

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Science & TechnologyNew Light of Myanmar

Yinchuan, 23 Oct — A large-scale neolithic site, including a rare cave dwell-ing, has been unearthed in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, sources with the regional institute of archaeology said on Tuesday. Archae-ologists have been working on the site, which is locat-ed in Shatang Township, Longde County, since 10 July , said Fan Jun, head of the archaeological team.

Up till now, over 400 square meters of the site, in-cluding seven ancient house remains, six half crypts and a cave dwelling have been excavated, Fan said, add-ing that the excavation is expected to be complete by the end of October.”The cave dwelling is an impor-tant finding from the site as it is rare to see such an intact and well-preserved building site dating back to the neolithic times between 4,300 and 5,300 years ago,” Fan said.

The finding is helpful for research on the pro-duction forms of ancient humans and their way of life, he said. Along with the ancient building sites, pot-tery, stone tools and bone tools have also been un-earthed. Judging from these ancient utensils, archaeolo-gists believed the neolithic site could be traced back to about 4,500 years ago.

Xinhua

abu Dhabi, 23 Oct — Nokia unveiled its first tablet and two large-screen smartphones, known as phablets, at the annual Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

The Lumia 2520 tab-let, along with its Lumia 1520 and 1620 phablets, are among the last prod-ucts the Finnish company developed to compete with Apple and Samsung before deciding to sell its handset business to Microsoft.

The new Lumias use

Nokia launches tablet, joins large-screen smartphone raceMicrosoft’s Windows Phone operating system and will face tough com-petition from large-screen smartphones from Samsung and Apple, which is also expected to unveil slimmer, faster iPads on Tuesday.

The Microsoft deal is due to close in the first quar-ter of next year and the new products, which will still carry the Nokia brand, are part of the US company’s drive to become a leading player in global consumer devices.—Reuters

Twitter account of China’s state broadcaster hacked

beijing, 23 Oct —China’s state broadcaster CCTV News said on Tues-day one of its Twitter ac-counts had been hacked, and deleted a tweet claim-ing the country’s president had set up a special unit to probe corruption accusa-tions against a former do-mestic security chief.The tweet on Monday even-ing appeared to refer to an article in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper.”The CCTV News Twitter account was

An illustration picture shows Twitter logos on a computer screen in Frankfurt, on 21 Oct, 2013.

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targeted on 21 October and used illegally to post in-correct information copied from other sources,” CCTV said through its English-language Twitter account. “The unauthorized infor-mation was deleted.”

CCTV spokeswoman Zhang Xiaojian confirmed that one of the broad-caster’s Twitter accounts was hacked, but did not elaborate.China, which is often accused of orches-trating hacking attacks, says it is one of the world’s

biggest victims of such activity.”President Xi Jin-ping has set up a special unit to investigate corruption al-legations against the retired leader Zhou Yongkang,” read the deleted tweet, ac-cording to a screen grab on freeweibo.com, which is run by an anti-censorship site, greatfire.org.

Overseas media, in-cluding the South China Morning Post, had said Zhou was being inves-tigated for corruption. Sources told Reuters last month he was helping in a graft probe, rather than be-ing targeted himself.Zhou retired as security tsar and from the Communist Par-ty’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee dur-ing a sweeping leadership reshuffle last November.Xi has identified corruption as a threat to the survival of the ruling Communist Party, and has promised to crack down on both high-flying “tigers” and lowly “flies.”

Reuters

Neolithic cave

dwelling found in

NW China

beijing, 23 Oct — China will improve the way it provides financial support to science and tech-nology development, Fi-nance Minister Lou Jiwei said on Tuesday. When de-livering a report to the coun-try’s top legislature, Lou said despite increasing financial input into the sector, reforms are needed to improve the system’s effectiveness.

Basic research relies heavily on financial support from central government rather than local govern-ments or enterprises, and the proportion of research and development expenditure spent on basic research is too low, said Lou in the report to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Con-gress. In addition, the sci-ence and technology funding system lacks coordination between departments, and relations between the gov-ernment and the market have not been clearly defined, af-fecting the effectiveness of

China to better finance science and technology

developmentfiscal support.

Lou said the most fun-damental way to address these problems is to further deepen reform of the science and technology system. He said the government will continue to transform its functions and build a sci-ence-technology innovation system with enterprises as major players. The govern-ment will also promote other forms of financial support, such as angel investment and government procurement of services.

Lou said the science and technology evaluation system and management of financial funds in the sector should be improved, and in the meantime, strengthen the monitoring and supervision of its use. The country’s fis-cal expenditure in science and technology development increased from 168.9 billion yuan in 2006 to 560 billion yuan in 2012, an average annual growth rate of 22.73 percent.—Xinhua

Google unveils services promoting free expressionSan FranciSco, 23 Oct

— Google Inc will begin to shield news organizations and human rights groups from cyberattacks as part of a new package of services designed to support “free expression” on the Web, the internet giant said on Monday.At a presentation

in New York, the company also unveiled a new tech-nology called uProxy that allows citizens under some regimes to bypass govern-ment censorship or surveil-lance software to surf the Web. The software will be available for Google’s Chrome browser and Fire-

fox but not for rival Micro-soft Corp’s Internet Explor-er, at least initially.

The world’s No 1 search engine presented the two services — as well as a new map that highlights cyberattacks taking place around the world in real time—as some of the most significant software prod-ucts to emerge from Google Ideas, a think-tank estab-lished by the company in 2010.Known for its “Don’t Be Evil” corporate motto, Google has a well-estab-lished reputation for resist-ing authorities around the world who seek to censor its Web properties, includ-ing YouTube and Blog-ger. But the formation of the Ideas group, which the

company advertises as a “think/do tank” headed by Jared Cohen, a former US State Department official, has raised the possibility of the company playing a more active role in further-ing US policy.

Under its “Project Shield” initiative, Google said it would host sites that frequently came under politically-motivated dis-tributed denial-of-service attacks. Because of the size and sophistication of its technical infrastruc-ture, Google is far more able to withstand such at-tacks compared to websites hosted independently. The product remains in testing, Google said.

Reuters

A Google logo is seen at the garage where the company was founded on Google’s 15th anniversary in Menlo

Park, California on 26 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

Herpes virus tracks human migration from Africa

beijing, 23 Oct – Af-ter examining Herpes virus’ genome, scientists con-firmed that early humans first emerged on the African con-tinent before spreading out in disparate groups across the globe.

The study, published in PLOS One, examined strains of herpes simplex virus type 1 collected throughout North America, Europe, Africa and Asia in order to gain insight on early human migration patterns. “We found that all of the African isolates cluster together, all the virus from the Far East, Korea, Japan, China clustered together, all the viruses in Europe and America, with one excep-tion, clustered together,”

Curtis Brandt, professor of medical microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior author of the study, said in a statement.

Using high-capacity ge-netic sequencing, University of Wisconsin-Madison sci-entists were able to develop a “family tree” for the Herpes virus, emerging in Africa, bottlenecking in the Middle East and ultimately spread-ing to Asia, Europe and the Americas. Interestingly, the study also offers some evi-dence for the theory that Na-tive Americans are descend-ed from Asian peoples who crossed a land bridge from far eastern Siberia into the Americas thousands of years ago. — Xinhua

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

UN Secretary-General’s Message on

United Nations Day

Dear friends,United Nations Day is a chance to recognize how

much this invaluable Organization contributes to peace and common progress.

It is a time to reflect on what more we can do to realize our vision for a better world.

The fighting in Syria is our biggest security challenge.

Millions of people depend on UN humanitarian personnel for life-saving assistance.

UN experts are working hand-in-hand with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to destroy Syria’s stockpiles.

And we are pushing for a diplomatic solution to end suffering that has gone on far too long.

Our most urgent development challenge is to make sustainability a reality.

The Millennium Development Goals have cut poverty in half.

Now we must maintain the momentum, craft an equally inspiring post-2015 development agenda and reach an agreement on climate change.

This year again, we saw the United Nations come together on armed conflict, human rights, the environment and many other issues.

We continue to show what collective action can do. We can do even more.

In a world that is more connected, we must be more united.

On United Nations Day, let us pledge to live up to our founding ideals and work together for peace, development and human rights.

UNIC/Yangon

Bottle feeding may increase risk of stomach obstruction in infants

Washington, 23 Oct — Infants who were bottle fed were more likely to be at risk of developing hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, than those who were breast-fed, US researchers said on Monday.

The risk appears to be magnified when mothers are older and have had more than one child, researchers from the Seattle Children’s Hospital in the US state of Washington, reported in the US journal JAMA Pediat-rics.

HPS typically occurs during an infant’s first two months of life and surgery is needed to correct the ob-struction, which occurs because of a thickening of the smooth muscle layer of the pylorus, the passage be-tween the stomach and small

intestines. Despite its inci-dence of about two cases in every 1,000 births, its cause remains unknown. The re-searchers used birth certifi-cates and discharge data in the US state of Washington to examine births between 2003 and 2009 and found 714 infants were admitted with HPS and had a HPS sur-gery. The findings indicated that the incidence of HPS de-creased from 14 per 10,000 births in 2003 to 9 per 10,000

births in 2009 while breast-feeding prevalence increased from 80 percent in 2003 to 94 percent in 2009.The re-searchers said that about 19.5 percent of infants who devel-oped HPS were bottle fed, compared with 9 percent of babies who were breastfed, and the odds of an infant de-veloping HPS also increased when mothers were 35 years and older and had given birth more than once.

