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Volume XIX, Number 88 3rd Waning of Waso 1373 ME Monday, 18 July, 2011

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* Strengthening of national solidarity* Building and strengthening of discipline-flourish-

ing democracy system* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the Constitution

Four political objectives* Building of modern industrialized nation through the agricultural devel-

opment, and all-round development of other sectors of the economy* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of technical

know-how and investment from sources inside the country and abroad* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands

of the State and the national peoples

Four economic objectives* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preservation

and safeguarding of cultural heritage and national char-acter

* Flourishing of Union Spirit, the true patriotism* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards of the

entire nation

Four social objectives

RC concreting of main dam inspected atUpper Paunglaung Hydropower ProjectNAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Union Minister for Electric

Power No. 1 U Zaw Min yesterday morning inspectedplacing of RCC with the use of heavy machinery atmain dam stage-2 (B)-2 of Upper PaunglaungHydropower Project, 26 miles east of Pyinmana ofNay Pyi Taw.

He presented gifts to consulting engineer group ofColenco Co Ltd of Switzerland, the mechanicalelectronic installation group of YMEC Co Ltd of Chinaand staff of the project.

The Union Minister looked into progress in buildingthe outlet, stockpile of gravel for RCC placing andcrushing of stones. He visited the Unit 1 and Unit 2 ofthe power plant and conveying of RC concrete.

Construction Director U Thaung Han reported onplans for the project, placing of RC concrete on stages,production of gravel and preventive measures foroverflow of the river.

Director-General U Maw Tha Htwe gave asupplementary report.

The Union Minister gave instructions onsystematic supervision to be made for daily qualitycontrol of project works, preventive measures fornatural disasters and placing of RC concrete andinstallation of machines at the power plant with

added momentum.On completion, Upper Paunglaung Hydropower

Project will have two 70-megawatt generators in totalof 140 megawatts generating capacity, and it willproduce 454 million kilowatt hours yearly.—MNA

Extended installation of GSM mobile telephone discussedare to join hands with the government and private inthe frameworks to achieve successfulimplementation of the project.

Deputy Minister U Tint Lwin and the ChiefEngineer of Mobile Phone Section reported onongoing project tasks to extend 4 more million linesin the first year of the GSM mobile telephoneinstallation project and future plans. Chief engineersand private entrepreneurs participated in discussionsof the project.

The Union Minister gave instructions on timelycompletion of the project and implementation of theproject for providing systematic mobile phonecommunication to the people.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Speed and securecommunication system will contribute much toimprovement of socio-economic life for the people,rural development and poverty alleviation, said UnionMinister for Communications, Posts and TelegraphsU Thein Tun at the meeting to extend installation ofGSM mobile telephones, at the hall of the ministry,here, on 15 July.

The Union Minister added that the project willbe implemented for enabling the entire people tocommunicate with each other with the use of mobilephones at fair charges. Those assigned in the project

Union Minister for Electric Power No. 1

U Zaw Min inspects Upper Paunglaung

Hydropower Project.—MNA

Union Minister for Communications, Postsand Telegraphs U Thein Tun delivers an

address at meeting on extended installationof GSM mobile telephones.—MNA

Binge drinking ‘candamage memory skills’

in teen girls

One policeman killed, fiveothers held hostage byprisoners in Pakistan

Union Energy Minister callsfor production of quality

fertilizer at fair price

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PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesireMonday, 18 July, 2011

Beware of hazardousBeware of hazardousBeware of hazardousBeware of hazardousgasesgases

Living creatures cannot survive withoutsun, water, oxygen and carbon dioxide.When mixed carbon dioxide and water reactwith each other in the sun, they werechanged into carbohydrate and oxygenwhich are necessary for living things.

Increased amount of carbon dioxide inthe air has led to global warming, climatechanges, increased number of naturaldisasters, droughts and crop failures. Worldcountries are growing large numbers oftrees to make forests to protect the planetfrom dangers posed by increased amount ofcarbon dioxide and hazardous gases.

Fresh air is good for our health. Notmany people notice that there are manyhazardous gases in buildings, and hermeticrooms and vehicles.

Smoke from kitchens of airtight flatsand houses is also consisted of methane andother dangerous gases. Heaters and air-conditioners produce carbon monoxidewhen they do not work well. The gas emittedfrom a gas stove also is as hazardous ascarbon monoxide.

It is advisory that rubber pieces shouldnot be used as fuel because when on fire,they produce hazardous gases. If a personis poisoned with hazardous gases, he will bedelirious with dizziness and drowsiness, andsometimes can lose consciousness.

Therefore, the people are urged to set agood ventilation system in houses, buildingsand offices to avert harms caused byhazardous gases.

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—A ceremony to disbursesmall loans by Subcommittee for development ofmicrofinance institutions of Bago Region was held atBago Region Government Office yesterday morning.At the ceremony, Union Minister for RailTransportation U Aung Min explained loandisbursement, Bago Region Chief Minister U NyanWin and Pyithu Hluttaw Representative U Soe Tha,tasks for rural development and poverty alleviation.

After that, Union Minister U Aung Min, PyithuHluttaw Representative U Soe Tha and officialsdisbursed loans equivalent to K14000 million tomicrofinance institutions in Bago Region.

YANGON, 17 July—Wellwisher Mr. GiuseppeRotondella donated computers and accessories worthK 14,181,090 to the Training School for the Girls underthe Department of Social Welfare on Malikha Road inMayangon Township, here, yesterday morning.

Director-General U Soe Kyi of SWD acceptedthe donations and presented certificate of honour tothe wellwisher.

The director-general and wellwisher formallyopened the computer training hall and viewed learningof trainees.

MNA

Loans disbursed to townships andLoansdisbursedtotownshipsandLoansdisbursedtotownshipsanddistricts in Bago Regiondistricts inBagoRegion

In the afternoon, the Chief Minister attended theopening ceremony of informal primary education for2011-2012 Academic year, at Bago City Hall.Afterwards, Director-General U Kyaw Thu of No.1Basic Education Department and Region EducationOfficer U Myo Swe reported on the informal primaryeducation. Cash and kind were donated through RegionSocial Affairs Minister Dr Kyaw Oo and officials. TheSecretary of Region Government presented dutyassignments to the township administrators. The ChiefMinister and party visited informal primary educationbooth.

MNA

Union Minister for Rail Transportation U Aung Min explaining loan disbursement at theceremony .—MNA

Computers, apparatuses donated toTraining School for the Girls

Director-General U Soe Kyi accepts

computers and accessories donated by

Mr. Giuseppe Rotondella to the Training

School for the Girls.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—A ceremony to opentarred road in Hsaingpha village, Narkha Creek-crossingconcrete bridge was held in conjunction with theopening of new school building of primary school, atMongnai Township, Langkho District of Shan State on

Tarred road, concrete bridgeand new school buildingopened in Mongnai Tsp

13 July. Langkho District Administrator U Htoo Lwin,the township Administrator and executive officer ofTownship Development Affairs Committee openedthe tarred road and the bridge.

The tarred road which cost K 45.5 million is 1.5miles long and the bridge measuring 25 x15 feet, costK 25 million. After that, the opening of the newschool building of primary school was followed. Theschool measuring 200" x 30" was built at a cost of K20.6 million.—MNA

Prize-presenting of DenkPharma Cup Swimming

Championship heldYANGON, 17 July—The prize-presentation of 4th

Denk Pharma Cup Men’s and Women’s SwimmingChampionship jointly organized by MyanmarSwimming Federation and T.T.O Trading Co Ltdtook place at National Swimming Pool on U WisaraRoad here this morning.

Min Thukha and Htet Yamone Aung won bestswimmer award in U-17 men’s and women’s events,Thu Myat Hein and Nan Kham Myatchu in U-14events, An Khaung Htut and Eingyin Kay Khaingin U-12 events, Nyein Khant Soe and Su MoeTheint San in U-10 events, Suan Htet Min Theinand Nan Honey Oo in U-8 events.

Hard Body (A) stood first, United (A) second,Yangon swimming team third, Sports and PhysicalEducation Department fourth and Kokkai fifthrespectively in team event.

The deputy director-general of Sports andPhysical Education Department under Ministry ofSports presented prizes to winners.

MNA

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BAGHDAD, 17 July—One Iraqi soldier was killed and five other injured inseparate incidents in the country’s restive northern City of Mosul on Saturday.

A Mosul police source told Xinhua via phone that the Iraqi military launchedan operation in the city in a bid to capture a number of terror suspects. During theencounter, one troop was killed and one of the suspects was seized.

The source, on condition of anonymity, said that in another incident, five Iraqitroops were injured when their patrol vehicle hit a roadside bomb. The vehicle wasdamaged in the blast, said the police officer. Iraq has seen increase of violencerecently, as attackers tend to point more on military and police targets.—Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 17 July—The Indian police haveprepared a sketch of onesuspect in Wednesday’striple bombings inMumbai, while under-world criminals’involvement in the attackwas not ruled out, localmedia reported onSunday. Investigatorshave zeroed in on twosuspects, local dialyHindustan Times quotedRakesh Maria, additionaldirector general ofMumbai Police and chiefof anti-terrorist squad(ATS) as saying onSaturday. “Investigat-

Iraqi troop killed, five injured inseparate incidents

Indian police prepare sketchof suspect in Mumbai blasts

Afghan policeofficers inspect thesite of a blast in thecentral province of

Ghazni, Afghanistanrecently. Two

roadside bombattacks on Saturdaykilled four private

security guardsescorting supply

convoys for a NATObase in eastern

Afghanistan, a policechief said.INTERNET

KABUL, 17 July— A man dressed as an Afghanarmyman killed a soldier with the NATO-ledInternational Security Assistance Force (ISAF)Saturday, Xinhua reported. “An individual wearingan Afghan National Army uniform turned his weaponagainst International Security Assistance Forceservice members in southern Afghanistan today,killing one service member,” the press release said.

