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Volume XVII, Number 196 12th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Thursday, 29 October, 2009

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic sys-tem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entire nation* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and preser-

vation and safeguarding of cultural heritage andnational 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 tranquil-lity, 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 objectivesSenior General Than Shwe sends messageof felicitations to Turkish President

NAY PYI TAW, 29 Oct—Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to HisExcellency Mr Abdullah Gul, President of the Republic of Turkey, on the occasion of theanniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey, which falls on 29 October 2009.

MNA

Prime Minister felicitates Turkishcounterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 29 Oct—General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar,has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, PrimeMinister of the Republic of Turkey, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Proclamationof the Republic of Turkey, which falls on 29 October 2009.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends 4th East AsiaSummit and closing ceremony of 15th ASEAN Summit

NAY PYI TAW, 28 Oct—Prime Minister of the Unionof Myanmar General TheinSein attended the 4th EastAsia Summit and closingceremony of the 15thASEAN Summit held atDusit Thani Hotel in HuaHin, Thailand, on 25October morning andafternoon.

Present at the 4th EastAsia Summit were King ofBrunei Darussalam SultanHaji Hassanul BolkiahMuizzaddin Waddaulah,Cambodian Prime MinisterSamdech Hun Sen,Indonesian President Dr HSusilo BambangYudhoyono, Laotian PrimeMinister Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, MalaysianPrime Minister Dato MohdNajib Bin Tun Hj AbdRazak, Philippine PresidentMadam Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Singaporean PrimeMinister Mr Lee HsienLoong, Thai Prime MinisterMr Abhisit Vejjajiva,Vietnamese Prime MinisterMr Nguyen Tan Dung,Chinese Premier Mr WenJiabao, Japanese PrimeMinister Mr Yukio

Hatoyama, KoreanPresident Mr Lee Myung -bak, Indian Prime MinisterDr Manmohan Singh,Australian Prime MinisterMr Kevin Michael Rudd,New Zealand PrimeMinister Mr John Key andASEAN Secretary-GeneralDr Surin Pitsuwan.

Thai Prime MinisterMr Abhisit Vejjajivawelcomed heads of State/Government of EastAsian countries includingMyanmar at 8 am on theirarrival at Royal DusitGrand Ballroom (A)where the summit wouldbe held.

Before the summit,heads of State/Government from 16East Asian countriesposed for a documentaryphoto.

Next, Thai PrimeMinister Mr AbhisitVejjajiva chaired the 4thEast Asian Summit at 9

am.At the summit,

leaders of East Asiancountries discussed andexchanged views onmatters related tocooperative measures forKorea peninsula to befree from nuclearweapons, global

financial crisis to beovercome, efforts forensuring successfulrealization ofCopenhagen Environ-ment Summit, preventivemeasures against climatechange and naturaldisasters, natural disaster

(See page 8)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein has a documentary photo taken together with heads of State/Government of 16 EastAsian countries at 4th East Asia Summit held at Dusit Thani Hotel in Hua Hin, Thailand.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 29 October, 2009

Thursday, 29 October, 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

Prime Minister of the Union of MyanmarGeneral Thein Sein visited Thailand from 22 to26 October to attend the 15th ASEAN Summitand related summits at Hua Hin in Thailand atthe invitation of his Thai counterpart Mr AbhisitVejjajiva.

Prime Minister General Thein Sein and Headsof State/Government of ASEAN countries at-tended the 15th ASEAN Summit and held discus-sions about achievements of ASEAN, the need ofcoping with global financial crisis, preventivemeasures against A (H1N1) flu and climatechange, pilot programmes to store reserve foodfor Asian food security, and plan to establish anEast Asian free trade area.

At the special meeting, Heads of State/Gov-ernment of ASEAN countries compared notes oncooperation on prevention of cross-border crimes,combating terrorism, continued participation ofASEAN in G-20, disaster preparedness, and re-gional and international issues.

Prime Minister General Thein Sein also rep-resented the Union of Myanmar at the 12th

ASEAN-China Summit, the 12th ASEAN-JapanSummit, the 12th ASEAN-Korea Summit, ASEAN+ 3 Summit, and the 7th ASEAN-India Summit atHua Hin in Thailand on 24 October.

The summits were attended by the Heads ofState/Government of ASEAN countries, the Pre-mier of the State Council of the People’s Repub-lic of China, the Japanese Prime Minister, andthe Korean President. They held talks on the planto found a free trade area, disaster preparedness,fight against illicit drugs, joint combat againstterrorism, environmental conservation, and foodand energy security.

ASEAN region is believed to enjoy a growingnumber of fruitful results if member countriesbroadly cooperate with East Asian countries inmultifarious sectors such as trade and economicspheres in line with the fine tradition of friendly,consolidated relations between ASEAN and EastAsia.

