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Volume XVII, Number 339 7th Waxing of Tagu 1371 ME Sunday, 21 March, 2010

Meeting discusses money launderingand illegal property control measures

NAY PYI TAW, 20 March—The meeting (1/2010) of the Central Control Board on Money Laun-dering was held at the Headquarters of MyanmarPolice Force here yesterday.

It was attended by Chairman of the BoardMinister for Home Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo,Deputy Minister for Finance and Revenue Col HlaThein Swe, the deputy chief justice, the deputyattorney-general, departmental heads and officials

concerned totalling 39.The meeting focused on continued cooperation

with the International Cooperation Review Group-ICRG with the aim of encouraging global countries toprotect the international monetary system and mattersrelated to implementation of eleven tasks of the actionplan of FATF and the remaining six tasks adopted byFATF plenary meeting to be carried out by Myanmar.

MNA

TV play “Alinyaung” to be on screenInterview: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

The Myanma Ra-dio and Television andthe Myawady TV willsoon broadcast a TV play“Alinyaung” (Right

View) shot to mark the65th Anniversary ArmedForces Day. TV play lov-ers are awaiting the work.So, I interviewed the per-

formers who played theirroles in the play.

Starring severalfilm stars, the TV playwas directed by Tin Aung

Soe (Panmyodaw). Thescreenplay was written byMya Myinmo.

The exciting plotportrays love affairs, thelife of servicemen, differ-ence between peace andinstability, evil conse-quences of battles, sym-pathetic events and heart-ening events.

In the setting, I firstinterviewed young actorMyint Myat. He said, “Inthis TV play, my role isKNU leader Saw HseWah. I have never actedsuch a role. They let meknow in advance the roleI would have to play, andI have grown my hair longsince then. I cared aboutmy costumes. Local peo-ple helped me a lot until I

a strong accent. I had no

difficulties to act in theplay.”

Myint Myat gave abrilliant performance andacting as the KNU leaderin the play. The role heplays in the crucial scenesis so brilliant that he is likea KNU leader.

He said, “Forevoris my first Armed ForcesDay commemorative TVplay. It was shot last year.The second is this play.Many other film stars haveplayed their roles in filmsand plays like this one.So, in this play, I act myrole as good as I can witha sense of duty.”

The dialogues be-tween him and Pyay TiOo (Major Ye Yint) arerealistic and the choice ofwords is excellent.

Then, I interviewed

Actress Moe Hay Ko,who acts as Engineer NuMyat Shwe Zin in theplay.

She said, “In thisplay, I act as an eldersister of an army officerMajor Khaing Win(Hein Wai Yan), and asthe girlfriend of MajorYe Yint (Pyay Ti Oo).So far, I have acted myroles in Armed ForcesDay commemorativeplays: the play “For-ever” in 2009, and thisplay. Why I act my rolesin such plays is that thepeople can notice my artof acting, and I want topresent a good sense tothe viewers.”

She also gave abrilliant performance as an engineer who

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Minister Maj-Gen Maung Oo holds discussions at meeting (1/2010) of the Central ControlBoard on Money Laundering.—MNA

A crucial scene of the TV play “Alinyaung”

* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and 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 theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

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Sunday, 21 March, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

For sustainable improvementof infrastructures

Today, the nation’s infrastructure has beenimproved to a certain degree in the economic,social, education and health care sectors as aresult of the earnest efforts the governmenthas been making for equitable development ofall parts of the Union.

For instance, the Tatmadaw governmenthas been working steadfastly in harmony withthe people to construct infrastructuralbuildings in Rakhine State, which in the pastlacked stability and peace due to naturalbarriers such as mountain ranges,watercourses, and the sea. So, Rakhine Statehas become an affluent area now.

Located in the west of Myanmar, the stateis bounded by Chin State in the north, MagwayDivision and Bago Division in the east, Bay ofBengal in the west, and Bangladesh in thenorth.

Grappling with natural barriers, thegovernment has constructed three highwayslinking Rakhine State and three divisions:western Bago Division, Magway Division, andAyeyawady Division for smooth transportnecessary for its development. It is not onlyconstructing Sittway-An-Minbu Railroad inorder that the state is accessible by train fromYangon, but also upgrading Sittway andThandwe airports. Moreover, it hasconstructed 36 over-180-foot bridges in thestate, spending 28,030.943 million kyats.

The government also has been constructingdams for irrigation, reclaiming more vacantlands, and boosting agricultural production.It developing human resources in the state toharness natural resources more expeditiously.

At a time when the nation is being shapedinto a peaceful, modern and developed one,the government, the people and the Tatmadawhave to work more closely and adhere to OurThree Main National Causes for sustainableimprovement of the infrastructures.

* 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

My Baby introduces its new productsYANGON, 20 March—Myanmar Care Products

Ltd has been producing Eva branded women sanitarynapkin since 1998. The DKSH Service Co Ltd is nowdistributing My Baby brand baby products.

The introduction ceremony of My Baby’s newproducts was held at Parkroyal Hotel here on 14March. Responsible persons of the Myanmar CareProducts Ltd gave away gifts to the guests and GM MrPreman of DKSH.

My Baby products are suitable for all children

NAY PYI TAW, 20 March— Minister for InformationBrig-Gen Kyaw Hsan received Ambassador of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea to the Unionof Myanmar Mr. Kim Sok Chol at the ministry officehere yesterday evening.

Also present at the call were Director-General ofInformation and Public Relations Department U Ye

Information Minister receives DPRK AmbassadorHtut, Managing Director of Printing and PublishingEnterprise U Aung Nyein, Managing Director ofNews and Periodicals Enterprise U Soe Win, Head ofOffice of the Ministry U Myint Htwe and ChiefEditor of Myanma Alin Printing House U Tin MaungThan.

MNA

YANGON, 20 March — Asia Cricket Councilin its meeting today with Myanmar Cricket Federationsought means to promote the sports event inMyanmar.

The agenda of ACC officials’ visit to Myanmaralso included the task of observing the spread anddevelopment of cricket in the Southeast Asia countrythat has introduced the sports not long ago.

Chief Executive Officer Mr Syed AshrafulHuq, Development Manager Mr Bandul Wornapuraand Country Development Officer (Myanmar) MrAminul Islam of ACC and President of MCF U NyuntWin and CEC members were at the roundtable meetingat MCF office ,here, discussing a wide array of sectorsfrom promotion of cricket to the international levelcricket pitch project in Dagon Myothit (North) a satellitetown in the north of Yangon.

MCF has been striving to promote cricket tohave a place in Myanmar where football is a dominantsports with the highest number of fans.

ACC officials arrived in Myanmar thismorning.

MNA

Cricket promotion high onACC’s agenda

ISO courses help boom in businessesYANGON, 20 March—The MAT Professional

Training & Services and Guardian IndependentCertification Ltd (UK) jointly conducted ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Standards Awarenesscourses at MAT training school, No. 355 of MAT,Theinbyu Road, here on 18 March. A total of over 60trainees from factories, workshops and private officesattended the courses. After ending the courses, IRCAQMS 2008 Auditor Dr Tin Latt conferred completioncertificates on the trainees. The MATProfessional Training & Services has been conductingmonthly courses—ISO 9001: 2008, HACCP, ISO22000, Marketing and Auditing. It also offerscompanies to get ISO certificate in line withinternational standards and norms.—MNA

and mothers on account of quality pass by ATSlaboratory in France.

MNA

Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan receives DPRK Ambassador Mr. Kim Sok Chol.—MNA

Buffet for bookwormsYANGON, 20 March — Just chose a bag at the

fair, put in it books you like till it is filled and you getthem at a special price. Books are displayed like foodat a buffet, and there are two sizes of bags to collectthem. The price for 12"x10"x3" bag is K 10000 and for16"x10.5"x3.5" bag is K 20000. An advantage is thatthe total value of books you get there is higher than themoney you pay for the bag!

Another way of buying books at the fair is theclearance sale where you can but at 90% discount. Thefair will be organized by Myanmar Book Centre forthe second time from 28 March to 1 April.

The festival will take place simultaneously atall MBC branches: MBC (1) at No (55), Baho Street,corner of Ahlon Street and Baho Street, AhlonTownship, Yangon (Ph: 01221271, 212409 and214708); MBC (2) at No (561-567), Room No (3),Ground Floor, MAC Tower I, Merchant Street, cornerof Merchant Street and Maha Bandoola Garden Street,Kyauktada Township, Yangon (Ph: 01-670532 and384508); and MBC (Mandalay) at Room No (429),Level-4, 78 Shopping Centre, Mandalay (Ph: 0271470to 71476 Ext: 188 and 193).

MNA

ACC delegation at Yangon InternationalAirport.—MNA

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World’s slums grow despite rapideconomy growth

Heavy rains swamp camps holdingHaiti’s homeless

A man looks from inside his tent at a homeless earthquake survivors campduring heavy rains in Port-au-Prince, on 19 March, 2010.—INTERNET

Army, drug gangs battle inMexico amid blockades

MONTERREY, 20 March — A shootout in the northerncity of Monterrey killed two suspected drug cartel gun-men and wounded a soldier on Friday. Suspected gangmembers also blocked roads in the city for the secondday, in a bold attempt to impede securitypatrols.

Gunmen opened fire on an army patrol outside thegates of a prestigious private university in Monterrey,Mexico’s third-largest city and a major industrial hub,the army said in a statement. Soldiers seized guns, am-munition and hand grenades at the scene.

The wounded soldier is in stable condition.Gang members blocked more than 30 roads in the

Monterrey metropolitan area over 24 hours, includingseveral leading out of the city, said Nuevo Leon PublicSafety Secretary Luis Carlos Trevino. He said the block-ades were intended to keep the military from carryingout operations.

Most suspects fled after parking the trucks and othervehicles across the roads, but at least two were arrested,he said. Authorities towed the cars away, the officialsaid.—Internet

Street kids stage their ownWorld Cup in South AfricaDURBAN, 20 March— Wearing jerseys in national

colours, football teams from eight countries face offon a South African pitch, in full World Cup fervour.But in this tournament, the players are all street kids.