The press release, however, did not identify theexact place of the incident and the nationality of thevictim, saying that it is ISAF policy to defer casualtyidentification procedures to the relevant nationalauthorities.—Xinhua

Man disguised as Afghanarmyman kills NATO soldier

ions done so far and visitsto the sites by forensicexperts and investigatorssuggest that there was nosuicide bomber andbased on eyewitnessaccounts, we may be ableto get a sketch of one ofthe suspects by tonight(Saturday night),” said thepolice officer. He saidalthough the police hadanother suspect’sphotograph obtainedfrom the closed circuit TVfootage, the police neededto work more on thephotograph as the footagewas grainy, according tothe report.—Xinhua

Two Iraqis killed, police officer escapesassassination in Iraq’s violence

BAGHDAD, 17 July—Two people werekilled and three wounded in bombattacks in and near Baghdad on Sunday,while a police officer escaped withwounds a gunfire attack in Iraq’s northerncentral province of Salahudin duringthe day, the police said.

A roadside bomb went off in themorning near a car in Baghdad’s westerndistrict of Amriyah, killing two civiliansand wounding another, an InteriorMinistry source told Xinhua on conditionof anonymity. Near Baghdad, a roadsidebomb struck a civilian car in the town ofMahmoudiyah, some 30 km south ofBaghdad, wounding two people, thesource said.

In Salahudin province, BrigadierGeneral Ahmed Bdeiwi, head of theprovincial major crimes department,escaped with wounds an attack bygunmen on his convoy while travellingnear a village at the edges of the city ofSherqat, some 280 km north of Baghdad,a source from Salahudin’s operationscommand told Xinhua on condition ofanonymity. The attack occurred in theearly morning as Bdeiwi was heading tohis work in Tikrit, some 170 km north ofBaghdad, the source said, adding thatBdeiwi’s bodyguards and security forcesat a nearby checkpoint traded fire withthe attackers who fled the scene.

Xinhua

NATO, Afghan army kill at least 13 Taleban

Smoke rises after a coalition air strike against abuilding believed occupied by Taleban fighters

in Kuz Kunar, Nangarhar province east ofKabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, 17 July, 2011.

INTERNET

KABUL, 17 July—Afghan and NATO officials sayat least 13 insurgents have been killed in easternAfghanistan after gunbattles and a coalition airstrikeagainst a building occupied by Taleban fighters.

Coalition spokesman Capt Justin Brockhoff saysthe fighting started during an overnight operationtargeting a Taleban leader in the Kuz Kunar district ofNangarhar province.

The Afghan-led force, which included coalitiontroops, came under fire and insurgents refused requeststo come out of the building. The fighting endedSunday after an airstrike. There were no casualtiesamong civilians or security forces, he said.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for theNangarhar provincial governor, says the bodies of 13insurgents have been found so far. He says thebuilding was an empty school.—Internet

A coalition helicopter fires flares around a buildingbelieved occupied by Taleban fighters in Kuz Kunar,Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan onSunday, 17 July, 2011. Afghan and NATO officialssay at least 13 insurgents have been killed in eastern

Afghanistan after gunbattles and a coalitionairstrike against a building occupied by Taleban

fighters.—INTERNET

Smoke rises from the site of a bomb attack in Baghdadon 16 July, 2011. A parked car bomb targeting a night

club killed two people and wounded nine others incentral Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

Another police source said only six people werewounded by a roadside bomb.—INTERNET

PUL-E-KHUMRI, 17July—Unknown gunmenopened fire at a weddingparty in northernAfghanistan overnight,killing at least two guestsand wounding sevenothers, an official saidSunday.

Police have launchedan investigation to find outwho attacked theceremony in BaghlaniJadid District in thenorthern Province ofBaghlan, an area where

Two killed in Afghanwedding shooting

the Taleban and othermilitants are known to beactive, the official said.

“There was a weddingparty last night in BaghlaniJadid District.

Some unknownpeople entered and openedfire on people,” MohmoodHaqmal, a spokesman forthe provincial admini-stration, said.

“Two people havedied and seven others areinjured,” he added.

Internet

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LOS ANGELES, 17July— After its nearlyfour-year trek, NASAengineers are expected toconfirm this weekend thatthe US spacecraft Dawnhas entered the orbit ofVesta, one of the largestasteroids in the solarsystem.

Mission leadersestimate that Dawn waspulled into Vesta’s orbitaround 0500 GMTSaturday and engineersshould be able to confirmthis when the space craftperforms a scheduledcommunication pass at0630 GMT Sunday,according to the US spaceagency.

Dawn should comewithin 10,000 miles(16,000 kilometers) ofVesta to study its surfacewhile traveling 116million miles (188 millionkilometers) from Earth.

“It has taken nearly

This picture providedby NASA shows animage obtained by

NASA’s Dawnspacecraft of the giantasteroid Vesta with its

framing cameraon 9 July.INTERNET

HOUSTON, 17 July—The space shuttle Atlantis’four astronauts will enjoysome time off today (17July) after finishingunpacking the cargo theorbiter brought up to theInternational SpaceStation.

The spaceflyers havespent more than a weekmoving nearly five tonsof cargo onto the stationfrom a giant space lockercalled the Raffaellomodule and the shuttleAtlantis’ mid-deck.

The Raffaello cargopod is also being refilledwith trash and broken orobsolete hardware thatwill be returned to Earthat the end of Atlantis’mission.

The shuttle astronautsare operating on anovernight schedule, andbegan their 10th day inspace with a wakeup callat 10:59 pm EDT Saturday

US spacecraft to be pulledinto giant asteroid’s orbit

Shuttle Atlantis’ Astronauts get Sundayoff in Space

four years to get to thispoint,” said Robert Mase,manager of the $466million project at NASA’sJet Propulsion Laboratoryin Pasadena, California.

“Our latest tests andcheck-outs show thatDawn is right on targetand performingnormally,” he added.

“We feel a little likeColumbus approachingthe shores of the NewWorld,” said ChristopherRussell, Dawn’s principalinvestigator, based at theUniversity of Californiain Los Angeles (UCLA).“The Dawn team can’twait to start mapping thisTerra Incognita.”

After a year ofobservations andmeasurements aroundVesta, Dawn will departfor its second destination,the dwarf planet Ceres, inJuly 2012. It will be thefirst craft to orbit two solar

system destinationsbeyond Earth, said NASAofficials.

Dawn’s scienceinstrument suite willmeasure surfacecomposition, topographyand texture. In addition,the Dawn spacecraft willmeasure the tug of gravityfrom Vesta and Ceres tolearn more about theirinternal structures,”NASA said in a pressrelease.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 17 July—Howlong does it take to drive frompoint A to point B? Before you fireup Google Maps to get the answer,you might want to tune into yourlocal radio station for traffic updatesor, better still, ask a local. That’sbecause Google has eliminated itspredictive driving service fromGoogle Maps: Better hope there’sno traffic!

In the past, grabbing drivingdirections between two locations

The HP Pavilion p7-1010 is a veryaffordable desktop system offeringa quad-core processor and tons of

storage space.—INTERNET

Google Maps dumps driving timeswith traffic estimates

NEW YORK, 17 July—Beleaguered Research in Motion is reportedly working on a mediabox codenamed the BlackBerry Cyclone that connects to televisions and streams contentfrom Netflix, YouTube, and nearby media devices.

The BlackBerry Cyclone will be “similar to Apple TV,” according to the NerdBerryblog, which cited an unnamed source as “confirming” a number of functions and featureson the rumored media box, as well as a release date in the fall.

Those unconfirmed specs and details include claims that the streaming media box willconnect to televisions through an HDMI port, will be Wi-Fi-enabled and able to access othermedia devices on a home wireless network, will stream content from Netflix and YouTube,and will eventually have “more to come.”

NerdBerry didn’t provide any pictures of the rumored media box, but did say it “lookslike a larger version of BlackBerry Presenter,” a BlackBerry smartphone accessory that letsusers present Microsoft PowerPoint slides wirelessly from their phones (pictured above left).RIM has been struggling of late with lower-than-expected sales of its smartphones and thesluggish start for its first tablet device, the BlackBerry PlayBook. The company has beensharply criticized by analysts and media in recent weeks, and if RIM does release the rumoredmedia box, it can probably expect a lot of doubters to question that strategy.—Internet

would give you two different routetimes. The first, which is the route timethat currently remains in Google Maps,is a simple no-holds-barred calculationthat assumes clear skies, free roads, andyour pedal to the legal metal.

The second calculation, and in manyways the more useful of the two, was aprediction of how long your actualjourney might take based on an analysisof traffic patterns along your route.

Your destination might be a merehour away, but the traffic-based numbercould put you at an hour-thirty (orworse, if you were stuck in San FranciscoBay Area traffic).—Internet

RumoredRIM

mediabox

hittingthis fall?

This screen shotshows a page

from Google Plus.As the online

world turns socialwith Facebook

leading the way,Google’s newPlus service

represents its bestshot yet at

muscling into amarket that hasthreatened to

topple theInternet search

leader.INTERNET

A diver takes care of a three-meter nurse sharkpresented by Taipei Sea World in 2002. The sharkwas rescued from a local fisherman after its dorsalfin was cut off at Ilan harbor, northern Taiwan.Taiwan, one of the world’s major shark catchers,

announced plans to tighten measures againsthunting the ocean predator for its fin, the island’s

top fisheries official said.—INTERNET

(0259 GMT).The crew was awoken

by the song “Celebration”by Kool and the Gang,played with a specialmessage from employeesat NASA’s Stennis SpaceCenter in Mississippi.

Today will be the lastfull day of cargo transfer

work before the Raffaellomodule, which wastemporarily attached tothe Earth-facing port ofthe space station’sHarmony node earlier inthe mission, is roboticallyre-installed insideAtlantis’ payload bay.

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Tight diabetes control means carefully managingyour meals, exercise and medication to ensure thatyour blood glucose levels are stable.

The American Diabetes Association mentions thesepotential benefits of tight diabetes control:

* Lower risk of diabetic eye disease, kidney diseaseand nerve disease.

* Reduced risk of any existing diabetescomplications getting worse.

* Increased energy levels and simply feeling better.* More flexibility with meal schedules.* Reduced risk of birth defects in offspring if you

become pregnant.Internet

Health Tip: Controllingdiabetes

STD rate twice as high in older women: USstudy.—INTERNET

A medic looks over a cancerpatient’s image scan tohelp plan a radiation

treatment. Cancer rates areincreasing at such a pacethat four in ten people inBritain will be diagnosedwith the disease at somepoint during their life, a

health charity said onThursday.—INTERNET

Dentists can identifyundiagnosed diabetes

NEW YORK, 17 July—Dental visits may offer away to help identify people with diabetes or pre-diabetes who are unaware of their condition, USresearchers say.

