The New Light of Myanmar 21-11-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 219 5th Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Saturday, 21 November, 2009

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

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

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye receives Deputy Prime Ministerand Minister of Foreign Affairs and party of Lao PDR

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Nov—Vice-Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief of Defence Serv-ices Commander-in-Chief (Army)Vice-Senior General Maung Aye re-ceived the delegation led by DeputyPrime Minister and Minister of For-eign Affairs Dr Thongloun Sisoulithof the Lao People’s Democratic Re-public at Bayintnaung Yeiktha, here,at 10 am today.

Also present at the call were

Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council GeneralThiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo,Minister for Foreign Affairs U NyanWin and Minister for National Plan-ning and Economic Development USoe Tha.

The Laotian Deputy Prime Min-ister and Minister of Foreign Affairsand party were accompanied by Lao-tian Ambassador to the Union ofMyanmar Mr Kouily A Souphakhet.

MNA

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye receives Deputy Prime Minister

and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Thongloun Sisoulith and

party of the Lao People’ s Democratic Republic at Bayintnaung

Yeiktha in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

Vice-SeniorGeneral

Maung Ayecordiallygreets Dr

ThonglounSisoulith,

Deputy PrimeMinister andMinister of

ForeignAffairs of theLao People’sDemocraticRepublic at

BayintnaungYeiktha inNay Pyi

Taw.—MNA

The 27-mile Pakokku-Kyunchaungrailroad section inaugurated

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 21 November, 2009

Saturday, 21 November, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Every human being should take careof himself and live in accord with healthprescriptions to ensure health and longevity.

The State on its part is endeavouringto realize the objective – Uplift of health,fitness and education standards of the entirenation. Its goal is for every family to enjoyhealth, happiness and a disease-free longlife.

Due to the global rise in diabetes, theworld has marked the World Diabetes Dayto accelerate measures to control and curbthe illness.

As diabetes has become a public healthdilemma, we have been launching educationand prevention campaigns on a nationalscale. Moreover, we will have to introducethe task of helping and encouraging those atrisk to maintain a healthy weight and engagein regular exercise.

The upsurge of the ailment can becontrolled through regulation of eating habitand proper management when the diseasehas been noticed. Those suffering fromdiabetes should eat more vegetables and lesshigh-energy drinks, fast foods and calorie-dense foods.

What is more, avoiding much sugarand carbohydrate and rather choosing morebalanced diets are very reliable andprophylactically wise. In this way they willbe able to alleviate the ailment and will befree from related diseases while enjoyinglong life almost as a normal person.

In this regard, we all will have toparticipate in disease control campaigns withhealth awareness for the entire national racesto be healthy and fit in building a modernand developed discipline-flourishingdemocratic nation.

Control diabetes with health

awareness

NAY PYI TAW, 20Nov—Chairman ofSagaing Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-GenMyint Soe attended theceremony to pay respectsto doyen literati of Sagaing

Commander attends respect paying ceremony to doyen literatiand townselders.

The commanderinspected construction ofthe water tank to be linkedwith Phonesoe Ward ofMonywa through thepipeline.

At the hall of thecommand headquarters in

Monywa, the commanderattended the workcoordination meeting.

After hearing thereports on progress of workpresented by officials, thecommander gaveconcluding remarks.

MNA

Division at the city hall inMonywa on 17 November.

Also present on theoccasion were military anddepartmental officials,members of socialorganizations, members ofDivision Writers andJournalists Association

NAY PYI TAW, 20Nov—Minister forForestry Brig-Gen TheinAung, on 15 November,inspected 200 acres and500 acres of teakplantations established byMomentum Co., Ltd in2004 and in 2007, 200acres of private teakplantation established byGood Brothers Co., Ltd in2008 and 117 mile private

Forestry Minister inspects teak plantations in Mabein,Shwegu and Bhamo Townships

teak plantation of HondaMyanmar Co., Ltd inNgar-O forest reserve, 283acres, 981acres and 1788acres of teak plantationsin 2007, 2008 and 2009 inMabein Township,Kyuakme District.

On arrival at Shweguforest reserve in ShweguTownship, the ministerinspected trees, erectingof notice signboards and

forest reserve area postsand 100 acres of economicteak plantationestablished in 2007.

In the afternoon, theminister made a speech inmeeting with staff fromKachin and Shan (North)States and SagaingDivision at Shwegurafting office in Mandalayrafting region in ShweguTownship.

The minister alsoinspected one acre ofeucalyptus plantationestablished by village-owned teak plantationNgarbatgyi village inShwegu Township in2009. At the briefing hallof forest camp of Hsinkanvillage in BhamoTownship, the ministergave necessaryinstructions after hearingthe reports presented byofficials concerned onarrangements made forestablishment ofplantations andconservation of forestreserve.

In the evening, theminister made a speech inmeeting with staff fromMinistry of Forestry inBhamo region at deputygeneral manager’s officein Bhamo timberextraction region inBhamo and Myitkyinaregion at director’s officeof Forest Department inMyitkyina.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 19Nov—The old students(2/ 1983 batch) whopursued education atInstitute of Medicine(Mandalay) fromFebruary 1983 toFebruary 1988 will payrespects to the teachersalong with get-togetherfor the first time at thatuniversity from 9 am to12 noon on 25 December.

The students are

Alumni (2/ 1983 batch) ofInstitute of Medicine to hold

respect paying ceremonyinvited to participate in theceremony and thosewilling to donate cash maycontact Dr Hlwan Moe(Ph: 09-2001173), Dr AyeAye Chit (Ph: 09-6970258), Dr Aye AyeLwin (Ph: 09-2019360),Dr Kyaw Soe Shein (Ph:09-2001389), Dr Zaw MinOo (09-5301299), Dr NayMyo Oo (Ph: 09-2010795)and Dr Nu Nu Yi (Ph: 09-5113750).—MNA

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung views thriving teakplantations of Momentum Co Ltd in Mabein Township.—FORESTRY

Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win

and party and Laotiandelegation led by

Deputy PrimeMinister and Ministerof Foreign Affairs DrThongloun Sisoulithof Lao PDR at 9th

Meeting of Myanmar-Lao Joint Commission

for BilateralCooperation inTaunggyi on 18

November. (Newsreported)—MOFA

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World media launch 24-hour globalbroadcast on Universal Children’s Day

A man watches the Universal Children’s Day report covered by XinhuaNews Agency in a hotel in Brussels, capital of Belgium, on 19 Nov, 2009.

XINHUA

BEIJING, 20 Nov — More than 800 media organizations from 70 countriesand regions launched a 24-hour relay broadcast for children’s rights on Univer-sal Children’s Day, which falls on Friday.

The global media campaign, also called the “Global News Day for Children”program, was initiated by Xinhua News Agency and the United Nations Chil-dren’s Fund (UNICEF) to highlight the international media’s role in helpingimprove children’s living environments and promoting their healthy develop-ment.

Xinhua has been working with all participating media organizations from 8a.m. (Beijing time) Friday to launch 16 hours of Chinese-language coverageand eight hours of English-language coverage of education, culture, globaliza-tion, environment protection, disability, sport, charity, conflict, and traditionsthat are closely connected to children’s lives and development.

It includes the sharing of TV specials, joint TV coverage of the global eventsmarking Universal Children’s Day, exchanges of TV programs and the live broad-casts of text, photos, audio and video on each other’s platforms.

These reports, including hard news, features, commentaries andbackgrounders, all carry “Universal Children’s Day” in the headlines and arecategorized into special fields such as “rights and interests,” “on being strong,”“education” and “environmental protection.”

Xinhua has mobilized all its 31 domestic bureaus and 118 overseas branchesto provide subscribers with news and information in text, photos, graphics, au-dio, video, online and text message formats and in eight languages: Chinese,English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese.

“Children are our future. To strive for the better life of children across theworld is the responsibility of our generation and commitment of myself as sec-retary general,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a video interviewwith Xinhua, which was broadcast at the launching ceremony. — Xinhua

Rescue workers inspect derailed train carriages after tracks were blown upnear the forest area of Manoharpur on 20 November. —INTERNET

Security forces gather

at the site of a suicide

attack in Kabul.

INTERNET

Suicide bomber kills 13 inwestern Afghanistan

Roadside bombings wound six peoplein E Afghanistan

Map locates Farah,Afghanistan, where asuicide bomber on amotorcycle detonated

his explosives.INTERNET

KABUL, 20 Nov — Asuicide bomber riding amotorcycle killed 13 peo-ple, including a police of-ficer, and wounded 30others Friday in a busycity square in westernAfghanistan.

Several children wereamong those wounded inthe morning explosion,said a doctor at the hos-pital in Farah city, ShirAgh Asas.

Afghan police shouted“Stop! Stop!” at the mo-torcyclist before he deto-nated the explosives, pro-vincial police chief Gen.

Mohammad Faqir Askarsaid.

