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Volume XVIII, Number 2 11th Waxing of Kason 1372 ME Friday, 23 April, 2010

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round developmentof 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 inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 22 April—Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe todayand yesterday paid homage to pagodas in Mandalay.

Accompanied by the Chairman of Mandalay Divi-sion PDC Commander of Central Command, the min-isters, senior military officers and departmental offi-cials, the Senior General was welcomed by the Chair-man of Mandalay City Development Committee Man-

Senior General Than Shwe payshomage to pagodas in Mandalay

dalay Mayor and officials at Mandalay Hill yesterdayevening.

On Mandalay Hill, the Senior General offeredflowers and water to Kakuthan Buddha Image at theeastern archway of Hsutaungpyae Pagoda and paidhomage to the image.

The Head of State made cash donation to the fundsof the pagoda through the Pagoda Board of Trusteesand paid homage to the pagoda.

From the hill, he enjoyed the sunset of Mandalay andits environs and signed in the visitors’ book.

(See page 8)

Only when nation becomes a modernindustrialized one, will it be transformed into

developed one from status of developing nationSenior General Than Shwe meets

entrepreneurs of Mandalay Industrial ZoneNAY PYI TAW, 22 April—Chairman of the State

Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwegave guidance in meeting with entrepreneurs atKanaung Hall of Mandalay Industrial Zone in Man-dalay this morning.

The Senior General, accompanied by Member ofthe State Peace and Development Council GeneralThura Shwe Mann, the Commander-in-Chief (Navy) ,

the Commander-in-Chief (Air), senior military offic-ers of the Ministry of Defence, the commanders ofNorth-West Command and Central Command, theministers, the Mandalay mayor and departmental of-ficials, observed drills, tractors, three-wheel motor-bike, power tillers, combined thrasher, paddy trans-plant machine, stone grinding machine, concrete mixerand various kinds of trucks manufactured by factoriesin the zone at the compound in front of the hall.

Next, the Senior General viewed industrial prod-ucts of Sein Pan Industrial Cooperative Society Lim-ited, products of Mandalar power tiller factory,Myanmar traditional bronze ware, compound ferti-lizers of Toepwar Mann Company, import-substituteindustrial products such as generators and farm ma-chinery of UD Group Co Ltd and export items ondisplay at the hall.

(See page 16)

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe paying homage to Buddha Image at Sacred Tooth Relic

Pagoda (Mandalay).—MNA

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Friday, 23 April, 2010

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

People’s Desire

Provide better health careto public

The government is opening more andmore universities of medicine, anduniversities on health care throughout thenation with the aim of developing the medicalscience and bringing about development ofhuman resources in the medical field.

As part of the drive for giving betterhealth care to the public, the government isalso establishing modern hospitals, generalhospitals, specialist hospitals and teachinghospitals extensively, and providing modernequipment on diagnosis and health care, andhospital equipment.

It is also encouraging production ofmodern and traditional medicines in its bidto upgrade hospitals to modern ones. Withestablishment of modern pharmaceuticalfactories, the nation obtains more newmanufacturing methods.

As a result of setting up modernpharmaceuticals factories, people can getmedicines at reasonable prices, and it reducesimport of medicines, and contributes toregional development.

Being produced through thepharmaceutical manufacturing methods, allthe medicines produced in Myanmar are ofhigh quality, thus standing highest in potencyin Southeast Asia. Myanmar has seen Inyaungand PyinOoLwin pharmaceutical factoriesin addition to Pharmaceuticals Factory(Yangon), which are designed to improvepublic health care.

In response to the government’sbenevolent attitude, the people, on their part,should keep themselves fit and rely only onthe medicines recognized by the government.

YANGON, 22 April—On his inspection tour,Minister for ConstructionMaj-Gen Khin MaungMyint looked intoconstruction of tarredroad section and buildingof bridge on Pathein-Thalakhwa-MawtinsoonRoad being undertakenby Moe Yadana Tun Coon 20 April.

The road is beingupgraded with theundertakings of IGC Co,Same Sky Co,Shwetaung Co, GoldenHarp Co, Soe Moe

Entrepreneurs, Public Works upgrade Pathein-Thalakhwa-Mawtinsoon Road

Yandana BridgeConstruction Co, AungGabar Co and AsiaWorld Co. The private

Meeting of Union Election Commission 20/2010 held

STI Education to conduct Diploma inLogistics Management and Supply

Chain Management

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspects upgrading of Pathein-Thalakhwa-Mawtinsoon Road.—CONSTRUCTION

Chairman of the Union Election Commission U Thein Soe addresses meeting of the UnionElection Commission 20/2010.—MNA

companies are joininghands with Public Worksin constructing the roadsand bridges. The minister

attended to the needs ofthe constructionentrepreneurs.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22 April— A meeting of the UnionElection Commission 20/2010 took place this morningat the hall of the Union Election Commission (Nay PyiTaw), here.

It was attended by Chairman of the Union ElectionCommission U Thein Soe and members of thecommission.

At the meeting, the chairman made an openingspeech and the members discussed formation ofTownship Election Sub-commissions, Ward and Village-tract Election Sub-commissions and scrutinization ofapplications for setting up political parties. The meetingcame to an end with concluding remarks by thechairman.—MNA

Applications to set up politicalparties scrutinized, passedNAY PYI TAW, 22 April —Those wishing to

set up political parties are submitting applicationsto the Union Election Commission and up to date16 groups have sent applications to UEC. Ofthem, the Commission has found the followingtwo groups to be in accord with the PoliticalParties Registration Law and rules and thus theCommission has passed their applications on 22April 2010.

(a) The 88 Generation Student Youths(Union of Myanmar)

(b) The Union of Myanmar Federation ofNational Politics

The said two groups are to submit theirapplications for registration as political parties inaccord with the Political Parties Registration rule7 within 30 days from the date of acceptance. TheCommission is scrutinizing the applications ofthe remaining groups.

MNA

20,075.74 acres of poppyplantation destroyed in States

and DivisionsNAY PYI TAW, 22 April—The government has

destroyed a total of 19592.54 acres of poppy plantationin States and Divisions in 2009-2010 till 13 April2010.

A total amount of destroyed poppy acres hit20,075.74 including 483.2 more acres— 11.15 acresin Pinlaung Township of Shan State (South) and472.05 acres in Waingmaw Township of Kachin Statefrom 14 to 20 April.—MNA

YANGON, 22 April—STI Education hasconducted Diploma in Logistics Management andSupply Chain Management subjects since 2007.

These subjects carry administration, purchasing,transport, production, distribution, storage, news,monetary and commodity flow of a business. It canenable needed products and services at needed timeand place effectively.

Logistics and supply chain management subjectsbecome more popular now in the world. STI willconduct these subjects in theory and practice. Thecourse also includes Just-In-Time (JIT) method. Thecourse will last six months. STI will conduct the newcourse in the first week of May. For more information,

contact No. 377, Shwebontha street (Upper), PabedanTownship, here and Ward(4), Room (7), MyanmarInfo-Tech, Hline Township, here, Ph ( 250056, 700273,507048, 507151 and 507152).

MNA

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Runaway luxury train derails inS Africa, two dead

PRETORIA, 22 April—A luxury train filled withforeign tourists, many ofthem Americans, speddownhill out of controlbefore derailing in SouthAfrica Wednesday,killing a pregnantwoman and another crewmember and trappingpassengers in themangled coaches.

Rail officialsadvised passengers andcrew to jump from thetrain as it sped intoPretoria, South Africa’scapital, after theirattempts to apply brakesdid not work.

“I screamed at theothers to tell them tojump off,” said RovosRail Managing DirectorRohan Vos. “I jumpedoff while it wasmoving.”

The train wascarrying nearly 60passengers, and about 20

Emergency workers search the scene of a trainderailment in Pretoria, South Africa, on

Wednesday 21 April, 2010. The luxury RovosRail train was carrying foreign tourists on a

luxury rail safari when it derailed just outside itsfinal destination at Pretoria station.—INTERNET

of them were injured,including 10 Americans,the US Embassy andreports from emergencyofficials said.

The Rovos Railvoyage had begun inCape Town and wasclose to its destination inPretoria when it stoppedfor what is usually a

routine change from anelectric to a steamlocomotive, saidNothemba Dlali of MetroRail, which oversees railservice in South Africa’smajor population centers.The train trip is billed asa re-creation of thegolden age of travel.

Internet

A man selling grain in Tibiri village in southernNiger on 16 April.—INTERNET

As food crisis looms, FAO steps upaid to Niger, Chad

R O M E, 22 Apri l–The UN food agencysaid Wednesday it wasstepping up aid toherders and shepherdsin Niger and Chad as thetwo African countriesface a food cris isfollowing poor rainslast year.

Livestock pastureshave dr ied out andagricultural productionhad plunged in bothSaharan countries, theFood and AgricultureOrganisa t ion (FAO)said in a statement.

“An estimated 9.8million people are nowvulnerable to severehunger in the twocountries, withthousands more underthreat in the north ofBurkina Faso andnortheast Mali,” theRome-based agencysaid.

“The situation in the

region is very worryingindeed,” said FatoumaSeid, the FAO’scoordinator for westAfrica.

“Poor l ives tockherders are beingforced to sell their onlyassets and an importantsource of nut r i t ion ,the i r animals , a tdiscount prices in orderto buy enough food for

thei r famil ies whi lefarmers have no seedsto plant,” she said.

The FAO said itwould finance thepurchase and distributionof livestock feed,fertilisers and crop seedworth 12.7 milliondollars (9.5 millioneuros) in Niger and 4.5million dollars in Chad.

