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Volume XX, Number 127 8th Waxing of Wagaung 1374 ME Saturday, 25 August, 2012

True patriotism * It is very important for every one of the

nation regardless of the place he lives tohave strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationalities will haveto safeguard.

Farmers should run other business to generate moreincome without relying on agricultural sector only

Only when all the people work hard, can the nation keep abreast of other developing countries

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—According to the 9.30 hrM.S.T observation today, the water level of SittoungRiver at Toungoo is observed as 9 cm (about 4 inches)below its danger level. It may reach its danger level duringthe next 24 hours commencing this noon, announced byMeteorology and Hydrology Department.—MNA

Flood warning of Sittoung River

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—To meet with flood victims inAyeyawady and Bago regions, President of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein, accompanied byGeneral Hla Htay Win of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Union Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation U Myint Hlaing, Union Minister for Livestock

and Fisheries and for Cooperatives U Ohn Myint, UnionMinister at the President Office U Thein Nyunt, UnionMinister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement and forLabour U Aung Kyi, Union Minister for Commerce U WinMyint, Union Minister for Education Dr Mya Aye, UnionMinister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin and departmental

heads, left here by Tatmadaw special aircraft this morningand arrived in Yangon at 9 am.

The President was welcomed by Chief Minister ofYangon Region U Myint Swe, Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Hsan Oo, region ministers and officials.

At the briefing hall of Ayeyawady Bridge(Nyaungdon) Project near Nyaungdon of AyeyawadyRegion, the President was welcomed by Chief Minister ofAyeyawady Region U Thein Aung, Speaker of RegionHluttaw U Hsan Hsint, Commander of South-West CommandMaj-Gen Soe Thein, region ministers and officials.

The President and party proceeded to Zayatkwinhigh yield cultivation station in Zayatkwin Village inKyaunggon Township and attended the ceremony to presentagricultural loans to farmers from flood-hit farms inAyeyawady Region.

It was also attended by the Region Chief Minister, theRegion Hluttaw Speaker, the commander, the Deputy Speakerof the Region Hluttaw, the region ministers, the chief justiceof the region, the advocate-general of the region, the auditor-general of the region, Hluttaw representatives, departmental

(See page 8)

President of theRepublic of the

Union ofMyanmar U

Thein Sein givesguidances atceremony to

provideagricultural loans

and cash tofarmers from

flooded areas inAyeyawady

Region.MNA

President of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar

U Thein Sein cordiallygreets those present atceremony to provide

agricultural loans andcash to farmers from

flooded areas inAyeyawady Region.—MNA PAGE 9

DIL Container Vehicle Yard andContainer Station commissioned

Dinosaur footprint foundat NASA facility

PAGE 4 PAGE 5Bowel cancer may be caused

by E coli stomach bug

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PERSPECTIVES

Killer mosquitoesSaturday, 25 August, 2012

World Mosquito Day falls on 20 August,but it is less known in Myanmar in whichmalaria is one of the major killers. Malaria,mosquito-borne infectious disease, kills morethan 850,000 of the world’s population everyyear.

Mosquitoes currently infect 250 millionpeople with malaria every year, most of whomare children under the age of five. DengueHemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is also the topkiller of children in the country, which is mostcommon in monsoon.

Medications, mosquito eradication, and theprevention of bites are methods in use to preventmalaria. Malaria is more common in ruralareas than in cities, which is in contrast todengue fever where urban areas present thegreater risk.

Anti-malaria campaigns were conductedin some places in the country with the financialassistance of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria, providing medicaltreatment to infected patients. But, preventionis better than cure in the long run. Mosquitonets help keep mosquitoes away from peopleand significantly reduce infection rates andtransmission of malaria. Insecticide-treatednets (ITNs) are estimated to be twice effectiveas untreated nets and offer greater than 70 %protection compared with no net.

Apart from prevention of mosquito bites,community participation and health educationstrategies promoting awareness of malariaare required to bring down the transmissionrates of malaria. The World HealthOrganization, to prevent against mosquito-borne diseases, recommends an integratedvector control programme consisting of fiveelements: (1) advocacy, social, mobilizationand legislation to ensure that public healthbodies and communities are strengthened, (2)collaboration between the health and othersectors (public and private), (3) an integratedapproach to disease control to maximize use ofresources, (4) evidence-based decision makingto ensure any interventions are targetedappropriately and (5) capacity-building toensure an adequate response to the localsituation.

All in all, it is required to raise the publicawareness of the danger of malaria to avoidpremature deaths. In addition, malaria mustbe fought as part of rural development andpoverty alleviation scheme as it is commonlyassociated with poverty and major hindranceto economic development.

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—After paying a goodwill andworking visit to TrainingInstitutions for Civil ServiceOfficials, Company relatedto Green Productivity,Organizations related toHuman ResourcesDevelopment of Japan at theinvitation of the SasakawaPeace Foundation, theMyanmar delegation led byU Kyaw Thu, Chairman ofthe Union Civil ServicesBoard (UCSB), arrived backhere by air via Bangkok thisevening.

On 20 August 2012, theMyanmar delegation,accompanied by

UCSB Chairman arrives back from Japan after visitingTraining Institutions for Civil Service Officials

Ambassador U Khin MaungTin, paid a visit on the ORIXEnvironmental Manage-ment Corporation and theNational Institute of Pu-blic Administration inSAITAMA. During the visit,Chairman U Kyaw Thu helddiscussions with authoritieson matters of civil servicetraining, the types ofprogrammes designed andfacilities, further enhancingbilateral relation andcooperation, GreenProductivity Project andenvironmental issuesbetween UCSB of Myanmarand Japan.

On 21 August 2012, the

Myanmar delegation,accompanied by theMyanmar Ambassador,visited the JapanProductivity Center andTokyo MetropolitanGovernment’s PersonnelCommittee in Tokyo.During the visit, theChairman held discussionson matters concerning withimproving productivity invarious areas throughresearch study, seminars andtrainings in human resourcesdevelopment and the roleand importance of localgovernment system.

On 22 August 2012, theChairman visited Kansai

Economic Federation(Kankeiren) in Osaka, helddiscussions with Mr. AkihikoTAKASHIMA, Chairman ofInternational Committee, onthe matters of cooperation inthe economic and industrialdevelopment and humanresources developmentbetween the UCSB andKankeiren. Members of thedelegation, DeputyDirector-General U KyawSoe of the UCSB andAssistant Director Daw NanPhyu Phyu Pwint of the CivilService Selection andTraining Department, alsoarrived back together withthe Chairman.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—Deputy Health Minister DrWin Myint on 19 Augustinspected rural health careservices in Pyinsa ruralhealth center, Wetwinstation hospital andNyaunggon rural healthcenter in PyinOoLwinTownship of MandalayRegion.

On 20 August morning,the deputy minister

Dy Health Minister inspects healthcare services in PyinOoLwin,

Sagaing

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—Deputy Speaker ofPyidaungsu Hluttaw andAmyotha Hluttaw U MyaNyein received a delegationled by Dr Karl Jackson,Director of Johns Hopking

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U MyaNyein receives US guests

University from the UnitedStates of America andRepresentative of JapanBank for InternationalCooperation at AmyothaHluttaw Hall of HluttawBuilding here at 1:30 pm

today.Present at the meeting

together with PyidaungsuHluttaw Deputy Speakerwere Pyithu Hluttaw BillCommittee Chairman U TiKhun Myat, representatives

from Pyithu Hluttaw andAmyotha Hluttaw.

At the meeting, theydiscussed matters related topaying visit to US parliamentby Myanmar Hluttawrepresentatives.—MNA

Deputy Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw U Mya Nyein receives Dr KarlJackson, Director of Johns Hopking University and Representative of Japan Bank for

International Cooperation.—MNA

inspected rural healthservices in Mingun stationhospital and Taungyoe ruralhealth center in Sagaing andmet with health staff.

In meeting with thehealth staff, the deputyminister said that 70 percentof Myanmar’s population isliving in rural area. Thehealth staffs are needed tocarry out health care servicesby making field trips in ruralareas, to fulfill necessities ofhealth care services and tocoordinate the tasks incooperation with regionalofficials and officials fromHealth Department, said thedeputy minister.

MNA

YANGON, 24 Aug—Myanmar OlympicsCommittee GeneralSecretary Director-GeneralU Thaung Htaik of Sportsand Physical EducationDepartment inspected thetentative athletes who areunder training for achievingsuccess in the 27th SEA Games

SPED director-general meetsmembers of Myanmar athletes

to be hosted in the Myanmarat sports training camps herethis morning.

The director-generalviewed the training ofMyanmar martial arts andshooting of tentativelyathletes in Dagon Myothit(North). Then, he went toThuwunna Youth Training

Camp where he met withmanagers/coaches andathletes from boxing andsepak takaraw and viewedthe training of MyanmarArchery of coaches andathletes in TamwayTownship.—MNA

You’re wrong! The onehere is a foreigner andthere is Myanmar girl.

Oh,Yeah!

Cartoon Paw Lwin Kyaw

LoveMyanmar. Andlove Myanmar

culture.

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Taleban behind a quarter of Afghan “insider”attacks: general

WASHINGTON, 24 Aug —The US general leadingNATO forces in Afghanistanacknowledged on Thursdaythat the Taleban could betraced to more “insiderattacks” against Westerntroops than previouslyacknowledged, accountingfor about a quarter of thecases.The increasing numberof killings of NATO soldiersby Afghan security forces, orthose impersonating them,have eroded trust betweenWestern forces and theirAfghan allies and threaten tocomplicate plans for atransition to Afghan securitywithin two years.

Last week, the Pentagon,citing NATO data, said onlyabout 11 percent of so-called“insider attacks” by Afghansagainst NATO troops are dueto Taleban infiltration, withthe rest caused by othermotives, such as personalgrudges.

But Marine General JohnAllen said the figure wasactually closer to 25 percent.“Our view is it’s about 25percent,” Allen said. “If it’sjust pure Taleban infiltration,that is one number. If you addto that impersonation, the

US GeneralJohn Allen,commanderof the North

AtlanticTreaty

Organization(NATO)forces in

Afghanistan.REUTERS

potential that someone ispulling the trigger becausethe Taleban have coerced thefamily members, that’s adifferent number.” Allen’sNATO-led force later issued aclarification, suggesting thatAllen’s data and the 11percent figure did notcontradict each other, howeverit did not provide a year-by-year breakdown.It said Allenwas referring to data goingback to 2007. The lower figurereleased last week looked onlyat insider attacks that occurredso far in 2012, NATO said ina statement distributed by thePentagon.

There have been 32insider attacks so far this yearinvolving 36 shooters thathave led to 40 coalition deaths,with 25 of them Americans.Some 69 coalition troops havebeen wounded. That is a sharpincrease from 2011, when,during the whole year, 35coalition troops were killedin such attacks, 24 of whomwere US troops.

Many of the attacks havebeen claimed by the Talebanas evidence of insurgent reachand infiltration.Allendeclined comment onAfghan claims that foreign

spies were the biggestculprits.In a video briefingfrom Kabul, he said he wantedto see the intelligencesupporting remarks byAfghan President HamidKarzai’s office that foreignspies were behind most of theattacks, including those from“neighbouring countries.”I’m looking forward toAfghanistan providing uswith the intelligence that

permits them to come to thatconclusion,” Allen said,adding he “could add thatinto our analysis.”

Allen said he could notprovide his opinion aboutthe claim until he saw thatintelligence. But hiscomments did not appear toendorse the Afghangovernment’s view. Alleninsisted the attacks defied

simple explanation, saying“the reason for these attacksare very complex.”

Allen said he did notbelieve the spate of insiderattacks should promptAmerican forces to pull backin their contact with Afghans“at this juncture.”NATOcommanders have largelyplayed down the threat ofinfiltration, blaming most ofthe shootings on stress orpersonal differences betweenAfghans and their Westernadvisers that ended at thepoint of a gun, a frequent

occurrence in Afghanistan.The Pentagon announcedlast week it was expandingcounterintelligence staff inAfghanistan and the Afghangovernment said onWednesday it would re-examine the files of 350,000of its soldiers and police tohelp curb rogue shootings ofNATO personnels.

Reuters

Cambodia’s NorodomRanariddh Party changesname, sets to merge with

FuncinpecPHNOM PENH, 24 Aug —

The Norodom RanariddhParty on Friday changed itsname to the Nationalist Partyand elected its secretary-general Sao Rany as thepresident to replace PrinceNorodom Ranariddh, whoannounced to quit politicsearlier this month.

The change was madeduring the party’s generalassembly, which was attendedby some 200 core members ofthe party. Speaking to reportersafter the meeting, Sao Ranysaid the Nationalist Party willmerge with the royalist partyFuncinpec on 25August inorder to reunite the royalistsahead of the general electionin July next year. Keo PuthRasmey, president ofFuncinpec, said that thereunification will end the riftsamong the royalists andSihanoukists.

“We hope the mergerwill make the royalistsstronger in the generalelections next year,” he toldreporters. The two partieswon 2 seats each in the 123-

parliamentary seats in theelections in July 2008.TheFuncinpec party was foundedin 1981 by retired kingNorodom Sihanouk.Currently, it is the onlycoalition party of the rulingCambodian People’s Party ofPrime Minister Hun Sen.Thechange of the NorodomRanariddh Party to theNationalist Party and themerger follow theannouncement of PrinceNorodom Ranariddh to quitpolitics on 10 August.

The prince’s departurewas made after the failure ofhis attempt to reunite theroyalist parties — theNorodom Ranariddh Partyand the Funcinpec. As aresult, there was an internalrift among his party’s topleaders. Prince Nanariddh isthe son of former KingNorodom Sihanouk and is theelder brother of the presentKing Norodom Sihamoni. Hebecame the first prime ministerin 1993 and the president ofthe National Assembly in1998.— Xinhua

Merkel and Hollande unite in tough messagefor Greece

BERLIN, 24 Aug — AngelaMerkel and Francois Hollandepresented a united fronttowards Greece on Thursday,telling Athens it should notexpect leeway on its bailoutagreement unless it sticks totough reform targets. TheGerman and French leaders

met in Berlin to fine-tune theirmessage to Prime MinisterAntonis Samaras, who beginsa charm offensive in Berlinand Paris this week in the hopeof persuading Europe’s bigpowers that Greece deservespatience.