“These data suggest

that bottle feeding may play a role in HPS etiology, and further investigations may help to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the observed effect modifica-tion by age and parity,” the researchers concluded.In a related editorial, Douglas Barnhart, of the Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City in the US state of Utah, said the findings “bring us a step closer to be-ing able to drop idiopathic from hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.” ”While the data seem convincing that bottle feeding increases the risk, the reason is not clear,” he said. “Further understand-ing of the pathogenesis of hypertrophic pyloric ste-nosis will come from both basic research and more de-tailed epidemiologic stud-ies.”— Xinhua

Beijing, 23 Oct — Sci-entists said on Tuesday they have found older people who get poor sleep may have more of the plaque or beta amyloid that is suggestive of Alzheimer’s disease in their brains. The findings, pub-

Good night’s sleep may help to prevent Alzheimer’slished online on 21 October in the journal JAMA Neu-rology, revealed that during sleep there are changes in the brains of lab mice that help flush out toxins such as beta amyloid produced by brain’s neurons in active circuits.

It might be possible that improving sleep could help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, suggested Adam Spira, an assistant professor in the de-partment of mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomb-erg School of Public Health.

“We live in a sleep-deprived society,” Spira said. “It may be that changing sleep habits has significant implications for mental health and spe-cifically the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Xinhua

Netflix customer gains reinforce growth hopes, shares jump

Los angeLes, 23 Oct — Netflix Inc gained more subscribers than expected at home and abroad with help from original series like “Orange is the New Black,” impressing investors who sent its shares surging nearly 11 percent to a record high on Monday. Netflix, the big-gest gainer in the S&P 500 in 2013, quadrupled profit in the third quarter as it added a higher-than-expected 1.3 million customers to its sub-scription video streaming service in the United States.

The company, which has invested heavily in orig-inal series such as political satire “House of Cards,” said it had 31.1 million US

streaming users from July to September. For the last three months of the year, Netflix said it expects to add about the same number of US streaming custom-ers it signed up a year ear-lier, and will end 2013 with 32.7 million to 33.5 million users.”That keeps the view alive that this company has a larger subscriber base and has pricing leverage in its corner to extract more value,” said Janney Mont-gomery Scott analyst Tony Wible, who rates Netflix a “buy.”

Shares rose 10.6 per-cent after-hours to $392.50, up from their close of $354.99 on the Nasdaq. The

stock has racked up succes-sive highs since September, as investors bet on its growth prospects.During the quar-ter, Netflix released critical-ly acclaimed prison drama “Orange is the New Black,” part of its push into origi-nal programming to attract customers to its $8-a-month movie and TV streaming service.Its original series slate generated buzz during the quarter, with 14 Emmy nominations and three wins for shows including “House of Cards.”

The company said it will double investments in original programming in 2014, when it will air sec-ond seasons of both “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black.” Spending on original shows will re-main below 10 percent of its global content expenses.Netflix was added in Sep-tember as an option on cable set-top boxes through two companies in Europe. CEO Reed Hastings, in a webcast after the earnings release, said he was “hopeful” Net-flix could reach a similar deal with Comcast Corp or other US cable operators.

ReutersNetflix DVDs return mailers are shown in a mail box in

Encinitas, California on 21 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Yahoo sought to ‘pause’ search rollout with Microsoft

san Francisco, 23 Oct — A US judge on Monday refused to let Yahoo Inc YHOO.O delay using Mi-crosoft Corp’s Bing search capabilities in Taiwan and Hong Kong, affirming an arbitrator’s decision in fa-vor of Microsoft. Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer sought to slow the rollout of its search partner-ship arguing that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s de-cision to retire had raised concerns, according to court documents. But US District Judge Robert Patterson Jr upheld an arbitrator’s earlier ruling in favor of Microsoft.

Yahoo and Microsoft began a 10-year search partnership in 2010, before Mayer took over as Yahoo’s CEO. The two companies hoped their combined efforts could mount a more com-petitive challenge to Google Inc, the world’s No.1 search engine. The partnership has not lived up to expectations. Google remains the domi-nant search engine, with roughly two thirds of the US search market, while Micro-soft and Yahoo’s combined share of the market is essen-tially unchanged.

Yahoo said it wanted to pause the process until

Mayer had a chance to dis-cuss the partnership with Ballmer’s successor, ac-cording to a court filing. Mi-crosoft said in August that Ballmer would retire within 12 months. Mayer has criti-cized the partnership in the past.

“We need to see mon-etization working better be-cause we know that it can and we’ve seen other com-petitors in the space illus-trate how well it can work,” Mayer said at an investor conference in February. Mi-crosoft and Yahoo were not immediately available for comment.— Reuters

The Yahoo logo is shown at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California on 16 April, 2013.—ReuteRs

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US, NATO officials expect approval for Afghan troop deal

Brussels, 23 Oct—Senior US and NATO of-ficials said on Tuesday they were confident Afghani-stan’s elders and parliament would back a deal allowing American troops to stay there after 2014, playing down lingering concerns over the accord.

The Afghan president’s spokesman Aimal Faizi had told Reuters on Sunday Ka-bul and Washington had not yet agreed on several issues in a bilateral security pact, raising the prospect that the US might still have to pull all its troops from the

Members of Security Force Advisor Team 10 provide sniper coverage during a shura - a meeting between

village elders, US troops and Afghan National Security Forces - near Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-

Jan-Kariz, a near-by village) in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on 26 Jan, 2013.

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war-ravaged nation by the deadline.

But two days later, Afghan Defence Minister Bismullah Khan Moham-madi was positive about the prospects of a Bilateral Security Agreement during talks with Defence Secre-tary Chuck Hagel on the sidelines of a NATO meet-ing in Brussels, according to a US defence official.

“Mohammadi ex-pressed strong confidence that the (Bilateral Secu-rity Agreement) would be agreed to soon, and that the vast majority of Afghans

support it,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

It was not immediately possible to reach Moham-madi or his aides to confirm the comments on the pact, which Washington and Ka-bul have been trying to con-clude for almost a year.

The deal will help de-termine how many US sol-diers and bases remain in Afghanistan after most for-eign combat troops exit by the end of next year.

A senior US military official, speaking sepa-rately to reporters traveling

UNESCO to list Japanese food as intangible cultural

heritageTokyo, 23 Oct—The

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is expected to register tra-ditional Japanese food as an intangible cultural heritage asset in early December, sources close to the matter said on Tuesday.

An organization that screens candidates for UNESCO registration has already issued a report recommending Japanese food be listed, they said. A

Photo taken on 22 Oct, 2013, shows dishes of the month at Japanese restaurant Edo Kappo “Yonemura” in

Tokyo. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is expected to register traditional Japanese

food as an intangible cultural heritage asset in early December 2013.—Kyodo News

with Hagel on condition he not be named, also said he saw “a very, very, very low

probability” of total with-drawal from Afghanistan.

Reuters

Greece cuts off state funding to far-right

Golden Dawn partyAThens, 23 Oct —

Greek lawmakers voted to cut off state funding to the far-right Golden Dawn par-ty early on Wednesday, the latest effort by the govern-ment to clamp down on a party it has branded a “neo-Nazi criminal gang”.

Golden Dawn had steadily risen on the back of an anti-austerity and anti-immigrant agenda to be-come Greece’s third-most popular party, until the kill-ing of a left-wing rapper by a party supporter last month triggered the government crackdown.

A legislative provision passed by 235 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament sus-pends state funding to polit-ical parties if their leaders, or a tenth of their lawmak-ers, are charged with in-volvement in a “criminal organization” or “acts of terrorism”. The move could deprive Golden Dawn of a major financial resource.

Athens has earmarked 11 million euros for elected parties in 2013, including 873,000 euros ($1.20 mil-

lion) for Golden Dawn.After entering par-

liament last year and ap-pearing virtually immune to frequent accusations of violence against immi-grants and leftists, the party has been on the defensive since the fatal stabbing of 34-year-old Pavlos Fissas.

The killing prompted prosecutors to investigate party lawmakers over a series of crimes and Prime Minister Antonis caused Samaras’s conservative-led government to probe the police force. Samaras has vowed to wipe out the party and described it as a “gang of neo-Nazis” that threatens democracy. Golden Dawn’s leader, Nikolaos Mihalolia-kos, and two senior law-makers have been put be-hind bars pending trial on charges of participation in a criminal group. This is the first time that elected politicians have been jailed in Greece since a military coup in 1967. Three other lawmakers, who were ar-rested, have been freed pending trial.—Reuters

Police officers stand guard outside the headquarters of the Golden Dawn far-right party in Athens

on 18 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

Vietnam hosts regional broadcasting

union’s annual meeting

hAnoi, 23 Oct—The 50th General Assembly and Associated Meetings of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union kicked off in Viet-nam’s capital of Hanoi on Wednesday with the par-ticipation of more than 700 international and domestic professionals in the field.

The annual event themed “Serving our au-dience in the digital era, making a’perspective shift’ from technology to audi-ence” is to focus on how broadcasters can meet the needs of audiences in the digital age. During the six-day event, hosted by Vi-etnam Television (VTV), participants will discuss the most pressing issues facing a changing media landscape as well as attend the high-level forum series “Women with the wave: Information and Communication Tech-nology and Media Inclu-sion of Women, Girls and Persons with disabilities”.

Xinhua

Jerusalem mayor wins re-election in boost to Netanyahu

JerusAlem, 23 Oct— The Israeli mayor of Jerusa-lem has won re-election in a hotly contested race against a challenger linked to a far-right opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu.

Former high-tech ty-coon Nir Barkat won about 51 percent of votes in poll-ing held on Tuesday, a count of all ballots showed.

His main rival, Moshe Lion, polled about 45 per-cent. Other votes went to a

third candidate.In a predawn victory

speech to cheering support-ers on Wednesday, Barkat, 54, called the election “one of the most complicated and difficult races” he had seen, but was thankful to voters he said “gave us a mandate to lead the city with the same vision for the next five years.”

Israeli media said Lion had also conceded the race.