Provincial GovernorRohul Amin said the blast

occurred about 55 yards(50 meters) from his com-pound in a crowdedsquare in Farah.

“These days Talebanare causing high casual-ties because the foreignforces and Afghan forceshave been conducting op-erations against the insur-gency in the region,”Askar said.

An operation threedays ago in another partof the province killed fivemilitants, including aTaleban commander and abomb-maker, Askarsaid.—Internet

KHOST (Afghanistan),20 Nov — A soldier withthe US-led CoalitionForces was injured as hisvehicle hit a roadsidebomb in Afghanistan’seastern Paktia provinceon Thursday, spokesmanfor the provincial admin-istration said.

“A roadside bombplanted by militants strucka military convoy of coa-lition forces in Mamoziarea of Zurmat district ataround noon. As a result aforeign soldier waswounded,” Samon toldXinhua.

Like many Afghans

who use one name, Samonalso added that a militaryvehicle was damaged inthe incident.

In a separate incident,five people including a po-lice official got wounded,as a bomb went off in abazaar in Zurmat district in

the same province.“The explosion oc-

curred at around 1:30 p.m.local time in a district ba-zaar, wounding four civil-ians and a police consta-ble,” Gulad Shah, the dis-trict chief of Zurmat, toldXinhua.—Xinhua

US computer glitchescausing flight delays

resolvedNEW YORK, 20 Nov — The US Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) said Thursday that its flightcomputer system, which went down early in the morn-ing, is back to normal after glitches caused delaysacross the northeastern United States.

FAA said earlier that the system went down at5:15 am. EDT. Its spokeswoman Laura Brown saidthat air traffic controllers had to enter the flight plansmanually, a process that causes delays.

There were no problems with controllers’ radardata or voice communication, so airline safety was un-affected.—Xinhua

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GENEVA, 20 Nov—China on Thursday re-jected requests made bythe United States, the Eu-ropean Union and Mexicoto establish a WTO expertpanel to investigate andrule on so-called Chineserestrictions of raw mate-rials exportation.

At a meeting of theWTO’s dispute settlementbody, the Chinese delega-

RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 Nov—The World Trade Organi-zation (WTO) decided on Thursday to allow Brazil tostart retaliating upon the United Stated for illegal sub-sidies paid to US cotton producers.

The authorization of the WTO’s Dispute SettlementBody followed a preliminary decision made in lateAugust, and allowed Brazil to start to retaliate uponthe world’s leading cotton exporter immediately.

However, the action will take some time to be ex-ecuted, as the Brazilian government has not yet de-cided the volume and products of the sanctions.

The products will be open to the choice by the Bra-zilian businessmen from a public list which includes222 items until the end of November.

According to the Brazilian Foreign Trade Cham-ber’s estimates, the sanctions, starting from the be-ginning of 2010, may reach 800 million US dollars.

The WTO’s decision represents the end of a dec-ade-long dispute that Brazil first complained againstthe US in 2002, alleging that the US cotton subsidiescaused damages to the Brazilian producers.—Xinhua

MADRID, 20 Nov—Spain’s economy willshrink in both 2009 and2010, and make a minorrecovery in 2011, theParis-based economic ad-viser Organization forEconomic Cooperationand Development(OECD) said on Thurs-day.

According to theOECD’s semi-annual re-port, Spain will see aneconomic contraction of3.6 percent in 2009 and0.3 percent in 2010 beforea weak rebound by 0.9percent in 2011.

The OECD also fore-casted that Spain’s unem-ployment rate would topother OECD membercountries in 2010, hitting19.3 percent from18.1percent in 2009.

Xinhua

China rejects US, EU, Mexican requestsfor WTO panel on raw materials

tion reiterated that “itsmeasures related to ex-portation are consistentwith the principles andrules of the WTO,” andthe country “consistentlyrespects and abides by theWTO rules and its owncommitments.”

“China is disappointedthat the three complain-ants choose to move for-ward with requests for

panel establishment at thismeeting... and is not in aposition to agree to theestablishment of a panel atthis time,” the delegationsaid.

The United States hasaccused China of restrict-ing exports of “numerousraw materials critical toUS manufactures andworkers,” thus violatingWTO rules. The materialsat issue include coke,bauxite, fluorspar, magne-sium, silicon metal andzinc.—Xinhua

Spain’s economy toshrink in 2009, 2010

PARIS, 20 Nov—TheParis-based economic ad-viser Organization of Eco-nomic Cooperation andDevelopment (OECD)confirmed on Thursdaythe economic recoveryhas now spread to OECDarea at large and fore-casted a whole growth of1.9 percent in 2010.

However, the reportadmitted that the OECDeconomy remains drag-ging in depression for2009 as households andbusinesses need time torevive their confidenceand repair their finances.

Economic recovery spreads to OECDarea at large

According to the re-port, the Untied Stateswill bear a 2.5 percentcontraction, better thanthe 4.0 percent decline forthe euro area and 5.3 per-cent for Japan. TheOECD will embrace adecline of 3.5 percent atlarge, and world trade willalso decline12.5 percentfor the year.

The OECD outlookreport also forecastsgrowth in the comingyears, saying that theUnited States will see 2.5percent growth in grossdomestic products (GDP)

in 2010 and a further 2.8percent in 2011, while theeconomy of the euro areaand Japan will respec-tively increase 0.9 percentand 1.8 percent in 2010,and 1.7percent and 2.0percent in 2011. Speakinggenerally, the report said,the world trade growthwill stand at 6.0 percentfor 2010.

The report attributesthe long awaited modestgrowth across the OECDarea to the held-back ef-fect of stimulus policiesimplemented by differentgovernments.—Xinhua

WTO allows Brazil to imposesanctions on US over

cotton trade

TOKYO, 20 Nov—Sony’s new online serv-ice connecting the wholerange of its gadgets todownloadable contentlike movies and gamesshould help build brandloyalty, a top executivesaid Friday.ExecutiveVice President KazuoHirai said the servicehighlights an advantagethat Sony has over rivalslike Samsung ElectronicsCo. and other manufac-turers that don’t produce

Sony hopes online service willbuild brand loyalty

their own content. Sony’sbusiness empire spansgaming, electronics,movies and music“That’s the kind of com-bination that I think is notseen anywhere else,”Hirai said in an interviewat Tokyo headquarters.“That I think is where ourcore competence lies,and that’s a differentiatorfor Sony.”The onlineservice, set to start nextyear, will include games,movie downloads and

other interactive enter-tainment, which will beaccessible on Sony prod-ucts, such as Bravia TVs,Cyber-shot digital cam-eras and Reader elec-tronic books.Sony is tar-geting annual sales of 300billion yen ($3.4 billion)from its networked serv-ices businesses and 350million network-con-nected products by thefiscal year ending March2013.

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A cargo ship sits at aport in Bangkok.Exports from thesouth east Asian

nation in Octoberfell 2.98 percent

year-on-year as thesector picks up afterbeing hit hard by the

global economicdownturn, the

commerce ministryhas said.—INTERNET

Fair visitors inspect a Seat Leon car at an auto show in Frankfurt/Main in2005. SEAT, the ailing Spanish subsidiary of German auto giant Volkswagen,said Thursday it planned to cut production at its plant in northeastern Spain

next year due to a downturn in demand.—INTERNET

A man checks Japan’s Nikkei stock index on the indicationboard while a man with a mask checks his mobile phone infront of a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 Nov, 2009.The stock index has fallen to a four-month low, pressuredby uncertainty over the government’s handling of the de-flation-plagued economy. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stockaverage lost 51.79 points, or 0.5 percent, to 9,492.74, thelowest finish since July 17 when the key index

closed at 9,395.32.—INTERNET

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Senior CPC official pledgescloser ties with South Africa

PRETORIA, 20 Nov—Senior official of theCommunist Party ofChina (CPC) ZhouYongkang has said thatChina is willing to en-hance cooperation withSouth Africa in variousfields in a bid to lift bilat-eral ties to a new height,according to sources withthe International Depart-ment of CPC CentralCommittee on Thursday.

Zhou, a member of theStanding Committee ofthe CPC Central Commit-tee Political Bureau, madethe remarks while meet-ing with South African

President Jacob Zuma onWednesday in Pretoria.

Zhou arrived in Johan-nesburg on Wednesday onan official goodwill visitto South Africa after con-cluding his three-day visitto Sudan. Zhou visitsSouth Africa as guest ofSouth Africa’s rulingparty African NationalCongress (ANC).

“Since the two coun-tries established diplo-matic relationship 11years ago, China andSouth Africa have en-joyed increasing politicalmutual trust, and madefruitful achievements in

such areas as trade, cul-ture, education and tour-ism,” Zhou told Zuma.

“China is now the larg-est trading partner ofSouth Africa, and the twocountries have becomeimportant strategic part-ners,” Zhou said.