Merkel stuck to her policyof deferring to a report due inSeptember on Athens’progress by the “troika” ofinternational lenders beforediscussing flexibility on thebailout terms, but said it wasvital “that we all stay true toour commitments”. “But we

will, and I will, encourageGreece to continue on its pathto reform, which hasdemanded a lot of the Greekpeople,” she told reportersbefore a dinner with Hollandeset to be dominated by Greece.“We want, I want, Greece to bein the euro zone, it’s a desire

we have expressed since thestart of the crisis. It’s up to theGreeks to make the effort thatis essential for that goal to bemet,” said France’s Socialistpresident, standing alongsideMerkel.

German sources whoattended the working dinnerlater told Reuters the twoleaders had vowed to work“together and with resolve” toovercome the euro zone crisisand had also agreed that“credibility” was the key torescuing Greece. A sourceclose to the French presidency

said the two leaders had wantedto have a “straightforward”talk on a host of hot-buttontopics, from the euro zone toSyria. Hollande plans to visitSpain on 31 August and Italyin early September, the sourcesaid. Both countries have seentheir borrowing costs shootup this summer amid marketfears that the euro zone maystart to unravel.

Samaras has giveninterviews to German mediastressing that while Athensmay seek more time to meet itsfiscal targets, it is not askingfor more money. But GermanFinance Minister WolfgangSchaeuble and others seemedunconvinced. “More time isnot a solution to theproblems,” Schaeuble said,addressing Samaras’ hopesthat his country might begiven four years instead oftwo to push through painfuleconomic reforms, to alleviatethe impact on the Greekpeople. Schaeuble said moretime could also mean “moremoney” and Europe’s helpfor Greece had already “goneto the limits of what iseconomically viable”.

From the sidelines, DutchFinance Minister Jan KeesDe Jager — a staunch ally ofBerlin — urged Germany to“stick with its strict position”and giving Greece more timewould not help.—Reuters

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd L) talks withFrance’s President Francois Hollande before a meeting at

the Chancellery in Berlin, on 23 Aug, 2012. — REUTERS

Storm Isaac moves near Puerto Rico, with Haitiin its path

MIAMI, 24 Aug —Tropical Storm Isaacunleashed heavy rain andwinds off Puerto Rico and theVirgin Islands as it movedacross the Caribbean onThursday and couldstrengthen into a hurricanebefore tearing across theDominican Republic andHaiti. Isaac also posed a threatto Florida, where it is forecastto pass near the state’s GulfCoast on Monday as theRepublican NationalConvention starts inTampa.Authorities have notruled out the possibility ofpostponing or relocating theRepublican convention if thestorm takes direct aim atTampa.

But Craig Fugate,director of the FederalEmergency ManagementAgency, said the conventionwas not his biggest concern,at least for now. “People are

spending a lot of time talkingabout that,” Fugate said of theconvention. “I wish they’d betalking about making surepeople in the (Florida) Keysare getting ready and thatpeople in southwest Floridaare getting ready,” he toldCNN. The storm could alsoaffect US energy interests inthe Gulf of Mexico, withanalysts at Weather Insight, aThomson Reuters company,

giving it a 50 percentprobability of moving into theheart of the oil and gasproduction region.

After passing through theCaribbean, Isaac is forecast to-strengthen again near Floridaon Monday to a Category 1hurricane, the lowest on thefive-step Saffir-Simpson scale,but with an unclear path. Somecomputer models show thestorm’s track swinging fartherwest into the Gulf of Mexico.”Significant uncertaintyremains about the threat Isaacposes to Florida and otherportions of the Gulf Coast,”the US National HurricaneCentre said.It said Isaac wascentred about 190 miles south-southwest of San Juan, PuertoRico, on Thursday eveningand was moving westward at16 miles per hour.The stormhad top sustained winds of 45mph.

Reuters

A member of theEmergency OperationCentre (COE) monitors

his computers before thearrival of Tropical StormIsaac in Santo Domingo,

on 23 Aug, 2012. REUTERS

Pakistani people collecttheir belongings after

floodwaters inundated theirhouse following heavy rainsin Aza Kheil, near northwestPakistan’s Nowshera, on 23

Aug, 2012. At least 32people were killed as

downpours and floods hitthe country’s northwestern,

eastern and northernregions over the past 24

hours, local media reportedon Thursday. — XINHUA

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & Technology

Facebook updates iPhone app to speed it upMENLOP PARK, 24 Aug—

What’s the worst insult youcan throw at a fast-movingcompany like Facebook? Callits iPhone app slow and poky.

On Thursday, FacebookInc. addressed users who hadgripes with its app for iPhonesand iPads with the launch ofa faster version. Rather thanadd a slew of new features,the company said it rebuiltthe application from scratch

This photo provided byFacebook shows a

screenshot from its newestmobile application which

launched on 23 Aug,2012.

INTERNET

New NASA video capturesdrama of Mars landing

PASADENA, 24 Aug—Viewers can now relive thedrama of the Curiosity rover’slanding on Mars with a newNASA video detailing the finalmoments of touchdown.

The space agency onThursday posted the videoon its website embedded withaudio from mission control. Itstarts with the heat shieldfalling away. The ground

In this frame of ahigh definition stopmotion video takenduring the NASA

rover Mars landingand provided by thespace agency on 23

Aug, 2012.INTERNET

Dinosaur footprint found at NASA facilityGREENBELT, 24 Aug— A

look underfoot has found adinosaur footprint at a NASAfacility in Maryland, whichmostly looks outward towardthe planets and stars, aresearcher says.

Dinosaur hunter RayStanford has found thefootprint of a large spinydinosaur called a nodosaur inthe space agency’s own backyard at its Goddard SpaceFlight Centre campus,LiveScience reported onWednesday. Stanford, anamateur paleontologist,

An artists’ impression of Edmontonia, a part of thenodosaur family from the Late Cretaceous Period.

INTERNET

to make it speedier and lessclunky.

In a recent demonstrationat the company’s Menlo Park,Calif., headquarters, the newiPhone app opened abouttwice as fast as the olderversion. Photos andcomments also load faster.Users can now “like”comments on photos, whichwasn’t possible with theprevious mobile app.

Mick Johnson, mobileproduct manager atFacebook, said programmersremoved some lesser-usedfeatures, such as a way toview the app horizontally, tohelp speed it up.

The mobile arenapresents Facebook with itsbiggest challenge —and itsbiggest opportunity. That’swhere its user base is growingthe most. —Internet

informed Goddard officialson 17 Aug of the location ofthe 12-inch-wide footprintshowing four toes.

NASA officials have notdisclosed the exact locationof the footprint on thefacility’s grounds, out of

concern someone mightdamage or try to remove thefossilized evidence of thenodosaur, a lumberingarmored beast covered withbony projections.

Stanford called thelocation where the dinosaurroamed millennia ago duringthe Cretaceous period“poetic.”

“Space scientists maywalk along here, and they’rewalking exactly where this big,bungling heavy-armoreddinosaur walked, maybe 110(million) to 112 million yearsago,” Stanford told Goddardofficials.—Internet

grows larger in view asCuriosity is lowered by cablesinside an ancient Martiancrater. “Touchdownconfirmed” is heard followedby cheers. Curiosity is thefirst spacecraft to record alanding on another planet. Thesix-wheel rover arrived on 5Aug to begin a two-yearmission to examine whetherthe Martian environment washospitable for microbial life.

NASA previouslyreleased a low-quality videoof Curiosity’s landing. Thelatest video is higher quality,but it’s incomplete andmissing several frames.

Internet

Rat that doesn’t gnaw discovered in IndonesiaJAKARTA, 24 Aug— A

unique species of near-toothless rat that lives offearthworms and doesn’t chewor gnaw has been seen inIndonesia.

The shrew-like animalwith a long, pointed snout wasdescribed online in this week’sBritish journal BiologyLetters. Paucidentomysvermidax, which translatesloosely to “few-toothed rat”and “worm eater,” is the onlyrodent out of more than 2,200known species that does nothave molars and instead hasbicuspid upper incisors, it said.

Two rats were found inthe mountainous rain forestof southern Sulawesi Islandlast year on MountLatimojong and 100kilometers (62 miles)northwest on Mount

Verizon to give Windows Phone a second chancelater this year

phone later, said the person,who asked not to be namedbecause the plans are private.That would give Nokia a newbeachhead at the top UScarrier, building on itslongstanding relationshipwith No 2 AT&T (T) Inc.

Verizon is looking tolessen its dependence onApple Inc’s iPhone anddevices running Google Inc.(GOOG)’s Android software,which dominate thesmartphone market. ForMicrosoft and Nokia,

Verizon to giveWindowsPhone a

second chancelater this year.

INTERNET

Robot to take‘self-awareness’ test

NEW HAVEN, 24 Aug—A robot developed byscientists at Yale Universityin Connecticut could soonpass a landmark test byrecognizing itself in a mirror,the researchers say.

Such a feat would beconsidered evidence of self-awareness and represent anadvance toward robots thatcan think for themselves, theysaid.

The robot, dubbed Nico,will take the test in comingmonths, Justin Hart, thedoctoral student leading theresearch, told BBC News.

“It is a spatial reasoningtask for the robot tounderstand that its arm is onit, not on the other side of themirror,” he said.

While Nico has beenprogrammed to recognize areflection of its arm, Hart said,it still has to pass the “fullmirror test,” developed in 1970and considered the classic

test of self-awareness.The test is more usually

performed on an animal that isallowed time to get used tothe mirror and is thenanesthetized while anodorless dye is applied to itsface. The creature’ssubsequent reaction to itsreflection is deemed a measureof its self-awareness,determined by whether theanimal inspects the mark onits own body or reacts as if itis only on the “mirror” animalbut not on itself.

Only a few non-humanspecies — including someprimates, elephants anddolphins — have managed topass the mirror “self-awareness” test, theresearchers said.—Internet

This undated photoreleased by Museum

Victoria shows aPaucidentomys vermidax,a new species of rat, that

was found in the forests ofsouthern Sulawesi Island,

Indonesia, in 2011.INTERNET

Gandangdewata.Since it lacks cheek teeth,

the rat sucks in earthwormsand slices them with itsincisors before spitting outthe pieces and then slurpingbites down whole, co-authorAnang Achmadi fromIndonesia’s MuseumZoologicum Bogoriense saidon Thursday.

The researchers said thediscovery is importantbecause it shows howrodents, which are known forbiting and chewing, wereforced to evolve to survive inSulawesi’s environment.

“What defines rodentsis their capacity to gnaw withtheir ever-growing incisors,which are worn down to formchisels,” said co-author KevinRowe, senior curator ofmammals at Museum Victoria

in Melbourne, Australia. “It’sa remarkable evolution thata trait that’s been sosuccessful (and) has allowedrodents to chew intoeverything from seeds tofelling trees to eating our

NEW YORK, 24 Aug—Verizon Wireless plans to sella new Nokia Oyj phone withMicrosoft Corp (MSFT)’sWindows 8 software thisyear, marking the first time ithas released a Windowsdevice since May 2011, aperson with knowledge of

the matter said.Microsoft and Nokia are

holding a Press conferenceon 5 Sept in New York todiscuss Nokia’s Lumia brandof Windows phones. WhileVerizon isn’t expected to bepart of that event, the carrierintends to roll out a Nokia

meanwhile, the move wouldbolster efforts to regainmarket share. The Nokiaphone would also providefresh ammunition against thelatest iPhone, which peoplefamiliar with the matter expectto be introduced on 12 Sept.

“Nokia has had adifficult time breaking in tothe US market,” said CharlieWolf, a Needham & Coanalyst in New York who hasa neutral rating on the shares.“Landing on the Verizonnetwork is a positive

development. It doesn’tsolve the problem, but it is abig step in the rightdirection.”

Brenda Raney, aspokeswoman for BaskingRidge, New Jersey- basedVerizon Wireless (VZ),declined to comment, as didErica Fields at Redmond,Washington-based Micro-soft. Christopher Hollis, aUS spokesman for Espoo,Finland-based Nokia, alsodeclined to comment.

Internet

garbage and chewing theirway into our house, thisspecies has given up on thatcapacity in the pursuit of itslifestyle, which appears toinclude eating earthworms.”

The new rat demon-strates the island’s uniquebiodiversity despite humanthreats from illegal loggingand mining, Achmadi said.

Internet

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & HealthBowel cancer may be caused by E coli

stomach bug

LONDON, 24 Aug—E colibacteria could be one of thereasons behind bowel cancer,scientists have revealed.

The breakthrough hasraised the prospect of a vaccineagainst the disease, whichtakes around 16,000 lives ayear and is the second mostcommon form of the disease inwomen after breast cancer, andthe third most diagnosed inmen, the Daily Mail reported.

Tests on mice and people,carried out in the UK and US,have pointed to the bug being

a strong suspect in bowelcancer.

The concern surrounds aversion that sticks well to theinside of the lower bowel, orcolon, and contains genes thatmake a toxin which cause thetype of damage to DNA usuallyseen in cancer.

Tests have shown thebug to be much more commonin bowel cancer patients thanin healthy people.

According to the journalScience, Two-thirds of the 21samples that were taken from

bowel cancer patientscontained the bug, comparedto just one in five of those thathad been taken from healthypeople.

Experiments have alsoshown that mice which hadbeen inoculated with the bug,were at very high odds ofdeveloping bowel cancer – aslong as the E coli carried thepoison-making “pks” genes.

“The research suggeststhat E coli has a much widerinvolvement in thedevelopment of colon cancerthan previously thought,” thepaper quoted LiverpoolUniversity`s Dr BarryCampbell, a co-author of thestudy, as saying.

“It is important to buildon these findings tounderstand why this type ofbacteria, containing the pksgenes, is present in somepeople and not in others,” hesaid.—Internet

30 mins of daily exercise enough to getinto shape

WASHINGTON, 24 Aug—Thirty minutes of dailyexercise provide an equallyeffective loss of weight andbody mass as 60 minutes,researchers at the Universityof Copenhagen have shown.

For thirteen weeks, aresearch team at the Facultyof Health and MedicalSciences followed 60 heavy –but healthy – Danish men intheir efforts to get into bettershape.