Senior author Dr Ira Lamster, dean of ColumbiaUniversity College of Dental Medicine, andcolleagues recruited approximately 600 peoplevisiting a dental clinic in New York who were age40 or older if non-Hispanic white, and 30-years-oldor older, if Hispanic or non-white, who had neverbeen told they have diabetes or pre-diabetes.

About 530 patients with at least one additionalself-reported diabetes risk factor — family historyof diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension oroverweight/obesity — received a periodontalexamination and a fingerstick, point-of-carehemoglobin A1c test.

To assess and compare the performance ofseveral potential identification protocols, the studyparticipants returned for a fasting plasma glucosetest.—Internet

An employee of the AthensStock Exchange passes ascreen, shows the Greekbanks’ shares in fall, on14 July , 2011. Greece’s

Finance Minister EvangelosVenizelos sought to

downplay fears of theimplications of a default

rating being slapped on thedebt-ridden country after

an expected second bailout.INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 16 July—TTI FloorCare North America Inc, which ownsthe Hoover and Dirt Devil vacuumcleaner brands, has put itself up forsale, officials said.

The firm, a subsidiary of HongKong’s Techtronic Industries Co Ltd,has hired Bank of America MerrillLynch to advise it on a potential sale,sources told The Wall Street Journal.

The company was seeking up to$900 million, and the deal alsoincludes Techtronic’s Vax floor-carebrand based in the United Kingdom,people familiar with the sale told theJournal.

The brands up for sale generate

Hoover, Dirt Devil up for saleabout $100 million in annual salesbefore interest, taxes, depreciation andamortization. The companies willprobably be sold to a private-equitybuyer, the report said.

Hoover is an iconic name in thevacuum cleaner business, whosehistory dates to 1907.

Techtronic was founded in 1985and owns a variety of businessesmanufacturing such products as powertools, saws and solar-powered lighting.

Techtronic reportedly purchasedthe floor-care business from appliance-maker Whirlpool Corp in 2007 forabout $107 million

Internet

FRANKFURT, 17 July—Volkswagenhas sold more than 4 million vehiclesduring the first half of the year, a recordfor Europe's largest carmaker. Deliver-ies increased by 14% on the same period,last year, led by strong growth in Asianmarkets.

Volkswagen, headquartered in Ger-many, includes the Skoda, Seat andAudi brands, as well as VW. Its sharesrose 1.3% in early trading in Frankfurt.Sales in Asia grew 19% to 1.26m, mostlyin China, the region's largest market.

Volkswagen sellsrecord 4m vehicles

over six months

Volkswagen has sold more than 4million vehicles during the firsthalf of the year, a record forEurope's largest carmaker.

INTERNET

European sales grew 9.3% overall,thanks to continued high growth incentral and eastern Europe. Sales inNorth America rose 21% to 319,000vehicles, and by 11% to 455,000 inSouth America.—Internet

BEIJING, 17 July— Chinese insurancecompanies’ premium income topped805.66 billion yuan (123.95 billion USdollars) in the first half of the year, up 13percent year on year, the China InsuranceRegulatory Commission (CIRC) said.

In the first six months, premiumincome from the property insurancebusiness rose 16.9 percent from a year

China insurance premium tops 800 blnyuan in H1: CIRC

earlier to 235.96 billion yuan, whilelife insurance premium income rose to569.7 billion yuan, the CIRC said in aPress release about the performance ofthe insurance market. Chinese insurersearned 103.11 billion yuan from theirinvestments in the first half, an averagereturn on investment of 2.1 percent,according to the CIRC.—Internet

LONDON, 17 July—Britain’s newestgeneration of children islikely to live a full 20years longer than theirgrandparents, a report onlife expectancy says.

Healthier lifestylesand improved medicalscience means onaverage a girl born todaywill live to be 82 and aboy to 78, figures fromthe Office for NationalStatistics indicate.

In 1930 it wasexpected boys born thatyear would reach the ageof 58 while for theaverage expectedlifespan for girls wasabout 62 years, The DailyTelegraph reported.

The report in the ONSjournal Social Trendssaid elderly people couldexpect more of theirlonger years of life to bespent in good health. “Aswell as living longer, menand women are stayinghealthy and disability

UK life expectancy up 20years from 1930

free for more of theirlives,” it said.

One of the mainreasons cited for the two-decade increase in lifeexpectancy is “theconsiderable decrease ininfant mortality rateswhich were at their lowestrecorded level in 2010,”the report said.

In 1930 the infantmortality rate was at 6.3percent, with more thanone in 20 children dyingbefore reaching 1 year ofage. In 2010 the rate wasdown to less than 0.5percent, the report said.

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TOKYO, 17 July—A nuclear reactor of a powercompany in Japan was shut down Saturday afterproblems started in its cooling system, Xinhuareported.

The No 1 reactor of the Ohi nuclear powerplant in western Fukui Prefecture was shut downafter problems started Friday night. There washowever no radiation leakage, Japan’s Nuclearand Industrial Safety Agency said.

The 1,180,000-kilowatt reactor has beenundergoing final adjustment procedures prior toits commercial operations.

The plant is owned by Kansai Electric PowerCo.

Kansai president Makoto Yagi said: “We willmake efforts to secure additional supply capacityto prevent a blackout.”

The Ohi reactor is one of the 19 reactors in thecountry that remain active after the twin disastersof earthquake and tsunami in March.

Internet

N-reactor shut down inJapan

Dr Karl-Thomas Neumann of German carmaker Volkswagon gives a presentation at aforum for electronic car in Beijing, capital ofChina, on 16 July, 2011. The forum aims to

promote new energy for future vehicles.XINHUA

5.0-magnitude quake hitsKermadec Islands region

HONG KONG, 17 July—An earthquakemeasuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted KermadecIslands region at 21:54:07 GMT on Saturday, theUS Geological Survey said.

The epicentre, with a depth of 20.10 km, wasinitially determined to be at 29.7653 degreessouth latitude and 176.9071 degrees westlongitude.

Xinhua

6.2-magnitude earthquake hitsAlaska

BEIJING, 17 July—An earthquake measuring6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Alaska of the UnitedStates at 3:59 am Sunday Beijing Time, accordingto the China Earthquake Networks Centre.

The epicentre, with a depth of 30 km, wasdetermined to be at 54.9degrees north latitude and161.4 degrees west longitude.—Xinhua

5.5-magnitude quake hitsVanuatu

HONG KONG, 17 July—An earthquake measuring5.5 on the Richter scale jolted Vanuatu at 18:09:41GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 247.00 km, wasinitially determined to be at 18.8721 degrees southlatitude and 169.3785 degrees east longitude.

Xinhua

5.8-magnitude quake hitsKepulauan Barat Daya,

IndonesiaHONG KONG, 17 July—An earthquake measuring

5.8 on the Richter scale jolted Kepulauan Barat Daya,Indonesia at 17:06: 39 GMT on Saturday, the USGeological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 246.20 km, wasinitially determined to be at 7.1050 degrees southlatitude and 127.5468 degrees east longitude.—Xinhua

Fire on leaked NE Chinapetrochemical device put

out, no casualties reported

Firefighters spray water to extinguish fire inDalian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province,

on 16 July, 2011.XINHUA

DALLAN, 17 July—Fire on a leakedpetrochemical device in northeastern coastal Cityof Dalian in Liaoning Province had been put out,company sources said Saturday evening.

No one died or was injured in the accident,which the company said had not caused pollutionto the sea or the air. An onsite monitoring showedthat concentrations of sulphur dioxide and nitrogenoxides in the surrounding air were below the nationalstandard of pollution. In the meantime, all waterused to quench the fire was guided into anemergency pond and no such water was dischargedinto the sea.

The fire was triggered off by leak in a distillationdevice at the Dalian Petrochemical Company ofPetroChina, a leading onshore oil producer of thenation, at around 2:25 pm Saturday. By 8 pm, thefire was “totally put out”, the company said in astatement.

Local environment authorities are keeping aneye on the pollutants of the fire and a furtherinvestigation into the cause of the fire is underway.—Internet

Family doctors misdiagnose coronaryheart disease

WASHINGTON, 17 July—A study on coronaryheart disease has foundthat family doctorsmisdiagnose patients asnot having CHD.

Of the 180 patients inthe study, 31.7 percent

had originally beenmisdiagnosed.

When a patientpresents with chest painas the main symptom, thefamily doctor has todecide whether immed-iate action is called for orwhether watchful waitingis an option. In thisdiagnostic crosssectionalstudy Stefan Bosner andhis colleagues evaluatedthe data of a total of 1249patients over the age of35 years who presentedto 74 participating familydoctors with chest pain.

From this data pool,Bosner and colleaguesextracted the doctors’initial suspected diag-nosis in respect ofcoronary heart disease(CHD).

In a total of 57 patients

the doctor wronglysuspected another causethan CHD for the chestpain. Nevertheless, thefamily doctors stillreferred one in three ofthe patients given such afalse negative diagnosisto a cardiologist.

In view of the numberof missed cases of CHD,there is an argument forconsidering a diagnosisof CHD in patients withless pronounced symp-toms.

However, the resear-chers believe that if the“diagnostic threshold”were to be lowered, theresult would be a dramaticrise in false positivediagnoses. The resultshave been published inthe current edition ofDeutsches ArzteblattInternational.—Internet

Mudslide-blocked highway in SW China reopensof the Prefecture, andcovered a more-than-100-meter-long sectionof the road.

By 5 pm, traffic onthe road had returned tonormal. No casualtieshave been reported inthe mudslide.

Internet

A heavy truck runs on a muddy road afterlandslide in Nujiang Lisu Ethnic Autonomous

Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province,on 16 July, 2011.—XINHUA

KUNMING, 17 July—Traffic has resumed on ahighway in YunnanProvince that wasblocked by a rain-triggered mudslideSaturday morning,stranding more than 800people and 300-oddmotor vehicles,according to local trafficpolice.

The mudslide

happened at around10:00 am in FugongCounty of Nujiang LisuAutonomous Prefecture.More than 600 cubicmetres of mud and rocksfrom the snow-clad BiluoMountain was dumpedon the WagongHighway, the onlyhighway leading toGongshan Dulong andNu Autonomous County

A girl participates in the 2011 Junior CarnivalParade in Toronto, Canada, on

16 July, 2011.—XINHUA

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BEIJING, 17 July— A ship carryingChina’s deep-diving submersibleJiaolong has reached the north-easternPacific Ocean where it is scheduled tomake a 5,000-metre test dive. Jiaolongis the world’s first manned submersibledesigned to reach depth of 7,000metres.

