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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

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

of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 26Sept—Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwe sawoff Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein wholeft here for the UnitedStates of America by air at1 pm today to attend the64th General Assembly ofthe United Nations, at NayPyi Taw Airport.

Together withSenior General ThanShwe at the airport wereVice-Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment Council

Senior General Than Shwe sees off

Prime Minister General Thein Sein on PM’s

departure for USA to attend 64th UNGADeputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye,Member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilGeneral Thura ShweMann, Secretary-1 of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, memberof the SPDC Lt-Gen TinAye, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun,Commander-in-Chief(Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein,Lt-Gen Ye Myint of theMinistry of Defence,

Commander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin, DeputyMinister for ForeignAffairs U Maung Myint,departmental heads,Coordinator of the UNagencies Mr Bishow BParajuli and officials.

Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein wasaccompanied by Ministerfor Science andTechnology U Thaung,Deputy Attorney-GeneralDr Tun Shin anddepartmental heads.Member of the Myanmardelegation Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin had left for the UnitedStates of America inadvance.

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Chairman of State Peace andDevelopment Council Commander-in-

Chief of Defence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwe sees off Prime

Minister General Thein Sein atNay Pyi Taw Airport.

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Sunday, 27 September, 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

Organized by the Ministry of Culture, apaper reading session on ancient historicalevidence took place at the ministry in Nay PyiTaw on 25 September.

The main aim of holding the paper readingsession was to compile a paper on Myanmahistory. Finding out historical facts andevidence that have been lost in obscurity isfundamental.

Since 1950, archaeologists have beenconducting research on finding out morehistorical evidence from the excavated sites.Thanks to the research, there has been evidencethat humans had been living in Hanlin, theancient city of Pyu, up to the period of Pyucivilization in the late Stone Age.

Although an unearthed object seemsunimportant, it has reinforced the evidencethat the origin of Myanmar is Myanmar andit is the glory of the nation and its history.

Firmer evidence on Myanma history canbe recorded if more archaeological excavationsin different eras are made in ancient regions ofPyu civilization.

Paper reading sessions on ancient historicalevidence have been held in succession sinceJune 2008 and now it is the 11th time.Discussions and suggestions of resourcepersons and researchers will contributetowards the history of Myanmar.

By finding out evidence of human existencein different ages, Myanmar’s historical linkscan be recorded.

YANGON, 26 Sept—An opening ceremony of

Try to find out ancienthistorical evidence

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Sept—The first round matches ofthe 25th Defence Services Commander-in-Chief’s TrophyTatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) U-21 FootballTournament continued in designated places today.

In group, A Central Command team beat North-EastCommand 2-0 in Mawlamyine; in group B, Nay Pyi TawCommand team routed No (101) Light Infantry Division4-0 in Pathein; in group C, Eastern Command teamcrushed Western Command team 5-1 in Monywa; ingroup D, North-West Command team trounced No (66)Light Infantry Division 5-0 in Mandalay and in group Eand Costal Region Command team edged out No (44)Light Infantry Division 8-0 in Toungoo.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—Chairman of Kayah StatePeace and Development Council Brig-Gen Win Myintvisited Ottayon, Daw-U-Ku and Monglone watersupply factories in Zaypaing ward of Loikaw Townshipon 11 September morning.

The chairman of Kayah State also inspectedthe water storage and supply of water from the lake inMonglon ward, installation of fire safety pipelines intwo-storey market and Baho market in Zaypaing ward,paving at the entrance to Government TechnologicalUniversity (Loikaw), construction of bridge onThiridaw Road and extended building of BasicEducation High School in Pruhso.—MNA

YANGON, 23 Sept—Minister for Con-struction Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint inspectedstorage and distributiondepartment (Pyinmabin)of Public Works, here,on 21 September.

The minister in-spected tar imported forroad works of PublicWorks and gaveinstructions to officialson distribution of tarwithout wastage as soonas possible to theworksites all over thecountry.

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Construction Minister inspects arrival of tar

Regional development tasksin Kayah State supervised

YANGON, 26 Sept—The respect paying cer-emony of old students of Institute of Medicine-2 (1stMB students in 1985, 86, 87 and 91 academic years)will be held on 26 December.

Those wishing to make donations may contactDr Aung Naing Win, Tel: 098020079, Dr Lwin Han,Tel: 095020116, Dr Khaing Mar Myint, Tel: 01-535774, Dr Khin Khin Soe, Tel: 095131217, Dr MoeAung, Tel: 095152671, Dr Soe Tun, Tel: 095041934,Dr Maung Maung Latt, Tel: 095007249, Dr MyintMyat Tun, Tel: 095021718 and other executives.

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Old students of IM-2 to holdrespect paying ceremony

on 26 December

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspects tar at storage anddistribution department (Pyinmabin) of Public Works.—MNA

The opening ceremony of fun fairs and special sales at Diamond City Hyper Mart in progress.—MNA

Diamond City Hyper Mart opensfun fairs and special sales

Thadingyut fun fairs andspecial sales took place

at Diamond City HyperMart in Hlinethayar

Township here thismorning.

Senior Director ofDiamond City Hyper MartU Ye Myint explainedpurpose of holding thefestival. ManagingDirector of Metal WoodFurniture Daw Tin AyeMyint and Director ofDiamond City Hyper MartU Maung Maung Ohnopened the ceremony bycutting the ribbon.

The festival will lastfrom 25 September to 4October. There aredisplays of clothes,electronic, goods,furniture, the fashionablepresents to pay respectsto the aged and Hamperbaskets and variety offoodstuff plus the specialentertainment pro-gramme of Happy World.

Moreover, varieties ofWedding Package forthose who will get marriedafter the Buddhist lent areon sales at reasonableprice.

There will be many

entertainments during thefestival such as DJ & HipHop Show, theceremonies to release hotair balloons, lightsoffering, and anyeink.

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Tatmadaw U-21 FootballTournament continues

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UN General Assembly hears call for greaterefforts to close gap between rich, poor

Ahmadinejad says Iran is notviolating IAEA rules

Southern California wildfire85 percent contained

An Afghan man carries his daughter at the com-pound of the ruins of Darul Aman palace in Kabulon 24 Sept 2009. Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Ladenhas called on European countries to end their alli-ance with the United States and withdraw their forcesfrom Afghanistan, the SITE Intelligence Groupmonitoring service said on Friday.— INTERNET

UNITED NATIONS, 26Sept — More must bedone to shrink the gapbetween developed anddeveloping nations, coun-tries of Latin America andthe Caribbean told the UNGeneral Assembly’s an-nual high-level debate onThursday.

Haitian PresidentRene Preval called for anew paradigm in interna-tional cooperation to re-place the exploitation ofpoorer countries by thepowerful.

“The time has come toconfront the globalizationthat seeks profit at anyprice, elevated to a newcredo, with a globaliza-

tion of solidarity thatalone can guarantee theeradication of misery,” hetold the General Assemblyon Thursday.

“The only vehicle forpeace, stability and secu-rity is development.” Thefood, energy and financialcrises that impose such aheavy burden on the de-veloping countries are notthe result of chance, hesaid.

“They are the directconsequence of the modelof development and gov-ernance imposed on therest of the world for sev-eral centuries by those na-tions that are recognizedas powerful.”

A restructured worldeconomic order is neededto strengthen the smalleconomies on the basis ofa just and equitable distri-bution of the benefitsstemming from the pro-duction of wealth, Para-guayan PresidentFernando Lugo Mndezsaid on Thursday.

He told heads of stateand government assem-bled at UN Headquartersin New York that “the un-equal trade relations mustend and effective policiesof solidarity must be de-veloped for the countriesthat suffer geographic andclimatic adversity.”

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A woman inspects damage done to her home, in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles(30 kilometres) south of Baghdad, Iraq. A car bomb exploded on Friday at a

market in a region that was once the scene of frequent attacks on Shiites,killing seven people and wounding 21 others, police and hospital officials

said. — INTERNET

Five US troopskilled as debate

grows overAfghan war

KABUL, 26 Sept— FiveUS troops died in attacksin southern Afghanistan,military officials said onFriday, adding to thisyear’s record death toll asAmerican public supportis dwindling for opera-tions in the country thatonce hosted Osama binLaden.

The Obama adminis-trat ion is debatingwhether to add st i l lmore troops to the21,000-strong influxthat began pouring intoAfghanistan over thesummer. Most of thosehave gone to the south,where they’ve been as-sailed by roadsidebombs and ambushes asthey battle to take backTaleban-controlled ar-eas.—Internet

Rocket attack killsfour civilians inE Afghanistan

KABUL, 26 Sept— Fourcivilians were killed andthree others wounded as arocket hit a residentialhouse in Kunar Province,east of Afghanistan, a pri-vate television channel re-ported on Saturday.

“The rocket struck ahouse in WataporDistrictleaving four civilians deadand injured three others,”Tolo aired in its bulletin.

However, it did notsay the exact date of in-cident.

Neither Taleban norany other group hasclaimed responsibility forthe raid.—Xinhua

Firefighters assigned to an engine on the GuibersonFire watch the progress of hand crew members work-ing on a ridge line in Balcom Canyon as anotherhand crew works on a hotspot below them in an at-tempt to slow the advance of the 16,000 acre fire,near the Ventura County town of Fillmore Calif, on 23 Sept, 2009.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 26 Sept —Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejadsaid on Friday his coun-try has complied with UNrules that require it to in-form the world body’snuclear agency sixmonths before a uraniumenrichment facility be-comes operational.

