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Volume XVII, Number 332 15th Waning of Taboung 1371 ME Sunday, 14 March, 2010

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the en-tire 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 stand-

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectivesSafety measures, every convenienceof examinees stressed

NAY PYI TAW, 13 March — Minister for Educa-tion Dr Chan Nyein called for safety measures forquestion and answer papers and every convenience ofexaminees in meeting with supervisors and assistantsupervisors at the exam center of Sangyoung Town-ship Basic Education High School No.(2) this morn-ing.

The minister together with Director-General UKyaw Thu of No.(1) Basic Education Department,

Director-General U Aye Kyu of No.(3) Basic Educa-tion Department and Chairman U Ohn Myint ofMyanmar Board of Examinations inspected arrange-ments to facilitate matriculation examinations at examcenters of Dagon Township BEHS No.(2), AhlonTownship BEHS No.(4) where students includingthose with ear complaints were taking matriculationexaminations for 2010, Lanmadaw Township BEHSNo.(1) and Yangon General Hospital.—MNA

Kengtung-Monghsat railroadlinking to all states and divisionsByline: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Lay Nwe (Mingaladon)

Heavy machinery at work at Kengtung-Yanlu railroad section.

Recently, I heard the news that Kengtung-Monghsat railroad in Kengtung of Shan State (East)is being built. It inspired me to visit it. So, I made afield trip to the place by car. After reachingKengphaung village about three miles to the west of

Kengtung, I saw earth work there. Earth work ofKengtung railway yard was complete cent percent."The area of Kengtung railway yard is 38.39 acres.Earth work is complete.

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PERSPECTIVES

Participate in national environmentalsanitation movements

It is essential for every human being to enjoygood health and longevity. Only strong and healthycitizens can participate in building up a modern,developed nation with physical and mentalstrengths.

The Health Ministry is scaling up healthcare services for the health and longevity of thepeople. Like treatment, prevention is importantfor providing health care. As the environment isdirectly related to public health, environmentalsanitation movements are being launched on anational scale. The four cleans — adequatesupply of clean water, systemic dumping of wastematerials, hygienic foods and clean hands — are atthe core of the movements. Worldwide, more thanone million people, mostly children, die of diarrheaa year. To help reduce and eradicate such diseases,all people must know the four cleans.

Myanmar has been carrying out nationalenvironmental sanitation week movements since1998 by adopting various mottos such as ‘Let’sbuild fly-proof latrines’; ‘Let’s use clean toilets forlife-long good health’; ‘Wash the hands after goingto toilets’; ‘Only clean water ensures good health’;and ‘Keeping clean hands is the beginning of goodhealth’. The public cooperation has contributed alot to the healthy environment.

Health care services are concerned with theentire national people who need not only to takepart in national environmental sanitationmovements but also to follow the health rules.Particularly, they are to focus on clean foods, cleanwater, personal hygiene (clean hands) and cleanenvironment (clean toilets). The Health Ministryis giving health education to all regions from urbanto rural areas. It is trying to get the people to havegood knowledge of health. All the people on theirpart are to carry out ‘four cleans’ tasks in accordwith the mottos of national environmentalsanitation movements so that they can enjoy goodhealth and longevity.

* 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 Desire

KMD Computer Groupawards sale agents

YANGON, 13 March—Direct ChannelDistribution Co Ltd hasbeen distributing PowerTree brand UPS since1999. The company, asole agent of Power TreeUPS held a ceremony to

select gold coin winnersand to present prizes tosale agents at Park RoyalHotel in Alanpya Pagodaroad here today.

KMD ComputerGroup Sale Director DawThin Thin Soe explained

the facts about quality ofPower Tree UPS andservicing. After that,seven winners wereselected out of Power TreeUPS customers. Thecompany presented giftsto sale agents.

Product Manager KoSoe Ngwe Ya of KMDComputer Groupexplained new productsand advantages ofwarranty.

As a serviceprogramme, the company

replaces a defect UPSwith good one. Thecompany is selling PowerTree UPS whole sale andretail. For moreinformation, contactNo.73/75, 49th street,Pazundaung Townshiphere (Ph-296579, 297332and 291830). Thosewishing to know Lenovo,Prolink, Verbatim,Microlab Product mayenquire KMD Sales andServices (Ph-245180 and204071).—MNA

Efficiency courses uplift staff capability

NAY PYI TAW, 13 March—For 12 weeks staff ofthe Ministry for Progress of Border Areas and NationalRaces and Development Affairs and Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Committee were undergoing efficiency-enhancement training at their own ministry.

At the course conclusion ceremony held today atthe ministry, 20 staff of PBANRDA Ministry andanother 10 from Nay Pyi Taw Development Committeecompleted the 20th advanced administrative course

and 15 from the ministry and five from the committeeattended the 10th international relations course. Bothcourses, conducted at the ministry, concluded today.

Minister for PBANRDA Col Thein Nyunt aftergiving an address presented gifts to outstandingtrainees and course instructors, who were facultymembers of Nationalities Youth ResourceDevelopment Degree College.

MNA

Myanmar Nurse and MidwiferyAssociation holds its AGM (2010)

YANGON, 13 March— The Myanmar Nurses andMidwifery Association held its annual general meeting2010 at University of Nursing (Yangon) on BogyokeAung San Street, here, yesterday, with a speech byChairperson of Myanmar Nurse and MidwiferyAssociation Professor Dr Nan Htum Hla.

Those present viewed documentary photos onmovements of State/Division Nurse and MidwiferyAssociations put on display at the hall.

The five resource persons submitted the papers ondevelopment of nursing education and nursingresearches.—MNA

Minister Col Thein Nyunt speaking at concluding of 20th advanced administrative course and10th international relations course.—MNA

KMD Computer Group Sale Director Daw Thin Thin Soe explains quality of Power Tree UPS.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 12 March—Minister forHealth Dr Kyaw Myint received Chairman MrPhillippe Allen of Three Diseases Fund Board

Health Minister receives Chairman of ThreeDiseases Fund Board Mission

Mission and party at the Ministry here today.They discussed matters relating to filed

trips findings on control tasks of three diseases(AIDS, TB and Malaria) in cooperation with ThreeDiseases Fund in Yangon, Kalay, Tamu and Tiddimfrom 8 to 10 March and implementation of ThreeDiseases Fund with the assistance of Global Fund.

Also present at the meeting were DeputyMinisters Dr Mya Oo and Dr Paing Soe, directors-general and officials from departments under theMinistry.

MNA

Beaware of fire

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Hundreds of familiesflee the renewed fight-

ing in Mogadishu,Somalia, on 12 March ,

2010.—XINHUA

Pakistani investigatorsinspect a car damagedby an explosion in the

residential area ofLahore, Pakistan on 12

March, 2010. XINHUA

Japan likely pay over 320m USD toUS when Okinawa handed over

TOKYO, 13 March — Japanese Finance MinisterNaoto Kan said on Friday that he believed Japan paidmore than 320 million US dollars to the United Statesas part of a deal when the transfer of power in Okinawabetween Tokyo and Washington happened in 1972,according to local media reports.

Kan said that the Japanese government made aninterest-free deposit of 53 million dollars to a US Fed-eral Reserve bank that remained until 1999. The rev-elation comes days after the Foreign Ministry revealedin a report on three secret pacts between the UnitedStates and Japan that an agreement had been made re-lated to the transfer of power in Okinawa.—Xinhua

ISAF soldierkilled in

S AfghanistanKABUL, 13 March—A

servicemember with theNATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) was killed in anIED (improvised explosivedevice) strike in southernAfghanistan on Friday.

A Press release issuedby the ISAF confirmedthe casualty but failed togive any further detail.

A massive militarycrackdown coded Opera-tion Moshtarak, or To-gether was launched in thesouthern province ofHelmand last month.

The ISAF Press re-lease, however, did notdisclose whether Friday’scasualty was related to theoperation.

The ISAF has been tol-erating casualties on dailybasis since the start ofMarch.—Xinhua

Tropical storm kills at least 14 inMadagascar

Suicide attack in northwestPakistan kills 10

I A L A M A B A D , 13March —A suicide at-tacker set off a bomb ata security checkpointin northwest Pakistanon Saturday, killing atleast 10 people and in-juring 52, officials anda doctor said, under-scoring the relentlesssecurity threat to thisIslamic nation.

It was the secondattack in Pakistan inless than 24 hours. Sui-cide bombers killed 45people in near-simulta-

neous blasts Friday inthe eas tern c i ty ofLahore.

In the Saturday vio-lence, an attacker driv-ing a three-wheeledmotor ized r ickshawdetonated explosives ata roadblock manned bysoldiers and police inthe town of SaiduShar i f in the SwatValley, police officialQazi Farooq said.

No one claimed re-sponsibi l i ty forSaturday’s attack, but

suspicion quickly fellon the militants, whohave stepped up attacksagainst security forcesin recent days.

The same loose net-work of insurgentswere b lamed forFr iday’s a t tack inLahore. Police officialChaudhry Shafique saidSaturday that the deathtoll from that attack hadr isen to 55 af ter 12more people d iedovernight.