Zhou said China at-taches great importance torelations with Africa, add-ing that China is willingto discuss new ways ofcooperation with the Af-rican nations by imple-menting the eight newmeasures just put forwardby the Chinese govern-ment.—Xinhua

Children smileon a basketball

court at anelememtary

school in Lusakaon 15 Nov, 2009.

Haunted byhunger and

poverty, Zambiais one of theworld’s least-

developed coun-tries. But Zam-bian children

could neverthe-less enjoy the funof sports. Theirfavourite gamesare basketball

and soccer.XINHUA

One billion children stillstruggle to survive

UNITED NATIONS, 20 Nov—Twenty years after theUN adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, 1billion children are still deprived of food, shelter orclean water, and nearly 200 million are chronicallymalnourished, UNICEF said on Thursday.

There are some bright spots — fewer youngsters aredying and more are going to school, the UN children’sagency said in a report issued on the eve of the 20th

anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of theChild.

UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman said theconvention “has transformed the way children areviewed and treated throughout the world.”

“As the first decade of the 21st century comes to aclose, the convention stands at a pivotal moment,” shetold a news conference.

“Its relevance remains timeless. The challenge forthe next 20 years is to build on the progress achieved,working together to reach those children who are stillbeing denied their rights to survival, development,protection and participation.”

The convention has the widest support of any hu-man rights treaty, with ratifications legally binding 193countries to its provisions. But not all countries areimplementing its requirements, Veneman said.

Xinhua

Italian OlympicCommittee to sue

Rebellin afterdoping scandal

ROME, 20 Nov—TheItalian Olympic Commit-tee (CONI) would sueDavide Rebellin for dam-ages after the cyclist wasstripped of his silvermedal for doping at theBeijing Olympics, it saidon Thursday.

CONI demandedRebellin to return themedal he won in the cy-cling road race to the In-ternational Olympic Com-mittee after the rider testedpositive for the bannedblood-booster CERA.

The 38-year-old shouldalso give back the 75,000euro bonus he picked upfor winning the silver,CONI said.

Xinhua

Hong Kong ready for preventingA/H1N1 spread in East Asian GamesHONG KONG, 20 Nov—The Hospital Authority (HA)

of Hong Kong has prepared to provide professionalmedical services to the upcoming East Asian Games(EAG), including a plan for preventing the spread ofA/H1N1 flu during the competitions.

“A contingency plan has set out the precautionarymeasures to prevent the spread of the disease amongEAG participants and the contingency measures to beimplemented should the situation exacerbate duringthe competition period.” HA Chief Manager (Infec-tion, Emergency and Contingency) Dr Liu Shao-haeisaid here on Thursday.—Xinhua

Moderate quakerocks West Papua,

IndonesiaJAKARTA, 20 Nov—A

shallow earthquakemeasuring 5.5 on theRichter scale struck WestPapua in easternmost ofIndonesia on Fridaymorning, but there wasno report of damage orcasualty, the Meteorol-ogy and GeophysicsAgency said here.

The intensity of thequake was felt at 2 to 3MMI (ModifiedMercally Intensity) atManokwari town ofWest Papua, an officialof the agency namedonly Yusuf told Xinhuaover phone.

The quake tookplace at 6:07 am Jakartatime (2307 GMT), hesaid.

The center of thequake was at 57 km north-east the town and at 10 kmunder sea bed, Yusuf said.

Xinhua

Japan Govt declares nation tobe in deflation

TOKYO, 20 Nov—The Japanese government said onFriday that the nation has fallen into deflation, exacer-bating fears that the recent tentative economic recov-ery may slide into reverse. Deputy Prime Minister NaotoKan said the country now faces a “deflationary situa-tion” and that the government will work with the Bankof Japan to implement policies to attempt to prevent anall out economic crisis. Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujiialso said he believes the economy is in a troubled situ-ation. “We are aware of the serious risk. The situationis not as it should be,” he said.—Xinhua

Firefighters work at the restaurant that on fire in Qingyun County of eastChina’s Shandong Province, on 19 Nov, 2009. Six people were killed andthree injured early Thursday after a restaurant went on fire in Qingyun

County, local authorities said. —XINHUA

Students attend class at a Chinese-language schoolin Toronto on 31 Oct, 2009. With the increase ofChinese immigrants and the growth of China’seconomy, more and more people in Toronto began to learn the Chinese language.—XINHUA

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

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NEWS ALBUMA Bangladeshi toddler separated thisweek from her conjoined twin sister wastalking and behaving normally on Thurs-day after waking from a medically in-duced coma, the head of the surgeryteam said.

Trishna is already doing well enoughthat she could leave intensive care, saidWirginia Maixner, director of neurosur-gery at Royal Children’s Hospital.

“She looks brilliant, she is talking,she is being Trishna, she is behaving theway she always has,” Maixner told re-porters. “She’s phenomenally good.”

Her sister, Krishna, will be slowlybrought out of the coma later on Thurs-

Rich Egyptians living 3,500 yearsago may have been walking aroundwith the same clogged arteries thatmodern Americans now battle, accord-ing to a presentation at the AmericanHeart Association’s annual meeting.

A group of scientists said that, on awhim, they performed a computerizedtomography (CT) scan on a collectionof 22 mummies housed at the EgyptianNational Museum of Antiquities inCairo to see if they too suffered fromthe plaque build-up in arteries that leadto coronary artery disease.

One conjoined twin talking after separation surgery

Two-year-old Bangladeshi orphan,Trishna, is seen at the Royal

Children’s Hospital Melbourne inAustralia.

Egyptianmummies had

clogged arteries

28 Munch works lost inrecent years

The Art Loss Register in Londonsaid 28 paintings by Norwegian artistEdvard Munch have been lost or stolenin recent years.

Antonia Kimbell of the section forstolen works at the Art Loss Registersaid the works would be worth hun-dreds of thousands of dollars in the le-gal market, The Norway Post reportedThursday.

However, Kimbell said paintings arecommonly sold for less than 10 percentof their value in the illegal trade.

Armed robbers pulled the EdvardMunch painting “The Scream,” fromthe walls of the Munch Museum andescaped in broad daylight in Oslo on22 August, 2004. Masked thieves also

stole Munch’s “Madonna,” whichshows a bare-breasted woman with

flowing black hair. Witnesses say themen were dressed in black and

threatened guards with guns as theyran to their car with the paintings.

“The Scream,” first painted in 1893is one of four versions created. Ten

years ago the best-known version wasstolen from Oslo’s National Art

Museum but was recovered threemonths later.

day, Maixner said. Krishna will have alonger period of adjustment as the sepa-ration brought more changes to her bodyand brain’s blood circulation.

Maixner said they hoped to have anindication on Thursday night or earlyon Friday about how Krishna’s brainwas responding. MRI scans on Wednes-day showed no signs of brain injury.

Maixner said there may be minorchanges to the girls from where theirbrains were separated but that overallthe brains looked good.

A mummy housed at the Egyptian

National Museum of Antiquities in

Cairo goes through a CT scanner.

Researchers have found evidence that

the ancient Egyptians suffered from

heart disease that plagues rich

nations today.

MOSCOW, 20 Nov — ARussian icebreaker carry-ing more than 100 tour-ists, scientists and jour-nalists on an Antarcticcruise has reached clearwater after being haltedfor days by thick ice, itsowners said on Friday.

The Captain Khlebni-kov icebreaker got stuckin sea ice earlier this weeknear Snow Hill Island inthe Weddell Sea. It hastaken the ship five days tofree itself of ice,

In this photo taken on 19 Dec, 2002 and re-leased by press service of Far Eastern Shipping

Company (FESCO) the Captain Khlebnikovicebreaker seen somewhere in undisclosed loca-tion. The icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists,scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruisehas been successfully moving through ice and isjust about 100 meters (yards) away from clear

water, its owners said on 19 Nov, 2009.—INTERNET

HANOI, 20 Nov —Diarrhea doesn’t makeheadlines. Nor does pneu-monia. AIDS and malariatend to get most of the at-tention.

Yet even though cheaptools could prevent andcure both diseases, theykill an estimated 3.5 mil-lion kids under 5 each ayear globally — morethan HIV and malariacombined.

“They have been ne-glected, because donor orpartnership mechanisms

MIRALI, 20 Nov — A suspected US missile strikekilled at least eight militants Friday in northwesternPakistan, officials said, the second attack this week inan area believed to hold many insurgents who fledfrom an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan bor-der region.

Separately, five Pakistani soldiers were reportedkilled in clashes late Thursday in an area previouslycleared by the army, demonstrating the difficulty ofcontaining the militants.

A US drone fired two missiles at a compound be-ing used by suspected Taleban militants in a villagenear Mir Ali in North Waziristan, according to twointelligence officials who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because they weren’t authorized to release theinformation. The compound was destroyed and eightbodies were pulled from the rubble, the officials said,adding that two other suspected militants werewounded.—Internet

SAN SALVADOR, 20 Nov—The government of ElSalvador on Thursday announced the construction of1,500 temporary houses for the victims of hurricaneIda that left more than 15,000 people homeless andabout 200 deaths in the country.