Half of the men were setto exercise for an hour a day,wearing a heart-rate monitorand calorie counter, while thesecond group only had tosweat for 30 minutes.Research results show that30 minutes of exercise hardenough to produce a sweat isenough to turn the tide on anunhealthy body mass index.

On average, the men whoexercised 30 minutes a daylost 3.6 kilo in three months,while those who exercised fora whole hour only lost 2.7 kg.The reduction in body masswas about 4 kg for bothgroups, reports MadsRosenkilde, PhD student,Department of BiomedicalSciences.

Moreover 30 minutes ofexercise training provide anextra bonus.

Participants exercising30 minutes per day burnedmore calories than theyshould relative to the trainingprogramme we set for them.In fact we can see thatexercising for a whole hourinstead of a half does notprovide any additional lossin either body weight or fat.The men who exercised the

Everybody should makeexercise daily about 30mins to get into shape.

INTERNET

Japan to provide 180.6 b yensubsidies for reconstructionTOKYO, 24 Aug— The Japanese Reconstruction

Agency announced on Friday a total of 180.6 billion yen(about 2.3 billion US dollars) subsidies will be allocated tolocal governments to promote reconstruction form lastyear’s earthquake and tsunami.

Four earthquake and tsunami hit prefectures and other56 municipal governments in five prefectures will share thesubsidies.

It’s the third subsidies supply from the Japanesegovernment since May for helping earthquake victims torebuild their lives. According to the Reconstruction Agency,about 59.2 billion yen will be used to relocate residences tosafer places from earthquake and tsunami hit areas, andaround 45 billion yen will be used for damaged fisheryfacilities reconstruction.—Xinhua

Gold price opens higher inHong Kong

HONG KONG, 24 Aug— The gold price in Hong Kongwent up 72 HK dollars to open at 15,490 HK dollars per taelon Friday, according to the Chinese Gold and Silver ExchangeSociety.

The price is equivalent to 1,675.59 US dollars a troyounce, up 7.79 US dollars at the latest exchange rate of oneUS dollar against 7.76 HK dollars.—Xinhua

China yuan strengthens to6.3305 against USD on Friday

BEIJING, 24 Aug— The Chinese currency Renminbi, oryuan, strengthened by 11 basis points to 6.3305 against theUS dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign ExchangeTrading System.

In China’s foreign exchange spot market, the yuan isallowed to rise or fall by 1 percent from the central parity rateeach trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the US dollaris based on a weighted average of prices before the openingof the market each business day.—Xinhua

Dollar trades at mid-78-yenlevel in early Tokyo marketTOKYO, 24 Aug— The US dollar traded at the mid-78-

yen level on early Friday morning in Tokyo.At 9 am, the dollar fetched 78.59-64 yen compared with

78.45- 55 yen in New York and 78.59-60 yen in Tokyo at5 pm on Thursday.

The euro was quoted at 1.2559-2561 US dollars and98.70-72 yen against 1.2559-2569 US dollars and 98.57-67 yenin New York and 1.2556-2557 US dollars and 98.68-72 yen inTokyo late Thursday afternoon.—Xinhua

Indian apparel units copy Toyota model tobeat order slump

KOLKATA, 24 Aug—Indian apparel manufacturingunits have been forced to copythe “lean manufacturingmechanism” pioneered byautomobile giant Toyota tobeat the European orderslump, an industry sourcesaid on Friday. The reason isbecause European apparelimporters have reduced theorder-to-delivery time from 12to 15 weeks to 7 to 8 weeks inorder to avoid creation ofinventory.They are alsogetting rid of migrant laborersand are using local workers todeliver orders at the shortestpossible time.

These initiatives haveenabled textiles units toincrease efficiency at the shoplevel from 45 percent to 60percent and maintain marginsin tough times.

“Lean” is a productionpractice that considersexpenditure of resources for

any goal other than thecreation of value for the end-customer to be wasteful, andthus a target for elimination.

Gautam Nair, owner ofMatrix Clothing, said: “Wehave already opted for thistype of production, which hasimproved our efficiency andeliminated wastage.”

India’s apparel exportsto European Union declined

48.1 percent in April and Mayto 670 million US dollarscompared to 1.3 billion USdollars in the correspondingperiod last financial year. TheEU accounts for about 49percent of India’s total apparelexports. Interestingly,T-shirts, one of the mostpopular exporting items, islosing ground in Europe andthe United States.—Xinhua

Hong Kong stocks close down1.13 pct by midday

HONG KONG, 24 Aug— Hong Kong stocks moved down228. 16 points, or 1.13 percent to close Friday’s morningsession at 19,904.08 points.—Xinhua

most lost too little relative tothe energy they burned byrunning, biking or rowing.30 minutes of concentratedexercise give equally goodresults on the scale, explainedMads Rosenkilde.

Mads Rosenkildepostulates that some of theexplanation for the surprisingresults is that 30 minutes ofexercise is so doable thatparticipants in the study had

the desire and energy for evenmore physical activity aftertheir daily exercise session.

In addition, the studygroup that spent 60 minuteson the treadmill probably atemore, and therefore lostslightly less weight thananticipated.

Their results have justbeen published in theAmerican Journal ofPhysiology.—Internet

Measles is on the rise

Measles cases ‘almost double’after outbreaks

LONDON, 24 Aug—Therehave been almost twice thenumber of measles cases inEngland and Wales in thefirst six months of this yearcompared with the sameperiod last year, officialfigures show.

The figure had risenfrom 497 to 964, the HealthProtection Agency said.

There are currentlysignificant measlesoutbreaks in Merseysideand Sussex.

The agency is urgingparents to ensure childrenare up to date with theirmeasles, mumps and rubella(MMR) vaccinations beforethe school begins.

Measles can causeserious illness and can, insome cases, be fatal.

Complications caninclude meningitis andencephalitis - inflammationof the lining of the brain.Rarer disorders of the eye,heart and nervous system canalso develop.

Rubella, known asGerman measles, has alsoincreased, with 57 casesreported between Januaryand June in England andWales - more than the annualtotals for each of the previousnine years.

It is usually a mildinfection. But if a womanbecomes infected in earlypregnancy, it can cause birthdefects.

Latest data onimmunisations acrossEngland shows uptake ratesof 93% for the first MMR jaband 87% for the second.

In Wales, the figures are95% and 88%.

The first dose of theMMR vaccine shouldideally be given to childrenbetween 12 to 13 months ofage.

They are given thesecond dose before theystart school, usuallybetween three and five yearsof age, although it can begiven three months after thefirst.

Internet

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110 families evacuated in Ecuador eruptionQUITO, (Ecuador), 24

Aug—Ecuadorean autho-rities say 110 families havebeen evacuated from thevicinity of the Tungurahuavolcano, which has beenspewing molten rock, ash andlava since the weekend.

Spokeswoman MercedesTaipe of Ecuador’s Geo-physics Institute says a columnof vapor and ash up to 2.5miles (4 kilometres) high has

A woman works with herlivestock in a field near the

Tungurahua volcano,which is erupting ash and

steam, as seen fromHuambalo, Ecuador, on 21

Aug , 2012.—INTERNET

characterized the moderate-to-strong eruption. She said onTuesday that a half-dozenvillages are being showered inash. She had no immediateestimate on economic damageto local farming.

The 16,48-foot (5,023-metre) volcano 84 miles (135kilometres) southeast ofQuito has been active since1999. In July and August of2006 eruptions of Tun-

gurahua killed at least fourpeople, left two missing andforced the evacuation ofthousands.

Internet

ZTE H1profit tumbles

68 pctBEIJING, 24 Aug —

China’s second-largesttelecommunications equip-ment maker — ZTE Corp—saw its net profit for the firsthalf of 2012 plunge 68.17percent year-on-year to 245million yuan (38.67 million USdollars).

The global economicdownturn and fluctuations inexchange rates were thereasons for the drop, ZTE saidon Wednesday, in astatement filed with the HongKong and Shenzhen stockexchanges.

Operating revenues forthe Hong Kong-andShenzhen-listed companyincreased 15.21 percent froma year earlier to reach 42.64billion yuan, the companysaid.Earnings per share stoodat 0.07 yuan in the first sixmonths of 2012. ZTE’s bleakresults underlined weakgrowth in the telecommu-nications sector.

Last month, China’slargest telecommunicationsequipment maker Huaweireported an increase of just5.1 percent in sales revenues,with an operating profit of8.79 billion yuan in the firsthalf of this year. The shareprice of ZTE slid 0.17 percentto close at 11.32 HK dollars inHong Kong, on Wednesday,and dipped 0.53 percent to11.2 yuan in Shenzhen.

Xinhua

Cruise line agrees to buy Maine lobstersPORTLAND, 24 Aug — A

second cruise ship line hasagreed to buy lobsters fromlocal suppliers when one of itsships visits Maine inSeptember and October, USRep Chellie Pingree said onWednesday. Celebrity Cruiseshas agreed to purchase about3,800 pounds of lobster whenthe Celebrity Summit visits BarHarbour and Portland, Pingreesaid. The 965-foot ship carriesmore than 2,000 passengers.Officials said last week thatHolland America Line agreedto purchase locally caughtlobsters for its cruise shipswhen they visit Bar Harbourseveral times this season.

The cruise line purchasesare good news for Maine’slobster industry, which hasbeen suffering under rock-bottom prices this summerbecause of a strong harvestthat has resulted in anoversupply of lobsters.

Although the purchasesrepresent just a tiny amount ofthe catch, they could spur

S African residents asked tolook out for renegade hippo

CAPE TOWN, 24 Aug — Residents in South Africa’s cityof Cape Town have been asked to keep a look-out for arenagade young hippopotamus which is popping up in gardensand roads after moving into a suburban lake. City officials arehoping the two-year-old calf will return back to its pod afterappearing in an unfenced reserve following the theft of partof the boundary fence in the neighbouring water body whereit lives.

“The night before last he was in peoples’ gardens,obviously there were lots of people out,” Julia Wood, managerof Biodiversity Management told AFP. “And then last nightsomebody picked him up on one of the roads.” The city willmonitor the animal for two weeks but is considering captureor darting if he does not leave Zeekoevlei, which is in thedensely populated Cape Flats area. “The public is advised tobe particularly cautious, as hippos are known to be extremelydangerous wild animals,” the city said in a statement, urgingresidents and users of the lake not to approach the animal orstop it.

“This could lead to dangerous encounters and maypotentially prolong the capture operation by influencing theanimal’s behaviour. Motorists in the area of Zeekoevlei shouldbe cautious.” The animal is believed to have followed a femalehippo who gave birth. —Internet

Residents in South Africa’s city of Cape Town have beenasked to keep a look-out for a renagade young

hippopotamus which is popping up in gardens and roadsafter moving into a suburban lake.—INTERNET

Airbuses suffer cockpit power failure, await fixesNEWARK, 24 Aug — As

United Flight 731 climbed outof Newark with 107 peopleaboard, the pilot and firstofficer were startled to findscreens that display crucialnavigational information wereblank or unreadable andradios were dead. They hadno way to communicate withair traffic controllers or detectother planes around them inthe New York City area’scrowded airspace.

“I made a comment tothe captain about steeringclear of New York City, notwanting to get shot down byUSAF fighters,” first officerDouglas Cochran later toldinvestigators. He wasn’tjoking: “We both felt anextreme urgency to get thisaircraft on the ground as soonas possible.”

Within minutes,Cochran and the captain hadturned around and safelylanded the Denver-boundAirbus A320 at the Newarkairport. Cochran later toldinvestigators that clearweather might have been theonly thing that saved themfrom a crash.

A United Airbus A320 passenger plane takes off at Newark Liberty Internationalairport on 11 Aug, 2012, in Newark, NJ. Airline pilots who fly certain Airbus jets thatfirst came into service more than two decades ago have reported over 50 episodes of

multiple electrical failures in the cockpit.—INTERNET

Mass couple dies trying torescue dog from lake

WESTFIELD, 24 Aug — A Massachusetts couple boatingon a lake drowned after jumping into the water to rescuetheir dog, who survived. Police say the small dog namedSadie jumped into Hampton Ponds in Westfield on Mondaynight, prompting 64-year-old Donald Cyr to follow his petinto the lake. Police told The Westfield News that hebecame distressed and his wife, 61-year-old Patricia Cyr,tried to rescue him.

Their daughter, Miranda Landry, told The Boston Globethat her mother jumped into the water despite not being ableto swim. “It doesn’t surprise me at all,” Landry said. “I knowthat’s what she would do.”Other boaters, alerted by screams,helped pull the couple from the water. Efforts by rescuepersonnel failed to revive them, and both were pronounceddead at hospitals.

The dog survived and was taken to the municipal animalshelter. The couple received the West Highland white terrieras a gift from Daniel Cyr’s sister six weeks ago to replace abeloved dog that died a year ago, Landry and a neighbour toldThe Globe.—Internet

The January 2008emergency was far from thefirst such multiple electricalfailure in what is known as theAirbus A320 family of aircraft,and it wasn’t the last,according to records reviewedby The Associated Press.More than 50 episodesinvolving the planes, whichfirst went into service morethan two decades ago, havebeen reported.

And it could be anotherfew years before the last of thethousands of narrow-body,twin-engine jets in use in theUS and overseas are modifiedto counteract the problem.

The Federal AviationAdministration issued an orderin 2010 giving US airlines fouryears to make the fixes.

The FAA’s Europeancounterpart did the same thingin 2009. While no accidents

have been blamed on theproblem, the pilots union in theUS wanted the FAA to giveairlines just two years tocomply, but the FAA rejectedthat. Aviation safetyconsultant Douglas Moss saidthe FAA should have acted alot more quickly.” These thingscost money and the industry isin bad shape, so you have theeconomics thrown into it.

Internet

other cruise lines to followsuit and raise awareness aboutMaine lobsters among cruiseship passengers, said DaneSomers, executive director ofthe Maine Lobster PromotionCouncil. Lobster dealers inMaine have been indiscussions with other cruiseship companies to see if they’llalso buy local product whenthey visit Maine, he said.“Cruise lines are in acompetitive industry. They’reall competing and trying togive their passengerssomething extra,” Somers said.

