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Volume XVII, Number 107 11th Waxing of Wagaung 1371 ME Saturday, 1 August, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Con-

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

YANGON, 31 July—Member of the State Peaceand Development Council General Thura Shwe Mannof the Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Khin Lay Thetattended a ceremony to mark the 82nd Anniversary ofthe Founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Armyat Traders Hotel here at 7 pm today.

They were welcomed by Ambassador of thePeople's Republic of China to Myanmar Mr Ye Daboand wife.

Also present at the ceremony were Lt-Gen MyintSwe of the Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Khin ThetHtay, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu KyuHla, Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, ViceAdjutant-General Maj-Gen Hla Shwe and wife, JointQuartermaster-General Maj-Gen Khin Maung Tun andwife, senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence,staff of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of Chinain Yangon, Military Attaché Senior Col Gao Tiejun andwife, ambassadors, charges d’ affaires ai, militaryattaches’ and their wives of foreign embassies in Yangonand invited guests.

During the ceremony, the documentary film ofthe Chinese People’s Liberation Army was shown.

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General Thura Shwe Mann and wife attendceremony to mark 82nd Anniversary of Founding

of PRC People’s Liberation Army

General Thura Shwe Mann and wife attend a ceremony to mark the 82nd Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People’s LiberationArmy at Traders Hotel.—MNA

GeneralThuraShwe

Mann andwife DawKhin Lay

Thet beingwelcomed

byAmbassador

of thePeople's

Republic ofChina toMyanmar

Mr YeDabo and

wife.MNA

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Saturday, 1 August, 2009 * 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 DesirePERSPECTIVES

Strive in unison fordevelopment ofindustrial sector

Prime Minister General Thein Seinarrived at Yadanarpon Teleport inYadanarpon Myothit on 28 July to inspectthe construction tasks being carried atYadanarpon Myothit Construction Projectin PyinOoLwin Township, Mandalay Divi-sion.

Necessary measures have been takento ensure better transport and availabilityof potable water and acquisition of full powersupply for Yadanarpon Myothit to have thecharacteristics of a modern city.

At a time when steps are being takenfor the building of an agro-based industrial-ized nation, Arts and Science Universities,Universities of Computer Studies, Techno-logical Universities and Colleges in 24 spe-cial development regions are nurturing in-tellectuals and technocrats necessary for in-dustrialized country.

The government is rendering assist-ance to investment of local companies in in-dustrial services inviting companies fromabroad to invest in the country in accord-ance with rules and regulations.

Installation of communication facili-ties, communication equipments to bemanufactured and telephone lines to be ex-tended in Yangon and Mandalay as well asestablishment of modern rural region com-munication system and construction of hous-ing and staff quarters are being carried outin Yadanarpon Myothit.

At such a time, companies and entrepre-neurs are to make concerted efforts togetherwith the government for development of theindustrial sector. And only then, will the build-ing of an industrialized nation be possible.

YANGON, 31July— A book on col-lection of articles pub-lished by the News andPeriodicals Enterprisecomes out today.

The book includes40 articles written by MiPyi Chit, Khine HtetAung, Kyaw Ye Min,Kyaw Zin Nyunt (Advo-cate), Hline Aung, NgarMin Swe, Kyalzin

Book on collectionof articles incirculation

Naing, Ko Myanmar, UPyay Kyaw, U Myo Myint(Law), Si Thu Aung, USwe (Bahan), Kyaw MinLu (Shwepyitha), ShinThant, Saw Nay Myo,Maung Nwe Sit, Dr ShwePyi Soe (Myanmar Litera-ture Department, YangonUniversity), Saw HlaAung, Saw Po Si, MaungHmat, An Observer andChit Naing (Psychology).

The book is avail-able at 500 kyats per copyat Sarpay Beikman bookshop of Printing and Pub-lishing Enterprise in NayPyi Taw and Shop No (Ta/55) in Nay Pyi Taw

Thabyaegon Market,Sarpay Beikman BookShop on Merchant Roadand the book shop of theNews and PeriodicalsEnterprise on TheinbyuRoad in Yangon. —MNA

YANGON, 31 July—A collective donationceremony of Hindu families, organized by ThanantanaDhammapalaka Hindu Association (Yangon), will takeplace at Mogok refectory on Kaba-Aye Land, here, on2 August at 9.00 am.

Those families are invited to attend without failand those wishing to donate cash and kind may contactU Tun Lin (Tel: 0951-82379), U San Wan (Tel: 0951-08541), U Ankay Arnanda (Tel: 0950-00453), U TkayPawl (Tel: 398278) and U Soe Win (Tel: 242751).

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Hindu families’donation on 2 August

NAY PYI TAW, 31July—A meeting toreview preventive andcontrol measures againstA (H1N1) was held at theHealth Department hereyesterday, attended bySecretary of InfectiousDisease Control CentralCommittee DeputyHealth Minister Dr MyaOo.

The meeting wasattended by the Chairmanof Yangon DivisionHealth CommitteeSecretary of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment Council,directors-general, deputyd i r e c t o r s - g e n e r a l ,directors of the Ministryof Health, rectors ofUniversities of MedicalStudying, medicalsuperintendents ofCentral Hospitals,physicians andpersonnel concerned.

In his speech, thedeputy minister said thatit has been three monthssince works forprevention and controlagainst New Influenzawas carried out andMinistry of Health incooperation with other

Meeting on review of preventive and controlmeasures against A (H1N1) held

ministries, authoritiesc o n c e r n e d , s o c i a lorganizations, privatesector and the wholepublic was able to controlthe virus from spreadamong the public. Inspiteof works for prevention

and control againstoutbreak of the virusbeing difficult to becarried out, there havebeen success in controlof the disease, thanks tothe leadership of localauthorities concerned andcooperaative efforts ofhealth staff from healthdepartment and hospitals.

Secretary ofYangon Division Peaceand Development Council,Chairman of YangonDivision Health

Committee U Khin MaungTun recounted experienceson control and preventiveworks of authoritiesconcerned against the virusin the division and Dr HlaMyint of Yangon DivisionHealth Department on

monitoring andsurveillance works.

Next, medicalsuperintendent Dr Daw NuNu Tha of Yangon People'sHospital recountedexperiences on treatmentfor the virus on behalf ofYangon People's Hospital,Wabargi SpecialistHospital, and YangonChildren's Hospital.

Director Dr NayWin of Public HealthDepartment Lab re-counted experiences on

laboratory tests and DrMaung Maung Thein,headof Tachilek District HealthDepartment on monitoringand surveillance works inborder gates.

Director Dr SoeLwin Nyein of the Health

Department gave accounton the spread of virus of inthe region and in the worldand reported on preventiveand control measures andfuture tasks.

The deputy ministerand personnel then repliedto the queries raised bythose present concerningpreventive measuresagainst the virus and themeeting came to an endwith concluding remarksof the deputy minister.

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Book oncollection of

articlespublished by

the Newsand Periodi-cals Enter-

prise.MNA

DeputyMinister Dr

Mya Ooaddresses

the meetingto review

preventiveand controlmeasuresagainst

A(H1N1).HEALTH

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Suicide car bombing killsseven in western Iraq

BAGHDAD, 31 July — A suicide car bomber struckan Iraqi police station at the town of Qaim near theborder with Syria on Thursday, killing seven peopleand wounding at least eight others, an Interior Ministrysource said.

The bomber drove his explosive-laden car into theQaim police station and blew it up at the main gate, thesource said on condition of anonymity.

Women and children were among the victims andthe blast also damaged several nearby houses, thesource said. Sporadic attacks continue in Iraqi citiesdespite the US and Iraqi officials announced a relativelull in violence during the past months.—Internet

A visitor walkspast the

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board at anannual PC fair

at the KualaLumpur

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Roadside bomb kills four guards ofprivate company in S Afghanistan

KABUL, 31 July — Four security guards of a privatecompany were killed on Thursday as a roadside bombstruck their vehicle in the volatile Helmand Provinceof southern Afghanistan, a Press release of InteriorMinistry said.

“Four private security guards were killed in aroadside mine explosion planted by the enemies ofAfghanistan in Nahar-Saraj district of HelmandProvince today,” the Press release said.

This is a local security company named HamayonPSC and all the victims were Afghans.

Similar attack on the same company couple of daysago in Gereshk district of Helmand left eight securityguards dead and eight others wounded, the Press releasefurther said.— Internet

Photo taken on 16 June, 2009 shows an Afghan man wounded by a strike in theShawalikot district, is carried on a stretcher at a hospital in Kandahar province

south of Kabul.—INTERNET

UN: Afghan civilian casualties up 24percent in 2009

GENEVA , 31 July—The United Nations saidFriday the number of ci-vilians killed in conflictin Afghanistan hasjumped 24 percent so farthis year, with bombingsby insurgent andairstrikes by internationalforces the biggest singlekillers.

In a grim assessmentof the first half of 2009,the U.N. assistance mis-sion in Afghanistan saidthe Taliban and otheranti-government mili-tants have become more

deadly by shifting fromambush attacks to suicidebombings, roadside ex-plosives and targeted as-sassinations.

It warned that morecivilians would likely bekilled as insurgents try tobattle a troop increase bythe administration ofPresident Barack Obama,and seek to destabilize thecountry before presiden-tial and Provincial Coun-cil elections on Aug. 20.The summer is also typi-cally the worst for fight-ing in Afghanistan.

Insurgent attacks are"frequently undertakenregardless of the impacton civilians in terms ofdeaths and injuries, or de-struction of civilian infra-structure," the 21-pagereport said, ascribing 595civilian deaths to theTaliban and other "anti-government elements"over the first six months.