Internet

A vehicle burns as bodies of victims lie near the site of a suicide bomb attackin front of the Circuit House in Mingora, located in Pakistan’s restive North

West Frontier Province on 13 March, 2010.—INTERNET

ANTANANARIVO, 13March— At least 14 peo-ple have been killed in atropical storm that hitMadagascar ’s easterncoast on Wednesday, of-ficials said on Friday.

Madagascar ’s Na-tional Office for DisasterPreparedness said a totalof 32,000 people have

been affected by TropicalStorm Hubert and ensu-ing flooding. There werealso lots of property dam-age.

Located in a majorstorm path of the IndianOcean, the island nationis hit by violent stormsand cyclones in mostyears.—Internet

Russia dismisses US human rights reportMOSCOW, 13 March

— Russia indignantlydismissed US criticismof its human rights recordon Friday, saying theUnited States was guiltyof its own abuses fromAfghanistan to “thestreets of America”.

In a statement lacedwith sarcasm, theForeign Ministry said themain purpose of what itcalled the US StateDepartment’s annual“opus” on human rightsworldwide was to “solve

the internal politicalproblems of theAmerican establish-ment”. The Russiasection of the StateDepartment report,released on Thursday,cited problems andabuses ranging fromcorruption and unfairelections to the killingsof journalists whoreported critically on thegovernment.

This year’s report

came amid efforts tomend Russian-US ties,which hit a post-ColdWar low after Russia’swar with US-supportedGeorgia in August 2008.The Russian ForeignMinistry said that despitethose efforts, the UnitedStates was using humanrights as a tool “toforward quite concrete,material foreign policyinterests”.

MNA/ Reuters

Suicide blasts in Pakistan’sLahore kill 45

LAHORE, 13 March — Suicide bombers targetingthe Pakistani military killed at least 45 people inLahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge togovernment assertions that crackdowns have weakenedTaleban insurgents.

“Two suicide bombers attacked within the spanof 15 to 20 seconds and they were on foot,” provincialpolice chief Tariq Saleem Dogar told reporters. Thosekilled in the attack, the bloodiest this year, in a militaryneighbourhood of the city near the border with Indiaincluded nine soldiers, military officials said. Almost100 people were wounded.—MNA/Reuters

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Shanghai GMrecalls

importedCaptiva jeeps

SHANGHAI, 13 March—Shanghai GeneralMotors (SGM) is contact-ing the owners of 2,065Captive jeeps to recall thevehicles for repair due torisk of steering malfunc-tion, the company said onFriday.

The defected vehicleswere manufactured byGM Daewoo Auto in theRepublic of Korea be-tween 18 Sept, 2007 and31 Dec, 2008, said aspokesman with SGM.

China’s General Ad-ministration of QualitySupervision, Inspectionand Quarantine(GAQSIQ) released a bul-letin on Friday, approvingSGM’s application for therecall.

SGM had received nocustomer reports on thedefect, the spokesmansaid./—Xinhua

Brown, Sarkozy call forglobal economic cooperation

Chile, China must make full use oftrade deal

Tourists turn a huge prayer wheel in Dukezong ancient city of Shangri-laCounty, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on 12 March, 2010.—XINHUA

A journalist displays recycled-paper-made pens,which are served at the Great Hall of the People,venue of the annual sessions of the 11th NationalPeople’s Congress and the 11th National Commit-tee of the Chinese People’s Political ConsultativeConference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China, on 10March, 2010. Low-carbon lifestyle has found sup-port during China’s “two sessions” by means of NPCdeputies’ motions and CPPCC members’ proposalsas well as low-carbon measures operated by the staffmember who serve for the “two sessions”.—XINHUA

A worker holds the new Apple iPad during anApple Special Event on January 2010 in San

Francisco, California. Apple fans flocked onlineon Friday to be among the first to order iPad tablet

computers slated to begin shipping in the UnitedStates on 3 April.—INTERNET

Russia, Italy to jointlyproduce helicopters

MOSCOW, 13 March—Russia and Italy have plannedto jointly produce helicopters within two months,local media reported on Friday.

The new plant is scheduled to launch productionby 2012.

In July 2008, Russian Oboronprom and ItalianAgusta Westland signed a deal to jointly manufactureAW 139 helicopters within Russia, with an annual out-put between 20 and 30.

The AW 139 helicopters are particularly suitablefor operations around oil fields.

Russian experts said cooperation between Russianproduction plants and Western companies is condu-cive to the modernization of Russia’s helicopter manu-facturing.—Xinhua

Greek GDP declines 2.5 percentin 4th quarter of 2009

Canada’s economic action plan to supportyoung entrepreneurs, creates jobs

TORONTO, 13 March— Canada will invest in thebusiness leaders of tomorrow by supporting the Ca-nadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), Ministerof State for Small Business and Tourism Rob Mooresaid here on Friday.

The funding will enable an estimated 500 new Ca-nadian businesses to launch over the next year, gener-ating approximately 2,500 new jobs and 63 millionCanadian dollars in revenues within three years.

“By opening businesses across the country, youngentrepreneurs help create jobs while strengtheningCanada’s economic recovery,” said Moore. “Throughyear two of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, our gov-ernment is continuing to support the business leadersof tomorrow.”—Xinhua

SANTIAGO, 13 March—Chile and China must makefull use of their free tradeagreement signed in 2005,which has already helpedChina become Chile’snumber one trade partner,Chilean President Sebas-tian Pinera said at a Pressconference on Friday.

“Our free trade agree-

ment is still young. Wehave to take advantage ofit in benefit of both na-tions,” said Pinera duringhis first Press conferencesince taking office onThursday. “We are look-ing forward to more trade,investment and culturalcollaboration.”

China was Chile’slargest trade partner lastyear with Chilean exportsto China rising more than20 percent to around 11

billion dollars. Chile’strade surplus with Chinarepresented more thanhalf of the nation’s total.

“I am sure that Chinais going to be the mostimportant country in theworld sooner or later,”said Pinera, while notingthat the year 2010 willmark the 40th anniversaryof the establishment ofdiplomatic relations be-tween the two countries.

Xinhua

ATHENS, 13 March—Greek gross domesticproduct (GDP) declinedby 2.5 percent during theforth quarter of 2009, theGreek National StatisticsService announced on

Friday. The downturn isless than analysts ex-pected, as Greece is hithard by the economic cri-sis. Greek economy con-tracted by 2 percent in thesame period of 2008.

A more encouragingsign is that the public rev-enues in the first twomonths of 2010 increased

by 13.1 percent, higherthan the 10.8 percent tar-get set for the year by thegovernment, the GeneralAccounting Bureau said.

Public expenses in thesame period dropped by9.6 percent, far exceedingthe 2.8 percent target setin the government budget.

Xinhua

LONDON, 13 March—British Prime MinisterGordon Brown and visit-ing French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy on Fri-day called for global eco-nomic cooperation.

The two leaders met onFriday at Downing StreetNo. 10 to discuss theeconomy and nuclearpower issue.

Brown has spoken ofthe close relationship be-tween Britain and Franceand the two governments’determination to work to-gether to promote global

economic recovery.At a joint Press confer-

ence with Sarkozy, Brownsaid the two countrieswere cooperating moreclosely than at any timesince the Second WorldWar, and praisedSarkozy’s presidency ofthe EU in 2008 as a “dem-onstration of leadership atits very best.”

The two leaders calledfor nations around theworld to work togethermore closely and speedilyto ensure economic recov-ery.—Xinhua

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All Items from Xinhua News Agency FAO asks public to donate fruit treesfor Haiti school yards

ROME, 13 March—A UN agency unveiled an initiative on Friday asking peo-ple to donate fruit trees, which would be planted in school yards across quake-hitHaiti in order to lend a hand to children there.

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)’s programme “Fruit Trees forHaiti” aims to provide teachers with a hands-on education tool for children inHaiti, which suffers the worst rates of deforestation in the world, the agency saidin a statement. Fruit trees were chosen also because, once fully grown, they willalso help improve local children’s nutrition. The agency’s director-general, JacquesDiouf, who is on a three- day mission to Haiti to raise awareness about the needfor international support to agriculture in the Caribbean country, planned to launchthe initiative with a symbolic tree-planting at a school in a town outside of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital.—Xinhua

Strongquake rocks

Papua,Indonesia,

no casualtiesJAKARTA, 13 March

—An earthquake withthe mgnitude of 6.0struck Papua in eastern-most of Indonesia on Sat-urday, the IndonesianMeteorology and Geo-physics Agency reported,but there were no reportsof damage or casualties,officials said.

The quake struck at09:53 am Jakarta Time(0253 GMT) with theepicentre 342 km north-west of Manokwari ofPapua and with the depth30 km, the agency re-ported.

Spokesman of the In-donesian Disaster Man-agement Agency PriyadiKardono told Xinhua byphone that so far therewere no reports ofbuilding damage orcasualties.

Indonesia has beenfrequently hit by quakeas it sits on a quake-vul-nerable zone called thePacific ring of fire.