“If they can offerpassengers fresh Mainelobsters literally off the dockin the summer, that’s a treat. Idon’t think their passengerswill ever forget that.”

September and Octoberrepresent the busiest time ofthe cruise ship season inMaine. About 120 ships arescheduled to stop in BarHarbor this year, with anadditional 60 or so visitingPortland. Cruise lines already

buy large amounts of frozenlobster products, fromprocessors in both Canada andMaine, Somers said. But cruisecompanies usually negotiatelong-term contracts far inadvance for their foodpurchases and rarely makepurchases while their shipsare en route, he said.

That hasn’t deterredPingree from writing a letter tothe heads of every cruise shipcompany visiting Portland thisyear, suggesting they buy liveMaine lobster while in thestate. In announcing CelebrityCruises’ decision to buylobster while in Maine, Pingreesaid she has also heard fromanother major cruise shipcompany that’s in talks withlocal lobster suppliers. “It’s alittle too early to announcemore purchases but we havesome good prospects and atleast one company is talkingspecifics with suppliers andhas asked for some sampleproduct,” she said in astatement.— Internet

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British police arrest man in hacking probe

British police on Thursday arrested a man as part oftheir ongoing phone-hacking investigation into alleged

breaches of privacy.INTERNET

with inquiries into the phone-hacking scandal at RupertMurdoch’s News of the Worldtabloid.

Thursday’s arrest was notdirectly linked to any newsorganization or the activitiesof journalists, Scotland Yardsaid.

Tuleta is one of threeinquiries sparked by thescandal at the News of theWorld, which Murdochclosed in July 2011 when itemerged it had hacked thevoicemails of hundreds ofpeople including a murderedschoolgirl.

British police launch-ed an investigation intohacking in January 2011.They have also arrested 24people under OperationMeeting, the core probeinto voicemail hacking,and 43 under OperationElveden, which isinvestigating journalists’alleged bribery of publicofficials.

Internet

LONDON, 24 Aug —British police on Thursdayarrested a man as part of theirongoing phone-hackinginvestigation into allegedbreaches of privacy.

The 44-year-old wasarrested in Suffolk, easternEngland, for suspectedoffences under the ComputerMisuse Act and Regulationof Investigatory Powers Act,said a statement from

London’s MetropolitanPolice. He was later releasedon bail to return to a Londonpolice station on a date inNovember.

The man is the 10thperson to be arrested underOperation Tuleta, a policeprobe into alleged computerhacking and privacybreaches.

The investigation isbeing carried out in tandem

Clashes between security forces and Kurdrebels kill nine

ISTANBUL, 24 Aug — Freshviolence between Turkishsecurity forces and Kurdishrebels in the restive southeastleft at least nine dead onThursday, eyewitnesses toldAFP. Clashes erupted whenKurdish rebels attempted toset up ID controls in someareas of Semdinli town in theHakkari Province near theIraqi border, promptingsecurity forces to launch anoffensive backed byhelicopters, witnesses said.

Nine bodies were seenin the streets during theongoing clashes, they added.It was not immediately clearif the bodies were of rebels orsecurity forces. The latestviolence comes after clasheserupted on Wednesday nightwhen rebels ambushed amilitary convoy in Semdinli,triggering fighting that left21 people dead, 16 of whomwere Kurdish rebels.Eyewitnesses said rebels and

security forces were usingheavy guns in the fighting.

Semdinli is the scene offrequent clashes betweenTurkish security forces andmembers of the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK).

Turkish officials andmedia tie the surge in recentattacks to the conflict ragingin neighbouring Syria. Prime

Minister Recep TayyipErdogan had threatenedmilitary intervention ifKurdish rebels set up bases inthe neighbouring country.The conflict with the PKK,considered a terroristorganization by Turkey andmuch of the internationalcommunity, has claimedsome 45,000 lives over nearlythree decades.— Internet

A convoy of Turkish army drives towards Mount Kupelinear the Turkey-Iraq border in the province of Sirnak,

southeast Turkey, in 2007.— INTERNET

‘Stowaway’ found dead at Heathrow onCape Town flight

LONDON, 24 Aug — Asuspected stowaway wasfound dead on board aBritish Airways flight thatlanded at London’sHeathrow Airport from CapeTown on Thursday, theairline said.

The body of anunidentified man was foundin the landing gear bay of aBoeing 747, British Airwayssaid, adding that it wasinvestigating how the “veryrare and sad event” hadtaken place.

“We are liaising withthe South African authoritiesand Cape Town airport aftera body was found in thelanding gear bay of one ofour aircraft,” it said in astatement.

“Our thoughts are withthe individual’s family.”London’s MetropolitanPolice said there was anongoing investigation todiscover the man’s identity.“He was not a passenger or

a member of the air crew,” apolice spokesman told AFP.“His death is being treatedas non-suspicious.”

The Airports CompanySouth Africa (ACSA) said aman had scaled the perimeterfence at Cape TownInternational at around 8:40pm (1840 GMT) onWednesday.

“The airport imme-diately responded and as asecurity patrol officerattempted to apprehend theman he ran in the direction ofa British Airways aircraftalready in its holding patternready for takeoff,” it said in astatement.

“For safety reasons thesecurity officer could notapproach the aircraft.”Searches of the airfield andrunway failed to uncover themissing man.

“This morning reportsfrom London’s Heathrowairport confirmed that astowaway was found on

board a British Airwaysaircraft. The person wasfound dead,” said ACSA,saying it viewed the matterin the “utmost serious light”

with a full investigation tobe done.

“Security concerns andunauthorised access toairports premises and aircraftare a very serious concernto us,” he said. No details onthe stowaway’s nationalityor age were available.

Internet

A British Airways plane prepares to land atHeathrow. A suspected stowaway was found deadon board a British Airways flight that landed atLondon’s Heathrow Airport from Cape Town on

Thursday. INTERNET

Collapse of costly NE Chinabridge kills three

HARBIN, 24 Aug — Theramp of a multimillion-dollarbridge in northeast Chinacollapsed on early Fridaymorning, sending four trucksfalling 30 metres to theground, killing three peopleand injuring five.

The ramp, about 3.5 kmfrom the main body of theYangmingtan Bridge, tiltedto one side and crashed ontothe ground at 5:30 am, saidSun Qingde, deputy head ofthe construction committeeof Harbin City, HeilongjiangProvince. The injured havebeen hospitalized.

Xinhua reporters sawtrucks crashed upside-downon the ground. Patches ofblood and window shardswere scattered around.

It is at least the sixthmajor bridge collapse across

the country since July lastyear, following one inBeijing and another in theeastern city of Hangzhou.Shoddy construction andover-loading have beenblamed.

The YangmingtanBridge was only opened totraffic in November. With atotal length of 15.42 km,spanning the Songhua Riverin Harbin, the eight-lanebridge was claimed to be thelongest in north China.Localmedia reported that itsconstruction cost 1.88billion yuan (296 millionUS dollars).

Built by the ChinaRailway First Group Co, Ltd,it was the third bridge erectedacross the Songhua River inthe past four years.

Xinhua

Photo taken on 24 Aug, 2012 shows the collapsedsection of the Yangmingtan bridge in Harbin, capital ofnortheast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Four trucks

fell off to the ground after a section of the Yangmingtanbridge collapsed in Harbin on early Friday morning,killing three people and injuring five others. The 15.4-

kilometre-long bridge was opened to traffic lastNovember. The collapsed part, which measures 100

meters in length, fell from a height of 30 metres. XINHUA

Train collision injures dozensin NE China

HARBIN, 24 Aug — Atleast 24 people were injuredwhen two passenger trainscollided at a railway stationin northeast China’sHeilongjiang Province onThursday, local authoritiessaid.

The accident happenedat around 5:24 pm at Jiamusirailway station, aspokesman with the railwaybureau in the provincialcapital Harbin confirmed

with Xinhua late Thursdaynight.

He said most of theinjured were ready to get offthe train, but fell under theimpact of collision.

The official said most ofthem suffered slight injuriesand were allowed to go homeafter treatment.

As of midnight, fivepeople were still undermedical observation.

Xinhua

Meteorologists debunk China’s“Four Furnaces”

BEIJING, 24 Aug — Although many Chinese believe the“Four Furnaces” of Chongqing, Nanchang, Wuhan and Nanjingare the country’s hottest cities, meteorological authoritieshave debunked the popular belief after comparing temperaturesin cities nationwide.

Zhang Cunjie, a researcher at the National MeteorologicalCentre, said an analysis of the last 31 years of meteorologicaldata from China’s provincial capitals and municipalities hasrevealed that the country’s hottest cities are actually Chongqing,Nanchang, Hangzhou and Fuzhou, with the latter two takingthe place of Wuhan and Nanjing. The NMC analyzed thenumber of hot days and consecutive hot days in different cities,as well as the average high and low temperatures during thesummer season. A heat index that combines air temperaturesand relative humidity to determine the temperature perceivedby humans was also used.—Xinhua

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officials, farmers from eight flood-hit townshipsand other 18 townships, totalling 676.

The President cordially greeted theattendees.

The Region Chief Minister reportedon flooding at Pathein, Kangyidaunt,Thabaung, Kyaunggon, Yekyi,Kyonpyaw,Pantanaw and Danubyu townships due toheavy rains, opening of 219 relief camps,provision of rice, foodstuff and money and

progress of rehabilitation.Union Minister U Myint Hlaing

explained endeavours of the newgovernment for poverty alleviation and socialeconomic development includingimprovement of agricultural sector in a shortperiod, especially for securing quick win inagricultural sector, and participation of localpeople in practising good agriculturalpatterns.

Speaking on the occasion, PresidentU Thein Sein said that they were there toprovide assistance to flood-hit victims. Thisyear, he said that many states and regionswere hit by floods due to heavy rains andoverflow of rivers. He noted that as naturaldisaster cannot be hindered, it is necessaryto make strenuous efforts for overcoming it.He disclosed that his inspection tour isaimed at rendering cash assistance forbuying quality strains of paddy to the local

farmers who lost paddy farms in floods andat providing assistance to the flood victimsfor their basic needs, education and healthsectors. He urged the local farmers to managetimely cultivation of crops based on theirexperiences to serve the interests of theregion and the people when water subsided.If they cannot grow pea due to late cultivationof paddy, they have to seek any ways to earnother incomes, he said.

Nowadays, he said that theagricultural sector is the most important forthe State. All the people are to make concertedefforts for ensuring food sufficiency of theincreasing population without satisfying thepresent food sufficiency, he said. He notedthat there are some losses in the agriculturalsector, the income of the State will decline.

The President stressed the need tobuild the industrial country in the long runfor development and prosperity of the futureState. However, he added that the nation isto rely on agricultural sector before thestage of industrialized nation. Applyingconventional methods will never achievesuccess in development of agriculture sector.Thus, he said that it is necessary to applyfive significant points such as morale, farmstructure, strains of paddy, cultivationmethod and mechanized farming. As theagricultural sector is the most reliable one ofthe State, the reform of agricultural sectormust be realized compulsorily, he said.

The government is striving for

increasing individual income and householdincome for the people, he said. Emphasis isbeing placed on establishment of factoriesand workshops for creation of many jobopportunities for the people, he added.However, he noted that the governmentinvites foreign investments due to facingrequirements of technology, investment andhuman resources. At present, he said that asinvestors arrive the country, the governmentcommences implementation of the projects.

Nowadays, the President said thatfarmers should run other business to generatemore income without relying on agriculturalsector only. For example, he said that theymust cultivate banana, papaya, etc whilebreeding chicken, pig and duck on amanageable scale. Only when they workhard, will they enjoy fruits of works. Inconsequence, standards of their economic,education and health sector will be higher.In fact, he said that jobs can be seen in thesociety. They needs high morale to actuallywork hard. Therefore, he urged all the peopleto try their best in their works. Only when allthe people work hard, can the nation keepabreast of other developing countries. Inconclusion, the President urged the farmersto systematically make earnest efforts afterunderstanding that their farmlands can grantlong-term benefits and to maintain thefarmlands to be handed down to the newgenerations.

Next, the President presented K 404.7million cash assistance for 80958 baskets ofquality paddy strains to be grown on thesubsided farmlands and K 10 million forflood victims to the Region Chief Minister.

After that, farmer U Aung Tun Myintof Hsupadaung Village of KyaunggonTownship spoke words of thanks.

After the cermeony, the Presidentcordially greeted those present and wentback to Yangon in the afternoon.

MNA

Work Committee for holding the 19th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing Arts meets

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—A work coordinationmeeting of the workcommittee for holding the19th Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing Artstook place at the meeting ofthe Ministry of Culture, here,this afternoon, with anaddress by Deputy Ministerfor Culture Daw Sanda Khin.

She said that it needs toget more improvement inthe performing arts of thecoming competition afterreviewing pros and cons ofthe previous competition,following the advices ofproficient persons.

Afterwards, thechairman and secretaries ofthe committee and officials

concerned respectivelypresented their under-takings, the implementedtasks and tasks to be carried,members of panel of judges,rules of the competition, andrepresentatives of regionsand states, matters related tosuccessfully holding the 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing Arts

Competition.Deputy Ministers Daw

Sanda Khin, Dr Daw MyatMyat Ohn Khin, U ChanMaung, U Kyaw Lwin and UAye Kyu contributed cashfor the competitions ofregions and states throughthe representatives.

The meeting came to anend with concluding remarkby Deputy Minister DawSanda Khin.

MNA

PresidentU Thein

Sein handsover K404.7

million for80958

baskets ofqualitypaddy

strains to berecultivatedat floodedfarmlandsto Region

ChiefMinisterU TheinAung.

MNA

PresidentU Thein

Seinpresents

K 10million for

floodvictims of

AyeyawadyRegionthroughRegionChief

MinisterU TheinAung.

MNA

President U Thein Sein cordially greets those attending disbursement of agricultural loans in AyeyawadyRegion.—MNA

YANGON, 24 Aug— The talks between Vietnameseentrepreneurs led by Deputy Director Mr Nguyen Van Tuanof Vietnamese Trader’s Association and Myanmarentrepreneurs for bilateral cooperation in business andtrade sectors will be held at the head office of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry on 28 August.

Those wishing Myanmar entrepreneurs to attend thetalks may enlist not later than 27 August to the office ofUMFCCI.