The Iranian leader tolda news conference that thenew facility won’t be op-

erational for 18 months soIran has not violated anyrequirements of the Inter-national Atomic EnergyAgency.

“What we did wascompletely legal, accord-ing to the law. We haveinformed the agency, theagency will come and takea look and produce a re-port and it’s nothing new,”he said.

Ahmadinejad met onFriday night with UN Sec-retary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said he ex-pressed “grave concern”about Iran’s continueduranium enrichment “as

demonstrated by the con-struction of a new ura-nium enrichment facilityin the country.”

“The burden of proofis on Iran” to convince theinternational communityits nuclear programme ispeaceful, Ban said he toldAhmadinejad, and thecountry must complywith the IAEA and withUN Security Council de-mands to suspend enrich-ment and negotiate. Bansaid he also told him ofconcerns about humanrights and freedoms inIran.

InternetMOORPARK, 26 Sept —

A 27-square-mile South-ern California wildfirewas 85 percent containedon Friday as the witheringSanta Ana winds that hadfanned it faded away.

Firefighters hoped tohave the 17,500-acreblaze in Ventura Countybetween the cities ofMoorpark and Fillmorefully surrounded some-time on Sunday. Nohomes had been lost.

“The fire is not mak-ing any significant runs,”said county fire Capt RonOatman. The fire beganTuesday and burned

through rugged land inter-spersed with orchards,farms and ranches.

Agricultural officialswere involved in the dam-age assessment process,but Oatman said he didnot believe there were sig-nificant losses in that in-dustry. Firefighting costshave topped $6 million.

Weather remained aconcern because air overthe region remained hot,with temperatures in the100s and high 90s exceptright along the coast, andhumidity levels were stillvery low. Forecasters said“red flag” warnings of fire

danger would be in effectuntil 9 pm Saturday and acooling trend was ex-pected on Sunday.

Elsewhere in SouthernCalifornia, a new firebroke out on Friday after-noon in the Antelope Val-ley near Elizabeth Lakewest of the desert city ofLancaster in Los AngelesCounty.

The blaze burned 75acres and was 85 percentcontained, said Los Ange-les County fire DispatcherMichael Pittman. Nohomes were damaged andnone are threatened,Pittman said.—Internet

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US large loans credit qualitydeteriorates sharply

WASHINGTON, 26 Sept—Credit quality declined sharply for loan commitmentsof 20 million US dollars or more held by multiple federally supervised institu-tions, a US government report has said.

According to the 32nd annual review of Shared National Credits (SNC) releasedon Thursday, the credit risk of these large loan commitments was shared amongUS bank organizations, foreign bank organizations (FBO), and nonbanks such assecuritization pools, hedge funds, insurance companies, and pension funds.

Credit quality deteriorated across all entities, the review said. But nonbanksheld 47 percent of classified assets in the SNC portfolio, despite making up only21.2 percent of the SNC portfolio. US bank organizations held 30.2 percent of theclassified assets and made up 40.8 percent of the SNC portfolio. —Xinhua

G20 agrees to shift more IMF votingpower to developing countries

US durable goodsorders drop by2.4% in AugustWASHINGTON, 26 Sept—

New orders for manu-factured durable goods inAugust decreased 4.0 billionUS dollars or 2.4 percent to164.4 billion dollars, the USCensus Bureau announcedFriday. This was the seconddecrease in the last threemonths. This followed a 4.8percent July increase.

According to statisticsreleased by the Census Bu-reau, new orders for manu-factured durable goodswere down slightly if trans-portation is excluded.Meanwhile, shipments ofmanufactured durablegoods in August decreased2.4 billion dollars or 1.4 per-cent to 171.3 billion dollars.This followed a 2.2 percentJuly increase. —Xinhua

A man walks past luxury cars in a showroom inJohannesburg. South Africa has reduced povertybut remains the world’s most unequal society, areport said on Friday, with analysts warning the

yawning gap between whites and blacks threatenssocial stability.—INTERNET

German driver Sebastien Vettel of Red Bull Formula One team leaves the pitsduring the second free practice session for the Singapore Formula One

Grand Prix at the Marina Bay City Circuit Vettel topped the times in openingfree practice.—INTERNET

Angola becomes China’s largest tradepartner in Africa

China’s electronics industrialoutput value up 4.8 pct in Aug

BEIJING, 26 Sept—China’s industrial output value of theelectronics sector rose 4.8 percent year on year inAugust,the Ministry of Industry and Information Technol-ogy (MIIT) has said.

The production volume of colour television sets in-creased by 15.1 percent in August from a year earlier acrossthe country, with the liquid crystal display (LCD) televi-sions’ production up 123.2 percent, the MIIT said on Fri-day in a Website statement.

The output volume of the laptop computers hiked 42.3percent year on year last month, said the ministry, with-out specifying the detailed figures. China’s industrialoutput value in the first eight months rose 8.1 percentfrom the same period last year, 1.1 percentage pointshigher than that in the first half this year. —Xinhua

Toyota raises world ’09/10sales forecast

LUANDA, 26 Sept—An-gola had become China’slargest trading partner inAfrica, with bilateral traderising to 25.3 billion USdollars in 2008, ChineseAmbassador to AngolaZhang Bolun said here onFriday.

Although the two coun-tries are facing tough chal-lenges arising from thecurrent global financialcrisis, trade between Chinaand Angola had registereda significant increase in thepast few years,he said.

According to Zhang,more private Chinese in-vestors will come to An-gola next year.

“An increasing numberof Chinese contractors inthe fields of agriculture,food industry, timberprocessing and informa-tion technology, amongothers, will come to An-gola next year,” he said.

Apart from infra-struc-ture projects such as rail-ways, roads, hospitals andschools, China and Angolacould also cooperate with

each other in other sectors,Zhang said.

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PITTSBURGH, 26 Sept—The Group of 20 (G20)countries agreed here onFriday to increase devel-oping countries’ votingpower at the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) byat least five percent, a ma-jor move to improve theinternational organiza-tion’s legitimacy and ef-fectiveness.

“We are committed to ashift in IMF quota share todynamic emerging mar-kets and developing coun-tries of at least 5 percentfrom over-representedcountries to under-repre-

sented countries using thecurrent quota formula asthe basis to work from,”said a Leaders’ Statementissued after a two-daysummit meeting of theworld’s major economiesin Pittsburgh, the US stateof Pennsylvania.

“Today we have deliv-ered on our promise tocontribute over 500 billiondollars to a renewed andexpanded IMF New Ar-rangements to Borrow(NAB),” the statementsaid. The G20 also com-mitted to protecting thevoting share of the poor-

est in the IMF. On this ba-sis and as part of the IMF’squota review, to be com-pleted by January 2011,the G20 urged to acceler-ate the work “towardbringing the review to asuccessful conclusion.”

Analysts believe thispositive move will helpimprove the IMF’s cred-ibility, legitimacy and ef-fectiveness as many de-veloping countries havecomplained that they wereunderrepresented in theinternational organiza-tion.

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TOKYO, 26 Sept—Toyota Motor Corp(7203.T), has raised itsglobal sales forecast forthe year to March 2010 by3 percent to 6.7 millioncars, the Tokyo Shimbundaily reported on Satur-day, in the latest sign of anascent recovery in autodemand.

Toyota, the world’slargest automaker, is alsoraising its production inJapan by 8 percent to 6.45million vehicles for 2009/10, thanks to the impact ofgovernment subsidies andtax incentives on new fuelefficient cars, the papersaid.

Officials at Toyotacould not be reached

for comment.Toyota has been strug-

gling with its worst down-turn since it was foundedin 1937, but its sales havepicked up recently, climb-ing 9 percent in Augustfrom the same month lastyear.

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This may look just like the bag that you carryhome from the pet store, but don’t be fooled... this

plastic goldfish is not swimming in water, it’sembedded in clear, glycerin soap shaped like

“water in a bag”. Tied with an orange ribbon.Tangerine-grapefruit scent.—XINHUA

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

Vice Premier stresses sustainablegrowth of auto sector

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang(2nd R front), who is also a memberof the Political Bureau of the Com-

munist Party of China (CPC) CentralCommittee, visits at the Third Sessionof the China International Auto PartsExpo in Beijing, capital of China, on

25 Sept, 2009. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 26 Sept— Chinese Vice Pre-mier Zhang Dejiang on Friday urged thepromotion of the sustainable and sta-ble development of the auto sector withenhanced innovation, sector restructur-

ing and a boost to auto parts manufac-turing.

The auto sector is an important pillarindustry of the national economy, and itcould significantly expand employmentand boost spending, Zhang said here atthe Third Session of the China Interna-tional Auto Parts Expo.

He urged the promotion of mergerswithin the sector to cultivate big play-ers, and asked auto makers to invest moreon research to develop new models thatare more energy-efficient or use alterna-tive energies. —Xinhua

Drought pushes 23 mln E Africanstoward severe hunger

Congolese child peeks through a hole in a tent in2008 at the internally displaced people camp (IDP)in Shasha, Nord-Kivu region. The government ofthe Democratic Republic of Congo has signed ananti-inflationary protocol worth 10 million euros

with the European Union and the UN fund for foodand agriculture, officials said on Friday.—INTERNET

People walk by a booth of Microsoft Xbox 360 during a Tokyo Game Show2009 in Makuhari near Tokyo, Japan, on 24 Sept, 2009. The Tokyo GameShow, billed as the world’s largest computer entertainment fest, kicked off

Thursday with hopes that depressed sales of game consoles will enjoy aholiday resurrection.—INTERNET

NAIROBI, 26 Sept— Aglobal charity, Oxfam In-ternational, has launcheda 9.5-million-Britishpound (about 15.2 millionUS dollars) emergencyappeal to reach 750,000 inneed of food assistance,warning that drought haspushed millions of EastAfricans to severe hungerdue to failed rains.