Many of those died insuicide attacks or road-side bombs near "civiliantraffic, residential com-pounds and market-places."—Internet

Bombs kill at least 28 in BaghdadResidents gatheraround the wreckage of

a car after a bombattack in Baghdad's

Shaab District, north-ern Baghdad on31 July, 2009.

INTERNET

Israel army to test tank shell against anti-tanksquads

JERUSALEM, 31 July — Israel Defence Force (IDF) is set to test a new type oftank shell, aiming at neutralizing enemy’s anti-tank missile squads, in the comingweek, local daily The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday.

The shell, called Calanit and suitable for 120 mm cannons, can be fired beyonda hill and stop in mid-air, then explode on top of the anti-tank missile squads, whichalways hide behind structures or a hill to attack IDF tanks, the report said. The shellis developed by Israel Military Industries.

Internet

A policeman takes notesas he stands next to aninjured man at a localhospital in thenortheastern town ofBaquba, 60 kms fromBaghdad. Attacks acrossIraq, including oneagainst a political party’s offices, left 11 dead onThursday.— INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 31 July—Six bombs struck differentplaces across Baghdad onFriday, police said, killingat least 28 people and an-gering Iraqis who blamedlocal forces now taking

over from U.S. soldiers forfailing to protect them.

The blasts, whichwounded at least 130people were a reminder ofmilitants' persistent capa-bilities in Iraq.

In the worst attack, acar bomb struck people inthe street in northernBaghdad's Shaab district,killing at least 23 peopleand wounding 107.

On the other side ofthe city, two blasts aroundthe same time went off insoutheastern Baghdad'sDiyala bridge area, killingfour people and wounding17.

Another bomb inZaafaraniya, southeastBaghdad, killed one per-son and wounded six. Twomore bombs in Kamaliyaand Alam districtswounded nine people.

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Finnish ship hijacked in SwedenSTOCKHOLM, 31 July — A Finnish ship was hijacked

off the island in south-eastern Sweden in the earlyhours of last Friday, according to the local reports onThursday.A group of black-clad masked men whospoke English boarded the ship off the island Oland ofBaltic Sea at around 3 am on 24 July. They claimed tobe police officers, searched the Maltese-registeredvessel which was laden with timber bound for Algeria,reported the Swedish electronic newspaper The Local.

The vessel’s Russian crew were bound and gaggedfor the duration of their 12 hour ordeal, The SwedishNational Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen) was quotedby The Local.The hijackers are reported to have beentraveling in a high-speed inflatable boat. After theattack the vessel continued on its journey, the reportadded.—Internet

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Boys cool off in the Willamette River in Portland, Ore on 30 July, 2009.Authorities Thursday reported the first death linked to a Pacific Northwest

heat wave even as days of record, triple-digit temperatures began tomoderate.—INTERNET

A businessman is

reflected in a show

window glass outside

a store in Tokyo’s

fashion district on 31

July, 2009.

INTERNET

Computer laptops are put on display at an annual PC fair at the KualaLumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 31 July, 2009.

Thousands of IT products ranging from computers, cameras and PDApalmtops are on exhibit at the fair which attract the crowds to grab their

cheap bargains.—INTERNET

RIO DE JANEIRO, 31 July— Brazil will host theForum on Economic andTrade Cooperation be-tween China and Portu-guese-speaking Countriesin August, the BrazilianTrade and InvestmentPromotion Agency(Apex-Brazil) said onThursday.

Apart from Brazil andChina, representativesfrom Angola, Mozam-bique, Portugal, EastTimor, Cape Verde,Guinea-Bissau, and Chi-

Brazil to host China, Portuguese-speakingcountries business meeting

na’s Macao will also par-ticipate in the event.

This is the first timethe forum is held in Bra-zil.

The forum will includelectures, workshops, dis-cussion panels and meet-ings. Representativesfrom governments and thebusiness sector will dis-cuss ways to boost tradeand investment, and per-spectives of the globaleconomy.

Cooperation in biofu-els and the entertainment

industry will also be dis-cussed.

“Brazil wants to attractnew investments and inthis event we will gathercountries with commoninterests,” said Apex-Bra-zil’s President AlessandroTeixeira. “Our intent is topromote debates focusedon the diversification ofthe trade between coun-tries with the same lan-guages and similar cul-tural characteristics.”

The forum will be heldbetween 11 Aug and 13 inRio de Janeiro, It will beco-organized by Apex-Brazil, the China Councilfor the Promotion of In-ternational Trade(CCPIT), and the MacaoTrade and InvestmentPromotion Institute(IPIM). — Xinhua

MEXICO CITY, 31 July— The employment ratein Mexico’s manufactur-ing sector fell by 8.9 per-cent in May, the worst fora month since May 1995,said a report released onThursday by the NationalStatistics Agency.

The employment ratefor production line work-ers saw a decline of 10.2percent, while the figurefor administrative staff

JAKARTA, 31 July—French automaker, Peugeot,mulled to resume its car production in Indonesianplant, a senior of Peugeot’s Indonesian partner saidhere. “We planned to set up an assembling plant inIndonesia. The plant would commence the operationno later than 2012,” the Detik.com quoted on FridayConstantinus Herlijoso, the president director of AstraIndonesia Peugeot (AIP).

He said that AIP is undergoing talks with Peugeotheadquarters in France regarding the plan.

Speaking on the sidelines of New Peugeot 407launching here on Thursday, Herlijoso said thatPeugeot’s Indonesian plant is expected to become theproduction basis for Southeast Asian market.

Internet

CANBERRA, 31 July —A new study released onFriday predicted Australiawould lose more than80,000 jobs in the con-struction sector during thenext three years.

However, the federalgovernment was alwaysaware the sector would behit hard by the global fi-nancial crisis, AustralianDeputy Prime MinisterJulia Gillard said.

Apprentice numberswould fall by 10 percentas the sector experiencedthe most severe impact in2009-10 and 2010-11, fol-lowed by some consolida-tion in 2011-12, the Ac-cess Economics studycommissioned by theConstruction, Forestry,Mining and Energy Unionsaid.

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SINGAPORE, 31 July — Singapore Airlines (SIA)reported on Thursday a loss of 307 million Singaporedollars (about 212.5 million US dollars) for the quar-ter ended June 2009, the first such loss since the SARScrisis in 2003.

The loss was attributed to the global economicslowdown and the outbreak of A/H1N1 flu, contribut-ing to the decline in cargo and passenger demand. Fuelhedging also added to the loss.

According to an SIA statement, the group recordedan operating loss of 319 million Singapore dollars(223.08 million US dollars)for the quarter, against anoperating profit of 343 million Singapore dollars(239.86 million US dollars) last year.—Internet

HANOI,31 July — Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs said the country generated650,000 jobs in the first half of this year, a decrease of16.7 percent year-on-year, local newspaper the Laborreported on Friday.

The figure only accounts for 38.2 percent of thisyear’s target of 1.7 million jobs, making it difficultfor Vietnam to achieve the employment target for thewhole year, said the ministry. The ministry said Viet-nam will make efforts to generate 1.5 million jobs thisyear. —Internet

Peugeot plans to resumeproduction in Indonesia

Vietnam generates 650,000 jobsin first half of year

Mexico’s manufacturing sector sees worst jobfall in 14 yearswitnessed a drop of 5.5percent.

The figure of man-hour fell by 13.3 percent,showing that those whohad kept their jobs wereworking less.

The worst-hit wasthose working for trans-portation equipment as itis export-oriented.

Mexico is suffering arecession dragged mainlyby a drop in exports given

the large declines in de-mand from the UnitedStates which buys some80 percent of Mexico’stotal exports.

Mexico’s domestic de-mand has also fallen dueto a credit crunch that hitconsumer and businesslending.

Internet

Singapore Airlines posts firstquarterly loss in six years

Australia’sconstructionsector likely

to lose 80,000jobs

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Syria willing to enhancecooperation with China

DAMASCUS, 31 July—Syrian Foreign MinisterWalid al-Moallem said onThursday that Syria iswilling to enhance coop-eration with China on thebasis of mutual benefits.

Moallem made thepledge during a meetingwith Wu Sike, China’sSpecial Envoy to the Mid-dle East, and both sidesdiscussed bilateral rela-tions and the latest situa-

tion in the Middle Eastregion. Wu reiterated thatChina supports Syria’scommitment to achievinga just and comprehensivepeace based on the rele-vant UN resolutions.

“The meeting withMinister al-Moallem fo-cused on bilateral rela-tions and the changes anddevelopments in the re-gion, where both sidesexpressed mutual support

for the efforts in this re-gard to find a solution forthe Middle East pro-blem,” Wu told reportersfollowing the meeting.

“I expressed gratitudeto Syria, the governmentand people, for its supportto China in a number ofissues concerning China’ssovereignty and territoryintegrity,” the senior Chi-nese diplomat said.

Xinhua

Visiting China’s special envoy on Middle East affairs Wu Sike (L) meets withSyrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem in Damascus, capital of Syria, on 30

July, 2009. — XINHUA

Indonesia prepares for El NinoJAKARTA, 31 July—Indonesian President Susilo

Bambang Yudhoyono said on Thursday that the coun-try planned to adopt measures to tackle the possibleimpact of El Nino on the country.

Some areas of the country were predicted to sufferfrom the coming late of rainy season for about onemonth, but as a whole, Indonesia would not get seri-ous impact of the weather pattern as the country wouldhave a wet season soon.

“There are some areas that would be late in the com-mencement of rainy season, in South Sumatra andMaluku, ..which can cause drought,” the president said.