Boost trade, investmentto establish East AsianCommunity

NAY PYI TAW, 29 Oct—On the occasion of theProclamation of the Republic of Turkey, which fallson 29 October 2009, His Excellency U Nyan Win,Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar,has sent a message of felicitations to His ExcellencyProf Dr Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister of Foreign Af-fairs of the Republic of Turkey.—MNA

Foreign Affairs Ministerfelicitates Turkish counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 28 Oct—Chairman of Shan State(East) Peace and Development Council Commanderof Triangle Region Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Phyo,on 20 October, inspected extension of outfall channeland runway beside the runway of Kengtung airport.

At the briefing hall of Mongnai-Kengtung rail-way construction project near Kengtung University,the commander heard the report presented by projectengineer on condition of work, and gave necessaryinstructions. After that, the commander inspected con-

Commander inspectsMongnai-Kengtung railway

construction project

struction work in the compound of the station, comple-tion of axis between Kengtung and Yanlu and bridge.

MNA

YANGON, 28 Oct—Minister for Progress of Bor-der Areas and National Races and Development Af-fairs Col Thein Nyunt attended the ceremony to handover new school building of Chaungalay village BasicEducation High School (Branch) constructed by theDevelopment Affairs Department to the Ministry ofEducation at Chaungalay Village of Pantanaw Town-ship, Ayeyawady Division, on 26 Oct.

Director-General U Kyaw Thu of the Depart-ment of Basic Education No (1), Deputy Director-General (Engineer) U Soe Ko Ko of the DevelopmentAffairs Department and member of school board of

PBANRDA Minister attends ceremony to handover new school building in Pantanaw Tsp

trustees U Hla Win formally opened the school build-ing.

The minister unveiled the stone plaque andsprinkled it with scented water.

Next, the minister explained the purpose ofcontributing regional development tasks in PantanawTownship, and three projects for the development ofthe nation. The director-general of DBE-1 U KyawThu presented the education affairs and the deputydirector-general (Engineer) of DAD U Soe Ko Ko,progress in the renovation of the school buildings.

The deputy director-general (Engineer) U SoeKo Ko handed over the documents related to the newschool building to Township Education Officer UMyat Soe.

Headmistress of the school Daw Khin Nwe Muspoke words of thanks.

Later, the minister looked around the new schoolbuilding.

The construction of one-storey new school build-ing with 60-ft length, 30-ft wide and renovation ofthree existing buildings were carried out by the engi-neers from Development Affairs Department.

A total of 18 schools out of 44 which wereravaged in the cyclone Nargis in Maubin Townshiphave been repaired by the Engineer Group of DAD andTZT and A-1 Construction companies with the fundsof the Ministry of Education.` The minister also attended the ceremonies tohand over three new school buildings constructed withthe contribution of Nippon Foundation (Japan) byCetana Group.—MNA

Minister ColThein Nyunt

attendsceremony tohand overnew schoolbuilding of

ChaungalayvillageBEHS

(branch) inPantanaw

Township tothe Ministryof Educa-

tion.PBANRDA

Tatmadaw Cycling Contest concludes

Commanderof

MingaladonAirbasepresentsprizes to

winners in16th Defence

ServicesCommander-

in-Chief'sShield

Tatmadaw(Army, Navy

and Air)CyclingContest.

MNA

Youth Training Centre inThuwunna, here, this morn-ing.

On behalf of theCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services, the Com-mander of MingaladonAirbase delivered an open-ing address and watched theparticipation of cyclists inthe final race. After thecompetition, the prize pres-entation ceremony fol-lowed. The commander ofthe airbase and officialsgave prizes to the respec-tive winners.—MNA

YANGON, 28 Oct—The 16th Defence Services

Commander-in-Chief'sShield Tatmadaw (Army,

Navy and Air) CyclingContest was opened at

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Three bodies found in US plane wreckage in Afghanistan

An injured man walks awayafter a massive bomb attackin Baghdad, Iraq, on 25 Oct,2009. Iraq police say that apair of powerful explosions

went off near the Ministry ofJustice and the offices of a

Kurdish political partyduring the morning rushhour as people headed to

work.—INTERNET

An injured man iscarried by policefollowing attack

at Bekhtarguesthouse in

Kabul, where sixUN staff werekilled. Another

nine werewounded

in the attack.INTERNET

An internally displaced Afghan family sits insidetheir tent in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 Oct, 2009.According to UNHCR some 2.7 million registered

Afghans refugees still remain in Pakistan andIran.—INTERNET

Local residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack targeting the building ofthe Ministry of Justice in Baghdad on 25 Oct, 2009. Iraq renewed calls on Mon-day for a UN inquiry into the support given by foreign countries to insurgentsafter twin suicide blasts against government buildings in Baghdad.—INTERNET

An Iraqi woman reacts at the site of suicide bomb-ing in Baghdad, Iraq, on 26 Oct, 2009. On Sunday,

at least 155 people were killed and many morewounded in two suicide bombings in the country’s

deadliest attack in more than two years.INTERNET

Ten dead in attack onUN in Kabul

KABUL, 28 Oct—Gun-men with automaticweapons and suicidevests stormed a guesthouse used by UN staffin the heart of the Af-ghan capital early onWednesday, killing 10people — including sixUN staff — officialssaid. A Taleban spokes-man claimed responsi-bility, saying it wasmeant as an assault onthe upcoming presiden-tial election.