Xinhua

India, Russia ink 19 pacts on defence,nuclear energy and space cooperation

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R)shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister

Vladimir Putin at Hyderabad House in New Delhi,capital of India, on 12 March, 2010.—XINHUA

NEWDELHI, 13 March—India and Russia onFriday inked 19 deals, in-cluding a 2.34 billion USdollar agreement on thepurchase of aircraft car-rier Admiral Gorshkovand a 1.5 billion U S dol-lar deal on the supplies of29 more MiG29K carrier-based fighter jets to theIndian Navy.

Meanwhile, two nu-clear pacts under the civilnuclear cooperation and apact on civilian space ex-ploration were also thehighlights of the agree-ments signed in the pres-ence of Indian Prime

Minister ManmohanSingh and visiting Rus-sian Premier VladimirPutin.

“An agreement onsupplying an additionalset of MiG-29K fighterjets has been signed, thestart of supplies is sched-uled for 2012. Russiawill fulfill the previouscontract on suppliesof singleseat MiG-29Kfighters to Indiaby 2010,” MikhailPogosyan, the head of theRussian Aircraft Corpo-ration MiG, told themedia.

Putin held a two-hour-

long discussion withSingh during which bothreviewed bilateral rela-tions and talked about aspate of regional and glo-bal issues, includingcounter-terrorism, thesituation in Afghanistanand Pakistan, theupcoming Nuclear Sum-mit in Washington andthe global financial crisis.

Xinhua

Chilean President estimates earthquakedamage at 30 billion dollars

Photo taken on 11 March, 2010 shows the Romania Pavilion for the 2010World Expo in Shanghai, east China. The preparation of 2010 World Expohas entered into the final phase of decoration and exhibition installation at

present.—XINHUA

SANTIAGO,13 March—Chilean President Sebas-tian Pinera said on Friday

that the property damagecaused by the 8.8- mag-nitude earthquake that hitthe country on 27 Feb,was estimated at 30 bil-lion US dollars, when an-nouncing the budget read-justment for this year.

“There are not definiteamounts, but the propertylosses caused by theearthquake and (the ensu-ing) tsunami are esti-mated at 30 billion dol-lars,” Pinera said at aPress conference.

“The damage ispresent on houses, hospi-tals, schools, infrastruc-ture and production sys-tems, among others,”Pinera said.

Pinera announced achange of the country’sbudget for this year and areadjustment in his gov-ernment’s programme dueto the latest events.

“We will use some in-ternational credits be-cause Chile has a very lowexternal debt,” Pineranoted. He said: “Whenthe circumstances change,the priorities change, andthe governments have tochange their priorities.”He announced the crea-tion of a fund forthe country’s recon-struction.Pinera wassworn into office just onThursday.

Xinhua

UN aid agencies on alert for potentialfloods in Southern Africa

The photo taken on 12 March, 2010 shows aperformance-tuned cross-country vehicle exhib-ited at the performance-tuned vehicle exhibitionin Beijing, China. The 10th China International

Automotive Aftermarket Industry Fair andPerformance-Tuned Vehicle Exhibition opened

in China National Agriculture Exhibition Centeron Friday.—XINHUA

UNITED NATIONS, 13March—The United Na-tions is gathering suppliesfor some 130,000 peoplein southern Africa on alertfor potential evacuationfrom flood-risk zones fol-lowing weeks of torrentialrains in northern Mozam-bique and neighbouringAngola, Namibia, Zam-bia and Zimbabwe, UNofficials said here on Fri-day.

The torrential rainshave swollen rivers, forc-ing authorities to dis-charge water from theKariba Dam in Zimba-bwe and the CahoraBassa Dam in Mozam-bique, the Office for theCoordination of Humani-tarian Affairs (OCHA)reported.

The Mozambicangovernment on Tuesdaydeclared a Red Alert, sig-nifying imminent danger.Over the past week, be-tween 50 and 100 millime-tres of rainfall was reportedin the Northern and Centralregions of Mozambique,particularly in areas locatedon the Zambezi River suchas Tete, Manica, Sofala,Zambezia, Nampula andInhambane Provinces, saidthe officials.

The United NationsChildren Fund (UNICEF)has said the governmentand its aid partners havepre-emptively relocated atleast 13,000 people to safeareas. In Zambia, of the4,800 estimated people liv-ing in the affected area, atleast 900 have been havebeen taken to Independ-ence Stadium in northernLusaka, where the Govern-ment has set up temporaryshelter.—Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

The fossil of Anchiornis huxleyi :Scientists for the first time decode the

full-body colour pattern of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi,a kind of small-size beastly-foot classdinosaurs. Scientists of the BeijingNatural History Museum and thoseon dinasours, modern birds, ancientbirds of the Peking University, YaleUniversity, University of Texas and

University of Akron finished theproject in cooperation.

A black penguin stands out from thecrowd. The penguin, photographedby Andrew Evans, is believed to be

suffering from a condition known asmelanism. He was spotted on

Fortuna Bay, a sub-Antarctic islandof South Georgia, about 860 miles off

the Falklands.

Fuelled by leftover chocolate andwith components made from carrots,potato starch and flax, the world’s firstsustainable Formula 3 racing car has atop speed of 135 miles per hour and cango from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

Sound nuts? Not yet — brake padsmade from cashews are still under de-velopment.

Meet Lola, the England’s Universityof Warwick’s blend of muscle and eco-friendliness and the world’s first racingcar retrofitted with renewable and sus-tainable materials.

Researchers from the British univer-sity showed off their prize possessionat the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-

A New Zealand woman sold two vi-als that she said contained the ghosts ofan old man and a young girl for almostNZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely con-tested online auction, local media re-ported. Avie Woodbury fromChristchurch told TVNZ that she cap-tured the spirits after an exorcism ses-sion of her house and for which she paidroughly $100.

Woodbury then put the ghosts intoholy water and stored them in separatevials before deciding to auction them.

The web page for the sale attractedmore than 200,000 views before the auc-tion ended on Monday after a week.

Woodbury said all proceeds from theauction, minus the exorcist’s fee, wouldbe donated to an animal charity.

“I would get things like the jug boil-ing itself, touching on the back of myneck, voices from other rooms, anditems going missing then turning up inweird places,” she said.

Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy

New Zealanderauctions “ghosts”

in a bottle

nology’s (MIT) energy conference inBoston.

“She’s incredibly green, taking ma-terials that would otherwise have endedup in a landfill.

It lets people engage with recyclingwithout the finger-wagging,” saidKerry Kirwan, one of the car’s design-ers at the university.

Tourists visit the Hukou Fall on the Yellow River in northwest China’sShaanxi Province, on 11 March, 2010. As the weather gets warmer, ice at the

Hukou Fall is melted.—XINHUA

Russia expects 6-percent growth ofmeat production in 2010

MOSCOW, 13 March —Russian meat production isexpected to surge 6 percent to reach 10.5 million tons,said the Ministry of Agriculture in a Friday report.

The Russian government has increased its fundingon domestic meat producers, particularly on poultrymeat producers, said the report, aiming to meet do-mestic demand while realizing meat exportation.

Some 4.7 billion roubles (around 160.5 million USdollars) from federal and regional finances has beenused to spur poultry meat production, statistics showed.

In all, 124 relevant projects are currently underwayin Russia, with the total production estimated at646,000 tons.

According to a food security doctrine approved inFebruary, the share of domestic meat and meat prod-ucts in the country’s market should be no less than 85percent.—Xinhua

Man detainedafter causing

bomb scare in UScity of SeattleSAN FRANCISCO, 13

March — A man was ar-rested on Friday morn-ing in the US city ofSeatt le after he ap-peared in downtownarea with a possible ex-plosive device taped tohis body, local mediareported.

The man was foundacross the street fromthe main entrance to theKing County Court-house with some type ofsuspicious device tapedto his arm, makingthreatening comments topeople, The SeattleTimes newspaper re-ported on its website.

After receiving a callat about 8:00 am localtime, police and the bombsquad responded, ap-proaching the man withcaution and examininghim by remote-controlledrobots.

Xinhua

Sandstorm shrouds prefecturein Xinjiang

URUMUQI, 13 March — A severe sandstorm hitXinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture in northwest China onFriday, reducing visibility to zero in some areas, localmeteorological observatory said.

The fierce sandstorm swept through the prefecturefrom west to east in the morning, said a spokesmanwith Hotan’s meteorological observatory.

The sandstorm, though reducing in severity, wouldcontinue to plague the area till 16 March, leading to atemperature drop of 5 to 8 degrees Celsius, he added.

The sandstorm had affected local traffic and agri-culture, according to a statement from the Hotan gov-ernment.—Xinhua

EIB lends 280 million euros to Spain forinfrastructure, research

BRUSSELS, 13 March —The European InvestmentBank (EIB), the EuropeanUnion (EU)’s financialarm, granted 280 millioneuros (386 million USdollars) on Friday toSpain’s Madrid region forimprovement of infra-structure and research.

Among the totalamount, two loans of 200million euros (275 milliondollars) would be used for

renovating municipal in-frastructure and 80 mil-lion euros (11 million dol-lars) for building a fewresearch centres.

EIB Vice PresidentCarlos da Silva Costa saidthe Luxembourg- basedlender provided thismoney to support the Ma-drid region’s efforts toimprove people’s qualityof life and develop localbusinesses by renovating

infrastructure and settingup new research centres.