Child welfare groups from across the globe broughtto Durban teams from Brazil, England, India, Nicara-gua, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania and Ukraine.

It’s the first event of its kind, aiming to grab thefootball spotlight to give the children a platform tospeak about the poverty and violence they face on thestreets.

“I represent most of the kids who are on the streets.Because, us street kids, our voice is not heard amongstthe people so, we are trying to do that,” said AshleyVincent, on the South African team.

He ran away from his family in Johannesburg andmade his way to Durban’s warm coast, where he begson the sidewalks to survive.

In Durban, street kids complain that police regu-larly round them up and take them to a poorly equippedcentre outside the city.

Internet

Police stand next to a trailer truck that was stolen and then used as a barri-cade by gunmen in the city of San Nicolas on the outskirts of Monterrey,

Mexico on 19 March, 2010.—INTERNET

German high-speed train hits man to deathBERLIN, 20 March — A high-speed German train ran over a man on Thursday

late-night when whooshing from Frankfurt to Cologne, causing the busy line to beclosed for hours, operator Deutsche Bahn and police reported on Friday.

The accident happened at late night near Idstein, a northeastern townof Hesse state. Police said it is not known weather the man had commit asuicide.

The Inter City Express (ICE) train, which had 630 passengers at that time, hadto disembark and waited in the dark until a group of buses arrived to transportpassengers to Cologne.—Xinhua

Street children representing their respective coun-tries, South Africa in green and gold and India inwhite, play football during the Street Child WorldSoccer Championships held at the Durban Uni-versity of Technology on 15 March.—INTERNET

Russia, US likely to clinch new arms deal in AprilMOSCOW, 20 March — Russia and the United States are likely to sign new arms

control deal in Europe in April, Russian news agencies reported on Friday, citing deputyhead of the Russian government office.

“Most probably, the treaty will be signed in April. The signing ceremony will not takeplace in Washington DC. The most probable location is Europe,” Yuri Ushakov said aftertalks between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State HillaryClinton.

Clinton, who is on a two-day visit to Moscow, said earlier Friday that the UnitedStates and Russia were “on the brink” of signing a new deal.—Xinhua

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 20 March — Oneof the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti’son 12 Jan earthquake swamped home-less camps on Friday, sweepingscreaming residents into eddies of wa-ter, overflowing latrines and panickingthousands.

The overnight downpour sent watercoursing down the slopes of a formergolf course that now serves as a tempo-rary home for about 45,000 people.

There were no reports of deaths inthe camp, a town-size maze of blue,orange and silver tarps located behindthe country club used by the US Army

82nd Airborne as a forward-operatingbase.

But the deluge terrified families whojust two months ago survived the collapseof their homes in the magnitude-7 earth-quake and are now struggling to makedo in tent-and-tarp camps that officialshave repeatedly said must be relocated.

“I was on one side (of the tarp), thechildren were on the other side and I wastrying to push the water out,” JackquineExama, a 34-year-old mother of seven,said through tears.

“I’m not used to this,” she said.Internet

RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 March — Al-most a quarter of a billion peoplemoved out of slum conditions in thepast decade, driven by rapid economicgrowth in emerging giants India andChina, but the number of people liv-ing in them continues to rise, theUnited Nations housing agency said onFriday.

The number of people living inshantytowns increased by 55 million to827.6 million as population growth andmigration from the countryside out-stripped the effect of upward mobility

in cities, the UN’s biennial report on cit-ies found.

“The situation has improved over 10years, but alas over the same period, thenet increase of the urban poor is 55 mil-lion,” Anna Tibaijuka, the executive di-rector of the UN Habitat programme, saidin Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian city will next week hostthe World Urban Forum, a five-day UNconference on the state of the world’s cit-ies, where more than half the global popu-lation now lives.

Internet

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Gas more important than quarrelswith Russia

Chicago retail sales postbiggest drop since 1985

China speeds up offshorewind power construction

Boeing accelerates production of747, 777 models

Representative of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nepal Anil Manandhar (R) presentsflowers to newly appointed “Young Conservation Ambassador” Zenisha Moktanduring a programme in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, on 19 March, 2010.—XINHUAA worker is seen at the construction site of the

France Pavilion at the Expo Park in Shanghai,east China, on 17 March, 2010.—XINHUA

Regulatorsshut seven

banks in fivestates

WASHINGTON, 20March—Regulators onFriday shut down sevenbanks in five states,bringing to 37 thenumber of bank failuresin the US so far this year.

The closings followthe 140 that succumbedin 2009 to mounting loandefaults and the reces-sion. The Federal DepositInsurance Corp took overFirst Lowndes Bank, inFort Deposit, Ala; Appa-lachian Community Bankin Ellijay, Ga; Bank ofHiawassee, inHiawassee, Ga; and Cen-tury Security Bank inDuluth, Ga.

The agency alsoclosed down State Bankof Aurora, in Aurora,Minn; Advanta BankCorp, based in Draper,Utah; and American Na-tional Bank of Parma,Ohio.—Internet

In this 3 Feb, 2010photo, a Boeing Co 777jetliner is seen on theproduction line inEverett, Wash Boeingannounced on 19March, 2010 that it willspeed up productionplans for its 777 and747 models in anticipa-tion of greater demand

from commercialairlines in a couple of

years.—INTERNET

15,000 employeesdismissed due to

earthquakein Chile

SANTIAGO, 20 March—Around 15,000 Chileanemployees were dis-missed due to the 27 Feb,earthquake in the country,with 9,000 of them with-out compensation, aleader of the workers’ un-ion said on Friday.

The most affected arethe employees of smalland medium-sized enter-prises, Arturo Martinez,president of the ChileanCentral Union of Workers(CUT), said, noting thatthe worst is in the regionof Bio Bio, one of the ar-eas affected by the quake.

Xinhua

NEW YORK, 20March—Boeing Co willspeed up production plansfor its 777 and 747 mod-els in anticipation ofgreater demand fromcommercial airlines.

Both are wide-bodyplanes capable of carryingmore than 300 passengersand flying longer routes.Several Asian airlineshave ordered the planes,which are also more fuel-efficient than other air-craft models.

Asian and Latin Ameri-can carriers have led theway for a surprisingly

strong recovery, while im-provement at US carriershas lagged. The industry’sleading trade group, the In-ternational Air TransportAssociation, cut its 2010loss forecast in half forglobal airlines to $2.8 bil-lion. The group also low-ered its 2009 loss estimateto $9.4 billion from $11billion because of the year-end rally.

Many airlines across

the globe reported lossesin 2009 as travel demandslumped. Boeing, theworld’s second-largestaircraft maker behind Air-bus, said on Friday that itsees the airline industryrecovering this year, fol-lowed by a return to prof-itability in 2011. Thatshould lead to demand fornew aircraft in 2012 andbeyond, the companysaid.—Internet

BEIJING, 20 March—China will give top prior-ity to developing offshorewind power projects toboost its flourishing windpower industry in 2010,according to a senior en-ergy official.

The governmentwould put large-scale off-shore wind power conces-sion projects out to tender,said Shi Lishan, DeputyDirector of the New En-ergy and Renewable En-

ergy Department of theNational Energy Bureauat a recent seminar spon-sored by Chinese Renew-able Energy Industry As-sociation (CREIA).

“We have formulatedbasic ideas and formali-ties for the tenders,” saidShi, but he would notelaborate on the timetable

and exact sites in the con-cession project list.

Han Wenke, Directorof the Energy ResearchInstitute of National De-velopment and ReformCommission (NDRC),said China had no choice,but to vigorously developrenewable energy, includ-ing wind power.—Xinhua

CHICAGO, 20 March—A deep-seated shift inconsumer behaviour —spending less and savingmore — means the fall-out from 2009 will hoverover the retail landscapein Chicago, US for years,according to a report dueout next week from a lo-cal research company.

Retail sales in the Chi-cago metropolitan marketfell 8.7 percent, to 92.9billion US dollars, in2009 from the year be-fore, marking the biggestannual decline since at

least 1985, when Chi-cago-based Melaniphy &Associates Inc begantracking the figures. Thedismal performance fol-lows a 4.8 percent drop in2008, a record decrease atthe time, the report said.

Xinhua

WARSAW, 20 March—Gas supplies are more im-portant than ideologicalquarrels with Russia,Polish Prime MinisterDonald Tusk said on Fri-day in parliament replyingto criticism of his govern-ment’s gas policy byoppositionist Law and Jus-tice (PiS).

PiS caucus leaderAleksandra Natalli-Swiataccused the Tusk team ofprotracting Poland’s de-pendence on Russian gas

by sealing a longterm con-tract with Russia’s gas dis-tributor Gazprom, accord-ing to the Polish newsagency PAP. In his replyto the charges, Tuskstressed that “the top pri-ority were not ideologicalquarrels with Russia butfor gas to be in Polishhomes in winter, when thetemperature outside fallsto minus 10 degrees.”

Tusk also remindedthat Poland’s gas suppliesfrom Russia were unhin-dered during last year’sgas crisis. Tusk admittedthat buying gas from Rus-sia presented a dilemma,but argued that “gas wasthere to give heat and gov-ernment policy was thereto see that this gas did notfall short in criticaltimes.”—Xinhua

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Ismet Yilmaz, undersecretary of Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, triesthe embroidery during an exhibition on China’s Suzhou embroidery

in Ankara, capital of Turkey, on 18 March, 2010. Some 60 pieces of Suzhouembroidery works were on show during the exhibition.—XINHUA

Chinese Vice President arrives in Russiato start four European nation tour

VLADIVOSTOK, 20March—At the invitationof Russian Prime Minis-ter Vladimir Putin, Chi-nese Vice President XiJinping arrived here onSaturday for an officialvisit to Russia.