The shelter houses, each about 30 square meters inarea, will be ready in three months, according to ElSalvador Housing and Urban Development MinisterEdin Martinez.

The minister said the government would use 2.2million of the country’s emergency budget of 150 mil-lion US dollars to finance the construction of thesehouses.

Interior Minister Humberto Centento said the au-thorities are looking for proper places to build the shel-ter houses.

Xinhua

Russian ship frees itself from ice in AntarcticFareastern Shipping Cospokeswoman TatyanaKulikova said Friday.

She said it would nowtake the icebreaker threemore days to return toUshuaia on the Argentinecoast.

Kulikova said that Ant-arctic weather is unpre-dictable in the early spring.“It’s impossible to avoidworsening ice conditionswith rapidly changingweather,” she said.

Officials said the pas-

sengers never were in anydanger.

“It’s part of Antarctictourism — we alwayswarn passengers aboutpossible delays,”Vyacheslav Naganyuk,the head of icebreakerfleet at the FareasternShipping Company, saidin a statement. “Touristswitnessed real difficultiesof shipping amid thesplendor of Antarctica,and I think they will keepspecial memories of it.”

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AIDS, malaria eclipse the biggest child-killersshifted their emphasis toHIV and AIDS and otherissues,” said Dr TesfayeShiferaw, a UNICEF of-ficial in Africa. “Theseage-old traditional killersremain with us. The onesdying are the children ofthe poor.”

Global spending onmaternal, newborn andchild health was about$3.5 billion in 2006, ac-cording to a report by the

Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation. That sameyear, nearly $9 billion wasdevoted to HIV and AIDS,according to UNAIDS.

Pneumonia is the big-gest killer of children un-der 5, claiming more then2 million lives annually orabout 20 percent of allchild deaths. AIDS, incontrast, accounts forabout 2 percent.

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Eight militants killed inreported US strike

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NAY PYI TAW, 20 Nov—Thewaterway was opened in AyeyawadyBridge (Magway) between pier No. 3 andpier No. 4 for downstream and betweenpier No. 2 and pier No. 3 for upstreamwatercraft.

Beginning 25 November 2009,the waterway between piers No. 2 and No.3 will be designated for downstreamwatercraft and the area between piers No.1 and No. 2 for upstream watercraft.

The clearance of the upstreambetween piers No. 1 and No. 2 is 227 feetwide and 46 feet high, and that ofdownstream between piers No. 2 and No.3, 248 feet wide and 52 feet high.

The entrance for the watercraft

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Nov—Aceremony to greet the passengers whomake a first study tour of Cocogyun washeld at the passenger lounge of MyanmarFive Star Line in Thakayta Township thisafternoon.

Chairman of Yangon DivisionPeace and Development Council

Commander meets passengers ofCocogyun excursion group

Commander of Yangon CommandMaj-Gen Win Myint made a speech.Next, the commander and officials cutthe ribbon to open the ceremony.

After that, the Commander andofficials visited on board and cordiallygreeted the passengers.

MNA

YANGON, 20 Nov— Aceremony to hand over CitizenshipScruting Cards and censuses to thoseeligible to be citizens was held at DagonMyothit (North) TownshipImmigration and NationalRegistration Department Office hereon 19 November.

Head of Yangon East DistrictImmigration and NationalRegistration Department U Shein Win

NAY PYI TAW,20 Nov—A Laotiandelegation led by DrThongloun Sisoulith,Deputy Prime Ministerand Minister of ForeignAffairs of the Lao

Laotian delegation concludes visitNyan Win, LaotianAmbassador toMyanmar Mr Kouily A.Souphakhet andofficials at Nay Pyi TawAirport.

MNA

Waterway of Ayeyawady Bridge(Magway) changed

will be marked with a green triangle atdaytime and a green light at night. Theno entry waterway will be marked witha red cross at daytime and a red light atnight.

All the watercraft are not todrive in parallel along the waterwaybetween two designated piers, and pushboats are to dive along the designatedwaterway one after another. Priority isto be given to downstream boat. All thewatercraft are to control the speed alongthe correct waterway to the exit,according to the Department of WaterResources and Improvement of RiverSystems.

MNA

YANGON, 20 Nov — The 2nd U-18 Asian Hockey Men’s Tournamentcontinued at Theinbyu artificial turfhockey pitch today.

Sri Lanka beat Myanmar 3-1,Pakistan passed through Japan 4-0; andMalaysia beat the Republic of Korea 3-2.

2nd U-18 Asian Hockey Men’sTournament continues

On 21 November, China (Taipei)will play against Sri Lanka while Indiawill play against Singapore.

The 2nd U-18 Asian HockeyMen’s Tournament was organized byMyanmar Hockey Federation under thepatronage of the Ministry of Sports.

NLM

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Nov—Director-General U Aye Lwin of No. 2Basic Education Department on 18November met with educational staffof Mandalay District at the hall of No.14Basic Education High School inMandalay.

The director-general gave

BED No. 2 D-G meets education staffof Mandalay District

instructions on improvement of teachers’skill, use of teaching aids, abiding by thelaws, rules and regulations, forgingpatriotic spirit and Union Spirit,assessment on learning of students,management and academic matters ofthe school heads and suprevision oftownship education officers.—NLM

CSCs and censuses handed overmade a speech and Head of TownshipINRD U Tun Thein reported on progressof works.

The Head of District INRD andofficials, Secretary U Kyaw Moe Naingof the Township Peace and DevelopmentCouncil and departmental personnel gaveaway 405 CSCs and 126 censuses tothose qualified to be citizen according tothe law.

MNA

H R H Sultan Azlan Shan, President of Asian Hockey Federation,enjoys the match between Malaysia and Korea.

MHF

MV Thanlwin carrying excursion group members to Cocogyun.MNA

Director-General U Aye Lwin of No. 2 BED meets educational staffand teachers at No. 14 Basic Education High School in Mandalay.

EDUCATION

People’s DemocraticRepublic, left here byspecial flight at 3 p.m.today.

The delegationwas seen off by Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U

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Plan under way to construct networks ofPathein-Kyangin-Pakokku-Kalay-Mandalay-

Myitkyina railroads by linking Pathein-Kyangin section with Kyangin-Pakokku

section

NAY PYI TAW, 20Nov—Myanma Railwaysof the Ministry of RailTransportation isconstructing railroadnetworks for ensuringsecure and smoothtransportation andbringing about equitabledevelopment of all theregions of the nation inaccord with the guidanceof the Head of State.

P a k o k k u - K y u n -chaung railroad section ofKyangin-Pakokku railroadwas inaugurated at aceremony in front ofPakokku railway station inPakokku Township thismorning.

Speaking on the

occasion, Chairman ofSagaing Division Peaceand Development CouncilCommander of North-West Command Maj-GenMyint Soe said that with aview to developing areason the western bank ofAyeyawady River, thegovernment builtAyeyawady Rivercrossing bridges linkingthe west and the east banksof the river and Pathein-Monywa Road. The planis under way to constructa network of Pathein-Kyangin-Pakokku-Kalay-Mandalay-Myitkyinarailroads by linkingPathein-Kyangin section

with Kyangin-Pakokkusection for enabling thelocal people to have easyaccess to other regions, headded.

He continued to saythat 27-mile long Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad wassuccessfully inauguratedas a part of Pwintbyu-Pakokku section, which isone of the three parts ofK y a n g i n - P a k o k k urailroad. Construction ofthe railroad sectioncommenced on 1 April2007 and it completedwithin a period of over twoyears, he noted. Inconclusion, thecommander thanked all theworkers of Myanma

Railways for theirconcerted efforts inbuilding the railroad andurged the local people tohelp maintain the facilityfor its durability.

In his address, Ministerfor Rail TransportationMaj-Gen Aung Min saidthat 320-mile longKyangin-Pakokku railroadis under construction withthree sections as 110-milelong Kyangin-Thayetsection, 100-mile Thayet-Pwintbyu section and 110-mile long Pwintbyu-Pakokku section. On 17October 2009, the 35 mileslong Kanma-Thayetrailroad section was

opened for enabling thepeople to travel fromKyangin to Thayet by train,

he said.The minister said that

there are four over-180 feetlong bridges, 46 under-180feet long bridges, sixrailway stations and 30curves with maximumcurve of 12° alongPakokku-Kyunchaungsection. Maximumgradient was 1:100. Effortsare being made to open theremaining railroad sectionsas soon as possible, henoted.

On completion,Kyangin-Pakokku railroadwill link Pathein-Kyanginrailroad with Pakokku-Kalay railroad, the ministersaid. As a result, the people

will have easy access toPathein, Kyangin,Pakokku, Monywa,

Shwebo and Myitkyina bytrain, in addition to theregions of Ayeyawady,

Bago, Magway and SagaingDivisions and Chin andKachin States, and thereforethese regions will makeprogress in social,economic, health andeducation sectors, he noted.