The Jerusalem contest was seen as the most stra-

tegic of nearly 200 local government elections held across Israel, with a Barkat victory dealing a blow to his contender’s main backer, far-right former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieber-man. Lieberman, currently a lawmaker, had hoped a Lion victory would give him po-litical momentum to mount a challenge to Netanyahu’s leadership should he be ac-quitted in a corruption trial whose verdict was expected next month.—Xinhua

recommendation by the or-ganization has never been rejected, a government of-ficial said. The Japanese government proposed “Washoku: Traditional Di-etary Cultures of the Japa-nese” for the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list in March 2012.

UNESCO has regis-tered four food cultures —French, Mexican, Mediter-ranean and Turkish — as such assets.—Kyodo News

Focus on Arab states to fill Saudi Security Council seat, Kuwait a front-runner

riyAdh, 23 Oct—Sau-di Arabia’s unprecedented rejection of a UN Security Council place has pushed the world body into unchart-ed territory, but fellow Gulf nation Kuwait is emerging as an early front-runner to fill the seat. With 10 weeks until Saudi Arabia’s term on the 15-member Security

Council was due to start—on 1 January - UN diplo-mats do not appear to be in a rush to fill the vacancy and some are hoping Riyadh might still change its mind.

“One waits to see what will happen,” British UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said on Tuesday.

The Arab group of

countries at the United Na-tions urged Saudi Arabia on Saturday to reconsider its decision to renounce the rotating seat on the council in protest at the body’s fail-ure to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues. Saudi Arabia’s decision on Friday to turn down the two-year term

has diplomats and officials scratching their heads over what formal notification is needed to begin the pro-cess of deciding an alterna-tive candidate. “There is no agreed procedure because this is the first time that it has happened,” said French UN Ambassador Gerard Araud.—Reuters

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Mandalay, 23 Oct—A ceremony to mark the World Osteoporosis Day was held at Orthopaedic Specialist Hospital (Mandalay) of Health Department under the Ministry of Health on 20 October.

Rector Dr Marlar Win of University of Nursing (Mandalay) and officials presented prizes to winners in the poster contest.

They provided free health care for orthopaedic diseases to the patients and medicines to them.

A total of 200 nursing trainees gave educative talks to patients.

At the ce remony , 427 pat ients received

Efforts for standardizing health education

medical checkups whether they suffer osteoporosis disease.

This year motto was

S t rong Women Make Stronger Women.

Kyemon-Tin Maung (Mandalay)

World Osteoporosis Day observed in Mandalay

ya n g o n , 23 Oct—International Center of Excellence being opend at the Science Hall of Yangon University and John Hopskin University and Perdana University joint ly conducted the Update in Women’s Healthy workshop at the Science Hall of the univesity on 21 October.

“We held the workshop for enabling the persons from education and health fields to know modern medical science and health knowledge,” said Daw Yuza Maw Tun, Vice-Chairperson of International Centre of Excellence.

The workshop was held on 21 and 22 October.

Dr Isabel C Green and Dr Module Aguch of John Hopskin and Perdana Universit ies discussed hea l th knowledge in medical science.

The workshop was attended by University of Medicine-1, and 2, University of Nursing, D e f e n c e S e r v i c e s

M e d i c a l A c a d e m y , Defence Services Institute Nursing and Paramedical S c i e n c e s , Y a n g o n West General Hospital, Workers’ Hospital, Insein Hospi ta l , Mingaladon Hospital, Sanpya Hospital, Aungyadana Specialist Hospital, Asia Tawwin Hospital, Victoria Hospital, Sakura Hospital, Baho Si Hospital, Maha Myaing S p e c i a l i s t H o s p i t a l , P u n h l a i n g H o s p i t a l , M y a n m a r M e d i c a l Association, Myanmar Medical Science Council, M y a n m a r P h a r m a c y Association, rectors and faculty members totalling 50.

As Myanmar cooperates with international universities for upgrading education standard of the nation, ICOE held workshops with experts from Myanmar universities and Illinois University in July, with South Korean Univers i ty in August and Perdana Hospital in September.—MMAL-Wai Yan Oo

Blocks of heroin seized in Tachilek

Two-storey building ablaze between two three-storey buildings

nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—Members of No 30 Special Anti-Drug Squad of Tachilek and policemen, acting on a tip-off, together with witnesses, searched Honda 125 motorcycle driven by Tar Ae, 22 of Sanku Village in Loidawkham Village-tract, near the jetty of May Flower Ground near Maesai Jetty in Macaokham Ward of Tachilek on 20 October afternoon.

They seized 400 blocks of heroin weighing 133.33 kilos from four bags.

The seizure of the heroin was worth K 1999.95 million.

Action was taken against Tar Ae under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic

Substances Law.—Kyemon-Police Information

M a w l a M y i n e , 2 3 Oct—A fire broke out at Pan Kaung Shwesin Mattress and doll sales centre at No 191 on Lower Road in Shwedaung Ward of Mawlamyine on 21 October morning.

Altogether 192 fire fighters from fire stations coopeated with local people in putting out the fire with the use of 20 fire engines from Mawlamyine, Kyaikmaraw and Mudon. They totally

died down the fire at about 12 noon.

The dry batteries from the dolls was ablaze in overheat situation causing outbreak of fire to the mattresses of Daw San San

Soe, owner of the shop. The fire engulfed the

whole building which is 20 feet by 50 feet, worth K 6.75 million.

A file of lawsuit was opened against Daw San San Soe under the law.

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Plan underway to hold dragon boat rowing demonstration in Taninthayi Region

Myeik, 23 Oct—As part of conservation of ancient cultural heritage, Dragon

boat rowing demonstration was held at the jetty of U Kyaw Win sawmill on

Taryoe Street in Chaunggyi Ward of Taninthayi Region recenty. New generation youths

will participate in the rowing demonstration.

The local youths were in rowing drill so as to take part in the contest that will start on 23 October.

The rowers from various regions and states arrived there to take part in the contest.

Kyemon-Moe Hein (Myeik)

Youth in training

session for Dragon

boat rowing contest

in Myeik.

Bago Region Women’s Affairs Organization Chairperson Daw May Thu gives educative talks

on anti-trafficking in persons to local people at Awaing Village of Bago Township on 19

October.—mna

Tar Ae seen with heroin blocks worth K

1999.95 million.

Fire

fighters

putting out

fire together

with local

people in

Mawlamyine.

Those present at ceremony to mark

World Osteoporosis Day ceremony.

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thursday, 24 october, 2013

Promoting rational thinking

We think, we decide and we make conclusions on daily basis. our opinions are products of our thinking. our ways of thinking bases on the information accessible to us. the media are the major sources of information. that’s why we used to say, “Media shape opinions.” Do they always lead us to the right way?

Providing the most possibly objective information is the duty of the media outlets. But there are still unseen interests behind them. With many emerging media outlets, we now have a host of sources for information. the dark side is that we cannot know which one is providing reliable information or which information is factual. Most news stories available to us today are more or less black-and-white sorts. objectivity of the news stories is questionable. Not everything in our world is mere story of the good and the bad. We have then two options: making media outlets responsible for false information and educating the people that not all the written words are factual.

Still the government departments are as usual in traditional rivalry with the media. to inculcate the rational thinking in the public, both the media and the government mechanisms have to do their parts well, providing factual information in objective manner.

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct— Attorney-General of the Union Dr Tun Shin ad-dressed a seminar on legis-lative drafting and statutory interpretation, organized by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Union and UNDP, at the Office of the Attorney-General of the Union, here, this morning.

He said that in the past the Office of the Union Attorney-General did not see such kind of seminar on legislative drafting and statutory interpretation in collaboration with in-ternational organizations. Myanmar lawmakers were to pursue further studies in foreign countries. Today’s workshop should be rec-ognized as a milestone of the history. He expressed his belief that the semi-nar is really beneficial to

Seminar on legislative drafting and statutory interpretation held

Myanmar lawmakers and those who involved in drafting laws of the min-istries.

Team Leader Ms. Emma Morley of UNDP Myanmar and Mr. Daniel

Greenberg, Counsel in the Office of Speaker’s Coun-sel, House of Commons, London said that the or-ganization continues co-operating with the Union Attorney-General’s Office

iCao delegation arrives in Yangon

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—A work coordination meet-ing on technical rules for the 23rd ASEAN Armies Shooting Contest was held at AARM Village in Pyi-nOoLwin this morning.

The meeting was opened with an address by Joint-Secretary of the central committee for holding the 23rd contest Maj-Gen Zarni Win. Chairman of the Work Committee Maj-Gen Tin Maung Win made a speech.

During the meeting, participants from ASEAN countries discussed the in-structions, duties of judges, rules and disciplines at the shooting range.

In the evening, they had a dinner at the parade ground of the AARM Vil-lage in PyinOoLwin.

MNA

technical rules for aSEaN armies Shooting Contest discussed

(from page 16)take necessary measures in accord with the re-port of amyotha Hlut-taw Public accounts

Motion for reengineering of educational …

(from page 16)Plans are under way to install CCTV cameras in those ho-tels.

It is also planned to install security cameras in new hotels accross the country. It is expected that more tourists will visit My-anmar this year, compared with the tourist arrivals of 1.5 million last year.

According to World Tourism Organization (UN-WTO), international tour-

All hotels in Myanmar to be complete…

Committee on upgrading of Nattalin-Damange-taungnyo road in Bago Region submitted by U Thein Win of Sagaing Re-

gion Constituency No (9). Later, the Speaker

of Amyotha Hluttaw an-nounced the date to seek the approval of the Hlut-taw on the motions after making clarifications on them by the relevant mem-

bers of the Union govern-ment within a 21-day pre-scribed period.

Today’s session came to an end in the afternoon and the 12-day session will be held on 25 Octo-ber.—MNA

as it plays a leading role in law drafting sector in the country, and claimed that courses on drafting laws would be conducted in Myanmar.