During his stay inRussia, Xi, who is also amember of the StandingCommittee of the Politi-cal Bureau of the Com-munist Party of ChinaCentral Committee, willmeet Russian President

Dmitry Medvedev, andPutin, who is also chair-man of the ruling UnitedRussia party, and StateDuma Chairman BorisGryzlov.

They will exchangeviews on bilateral rela-tions and other regionaland international issuesof common concern.

Xi is also expected toattend the opening cer-emony of the Year ofChinese Language inRussia as well as the

opening of the secondround of strategic dia-logue between the Chi-nese and Russian rulingparties.

Chinese Foreign Min-istry spokesman QinGang earlier said that theYear of Chinese Lan-guage in Russia will pro-mote mutual understand-ing and friendship be-tween the Chinese andRussian people and en-hance their cultural coop-eration.—Xinhua

Explosion occurs at office of far-rightgroup in Athens, Greek Govt condemns

Police cordone off the offices of “Golden Dawn”, where a bomb attackoccurred, in Athens, capital of Greece,on 19 March, 2010.—XINHUA

ATHENS, 20 March— An explosion oc-curred at the office of“Golden Dawn” in thecentre of Athens early onFriday morning.

No injuries were re-ported, but only minordamages, as there hadbeen a warning telephonecall to a Greek newspa-per a few minutes beforethe time bomb blasts.

The bomb which hadbeen placed outside the

offices of “GoldenDawn,” at the corridor ofthe 5th floor of a build-ing near the crowdedOmonia square in thecentre of Athens, ex-ploded at 08:46 localtime, according to thepolice.

Exactly 22 minutesearlier an unidentifiedperson had made thewarning call to“Eleftherotypia” daily, acommon practice for Far-

Left, anarchist and terror-ist groups that operate inGreece.

The police had man-aged to evacuate the area,when the bomb explodedand windows of nearbybuildings broke in rushhour.

No group has claimedresponsibility yet, as po-lice investigate, gather-ing evidence that couldlead to the perpetra-tors.—Xinhua

Huge fire breaks out after explosion inLagos police barracks

WHO to send A/H1N1 flu vaccineto African countries

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

LAGOS, 20 March —Huge fire broke out afteran explosion in police bar-racks in Zone II in Niger-ia’s largest city Lagos onFriday, local police said.

Dense smoke could beseen over Victoria Island.

Many fire enginesrushed to the scene and thefire fighting is still goingon. Casualties and cause of

the fire are yet to know.Security and rescue

officials at the scene toldXinhua that the explosionwas heard at about 11 amlocal time.

An official declined tobe identified said it mighttake to get the fire undercontrol as they were un-able to approach theflame. “We received a call

from top police officers inLagos that their exhibitroom was on fire, but weare yet to ascertain thecause,” he said.

“On getting here, wesaw everyone was clearingout their properties, des-perately trying to get outbefore the fire spread totheir offices,” he added.

Xinhua

GENEVA, 20 March—The World Health Organi-zation (WHO) will sendmillions of doses of A/H1N1 flu vaccine to Afri-can countries to help themfight the pandemic, aspokesman said on Friday.

At least 10 to 15 Afri-can countries are expectedto get vaccines for 2 to 10percent of their population

in the coming weeks,Gregory Hartl told a newsbriefing in Geneva.

Among the countriesthat will receive the vac-cine are Nigeria,Cameroon, Senegal, Togo,Kenya, Namibia and SouthAfrica, Hartl said.

He added that the WHOwas doing its best to limitthe effects of the A/H1N1

pandemic on the Africancontinent.

The A/H1N1 pan-demic, which was an-nounced by the WHO inJune, has so far spread tomore than 213 countriesand overseas territories orcommunities and killed atleast 16,813 people, theUN agency said in a latestupdate.

The most active areasof pandemic influenzatransmission are now inSoutheast Asia and WestAfrica.—Xinhua

Polish aircraft violatesTurkey’s air space

over AegeanANKARA, 20 March — A Polish aircraft on Friday

violated Turkey’s air space over the Aegean Sea, aTurkish military statement said.

Polish M-28 aircraft, which took off from Kos is-land of Greece, violated Turkish air space over theAegean province of Aydin three times early on Fri-day, said the statement posted on the General Staffwebsite.

The statement said the Polish aircraft had violatedthe Turkish air space for a total of 11 minutes.

Xinhua

An Afghan firefightergestures at a burningfuel tanker after an

explosion caused by abomb placed

underneath the truckin Jalalabad, easternAfghanistan on 19

March 2010.INTERNET

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The China-made

clothes aresold at a

Marshallsstore in

New York,the UnitedStates, on18 March,

2010.INTERNET

Russia plans to resume space tourism

Shell posts huge Gulf of Mexico oil find

Mosquito would ‘vaccinate’against malaria

SHIMOTSUKI, 20 March — Scientists in Japan saythey’ve genetically modified a mosquito that vacci-nates against malaria as it bites.

The prototype mosquito produces a natural vac-cine protein in its saliva that is injected into the blood-stream when the insect stings a host, said ShigetoYoshida, a researcher at Jichi Medical University inShimotsuki, Japan.

“Following bites, protective immune responses areinduced, just like a conventional vaccination but withno pain and no cost,” Yoshida said.—Internet

American multimillionaire Dennis Tito,60, waves during a ceremony in StarCity, outside Moscow, on 6 May, 2001.The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying theworld’s first paying space tourist landedsuccessfully in the Central Asian steppeon Sunday, ending Tito’s multimilliondollar cosmos adventure.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 20 March — Russia saysit could offer more seats than ever tospace tourists when the programme be-gins again in two to three years.

Russian halted the programme lastyear because all seats aboard its space-craft were needed to ferry crew to theInternational Space Station.

The nation’s RSC Energia now hasthe capability to build five Soyuz space-craft per year instead of four, whichmeans one spacecraft could be desig-nated for space tourists after 2012, RIANovosti reported Friday.

Roscosmos, the Russian federalspace agency, began ferrying wealthytourists in 2001 with the flight ofDennis Tito, an US businessman.

In all, seven space tourists havemade the journey, the latest, Canadian

Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque duSoleil, who flew to the space station inOctober.—Internet

AMSTERDAM, 20 March— Royal Dutch Shell re-vealed a discovery on Fri-day in the deep waters ofthe Gulf of Mexico that en-countered roughly 530 feetof net oil play.

Shell said on Friday ituncovered a “significant”oil discovery in the easterndeep waters of the Gulf ofMexico. The discovery inthe Appomattox prospectwas found in 7,217 feet ofwater in Mississippi Can-yon blocks 391 and 392.

Shell drilled a 25,000-foot discovery well in block392 that encounteredroughly 530 feet of oil pay.

A 25,950-foot appraisalsidetrack encounteredroughly 380 feet of oil pay.

David Lawrence, ex-ecutive vice president forexploration at Shell, saidhis company was pleased toadd the latest discoveries toits growing portfolio in theGulf of Mexico.

“Shell has the technol-ogy, the expertise and askilled, motivated work-force to expand oil andnatural gas production inthe (United States) andworldwide,” he added. Thedeep waters of the Gulf ofMexico are considered oneof the most promising re-

source basins in the world.International explorers sayoffshore exploration couldease US dependence onforeign oil.—Internet

Scientists create tiny invisibility cloakLONDON, 20 March — Researchers in Britain and

Germany say they’ve created a tiny cloak of invisibil-ity that could someday rival the one worn by fictionalwizard Harry Potter.

“This is very exciting, because mankind has alwaysthought about being invisible or having invisibilitycloaks,” lead researcher Tolga Ergin said.

Scientists from Imperial College London and theKarlsruhe Institute of Technology bent light waves toconceal a bump on a gold surface that measured0.00004 inches high by 0.00005 wide, The DailyTelegraph reported Friday.

Internet

A 5-year-old British boy named Thomas emergedunhurt after driving his father’s sport utility vehicle 4miles and crashing into a wall, West Sussex police said.Even though Thomas was too short to reach the ped-als, he managed to maneuver the 4x4 MitsubishiShogun until it hit a brick wall at a woman’s homein the village of Lavant, The Times of LondonOnline reported. Along the way, the SUV collidedwith at least three other vehicles and nearly struck apedestrian.

The 4x4 was scratched and dented. A neighbortold police Thomas’ mother was asleep when the boytook the car keys from her handbag. “Thomas is aclever boy who has learnt to drive by watching hismum,” the neighbour said.

An image of four moonsof Saturn passing infront of their parentplanet in seen this im-age taken by NASA’sHubble Space Tel-escope 24 February,2009 and released byNASA 17 March, 2009.In this view, the giantorange moon Titancasts a large shadowonto Saturn’s north po-lar hood. Below Titan,near the ring plane andto the left, is the moonMimas, casting a muchsmaller shadow ontoSaturn’s equatorialcloud tops. Farther tothe left, and off Saturn’sdisk, are the brightmoons Dione and thefainter Enceladus.

Dutch artist Ap Verheggen (C) stands with agroup of local youngsters near a pair of metalsculptures which he plans to erect on an ice-berg near the town of Uummannaq in west-ern Greenland. Verheggen arranged twolarge sculptures on an iceberg in Greenlandon Friday to raise awareness about climatechange, and people will be able to monitor it online as the ice melts.

Study: Climate stress killed dinosaursSevere climate change, and not a

meteorite, was the main reason behindthe mass extinction of the dinosaursand other species 65 million years ago,a new study concludes.

Conducted by scientists from Ger-many, Switzerland and the UnitedStates, the study takes into account cli-mate, geological and paleontologicaldata collected during several drillingsnear Brazos River in Texas.

“We have come up with completelynew data that are poised to change theinterpretation of this time in history,”

one of the scientists, Michael Prauss ofBerlin’s Free University, told UnitedPress International in a telephone inter-view Friday. “The main reason for themass extinction were massive climaticchanges that began long before the me-teorite hit.”