The minister explainedthat there are now 3305.65miles long railroads acrossthe nation including1976.35 miles longrailroads built before 1988and 1329.30 miles longrailroads by thegovernment. The ministersaid that the number ofrailway stations increasedfrom 487 stations in 1988to 840 stations includingsix on Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad.Before 1988, there were5650 bridges, and thegovernment built 4977

bridges, totaling 10,627. Inconclusion, MyanmaRailways is striving forconstruction of railroads,cargo carriages andcoaches for smoothtransportation of thepeople.

Afterwards, theChairman of Division PDCmade a speech and a localspoke words of thanks.

The commander, theministers and the DivisionChairman opened thePakokku-Kyunchaungrailroad section and had adocumentary photo takentogether with localpeople.

Afterwards, thecommander formallyopened the stoneinscription.

(See page 9)

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe unveils stone inscription to mark opening of Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad section. —MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe and ministers formally open Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroadsection. —�MNA

A train seen on Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad section. —MNA

27-mile Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad section inaugurated

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Plan under way to constructnetworks of Pathein-Kyangin-…

(from page 8) The commander, the

ministers and partysprinkled scented water onthe special train. Theypresented souvenirs topassengers and cordiallygreeted the local people atrespective railway stationsalong the route.

In line with theguidance of the Head ofState, Myanma Railwaysunder the Ministry of Rail

Transportation isimplementing 320 miles ofKyangin-Pakokku railroadin three phases forequitable development ofregions on the west bankof Ayeyawady River likeother regions. Of them, 38miles of Kyangin-Pakokkurail road section wasopened on 1 March 2008,35 miles of Okshitpin-Kanma section on 22March 2009, Kanma-

Thayet section on 17October 2009 and Pakokku-Kyunchaung sectiontoday. The remainingsections are underconstruction.

Likewise, rail roadsbeing constructed byMyanma Railways underthe Ministry of RailTransportation are 4.66miles of Bago-Hanthawady airportrailroad, 184 miles of

Thaye t -Kyunchaungrailroad, 98 miles of Katha-Bhamo railroad, 226 milesof Mongnai-Kengtungrailroad, 95 miles ofPyawbwe-Na tmauk-Magway railroad, 132.50miles of Dawei-Myeikrailroad, 245.54 miles ofMinbu-An-Yaychanbyinrailroad, 84 miles ofPathein (Dahka)-Yangonrailroad, 120 miles of Pyay(Shwetagar)-Toungoo(Kyaytaw)-Nay Pyi Taw

railroad. The 145 miles ofLashio-Muse railroad,67.25 miles of Bago-K a y a n - T h o n g w a -Thanlyin (Okphosu)railroad and 84.35 miles ofKalay-Tamu railroad areunder way.

Also present on theoccasion were Minister forIndustry-2 Vice-AdmiralSoe Thein, Minister forConstruction and forElectric Power No. 2 Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint,

Minister for Electric PowerNo. 1 Col Zaw Min,Chairman of MagwayDivision PDC Col PhoneMaw Shwe, DeputyMinisters for RailTransportation Thura UThaung Lwin and U PeThan, Deputy Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs Maj-GenThein Tun, departmentalofficials, staff of MyanmaRailways and localpeople.—MNA

YANGON, 20 Nov—Myanmar CredentTechnology will conduct the applied Google Earth andGIS courses at e-learning center of Myanmar ComputerFederation in Myanmar Info-Tech in Hline Townshipfrom 9 am to 4 pm on 21, 22, 27 and 28 November. Thecourse covers technologies needed for the nation'sdevelopment projects and departments, private businessand organizations, map system of information anddigital, survey, drawing, engineering designs, appliedsystem of satellite photos from Google Earth to be usedin the exploration of oil, gas and mining. Only 20trainees will be allowed to attend the courses. Interestedpersons may dial 652285 and 652286.

MNA

Applied Google Earth andGIS courses to be opened

Pakokku station.—MNA

Opening ceremony of Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad section inprogress.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe and ministers greet those present atopening of Pakokku-Kyunchaung railroad section.—MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe and ministers present gifts topassengers on special train.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 20 Nov—Chairman of AyeyawadyDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of South-WestCommand Maj-Gen KyawSwe, together with Ministerfor Social Welfare, Reliefand Resettlement Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe andMinister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe inspectedthe site of collision of twowater crafts in Ngawunriver near Shanngu villagein Kangyihtaung Townshipon 18 November morning.

Next, the commanderand the ministers met withresponsible persons, socialorganizations and locals atShanngu village and

Cash assistance provided to families ofvictims of water craft collision

expressed gratitude for theirhelp in rescue works with asense of humanity. Theycoordinated essentials forsocial, educational, healthand transportation sectorsof the village.

Afterwards, thecommander presented K 1million for developmentundertakings of Shannguand Chaungsauk villageswater and Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Sweprovided the two villageswith one CDMA phoneeach.

Later, the commanderand the ministers attended aceremony to provide cashassistance to families ofvictims at Ayeyawady

Division PDC office.Commander Maj-GenKyaw Swe presented K 1million, Minister Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe K4,450,000 to families ofvictims and awardedmembers of the Red CrossSociety, Fire Brigade anddivers who took part inrescue operation andMinister Maj-Gen TheinSwe presented K 0.4 millionfor damaged craft, ActingDirector-General of Reliefand ResettlementDepartment U Myint Tun50 rescue kits, Shwe YamonCompany K 5 million,Vessel Association K 1million and Nay Myo TunGyi vessel K 1 million andhovercraft owner U AungMyint K 1 million to familiesof victims.

Minister Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe alsoinspected Fire ServicesDepartment, and the officeof the head of Social WelfareDepartment of AyeyawadyDivision and inspectedconstruction of nursery andthe office of the head of FireServices Department andfire station of AyeyawadyDivision.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20Nov—The Social WelfareDepartment under theMinistry of Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlementand UNICEF jointlyorganized the ceremony tomark the 20th Anniversaryof the United NationsConvention on the Rightsof the Child at the hall ofthe ministry, here, thismorning.

Children of Nay PyiTaw Tawwin Yadana Pre-primary School performedentertainments with the song“Song for Unity” happily.

20th Anniversary of UN Convention onRights of Child marked

Chairman of theNational Committee forRights of Child in MyanmarMinister for SWRR Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swedelivered an openingaddress. The UNICEFResident Representativemade a speech.

The minister presentedpublications on globalchildren to departmentalheads and officials of theministries.

Deputy Minister forSWRR Brig-Gen KyawMyint and the UNICEFResident Representative

awarded winners in thephoto contest.

Nay Pyi Taw BEMSNo. 3 presented a song.

The minister and partyviewed the documentaryphotos to mark the 20th

anniversary.Also present on the

occasion were DeputyMinister for Labour Brig-Gen Tin Tun Aung,Deputy Attorney-GeneralU Myint Naing, Director-General U Soe Kyi ofSWD, senior militaryofficers and departmentalheads.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20Nov—A coordinationmeeting of State andDivision directors underthe Auditor-General’sOffice took place at thehall of the Auditor-General’s Office, here, this

Directors of State and Division Accounts Offices meet

morning.Auditor-General Maj-

Gen Lun Maung delivereda speech.

Directors of State andDivision Accounts Officesdiscussed respectivesectors, and the director-

general gave asupplementary report.

The Auditor-Generalleft necessary instructions.

Also present at themeeting were deputydirectors-general andofficials.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attending ceremony to sign Agreementon Exemption of Visa for holder of Ordinary Passport between Union of

Myanmar and Lao People’s Democratic Republic.(News on page 16)—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attending ceremony to sign Agreementon Avoidance of double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasionwith respect to Taxes on Income between Union of Myanmar and Lao

People’s Democratic Republic.(News on page 16)—MNA

Minister for SWRR Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe delivers anopening address at ceremony to mark the 20th Anniversary of

Convention on the Rights of Child.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen MaungMaung Swe

presentspublications

on globalchildren to

departmentalheads andofficials.

MNA

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Dell’s profit, stock dropon weak quarterly report

SAN FRANCISCO, 20Nov—Some of the compu-ter-industry’s biggest play-ers — such as IBM Corp,Intel Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co— have wowedWall Street this fall withstronger-than-expectedprofits. Dell Inc didn’t jointhem on Thursday.

The company reported a54 percent drop in net in-come and a 15 percent de-cline in revenue in its lat-est quarter, both steeperthan analysts had forecast.

Dell’s shares fell almost

6 percent in extended trad-ing. The numbers showthat Dell isn’t fully benefit-ing from the industry’sfledgling recovery, eventhough the company isseeing improvement insome areas.

“We are already seeingmore client activity in thelast 30 to 60 days than wehave in a long time,”Michael Dell, the compa-ny’s CEO, said on a con-ference call with analysts.