The agency said more

than 23 million people arebeing pushed towards se-vere hunger and destitu-tion across East Africa.

“This is the worst hu-manitarian crisis Oxfamhas seen in East Africa forover ten years. Failed andunpredictable rains areever more regular acrossEast Africa as raining sea-sons shorten due to thegrowing influence of cli-

mate change,” Paul SmithLomas, Oxfam’s EastAfrica Director said.

He said droughts haveincreased from once adecade to every two orthree years. In Wajir,northern Kenya, Oxfamsaid almost 200 dead ani-mals were recently foundaround one dried-upwater source.

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AU forces foiled attempted hijacking ofship off Mogadishu

Mexico City struck by sixth bomb attackin a month, with no injuries

MOGADISHU, 26 Sept—African Union (AU)peacekeeping troopsbased in the Somali capi-tal Mogadishu foiled a hi-jacking attempt by Somalipirates of a Panamaflag-ged ship off Mogadishucoast, AU peacekeepers’spokesman said on Fri-day.

The ship was attackedlate Thursday evening bya group of armed menwhile on its way to the

Mogadishu seaport tooffload a cargo of com-mercial goods for Somalibusinesses people.

“We received an SOScall yesterday (Thursday)in the evening, late in theevening, from the crew ofthe ship and, I think, oneof the owners of the con-signment on the ship, thatthere was an attempted hi-jacking of the ship,”Bridgye Bohouko,spokesman for AU peace-

keeping Mission in Soma-lia (AMISOM) toldXinhua.

The spokesman saidAMISOM sent troops tofree the ship and after abrief shootout with thegunmen who managed toescape, the ship was freedand escorted to the port.

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MEXICO CITY, 26 Sept—Mexico City suffered onFriday the sixth bomb at-tack in a month on local

commercial property, as abranch of Banamex wasstruck by a home-made bu-tane gas bomb at 2.30 amlocal time, a senior officialsaid. Unknown bombershave attacked four banks,one auto showroom andone upscale clothing storesince the start of the month.

Friday’s explosioncaused no injuries, butdamaged the glass, ceilingsand partitions of the bankbranch located on thesouthern outskirts of thecity, said Genaro Vasquez,deputy director in charge ofevidence gathering at theMexico City State Pros-ecutors’ Office (PGJDF).

PGJDF’s forensic investi-gators found four butanecylinders and small quan-tities of gunpowder and ad-hesive tape on the scene.The same remains werefound at the scenes of thefive previous bombings.

Vasquez described theattacks as vandalism target-ing the banking infrastruc-ture but not the civilianpopulation, adding thatmessages found at onescene suggested the attackswere carried out by “anar-chist types.” The samemessages were publishedhours later on the Internet,confirming their authentic-ity, he noted. —Xinhua

5.2-magnitude earthquakeshakes centre of Chile

SANTIAGO, 26 Sept— An earthquake measuring 5.2magnitude on the Richter scale shook on Friday thecentral zone of Chile without reports of victims andmaterial damages so far.

The Seismologic Services from the University ofChile reported that the earthquake was registered at11:47 am (1547 GMT) on Friday and its epicenter waslocated in the sea, 87 km north to Valparaiso and 25.8km deep.

Meanwhile, the National Office of Emergency saidthe earthquake had an intensity of 2 degrees in MercalliScale, which has a maximum of 5.

The earthquake affected regions of Coquimbo inthe north, Valparaiso in the centre, Metropolitana deSantiago and O’Higgins in the south.

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NEWS ALBUMChina finds new section to its Great Wall

Chinese students visit the Great Wallin Mutianyu. Chinese archaeologistshave discovered a new section of theGreat Wall, showing that it stretchedat least 11 kilometres further east than previously thought.

Chinese archaeologists have discovereda new section of the Great Wall, showingthat it stretched at least 11 kilometresfurther east than previously thought, statemedia said.

The newly discovered section, builtduring the Qin (221-206 BC) and Han

(206 BC to 220 AD) dynasties, was found innortheastern Jilin Province, Xinhua newsagency said. A state-sponsored study teamfound a 172-metre-long section of ruins fromthe wall section in Tonghua county, 11kilometres (6.7 miles) further east than whatwas previously thought to be the wall’sterminus, it said.

New sections of the massive ancientfortification are found on a regular basis.

Earlier this year, state media reports saidthe most comprehensive and technologicallyadvanced survey of the wall found it wasmuch longer than previously estimated.

The wall, built over centuries as a defenceagainst northern barbarian tribes, stretchedfor more than 8,851 kilometres, much furtherthan commonly cited estimates of 5,000kilometres, according to the findings of thesurvey.

Artist creates giantsculptures that look liketerrifying creatures from

ocean depths The extraordinary figures, which looklike monsters from the depths of theocean or creatures from another planet,are in fact highly complex sculpturesmade of nothing but thousands ofcommon party balloons by New Yorkartist Jason Hackenwerth.

This strange balloon creature appearsto have taken off and is floating above

a stream.

A man sits in a veteran tracklayer atan veteran car show at the CrocusExhibition Hall in Moscow, capital

of Russia.

St Louis coffee spill costscampus $200,000

St Louis is perking up with jokesabout the $200,000 cup of coffee. Butofficials at a college and its insurancecompany aren’t laughing.

St Louis Community College atForest Park must foot the bill after acoffee maker rigged to a faucet and lefton in a photo lab led to a ruptured waterline in July. About 10,000 gallons ofwater spilled down four floors,damaging ceilings, walls, computers andfiles.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch reportsthe college’s Board of Trustees will beasked to approve cleanup costs thisweek, including a $143,494 contractwith a disaster-recovery company.

Mass postal workeradmits to stealing

30,000 DVDs A former postal service employee

has pleaded guilty to stealing morethan 30,000 DVDs that movedthrough a western Massachusetts postoffice.

Myles Weathers, formerly ofSpringfield, took DVDs that weremailed by Netflix to customers for ayear beginning in January 2007.

Federal prosecutors say the movierental company alerted Springfield postoffice officials that a suspiciously highnumber of DVDs were disappearing.As many as 100 movies a week weredisappearing.

Weathers was arrested inFebruary 2008 after investigatorsfilmed him taking DVDs frompackages and slipping them into hisbackpack.

He faces 10 months to 16 months inprison and restitution costs of about$38,000 at his 23 Decsentencing.

Weathers’ attorney did notimmediately return a call seekingcomment.

Technical glitch postpones Russia’sGlonass satellite launch

15 Iraqi soldiers killedaccidentally in north Iraq

MOSUL, 26 Sept— At least 15 Iraqi soldiers werekilled and one soldier injured by accident on Friday,when they tried to blow up a large arms and ammuni-tion depot in northern Iraq, local police source said.

The blast happened in the Baashiqa town, about 15km north of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad,local police sources told Xinhua on condition of ano-nymity. When an Iraqi Army patrol tried to detonatethe depot, the blast took place and killed 15 soldiersand injured another.

No further details have been confirmed about theunexpected incident.

Ethnically and religiously mixed Mosul remainsone of Iraq’s most dangerous places, and is believedto be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaeda terroristsstill active in the country. Attacks against Iraqi secu-rity forces are prevalent in the area.—Xinhua

MOSCOW, 26 Sept — Thelaunch of three Glonassnavigation satellites hasbeen delayed by at least amonth due to a technicalflaw in a similar satellitelaunched earlier, the head ofRussia’s Federal SpaceAgency (Roscosmos) saidon Friday.

The launch, originallyscheduled for Friday from theBaikonur space centre inKazakhstan, was postponed

because of a malfunctioninone of the Glonass-M satellitesnow in orbit, AnatolyPerminov said.

“We need to make surethat there will not be anyproblems with the satelliteswe are planning to orbit,”Perminov was quoted assaying by the Intefax newsagency.

Perminov said onemonth would be enoughtime for a working group

to sort things out and thatall six Glonass satelliteswould be launched by theend of this year.

Glonass, a Global Navi-gation Satellite System, is theRussian version of the USGlobal Positioning System(GPS) and is designed forboth military and civilianuse. Both systems allow us-ers to determine their posi-tions to within a few me-ters.—Xinhua

Four bodies found in Marylandhome; no suspect sought

MOUNT AIRY, 26 Sept — Authorities said they foundfour members of a family slain on Friday in a home incentral Maryland, but they said they were not search-ing for any suspects.

State troopers found the four — a man, a woman, aboy and a girl — about 5:30 pm, Maryland State Po-lice spokesman Greg Shipley said.

“Troopers who were inside say it obviously was amurder scene,” Shipley said. “Each body sustainedtrauma.” He said it was not clear how the injuries wereinflicted.

Shipley said troopers had determined there was “nofurther threat.”

“We don’t know what we have here,” Shipley saidFriday night, adding that investigators have yet to lookfor evidence at the scene. “We do not have an activesearch under way at this point.”—Internet

Toxic algae complaintspiling up in France

PARIS, 26 Sept —The prosecutor’s office is study-ing up to 300 complaints linked to noxious green al-gae after the death of a horse this summer on a beachin Brittany, a judicial official said on Friday.