Under the contractssigned on Friday, the 200-million-euro loan wouldbe used to upgrade mu-nicipal infrastructure insome 170 municipalitiesspread throughout the re-gion, comprising projectsin the areas of urban re-newal, energy efficiency,schools, sports facilitiesand transport.—Xinhua

Students compete at robot soccerOrganizers of a robotics competition in Wisconsin said dozens of teams are

competing to see whose creation makes the best soccer player.The FIRST organization’s Robotics Wisconsin regional tournament —

on Friday and Saturday at US Cellular Arena in Milwaukee — featuresteams comprised largely of high school students from Wisconsin and nearbystates. They are competing to see which team can create the robot with themost skills in a specialized soccer game, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinelreported.

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Kengtung-Monghsat railroad linking to all states and divisions

1. To uphold Our Three Main NationalCauses at risk to life as the nationalpolicy

2. To work hard with national people forsuccessful completion of elections due tobe held in accordance with the newconstitution

3. To crush internal and external subversiveelements through the strength andconsolidated unity of the people

4. To build a strong, patriotic modernTatmadaw capable of safeguarding thesovereignty and territorial integrity ofthe nation

Objectives of 65th AnniversaryArmed Forces Day NAY PYI TAW, 13

March—A delegation ledby Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U MaungMyint arrived back hereyesterday after paying agoodwill visit to theIslamic Republic of Iranat the invitation of IranianDeputy Minister ofForeign Affairs MrMohammad AliFathollahi from 8 to 11March 2010.

On 9 March, a bilateralmeeting betweenMyanmar and Iran tookplace at the Ministry ofForeign Affairs of Iran.Both sides exchangedviews on promotion offriendly relations betweenthe two countries, furthercooperation atinternational orga-nizations including the UNand other regional forumsand mutual interest.

Afterwards, IranianForeign Minister MrManochehr Mottaki

Myanmar, Iran to enhance cooperation

received Deputy MinisterU Maung Myint at hisoffice.

They discussedpromotion of friendlyrelations between the twocountries. DeputyMinister U Maung Myintattended a luncheonhosted by the IranianDeputy Minister at theMinistry of Foreign

Affairs. During his visit,Deputy Minister U MaungMyint also called onDeputy Minister ofPetroleum Mr HNoghrehkar Shirazi andDeputy Minister ofCommerce Mr MostafaSarmadi at their offices inrespective ministries.They exchanged views onmatters of cooperation

between the twocountries.

The Deputy Minstermet with Vice PresidentDr Mehdi Fakheri of theIranian Chamber ofCommerce, Industries andMines. Both sidesdiscussed promotion ofeconomic cooperationbetween the twocountries.—MNA

Meeting between Myanmar delegation led by Deputy MinisterU Maung Myint and Iranian delegation led by Deputy Minister

Mr. Mohammad Ali Fathollahi in progress.MOFA

YANGON, 13 March—The Myanmar HoteliersAssociation will organize the annual golf tournament2010 and the dinner at Royal Mingaladon Golf &Country Club, here, on 21 March.

Any person may take part in the tournament.Those wishing to participate in the golf tour maycontact No. 201 of Bo Myat Tun Street in BotahtaungTownship, here, Tel: 397259 and 098515106, and E-Mail mhacentral@gmail.com not later than 19March.—MNA

MHA to hold annual golf tour

Ten-foot-tunnel-type bridge at Kengtung-Yanlu road section.

Photo shows earth work at Kengtung-Yanlu railroad section.

Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Lay Nwe (Mingaladon)

(from page 1) Plans are under

way to build 87 mileslong Kengtung-Monghsat railroad,"said Project Engineer UMin Chan Mon wheninterviewed about theconstruction of the rail-road and Kengtung sta-tion. Kengtung-Monghsat railroad sec-

tion is a part of Mongnai-Kengtung railroad. The226 miles long Mongnai-Kengtung rail road com-prises 67 miles longMongnai-Tahsan sec-tion, 72 miles longTahsan-Monghsat sec-tion and 87 miles longMonghsat -Kengtungsection. "There are 18stations and 461 bridges

along Monghsat-Kengtung railroad," headded. Construction ofrailroads in Shan Yomamountain ranges facesmany difficulties. Con-struction of Kengtung-Monghsat section startsat Kengtung. Earth workof the railroad is carriedout with bulldozers andexcavators out of greatdifficulties.

Earth work of sixmiles long road sectionfrom Kengtung station toYanlu village is beingcarried out as the firstphase. Building of thealignment is complete

cent percent. Earth workis being carried out withthe use of 15 heavymachineries and 24dump trucks. Kengtungstation is next toNamkhin creek. So, aretaining wall is builtthere. Upon completionof Kengtung-Monghsatrailroad, it will be linkedwith Mongnai-Kengtungrailroad. People cantravel to Taunggyi bytrain as well as to allstates and divisionsthrough Taunggyi.

Translation: MTMyanma Alin

3-3-2010

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YANGON, 13 March — Hailing the 65th Anniver-sary Armed Forces Day, the opening of six-laneLaydauntkan Concrete Road was held at the archwayof the road in Thingangyun Township here this morn-ing.

Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Devel-opment Council Commander of Yangon CommandMaj-Gen Win Myint and Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung TheinLin formally opened the new road.

After hearing reports on sanitation works anddredging of drains for proper flow of water at the officeof South Okkalapa Township Executive Officer, thecommander and the mayor gave necessary instruc-tions, and looked into sanitation works, spraying ofinsecticide and giving educative talks and conductingpreventive measures against DHF.—MNA

POSCO sets sight on Ayeyawady Bridge (Pakokku)NAY PYI TAW, 13

March—At the Ministry ofConstruction, here, yester-day, Regional Director MrLim, Seung Subh and Di-rector Kim, Hyeon Kyeomof POSCO Corporation ofthe Republic of Koreacalled on Minister for Con-struction Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint and dis-cussed construction ofAyeyawady Bridge(Pakokku).

Also present at thecall were Director-Gen-eral U Aung Win of De-partment of Human Set-tlement and Housing De-velopment, Deputy Man-aging Director (Admin)U Kyin Maung of PublicWorks, Deputy Manag-ing (Works) Director UKyaw Lin, Deputy Man-

aging Director (Projects)U Win Tint, Head of Of-fice U Kyaw Win, ChiefEngineer (Bridge) U SeinMaung and officials.

MNA

A new road emergesin Thingangyun

Township

Quarry, AC factorymanufacturing quality products

NAY PYI TAW, 13March—Near KyaukchawVillage of PatheingyiTownship, Mandalay CityDevelopment Committeeestablished a quarry and as-phalt concrete factory andit manages to operate them

daily.On 18 February,

MCDC Chairman MayorBrig-Gen Phone Zaw Hanand officials visited thequarry and AC factory andviewed their functions. Thequarry is producing various

sizes of gravels for construc-tion of roads and the factoryis manufacturing 36-48 tonsof AC per hour.

AC factory is beingoperated with the compu-ter-aided applications.

NLM

YANGON, 13March—Deputy Direc-tor-General Dr Aung Gyiof Livestock Breedingand Veterinary Depart-ment and officials on 7March gave talks on pre-vention against bird flu,raising awareness for bio-

Bird flu knowledge for poultry farmerssecurity, establishment oflivestock breeding farmsand facts about bird fluand new influenzaA(H1N1) at Basic Edu-cation Middle School inThayetgan Village ofYinmabin Township inSagaing Division.

They presentedpamphlets on control ofbird flu and equipment tothe poultry farming en-trepreneurs.

On 8 March, theyheld the talks on controlof bird flu in Monywa andMandalay.—MNA

Talks on leadership and results throughgood human relations on 17 March

YANGON, 13 March—At 9.30 am on 17 March,Advisor to Association ofChinese Chamber ofCommerce and Industryof Malaysia (ACCCIM)Tan Sri Dato Siew Hoongwill give talks on Leader-ship and Results through

Good Human Relations.The talks will be

jointly organized by Un-ion of Myanmar Federa-tion of Chambers of Com-merce and Industry andMyanmar Industries As-sociation at the hall ofUMFCCI Office Tower

in Lanmadaw Township.The organizers in-

vited chairmen, execu-tives and members ofbrother associations ofUMFCCI and interestedpersons to attend thetalks.

MNA

YANGON, 13 March —Japanese Professors fromKyoto University willgive talks on disaster riskmanagement at MyanmarEngineering Societybuilding in Hline Town-ship here at 10 a.m. on 17March.

Japanese professors to give talks ondisaster risk management

Professor Dr.Towhata will share hisknowledge on simpleearly warning system ofslope failures caused byheavy rain fall and Pro-fessor Dr. Mirsu Okamuraon risk assessment of re-taining walls in moun-

tains areas. The talks, or-ganized by GeotechnicalEngineering TechnicalDivision of MES, areopen to all. Those inter-ested may dial MES (ph:519676) for further de-tails.

MNATake Fire Preventive Measures

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint receivesRegional Director Mr Lim, Seung Subh and

Director Kim, Hyeon Kyeom of POSCOCorporation of the ROK.

CONSTRUCTION

Mayor Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han inspects production of asphaltconcrete with the use of computer-aided applications.