Dell has been hurt morethan its peers because of

tightened spending by cor-porations and large gov-ernment agencies, whichmake up 80 percent ofDell’s revenue.

Meanwhile, rivals such asHewlett-Packard Co. andAcer Inc. have boosted theirmarket share by exploitingtheir bigger presence in re-tail stores. That has been abig weapon because con-sumer interest in littlelaptops called “netbooks”has helped the PC industrystart to pull out of its worstslump in years.—Internet

A worker of a securities company waits visitors at their booth at Money FairInternational Exposition on 20 Nov, 2009 in Shanghai, China.

INTERNET

Stroke patients need morerecovery time

COLUMBIA, 20 Nov—A US scientist says the healthsystem isn’t giving stroke patients enough time to re-gain any lost function because it underestimates whatthe brain can do.

University of Missouri-Columbia Professor GuyMcCormack says such patients need more time andmotivation to reclaim lost functions, such as the useof an arm, hand or leg. With today’s therapies, it ispossible for patients to regain more function than onceever thought possible, McCormack said.

“Patients are able to regain function due to the prin-ciple of neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to change,especially when patients continue therapy long aftertheir injuries,” McCormack said. “Therapists once be-lieved the brain doesn’t develop new neurons; but nowthey know neurons change their shape and create newbranches to connect with other neurons, rewiring thebrain following an injury or trauma.”—Internet

Gunman opens fireon Saipan; five dead

SAIPAN, 20 Nov—A gunman went on a rampage onthe Pacific resort island of Saipan on Friday, killingfour people and wounding six others before fatallyshooting himself, officials said.

Public Safety spokesman Jason Tarkong said twomen, a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl were killedin a half-hour of violence. The dead were all localresidents.

The six wounded included a 4-year-old local girland five visitors from South Korea.

“The lieutenant governor and I are monitoring thesituation closely and working with officials from (Pub-lic Safety) and the FBI and we will continue to keepeveryone informed,” Gov Benigno R Fitial said.

Authorities said the suspected shooter is a contractworker in his 30s or 40s from Asia, but did not pro-vide his name or home country.—Internet

Study suggests CT scansrule out heart attacks fasterORLANDO, 20 Nov—A CT scan — a kind of super

X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose aheart attack when someone goes to the emergencyroom with chest pains, a new study suggests.

About 6 million people each year go to hospitalswith chest pain, but only a small fraction are truly hav-ing a heart attack. CT scans are increasingly used todiagnose problems because they give a deep, detailedview inside the body. But they put out a lot of radia-tion, which may raise a person’s chances of develop-ing cancer.

Whether these scans are worth that risk is unknown.The new study suggests that for ruling out heart at-tacks in the emergency room, they just might be.

The research involved 749 chest pain sufferers at16 big medical centers around the country. These werepeople who did not have clear signs of a heart attackfrom blood tests or EKGs, but doctors are afraid tosend them home without more tests.—Internet

Asia’s airline industry is beginning to pull out of asevere slump sparked by the global recession with

signs that passenger numbers have started to recover,a regional body has said.—INTERNET

A person poses while using a Blackberry Bold 2smartphone at the Research in Motion (RIM) head-quarters in Waterloo, on 16 Nov, 2009.— INTERNET

Handout photo showsdredgers pumping sand

towards the beach inMonster in the Nether-

lands. Sand is beingdredged from the bottomof the North Sea off thecoast of the country to

build dunes as part of anambitious effort to safe-

guard the Benelux nationfrom flooding.—INTERNET

Woman leaves $40,000at Md shrine for safekeeping

HAGERSTOWN, 20 Nov—A woman quietly left$40,000 worth of rare US coins near a Catholic shrinefor safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch overher life savings while she was out of town, and appar-ently it worked: The money was returned to her whenshe got back a week later. Operators of the NationalShrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes near Emmitsburgthought they had been blessed with a big donation whena groundskeeper found the two plastic freezer bags filledwith gold and silver while raking leaves.

But Shrine Director William Tronolone said thewoman approached him after a noon Mass Sunday, sixdays after the discovery, to ask whether anyone hadfound some coins she had hidden beneath fallen leavesat the site on the campus of Mount St Mary’sUniversity.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV HUA SHAN VOY NO (104 )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV HUA SHANVOY NO (104 ) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 22.11.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of B.S.W 3 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.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR:M/S COSCO SHIPPING CO., LTDPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG XIU VOY NO (9056 )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG XIUVOY NO (9056 ) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 21.11.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




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

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV MILLENNIUM VOY NO (05/09 )Consignees of cargo carried on MV MILLEN-

NIUM VOY NO (05/09 ) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 22.11.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W 4 where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR:M/S KM INTERTRANSPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANGSAOTONG VOY NO (124 )Consignees of cargo carried on MV BANG-

SAOTONG VOY NO (124 ) are here by notified thatthe vessels will be arriving on 21.11.2009 and cargowill be discharged into the premises of A.W.P.T whereit will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses andsubject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port ofYangon.




AGENT FOR:M/S WONGSAMUT OCEANSHIPPING CO., LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV FRIENDLY SEA VOY NO (33 )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV FRIENDLYSEA VOY NO (33 ) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 21.11.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of S.P.W 6 where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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



AGENT FOR:EASTERN CAR LINERSINGAPORE PTE, LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Two Atlantis astronauts installISS antenna in first spacewalkWASHINGTON, 20 Nov—Two US astronauts

conducted the first spacewalk for space shuttle Atlantisand installed an antenna on the International SpaceStation (ISS) on Thursday, NASA said.

According to NASA, mission specialists MichaelForeman and Dr Robert Satcher Jr began thespacewalk at 9:24 am EDT (1424 GMT),which lastedsix hours and 37 minutes.

The duo installed a spare antenna to the outside ofthe ISS in just two hours after venturing out. Theyalso hooked up cables and a handrail, and greasedsome mechanisms.

After finishing all their scheduled chores with twohours to spare, Foreman and Satcher were assigned atask that had been planned for the second spacewalk.They deployed the outboard Payload Attach Systemon the Earth-facing side of the Starboard 3 truss, afterovercoming some initial difficulties. —Xinhua

Deaths of A/H1N1 flu riseto 17 in Mongolia

ULAN BATOR, 20 Nov—The death toll of the A/H1N1 flu virus in Mongolia rose to 17 on Thursday,the health ministry said.

The number of people who were infected with theA/H1N1 virus rose to 1,073, of which 776 were inUlan Bator and 297 in other provinces, according to areport from the health ministry.

Cases of virus have not been registered in twoprovinces. The report said 23,271 people receivedmedical services in hospitals.

With the infection rate not decreasing, the govern-ment decided Wednesday to prolong the heightenedstate of preparedness which it announced on 3November for two weeks, head of the NationalEmergency Management Agency (NEMA) and chiefof governmental working group M Enkhbold said. Inaddition, the date of call-up was prolonged for twoweeks.—Xinhua

This NASA TV image shows Atlantis astronautRobert Satcher on the robotic arm, working duringa planned spacewalk on 19 Nov, 2009. —XINHUA

Dying mothers highlight failuretowards achieving MDGs

UNITED NATIONS, 20 Nov—With little more thanfive years left before the 2015 deadline for theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs), the numberof maternal deaths remains stubbornly high, accordingto a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reportreleased here on Thursday.

The world has made “limited gains” towards thefirst target of MDG 5, which aims to reduce the 1990maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters by 2015,said the State of the World’s Children released on theeve of Friday’s 20th anniversary of the Convention onthe Rights of the Child.

Since 1990, the base year for the MDGs, theestimate of the global annual number of maternaldeaths has exceeded 500,000. In sub-Saharan Africa,progress on diminishing maternal mortality ratios hasbeen “virtually non-existent,” said the report.

Speaking at a press conference at the child agency’sheadquarters in New York, UNICEF chief Ann M.Veneman said improving maternal health is critical tothe well-being of children.

“We have five years remaining from next year,”she said. “There will be a big review of the MillenniumDevelopment Goals and I think that we have to reallyput focus around achieving those goals, and look atwhat’s next, what’s beyond the five years?”

According to the report, for every woman who diesfrom causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, it isestimated that there are 20 others who sufferpregnancy-related illness or experience other severeconsequences. An estimated 10 million womenannually who survive their pregnancies experiencesuch adverse outcomes. —Xinhua

Spain reports 115 deaths ofA/H1N1 flu

MADRD, 20 Nov—The Spanish Health and SocialPolicy Ministry reported on Thursday a total of 115deaths of A/H1N1 influenza in the country, 27 deathsmore than the last report for last week.