China’s manned deep-divingsubmersible Jiaolong embarked on ajourney on July the 1st to the dive sitebetween southeastern Haiwaii andNorth America. During the dive, thesubmersible will undergo severaloperational tests in which it will takephotos, shoot video, survey the seabedand take samples from the ocean floor.

KATHMANDU, 17 July—At least nine people diedand more than 60 others were injured in twoseparate road accidents in Pyuthan and Kavredistricts in Nepal on Saturday.

According to The Kathmandu Post daily, apassenger jeep skidded off the road and fell 150metres down in Pyuthan in mid-western Nepal onSaturday, killing five and injuring two others.

Eyewitnesses said the jeep was crammedbeyond its capacity. Police suspect brake failurecaused the mishap. In Kavre district in centralNepal, at least four persons died and 63 others wereinjured, when a passenger bus fell 200 metersdown the road on Saturday evening. Some of theinjured are in critical condition.—Xinhua

MASHKOVO, 17 July—A passenger bus collidedwith a heavy duty truck in Russia on Sunday,killing five people and injuring at least 18 others, anofficial said.

ITAR-Tass said the accident occurred nearMashkovo in the Tambov region.

A spokesman for the regional emergenciesadministration there were 35 to 38 people aboardthe bus.

RIA Novosti reported 10 people had beenadmitted to a hospital, with six of them in gravecondition.

The Russian news agency said the bus was enroute from Tomsk to Semipalatinsk when theaccident happened about 2 am.—Xinhua

JAKARTA, 17 July—Avolcano in North Su-lawesi in central Indone-sia re-erupted on Sunday,the bigest ever since themount status was raisedto top alert, as the numberof evacuees climbes tomore than 5,000, vol-canologist and disastermanagement agency offi-cials said.—Xinhua

China’s submarine to conduct 5kmtest dive

Actors perform in the drama “Pilgrimage to the West” during the openingceremony of the First China Children’s Theatre’s Festival in Beijing,capital of China, 16 July, 2011. A total of 39 domestic and foreign

dramas will be presented to Chinese children during the festival whichkicked off on Saturday and will last until 28 Aug.—XINHUA

Compared with a submarine, thesubmersible depends on another vesselor facility for support. The ship, Ocean-6, will assist Jiaolong conduct itsinvestigations and select the area forthe dive.

The tests will be conducted in thePacific Ocean in accordance with acontract signed between the ChinaOcean Mineral Resources Research andDevelopment Association and theInternational Seabed Authority. Theywill also be carried out in line with theprovisions of the United NationsConvention on the law of the Sea aswell as the ISA’s rules and regulations.

Xinhua

9 killed, over 60 injured inroad accidents in Nepal

Giant panda Hua Ao walks to his birthday gift,an ice “cake” with fruit frozen inside, during its

4-year-old birthday party in Nanshan Zoo ofYantai City, east China’s Shandong Province,

on 16 July, 2011. More than 400 visitorswitnessed the birthday party here Saturday.

XINHUA

5 dead, 18 hurt in Russiabus-truck crash

A model poses beside a Volkswagen car at the3rd Hohhot International Auto Trade Show in

Hohhot, capital of north China’s InnerMongolia Autonomous Region, on 16 July,

2011. Some 40 exhibitors brought more than300 vehicles to the 3rd Hohhot InternationalAuto Trade Show which is held from 15 to 19

July, 2011.—XINHUA

Pioneering Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar

Impulse piloted byGerman test pilot

Markus Scherdel takesoff for its unique flying

display at the ParisInternational Air Show atLe Bourget airport nearParis in June 2011 on

the last day of the show.Solar Impulse returned

to Switzerland, theplane’s team said less.

INTERNET

Indonesianvolcano

re-erupts,more people

flee home

CANBERRA, 17 July—An Australianwoman is being investigated by policeafter she offered her children for sale onthe Internet, local media reported onSunday. The woman placed an auctionon eBay offering to sell two children,her son and daughter, both under theage of 10, to the highest bidder.

Several people placed bids on theauction, which has alarmed authorities.

Police has closed the auction andtracked the woman down, but she tolddetectives she was only joking.

Bill Muehlenberg from the FamilyCouncil of Victoria said it is no laughingmatter.

Australian woman investigated fortrying to sell children on Internet

“Plenty of children, certainly aroundthis age, are struggling with issues ofidentity and self-worth and so on,” hewas quoted by the ABC News on Sunday.“To know that your own parent has putyou up on offer like a used CD is a bit ofa concern and certainly could have somenegative impacts on the children inquestion.”

The Victorian police decided not topress charges against the mum, but theDepartment of Human Services iscontinuing its investigation into thefamily, and there is possibility that thewoman’s children could be taken intopermanent care.—Xinhua

WINNIPEG, 17 July—Four people died in a house fire in Winnipeg, Manitoba,Saturday, with two other people critically injured, authorities say.

City firefighters arrived at what was thought to be a boarding house about 2am, Postmedia News reported. “The cause of the fire is still under investigation,”said Constable Jason Michalyshen, adding there was no reason to believe the firewas in any way connected to a recent string of gang-related arsons throughout thecity. The homicide and arson units were investigating the cause of the latest blaze,however. “Anything is possible, but there’s nothing to suggest that at this pointin the investigation,” Michalyshen said, who had no comment on the identities ofthe victims or if there were more than six casualties taken to the hospital.

Later in the morning, police responded to another fire about 2.5 miles away.Michalyshen said he was not aware whether or not the two fires were related.

Xinhua

Four die, two injured in Canada house fire

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NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—The Ministry of HomeAffairs held the 7th rainyseason tree growingceremony at its compound,here, this morning, attendedby Union Minister for HomeAffairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko.

The Union Ministerplanted a teak sapling.

Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint,Myanmar Police ForceChief Kyaw Kyaw Tun,and departmental heads ofMPF and departmentsunder the ministry also grewsaplings.

The Union Minister anddepartmental heads viewedparticipation of officers andstaff in planting saplings.

Home Affairs Ministry plantssaplings for seventh time

Union Energy Minister callsfor production of quality

fertilizer at fair priceYANGON, 17 July—

Union Minister for EnergyU Than Htay yesterdayafternoon made an inspe-ction tour of No. 4 FertilizerPlant (Myaungdaga) ofMyanma PetrochemicalEnterprise under theMinistry of Energy inHmawby Townshipyesterday afternoon.

The Union Ministerlooked into production anddistribution of the plant.

In his address, theUnion Minister stressed theneed to ensure equivalenceof use of raw materials andproduction of finishedgoods. Special emphasis is

to be placed on avoidingpollution around the plantdue to its waste. He calledfor production of highquality urea fertilizers toenable the farmers to buythem at fair prices and todistribute fertilizers swiftly.

The Union Ministerattended to the needs offertilizer buyers afterinspecting the plant.

This morning, theUnion Minister looked intotasks of Thakayta OffshoreBase of Myanma Oil andGas Enterprise in ThakaytaTownship and leftnecessary instructions onworks.—MNA

They also looked intothriving of already-grownsaplings.

At Office No. 10, 8 and49 of the ministry, 960 teakplants, 300 Seintalon mangoplants, 40 jack-fruit plants,200 ironwood plants, 100mahogany plants, 100Mezali plants, 20 djenkolbean plants and 12 star-flower plants have beengrown.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—A self-reliant bridge inKawparan Model Village, Mudon Township of MonState was commissioned into service on 14 July,attended by Mon State Chief Minister U Ohn Myint,state ministers, departmental personnel, and locals.

Minister for Mon State Development Affairs DrToe Toe Aung and Director of Mon State DevelopmentAffairs Committee U Aye Swe formally opened thebridge. The 114 feet long and 15 wide bridge is of RCtype which will provide easier transportation betweenvillages and Mudon.

The chief minister and party then visited modelpaddy field of Kawparan villager U Pe Thein.—MNA

Kawparan model villageopens self-reliant bridge

Mon State Chief Minister U Ohn Myint strolls along self-reliant newbridge in Kawparan Model Village in Mudon Township.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17July— A workcoordination meeting toassign officials concernedfor getting victories in theChampion Challenge CupTournament-2011 washeld at the Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment in Sittway,Rakhine State on 12 Julymorning.

Work coordination meeting forChampion Challenge Cup

Tournament-2011 held in SittwayAt the meeting,

Deputy Director of thedepartment U Aung SawMya urged them to be ableto present lists of newstate- selected athletes forcompetition of 13 sportsevents— Sepak Takraw,table tennis, billiard andsnooker, weight lifting,chess, western boxing,traditional boxing, cycling,

track and field, judo,Karatedo, Taekwondo andmartial arts in thetournament, and heardreports presented byDistrict AssistantDirectors, Staff Officersand technical officers,chairmen of the sportsclubs on ongoing trainingfor the collected athletes.

MNA

Union Minister forHome Affairs

Lt-Gen Ko Ko plantsa teak sapling at 7th

rainy season treegrowing ceremony2011 of Ministry of

Home Affairs.—MNA

Union Minister for Energy U Than Htay inspects tasks of Thakayta Offshore Base ofMOGE.—MNA

YANGON, 17 July—Deputy Director-General (1) U NawTaung of the Sports andPhysica l Educat ionDepartment yesterdayencouraged Myanmar

Myanmar Chess players undergoing trainingfor XXVI SEA Games

Chess players trainingin the Chess SportsCamp to par take inXXVI SEA Games tobe held in Indonesia inNovember.

He left necessary

instructions on trainingand Deputy Director-Genera l (2) U OhnMyint Oo on i t sadminis t ra t ion andcomfortableness for theplayers.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Anannouncement on the route of temporaryclosure and the route to the Mausoleum,while observing the 64th AnniversaryMartyr’s Day, was appeared in the dailieson 17 July.