Suspicions that tons of decaying green algae maybe behind illnesses, comas or deaths reported over morethan a decade gained credence with the death on July28 of the thoroughbred on a beach in Saint-Michel-en-Greve. The rider, who was walking the horse, passedout.

Former Environment Minister and lawyer CorinneLepage filed a complaint after the incident. Now, theprosecutor’s office has received legal complaints fromsome 300 people, said a judicial official. The officialwas not authorized to speak publicly on the issue andasked for anonymity.

Internet

Eighteen-metre (60-foot) tall Gundam stands at a park in Tokyo’s manmade OdaibaIsland, Japan. If anything can encourage busy Tokyoites to take notice of their city’s bidto host the 2016 Olympics, it’s a replica of the popular robot animation Mobile SuitGundam, the Japanese anime series robot, big enough to take on Godzilla.—Internet

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Just as I saw aneat, compact deviceequipped with an enginepainted blue, a pump andtwo wooden handles, Ifound it attractive to me.Then, I observed it justto satisfy my curiosity,and it a KND5-B waterpump.

I noticed a largenumber of water pumps

Water pumps for multipurpose useByline: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Workers carrying out finishing touches to engines.

Kubota water pumps at Farm Machinery and Machine ToolsFactory No (1) (Hsinte).

Water pumps at Farm Machinery and Machine Tools Factory No (1).

Daw Phyu Phyu Myint, Assistant Manager, Assembly Shop (2).

arranged row after row inAssembly Shop (1) ofFarm Machinery andMachine Tools FactoryNo (1) under the Minis-try of Industry-2 nearHsinte Village, on theother bank of theAyeyawady River inPyay. Water pumps wereassembled with auto-matic machines under thecontrol of skilled work-

ers.The brand of the

water pump said“Kubota”. Most of themachine parts installed ina water pump are pro-duced by Farm Machin-ery and Machine ToolsFactory No (1). Someworkers were found sys-tematically checking thequality of the pumps one

after another. An enginecan operate at full capac-ity only if each of its ma-chine parts meets thestandard.

KND5-B engine isa 5-hp device which canbe used with a two-inchdiameter pump, four-inchdiameter pump or high-power pump. The enginecan be used as a generator,and can also be used in

combination with some re-lated devices for otherpurposes. It consumesonly 0.25 gallon of dieselan hour, so it is economi-cal to use.

Assistant ManagerDaw Phyu Phyu Myint ofAssembly Shop (2) said,“Farmers can use theKNDF-5 water pump topump water into paddy

fields and to generate elec-tric power for lighting athome. It can also be usedfor firefighting, supply ofpotable water, and pump-ing water from tube-wells.”

Engines and waterpumps can be bought sepa-rately or set-wise. A four-inch diameter water pumpcan pump water as high as32 feet, a two-inch diam-eter water pump, 45 feet,

and a high-power waterpump, 90 feet.

Daw Phyu PhyuMyint said, “KND5-B 5-hp engine can pump 75gallons of water a minuteif we use a two-inch diam-eter pump. It can pumpabout 300 gallons of watera minute if we use a four-inch diameter pump. Andit can pump 300 gallons ofwater a minute as high as

90 feet, if we use a high-power pump.”

After an engine hasbeen assembled with apump, skilled workerscheck it at every stage tomake sure that it can run atfull capacity with full horsepower, and the engine andthe pump meet the stand-ard. The factory produces150 to 200 engines amonth.

The factory pro-duces about 400 four-inchdiameter pumps a month.It produces two-inch di-ameter pumps and high-power pumps according tothe orders.

We also visited As-sembly Shop (2) of FarmMachinery and MachineTools Factory No (1).There, we noticed two-inchdiameter pumps, each of

which is composed of 34parts. On average, it canproduce five units a day.At Assembly Shop (2),machines were painted anddried.

And we noticed thatthe section for 18-bladeharrow and three-bladepower harrows, the sectionfor middle-harrows, thesection for three-blade har-rows and the section for

two-inch diameter har-rows were full of com-pleted sets of machines.At every stage, machineswere checked thoroughlyfor quality control.

Water pumps forKND5-B engines areavailable at Farm Ma-chinery and MachineTools Factory No (1) (Ph:053 40026, 40028) inHsinte and the Ministry

of Industry-2 (067405323) in Nay Pyi Taw.

KND5-B waterpumps can be used inmany areas. So, everyfarmer wishing to pumpwater for agriculturalpurpose and get potablewater, and those in fireservices should get holdof KND5-B waterpumps.

Translation: MS

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Minister for Construction Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint and Minister for Rail TransportationMaj-Gen Aung Min look into finding of axis for construction of rail-cum-road Ayeyawady

Bridge (Pakokku).—MNA

Executive committee meeting of Myanmar Gold EntrepreneursAssociation held at the association.

UMFCCI

Mr Toshiki Sadatani presenting a completion certificate to a trainee atconcluding ceremony of Intellectual Property for Business.—UMFCCI

Repaved Myaungmya Road inaugurated in Sangyoung TspYANGON, 26 Sept—Chairman of Yangon Divi-

sion Peace and Development Council Commander ofYangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint and Chair-man of Yangon City Development Committee MayorBrig-Gen Aung Thein Lin this morning attended theinauguration ceremony of repaved Myaungmya Roadin Kyundaw Ale Ward in Sangyoung Township.

The mayor and officials formally opened the

road.The commander, the mayor and party strolled

along the road.At the office of Ward PDC, the commander

heard reports on sanitation tasks carried out in the wardAfter attending to the needs, the commander and themayor viewed sanitation tasks and proper flow ofwater at drains in Kyundaw Ale Ward.—MNA

Ministers inspect site chosen for rail-cum-roadAyeyawady Bridge (Pakokku)

YANGON, 26 Sept—Minister for Construc-

tion Maj-Gen KhinMaung Myint and Minis-

ter for Rail Transporta-tion Maj-Gen Aung Min

on 25 September after-noon inspected the find-

ing of axis for construc-tion of rail-cum-roadAyeyawady Bridge(Pakokku) nearLatpanchepaw village inNyaungU Township,Mandalay Division.

Officials reportedto the ministers on mat-ters related to the best axisthat will directly linkLatpanchepaw villageand Pakokku out of thefour possible ones, earthposition onLatpanchepaw bank andon Pakokku bank, earthposition of the island andbuilding of sluice gate atPauk lake on Pakokkubank. The ministers gaveinstructions on carryingout construction tasks incooperation between the

two ministries as the find-ing of axis is important.

They next in-spected sites tentativelychosen for the bridge onthe eastern bank of theAyeyawady, earth posi-tions and condition ofwaterway. They thenlooked into the sites cho-sen for construction ofapproach roads by car.

Ayeyawady Bridge(Pakokku) will linkLatpanchepaw village inNyaungU Township onthe eastern bank andPakokku on the westernbank. The main bridge isover two miles long andon its completion it willbe the biggest and longestone in the states and divi-sions. — MNA

Course on Intellectual Property forBusiness concludes

YANGON, 26 Sept—The concluding ceremonyof Intellectual Property forBusiness, organized by theUnion of Myanmar Fed-eration of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry(UMFCCI) and the Asso-ciation for TechnicalScholarship (AOTS), tookplace at Traders Hotel onSule Pagoda road, here,yesterday.

First, President ofUMFCCI U Win Myintextended greetings.Chairman of Human Re-sources DevelopmentWorking Committee ofUMFCCI Dr Myo Thetand General Manager MrToshiki Sadatani fromAOTS Bangkok Officegave concludingspeeches.

Next, president U

Win Myint and responsi-ble persons presentedcompletion certificates totrainees and then LecturerDaw Zin Zin Naing (Man-dalay University of Dis-tance Education), one ofthose trainees, spokewords of thanks.

The 44 trainees at-tended the 15-daycourse—from 14 to 25September.—MNA

MGEA executive committee meeting held

YANGON, 26 Sept—Meeting of CEC membersof Myanmar Gold Entre-preneurs Association tookplace at the meeting hallof the association inUMFCCI office tower onMinye Kyaw Swa streetin Lanmadaw Township,here, this morning.

It was attended by

CEC members of the as-sociation, CEC membersfrom Yangon Division andMandalay Division GEAsand departmental offi-cials.

First, Chairman ofMGEA U Thu Taw (Acad-emy Gold Refinery) andVice-Chairman U KyawMyint (Shwemyinbyan

Gold Refinery) extendedgreetings.

Next, Secretary UKyaw Win ( U Hton Goldshop) focused on coop-eration of members of theassociation to stablize goldprizes and future tasks andChairman U Thu Taw thengave concluding re-marks.—MNA

Dissemination of mettã (loving-kindness) can benefit anyone whowelcomes it or not.

Therefore everybody shoulddisseminate mettã, which is possessedof great potency.

(Milindapañha,Mettãbhãvãnanisamsa-197)

Potency of Mettã(No. 1)

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(from page 16)economy of the people,efforts have been madeand as a result 230 bridgesof 180 feet and above inlength in Myanmar includ-ing the present one since1988 have emerged thanksto the concerted efforts ofthe government, the peo-ple and the Tatmadaw.There were only 13635miles of roads in 1988 butnow there are 19999/1miles of roads. So, 6364/1miles have been extended.Construction of Mindoncreek bridge (Yenantha)started on 27 March, 2005.Thanks to the bridge, thesocio-economic life of lo-cal people of Thayet-Kanma region will im-prove, the minister added.Next, he urged the localpeople to maintain the

Being able to build one bridgeafter another has proved …

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Sept— Chairman of TaninthayiDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Costal Region Command Maj-Gen Khin Zaw Ootogether with officials inspected expansion ofSapashwewar road in Myeik on 19 September.