MNA

Talks for Myanmar andVietnamese entrepreneurs

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SWRR Ministry empowers…

Bill Committee member U Thein Tun Oosubmits reports of the bill committee.—MNA

Pyithu HluttawRepresentative

U Kamai Mon Kawnof SumprabumConstituency

participating indiscussion.—MNA

Pyithu HluttawRepresentative UAung Tun Tha of

MraukU Constituencytaking part in

discussion.MNA

(from page 16)The ministry has set up 65 homes for the aged to take care

of the elderly. In addition, it takes measures like upgradingand assisting of homes for the aged, and offers home healthcare delivery in cooperation with local social organizations.In addition, health care services are provided forming elderlyrural development and elderly assistance organizations.

It has been adopted policies to protect the rights ofpersons with disabilities, to reduce and bring to an enddiscrimination against persons for disabilities, to enhancetheir integrity and capability, and to improve their socio-economic life.

Law for assisting the families of disabled service personneland deceased or fallen service personnel has been enactedand measures are under way to formulate bylaws. Pension,service awards, children allowances, compensation, medicaltreatment and stipends are provided to families of fallen anddeceased service personnel.

Member of Bill Committee U Thein Tun Oo submittedreport of the committee on Anti-corruption Bill sent back byAmyotha Hluttaw with approval. MPs willing to discuss thebill are to register by 28 August, announced the Hluttaw.

U Aung Tun Tha of MraukU Constituency, U KamaiMon Kawn of Sumprabum Constituency and U Khun MaungThaung of Pinlaung Constituency discussed the proposal ofDr Chan Nyein of Kanbalu Constituency submitted at 19th daysession about compiling of encyclopaedia of histories,cultures, literatures and customs of Myanmar nationalraces.

Deputy Minister for Information U Soe Win replied thatthe proposal specially suited to the country and nationalpeople. But it is a formidable and time-consuming task. It isrequired to form a national commission to put the proposalinto operation and measures would be taken for successfulrealization of the proposal in coordination with the upper levelof the hierarchy.

The Hluttaw approved the proposal and put it on record.It decided that it is required to carry out related works by anational commission constituted with related organizations,personalities and scholars within an appropriate timeframework.

U Win Than of Thabaung Constituency submitted anurgent proposal in which he said that MPs had asked thePyithu Hluttaw Speaker to blame the Constitutional Tribunalof the Union for its verdict to definition of Union level under

Section 334 of the Constitution. The Speaker in response sentmessage to the President who in turn sent a reply message.In the final section of the President’s message, he said thatas the two agencies are independent agencies under theconstitution, it is up to them to choose whatever political linestruggle MPs have waited with patience till 21, August to seethe responses of the Speaker. They began to worry whetherthe Speaker has turned a blind eye to their proposal or thereis a certain organization or person influencing over theHluttaw as the Speaker took no specific actions after 21August. In addition, MPs waited in vain to attend the Hluttawsession yesterday though the session was scheduled to startat 10:00 am, which implied no respect to MPs. So, MPs shouldhave the right to clear understanding how the PyithuHluttaw Speaker viewed the genuine wishes of the MPs inresponse to messages of the Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker dated14-8-2012 and reply messages of the President dated 20-8-2012.

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann said thatthe proposal of MP U Win Than is sensible one. As a HluttawSpeaker, it is impossible to neglect and turn a blind eye tocollective legal demands and assignments of people’srepresentatives.

The Speaker said his concentration focuses onminimizing the impacts of the case and the most acceptablesolution for all in consideration of the integrity of legislative,executive and judicial and branches causing least harms.

The Speaker said that there is no any organization orpersonality that influences the Hluttaw as assumed by U WinThan and MPs.

As Amyotha Hluttaw has initiated actions for enablingMPs to serve the interests of the people with integrity anduprightness, MPs of Pyithu Hluttaw are to wait for their turnfor a while, requested the Speaker.

The Speaker defended against the accusation againsthim that he had no respect to Hluttaw, saying that he does

respect to Hluttaw and always protects the integrity ofHluttaw. He made his excuses for his late arrival at yesterday’sHluttaw session that he had to go to President Office yesterdaytogether with the Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker and officialsconcerned as the office invited him for discussing the case ofConstitutional Tribunal of the Union. He was late as thediscussion took a long time, explained the Speaker. Hepromised that he would have same respect for time in futureas he now respects the Hluttaw and MPs in order not to meanan insult to the Hluttaw and MPs in working for greaterintegrity of Hluttaw and ensuring the responsibilities andpowers of Hluttaw.

Today’s session came to an end at 12:30 pm andPyidaungsu Hluttaw will be held at 10 am on 27 August.

MNA

DIL Container Vehicle Yard and ContainerStation commissioned

Container Vehicle Yard and Container Station on Shweli Roadof Dagon Seikkan Township, here, on 22 August.

Chairman of Dagon Seikkan International Logistics CoLtd (DIL) Dr Kyaw Nyunt Lwin presented K 5 million for floodvictims of Yangon Region to Chief Minister of Yangon RegionU Myint Swe.

The Region Chief Minister, Region Minister forDevelopment Affairs U Aung Khin and Chairman of DIL DrKyaw Nyunt Lwin formally opened the container yard andvisited there.

The 80-acre land of container yard can accommodate 800container vehicles and over 5000 containers to be provided with24-hour services.

In the afternoon, the Region Chief Minister looked intobank erosions at Twantay canal in Hsapachaung KyaungsuWard of Dalla Township and Seikkyikyun Cacpe in Seikkyi-khanaungto Township.

The Region Chief Minister and party met with localpeople and instructed them to take preventive measures againstlandslide and bank erosion along the river.—MNA

Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Sweinspects DIL Container Vehicle Yard and

Container Station.—MNA

YANGON, 24 Aug—International ContainerVehicle Yard and Container Station of Dagon SeikkanInternational Logistics Co Ltd (DIL) was opened at DIL

President U Thein Sein being welcomed by Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister U Thein Aung,Region Hluttaw Speaker U Hsan Sint and officials concerned. (News on page 1)—MNA

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Health Department opens … 50-bedded People’s Hospital will be upgraded into100-bedded one in the 2013-2014 financial year.

Afterwards, member of Amyotha Hluttaw PublicAccount Committee Daw Yi Yi Myint submitted thecommittee’s report. Hluttaw announced that thosewishing to discuss the report are to register their names.After that, Chairman of Amyotha Hluttaw Citizens’Fundamental Rights, Democracy and Human Rights DrAye Maung and Secretary U Myint Tun read out thecommittee’s report.

Then, U Zaw Myint Pe of Mandalay RegionConstituency No. 5 submitted the important proposal on“impeachment of Chairman and eight members of theConstitutional Tribunal of the Union in accord with theConstitution” Professor Dr Mya Oo of Bago RegionConstituency No. 9 discussed to approve it. Hluttaw tookvote to discuss it by mean of standing up. Hluttaw decidedto discuss it as more than one third of eligible voters votedit. The representatives who want to discuss it are to registertheir names.

The meeting came to an end at 12.10 pm, and the 34th

day session will go on at 10 am on 28 August. At today’s

(from page 16)There are one 50-bedded township hospital, five

Station Hospitals, 10 rural health care centers and 34 ruralhealth care centers (branch) in Yaysagyo Township. HealthDepartment will open station hospital, rural health carecenters and rural health care centers (branch) after draftingthe fifth five-year short-term National Plan. So, the

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—A coordination meeting forreusing of agriculturalflooded lands in Kayin Statewas held at regiongovernment office on 21August, with the attendanceof Kayin State Chief MinisterU Zaw Min.

The state chief ministermet farmers in Kawhmutarvillage-tract in Hpa-an andpresented paddy strains.

Coordination meeting for reusing ofagricultural flooded lands held

After that, the state chiefminister, the minister forsocial affairs and officialsdrove stake at the extensionof two lecture hall in Hpa-anUniversity on 22 August.

The state chief ministermade address at thecoordination meeting forassisting flood victims,rebuilding of roads andbridges and reopening ofschools, held at the state

government office.In meeting with flood

farmers in Gyaing, Gyondo,Kanni, Thayettaw,Yoemahar and Kyargalayvillages, he fulfilled therequirements.

After deliveringaddress at the ceremony forproviding farmers whosefarms were flooded inYekyawgyi village-tract inKawkareik Township with

paddy strains, the state chiefminister together withdeputy speaker of the state UMann Hla Myaing, the stateminister for agriculture andlivestock and the stateagricultural manager gavesweet encouragements tofarmers, and provided withpaddy strains.—MNA

School children in Taikkyi Township fed on nutrition

TAIKKYI, 24 Aug— Aspart of the Nutrition Weekprogrammes, donors havefeed on nutritious food toschool children at basic

education primary schoolsin Taikkyi Township inYangon Region everyTuesday.

On 12 August, donors

Dr Kyaw Hsan Aung fed the104 school children fromKyigon Village BasicEducation Primary School inTaikkyi Township on milkand donor U Saw Hla andfarmers 83 school childrenfrom the Bamar GongyindanVillage Basic EducationPrimary School on milk.

Similarly, each schoolchild from the schools got anegg each donated by CPcompany.

The school children fromschools in the townshipwould be fed on eggs andmilk every Tuesday for 27week.

Myanma Alin

MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 24Aug—MawlamyinegyunTownship Maternal andChild Welfare Associationprovided exercise books,stationery and cash to schoolchildren in Mawla-myinegyun Township forthe 2012-2013 academicyear on 9 August.

During the ceremonyheld at the No. 1 BasicEducation High School inMawlamyinegyun, Daw ThanThan Aye, Secretary of thetownship MCWA, handedover the exercise books,stationary and cashassistance to the students

Mawlamyinegyun Township MCWA donatesbooks, stationery, cash to school children

through Daw Nyunt NyuntYi, Ex-Assistanct Director of

the No. 1 Basic EducationDepartment.—Myanma Alin

WVM donates 497 rice bagsto flood victims in Pathein

Leaves replaces plastic bags at Hsipin Market in KawlinKAWLIN, 24 Aug—Inn

leaves has replaced theplastic bags at the HsipinMarket in Kawlin, Sagaing

Region, encouragingenvironmental conservationand side-effects from plasticbags.

Local people fromvillages near Kawlincollected the leaves from theforests and have sold themto over 800 groceries at themarket, earning extraincomes.

A pack of around 20leaves costs K 200.

The shopkeepers andcustomers have beencooperating with the localdevelopment affairsdepartment to keep themarket to be clear of littersand to keep it clean.

Myanma Alin

PATHEIN, 24 Aug—World Vision Myanmar

(Pathein Office) providedflood victims sheltering at 21

relief camps in Pathein with497 rice bags on 16 and 17August.

Rice bags worth aboutK 7,757,100 weredistributed to the floodvictims to 1205 houeholds.

Besides, the officeworked together with localpeople to place 2000 sandbags to prevent flood on theroad linking Htantaw Villageand Anangon Village inHtankanlant Village-tract.

Kyemon

Torrential rain triggers landslideson Kengtung-Tachilek Road

KENGTUNG, 24 Aug—Torrential caused landslideson 18 August, disruptingtraffic on Kengtung-TachilekRoad.

The road was blocked at16 points on it between theMile Post 378/7 and 390/2 on

the road in MongphyatDistrict in Shan State (East).

The blockage on theroad have been cleared asfrom 2 am on 20 August andthe traffic returned tonolmacy.

Kyemon

DistrictNews

Secretary UMyint Tun of

AmyothaHluttawCitizen’s

fundamentalRights,

Democracyand Human

RightsCommissionsubmitting a

proposal.MNA

Amyotha HluttawRepresentative U ZawMyint Pe of MandalayRegion Constituency

No. 5 submits animportant proposal.—MNA

Amyotha HluttawRepresentative Dr KhinMaung Lay from Bago

Region ConstituencyNo. 8 raising question.

MNA

Kayin State ChiefMinister U Zaw Min

provides paddystrains to a farmer.

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session, four questions raised and replied, two reportssubmitted and one new proposal submitted.—MNA

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US in discussion with Japan to beef upmissile shield in Asia

WASHINGTON, 24 Aug —The United States is indiscussion with Japan aboutexpanding its missile shieldin the Asia-Pacific region,Chairman of the Joint Chiefsof Staff Martin Dempseysaid on Thursday.

In a Pentagon Pressbriefing with visitingJapanese Self DefenceForces Chief of the Joint StaffShigeru Iwasaki, Dempseysaid he discussed withIwasaki about deployinganother early-warning radarto Japan to bolster missileshield in Asia. “On the issueof Missile Defence ingeneral, we are very closelypartnered with the Japanesepartners,” said Dempsey,noting the US side alreadyhas one X-band radar innorthern Japan.

Ma Xiaonian, a doctor of theSecond Hospital of TsinghuaUniversity in Beijing, capitalof China, diagnoses a patientat Zuogaimanma Township inGannan Tibetan AutonomousPrefecture, northwest China’sGansu Province, on 23 Aug,

2012. A volunteer groupcomposed of doctors fromBeijing, capital of China,arrived at the township on

Wednesday, offering medicalservice for farmers and

herdsmen of Tibetan ethnicgroup.— XINHUA

“No decisions havebeen taken to expand thatcapability, but it’s certainlya topic of conversationbecause missile defence isimportant to both of ournations,” added Dempsey.The Wall Street Journalreported earlier in the daythat the US side is planninga “major expansion” ofmissile defence in Asia, amove said to contain threatsfrom the other country, butthe paper quoted officials assaying it could also be usedto counter China’s military.

China has made clear itsmilitary is defencive innature, and called on the USside not to excite tensions inthe region.State DepartmentSpokeswoman VictoriaNuland, when asked aboutthe plan during her regular

briefing on Thursday, saidmissile shields are“defencive systems,” and theAsia systems are designedagainst the threat countries,and “they are not directed atChina,” noting the US sidehas discussed with China onthe system’s intent throughmilitary and politicalchannels.