NLM

Minister Dr Chan Nyein views students takingexamination at Ahlon Township BEHSNo (4). (News on Page-1)—EDUCATION

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YCDC functioning construction tasksYANGON, 13

March—With all-outefforts to uplift the livingstandard of the citydwellers, Yangon CityDevelopment Committeeis constructing roads inits area.

Preparations are

being made to tarmackAungchantha Road inWard 13 and ThukhaYeiktha Road in Ward15 of Yankin Township.

Ht inshumyaingRoad is being preparedto upgrade the road intothe concrete one in Ward

9, and a concrete bridgeacross Kanbe Creek isunder construction.

Chairman ofYCDC Mayor Brig-GenAung Thein Lininspected constructionof the roads and bridgetoday.—MNA

Myanmar, Vietnam on path towardsmutual development

NAY PYI TAW, 13 March — Withthe aim of cementing bilateral ties, boostingpolitical and economic cooperation andinvestment between Myanmar andVietnam, a Vietnamese delegation led byDeputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr.Doan Xuan Hung called on Minister forForeign Affairs U Nyan Win at the ministryhere this morning.

Also present at the call weredirectors-general of the departments underthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs. TheVietnamese deputy minister wasaccompanied by the director-general ofState Protocol and the director-general ofSoutheast Asia, South Asia and Pacific ofthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnamand delegation members.—MNA

YANGON, 13 March— GeneralSecretary of Myanmar OlympicCommittee Director-General of Sportsand Physical Education Department UThaung Htaik attended opening of 10th

Myanmar Olympic CommitteeChairman’s Cup-2010 at Aung San

MOC Chairman’s Cup VolleyballTournament-2010 opened

gymnasium yesterday evening.After the director-general

opened the tournament, debut matcheskicked off. The 10th Myanmar OlympicCommittee Chairman’s Cup VolleyballTournament-2010 was organized byMyanmar Volleyball Federation.—MNA

(from page 16)the office of of Nay PyiTaw District MyanmaAgriculture ServiceManager andinterviewed hilly regiontea farming in-charge UAung Kyi Sein.

He explained,“The main plants we aregrowing in hilly regionsof eastern Nay Pyi TawPyinmana are CardamomPlant, Djenkol bean andbetel vine. Since 2009,the Head of State hasgiven guidance that thesehilly regions are to be a

tea producing and growingarea of Nay Pyi Taw likeChin State. Now we aregrowing tea in line withthe guidance of the Headof State. We grew 200acres of tea plantation lastyear. We plan to grow 3000acres of tea plantation inthis region from 2009 to2014 by growing 700 acresannually.”

There are 58villages of seven village-tracts in hilly region ofeastern Nay Pyi TawPyinmana. Tea was grownin this region starting from

seven village-tracts forthe next rainy season.And tea saplings havebeen nurtured in village-tracts.

We went toMepauk Village-tract toobserve tea nursery there.Mepauk Village lies onthe road linkingPaunglaung of Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana and upperPaunglaung Hydropowerproject, with just 47houses but all are fineones. All villagers areKayin nationals. Wewitnessed thriving tea

nursery and summerpaddy plantations grownon terraces.

At PyidaungkoeVillage-tract, we saw teaplantations mixed withpigeon pea that wasgrown last year. Thepurpose of growingpigeon peas is to provideshade and loam for teaplantations.

Our news crewstopped off in MyathidaVillage where tea was putinto cultivation since ages.The villagers grow teawithin their capacities.

We then proceededto Pyadar-chaungVillage. Farmer U HtayMyint said that he hadtwo tea plantation acresand then he had been

picking tea leaves. Heextended two acres lastyear.

While in WaithaliVillage which is merely asmall one located on aridge, gorgeous mountainsaround the villagefascinated us. The villagehas CDMA telephonecommunication access.

We proceeded toKoe Village where thereare a few houses. There,we took a look at teanursery in the village. Wealso got to tea nurseries inAungbeiktheik andSeikphutaung Villages.

The road startingfrom junction of Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana Hlyat-sitends near Taungsinayesugar plant. The total

length of the road is 80miles.

Due to theimprovement of teaproduction, shiftingcultivation came to anend, thereby raising theconservation ofenvironment.

Local villagersresiding on hilly regionstherefore are to extendtheir tea plantations yearby year to meet targetedtea growing rate on hillyregions of eastern NayPyi Taw Pyinmana.Furthermore, they are tomake concerted effortsto make Nay Pyi Tawinto a tea land.

Translation: ZZS(Myanma Alin:

4-3-2010)

MPPE staff get SSB health careNAY PYI TAW, 13

March — A group ofspecialists, doctors andnurses visited DivisionOffice of MyanmaPetroleum Products

Enterprise in Mandalay on9 March. The team, led byMedical SuperintendentDr Daw Khin Phyu Win ofMandalay Workers’Hospital of Social Security

Board under the Ministryof Labour, gave freemedical treatment to staff.The group leader explainedhealth care services givenby the board.—MNA

Hilly regions of eastern Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana ...

2009—nearly 200 acresin five village-tracts.

Over 700 acres areplanned to be grown in

Thriving tea saplings seen in tea nursery of Mepauk Village-tract.

Photo shows Seikphutaung tea nursery.

Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win receives Deputy Minister ofForeign Affairs of SRV Mr. Doan Xuan Hung and party.—MNA

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Two months after Haiti quake, housing still elusivePORT-AU-PRINCE, 13 March—Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent

camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti’s devastating earth-quake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even closeto providing the shelters they promised.

Two months since the 12 Jan, quake, the government has yet to relocate a sin-gle person, despite a pledge that people would be moving into resettlement areasby early February. Aid groups say they’re ready to build but don’t have the land.Government officials insist they are making progress on finding sites in closed-door negotiations with private landowners.

But time is running out for 600,000 people living under tarps, tents or simplybed sheets as the rainy season has the makings of a second major crisis.—Internet

Haitians march inremembrance of their

friends that diedduring the earthquakein Port-au-Prince, on

12 March, 2010.A 7.0-magnitude

earthquake hit Haition 12 Jan, killing andinjuring thousands.

INTERNET

Alaska wolves ‘kill’ woman’s teacher outjogging

Ivory and bluefin tuna top agenda atUN wildlife summit

Colleagues said Candice Berner was determinedto experience Alaska.— INTERNET

Second US woman probedin plot to kill Swede

WASHINGTON, 13 March — Authorities in Irelandare investigating whether a second American womanwas involved in a suspected international plot to kill aSwedish cartoonist , The Wall Street Journal reportedon Friday. According to the Journal’s online report, a31-year-old mother from Colorado named JamiePaulin-Ramirez was one of seven people detained inIreland on Tuesday.

Irish police said they were arrested in connectionwith a plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilk because of his2007drawing . The US Justice Department said onTuesday it had charged a Pennsylvania woman, Col-leen LaRose, who went by the pseudonyms “FatimaLaRose” and “JihadJane,” with plotting to kill a Swed-ish man. Officials at the Justice Department were notimmediately available for comment on The Wall StreetJournal report.The Journal said one of the people de-tained in Ireland was an Algerian man who was themain contact for LaRose. That man “has a relation-ship with Ms. Paulin-Ramirez according to a personclose to the matter,” the newspaper reported.—Internet

DOHA, 13 March —Sales of ivory and a pos-sible ban on tradingbluefin tuna top theagenda for the two-weekCITES meeting thatopens this weekend inDoha, Qatar. CITES —the Convention on Inter-national Trade in Endan-gered Species — will seta precedent if it votes to

ban trading in a lucrativefish such as bluefin.

The US and EU backthe proposal, but Japan isset against. Conservationgroups are also hoping forincreased protection onsharks, coral, polar bears,lizards and amphibians.The ivory and tuna issuesare both potentially con-troversial.

International ivorytrading was banned in1989. But countries con-sidered to have well-man-aged stocks of elephantsand reliable systems fortracking tusks have threetimes been allowed to sellconsignments from gov-ernment stockpiles.

Zambia and Tanzaniaare now seeking permis-sion for a further sale. Butother African nations ledby Kenya and Mali wanta 20-year ban on all ivoryexports. They argue thatthe legal trade stimulatespoaching, which has beenon the rise in recent years.

Internet

A further two Africannations are bidding forivory sales.—INTERNET

Eight youths die in attack on party inwestern Mexico

CULICAN, 13 March— Gunmen burst into aparty in western Mexicoand killed eight youthsand left another personwounded on Friday.

It was the second suchattack in two days. OnThursday, gunmen in theborder city of CiudadJuarez shot dead six youngmen and a woman at awake, and seriouslywounded a 10-year-oldgirl.

Friday’s massacre oc-curred in the Pacific coasttownship of Navolato, near

the Sinaloa state capital ofCuliacan.

Sinaloa prosecutors’spokesman MartinGastelum said he did nothave details on the identityof the victims, but confirmedthat there were eight deadand at least one wounded.

Local media reportedthat the attackers arrived ina convoy of vehicles andopened fire with assault ri-fles — tactics favoured byMexico’s drug gangs.

The motive was notimmediately clear. But thestate is home to some of

Mexico’s most powerfulcartels, and gunmen havetaken to staging mass at-tacks on gatherings theybelieve might be attendedby rival gang members.