Next, the commander and officials looked intoseasonal crops plantations of the command headquar-ters, dredging the Mingala lake in Kalwin ward andearth work.

After that, they inspected laying the concretepavement of strand road and arrival of passengers atthe jetty. The commander and officials met with thelocals.

The commander and officials also inspected Post-Primary School and progress of extended building of No2 Basic Education High School of Kyaungnge ward.Later, the commander viewed learning of students andgave the necessary instruction.—MNA

Commander inspectsdevelopment tasks in Myeik

bridge as it will serve theinterests of their own re-gion and of the State. Theyare to maintain the bridgeas their own propertybased on nationalisticspirit and Union Spirit.

Col Phone MawShwe expressed thankssaying the bridge is the230th of the State and veryimportant for MagwayDivision. Being able tobuild one bridge after an-other has proved the skillsand capabilities ofMyanmar engineers andthe united efforts of thepeople. With the emer-gence of the bridge, agro-based industries and cot-tage industries in ThayetDistrict and Magway Di-vision will be able to trans-port their raw materialsand finished goods easily

archway of the bridge. Theminister formally un-veiled the stone plaque ofthe bridge and Col PhoneMaw Shwe and officialssprinkled scented water onthe plaque. They thengreeted those present.

The upper frame ofthe bridge is of bailey typeand the lower frame, re-inforced concrete typewith reinforced concretebole piles. The bridge is700 feet long with 10 feetand 10 inches-wide mo-torway. It can withstand13 tons of loads. Thebridge is 230th of the Stateand 19th of Magway Di-vision.

With the emer-gence of Mindon creekbridge (Yenantha), ma-

rine products and rice ofRakhine State can betransported to Shan Statethrough Sittway-An-Minbu and Magway roadand Magway-Mandalay-PyinOoLwin-Lashio road.Marine products and riceof Ayeyawady Divisioncan be transported to ChinState and Sagaing Divi-sion through Pathein-Monywa road and toKachin State throughM o n y w a - S h w e b o -Myitkyina road. Crops andedible oil crops fromMagway Division can betransported to other statesand divisions. As a result,regional economy, educa-tion, health and social af-fairs will improve all themore.—MNA

at a reduced cost. Therewill also be good oppor-tunities for the education,health and social affairsof the local people. Then,a local people spokewords of thanks.

Col Phone MawShwe and deputy manag-ing directors of PublicWorks formally openedthe bridge. The ministerand party had a documen-tary photo taken at the

Minister for Construction Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint delivers an address atopening ceremony of Mindon creek bridge

(Yenantha).—MNA

Col Phone Maw Shwe gives an opening speechat opening ceremony of Mindon Creek bridge

(Yenantha).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Sept—Chairmanof Magway Division Peace and Develop-ment Council Col Phone Maw Shwe in-spected monsoon paddy cultivation andNgwechi 6 long staple cotton plantationof Montawgyi village, cultivation ofmonsoon paddy plantation of Phanlantawvillage-tract and drainage system andproper flow of water at Taungmon maincanal and thriving monsoon paddy plan-tation along both sides of the canal in

Cultivation of monsoon paddyplantation inspected in Pwintbyu, Salin

YANGON, 26 Sept—Vice-Chairmanof Yangon City Development CommitteeVice-Mayor Col Maung Pa met local peo-ple and members of social organizationsand delivered an address at GaungwailayVillage in Seikkyi Khanaungto (North) inYangon South District this morning.

Next, the vice-mayor and officialslooked into construction progress of 140-feet long and 22-feet wide concrete bridge

Vice-Mayor carries out regional developmenttasks in Seikkyi Khanaungto Tsp

linking Umyangazin in KyimyindineTownship and Gaungwailay Village overpass on Gaungwailay creek in SeikkyiKhanaungto Township.

Afterwards, the vice-mayor also metwith ward-elders and members of socialorganizations from Samarduwah, U TunOh and Panpinchaung wards and focusedon regional development tasks.

MNA

Pwintbyu Township on 1 September.Next, the chairman viewed weed-

ing at model monsoon paddy plantationand drainage system of Magyeepinpuvillage in Salin Township.

After that, the chairman lookedinto cultivation of monsoon paddy plan-tation and drainage system of Seeswevillage in Salin Township and thrivingmonsoon paddy plantation in SeikphyuTownship.—MNA

'Green' roofs could help putlid on global warming

“Green” roofs, such as the one above, couldfight climate charge, scientists reports.

SCIENCE DAILY, 26Sept—“Green” roofs,those increasingly popu-lar urban rooftops coveredwith plants, could helpfight global warming, sci-entists in Michigan are re-porting. The scientists

found that replacing tradi-tional roofing materials inan urban area the size ofDetroit, with a populationof about one-million, withgreen would be equivalentto eliminating a year'sworth of carbon dioxide

emitted by 10,000 mid-sized SUVs and trucks.

Their study, thefirst of its kind to exam-ine the ability of greenroofs to sequester car-bon which may impactclimate change, is sched-uled for the Oct. 1 issueof ACS' E, a semi-monthly journal.

Kristin Getter andcolleagues point out in thenew study that green roofsare multi-functional.They reduce heating andair conditioning costs, forinstance, and retain anddetain stormwater. Re-searchers knew that greenroofs also absorb carbondioxide, a major green-house gas that contributesto global warming, but no-body had measured theimpact until now.

Internet

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 27 September, 2009

I left Yangon forMandalay by No (3)Yangon-Mandalay Up-train at 11 am on 17August. I was delighted tosee lush and green paddyfields on both sides of therailroad. I changed aMyitkyina-bound Up-train in Mandalay at 10am the following day.Along the railroad, thescenery I saw wasbecoming different. Iarrived at my destination,Kyunhla Town Station at

A trip to developing Kyunhla TownshipArticle and Photos: Reporter Pyu-Myint Oo

Thriving groundnut plantation of Farmer U Kyaw Sein at Magyi-innvillage in Kyunhla Township, Sagaing Division.

A signboard seen at the entrance to Kyunhla Township.

U Aye Naing,Chairman of

Kyunhla TownshipPeace and

DevelopmentCouncil.

Farmer U Kyaw Sein explaining cultivationof monsoon groundnut.

Corns seen at the plantation of FarmerU Kyaw Sein at Magyi-inn village in Kyunhla

Township.

10 pm the same day.To be able to know

about all-round develop-ment of KyunhlaTownship, I met Chairmanof Township Peace andDevelopment Council UAye Naing and SecretaryDaw Khine Khine Myint tohave an interview with themat the office the nextmorning.

Kyunhla Town-ship, a mountainous region,stands between 500 and1500 feet above sea level.

At the western part of thetownship, Pyu mountainrange separated from theMiddle Yoma mountainrange stretches from northto south. The township hasforest reserves where teak,ironwood and otherhardwood trees are grown.

The chairman said,"Kyunhla Township issituated in the central partof Sagaing Division and itis in Shwebo District, 525miles north-west ofYangon. It has an area of

130.94 square miles. It ismade up of four wards, 33village-tracts and 112villages and has apopulation of over 85000.The significant chara-cteristic of the township ismineral and crude oilexploration. Myahnitregion in Kyunhla Town-ship is rich in Bentonite.Myanmar Oil and GasEnterprise of the Ministryof Energy produces 5000tons of Bentonite yearly.There are crude oilexplorations in Mawkel,Naungkauk and Yayshinregions."

Although KyunhlaTownship is not far fromThaphanseik Dam,farmlands of the townshipare located at the upperreaches of the dam. Thetownship, therefore, relieson the rain for the growingof beans and pulses. As theannual rainfall of thetownship is above 32inches, the farmers in the

township work the landunder the close supervisionof the Township PDC toget water for agriculturalpurpose by damming thecreek temporarily when therainwater entered the creek.

"Kyunhla Town-ship has one high school,three high schools (branch),two affiliated high schools,six middle schools, 12middle schools (branch),one affiliated middleschool, 83 primary schools,one primary school(branch) and two affiliatedprimary schools.

"In health sector,there are one 25-bedtownship's hospital, one 16-bed station hospital, 16 ruralhealth care centres (branch),one health care centre oftownship Maternal andChild Welfare Associationfor enabling local people toget health care services.With a view to broadeningthe horizons of local people,one Myawady retransmis-sion station and 111 self-reliant libraries have beenopened in the township,"the chairman added.

Then I made a fieldtrip to villages in thetownship to study thrivingmonsoon paddy, monsoongroundnut and monsoonC.P corn plantations.

In interviewing UKyaw Sein, chairman ofMagyi-inn village-tract andfarmer, about agriculturalsector of the village, heexplained, "most of local

farmers live in finebuildings as the village hasgood harvest. There arefive rice mills, one paddycombine harvester, twocorn combine harvester,eight power-tillers and 16pumps in the village-tract."

Next, the chairmantook me out of the village tosee plantations. I sawthriving monsoongroundnut plantations andcorn plantations.

"Most of arablelands in the township arefertile as they are alluvialsoil. The cultivation of cropsdoes well thanks to regularrainfall. The corn andmonsoon groundnutplantations that you seewere grown from seedswithout using chemicalfertilizer in Kason andNayon. The harvest timewill fall at the end ofTawthalin and waxing daysof Thadingyut. A basket ofcorn seeds is expected tofetch the minimum price of

4000 kyats and themaximum price of 14000kyats.