Xinhua

Wildfire slowed in California, still threatens homesSACRAMENTO, 24 Aug — Firefighters made progress in

blocking a raging wildfire from barreling down a ruggedcanyon toward a community at the doorstep of a national parkon Thursday, but the blaze threatened more than 900 homesand buildings. The so-called Ponderosa fire was burningdown a steep, rocky canyon that officials described as a “minigrand canyon” just five miles from the rural town of Mineral,home to fewer than 200 people on the edge of Lassen NationalVolcanic Park. “Things change but it’s looking good,” saidJim DiDio, spokesman for the Tehama County Fire Department.

“We still have an evacuation warning in effect for that littletown. It is still at risk.”

All told, more than 3,000 people have been forced to fleetheir homes in the rural California counties of Tehama andShasta, about 125 miles north of the state capital, Sacramento,although evacuation orders had been lifted by Wednesdayafternoon from Shingletown and several other areas.ThePonderosa fire is one of dozens burning across drought-parched states in the US West in an unusually fierce fire year,including a blaze that destroyed dozens of homes this weekin Washington state and another that threatened a town insouthern California. In Mineral, where residents faced anevacuation order, authorities told them to have their mostprecious possessions packed in cars and ready to go at amoment’s notice as flames roared on the side of Highway 36,the main route into town.

Firefighters have been forced to work by hand to halt thefire inside the walls of the canyon that funnels into Mineral.Crews also bulldozed a trench to serve as a last line of defencebetween the fire and the town, and DiDio said it appearedfirefighters would be able to keep the flames at bay.The nearly28,000-acre (11,331-hectare) blaze was 57 percent containedas of Thursday morning, and had destroyed 84 structuresincluding 64 homes, fire officials said.—Reuters

A firefightinghelicopterreloads itssupply of

retardant beforeheading out tomake a drop onthe Ponderosa

Fire nearPaynes Creek,Calif, on 22Aug, 2012.

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Pakistansummons USdiplomat overdrone strikes

ISLAMABAD, 24 Aug —Pakistan on Thursdaysummoned a senior Americandiplomat and conveyedprotest against the recentdrone strikes in the country’sNorth Waziristan tribalregion, Pakistani ForeignMinistry said. A series of USdrone attacks bombed NorthWaziristan over the past fewdays in three separate attacks,killing at least 14 people.

The attacks came asPakistanis had beencelebrating the festival of Eidal-Fitr. “A senior US diplomatwas called to the PakistaniMinistry of Foreign Affairsand was informed that thedrone strikes were unlawful,against international law anda violation of Pakistan’ssovereignty,” the ForeignMinistry said. The UnitedStates has ignored Pakistan’scalls for a halt to drone strikes,which Islamabad says arecounterproductive in the waron terror and spark anti-American sentiments. ButWashington insists that theattacks are the key to eliminateal-Qaeda remnants andTaleban.

The CIA says thatmilitants are using NorthWaziristan as the launchingpad for cross-border attackson foreign and Afghan forcesin Afghanistan. Americansare urging Pakistan to launcha major operation against themilitants in North Waziristanbut Islamabad has so farunwilling to go after themilitants there. Section ofPakistani media recentlyreported that the military maylaunch a targeted offensive inthe region shortly.—Xinhua

A section of

the Parchin

military

facility in

Iran is

pictured in

this 22 Aug,

2012.

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Iran expands nuclear capacityunderground: sources

VIENNA, 24 Aug — Iranhas installed many moreuranium enrichmentmachines in an undergroundbunker, diplomatic sourcessaid on Thursday, potentiallypaving the way for asignificant expansion of workthe West fears is ultimatelyaimed at making nuclearbombs. Iran denies allegationsit is seeking a nuclear weaponscapability. But its refusal tocurb its nuclear enrichmentprogramme has promptedtough Western sanctions andhas heightened speculationthat Israel may attack itsatomic sites.

In a possible sign offurther Iranian defiance in theface of such pressure, severalsources said Iran had put inplace additional enrichmentcentrifuges in its Fordowfacility, buried deep inside amountain to protect it againstenemy strikes.One source

China announces second rare earth exportquota for 2012

Ecuador’s Correa see no end to Assangeimpasse with UK

QUITO, 24 Aug —Ecuadorean President RafaelCorrea doubts Britain andSweden will change theirtough stance on WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange,especially since they arenegotiating with a small, poorcountry like his. Ecuador’sleftist leader told Reuters in

BEIJING, 24 Aug — TheMinistry of Commerce (MOC)on Wednesday announced thesecond batch of rare earthexport quota for this year,totaling 9,770 tonnes. Thelatest quota, including 8,537tonnes of light rare earthmetals and 1,233 tonnes ofmedium and heavy rare earthmetals, brings the full-yearexport quota to 30,996 tons,an increase of 2.7 percent fromlast year, according to datafrom the MOC.

The second quota will begranted to 24 companies,including the BaogangGroup, the country’s largestlight rare earth producer, andthe China MinmetalsCorporation, according to anonline statement from theMOC. On 27 December lastyear, the ministry announcedthe country’s first batch ofrare earth export quota, totaling10,546 tonnes for 11 qualifiedcompanies. The quota waslater expanded by 10,680

tonnes. Rare earth metals arevital for manufacturing anarray of high-tech products,including cell phones, windturbines, electric car batteriesand missiles. China suppliesmore than 90 percent of theworld’s rare earth metals, butits reserves only account forabout one-third of the world’stotal. The mining of rare earthmetals has caused severeenvironmental damage inseveral parts of China.

Xinhua

an interview on Thursday thathe remained open to talks overthe fate of the former computerhacker, who has been holedup at the EcuadoreanEmbassy in London for morethan two months.

Britain says it isdetermined to extraditeAssange to Sweden, wherehe is wanted for questioningover allegations of rape andsexual assault. Correa sayshe shares Assange’s fears

that he could then be sent tothe United States to facecharges over WikiLeaks’ 2010publication of secret UScables. “We have always hadfaith in dialogue. You neverlose hope,” said Correa, whogranted asylum to the 41-year-old Australian last week. “But... I’m a bit skeptical thatBritain, Sweden or the UnitedStates will change theirposition, since they are notused to doing so, and evenless so when they are in talkswith a ‘Third World country’like Ecuador,” he said. “We’vealways been underestimated,but we still have hope.”

Reuters

Ecuador’s PresidentRafael Correa gesturesduring an interview inLoja on 17 Aug, 2012.

REUTERS

suggested hundreds ofmachines had been installed.In another development likelyto worry the West, they saidsatellite imagery indicatedIran had covered a building ata military site which UNinspectors want to visit with abrightly-coloured, tent-likestructure.

Western diplomats havesaid they believe Iran iscleansing the Parchin site toremove any evidence of illicitnuclear activity at a placewhere the UN nuclearwatchdog suspects it hasconducted tests that had amilitary dimension. Coveringthe building in question —which is believed to house asteel chamber for explosivesexperiments — may allow Iranto carry out sanitization orother work there which wouldnot be seen via satellitepictures.

Reuters

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV POSITIVE PIONEER VOY NO (66)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV POSITIVEPIONEER VOY NO (66) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 25.8.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINER S’POREPTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PHUONG NAM 69 VOY NO (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV PHUONGNAM 69 VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 25.8.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W (2) where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: RK SHIPPING & TRADINGPTE LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SANG THAI EAGLE VOY NO (-)Consignees of cargo carried on MV SANG THAI

EAGLE VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 25.8.2012 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of B.S.W (1) where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: SANG THAI SHIPPINGCO LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV EVER ABLE VOY NO (138N)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV EVER ABLEVOY NO (138N) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 25.8.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of H.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S EVER GREEN SHIPPINGPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BIENDONG TRADER VOY NO (1234)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BIENDONGTRADER VOY NO (1234) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 25.8.2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

S Korean aid group visitsflood-stricken DPRK

SEOUL, 24 Aug — Representatives of a South Korean civicgroup travelled to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) on Friday to discuss flood aid with their counterpartsnorth of the border.

Four officials of the Korea NGO Council for Cooperationwith North Korea (KNCCK), an association of 51 private aidgroups, are scheduled to meet with officials from the DPRK’sNational Reconciliation Council in the border city of Kaesong.

The meeting, proposed by the KNCCK earlier this month,will involve consultations over providing relief aid to the DPRKwhere floods reportedly killed 169 people and left 400 missing.Theaid group has said it plans to send relief goods before theChuseok holidays on 29 September - 1 October.—Xinhua

Seoul court rules Appleinfringed two Samsung

patentsSEOUL, 24 Aug — Apple Inc has infringed on two of

Samsung Electronics Co’s patents and it has been fined

People wait on a streetin front of an Applestore as they await

sales of the new iPadin the Apple store in

Munich on 16 March,2012.

REUTERS

$35,400 by a South Koreancourt, the court ruled onFriday.

The South Koreanruling comes as the two firmsare locked in a bruising globalpatent battle that couldreshape a fast-evolvingmobile market. There will be aseparate ruling on an Applesuit against Samsung within30 minutes.

Reuters

Taipei develops soft rice forthe elderly

TAIPEI, 24 Aug — Taiwanese researchers said on Thursdaythey have developed a strain of rice that cooks particularlysoft for elderly people to meet the needs of a rapidly greyingsociety. The new strain was developed by the Miaoli DistrictAgricultural Research And Extension Station in central Taipeiafter a decade-long process and was expected to hit the marketnext year, they said. “We’ve developed the rice with theelderly consumers in mind to make the rice taste very soft anda little sweet. It also gives a stable yield and can be stored fora long time,” said researcher Chang Su-jeing.

People aged 65 and over account for 10.7 percent ofTaipei’s 23 million population, the latest census showed,above the 7.0 percent level at which a society is defined as“ageing” by the World Health Organization.—InternetHI woman just misses record half-ton marlin catch

HONOLULU, 24 Aug—A5-foot-9-inch womantournament fishing in Hawaiiwaters fought a 12-foot marlin

In this 18 Aug, 2012photo provided by JodyBright, Molly Palmer

stands with her husbandShawn Palmer near her

catch— a 12-foot marlinthat took more than fourhours to get on her team’sboat, weighing it at morethan a half-ton—a would-

be world record, inKailua-Kona, Hawaii.

INTERNET

more than four hours beforegetting it on her team’s boatand weighing it at more than ahalf-ton — a would-be worldrecord. But 28-year-old MollyPalmer is missing out on theglory and thousands intournament prize money forone pesky reason: Her team’shonor code.

Cheating would havebeen easy and tempting. TheBig Island Invitational MarlinTournament runs in part on anhonor system and Palmer, hercaptain and crewmates put uproughly $9,000 to enter last

week.But the Kailua-Konaangler said it wasn’t a questionof whether or not to cheat —her team just wanted to reel inthe big catch. So theydisqualified themselves andPalmer’s crewmates helpedpull the monstrous fish aboard.

“The question was onlycan I land the fish or not,”Palmer told The AssociatedPress. “I didn’t come here toset world records. I didn’t evenreally come here to win money.I came here to catch fish andthat’s just what we were thereto do.”—Internet

14th International CircusFestival opens in Cuba

HAVANA, 24 Aug — Performers from 20 countries vied fortop honors, including the best clown, at the 14th InternationalCircus Festival that began on Thursday in Cuba.

The festival, titled Circuba 2012, was inaugurated onWednesday night at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater, with a galafeaturing artists from host country Cuba as well as Argentina,Canada and Russia.Competitions started on Thursday forawards in the categories of best male and female performers,most popular performers, and for the first time ever, best newartist. The festival enters a climax when the 5th Erdwin FernandezInternational Clown Competition takes place in Havana on 23-26 August. The competition was named after one of Cuba’smost beloved entertainers, Erdwin Fernandez (1928-1997) whowas best known for playing a clown called Trompoloco or CrazyTop, referring to the spinning toy.—Xinhua

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Calif couple marries whilehovering over beach

Here comes the bride, alldressed in a jet pack that’szipping down a Californiabeach.

Amanda Volf and GrantEngler donned water-powered packs Thursday tobe married in Newport Beach.

The 25-year-old formerwedding planner from GrandRapids, Mich, says shewanted a unique ceremony.So the couple donned the$90,000 contraptions on their

backs, along with a wetsuitfor the groom and white boardshorts and a rash-guard shirtfor the bride.

The jetpacks from JetlevSouthwest helped the couplehover a few feet above thewater, to the cheers of theirwedding guests.

Everything wentsmoothly — except for akayaker who capsized duringthe newlyweds’ first danceon the water.

Authorities remove 3 million bees from NYChome

Many of the hives beforethey were removed fromthe 111th Street home in

Queens.

Authorities in New YorkCity have raided a Queenshome where a man waskeeping about 3 million bees.

The bees, in 45 hives ina driveway, were carefullyremoved from the 111th Streethouse by beekeepers and

police, the New York Postreports. “There were morebees in this driveway thanthere are people in Queens,”Andrew Cote of the New YorkCity Beekeeper’sAssociation, who helpedremove the bees, told the Post.

Cote told Yahoo Newshe did not know the fate of thebees, he just assisted in theirremoval.

CBS Local New Yorkreports the bees’ owner was abeekeeper in China beforebecoming a restaurant ownerin New York City. The bees

were in a 20-by-20-foot space,according to CBS.

“I keep the bees like adog or a pet,” he told the Post.

But NY police bee expertDetective Anthony Planakissaid it was too many bees forsuch a small space. “Picture45 dogs in one apartment,” hesaid. “It’s cruelty to the bees.”

The stacks of hives werediscovered by a real estateagent who was inspecting thehouse as the owner wasputting it up for sale, the Postreports.

Neighbours said they

had become fed up with allthe buzz because of theinsects, and that the beeshave, at times, attacked inswarms, according to CBS.

Beekeeping is legal in thecity, however hives aresupposed to be registeredwith the Health Department.Failure to register ispunishable by a fine of up to$2,000 per hive.

So the owner in this casecould be facing a pretty big$90,000 penalty.

And that might sting alittle bit.

British filmmaker RupertSanders (L) and actress

Liberty Ross (R)

Liberty Ross at film debut without husband

LOS ANGELES, 24 Aug—English model-actressLiberty Ross appeared at the

Hollywood premiere ofdirector John Hillcoat’sProhibition-era gangster film“Lawless” without herhusband.

