"The New Light of Myanmar" Sunday 15 April 2012 - Online Burma

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Volume XIX, Number 360 9th Waning of Tagu 1373 ME Sunday, 15 April, 2012

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration ofthe Union

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President U Thein Sein, wife Daw Khin Khin Win enjoyPresident U Thein Sein, wife Daw Khin Khin Win enjoyMyanmar Traditional Cultural Maha Thingyan FestivalMyanmar Traditional Cultural Maha Thingyan Festival

NAY PYI TAW, 14 April—President of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin KhinWin (on Maha Thingyan Akyat Day) this morning enjoyedMyanmar Traditional Cultural Maha Thingyan Festival for1373 ME on the lawns of the Presidential Palace.

On arrival at the Maha Thingyan water throwingpandal on the lawns of the Presidential Palace at 9.15 am, thePresident and wife were garlanded by Union Minister at thePresident Office U Thein Nyunt and staff families of thePresident Office in line with the fine Myanmar traditions.

Next, the President and wife cordially greeted filmartistes and vocalists.

Together with Vice-Presidents Thiha Thura U TinAung Myint Oo and wife Daw Khin Saw Hnin, and Dr SaiMauk Kham and wife Daw Nan Shwe Hmon, Chief Justice ofthe Union U Tun Tun Oo, Deputy Commander-in-Chief ofDefence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) General SoeWin, Deputy Speaker of the Amyotha Hluttaw U Mya Nyein,Union ministers, the Attorney-General of the Union, deputyministers and families, President U Thein Sein and wife DawKhin Khin Win enjoyed singing and dancing entertainments.

At the water throwing pandal, choral dancers of FineArts Department of the Ministry of Culture and the CampCommandant’s Office of the Ministry of Defence, vocalistsand renowned film stars presented Thingyan songs anddances to the accompaniment of the Myanma Athan modernmusic band.

After that, the President and wife together with thevice-presidents, members and families joyfully participatedin water throwing festival of Myanmar Traditional CulturalMaha Thingyan.

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President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein pours Thingyan water onattendees at Myanmar Traditional Cultural Maha Thingyan Festival on the lawns of the

Presidential Palace.—MNA

Choral troupes, singers and film stars entertaining audience with Thingyan songs on the lawns ofthe Presidential Palace.—MNA

Real Madrid’s CristianoRonaldo (R), seen here duringtheir Spanish La Liga matchagainst Atletico Madrid on

11 April. He scored hisseventh hat-trick of the

season.

Eric Morel has adopted anow or never attitude in

his bid to become a worldchampion for the first timein more than eight years.

Brittany Spears appears backstage at the 2011 MTV VideoMusic Awards at the NokiaTheatre in Los Angeles on

28 August 2011.

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Singer and actressJennifer Lopez andher husband, singer

Marc Anthony.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 15 April, 2012

PERSPECTIVES

Towards a new great yearSunday, 15 April, 2012

Thingyan, Myanmar Traditional NewYear Festival, reaches its tail end. The last yearwent by in flash and a new year begins. Thepreceding year was a momentous one whichwitnessed plenty of noticeable changes in variousfields.

During the previous year, the electedcivillian government instituted a series ofdramatic reforms and won domestic supportand international recognition which was madetangible by a number of high-profile visits fromthe western countries once hostile to Myanmar.The government, marking its first anniversaryof taking office, presented the people the freeand fair by-elections as a gift. Some sanctionsagainst her were lifted with some to be endedsoon.

MPs debated public affairs and passednew legislations in three parliamentary sessions,thoroughly acting as a check and balance onthe cabinet.

Peace talks with national race armedgroups during the last year were said to besuccessful, entering into agreements at eachlevel.

Signs indicated Myanmar’s economywould soon boom, inviting more foreign directinvestment. Lawmakers are also working topass new legislations to lure more foreigninvestors. Fixed for decades, foreign currencybecame float in Myanmar as well.

Various restrictions on taxation, mediaand many other sectors were relaxed. Myanmarhas had more and more transparency since theprevious year, boosting chances for realizationof “good governance and clean government”.

To look back on the very recent year, itwas a banner year. As we take a step towards anew year, we have to review our wish lists for thepast year—how many yeses we could tip—andrenew new ones, leaving out the things what welearned from the past year went against us.

We, the editorial board of the New Lightof Myanmar, wish you all our subscribers andthe people of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar could tick yeses to each and everyline on their wish lists for the coming year.

NAY PYI TAW, 14April—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation UMyint Hlaing yesterdaymorning visited Palethwehybrid paddy plantationand six-acre quality paddyplantation in Taegyigonvillage in ZabuthiriTownship in Nay Pyi Taw

Union A & I Minister visits Palethwe hybridpaddy plantations

Council Area, 45-daythriving Palethwe paddyplantation (50 acres) inChaing village,Dekkhinathiri Townshipand China-Myanmar hybridpaddy seed production atagricultural mechanizedfarming (100 acres) in Kyarkuvillage in Dekkhinathiri

Township.After that, he also

visited thriving paddyplantation in Alyinlo villagein Pyinmana Township and17-day Palethwe hybridpaddy at model agriculturalmechanized farming (200acres) in Yanaungmyinvillage in Dekkhinathiri

Township.Afterwards, the

Union Minister called forconducting research in allaspects, ensuring from-lab-to-farm by experts afterreviewing research findingsand choosing most suitablestrains for the region.

MNA

YANGON, 14 April—Yangon Region ChiefMinister U Myint Swe,accompanied by RegionHluttaw Speaker U Sein TinWin and Region ministers,met local people andcoordinated access topotable water and extendedconstruction of new schoolbuilding at Basic EducationHigh School (Branch) inThaminchan village inKawhmu township thismorning.

The region chiefminister paid homage toThaminchan Village

Yangon Region Chief Minister inspects Pyidawtharural housing project

monastery SayadawBhaddanta Çandanasiri andoffered alms to the Sayadaw.

The region chiefminister also inspectedprogress in construction ofKungyangon-Tawkayan-West Bodin road.

He also attendedbriefing for rural housing

project in Pyidawtha villageof Khalauktaya village-tractand heard reports submittedby officials. The Regionchief minister gavenecessary instructions andthen inspected the project.

Region Minister forElectric and Industry U NyanTun Oo and U Win Swe of

NAY PYI TAW, 14April—Opening ofTaninthayi Region MyanmaTraditional Maha ThingyanFestival Central Pandal, washeld, in the front of DaweiTown Hall on 12 April.Region Chief Minister UMyat Ko extended thegreetings. Region SocialAffairs Minister U Win Sweand Region DevelopmentAffairs Minister U AungKyaw Kyaw Oo cut theribbon to open the pandal.After that, they throw thescented water on and choraldances were performed at the

Taninthayi Region MyanmaTraditional Maha Thingyan

Festival Central Pandal openspandal. The Region ChiefMinister and party alsoattended openings ofMyanma Traditional MahaThingyan pandals inThayetchaung Township,Dawei District and in DaweiStation. The following day,the Region Chief Ministerand the region ministersenjoyed the performance ofchoral dancers at pandals ofMyanma Traditional MahaThingyan Central Pandal inDawei, and at Ministry ofHome Affairs and Ministryof Finance and RevenuePandals.—MNA

Shwetaung Development CoLtd reported on constructionof Kungyangon-Dalla-Thakhut-Lekkhokkon Road.

The project is beingimplemented with the helpof UNHABITAT, ADRAMyanmar and SystemEngineering Co Ltd.

MNA

Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe inspects road section of Kungyangon-Tawkayan-WestBodin road.—MNA

Union Minister forForeign Affairs

U Wunna MaungLwin and wife and

Dean of DiplomaticCorps Singaporean

AmbassadorMr Robert Chua andwife and diplomatshappily take part inGolden Guest Hotel

and Shwe Than LwinCompany's MahaThingyan Festival.(News on page 16)

MNA

Insein Township observes World TB Day 2012YANGON, 14 April—In line with the motto

“Stop TB, In My Life Time”, the World TB Day2012 was observed at Ayeyawady Hall ofBasic Education High School No 1 in InseinTownship of Yangon North District in Yangon

Region on 28 March morning.Deputy Commissioner of Yangon North

District General Administration Departmentmade an opening address on the occasion.

Kyemon

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China, Russia, India look to positive rolesabroad at meeting

MOSCOW,14 April— Theforeign ministers of China,Russia and India agreed toplay constructive roles ininternational and regionalaffairs, during their 11thtrilateral talks here Friday.Chinese Foreign MinisterYang Jiechi said thecooperative mechanism ofChina, Russia and India hadstrong vitality.

The mechanism servedas an important platform forthe emerging countries toseek peace, cooperation anddevelopment and demon-strated their will to promotemutually beneficial coope-ration that did not target any

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov andIndia’s Foreign Minister S M Krishna (From L to R) attend a joint Press conference

after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 13 April, 2012. —XINHUA

third party, Yang said.China advocated

pragmatic cooperation andpolitical dialogue in an equal,mutually beneficial way, in abid to promote the trilateraland multilateral cooperationamong the emergingcountries, he said. During themeeting, the three countriesagreed the world wasundergoing complicated andprofound changes andbecoming irreversibly multi-polar, with emerging anddeveloping countries playingbigger roles than ever before.China, Russia and India, allemerging countries andmembers of the UN Security

Council, were responsible forsafeguarding peace, deve-lopment and stability in theworld, the three said.

Meanwhile, they alsoagreed to enhance theircooperation in the UN, theG20 group, BRICS and othermultilateral mechanisms, inorder to facilitate regionalprosperity and stability andglobal economic recovery anddevelopment.

The countries wouldalso promote multilateralism,democratization of inter-national relations andpeaceful and commonprosperity in the world, theysaid.—Xinhua

First Confucius Institute in N Ireland opensits doors

BELFAST, 14 April — Anew chapter in China-Northern Ireland ties has beenopened with the launching ofNorthern Ireland’s firstConfucius Institute on Friday.The Confucius Institute at theUniversity of Ulster (CIUU)opened its doors Friday withan opening ceremony inJordanstown, near Belfast.China’s State Councilor LiuYandong, Northern Ireland’sFirst Minister Peter Robinson,Deputy First Minister MartinMcGuinness and ViceChancellor of the Universityof Ulster Richard Barnettattended the ceremony.

Liu said the high-levelpeople-to-people exchangemechanism between Chinaand Britain is the first of itskind between China and aEuropean Union country. The

Chinese State CouncilorLiu Yandong (3rd R),

Northern Ireland’s FirstMinister Peter Robinson(3rd L) and Deputy First

Minister MartinMcGuinness (2nd L)

jointly unveil the plaquefor the Confucius

Institute at the Universityof Ulster in Northern

Ireland, Britain, on 13April , 2012.—XINHUA

Tornado hits Oklahoma,more expected this weekend

CHICAGO, 14 April —Forecasters are warning of amajor tornado outbreak inKansas and Oklahoma thisweekend, and Oklahoma gota first taste of it on Friday asa twister touched down nearthe National Weather Serviceoffice in Norman. A tornadowas seen near the Universityof Oklahoma campus inNorman just after 4 pm localtime - the same town that holdsthe National Storm PredictionCentre, according to a Twitterpost from Rick Smith, aNational Weather Servicemeteorologist.

The Norman tornadoripped roofs from buildings,downed power lines anduprooted trees acrossNorman, a town of 110,000people 20 miles south ofOklahoma City, televisionimages showed. City Hall wasamong the structuresdamaged, said Keli Cain, aspokeswoman for the

A lightning strike is seen near the water tower ofBenkelman, Nebraska on 12 April, 2012. — INTERNET

mechanism would help thetwo countries furtherunderstand and learn fromeach other, and deepenfriendship between the twopeoples. Along with mutualpolitical trust and economicand trade cooperation, thehigh-level people-to-peopleexchange mechanism formsone of the three pillars of theChina-Britain relationship,she said. Speaking to teachersand students of theUniversity of Ulster, Liu saideducational exchange playsan important role in people-to-people exchanges.