Thriving paddy andcorn plantations and crudeoil production arecontributing towards all-round developments ofKyunhla Township.

*****Translation: YM

Myanma Alin: 23-9-09

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MANILA, 26 Sept—Atleast nine people werereported dead or missingin massive floods in thePhilippine capital astropical storm Ketsanalashed the eastern side ofthe country on Saturday,radio reports said.

The governmentdeclared Manila andnumerous provinces to bein a “state of calamity,”Defence SecretaryGilberto Teodoro said, asheavy rains brought bythe storm caused the worstflooding seen in thecapital in some 20 years.

‘Nine dead, missing’ as stormhits Philippines

Filipinos help children to safety during flooding inManila.—INTERNET

A wall, weakened byfloodwaters, collapsed ina suburb of Manila, killinga father and child whilefour children drowned inflooding elsewhere in thecity, radio station DZMMsaid.

Three other peoplewere swept away by aswollen river outside thecapital, it said.Over 1,800people were forced to fleetheir homes and takerefuge in evacuationcentres due to risingwaters, the civil defenceoffice said.

Internet

CALIFORNIA, 26Sept—Gmail has justunveiled a new interestingfeature in its Gmail Labsprogram called “Hide readlabels,” which is just asmall tweak but can provevery useful in somecircumstances as it allowsusers to hide the leftsidebar labels for theemails that they have readalready. This makes for aless cluttered interface butalso allows users to moreeasily keep track of theirunread messages.

The feature is accessiblejust like any other Labstweak in the Settings menu

Gmail Labs introduces ‘HideRead Labels’

under the Labs tab. Turningit on will remove all of thelabels that don’t have unreademails. The unread messageswill still show up but userscan hide them as well if thewish to. With the new featureenabled, labels that haveunread messages will alsoshow up in bold and have anumber attachedcorresponding to the numberof emails.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 26 Sept —In a new research, scientists have claimed that thereis no “conclusive proof” that drinking alcohol in moderation benefits the heart.

According to the scientists, the views about cardio -protection from alcohol isby no means certain and probably has been over emphasised in recent years, thelatest edition of the ‘New Zealand Medical Journal’ reported.

“When viewed through the lens of two major early reviews in the 1980’s, thehealth giving properties of alcohol use becomes increasingly debateable,” leadauthor Prof Doug Sellman of Otago University said.

The scientists raise the issue of the influence of the alcohol industry in someof the studies reviewed in relation to the exaggeration of positive effects on theheart and health generally.

They also point out that there are many other health downsides from heavydrinking, and that alcohol is now widely recognised as New Zealand’s mostdangerous recreational drug.—Internet

Alcohol’s benefits ‘exaggerated’

A visitor admires a creation by Japanese-born artist Chiharu Shiota duringthe Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts exhibition on 25 Sept ,

2009.—INTERNET

SAN FRANCISCO, 26Sept —Twitter received$100 million in fundingon Friday, valuing thecompany at $1 billion,according to a personfamiliar with the matter,as investors bet that theWeb company’sexplosive growth willyield actual revenue or alucrative deal.

Investors includingmutual fund giant T. RowePrice and private equityfirm Insight VenturePartners took part in thelatest round of fundingwhich closed on Friday,according to Twitter.Twitter did not give theamount of the funding.

Analysts and industryexecutives say the

Twitter gets new round of funding,new backers

Biz Stone, co-founder ofTwitter, Inc., gives thekeynote speech at the

140: Twitter ConferenceLA in Los Angeles on

22 Sept , 2009.

involvement of T. RowePrice and Insight set thestage for an eventual IPOor acquisition, andillustrated how privateequity and investment fundhouses were increasinglygetting into tech startups.

But the three-year-oldInternet microbloggingcompany has yet to figureout how to make moneyfrom the free service.

Executives have citedpremium features andadvertising as keyinitiatives to make money,though co-founder BizStone told Reuters thisweek that Twitter wouldnot take advertising thisyear, despite widespreadspeculation that itwould.—Internet

KANPUR, 26 Sept —Ateenaged girl allegedlycommitted suicide afterher parents asked her toleave studies as they werehard-pressed to pay herschool fees, police saidtoday.

The parents of 16-year-old Rakhi Yadav, astudent of class XI, failedto pay her fees for twoconsecutive monthsfollowing which shereceived periodic noticesfrom school, they said.

When Rakhireminded her father, amilk-man, yesterday tosubmit the amount on thedue date, he lost histemper and asked her todiscontinue studies as hecould not afford to paythe fees.

A shocked Rakhi thenlocked herself up in herroom and hanged herself,the police said.

Internet

Unable to payschool fee, girl

ends life

TOLEDO (OHIO), 26Sept—A woman who hadthe wrong embryoimplanted by a fertilityclinic has given birth to aboy, her family saidFriday.

Sean and CarolynSavage offeredcongratulations to thebaby’s biological parents,Paul and Shannon Morell,of suburban Detroit.TheSavages say a fertilityclinic outside Ohiotransferred the wrongfrozen embryo inFebruary. Ten days later,they got a call from adoctor at the clinic sayingshe was pregnant withsomeone else’s child.TheSavages said in aninterview with TheAssociated Press onWednesday they neverconsidered terminating

Ohio woman implanted with wrong embryo gives birth

the pregnancy or trying tofight for custody.Theyhave hired attorneys whosay they are working tomake sure the fertilityclinic acceptsr e s p o n s i b i l i t y . T h eMorells, who live in Troy,Mich, found out about thefertility clinic mistake aday after the Savages.

The two couples

knew nothing about eachother. Shannon Morellfeared that the pregnantwoman would chooseabortion.A few dayspassed before they learnedthat the Savages were notonly willing to continuewith the pregnancy butalso to hand over the babywithout hesitation.

Internet

In this 23 Sept, 2009 file photo, Carolyn Savage,40, is seen at her home, in Sylvania, Ohio.

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 27 September, 2009

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION

NEWS AND PERIODICALS ENTERPRISE

INVITATION TO TENDER

1. Sealed tenders are invited by News and PeriodicalsEnterprise for supply of the following prepress machines-

Sr. No Description Quantity(1) CTP (Computer to Plate) Machine 2 Nos

2. Tender documents are available at ProcurementCommittee, No. 28, Kokkine Yeiktha Street, BahanTownship, Yangon. Closing date of bid will be on 8th

October 2009 at 16:30 hrs.3. Please contact Phone No. 01-536029, 534574 for

further information.

Ministry of InformationProcurement Committee

No.28, Kokkine Yeiktha Street, Bahan Township,Yangon

Global networks key tomanufacturing success studyLONDON, 26 Sept—Manufacturers must embrace a

more collaborative global approach if they are to capi-talize on recent signs of economic recovery, accord-ing to a study released on Friday by the University ofEdinburgh Business School and business consultancyCapgemini.

The study said that the credit crunch has put manu-facturers under pressure, encouraging many to sub-contract work to international partners — dramaticallychanging the way companies do business. Links withglobal firms are now far more important than before.

The researchers say the world is witnessing a shiftin manufacturing from “doing” to “resourcing,” witha stronger focus on relationships with other compa-nies. Top manufacturers will adopt a “value circle”approach, in which they continually interact with aglobal network of suppliers and customers to developnew products.

Xinhua

Less costly memory foam developed

Iraq detains 109 in jailbreak investigation

BAGHDAD, 26 Sept—More than 100 prison officialsand guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, in-cluding five al-Qaeda-linked inmates awaiting execu-tion, made a stunning jailbreak in Saddam Hussein’shometown, a police commander said on Friday.

The escape from the makeshift prison in Tikrit wasthe latest in a string of embarrassing security lapses inIraq, raising questions about the country’s ability toensure its own security ahead of a planned US with-drawal at the end of 2011.

The entire staff of the jail, including the provincialprison director, have been detained for questioning aspart of the investigation into the escape, said police LtCol Ahmed al-Fahal, the director of the anti-riot de-partment for Salahuddin Province.—Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SINAR SOLO VOY NO (412)Consignees of cargo carried on MV SINAR SOLO

VOY NO (412) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 27.9.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Cervical can-cer could dis-

appearBERLIN, 26 Sept—

Newer, more accurate,screening combined witha programme of humanpapilloma vaccinationcould eradicate cervicalcancer, a British re-searcher said.

Jack Cuzick of theWolfson Institute of Pre-ventive Medicine in Lon-don said new vaccinespromise to protect againstnine types of HPV, soeventually there will be noneed to screen womenwho have been vacci-nated.

“It’s important to sayup front that the HPV isresponsible for all cervixcancer,” Cuzick said in astatement. “If you caneradicate the virus, thecancer will not appear.”

Current HPV vaccinesprotect against two can-cer-causing strains of theHPV virus, but soon therewould be vaccines avail-able that protect againstnine types.

Internet

Doctors rethink natureof plaques

SAN FRANCISCO, 26 Sept—US doctors say the un-treated plaques causing unexpected heart attacks arenot mild lesions as previously thought.

The plaques are made up of fat, cholesterol, cal-cium and other substances found in the blood. Theplaques at high risk of causing an adverse cardiovas-cular event had large plaque burdens and/or small lu-men areas — clear space in the vessel.