According to the follow-up news

More information added toannouncement of route of temporary

closure, route to Mausoleumadded by officials concerned, thosewishing to pay tribute to the Mausoleumare not allowed to take anything harmfulto security such as handbags, cameras,mobile telephones and the wreaths andflower baskets which have not beenchecked in advance.—MNA

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Sagawamyay Farming Product and CreditAssociation holds coord meeting in Kyaukpadaung

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Chairman of the MicroCredit Services Development Subcommittee UnionMinister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun attendedthe coordination meeting of Sagawamyay FarmingProduct and Credit Association of KyaukpadaungTownship on 15 July. Chairman of the associationU Thaung Nyunt and officials reported onassistance being provided by the association todevelopment of local people in Kyaukpadaung

Cooperative societies…(from page 16)

put their products on the market, but small-scalefarmers may face challenges and barriers. So, hesuggested that small-scale rubber farmersassociations should be formed to surmount theobstacles.

Chairman of the Central Cooperative SocietyLtd and Chairman of the Cooperative Bank U KhinMaung Aye, and officials from the CooperativeDepartment and the Cottage Industries Departmentreported on the cooperative sector’s potentials forrendering assistance in connection with cropsproducers association and small-scale rubberfarming societies, and replied to the queries raisedby the attendees. Assessing the reports, the Unionminister suggested farmers raise farm animals suchas chicken, ducks and dairy cows on a manageablescale and then put their farms into a large farm runin cooperation with cooperative societies. He notedthat they can make greater profits if they work withthe assistance rendered by the cooperative exportand import society for their goods to gain a footholdin the international market.

The Union minister and the chief ministerinspected progress of Kankalay farm of the MyanmaAgriculture Service, and the farm of U Zaw Win.

In the afternoon, he had a meeting withmembers of township cooperative syndicate andsocieties, and people interested in cooperatives fordiscussions about tasks for rural development andpoverty alleviation.—MNA

Township and future plans.On 16 July, the Union Minister met staff of

departments and enterprises under the ministry atthe district manager office of Myanma EconomicBank in Pakokku.

After hearing the reports on accomplishmentsin the financial year and future plans presentedby officials, the Union Minister left necessaryinstructions.—MNA

Thriving Pakokku ShinmataungThanatkha plants become marketable

Article & Photos: Kalay Win Thu

Recently, I had anopportunity to attend thebook donation inconjunction with theliterary talks at BasicEducation High Schoolin Natchaung Village ofKalay Township. Beforethe ceremony, I visitedK h a i n g p a n s o nShwenatha Garden of UMaung Maung-DawKhin Yin near theirresidence, the backwardof Natchaung StationHospital. The garden islocated in the west ofNatchaung Village.

Wonderfully, I sawthriving 4000 PakokkuShinmataung Thanatkha

said, “Those who wentback from Pakokku wereamazed at my thrivingThanatkha plants.”

S h i n m a t a u n gThanatkha plants aregrown on four feet squarearea each of the farm.The plants were seen in arow systematically. Chilliplants were thrivingamong Thanatkha plants.

The farm was locatedon seven acres of landsurrounded by toddypalm, mango and bananaplants as windbreaker.Thanatkha farm and itsenvirons were coveredwith thick foliage ofvarious thriving trees.

The farm ownerexplained that he boughtseeds of ShinmataungThanatkha at the farms inPakokku and Myaing atfirst. A tin of condensedmilk of seeds were valuedat K 1000. About 5000seedlings came out fromsix tins. Of them, 4000thriving saplings weretransplanted into the farmsystematically.

One year later,Thanatkha plants wereabout five-six feet high.Two years later, the plantswere about 10 feet andone inch diameter. Theplants were nurtured bypouring water andweeding daily.

In early years of the

plants in the garden. In thepast, it was farmland, andnow the farmland has beentransformed into theproper land of Thanatkhaplants. These plants are insize of thigh and leg. WhenI asked about the age ofplants, U Maung Maungexplained that these plantsare six years old.

I recounted, “On myway back from Bagan-Popa last year, I sawYesagyo Thanatkha treesnear the food stall. I havelearnt that these plantswere 10 years old but theywere same size of yourplants.”

U Maung Maung

year Thanatkha plants inlength of about 20 feetand in size of thigh. I havelearnt that four more yearlater, they could be cut forsales to fetch about K70,000-K 80,000.

It was reported thatThanatkha plants inHsedaw Village, south of

farm, vegetables andflowery plants weregrown as mixedcropping. Windbreakerswere planted to giveshade to the saplings.

At present, I saw six-

Kalay Township, wereeight years old. One eachof plants was valued at K80,000. Thanatkha plantswere thriving alongMyaung Creek.

Pakokku Shin-

mataung Thanatkhaplants are now marketablein Kalay region. I witnes-sed thriving Thanatkhaplants. I think localgrowers are to system-atically nurture them.

****Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin: 17-7-2011

Pakokku Shinmataung Thanatkha plants are in a row at the farm inNatchaung Village of Kalay Township.

Photo shows thriving Thanatkha plants on acommercial scale in the farm.

Union Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun meets with staff of departments and enterprisesunder the ministry at the district manager office of Myanma Economic Bank in Pakokku.—MNA

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Tourists visit the Laolongtou scenic spot in Qinhuangdao City, north China’sHebei Province, on 16 July, 2011. As summer comes, Qinhuangdao City, which

owns many famous scenic spots, enters a busy season of tourism.—XINHUA

Briton faces jailafter gifted gun

on weddingLONDON, 17 July —A

man is facing jail inBritain after he receiveda Kalashnikov assaultrifle as a wedding giftfrom his wife. JohnWallace, 47, bought partsfor the deactivated gunthat was gifted to him byAngie, reported The Sun.

Though the weaponwas legal to own, but hedid not have thenecessary permission forthe extras like a barrel.

The High Court inGlasgow was informedthat Wallace wanted toturn the rifle into an“ornamental feature”.

Internet

Patients poisonedin UK hospital

The ItalianFrecce Tricolori

aerobaticdemonstration

team performs onthe Royal

International AirTattoo (RIAT) inFairford, Britain,on 16 July, 2011.

The annualRIAT, one of theworld’s largest

military air show,is held from 16 to

17 July.XINHUA

Traffic is sparse as it flows northbound towardsthe San Fernando Valley on Interstate 405,

during the 11 miles shut down of Interstate 405in Los Angeles on 15 July, 2011.—INTERNET

Woman kills husband whileshooting at dog

JACKSON, 17 July—A Mississippiwoman accidentally shot and killedher husband while aiming at a pit bullwitnesses said was going after somechildren, officials say.

Betty Walker of Jackson was firinga .38-caliber revolver at an 8-month-old pit bull that was trying to attackthe children and misfired, hitting herhusband Robert in the chest Fridayafternoon, The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger reported. Robert Walker was

pronounced dead less than 2 hourslater at a hospital.

Police say that although theshooting appeared to be accidental, aHinds County grand jury willultimately decide whether BettyWalker will face charges.

The owner of the dog, LazariusMontgomery, may face charges,however, as witnesses told police thedog, Cocaine, “lunged and tried toattack some children.”—Internet

Visitors cheer asthe first Beijing

International BeerFestival opens inBeijing, capital ofChina, on 16 July,

2011.—XINHUA

ANCHORAGE, 17 July—TwoAlaskan men have pleaded guilty tobuying and selling walrus tusks andpolar bear hides, officials say.

Jesse James LeBoeuf, 47, alongwith his long-time girlfriend, LorettaAudrey Sternbach, 52, and friend,Richard Blake Weshenfelder, 50,were charged with buying 500pounds of walrus tusks and two polarbear hides and illegally selling them,the Anchorage Daily News reported.LeBoeuf and Weshenfelder enteredguilty pleas in court Friday; Sternbachis set to enter a guilty plea Tuesday.

Two plead guilty in walrus tusks case

When arrested, federal agentsfound 20 guns, including a machinegun, 30 marijuana plants and somecoca plants at the couple’sGlennallen, Alaska, home.Weshenfelder reportedly sold theanimal parts online to out-of-statebuyers.

All three are expected to besentenced in November. Leboeuffaces up to nine years in prison, ashe was also charged with possessingfirearms as a felon. Weshenfelderfaces five years and a $250,000 fine.

Internet

STOCKPORT, 17 July—Three hospitalpatients died from poisoned medicationsat Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport,England, and 11 others were sickenedbut survived, police said.

Tracey Elizabeth Arden, 44, andtwo men ages 71 and 84 whose namesweren’t released died this month fromsaline solution that was deliberatelycontaminated with insulin, TheTelegraph reported.

The insulin was discovered in abatch of 36 saline ampoules after a nursereported an inordinate number of patientswith depressed blood-sugar levels.

Arden died 7 July while the two

unidentified men, who both had serioushealth conditions, died this week, thenewspaper said.

“We are no longer treating thetampered medication as a solecontaminated batch because we cannotbe sure that this was the only incident ofits kind. We will be interviewing all thosewho became ill from the contaminatedsaline to find out if they can shed anylight on who is responsible,” a policespokesman said.

“At best someone has tampered withthem for whatever reason. At worst thiswas a deliberate attempt to harmpatients.”—Internet

Ambulance!Bring me a

steamed bunBEIJING, 17 July—A

man in China called for anambulance as he com-plained of chest pain. Andwhen the ambulancearrived, he asked the staffto go and buy him twosteamed buns.

Beijing’s 120 Emer-gency Medical Centre saidthat 30 percent ofemergency ambulancecalls were unnecessary.

“This month, for theambulance I’m assignedto, 30 to 40 runs were fromtimewasters out of 140 intotal,” a doctor, Zhao, said.

Zhao said one mancalled for ambulance, andwhen it arrived he said hewas hungry and asked thecrew to go out and buyhim two steamed buns,the People’s Dailyreported.

“There were drunksasking for a ride home,and a man who said hewas dizzy and actuallywanted us to settle a fightwith his wife. So we don’twaste limited emergencyresources, we really hopethat we can get somelegislation established,”said Zhao.

Li Jianren, an official,told the Global Times thatthey usually have 100ambulances on duty outof a fleet of 400.

“We receive a lot ofcalls about people who hadfainted by the roadside,but actually they are justsleeping in the shade,” Lisaid.

Internet

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News Album

The formerly mysterious top half of a 26-footstatue of Marilyn Monroe in Chicago was revealedto the public Friday.

The bottom half of the sculpture, which depictsMonroe’s subway-grate stance from “The SevenYear Itch,” was revealed earlier in the week, but thetop half had remained covered, sparking speculationthat the face at the top may not be that of the famedactress, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.

However, the full sculpture, by New Jersey artistSeward Johnson, was revealed to the public Fridayas a faithful recreation of Monroe’s image.