The death toll inThursday’s CiudadJuarez shootings rose tosix on Friday after awoman died of woundssuffered in the attack onthe wake, which was be-ing held at a privatehome for a young manshot to death in his carearlier in the week.

Internet

Mexican Navy Marines escort an injured man after he was detained at a clinic duringan operation on the outskirts of the northern city of Monterrey, Mexico, on 12 March,

2010.—INTERNET

ANCHORAGE , 13 March— Wolves in Alaska aresuspected of killing ateacher in an isolated vil-lage while she was out jog-ging. An autopsy has re-vealed that CandiceBerner, 32, died of injuriessustained in an animal at-tack, officials said.

Her body was draggedoff a rural road, leaving abloody track, into thenearby bush and was sur-rounded by wolf tracks.Police said wolves in thearea had been aggressiverecently. If confirmed, it isbelieved to be the first fa-tal wolf attack in the US in50 years.

The Alaska State Medi-

cal Examiner said MsBerner’s cause of death was“multiple injuries due toanimal mauling”. Her bodywas found on Mondayevening by snowmobilersafter she was last seen that

afternoon at her school inChignik Lake, a commu-nity of about 100 people474 miles (760km) south ofAnchorage.—Internet

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NATO accused of cover up over killingof pregnant women

A woman in a traditional costume sits as she waitsto leave after collecting water from a well due to awater scarcity in Sadr City, northeastern Baghdad

on 12 March, 2010.—INTERNET

An employee works at an assembly line of “Maxximo”, a light commercial vehi-cle, at a new plant of Indian automaker Mahindra and Mahindra in Chakan,around 160 km (99 miles) from Mumbai on 13 March, 2010. Light and heavycommercial vehicles and SUVs are manufactured in the plant.—INTERNET

California sues Toyota for faults

Indonesian anti-terror police squad members escort supposed hostages duringa drill at Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia.—INTERNET

Several dozen lawsuits have already beenlaunched against Toyota.— INTERNET

LOS ANGELE, 13 March— Prosecutors in Califor-nia are suing Toyota,claiming the Japanesecarmaker sold hundredsof thousands of vehiclesthat it knew had defects.The world’s largestcarmaker has recalledmillions of vehicles be-cause of problems accel-erating and braking.

Regulators have linkedfive deaths to crashes al-legedly caused by accel-erator problems and areinvestigating dozens ofothers. The company said

Britain and Francecriticize US

LONDON, 13 March — Britain’s Prime Minister andthe President of France have joined in accusing theUnited States of “protectionism” over a $53 billionaerospace contract. Gordon Brown and NicolasSarkozy alleged the Pentagon was favouring Ameri-can company Boeing over a European consortium bid-ding to build refueling tanker aircraft for the US AirForce, The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday.

The consortium withdrew from the bidding this week,the newspaper said. “This is not the right way for theUnited States to treat its European allies,” Sarkozy saidin a joint news conference with Brown. “If they want tobe spearheading the fight against protectionism, theyshouldn’t be setting the wrong example of protection-ism.” Brown also expressed his disappointment.

“We believe in free trade, we believe in open mar-kets, we believe in open competition.” The news con-ference took a sudden turn as two reporters questionedSarkozy about recent rumors of marital problems, theBBC reported. “I certainly don’t have time to dealwith these ridiculous rumors,” Sarkozy responded,“not even half a fraction of a second.” Brown quicklycalled an end to the news conference, the BBC said.

Internet

KHATABA, 13 March —The survivors of a nightraid in eastern Afghani-stan in which five people,including two pregnantwomen, died have ac-cused Nato of trying tocover up the atrocity. In astatement issued after theraid last month, it wasclaimed NATO stafffound the women’s bod-ies “tied up, gagged andkilled”, and hidden in aroom. The statement washeaded: “Joint force oper-ating in Gardez makesgruesome discovery”.

However, more than adozen survivors, local of-ficials, police chiefs anda religious leader inter-

viewed at and around thescene of the attack main-tain the women werekilled by the same un-known US and Afghangunmen who killed twomale relatives and anotherwoman during a botchedpre-dawn assault on a po-liceman’s compound afew miles outside Gardez,the capital of Paktia Prov-ince. The operation, in theearly hours of 12 Febru-ary, came more than a fort-night after the commanderof US and Nato forces inAfghanistan issued strictnew guidelines designedto limit the use of nightraids.

Special Forces and

western intelligence agen-cies who operate covertparamilitary forces in Af-ghanistan have been criti-cized for launching nightraids on dubious or falseintelligence, often leadingto civilian casualties.Themen killed in the raid wereCommander DawoodSharbubbin, 43, a long-serving policeman recentlypromoted to head of intel-ligence in one of Paktia’smost volatile districts,and his brother, SaranwalZahir, a district attorneyin Ahmadabad District.Dawood was killed in adoorway while 1try1ing toprotest their innocence.

Internet

Pakistan Navy test fires missilesISLAMABAD, 13 March — Pakistan’s Navy has suc-

cessfully test-fired missiles and torpedoes from ships,submarines and aircraft in the Arabian sea, officials say.The tests were followed by a statement saying they senta “clear message to forces having nefarious designs”.

India and Pakistan regularly test their missile sys-tems and they normally notify one another ahead ofsuch tests. Last month the two sides held their firstformal talks since the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.India says the attacks, which left 174 people dead —including nine gunmen — were partly planned on Pa-kistani soil.—Internet

US urged to talk to Talebanleader

it had not been servedwith the lawsuit andwould not comment.

Officials in OrangeCounty, in southern Cali-

fornia, claim Toyota knewof defects with the accel-eration system in severalmodels, but did not tellcustomers.—Internet

KABUL, 13 March —The United States shouldtalk face to face with theleader of the Taleban inAfghanistan if it wants tobring about peace, aformer Pakistani generalsays.Retired Gen. Hamid

Gul helped the CIA trainthe Afghan Jihad in theirbattles with the SovietUnion in the 1980s. Manyof them went on to be-come the Taleban, gov-erning Afghanistan underthe leadership of MullahOmar, CNN reported onFriday.

“The best situationwould be to talk to MullahOmar,” Gul said. “Youhave to engage him. Youhave to talk to him. Thereis no one else, for heavensake, why beat around thebush?” He said theObama administrationcould contact Omarthrough the Pakistanimilitary. But military of-ficials in Pakistan denythey are in contact withOmar or could bring himto a negotiating table,CNN said.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RESTU VOY NO (015)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RESTUVOY NO (015) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 14.3.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Peru fundstsunami-warning

system onPacific CoastLIMA, 13 March—Peru

is creating a tsunami-warn-ing system to help protect1.6 million residents wholive along the SouthAmerican country’s PacificCoast. President AlanGarcia has ordered fundingby decree to create analarm network so Peruvi-ans can seek high groundin the event of a tsunami.

The devastating on 27February earthquake inneighbouring Chile high-lighted the need for such analert system in Peru. The8.8-magnitude earthquakeand tsunami killed morethan 450 people. Peru’s lastmajor earthquake on15August was a magni-tude-8 tremor that killedabout 500 people in thesouthern city of Pisco andthe surrounding area. Thedecree was published onFriday and dedicates about$750,000 this year to thetsunami project.— Internet

Parents of hanged girlplead guilty to cruelty

Sydney called hostile to bicycles

US woman charged withlottery winner murder

A scientific researcher handles frozen embryoticcells in a laboratory. Japanese scientists have usedchick and zebrafish embryos to uncover how tha-

lidomide led to deformities in children born tomothers taking the drug in the 1950s and 1960s,

according to a study released on Friday.—INTERNET

File picture shows a fishmonger cutting up a largetuna at his shop in Tokyo’s Tsukiji market. The onlyUN body with the power to ban trade in endangeredanimals and plants starts a triennial meeting in Dohaon Saturday with bluefin tuna, African elephants and

polar bears on the docket.—INTERNET

NOTTINGHAM, 13March—The mother andstepfather of an eight-year-old girl found hanged inher bedroom yesterdayadmitted child cruelty.Charlotte Avenall, whohad severe learning diffi-culties, was discoveredhanged in her bedroom inMansfield, Nottingham-shire, on the morning of 12September last year.

Yesterday her motherSusan Moody (24) and her

33-year-old husbandSimon Moody pleadedguilty to cruelty to a per-son under 16. NottinghamCrown Court heard no-body had been in the eight-year-old’s bedroom forfour weeks, and it wasfound in a “foul and dis-gusting state” with faecessmeared across the wallsand floor.

Susan and SimonMoody were interviewedunder caution at the timeof the girl’s death at herhome in Moor Street, thencharged in December.

They each pleadedguilty to the charge, thatbetween 14 August and 12September, 2009, havingresponsibility for Char-lotte, they had wilfully ne-glected, abandoned or ex-posed her in a mannerlikely to cause unneces-sary suffering or injury tohealth.—Internet

Doctors performingheart surgery. Thou-sands of cardiologistsfrom around the world

descend on Atlanta,Georgia this weekendto discuss the latest

advances, treatmentsand care strategies tocombat heart disease.

INTERNET

Official: Treat black caviar like drugMOSCOW, 13 March–Illegal market-

ing of Russian black caviar should bepunished as severely as any other kindof drug trafficking, a government fish-ery official says.