MNAist arrivals reached 1,035 million in 2012, up from 995 million in 2011. Asia and the Pacific recorded the strongest growth with a 7% increase in arrivals, followed by Africa (6%) and the Americas (5%). In South East Asia, Myanmar saw a 52 % increase in ar-rivals in 2012, followed by Cambodia (24 %), Thai-land (16 %) and Vietnam (14 %).

Therefore, authorities concerned should take se-curity measures for safety of tourists. Myanma Alinn: 23-10-13

Trs: Mt

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct— A total of 326 visitors—171 members of Union Solidarity and Development Party of Myothit Township, Magway Region, 126 IBEC-English Access Micro-Scholarship students led by Sayadaw U Sobhita from the Sagaing Buddhist Education Centre and 29 visitors led by Dr Daw Aye Aye Yi of the Youth Trip Organizing Committee, UNICEF— this morning observed process of 13th day session of the eighth regular meeting of the

Visitors observe Hluttawsfirst Pyithu Hluttaw and looked round the Hluttaw complex.

MNA

yaNgoN, 23 Oct—To ensure the development of Myanmar’s civil aviation sector, a delegation led by Mr. Raymond Benjamin, Secretary General of Inter-national Civil Aviation Or-ganization (ICAO), arrived here on 18 October.

Director-General U Tin Naing Tun of Depart-ment of Civil Aviation and officials met with the general secretary and party of ICAO at Civil Aviation Training Institute on 19 Oc-tober morning.

MNA

Attorney-General of the Union Dr Tun Shin poses for documentary photo with participants.—mna

Work coordination meeting on technical rules for the 23rd ASEAN Armies Shooting Contest in progress.—mna

yaNgoN, 23 Oct—The Pre-SEA Game Shooting Test Match will be held at the International Shooting Range in Dagon Myothit (North) Township from 27 to 30 October.

Each team comprising 19 shooters of participant countries may take part in the test match.

The events in the test

Shooting test Match 27-30 oct match are categorized as men’s singles and team 10-m air pistol events, men’s 50-m pistol event, men’s 50-m rifle event, women’s singles and team 10-m air pistol events, women’s 25-m pistol event and women’s 50-m rifle event. A total of 12 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze medals will be awarded to the winners.—MMAL-Tin Soe (Myanma Alinn)

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Belgian OG specialist, pathologist professor give lectures at Central Women’s Hospital

Mandalay, 23 Oct—OG cervical cancer specialist Dr Orye and professor of Belbium gave lectures at Central Women’s Hospital in Mandalay on 21 October.

F i r s t l y , M e d i c a l Superintendent of CWH Dr Daw Than Than Myint and Professor/Dean of OG Department Dr Daw Kyi Kyi Nyunt extended greetings and introduced Belgian OG specialist and professor to

Candle light triggered off burning at monastery in Myeik

those present.The opening ceremony

was attended by Rector of Mandalay University of Medicine Prof Dr U Tin Maung Han, Professor/Dean of Pathology Department Dr U Htay Hla, Pathologist Dr Daw Khin Mya Mon, p ro fessors , a s soc ia te professors, lecturers and specialists.

Belgian OG specialist Dr Orye and Pathologist

Prof Verguts and Prof Praet conducted the practical and theoretical training to 60 OG specialists and pathologists at Central Women’s Hospital (Mandalay) from 21 to 25 October with the permission of the Ministry of Health.

The training course was attended by OG post-graduate trainees, doctoral course trainees and FRCS candidates.

The Belgian specialists

Myeik, 23 Oct—A fire broke out at Nyaungyeiktha Monastery on Phayagyi Street in Myitnge Ward of Myeik in Taninthayi Region at 4 pm on 21 October.

The fire started from candel light offered at the prayer room by layperson U Po Nyo, 42, son of U Pa Chin of the monastery.

A total of 124 fire servicemen put out the fire with the use of 24 fire engines.

The fire blazed the monastery, 32 feet by 24 feet, worth K 576,000.

Fire victims three monks and one novice were accommodated at Shwedaung Monastery near

Shan State Hluttaw deputy speaker meets local people for

development of Lashiolashio , 23 Oct—A

meeting between the deputy speaker of Shan State Hluttaw and departmental officials was held at the city hall in Lashio of Shan State (North) on 22 October.

On the occasion, Deputy Speaker U Sai Kham Mak gave an opening address.

Shan State Hluttaw representative U Sai Kyu explained progress of works.

Next , members of Township Development

Supportive Committee and town’s elders reported on requirements.

A l s o p r e s e n t a t the meeting were the commissioner of Shan State, district and township administrators, town’s elders, ward administrators, e n t r e p r e n e u r s a n d membersof Maternal and Child Welfare Associations, totalling 210.

Kyemon-Han Htay (IPRD)

coope ra t ed wi th OG specialists from Central W o m e n ’ s H o s p i t a l (Mandalay) checked cervical cancer and key hole surgery works at patients at the hospital.—Kyemon-Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)

MCDC, ADB jointly draw green city plan

Mandalay, 23 Oct—Mandalay City Development Committee and Asian Development Bank will draw the Green City Plan and collect the data.

The small groups will conduct surveys on 73 points from 600 households. The teams will collect data from100 households

from six townships of Mandalay City Development Committee, totalling 600 households, from 26 October to 5 November.

MCDC is carrying out its tasks for minucipal area such as Chanayethazan, Mahaaungmye, Aung-myethazan, Chanmya-thazi ,Pyigyidagun and

Amarapura townships.Mr Alistais, expert of

Asian Development Bank, said that the people are to join hands with the authorities for development of the city, and it is necessary to fulfill the requirements of the region based on correct data from the people.—Kyemon-Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)

Hotel service courses kick offMandalay, 23 Oct—

Diamond Palace Hotel Co Ltd opened the Hotel Services Course No 28/2013 for Hotel Service Grade I and Hotel Supervisor Grade II at Mandalay Hall of Zaygyo Hotel, Chanayethazan Township of Mandalay on 21 October morning.

Mandalay Region In-charge of Ministry of Hotels and Tourism U Nyi Nyi Swe made a speech and opened the training course.

It was attended b

the burnt monastery.Myeik Township Police

Force opened a file of

lawsuit against U Po Nyo under the law.

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Chairman of Myanmar Hoteliers Association (Upper

Myanmar ) Manda l ay Zone U Myint Aung and

executives, training school principal U Sein Myint and instructors and 45 trainees.

The hotel service grade I course comprises four subjects. The course will last 10 weeks.

A total of 1653 trainees have attended the training courses up to No. 27th intake. Most of the trainees are at worksites.

Kyemon-Kyaw Min Thaw (Mandalay)

Health Care

Hotel Services

Opening ceremony of Hotel Services Course 28 in progress.

Fire

Fire servicemen putting out fire at Nyaungyeiktha Monastery in Myeik.

The photo shows aeria view of Mandalay City with Mandalay Hill in the background.

Regional development

tasks supervised kalewa, 23 Oct—

Kalewa Township Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Soe Thein, Township Management Committee Chairman U Tint Naing and party on 16 October made field trips to Mahtu Villageof Kalewa Township.

The authorities fulfilled the requirements to local people for education and health sector.—Kyemon-Zo Hae Hsa (Chin Hill)

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US concerned about Mozambique violence, urges dialogue

Washington, 23 Oct—The United States on Tues-day urged Mozambique’s government and the Rena-mo opposition movement to “move back from the brink” and take steps to quell an escalation in tensions that many worry could disrupt the country’s strong eco-nomic growth.

The Renamo former rebel group declared on Monday it was terminat-ing a 1992 peace accord that ended a 1975-1992 civil war, complaining that government forces overran base of opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama in the Gorongosa forest.

“We are deeply con-cerned by the escalation in violence between govern-ment security forces and members of the opposition party Renamo,” said US State Department spokes-woman Marie Harf. “We are encouraging the two parties to take visible and

decisive steps to de-escalate the current tense environ-ment.”

Mozambique media re-ported on Tuesday that sus-pected Renamo guerrillas fired on a police station at Maringue, just north of the Gorongosa District, but no casualties were reported.

Asked whether the at-

tack could provoke more violence, Harf said: “We are deeply concerned by this violence and this es-calation and are urging all sides to take steps to move back from the brink and de-escalate what has been hap-pening.”

Dhlakama, who has struggled to recover from a

Mozambique’s opposition RENAMO Presidential can-didate Afonso Dhlakama shows an ink dyed finger after voting in the country’s Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Elections in Maputo in this file photo taken

on 28 Oct, 2009.—ReuteRs

string of election defeats by the ruling Frelimo party, is widely regarded as a spent political force with little power to drag the country back into a civil war.

He has complained that the Frelimo-led govern-ment has monopolized po-litical and economic power.

Mozambique’s econ-omy is set to grow by 7 percent this year — one of the fastest in Africa - and investors such as Brazil’s Vale, London-listed Rio Tinto, Italy’s Eni and US oil firm Anadarko are work-ing to develop some of the world’s largest untapped coal and gas reserves.

Renamo raids in April and June in central Mozam-bique had already caused alarm. They killed at least 11 soldiers and police and six civilians and forced a temporary suspension of coal exports sent by rail to the coast.

Reuters

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and his Russian

counterpart Dmitry

Medvedev attend a ceremony of signing

China-Russia cooperation

documents in Beijing, capital of China, on 22

Oct, 2013.Xinhua

China, Russia chant friendship, pledge closer

cooperationBeijing, 23 Oct—“We

should let the Chinese youth know that China-Russia friendship is not ancient history,” Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday as he and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev met reporters in Beijing.