The statue, installed at Pioneer Court on MichiganAvenue, was sponsored by Zeller Realty Group.

Police in Florida said they arrested a 72-year-old man who allegedly pulled a gun on a fellowWalgreens customer and hid the weapon in thecandy aisle.

Riviera Beach Police said a clerk at theWalgreens store told them he heard Robert Warnmumble a racial slur when he entered the storeWednesday, and the victim, whose name was notreleased, told officers Warn pulled a gun on himduring a dispute about cash in the store’s pharmacy,the Palm Beach Post reported Friday.

The victim exited the store and waved downofficers who entered the store and asked Warn ifhe had a gun.

The man initially told them he was unarmedand then admitted he had hidden the weapon in thestore’s candy aisle.

The gun, an unloaded “small Colt,semiautomatic pistol,” was found beneath a row ofchocolate bars.

Warn was arrested and charged with aggravatedassault with a deadly weapon and evidencingprejudice while committing an offense. He washeld in lieu of $150,000 bail and ordered toundergo a mental health evaluation.

A Florida sheriff said men booked into hiscounty’s jail are no longer being providedunderwear free of charge, but they do have theoption of purchasing pairs.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the PolkCounty Jail canteen now sells underwear at $2.54for a pair of briefs and $4.48 for a pair of boxershorts, the Orlando Sentinel reported Friday.

“If they expect me to buy them, they’re goingto wear nothing,” Judd said.

He said the policy, which does not apply towomen booked into the jail, is projected to savethe county $45,000 per year.

Judd said men are not allowed to bring theirown underwear from outside because it takesworkers too long to search the garments for drugsand weapons.

“This is all about a tough economy,” Juddsaid. “Forty-five thousand dollars a year issomeone’s job.”

Police: 72-year-old hidgun in candy aisle

Full Monroe sculptureunveiled in Chicago

Jail stops providing freeunderwear

Rocker/actor JohnnyHallyday receives akiss from his wife

Laetitia after ascreening of the film“Vengeance” at the62nd annual Cannes

Film Festival inCannes, France.

INTERNET

Johnny Hallyday still rockingFrance at 68

PARIS, 17 July—Veteran French rockerJohnny Hallyday says at68 he is still too youngretire.

Hallyday told TheNew York Times hewouldn’t know what todo with himself if hedecided to give in to hisage and myriad healthproblems.

“I realized that if ithad been my last tour, itwould be finished today,and then what would Ido?” said Hallyday, whois getting ready for a

yearlong tour on top ofhis first stage acting rolein a French version ofTennessee Williams’“Kingdom of Earth.”

The Times saidHallyday is still on hisfeet after a series ofhealth woes includingcolon cancer and aharrowing surgicalprocedure on his back in2009 that led to a lawsuitagainst the surgeon. Totop it off, Hallyday istrying to quit smoking.

Hallyday couldeasily rest on his laurels.

Colin Firth to pick Freedomof the City of London honour

LONDON, 17 July—‘The King’s Speech’ starColin Firth is set to pickup another honour - theFreedom of the City ofLondon.

Firth, 50, who wasawarded a CBE in theQueen’s BirthdayHonours, is expected toaccept the Freedomduring the next sixmonths.

“Colin Firth hasenjoyed a remarkableyear, honoured with aCBE, and winning anOscar, Bafta and GoldenGlobe for his

‘The King’s Speech’star Colin Firth.

INTERNET

performance in TheKing’s Speech,” theDaily Express quoted aspokesman for the Cityof London Corporationas saying.

“He is a verydeserving candidate forthe Freedom and we lookforward to welcominghim and his guests to theSquare Mile for hisceremony,” thespokesman added.

In 2005 Firth,married to Italianproducer Livia Giugg-ioli, was made a Comm-ander of the Order of the

Star of Italian Solidarity.The Freedom of the

City of London is said todate back to 1237 andcelebrates outstandingcontributions to Londonlife.

Internet

Actress Zhou Xunfrom the Chinese

mainland poses forphotos at a press

conference held by acosmetic brand whichshe endorses in Taipei,

southeast China’sTaiwan, 15 July, 2011.

XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 17 July —English singer-songwriter Keisha Buchanan is set to try her handat cooking.

The former ‘Sugababes’ star Buchanan is takingcooking tips from the 22-year-old ‘The Saturdays’singer Rochelle Wiseman.

The 26-year-old star, who is obsessed withThai curries, hopes that with the new skill she willbe able make her favourite dish.

“I’m so into Thai curries! I’ve not attempted tocook one myself yet, but I’m about to get a recipefrom Rochelle Wiseman from The Saturdays,” theContactmusic quoted Buchanan as saying.

“She was cooking one the other day when I wasaround, but it looks so difficult! I’m going to giveit a go though,” she added.—Internet

Keisha Buchanan takingcooking lessons to makefavourite Thai curries

He has been performingsince he was 14 and canboast that up-and-coming rocker JimiHendrix opened for himin 1966.

He has cut more than70 albums and countsPresident NicolasSarkozy among hismany Gallic fans.

“French peoplemoan a lot, ‘I hate this, Idon’t like this.’ But theyare very loyal to whatthey like,” Hallydayobserved.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 17 July—Rapper Dizzee Rascal hasrevealed that he is planning to release another albumnext year, but he is unsure what sort of style it will be.

His last record, ‘Tongue N Cheek’, came out in2009.

The ‘Bonkers’ hitmaker has been taking time outfrom the music industry this year, but is “lookingforward” to starting work on his next project eventhough he is not sure which direction it will take.

“I will have definitely an album out next year,”Contact music quoted him as saying.

“I haven’t really started it yet so I’m not sure whatsort of style it will be or who will be involved in it. ButI’m looking forward to getting back to it,” he added.

Internet

Dizzee Rascal “definitely ”releasing new album

next year

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 18 July, 2011

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OFTHE UNION OF MYANMAR

MINISTRY OF ENERGY

Dated: 8th July, 2011

INVITATION FOR BIDS TO CONDUCT PETROLEUMOPERATIONS IN MYANMAR ONSHORE AREAS

(2011)

1. The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar hereby announces Invitation of SealedBids for Petroleum Operations to be conducted in MyanmarOnshore Areas on production sharing basis.

2. The following Onshore blocks are available forbidding in this bidding round:-

(1) PSC E (Myingyan)(2) PSC G (Taungdwingyi)(3) PSC H (Taungu-Pyinmana)(4) PSC I (Hinthada)(5) PSC J (Mawlamyine)(6) PSC K (Yamethin)(7) EP 1 (Kyaukkyi-Mindon)(8) EP 2 (Aunglan)(9) EP 5 (Inbin-Tegyigon)(10) RSF 2 (Tuyintaung (Myaing South))(11) RSF 3 (Gwegyo-Ngashadaung)(12) RSF 9 (Pyalo-Paukkaung)(13) RSF 10 (Kamma-Nattaung)(14) MOGE 4 (Myintha)(15) PSC S (Lashio-Hsenwi)(16) PSC T (Lashio East)(17) PSC U (Kalaw)(18) PSC V (Loikaw)

3. All interested parties are cordially invited to submit

“the Letter of Expression of Interest,” together with Company’sArticle of Association (AOA), Memorandum of Association(MOA), Certificate of Incorporation, latest Annual Reportand latest Financial Statement (or) Financial Report, whichare to be endorsed for authenticity by the respective Embassyof the Republic of the Union of Myanmar at the place ofCompany’s registration (or) establishment or nearest, insealed envelops superscribed “Confidential” “MyanmarOnshore Blocks Bidding Round- 2011”, to the followingaddresses not later than 23rd August 2011:-

Director GeneralEnergy Planning DepartmentMinistry of EnergyBuilding No.6, Nay Pyi TawThe Republic of the Union of MyanmarFax: 95 67 411 113Email: myanmoe@mptmail.net.mm

4. The petroleum operation shall be conducted onproduction sharing basis and the party(s), who desired toenter into the Production Sharing Contract with the MyanmaOil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) shall have technicalcompetency, financial capability, experience, expertise andtechnical know how to conduct petroleum exploration anddevelopment works and must have good track record.

5. The potential bidders will then be selected andpresented with General Geology of each Block and at therequest will be shown with representative data and informationof the Company’s interested block(s) free of charge byGeological/Geophysical Team of Myanma Oil and GasEnterprise.

6. The Potential bidders will then be provided withStandard Terms and Conditions in order to submit proposal(s).

7. The potential bidders are allowed to submit up to

three (3) proposals for three (3) onshore blocks together withproposed Terms and Conditions. The proposal submittedshall be on a block by block basis.

8. The potential bidders’ proposed Terms andConditions will be assessed and the best offered Terms andConditions will be selected for awarding.

Director GeneralEnergy Planning DepartmentMinistry of EnergyBuilding No.6, Nay Pyi Taw,The Republic of the Union of MyanmarTel: 95-067 411 099/411 057Fax: 95-067 411 113e-mail: myanmoe@mptmail.net.mm

Note: For further inquiry (and/or) information, pleasecontact the followings:-

(1) Director GeneralEnergy Planning DepartmentMinistry of Energy,The Republic of the Union of MyanmarTel: 95-067 411 099/411 057Fax: 95-067 411 113e-mail: myanmoe@mptmail.net.mm

(2) Managing DirectorMyanma Oil and Gas EnterpriseMinistry of Energy,The Republic of the Union of MyanmarTel: 95-067 411 055/411 209Fax: 95 67 411 125e-mail: mdmoge@mptmail.net.mm

(3) Myanmar Embassies in respective Countries.

Romanian police investigating Internetfraud, arrest 90

Around 1,000 online shoppers sent off their moneyin good faith, but never got the goods.— INTERNET

BUCHAREST, 17 July —Police investigating amassive online shoppingscam have arrested around90 people acrossRomania. The suspectsare accused of cheatingonline shoppers of anestimated $20m (£12.4m)by selling fictitious goodson sites such as eBay andCraigslist.org. Hundredsof victims, most of themin the United States, paidfor their purchases, butnever received them.

Prosecutors say thefraudsters used false iden-tities to transfer moneyback to Romania from

abroad. Police searchedmore than 110 houses innine cities.

They believe an or-ganised crime gang witha broad network postedfalse adverts for goodssuch as cars, motorbikes,

boats and electronics. Anestimated 1,000 shopperswere cheated in the scam.Romanian investigatorson the case are workingclosely with the US au-thorities.