China has madeopening-up and cooperationparts of its national educationplan, and is ready to workwith high-level foreignuniversities to cultivatetalents who have an

international vision, she said.She hoped Chinese andBritish universities woulddeepen cooperation in theexchange of teachers andstudents, establishingresearch and developmentplatforms, and sharingteaching ideas and otherresources.— Xinhua

Slogan ofLondonOlympic

Games to beannouncednext week

Powers seek to ease nuclear deadlockwith Iran

ISTANBUL, 14 April — Iran and worldpowers have a rare chance on Saturday to halta downward diplomatic spiral over Teheran’snuclear programme and ease fears of a newMiddle East war when they resume stalledtalks, but diplomats warn against expectingquick results. The negotiations in Istanbul,the first between Iran and the six powers in 15months, are unlikely to yield any majorbreakthrough but Western diplomats hope atlast to see readiness from Teheran to startdiscuss issues of substance.

That, they say, would mark a big changein Iran’s attitude from the last meeting whenit refused even to talk about its nuclearprogramme and could be enough forscheduling a second round of talks next month,perhaps in Baghdad. Such an outcome could,at least for the time being, dampen persistentspeculation that Israel might launch militarystrikes on Iranian nuclear sites to prevent itsenemy from obtaining atomic arms. Both sidessay they are ready at the meeting, which is dueto start at around 10 am (0700 GMT), to worktowards resolving the deepening dispute overthe nuclear programme which Iran says haspurely peaceful purposes.

“For their own reasons, each side wantsto give diplomacy a chance at this point, to

LONDON, 14 April — Thelong-awaited slogan of theLondon Olympics will beannounced next week whenit’s 100 days to go until theopening of the Games,LOCOG said here on Friday.

A source from theLOCOG told Xinhua, “I canconfirm to you that the sloganwill be announced at a pressconference next week.”

She refused to disclosethe reason why LOCOGreveals the slogan so late.The slogan of the 2008 BeijingOlympics — ‘One world, Onedream’, was unveiled in June2005, over three years beforethe opening of the Games.

Xinhua

Oklahoma Department ofEmergency Management Anoperator at the University ofOklahoma said people hadbeen warned to get to abasement or low floor. “I waswatching this tornado on TV,which was neat until I realizedit was right here in Norman,”said the operator, who did notgive a name.

Atmospheric conditionsfor the weekend will be similarto those that caused severestorms in parts of the Midwestand Southeast in early Marchthat killed more than 50 people,said Steve Weiss, sciencesupport branch chief for theNational Storm PredictionCenter. “We see potentiallysome ... very damagingtornadoes,” Weiss said.Oklahoma is already havingsevere weather Friday, and atwister was also reported inCopperton in the state’ssouthwest corner.

Reuters

Mexican drug cartel leader sent to prison in ColoradoDENVER, 14 April — The leader of a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced on Friday to more than 22 years

in prison by a federal judge in Colorado, who said the kingpin’s criminal enterprise sold $1 billion worth ofcocaine in eight US states. Oscar Arriola, 43, was “a clear and present danger to this country and its citizens,”US District Judge Robert Blackburn said.

The cartel distributed cocaine in 2002 and 2003 in New York, Illinois, Georgia and five other states froma storage centre at a Colorado ranch, before an anonymous tip led to an investigation, the US Drug EnforcementAdministration said. Arriola and his brother, Miguel, were among 29 people indicted in 2003 in federal courtin Denver. Oscar Arriola was arrested in Mexico in 2006 and extradited to the United States in 2010. In 2010,Miguel Arriola was sentenced to 20 years in prison on drug trafficking charges involving the Arriola cartel’ssmuggling of tons of cocaine from Mexico to the United States.

Oscar Arriola pleaded guilty last year to drug trafficking and money laundering crimes. He was one of thetop 35 drug traffickers in the world in 2002, Drug Enforcement agent and lead investigator Paul Roach said.A prison term of 22 1/2 years was justified, the judge said, because help Arriola provided to authorities whilein US custody was “more than offset by the lives ruined.”Arriola apologized to the judge for the harm his cartelinflicted on US residents.— Reuters

start a process rather than to force a quick fix,”said analyst Michael Adler at the WoodrowWilson International Centre for Scholars. Iranmust show in Istanbul that it is willing to enter“serious engagement,” one senior diplomatsaid, suggesting Saturday’s discussions wereunlikely to go into detailed issues. “My tip isto set your sights low,” the diplomat said. “Itis not part of our game plan for tomorrow to layout a long list of specific demands andconditions. They know what we think aboutall these things.”—Reuters

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Experts sleuth out whatkilled Puget Sound orca

In this 11 Feb, 2012 file photo provided by the SeasideAquarium, a team works on a dead killer whale after it

washed ashore near Long Beach, Wash.—INTERNET

SEATTLE, 14 April—Two months after a 3-year-oldendangered orca washed ashore bloodied and bruised inWashington state the cause of her death remains a mystery.Marine experts believe the female killer whale, known as L-112,died of massive blunt force trauma, but they’re still examiningevidence and waiting for tests of tissue samples to determinewhat caused that trauma. Some orca experts, however, suspectthe injuries are linked to an underwater explosion or militarytraining activity at sea.

Law enforcement officers with the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration last week began looking into theorca’s death and are seeking information from the US Navyand other sources about their activities as part of itsinvestigation, said NOAA spokesman Brian Gorman. “So far,there haven’t been any red flags,” he said. The Navy says itwasn’t conducting activity off the coast in the weeks before11 Feb, when the orca’s 12-foot long carcass was discoveredon Long Beach on Washington’s southern coast.

The young female orca was a member of the “L’’ pod, one

What would happen If youfell into a Black Hole?

WASHINGTON, 14 April — Black holes are without questionsome of the strangest places in the universe. So massive thatthey hideously deform space and time, so dense that theircentres are called “points at infinity,” and pitch- black becausenot even light can escape them, it isn’t surprising that so manypeople wonder what it would be like to visit one. It’s not exactlya restive vacation spot, as it turns out. If you were to take a stepinto a black hole, your body would most closely resemble“toothpaste being extruded out of the tube,” said Charles Liu,an astrophysicist who works at the American Museum ofNatural History’s Hayden Planetarium.

Liu said that when an object crosses a black hole’s “eventhorizon” — its outer boundary, or point of no return — the samephysics that causes Earth’s ocean tides begins to take effect.Gravity’s strength decreases with distance, so the moon pullson the side of the Earth closer to it a bit more vigorously thanthe side farther from it, and as a result, Earth elongates ever soslightly in the direction of the moon. The land is sturdy, so itdoesn’t move much, but the water on Earth’s surface is fluid,so it flows along the elongated axis.—Internet

‘Living fossil’ fish is evenolder than thought

NEW YORK , 14 April — The coelacanth, a “living fossil” fishthat predates the dinosaurs, is some 17 million years older thanpreviously thought, scientists have found. The earliest knownskull of a coelacanth, unearthed in Yunnan, China dates the fishin its current shape to about 400 million years ago, accordingto research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences published onTuesday in Nature Communications.

Coelacanths peaked in abundance about 240 million yearsago. They were thought to have died out around 65 million yearsago until one was caught off South Africa in 1938. Closelyrelated to the lungfish, coelacanths usually live at depths ofbetween 200 and 1,000 metres (650 and 3,250 feet). Greyish-brown with spots, they can grow up to two metres (6.5 feet) inlength and weigh as much as 91 kilos (200 pounds).— Internet

The coelacanth, a “living fossil” fish that predates thedinosaurs, is some 17 million years older than previously

thought, scientists have found.— INTERNET

of three groups of federally-protected killer whales that frequentPuget Sound, whose population now stands at 86.Conservations groups say her death represents a majorreproductive loss for the marine mammals and, combined withrecent naval sonar use in the region by the US and Canada,underscores the need for stricter protections for the marinemammals.—Internet

Georgia Aquarium’s resident pregnant beluga whaleMaris swims in the aquarium’s tank in Atlanta on 11

April, 2012. Maris, is expected to give birth by June. Shethe first mammal to conceive at the downtown Atlanta

attraction since it opened in 2005.— INTERNET

Scientist beams up a real “Star Trek”tricorder

A scientific measurement device developed by Dr PeterJansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive ScienceLaboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton,Ontario, Canada, based on the tricorders used byCaptain Kirk, Spock, Dr McCoy and other space

adventurers on the classic TV series that has spawnednumerous spin-offs in more than 45 year, is pictured inthis undated publicity photograph provided to Reuters

on 13 April, 2012.— INTERNET

These contact lenses give you superhuman vision

Samsung to showcase flagship OLED HDTV at IFA in August

Samsung to showcase flagship OLED HDTV at IFA inAugust.— INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 14 April —Starships, warp speed,transporters, phasers. Think“Star Trek” technology is onlythe stuff of fiction? Thinkagain. Dr Peter Jansen, a PhDgraduate of the CognitiveScience Laboratory atMcMaster University inHamilton, Ontario, Canada,has developed a scientificmeasurement device based onthe tricorders used by CaptainKirk, Spock, Dr McCoy andother space adventurers onthe classic TV series that hasspawned numerous spin-offsin more than 45 years. “StarTrek inspired me to be ascientist” said Jansen, whohas been formally working onhis tricorder prototypes since2007, but toying with the ideaof making a functioning devicesince he was “a kid in highschool.”

The 29-year-old Jansen’sschool days spanned the late1990s when “Star Trek:Voyager” was on the air. Itfeatured his favourite tricorder,a model with screens on topand bottom. The first tricorderappeared on the originalshow’s initial episode in 1966,when Capt. Kirk swaggeredtoward audiences with hisphaser weapon holstered tohis side but a tricorder in hishand. The hand-held devicesfor data sensing, analysis and

recording, have been a part of“Star Trek” ever since. But ifJansen, a self-confessed“addicted maker” of things, issuccessful at developing,testing and bringing hisinstrument into the public, thetricorder may not be just thestuff of “Star Trek” prop rooms.It may be used for real.

Jansen said his tricordercan take atmosphericmeasurements, or ambienttemperature, pressure orhumidity. It can takeelectromagnetic measure-ments to test magnetic fields,and it can make spatial

measurements of distance,location, or motion.Fascinating, as Spock mightsay. Jansen thinks of histricorder as a “general tool” —a kind of “Swiss Army Knife”— with practical uses inbuilding inspection, forinstance, where it might helptaking temperature andhumidity readings or be adistance sensor to measurerooms. It resembles the devicecarried by countless “AwayTeam” members in “Star Trek- The Next Generation” - hisfavorite of the “Star Trek”shows, he notes.— Reuters

lenses, the company alsomakes glasses with projectionimages in the lenses, which itshowed off at CES 2012. Withthis technology, the companysaid, glasses and lens wearerscould view content from theirmobile devices while stilllooking at the scenery aroundthem.

The technology will beavailable to the public in2014.Futurist tech has beenused to address a number ofhealth concerns, as well asexpand on the human body’snatural capabilities.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 14 April —Contact lens wearers can geta new perspective on theirenvironment with the latestvision technology — contactlenses that let the wearer focuson two fields of view at once.Wearers can keep an eye on aprojected image while theirsurrounding scenery can alsobe looked at — resulting insuperhuman vision.

The human eye on itsown can only focus on onedistance at a time. The contactlenses, however, will let twoimages be viewed at the sametime. The projected image

goes through the retinadisplay, while the backgroundimage is still visible.And,while most of the world isfascinated with GoogleGlasses, the Pentagon isfocused on getting a supplyof these contacts, callediOptik. It recently ordered asupply from Innovega, thecompany that makes them.The Pentagon will reportedlyuse the technology todevelop display screens akinto what Arnold Schwarzene-gger’s character wore in themovie Terminator.

In addition to contact

SEOUL, 14 April —Samsung confirmed on Fridaythat its 55-inch OLED HDTVwill be shown at Berlin’s IFAtrade show in late August,according to a report fromSlashGear. At the event, themanufacturer will announcethe TV’s official launch detailsalongside a new, premiumrange of HDTVs. Samsungdescribes the new televisionsas even “more premium” thanits OLED models, althoughthat may be in terms offunctionality rather thandesign or display technology.

Samsung unveiled itsOLED TV at the ConsumerElectronics Show in January,however details remain

scarce. Both television setswill reportedly support thenewest iteration of SamsungAllShare, which will add a 5GBcloud account to its localDLNA-based service, alongwith a remote login system, in

the latter part of 2012. Using asingle account login, thefeature will allow users toremotely access any of theirSamsung devices locatedanywhere in the world.