The ministry said in a statement that the mortalityrate of the disease is of 0.14 deaths per 1,000 infectedpatients. It also estimated that there were 160,807 casesof clinic flu, and 96.42 percent of them have beenpositive for A/H1N1 flu, which means 155,051 casesof this flu in the country. —Xinhua

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Pain drug morphine may acceleratecancer growth

Study showing alcohol may cutheart risk under fire

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS,Alzheimer’s, herpes

Women should get mammograms by age 40

Some of the paintings of Gilbert & George are displayed at Bernier/Eliadesgallery in Athens, on 19 Nov, 2009. —XINHUA

CHICAGO, 20 Nov —Evidence is mountingthat morphine, commonlyused to manage pain, mayaccelerate cancer growth,but a newly-approveddrug that blocks its sideeffects could also keeptumors from spreading,U.S. researchers said onWednesday.

They said the ProgenicsPharmaceuticals Inc drugRelistor, which is used totreat constipation causedby pain drugs like

morphine, appeared toreverse some of the tumor-causing effects in mice andin lung cancer cells.

“It’s a surprisingfinding, really,” saidPatrick Singleton of theUniversity of ChicagoMedical Center, whopresented findings fromtwo studies at a cancermeeting in Boston.

“This drug mightactually inhibit theprogression of lungcancer,” Singleton said in

a telephone interview.He said several studies

have begun to show thatopiate-based pain drugsstimulate cancer cellgrowth and foster thespread of cancers.

A key study in 2002showed that cancerpatients who were givenmorphine delivered to thespine, rather thanreleasing the drugthroughout the body,tended to live longer.

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LONDON, 20 Nov —Spanish research appe-aring to show that veryheavy dr inking canreduce men’s risk ofheart disease has comeunder f i re f romscientists who say thestudy is flawed andshould not encourageanyone to drink more.

The controversialstudy found that menwho drank moderate,high and very high levelsof alcohol had a lowerrisk of coronary heart

disease.Many previous studies

have suggested thatmoderate drinking —usually defined as a drinkor two per day — can bea healthy habit,particularly when itcomes to heart diseaserisk.But experts havewarned that heavydrinking can damageorgans and lead to earlydeath.

The Spanish study,released in the BritishMedical Journal’s Heart

publication on Thurs-day, assessed thealcohol intake of 15,500men and 26,000 womenaged between 29 and 69,who were asked howmuch they had drunk inthe preceding year.

People were classedas non-drinkers, formerdrinkers, low, moderate,high and very highdrinkers. The lat terdrank more than 90grams of alcohol a day,equivalent to around adozen drinks.—Internet

MARIETTA, 20 Nov– Malaria.Tuberculosis. Alzheimer’s disease.AIDS. Pandemic flu Genital herpes.Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies.Traveler’s diarrhea. You name it, thepharmaceutical industry is working ona vaccine to prevent it.

Many could be on the market in fiveyears or less. Contrast that with fiveyears ago, when so many companieshad abandoned the vaccine businessthat half the US supply of flu shots waslost because of factory contaminationat one of the two manufacturers left.

Vaccines are no longer a sleepy,low-profit niche in a booming drugindustry. Today, they’re starting to giveailing pharmaceutical makers a shot in

the arm.The lure of big profits, advances in

technology and growing governmentsupport has been drawing in newcompanies, from nascent biotechs toJohnson & Johnson.

That means recent remarkable stridesin overcoming dreaded diseases andannoying afflictions likely willcontinue.

“Even if a small portion of everythingthat’s going on now is successful in thenext 10 years, you put that togetherwith the last 10 years (and) it’s going tobe characterized as a golden era,” saysEmilio Emini, Pfizer Inc.’s head ofvaccine research.

Internet

Pregnancy complication may be linked tothyroid problems

WASHINGTON, 20 Nov— New researchoffers bad news forwomen who develop acondition known aspreeclampsia duringpregnancy: They’re athigher risk of reducedthyroid function and maybe more likely to havethyroid problems in later

l i f e . P r e e c l a m p s i adevelops in the secondhalf of pregnancy andcan cause seriousproblems such asextremely high bloodpressure. The causesaren’t clear, but mayhave something to dowith high levels ofproteins in the body.

Researchers in theUnited States andNorway looked at twogroups of pregnantwomen: those whodeveloped pree-clampsiaand those who didn’t, andpublished their studyfindings in the Nov. 18online edition of BMJ.

In the US study,researchers compared 140healthy pregnant womenwho developedpreeclampsia with 140women who didn’t. Thosewho had the condition

showed double the levelsof thyroid-stimulatinghormone as thosewho didn’t developpreeclampsia.

The Norwegian studyfollowed 7,121 pregnantwomen for about 20 yearsand found that having hadpreeclampsia, especiallyin two pregnancies,boosted the risk that theywould have highconcentrations of thehormone years after beingpregnant.

The researcherssuggest that doctorsshould closely followwomen who developpreeclampsia, keepingan eye out not just forheart and kidneydisease, which areknown risks, but alsothyroid disease.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 20 Nov—Womenshould continue getting regularmammograms starting at age 40, Healthand Human Services Secretary KathleenSebelius said on Wednesday, movingto douse confusion caused by a task-force recommendation two days earlier.

Sebelius issued her statementfollowing a government panel’srecommendation on Monday, that saidmost women don’t need mammogramsin their 40s and should get one everytwo years starting at 50.

That recommendation was a break

with the American Cancer Society’slong-standing position that womenshould get screening mammogramsstarting at age 40.

The task force does “not set federalpolicy and they don’t determine whatservices are covered by the federalgovernment,” Sebelius said. Medicare,which covers older Americans andsome younger ones who are disabled,provides women on Medicare coveragefor an annual mammogram at age 40and older.

Internet

Rescue services navi-

gate the flood waters, in

the streets of

Cockermouth village,

England, as they work

to rescue stranded

residents from their

homes, after heavy

rains caused local

flooding in the pictur-

esque village, on 20

Nov, 2009.

INTERNET

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SYDNEY, 20 Nov —Russia’s world numberthree SvetlanaKuznetsova on Thursdaybecame the fifth top 10player to commit to Janu-ary’s WTA/ATP SydneyInternational, organiserssaid.

The French Openchampion, 24, was runner-up in the event in 2008,bowing out in a toughthree-set final againstJustine Henin, then theworld number one.

“I have had some re-ally great results there inthe past and I am lookingforward to having a greattournament in Sydney be-fore the Australian Open,”Kuznetsova said.

Tournament directorCraig Watson said thewinner of 12 career sin-gles titles was a fantasticaddition to the women’sfield, which alreadyboasts Serena Williams,Elena Dementieva, Caro-line Wozniacki and Victo-ria Azarenka.—Internet

RICHMOND, 20 Nov —Michelle Wie couldn’ttake the pain one weekafter taking the spotlightat Lorena Ochoa’s tourna-ment.

Ochoa is back oncenter stage now, trying tosteal the player of the yearhonor away from JiyaiShin at the LPGA TourChampionship.

Wie withdrew from theseason-ending eventThursday because of asprained left ankle, hoursafter Ochoa shot a 6-un-der 66 to take a one-shotlead over Reilley Rankin.

Ochoa is four shotsahead of Shin (70) on theleaderboard, but the 21-year-old South Koreanleads Ochoa by eight points(156-148) in the race to be-come the tour’s player ofthe year.—Interent

LONDON , 20 Nov –FIFA have turned down arequest from the Irishfootball authorities tostage a replay of their con-troversial World Cupplayoff defeat to France,according to a report Fri-day.

France qualified forthe 2010 World Cup bywinning the two-leg tie 2-1 on aggregate onWednesday, althoughthere has been outrage andclaims of cheating after aThierry Henry handballled to France’s decisiveequaliser.—Internet

LUANDA , 20 Nov — African superstars DidierDrogba, Samuel Eto’o and Michael Essien will dis-cover Friday who they face at the 2010 African Na-tions Cup in Angola.

A draw ceremony in the capital of the oil-rich south-west Africa state divides the 16 qualifiers into fourgroups from which the winners and runners-up ad-vance to the quarter-finals.

Chelsea striker Drogba is the main source of IvoryCoast goals, Eto’o of Inter Milan serves a similar rolewith Cameroon and Essien, also from English Pre-miership table-toppers Chelsea, drives the Ghanamidfield.

And with the top 10 football nations on the conti-nent among those securing places, the stage is set foran intriguing January 10-31 tournament as Egypt seeka record third consecutive title.—Internet

TOKYO , 20 Nov —Ja-pan coach Takeshi Okadahas insisted that hissquad’s target of a semi-final spot at next year’sWorld Cup remains un-changed no matter whomay stand in their way,according to reports.

“Nothing willchange,” he told Japanesemedia on Thursday whenhe was shown by journal-ists the complete list of 32World Cup qualifiers andasked if he would stillstick to the ambitiousgoal.

Asked which countriesJapan, former Asianchampions, want to avoidat South Africa 2010, hesaid “I don’t think aboutit at all.”