Internet

Hawk attacks womannear school

FRANKLIN, 17 July— A Massachusetts woman isrecovering after a hawk attacked her from abovewhile she was walking and left her with a cut on theback of her head. Gege Dellorca of Franklin saidshe was walking near Jefferson Elementary Schoolwhen the hawk swooped in and sliced open theback of her head, WHDH-TV, Boston, reported onThursday. "He came at me and I ducked and then hegot me from the back," Dellorca said.

Dellorca received assistance from witness AndyMoriarty, who had been dropping his kids off forday camp. —Internet

Hong KONG, 17 July—International EducationForum and Expo openedThursday in the HongKong Convention andExhibition Center, the firstof its kind organized bythe local government.

Themed “LearningJourney for the GlobalizedWorld”, the three-dayevent comprises a

Int’l education forum opens inHong Kong

Ministerial Roundtable, anInternational Confer-enceand an Education Expo.

The MinisterialRoundtable on Thursdaywill focus on how differentnations bring forth thedesired quality of humanresources for sustainabledevelopment, and newcompetencies in facing theever-changing challengesof today’s globalizedworld.

It has drawn theparticipation of educationministerial officials fromthe Chinese Mainland,Australia, Austria,Canada, Germany,Indonesia, South Korea,Singapore, the UnitedKingdom, the UnitedStates of America andMacao. Internationallyrenowned scholars andlocal and internationalspeakers will get togetherto discuss how globaltrends and reform inschool and highereducation contribute tohuman resourcedevelopment.

Xinhua

GAUHATI, 17 July—Heavy monsoon rains have ledthe mighty Brahmaputra River to overflow its banksand submerge scores of villages in India’s remotenortheastern state of Assam.

District magistrate Anwaruddin Chowdhury saysmore than 150,000 people have been hit by floods inthree districts of northern Assam.

Chowdhury said Sunday at least one person diedafter he was swept away by the strong current when hejumped in the river to try to rescue his cattle.

Relief agencies are distributing rice, lentils and saltto tens of thousands of people in temporary shelters setup in schools, offices and other government buildings.

Floods are an annual occurrence in northeasternIndia during the monsoon season from June toSeptember.—Internet

One dead, 150,000 affectedin northeast India floods

The original Mercury 7 astronauts (from left: GusGrissom, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn,

Scott Carpenter — the man who spoke the famous andmoving words, “Godspeed, John Glenn,” during the

countdown before Glenn’s 1962 orbital flight — AlanShepard, and Wally Schirra) inspecting an early design

of a space programme module.—INTERNET

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Lopez and Anthony to divorceLOS ANGELES, 17 July—Singers Jennifer Lopez and Marc

Anthony, who married seven years ago in Beverly Hills,Calif., announced on Friday they have split up. They are theparents of 3-year-old twins Max and Emme.

"We have decided to end our marriage," the former coupletold People exclusively in a joint statement. "This was a verydifficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusionon all matters. It is a painful time for all involved and weappreciate the respect of our privacy at this time." No reasonwas given for the breakup.—Internet

Binge drinking ‘can damage memory skills’in teen girls

Adolescent girls could be riskingdamage to their brains if they binge

drink.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 17 July—Teenagers es-pecially girls — who binge drink couldbe damaging the part of their brain whichcontrols memory and spatial awareness,say Californian researchers. Young wom-en's brains are particularly vulnerable toharm from alcohol because they develop

earlier than men's. Tests on 95 adoles-cents aged 16 to 19 were carried out byresearchers at several US universities.The study is published in Alcoholism:Clinical & Experimental Research.

Researchers recruited 27 binge-drink-ing males and 13 females and gave themneurophsychological tests and "spatialworking memory" tests to complete.Binge-drinking young women were de-fined as those drinking more than threepints of beer or more than four glasses ofwine at one sitting. Binge-drinking mendrank four pints of beer or a bottle ofwine. The same tests were then carriedout on 31 males and 24 females who didnot have episodes of drinking heavilyand the results compared.—Internet

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony

Farmers maintain thevaluable hives.

INTERNET

Nazi-looted Klimt to be auctioned following return

The work — Litzlberg am Attersee inGerman — depicts a lake in Austria.

INTERNET

Beehives stop elephantcrop-raids in Kenya, AfricaNAIROBI, 17 July—In-

novative beehive fenceshave helped a communityin Kenya to successfullyprotect crops from el-ephants, according to re-search. Scientists found thehives to be a very effectivebarrier; elephants turned

away from them in 97% oftheir attempted raids. Con-servationists suggest thatelephants' natural fear ofbees could settle ongoingconflicts. The hives' honeyalso produced additionalprofits for farmers.

Over the past 20 years,elephant numbers inKenya have grown toaround 7,500 and thepopulation boost is widelyheralded as a conserva-tion success story. How-ever, conflict between el-ephants and humans, es-pecially farmers, is an on-going problem. Elephantsfrequently "raid" farmssearching for food suchas ripe tomatoes, potatoesand maize. —Internet

VIENNA, 17 July—A Gustav Klimt paint-ing, looted by the Nazis during WorldWar II, is to go up for auction following itsrecent return to its original owner's great-nephew. The 1915 artwork, entitledLitzlberg on the Attersee, is expected tofetch more than $25m (£15.5m) when itis sold at Sotheby's in New York on 2November. Last week the painting wasreturned to 83-year-old Georges Jorischby the Museum of Modern Arts inSalzburg.

A portion of the proceeds from its salewill be donated to the museum. Accord-ing to Sotheby's expert Simon Shaw, it isa work of "stunning quality, rarity andimportant provenance". —Internet

FORT COLLINS, 17July—The giant balloononce claimed to havecarried a 6-year-oldColorado boy has beensold for $2,502 to benefitJapanese earthquake andtsunami victims. Richardand Mayumi Heene, ofFort Collins, who falselyclaimed their son Falconwas aboard thehomemade balloonwhen it launched inOctober 2009, said theitem was sold to an Au-rora man whose identityhas not been released,The Denver Postreported on Friday.

Perry Rausher, a law-yer for the Heene family,told the Fort CollinsColoradoan the winneris expected to hold anews conference in thenear future.

Richard Heene, whoserved a 30-day jail sen-tence after pleadingguilty to a felony countof attempting toinfluence a publicservant, and MayumiHeene, who pleadedguilty to filing a falsereport and served a 20-day sentence, have beenbarred by the court fromprofiting from the hoax.

Internet

Children do aerobicexercise during a

fitness summercamp in Wuhan,capital of central

China’s HubeiProvince, on

15 July, 2011.A group of

overweight childrenjoined the fitness

camp in which theyare restrained from

overeating andindulging of parents

and ordered toendure a

disciplinary life andintensive body

shaping exercisesfor 28 days.

INTERNET

‘Balloon Boy’balloon soldfor $2,502

BEIJING, 17 July—Chinese enterpriseslose up to 600 billionyuan (about 92 billionUS dollars) every yeardue to a lack of businesscredibility, accordingto official data.

About 200 billionyuan, or one third of theloss, was a result ofconsumers’ lack of trust

Lack of credibility costsChinese enterprises 600 bln

yuan annuallyin product quality as datawith the Ministry ofCommerce shows, saidWang Zhongyu,president of ChinaEnterprise Confederat-ion, at a forum in Beijingon Sunday.

Food scandals inrecent years indicatedthat a lack of businessethics had caused theproblem, said Wang.

The bankrupt SanluGroup, which was at thecenter of tainted-milkscandal, and other dairycompanies set up a 1.11-billion-yuan compensat-ion fund after it wasrevealed that thecompanies used milktha t con ta inedmelamine to produce

baby formula. Wangcalled on enterprisesto p romote andmaintain good ethicsand establish effectivesupervision mechan-i sms to avo idwrongdoing.

Xinhua

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Answers to yesterday’sCrosswords Puzzle

Kyle Busch wins 100th career NASCAR race

Manchester City shuts outClub America

Vargas Peru’s hero as Falcaomiss stuns Colombia

Corinthians up the ante and theoffer on Tevez

NASCAR driver KyleBusch celebrates his

victory in theNASCAR NationwideNew England 200 on

16 July, 2011, inLoudon, NH.

INTERNET

Fans cheer as NASCAR driver KyleBusch does a burnout after winning

the NASCAR Nationwide SeriesNew England 200 auto race for his100th career win on 16 July, 2011,at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

in London, NH.—INTERNET

LONDON, 17 July — Kyle Buschgrabbed a souvenir for the victory laphe'd perfected 99 times before: A white"100" flag that rippled out the window ofthe No. 18 Toyota, one special number

and a giant slice of NASCAR history.Whether purists like it or not, Buschjoined an elite list in auto racing history,becoming the third NASCAR driver towin 100 races.

Busch's victory Saturday at NewHampshire Motor Speedway also tiedhim with Mark Martin for first place incareer Nationwide Series victories with49. Busch has 22 wins in Sprint Cup and29 in the Trucks Series. "It will stick outfor a long time because it is No. 100,"Busch said. "But I'm not going to say it'sthe biggest one. This is certainly a specialday." It might not even be his biggest winthis weekend if Busch can win the SprintCup race Sunday. It might be hard toremember if Busch reaches his eventualgoal of winning 200 races. Only "TheKing" has hit that whopping number.

Internet

Evans hits back at Schlecks atTour de France

Fowler leads American chargeup Open leaderboard

Rickie Fowler of the US

Colombian forwardRadamel Falcao con-trols the ball.— INTERNET

Club America defenderGeorge Corral (34) tries

to control the ballagainst Manchester City

Blues forward EdinDzeko (10) in the first

half of a soccer match,in San Francisco.

INTERNET

Cadel Evans (pictured,2L) has hit back at theSchleck brothers Andy

and Frank (R).INTERNET

SAN FRANCISCO, 17July—Ryan McGivernand Shaun Wright-Phillipsscored first-half goals andManchester City kickedoff its North Americantour with a 2-0 win overClub America in theWorld Football Challengeon Saturday night. Goalies

Joe Hart and Stuart Taylorcombined for the shutoutwhile helping the Blues,the 2011 FA Cupchampions, to the winbefore a sparse crowd of11,250 at AT&T Park.