Internet

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Nicotine patch may help prevent smoking relapsesNEW YORK, 14 April —

Nicotine patches may helpsmokers recover from anyinitial setbacks in their attemptto kick the habit, a new USstudy suggests. “The clearimplication is that youshouldn’t give up, you shouldstay on the treatment withpatch,” said Saul Shiffman, oneof the study’s authors fromthe University of Pittsburgh.People who “lapse,” or give into nicotine cravings whentrying to quit, are at high risk ofgiving up and returning tosmoking. But contrary to com-mon perception, they haven’tfailed at quitting and may getover initial lapses by continu-ing to use the patch, Shiffman

said. His team’s study,published in the journalAddiction, suggests thatalong with helping people stopsmoking in the first place,nicotine patches could alsoboost their chances of recover-ing from occasional lapseswhile trying to quit. Expertssay most people trying to breakthe habit manage to do so atfirst, but are unable to sustaintheir quit attempt over the longrun. “Patch can help overcomethese lapses. We’re ignoringwhat could be a very importantbenefit of treatment,” Shiffmantold Reuters Health.According to the AmericanLung Association, more than443,000 Americans die from

smoking-related diseases eachyear. Cigarette smoke containsthousands of chemicals,including tar, carbon mono-xide, formaldehyde and toxinsknown to cause cancer.

Nicotine patches, usuallyapplied on the arm, reducewithdrawal symptoms such asheadache and nausea in thosewho give up smoking. Theysupply lower doses of nicotinethan found in most cigarettes— without all the other extrachemicals. Other nicotinereplacement therapies (NRTs)include over-the-counter gumand lozenges, prescriptionnasal sprays and inhalers andnon-nicotine prescriptiondrugs.— Reuters

NEW YORK, 14 April— Anew study from Thailandsuggests that extracts fromturmeric spice, known for theirantioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, mayhelp ward off heart attacks inpeople who’ve had recentbypass surgery. Duringbypass surgery the heartmuscle can be damaged fromprolonged lack of blood flow,increasing patients’ risk ofheart attack. The new findingssuggest that curcumins —the yellow pigment in turmeric— may be able to ease thoserisks when added to tradi-tional drug treatment.

But that conclusion isbased on a relatively smallgroup of subjects and needsto be confirmed in largerstudies before all bypass

BUENOS AIRES, 14 April— A baby declared stillbornand then later found alive byher parents at a morgue inArgentina was in criticalcondition on Friday aftertaking a turn for the worseovernight, a hospital officialsaid. Doctors told AnaliaBouter that her baby wasstillborn when she gave birthin Argentina’s northernChaco Province at the start ofthe month. But 12 hours afterher birth, when Bouter andher husband pried open the

Turmeric extract may protect heart after surgerypatients rush out to get theextracts, researchers said.“It’s very, very encouraging,”said Bharat Aggarwal, whostudies the use of curcuminsin cancer therapy at the MDAnderson Cancer Centre inHouston, Texas. Aggarwal,who wasn’t involved in thenew study, said research hassuggested inflammationplays an important role in thedevelopment of a range ofdiseases, including heartdisease—and curcuminscould have an effect on thosepathways. But this is the firstrigorous, controlled study tosupport that idea. Researchersled by Dr Wanwarang Wong-charoen from Chiang MaiUniversity studied 121consecutive patients who hadnon-emergency bypass

surgery at their hospitalbetween 2009 and 2011. Half ofthose patients were given one-gram curcumin capsules to takefour times a day, starting threedays before their surgery andcontinuing for five daysafterward. The other half tookthe same number of drug-freeplacebo capsules. Neitherstudy participants nor theirdoctors knew which heartpatients were getting whichpills, and surgeons decidedon their own what techniquethey would use for eachbypass procedure. Theresearchers found that duringtheir post-bypass hospitalstay, 13 percent of patientswho’d been taking curcuminshad a heart attack, comparedto 30 percent in the placebogroup.—Internet

Argentina’s “Miracle Baby” takes turn for the worsewooden coffin inside therefrigerated morgue to see herone last time, they found thebaby not only breathing butyawning and stretching herarms.

The couple named herLuz Milagros - her middlename meaning miracles inSpanish - because of herunlikely start to life. But thenewborn gave her parentsanother scare late onThursday when she stoppedbreathing and had to berevived by doctors. “She’s

an extremely premature baby,13 days old and weighing 708grams (1 pound, 5 ounces).She’s in a critical state, quitea bit worse than yesterdayand at risk of dying,” saidDiana Vesco, the head ofinfant care at the PerrandoHospital, where the baby wasborn.

“Yesterday she had anepisode with a hemorrhage inthe lungs, which required usto increase artificial respira-tion. Her heart and breathingstopped.—Reuters

A man holds a cigarette. INTERNET

Wall Street ends worst two weeks sinceNovember

in China and the rising yields in Europe are creating questionsabout how strong we might expect it to be,” said BradSorensen, director of market and sector analysis at CharlesSchwab in Denver. “That’s leading to a correction here, withfinancials especially taking a hit.” The S&P financial sectorindex <.GSPF> fell 2.5 percent in Friday’s session and lost 2.8percent for the week. Bank of America Corp dropped 5.3percent to $8.68. Morgan Stanley slumped 5.2 percent to$17.28.

The cost of insuring Spanish debt against default hit 500basis points for the first time on fears about the high exposureof the country’s banking sector to sovereign debt. Datashowed that China’s economy expanded 8.1 percent in thefirst quarter, a rate that was slower than expected and thecountry’s weakest pace in nearly three years. The Dow Jonesindustrial average <.DJI> tumbled 136.99 points, or 1.05 percent,to 12,849.59 at the close. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index<.SPX> slid 17.31 points, or 1.25 percent, to 1,370.26. TheNasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> dropped 44.22 points, or1.45 percent, to 3,011.33.

The S&P 500 is still up 9 percent so far in 2012, but fell 2percent over the week. The Dow lost 1.6 percent for the weekand the Nasdaq dropped 2.2 percent. This week’s losses cameon top of the slide in the previous week, which was cut shorta day for the Good Friday holiday. In that week, the Dowdropped 1.1 percent, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.7 percent andthe Nasdaq shed 0.4 percent.— Reuters

Traders work on thefloor of the New York

Stock Exchange, on 11April, 2012. — INTERNET

NEW YORK, 14 April — US stocks closed their worst two-week slide since November with a selloff on Friday asdisappointing China growth data sparked worries the globalrecovery was flagging. Concerns that Europe’s debt crisiswas flaring up again added to selling pressure. Sectors takingthe hardest hit were those most closely linked to growth,including materials, energy and financials. The S&P 500 isnow down 3.4 percent from this year’s closing high, afterfalling 2.7 percent over the past two weeks.

“Everyone is looking for global growth, but the slowing

China announces slight easingof currency controls

A bank clerk countsChinese 100 Yuan notes inShanghai. China’s central

bank announced on 14April, 2012, a slight easing

of its controversialcurrency controls. It says it

will allow the country’syuan to rise and fall by a

slightly wider marginagainst the dollar in daily

trading. — INTERNET

BEIJING, 14 April —China’s central bankannounced Saturday a slighteasing of its controversialcurrency controls. It says itwill allow the country’s yuanto rise and fall by a slightlywider margin against the dollarin daily trading. The changecould allow a faster rise forthe yuan, which Washingtonand other trading partnerscomplain is undervalued. Butany increase will likely be toosmall to satisfy many criticsand Beijing already haswarned that future gains willbe limited.

The central bank said itwill allow the yuan to fluctuateby up to 1 percent in valueagainst the dollar each daybeginning Monday, up from0.5 percent previously. Thebank took the unusual step ofissuing a statement in Englishas well as in Chinese, clearlyintending it for foreignaudiences. The United Statesand other governments sayan undervalued yuan givesChina’s exporters an unfairprice advantage, swelling itstrade surplus and hurtingforeign competitors at a timewhen other governments arestruggling to lowerunemployment. ChinesePremier Wen Jiabao, the

country’s top economicofficial, said in March thecurrency might already havereached an “equilibriumexchange rate,” suggestingmore gains would be limited.

Wen said the yuanalready has gained 30 percentin value in real terms since2005. That increase has failedto satisfy critics.

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to a late start. It adds one conventional takeoff aircraft to the21 already planned for the Air Force as part of the fifthproduction contract, and one carrier variant to the six plannedfor the Navy. The Marine Corps’ total remains at three for thisorder.

Lockheed is developing and building three variants ofthe new Joint Strike Fighter for the US military and eightcountries that are helping to fund its development. ThePentagon told Congress last month that the projected cost todevelop, build and operate and maintain 2,447 jets for 55 yearswould be $1.51 trillion, up 8.6 percent from the previousestimate.

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Lockheed wins $259 million deal for two more US F-35sWASHINGTON, 14 April—Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday

won a $259 million contract adding two more F-35 fighter jetsto a fifth batch of jets being purchased by the US military,boosting the size of that order to 32 jets, the Pentagon andLockheed officials said. Lockheed and the Pentagon are stillnegotiating the final terms of a fixed-price fifth productioncontract for the new radar-evading supersonic fighter jet, afterreaching agreement in December on a $4 billion “undefinitizedcontract action” for 30 fighter jets.

Friday’s deal, announced in the Pentagon’s daily digestof major contracts, brings the size of the fifth order in line withthe number funded in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2011 budget. Thatfiscal year ended last September, but the negotiations got off

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Anawrahta Streetteeming with merry-

makers onThingyan AkyatDay.—TIN SOE

Pandals along Maha Bandoola Street inKyauktada Township packed with revellers on

Thingyan Akyat Day.—TIN SOE

Kaba Aye Pagoda Road crammed full withrevellers on Thingyan Akyat Day.

TIN SOE

Block between Merchant Street and MahaBandoola Street filled up with revellers.

TIN SOE

Yangon CityElectricity Supply

Board Pandalpacked with

revellers.—MNA

Choral dancers performThingyan dances beside a

decorated float.TIN SOE

“We” of Child Stardecorated float atYangon Mayor’s

Pandal.TIN SOE

Revellers inBotahtaung Township

on Thingyan AkyatDay.—TIN SOE

Photos capturingscenes on MahaThingyan Akyat

Day

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What we call it What we call it Thingyan: Thingyan: The big scrThe big screeneenNathan

“Jaunty tune....drifting in the wind ofsummer’s Tagu”

Yes. Thingyan melodies are everywhere.Plenty of lively Thingyan songs offer us awide range of options. Rock or pop or rap?Any type of Thingyan song is at yourfingertips. And there are also plenty of goldenoldies still stealing our hearts. They survivesnot a year or two, but for decades.

The catchy songs were once played bybands of decorated floats in MandalayThingyan. We cannot separate Thingyanand Mandalay as it is the cultural city and thecapital of the last monarchy with fragrance ofthe ancient times still fresh. Also MandalayThingyan and the decorated floats areinseparable. As Thingyan festival wasdrawing nearer, traditional rivalry grew againamong Mandalarians over whose decoratedfloat would be the most beautiful one andwhich float’s band would win rapturousapplause of audience. Young men’s bandscomposed new songs competitively to lureattention of the audience. Myoma was thena leading float and band. Myoma Nyein isdoubtless the top songsmith. Myoma andits mascot Silver Swan passed into history.Fortunately, it is still alive and kicking aswell.

There are many books, fiction or non-fiction, about Mandalay Thingyan. Therearea also many films depicting MandalayThingyan. Needless to say that Myoma is a

must in each work. Among films portrayingThingyan, Thingyan Moe (Thingyan Rain) isa blockbuster. No Thingyan movie can equalthe success of the award-winning musical tillnow. The film revolves around MandalayThingyan and Myoma. It follows a youngman who plays keyboard for a band of a floatwith the love of music inherited from hisfarther, a pianist.

Maung Tin Oo, who is well known for acouple of blockbusters and award-winningworks and succeeded in bringing Myanmarlifestyles to the silver screen, directed thefilm. It stars Nay Aung, Khin Than Nu, ZinWaing, May Than Nu, Zaw One and ThidaTheint. Thingyan Moe won three MyanmarMotion Picture Academy Awards for 1985,including the best picture prize.