Internet

In this image released by the US Coast Guard(USCG), emergency medical technicians rush a

gurney to an awaiting an HH-60 rescue helicopterat Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans. The UScoast guard launched a frantic air and sea search

Wednesday for 11 oil workers missing after amassive explosion ripped through a rig.

INTERNET

Two men carry a mirror on which appears reflected a building destroyed bythe 12 January earthquake in Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday, 21 April,

2010.—INTERNET

16 wounded in mortarbarrage on village in

western IraqRAMADI, 22 April— Sixteen people were

wounded when several mortar rounds struck aresidential area in a village near the city of Ramadi,the capital of Anbar province, on Wednesday, aprovincial police source said.

At least seven mortar rounds landed in themorning on six houses in the village of Albu Farraj,near Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad,wounding 16 people, the source told Xinhua oncondition of anonymity.

The attack caused severe damages to the houses,three of which appeared to belong to policepersonnel, the source said.

Iraqi security forces tightened securitymeasures and conducted a search operation insurrounding areas, looking for the attackers, thesource added.—Internet

TEHERAN, 22 April— An Iranianmilitary commander said Wednesdaythat Iran is ready to carry out jointmilitary drills in the Persian Gulf, thesemi-official Fars news agencyreported.

Brigadier General Hossein Salami,the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps(IRGC) deputy commander said that“the country is prepared to stage jointdrills with its southern neighbours inthe Persian Gulf,” according to thereport.

Talking to the reporters in a pressconference in Teheran, Salami said thatIRGC will start a military exercise inthe Persian Gulf and the Strait ofHormuz on Thursday.

Afghan peaceconference delayedKABUL, 22 April—

The Afghan national peacejirga, or peace conference,will be postponed for twoto three weeks, theorganizer said here onWednesday.

Farooq Wardak, headof the organizing committeeof the jirga, told a pressconference here that theconference which wasslated on 2 May will bedelayed.

Wardak, who is thecountry’s Minister forEducation as well, saidAfghan President HamidKarzai will start his visit tothe United States on 2 May,which will be contradictedto the jirga schedule.Theother reason for the delaywas that many potentialparticipants of the jirga havebeen busy with theregistration for theparliamentary electionwhich was scheduled forSeptember, said theofficial.—Internet

Iran ready to stage joint militaryexercise in Persian Gulf

IRGC’s air, naval and land forceswill participate in a large- scale militaryexercise, said Salami. The three-daymaneuver dubbed “Great Prophet 5,” isaimed at providing” security of thePersian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,”local satellite Press TV quoted him assaying on Wednesday.

He said that the drill carries themessage of “peace and friendship” forPersian Gulf states, adding “themilitary exercise is not a threat for anyneighboring country,” the report said.

Meanwhile, Iranian DefenceMinister Brigadier General AhmadVahidi told reporters on Wednesdaythat Iran will test new weapons in theupcoming military drills.—Internet

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KIEV, 22 April—Ukrainian PresidentViktor Yanukovych andhis Russian counterpart,Dmitry Medvedevsigned deals on gasprices Black Sea Fleet inthe eastern Ukrainiancity Kharkiv on

Students attend a class ata school in Port-au

Prince, capital of Haiti,on 20 April, 2010.

Hundreds of thousandsof people in Haiti still live

in desperate conditionthree months after the 12

Jan earthquake.XINHUA

CAIRO, 22 April —The Arab League (AL)on Wednesday calledon the UN Securi tyCouncil to sendinternational peace-keeping forces toSomalia.

The league and theAfrican Union (AU)are asking the UNSecuri ty Council tosend peacekeepers tothe war-torn country,said head of the ALAfro-Arab Coop-erat ion DepartmentSamir Hosni on thesidelines of a meetinghere for theInternational SomaliaContact Group.

AL is still holdingtalks with the UNSecuri ty Council toreach an agreementover the issue, thesenior Arab off icialadded.

ANKARA, 22 April —One Turkish soldier waskilled and another wasinjured in a land mineblast in southeastTurkey’s HakkariProvince on Wedesday,the Turkish newspaperHurriyet Daily Newsreported.

The incident tookplace in the SemdinliDistrict of the province,said the newspaper on itswebsite, which didn’tgive further details.

There have beenmany reports ofexplosions of land minesplaced by the outlawedKurdish Workers’ Party(PKK) in the country’ssoutheast.

Established in 1978,the PKK took up arms in1984 to create an ethnichomeland in southeasternTurkey. Some 40,000people have been killed inconflicts over the pasttwo decades.

Xinhua

ANKARA, 22 April—Greek fighter jetsintercepted Turkish jetstraining in internationalair space over theAegean Sea three timeson Tuesday, said theTurkish General Staff onits website onWednesday.

The Turkish GeneralStaff said that GreekF-16 and M-2000 jetsfrom the Greek centresof Tanagra and Limnostwice interceptedTurkish F-16 jets in thenorthwest and southwestof the Lesbos island.

The Turkish GeneralStaff also said that GreekM-2000 jets from theGreek centre of Tanagra

People stand at the

entrance of Belgrade’s

landmark TV tower,

the Avala Tower, in

Belgrade, capital of

Serbia, on 21 April,

2010.—XINHUA

Ukraine, Russia ink deals on gas,Black Sea Fleet

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) andhis Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovychshake hands after signing documents in the

eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv on 21 April, 2010.The two countries agreed Wednesday to extend

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet stay in Ukraine beyond2017 expiry date.—XINHUA

Wednesday.Russia agreed to

give Ukraine asignificant discount onthe price of imported gasin exchange for anextension of the right tobase its Black Sea Fleeton Ukrainian territory.

According to theagreement, Ukraine willreceive a discount of100 U.S. dollars per1,000 cubic metres onnatural gas, if the priceis not below 330 dollars.But if the price goesbelow 330 dollars, thediscount will stand at 30percent.

In return, Ukrainewill prolong the lease ofRussia’s Black SeaFleet on its Crimeanpeninsula by 25 years,with the option toextend the lease for fivemore years after the newterm expires.

Ukraine’s previouspresident, ViktorYushch-enko, hadstruggled to kick thefleet out when its leaseexpired in 2017,stressing that i tspresence on Ukrainianterritory violates the co-untry’s constitution.

Xinhua

Greek fighter jets interceptTurkish jets in international

air space

Impacts of bullets are seen on a piece of bullet-proof glass during a securityexhibition in Mexico City, on 21 April, 2010. The exhibition presents the

latest in police, civil defence security equipment.—XINHUA

Arab League seeksinternational peacekeepers

in SomaliaAsked about the UN

Securi ty Council’sdelay in making adecision in this regard,Hosni said until nowthere is no unanimityover the issue. It wouldtake some t ime formany of the council’spermanent members tomake the decision.

“This is what wedisagree upon (withthese countries) becausewe see that there was theDjibouti PeaceAgreement and the UNhas to keep peace or atleast to support the AUpeacekeepers inSomalia,” he added.TheAU Mission in Somalia(AMISOM) wasauthorized by the UnitedNations in January 2007with the goal of bringingan end to civil war in theimpoverished country.

Xinhua

One soldierkilled in landmine blast in

southeastTurkey

NAIROBI, 22 April —European Union navalforces have captured sixpirates off the coast ofSomalia after an attack ona French fishing vessel,official said onWednesday.

Naval Force spokes-man John Harbour saidtwo skiffs attackedFrench replenishmentship Somme on Mondaynight, about 400 nauticalmiles from the coast ofSomalia.

According to Harb-our whilst chasing one ofthe skiffs, FS Somme

EU naval forces capture sixpirates off coast of Somalia

detected another boatwhich turned out to be thepirate mother ship, thevessel which controls andresupplies the pirateskiffs.

Harbour said thepirates, mistaking theSomme’s silhouette forthat of a merchant vessel,opened fire on the Frenchship but Sommeresponded with warningshots, causing the twopirate skiffs to flee.“During their fight, thetwo pirate skiffs wereseparated.

Xinhua

intercepted Turkish F-16jets once in thenorthwest of Kiosisland.

Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua NewsAgency

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In this 22 April, 2008 file photo, visitors look at a Volkswagen Lavida, rightfront, and a VW New Bora, at the Auto China 2008 auto show in Beijing,

China.—INTERNET

Automakers showcase new models atBeijing show

BEIJING, 22 April—Automakers plan to unveildozens of new models atthe Beijing auto show thisweekend as foreignproducers look to surgingChina to drive slack globalsales and local brands tryto raise their profilefollowing Geely’spurchase of Volvo.

The show has quicklybecome a premier globalevent as explosive salesgrowth propelled China, acountry with almost noprivate cars 15 years ago,past the United States in2009 to become the

world’s top auto market.Major producers that

used to reserve vehiclelaunches for US orEuropean auto shows planto debut 14 new models atAuto China 2010,according to organizers.Chinese manufacturersplan to show 75 newsedans, SUVs, experi-mental “green” cars andother vehicles. The eventopens to auto writersFriday and to the public onTuesday.

“Auto China hasgrown to be one of thebiggest and most important

auto shows of the year,joining Detroit, Tokyo andParis,” said Trevor Hale, aspokesman for DaimlerAG.

The reason: China’sbuoyant auto marketshrugged off the globalcrisis and sales soared byan eye-popping 45 percentlast year to 13.6 millionvehicles, well ahead of the10.5 million units sold inthe United States. Theexpansion accelerated thisyear, when sales jumpedby 63 percent in the firstquarter.