Ross, 34, was also notwearing a wedding band atthe Wednesday night red-carpet ArcLight Cinemasscreening, tabloid TVentertainment news Web site

HollyScoop reported.Ross’ director-

husband Rupert Sanders,41, was shown in photospublished by gossipmagazine Us Weekly lastmonth cheating on Rosswith 22-year-old actressKristen Stewart, promptingStewart to issue a publicapology.

Stewart and Ross wereboth in Sanders’ fantasy film“Snow White and theHuntsman,” which wasreleased in the United States1 June .

In the film, Stewartplayed Snow White. Rossplayed Queen Eleanor, SnowWhite’s mother.

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ABC Family orders JenniferLopez-produced TV pilot

LOS ANGELES, 24 Aug—ABC Family says it green-lighted a series pilot fromJennifer Lopez’s productioncompany about a lesbiancouple and their diversefamily. ABC Family said onThursday the comedy-dramapilot, titled “The Fosters,” is

about two women raising a“21st century,” multi-ethnicmix of foster and biologicalkids.

Lopez will be an executiveproducer for the hour-longproject. Casting was notannounced.

Her company,Nuyorican, is in developmenton other TV series, including“Taming Ben Taylor,” aromantic comedy starring theactress-singer, and “SweetLittle 15,” a Mexican girl’scoming-of-age story.

Lopez, who recentlyexited “American Idol” as ajudge, also is developing filmsthrough her company.

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Singer Jennifer Lopez

Elisa Sednaoui, new face ofGérard Darel

PARIS, 24 Aug—Actressand model Elisa Sednaoui waschosen to be the face of thenew Fall/Winter 2012-2013collection by Gérard Darel in acampaign shot by AngeloPennetta.

“Chosen for herpersonality, charm, eleganceand modernity, Elisa Sednaouirepresents the current Frenchwoman, who is open to theworld and to the others,” thebrand explained.

Items of the 1970s-inspired collection includevelvet and denim pants, coats,

tops, trenchcoats and sweatersin luxe materials like leather,thick wool, shearling and silkgeorgette.

Elisa Sednaoui starred inBus Palladium and Love LastsThree Years. As a model, shefeatured in Chanel’s Spring2011 eyewear campaign andhas collaborated withRoberto Cavalli for thebrand’s eponymousfragrance.—Internet

Elisa Sednaoui, new faceof Gérard Darel

Morgan Spurlock joins CNNNEW YORK, 24 Aug—

Morgan Spurlock will hostand produce the new CNNseries “Inside Man,” whichwill air in April 2013 alongsideCNN’s new series withAnthony Bourdain.

The “Supersize Me”director will look at gunlovers, marijuana growers,migrant farm workers, andend-of-life caregivers andother little-seen people. Itarrives as CNN tries to emergefrom a serious ratings lull.

The show will beproduced by Warrior Poets,Spurlock’s New York-basedproduction company withproducing partner JeremyChilnick.

“Morgan Spurlock’sname has becomesynonymous with creativeand thought-provokingdocumentary story-telling,”said Mark Whitaker, CNNWorldwide executive vicepresident and managingeditor. “Like Anthony

Bourdain’s new CNN series,‘Inside Man’ will carry thedistinctive stamp of its hostwhile taking viewers oncolourful and informative

journeys into fascinatingcorners of American society.”

Spurlock came toprominence with 2004’sOscar-nominated “Super SizeMe.” He moved into televisionwith the FX series “30 Days.”He also executive producedthe documentary series “ADay in the Life” on Hulu andthe Yahoo spinoff of hisfeature-length documentary“Mansome.”

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Director, writer andproducer Morgan

Spurlock

BB King does intimate show inMiss ‘homecoming’

INDIANOLA, 24 Aug—Acrescent moon hung over theMississippi Delta as alegendary bluesman creptonto the stage. He sat in afolding chair, grabbed a guitar,and introduced each memberof his band. Then, as if it wasneeded, he introducedhimself.

“I guess you can look atme and tell I’m the old man.My name is BB King.” At 86,King may be grayer and slowerthan he used to be, but there’sno questioning his ability to

please fans. King performedfor about an hour onWednesday night on anoutdoor stage at the BB KingMuseum and DeltaInterpretive Centre inIndianola, built on the site of

a cotton gin where he workedas teenager while growing upin the impoverished delta.

King was born in LefloreCounty but spent time inseveral cities, includingIndianola, Kilmichael andLexington. He was honoredearlier this week in Kilmichaelwith a marker on theMississippi Blues Trail, whichmemorializes and marketsMississippi as the birthplaceof the blues. The 32nd annualBB King Homecoming wasIndianola’s turn to celebrate.The crowd was young andold, from as far Britain, or fromjust down the street.

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An 86-year-old BB King

“Candy Store” roles offered toBrad Pitt, Christoph Waltz

LOS ANGELES, 24Aug—Stephen Gaghan is setto direct from his own scriptthe crime thriller “CandyStore,” which has been setup at Lionsgate, an individualwith knowledge of the projecttold TheWrap.

An offer is out to BradPitt for the role of Mark Swain,although the filmmakers aresaid to be interested in a longline of actors should that deal

not come to fruition, includingChristian Bale, Ben Affleck,Matt Damon and BradleyCooper.

An offer is also out to theactor Christoph Waltz, whoco-starred with Pitt in QuentinTarantino’s “InglouriousBasterds,” for the role of BlackZenga.

The story follows anelite, highly trained deep-cover operative who loseseverything, ultimatelydisappearing into Brooklyn,where he must start again. Hewashes up as a beat cop, onlyto discover the globalorganization he wasdedicated to fighting is alsooperating in his newbackyard.—Internet

Cast member Brad Pitt

‘Hairspray’ producers Zadan,Meron to run Oscars

LOS ANGELES, 24 Aug—The producing team thathelped to create such musicalsas “Chicago” and “Hairspray”is overseeing the nextAcademy Awards ceremony.Academy managementannounced on Thursday thatCraig Zadan and Neil Meronwill produce the 85th annualOscars that will air live on 24Feb ABC.

Zadan and Meron wereexecutive producers on 2002’s“Chicago,” which won sixOscars including best picture.They also were producers onthe 2007 hits “Hairspray” and“The Bucket List” and lastyear’s remake of “Footloose.”Zadan also produced the 1984original “Footloose.”

Among Zadan andMeron’s TV credits are theseries “Smash,” ‘’A Raisin inthe Sun” and the upcoming“Steel Magnolias.”

On Broadway, Zadan andMeron’s work includes TonyAward-winning revivals of“How to Succeed in BusinessWithout Really Trying” and“Promises, Promises.”

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News Album

Craig Zadan, left, andNeil Meron, producers of

the film “Hairspray”

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Osasuna land Ghanamidfielder Annan on loan

MADRID, 24 Aug—Osasuna have signed Ghanamidfielder Anthony Annanon loan from Schalke 04 forthe season, the Spanish clubsaid on Thursday.

“He has a lot ofexperience, from being aninternational with his countryand from the Europeancompetitions he has playedin,” Osasuna sports director

Angel Martin Gonzalez saidat the player’s presentation.

Annan, 26, spent lastseason on loan with VitesseArnhem.

Osasuna opened their LaLiga campaign with a 2-0 defeatat promoted DeportivoCoruna last weekend and hostBarcelona in their next matchon Sunday.

Reuters

Ghana’s Annan Anthony (L) controls the ball duringtheir African Cup of Nations Group D soccer match

against Guinea at Franceville stadium on 1 February,2012. —REUTERS

Liverpool scrape win, Newcastle hold Greeks Liverpool’s Italianforward Fabio Borini (C)

eyes his shot as itrebounds off the post

during the UEFA EuropaLeague Qualifying Play-

Off Round first legfootball match.

INTERNET

LONDON, 24 Aug—Liverpool scraped a 1-0 winover Hearts while a Newcastleside shorn of several familiarfaces survived swelteringheat to hold Greek sideAtromitos to a 1-1 draw intheir Europa League play-offround first-legs on Thursday.

Liverpool needed anown goal from Andy Websterwith 12 minutes remaining atTynecastle to see off Heartsin the absence of several firstteamers, including Englandforward Andy Carroll —persistently linked with areturn to Newcastle.

Carroll, nursing a sorehamstring, was not even onthe bench as coach BrendanRodgers fielded Fabio Boriniand Raheem Sterling in attack.

The Reds also left outSteven Gerrard, Luis Suarez,

Martin Skrtel and GlenJohnson with ManchesterCity to visit in the league onSunday.

Newcastle were playingin Europe for the first time infive years but coach AlanPardew made nine changesfrom the side which beatTottenham in their openingPremier League match at theweekend to give fringe playerssome game time.

The new faces includedAdam Campbell, a second halfsubstitute who became theMagpies’ youngest Europeandebutant at 17 years and 236days - 64 days younger thanformer favourite Andy Carrollwhen he played in Palermo in2006.

Another getting a raregame was former first choicekeeper Steve Harper, who at

37 was handed a start withDutch international Tim Krulgiving way.

Harper was unable tokeep a clean sheet as Germanstriker Denis Epstein gave thehosts the lead on 24 minutes

before Ryan Taylor fired homea free kick in first half stoppagetime to give Newcastle a good

chance of reaching the groupstage with the home leg tocome.—Internet

Japan’s Yamanaka, Igarashi to defend boxingtitles

TOKYO, 24 Aug—Japan’s World BoxingCouncil bantamweightchampion ShinsukeYamanaka and flyweightchampion Toshiyuki Igarashiwill both defend their titles inNovember, organizers said onThursday.

The bouts will be foughtin Sendai on 3 November as a

charity event for the disastercaused by a huge 9.0-magnitude earthquake andtsunami on 11 March, 2011.

The tsunami killedthousands of people andcrippled the cooling systemsat the Fukushima nuclear plant,causing meltdowns in three ofits reactors.

Yamanaka, 29, will take

on former WBC superflyweight champion TomasRojas of Mexico, 32, who isranked seventh in the category.

It will be Yamanaka’ssecond defence of the title hewon in November last year. Hehas 16 wins, including 11 KOsand two draws, while Rojashas 39 wins, including 26 KOs,against 13 defeats and onedraw.

“I’m going to pile uppoints and try to knock himout in the latter half,” saidYamanaka.

Igarashi, 28, will fightNestor Narvaes of Argentina,30, and ranked ninth in theWBC, who has 19 wins,including nine KOs, twodefeats, one null and void.

“It will be my first defenceof the title but I’m not going totry to defend it. I’m going tofight as a challenger as I didlast time,” said Igarashi, whohas 16 wins, including 10 KOs,against one defeat and a draw.

Internet

Shinsuke Yamanaka of Japan (right) punches CristianEsquivel of Mexico during their WBC bantamweight

title fight in Tokyo in 2011.—INTERNET

Barca fightback to take

control ofSuper Cup

BARCELONA, 24 Aug—Pedro, Lionel Messi and Xaviscored for holders Barcelonawho came back to beat RealMadrid 3-2 at home in theSpanish Super Cup first legon Thursday.

La Liga champions Realstruck first when CristianoRonaldo headed home in the55th minute, only for Pedro tobreak away and level a minutelater.

Andres Iniesta wasbrought down for a penalty,which Messi converted in the70th minute, and he then wenton a mazy run to set up hisSpain team mate Xavi for thethird in the 78th. Angel DiMaria pounced on an errorfrom Barca goalkeeper VictorValdes to grab a second forReal late on that kept them intouch for Wednesday’sreturn leg at the Bernabeu.

“In the end the result istighter than we would havewanted considering thechances we created,” Pedrotold Spanish television. “Weare pleased and now we haveto play a good game there ifwe want to win the title.”

Reuters

Barcelona’s Xavi (L)celebrates after scoring agoal past Real Madrid’s

Sami Khedira during theirSpanish Super Cup firstleg soccer match at Nou

Camp stadium inBarcelona on 23 August,

2012. —REUTERS

Harrington in control atBethpage, Woods edges

NEW YORK, 24 Aug—Tiger Woods overshadowedplaying partner Rory McIlroywhile Padraig Harringtonstole the limelight by takingoverall command inThursday’s opening roundof the Barclays tournamentin Farmingdale, New York.

Wielding a red-hotputter, Irishman Harringtoncovered his final nine holesin a blistering six-under-par29 to card a seven-under 64in the first of the PGA Tour’sfour lucrative FedExCupplayoff events.

In pursuit of his firstvictory on the US circuit sincethe 2008 PGA Championship,three-times major winnerHarrington piled up eightbirdies and a lone bogey tofinish a stroke in front ofAmericans Nick Watney andBrian Harman.

Spaniard Sergio Garcia,who ended a four-year titledrought on the PGA Tour bywinning the rain-delayed

Liu Xiang speaks out over Olympic injury rowHONG KONG, 24 Aug—

Chinese 110m hurdler LiuXiang has said he felt healthybefore his spectacular exit fromthe London Olympics, afterreports that his injury wasknown to authorities beforethe race but hushed up.

Liu, in his first majorinterview since he devastatedChinese fans by crashing outof the Games with a rupturedAchilles tendon, told statebroadcaster CCTV that he “felthealthy standing on thestarting line”.

The interview came amidcontroversy over Liu, anational hero who took goldin Athens in 2004 but hobbledout of the stadium for a secondsuccessive Games after alsostaging an early exit from the

2008 edition at home in Beijing.It was broadcast late

Thursday, after speculationonline and in Chinese mediathat authorities in China knewbefore the race began that Liuwas seriously injured and wasunlikely to complete it.

“Standing on the line, Ifelt I was a healthy Liu Xiang.Actually I was havingproblems on my foot at thetime, but I felt I could run fast,”

said Liu. “(But) when I triedthe first hurdle, I felt like I waslashed by a whip.”

Hong Kong’s SouthChina Morning Post on Fridayquoted an unnamed seniorCCTV editor as saying thebroadcaster knew Liu wasinjured when he arrived inLondon and was preventedby propaganda authoritiesfrom revealing the information.

Internet

China’s Liu Xiangfalls and injures

himself in the men’s110m hurdles heatsduring the London

2012 OlympicGames on 7

August, 2012 inLondon.INTERNET

Wyndham Championship onMonday, was among a groupof four on 66 while FedExCuppoints leader Woods openedwith a 68 and McIlroy a 69.

Harrington, who alsohas one eye this week onearning a late call-up for theEuropean Ryder Cup team,was delighted with hisputting on the challenging,7,468-yard Bethpage Blacklayout.