“Those accused of illegal blackcaviar marketing should be put in prison.There is no legal black caviar on Rus-sian markets,” Andrei Krainy, the head

of Russia’s Federal Fisheries Service,said. “So, illegal trade in black caviarshould be given the same status as drugdealing.” Fishing industrially for stur-geons in the Caspian Sea and the LowerVolga was banned in 2002 and was doneselectively for reproduction and researchpurposes, ITAR-Tass reported on Friday.

Internet

SAN FRANCISCO, 13March—A jury in the USstate of Florida hascharged a woman with thefirst-degree murder of aman who won $17m(£11.2m) in a lottery in2006. The body ofAbraham Shakespearewas found buried under aconcrete slab in abackyard in Tampa,Florida last year. Investi-

gators say Dorice “DeeDee” Moore helped her-self to millions of MrShakespeare’s money be-fore killing him. MrShakespeare, who wasbarely literate, went miss-ing three years afterclaiming his lottery win.

Before his disappear-ance, Mr Shakespeare, atruck driver’s assistant,had complained about be-ing exploited by peoplewho were after his money.A friend quoted him assaying he would havebeen better off broke. “Hereally didn’t understand itat all. It was moving sofast. It changed his life ina bad way,” childhoodfriend Samuel Jones said.

Internet

SYDNEY, 13 March—Sydney, a city known forits aggressive surfers, isone of the developedworld’s most hostile citiesfor bicyclists, an aca-demic says. The Austral-ian city did not invent“aggro,” but to Rutgers

University Professor JohnPucher, who spent a sab-batical year in Sydney, it’sdownright hazardousthere, the Sydney MorningHerald reported onFriday.

‘’Whether I was a pe-destrian or cyclist I foundthe level of the hostility ofenough Sydney motorists

worse than I had seen any-where in the world,” hesaid. Pucher and two Aus-tralian colleagues willhave a paper published inthe Journal of TransportGeography showing Syd-ney falling behind muchof the developed world incycling friendliness.

Internet

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Minorities have higherkidney disease risk

SAN FRANCISCO, 13 March—Young, minority, USadults are afflicted in greater numbers with chronickidney diseases, a researcher says.

Dr Andy Choi of the University of California, SanFrancisco, suggests the burden and progression of thisdisease needs to been assessed in this vulnerable popu-lation.

“Minorities in the United States are two to four timesmore likely than non-minorities to progress to end-stage renal disease,” Choi said in a statement. “Thatrepresents a significant disparity that warrants greaterstudy about the causes, consequences and preventivemeasures appropriate for people in this demographic.”

Choi is co-author of a study, published online in theClinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrol-ogy, that examined data from 15,353 adults with non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease — stages3-5 — receiving regular ambulatory care in the Com-munity Health Network of San Francisco. The patientswere tracked for a period of 12 months to 9.4 years.

Internet

A general view of the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Rayong. In Thailand’sindustrial heartland, the workmen who should be constructing dozens of

metal and petrochemical products are nowhere to be seen, their tools lyingunused. Legal action brought by environmental activists has brought dozens

of projects to a halt until pollution fears have been addressed.—INTERNET

Papaya leaf thwarts growth of cancer cellsGAINESVILLE, 13

March—US and Japa-nese researchers say pa-paya leaf extract has hadan anti-cancer effect inlaboratory tests.

Dr Nam Dang of theUniversity of Florida andcolleagues in Japan say“tea” made from the driedleaves of the papaya plantfights lab-grown tumours— including cancers ofthe cervix, breast, liver,lung and pancreas.

Their newest study,published in the Journal

of Ethnopharmacology,found papaya leaf extractalso boosts the productionof key signaling mol-ecules — Th1-typecytokines — that regulatethe immune system.

The findings suggestpossible therapeutic usesnot only against cancerbut as an anti-inflamma-tory, Dang said.

“Based on what I haveseen and heard in a clini-cal setting, nobody whotakes this extract experi-ences demonstrable toxic-

ity; it seems like youcould take it for a longtime — as long as it is ef-fective,” Dang says in astatement.

Dang points out theplant has long been usedmedicinally in his nativeViet Nam and amongAustralian indigenouspopulations.

Dang and a colleagueare patenting the processto distill the papaya ex-tract through the Univer-sity of Tokyo.

Internet

Oral contraceptivescut cancer risk

Pedestrians walk pastan Air-Cleaning

machine outside PalikaBazar market in New

Delhi on 8 March.India has switched on

its first public airpurifier in the heart ofcapital New Delhi aspart of an experimentthat backers say could

help other smog-choked cities of thecountry.—INTERENT

US researchers discover howelectricity moves through cells

US scientists discoverclue of origins of vision

Actors perform at the9th Cuban Drum

Festival in Havana,capital of Cuba, on 12March, 2010. The five-day festival opened on10 March, attracting

participants fromCanada, the UnitedStates, Venezuela.

XINHUA

ABERDEEN, 13 March—A 40-year studyshowed oral contracep-tives reduced the risk ofcancer and extendedsome women’s lives, re-searchers in Scotlandsaid.

The study, led by theUniversity of Aberdeen,

appears to contradictprevious studies show-ing oral contraceptivesincreased the risk ofblood clots and breastcancer, The Scotsmanreported on Friday.

University research-ers who studied morethan 46,000 women forfour decades foundwomen who had usedoral contraceptives, evenfor a short time, couldexpect to live longer thanwomen who had nevertaken them.

Women who usedoral contraceptives,commonly called thePill, were 12 percent lesslikely to die from any ill-ness, including cancerand heart disease, saidlead researcher PhilipHannaford.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 13March —By studying thehydra, a member of anancient group of sea crea-tures that is still flourish-ing, scientists at Univer-sity of California, SantaBarbara (UCSB) havemade a discovery in un-derstanding the origins ofhuman vision, the univer-sity said in a Press release.The finding was pub-lished in this week’s issueof the Proceedings of theRoyal Society B, a Britishjournal of biology.

Hydra are simple ani-mals that, along withjeSanllyfish, belong to thephylum cnidaria.Cnidarians first emerged600 million years ago.

“We determined whichgenetic ‘gateway,’ or ionchannel, in the hydra isinvolved in light sensitiv-ity,” said senior authorTodd H Oakley, assistantprofessor in UCSB’s De-partment of Ecology,Evolution and Marine Bi-ology. “This is the samegateway that is used in hu-man vision.”

Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 13March —Researchers atthe University of Minne-sota in the United Stateshave created a molecularimage of a system thatmoves electrons betweenproteins in cells, accord-ing to a news release fromthe university.

The achievement isbelieved to be a break-through for biology andcould provide insights tominimize energy loss inother systems, fromnanoscale devices tomoving electricity aroundthe country.

The research, led byCarrie Wilmot, an associ-ate professor in the Col-lege of Biological Sci-

ences, is published inthe March 12 issue ofScience.

“Evolution has beenfine-tuning electricity inorganisms for a lot longerthan humans have beenusing it,” Wilmot says.“We can learn a lot fromnature about how to useit more efficiently. Thisnew glimpse at how thebody uses electricitycould lead tonanotechnology to shrinkelectronic circuitry evenfurther or a more efficientgrid to provide power tohomes and businesses.”

Energy generated byintracellular movement ofelectrons is the fundamen-tal power source that ena-bles humans to exist. Aselectrons move withincells, energy is channeledto create complex mol-ecules, such as proteinand DNA. These are thebuilding materials thatenable organisms to grow,maintain themselves, andstore energy. Wilmot’simages, obtained using x-ray crystallography, willadvance the effort to un-derstand this process bet-ter.—Xinhua

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Lindsey Vonn clinches 3rd

World Cup overall titleGARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, 13 March—Lindsey

Vonn finished with a fitting flourish, the perfect wayto cap a nearly perfect season, one chock full of victo-ries, medals, trophies — and injuries. Now the Ameri-can is looking forward to some well-earned time awayfrom the slopes. A day after bruising her right knee ina crash, and skiing with her broken right pinkie pro-tected by a green molded cast, Vonn clinched her thirdconsecutive World Cup overall title on Friday with aUS-record 33rd career race win in a super-G atGarmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.—Internet

Lindsey Vonn of the US is flanked by secondplaced Elisabeth Goergl of Austria (L) and third

placed Nadia Styger of Switzerland (R) afterwinning the women’s Super-G Alpine Skiing

World Cup trophy and today’s Super G race infront of Goergl and Styger at the Alpine SkiingWorld Cup Finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

on 12 March, 2010.— INTERNET

Els takes the lead at DoralDORAL, 13 March—Ernie Els was in the lead and

off the golf course, and he wasn’t sure which madehim feel better. Rushing to finish as dark clouds gath-ered over the Blue Monster, Els made one last birdiefor a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead over RobertAllenby before heavy rain temporarily halted playFriday in the CA Championship.