It tells the romantic love story of a youngmusician and a girl of the-cream-of-the-cropfamily. Despite the clichéd plot, audiencefound themselves sticking to each and everyscene of the movie. They are attracted bybreathtaking scenes of Mandalay, upbeatThingyan music and stately traditional choraldances. The film itself explores neglectedbeauties around us, its scores tell howbrotherly or sisterly love prevails in thecelebrations and the traditional dancesportray elegance.

A number of movies showing theMyanmar’s significant festival hit the bigscreen these years. Almost all could not follow

in the footsteps of Thingyan Moe while someeven destroy the essence of the festival.

They show girls running on a beach withswimming suits and playing water in skintightdresses. They follow boys tailing a girl withone among them begging for her love. Theyuse schoolboy humours. And they call itThingyan movie.

The filmmakers may possibly argue,“That is what the age is.” Movies have astrong impact on young watchers who later

emulate what actors and actresses say, dressand behave in movies. And do films againshow how these young people do?

Whatsoever, I am still hoping to see anew Thingyan film alike depicting howMyanmar Traditional Thingyan is lovelyand elegant and conveys the pure essenceon the big screen. Even if my wish is not tobe fulfilled, Thingyan Moe will still make myThingyan days in a series of years to comecomplete.

DVD cover of award-winning musical Thingyan Moe.—INTERNET

PHYSICAL CULTURECONTESTS: Under the

supervision of Sports andPhysical Education

Department under theMinistry of Sports,

Myanmar Body-buildingand Physical Culture

Federation organized theconcluding of the

summer body-buildingand physical culture

course on 8 April. Photoshows Nay Yi Win Le whosecured the first prize in

senior Miss SummerContest.MBPCF

MUSE, 14 April—Organized by MuseTownship Rural

Loans disbursed to agriculture and livestockbreeding entrepreneurs

Development and PovertyAlleviation Committee ofMuse District in Shan State

Myanmar Libraries Foundation is giving encouragementto broadening the horizon of the people and developing self-reliant libraries across the nation.

Those wishing to donate cash and books to the librariesmay contact Myanmar Libraries Foundation at No. 228 onTheinbyu Street in Botahtaung Township, Yangon, Tel: 01-371342, 01-201936 and 01-398756.

MLF invites donations ofcash, books

Kyaukdaga Township Association(Yangon) opens office

YANGON, 14 April—To be able to open theoffice of KyaukdagaTownship Association(Yangon), an apartmentworth K 18 million wasdonated by Col Tin Shein(Rtd)-Daw Aye MonShein and family at 1402A on the first floor onPadamya Road in Ward 3of Kamayut Township inYangon Region on 8April morning.

The openingceremony of the officewas held at the apartmentat 10 am.—Myanma Alin

(North), the private micro-credit institutiondevelopment committee ofMuse Township disbursedloans to the microfinanceinstitutions of the townshipat the city hall in Muse ofShan State (North) on 23March afternoon.

Deputy Commissioner UMoe Hein of Muse DistrictGeneral AdministrationDepartment and Head ofDistrict Internal RevenueDepartment U Than Win gaveintroductory speeches.

The district levelofficials then presented K 8.5million to 35 entrepreneurswho are engaging inagriculture and livestockbreeding farms in thetownship.—Township IRD

SAGAING, 14 April—Aceremony to clarify matters

related to law, rules,regulations and tax rate to be

reformed as of 2012-2013fiscal year was held at thehall of Sagaing RegionInternal RevenueDepartment at 2 pm on 4 April.

Sagaing Region ChiefMinister U Tha Aye deliveredan address.

Head of Sagaing RegionInternal RevenueDepartment U Nyi Nyi HtinPaw explained tax reform tobe undertaken in 2012-2013fiscal year in detail.

A total of 31 Heads ofdistrict and township InternalRevenue Departments inSagaing Region attended theclarification ceremony.

IRD

Changes of taxation systemclarified in Sagaing Region

TAXATIONCLARIFIED:

Theclarification on

taxation washeld at RakhineState Internal

RevenueDepartment on 6April. DirectorU Tun Nwe of

Inspection andLegal Service

Branch clarifiestaxation.—IRD

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President U Thein Sein, wifeDaw Khin Khin Win…

(from page 1)Later, President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin

Khin Win, and Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung

Myint Oo and wife Daw Khin Saw Hnin presented cashawards to the choral dancers and artistes who participatedin performing the entertainments.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14 April — As part of a programme for ruralarea development, poverty reduction and socio-economicdevelopment in Chin State, an earth road linking Mindat andAukchaing was commissioned into service and two hostels inAukchaing Village were opened on 8 April.

The road was formally opened by Chief Minister of ChinState U Hong Ngai and responsible personnel.

Afterwards, two hostels constructed with the contributionof Union Minister for Environmental Conservation and ForestryU Win Tun for Basic Education High School in AukchaingVillage was opened by Chin State Social Affairs Minister Dr BaMaung and Head of Mindat Township Education OfficerU Aung Kyaing.

At the meeting with local people at the sports ground inAukchaing Village, State Chief Minister U Hong Ngaipresented K500,000 to responsible personnel to be spend onregional development tasks.

The State Chief Minister also formally opened a roadlinking Ro, Lonkha and Tiddim on 10 April and presentedK200,000 for regional development and K500,000 for thevillage of Ro to responsible personnel.

He held a meeting with departmental officials at MindatDistrict General Administration Department on 11 April andinspected No 1 BEHS and staff quarter of Mindat TownshipPeople’s Hospital.

The State Chief Minister formally opened the two hostelsdonated by Union Minister U Win Tun for BEHS (branch) atRanpan Village. He also donated K500,000 for the developmentof Ranpan Village to responsible personnel.—MNA

Chin State Chief Ministeropens new earth roads, hostels

Mandalay Maha Thingyan continueson a grand scale

NAY PYI TAW, 14 April—Whilst Traditional MahaThingyan Festival (WaterFestival) continued tocelebrate around the countryoverwhelmingly, Mandalaytook part on the occasion ona grand scale.

In the morning,Mandaly Region ChiefMinister U Ye Myint and wifeDaw Myat Ngwe and theregion ministers visitedThingyan water throwingpandals around the moats andthen they participated on theoccasion.

U Pein Bridge andMaezalpintan ofTaungthaman Lake inAmarapura were packed withThingyan revelers. Peoplewho kept Sabbath (keepingeight or nine precepts) wereseen at religous edifices.

Thingyan waterthrowing pandals inAmarapura were full ofThingyan goers singingsongs and playing dancesand treated with Myanmartraditional snacks:

Montloneyepaw (rice ballsfloating over water) andSatudisa.

In the evening,Thingyan dancers, film stars

and singers in each andevery Thingyan Pandalaround moat entertainedthose Thingyan lovers withmodern music and

Thingyan music. At night,Mandalay Mayor’s MahaThingyan Pandal hostedThingyan decorated floats.

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President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win present cash awardsto film stars who performed entertainments.—MNA

President U Thein Sein’s wife Daw Khin Khin Win dousing those presentwith water at Maha Thingyan Pandal at Presidential Palace.—MNA

Vice-President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife Daw KhinSaw Hnin present cash awards to choral dance troupes who present

entertainments.—MNA

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and wife Daw Nan Shwe Hmondousing those present with water at Maha Thingyan Pandal at

Presidential Palace.—MNA

Padonma Soap Family Thingyan Pandal in Mandalay packed withThingyan revellers.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 14 April—Opening ofNyaungU District Myanma TraditionalMaha Thingyan Festival Central Pandal, tookplace at pandal on 12 April.

NyaungU District DeputyCommissioner U Tun Tun Win, TownshipAdministrator U Thura Tun Lin and

Ayeyawady Region Chief Ministerpartakes in Maha Thingyan

NAY PYI TAW, 14 April— AyeyawadyRegion Chief Minister U Thein Aungtogether with the Deputy Speaker ofAyeyawady Region Hluttaw, regionministers, region advocate-general, regionauditor-general, secretary of the regiongovernment and officials concerned enjoyedentertainment of performers at Pathein

University Thingyan water throwing Padalyesterday morning.

Afterwards, the Region Chief Ministerpresented prizes to the performers who didtheir best in entertaining at Public WorksPandal and Myanma Electric Power SupplyEnterprise Thingyan Pandal in AyeyawadyRegion.—MNA

NyaungU District Maha ThingyanFestival Central Pandal opened

Township Development Affairs CommitteeExecutive Officer U Myo Aung opened thepandal.

After that, music troupe and choraldancers entertained with Mantaungyeikkhosong.

MNA

Thingyan festive spirits influence Maha Thingyan Akyat DayYANGON, 14 April— Thingyan fan-seekers are still

partaking today, the Akyat Day of 1373 ME MyanmaTraditional Cultural Thingyan Festival.

Yangon Mayor’s Maha Thingyan Pandal offeredentertainments of choral dance troupes in the morning andafternoon, and at night, Anupyinnya Lwinpyin Anyeintperformed entertainment to those present who were activewith their partaking in the festival, including diplomats inforeign missions in Yangon.

In Ahlon Township, Ministry of Electric Power No 2and Yangon City Electricity Supply Board performed theentertainment to the audiences at their pandals. Film starsand vocalists participated in the entertainments.

Similarly, Thingyan Pandals of Air Bagan, Alpine andChannel V on Pyay Road near Inya Lake bund in YangonRegion were full of Thingyan enthusiasts to whomentertainments of pop stars, film stars and choral dancetroupes performed.

Likewise, city dwellers enjoyed Maha ThingyanFestival at water throwing pandals in respective townships.Merry-makers took relaxation at Yangon ZoologicalGardens and various parks. In addition, people kept Sabbathand practised meditation at religious edifices.—MNA

Kandawgyi ringroad being packed with revellerson Akyat Day of Myanma Traditional Maha

Thingyan Festival for 1373 ME.—MNA

Diplomats of foreign

embassies enjoying

performance of

choral dances of

artistes at Hotel

Golden Land in

Myanmar Traditional

Maha Thingyan

Festival 1373 ME.

(News on page 16).

MNA

Kabaaye Pagoda Road being packed with revellers on Akyat Day of Myanma Traditional MahaThingyan Festival for 1373 ME.—MNA

Sabagyi Library put intoservice in Momauk Township

MOMAUK, 14 April—With the aim of broadening horizonof the local people and developing human resources, aceremony to open Sabagyi Library was held in conjunctionwith the publications and cash donation at the pavilion nearthe library in Myohaung Village of Momauk Township ofBhamo District in Kachin State on 28 March.

The library was built at a cost of K 1 million contributed bythe State and K 2,194,400 by the rural people. At the ceremony,Township Administrator U Nyan Hlaing made a speech. Headof Township Information and Public Relations DepartmentDaw Lun Nan Htwe explained the purpose of opening thelibrary and important role for durability of the facility. After that,departmental personnel, members of social organizations andwellwishers donated books and furniture to the library throughofficials. Chairman of the library committee U San Haung spokewords of thanks.Later, Township Administrator U Nyan Hlaing,Head of Township Information and Public Relations DepartmentDaw Nun Nan Htwe, Minkyan Village-tract administrator U SoeMaung and Library Committee Chairman U San Haung cut theribbon to open the library. It is 24 feet long, 16 feet wide and 15feet high building.—Township IPRD

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Outstanding bus workers awarded in YangonEast District

YANGON, 14 April—Yangon East District AllPrivate Bus-line ControlCommittee held theceremony to present cashassistance for workers in2011-2012 fiscal year andaward outstanding bus linefor work performance

competition at the hall ofThingangyun TownshipGeneral AdministrationDepartment on 7 Aprilmorning.

The Chairman of theYangon Region supervisoryCommittee for EnsuringSecure and Smooth

Transportation YangonRegion Minister forTransport delivered anaddress. Next, the chairmanof All Private Bus-lineControl Committee made aspeech.

The chairman ofYangon East District AllPrivate Bus-line ControlCommittee reported onprovision of cash assistancefor 2011-2012 fiscal year andawarding work performance.

After that, the RegionMinister presented cashassistance to workers ofrespective branches. Officialsalso gave K 15850000 toprize winning vehicleowners, drivers and busconductors from 15 bus linesof the district.

Myanma Alin

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Citizenship cards issued inTaikkyi Township

YANGON, 14 April—Headof Township Immigrationand National RegistrationDepartment U Myint Shwemade citizenship scrutiny

cards and householdregistration in GyobyuVillage-tract in TaikkyiTownship of Yangon Region.