Manchester Cityplayed without captainCarlos Tevez, who is withArgentina at the CopaAmerica. Club America,playing with a revampedroster from the 2010squad, lost for the firsttime in four games thissummer. Manchester City,which placed third in theEnglish Premier Leagueand earned a berth in theChampions League, con-trolled the entire matchand received a stellar per-formance from forwardEdin Dzeko.—Internet

SANTA FE, 17 July—Peru had a hero in JuanVargas and Colombiahad a villain in RadamelFalcao on Saturday asItaly-based Vargas scoredwhile Porto's Falcaomissed a penalty to sendthe Peruvians into theCopa America semi-fi-nals. "Falcao never missesa penalty — not even intraining," said Colombia's

incredulous coachHernan Dario Gomez ashe pondered his well-regarded side's exit fromthe tournament afterCarlos Lobaton andVargas bagged extra-timegoals to give Peru theirfirst semi-final berth in14 years.

"We made tons ofchances, but we missedthem," said Gomez as hismen prepared to head forhome despite havingbeaten hosts Argentinato top spot in the group.

The Peruvians, whonext face either Argentinaor Uruguay, had come tothe event having finishedrock bottom of the lastregional World Cupqualifiers. —Internet

SANDWICH, 17 July —Rickie Fowler led anAmerican charge up theleaderboard on a daywhen the weather roaredat Royal St George's.Pounding rains and windsgusting over 30 mphprompted players to donbulky, oven-style mittsbetween shots, huddleunder umbrellas and tryto find a way to get aroundthe course without givingup too many shots to paron Saturday.

"It was playing stupidly

difficult," said EdoardoMolinari, who shot 76."Some holes were just ajoke." But the stormseased up in time for thosewith late tee times to startputting up respectablenumbers. The 22-year-oldFowler sure took advan-tage of the meteorologi-cal good fortune, leavingplaying partner RoryMcIlroy behind with asurge into contention,only two strokes behindleader Darren Clarke.

Internet

Ronaldo scores as Real Madridbeats Galaxy 4-1

Manchester City'sArgentinian forward

Carlos Tevez

PLATEAU DE BEILLE , 17July—Cadel Evans hitback at the Schleck broth-ers Andy and Frank afterbeing accused of not at-tacking enough to win theTour de France. On thethird consecutive day ofracing in the Pyrenees,Evans, the former two-time runner-up, remaineddefiant that if he is to winthe elusive yellow jerseyhe will do it his way.

Belgium's JelleVanendert won the pres-tigious 14th stage fromSaint-Gaudens to Plateaude Beille, in the processbucking a historical trendwhich saw the past fourstage winners go on to winthe race. Evans, who fin-

ished in a small group46sec behind alongsideFrench race leader Tho-mas Voeckler, AlbertoContador, Ivan Basso andFrank Schleck, remarked:"Don't they say who winshere today is the winner ofthe Tour? "Maybe thatmeans a breakaway (rider)is going to win the Tour."

Internet

SAO PAULO, 17 July—Brazilian outfit Corinthianson Saturday said they hadupped their offer to lureManchester City'sArgentinian forward CarlosTevez back to Sao Paulo.With City holding out formore than the 40 millioneuros ($63.57 million) theBrazilians have offered, thelatter have suggested pay-ing a sum of bonuses to

City on top of the transfer,according to a Corinthiansofficial quoted by the Bra-zilian media.

"Now we are looking atfour payments of 10 millioneuros ... plus bonuses whichwould be paid in prizemoneywhich we may receive," saidSao Paulo official EduGaspar, quoted by O Globodaily. "In theory it is not acent more -- just the transferof a prize (prize money) fora title such as the Brazilian(league) or the (Copa)Libertadores, which wouldgo to City." In midweek,Tevez's agent said a movefor the striker to joinCorinthians "will not be sim-ple".—Internet

LOS ANGELES, 17 July—Cristiano Ronaldo scoreda signature goal and RealMadrid displayed its deftscoring ability to beat theLos Angeles Galaxy 4-1in an exhibition onSaturday night. JoseCallejon and Joselu scored8 minutes apart in the firsthalf and Karim Benzemaconverted a header in the57th minute as the Span-ish giants showed little rustin their preseason opener.

Ronaldo, who set LaLiga's scoring record with40 goals last season, en-tered as a halftime substi-tute. The Portuguese starused multiple step-over'sto fake out three defend-ers, then fired a sharp shot

with his left foot that foundits way inside the nearpost.

David Beckham worethe captain's band for theGalaxy against his formerteam but failed to make animpact before being re-moved for a substitute inthe 61st minute. AdamCristman scored the Gal-axy's lone goal, redirect-ing Antonio Adan's savewith a header into the net.

Internet

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One policeman killed, five others held hostageby prisoners in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, 17 July—At least onepoliceman was killed and five otherswere held hostage by prisoners in a jailin Pakistan’s southern city of Larkana,reported local TV channel Express onSunday.

According to the local media reports, the riotbroke out among the prisoners in Larkana Central Jailin protest against an operation to move 200 prisonersto other jails. The prisoners refused to be movedbecause they were afraid it would cause trouble andinconvenience for their family members to visit them.

The protest, which started late Saturday evening,went out of control when some of the prisonerssmashed the doors of three barracks and assaulted thejail police, said police sources.

The rioting prisoners attacked the police withbricks and stones. Seven police were reportedlywounded in the riot and one of the critically injuredpoliceman later died at the local hospital.

An estimated 70 prisoners later surrendered to thepolice while the other rebellious prisoners are stillholding the hostage of five jail officials.—XinhuaSmoke rises from Central Jail

during an operation againstprisoners in Pakistan’s southern

city of Larkana on 17 July, 2011.At least one policeman was killedand five others were held hostageby prisoners in the jail, reported

local TV channel Express onSunday.—XINHUA

Pakistani policemen take positions during anoperation against prisoners at Central Jail in

Pakistan’s southern city of Larkana on 17 July,2011.—XINHUA

Temperature (°C/F) For Tomorrow Sr.

No. Regions/States

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 34/93 24/75 Widespread rain 80%

2 Kayah 29/84 20/68 Scattered rain 80%

3 Kayin 27/81 23/73 Widespread rain 80%

4 Chin 20/68 14/57 Widespread rain 80%

5 Upper Sagaing 28/82 24/75 Widespread rain (IH) 80%

6 Lower Sagaing 33/91 26/79 Isolated rain 80%

7 Taninthayi 27/81 23/73 Widespread rain (IH) 80%

8 Bago 30/86 22/72 Fairly widespread 80%

9 Magway 35/95 25/79 Scattered rain 80%

10 Mandalay 35/95 27/81 Isolated rain 80%

11 Mon 29/84 23/73 Widespread rain (IH) 80%

12 Yangon 30/86 25/77 Widespread rain 80%

13 Rakhine 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain (IH) 80%

14 Southern Shan 24/75 18/64 Fairly widespread 80%

15 Northern Shan 27/81 21/70 Fairly widespread 80%

16 Eastern Shan 27/81 23/73 Fairly widespread 80%

17 Ayeyawady 31/88 25/77 Fairly widespread 80%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 33/91 23/73 One or two rain 80%

19 Neighbouring Yangon 30/86 25/77 One or two rain 80%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 35/95 27/81 Isolated rain 60%

Summary of observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours rains have been isolated in Lower Sagaing and Mandalay Regions, scattered in Magway Region and Shan State, fairly widespread in Kachin State and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with regionally heavy falls in Magway Region and isolated heavy falls in Upper Sagaing Region. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded Khamti (3.31) inches, Sittwe (2.64) inches, Kalewa, Minbu and Kyaikmaraw (2.52) inches each, Zalun (2.48) inches, Hpa-an (2.13) inches, Thandwe (1.96) inches and Kyaukhtu (1.84) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is Moderate in the North Bay and strong in the Adaman Sea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squalls with moderate to rough seas are likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts, Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days

Likelihood of increase of rain in coastal areas.

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

3rd Waning of Waso 1373 ME Monday, 18 July, 2011

Noteworthy amounts ofrainfall (17-7-2011)

Khamti 3.31 inchesSittway 2.64 inchesKalewa 2.52 inchesMinbu 2.52 inchesKyaikmaraw 2.52 inchesZalun 2.48 inchesHpa-an 2.13 inchesThandwe 1.96 inchesKyaukhtu 1.84 inches

NAY PYI TAW, 17 July—Union Minister forCooperatives U Ohn Myint, accompanied by MonState Chief Minister U Ohn Myint and Adviser at thePresident Office Dr Sein Hla Bo, toured the melonfarms of farmer U Tin Aye and farmer Daw Win WinKyi in Azin Village, Mudon Township, yesterday.

He attended a seminar on gardening methods withgardeners, members of township cooperativessyndicate, cooperative societies and enthusiasts incooperatives at the Central Farm of MyanmaAgriculture Service in Mudon.

Mon State Agriculture and Livestock BreedingMinister U Myo Nyunt reported on agricultural productionand progress of the micro-credit institutions in the state.

In his additional report, the chief minister said thatthe state government has formed Mon State Committeefor Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation, whichis now making field trips to achieve its objectives

Cooperative societies in Mon State to contributetate to contributeto rural development, poverty alleviation

especially boosting agricultural production, meat andfish, and addressing the basic needs and improving theliving conditions for rural odd-job workers.

Hopefully, he said that the state government willgive advice for economic growth, create the opportu-nities for providing micro-credit and strengthening thesocieties.

Dr Sein Hla Bo in his address highlighted the needof agricultural awaking of farmers, reducing farmingcosts and more attention to methods for production ofvalue-added products, manageable-scale livestockbreeding besides agricultural farming for secondaryincomes, and working together to address challenges.

He said that Mon State’s coverage of rubber farmsstands at about 450,000 acres, 63 to 65% of which arerun on a small scale. Using capitals, advanced methods,high-yield strains and machinery, entrepreneurs can

(See page 9)

Union Minister for Cooperatives U Ohn Myint meets horticulturists, members of townshipcooperative syndicates and enthusiasts in Mudon.—MNA

Photo taken on July 17, 2011, shows aracecar of Austrian Formula One racing

team Red Bull Racing exhibited at the 8thChina Changchun International Auto

Expo, in Changchun, capital of northeastChina’s Jilin Province. The only FormulaOne racecar at the 8th China ChangchunInternational Auto Expo attracted great

attention on Sunday.—INTERNET

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