Among the steps to be taken were maintaining thefood resilience and farm cultivation and providingfinancial supports, Susilo said.—Xinhua

People get on the busat a flooded section of

the Xietu Road inShanghai, China, on

30 July, 2009. A short-time storm hit Shang-

hai due to a heavycloud cluster onThursday. Local

observatory issued redalert signal of rainstorm.— XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

Actresses performduring a fishermen’sfestival in Lingao, a

county of southChina’s Hainan

Province, on 30 July,2009.—XINHUA

Turkey lays foundation for world’sthird biggest seed gene bank

ANKARA, 31 July—Turkey laid foundation on Thurs-day for a seed gene storing center in Ankara that wouldcontain the genes of 250,000 plant species, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

Turkey’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs MinisterMehmet Mehdi Eker said at the ground-breaking cer-emony that the center would become the world’s thirdbiggest one after those in the United States andChina.

The seed gene bank, for which construction wasexpected to be finished this December, would protectseeds collected within and outside Turkey for use inscientific experiments, Eker was quoted as saying.

The project would activate the agricultural poten-tial of Turkey, which is rich in biological diversitywith 3,905 of the world’s 12,000 endemic plant spe-cies on its territory, said Eker.—Xinhua

Two Spanish police officers killed in bomb attack

Moderate quake hitsE Indonesia

JAKARTA, 31 July—An earthquake with magnitudeof 5.5 jolted eastern parts of Indonesia on Friday, with-out any initial report of damage or casualties,Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.

The quake struck at 07:05 Jakarta time (0005 GMT)with epicenter at 166 km southwest of Waingapu ofEast Nusa Tenggara and at 70 km in depth, the agencysaid.

Indonesia with over 230 million population is lo-cated at a vulnerable quake-hit zone so called the Pa-cific Ring of Fire, where two continental plates stretch-ing from Western hemisphere to Japan meet that oftentriggers seismic and volcanic movements.

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Dollar falls on earning reports andjobless data

NEW YORK, 31 July—The dollar fell against most ma-jor currencies on Thursday as risk appetite improved onearning reports of major companies and new jobless claimdata. The US Labour Department reported on Thursdaythat initial claims for jobless benefits rose 25,000 lastweek to 584,000. It was higher than expectations butlower than a month ago, indicating there has been someimprovement in the labour market this summer.

The four-week average of initial jobless claims fell to559,000, the lowest since late January. The number ofcontinuing jobless benefit claims fell unexpectedly from6.25 million to 6.2 million, the lowest since mid-April.Some major US companies reported stronger-than-ex-pected quarterly profit results on Thursday, includingcellphone maker Motorola, tire manufacturer GoodyearTire & Rubber, credit-card network Mastercard, andchemicals maker Dow Chemical.—Xinhua

MADRID, 31 July—Two Spanish GuardiaCivil police officers werekilled on Thursdaywhen a bomb explodedoutside their barrackson the resort islandMallorca. The explosionwas caused by a car bomboutside the Palmanovacivil guard barracks,close to the Marivent pal-ace where Spain’s royalfamily traditionallyspends its summer holi-

day.The bomb was thought

to have been placed un-derneath a patrol car,used by the GuardiaCivil. Spanish authoritiessuspect it was the work ofthe Basque extremistgroup ETA.

It took place just twodays before the SpanishRoyal Family makes itsannual visit to the islandto spend some time of itsholidays and one day af-

ter a car bomb explosionoutside the Civil Guardbarracks in Burgos, northSpain, which caused 54injuries. The Basqueseparatist group ETA wasresponsible for thatbombing.

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NEWS ALBUM

A previously unknown species oflizard, with the scientific nameVaranus lirungensis, has beendiscovered by German scientistAndre Koch in Indonesia. The

reptiles are only to be found on thesmall Tauland Islands group north

of Sulawesi, acccording toinformation released on 20 July by

the Zoological MuseumKnig in Bonn.

A jockey riding his horse at thetideland race in Duhnen, Lower

Saxony, Germany on 19 July, 2009.Around 150 horses, watched by some

30,000 spectators, took part invarious events throughout the day.

The tideland race takes place on theseabed once it has been exposed byreceding tides. It is the only race of

its kind.The small dinosaur Urmel turned 40on 15 July. Urmel is one of the mostpopular puppets to have emerged fromthe much acclaimed “AugsburgerPuppenkiste”. The Bavarian puppetmakers introduced Urmel in 1969 in aplay that featured on the island ofTitiwu. A slab of ice containing an eggis washed up on the shore. ProfessorTibatong instructs his talking animalsto let the egg hatch. Eventually, Urmelpops out of the egg and a new TV starof German puppet theater is born.

Bikini-clad woman accused of carjacking in MissPolice in Mississippi say a woman

was carjacked by a bikini-clad suspect,who they say later tried to rob an RVdealership. Southaven Police Chief TomLong said the 24-year-old suspectapproached another woman in herdriveway and demanded the car onThursday. The woman gave up the carwithout a fight, asking only for time toremove her young children from inside.

Long said the suspect then drove thecar to the business, where she toldemployees she had a gun and demandedmoney. The employees did not believethe claim and restrained her untilofficers arrived.

Police said the suspect appeared tobe under the influence of drugs oralcohol. She was charged withcarjacking and assault.

One short name, onegiant headache for

Ohio manSharing a name with someone who

lives in your area isn’t usually a big dealunless your name is Neil Armstrong.

Thirty-eight-year-old Neil AllenArmstrong, a financial servicesprofessional from Symmes Township insuburban Cincinnati, says he constantlygets calls and packages from autographseekers, school kids and reporters. Hetries to explain he’s not the NeilArmstrong who was the first man towalk on the moon. But people don'talways believe him.

Neil Alden Armstrong, the 78-year-old former astronaut, lives in nearbyIndian Hills. He rarely appears in publicbut was back in the news recently withthe 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11mission.

Maine EMT struck bymonster truck, saved

by mudA Maine rescue department volunteer

struck by a monster truck at a mud raceavoided serious injuries thanks to a cocoonof mud. Jason Cole, assistant rescue chiefin the southern Maine town of Lebanon,says the driver lost control of her truckSunday at the “Go Deep Mud” contestwhen the throttle became stuck.

Cole declined to identify theemergency medical technician, but saysthe truck struck the volunteer andknocked him flat on his back. Cole saysthe EMT sank so far into the mud thatonly his face was showing, and the truck's35-inch tires passed on either side ofhim.

When the throttle came unstuck andthe truck came to a stop, the EMT wasable to crawl out on his own and walk toan ambulance. He was treated andreleased from a hospital.

BEIJING, 31 July—AsChina’s global auto mar-ket continues to grow, sotoo does the nation’s ur-gency to update emissionsstandards.

So far, three emissioncategories have beenrolled out across the coun-try, with Beijing the onlycity currently employingthe China 4 standard,which was introduced aspart of plans to cut air

NEW YORK, 31 July — EastmanKodak Co said on Thursday that it lost189 million US dollars in the secondquarter as economic downturn hurt de-mand.

The company, which posted its thirdconsecutive quarterly deficit, lost theequivalent of 70 cents a share in theApril-June period, compared with profitof 495 million dollars, or 1.62 dollars ashare, in the same period last year.

Kodak is bracing for an estimated 12percent to 18 percent slump in sales thisyear because of the recession.

Revenue from digital businessesdropped 28 percent while traditionalfilm-based revenue fell 30 percent in thequarter.—Internet

TEGUCIGALPA, 31 July — A fire de-stroyed Thursday the Colon Market, oneof the oldest and well known markets inTegucigalpa, capital of Honduras.

Firefighter spokesman OscarTriminio said that 18 trucks and 250 fire-fighters were sent to market to fight thefire.

The fire erupted at 5:30 am (1130GMT) in the center of the market, andthe roof and some classrooms fromHibueras education center were dam-aged.

“We are broken, everything wasburnt,” cloth seller Oscar Garcia told lo-cal media. The police and soldiers ar-rived at the place to avoid plunder instores and the nearby shops.—Internet

BEIJING, 31 July — TheAsia Philharmonic Or-chestra, comprising thefinest Asian musicians,will present its debut con-cert in Beijing at the Na-tional Centre for the Per-forming Arts. ChungMyung-Whun, a SouthKorea-born maestro, willtake the baton to performMozart’s SymphonicConcerto in E flat forOboe, Clarinet, Horn,Bassoon and Mahler’s

Sunshine good for countryside economy,but not ecology

pollution ahead of theOlympic Games lastsummer.

Minivan brands likethe Wuling Sunshine arebestsellers in rural areasand perfect for small firmson a limited budget. But asthe majority only meetChina 3 standard, which isequivalent to Euro 3, theymay still pose a seriousthreat to the ecology of thecountryside.

“We can’t prevent ve-hicle ownership increas-ing in rural areas but wecan work on improvingtheir environmental per-formance,” said ZhangJianyu, programme man-ager for the Environmen-tal Defence Fund Chinaprogramme. “We shouldbe looking at consistentenforcement of emissionstandards for all cars.”

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Kodak posts thirdconsecutive quarterly loss

Fire destroys marketin Honduras

Asia finds its unifying voiceSymphony No 1, “Titan”.

The 56-year-old pian-ist/conductor has studiedat the Julliard School inNew York and worked asmusic director at theworld’s most prestigiousorchestras in the UnitedStates, Europe and Asiafor three decades.

In 1997, he gatheredleading musicians fromChina, Japan, South Ko-rea and other Asian coun-tries to establish the Asia

Philharmonic Orchestra.He believes classical

music is world music, arich heritage that hasgrown far beyond its Eu-ropean roots to be sharedand enjoyed by all.

“Music has no na-tional boundaries. Classi-cal music used to becalled Western music inAsian countries, but to-day it is music that is en-joyed worldwide.