Li suggested Med-vedev tell some Chinese university students a story about how China and Rus-sia joined hands to battle devastating flooding on the Heilongjiang River, known in Russia as the Amur, which hit eastern Russia and northeastern China this summer.

“I will,” said the smil-ing Russian prime minister.

Medvedev, who ar-rived in Beijing early Tues-day for an official visit, is scheduled to visit east Chi-na’s Anhui Province, Li’s home province, and deliver a speech in front of a group of university students there on Wednesday.

In the face of the floods, Li and Medvedev spoke twice on the tel-ephone in August, and the

Russian side used its two upstream reservoirs to re-duce flooding.

“Russia helped Chi-na and showed Russia’s friendship with China,” said the Chinese Premier on Tuesday.

“Surely I will tell the students about our coop-eration on this matter when I visit your hometown,” Medvedev said, adding that he will also tell the students of the cooperation between the disaster-relief agencies of the two countries.

“It shows our strategic cooperation as well as our friendship,” said the prime minister.

The light-hearted con-versation came after the 18th regular meeting be-tween Chinese and Rus-sian heads of government held at the Great Hall of the People. The regular meet-ing, launched in 1996, is an important platform for co-operations.

“We reached many new consensus on practi-cal cooperation, especially on large-scale projects,” Li told the reporters.—Xinhua

A Herdsman herds livestock near the snow-blocked Lakenla Mountain, Damxung County in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, on 22 Oct, 2013. Local

husbandry and traffic was affected by the sudden heavy snow which hit the northern Tibet recently.—Xinhua

Driver charged in Argentina’s train crash

Buenos aires, 23 Oct —The driver of the train that crashed here over the weekend with 99 passen-gers injured was charged by a federal judge Tuesday as video footage showed him falling asleep at the wheel.

Julio Cesar Ben-itez, 45, was arrested and charged for his alleged role in the Saturday accident, as the train was pulling into the city’s Once station, according to state news agency Telam.

Judicial sources said Benitez may be charged with causing severe harm due to negligence.

Video footage showed Benitez yawing repeatedly and appearing to doze off several times during the journey. But tests showed he was not under the influ-ence of alcohol. Benitez un-derwent medical tests, in-cluding DNA tests to match his blood with that found on the train’s black box, which was later found in his bag.

“I felt I was losing too much blood and I was try-ing to recover my belong-ings that spread all over the floor,” Benitez said in his testimony Monday.

Xinhua

Libyan minister meets British Ambassador on

strengthening tiestripoli, 23 Oct— Lib-

yan Minister of Planning Mahdi Rany met on Tues-day with British Ambassa-dor Michael Aaron on ways of boosting bilateral rela-tions in all domains, espe-cially in fields of electricity, health, transportation and training.

The meeting tackled the potential support of British experts in Libya to develop strategy and plans for Libyan’s economy and production, Rany told re-porters.

For his part, the Brit-ish Ambassador underlined that his country strongly backs Libya’s transition toward democracy, lauding the committee of “Libya 2030,” which was formed by the cabinet in May to set strategy and roadmap for national development in all sectors. The panel includes researchers and specialists from all over the country, whose strategy will be im-plemented during the pe-riod from 2014 to 2030.

Xinhua

Bahrain police launch probe into explosion

ManaMa, 23 Oct— Bahrain police on Tuesday launched an investigation after a man was found dead near a homemade bomb ex-plosion site in Bani Jamra village.

The ministry said it re-ceived an anonymous call

from a person informing of an explosion and a body ly-ing at the site.

“Police arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area to get rid of the suspi-cious object and an investi-gation has been launched,” it said. Opposition groups

identified online that the deceased as Ali Khalil, 17 years old, while there were other reports surfacing that the teenager was allegedly planting a homemade bomb to target security forces, which exploded in his face.

Xinhua

Tibet culture week opens 20 to 29 October on Wednesday in Germany

Beijing, 23 Oct—The 2013 China Tibetan Cul-ture Week will be held in Germany from, according to a government statement

released on Tuesday. The event, which is the first of its kind to be held in Ger-many, aims to offer Ger-man people a glimpse of

Tibet’s beauty, culture and economic development and promote international friendship, according to the statement.—Xinhua

Thursday, 24 October, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarRegional

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang addresses the opening ceremony of the 21st International Congress of Supreme Audit Institutions (XXI INCOSAI) in Beijing,

capital of China, on 22 Oct, 2013. —Xinhua

China stresses auditors’ role in guarding fiscal stability

Beijing, 23 Oct—Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday auditors can play an important role in safeguarding fiscal stability and combating corruption.

Auditors must

properly supervise the financial department, find potential risks and ensure the sustainability of fiscal fund, Li said at the 21st Congress of the International Organization of Supreme Audit

Institutions(INCOSAI), which opened in Beijing on Tuesday.

In his keynote speech, Li urged auditors to mercilessly expose corruption and protect public funds.

The Chinese Premier also called for international cooperation between auditors in perfecting the global financial regulation rules and safeguarding the stability of world economy.

To the nearly 700 delegates from some 160 countries, Li said the world economy was picking up slowly but deep-rooted defects remain, leaving many uncertain and instable factors. Li briefed them on China’s economy, saying the government had taken measures to advance reforms and restructure the economy to allow the market playing a bigger role in generating growth.

“Those measures have delivered evident effects,” Li said, saying economy had improved and market expectations were stable and optimistic.

“We are capable of reaching the major targets of economic and social development this year and accomplishing fiscal stability and sustainability,” he said.—Xinhua

Hiroshima, Nagasaki welcome Japan’s endorsement of UN statement

HirosHima/nagasaki, 23 Oct —The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Tuesday welcomed the Japanese government’s en-dorsement of a UN state-ment on nuclear disarma-ment for the first time.

Hiroshima Mayor Ka-zumi Matsui said he wel-comed the move, which shows the Japanese govern-ment shares his city’s wish for a world without nuclear weapons.

Nagasaki Mayor Tomi-hisa Taue told reporters the endorsement is a step to-ward a nuclear-free world.

Matsui also welcomed an increase in the number of countries that backed the UN statement to 125. Both Matsui and Taue asked the Japanese government to take leadership in guiding the countries endorsing the statement, which says that “it is in the interest of the very survival of humanity that nuclear weapons are

never used again, under any circumstances.” Noting that Japan depends on the United States’ nuclear um-brella, Taue said Japan has been unable to pull out of the Cold War structure.

The joint disarmament effort is a chance to estab-lish a new international se-curity structure, the Naga-saki mayor said.

Hiroshima came under atomic bombing on 6 Au-gust, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later in the clos-ing days of World War II.

At a ceremony on 9 August. this year marking the 68th anniversary of Na-gasaki’s atomic bombing, Taue criticized the Japanese government’s decision not to sign a similar statement against the use of nuclear weapons announced in April at a preparatory com-mittee for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review meeting.

Kyodo News

Local women in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, practice knitting on 4 Sept, 2013 in the coastal city,

which was badly hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Kyodo news

Photo taken on 22 Oct, 2013 shows the scenery of red autumnal leaves at the Great Wall at Badaling, Beijing,

capital of China. —Xinhua

2 militiamen, 1 rebel died in clash in S Philippines

manila, 23 Oct—Two Philippine government militiamen and a rebel were killed and a soldier and three farmers were wounded in a firefight in Southern Philippines on Monday, the military said on Tuesday.

Captain Christian Cuy, spokesman for the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division, said the troops from the 23rd Cadre Battalion were sent to Esperanza, a town in Southern Philippine Province of Agusan del Sur on Monday morning upon tip-off of the presence of suspect members of leftist rebel group of New People’s Army (NPA) in the area.

They ran into around 30 rebels while patrolling a farmland in Esperanza at about 8:30 am on Monday, said Cuy. The two sides traded fires for about 45 minutes until the insurgents withdrew, leaving two militiamen and a rebel dead, he said.—Xinhua

Swelling lakes in Hol Xil pose railway threat

Xining, 23 Oct—Swelling lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a notable sign of global warming, are threatening the safety of the world’s highest railway, according to climate and ecological experts.

One flooded lake is now only 8 km away from a section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the depopulated area of Hol Xil Nature Reserve, according to the latest satellite monitoring by the Qinghai Provincial Academy of Meteorological Sciences.

Liu Baokang, engineer with the academy’s remote-sensing and ecological evaluation center, said several lakes in the nature reserve have been overflowing since 2011 after receiving an increasing volume of melted snow from glaciers on the plateau, known as the “roof of the world.”

Liu said the center’s research shows that the lakes have become a threat to the railway’s roadbed and roads on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway as well as important oil pipelines,

cables and power facilities that run through the region.

Sitting 4,600 meters above sea level, the 45,000 square km Hol Xil nature reserve is China’s largest unpopulated area and is home to wild yaks and endangered Tibetan antelope.

Major lakes in the reserve, namely Zhuonai Lake, Qusay Lake and a salt lake, are all holding water at historically high levels.

Xinhua

HK chief vows to seek justice for victims of hostage crisis

Hong kong, 23 Oct —Hong Kong Chief Executive C Y Leung said on Tuesday in Beijing that the Hong Kong government will seek justice for the families of the victims and injured people in the Hong Kong hostage crisis in Manila, the Philippines, three years ago, according to a statement on the Hong Kong government website.

Leung made the remarks in response to a resolution by Manila’s City Council on Tuesday requesting the city

government to apologize to the people of Hong Kong for the 2010 crisis that left eight Hong Kong people dead.

The Hong Kong chief, who just arrived at Beijing to attend a symposium on Wednesday, said he learned the resolution when stepping down the plane and he will inform the public when any achievement is made.

Leung said with the support of China’s central government, they have been contacting the Philippine

government in the last two weeks and will keep doing that to seek justice for the families of the victims and those who got injured in the tragedy. He emphasized that the Hong Kong government will also keep in touch with the relatives of the victims and the injured, and their opinions will be respected.