NEWS ALBUM

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft showsSaturnian roller derby

Five-year-old took dad’s SUV on joyride

The seemingly se-rene orb of Saturn is infact a gas giant with ex-traordinary patterns ofcharged particles andrough and tumble rollerderbies for r ings,NASA’s Cassini space-craft found since its ar-rival at Saturn in 2004.The findings will bepublished Friday injournal Science.

“This rambunctioussystem gives us a newfeel for how an early

solar sys tem mighthave behaved,” saidLinda Spilker, a plan-etary scientist and thenew Cassini projectscientist at NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratoryin Pasadena, Califor-nia. “This kind of deep,rich data can only becollected by an orbitingspacecraft and we lookforward to the nextseven years around Sat-urn bringing even moresurprises.”

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US FDA warns about increased risk ofmuscle injury with Zocor

Vaccine may stop cervicalcancer return

BIRMINGHAM, 20 March —US researchers said thevaccine to prevent cervical cancer may also protectagainst post-surgical recurrence of the disease.

Oncology researchers at the University of Alabamain Birmingham said the Gardasil vaccine that reducesthe likelihood of human papillomavirus-related dis-eases may also protect against cervical or related can-cers or pre-cancerous changes that had been surgicallyremoved from reoccurring.

“Based on this study, the data is compelling andsuggests it does help to treat virus-related changes,”Dr Warner Huh said in a statement.

Huh and colleagues looked at the participants whohad surgery to remove cervical or related cancer orpre-cancerous changes among the 17,622 women ages15-26 involved in two clinical trials where some werevaccinated with Gardasil and some were not.

Internet

Nutritional training fordoctors overdue

LONDON, 20 March—Nutritional training is impor-tant to every area of clinical practice but has been longneglected, researchers in Britain said.

Dr Penny Neild of St George’s Hospital in Londonand colleagues said the profession must take advan-tage of changes in medical education to ensure that allhealth professionals, but especially gut specialists, aregiven adequate training in nutrition.

The evidence shows healthcare professionals ingeneral know little about how to assess and managepoor nutrition and gastroenterologists in particularneed to be able to provide advice and expertise in gen-eral nutrition, artificial nutrition support, and intesti-nal failure, the researchers said.—Internet

Stem cells ‘seed’ transplanted windpipe

Photo taken on 18 March, 2010 shows theparking apron on the roof of the 2010 WorldExpo Centre in Shanghai. The Expo Centre

severing as the operation management centre,ceremony & conference centre, press centre

and etc. will be opened in April.XINHUA

Team New Zealand (front) crosses in front of Italy’s Azzura during the LouisVuitton Trophy Series yachting best-of-three semi-finals in Auckland, on 19

March. Team N.Zealand took the early honours in the final of the LouisVuitton Trophy yachting regatta on Saturday, winning the opening race

against the Italians by 12 seconds.—INTERNET

Health Canada allows low-level caffeinein non-cola soft drinks

TB booster appears promising

VANCOUVER, 20March—Synthetic caf-feine in lower concentra-tion than cola drinks couldbe added as a food addi-tive in non-cola softdrinks, Health Canadasaid in a press release onFriday.

Based on an “exten-sive review of all avail-able science,” the Cana-dian health agency deter-mined that synthetic caf-feine in carbonated softdrinks poses no healthrisk to users if its concen-tration doesn’t exceed150 parts per million(ppm), according to therelease.

The authorized con-centration for non-colabeverages is lower than

the maximum of 200 ppmfor cola beverages author-ized by Canadian foodand drug regulations.

Similar levels of caf-feine in non-cola softdrinks are currently per-

mitted in the United Statesand Europe.

Synthetic caffeine isstill not allowed to beadded to other foods,Health Canada said.

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LONDON, 20 March—A boy in Britain is doingwell four days after sur-geons used the boy’s ownstem cells and a trans-planted windpipe to re-place his trachea, doctorssay.

Martin Birchall ofUniversity College Lon-don said using the pa-tient’s own stem cells andbody as a “bioreactor”could transform trans-

plant surgery in the fu-ture, the Financial Timesreported on Friday.

Paolo Macchiariniand colleagues at CareggiUniversity Hospital inFlorence, Italy, used en-zymes to strip the wind-pipe of a woman in Italywho died in an accidentof all living cells thatmight trigger immune re-jection in the recipient.Macchiarini transported

the windpipe to London.Birchall removed

about two tablespoons ofstem cells from the boy’sbone marrow and in-jected them into the tra-chea and replaced it withthe boy’s defective wind-pipe.

On friday, the boy saidhe was breathing betterthan he had in years, theTimes said.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 20March—The US Foodand Drug Administration(FDA) on Friday warnedpatients and healthcareproviders about the poten-tial for increased riskof muscle injury fromthe cholesterol-loweringmedication Zocor(simvastatin).

Although muscle in-jury (called myopathy) isa known side effect of allstatins, the FDA’s warn-ing highlights the greaterrisk of developing muscleinjury, includingrhabdomyolysis, for pa-tients when they usehigher doses of this drug.

Rhabdomyolysis is themost serious form of my-opathy and can lead to se-vere kidney damage, kid-ney failure, and some-

times death.“Review of simvas-

tatin is part of an ongoingFDA effort to evaluate therisk of statin-associatedmuscle injury and to pro-vide that information to

the public as it becomesavailable,” said EricColman, Deputy Directorof the FDA’s Division ofMetabolism and Endo-crinology Products.

Xinhua

WORCESTER, 20March—Researchers inSouth Africa say a boostermay help tuberculosis re-sistance in already vacci-nated adults.

Willem Hanekom, co-director of the South Af-rican Tuberculosis Vac-cine Initiative, reports ani-mal testing of the booster— Aeras-402 vaccine,

developed by Aeras Glo-bal Tuberculosis Founda-tion and Crucell — hasbeen encouraging. Thevaccine has proved safe inhealthy adults previouslyvaccinated with the cur-rent TB vaccine.

“Aeras-402 was ableto stimulate the immunesystem in a mannerthought to be important

for protection against tu-berculosis,” Hanekomsays in a statement. “Theworld urgently needs new,better vaccines against tu-berculosis.”

Hanekom says it is im-portant to test the vaccinesin settings where the dis-ease is very common,such as South Africa.

Internet

Formula One automakerMcLaren has launched asupercar, part of a driveby the firm to shift up agear in its battle to cap-ture the high-perfor-mance commercial sportscar market. The MP4-12C will have a price tagof 150,000 pounds(230,000 dollars, 170,000

euros).—INTERNET

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TV play “Alinyaung” to be on screen

NAY PYI TAW, 20M a r c h — T h ecoordination meeting ofNay Pyi Taw Traffic RulesEnforcement SupervisoryCommittee was held at themeeting hall of Nay PyiTaw Command hereyesterday evening.

Nay Pyi Taw Traffic Rules EnforcementSupervisory Committee meets

Patron of thecommittee Commander ofNay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwin,committee members, sub-committee members andofficials attended themeeting.

The commander

delivered an address at themeeting and heard reportson traffic rulesenforcement submitted byofficials. The meetingcame to an end withconcluding remarks of thecommander.

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YANGON, 20 March—Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen WinMyint inspectedsanitation and drainagetasks in KyimyindineTownship here today.

Sanitation tasks in YangonOn arrival at No.(5)

Basic Education HighSchool Kyimyindine,officials reported thecommander on theprogress of tasks.

He also visited eastward of Makyeedan(North) village andviewed activities for

healthy environment.The commander

addressed 21st cashdonation ceremony ofTamway Township AllBus Lines SupervisoryCommittee (Headquar-ters). The commander andofficials donated cash.

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NAY PYI TAW, 20March—Chief Justice UAung Toe today metDeputy Chief Justice UKhin Maung Latt ofSupreme Court(Mandalay), justices,directors and officials

Chief Justice visits MandalaySupreme Court

concerned at room No. 1,Supreme Court(Mandalay). In meetingwith them, he called formatters related tojudiciary, administrationand code of ethics.

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YANGON, 20 March—Micro Computer Co Ltdis participating inMyanmar ICT Exhibition-2010 held at TatmadawConvention Centre onUwisara Road here from19 to 21 March.

Micro Computer takes part inMyanmar ICT Exhibition

The company isimporting and distributingcomputer accessories, A-DATA Brand memorydevices, Genius Brandcomputer accessories andChaungxiang Brandcomputer tables.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20March— Minister forEnergy Brig-Gen Lun Thireceived ChineseAmbassador to the Unionof Myanmar Mr. Ye Daboand party at the ministry

Energy Minister receivesChinese Ambassador

office here this morning.They discussed matters onenergy sectors betweentwo countries.

Also present at thecall were officialsconcerned.—MNA

(from page 1)constructed a bridgeacross the ThanlwinRiver. Her dialoguesare good in the scene toconstruct the bridge,which is a dream cometrue, with the art of en-gineering she hasgained from the courseconducted by the gov-ernment, and in thescene in which hermother disapproves ofthe romantic affair be-tween her and her boy-friend army officerPyay Ti Oo (Major YeYint) because hisyounger brother HeinWai Yan (Major

Khaing Win) was in-jured. Her acting is real-istic in the dialogue “Do

you mean every service-man will fall in a battleone day? Am I guilty to

have affairs with a serv-iceman?”

Actress Moe Hay

Ko added that she wassatisfied because the playis designed to serve theinterest of the nation andthe people, and she hadan opportunity to play herrole.

Actor Min Htet(Saw Mu He), who in theplay becomes the KNUleader following MyintMyat (Saw Hse Wah)’sreturn to the legal fold, said,“This is the first ArmedForces Day commemora-tive TV play I have everplayed my role in. I havenever acted a role in anyTV play that is related tothe State policy. Now, I amvery glad to have played

my role in such a TVplay.”

Min Htet’s cos-tumes, acting and dia-logues are very realistic,and he showed a brilliantperformance.

He played hisrole brilliantly as KNUleader Saw Mu He inacting the trait of char-acter with extreme con-cepts and convictions.