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Dew drops gather on a wasp as it sits on a flower during a foggy morningnear the town of Turov, some 270 km (167 miles) south of Minsk, on 31

July, 2009.— INTERNET

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The government is making all-out efforts forthe people to enjoy the higher socio-economicstatus, to travel from one place to another withpeace of mind and to take full advantages of smoothand swift commodity flow. As a result, unprec-edented progress has been made in all spheresthroughout the nation.

Thanks to the emergence of a cluster of newbridges large and small, people from differentregions including border areas can have easy ac-

Mingin Myoma Bridge in Sagaing Division in service of local people

Article: Nu Nu Yi & Aye Thanda Thein

cess to places of their choice.Not only engineers and staff of the Ministry

of Construction but also engineers andTatmadawmen of the Ministry of Defense contrib-uted their services fully towards construction ofroads and bridges in the interest of the people.

Myoma Bridge of Mingin Township in SagaingDivision was opened on 24 March 2009. The upperstructure of the bridge is of girder type and the lowerstructure, of broad crest type. The 540 feet long and

28 feet wide facility can withstand 60 tons of loads.Its clearance is 90 feet wide and 10 feet high.

With the emergence of Myoma Bridge inthe region, local people are now in a position tomove about from one place to another as they wishall the year round and enjoy higher living standardall the more.

*****Translation: HKA

Myanma Alin: 26-7-2009

Photo shows Myoma Bridge in Mingin Township, Sagaing Division.

YANGON, 31 July —Two local companies havereached agreement withLenovo Company basedin the People’s Republicof China to distributeLenovo brand desktop andlaptop computers inMyanmar.

KMD ComputerGroup Co Ltd and LuckyBird Trading Co Ltdsigned with Lenovo Co towork as sales agents inMyanmar at the press meetat Traders Hotel here yes-terday.

KMD and Lucky

Lenovo laptops, desktops, software, hardware on market

Bird will distributeLenovo computers, soft-ware and hardware andwill provide services forLenovo computers.

Think Pad, Idea Padlaptop computers, IdeaCentre and Think CentreDesktop computers foroffices, ThinkWorkstations and ThinkServer System will comeon the market.

After buying the pcproduction from IBMCompany in 2005, Lenovoproduces new designs ofcomputers, ASEAN Sale

Manager Mr Kyler Tan ofLenovo Company said.

Mr Lee ChownHow, Regional BusinessManager, CommercialBusiness-ASEAN ofLenovo said he believedthat Lenovo would belisted at the Top 3 inMyanmar.

KMD ComputerGroup Co Ltd and LuckyBird Computer Co willdistribute the Lenovobrand computers at salescentres across the countryas of August.

MNAYANGON, 31 July—

A market circular vehicleen route from Pintaya toBawhsai Village in ShanState (South) overturnedon 28 July killing threepassengers and injuring 38others.

The six-wheeledGMC with license plate

Car overturns in Shan State(South) killing three, injuring 38

(f/6637) driven by U SeinWin plunged into the slopeof the hill beyond KyauksuVillage, about six milesfrom Pintaya and over-turned at about 7.30 amon 28 July. One man andtwo women were killedand 10 men and 28 womeninjured. Out of the injured,

29 including eight seriouscases were sent toTaunggyi Sao Sun HtunHospital and the nine re-maining to Pintaya Hos-pital. Local authorities andofficials from the hospi-tals are giving assistanceto the injured.

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YANGON, 31 July —Union of Myanmar Fed-eration of Chambers ofCommerce and Industrywill organize a talk underthe sponsorship of Pac Link

Talk on “20 Years Development Trend”

Co Ltd at UMFCCI OffficeTower on Minye KyawswaStreet, Lanmadaw Town-ship, here, 1 August.

Writer U Kyaw Winwill give talks on 20 years

development trend.Executives and

members of UMFCCI andits affiliated associationsand enthusiasts may attendthe talk.—MNA

Asean Sale Manager Mr. Kyler Tan of Lenovo Co presents aboutLenovo products.

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YANGON, 31 July —Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence at-tended monsoon treeplanting ceremony of In-stitute of Education(Yangon) for 2009 at thecompound of the instituteon 30 July morning.

The Director of Di-vision Forest Departmentpresented report on plan-

Lt-Gen Myint Swe attends monsoon tree plantingceremony of Yangon Institute of Education

tation and the Rectorspoke words of thanks.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe,Chairman of Yangon Di-vision Peace and Devel-opment Council YangonCommand CommanderMaj-Gen Win Myint,Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeYangon Mayor Brig-GenAung Thein Lin and offi-

cials handed over saplingsto deputy director-generalof Department of BasicEducation No 1(LowerMyanmar), teachers andstudents.

Next, Lt-Gen MyintSwe, the commander, themayor and officialsplanted trees and lookedround the collective plan-tation.—MNA

YANGON, 31 July—Criminal Cases Nos 47/2009, 48/2009 and 49/2009against US citizen Mr John William Yettaw, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw KhinKhin Win and Ma Win Ma Ma were heard at Yangon North District Court at 10am today.

The court was unable to pass the final judgment, for it still has to reviewand decide the legal proceedings over the statements of the witnesses, evidencesand arguments of the both sides.

The cases were postponed to 10 am on 11 August to pronounce the finaljudgment.—MNA

Criminal Cases against US citizenMr John William Yettaw, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,

Daw Khin Khin Win, Ma Win Ma Mapostponed to 11 August to pass final judgment

NAY PYI TAW, 30July—Minister for Live-stock and Fisheries Brig-Gen Maung Maung Theinon 28 July morning gaveinstructions on develop-

Tasks of Yezin fish breeding farmof FD in Nay Pyi TawPyinmana inspected

ment of fishery sector,improvement of fish pedi-grees through short andlong term plans and hatch-ing of fish at Yezin Fish-ing Breeding Farm of

Fisheries Department inNay Pyi Taw PyinmanaYezin. The minister in-spected breeding of fishto be hatched at thefarm.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 31 July — The conclusion cer-emony of the 27th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meet-ing and its related meetings was held in conjunctionwith ASEAN Energy Awards presentation ceremonyat the convocation hall of Mandalay University inMandalay on 29 July.

It was attended by Energy Ministers fromASEAN countries and dialogue partner countries, thedeputy ministers, high-ranking officials and repre-sentatives, the deputy secretary-general and officialsof ASEAN Secretariat, representatives of ASEANCenter for Energy, departmental officials and guests.

Before and during the dinner, artistes fromMandalay and Fine Arts Department of the Ministry ofCulture entertained those present.

Next, the ministers, the deputy ministers andhigh ranking officials presented prizes to 37 winners ofASEAN Best Practices for Energy Efficient Building

27th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting and its related meetings conclude

Competition, ASEAN Best Practices for Energy Man-agement in Building and Industries Competition,ASEAN Renewable Energy Project Management Com-petition and ASEAN Excellence in Energy Manage-ment category.

Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi extendedgreetings and presented gifts to those who attended themeeting

Shwe Innthar of Myanmar stood third in Tropi-cal Category of ASEAN Best Practices for EnergyEfficient Building Competition and Small-scaleHydropower Project of Ma Mya Dam first in Off-GridCategory of ASEAN Renewable Energy Project Man-agement Competition. Myanmar representative U AungKyi who acted as Myanmar representative in EnergyEfficiency and Sub Sector Network was presentedASEAN Excellence in Energy Management award.

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YANGON, 31 July—Korean Food Fair waslaunched at Orange Su-permarket (Waizayandabranch) this morning.

Korean Ambassa-dor Mr Park Key-Chongand director Daw MyintMyint Win of CreationMyanmar Co Ltd formallyopened Korean Food Fair.

It was also attendedby assistant commercial

Korean Food Fair 2009attaché Mr Kim Jong Sanof Korea Trade Invest-ment Promotion Agency(KOTRA), journalists,and guests. Korean FoodFair will be held at BlazonDepartment Store andbranches of Orange Su-permarkets up to 20 Au-gust.

Korean well-known foods such asKimchi, pea flavor noo-

dle, ready-made foods,pepper flavor and season-ing will be sold at specialprice and Korean foodscan be tasted for free.

MNAKorean AmbassadorMr Park Key-Chong

and Daw MyintMyint Win formallyopen Korean Food

Fair. —MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence plants a tree during a monsoon tree planting ceremony at Yangon Institute of Education.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi presents prize to awinner of ASEAN Energy Awards. — ENERGY

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

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NAY PYI TAW, 31July—Accompanied byChairman of SagaingDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-GenMyint Soe, Lt-Gen ThaAye of the Ministry ofDefence, on 28 July, metwith division, district,township level servicepersonnel, townselders,and members of socialorganizations.

The secretary of thedivision PDC briefed Lt-Gen Tha Aye on progress

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of Ministry of Defence meetsdepartmental personnel in Monywa

of the region and theCommander madesupplementary reports.

Lt-Gen Tha Ayeurged the servicepersonnel and local peopleto become dutifulpersonnel and citizen andcordially greeted thosepresent.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Tha Aye visitedchicken, quail specialbreeding zone and calledfor breeding of pedigreechicken and quail forfurther development ofbreeding sector which

contributes to economicsector of the country andinspected chicken andquail breeding farm.

Lt-Gen Tha Ayethen went to MonywaIndustrial Zone andinspected products offoundry plant andmachines plant.

Lt-Gen Tha Ayealso oversaw constructionof two-storey extendedbuilding and Sangha Wardin Monywa People'sHospital and left necessaryinstructions.

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NAY PYI TAW, 31July—Minister for Indus-try-1 U Aung Thaung at-tended the opening cer-emony of Basic EducationMiddle School (branch) ofSeikone Village inTaungtha Township ofMandalay Division on 26July.