Internet

Hyundai Motor’s Q1 net profit hits recordhigh

Hyundai Motor Co’s vehicle Sonata is displayed ata showroom in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday,

22 April, 2010.INTERNET

SEOUL, 22 April—Hyundai Motor says netprofit hit a record high inthe first quarter as sales

rose.Hyundai said

Thursday in a regulatoryfiling that it earned 1.13

trillion won ($1.02 billion)in the three months endedon 31 March.

That was five timeshigher than its net profit of225 billion won in the sameperiod last year.

Company spokes-man Ki Jin-ho said the netprofit figure was an all-time high on a quarterlybasis.

He also said thecompany’s earnings wereboosted by strongperformance in China andIndia.

Hyundai saidquarterly sales rose 39.6percent to 8.42 trillion wonfrom 6.03 trillion won ayear earlier.—Internet

Japan’s exports rise for 4th straightmonth

In this 29 March, 2010 file photo,Japanese vehicles for export park at

a Yokohama port, near Tokyo,Japan.—INTERNET

Airlines lost over $1.7 blnover volcanic ash cloud

South Korean men walk past theheadquarters of Hynix

Semiconductor Inc. in Seoul, SouthKorea, on Thursday, 22 April,

2010.—INTERNET

Hynix turns 1st-quarter profit asDRAM prices rise

BERLIN, 22 April—The International AirTransport Association(IATA) said Wednesdaythat airlines have suffereda loss of more than 1.7billion US dollars sincethe initial volcaniceruption in Iceland.

“Lost revenues nowtotal more than 1.7 billionUS dollars for airlinesalone,” said GiovanniBisignani, IATA’sdirector general and CEO,at a press conference inBerlin. “In the first threedays, 400 million dollarswere lost for each day.”

“About 29 percent ofglobal aviation wasimpacted by this crisis,

which affected 1.2 millionpassengers a day. Thescale of the crisis eclipsedon 11 September whenUS airspace was closedfor three days,” he said.

He also urgedgovernments tocompensate airlines forthe lost revenues, as theindustry has been sankinto its worst financialsituation.“It is hittinghardest where the carriersare in the most difficultfinancial situation.Europe’s carriers werealready expected to lose2.2 billion US dollars thisyear the largest in theindustry,” said MrBisignani.—Xinhua

SEOUL, 22 April—Hynix Semiconductor returned to profit inthe first quarter after a loss last year as sales more than doubled andprices for its mainstay computer memory chips increased.

Hynix, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of memorychips, earned 822 billion won ($742 million) in the three monthsended on 31 March, the company said Thursday in a release. Itreported a net loss of 1.18 trillion won a year earlier.

Sales more than doubled to 2.82 trillion won from 1.31 trillionwon the year before, Hynix said.

It was the company’s third straight quarter in the black. Hynixrecorded its first net profit in two years for the third quarter of lastyear as prices for memory chips rose amid a rapid recovery in themarket.

Hynix Semiconductor Inc. manufactures DRAM chips, usedmostly in personal computers. It also ranks No. 3 in the world inNAND flash memory chips, used in products such as digitalcameras, music players and smartphones.

Hynix supplies NAND chips to Apple Inc. for its iPod andiPhone products and mobile DRAM chips for the iPad, accordingto Hynix.

The Icheon, South Korea-based company competes with worldmemory chip leader and South Korean rival Samsung ElectronicsCo. as well as Japan’s Toshiba Corp.—Internet

TOKYO, 22 April— Japan’s exportsrose for a fourth straight month in Marchas a recovering global economy drovedemand for the nation’s cars and gadgets.

Exports jumped 43.5 percent from ayear earlier to 6 trillion yen ($63.5 billion),the government said Thursday.

The figures offer more evidence thatrobust growth, particularly in Asia, is

feeding a turnaround in the world’ssecond-biggest economy, offsetting weakdemand and falling prices at home.

Shipments rose worldwide, withthose to Asia up almost 53 percent.

Led by a booming China, the region’srobust growth has been key in liftingJapanese corporate profits, factory outputand business confidence. TheInternational Monetary Fund forecastWednesday that China’s economy —which has overtaken the US to becomethe biggest market for Japanese exports— would surge 10 percent this year.

Exports to the US grew 30 percent,and those to the European Union rose 27percent, the finance ministry said.

Overseas shipments of vehicles morethan doubled, while electrical machineryexports were up 43 percent.—Internet

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The oldest man inJapan marked his 113thbir thday wi th acelebration attended byabout a dozen familymembers , inc ludingg r e a t - g r e a t - g r a n d -children.

Jiroemon Kimura,who celebrated with hisfamily Monday at hisKyotango home, saidbreaking the record forJapan’s oldest-everman, 120 years, “mightbe a little difficult ... but

Officials with aBritish bus company saidthey suspended a driverwho was filmed readinga book behind the wheelin a video posted toYouTube.

National ExpressWest Midlands,headquartered inBirmingham, England,said the No. 61 bus driverwas suspended afterbosses saw a YouTubevideo depicting the manreading a book while

A Canadian scientistsays a thin person lyingdown is seen by people asresting, but when an obeseperson is seen relaxing,people assume they’relazy.

University of AlbertaAssistant ProfessorTanya Berry says herstudy shows suchstereotypes aboutoverweight people need

CAIRO, 22 April — AnEgyptian court onWednesday convicted 58officials of involvement ina sunken ferryboat case, inwhich around 1,400people died after the boatsank into the Red Sea offSaudi coast, state-runMENA news agencyreported.

Egypt’s SupremeDisciplinary Court ordereddismissing 11 employees

SEOUL, 22 April— Aregional media summithosted by South Korea’sYonhap News Agencyand the Organization ofAsia- Pacific NewsAgencies (OANA)kicked off in Seoul onThursday.

The four-daymeeting, held under thetheme of “challenges andopportunities for newsagencies” broughttogether about 90 leaders

Egyptian court convicts 58 officialsover sunken ferryboat case

of the Egyptian Authorityfor Maritime NavigationSafety and the Ministry ofTransport of their jobs,sending 15 others to earlyretirement and suspe-nding 21 for six months.

The court alsoordered reducing one-month salary from threeemployees, fining sixothers five-fold theirmonthly salary whereasthe last two were

reprimanded.The al-Salam 98 ferry

sank in the Red Sea inFebruary 2006, claimingthe lives of around 1,400people.

According to theverdict, the convicts havefacilitated granting theowner company passengersafety certificates despiteits lack of the “leastmaritime safety devices.”

Xinhua

Customer Spyros Skouras looks for an energy

efficient washer and dryer at Best Buy store on

Wednesday, 21 April, 2010,

in Los Angeles.

XINHUA

Greek cargo ship seized by Somali piratesATHENS, 22 April— A

Greek cargo ship, with 21Filippinos on board ascrew members, washijacked by Somalipirates on Wednesday,while sailing near theGulf of Aden, Greekauthorities announced.

Greek officialsconfirmed that Panama-flagged “Voc Daisy” wasseized at a distance ofabout 190 nautical milessoutheast off Oman, whilewas sailing to Morocco

from the United ArabEmirates.

The ship, which isowned by the Greekshipping companySamartzis MaritimeEnterprises was headingtowards the sea areawhere an internationaltask force has stepped uppatrols the past two years,when it came under attackby Somali pirates armedwith AK-47s and a rocketlauncher. Represen-tatives of the company

have not releasedinformation on the cargoof the ship.

According to Greekauthorities all the crewmembers of “Voc Daisy”are in fine health, whilethe ship is headingtowards Somalia.Despiteinterna-tional efforts toaddress the piracy plaguethat has hit the area offSomalia the past fewyears, there are stillincidents occurring.

Xinhua

Macedonia adopts energydevelopment strategy

TIRANA, 22 April—Macedonia onWednesday adopted itslong-term energydevelopment strategythrough 2030 in aneffort to ensure qualityenergy supply, newsreaching here fromSkopje said.

“With the strategy,Macedonia has a clearand precise goal and aplan to establish a

stable, sustainable andeffective energy system,as well as an integratedenergy market,”Minister of EconomyFatmir Besimi said.Hesaid the priority of thestrategy is to encourageenergy efficiency andproduction of cleanenergy, as well as totackle all the challengesposed by globalization.

Xinhua

Leaders of Asia-Pacific newsagencies gather for media summit

from 44 news agencies of35 countries, Yonhapsaid.The summitmeeting, which is thelargest official event inthe history of OANA, alsoc o m m e m - o r a t e sYonhap’s 30thanniversary, as theleaders will discuss thechanging landscape ofmedia’s role andexchange views on futurestrategies of newsagencies.—Xinhua

Japan’s oldest manturns 113

that makes it all the moreworthwhile” to attempt,Kyodo News reportedWednesday .Kimura ,born on 19 April, 1897,has 25 greatgrand-children and 10 great-great -grandchi ldren.His family said thecenten-arian spends alot of time lying downdue to weakness in hislower body, but eatsregular meals withoutdifficulty.

Driver suspended forreading at the wheel

driving the doubledecker on a busy roadMonday evening inBirmingham, The Sunreported Wednesday.

“Immediate actionwas taken to suspend thedriver who will now facedisciplinary action,” aNational Expressspokesman said. “It isnot appropriate topredict the outcome butan incident of this typeis likely to lead to adismissal.”

Visitors lie on a furniture design during the 49thMilan furniture & design week in Milan, Italy,18 April, 2010. The six-day Milan furniture &

design week was concluded on 19 Monday,April.

This WWF Malaysia photo shows the“Phobaeticus chani”, the world’s longest stick

insect measuring 56.7cm in lenght (with the bodyof 35.7cm).

Photo shows a pod-shaped restaurant built on a

tree near Auckland, New Zealand.