The official team issued

citizenship scrutiny cards to174 eligible people as part ofefforts in implementing MoePwint-1 Plan.

Township Immigration

Women’s vocational training courses concludein Yinmabin

YINMABIN, 14 April—The advanced tailoringcourse No 15 and the basicdomestic science course No19 concluded at Women’sVocational Training Schoolin Yinmabin on 23 Marchmorning.

Sagaing RegionMinister for Security andBorder Affairs Col Kyi Naingmade a concluding remark.

The region minister thenpresented a set of sewingmachine each to outstandingtrainees.

Principal of the trainingschool Daw Mya Mya Ayepresented completion

certificates to the traineesthrough a female trainee.

After the ceremony, theRegion Minister for Security

and Border Affairs viewedthe graduation works of thetrainees.

Vocational School

CASH DONATED: Incommemoration of the

10th anniversary ofgraduation ceremony,officers of 4th Intake of

Defence ServicesTechnological Academy

donated K 1 million to thefund for patients at No 1Military Hospital (700-

bed) in PyinOoLwinrecently. Commandant of

the hospital Brig-GenSoe Win accepts cash

donation.—MNA

PRIZES AWARDED: The9th Rakhine traditionalThingyan festival and

fragrance grindingcontest, organized by

Rakhine Literature andCulture Association

(Yangon), was held atTheinbyu Sports Ground in

Yangon on 11 April.Officials award first prize

winning Rakhine women’steam (Myatpan Thazin).

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Communal ordination, novitiation heldMAWLAMYINEGYUN, 14 April—Organized

by Phayagyi Monastery Mahasi MeditationCentre of Mawlamyinegyun, the 35th MahaSatipathana 7-day medication camp was heldin conjunction with the communalordination and novitiation ceremony at thecenter in Mawlamyinegyun on 12 Aprilafternoon.

At first, Township Administrator U HtayMaung, Chairman of the Monastery Board ofTrustees Dr Hla Han and Chairman of Hitakari

Women’s Yogi Association ThiriThudhamma Theingi Daw Shwe Seinformally opened the ceremony.

Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kavinansa(Dhammaçariya, Kammathanaçariya) willadministere the Yogies in line with MahaSaripathana Sutta.

Altogether 250 Yogies joined themeditation centre. A total of 65 men wereordained and 17 boys novitiated at theceremony.—Myanma Alin

Reforms of tax collection system clarifiedin Mawlamyinegyun

MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 14April—Organized byMawlamyinegyun Town-ship Internal RevenueDepartment, the clarificationon taxation was held at the

hall of Township GeneralAdministration Departmenton 8 April morning.

It was attended by 33departments and tax payerpeople.

At first, TownshipAdministrator U Htay Maungmade a speech. Head ofTownship Internal RevenueDepartment Daw Aye AyeMaw explained issuance ofnotification on reforms oftaxation for township leveldepartments and tax payerpeople.

Later, the head ofTownship Internal RevenueDepartment replied to queriesraised by those present.

Myanma Alin

UNIFORMS PROVIDED: A ceremony to presentuniforms worth K 3 million to members of Auxiliary Fire

Brigade and Red Cross Society of KyimyindineTownship was held at the hall of Basic Education High

School No 1 in Kyimyindine Township on 6 April.Township Administrator U Kyaw Ye Thway presents aset of uniform to member of Auxiliary Fire Brigade.

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New library building put into service inKangyidaunt

KANGYIDAUNT, 14 April—A ceremony to open Village-tract Administrative Officeand Lin Yaung Chi Librarywas held in front of thebuilding in Nanwin GayatVillage-tract in KangyidauntTownship of Pathein Districton 8 April.

At first, Deputy Head ofTownship GeneralAdministration DepartmentU Myo Hsaung, Head ofTownship Information andPublic Relations DepartmentU Aung Kyaing andtownselder U Nyein Aye cutthe ribbon to open thebuildings.

The books and

publications donationceremony followed at thelibrary. The deputy head ofTownship GeneralAdministration Departmentmade a speech. The head ofTownship Information and

Public Relations Departmentexplained durability of thelibrary. Later, the chairmanof the library committeeaccepted books andpublications.

The library building is50 feet long and 20 feetwide.—Myanma Alin

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Indonesia finds missing asylum seeker boatran off,” Nanang Sigit, asearch and rescue official inWest Nusa Tenggaraprovince told AFP. “We werenot alerted immediately, sowe only found the boat Fridaynight. We’re now workingwith police and are conductinga search on the island.”

Ian Rintoul of Brisbane-based Refugee ActionNetwork told AFP he believedthe vessel was still out at seaas late as Friday, when he lastspoke to the asylum seekersvia mobile phone. “If theyfound a boat on the island

Local residents view anabandoned boat, believed

to have been used byAfghan asylum seekers, on

the shores of Lombokisland, located in eastern

Indonesia early on 14April. Indonesian

authorities located themissing boat enroute to

Australia and said that thedozens of asylum seekers itwas carrying were believed

to have fled. — INTERNET

JAKARTA, 14 April —Indonesian authorities saidthey had found a boatreported missing en route toAustralia and that the dozensof asylum seekers it wascarrying were believed to havefled. Authorities had beensearching for the boat sincethe mostly Afghan asylumseekers on board made adistress call to Australia onWednesday, saying they werein rough seas and their boatwas sinking. Refugeeadvocates who said 60asylum seekers were on board

alerted Australian authorities,who passed on theinformation to Indonesianofficials.

Indonesian authoritiessaid they had located themissing vessel late on Fridayon Lombok island, which liesjust east of the popular resortisland of Bali, althoughresidents said they spottedthe asylum seekers onWednesday. “People inLombok informed us that theysaw the boat arrive on theshore on Wednesday, andthat people came ashore and

Wednesday, then it’s not theright boat,” he said. “When Ispoke to them last, I couldhear the wind and water in the

background. They said theboat had taken a lot of water.”Indonesian officials said theywere calling off the search for

the vessel, apparentlysatisfied they had found theright boat.

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Japan market watchdog recommends $2.5million fine for Olympus

A logo of Japan’sOlympus Corp is

pictured at the companyheadquarters in Tokyo

on 3 April, 2012.REUTERS

“We take the SESC’srecommendation seriously,”Olympus said in a statement.

Olympus restated itsbalance sheet in Decemberafter an external investigationpanel revealed that the firmhad hidden investment lossesoff its books for 13 years.

Olympus itself is suingfor mismanagement five of itseight internal directors,including the currentpresident, and shareholdersare set to vote on a new boardof directors proposed by thefirm at an 20 April extraordinaryshareholders’ meeting. ($1 =80.9000 Japanese yen).

Reuters

Exchange and SurveillanceCommission (SESC), wasexpected as part of legalprocedures and comes afterprosecutors last monthcharged the company and sixkey figures in the $1.7 billionaccounting fraud.

The SESC said that themedical equipment and cameramaker made false regulatoryfilings from the financial yearended in March 2007 throughthe first quarter ended in June2011 by booking biggerinvestment securities andgoodwill assets than the actualamounts. The FSA will makethe final decision on imposingthe fine.

TOKYO, 14 April—Japan’s market watchdog onFriday recommended theFinancial Services Agency(FSA) fine Olympus Corp

<7733.T> about 200 million yen($2.5 million) for false

accounting in one of thecountry’s biggest corporatescandals.

The recommendation,made by the Securities

BEIJING, 14 April—China’s Ministry of Health onThursday released a modified regulation on the managementof serious mental illnesses. Serious mental illnesses mainlyinclude schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolardisorder and mental retardation, which may hamper patients’power to control their behaviors and could pose threats toindividuals and public security, according to the regulation.

The regulation requires community managers andhealthcare organs to immediately report those suspected ofhaving a mental illness to public security departments. Publicsecurity personnel should send patients suspected of havinga mental illness to designated local mental health institutionsfor diagnosis and inform the patients’ families within 24 hours.

Those diagnosed with serious mental illnesses will beregistered and receive regular, but random visits from qualifiedpsychiatrists to check their mental condition and assess theirrecovery, said the regulation. According to statistics from theChina Disease Prevention and Control Centre, China had morethan 16 million patients with serious mental disorders by 2009.Mental and neurologic diseases consume 20 percent of thenation’s expenditure on diseases.— Xinhua

Health ministry releases regulationon serious mental illnesses

Customers visit the Apple Store in New York City’sGrand Central Station on 25 January, 2012.—REUTERS

Apple rejects e-book pricing collusion charge

Russia to modernize its space industry

NEW YORK, 14 April—Apple Inc has rejected the USJustice Department’s allega-tions that it colluded withpublishers over electronicbook pricing, calling thecharges “simply not true.”

The US government hadsued Apple and fivepublishers, saying theyconspired to fix the prices ofelectronic books. It hasreached a settlement withthree of the publishers thatcould lead to cheaper e-booksfor consumers.

In an email to Reuters,Apple spokesman TomNeumayr confirmed thecompany’s position, whichearlier appeared in a WallStreet Journal article.

“The launch of theiBookstore in 2010 fosteredinnovation and competition,

breaking Amazon’smonopolistic grip on thepublishing industry,” Applespokeswoman Natalie Kerristold the Journal.

Kerris defended thecurrent pricing structure as

parallel to Apple’s mobilesoftware store.

“Just as we have alloweddevelopers to set prices onthe App Store, publishers setprices on the iBookstore,” shetold newspaper.—Reuters

oxygen and hydrogengeneration plants. “BuildingVostochny cosmodrome willboost development of theentire Far East region andattract highly skilled humanresources there,” Putin said.The government allocated 30billion rubles (1 billion USdollars) for the Vostochnyconstruction out of 150 billionrubles (5 billion dollars) for theentire space sector in 2012,Putin said.—Xinhua

MOSCOW, 14 April—Russia will give priority tomodernizing its space industryto protect its independence inspace exploration, PrimeMinister Vladimir Putin saidon Thursday. Russia wouldoutline a long-term strategy ofcosmodrome building,including modernizing thenorthern Plesetsk andKazakhstan-located Baikonurcosmodromes, Putin told aconference in Moscow’s

Planetarium. “Only theexistence of severalcosmodromes guaranteesRussia’s full independence inspace activities and enablesus to use space technologyefficiently,” he said.

A new cosmodrome isbeing built at Vostochny inAmur region as the main launchcenter for commercial andinternational flights. It willeventually include two launchpads, a training centre and

Rhino death toll rises to 170 this year in South AfricaJOHANNESBURG, 14 April

—The toll of the killed rhinohas increased to 171 in SouthAfrica in 2012, a governmentdepartment said on Friday. Inthe midst of the increasedanti-poaching effort, therhinos killed in the country sofar this year have reached analarming figure, said Environ-mental Affairs departmentspokesman Albi Modise in astatement.

According to the newstatistics, the northernprovince of Limpopo, theeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal and the central provinceof North West among nineprovinces were prime

destinations for illegal rhinopoachers, with a total of 58rhinos killed. The KrugerNational Park was the maintarget for the poachers,resulting at a staggering totalof 103 rhinos being killed,while the remaining 10 werepoached elsewhere in thecountry, said the spokesman.In 2011, 448 rhinos were killedin South Africa, compared to333 in 2010. If this trend of therhino killing continues, thetotal number of the killedanimals this year will be higherthan last year, an expert said.

Conservationists warnedthe rhino in South Africa isfacing their worst poaching

crisis in decades. There isincreased concern at theescalation of rhino poachingin South Africa, and thegovernment is takingmeasures to protect theendangered rhino.

A joint force of thecountry’s law enforcementagencies has been built in aneffort to tackle the risingkillings of the rhinos. SinceJanuary, more than 100suspected poachers havebeen arrested. South Africa ishome to the largest rhinopopulation in the world withabout 20,000, nearly 80percent of the global figure.

Xinhua

German court rules Apple’s email pushbreaches Motorola patents

push services in Germany.Apple and Motorola havebeen embroiled in a series ofpatent battles across Europe.

While Motorola accusedApple of infringement on the3G-related patents for its best-selling iPhone and 3G-basediPad, Apple, together withMicrosoft, asked for aninvestigation on whetherMotorola is abusing its marketposition on patents to blockcompetitions and chargingexcessive licensing prices forits patents.