Chairman of Town-ship Peace and Develop-ment Council U Soe SoeShwe, Township Educa-tion Officer U Tin Cho andMember of School Board

Industry-1 Minister attends school opening ceremonyof Trustees U Than HtayAung formally opened theschool. The ministerunvailed the stone inscrip-tion.

The minister ex-tended greetings and atownselder spoke words ofthanks.

The minister deliv-ered an address at the prizepresentation ceremony tooutstanding students atAnawrahta Hall ofNyaung-U Township PDCon 27 July morning.

Township Educa-tion Officer U ThaungLwin Oo presented reporton education affairs.

The minister andwife presented prizes todistinction winners in 2009matriculation examinationand outstanding teachersin NyaungU, Bagan,Taungzin, Ngathayauk,Sinku and Tetma BasicEducation High Schools.

Six distinction win-ner Ma Thinza Lwin spokewords of thanks.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 31July—The 5th monsoontrees planting ceremony2009 of Ministry Financeand Revenue was held atstaff quarters of theministry in DhannaTheikdi Ward here thismorning, attended byDeputy Minister Col HlaThein Swe.

It was alsoparticipated by GovernorU Than Nyein of CentralBank of Myanmar,directors-general and

Ministry of Finance and Revenue holds its5th monsoon tree planting ceremony

managing directors ofdepartments andenterprises under theministry, and servicepersonnel.

Deputy Minister ColHla Thein Swe plantedCedrela febribyuga and thegovernor of Central Bankof Myanmar, directors-general, managing-directors, and servicepersonnel of Central Bankof Myanmar, MyanmarEconomic Bank, BudgetDepartment, Internal

Revenue Department alsoplanted the trees inhappiness. The deputyminister and party thenviewed the plantations ofdepartments of the ministry.A total number of 2,700trees were grown in the fifthmonsoon trees plantingceremony of the ministry.The ministry has grown12,855 trees for five timesand trees plantingceremonies will be held inaccord with monsoon treesplanting plan.—MNA

YANGON, 31 July—Members of West DistrictPolice Commander’s Office, acting on the informationof a public member on 25 July, arrested a person whotied the maid of a house in Thantata Ward, SangyongTownship, here, and took away the property with him.

Ma Hla Hla Win, the maid of the house of DawKhin Tint, while she was alone while ironing at homeat about 11 am on 24 July, opened the door afterhearing someone knocking on it and found two menwho came in. The men tied her hands and legs with thewire of the iron, put a piece of cloth into her mouth, andtook away a digital camera, a backpack containingclothes. And the case was opened at Sangyong Police

Man who tied housemaid and took property arrestedStation.

In connection with the case, members of WestDistrict Police Commander’s Office carried outinvestigation and arrested culprit Ko Latt (a) Toni (a)Tin Htoo together with the property in Zigon Village,Shwepyitha Township, at 7 pm on 25 July.

According to the investigation, the culprit wasfound to be the boyfriend of Ma Hla Hla Win. It wasalso revealed that she shouted for help only after herboy friend had left the house for some time so that hewould be able to escape. Yangon Division PoliceForce is giving educative talks on crime prevention inorder not to cause similar cases. —MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 31 July—A total of 83 acres ofpoppy field—2.5 acres near Wahdaw village inLoilem Township of Shan State (South), 24.5 acresnear Kaunmethin village and Pinlong village inPinlaung Township and 56 acres near Setdaw vil-lage, Htitamaung old village and Ladu village inPekhon Township — were destroyed from 23 to 26July. So far, 9885.15 acres of poppy field had beendestroyed in states and divisions this year's poppycultivation season.

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Nearly 9900 acres of poppyplantations destroyed this

year's poppy cultivation season

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects products of foundry plant and machinesplant in Monywa Industrial Zone.

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(from page 16)Recently, the

news crew of theKyemon Daily made atrip to observe thegreening tasks on Bagomountain range, locatedin the eastern region ofMagway District. First,we had an interview withStaff Officer U HlaMyint of TaungdwingyiTownship Forest De-partment. Afterwards,we proceeded to Wun-awgyi forest camp to ob-serve the greening ofBago mountain range inTaungdwingyi Town-ship.

Wun-awgyi for-est camp located on NayPyi Taw-TaungdwingyiRoad is included inTaungdwingyi Town-ship. Forester U MoeAung, in-charge of theplantation Junior For-ester Ko Win Khaing

Thriving forest plantationson Bago mountain…

YANGON, 31 July—No 4, Vol-ume-1 of TV Guide came out today.

One-week detail programmesof MRTV-4 Free Channel are coveredin the guide. The guide also coversone-week programmes of ESPN,MTV, Discovery and Star Movies ofMRTV-4 International Channel. Theschedules for programmes of 5 mov-ies and 5 series, Cartoon Network and5 Cartoon for children and MandalayFM are available in the guide.

Novel Light Express, (Tel;391186, 243893) has published theguide every Friday.

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TV Guide in circulation

Signboard of Taungdwingyi Township Forest Department urging the people to take partin Bago mountain greening project.

Saton forest reserve being conserved in Myothit Township ofMagway District.

and Rangers U Bo Shweand U Aung Min Tun ex-plained matters related tothriving teak and Yinma(Chukrassia tabularis) atthe camp.

Kinpuntaung for-est reserve was estab-lished as the specific teakplantation in Taung-dwingyi Township.

Neem and teakplantations were estab-lished at Block No. 32 ofKinpuntaung forest re-serve, 1,000 acres of East-ern gooseberry, Mezali(Cassia siamea) and oth-ers in Yanpei Dam(Hsinkya Village) and1,000 acres of tree plan-tation in Kinpuntaung for-est reserve.

A total of 6250acres of plantations wasset up at Gyochaung andKinpuntaung forest re-serves through the hy-bridization system. In ad-

awgyi Village. Moreover,18 acres of village fuelwood forests were plantedat Thebyu Village and 100acres in ThabyebinVillage.

It is important togrow the value-addednatural forests in the for-estry task. Teak planta-tions were set up atYanpei and Kinpuntaungforest reserves inTaungdwingyi Town-ship. So far, a total of6450 acres of teak plan-tation has been estab-lished there.

As the mass activi-ties, over 1,060,000 sap-lings, namely neem,Mezali (Cassia siamea),Eucalyptus saplings wereplanted in TaungdwingyiTownship.

After that, the plan-tations were designatedas the good natural teak

plantations and the seedsproduction area was des-ignated. With the aim ofprotecting trees and for-ests, a total of 3930 fuelwood substitute paddyhusk stoves were distrib-uted to the villages.Moreover, briquetteswere also distributed tothe local people.

Together with For-ester U Moe Aung, we leftfor Myothit Township ofMagway District and ob-served the natural forestregion. We visited 11,195acres of natural forest areaand saw the thriving vari-ous plants.

On arrival at Satonforest reserve, we wit-nessed the conservation ofnatural forests. We viewedironwood, Htaukkyant(Terminalia tomentosa),cutch, Eastern gooseberry,Thitya (Shorea obtuse), sal

and other kinds of trees.Myothit Township hastropical forests. Most ofthe tree species thrivingin the township are East-ern gooseberry and cutchplants. The greeningtasks of Bago mountainrange in Magway Dis-trict are being undertakenin Taungdwingyi,Myothit and Natmauktownships.

Actually, the lossof forests and treesharms the natural envi-ronment and has effecton the climate change.The tree plantations onBago mountain range inMagway District con-tribute to conservationof the natural forestsand natural environ-ment.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 27-7-2009

dition, a total of 2000acres and 450 more acreswere set up atKinpuntaung forest re-serve.

The establishmentof model forest villagewas carried out at Wun-

YANGON, 31 July—As the heavy rain which started from 29 July hascaused floods in some wards of Thandwe and An Townships, households in thewards were evacuated to the safe places.

Due to torrential rain in Thandwe, the water level has exceeded abouttwo feet above its normal level at Ward Nos (1) and (4). So some householdswere relocated to safe places.

Similarly, the water level has risen about four or five feet at Ward Nos(3), (4), (5) and Auk-ywa village due to torrential rain in An Township. Over300 households in the flood-hit wards and village were evacuated to safeplaces. As some sections of An-Sittway and An-Tutaung motorways weresubmerged, the vehicles faced delays of some hours on the motorways. Theflood waters gradually subsided starting from this morning. Water sentries arebeing placed and necessary assistance is being given to flood victims by localauthorities.

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Torrential rain causes floods inThandwe and An Townships

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CARACAS, 31 July—Venezuela on Thursday accused the United States ofblocking the country’s negotiations with the Dominican Republic on buying arefinery company from the country.

Angel Rodriguez, president of the commission for energy and mines of theVenezuelan National Assembly, said that the state-owned Petroleum of Venezuela(PDVSA) was interested in buying the Refidomsa Company from the DominicanRepublic.

According to Rodriguez, Dominican right-wing legislators have asked the USDepartment of State to take measures against Venezuela for its plan to buy 49percent of Refidomsa’s shares.

Rodriguez said the Venezuelan government’s intention to buy part of Refidomsa’sshare aims to strengthen the energy infrastructure of the country.

The PDVSA has a daily refinery capacity of 34,000 barrels. —Internet

Venezuela accuses US of blockingrefinery buying

A tourist watches as Mexican federal environmentalauthorities and navy sailors close a section of beachbuilt by allegedly pumping sand from the oceanbottom to combat erosion at a hotel in Cancun,

Mexico, on 30 July, 2009.—INTERNET

Members of armed police take part in an anti-terrorism drill in Nanchang, eastChina’s Jiangxi Province, on 31 July, 2009. More than 2,000 members of armed

police attended the drill to practise their anti-terrorism skills.—INTERNET

LONDON, 31 July—Former England andNewcastle manager SirBobby Robson died onFriday at the age of 76after a long battle withcancer.