These areas were invisible to the coronary angi-ogram but identifiable by intra-vessel ultra soundimaging, the researchers said. The areas with the high-est risk were those showing a necrotic core — area ofdead tissue — but without a visible cap of fibrous tis-sue — a thin cap fibroatheroma.—Internet

Chemicals linked to testicular cancer

Bit loud : An Indian man protects his ears with his hands as he passes adisplay of 144 loudspeakers during a Dusshera festival loudspeaker

competition in Allahabad.—INTERNET

A Moroccan policeman stands guard at a checkpointin Casablanca in 2007. The security services inMorocco have arrested 24 members of a “terroristnetwork” linked to Al-Qaeda that recruited volunteersfor suicide bombings in Iraq, the interior ministrysaid on Wednesday.—INTERNET

EVANSTON, 26 Sept—A new shape-shifting“memory” foam couldhave widespread use in carengines, inkjet printers andsurgical-positioning tools,US scientists said.

The foam developedby researchers at North-western University in Illi-nois and Boise State Uni-versity in Idaho costs lessto produce than similar

foams now on the market,Northwestern said in a re-lease on Thursday.

The new foam is basedon a nickel-manganese-gallium alloy that changes

shape when exposed toa magnetic field, the re-searchers, North-western’sDavid Dunand and BoiseState’s Peter Mullner,said.—Internet

COPENHAGEN, 26 Sept—Higher levels of environ-mental chemicals in breastmilk are linked to a higherincidence of testicular can-cer, researchers in Den-mark found.

Konrad Krysiak-Baltynand colleagues in Den-mark, Finland and Ger-many measured levels of121 chemicals in 68 breastmilk samples from Den-mark and Finland to com-pare exposure of mothers

to environmental endo-crine disrupting chemicals.There is a worldwide in-crease in testicular cancer,but the cause remains un-known, Krysiak-Baltynsaid.

In some countries, suchas Denmark the prevalenceof this disease and othermale reproductive disor-ders is conspicuously high,while in Finland the inci-dence are markedly lower,

Krysiak-Baltyn said.“We were very sur-

prised to find that someendocrine disruptingchemicals levels, includ-ing some dioxins, PCBsand some pesticides, weresignificantly higher inDenmark than in Finland,”Niels Skakkebaek, a sen-ior member of the researchteam at the Rigshospitaletin Copenhagen said.

Internet

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Solvent linked to birth defect risk

Spanking linked tolower IQ

Britain explores underseacarbon capture

Vitamin D lack linked toblood pressure

A/H1N1 influenza death toll rises over3,900, says WHO

GENEVA, 26 Sept— About 3,917 people worldwide have been killed by the A/H1N1 influenza since the new flu virus was identified in April, the World HealthOrganization (WHO) said in a latest update on Friday.

Of all the deaths, 2,948 occurred in the Americas, followed by the West Pacificregion, with 362 deaths. The other four WHO regional offices, South-East Asia,Europe, East Mediterranean and Africa reported 340, 154, 72 and 41 deaths re-spectively.

The WHO, which declared the A/H1N1 flu as a pandemic in June, said the totalnumber of lab confirmed cases worldwide is now over318,925, but this case countis significantly lower than the actual number of cases that have occurred becausemore and more countries have stopped testing and reporting individual cases,particularly milder ones.

In the northern hemisphere, where winter is approaching, influenza activitycontinues to increase in many areas. But in the southern hemisphere, influenzatransmission has largely returned to baseline or is continuing to decline, the agencysaid. —Xinhua

The tails of two 35-tonne Fin whales are bound to a Hvalur boat in June2009 after being caught off the coast of Hvalfjsrour, north of Reykjavik, on

the western coast of Iceland. Iceland’s fin whaling company said on Friday itplans a huge export of about 1,500 tonnes of whale meat, mainly to Japan,

after wrapping up its hunting season for this year.—INTERNET

This undated picture released by Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology Zurich shows the new

Monte Rosa refuge that will be inaugurated on 26Sept, 2009 in the Swiss Alps. The futuristic alpinehut has been planned for the Swiss Alpine Club(SAC) by the Department of Architecture of theSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

(ETH Zurich).—INTERNET

BOSTON, 26 Sept—USresearchers have linkedexposure to tetrachlo-roethylene to birth defects.

The chemical, usedcommonly as a solvent, isalso known asperchlorethylene or PCE,and is sometimes found asa contaminant in drinkingwater.

The study, published inEnvironmental Health,found an increased risk of

oral clefts and neural tubedefects in children whosemothers — while pregnant— lived in eight towns inthe Cape Cod area of Mas-sachusetts where waterpipes lined with a vinylcoating containing PCEhad been used from 1969to 1983.

There were 61 childrenwith congenital anomaliesamong the 1,658 childrenwith some prenatal PCE

exposure.“The results suggest

that the risk of certain con-genital anomalies is in-creased among the off-spring of women whowere exposed to PCE-con-taminated drinking wateraround the time of concep-tion,” study researcherAnn Aschengrau of Bos-ton University School ofPublic Health said in astatement. —Internet

LONDON, 26 Sept—Geological formationsunder the North Seacould store more than100 years’ worth ofemissions from Britishpower stations, energyofficials said.

The process, known ascarbon capture and stor-age, could reduce air-borne carbon dioxideemissions from fossil-fueled power plantsby up to 90 percent, EdMiliband, Britain’s min-

ister for energy and cli-mate change, said.

Without carbon cap-ture and storage, there isno solution to climatechange, he said.

The technology,which has yet to betested on a large scale,could be a massive in-dustry for Britain, re-placing what it nowtakes in from North Seaoil, The Daily Telegraphreported on Friday.

Internet

DURHAM, 26 Sept— USchildren who were spankedhad lower IQs four yearslater than those notspanked, researchersfound. University of NewHampshire ProfessorMurray Straus, who is pre-senting the findings on Fri-day at the 14th InternationalConference on Violence,Abuse and Trauma, in SanDiego, called the study“groundbreaking.”

“The results of this re-search have major implica-tions for the well being ofchildren across the globe,”Straus said in a statement.“It is time for psychologiststo recognize the need tohelp parents end the use ofcorporal punishment andincorporate that objectiveinto their teaching andclinical practice.”Straus

and Mallie Paschall, seniorresearch scientist at the Pa-cific Institute for Researchand Evaluation, studied anationally representativesample of 806 childrenages 2-4, and 704 childrenages 5-9. IQs of childrenages 2-4 who were notspanked were 5 pointshigher four years later thanthe IQs of those who werespanked. The IQs of chil-dren ages 5-9 who were notspanked were 2.8 pointshigher four years later thanthe IQs of children notspanked.“How often par-ents spanked made a differ-ence. The more spanking ,the slower the developmentof the child’s mental abil-ity,” Straus said. “But evensmall amounts of spankingmade a difference.”

Internet

CHICAGO, 26 Sept—Vitamin D deficiency inyounger women is asso-ciated with increased riskof high blood pressure inmid-life, a US researchersaid.

C o - i n v e s t i g a t o rFlojaune C Griffin, adoctoral candidate in epi-demiology at the Univer-sity of Michigan School

of Public Health in AnnArbor and colleagues ex-amined women enrolledin the Michigan BoneHealth and MetabolismStudy.

They analyzed datafrom 559 Caucasianwomen living in Tecu-mseh, Mich, beginning in1992 when the womenwere ages 24-44, with anaverage age of 38 years.

The researchers tookblood pressure readingsannually throughout thestudy and measured vita-min D blood levels oncein 1993.

The study found pre-menopausal women whohad vitamin D defi-ciency in 1993 had threetimes the risk of devel-oping systolic hyperten-sion 15 years latercompared to those whohad normal levels ofvitamin D.

Feathered dinosaur fossil foundin China

BINJING, 26 Sept—Afeathery four-winged fos-sil found in China provesbirds evolved from dino-saurs, archeologists at theAcademy of Science inBeijing said.

The fossil is the mostwell-preserved of severaldinosaur-related fossilswith feathers foundthis year in northeastern

China, Xu Xing, a profes-sor at the academy toldthe BBC in a story pub-lished on Friday. “Allover the skeleton, you seefeathers,” Xu said ofAnchiornis huxleyi,which has 4-foot-longwings and belongs to theTroodontidae, a family oftheropods most closelyrelated to birds.

The fossils, excavatedfrom Jianchang County,are believed to be morethan 150 million years

old, about 10 millionyears older thanArchaeopteryx, the oldestrecognized bird, whichwas discovered in Ger-many. A. huxleyi’s fourwings may have been keyto the evolutionary transi-tion from dinosaurs tobirds, said Xu, whosefindings were presentedthis week at the annualSociety of VertebratePaleonto-logists, held thisyear at Britain’s Univer-sity of Bristol.—Internet

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Tiger takes the leadat Tour Championship

Cristiano Ronaldo enjoyinglife in Madrid

MADRID, 26 Sept—Real Madrid forward CristianoRonaldo told Spanish television station Tele 5 that hewas delighted with life at his new club.”I am happyin Spain and I am adapting bit by bit, because peopleat the club have helped me a lot,” said the player whocost 95 million euros from Manchester United duringthe summer.

Cristiano has scored seven goal in five games forhis new club and Real Madrid is currently join top ofthe Primera Liga table with four wins from fourmatches. “Everything is working out well. We arewinning, scoring goals, especially me, and I have tothank my team mates for that,” he commented, addingthat he was glad to have put a nervous start to hisMadrid career in the past.— Internet

Federer withdraws fromJapan, Shanghai events

GENEVA, 26 Sept—World number one Roger Federerhas decided to withdraw from next month’s Japan Openand Shanghai Masters in order to get some rest, theSwiss star confirmed on Friday. “I am disappointed thatI have to withdraw from Tokyo and Shanghai as theyare two of my favorite cities in the world and the fanshave been great to me over the years,” Federer said onhis website (www.rogerfederer.com).