Internet

BERLIN, 14 April—AGerman court upheld onFriday an earlier ruling thatApple’s MobileMe andiCloud, with email pushnotification feature, violatedtwo Motorola patents,leading to an injunctionbanning Apple from offeringsuch services in Germany.The Mannheim regional courtruled that Apple’s iCloud andMobileMe services, whichcan automatically informsusers about new emails ondevices like iPhone and iPad,breached the patents held by

Motorola Mobility, andApple was responsible fordamages, although the exactamount has not beenspecified.

The judge alsodetermined that Apple wasstill not allowed to offer theemail push services to iCloudand MobileMe users inGermany. The ruling markedanother victory of Motorolain its patent row with Apple.In February, the Mannheimregional court grantedMotorola an injunction thatforced Apple to halt iCloud

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Brazil alarmed over rising obesity rateHe said a third of

Brazilians consume either highfat foods or sugared softdrinks at least five times aweek. The study showednearly 40% of men and 22% ofwomen exercise regularly. Thestudy was based on 54,000interviews of adults acrossBrazil from January toDecember 2011. The highestobesity rate was reported inMacapa at 21.4%, followedby Porto Alegre at 19.6%. SaoPaulo reported a 15.5%obesity rate while Rio deJaneiro came in at 16.5%.

Internet

SAO PAULO , 14 April —In Brazil, a country known forgirls in mini-bikinis and wherebody-consciousness borderson obsession, nearly half thepopulation is overweight, astudy by the Ministry ofHealth released on Tuesdayfound. “There is a tendencytoward increased weight andobesity in the country. It’stime to reverse the trend toavoid becoming a country likethe United States,” said HealthMinister Alexandre Padilha.

According to the study,the percentage of overweightpeople increased from 42.7%

in 2006 to 48.5% in 2011 whilethe obesity rate increasedfrom 11.4% to 15.8% in thesame period. The highest ratesfor overweight were foundamong men 35 years old to 45years old (63%) and women45 years old to 54 years old(55.9%). The youngest groupin the study were 18-to-24-year olds, where 30% of themen and 25% of the womenwere overweight. “Adoptingpublic policies for childrenand adolescents is essentialto prevent people frombecoming obese,” the healthminister said.

A family enjoys Ipanemabeach at sunset in Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil, in 2011. InBrazil, a country known for

girls in mini-bikinis andwhere body-consciousness

borders on obsession,nearly half the populationis overweight, a study bythe Ministry of Health

released on Tuesday found.INTERNET

A Korean Air Boeing 777rests on the runway of a

Canadian Forces base inComox, British Columbia on10 April, 2012. The plane, en

route from Vancouver,British Columbia to Seoul,

diverted to Comox onVancouver Island under

escort by two US fighter jetsafter the airline’s US call

centre received a call about athreat on board.—INTERNET

Man on Honolulu-bound flight from Japan dies

India to drop ‘Terry’ pic from cigarette warningsis also not very happy withthe quality of this image as awarning,” one official told theIndian Express newspaper.

“The picture could be ofany man. It is only the fertileimagination of some who seeTerry in it. However, thecontroversy has been anunseemly one and so we arelooking at a fresh set ofwarnings.” The image of ashirtless man appeared onmany brands of cigarettes inIndia and became a talkingpoint among football fans andtourists from England who

LONDON, 14 April—AnIndian health warning oncigarette packets that uses anapparent picture of Englandfootballer John Terry with aset of blackened lungs is to bewithdrawn, officials said onWednesday.

Terry’s London-basedlawyers had threatened to sueover the blurry photographfeaturing the head andshoulders of a man closelyresembling the former Eng-land captain and currentskipper of Premier League sideChelsea.

“Some people raisedobjections to the picture. Wehave asked the directorate ofadvertisement and visualpublicity to provide newpictures, which they havedone,” a health ministryofficial told AFP.

The ministry hascontinued to deny the picturewas of Terry, but it is distinctlysimilar to an image of himavailable on the Internet.

“Though the contro-versy is a part of the reasonfor withdrawing it, the presenttobacco control dispensation

took to Twitter to say theyinstantly recognized Terry.

Each packet, whichnormally costs about 100rupees ($2) in India, showsthe man’s blackened lungsemphasized by a red circleabove a slogan in Englishreading “Smoking Kills”.

After the picture firstappeared on cigarette packetsin December, Terry’smanagement told AFP thathis lawyers were consideringlegal action. They alsostressed that Terry, who hashit the headlines in the pastover drinking binges, was anon-smoker.—Internet

A wounded Afghan man is carried inside a vehicle at thesite of a suicide bombing in Herat Province, west of

Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on 10 April, 2012. Atleast 12 people, including two suicide bombers, werekilled and 30 others injured Tuesday morning when asuicide car bomb went off in Guzara District of Herat

Province, provincial police chief said.—XINHUA

Swiss drug maker Roche sees Q1 sales stutterGENEVA, 14 April — Swiss

drug maker Roche Holding AGreported Thursday that groupsales dipped one percent to11.03 billion Swiss francs($12.05 billion) in the firstquarter, while hinting that itmight be prepared to raise itsoffer for US diagnostics firmIllumina Inc. Excluding theeffect of the strong Swisscurrency, group sales rose twopercent compared to the sameperiod last year. Analysts hadexpected slightly higher salesof around 11.58 billion francs.

“We remain on track to

achieve our targets for the fullyear,” Roche chief executiveSeverin Schwan said in astatement citing forthcomingnew drugs to combat skincancer and other diseases.

Sales in the United Statesgrew six percent in the firstquarter, led by hepatitis Cmedicine Pegasys and cancerdrug Rituxan — known asMabThera outside the US andCanada. Sales in WesternEurope fell four percent partlydue to cutbacks in govern-ment-funded health progra-mmes. Roche, which reports

earnings only every sixmonths, said group sales areexpected to grow at low to mid-single-digit rates for the fullyear 2012. Addressing themonthslong effort to take overCalifornia-based Illumina,which specializes in genesequencing to analyzepatients’ DNA, the Roche CEOindicated that a higher bidmight still be possible. Lastmonth, Roche raised its offerto $51 cash per share from$44.50 per share, said byIllumina to be too low.

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HONOLULU, 14 April —Delta Air Lines Inc says apassenger on one of itsHonolulu-bound flights fromJapan has died. Deltaspokeswoman Gina Laughlinsays Flight 612 from Nagoyawas about two hours fromHonolulu when the man began

experiencing some kind ofmedical emergency. She saysflight attendants and nursesperformed CPR but thepassenger was unresponsive.

Paramedics met the flightwhen it landed Mondaymorning and took the man toa hospital where he was

pronounced dead.Laughlin says passen-

ger privacy prevents theairline from revealing detailsabout the man.She says giventhe plane’s location, goingon to Hawaii was the shortestand only available option.

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Three drilledeggshells byFranc Grom

are seen at hishome in

Vrhnika, some23 kilometers

fromLjubljana,

Slovenia, on12 April ,

2011.INTERNET

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News Album

This video game will cost you$1,300

Special editions of videogames have been seriousbusiness in Japan for decades,often coming with sound-tracks, art books, models, andother unique collectibles, andsometimes selling forhundreds of dollars. For itslatest Resident Evil game,Capcom has put together a“premium edition” costing awhopping $1,300. For thatprice, you’d expect it to comewith a game console to play iton, but instead you’ll get… ajacket.

Releasing in Japan on 4October, the Resident Evil 6(called Biohazard 6 there)premium edition includes aleather jacket based on the

ResidentEvil 6

premiumedition

comes witha leatherjacket inJapan

one worn by seriesprotagonist and snazzydresser Leon S Kennedy.Also included are tablet coversfeaturing artwork of thegame’s three male leads —Leon, Chris, and Jake — plusa fourth “secret” design. Thepremium edition also includesthe game, of course, whichcan be purchased separatelyalong with a single tablet coverfor a more reasonable $99.

Meanwhile, stores in theUS will be offeringdownloadable multiplayerlevels for those who pre-orderthe game. It’s scheduled forNorth American release on 2October for PlayStation 3and Xbox 360.

Ohio man charged after six puppies foundin suitcase

An Ohio man has beencharged with animalabandonment after a litter of sixEnglish bulldog puppies wasfound in a suitcase with a tagbearing his name, according toHumane Society authorities.

Cyndi Condit, spokes-woman for the Toledo AreaHumane Society told ReutersWednesday that the man,identified as Howard Davis ofToledo, lived only two blocksfrom where the suitcase wasfound. The mother of thepuppies was found pacingaround the suitcase, whichattracted the attention of apasserby.

“Howard’s name was onthe tag of the suitcase and themother was licensed to him,”Condit said.

After the dogs were found4 April in a Toledo alley, Daviswas charged with a seconddegree misdemeanor, whichcarries with it a maximum $750fine and 90 days in jail,according to John Dinon, the

Toledo Area HumaneSociety’s executive director.

Davis told investigatorsthat he had given the dogs toa friend in Michigan and thatthe suitcase had in fact beenstolen earlier. There was noexplanation as to how theadopted dogs got back fromMichigan in the stolen suitcase.

The puppies, three maleand three female, are estimated

English Bulldog puppies play at the Toledo AreaHumane Society in Maumee, Ohio in this 11 April, 2012

handout photograph.

to be four weeks old, too youngto be separated from theirmother, so they will spend atleast another four weeks infoster care before they areeligible for adoption.

Dinon said the shelter hasreceived an overwhelmingnumber of calls about adoptingthe puppies but that for nowthey are “evidence” in the caseagainst Davis.

Girl, 4, has IQof 159

International high-IQsociety Mensa said it hasaccepted a 4-year-old Britishgirl whose IQ is only 1 pointless than that of physicistStephen Hawking. JohnStevenage, chief executive ofBritish Mensa, said theorganization was proud towelcome Heidi Hankins ofWinchester, England, into itsranks after she scored a 159 onan IQ test, putting her just 1point behind fellow Mensamember Hawking’s 160 IQ, TheSun reported Thursday.

Matthew Hankins, 46, thegirl’s father, said he and hiswife knew early on that theirdaughter was special.

“We always thoughtHeidi was bright because shewas reading early,” Hankinssaid. “I was curious about herIQ and the results were off thescale. I got her the completeset of the Oxford Reading Treebooks when she was 2 and sheread through the whole set of30 in about an hour.

War Horse’ tops DVD saleschart

Steven Spielberg arrivesfor the French premiere ofthe film “War Horse” in

Paris on 9 January , 2012.INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 14 April—Steven Spielberg’s WorldWar I epic “War Horse” is thetop-selling DVD and Blu-rayin the United States, Rentrakreported Thursday.

Coming in at No 2 on theDVD and Blu-ray sales rosterfor the week ending 8 April is“Alvin and the Chipmunks:Chipwrecked,” followed by

“Hop” at No 3, “We Bought aZoo” at No 4 and “TheMuppets” at No 5.

Rounding out the top tierare “The Girl with the DragonTattoo” at No 6, “Game ofThrones: The Complete FirstSeason” at No 7, “TheAdventures of Tintin” at No8, “Happy Feet Two” at No 9and “Puss in Boots” at No 10.

The No 1 DVD rental forthe week ended 7 April is“We Bought a Zoo.”

“War Horse” is No 2,“The Girl with the DragonTattoo” is No 3, “The Sitter”is No 4, “Hop” is No 5, “TheDescendants” is No 6, “Alvinand the Chipmunks:Chipwrecked” is No 7,“Immortals” is No 8, “Jackand Jill” is No 9 and“Extremely Loud andIncredibly Close” is No 10.

Internet

Anthony files for divorce fromLopez

LOS ANGELES, 14 April—Singer Marc Anthony hasfiled for divorce from

“American Idol” judgeJennifer Lopez in Los AngelesSuperior Court, documentsshow.

The couple wed in 2004and are the parents of 4-year-old twins, a son and daughter.

Anthony and Lopezannounced their separationlast July and each has movedon since with a newrelationship.

TMZ said WednesdayAnthony is asking for jointlegal and physical custody oftheir children and requestingeach party pay his or her ownlegal fees.