“We’ve got tougher asa team and moved forwardlittle by little in the past

MADRID , 20 Nov —Barcelona’s Swedish in-ternational striker ZlatanIbrahimovic has beenruled out of Saturday’sclash with Athletic Bilbaoand could also miss Tues-day’s crucial ChampionsLeague tie against InterMilan.

Ibrahimovic, 28, hasan injured right leg and iscrucial to the defendingEuropean champions’

PARIS , 20 Nov —League leaders Bordeaux andclosest rivals Lyon will hope to restore French foot-ball’s battered reputation on Saturday, as league ac-tion returns to focus minds away from World Cup con-troversy.

Three days after Thierry Henry’s handball helpedsteer France past Ireland and into the World Cup fi-nals, champions Bordeaux, who signed off before theinternational break with a 2-0 defeat at Lille, host aValenciennes side who are the most prolific team inthe division.

Philippe Montanier’s men have not lost since a 3-2defeat at Nice on October 3 and have scored a league-high 23 goals in their 12 games to date.

“The France team will need a rest,” said a jocularMontanier, in reference to the mid-week exertions ofBordeaux’s French international midfielders YoannGourcuff and Alou Diarra.

“It’s understandable: Gourcuff and Diarra will needa rest on Saturday.”

Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc, whose side travelto Turin to face Juventus in the Champions League onTuesday, conceded that both players needed rest.

Internet

SYDNEY , 20 Nov — Australia has recruited success-ful German consultant Andreas Abold to orchestrate itsbid for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup, reports said onFriday. Abold, who leads a Munich-based events man-agement team, was behind the successful World Cupbids from Germany (2006) and South Africa (2010) andwill now help plot Australia’s bid, reports said.

“We will host the World Cup,” Abold told the DailyTelegraph. “We are working with Football FederationAustralia (FFA) on all the upcoming milestones, such asthe FIFA inspection visit which we expect to be in yourwinter - and definitely the final presentation,” he said.

“At the very last moment you have to address yourkey messages to the 24 decision makers (on the FIFAExecutive), and no one knows what will happen, whichcontinents will be eliminated as it unfolds and which arestill in contention.” Abold said the message to be ham-mered home was that Australia was a safe pair of handswith a can-do mentality making for a tournament FIFA,the sport’s governing body, could be certain would be asuccess.—Internet

Kuznetsova to play inWTA Sydney International

Russia’s world number

three Svetlana

Kuznetsova on Thurs-

day became the fifth

top 10 player to commit

to January’s WTA/ATP

Sydney International,

according to organij-

ers. The French Open

champion, 24, was

runner-up in the event

in 2008, bowing out in

a tough three-set final

against Justine Henin,

then the world number

one.—INTERNET

African superstars awaitNations Cup fate

African superstars Samuel Eto’o (pictured), DidierDrogba and Michael Essien are set to discover who

they face at the 2010 African Nations Cup inAngola.—INTERNET

Lorena Ochoa, of

Mexico, tosses her golf

ball in the air after

making a bogey on the

seventh hole during the

first round of the LPGA

Tour Championship

golf tournament, on 19

Nov, 2009, in Rich-

mond, Texas.

INTERNET

Wie withdraws, Ochoa leads LPGATour Championship

FIFA refuse Irish request for replay

This TV grab from TF1

shows French forward

Thierry Henry eyeing

the ball next to Ire-

land’s Paul McShane

during their World Cup

2010 qualifying football

match at the Stade de

France

on 18 November.

INTERNET

Australia boost footballWorld Cup bid team

Japan coach targets World Cuplast-four spot

Japan’s national foot-ball team head coachTakeshi Okada (front-

C) and his team areseen newly designed

uniforms for theupcoming World Cup2010, at the unveiling

event in Tokyo onNovember 9. Okada hasinsisted that his squad’s

target of a semi-finalspot at next year’s eventremains unchanged nomatter who may standin their way, reports

say.—INTERNET

FC Barcelona’s Swed-ish forward Zlatan

Ibrahimovic.INTERNET

Barcelona suffer Ibrahimovicinjury blow

hopes of making the sec-ond round of this year’scompetition.

Internet

Bordeaux, Lyon look to restoreFrench pride

year,” the coach said. “Wemay not look brilliant butwe have more stablestrength.”—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 fairly widespread in Chin State, scattered inKachin, Shan and Rakhine States, Sagaing and MandalayDivisions, isolated in Yangon and Ayeyawady Divisionsand weather has been partly cloudy in the remaining areas.Night temperatures were (5°C) below November averagetemperatures in Kachin, Chin States, upper Sagaing andBago Divisions, (5°C) above November averagetemperatures in Shan State and Mandalay Division andabout November average temperatures in the remainingareas. The significant night temperature was Haka(10°C).The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded wereMogok (1.53) inches, Pyin Oo Lwin (1.34) inches, Falam(1.26) inches, Lashio (1.14) inches, Pathein (1.09) inches,Maungtaw (0.79) inch, Kanbalu (0.75) inch and Yangon(Mingaladon) (0.63) inch.

Maximum temperature on 19-11-2009 was 96°F.Minimum temperature on 20-11-2009 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 20 -11-2009 was 77%.Total sun shine hours on 19-11-2009 was (7.3) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 20-11-2009 was (0.63) inch atMingaladon, (Nil) at Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (111.69) inches atMingaladon, (122.09) inches at Kaba-Aye and (129.41)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph from South- east at (18:30) hoursMST on 19-11-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is cloudy in the Andaman Seaand South Bay and partly cloudy elsewhere in the Bay ofBengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21stNovember 2009:Rain or thundershowers are likely to be isolatedto scatteredinKachin, Shan, Chin,Rakhine and Mon States, Sagaing,Mandalay andTaninthayi Divisions and weather will bepartly cloudy in the in the remaining States and Divisions.Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Strong easterly wind with moderateto rough sea are likely attimes Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, offand along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed inthe strong wind may reach (35) m.p.h. Seas will be moderateelsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation oflikelihood of isolated light rain in the Nothern Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for21-11-2009: Partly cloudy .

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for21-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for21-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

Weather Out Look For Fourth Weekend OfNovember 2009:During the coming weekend,weather willbe partly in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Madalay Divisions.

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figure skating event in Kitchener on 19 Nov, 2009.INTERNET

People avoid H1N1 shots due tofear of needle

JALANDHAR, 20 Nov—Experts believe this fearof needles may be preventing people from rollingup their sleeves for the H1N1 shots.

“Pain and the actual fear of getting the injectionis often the barrier that prevents people fromgetting the vaccine,” said psychologist ChristineChambers, based at Dalhousie University.

Concerned that students who are making healthdecisions for themselves may be bypassingimmunization for H1N1 because of their fear ofneedles, Chambers assures there are things theycan do to reduce pain.

For one, she suggests the purchase of a topicalanaesthetic cream or a patch and applying it 30 to60 minutes before getting the needle.

She also advises practicing the art of distraction;in other words, try not to think about it so much.Bring along an ipod while you’re waiting in line ortake a friend with you.says. “If your body is tense,the needle will hurt more.—Internet

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5th Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Saturday, 21 November, 2009

★ 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 swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

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

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 20Nov—Prime Minister ofthe Union of MyanmarGeneral Thein Sein re-ceived a delegation led byDeputy Prime Ministerand Minister of ForeignAffairs of Lao People’s

Prime Minister General Thein Sein receives Deputy PrimeMinister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Lao PDR

Democratic Republic DrThongloun Sisoulith at theGovernment Office herethis morning.

Also present on theoccasion together withPrime Minister GeneralThein Sein were Minister

for Foreign Affairs UNyan Win, Minister forNational Planning andEconomic DevelopmentU Soe Tha, Minister forFinance and RevenueMaj-Gen Hla Tun and de-partmental heads.

The visiting DeputyPrime Minister and Min-ister of Foreign Affairs ofLao PDR was accompa-nied by Laotian Ambas-sador to the Union ofMyanmar Mr Kouily ASouphakhet.

After the meeting, theMoU signing ceremonybetween the Union ofMyanmar and the LaoPeople’s Democratic Re-public was held.

Laotian DeputyPrime Minister and Min-

ister of Foreign AffairsDr Thongloun Sisoulithand Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Winsigned the Agreement be-tween the Government ofthe Union of Myanmarand the Government ofthe Lao People’s Demo-cratic Republic on Ex-emption of Visa forHolder of Ordinary Pass-port.

Afterwards, LaotianDeputy Prime Ministerand Minister of ForeignAffairs Dr ThonglounSisoulith and Ministerfor Finance and RevenueMaj-Gen Hla Tun signedthe Agreement betweenthe Government of theUnion of Myanmar andthe Government of theLao People’s Demo-cratic Republic for theAvoidance of doubleTaxation and the Preven-tion of Fiscal Evasionwith respect to Taxes onIncome and exchangedthe notes.

MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein receives Laotian delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ForeignAffairs of Lao People’s Democratic Republic Dr Thongloun Sisoulith at Government Office in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

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