Study:Fat seen as lazy,thin isn’t

to be addressed. Berrysays just because aperson is overweight, itdoesn’t mean they don’texercise, and justbecause a person is thin,it doesn’t mean they arefit and healthy.

Berry had a group ofstudy participants lookat a number of picturesthat would flash on acomputer screen.

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Fire at police station kills one inPakistani capital

ISLAMABAD, 22April— A 25-year-oldyoung man was killed onWednesday eveningwhen fire broke out at apolice station in thePakistani capital city ofIslamabad, police said.

The incident occur-red in the Aabpara poli-ce station of the city. Thefire soon engu-lfed therecord room and a storeinside the station.

Fire brigade andrescue teams rushed tothe scene to control thesituation. At least 12persons were safelyevacuated out of thepolice station.

The killed wasreportedly a welder. Theexact cause of the fire wasyet to be determined ashigh police officers andinvestigating teamsreached the spot.

Witnesses said somerooms of the policestation were still on firewith fire-engines fight-ing to put off the flames.

The Aabpara policestation, adjacent to a foodmarket, also houses theControl Room fromwhere the policeactivities throughout theIslamabad district aremonitored.

Internet

An investigatorlooks for evidencewhere a Russian

cargo plane crashlanded on a rice

field while trying toland at nearby Clarkairport in the townof Mexico, north of

Manila. Threeforeigners were

killed in theaccident, but three

others survived,authorities have

said.INTERNET

Fifteen-year-old Jiangyong (R, front) and classmates have a class in a tent inYushu, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, on 20 April, 2010. Lots of

students have been transferred to temporary tents in Yushu to continue theirstudy. A total of 186.565 million yuan will be invested by the provincial

education departments to build 22 transitional facilities for high schools,primary schools, vocational schools and so on. Qinghai Province also carriedout a program to transfer 6,200 local students to continue their study outside

the quake-hit areas. —XINHUA

Afghan, NATO forces kill 6 Talebanmilitants in E Afghanistan

KHOST, 22 April—Afghan security forces,backed by NATO-ledforces during a cleanupopera-tion, killed sixTaleban militants inAfghanistan’s easternPaktika province,spokesman for theprovincial administrationsaid on Wednesday.“Ajoint operation waslaunched by Afghanpolice, army andinternational forces inTor Ghra area this

morning at around 10 amlocal time, as a result, sixmilitants were killed inthe gun fight during theoperation,” MukhlisAfghan, the spokesman,told Xinhua. He said thatthe combined forces alsorecovered a handful ofweapons including fiveKalashnikovs, a heavymachinegun, a RPG 7(rocket launcher) and twocommunication equipm-ents on the ground.Taleban militants, whose

regime was toppled in aUS-led military camp-aign in last 2001, have sofar made no comm-ents.However, a Talebanspokesman ZabihullahMujahid in talks withmedia from undisclosedlocation claimed that hismen launched anexplosion attack Wednes-day in southernAfghanistan and left overa dozen security guardsdead and injured.

Internet

Peace still elusive in eastern DR CongoKINSHASA, 22

April—After days ofnegotiations with theSouth Kivu provincialauthorities in the east ofthe Democratic Republicof Congo (DR Congo),the local Mai Mai armedgroup on Friday releasedthe eight hostagesworking for theInternational Committee

of the Red Cross (ICRC).The ICRC staff were

kidnapped on 9 April inthe Fizi territory, about200 km south of Bukavu,the provincial capital,according to the Fiziadministrator.

The official said MaiMai fighters continuedbattling DR Congo’sArmed Forces (FARDC)

in resistance againstmilitary integrationbefore the release of theICRC hostages.

The fighting killedthree FARDA soldiersand 15 Mai Mai militiaand injured many more,the local official said afterthe release of thehostages.

Internet

All sports-loving nationsmourn Samaranch, says

Hungarian PMBUDAPEST, 22 April—Hungary’s Prime Minister

Gordon Bajnai lamented the death of Juan AntonioSamaranch, former president of the InternationalOlympic Committee, who died earlier on Wednesdayat 89, saying that all sports-loving nations had suffereda loss.

Noting that Samaranch took the helm of theOlympic movement in the middle of the cold war,during a time when east and west mutually boycottedthe 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles Games,Bajnai credited him with restoring unity to the Olympicmovement.

Internet

Former IOC chiefSamaranch’s death “loss for

all Russians”MOSCOW, 22 April—Russian President Dmitry

Medvedev expressed his deep grief over the death offormer president of International OlympicCommittee (IOC) Juan Antonio Samaranch, whopassed away on Wednesday in Spain at the age of 89.

The president said during his visit to Ukrainethat Samaranch had always been the true bearer ofthe Olympic movement spirit and “a big friend” ofRussia.“His death is a loss not only for thoseconnected with the Olympic Movement, but for allcitizens of Russia,” Medvedev said as quoted by theRIA Novosti news agency.

Internet

USOC pays tribute toSamaranch

LOS ANGELES, 22 April— The United StatesOlympic Committee (USOC) issued a statement onWednesday to express sadness over the death of JuanAntonio Samaranch, former president of theInternational Olympic Committee.

“It is with great sadness that we learned the newstoday about Juan Antonio Samaranch,” USOCChairman Larry Probst said in the statement.

Samaranch died in a hospital in Barcelona onWednesday at 89.

“President Samaranch was a great supporter ofthe Olympic Movement in the United States, and inparticular was a great supporter of our athletes,”Probst said.—Internet

People surf on the internet at the New York Public Library Battery ParkCity branch in New York on 20 April, 2010. It has ample computers and

provides Wi-Fi access to the internet for people who bring their own. TheNew York Public Library Battery Park City branch is hailed as the newest

and greenest in the system due to its environment-friendly fitment anddesign.—XINHUA

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SeniorGeneralThan Shwepays…

(from page 1)At Maha Muni Bud-

dha Image, the SeniorGeneral and party werewelcomed by departmen-tal officials and membersof the Pagoda Board ofTrustees. The SeniorGeneral offered flowers,water, lights and josssticks to the Buddha Im-age.

The ministers andsenior military officerswho accompanied the

Senior General offeredgold foils to the image.

The Head of Statesigned in the visitors’book and made cash do-

nations. He then visitedthe Gandakuti Build-ing.

This morning, theSenior General, accom-

panied by Member of theState Peace and Devel-opment Council GeneralThura Shwe Mann andparty went to Sacred

Tooth Relic Pagoda(Mandalay) and offeredflowers, water and fruitsto the padoga.

After presenting cash

to the funds of the pa-goda, the Senior Generalsigned in the visitors’book.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe enjoying impressive view on development of Mandalay from Mandalay Hill.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe paying homage to Maha Muni Buddha Image.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22April—Pwegauk DamProject is being imple-mented by Construction 2of Irrigation Departmentby damming GelaungCreek near YethayaukgonVillage of PyinOoLwinTownship.

Minister for Agri-culture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oolooked into construction

Pwegauk Dam under construction inPyinOoLwin Township

ter not only for the ag-ricultural purpose butalso for public con-sumption.

In addition, thedam will contribute togenerating 2.20 millionkwh yearly for boostingagricultural produce andenhancing socio-eco-nomic status of the localpeople.

MNA

Cash for YangonChildren’s Hospital accepted

YANGON, 22 April— A ceremony to donate cashto the funds for renovation of medical ward andequipment to Yangon Children’s Hospital took placeat its meeting hall here this evening.

On the occasion, Thai Ambassador to the Unionof Myanmar Mr. Bansarn Bunnag explained the pur-pose of donation before he presented $ 56,900 contrib-uted by Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn toMedical Superintendent Dr Aung Kyi Win who spokewords of thanks.—MNA

of the damming tasks andinstallation of penstockpipelines, and gave nec-essary instructions to of-ficials.

The dam will have1450 feet long and 107feet high earthern em-bankment, and it will have1230 acre-feet of waterstorage capacity.

On completion,the dam will supply wa-

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo visits worksite of Pwegauk Dam Project.MNA

Minister for Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing being welcomed by Israeli Ambassadorto the Union of Myanmar Mr. Yaron Mayer at

the reception to mark the 62nd AnniversaryIndependence Day of Israel on 22 April.—MNA

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Only when nation becomes a modern…(from page 16)

However, suchprogress will not be ad-equate for esta-blishmentof an industrialized na-tion. Nowadays, rapidprogress can be seen inthe world and competi-tion in the trade of theworld. Therefore, hepointed out that all thepeople should not be con-tent with the progress oftheir tasks and it is nec-essary to make all-outefforts in operating theirworks for meeting the

target with a wide rangeof knowledge.

He continued to saythat it is necessary toplace emphasis onachieving progress of theindustries both with formand content. Only whenthe industries gain de-velop-ment momentumwith form and content,will the nation be estab-lished as an industrial-ized one, he added.

If the industrialistssubmit their require-ments on investment and

technology in addition togenuine situations onother weak points, theSenior General said thatthe State will solve them.In conclusion, the Sen-ior General noted that theState and the private en-trepreneurs are to harmo-niously strive for gain-ing more and more de-velopment in the indus-tries, he said.

Later, the Head ofState greeted the entrepre-neurs.

MNA

Technological University (Lashio): alma mater of technocratsArticle & Photo: Yamanya Thway Mon

Nowadays, the government is giving priority toconstruction of infrastructures for ensuringdevelopment of human resources which is essentialfor emergence of a modern and developed nation.

With the aim of contributing to human resourcesdevelopment, the educational infrastructures such asTechnological Universities and Universities ofComputer Studies have been opened in 24development regions of the nation.