Internet

Singer and actressJennifer Lopez and her

husband, singerMarc Anthony.—INTERNET

Brittany Spears appearsback stage at the 2011

MTV Video MusicAwards at the Nokia

Theatre in Los Angeles on28 August, 2011. She was

awarded the MichaelJackson Video Vanguard

award.—INTERNET

Spears could get $15M as ‘X Factor’ judgeLOS ANGELES, 14 April

—Pop star Britney Spears isclose to signing a $15 milliondeal to be a judge on the USversion of “The X Factor,”multiple sources told E! News.Spears’ representatives havebeen negotiating with Fox forweeks, a report saidWednesday.

“Both camps were backand forth on the money butnow they have finally come toagreement on the fee,” saidone insider with intimateknowledge of the pending

deal. “That was the big stickingpoint and now, thankfully, it’sbeen sorted. All they need todo now is work out the smallerpoints. The fact the money isnow set, means that there isnothing stopping this frombecoming a reality.”

Spears’ fiance, JasonTrawick, who is alsopetitioning to become co-conservator of her estate withher father, will become aproducer on the show, asecond source said.

“Jason is expected to be

there every day Britney is onset. He is her rock and will helpguide her through the process.He is the person she trusts themost,” the second source toldE! News. The deal would makeSpears the highest paid judgeon reality television, eclipsingsinger-actress JenniferLopez’s $12 million deal with“American Idol.” Spears, 30, isexpected to start her new roleon the “X Factor” judges’panel, alongside LA. Reid andSimon Cowell, in the middle ofMay, E! News said.–Internet

Peppers, BlackKeys set forLollapalooza

Flea performs with theRed Hot Chili Peppers in

concert, at theBankAtlantic Centre in

Sunrise, Florida on 2April, 2012.—INTERNET

CHICAGO, 14 April—TheRed Hot Chili Peppers, TheBlack Keys, Black Sabbathand Jack White have beenbooked for this summer’sLollapalooza festival inChicago.

Also on the bill for the 3-5 Aug event in Grant Park areFlorence + the Machine, TheShins, Wale, Kaskade, Fun,Of Monsters and Men, anddozens of other music acts,the festival’s Web site said.

Tickets are on sale now.Internet

Gilbert returns for ‘Dancing’rehearsal

Bruce Boxleitner, a castmember in the motionpicture sci-fi thriller

“TRON: Legacy”, attendsthe world premiere of thefilm with his wife, actress

Melissa Gilbert.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 14 April—“Dancing with the Stars”contestant Melissa Gilbertsays she has had her first“gentle rehearsal” sincesuffering a concussion andwhiplash in Los Angeles.

Gilbert, 47, banged her

head while competingMonday night. She wasbriefly hospitalized andmissed Tuesday’s resultsshow. Going to attempt agentle rehearsal in a bit,” shesaid via Twitter Wednesday.

She later reported shewas “very happy” to be backto work with her professionaldance partner MaksimChmerkovskiy.

“Now back home to bed,”she tweeted.

Chmerkovskiy toldPeople.com he is “pretty sure”Gilbert will compete again onthe show. “I think we arecoming back,” Chmerkovskiysaid. “I’m pretty sure. It’s notup to me, it’s up to her, [but]I haven’t heard talks of notcoming back. Although, if shewakes up tomorrow andcontinues to have a headache,I won’t let her in the studio.”

Gilbert is best known forher work on the 19th century-set drama series “Little Houseon the Prairie.”

Internet

Denise Richardsto appearon Charlie

Sheen’s showLOS ANGELES, 14 April—

Following Charlie Sheen’sannouncement that his real-life dad, Martin Sheen, willplay his dad on “AngerManagement,” the actor ismaking his new FX comedyeven more of a family affair:Sheen’s ex-wife, DeniseRichards, will guest star in anepisode of the show. FXconfirms to TheWrap thatRichards will guest star onthe series, which is set topremiere on the network on28 June. Richards will playLori, a new business partnerfor Sheen’s on-screen ex,played by Shawnee Smith,TVLine.com reports.

“Anger,” loosely basedon the movie comedy of thesame title, will star Sheen asCharlie Goodson, a former probaseball player who dealswith his own anger issues bybecoming an anger man-agement therapist once hissports career ends.—Reuters

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Ronaldo eyes finishing line in La Liga title chase

MADRID,14 April—Cristiano Ronaldo feels thatLiga leaders Real Madrid arenow closing in on the title asthey prepare to facestruggling Sporting Gijon atthe Santiago Bernabeu thisweekend.

The Portuguese starscored his seventh hat-trickof the season as Real beatneighbours Atletico 4-1 onWednesday to restore theirfour-point lead at the top ofthe table.

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (R), seen here duringtheir Spanish La Liga match against Atletico Madrid atthe Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, on 11 April.Ronaldo scored his seventh hat-trick of the season as

Real beat their neighbours 4-1, to restore their four-pointlead at the top of the table.—INTERNET

The pressure had beengrowing on Jose Mourinho’steam as their lead - which satat 10 points in mid-March -was whittled down to one inthe wake of Barcelona’s 4-0victory over Getafe onTuesday.

But, after some tensemoments with the score tiedat 1-1 at the Vicente Calderon,Ronaldo made the differencebefore substitute JoseCallejon got the other goal.

“Still there is a little way

to go but the league is nearnow. We were anxious goinginto the game as we knew thatBarca had won but now weare relaxed,” said Ronaldo,who has already equalled hisrecord-breaking tally of 40league goals, set last season.

That figure leaves himone ahead of Barcelona’sLionel Messi, although theArgentine has the most in allcompetitions with 61.

“Losing is not a word inmy vocabulary. We knew itwould be a difficult gameagainst Atletico and theyplayed very well so I am happywith the result. I am notlooking for personal recordsbut titles for Real Madrid andI have to thank my teammatesbecause without them I wouldnot have scored,” addedRonaldo. April is a crunchmonth for Madrid and will goa long way to deciding theirdestiny in the title race.

Having taken four pointsfrom two league gamesagainst Valencia and Atletico,they still have a toughChampions League semi-finaltie with Bayern Munich tocome either side of their trip tothe Camp Nou to face Barca inEl Clasico.—Internet

Wozniacki reaches Copenhagen WTA semi-finalsCOPENHAGEN, 14

April—Denmark’s CarolineWozniacki advanced to thesemifinals of the CopenhagenWTA tournament afterbeating Alice Cornet ofFrance 6-0, 6-3 in thequarterfinals here on Friday.

Caroline Wozniacki ofDenmark controls a ball

during play againstPauline Parmentier ofFrance in their WTA

Danish Open women’stennis match in Farum,

north of Copenhagen, on12 April, 2012.—XINHUA

Unbeaten Mares hopes to endMorel comeback bid

Eric Morel has adopted a now or never attitude in hisbid to become a world champion for the first time in

more than eight years. Unbeaten Abner Mares, picturedhere in 2009, wants to make sure it’s never.—INTERNET

EL PASO (Texas), 14April—Eric Morel hasadopted a now or neverattitude in his bid to becomea world champion for the firsttime in more than eight years.Unbeaten Abner Mareswants to make sure it’s never.The two former worldchampions meet on 21 Aprilat El Paso, Texas, for the WorldBoxing Council superbantamweight crown vacatedby Japan’s Toshiaki Nishiokaafter he could not get a fightwith Filipino star NonitoDonaire. “If he wants to comeback and try to win back thetitle, I’m ready to fight him,”Mares said.

Puerto Rico’s Morel, 46-2 with 23 knockouts, has won11 fights in a row since losingto Martin Castillo of Mexicofor the World Boxing

Association super flyweighttitle in 2005 after losing thesame title in 2003. At 36, Morelknows he cannot affordanother setback in his bid toreturn to the world throne.“My preparation for this fighthas been the best. Basicallythis is it,” he said. “It’s do ordie for me.

“I guarantee you age isnot catching up with me —36 is nothing but a number.I’m in great shape. My feetare still there. My speed isjust tremendous. I still havegreat power. I feel like nothingis going to stop me.”Mexico’s Mares, 26, has yetto be stopped himself at 23-0with one drawn and 13knockouts. “I can’t wait tobecome a world champion inmy second weight class,”Mares said. “I’m not training

any different because he’s36. I’m not looking at numbers.It’s another opponent,another fight, and I have totrain my best. “I expect atough fight. I know what I’mgetting myself into. It’s a bigstep-up fight for him. He’sbasically trying to make acomeback. He’s going tofight hard. But I train hard tooand I’m ready for him.”Panama’s Anselmo Moreno,32-2 with one drawn and 11knockouts, will defend hisWBA bantamweight crownagainst Mexico’s David de laMora, 24-1 with 17 knockouts,on the same card. SouthpawMoreno, who has won 26fights in a row over the past 91/2 years, will make his 10thdefence of the crown he wonin 2008.—Internet

Knost seizes PGA Heritage leadHILTON HEAD ISLAND, 14

April—Colt Knost, anAmerican who began his USPGA career in 2007 yetmanaged his first top-10

Colt Knost putts for birdieon the 11th hole duringthe second round of the

Heritage Classic in HiltonHead Island, South

Carolina.—INTERNET

Forlan determined to provehe fits at Inter Milan

Uruguayan striker DiegoForlan, pictured in 2011,

wants to stay at InterMilan and prove hebelongs at San Siro

despite a frustrating firstseason.—INTERNET

MILAN, 14 April—Uruguayan striker DiegoForlan wants to stay at InterMilan and prove he belongsat San Siro despite afrustrating first season.

“I want to stay at Inter.You haven’t seen the realForlan yet,” the 32-year-oldtold Sky Sports.

“I wouldn’t want to leaveInter like this. I like challengesand I wouldn’t want to leavewhen the team are not in agood position.”

Inter are currently sixpoints off third place in SerieA, the final qualifying spot forthe Champions League, aftera disappointing campaign inwhich Forlan has struggled.

The player of thetournament at the 2010 WorldCup, where Uruguay reached

the semi-finals, Forlan missedfour months through injuryand has often been jeered bythe Inter fans when he hasplayed.

“I have had difficultmoments like this in my career,”he said.

“I need to work hard tochange things.”—Internet

finish just seven weeks ago, isthe unlikely leader of theHeritage Classic.

The 26-year-old Texanfired a bogey-free five-underpar 66 on Friday to stand onnine-under 133 after tworounds, two strokes ahead ofSweden’s Carl Pettersson atthe $5.7 million event. Knost,who shared third at theMayakoba Classic in Mexicoin February for the bestshowing of his PGA career,ranks 93rd on the money listwith just over $300,000 butwould win $1.026 million ifhe holds the lead for 36 more

holes. “It has been a reallysolid two days for me,” Knostsaid. “Very pleased with howI’m playing right now, strikingit well, and making a few putts.I’m looking forward to theweekend.”

Knost began off the 10thtee at Harbour Town andbirdied the par-4 13th andpar-3 17th, then began hissecond nine with birdies atthe par-4 first and par-5 secondand added another at the par-5 fifth hole. Knost jumpedinto the PGA crucible aftertwo quick wins on thedevelopmental tour butstruggled to take the next step.

Internet

InternationalSports

Top-seed Wozniackishowed her strength andforced her opponent in thedefensive without everleaving Cornet any realchance to get into the fightfrom the beginning of the

match, held at the FarumArena, in Copenhagen,capital of Denmark.

The first set was over in26 minutes and things did notchange much in the secondset. However, Cornetchallenged the current

number six in the world inseveral well played duels butcould not prevent Wozniackiwinning 6-3.

It was a little more difficultfor No 3 seed Jelana Jancovicof Serbia in her fight againstEstonia’s Kaia Kanepi.Jankovic lost the first set 4-6but came back and won thenext two sets 6-1, 6-3. No 2seed Angelique Kerber ofGermany had even greaterdifficulties in the fight againsther compatriot Mona Barthel.

After winning the firstset 6-2, Kerber lost the secondset 6-0, but fought her wayback in the third set 7-5.

Xinhua

Bayern can shock Real, insistsBeckenbauer

MUNICH, 14 April—German football legend FranzBeckenbauer says BayernMunich can beat Real Madridin Tuesday’s ChampionsLeague semi-final first leg, ifthey learn from their mid-weekGerman league defeat atBorussia Dortmund.

Bayern lost 1-0 at theleague leaders onWednesday, with Dutch starArjen Robben seeing a late

penalty saved, and the defeatleaves second-placedMunich six points behind withfour games left in theBundesliga.