Therefore, I amconfident that TV loverswill enjoy the TV play“Alinyaung” to bescreened to mark the 65thAnniversary ArmedForces Day.

Translation: MS

Moe Hay Ko and May Thinzar Oo at a crucial moment.

At the service of national defence.

At the service of national development.

Interview: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

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1. To uphold Our Three Main National Causesat risk to life as the national policy

2. To work hard with national people forsuccessful completion of elections due to beheld in accordance with the new constitution

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 of thenation

Objectives of 65th AnniversaryArmed Forces Day

YANGON, 20 March—View Sonic is displaying inMyanmar ICT Exhibition-2010 held at TatmadawConvention Centre on Uwisara Road here from 19 to21 March.

Royal Ayeyawady Co Ltd has been displayingand selling View Sonic Notebook, LCD Monitor,Portable Media Player, Digital Photo Frame andProjector. The company will import View Book(Notebook) of View Sonic products as maincomputer accessories.

Battery of the view book can be used till 8-hourand Secondary Battery will be used in place of OpticalDrive.

During the exhibition, customers, buying the viewsonic products will get coupon to try one’s luck ofView Sonic Notebook.

Interesting persons connect to 87-street, No-7 (G/F), Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Yangon (phone:384850, 389366 and 394494).

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Affairs of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Bothsides discussed the technical issues and the meetingwas concluded with the agreement that the next roundof talks will be held in Bangladesh at mutuallyconvenient date. Maj-Gen Anup Kumar Chakma,Bangladesh Ambassador to Myanmar and U Pe ThanOo, Myanmar Ambassador to Bangladesh alsoattended the said meeting.

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Unionof Myanmar U Maung Myint hosted a dinner on 17March at the Aureum Palace Hotel in honour of theAdditional Secretary Rear Admiral (Rtd) KhurshedAlam of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’sRepublic of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh TechnicalTeam left Myanmar for Bangladesh yesterday.

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Myanmar-Bangladesh Technical Level meeting heldNAY PYI TAW, 20 March— At the invitation of

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U MaungMyint, the Bangladesh Technical Level Team ledby Rear Admiral (Rtd) Khurshed Alam, AdditionalSecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of thePeople’s Republic of Bangladesh, visited Myanmarfrom 16 to 19 March to attend the sixth Round ofTechnical Level Talks on the Delimitation ofMaritime Boundary between Myanmar andBangladesh.

The meeting was held on 17 and 18 March at theAureum Palace Hotel, here. The Myanmar TechnicalLevel Team was led by Commodore Myo MyintThan, Myanmar Navy, and the Bangladesh TechnicalLevel Team was led by Rear Admiral (Rtd) KhurshedAlam, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign

NAY PYI TAW, 20 March—A passenger light trucken route from Pathein to Ngwehsaung ran into theright brick wall of the culvert on Pathein-NgwehsaungRoad in front of the monastery in Kwingalay Villageat about 11.45 am on 15 March, leaving one dead, and13 including the driver slightly injured.

In another case, a white Hilux with passengersand foodstuff onboard turned over on Myitkyina-Sumprabum Road at about 4 pm the same day. Theseven injured are now in Sumprabum General Hospital.

A 10-wheeled Nissan bound from Tachilek toKengtung got a broken brake and ran into the rear ofa running Fuso air-conditioned bus with 59 passengersonboard three times on Kengtung-Tachilek Road nearPanlot (upper) village, about nine miles fromKengtung. Then, the bus turned over. The Nissanskidded off the road on the left side for about 100yards and ran into the brick wall of a monastery. In theaccident, the driver, two bus conductors and ninepassengers of the bus, and the driver and two busconductors of the Nissan were killed, and 50 passengersfrom the bus were injured. The injured are now inKengtung General Hospital.

Now, action is being taken against the recklessdrivers.

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Hightech Princess’sproducts displaying on

Myanmar ICT ExhibitionYANGON, 20 March— Hightech Princess has

also been displaying on Myanmar ICT Exhibition2010 being held at Tatmadaw Convention Centre onUwisara Road here from 19 to 21 March.

The Hightech Princess is distributing securityproducts for offices, homes, factories, schools andhospitals, and network devices. The company is alsoshowcasing MASH wifi system to be developedcooperatively with Yatanarpon Teleport.—MNA

PISM Fisher RandomChess Tourney kicks off

YANGON, 20 March—Jointly organized byMyanmar Chess Federation and Pride InternationalSchool Myanmar under the supervision of Sports andPhysical Education Department of the Ministry ofSports, PISM Fisher Random Chess Tournament wasopened at Aung San Stadium here this afternoon.

President of MCF U Maung Maung Lwinaddressed the opening ceremony.—MNA

KNU burns down machine,vehicles in Kayin State

NAY PYI TAW, 20 March — KNU insurgentsburnt down a grinding machine, a vehicle and aloader in Kayin State in the south-east of Myanmarat 8 pm on 14 March.

About ten KNUs first torched the machine andthe vehicle, which is a locally assembled car calledhtawlaji at Pyataung query located on Wahboetaw-Kamamaung road between Shwelu andBanthmwekon Villages in Hpa-an Township.

The insurgents incinerated the loader in ShweluVillage about two miles from the query.

MNA

Where to find the bestNotebook?

Reckless driving causestraffic accidents

Peter Crouch of Tottenham competes for a headerwith Robert Huth and Rory Delap of Stoke.

STOKE, 20 March—Tottenham Hotspurstrengthened their grip on fourth place with victoryat 10-man Stoke City.

Eidur Gudjohnsen scored his first goal back inthe Premier League to put the visitors in front aminute after the break.The home side had DeanWhitehead sent off but levelled with a MatthewEtherington penalty on 64 minutes. However NikoKranjcar snatched a winner 13 minutes from time.

Internet

Stoke City 1-2Tottenham Hotspur

Science justifies Californiawater limits

LOS ANGELES, 20 March— Federal limits on waterthat can be pumped out of a major river delta forCalifornia farmers are scientifically justified, a much-anticipated report said on Friday, a finding hailed byenvironmentalists in the state’s epic water wars.

But the National Academy of Sciences stoppedshort of handing a decisive victory to environmentalinterests over agricultural interests. The academy saidfurther study was required and that threats to Chinooksalmon, delta smelt and other endangered fish werenot entirely caused by the pumping.

“The Academy of Sciences report clearly validatesthe biological opinions,” Ann Hayden, a senior waterresource analyst for the Environmental Defense Fund,said of regulations devised under court order by federalwildlife biologists and issued in late 2008.

“It’s time to stop pitting the economic interests offarmers against fishermen and move forward to findsolutions,” Hayden said. “We have pushed the Bay-Delta system to the brink of collapse and saving it —and the jobs that depend on it — is going to requireincreased cooperation among all interests.”

Internet

Fishermen view the Sacramento River from asunken barge near Rio Vista, California, recently.

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FIFA makes 196 milliondollars profit in 2009

A model presents a “De Beers Millennium Blue Diamond” and adiamond necklace comprised of 50 DIF white diamonds during a Sotheby’s Auc-tion press preview in Hong Kong, south China, on 18 March, 2010.—XINHUA

Booming tourism boosts service sectorin south China’s Hainan

New threat ranklesHemet, Calif

Photo taken on 19March, 2010 showsthe beachscape inShimane-ken, a

prefecture located inthe Chugoku regionon Honshu island inJapan. Shimane-ken,bearing the charmingscene and rich history,is a fascinating tourist

attration in Japan.XINHUA

People purchase goods ahead of the Nowruz festival at a bazaar in Teheran,capital of Iran, on 19 March, 2010. Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, falls

on 21 March .—XINHUA

First-ever French languageday celebrated at UN

GENEVA, 20 March—FIFA made a profit of 196million dollars (145 mil-lion euros) in 2009 and in-creased its reserves tomore than 1 billion in spiteof the global economiccrisis. In its annual finan-cial report published inZurich on Friday, soccer’sworld governing bodysaid it made its surplus onrevenue of 1.059 billiondollars (780 millioneuros). The revenue hadtopped 10 figures for thefirst time.

In the report, JulioGrondona, the Chairmanof FIFA’s finance commit-tee, said the first WorldCup in Africa had postedmarketing revenues thatsurpassed the results of theprevious two tourna-

ments, in Germany (2006)and South Korea and Ja-pan (2002).

FIFA has focused onbuilding its reserves in re-cent years to sustain it inthe event that a World Cupis canceled and commer-cial partners have to be re-paid.—Xinhua

HAIKOU, 20 March —The booming tourism in-dustry of south China’ sHainan Province havemade major contributionto the island’s economyand will further bolster itsservice sector, a seniorofficial has said.

“As Hainan’ s top pil-lar industry, tourism hasboosted the developmentof the whole service sec-

(3 billion US dollars) inrevenue, up 10.1 percent,according to statisticsfrom the provincial gov-ernment.

Driven by boomingtourism, the sales ofHainan’s real estate in-dustry grew by 25.4 per-cent, and sales of hoteland restaurant industryreached 52.5 percent.

Xinhua

tor, accounting for 42 per-cent of the province’ sGDP. But we aim to in-crease the proportion to60 percent,” said Tan Li,Hainan’s vice governor.

Hainan received morethan 22.5 million visitorslast year, increasing by9.2 percent from the pre-vious year. The island’ stourism industry gener-ated 21.17-billion-yuan

HEMET, 20 March—ASouthern California Po-lice Department plaguedby booby trap attacksagainst its officers wenton heightened alert onFriday following yet an-other threat.

An unidentified personcalled a 911 operator atabout 5:45 pm and said a

police car would be blownup in the Hemet-SanJacinto area in the next 24to 48 hours, Hemet PoliceChief Richard Dana said.

The caller said the at-tack would be in retalia-tion for the law enforce-ment sweep against theVagos Motorcycle Clubearlier this week.

A Riverside Countysheriff ’s spokeswomansaid the department hasnot been able to confirmthe threat.