On 1 July 2007, the Ministry of Science andTechnology inaugurated Technological University(Lashio) on a grand scale in Lashio of Shan State(North). The university was built on 55.36 acres of

land near Hopeik Village, seven miles from the exit ofLashio to Hsenwi, near the Union Highway of ShanState (North).

The Technological University (Lashio) held thefirst convocation for the M.E degree and the sixthconvocation for the B.E and B.Tech degrees on 14March 2000. So far, the university has produced overone thousand engineering graduates. Thanks to theendeavours of the government, the local nationalyouth have the opportunity to pursue higher engineeringtechnology in their regions. As such, some of thosenational people are discharging State duties at thehigher level.

At the convocation, a total of 58 male and femalegraduates were conferred the engineering degrees.Today’s local youth will not face the difficulties ofpursuing higher education in the major cities that wasthe case in the past, and they have easy access tolearning education in their own regions. Indeed,Technological University (Lashio) in Shan State(North) is an educational infrastructure that is turningout the technological human resources on which theState can rely.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 22-4-2010

Photo shows main building of Technological University (Lashio).

Some damages caused by strong windsin some States and Divisions

NAY PYI TAW, 22April—The strong windscaused loss and damagein some States andDivisions on 20 Aprilevening.

Due to strong winds,roofs of some buildingwere blown off andmany trees, telephoneposts and lamp-posts fellin Muse and Kyukok

(Pangsai) of MuseDistrict, Shan State. Inaddition, three men andseven women totalling 10were injured (not incritical condition), andthey are undergoingmedical treatment atMuse Hospital. Therewas no death of humanbeing and animal in theincident.

The strong windsblew off roofs of somebuildings and fell trees,telephone posts and lamp-posts in Tamoenye ofKutkai Township. Neitherhuman being nor animalwas injured. In Laukkai,roofs of many buildingswere blown off andbuildings damaged in theheavy rains and strong

winds. The strong windscaused damage to somebuildings in KunlongTownship and twopersons, one man and onewoman, were injured butnot in critical condition.The injured persons areundergoing medicaltreatment at KunlongHospital.

In Panhong Village ofLashio Township, twochildren were killed afterbeing hit by brokenbranches of fallen trees in

the strong winds. Twoother injured children arebeing treated at LashioHospital.

In NyaungU ofMandalay Division, manytrees and lamp-posts fell inthe strong winds. Likewise,the strong winds blew offthe roofs of buildings andfell trees and lamp-posts.There was no injury ofhuman being and animal.Due to heavy rain andstrong winds, roofs of somebuildings were blown off

and damaged in Tonzangof Chin State, and no onewas injured in the incident.

Officials concernedprovided necessaryassistance to the victimsof strong winds andremoved the debrisquickly.

The departmentconcerned has remindedthe people to be aware ofstrong winds that canoccur some times duringthis season.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe inspects industrial products manufacturedby factories in Mandalay Industrial Zone.—MNA

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Gunmen abduct 6 from hotels innorthern Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 22April — Dozens ofgunmen burst into aHoliday Inn and anotherhotel in the northernMexican city ofMonterrey on Wedn-esday, searching fromroom-to-room andabducting at least sixpeople, prosecutors said.

Nuevo Leon stateattorney general Aleja-ndro Garza y Garza saidthat between 20 and 30gunmen abducted fourguests and a receptionistfrom the 17-story

Holiday Inn in Mexico’sindustrial hub, which hasseen a surge in violencerecently.

The gunmen had withthem a handcuffed manwho led them to the fifthfloor, Garza y Garza said.The assailants stormedroom 517 where an Asianguest was staying,realized he wasn’t whothey were looking for andleft, he said.

The group thensearched at least sevenmore rooms on the fifthfloor, apparently looking

for specific targets,before going across thestreet to the Hotel Misionwhere they abducted areceptionist, the attorneygeneral said.

Those abductedincluded three maleguests who registered atthe Holiday Inn asbusinessmen fromMexico City and awoman registered asfrom the border city ofReynosa, across fromMcAllen, Texas.

Internet

Singapore firms scramble to clearcargo backlog

SINGAPORE, 22April— Singaporecompanies Thursdayscrambled to clear abacklog of cargoincluding orchids andornamental fish asEurope opened itsairspace after the threatof ash clouds from a

volcano eased.One Singapore firm

urgently needs a cargoof ship spare parts toarrive from Europe toavoid vessels sitting idlein the city-state, a majortrans-shipment port.

Steven Lee,chairman of theSingapore AircargoAgents’ Associationestimated it would takeat least three to fourweeks to clear thebacklog.

“The crisis is nottotally over because mostof the flights haveresumed but the damagehas been done,” Lee toldAFP.

“Cargos are just asimportant aspassengers...The cargo(standstill) impacted

File photoshows Cranes and

containers are seen inSingapore’s Keppel

port.—INTERNET

trade overall.”As cargo services

gradually resume,priority would be givento medical and healthsupplies and perishableitems, Lee said.

Too Peng San, pre-sident of the SingaporeFlower Exporters’Association, saidshipments of orchidshave been halted sincelast week, when Europeshut down large areas ofits airspace due to ashclouds billowing from anerupting volcano inI c e l a n d . E u r o p e a ngovernments reopenedtheir airspace onWednesday, andSingapore Airlinesimmediately resumedfull operations to thecontinent.—Internet

Bomb alert at New Zealand’s DunedinAirport

WELLINGTON, 22April — DunedinAirport’s terminal, inNew Zealand’s lowerSouth Island, has beenevacuated Thursdaymorning after thediscovery of a bottlecontaining liquid andwires sparked a bomb

Attendees mingle at the Facebook f8 DevelopersConference in San Francisco, California.

Facebook on Wednesday set out to spread itsinfluence across the Internet by weaving its socialnetworking service into all websites and making

the Web revolve around its users.INTERNET

EU urges member states to pay forincreased European airport securityST R A S B O U R G , 22

April— At the EuropeanParl iament plenarysession this week inStrasbourg, EuropeanParliament Members(MEPs) on theTransport Committeesaid that member statesinstead of passengersshould pay for aviationsecurity measures thatgo beyond the EuropeanUnion’s requirements.

Increased securitymethods such as bodyscanners wil l beexpensive to implement,and currently member

states may apply theirown rules on how airportsecurity charges areshared, MEPs pointedout during the meeting.

Now, most airportauthorities across theEU pass on the costs toairlines, which then passthem on to passengers.Luxembourg and ahandful of others are theexception, with gov-ernments shoulderingthe costs.A majority ofMEPs urged nationalgovern-ments to bear thecost of any securitymeasures that are “more

stringent” than basic EUstandards, a source closeto the European Counciltold Xinhua.

Member stateswould remain free todecide how to share thecosts of the basic mea-sures already covered byexisting EU rules (metaldetectors, sniffer dogs,body searches) butwould be required to payif they chose to intro-duce body scanners,which are not yet listedas a common EUaviat ion securi tymethod.—Xinhua

Yemen arrests threeal-Qaeda suspects

alert.The bottle wasfound in a rubbish bin ina downstairs toiletaround 9 am local timeon Wednesday, policesaid.Around 300passengers and staffwere told to leave theterminal amid fears thebottle was an

“improvised explosivedevice”, the Otago DailyTimes online websitereported.—Xinhua

SANAA, 22 April—Yemeni police capturedthree al- Qaeda suspectsin the province of Aden,the country’s DefenceMinistry’s website26sep.net reportedWednesday.

The three men werearrested in a securitycheckpoint while theywere riding a motorcycle,according to thereport.The men,identified as MujeebHafsah, Mohammed al-Bakawi and Mohammed

Ismail, were accused ofbombing the car of aprovincial governmentofficial on 19 April, aswell as killing twosecurity soldiers inAbyan province, said them i n i s t r y . “ D u r i n ginvestigations, thesuspects admitted thatthey were assigned byKhaled Abdul Nabi, amember of al-Qaeda inAbyan province,” theministry quoted thesecurity official assaying.—Xinhua

Crew members ofyacht Struntje

Light fromGermany takepart in the firstrace on the firstday of the RolexFarr 40 WorldChampionship2010 at Casa de

Campo in LaRomana on 21

April, 2010. Tenyachts fromItaly, USA,

Germany andAustralia are

competing until24 April .INTERNET

Suspects stand behind seized marijuana packages guarded by police andsoldiers during a presentation to the media in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday,

on 21 April, 2010. According to the army more than 18 tons were seized April20, during a conjoined operation with the police in Tijuana, arresting eight

suspects.—INTERNET

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WA S H I N G T O N , 22Apri l— Renewableenergy development inLatin America and otherWestern Hemispherecountries will receive amajor cash boost overthe coming years toreduce dependence onfossil fuels, the Inter-American DevelopmentBank said.

The new incentivefor renewable energycomes at the same timeas governments in LatinAmerica — Brazil ,Ecuador, Mexico andVenezuela — have laidout plans for increasedspending to develop

WA S H I N G T O N , 22Apri l — US spaceshutt le Discoverylanded safely at theKennedy Space Centrein Florida on Tuesdaymorning, ending a 15-day resupply mission tothe International SpaceStation.

According to NASATV, Discovery and itsseven astronauts landed

ISLAMABAD, 22 April— A remote-controlledbomb exploded on aroadside on Wednesdayin Bili Tang area ofKohat District inKhyber-PakhtunkhwaProvince of northwestPakistan, local sourcessaid.

They said the blastpartially damaged apassing vehicle but no

MOSCOW, 22April—Russian troops onTuesday held their secondjoint rehearsal for the 9May Victory Day Paradeat the Alabino shootingrange outside Moscow.