Robson, whose firstbrush with the disease

Former England andNewcastle manager Sir

Bobby Robson

Legendary England football bossRobson dies

that would ultimately claim him was in 1992, ledEngland to the World Cup semi-finals in 1990 beforeleaving to manage a host of top European clubsincluding PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Porto,Barcelona and finally his boyhood team Newcastle.

A statement issued on behalf of his family said:“It is with great sadness that it has been announcedtoday that Sir Bobby Robson has lost his long andcourageous battle with cancer.“He died verypeacefully this morning (Friday) at his home inCounty Durham with his wife and family beside him.

“Sir Bobby’s funeral will be private and forfamily members only.“A thanksgiving service incelebration of Sir Bobby’s life will be held at a laterdate for his many friends and colleagues.—Internet

Mexico shuts Cancun beach, alleges sand was stolenMEXICO CITY, 31

July—Surprised touristsfound their little piece ofCancun beach paradiseringed by crime-scenetape and gun-toting sailorson Thursday.

Environmental enf-orcement officers backedby Mexican navypersonnel closed offhundreds of feet (dozensof meters) of powder-white coastline in front ofa hotel accused of illegallyaccumulating sand on itsbeach.Mexico spent $19million to replace Cancunbeaches washed away byHurricane Wilma in 2005.But much of the sandpumped from the sea floorhas since washed away,leading some propertyowners to buildbreakwaters in a bid toretain sand. The practiceoften merely shifts sand

ANKARA, TURKEY, 31July— Turkey’s militarysays navy commandosaboard a frigate havecaptured seven pirates inthe Gulf of Aden offSomalia’s coast.

The military says thecommandos aboard thefrigate, part of a NATOforce patrolling the seas,raided the skiff Fridayupon a request to block itbefore it could attack aship. The military did notprovide details on whatship the pirates allegedlyplanned to attack.

It says a navyhelicopter aboard thefrigate also took part inthe operation.

Turkish navycommandos had capturedfive other pirates in asimilar operation in theGulf of Aden a week ago.

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loss to beaches below the breakwaters.“Today we made the decision to close this stretch

of ill-gotten, illegally accumulated sand,” said PatricioPatron, Mexico’s attorney general for environmentalprotection. “This hotel was telling its tourists: ‘Comehere, I have sand ... the other hotels don’t, because Istole it.’”

Patron said five people were detained in a raid forallegedly using pumps to move sand from the sea flooronto the beach in front of the Gran Caribe Real Hotel.The hotel is also suspected of illegally building abreakwater that impeded the natural flow of sand ontoother hotels’ beaches, he said.—Internet

Turkishcommandos

capture 7pirates offSomalia

Visitors walk up stairs at the Games ConventionOnline 2009 fair in the eastern German city of

Leipzig on 31 July, 2009. The Games convention,one of Europe’s leading fair for computer

games, runs from 31 July to 2 August.INTERNET

Eight Dutchkilled in bus

accident in SpainAMSTERDAM, 31

July—Eight Dutch touristswere killed in a busaccident late on Thursdaynear Barcelona and 42people were injured, Dutchtour operator SundioGroup said.

The bus, carrying 65passengers, shot off theroad when exiting ahighway and tipped over,Sundio said in a statement.Some of the survivors werebadly injured, and aspokesman for Dutchemergency assistancegroup SOS Internationalgroup did not rule out thepossibility the death tollmight rise.

MNA/Reuters

UK suffers highest Afghancasualties since 2001

LONDON, 31 July—Brit ish forces inAfghanistan sufferedtheir highest casualtyrate this month since theconflict began in 2001,the Ministry of Defencesaid on Thursday.

A total of 57 soldierswere injured in the firsttwo weeks of July,including nine who werevery seriously woundedand seven who wereseriously injured. Thatcompares with 46casualties during Juneand 24 in May. July hasalso been the bloodiestmonth for British forcesin Afghanistan, with 22soldiers killed.

The MoD figuresshowed that so far this

year 61 soldiers havebeen very seriously orseriously injured infighting, compared with65 during the whole of2008. British troopshave just completed afive-week offensiveagainst the Taleban insouthern Afghanistan.

So far, 191 BritishArmy soldiers have beenkil led since the theinvasion in 2001. MoDcasualty records, whichgo back to 2006, show2,650 have been treatedin field hospitals ofwhich 753 have beenwounded in action. Ofthese, 230 were veryseriously or seriouslywounded.

MNA/Reuters

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 1 August, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG XIU VOY NO (9040)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG XIUVOY NO (9040) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 1.8.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Government of the Union of MyanmarMinistry of Health

Department of Medical ScienceInviting Application for Refresher Courses

1. Refresher courses leading to obtaining SAMA formedical graduates and THAKHA for dentalgraduates will be opened at Universities ofMedicine and Universities of Dental Medicine inAugust, 2009. Personnel with the followingqualifications are eligible for submittingapplication for the course.

2. Those who had completed house surgeon trainingby December 2007 and do not have had SAMAand THAKHA.

Note: Those in government service at presentneed not apply.

3. Closing date -7.8.20094. Place for application - University one had graduated5. Enquiries can be directed to Department of Medical

Science (Nay Pyi Taw) and respective universities.

Department of Medical Science

Woman, who may dieone year ago, found inAustrian apartmentVIENNA, 31 July—A 66-

year-old woman wasfound dead in her apart-ment here, and the bodymight have been lyingthere for one year, accord-ing to a report released bythe Austrian Newspaper“Kurier” on Thursday.

The body was discov-ered on Wednesday after-noon. The police ruled outthe possibility of a crime,but they were unable tomake out whether it wasan accident or suicide.

InternetA vendor sells fruit in a public market

in Havana, on 30 July , 2009. —INTERNET

Airbus to fund extended Air Francecrash search

Japan’s consumer prices fall 1.7% in June

Gaza children seek Guinness record in kite flying

PARIS, 31 July—Airbuswould fund an extendedsearch for flight record-ers of an Air France A330airliner that crashed intothe Atlantic on 1 Jun,Airbus chief executiveThomas Enders saidThursday.

“We want to knowwhat happened, as im-proving air safety is ourtop priority,” Enders was

quoted by the financialnewspaper La Tribune assaying.

“We are supporting anextended search by mak-ing a big contribution,” hesaid. According to LaTribune, Airbus wouldspend between 12 and 20million euros (about 16and 28 million US dollars)to support an extended in-vestigation of “at least

three months.”Air France Airbus A330

Flight 447 crashed intothe Atlantic on 1 Jun enroute from Rio de Janeiroto Paris, killing all 228people on board.

Investigators have sofar failed to find the flightrecorders, and the secondphase of the search is dueto end on 22 Aug.

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An Airbus-380, with a capacity of 853 passengers, displays signage from theairlines that fly the aircraft while sitting on the tarmac at Wittman Field siteof the Experimental Aircraft Association Convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

on 28 July, 2009.— INTERNET

TOKYO, 31 July—Japan’s key con-sumer price index (CPI) fell for the 4thstraight month in June, down by arecord 1.7 percent year-on-year sinceofficial record began in 1971, the Min-istry of Internal Affairs and Communi-cations said in a preliminary reportFriday.

The nationwide core CPI, which ex-cludes volatile fresh food prices, stoodat 100.3, compared with 100 for the base

year of 2005.Prices of heating oil plunged 40.7 per-

cent and gasoline price fell 29.5 percent.And those of consumer appliances suchas televisions and personal computersalso continued to fall sharply.

The core CPI for Tokyo’s 23 wards,which is deemed as the leading indica-tor of prices across Japan, dropped 1.7percent to 99.7 in July.

Internet

GAZA, 31 July—Palestin-ian children in the besiegedGaza Strip on Thursdaytried to break the worldrecord by flying self-madekites simultaneously. ZuhirHaneya, an official whooversaw the event, saidup to 6,000 children partici-pated and that more thanhalf of them succeededin flying their kites.

“Seventeen kids from

every 20 children suc-ceeded in flying their kitesat the same time,” he said.

The current record ofkite flown simultaneouslyis 713, registered last yearin Germany.

“This means we havebroken the record,”Haneya said. The children,who participate in annualsummer camps sponsoredby the UN Relief Works

Agency (UNRWA), hopeto break up the Israeliblockade on their territory.

John Ging, director ofUNRWA operations, said“We have to break theharsh siege by making theworld record in flying thekites.” He added that theUNRWA will stage moreactivities among Gazachildren against the block-ade. —Internet

Obama says US economy likely to

contract in second quarter WASHINGTON, 31 July — US

President Barack Obama said on

Thursday that he expects US economy

will continue to shrink during the second

quarter.

“I suspect that GDP numbers will

still show that the economy contracted

in the second quarter, that job loss is still

a huge problem,” Obama told reporters

after meeting with Philippines President

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The

Commerce Depart-ment will report the

GDP data of the second quarter on Friday.

According to the department, the

US economy fell at an annual rate of 5.5

percent in the first quarter, the third

straight quarterly decline, followed

decreases of 6.3 percent in the final

quarter of 2008 and 0.5 percent in the

third quarter of last year.

“We have seen a significant slowing

down of the contraction over the last

several months,” Obama said, noting

that there are no longer fears of another

Great Depression.

“All of that is a sign that we have

stepped away from the precipice,” he

said. “We were in a position where we

could have gone into a great depression.

I think those fears have abated.” —Internet

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A/H1N1 deaths add to 10 inMassachusetts

HOUSTON, 31 July — The MassachusettsDepartment of Public Health (DPH) on Thursdayreported three more deaths of the A/H1N1 flu virus,bringing the total to ten in the state.

“These deaths are a tragic reminder of howserious flu can be for some people,” the departmentsaid in a news release late Thursday.