German football legendFranz Beckenbauer,

pictured in February 2012,says Bayern Munich can

beat Real Madrid inTuesday’s Champions

League semi-final first leg,if they learn from their

mid-week German leaguedefeat at Borussia

Dortmund.—INTERNET

Real Madrid now standbetween Bayern and a placein the Champions Leaguefinal at Munich’s AllianzArena on 19 May andBeckenbauer says the hostsshould aim for victory at homein Tuesday’s first leg.

“If they produce thesame performance theyshowed in the second half (atDortmund), then theycertainly have a chance toturn over Madrid,” said ex-Bayern president Beck-enbauer, who captained andcoached West Germany toWorld Cup titles.

History favours theBavarians as Madrid have lost10 of their 18 matches againstBayern and in four previousties between the teams at thisstage, the Germans have goneon to reach the final on threeoccasions. Defeat in mid-week has left Bayern facingan uphill task in the league,but they remain in contentionfor two other titles, with aGerman Cup final againstDortmund coming up on 19May .—Internet

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Focus Myanmar TV Programme

7:00 am 1. Metta Bhavana By

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Weather forecast for 15th April, 2012Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

THINGYAN PANDAL OPENED: The Maha ThingyanPandal of Yangon East District in Yangon Region was

opened at the water throwing and entertainment pandalat Monument Junction on Ayeyawun Road in ThakaytaTownship on 12 April. An official present gifts to film

actress Sithu Daw Nwe Nwe San, on behalf of film momgroup that performed entertainment at the pandal.

MYANMA ALIN

Measles vaccination givenin Nagmon Township

NAGMON, 14 April—The age-wise measles vaccinationwas launched at the meeting hall of Township GeneralAdministration Department in Nagmon of Putao District inKachin State on 22 March morning.

At first, Township Administrator U Myo Min Aungmade a speech.

Township Medical Officer Dr U Kan Kyaw Soe explainedmatters related to measles vaccination.

The plan of age-wise measles vaccination wasimplemented in Nagmon Township and Pannandin Sub-Township simultaneously.—Health

Sr. No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 34/93 20/68 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

2 Kayah 35/95 19/66 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

3 Kayin 38/100 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

4 Chin 20/68 12/54 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

5 Upper Sagaing 27/81 19/66 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

6 Lower Sagaing 36/97 21/70 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

7 Taninthayi 38/100 25/77 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

8 Bago 38/100 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

9 Magway 40/104 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

10 Mandalay 38/100 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

11 Mon 38/100 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

12 Yangon 40/104 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

13 Rakhine 34/93 24/75 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

14 Southern Shan 31/88 17/63 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

15 Northern Shan 34/93 15/59 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

16 Eastern Shan 37/99 19/66 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

17 Ayeyawady 37/99 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 41/106 22/72 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 40/104 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 38/100 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers have been fairly widespread in Taninthayi Region, scattered in Upper Sagaing Region and Rakhine State and isolated in Magway Region, Kachin, Shan and Chin States and weather has been partly cloudy in remaining Region and stage. Day temperature were (3°C) above April average temperatures in Southern Shan State, (4°C) below April average temperatures in Sagaing Region and about April average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant day temperatures were Bawlakhe (42°C) and Minbu (41°C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Kyaukaw (1.38) inches and Kawthong (0.78) inch.

Bay Inference Weather is partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea and the South Bay and partly cloudy elsewhere in the Bay of

Bengal.

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

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Likelihood of continuation of rain or thundershowers in the Northern Myanmar areas.

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Saturday’s EPL Results

Tevez hat-trick & Aguero double fires visitors to withintwo points of United in title race

LONDON, 14 April—Carlos Tevez’s hat-trickhelped Manchester City beatNorwich to reduce

Manchester United’s lead totwo points at the PremierLeague summit. United playAston Villa on Sunday, but

Tevez’s swerving effort beatJohn Ruddy before he set upSergio Aguero.

Norwich replied whenAndrew Surman blasted inafter Joe Hart’s punch.

But Tevez boosted thelead with a header andAguero’s solo effort addedthe gloss before Tevezrounded Ruddy and AdamJohnson tapped in.

Carlos Tevez scores his third and Manchester City’s fifth

course in his home country.But after a fractious

period in his Manchester Citycareer, his performance andthe result showed that histeam’s title ambitions wereback on track.

Despite boss RobertoMancini’s claims that his teamhad no chance of overtakingSir Alex Ferguson’s team, hisonce again fluent side showed

Norwich 1-6 Man CitySunderland 0-0 WolvesSwansea 3-0 BlackburnWest Brom 1-0 QPR

LONDON, 14 April—Blackburn’s survival hopes took amassive nosedive with a comprehensive defeat at the handsof classy Swansea.

Gylfi Sigurdsson opened the scoring for the home side,curling in a delightful left-footed effort.

Scott Sinclair pounced on a Scott Dann error to supplyDanny Graham who teed up Nathan Dyer for the second.

David Dunn spurned chances for Rovers but their fatewas sealed when Dann knocked it into his own net afterSigurdsson had struck the post.—Internet

Swansea 3 - 0 Blackburn

NLM-ner Joke

A man goes to a bar with his dog. He goes up to the barand asks for a drink. The bartender says “You can’t bringthat dog in here!” The guy, without missing a beat, says“This is my seeing-eye dog.” “Oh man, “ the bartender says,“I’m sorry, here, the first one’s on me.” The man takes hisdrink and goes to a table near the door.

Another guy walks in the bar with a Chihuahua. Thefirst guys sees him, stops him and says “You can’t bring thatdog in here unless you tell him it’s a seeing-eye dog.” Thesecond man graciously thanks the first man and continuesto the bar. He asks for a drink. The bartender says “Hey, youcan’t bring that dog in here!”

The second man replies “This is my seeing-eye dog.”The bartender says, “No, I don’t think so. They do not haveChiwauas as seeing-eye dogs.” The man pauses for a half-second and replies “What?!?! They gave me aChihuahua?!?”

SergioAguero

scored twogoals for

ManchesterCity in their

win atNorwich

The Argentinecelebrated his trio of goalswith a golf swing, perhapsmocking those whoquestioned his desire duringhis leave of absence where hewas pictured on the golf

they have not given up.Aguero, who was also a

menace, and scored two finegoals, came inches away frommatching his countrymanwhen he hit the post late on.

Internet

There are no dogs allowed here

There was this guy and he had a girlfriend calledLorraine who was very pretty and he liked her a lot.

One day he went to work to find that a new girl hadstarted. Her name was Clearly and she was absolutelygorgeous. He became quite besotted with her and after awhile it became obvious that she was interested in him too.

But this guy was a loyal man and he wouldn’t getinvolved with Clearly while he was still going out withLorraine.

He decided that there was nothing for it but to break upwith her and get it on with the new girl.

He planned several times to tell Lorraine but he couldn’tbring himself to do it. One day they went for a walk along theriver bank when Lorraine slipped and fell in to the river. Thecurrent carried her off and she drowned. The guy stoppedfor a moment by the river and then ran off smiling andsinging: “I can see Clearly now Lorraine has gone”

He has two girlfriends

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Sunday, 15 April, 20129th Waning of Tagu 1373 ME

Late Carroll header completesturnaround as Reds secure

FA Cup final spot

AndyCarroll

celebrateswith

team-mateLuis

Suarez.

Andy Carroll’s late header sent Liverpool through to theFA Cup final as they came from behind to beat Everton

at Wembley.—INTERNET

LONDON, 14 April—Andy Carroll scored adramatic late winner asLiverpool came from behindto defeat Merseyside rivalsEverton 2-1 to reach the FA

Cup final at Wembley hereon Saturday.

Carroll — the club’smuch-maligned £35 million

record signing — glanced ina Craig Bellamy free-kick inthe 87th minute to keepLiverpool on course for adomestic cup double.

It was the second time in

five days that Carroll had cometo Liverpool’s rescue afterscoring an injury-time winnerin the Premier League victory

over Blackburn in midweek.More importantly the

goal ensured Liverpool havethe opportunity to finish adisappointing season on ahigh in next month’s finalwhere they will face the winnerof Sunday’s last-four clashbetween Tottenham andChelsea. Carroll’s decisivestrike came after Liverpoolhad fought back to levelthrough Luis Suarez on 62minutes following NikicaJelavic’s opener for Everton.

Liverpool had startedwell, with Glen Johnsonsurging forward menacinglyafter only three minutes torelease Carroll.

The pony-tailed strikercut back deftly to JaySpearing but the youngmidfielder should have donebetter than a shot which flewharmlessly over. Liverpoolchances thereafter were fewand far between, and whileKenny Dalglish’s side oftenadvanced into goodattacking positions theirforays invariably fizzled outbecause of poor play in thefinal third. Everton mean-while looked com-fortablethroughout the first period,mopping up Liverpool’sattacks with ease andprobing for openings.

Internet

Diplomats participate in Myanmar TraditionalMaha Thingyan Festival in Nay Pyi Taw

NAY PYI TAW, 14 April—Myanmar Traditional MahaThingyan Festival held for third time in Nay Pyi Taw waspacked with revellers on Thingyan Akyat Day today.

Diplomatic corps led by Director-General U Aye Thaw ofProtocol Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairsvisited Hotel Golden Land Pandal this morning where theyenjoyed traditional foods and Thingyan songs and dances.

The diplomats, officials of the pandal and artistes playedwater happily.

They then proceeded to Nay Pyi Taw FC Pandal wherethey enjoyed choral dances and songs.

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna MaungLwin and wife and party welcomed the diplomatic corps ledby Dean of the Corps Singaporean Ambassador to MyanmarMr Robert Chua and wife with scented water at Max MyanmarGroup of Companies Pandal where they played water happily.

They enjoyed Thingyan songs and dances at GoldenGuest Hotel and Shwe Than Lwin Co Pandal and Nay PyiTaw Mayor’s Pandal.

Union Ministers at the President Office Nay Pyi TawCouncil Chairman U Thein Nyunt and U Soe Maung, deputyministers and members of Nay Pyi Taw Council played waterwith the diplomatic corps headed by Union MinisterU Wunna Maung Lwin. The diplomatic corps enjoyed choraldances of artistes from the Ministry of Culture.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw MahaThingyan filled with lively

entertainmentNAY PYI TAW, 14 April— Nay Pyi Taw Maha Thingyan

Pandals have been still active since Maha Thingyan AkyoDay. Also today Maha Thingyan Akyat Day, revellers packedthe Hotel Zone pandals on Nay Pyi Taw Raza ThingahaRoad, enjoying lively performances of Myanmar famouspop stars and film stars and free snacks offered by merit-makers.

National Landmark Garden (Nay Pyi Taw), Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden, Nay Pyi Taw Zoological Garden,Safari Park were full of Thingyan fans getting relaxation inthe afternoon.

Nay Pyi Taw Mayor’s Maha Thingyan Pandal was alivewith performances of choral dance troupes, pop stars, filmstars and revellers.

Likewise, Ottarathiri, Dekkhinathiri, Pobbathiri,Pyinmana, Tatkon, Lewe Townships in Nay Pyi Taw CouncilArea saw the pandals packed with Thingyan fans.—MNA

Diplomats

participate

in Maha

Thingyan

water

festival at

Nay Pyi

Taw FC

pandal

along with

artistes.

MNA

Pandalsin Hotelzone onNay Pyi

TawRaza

ThingahaRoadbeing

packedwith

revellerson theAkyatDay ofMaha

Thingyanin Nay

Pyi Taw.MNA

Under climate change, winnersand losers on the coral reef

SCIENCE DAILY, 14 April—As ocean temperatures rise,some species of corals are likely to succeed at the expense ofothers, according to a report published online on April 12 inthe Cell Press journal Current Biology that details the firstlarge-scale investigation of climate effects on corals.

“The good news is that, rather than experiencingwholesale destruction, many coral reefs will survive climatechange by changing the mix of coral species as the oceanwarms and becomes more acidic,” said Terry Hughes ofJames Cook University in Australia. “That’s important forpeople who rely on the rich and beautiful coral reefs of todayfor food, tourism, and other livelihoods.”

In an attempt to understand the sorts of changes that maytake place as the world’s oceans warm, the researchersexamined the coral composition of reefs along the entirelength of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.—Internet

Coral on the

Great Barrier

Reef,

Australia.

INTERNET

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