Internet

Oil settlesnear $80a barrel

NEW YORK, 20 March–Oil prices slumped at theend of the week, tumblingon Friday close to $80 abarrel as continued uncer-tainty about Greece’seconomy helped lift thedollar higher.

Benchmark crude forApril delivery dropped$1.52 to settle at $80.68 abarrel on the New YorkMercantile Exchange.

Oil is traded in US cur-rency, and its price tendsto fall as the dollar risesand makes contractstougher to buy with for-eign currency. Investorsalso will move money outof commodities and intothe greenback as the dol-lar rises. Crude prices ral-lied earlier this week afterthe Fed promised to holdinterest rates at recordlows in a move that wasexpected to help the eco-nomic recovery. Pricescrested on Wednesday, andthey’ve been falling sincethen as worries aboutGreece’s debts forced theeuro lower.—Internet

FAA faulted onSouthwest Airlines

UNITED NATIONS, 20March — The United Na-tions is celebrating Frenchlanguage day here on Fri-day as part of a new initia-tive to raise awareness andrespect for the history, cul-ture and achievements ofeach of the six official lan-guages of the world body.

“French, as a workinglanguage of the UN andone that is spoken on allcontinents, plays an impor-tant role in spreading themessage of the United Na-tions in the world,” saidKiyo Akasaka, the UNunder-secretary-generalfor the Department ofPublic Information (DPI)and Coordinator forMultilingualism at the UN

“The United Nations prac-tices multilingualism as ameans of promoting, pro-tecting and preserving di-versity of languages andcultures globally,” Akasakaadded. Each of the six offi-cial UN languages — Ara-bic, Chinese, English,French, Spanish and Rus-sian — will be honoured ona relevant day for that lan-guage.

The 20 March celebra-tion of French coincideswith the 40th anniversaryof the International Organi-zation of La Francophonie,a group whose membersshare a common tongue, aswell as the humanist valuespromoted by the Frenchlanguage.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 20March—A governmentwatchdog faulted the Fed-eral Aviation Administra-tion (FAA) for allowingSouthwest Airlines Co tofly jets that had not under-gone mandatory mainte-nance work, violatingstipulated safety rules, theWall Street Journal said.

The Office of SpecialCounsel said on Thursdaythat the company failed tocomplete certain required

maintenance involvingrivets around the windowframes of 55 of its Boeing737 aircraft, the papersaid, citing the counsel’sdocuments.

Southwest voluntarilydisclosed the informationto a senior FAA inspectorwho was also a supervi-sor in the local officecharged with overseeingthe airline, the Journalsaid.

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Landscapers see green as wearyEast greets spring

In this 15 March, 2010 file photo, pedestrians look on as a car sits crushed bya fallen tree in the aftermath of a storm in Larchmont, NY. The winter of

2009-10 left cities up and down the East Coast with several snowfall records,and yards trashed by the cold, snow, rain and wind wreaked by a series of

strong storms.—INTERNET

TRENTON, 20 March — Gardenersand landscapers along the Eastern sea-board are making haste — and money— as spring begins and they pick upthe pieces from the region’s particularlyharsh winter, which toppled more thansnowfall records.

Marian Anderson, a 73-year-old resi-dent of Manchester, NJ, is having prob-lems trying to find a crew with enoughtime to remove two old oak trees thatfell in her yard during a nor’easter lastweekend.

“They tell me they’re swamped andwill get out as soon as they can, but whoknows when that will be,” she said. “Ireally hated this winter; I truly did. It

caused nothing but trouble.”Seeing their snowiest winters on

record were cities including Baltimore,Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del, Washing-ton and Atlantic City, NJ Heavy rains inrecent weeks caused major floodingacross the mid-Atlantic region. Hurri-cane-strength winds joined forces withheavy rains last month to make yardsmessy in New England.

“It has been a remarkable winter. Oneof the stormiest, if not the stormiest onrecord. It has impacted everyone,” NewJersey state climatologist David Robinsonsaid Friday, the day before the official startof spring. “People will be talking aboutthis 20 years from now.”—Internet

The Russian Soyuz TMA-16 space capsule carryingNASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian MaximSurayev touches down not far from the Kazakh townof Arkalyk, on 18 March, 2010. Astronauts from theUnited States and Russia landed safely in northern

Kazakhstan’s chilly steppes on Thursday afterspending almost six months on the International

Space Station.—INTERNET

China seizes 27.7 tonnes ofdrugs in 2009

BEIJING, 20 March — Chinese police seized 27.7tonnes of drugs ranging from heroin to ketamine in 2009as the country stepped up its fight against drug dealers,the National Narcotics Control Commission (NNCC) saidFriday.

Chinese police confiscated 5.8 tonnes of heroin, 1.3tonnes of opium, 6.6 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine,commonly known as “ice”, 5.3 tonnes of ketamine, 8.7tonnes of marijuana and 1.06 million ecstacy pills lastyear, according to the annual report on drug control re-leased by NNCC.

Chinese police cracked down on 77,000 cases of drug-related crimes and detained 91,000 criminal suspects lastyear, it said.—Xinhua

A diamond mine outside Freetown. Up to 200wildcat miners were feared missing on Friday amidreports of a gold mine collapse in southern SierraLeone, which were denied by the country’s mining ministry.—INTERNET

At least 200 people killed in cave-inin Sierra Leone

US environment satellitereaches orbit

WASHINGTON, 20 March— Twelve days after launch,NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-istration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Sat-ellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit and was re-named GOES-15, the US National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA) said Friday in a statement.

The latest weather satellite will complete itscheckout in mid August and be stored in-orbit, readyfor activation should one of the operational GOES sat-ellites degrade or exhaust their fuel.

“The NASA team has done an excellent job and thespacecraft performance has been near perfect. Reach-ing the proper orbit marks a significant milestone, butwe still have a lot of work to complete,” stated AndreDress, the NASA GOES Deputy Project Manager. “Weremain focused on the tasks at hand and look forwardto complete mission success.”—Xinhua

FREETOWN, 20March— At least 200people were killed on Fri-day in a cave-in whichtook place in a mine in thewestern African countryof Sierra Leone, media

reported.The site was in a gold

mine in the south of thecountry, less than 300 kmfrom the capital ofFreetown. The report saida trench collapsed in the

mine, leading to theaccident. No further de-tails was available so far.Bordering the AtlanticOcean, Sierra Leone wasbetween Guinea and Libe-ria in western Africa.

The country covers anarea of about 72,000square km. Its natural re-sources included gold,diamonds, bauxite andiron ore.

Xinhua

Cyclone headedfor NE Australia

TOWNSVILLE, 20 March—Northeast Australiaprepared on Saturday for a tropical cyclone headedtoward the coast of Queensland.

Mark Hentschel, a spokesman for the WeatherBureau, said Cyclone Ului was expected to makelandfall near Townsville early Sunday morning, theAustralian Broadcasting Corp reported. High windswere expected to hit the coast between Townsville andYeppoon by late Saturday.

Ferry services to offshore islands were alreadybeing canceled Saturday, and harbors were crowdedwith yachts as their owners sought shelter from thecoming storm.—Internet

Ethiopia admits jamming VOAradio broadcasts in Amharic

ADDIS ABABA, 20 March—Ethiopia has admitted itis jamming the Voice of America’s (VOA) broadcastsin Amharic, accusing the radio station of engaging in“destabilising propaganda”. Prime Minister MelesZenawi said Ethiopia had been testing jammingequipment, although there had been no formal decisionto bloc the US station.

The Amharic Service has experienced interferencesince late February. Mr Meles also compared theVOA’s transmissions to broadcasts in Rwanda in themid-1990s that incited genocide.—Internet

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5.7 magnitude earthquake hitsNew Zealand’s Southland

WELLINGTON, 20 March—An earthquake meas-uring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck New Zealand’sSouthland on Thursday night, the GNS Sciencesaid.

The quake occurred at 7:28 pm New Zealand Lo-cal Time (0628 GMT Thursday) at a depth of 33km, the New Zealand Institute of Geological andNuclear Sciences reported.

The quake’s epicentre was about 360 km south-west of the South Island city of Invercargill. Therewere no reports of any damage or injuries. GNS saidit was felt in the southern town of Riverston.

Xinhua

Moderate quake joltseastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, 20 March—An earthquake measuring5.3 on the Richter scale struck eastern parts of In-donesia on Thursday, the Meteorology and Geophys-ics Agency reported here.

The quake took place at 3:36 pm Jakarta Time(0836 GMT) with the epicentre at 29 km southwestof Central Sulawesi and with a depth of 30 km, theagency said.

Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone socalled “the Pacific Ring of Fire.” —Xinhua

Polish court jails three men forAuschwitz sign theft

STOCKHOLM, 20 March—A Polishcourt has convicted three men for steal-ing the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei”sign from the former Auschwitz deathcamp last December. The trio, two ofwhom are brothers, were given jail sen-tences ranging from 18 months to two-and-a-half years. The court in Krakowsaid the men had admitted the theft, andso the case did not have to go to trial.

Two other Poles remain in custodyover the theft of the 5m (16ft) wrought-iron sign, which was quickly recovered.It had been half-unscrewed, half-tornfrom above the memorial site’s gate and

cut into three pieces to ease the thieves’getaway. The three convicted on Thurs-day were named as Radoslaw M, LukaszM and Pawel S.

The authorities in Stockholm said lastweek that a Swedish former neo-Nazi,who allegedly instigated the theft, willbe extradited to Poland to face trial. Thesign - which translates as “Work sets youfree” — symbolises for many the atroci-ties of Nazi Germany.—Internet

Primark-obsessed Brits dress worse than Germans

Kraft to cut salt in itsNorth American foods

PORTLAND, 20 March —Kraft FoodsInc. said on Wednesday that it will cutthe salt in its products that are sold inNorth America by an average of 10 per-cent over the next two years to appealto health-conscious consumers.

The changes at Kraft, the largest USfood maker, will affect more than 1,000products and eliminate more than 10million pounds of salt over the two-yearperiod, the company said.