Philippine media reported that the council hopes the apology will mend the strained relationship between Hong Kong and Manila.

Xinhua

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Models present folk costumes during a Kamba costumes show in Chamdo Prefecture, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, on 21 Oct, 2013.

Xinhua

Hurricane Raymond swirls off Mexico, hits Acapulco with more rain

A local worker (R) removes debris from a river swollen by rain brought on by Hurricane Raymond in Acapulco

on 21 Oct, 2013.— ReuteRs

AcApulco, (Mexico), 23 Oct — Ports were closed, school classes were suspended and hundreds of people were evacuated along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Monday as a major hurricane loomed over a region still recover-ing from record flooding a few weeks ago. Raymond, a category three hurricane, weakened slightly on Mon-day night as it hovered about 145 km (90 miles) offshore.

The major storm was moving in “a slow and er-ratic motion” with winds blowing up to 193 km per

hour (120 mph) on Mon-day, Miami’s National Hur-ricane Center (NHC) said. “It’s not going to move much in the next 24 to 36 hours,” Luis Felipe Puente, head of Mexico’s national emergency services, said at a news conference in Aca-pulco. The NHC’s forecast said the storm could move closer to the coast Monday night and Tuesday before turning west on Wednes-day.The hurricane was al-ready dumping steady rain on coastal areas including Acapulco, where storms wrecked homes, roads and cars and stranded tourists

Venezuela recovers likely remains of Italian fashion boss

killed in plane crashcArAcAs, 23 Oct —

Venezuela said on Mon-day it has recovered what it believes are the remains of Italian fashion executive Vittorio Missoni, who went missing in January after taking off in a small plane from the Los Roques ar-chipelago in the Caribbean.Four months ago, Venezue-la’s government said it had discovered the aircraft in 76 meters (249 feet) of water.

It had been carrying Missoni, 58, his wife, Mau-

Afghanistan says differences remain on US security pact

KAbul , 23 Oct — Af-ghanistan and the United States have not yet agreed on several issues in a bilat-eral security pact, a senior Afghan spokesman said, raising the prospect that Washington could pull out all its troops from the war-ravaged nation next year if the differences could not be ironed out. Two years ago, the United States ended its military mission in Iraq with

a similar “zero option” out-come after the failure of bi-lateral talks with Baghdad.

For almost a year, Washington and Kabul have been seeking to conclude a Bilateral Security Agree-ment (BSA) that will help determine how many US soldiers and bases remain in Afghanistan after most for-eign combat troops exit by the end of next year.US Sec-retary of State John Kerry

told reporters at the end of a visit to Kabul this month that there was just one issue outstanding —Washing-ton’s demand that its troops be immune from Afghan law and tried in the United States instead.But the issue was not even raised in the two days Kerry was in Ka-bul, said Aimal Faizi, the spokesman for Afghan Pres-ident Hamid Karzai.

He said there were

also a number of other ar-eas which the two countries have yet to agree on. “A lot of progress has been made on the document, but it is not finalized,” Faizi told Re-uters in an interview at the presidential palace.”If we do not reach a final agreement on this draft, it will go to the Loya Jirga and the Afghan people will be able to look at the issues remaining.” Faizi said. —Reuters

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

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AgeNt foR: M/S ADVANCe CoNtAINeR lINeS

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

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Consignees of cargo carried on MV SINgAPoRe BRIDge VoY No (052) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 24.10.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of H.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expense s and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

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rizia Castiglioni, another couple, and two Venezue-lan crew members.

“All the remains were complete in the plane,” Venezuelan Attorney gen-eral Luisa Ortega told re-porters. “There was the luggage and other belong-ings which indicate to us ... that they belonged to the people we were looking for.” Ortega said Venezue-lan navy divers recovered the remains of five of the passengers, but that the

last month.By early afternoon,

parts of the city were cov-ered with water, its port was closed and many roads were washed out. Aca-pulco’s beaches were al-most deserted on Monday afternoon as winds picked up. “This is really bad luck after (tropical storm) Ma-nuel,” said Anaberta Lopez, 26, who braids tourists’ hair on the city’s beaches, surveying a vacant stretch of sand. “There’s no work now and people here live off tourism.” Mexico has no major oil installations in the area threatened by Ray-mond, which has swirled around 233 km (145 miles) west-southwest of Acapul-co since Sunday night.

Mexico’s gulf Coast is also facing heavy rains due to the advance of a cold front from the north, which has halted Raymond’s progress in the south, the government said. “If (Ray-mond) carries on moving at this speed and the cold front keeps holding it, we’ll have permanent rain for the next 72 hours,” Puente said at a conference earlier on Mon-day.—Reuters

sixth was in a hard to reach spot in the wreckage. The remains will be submit-ted to DNA tests to verify that they belonged to Mis-soni and the other victims, she said. earlier this year, Italy’s agency for flight se-curity, ANSV, said its in-vestigation had found that the airline that owned the plane was not fully licensed to operate and that the pi-lot’s license had expired more than a month before the flight.—Reuters

1. open Tender is invited for the Myanma Petrochemical enterprise, the Ministry of energy for the supply of Mixed LPg (1,800 MT ± 5%).

2. Tender Closing Date : 7-11-2013 at (12:00) noon.3. Tender Opening Date : 7-11-2013 at (13:00) hrs.4. Delivery Time : 2nd Week of December 20135. Tender Documents and details information are available

at the Department of Finance, Myanma Petrochemical enterprise, Nay Pyi Taw, during office hours commenc-ing 24-10-2013 on payment of the Myanmar Kyat one Hundred Thousand (Kyat 100,000) per set.

6. only bid from tenderer who has purchased tender docu-ment officially from Myanma Petrochemical enterprise will be accepted for evaluation.

Managing Director Myanma Petrochemical enterprise

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Thursday, 24 October, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT

13New Light of Myanmar

Singer Kelly Clarkson (R) and Brandon Blackstock

arrive at the sec-ond presidential

inauguration of US President Barack Obama

on the West Front of the

US Capitol in Washington in

this 21 January, 2013 file photo.

ReuteRs

Singer Kelly Clarkson ties the knot in Tennessee

Washington, 23 Oct— Pop singer Kelly Clarkson, the first contestant to win the Fox singing competition “American Idol,” married talent manager Brandon Blackstock in a ceremony over the weekend in Ten-nessee, the singer said on Monday.

The 31-year-old Gram-my winner announced the news and posted a picture in a Twitter message.

“I’m officially Mrs.

Blackstock :) We got mar-ried yesterday at Black-berry Farms in TN, the most beautiful place ever,” Clarkson tweeted.

The Texas-born singer is shown wearing a long-sleeved, lace gown by Brit-ish designer Alice Tem-perley in the photo, and standing with her husband in front of a covered bridge.

Clarkson and Black-stock, who have been dat-ing since early 2012, an-

nounced their engagement late last year. Blackstock is the stepson of country sing-er Reba McEntire. Clarkson won “American Idol” in 2002, the show’s first year. She is one of the most suc-cessful winners of the show with songs such as “My Life Would Suck Without You” and “Since U Been Gone,” and has won three Grammy awards, including best pop album for “Strong-er.”—Reuters

Singer Dolly Parton slightly injured in car accident

nashville, (Tennes-see), 23 Oct—Singer Dolly Parton was slightly injured on Monday when the SUV she was riding in as a pas-senger was hit by a car, police said, but the country music star posted on Face-book that she was fine and resting at home.

Parton, 67, was riding as a passenger in the front seat of a Nissan Xterra that was in a collision with an-

other vehicle, Nashville po-lice said.

“Parton received mi-nor injuries,” the Nashville Police Department said in a statement.

Police said the driver of the other car failed to yield. The two drivers and Parton were taken to lo-cal hospitals for treatment, but none of the injuries ap-peared to be serious, police added. Parton was quick to

dispel concern from fans about her condition, posting on Facebook: “I was in a fender bender this morning, here in Nashville. But I am all good ...Just a little tired and sore, resting at home.”

Parton, a long-time member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, is best known for songs such as “Jolene,” “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You.”

Reuters

Actress and singer

Dolly Parton

arrives at the Hol-lywood

premiere of ‘’Joyful

Noise’’ in Los

Angeles, California

9 Jan, 2012

ReuteRs

R&B singer CeeLo Green pleads not guilty to ecstasy chargelos angeles, 23 Oct—

Grammy-winning R&B singer and “The Voice” TV judge CeeLo Green pleaded not guilty on Monday to a felony charge of giving the drug ecstasy to a woman without her knowledge while the two were dining, prosecutors said.

Green, whose real name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, was charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office with one count of furnish-ing a controlled substance.

Green entered the plea in a Los Angeles court and faces up to four years in state prison if convicted.

Grammy Award winning R&B singer and “The Voice’’ TV judge CeeLo Green (L), confers with attorney Blair Berk in Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center

in Los Angeles, California 21 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

Falguni Pathak: Folk songs have larger appeal

neW Delhi, 23 Oct—Falguni Pathak, who brought a new flavour to pop music in the late 1990s

Falguni has been a star attraction at Navratri events

with her romantic songs, has also made several peo-ple groove to her folk num-bers replete with dandiya

beats. She says folk music has a larger appeal in the country.

For a long time, Pathak, 42, has been a star attraction at Navratri events during the festive season and she makes thousands of peo-ple dance to her tracks like Endra meruwa gayi, Cham cham payaliya and Ayee re milan ki raat umbre ubhi. “I agree (that folk songs have larger appeal than other pop songs) and we always try to stick to folk. They are very natural and not made up. I myself enjoy folk music, so I always make an effort to be more close to it,” Pathak

told IANS.She does not hesitate

in accepting that “when I think of music, only folk music appeals to me the most”.