“I’ve been playing wellfor quite a while, but this isthe best I’ve putted, the bestI’ve struck my putts, the bestI’ve rolled the ball for a longperiod of time,” the 40-year-old Irishman told reportersafter taking only 26 putts.

Harrington conceded hehad learned a valuable lessonabout the scoringpossibilities at a venue whichhas staged two US Opensfrom his American playingpartner Troy Matteson, whoeagled the fourth hole.

Reuters

Harrington conceded hehad learned a valuablelesson about the scoringpossibilities at a venuewhich has staged twoUS. Opens from hisAmerican playing

partner Troy Matteson,who eagled the fourth

hole.—REUTERS

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R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information.

(25-8-12 09:30 am ~26-8-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV(25-8-2012) (Saturday)

Focus Myanmar TV ProgrammeWeather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 25th August, 2012

* News* A Journey to

Research TaronRace

* News* Myanmar Movie

Impact “Egg”* News* Today’s Efficient

Youths (ILBC)* News* Food Trip

(Episode-4)(Part-1)

* News* “Myanmar

InternationalFrontier”Myanmar-IsraelBilateralCooperations

* News* Mingalar Byuha

and Courses ofBuddha Desana

* News* Kambawzathardi

Golden Palace* News* Space Egg Hands-

on Workshop* Myanmar Movie

‘‘Glass Marble’’

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy Exercise7:40 am 3. Nice & Sweet Song7:55 am 4. Documentary8:00 am 5. Selected Songs For 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions (2012)(Classical Song) (HigherEducation) (Level Men &Women)

8:25 am 6. Island of Dhamma (3)11:10 am 7. Musical Programme11:25 am 8. Game For Children1:40 pm 9. Dance of National Races2:40 pm10. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions

4:05 pm11. Cultural Dances4:35 pm12. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)-First Year (Myanmar)

5:20 pm13. Beautiful “ASEAN”5:30 pm14. Game For Children6:20 pm15. Celebraity and Dinner8:00 pm16. News17. Cartoon Series18. TV Drama Series19. Gitadagale Phwinfbaohn

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow Sr. No. Regions/States

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 29/84 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

2 Kayah 28/82 22/72 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

3 Kayin 29/84 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

4 Chin 23/73 17/63 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

5 Upper Sagaing 31/88 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

6 Lower Sagaing 38/100 27/81 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

7 Taninthayi 31/88 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

8 Bago 30/86 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

9 Magway 33/91 27/81 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

10 Mandalay 36/97 27/81 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

11 Mon 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

12 Yangon 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

13 Rakhine 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

14 Southern Shan 25/77 18/64 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

15 Northern Shan 31/88 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

16 Eastern Shan 28/82 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

17 Ayeyawady 30/86 25/77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 33/91 24/75 One or two rain or thundershower (100%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 31/88 23/73 One or two rain or thundershower (100%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 36/97 27/81 Isolated rain or thundershower (80%)

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Ayeyawady Region, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Lower Sagaing Region and Kayah State, scattered in Magway and Yangon Regions, fairly widespread in Upper Sagaing, Mandalay and Bago Regions, Shan, Chin, Rakhine and Mon States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with regionally heavy falls in Mandalay Region and isolated heavy falls in Kachin and Rakhine States. The noteworthy amount of rainfall recorded were Putao (5.75) inches, MraukU (4.02) inches, Pyinmana (2.83) inches, Kawkareik (2.60) inches and Myingyan (1.58) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is moderate in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be moderate in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Moderate monsoon.

Condolence forMs. MARINAH BINTI

MOHAMEDWe are sad for the news of Ms. MARINAH BINTI

MOHAMED untimely passing, Mother of Mr. KhairulAnnur, who is Physical Trainer of Yangon United FC. Wesend our sincere condolence and May Ms. MARINAHBINTI MOHAMED Rest in Peace.

YANGON UNITED FC

Twenty killed in heavy rains inN India

NEW DELHI, 24 Aug — Atleast 20 people were killedand over 20,000 displaced inheavy rains that have lashedthe northern Indian state ofRajasthan since Tuesdaynight, in what is claimed tobe the heaviest rainfall in over30 years, a senior policeofficial said on Thursday.

“So far 20 people areconfirmed dead in theincessant rains that haveflooded the state, includingcapital Jaipur.

The death toll is likelyto go up even though the

flood waters have now startedreceding. More than 20,000people are forced to leavetheir homes because offlooding,” he said, oncondition of anonymity.

Local TV channelsreported that schools havebeen closed and rail andtransport links have beendisrupted in Jaipur, popularlyknown as the Pink City, inthe wake of the rainfall, andbeamed footage of peopletaking shelters on rooftops toavoid being caught floodwaters.

Many foreign anddomestic tourists have beenstranded in Jaipur, a populartourist attraction, some 250kms from the Indian capital,the reports said.Meanwhile,

Indian Prime MinisterManmohan Singh hasassured of extending allpossible help to the state inthe wake of the naturalcalamity.— Xinhua

Indian residents wade through floodwaters in JawaharNagar colony in Jaipur. — INTERNET

Nevada teen missing after Southwest flooding

Members of the Henderson police and fire departmentshead back to their vehicles after conducting a search ofthe Duck Creek Channel for 17-year-old Green ValleyHigh School student William Mootz in Henderson, Nev

on 22 Aug, 2012.— INTERNET

Nuke agency forms special Iran teamVIENNA, 24 Aug — The

UN nuclear agency is forminga special Iran team, drawingtogether sleuths in weaponstechnology, intelligenceanalysis, radiation and otherfields of expertise as it seeksto add muscle to a probe ofsuspicions that Teheranworked secretly on atomicarms, diplomats tell TheAssociated Press.

Creating a unit focusedon only one country is anunusual move for theInternational Atomic EnergyAgency, reflecting thepriority the UN nuclearwatchdog is attaching to Iranamid fears that it is movingcloser to the ability to makenuclear weapons. It alsoindicates frustration by topagency officials over Iran’srefusal to cooperate withIAEA experts who are tryingto follow up on suspicionsthat Teheran was — or is —secretly working on an armsprogramme.

Iran says suchallegations are based onevidence fabricated by theUnited States and Israel andinsists its nuclear programme

is meant only for makingreactor fuel, medical isotopesand peaceful research. But itrefuses to give up uraniumenrichment, which canproduce both reactor fuel andthe core of nuclear warheads,despite offers of fuel fromabroad. And its stonewallingof the IAEA probe hasincreased concerns that it hassomething to hide.Theagency’s move comes at acrucial time. With both theagency and internationaldiplomatic efforts stalematedin attempts to engage theIslamic Republic on itsnuclear programme, fears aregrowing that tensions couldspill over into armed conflict.

Asked for reaction on

the IAEA plans, Ali AsgharSoltanieh, Iran’s envoy to theIAEA, said: “I have not heardof such a thing, and I cannotcomment.” IAEAspokeswoman Gill Tudordescribed the plan as “aninternal adjustment to meetthe operational needs of theSafeguards Department,”which works to preventnuclear proliferation. DannyDanon, deputy speaker of theIsraeli Knesset and a memberof Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s Likud party,told the AP in a phoneinterview on Thursday thatIsrael was “preparing for allscenarios.” He also wasdismissive of the agency’snew Iran squad.— Internet

LAS VEGAS, 24 Aug — Ateen was swept away in adrainage wash in the Las Vegasarea and remained missing, andtwo people were rescued froma van stranded in high water insuburban Phoenix after heavyrains in the Southwest floodedditches and roads. Family andfriends gathered on Thursdayin Henderson, southeast of theLas Vegas Strip, to look for a17-year-old boy whodisappeared after falling into aflood channel the day before.The wash had filled quicklyafter a Wednesday morningdownpour.

William Mootz washanging out with friends whenhe somehow fell into the

Pittman Wash, whichmeanders past a shopping malland his high school, policesaid. The teen apparentlydidn’t intend to get in. “I thinkthey were just going out thereto look at the raging water inthe washes,” Hendersonpolice spokesman Keith Paulsaid. Family members say theincoming high school senioris a strong swimmer and hasemergency preparednessexperience.

More than a dozenHenderson police officerswalked up and down the washwith guidance from citypublic works employees whoknow how water typicallyflows down the channel. In

all, about 100 volunteers werehelping 40 police, firefightersand city employees look forMootz. They cleared anestimated 15 tons of dirt anddebris from a more than mile-long, concrete-lined portionof the wash before turningtheir attention to a wider,muddy marsh fartherdownstream. Rainwater in thewash ultimately drains intoLake Mead.

The Las VegasMetropolitan PoliceDepartment was helping theeffort with a helicopter. Thechopper was being used tofly searchers into otherwiseinaccessible parts of themucky wetland. “More thananything else, it’s the use ofthe Metro Police helicopterthat’s very helpful insearching a large areaquickly,” Paul said. In thePhoenix area, flooded roadsled to a dramatic rescue onThursday morning. A driverand her disabled passengerhad to be pulled from amedical transport van thatwas stranded after the drivertried to navigate a floodedScottsdale wash.— Internet

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SWRR Ministry empowers women, protects children, takes care ofthe aged, strives for development of persons with disabilities

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—Pyithu Hluttaw session continuedfor 33rd day at Pyithu Hluttaw Hallin Hluttaw Complex here today,attended by Pyithu HluttawSpeaker Thura U Shwe Mann and404 MPs.

Three questions wereanswered, one report submitted,one proposal discussed and oneurgent proposal put forward attoday’s session.

Regarding the question of UMyint Thu of Dagon Myothit (East)Constituency about legal andmeasures for instilling disciplineto betel-chewers in spitting, NayPyi Taw Council Member U KanChun replied that Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Affairs Committeehas enacted articles 32 and 58 ofenvironmental conservation andsanitation rules and actions will betaken against those who break therules. Firstly, public educationprogramme will be conducted for acertain period and legal actions will

The 33rd day session of Pyithu Hluttaw in progress.—MNA

Health Department opens station hospital, rural health care centers and ruralhealth care centers (branch) after drafting fifth five-year short-term National Plan

Amyotha Hluttaw representatives seen at 33rd day session.—MNA

be taken against reckless spittingof betel-chewers after the set period.Yangon City DevelopmentCommittee and Mandalay CityDevelopment Committee enforcethe same rules. In addition, regionand state governments are toformulate the rules in rewriting thedevelopment affairs law.

Regarding the question of UTha Win of Yankin Constituencyabout the State’s measures to lookafter mothers and children,orphans, children of fallen servicepersonnel, the aged and personswith disabilities as prescribed inSection 32 of the constitution,Deputy Minister for Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlement U PhoneSwe replied that Social WelfareDepartment conducts vocationalcourses, education on genderequality, reproductive health andHIV/AIDS to empower mothers andwomen. The ministry has openedcentres, training schools and shelterfor women in need of protection and

taking care of them in cooperationwith local and foreign NGOs and UNagencies.

In addition, it has opened

five child care centres for protectionof children, working for physical,intellectual and moral developmentof orphans and children with social

problems. In addition, it allowsadoption of orphans enabling themenjoy normal family life.

(See page 9)

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Aug—Amyotha Hluttaw Sessioncontinued for 33rd Day, at AmyothaHluttaw Hall of Hluttaw Complex,

here, at 10.05 am today, attended bySpeaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U KhinAung Myint and 210 MPs.

At the session, Deputy

Minister for Health Dr Daw MyatMyat Ohn Khin replied to the healthquestions raised by fourrepresentatives.

With respect to the questionof U Kyaw Kyaw of Rakhine StateConstituency No.2 on “if there is aplan to upgrade Pyarte ruralhealth care center into stationhospital”, the deputy minister said:there are one 25-bed townshiphospital, on 16-bed station hospital,six rural health care centers, 26 ruralhealth care centers (branch) inMraukU Township. Plans are underway to open 16-bed station hospitalin Pyarte village, MraukUTownship in the coming 2013-2014financial year.

Regarding the question of UTin Win of Magway RegionConstituency No.8 on “whetherthere is a plan to open 16-bedstation hospital in Kyaukpadaungvillage, Aunglan Township”, thedeputy minister replied:

There are one 50-bedTownship hospital, four 16-bedstation hospitals, seven rural healthcare centers and 28 rural health carecenters (branch) in Aunglan

Township. Arrangements are beingmade to open a station hospital inKyaukpadaung village, AunglanTownship in the coming 2013-2014financial year.

Regarding the question ofDr Khin Maung Lay of Bago RegionConstituency No.8 on “whetherthere is a plan to upgrade ruralhealth care center into stationhospital in Kankyin village ofPaukkaung Township”, thedeputy minister said: There are one25-bed township hospital, one16-bed station hospital, five ruralhealth care centers and 21 ruralhealth care centers (branch) inPaukkaung Township. A stationhospital will be opened there in the2013-2014 financial year.

With respect to the questionof U Aung Than of Magway RegionConstituency No.10 on “there is aplan to upgrade the 50-bedPeople’s Hospital to 100-bed one”,the deputy minister replied:

(See page 10)

Application forms for matriculation exam (2013) availableNAY PYI TAW, 23 Aug—Application forms for

matriculation exam to be held in 2013 are available atMyanmar Examination Board Office as of 3 September.Green-coloured application forms and identity cardare designated for combination subjects Nos.1,5, 6, 7and 8, and pink-coloured forms and identity card, forcombination subjects Nos.2,3 and 4.

For the external candidates, stamps for exam feesare available at respective Township EducationOfficer Offices. They are to submit their applicationsforms at respective Township Education Officer Officefrom 3 to 28 September, 2012 after the stamps are putup at the left top corner of the application forms. For

the exam fees of the candidates from Basic EducationHigh Schools, schools (branch) and affiliated schools,school heads are to submit the candidates’ applicationforms along with the stamps to MEB office from 1September to 12 October, 2012.

Those who fail to submit the application forms arenot entitled to sit for the exam. Except for combinedsubjects described on the application forms and identitycards, the candidates will not entitle to other subjects.Application forms and stamps are available at OfficeNo.52, MEB (headquarter) in Nay Pyi Taw and MEB(Zwegabin Hall) in Hline University, Hline Township,Yangon.—MNA

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Annan loan

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