Mimicking the actualparade slated for 9 May,Red Square, two officers,who played the roles ofthe defense minister andthe Moscow militaryd i s t r i c t c o m m a n d e rrespectively, inspectedand saluted the troops withfestival greetings.

With music frommilitary orchestra,

ISTANBUL, 22 April—Three sound bombswere detonated inIstanbul’s touristSultanahmet Districtlate Monday night ,reported CNNTurk hereon Tuesday.

The blasts tookplace in Divanyolu

Latin American renewableenergy gets a cash boost

hydrocarbon resources.The latest plans for

crude oil explorationand development wereannounced byVenezuela as IDBunveiled its programmefor cash to boostrenewable energy. IDBsaid it will increase itsfinancing for renewableenergy and climate-related projects to $3billion a year by 2012.

IDB President LuisAlberto Moreno madethe announcement as headdressed energyministers of severalcountries at the bank’sheadquarters in

Washington. Represe-ntat ives from 32Western Hemispherecountries attended theevent, including USEnergy Secretary StevenChu and Secretary ofState Hillary R. Clinton.

The IDB supportwill supplement effortsunder way and fundedby the United Nationsand other aid agencies.

Moreno ci teddemands faced by IDBfor support todeveloping renewableenergy resources and incombating the effects ofclimate change.

Internet

Roadside blast hits NW Pakistan, nocasualties reported

casualties have beenreported so far.

A series of suicideattacks rocked a refugeecamp and a police stationin Kohat over theweekend, killing 47people and suspendingUN aid distribution innorthwest Pakistan.

Some 200,000people have beendisplaced as a result of

the military offensiveagainst the Talebanmilitants in nearbyOrakzai tribal agency,according to the UnitedNation refugee agency.

The internallydisplaced persons (IDPs)from Orakzai andKurram tribal regionshave been camped inKohat and Hangudistricts.—Xinhua

Three sound bombs explode in Istanbul tourist centre

Nick Weston, 28, wholost his job due to the

current financial crisis,built and lived in a

treehouse in the woodsof southern England,foraging for food, forsix months. He was

curious to see if it waspossible to live as a 21st

century hunter-gatherer. The latter-dayRobinson Crusoe alsokept a diary of the joysand hardships of tree-top living, which have

now been published as anew book.INTERNET

Avenue of Sult-anahmet, said thereport, adding that thethree sound bombs wentoff 50 metres from eachothe.

The f irs t soundbomb was inside agarbage can in theavenue, the second in

front of a restaurant andthe third in front of acafe.

No one waswounded or injured inthe incident, accordingto the report.

The police iscurrently investigatingthe matter.—Xinhua

Space shuttle Discovery back on Earthat 9:08 am EDT (1308GMT). Earlier, rain andworries about fog forcedNASA to skipDiscvoery’s first landingattempt this morning.Rain also thwartedMonday’s tries.

Discovery lifted offon 5 April, deliveringeight tons of suppliesand equipment to thestation, including spare

bunks for the occupantsof the space station, alarge tank of ammoniacoolant and seven racksfi l led with scienceexperiments.

Discovery’s missionis the 33rd shutt lemission to the station.Three fl ights to thestation remain before theshuttles retire in 2010.

Xinhua

Russia holds second jointrehearsal for Victory Day parade

servicemen in high spiritspassed by the inspectionstand carrying variouskinds of armaments.However, choppers andfixed-wing aircraft did notparticipate in the rehearsaldue to unsatisfactoryweather conditions.

Russian DefenceMinister AnatolySerdyukov said earlier thatmore than 10,000personnel, 159 militaryarmaments, 127 fixed-wing aircraft andhelicopters willparticipate in the RedSquare parade.

Preparation for theVictory Day parade startedin last October. Before theformal review, fourrehearsals would be heldat the Red Square, three ofwhich during the day andone at night. The first jointrehearsal has already beenstaged at the Alabinoshooting range on 13April.Russia is set to hostits first national paradecelebrating the 65thanniversary of the defeatof Nazi Germany with theinvolvement of nearly100,000 people.

Xinhua

Visitors view a car at an auto expo held in the Liaoning Industrial ExhibitionHall in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, on 14 April,2010. The 2010 Shenyang Spring Auto Expo was held here on Wednesday with

over 40 national auto factories on show.—XINHUA

The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center in CapeCanaveral, Florida on 20 April, 2010.—XINHUA

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BILLION VOY NO (118)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BILLIONVOY NO (118) are here by notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 21.4.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P.L where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPINGCO. LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DIBENA EXPRESS VOY NO (121)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV DIBENAEXPRESS VOY NO (121) are here by notified that thevessel will be arriving on 23.4.2010 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPINGCO. LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV OCEAN STAR VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV OCEAN STARVOY NO ( ) are here by notified that the vessels will bearriving on 18.4.2010 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of S.P.W.7 where it will lie at the consign-ee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws andconditions 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 BUCK SHIPPING SMBHPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

(FOR LOCAL SERVICES ONLY)UN agency requires:Associate Field Officer(NOB), TemporaryAppointment, 1 Post,stationed in Yangon with fre-quent and extended visit to thefield.Additional Information on va-cancy available at any UN orINGO Bulletin Board inYangon, Bogale, Laputta,Maungdaw, Mawlamyine,Myeik and Taungoo.Closing date : 30.04.2010

Vehicles are seen ona road in Beijing on

22 April, 2010.China’s auto market,which overtook theUnited States as theworld’s largest last

year thanks to a raftof policy incentives,

has been a majorbright spot amid a

global industrydownturn.INTERNET

Varicose veins often misunderstoodATHERTON, 22 April—A US interventional radiolo-

gist says those with varicose vein disease are oftenmisdiagnosed. Dr Douglas Lewis, a board certified vas-cular and interventional radiologist in Atherton, Calif,says mistreating or ignoring of varicose veins can re-sult in needless suffering and complications becausepatients aren’t treated until the disease reaches a moredebilitating — and more difficult to treat — stage.

Lewis advises the sooner the disease is diagnosed,the simpler the treatments and the better the outcomes.“It is crucial to better educate physicians and to in-form the community about how to detect early stagevein disease and when to seek treatment,” Lewis saysin a statement.

Lewis says varicose vein misconceptions include:— Varicose and spider veins are only a cosmetic

issue.—Internet

Infant forgotten in car seat diesSAN FRANCISCO, 22 April—A 7-month-old child died after being left in a car

overnight for more 14 hours in front of the family’s central California home, au-thorities said. Sofia Wisher was left in a child seat when the family arrived at theirAntioch, Calif, home late Saturday, each parent thinking the other would take herinto the home, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday. The parentswent to bed around 3 a.m. Each saw the door to the child’s room closed and as-sumed the other had put her to bed, the newspaper said.

Sofia was still strapped in her seat when Cameron Fisher, 25, woke at noonSunday to go a nearby gym, the newspaper said.— Internet

Smoke and ash billow from the Eyjafjallaj-kullvolcano in Iceland. European governments reo-

pened their airspace on Wednesday, and airlines -including and Singapore Airlines - immediately

resumed full operations.—INTERNET

Animals stillsuffer from

Exxon Valdez oilBURNABY, 22 April —

Canadian scientists saylingering oil from the 1989Exxon Valdez spill is stillinflicting suffering onwildlife more than 20years after the disaster.Simon Fraser Universityresearchers in British Co-lumbia said they usedbiomarkers to reveal long-term exposure to oil inwildlife. They said theirfindings demonstrate howthe consequences of oilspills are measured in dec-ades, rather than years.

The Exxon Valdeztanker ran aground on thePrince William Sound inAlaska on 24 March, 1989,spilling 10.8 million gal-lons of crude oil into thesea, covering 1,300 squaremiles. It is still regarded asone of the most devastatinghuman-caused contamina-tion events in history.

The international teamof scientists, led by re-searcher Daniel Esler ofthe university’s Centre forWildlife Ecology, used thebiomarker CYP1A, whichis induced upon exposureto crude oil, to measureprolonged exposure to oilin local wildlifepopulations.—Internet

SDO sees

the Sun’s

whole disc

but can

then zoom

in to view

fine

detail.

INTERNET

Tailored arthritis treatment onthe way with new test

LONDON, 22 April — A simple blood test could leadto a “new era” of tailored therapy for rheumatoidarthritis (RA), it was claimed on yesterday. Researchhas shown patients with certain immune system anti-bodies can respond to an advanced form of treatment.Eight out of 10 patients suffering from RA are be-lieved to have one of the two antibodies.

Trial results presented yesterday show they have agood chance of being helped by the drug rituximab,also known as MabThera.However, it may not beworth giving the drug to the 20pc of patients who testnegative.

Professor John Isaacs, from Newcastle University,who led the research, said: “This is an importantbreakthrough in the treatment of this chronic anddebilitating condition, heralding the beginning of anexciting new era for patients, physicians and the entireRA community.”—Internet

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatoryreturns first images

HOUSTON, 22 April —NASA’s Solar DynamicsObservatory has providedan astonishing new vistaon our turbulent star. Thefirst public release of im-ages from the satelliterecord huge explosionsand great loopingprominences of gas. Theobservatory’s super-fineresolution is expected tohelp scientists get a better

understanding of whatdrives solar activity.

Launched in Februaryon an Atlas rocket fromCape Canaveral, SDO isexpected to operate for atleast five years. Research-ers hope in this time to goa long way towards theireventual goal of being ableto forecast the effects ofthe Sun’s behaviour onEarth. Solar activity has a

profound influence on ourplanet. Huge eruptions ofcharged particles and theemission of intense radia-tion can disrupt satellite,communication andpower systems, and posea serious health risk to as-tronauts.