The Navratri festival, which goes on for nine days, concluded recently. It was a busy time for Pathak as she was booked to regale dandiya enthusiasts by per-forming at the Police Pa-rade Grounds in Ghatkopar, Mumbai.

The show was organ-ised by event organising company Mangal Enter-tainment Private Ltd.

PTI

Sunidhi Chauhan to sing Tumhari Pakhi title song

MuMbai, 23 Oct —Playback singer Sunidhi Chauhan will lend her voice for the title song of the up-coming TV show Tum-hari Pakhi, based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel Naba Bidhan. Suni-dhi has been signed for the title track and she will re-cord it soon, said a source.

Sachin Gupta, who has composed for films like Prince, will score the music for the song.

Ready to go on air on 11 November on Life OK, Tumhari Pakhi, a love

story, features Iqbal Khan and Shraddha Arya in lead roles.—PTI

Sunidhi Chauhan will record the title track soon

The singer “slipped” ecstasy to the 33-year-old woman while the two were dining at a Los Angeles restaurant in July 2012, ac-cording to prosecutors.

The woman said she did not know that Green had given her the drug, said Jane Robison, a spokes-woman for the district at-torney’s office.

Ecstasy is a lab-pro-duced drug that acts as a stimulant and can cause hallucinations.

Green, 39, and the un-named woman went back to her hotel room after dinner, prosecutors said.

Celebrity website

TMZ.com reported last year that the woman had filed a police report accus-ing Green of sexual assault. Robison said the alleged victim had contacted the police.

Prosecutors, however, said there was insufficient evidence to charge Green with rape of an intoxicated person.

Green’s attorney, Blair Berk, said she was happy the “evidence did not sup-port the false and unfound-ed claims made over a year ago.”

“Mr Green encouraged a full and complete investi-gation of those claims and

he was confident once con-ducted he would be cleared of having any wrongful intent and it would be es-tablished that any relations were consensual,” Berk said in a statement.

“As it relates to the one charge of furnishing or sharing ecstasy, Mr. Green will responsibly address that matter in a court of law but not comment on it fur-ther out of respect for the process,” she added.

The singer was ordered to post $30,000 to remain free on bail, and is due back in court on 20 November, Robison said.

Reuters

Thursday, 24 October, 2013

SPORTS14 New Light of Myanmar

Torres and Messi on target, Atletico surge ahead

London, 23 Oct—Li-onel Messi marked his first start after injury with a goal in Barcelona’s 1-1 draw at AC Milan in the Champi-ons League on Tuesday while Fernando Torres got two as Chelsea thumped Schalke and Atletico Ma-drid’s charge continued.

Robert Lewandowski got the 82nd-minute win-ner as Borussia Dortmund put the brakes on Arsenal’s campaign with a 2-1 win in London that, along with Napoli’s 2-1 victory at

Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa (C) scores his second goal against Austria Vienna, during their Champions

League Group G soccer match in Vienna on 22 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (C) challenges Sulley Muntari (R) and Kaka (L) of AC Milan during their Champions League soccer match at the San Siro stadium in Milan,

on 22 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Chelsea’s Fernando Torres (C rear) scores a goal past Schalke 04’s goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand during their

Champions League soccer match in Gelsenkirchen on 22 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Olympique Marseille, put three teams on six points in Group F.

There is a clear leader in Group G, where Atletico made it three wins from three with a 3-0 victory at Austria Vienna that left them a point away from the 10 that are usually enough to send teams into the last 16 of Europe’s elite club competition.

With Diego Costa scor-ing twice, including a stun-ning solo effort, they went five points clear of second-

placed Zenit St Petersburg, who made the most of the sixth-minute sending off of Porto’s Hector Herrera - the competition’s fastest ever dismissal from two yellow cards—to beat their hosts 1-0. In Group E, Chelsea moved level on six points with Schalke 04 at the top with a 3-0 win in Germany where Torres celebrated his 100th start for the club with the fifth-minute opener and another after 69 minutes before Eden Hazard added a late goal.

The top two are clear

of third-placed Basel, who have four points ahead of Steaua Bucharest on one af-ter those two teams shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw in Romania.

Celtic got their first points in Group H after a James Forrest penalty on the stroke of halftime and a deflected shot by Beram Kayal early in the second half helped them to a 2-1 win over Ajax Amsterdam, who got a consolation in added time.

Barca are in charge of that group with seven

points, while Milan—who had gone ahead through Robinho’s ninth-minute opener before Messi lev-elled after 23 minutes—have five points. Celtic are on three points with Ajax bottom on one.

The day’s biggest state-ment of intent came from 2012 European champions Chelsea, who have now made amends for the home defeat by Basel in their opener with two away vic-tories. Spaniard Torres, so often uninspired in domes-tic competition, once again shone on the big stage with two goals and could easily have had a hat-trick as he smashed a header against the bar from just inside the area. He, like Messi, had

just returned from injury and his lively contribution came at just the right time for his club.

“If you do garbage (against Basel) then you have to clean it up and we cleaned it up,” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho told Sky Sports. “We’ve got two matches at home so now we are in good con-dition to qualify and we’ll try to finish top. It’s an im-portant victory for us.”

The glamour match at the San Siro where seven-times European champions Milan hosted four-times winners Barcelona fizzled out in the second half after a frantic opening period of pressure from the Italians.

Reuters

New Final Series will be great, says Olazabalnew York, 23 Oct —

The inaugural FedExCup-style ‘Final Series’ that tees off in Shanghai this week will give the European Tour a much-needed shot in the arm after a difficult year, said twice major winner Jose Maria Olazabal.

While the rival US PGA Tour goes from strength to strength, the European circuit has strug-gled for sponsors and been badly hampered by the ab-sence of headline attrac-tions like Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Luke Donald and Lee Westwood. With the majority of the trium-

phant 2012 Ryder Cup team basing themselves on the other side of the Atlantic this season, chief executive George O’Grady has had an awkward task in selling the European Tour brand.

The ‘Final Series’, similar to the US circuit’s end-of-season Fed-ExCup extrav-

aganza, is a sequence of

four events worth more than $30 million in

total and starts on Thursday with the BMW Masters in China.

“I think we are going

to see four great tourna-ments,” 2012 Ryder Cup captain Olazabal told Reu-ters in an interview.

“It’s very important for the European Tour. We are going to see the top players c o m - ing back

to play in these events and it’s a good

attraction

for the tour, for the fans, the players and for media atten-tion.” Shanghai also stages the WGC-Champions Tour-nament next week before the Final Series builds to a crescendo with the Turkish Open featuring world num-ber one Tiger Woods and finally the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai in the middle of November.

“This is another idea to keep the players on their toes,” said 1994 and 1999 US Masters champion Ola-zabal. “It’s important for 2014 too, especially as that is a Ryder Cup year.

Reuters

Spain’s Jose Maria Olaza-

bal

Williams eases past Kerber in WTA Championships

Serena Williams

IstanbuL, 23 Oct—World number one Serena Williams showed her de-termination to defend her WTA Championships title by sweeping to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Angelique Kerber at the season-ending event on Tuesday.

The 32-year-old American broke early in each set and was too strong for the German, hitting 31 winners.

Kerber, who qualified for the eight-strong tourna-ment only because Maria Sharapova pulled out, won just five games when she was beaten by Williams in her opening match last year.

“Angelique is a great player and right from the start I knew I had to play

really well to be able to win this match,” Williams said. “I feel really good.”

Williams has been drawn with Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvitova and Kerber in the red group at Istanbul’s Sinan Erdem dome. Second seed Victo-ria Azarenka, Li Na, Sara Errani and Jelena Jankovic are in the white group.

Belarussian Azaren-ka beat Errani 7-6 6-2 in the tournament’s opening match with the defensive-ly-minded Italian, who led 5-2 in the first set, staying in contention until the tie-break.

Errani lost that 7-4 and looked to be in pain after suffering a calf injury mid-way through the second set.—Reuters

Napoli beat Marseille in style to stay on course

Napoli’s Duvan Zapata (R) celebrates with team mates after scoring the second goal for the team during their Champions League soccer match against Olympique Marseille at the Velodrome

stadium in Marseille, on 22 Oct, 2013. —ReuteRs

MarseILLe, 23 Oct —Two superb goals earned Napoli a 2-1 win at Olym-pique Marseille on Tuesday that put the French team on

the brink of elimination and the Italians back on course for a last-16 spot. Jose Callejon and Duvan Zapata finished off excellent team-

work in style in the 42nd and 67th minutes to give Napoli six points from three matches, level with Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund. Marseille are bottom after three defeats.

Marseille reduced the arrears through Andre Ayew in the 86th minute but never came to terms with the astonishing pace of Bel-gium winger Dries Mertens. “The coach told us that they had lost a lot of games lately so we had to put them under pressure early on,” Mertens told Canal Plus. “Once we

get the ball back, we are fast in front of goal, that’s one of our qualities.

“Six points for every-one—too bad Dortmund won—but we now have two matches out of three at home.” Napoli play host to Marseille in their next match. Ayew said: “Once again we’re disappointed. We just have to keep our mouths shut and get back to work. Now the most im-portant thing is the league.” Marseille have lost their last four games in all competi-tions.—Reuters

European Tour brand. The ‘Final Series’,

similar to the US circuit’s end-of-season Fed-ExCup extrav-

aganza, is a sequence of

four events worth more than $30 million in

total and starts on Thursday with the BMW Masters in China.

“I think we are going

going to see the top players c o m - ing back

to play

attraction

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Nepalese Vice President Paramananda Jha (C, front) and other delegates attend the 5th South Asian Conference On Sanitation (SACOSAN) in Kathmandu, Nepal, 22

Oct, 2013. Ministerial-level delegates and other guests from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries will be present at the

three days conference.—Xinhua

Los Angeles airport worker pleads innocent to planting dry bombs

Los AngeLes, 23 Oct — An airport employee charged in connection with three dry ice bombs planted at Los Angeles International Airport pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, and his lawyer called him a “good guy” facing harsh treatment in the case.