The department describes the latest victims as a20-year-old from Norfolk County, a 21-year-old fromHampden County and a 53-year-old from EssexCounty.All three victims had underlying healthconditions, which increased their risk of complicationsfrom the A/H1N1 virus, the department said.

Internet

A/H1N1 flu death toll rises to80 in California

HOUSTON, 31 July — The A/H1N1 flu death tollin the most populous US State of California hasreached 80 with hospitalizations of 699, accordingto the latest statistics released by the CaliforniaDepartment of Public Health (CDPH) late Thursday.

The department said that 28 more deaths havebeen reported in the past two weeks, a formidablejump from the previous record of 52 released twoweeks ago by the federal Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (CDC). Since the outbreak of the A/H1N1 flu, California has been among the top statesleading the nation with most deaths and confirmedcases of the new flu virus. But the department said onThursday that, beginning from July 16, it has changedthe reporting requirements for the A/H1N1 influenzaby local health jurisdictions.

Internet

In this photoreleased by theXinhua news

agency, Dai Qifarides his wooden

bicycle with his wifeon the rear seat in

Ruian in eastChina’s Zhejiang

Province on 30 July, 2009. Dai, who

runs a metal works,spent two years tomake the woodentwo-wheeler by

himself, accordingto Xinhua. INTERNET

Researchers usenanoparticle-delivered genesto slow ovarian tumor growth

CHICAGO, 31 July —Tiny particles carrying akiller gene can effectivelysuppress ovarian tumorgrowth in mice, said USresearchers.

The findings, reportedThursday in the journalCancer Research, couldlead to a new treatmentfor ovarian cancer,according to researchersfrom MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.

They deliver a genethat encodes the

diphtheria toxin, whichkills cells by disruptingtheir ability tomanufacture proteins.

The “killer gene” isengineered to be over-expressed in ovarian cellsbut is inactive in other celltypes. So it can selectivelytarget the varian tumors andslow its growth in mice.

Human clinical trialscould start, after someadditional preclinicalstudies, in about a year ortwo, says Daniel

Anderson, a senior authorof the study paper.

Currently ovariancancer patients undergosurgery followed bychemotherapy. In manycases, the cancer returnsafter treatment, and thereare no good therapies forrecurring and advanced-stage tumors.

Internet

4,020 people fall sick innorth China tap water

pollutionHOHHOT, 31 July — Last Saturday’s tap water

pollution in north China’s Inner Mongolia AutonomousRegion has sickened 4,020 people, of whom 88 are stillin hospital, according to the health department Friday.

In the 24 hours from 5 pm Wednesday to 5 pmThursday, 301 new cases were reported, a healthdepartment spokesman in Chifeng City said Friday.

Water supply to Chifeng’s new city center, a 17-square km area with 58,000 people, was contaminatedby an overflow of rainwater last Thursday and testresults showed an excessively high count of bacteria,including coliforms and salmonella.

Tap water has not been cut off, but the citygovernment has warned residents not to drink from thetap and has since Tuesday sent water wagons to carryclean water to all communities in the area at least threetimes a day, the health department spokesman said.

But the number of patients continued to climbdaily, he said. “Most of them complained of fever,diarrhea, stomach aches and vomiting.”

While some patients fell ill after drinking directlyfrom the tap, many others were sickened after eatingfruits or uncooked vegetables that had been rinsedwith the contaminated tap water, he said.

Workers are cleaning the water supply well in thenew city center, while pipelines are also being laid todivert water from Chifeng’s old city center about 10km away, an official with the city government said.

Internet

This 2006 photograph depicts a female Aedesaegypti mosquito while she was in the process of

acquiring a blood meal from her human host.INTERNET

Anthropologists visit Yiminority habitat in YunnanBEIJING, 31 July —

More than one hundredscholars and experts onanthropology and ethnologyvisited Danuohei village,southeast to Kunming cityin Yunnan ProvinceTuesday.

Soundbite: NieDanyangzhi, Xinhuacorrespondent “As theIUAES world congress goeson in Kunming, southwestChina, scholars and expertsare visiting Danuoheivillage, which is about onehundred kilometers awayfrom the city. It is one of afew Yi minority habitatswith over 600 years history.”

Soundbite: An Israelianthropologist “Yes, Ienjoyed very much the localwine, the food, thetraditional food and I enjoy

meeting and knowing moreabout the people, thedifferent ethnic groups andgetting to know more aboutChina, China’s history,China’s culture. I think it iswonderful. I’m very happyto be here.”The scholars andexperts say the trip providean excellent opportunity forthem to know local cultureand ethnic groups after goingdoor to door.

Soundbite: Frank JHoffman, associateprofessor of West ChesterUniversity “In fact mybeginning students some-times think all Chinese areof the same race.they thinkeveryone is a Han and thenthey study more they quicklythere is so much diversity aswe are seeing here today.”

Internet

Mosquito bites carry keyvaccine for malaria

BEIJING, 31 July — In a daring experiment inEurope, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needlesto deliver a “vaccine” of live malaria parasites via theirbites.The results were astounding: Everyone in thevaccine group acquired immunity to malaria; everyonein a non-vaccinated group did not, and developedmalaria when exposed to the parasites later.

The study was only a small proof-of-principletest, and its approach is not practical on a large scale.However, it shows that scientists may finally be on theright track to developing an effective vaccine againstone of mankind’s top killers. A vaccine that usesmodified live parasites just entered human testing.

“Malaria vaccines are moving from thelaboratory into the real world,” Dr Carlos Campbellwrote in an editorial accompanying the study inyesterday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

He works for PATH, the Program for AppropriateTechnology in Health, a Seattle-based global healthfoundation.

Malaria kills nearly a million people each year,mostly children under five and especially in Africa.Infected mosquitoes inject immature malaria parasitesinto the skin when they bite; these travel to the liverwhere they mature and multiply. — Internet

New H3N2 flu variantdetected in HK

BEIJING, 31 July — Hong Kong’s healthauthorities announced Wednesday that a new variantof the H3N2 seasonal influenza virus has beenfound in the city.The Brisbane strain has been theprevalent circulator of H3N2 in the past year, andthe new variant is its direct descendent, said ThomasTsang, controller of Hong Kong’s Center for HealthProtection (CHP).“However, it has some geneticchanges distinguishing it from the old Brisbanestrain,” he said.He said it is normal for viruses to gothrough changes, adding that overseas healthauthorities, including those in Canada, Britain andAustralia, had also found the new variant.—Internet

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S P O R T S

PARIS, 31 July — Marseille will have Real Ma-drid’s Argentine defender Gabriel Heinze, the French

Bayern reject Real Madrid’sRibery bid

PARIS,31 July — Bayern Munich rejected a bid ofeuro 80 million (112 million US dollars) from RealMadrid for French winger Franck Ribery, Sports dailyL’Equipe reported on Thursday.

The daily said the Spanish team made the offer threeweeks ago, but Bayern’s chairman Karl-HeinzRummenigge and Bayern manager Uli Hoeness bothrejected it.

The 26-year-old Ribery already said he wanted tojoin Madrid, which has recruited heavily sinceFlorentino Perez took over as president again.

Internet

Bayern, former coachKlinsmann settle contract

BERLIN, 31 July — Bayern Munich on Thursdayreached a settlement with former coach JuergenKlinsmann to end his contract after he was sacked threemonths ago.

Klinsmann signed a two-year deal with Bayern in2008 but was fired five matches before the end of hisfirst season.

“Bayern and Klinsmann have mutually agreed to-day to immediately end the contract running to June30, 2010,” said the club on their website.

Both sides had agreed to keep details private,Bayern said.

A string of disappointing results that left Bayernwith no silverware last season led to the former Ger-many coach’s departure.

Internet

PRAGUE, 31 July — Former Juventus winger PavelNedved won the Golden Ball trophy for the best Czechfootballer in 2008-2009 awarded by Czech journal-ists, the organizers said on Thursday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, 31 July — One day after the sur-gery on his left hand to correct two broken bones,Ronaldo’s secret liposuction was unveiled on Thurs-day by multiple sources.The entire medical staff, ad-ministration and players alike from the Corinthianssoccer club were oriented to avoid the subject, as theworld renowned player had hoped that the secret sur-gery would go unnoticed.

Taking advantage of the down time due to hisshattered ring finger and middle finger in his left hand,the player decided to take a two-in-one operation.However, his secret was discovered by the localmedia.Corinthians goalkeeper Felipe was the onlyplayer to offer an interview regarding the topic. Thegoalie did not confirm nor deny the liposuction.

“If Ronaldo did have liposuction, he is going tofly. It will only be good for the team. People have con-stantly been grinding him, but he continues to scoregoals. “If he really went through a liposuction, he willbe thinner and cause more of a headache for otherteams,” declared Felipe.

Ronaldo is the current leading scorer forCorinthians with seventeen goals in 27 games.Due tohis hand surgery and the apparent liposuction, the ath-lete will plan his return to the field in September.Beforethen, he will be at home recuperating from both sur-geries for the next ten days. —Internet

BERLIN, 31 July —Manchester United missed ahandful of decent opportunities before losing out toBayern Munich 7-6 in a penalty shootout in the finalof the Audi Cup on Thursday.Bayern, playing in frontof a 70,000 crowd at their Allianz Arena home, deliv-ered the first piece of silverware for new coach LouisVan Gaal a week ahead of the start of the newBundesliga season.

GRAND BLANC TOWN-SHIP , 31 July—TigerWoods played a lot like theguy who didn’t make thecut at the BritishOpen.Woods shot a 1-un-der 71 on Thursday at theBuick Open, his first tour-nament since disappoint-ing at Turnberry.