Scientists working onSDO say they are thrilledwith the quality of the datareceived so far. “When wesee these fantastic images,even hard-core solarphysicists like myself arestruck with awe, literally,”said Lika Guhathakurta,the SDO programme sci-entist at NASA Headquar-ters. SDO is equipped withthree instruments to inves-tigate the physics at workinside, on the surface andin the atmosphere of theSun.

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Photo taken on 19 April, 2010, shows workers pasting a tea map in theBadachu Park in Beijing. Various kinds of tea leaves are pasted to the

particular regions where they grow on a 20-sq m China map. The tea mapwill make its debut at the 9th China Gardening and Tea Culture Festival on

27 April.—XINHUA

LONDON, 22 April— The Britishauthority reopens its airspace from10:00 pm on Tuesday, and a plane ofBritish Airways has landed in theHeathrow Airport in London just aroundthat time.

In a Press conference held earlieron Tuesday night, the British TransportSecretary Lord Adonis said all airportscan reopen from 10:00 pm on Tuesday,accompanied by Dame Deirdre Hutton,

Britain reopens airspace recentlyclosed due to volcanic ash

ABU DHABI, 22April—Investor sentimenttowards Dubai and theUnited Arab Emirates(UAE) in general has beenboosted significantly as aresult of state-ownedconglomerate DubaiWorld’s restructuringproposal, a local businessjournal reported onTuesday, citing the latestdata released byinvestment bank ShuaaCapital.

The Dubai-based

UAE investor confidence boostedby Dubai World proposal

finance firm’s InvestorSentiment Report of theGulf Cooperation Council(GCC) had its second-biggest gain on record,driven almost entirely by apositive change in attitudestowards the UAE, ArabianBusiness said on itswebsite.

Shuaa’s UAE InvestorConfidence Index recordeda jump of 36 points,according to the report.Itsaid all GCC countries —Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and theUAE — are now above the100-point thresholds,which represents positivesentiment.“The increase ininvestor confidencetowards the UAE clearlyindicates that the cloud ofuncertainty hanging overthe investment communityhas now been removed,”Shuaa CEO Sameer AlAnsari was quoted assaying.

“The outcome ofDubai World’srestructuring proposal hashad a very positive impacton the investmentcommunity, bothregionally and inter-nationally,” he added.LastNovember, Dubai Worldsent shockwaves acrossfinancial markets when itsaid it would not be able torepay its debts on time andasked for a six-month freezeon debt payments.

Internet

LISBON, 22 April —The recons-truction ofMadeira, a Portugeseresort island battered byflooding and mudslidesin February, will cost1.08 billion euros, PrimeMinister Jose Socratessaid on Monday.

Socrates made theannouncement during atrip to the island in theAtlantic Ocean.

“The governmentwill help Madeira and theregional governmentand, together, we willreconstruct whateverneeds reconstruction,”Socrates told the Press.

About 740 millioneuros will be providedby the centralgovernment and another

Rebuilding flood-hit resort islandin Portugal needs 1 bln euros

Somali pirates hijack three Thaifishing ships with 77 crew members

NAIROBI, 22 April—Somali piratesare holding three Thai fishing ships and77 crew members on board off the Somalicoast after hijacking the vessels onSunday, a regional maritime official andEU Naval Force confirmed on Tuesday.

Andrew Mwangura, East AfricaCoordinator of Seafarers AssistanceProgramme (SAP) said the pirateshijacked MV Prantalay 11, 12, and 14with 77 crew members onboard in oneof the farthest-off- shore attacks to date.

“The three fishing vessels werehijacked on Sunday and all have 77 Thaicrew onboard,” Mwangura told Xinhuaby telephone from Mombasa.

EU Naval Force Commander JohnHarbour also confirmed the seizure,saying the three Thai vessels wereattacked almost 600 miles (960 km)outside the normal operation area for theEU Naval Force. “These latest hijackingsare the furthest east of any pirate attacksin the area since the start of EUNAVFOR’s Operation Atalanta in

December 2008, almost 600 milesoutside the normal EU NAVFORoperating area,” Harbour said.

He said the attack so far out at seawas a clear indication that the EU, NATOand CMF were having a marked effecton pirate activity in the area.

Harbour said the MV Prantalay 11has 26 Thai crew members, MVPrantalay 12 has 25 and MV Prantalay14 has 26 on board.He also said thehijacked vessels belong to a Thai basedcompany PT Interfishery Ltd. Heconfirmed that all 77 Thai crew memberswere safe and well and that the vesselswere heading towards the Somali coast.

Harbour said pirates have expandedtheir range south and east in response toan increase in patrols by European andUS warships off the Somali shore.

Piracy has become rampant off thecoast of Africa, especially in the watersnear Somalia, which has been withoutan effective government since 1991.

Internet

The British authority reopens its airspace from 10:00 pm on Tuesday, and aplane of British Airways has landed in the Heathrow Airport in London just

around that time.—XINHUA

president of the Civil AviationAuthority (CAA).The CAA said in astatement: “There will continue to besome ‘ no fly zones’ whereconcentrations of ash are at levelsunsafe for flights to take place, but verymuch smaller than the presentrestrictions. Furthermore, the MetOffice advise that the ‘no fly zones’ donot currently cover the UK.”

Internet

Indian air companies flights toEurope remain canceled

NEW DELHI, 22 April—Indian aircompanies canceled flights to Europeon a sixth consecutive day on Tuesday,due to the clouds of volcanic ash fromIceland, reported the Press Trust of India.

Flights to Britain and other Europeandestinations of Air India, Jet Airwaysand Kingfisher Airlines, the three majorair companies of India, remained

canceled, while they operated theirflights to North American destinationswith stopovers at Cairo and Athens, saidthe report.

Five of Air India’s planes are stuckin London, Frankfurt, Chicago and NewYork due to the disruption, said thereport.

Internet

309 million euros by theregional government,insurance companiesand private donors, hesaid.

The remainging gapof 31 million euros willbe filled by the EuropeanUnion Solidarity Fund.

Internet

A bird’s eye view shows the palm trees encircled byforest in the Indonesian province of Jambi on

Sumatra island, 20 April, 2010.—XINHUA

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S P O R T SDon’t expect England to win

WC, says John Barnes

Former England foot-ball star John Barnes

LONDON, 22 April —Former England footballstar John Barnes insists itis unrealistic to expectEngland to win the 2010

World Cup. The ex-Liver-pool left winger said Spainand Brazil are the undis-puted favourites to lift thetrophy in South Africa thisJuly– and England have nodivine right to be consid-ered likely champions.Barnes, who played inEngland’s run to the 1990World Cup semi-finals -their best performancesince their 1966 triumph -also urged fans not to heappressure on the team’syoungsters, and reckonsDavid Beckham’s absencecould actually boost Eng-land’s chances.—Internet

Robben strike gives Bayernslim advantage over Lyon in

Champions LeagueMUNICH, 22 April —

Dutch winger ArjenRobben’s strike sealedBayern Munich’s 1-0 vic-tory over Lyon onWednesday to give theGerman giants an advan-tage for the second-leg ofthe Champions Leaguesemi-final. The first-halfdismissal of Bayern’sFranck Ribery for a dan-gerous challenge was can-celled out by Lyon’sFrance defender JeremyToulalan also getting sentoff just after the break fora second yellow card be-fore Robben’s winninggoal.

Since joining Bayernfrom Real Madrid in Au-gust 2009, Robben has

now scored 20 goals in allcompetitions, but none soimportant as his 69th-minute strike whichbounced off the back ofteam-mate ThomasMueller and into thenet.”It was tremendouslyimportant that we kept ourcomposure, even with tenmen,” said Bayern captainPhilipp Lahm with Markvan Bommel suspended.

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Bayern Munich’s ArjenRobben

Roma to meet Inter in Cupfinal after Udinese draw

Roma’s Luca Toni(L)and Udinsee’s ChristianZapata fight for the ballduring their Coppa Italiasemifinal match inUdine.— INTERNET

ROME, 22 April — ASRoma and Inter Milanwill contest the ItalianCup final for the fifthtime in six years afterRoma reached the trophymatch despite a 1-0 de-feat at Udinese inWednesday’s semi-final,second leg. Roma tri-umphed 2-1 on aggregatedue to their 2-0 win athome in the first leg backin February. AlexisSanchez scored the onlygoal of the game nineminutes from time butthat wasn’t enough totake the relegation threat-ened club past the SerieA leaders.

Roma had to survivesome nervous last fewmoments after MarcoCassetti was harshlysent-off for a secondbooking six minutes from

No Venus for US against Russia in Fed CupVilla move up EPL table as Hull suffer

Venus Williams, will not compete for theUnited States in this weekend’s Fed Cupsemi-final tie against Russia because ofnagging leg injuries similar to those of sister Serena.—INTERNET

BIRMINGHAM, 22 April — VenusWilliams will not compete for the UnitedStates in this weekend’s Fed Cup semi-final tie against Russia because of nag-ging leg injuries similar to those of sisterSerena. “I waited until this moment inhopes that I would have an opportunity toplay, but I am being advised by my medi-cal support team that I will need more timeto recover,” Williams said in a statementon Wednesday.The elder Williams sisterwore wrappings on both legs in a finalsloss to Kim Clijsters earlier this month ata hardcourt event in Miami.

“She has been trying to get better,”Fernandez said. “Obviously I knew it wasgoing to be tough for her because she hurtherself at the end of the Miami tourna-

ment and couldn’t hit balls until the lastweek or so. “I did everything I could doto give her as much time as possible tosee if she got better. She’s not quite.