Kraft and other food makers have cuttheir use of sodium in recent years.Among other cuts, the company said thislatest move will cut the salt in OscarMayer Bologna by 17 percent, EasyMac Cups by 20 percent and Velveetaby 10 percent.—Xinhua

LONDON ,20 March —Brits obsessed with cheapstores such as Primarkhave been voted the worstdressed in Europe. The Sunreported consumers inseven countries voted Britsbottom—beaten even bythe Germans. A whopping44 per cent said the Britswere worst dressed behindthe likes of the Swedes andDutch in the survey byshopping website Ciao.

And the poor pollinghas been blamed on Brits’

fixation with budget cloth-ing from stores includingPrimark, fondly nick-named Primani. The sur-vey found 85 per cent ofBritish shoppers spend lessthan £100 ($165) a monthon their wardrobes, theworst result of all sevennations. According to thepoll, 33 per cent thoughtGermans — famed fortheir mullet hairstyles —were least fashionable.

The Italians were votedthe most stylish with only

three per cent calling thembadly dressed.

In Germany, 58 per centof people were said tospend up to £200 a monthon clothes, and in Spain sixper cent spend more than£500 a month. Other statsshowed 29 per cent ofBrits considered their sun-glasses were their mostimportant style accessorycompared with only threeper cent who agreed inFrance and Italy.

Internet

Boeing supports safetychecks on 737s

SAN FRANCISCO, 20 March — Boeingsaid on Wednesday it supports the FAA’srule which requires 737 operators to in-spect the elevator tab control mechanismin response to China’s safety checks onmore than 400 aircraft made by the USgiant.

As the elevator tab on a 737 airplanewas found loose while running earlierthis month, Boeing sent an alert bulletinto all operators on 10 March, recom-mending a safety check on the mecha-nism, a spokesman of the Boeing Com-mercial Airplanes told Xinhua in a writ-ten statement on Wednesday.

“Airworthiness Directive essentiallymandates recommendations in a Boeingall-operator message.—Xinhua

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA RAJA VOY NO (213)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RAJA

VOY NO (213) are here by notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 21.3.2010 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 Claims Day.

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Teen gets over 12years for Sydney

murderSYDNEY, 20 March —

A teenager will spendmore than 12 years in jailover three brutal Sydneystreet attacks, includingthe stomping murder of achef. Now aged 18, heclaims he remembers lit-tle or nothing of the at-tacks because he was highon drugs and alcohol. Hecannot be named becausehe was a juvenile at thetime of the offences.

The trio of bashingstook place over 13 and 14June, 2008, and includedthe violent robbery of ac-tress Virginia Gay. Bestknown for her role in tel-evision drama All Saints,Gay suffered head inju-ries after being attackedby the teen as she walkedalong Illawarra Road atMarrickville. After beingpunched repeatedly andkicked in the face whileon the ground, Gayflagged down a passingbus which prompted herattacker to flee.

However, the violencedid not stop there, as theteen and a juvenile co-ac-cused launched an attacknearby on chef DanielOwen, 31, in the drive-way of the victim’s home.Mr Owen was founddead, lying face down ina pool of blood just aftermidnight on 14 June.

Internet

People enjoy cherry blossom at a parkin Wuhan, capital city of central Chi-na’s Hubei Province, on 18 March, 2010.—XINHUA

Four-day-old

Elephant calf Bimas

walks in an enclosure

during his first day in

public in the Tierpark

zoo in Berlin on 19

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Hypnotherapy ‘can help’ irritablebowel syndrome

LONDON, 20 March — Greater use ofhypnotherapy to ease the symptoms ofirritable bowel syndrome would helpsufferers and might save money, says agastroenterologist. Dr Roland Valori,editor of Frontline Gastroenterology,said of the first 100 of his patientstreated, symptoms improved signifi-cantly for nine in 10.

He said that although previous re-search has shown hypnotherapy is ef-fective for IBS sufferers, it is not widelyused. This may be because doctors sim-ply do not believe it works. Irritablebowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gutproblem which can cause abdominalpain, bloating, and sometimes diarrhoeaor constipation.

Dr Valori, of Gloucestershire RoyalHospital, said the research evidencewhich shows that hypnotherapy couldhelp sufferers of IBS was first publishedin the 1980s. He thinks it has beenwidely ignored because many doctorsfind it hard to believe that it does work,or to comprehend how it could work.

He began referring IBS patients for

hypnotherapy in the early 1990s and hasfound it to be highly effective. “To befrank, I have never looked back,” he said.He audited the first 100 cases he referredfor hypnotherapy and found that thesymptoms stopped completely in four inten cases with typical IBS.—Internet

Not sure if drug-resistant TB is worsening

More USchildren

suffer fromextremeobesity

LOS ANGELES, 20March — More and moreAmerican children aresuffering from extremeobesity, posing danger totheir future lives, accord-ing to a new study re-leased on Thursday.

“Children who are ex-tremely obese may con-tinue to be extremelyobese as adults, and all thehealth problems associ-ated with obesity are inthese children’s futures,”said Corinna Koebnick, aresearch scientist at theLos Angeles-based KaiserPermanente, a medical in-stitution, and lead authorof the study.

“Without major life-style changes, these kidsface a 10 to 20 yearsshorter life span and willdevelop health problemsin their twenties that wetypically see in 40 to 60year olds,” Koebnick said.

Internet

Study finds H1N1 flu inpregnancy is critical risk

LONDON, 20 March—The World Health Organi-zation says it doesn’t haveenough information toknow if it is winning thefight against drug-resist-ant tuberculosis.

In a new report on theglobal status of drug-re-sistant TB based on datafrom 2008, the agencysays almost half of allpeople with the diseaseare in China and India,with both countries re-porting about 100,000new cases each.

High rates of drug-re-

sistant TB strains werealso seen in eastern Eu-rope and central Asia,with up to 60 percent ofpeople who already hadTB in some parts ofTajikistan and Uzbekistandeveloping drug-resistantversions. About 4 percentof all TB cases worldwideare thought to be non-re-sponsive to the usual TBdrugs. The agency esti-mated there were between390,000 and 510,000cases of drug-resistant TBin 2008, including about150,000 people who were

killed by the disease. Butthose numbers are basedon modeling and comewith a big margin of er-ror.

The report is based oninformation from 35countries worldwide,leaving a huge gap in theglobal TB picture. “Thecountry data reported toWHO make it impossibleat this time to concludewhether the (drug-resist-ant TB) epidemic world-wide is growing or shrink-ing,” the agency wrote inits report.—Internet

LONDON, 20 March —Pregnant women in Aus-tralia and New Zealandwho had pandemicH1N1 flu were 13 timesmore likely to becomecritically ill and be ad-mitted to hospital, re-searchers said on Friday.

The study, publishedin the British MedicalJournal (BMJ), analyzeddata from the middle ofthe southern hemi-sphere’s 2009 winter andfound that 11 percent ofmothers and 12 percent

of babies died after ad-mission to intensive carewith swine flu.

The findings confirmearlier research thatpregnant women are athigher risk of seriouscomplications if they getthe flu. The WorldHealth Organization(WHO) declared lastJune that the new H1N1virus was causing thefirst influenza pandemicin more than 40 yearsafter it spread around theworld from Mexico andthe United States in justsix weeks.

The H1N1 pandemicsparked a race to developnew vaccines by drug-makers including Glaxo-SmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis.

But the vaccines werenot ready until later inthe year, and then manypeople failed to have theshots because of safetyconcerns and becausethe pandemic was milderthen feared.

Internet

West Nile virus backin Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, 20 March — Two dead birds havetested positive recently for West Nile virus in LosAngeles, indicating that the virus is back in the area,authorities said on Thursday.

“These two West Nile virus positive dead birdsare evidence that West Nile virus continues to per-sist in Los Angeles,” said Susanne Kluh of the Vec-tor Control District, which tracks the movements ofpests.

The cases are the first two documented in Los An-geles County this year, according to health officials.

Xinhua

Philippine airport police arrests US nationalfor attempting to break plane window

MANILA, 20 March—Philippine airport police-men arrested a US nationalFriday for attempting thebreak the glass window ofa Philippine Air Lines air-craft bound for Cebu.

Superintendent JoeySalido, chief of the 7thPolice Centre for Avia-tion Security named thesuspect as 80-year-oldRex Maybert Hampton, ofOregon, Portland. Salidosaid they are preparing a

charge of malicious mis-chief resulting to damageto property and violationof the Civil Air Regulationfor endangering the life ofthe other passengers.

Salido said Hamptonused the cane to hit theglass window of the Phil-ippine Air Lines aircraftwhile on flight. He said thethree-layer window glasssustained cracks on the firstlayer. He added that theAmerican’s Filipina wife,

Jovelyn, and the flight at-tendants were able topacify Hampton. Hamp-ton was taken into policecustody shortly after theaircraft touched downabout 6:30 am.

Xinhua

Yao Ming (R) of Houston Rockets claps with histeammate before the NBA game between

Houston Rockets and Boston Celtics in Houston,south United States of America, on 19 March,

2010.—XINHUA

A new infrared image fromNASA’s Wide-field Infrared

Survey Explorer, or WISE, showsa cosmic rosebud blossoming with

new stars.INTERNET

Anatomist Gunther von Hagens looks at a plastinated giraffe during anexhibition at Neunkirchen Zoo in Neunkirchen near Saarbruecken 19

March 2010.—INTERNET

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DOWN 1 Cry of a sheep 2 Yorkshire river 3 Light hours 4 Scamp 5 Suspension of hostilities 6 Temporary 7 Deposit (anag.)11 Puritan soldier13 Backache15 Distinguished musician16 Putting surfaces18 Seat19 Monarch20 Gentle knock

CROSSWORDS PUZZLE

Sir Alex Ferguson calls FA ‘dysfunctional’

Gerrard is hoping to driveLiverpool to their fourth straight

win over United.— INTERNET

LONDON, 20 March — Sir Alex Ferguson has called the FootballAssociation “dysfunctional” for its handling of incidents involvingRio Ferdinand and Steven Gerrard. The Manchester United managerwas angry after Ferdinand got a four-match ban for a challenge onHull’s Craig Fagan. Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Gerrard was not pun-ished for an alleged V-sign or an elbow on Portsmouth’s MichaelBrown, freeing him to face United on Sunday. “There is no consist-ency,” said Ferguson. “It is a dysfunctional unit.”