Eighteen players had to wait nearly three hours be-fore they could resume the second round. When it finallyended, Els had his first lead after any round on US soilsince he won the Honda Classic two years ago.—Internet

Drogba aims to take Chelseaback to Premier League glory

Real Madrid coachManuel Pellegrini

Wounded Real Madrid aimfor La Liga win

Henin, Li toppled at Indian Wells tennis

Justine Henin of Belgium

Sir Alex Ferguson hastipped Fulham manager

Roy Hodgson. INTERNET

Fergie backs Hodgsonas potential England coach

Hilario injury leaves Chelseawith goalkeeper crisis

Chelsea manager CarloAncelotti faces a goal-keeper crisis after Hilariojoined injured first-choice Petr Cech on thesidelines,—INTERNET

MADRID, 13 March—Real Madrid coachManuel Pellegrini, who isunder intense pressure af-ter the club’s shatteringChampions League exit,desperately needs a LaLiga win at lowlyValladolid on Sunday toprevent the axe from fall-ing. Real, stunned byLyon in the ChampionsLeague last 16 stage, areonly ahead of Barcelona

on goal difference, andPellegrini knows that hisexpensive collection ofstars could end up empty-handed for the secondsuccessive season.

Barcelona, in Champi-ons League action againstVfB Stuttgart next week,have seen a five-pointleague lead evaporate andhave a much tougher testat home to Valencia onSunday. The failure of Re-al’s second generation of‘Galacticos’ in Europe hasput the spotlight firmly onthe club this weekend asthey come to terms withthe disappointment ofspending over 250 millioneuros in the summer onlyto crash out of the KingsCup and ChampionsLeague.

Internet

INDIAN WELLS, 13 March—JustineHenin’s comeback hit its first speedbump as Gisela Dulko ousted the formerworld number one from the second

round of the Indian Wells hardcourt ten-nis tournament. Henin had made stun-ning run to the final of the AustralianOpen in January - in just her second tour-nament since a return from an 18-monthretirement.

But Dulko’s 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 victorymade Henin one of two Australian Openwomen’s semi-finalists to bow out of thiscombined WTA and ATP Masters 1000event, along with China’s Li Na.Li, ranked 10th in the world and seededseventh, was bundled out by Britishqualifier Elena Baltacha 7-6 (8/6), 2-6,7-6 (9/7).—Internet

MANCHESTER , 13March—Sir AlexFerguson has tippedFulham manager RoyHodgson as the ideal can-didate to coach England ifFabio Capello ever de-cides to quit. Ferguson hasbeen impressed with theway Hodgson has quietlytransformed Fulham into aside capable of upsettingthe Premier League’s bigguns and holding theirown in the Europa League.In just two years Hodgson,whose team face United atOld Trafford on Sunday,has revitalised a club thatwas in danger of relegationfrom the top-flight whenhe arrived.

They have beatenFerguson’s ManchesterUnited twice at CravenCottage as well as reach-

ing the last 16 of theEuropa League this sea-son. And former Inter Mi-lan boss Hodgson alreadyhas experience of interna-tional management afterspells in charge of Switzer-land, Finland and theUnited Arab Emirates.Ferguson believes thosecredentials should makethe 62-year-old English-man one of the front run-ners for the job whenCapello eventuallyleaves.—Internet

LONDON, 13 March—Didier Drogba has warnedChelsea’s title rivals thathe is determined to satisfyhis voracious appetite forsuccess by firing theBlues back to PremierLeague glory. Drogba haswon two league titles, twoFA Cups and two LeagueCups since arriving atStamford Bridge in 2004,but the Ivory Coast strikeris still as hungry to lift sil-verware as ever.

Carlo Ancelotti’s sidewere knocked off top spotby Manchester United lastweekend, so the pressureis on Chelsea to reclaimpole position with a homewin over West Ham onSaturday before the lead-ers, fresh from their im-pressive Champions

League win over AC Mi-lan, play 24 hours lateragainst Fulham at OldTrafford. Drogba, whohas 25 goals this season,knows every match fromnow until the end of theseason will come loadedwith pressure, but the32-year-old has no fearsabout Chelsea’s abilityto cope.—Internet

LONDON, 13 March—Chelsea manager CarloAncelotti faces a goal-keeper crisis after Hilariojoined injured first-choicePetr Cech on the sidelines.

Cech hasn’t played sincesuffering a calf strain inChelsea’s ChampionsLeague defeat at Inter Mi-lan last month and hisstand-in Hilario is nowalso ruled out with an ab-ductor injury sustainedduring last Sunday’s FACup victory over Stoke.

Ancelotti is left withjust inexperienced duoRoss Turnbull and RhysTaylor as the only goal-keepers available for Sat-urday’s crucial PremierLeague clash against WestHam at Stamford Bridge.Turnbull, 25, has madejust two appearances forthe Blues since signingfrom Middlesbrough on afree transfer last year, buthe will be handed his firstPremier League startagainst the Hammers as19-year-old Taylor has yetto make his first teamdebut.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours ,weather has been partly

cloudy in Kachin, Rakhine and Mon States, Upper Sagaing,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in the

remaining areas. Day temperatures were (3 °C) to (4°C)above March average temperatures in Kachin, Shan and

Kayin States, upper Sagaing, Mandalay and Bago Divisions,

(5°C) to (6°C) above March average temperatures in ChinState and Taninthayi Division and about March average

temperatures in the remaining areas. The significant daytemperatures were Chauk and Hpa-an (40°C) each.

Maximum temperature on 12-3-2010 was 97 °F.Minimum temperature on 13-3-2010 was 73°F. Relative

humidity at (09:30) hours MST on13-3-2010 was 77%.

Total sun shine hours on 12-3-2010 was (9.3) hours approx.Rainfall on 13-3-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-

Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was(Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at Central Yangon.

Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southwest at (18:30) hours MST on 12-3-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the Andaman

Sea and Bay of Bengal.Forecast valid until evening of 14th March 2010:

Likelihood of isolated light rain or thundershowers inKachin State, upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Divisions,

weathe r will be partly cloudy in the remaining areas. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Sea will be moderate in Myanmar

waters.Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of

isolated rain or thundershower in the Northern Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for14-3-2010 : Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for

14-3-2010: Partly cloudy .Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for

14-3-2010: Partly cloudy .

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Youngest daughter of (Thray Sithu U Choon Foung,former Attorney-General and retired Judge of the HighCourt and Daw Daw Mar), wife of (U Kyaw Tint, retiredDivisional Education Officer), sister of (Wunna KyawHtin U Weng, retired Inspector of Schools (Science), DawAye Kyi, Legal Advisor (Rtd) Office of the Attorney-General, (U Kan Nyunt- Daw Mya Mya, Lecturer, EnglishDept, Institute of Education), aunt of U Ye Myint, deputyDirector (Rtd)-Daw Khin Mar Min, Deputy Director, Officeof the Attorney- General, grand aunt of Myint Maung Tint(Inti University, Malaysia), Dr Myint Maung Sint, Dr.Myint Thuzar Min, adopted mother of Ma Khin Than,expired at New Yangon General Hospital on 11-3-2010 at02:00 am and cremated at Yayway on that day.

Bereaved family

Daw Yi Yi Khin (Ester)BA, BEd, Med, (Toronto)Assistant Director (Rtd),

Department of Basic EducationAge (82) years

Photo taken on 12 Jan, 2010 shows the sceneryof the Expo Axis during a trial illumination inthe Expo Park in Shanghai, east China. Ninety

percent of the construction work has beencompleted in the expo site by far. Workers are

busy working to greet the 100 days count downto the opening of Shanghai World Expo on 21

Jan 2010.—INTERNET

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ★ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

★ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

★ Do not allow ourselves to be swayedby killer broadcasts designed tocause troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

Hilly regions of eastern Nay Pyi TawPyinmana: Emerging Tea Land

Thingangyun Township WJA meetsYANGON, 13 March — The fifth

annual general meeting of ThingangyunTownship Writers and JournalistsAssociation was held at the town hall inThingangyun on 6 March.

Responsible persons read out theannual report and financial statement

and sought the approval of those present.Next, the cash donation and prize-

giving ceremony followed.Then new executives were elected

and two executives were chosen asdelegates to the 5th MWJA Conference.

MNA

Byline: Myint Maung Soe;Photos: Akar Kyaw

Tea is mostly grown in Shan and Chin States.Concerning tea farming, we have a saying whichgoes “Once you grow tea, it will benefit till posterity.”

Tea culture exists in Myanmar since timeimmemorial. Pickled tea, dry tea and processed teaare made from virgin tea leaf alone.

Dry tea and processed tea are made fromfreshly picked tea leaves. But pickled tea can beobtained after being placed in the pit for severalmonths.Local tea market and demand are growingday by day due to the rise in tea consumption. So, itis necessary to grow marketable tea on a commercialscale.

Therefore, hilly regions in eastern Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana have been designated as a tea growingland in order that the Nay Pyi Taw will become a teaproducing and growing area.

We, Myanma Alin news crew, went to(See page 9) Tea nursery in Mepauk Village, hilly region of Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana.

NAY PYI TAW, 13March—A moderateearthquake ofMagnitude 5.4 RichterScale with its epicenter(near Tinwagyaung

Earthquake reportabout 40 miles southeastof Kalay), about 120miles northwest ofMandalay seismologicalobservatory wasrecorded at 5 hours 50

min 56 sec MST today,according to theDepartment ofMeteorology andHydrology.

MNA

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