He finished the firstround tied for 128th onputts inside 10 feet andeight shots back of leaderSteve Lowery.”Probablyone of the worst puttingdays I’ve ever had,” hesaid. “It was just terrible.”Two weeks ago in the Brit-ish Open, Woods was 7over during a six-holestretch and ended up miss-ing a cut for the first timein three years. If Woodsfails to break 70 in the sec-ond round Friday morn-

CARSON,31 July – DavidBeckham hopes that a mi-nor back injury will not pre-vent him from playing inthe Los Angeles Galaxy’sexhibition against FC Bar-celona on Saturday night atthe Rose Bowl.

Beckham missed prac-tice Thursday to receivetherapy for a back injurythat he said he sustainedthree days ago.”It’s not aproblem,” Beckham said ofhis back pain. “I’ve hadsomething like this in thepast. It comes up every nowand then.

I just did my work inthe gym and got some treat-ment so I should be backtraining (Friday).”

Does that mean that hewill play against FC Bar-celona, which became thefirst Spanish team to winthe European Champions’

MANCHESTER , 31 July – Ivory Coast defender KoloToure admits he made up his mind to join ManchesterCity six months ago because he wanted a new chal-lenge after seven years at Arsenal.

Argentine defenderGabriel Heinze, to theFrench side, the club saidon Thursday.—INTERNET

Heinze set to join Marseille

side said on Thursday. The 31-year-old will

sign a three-year deal withMarseille once his medi-cal examination and con-tract details have beencompleted, a statement onthe club’s website said.

He could partnerSouleymane Diawara re-cently signed from Bor-deaux in the central de-fence.

Internet

Toure relishing new challengeat Man City

Kolo Toure.

INTERNET

Toure completed a 15million pounds switch tobig-spending City onWednesday after growingstale at the Emirates Sta-dium.

But the 28-year-oldcentre-back, who signed afour-year contract with hisnew club and followsformer Gunners’ team-mate Emmanuel Ade-bayor to Eastlands, claimsthe move had been in thepipeline for some while.

“I think beforeAdebayor we knew.

There was some talkabout coming here.

It’s from six monthsago,” Toure said at his of-ficial unveiling on Thurs-day.”

I was the last one in the‘Invincibles’ team (the

Arsenal side that went awhole season unbeaten inthe league in 2003-04)and I was expecting toleave Arsenal.

“I think Arsenal are areally good team, but itwas the right time for meto move.

Internet

Bayern see off United in shootout

Bayern Munich’s Dutchmidfielder Mark van

Bommel celebrates withthe trophy after thefinal match of the

“Audi Cup” FC BayernMunich vs ManchesterUnited in the southern

German city of Munich.INTERNET

But Sir Alex Fer-guson’s English champi-ons were left to rue a suc-cession of decent oppor-tunities with DimitarBerbatov hitting thewoodwork while MichaelOwen and Wayne Rooneyalso came close.Bayernhad the first opening withMario Gomez seeing a12-metre drive crash ofthe crossbar with keeperEdwin van der Sar well-beaten

Internet

Nedved awarded best Czechfootballer trophy

Juventus’ PavelNedved.

The 36-year-old beatChelsea keeper Petr Cechand Galatasaray strikerMilan Baros to win thetrophy.

Cech took the trophyfour times in a row beforelast season. Nedved, theFrance Football Golden

Ball winner from 2003, has won the Czech trophy sixtimes. —Internet

Beckham hopes injury won’tkeep him out Saturday

England star midfielderDavid Beckham, missedpractice for therapy ona back injury, raising

doubts the Los AngelesGalaxy star will be able

to play against FCBarcelona.INTERNET

Woods’ putting puts him introuble at Buick Open

Tiger Woods hits out ofthe sand on the 4th holeduring the first round ofthe golf Buick Open at

Warwick Hills in GrandBlanc, Mich, on 30

July, 2009.—INTERNET

Ronaldo’s secret liposuction isunveiled

ing, he will put himself indanger of missing cuts inconsecutive tournamentsfor the first time as apro.It’s too early, though,to count him out for theweekend at Warwick Hillseven though the cut is usu-ally 3 or 4 under.—Internet

League, the Spanish firstdivision and Spain’s Copadel Rey in the same seasonthis year?” I hope so unlessI have a bad reaction fromthe last couple of days,”Beckham said.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Magway Division, rain have been isolated in Chin andKayah States, scattered in upper Sagaing and MandalayDivisions, fairly widespread in Shan State, Bago, Yangonand Taninthayi Divisions and widespread in the remainingareas with locally heavyfalls in Rakhine, Mon StatesAyeyawady Division, isolated heavyfalls in Kayin State,Bago and Yangon Divisions. The noteworthy amounts ofrainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.39) inch, NayPyi Taw (Yezin) (0.28) inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Tatkon) and NayPyi Taw (Pyinmana) (0.08) inch each, Ann (8.00) inches,Maungdaw (5.67) inches, Shwegyin (5.00) inches, Hpa-an(4.61) inches, Yangon (Central) (4.45) inches, Pyapon (3.89)inches, Mawlamyine (3.78) inches, Kyaukse (0.79) inchand Mandalay (0.47) inch.

Maximum temperature on 30-7-2009 was 87°F.Minimum temperature on 31-7-2009 was 66°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 31-7-2009 was 92%.Total sun shine hours on 30-7-2009 was Nil.

Rainfall on 31-7-2009 was (1.85) inches at Mingaladon,(2.80) inches at Kaba-Aye and (4.45) inches at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (70.51) inches atMingaladon, (78.07) inches at Kaba-Aye and (80.83) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from South at (08:30) hours MST on31-7-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate to strong in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 1st August 2009: Rainwill be isolated in Kayah State and Magway Division,scattered in Mandalay and lower Sagaing Divisions, fairlywidespread in Chin, Shan States, upper Sagaing Divisionand widespread in the remaining States and Divisions withlikelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine, Mon andKayin States. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seas arelikely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface windspeed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofincrease of rain in the Northern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for1-8-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for1-8-2009: Some rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for1-8-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Weather outlook for first weekend of August 2009:During the coming weekend, rain will be isolated in Nay PyiTaw and Mandalay Division, one or two rain in YangonDivision.

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Ronaldo sale forces Fergie tochange tactics

M A N C H E S T E R , 3 1July—Sir Alex Fergusonadmits CristianoRonaldo’s departure toReal Madrid has forcedhim to change the wayManchester United willplay this season.

Ferguson often setup his team with threecentral midfielders lastseason to allow Ronaldoa free role.

That allowedFerguson to get the bestout of Ronaldo, whilekeeping a soliddefensive base, and thePortugal wingerresponded with over 60goals in the last twoseasons.

But after Ronaldo’sworld record 80 millionpounds sale, Fergusonwants more goals fromall his players and hehas been experimentingwith differentcombinations inmidfield and attack.

In an interview inInside United, posted onmanutd.com, Fergusonsaid: “ObviouslyCristiano is a big loss interms of the goals hegave us.

“But we will justhave to find the goalsfrom somewhere elseand our tactics will adjustaccordingly. Fans willsee us playing a slightlydifferent style of footballthis season.”

Ferguson hasalready used WayneRooney more as a centralstriker, rather thanplaying him out wide ashe did last season.

“Usually you lookto score about 100 goalsin all competitions, sowe are aiming for thatagain,” Ferguson said.“If we are going to winthe league again or dowell in Europe wecertainly need players tostep up.

Internet

Cristiano Ronaldo

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

People’s Desire■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest and violence

YANGON, 31 July— Educative talks on traf-fic rules organized by Mon State Traffic RulesEnforcement Supervisory Committee was held atNo (5) Basic Education High School inMawlamyine Township on 25 July.

Police officers gave talks on traffic rulesand handed over video tapes and pamphlets ontraffic rules to teachers and students.

MNA

Educative talks on trafficrules given in Mawlamyine

Township

NAY PYI TAW, 31 July — According to the (12:30) hr MST observationtoday, the water level of Thanlwin River at Hpa-an has reached (719) cm. It mayreach its danger level (750) cm of the town during the next (24) hours commenc-ing noon today.

According to the (12:30) hr MST observation today, the water level ofShwegyin River at Shwegyin has reached (755) cm and it has exceeded by (55)cm (about- 2 feet) above its danger level. It may remain above its danger level(700) cm of the town during the next (48) hours commencing noon today.

According to the (12:30) hr MST observation today, the water level ofSittoung River at Madauk has reached (1085) cm and it has exceeded by (15) cm(about 0.5 foot) above its danger level. It may remain above its danger level (1070)cm of the town during the next (48) hours commencing noon today.—MNA

Flood Warning

Thriving forest plantations on Bagomountain range in Magway District

Along Bagomountain range in thecentral region ofMyanmar, tasks are be-ing carried out for es-tablishment of teak andother tree plantations,development of naturalforests, setting up of treeplantations in watershedareas and conservationof natural plants.

(See page 10)

Teak plants thriv-ing on 300 acres ofland at Wun-awgyi

forest camp ofTaungdwingyiTownship in

Magway District.

Article & Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

Caught on Video: ImmuneCell Destroys Bacteria

Confocalmicroscope

image showinginsect immunecells (green)containing

fluorescentlylabeled E.coli

(red).

SCIENCE & TECH-NOLOGY, 31 July—In astarring role for E. coli,researchers have devel-oped a new technique to

make movies of bacteriaas they infect their vic-tims and are consumed bythe host's immune cells.

The movies mark

the first time that scien-tists have been able tolook at bacteria infect-ing living organisms inreal time, according tothe researchers. Moststudies of bacterial in-fections are preformedafter the host has died.

The scientists,from the University ofBath and the Universityof Exeter in the UK,tested out their movie-making method on de-veloping fruit fly em-bryos. —Internet

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