“After consultation with my team and doctors, Idecided to take the difficult decision to withdraw fromboth tournaments so that I can give my body a chanceto rest, rehabilitate and fully recover from a physicallychallenging year.” Federer had a splendid season sofar, reclaiming his world number one spot from RafaelNadal, winning the French Open for the first time andWimbledon, but failed to win a sixth consecutive USOpen title when he lost to Argentina’s Juan Martindel Potro in the final earlier this month.—Xinhua

Drogba boosts Blues’ quest forwinning start

Chelsea’s Ivory Coastfootballer

Didier Drogba

Tokyo readies for 2016Olympic pitch

TOKYO, 26 Sept—If anything can make the busycitizens of Tokyo take notice of their city’s bid to hostthe 2016 Olympics, it’s a robot large enough to take onGodzilla.A fitting symbol of the technology for whichJapan is famous, the moving, talking 60-foot robot waspart of a promotional blitz to drum up support forTokyo’s campaign after an International OlympicCommittee poll in February found only 55 percent ofresidents supported the effort.

A replica of the popular character Mobile SuitGundam, from a Japanese anime series created byYoshiyuki Tomino, the robot towered over the man-madeOdaiba island overlooking Tokyo Bay and prominentlydisplayed the Tokyo 2016 logo on its shoulder. Organizerssay public support has increased in recent polls, and thatmore than 20 million people in Japan’s capital nowsupport the bid. A rally through the streets of the city onWednesday attracted more than 400,000 people,testament to the improved public opinion.—Internet

Fergie hails evergreen Giggsas model pro

Ze Roberto eyes Bundesligatitle - and world crown

Wenger ends Arsenal’sChamakh pursuit

LONDON, 26 Sept—Arsenal manager ArseneWenger said on Friday that he will not continue hispursuit of highly-rated Morocco striker MarouaneChamakh when the transfer window reopens inJanuary.

Arsenal, as well as Premier League rivals WestHam, were linked with a move for the Bordeauxplayer in the summer before the 25-year-old opted tostay with the French champions.”No, we don’t goanywhere,” said Wenger. “We have plenty of strikers.Eduardo has made a recovery and Nicklas Bendtnerhas extended his contract; that means we havestrikers.”—Internet

Ze Roberto ofHamburger SV

BERLIN, 26 Sept—League-leaders Hamburgface the biggest test oftheir tenure at the top ofthe Bundesliga onSaturday as their Brazilianmidfielder Ze Robertotakes on his former clubBayern Munich. The 35-year-old has enjoyed anew lease of life sinceswapping Bavaria for the

Hanseatic city and withthree goals in six games ishoping to help Hamburgwin the German leaguetitle this year.

Bruno Labbadia’sHamburg side will certainlyhave their credentials testedby third-placed Bayern whoare getting stronger andchasing their fourthconsecutive leaguewin.”Our team has a brightfuture and I am in the formof my life,” said themidfielder.”Bayern alwaysstarts the season with thegoal of being Germanchampions, we must alsomake sure that doesn’thappen.”My goal is to winthe Bundesliga withHamburg - and the WorldCup with Brazil.”

Internet

Manchester United’sWelsh midfielder

Ryan Giggs

Tiger Woods

MANCHESTER, 26 Sept—Sir Alex Ferguson haspaid tribute to theprofessionalism that hasenabled Ryan Giggs toproduce some of the bestfootball of his career at theage of 35.The Welshwinger has beenManchester United’soutstanding performer thisseason with match-winning performancesagainst both Tottenhamand Manchester City inrecent weeks.

Against City, Giggscreated three of United’sgoals, including thestoppage time winner thatMichael Owen convertedto seal a 4-3 win, while his

stunning free-kick againstSpurs — his 99th PremierLeague goal for United —means he has scored inevery season since theleague was launched in1992.—Internet

LONDON, 26 Sept—Didier Drogba returns toaction on Saturday asChelsea look to extend theirwinning start to theirPremier League campaignto seven matches withvictory at Wigan.Evenwithout Drogba, it would bea major surprise if CarloAncelotti’s side failed tooverpower Roberto

Martinez’s strugglingWigan side and move closerto emulating Chel-sea’s lasttitle-winning side, whichbegan the 2005-06 seasonwith nine straight leaguewins under Jose Mourinho.

Drogba was carried offduring last weekend’s winover Tottenham butAncelotti was relieved todiscover the Ivory Coaststriker was only sufferingfrom cramp rather than themore serious calf problemfeared at the time.Chelseatravel north with a three-point lead over championsManchester United — whotravel to Stoke — and a six-point cushion over achasing pack made up ofLiverpool, ManchesterCity, Aston Villa andTottenham.

Internet

ATLANTA, 26S e p t — T i g e rWoods had thelead and wasready to turn theTour Champion-ship into a runa-way Friday. Firstcame a 5-woodup the hill on the par-5 15th that narrowly cleared thebunker, hopped onto the green and rolled toward theflag until it stopped just over 4 feet away. On the nexthole, Woods started walking before his shot began itsdescent to inside 4 feet.

There were so many fans around the 16th green thatit was hard to read the video board showing Woods’PGA Tour ranking on putts between 4 and 5 feet. Noone would have been surprised to see that Woods hadonly missed seven from that length all year. This time,he missed them both.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin Kayah State and upper Sagaing Division, rain orthundershowers have been isolated in lower SagaingDivision, scattered in Shan, Rakhine States and MandalayDivision, fairly widespread in Kachin, Chin States andMagway Division and widespread in the remaining areaswith locally heavyfalls in Kayin, Mon States and TaninthayiDivision. The noteworthy amounts of rainfalls recordedwere Lounglon (6.89) inches, Kawkareik (6.42) inches, Ye(6.14) inches, Theinzayat (5.00) inches, Hpa-an (4.77)inches, Thaton (3.93) inches, Dawei (3.59) inches,Thayawady (2.68) inches and Pyin Oo Lwin (1.41) inches.

Maximum temperature on 25-9-2009 was 91°F.Minimum temperature on 26-9-2009 was 71°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 26-9-2009 was 100 %.Total sun shine hours on 25-9-2009 was (2.8) hours approx.

Rainfall on 26-9-2009 was (0.87) inch at Mingaladon,(0.87) inch at Kaba-Aye and (1.46) inches at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (97.13) inches atMingaladon, (106.74) inches at Kaba-Aye and (114.33)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (6) mph from Northwest at (11:30) hoursMST on 25-9-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the NorthBay and monsoon is moderate in the Andaman Sea andelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 27th September 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated to scattered inKayah and Chin States, lower Sagaing, Mandalay andMagway Divisions, fairly widespread in Kachin, RakhineStates and Bago Division and widespread in the remainingareas with likelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Mon, KayinStates and Taninthayi Division. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderate monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for

27-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for27-9-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for27-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

WEATHERSaturday, 26th September, 2009

(26-9-2009)

Portsmouth 0-1 EvertonBirmingham 1-2 BoltonBlackburn 2-1 Aston VillaLiverpool 6-1 Hull CityStoke City 0-2 Man UtdTottenham 5-0 BurnleyWigan Athletic 3-1 ChelseaFulham 0-1 Arsenal

STOKE-ON-TRENT, 26 Sept—Manchester Unitedsecured a deserved victory away to Stoke City.

Dimitar Berbatov and John O’Shea struck inthe second half to give United the win.

United were struggling to make theirdominance pay until Ryan Giggs’ introduction10 minutes after the break.

The veteran Welshman provided a tap-in forBerbatov before O’Shea celebrated his 350thappearance by nodding home Giggs’ curling free-kick.—Internet

Stoke City 0-2 Manchester United

Dimitar Berbatov finally breaks the deadlock.

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC - sowing hatred among thepeople

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage■ 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

YANGON, 26 Sept—Mindon creek bridge(Yenantha) at mile post(20/0) on Thayet-Natmeetauk-Kanma roadsection on Pathein-Monywa Road (North) inKanma Township,Magway Division, con-structed by the bridge con-struction special group-13of Public Works of the

Mindon creek bridge (Yenantha) opens in Kanma Township

Being able to build one bridge after another has proved skills andcapabilities of Myanmar engineers, united efforts of people

Ministry of Constructionwas opened this morning.The opening ceremonywas attended by Ministerfor Construction Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint,Chairman of Magway Di-vision Peace and Devel-opment Council ColPhone Maw Shwe, localauthorities, officials ofPublic Works, members

of social organizations andthe local people totallingover 5000.

Speaking on the oc-casion, the minister said inaccord with the guidanceof the Head of State whostated that road transportsector plays an importantpart in building a modernnation and improving the (See page 9)

Swimming robot makes waves at bathSCIENCE DAILY, 26

Sept—Researchers at theUniversity of Bath haveused nature for inspirationin designing a new type ofswimming robot whichcould bring a break-through in submersibletechnology.

Conventional sub-marine robots are poweredby propellers that areheavy, inefficient and can

get tangled in weeds.In contrast

‘Gymnobot', created byresearchers from theOcean Technologies Labin the University's Depart-ment of Mechanical En-gineering, is powered bya fin that runs the lengthof the underside of its rigidbody; this undulates tomake a wave in the waterwhich propels the robotforwards.—Internet

Design of a new type ofswimming robot.

Photo shows newly-inaugurated Mindon creek bridge (Yenantha).CONSTRUCTION

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