Miguel Angel Iniguez, 41, entered his not guilty plea on charges of possess-ing a destructive device near an airplane during a brief hearing in Los Ange-les Superior Court, and was ordered held on $500,000 bond. Handcuffed and dressed in street clothes, he spoke only in response to questions from the judge.

Iniguez was due back in court on Wednesday,

along with his co-defendant, 28-year-old Dicarlo Ben-nett, for a hearing at which defence lawyers for both men were expected to ask that their bail be reduced. “He’s a good guy and we’ll get him out of this,” his at-torney, Gustavo Barcena, told reporters outside of court.

Barcena said the case was a hardship on his client, who was married with four children between the ages of 3 and 16 and who un-derwent a kidney transplant operation several years ago. He said Iniguez, a supervi-sor for airport contractor Servisair, had no criminal record or disciplinary issues at work. “Unfortunately, with this type of a charge

the minimum penalty is very harsh,” Barcena said. “The minimum penalty for this type of charge is two years. No exception, no proba-tion.” Authorities have iden-tified Iniguez as a supervisor of 28-year-old Bennett, a Servisair baggage handler who pleaded not guilty on Thursday to similar charges and was being held on $1 million bail.

In an incident authori-ties said had no connection to terrorism, one of the bombs detonated on 13 October in an employee restroom and the second exploded outside the international terminal a day later, causing some flight disruptions. A third device was found unexplod-ed.—Reuters

All systems Ko as protege sheds amateur status

Lydia Ko of New Zealand hits an approach shot onto the 15th hole during the first round of the women’s

Evian Championship golf tournament in Evian on 13 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

WeLLington, 23 Oct —New Zealand teen Lydia Ko disclosed the most open secret in golf on Wednesday with her decision to join the paid ranks, closing the book on a glittering amateur ca-reer that saw her win four professional titles and rise to number four in the world.

The 16-year-old Ko, who is studying for end-of-year school exams, chose to make the announcement via social media, issuing a tweet that directed her followers to a YouTube clip in which she appears with New Zealand rugby player Israel Dagg.

“Made a monumen-tal decision today with a little help from my @All-Blacks friend @Izzy_Dagg #LOVEGolf,” Ko tweeted.

All Blacks back Dagg spends the entire video, that lasts almost five minutes,

asking Ko when she would make the decision to turn professional as they played a round at a course near her home on Auckland’s North Shore.

“When are you going pro? I want to be the first one to know,” Dagg asks,

only for Ko to tell him she still had things to work on with her game.

Ko finally confirms the decision after making a long putt to ‘beat’ Dagg in their round.

“Okay I’ll do it, turn pro,” Ko says. “Right now,

right this second. Definite-ly.” Ko’s decision had been expected after she finished second at the Evian Cham-pionship, the fifth major of the year in women’s golf, last month.

Her mother Tina, then confirmed as much earlier this month when she said they had asked the LPGA for an exemption for her Seoul-born daughter to be-come a member.

The LPGA restricts the number of tournaments for players under the age of 18.

Ko was the young-est player to win a profes-sional tournament when she clinched the New South Wales Open in Sydney aged 14. She has won three other professional tournaments since, including the defence of her Canadian Open title in August.—Reuters

Wilshere’s ankle causes concern for Wenger

London, 23 Oct—Arsene Wenger withdrew Jack Wilshere from the heat of battle against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday and said he may have to protect the midfielder from his own desire to play. Wilshere was substituted after an hour of the 2-1 Champions League defeat, having appeared to labour with an ankle injury.

After missing more than a year of competi-tive football before returning last October from an ankle prob-lem, Wenger admit-ted he would moni-tor the England

midfielder’s fitness. “You could see he was not com-pletely himself and that’s why I decided to take him off,” Wenger told reporters. “I think at the moment it’s his desire to play, absolute-ly, but you could see tonight he was handicapped after the first tackle of the game. He landed awkwardly and he looked to me that he was limping a little bit. “I’ll see how he responds in the next two or three days but I will

have to wait for the med-ical assessment.”

Reuters

than a year of competitive football before returning last October from an ankle prob-lem, Wenger admit-ted he would moni-tor the England

how he responds in the next two or three days but I will

have to wait for the medical assessment.”

Reuters

Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere (L) challenges Borussia Dortmund’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—After a Union level third peace talks in Loikaw, Kayah State, today, Union Peace-making Commit-tee of the government and Karenni National Progres-sive Party (KNPP) signed the six-point resolution of the meeting, building more trusts between the two sides.

Pyithu Hluttaw approves Poisons Act amending

bill, Myanmar Indigenous Medicine Act amending bill

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—The Bill amending the Poi-sons Act of 1919 and the Bill amending the Myan-mar Indigenous Medicine Law, which were sent back by Amyotha Hluttaw were approved at today’s Pyithu Hluttaw session. Bill Com-mittee members U Khin Maung Shwe and U Soe Soe submitted committee’s re-ports on the bills.

Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Khin Zaw replied to the question raised by Dr Aung Than of Shwebo Constitu-ency on Irrigation Depart-ment’s preventive meas-ures against the floods in the villages to the west of Shwebo.

Motion for reengineering of educational system

under discussion on the floor of Amyotha Hluttaw

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Oct—“Our education sys-tem should not be placed in the trial period. It is high time to systematically and correctly reengineer the educational system. If not so, there is no doubt to say that we will be left far be-hind in the development of education system compared to neighbouring countries,” U Steven Thabeik of Chin State Constituency No (4) said at today’s Amyotha Hluttaw session while dis-cussing the motion sub-mitted by U Myo Myint of Mandalay Region Constitu-ency No (6) to urge the Un-ion government to initiate an engineering and tech-nical education system through realistic scenario to be able to turn out en-gineers and technicians with the establishment of

Union Peace-making Work Committee, KNPP build more

trust after third talks

Under the Subsection (c) of the Section 16 of the Central Bank of Myanmar Law of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, member of Board of Directors of the Central of Bank of Myanmar Vice-Governor U Than Nyein has been allowed to resign of his own volition.

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Resignation of Central Bank’s Vice-Governor allowed

He said that Irrigation Department carried out the deepening of three creek channels in 2011-2012 FY. Thanks to it, heavy rains in August and September did not trigger floods there and damage the farmlands. Wid-ening and deepening creek channels need to make co-ordination with the Region Government for seeking the approvals from the farmers there.

Dredging of Mahanan-da Lake that supplies drink-ing water to people of Shwe-bo was carried out in April this year. And there is no plan to extend Mahananda Lake, he added. The 14th day session continues on 25 Oc-tober.—MNA

the Centres of Excellence. Acquisition of tech-

nology and nurturing of technocrats are imperative for nation building and eco-nomic success of a certain country. An essential pre-requisite to a country which had been placed in the list of least developed countries since 30 years ago is to en-sure human resources de-velopment, he added.

Likewise, U Kan Nyunt of Sagaing Region Constituency No (5) also expressed his view about the motion, welcoming the establishment of the Cen-tres of Excellence and a re-alistic scenario for turning out qualified engineers.

Next, two parliamen-tarians took part in discus-sions on a motion urging the Union government to

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During the two-day peace talks which kicked off yesterday, the two par-ties discussed issues related to a training school, land confiscation, compensation for land confiscation and returning land to famers, reclamation for high-land cultivation and regional de-velopment including trans-portation and electrification and military affairs.

At the meeting were the Union Peace-making Committee led by Vice-Chairman of the commit-tee Union Minister U Aung Min and members of the committee Union Minister U Khin Maung Soe, Un-ion Minister U Than Htay, Chief Minister of Kayah State U Khin Maung Oo, Commander Maj-Gen Soe Htut, Deputy Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Ohn, Deputy Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo, regional min-isters and personnel from the Myanmar Peace Centre while the KNPP delegation led by Vice-Chairman of KNPP Khu Oo Yei.—MNA

Union Peace-making Work Committee of the government and Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) exchanging notes.—mna

BosToN, 23 Oct—Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took part in a 2011 triple homicide in a nearby town, according to a Chechen im-migrant who was himself killed when approached by investigators for question-ing, federal prosecutors said on Monday in newly filed court papers.

Ibragim Todashev, 27, who has been identified as an acquaintance of Tsar-naev from their days as mixed martial-arts fighters in Boston, told investigators Tsarnaev participated in the murders of three men found stabbed to death in Septem-ber 2011 in an apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts, according to the filing.

US media had previ-ously reported that one of the victims was a close friend of Tsarnaev and au-

Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect linked to

triple killingsthorities believe the killings were drug related.

The FBI has said To-dashev was shot and killed by a federal agent about a month after the marathon bombings when he sud-denly turned violent while being questioned about pos-sible links to Tsarnaev.

The latest disclosure about Tsarnaev came in a 23-page brief arguing against a motion by lawyers for his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in custody on federal charges related to the mara-thon bombing that carry the death penalty.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers are seeking to force the government to share with defense attorneys in-vestigative materials per-taining to his deceased old-er brother, Tamerlan.

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Myanmar sees a massive influx of tourists thanks to the government’s sweeping reforms. CCTV and secu-rity cameras will be installed at the hotels, motels and inns for the security and safety of tourists. There are a num-ber of hotels, motels and inns in Yan-gon, Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay, Bagan, Taunggyi, Inlay, Chaungtha and Ngwehsaung, reaching more than 880.

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All hotels in Myanmar to be complete with CCTV cameras

Byline: Wai Yan OoPhoto: Tin Soe (Myanma Alinn)

Photo shows the heart of downtown Yangon.