Internet

Green overcomes loss of leg to play golf

Aston Villa’s Richard Dunne (L)and Hull City’s Dutch forward Jan

Vennegoor of Hesselink compete forthe ball during their English Pre-mier League football match at The

KC Stadium in Hull. INTERNET

LONDON, 22 April— Aston Villaclimbed into sixth place in the EnglishPremier League and in sight of a spotamongst Europe’s elite next seasonas they edged Hull nearer relegation w2-0 away win on Wednesday.

Gabriel Agbonlahor’s first-half goaland James Milner’s penalty 14 minutesfrom time saw Villa to a win that left theMidlands club just three points behindTottenham Hotspur, who currently occupyfourth place and the last spot on offer toEnglish clubs for next season’s Champi-ons League, with three games to play.

Victory saw Villa leapfrog Liverpooland continued their revival after losing 7-1 to Premier League leaders Chelsea, whoalso knocked them out of the FA Cup, last

month “We’re in the mix,” Villa man-ager Martin O’Neill told Sky Sports.

Internet

Golfer Ken Green walkswith crutches on theapron of the 18th. greenduring The Friends ofKen Green Benefit Tour-nament at the RidgewoodCoutry Club in Danbury, Conn.—INTERNET

Pompey debt hits £120m mark

SAVANNAH, 22 April —The first big step in KenGreen’s improbable returnto golf came with a severelimp, just like every stepsince a horrific auto acci-dent that took the lives ofhis girlfriend and brotherand cost Green his rightleg. This was only a pro-am Wednesday on theChampions Tour, yet itcarried so much uncer-

tainty.“All right, guys,” he

said quietly to his ama-teurs as he stood over hisopening tee shot. “I don’tknow. This might be inter-esting.” Even more beau-tiful than the flight of histee shot were the ropeslining both sides of thefairway at the SavannahHarbour Golf Resort, in-disputable evidence thatGreen was back on thestage where some thoughthe might never return.

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LONDON, 22 April —Debts at Premier Leaguecrisis club Portsmouthwere revealed to bearound 120 millionpounds (185 million dol-lars) in total on Wednes-day - some 40 millionpounds more than previ-ously estimated. Port-smouth, bottom of the ta-ble and already relegatedafter being deducted ninepoints last month for en-tering administration, senta 70-page document to alltheir known creditors onWednesday detailing theirdebts which include the38.2 million owed toformer owners in unse-cured loans. The club havepassed through four own-ers this season in a seriesof moves that have doneprecious little for Port-

smouth’s off-the-field sta-bility.

Hong Kong-basedbusinessman BalramChainrai, the club’s mostrecent owner, is owed 14million pounds, whilePortsmouth’s total unpaidbill to British tax authori-ties amounts to 17.1 mil-lion pounds. Portsmouth,whose Fratton Parkground now holds some20,000 fans, have alsobeen hard hit by transferfees a club of their sizecould not afford withoutthe support of an indul-gent benefactor.

Internet

Home final dream fires upHamburg for Fulham clash

HAMBURG, 22 April — The prospect of playing theEuropa League final on May 12 on home soil will in-spire Hamburg against English giant-killers Fulhamin Thursday’s first-leg semi-final, insists strikerMladen Petric. Both the Hamburg-Fulham semi-finaland Liverpool’s game at Atletico Madrid will go aheaddespite fears the games may be cancelled due to thecloud of volcanic ash from Iceland that has groundedflights across Europe.

With their chances of winning the Bundesliga titleeffectively ended by a shock 1-0 defeat at home toMainz last weekend, Bruno Labbadia-coached Ham-burg are determined to win a place in the final in theirhome stadium next month.

Only Roy Hodgson’s Fulham, the tournament’ssurprise package, stand between Hamburg and theirdream final. Fulham pulled off one of the most stun-ning fight backs in European football history whenthey turned a 3-1 deficit from the first leg into a 4-1win at home to go through 5-4 on aggregate in the last16 against Juventus.—Internet

time. Roma coachClaudio Ranieri hadclaimed on Tuesday thatthere would be no turno-ver but he still made fivechanges to the team thatbeat Lazio 2-1 on Sun-day.—Internet

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Local Transmission* Opening* News* Current Affairs “Surprising Myanmar”

Thanakha* News* Documentary “Handicrafts of Myanmar”* Padaung Village and Elephant Camp* News* Milestones of Contemporary Music

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Programme Schedule(23-4-2010)(Friday)

Transmissions Times

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, r ain or thundershowershave been scattered in Kachin State, isolated in SagaingDivision, weather has been partly cloudy in the remainingStates and Divisions. Day temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C)above April average temperatures in Shan, Rakhine, Kayahand Kayin States, Sagaing, Mandalay and MagwayDivisions, (5°C) to (6°C) above April average temperaturesin Yangon and Ayeyawady Divisions,(7°C) above Aprilaverage temperatures in Taninthayi Division, (6°C) belowApril average temperatures in Kachin State and about Aprilaverage temperatures in the remaining States andDivisions. The significant day temperatures were Minbu(42.9°C), Chauk (42.3°C), Myingyan and Nyaung U (42.2°C)each, Magway, Monywa and Nay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana)(41.5°C) each.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Putao (1.73) inches, Machanbaw (1.30) inches andShwebo (0.43) inch.

Maximum temperature on 21-4-2010 was 102°F.Minimum temperature on 22-4-2010 was 79°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22-4-2010 was 66%. Totalsun shine hours on 21-4-2010 was (9.7) hours.

Rainfall on 22 -4-2010 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 (7) mphfrom West at (12:30) hours MST on 21-4-2010.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy in SouthBay and generally fair in Andaman sea and eleswhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 23rd April 2010:Rain or thundershowers are likely to be isolated inKachin State and upper Sagaing Division and weatherwill be partly cloudy in Chin, Rakhine and Shan State s,Mandalay Division and generally fair in the remainingStates and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Generally fairin the whole country.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 23-4-2010: Partly Cloudy .

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 23-4-2010: Generally fair.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringarea for 23-4-2010: Partly Cloudy.

WEATHERThursday, 22nd April, 2010

WELLINGTON, 22April— An earthquakemeasuring 6.2 on theRichter scale struck offthe Samoa Islands onThursday morning, the USGeological Survey said.

The quake, occurredat 05:20 a.m. ThursdayNew Zealand Time ( 1720GMT Wednesday), wascentered 198 kmsouthwest of the Samoacapital of Apia at a depthof 32 km.

Young boxers take part in a boxingexhibition during the funeral of

Venezuelan WBC lightweight championboxer Edwin ‘El Inca’ Valero in El Vigia

in the Andean state of Merida, on 21 April,2010.

INTERNET

6.2 magnitude earthquakehits off Samoa

No immediatetsunami alert was issuedby the Pacific TsunamiWarning Center followingthe quake.

There were noreports of casualties ordamages so far. Amagnitude 8.0 earthquakeon 29 September 2009triggered a tsunami whichkilled at least 143 peoplein Samoa, 32 in AmericanSamoa and nine inTonga.—Internet

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

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

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

We favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

Only when nationbecomes a modern…

(from page 1)The Senior General held discussions cordially

with the entrepreneurs of the zone.At the meeting, Chairman of Mandalay Indus-

trial Zone Management Committee U Aung WinKhaing reported to the Senior General on establish-ment of the zone, number of private-owned indus-tries in the zone and types of industries, productsmanufactured at the zone, works of foundry shop andmoulding factory of Mandalay Tawwin IndustrialCompany, U Khin Maung Win, Secretary of Manda-lay Industrial Zone Automobile Assembling Sub-Committee, on various kinds of vehicles manufac-tured in the zone, numbers and kinds of vehicles,efforts being made for production of Myanmar 2000CC engine, U Aung Moe, member of Mandalay

Industrial Zone Electric Supply Committee, on mat-ters related to supply of more electricity to the zone,U Kyaw Win, Chairman of Sein Pan Industrial Coop-erative Society Limited, on establishment of the so-ciety and setting up of factories and manufacturingmachinery, U Maung Aye, Managing Director ofMandalar Power-Tiller Factory, on location and areaof the factory, manufacturing power-tiller, variouskinds of farm equipment, tractors and three-wheelmotorbike and trial production of combined thrasherand paddy transplant machine, and Agriculturist UAye Paw of Toepwar Mann Co Ltd, on production ofcompound fertilizer with the use of sewage.

Minister for Industry-2 Vice-Admiral SoeThein said that the Head of State was encouraging

and giving guidance on making efforts for enhance-ment of industries with wide range of knowledge tomeet the target. The minister stressed the need forentrepreneurs to manufacture industrial productswith the use of domestic materials without placingtoo much reliance on imported materials. He calledfor production of quality consumer-friendly indus-

trial products. He said it is necessary to have skilledworkers and to manufacture more industrial prod-ucts in cooperation between entrepreneurs and theState.

In his guidance, the Senior General stressed theneed to significantly contribute to progress of theState’s industrial sector and development of privateindustrial zones including Mandalay Industrial Zone.The government has encouraged industrial zonesenabling entrepreneurs to have opportunities for set-ting up private industries through cooperation be-tween the government and the people in building theindustrialized nation. Only when the nation be-comes a modern industrialized one, will it be trans-formed into a developed one from the status of a

developing nation. Thus, the industrial entrepre-neurs are to strive for achieving success in theirindustries, he said.

The Senior General noted that it can be said thatprogress was made in reviewing the functioning ofindustrial zones during the period of 20 years.

(See page 9)

Senior General Than Shwe gives guidance inmeeting with entrepreneurs at Kanaung Hall

of Mandalay Industrial Zone.—MNA

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