Liverpool captain Gerrard has been under scrutiny twice this month,firstly for appearing to flash a V-sign at referee Andre Marriner dur-ing the 1-0 defeat to Wigan on 8 March. A week later, he seemed tostrike Brown with an elbow in the second half of the Reds’ 4-1 victoryover Portsmouth.Both incidents were seen by the referee during thematch, making the FA powerless to apply retrospective punishment.”Ididn’t expect anything to happen to Steven Gerrard,” said Ferguson.“It [the FA disciplinary panel] is a dysfunctional unit. I don’t knowwhat they are doing.”

Internet

Arsenal draw favouritesBarcelona in Champions League

LONDON, 20 March—Arsenal face a ChampionsLeague quarter-final with Barcelona in a mouthwa-tering repeat of the 2006 final. And ManchesterUnited’s pairing with Bayern Munich will evokememories of the Red Devils’ triumph in 1999.Should they progress, United will face either Lyonor Bordeaux while Arsenal would take on the win-ners of Inter Milan and CSKA Moscow’s tie.

The quarter-final first legs will be played on 30and 31 March with the return fixtures on 6 and 7April.The draw pits Barcelona striker Thierry Henryagainst his former club for the first time since hemade a £16m switch to the Catalan side in June2007.

Internet

Jermain Defoe

Jermain Defoe suffershamstring tear

Wozniacki vs Jankovic in finalINDIAN WELLS, 20 March—Caroline Wozniacki and

Jelena Jankovic won their semifinal matches on Fri-day to set up a championship meeting at the BNPParibas Open. Wozniacki, last year’s US Open run-ner-up and seeded second in this event, defeatedAgnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-3 to reach the 13th finalof her career. She has won six titles and owns a 2-1edge in meetings with Radwanska.

Jankovic, the No 6 seed, cruised past SamanthaStosur 6-2, 6-4. Jankovic, who once was ranked No 1in the world, will be appearing in her first final of theyear in five tournament appearances. Jankovic has wonall three of her meetings with Wozniacki.

InternetRafael Nadal

Nadal books semifinal with Ljubicic

Andy Murray beaten by Robin Soderling in California

Murray was overcome by the Swedeat Indian Wells.— INTERNET

Ancelotti won theChampions Leaguetwice as AC Milan

manager.—INTERNET

Chelsea boss Ancelotti sets hissights on the double

INDIAN WELLS, 20 March—AndyMurray has been defeated in the BNPParibas quarter-finals by RobinSoderling in California. The sixth-seeded Swede, who triumphed 6-1 7-6(7-4) against number four seed Murray,will now take on Andy Roddick for aplace in the final.

Soderling took 94 minutes to securethe win. “He played very well to startwith and I didn’t,” Murray told Reuters.“I didn’t move particularly well.”Murray forced a tie-breaker in the sec-ond set but it was the Swede who looked

in command for the bulk of the encoun-ter after saving four break points in thefirst game.—Internet

Championshipcancelled after surf

lifesaver deathSYDNEY, 20 March—

Organizers of a nationalsurf lifesaving champion-ships on the Gold Coasthave cancelled all water-based events followingthe death of 19-year-oldchampion surfer SaxonBird. The Sydney-basedsurf lifesaver got into dif-ficulties in rough condi-tions off Kurrawa Beachon Friday afternoon whilecompeting in the under-19ironman event at the Aus-tralian Surf Life SavingChampionships. He washit by his own ski and fall-ing from his craft 150mfrom the beach and diedin hospital later on Friday.

On Saturday morning,organizers of the eventcancelled all water, craftand boat events in all agegroups for the remainderof the championships.Sand-based events wouldcontinue, they said.

Internet

INDIAN WELLS, 20 March—Worldnumber three Rafael Nadal booked hisplace in the semifinal at the Masters1000 tournament at Indian Wells but hewas made to work hard by Czech TomasBerdych. Nadal won 6-4 7-6 in twohours, 11 minutes to set up a final fourclash with Ivan Ljubicic, who beat Ar-gentina’s Juan Monaco in Thursday’sfirst match. Nadal had lost three of hisprevious five hard court encounters withBerdych, but started well by breakinghis opponent in the opening game.

Berdych hit back to level things up

at 4-4 but Nadal broke again to tie upthe first set. The pair swapped breaks inthe second set before Nadal won thetie break 7-4 to seal his place in the semi-final.—Internet

LONDON, 20 March—Carlo Ancelotti has set hissights on a PremierLeague and FA Cup dou-ble as Chelsea look to puttheir Champions Leaguemisery behind them.Chelsea are two points off

the pace at the top of theleague and are through tothe final four in the FACup. And Chelsea’s defi-ant manager says his play-ers have it in their powerto win both competitions.“Our destiny is in our ownhands,” said the Italian.“If we win every game,we can do the double.That’s our aim.” The mid-week Champions Leagueexit to Inter Milan hadprompted speculation thatchanges will be made toChelsea’s ageing squad inthe summer.

Internet

LONDON, 20 March—Tottenham striker JermainDefoe will be out for a“few weeks” after suffer-ing a tear to his hamstring,according to managerHarry Redknapp. Thenews will be a blow forChampions League-chas-ing Spurs and Englandboss Fabio Capello, withthe Italian naming hisWorld Cup squad on 16May.

And Redknapp con-firmed: “It’s a grade-twotear but it will be a fewweeks. He is struggling.”Defoe, 27, has netted 23

goals for Spurs in all com-petitions this season. Andhe joins an already lengthyinjury list at White HartLane with TomHuddlestone, David Bent-ley, Aaron Lennon, LedleyKing and JonathanWoodgate all on the side-lines.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Shan, Kayin and Mon States, lowerSagaing Mandalay, Bago and Taninthayi Divisons,weatherhas been partly cloudy in Rakhine State, upper Sagaing,Yangon and Ayeyawady Divisions and generally fair in theremaining areas. Day temperatures were (3 °C) aboveMarch average temperatures in Chin and Mon States, upperSagaing, Mandalay, Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions,(6°C) above March average temperautres in Kachin Stateand about March average temperatures in the remainingareas. The significant day temperatures was Chauk(40 °C).The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereShwegyin (0.40) inch, Kungtung and Sagaing (0.16) incheach and Thaton (0.12) inch.

Maximum temperature on 19-3-2010 was 99 °F.Minimum temperature on 20-3-2010 was 75°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on20-3-2010 was 77%.Total sun shine hours on 19-3-2010 was (1.0) hours approx.

Rainfall on 20-3-2010 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 Southeast at (17:30) hours MST on 19-3-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21th March 2010:Light rain or thundershowers are likely to be isolated inShan,Kayin and Mon States, upper Sagaing, Mandalay,Bago and Taninthayi Divisions and weather will be partlycloudy in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Sea will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of isolated rain or thundershowers in theSouthern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for21-3-2010 : Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for21-3-2010: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for21-3-2010: Likelihood of isolated light rain orthundershowers. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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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 hatredamong the people

★ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

★ Do not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

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

and violence

“Right View” series on MRTV and MWD

Earthquake reportNAY PYI TAW, 20 March—A mild earthquake

measuring 4.7 on Richter Scale with its epicenter nearWantang village of China-Myanmar border about 40miles southeast of Mongyan, about 400 miles of Kaba-Aye seismological observatory was recorded at 2 hr 27min 26 sec MST today, announced the Meteorologyand Hydrology Department.—MNA

Songbirds yield insight into speech production` PORTLAND, 20 March — With the help of a littlesinging bird, Penn State physicists are gaining insightinto how the human brain functions, which may lead toa better understanding of complex vocal behavior,human speech production and ultimately, speech dis-orders and related diseases.

Dezhe Jin, assistant professor of physics, islooking at how songbirds transmit impulses throughnerve cells in the brain to produce a complex behavior,such as singing. Songbirds are particularly well suitedfor studying speech production and syntax—the rulesof syllable or word sequence—because there are moresimilarities between birdsong and human speech than

one may initially think.“We are not only interested in birds,” Jin told

attendees on 18 March at the American Physical So-ciety's March meeting in Portland, Ore. “We areultimately interested in studying how the humanbrain works and better understanding ourselves.”

While many animals communicate vocally,songbirds are among the few that learn their commu-nication sounds in a manner similar to humans. Al-though human and bird brains are different, research-ers believe that both the speech and song learningprocesses involve similar neural mechanisms.

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More advanced versions could collect all theinformation about the contents of a store in an

instant, letting a retailer know where everypackage is at any time.

Nano-based RFID tags could replace bar codesSEOUL, 20 March— Long lines at store checkouts

could be history if a new technology created in part at RiceUniversity comes to pass.

Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led byGyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, havecome up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that canbe invisibly embedded in packaging. It would allow acustomer to walk a cart full of groceries or other goods pasta scanner on the way to the car; the scanner would read allitems in the cart at once, total them up and charge thecustomer's account while adjusting the store’s inventory.

The technology reported in the March issue of thejournal IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices is basedon a carbon-nanotube-infused ink for ink-jet printers firstdeveloped in the Rice lab of James Tour, the T.T. and W.F.Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor ofmechanical engineering and materials science and of

computer science. The ink is used to make thin-filmtransistors, a key element in radio-frequency identifica-tion (RFID) tags that can be printed on paper or plastic.

InternetNAY PYI TAW, 20 March—Hailing the 65th

Anniversary Armed Forces Day, Myanma Radioand Television and Myawady Television will broad-cast TV series “Alinyaung (Right View)” after 8pm news programme from 23 to 25 March.

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