Later, a rocketslammed into the groundsof the luxury Serena Ho-tel, which is favored bymany foreigners. The de-vice failed to explode butfilled the lobby withsmoke, forcing guests andemployees to flee to thebasement, according to anAfghan witness whoasked that his name not beused for security reasons.

UN spokesman AdrianEdwards said six UN staffwere killed andnine other UN employeeswere injured in theassault, which beganabout dawn in the Shar-e-Naw area of the city.Guests scurried from thebuilding during the as-sault, and flames wereseen on the roof assmoke billowed out andover the city.—Internet

KABUL, 28 Oct—NATO-led forces have re-covered the remains ofthree American militarycontractors from thewreckage of a US Armyreconnaissance plane thatcrashed two weeks ago inthe rugged mountains ofnortheastern Afghanistan,the military said on Tues-day. The Army C-12Huron twin-engine turbo-prop had been missingsince it crashed on 13 Octwhile on a routine missionin Nuristan Province, aTaleban militant strong-hold. The plane wentdown less than two weeksafter militants overran acoalition outpost the same

province, killing eightAmerican troops in one ofthe war’s deadliest battlesfor the US.

NATO said in a state-

ment that the crash is “un-der investigation, thoughhostile action is not be-lieved to be the cause ofthe crash.”—Internet

Some of the deadliestattacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 28 Oct—Some of the deadliest militant at-tacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003:

• 2 March, 2004 — Coordinated blasts from suicidebombers, mortars and planted explosives strike ShiiteMuslim shrines in Karbala and in Baghdad, killing atleast 181 people.

• 14 Sept, 2005 — More than a dozen coordinatedbombings rip through Baghdad, killing 178 people.

• 23 Nov, 2006 — Mortar rounds and five car bombskill 215 people in Baghdad’s Shiite neighbourhood ofSadr City.

• 3 Feb, 2007 — A suicide truck bomber at a marketin a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad kills 137.

• 18 April, 2007 — At least 183 are killed when fourlarge bombs explode in mainly Shiite locations ofBaghdad.

• 7 July, 2007 — A suicide truck bomb kills 160 in aTurkomen village south of Kirkuk.

• 14 Aug, 2007 — Four suicide truck bombs deto-nate simultaneously in the small village of Qahataniya,killing more than 500 Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking sectand religious minority.

• 25 Oct, 2009 — Two powerful car bombs explodein downtown Baghdad, killing at least 155 people inan apparent attempt to target the fragile city’s govern-ment offices.

Internet

Invasion of US and allies kills,injures Iraqi people

BAGHDAD, 28 Oct— There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the US andits allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe total number of casualties as from the day they invaded the country to

28 October reached 699,281 and the total number of seriously injured peoplereached 1,261,717, according to the news on the internet.

No. Subject Number1. Death toll of Iraqi people 699,2812. The total number of seriously injured people 1,261,717

Internet

Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 28 Oct — The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of theNATO troops led by the US.

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 32,315 Afghan people were killed

and 37,974 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 28 October.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 32,3152. Seriously injured Afghan people 37,974

Internet

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UNITED NATIONS, 28Oct—US drone strikesagainst suspected terror-ists in Afghanistan andPakistan could be break-ing international lawsagainst summary execu-tions, the UN’s top inves-tigator of such crimessaid.

“The problem with theUnited States is that it ismaking an increased useof drones/Predators(which are) particularlyprominently used now in

File photo shows Pakistani tribal people standing among the debris of housesafter a suspected US air-strike in Northwestern Bannu district.—INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 28 Oct—A rocket fired from Lebanonstruck inside northern Israel on Tuesday causing nodamage or injury, and Israel responded with artilleryfire at Lebanon, the Israeli military and a Lebanesesecurity source said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said Israel wastreating the shooting along the normally quiet thoughtense border “very seriously” and that it held the Leba-nese government responsible.

There were no reports of casualties from the rocketthat security sources said slammed into an open areanear the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmone,or from Israel’s subsequent artillery fire at Lebanon.

A Lebanese security source confirmed a rocket hadbeen fired from southern Lebanon from the village ofHoula, and another Lebanese security source said Is-rael fired at least eight artillery shells afterwards to-ward that area.—Internet

Members of the Lebanese security forces inspect a rocket found set up andpointing towards Israel in a field near the southern Lebanese village of

Naqura in 2008. A Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israelon Tuesday night without causing any casualties, prompting Israel to

retaliate with an artillery barrage, sources on both sides said.—INTERNET

ATHENS, 28 Oct—Awide anti-terrorism probeis in progress in Athens onTuesday night, after thebloody terrorist attackwhich occurred against apolice station in the north-ern suburb of Aghia

Anti-terrorism policemen investigate at the scene of a terrorist attack case inAthens, capital of Greece, on 27 Oct, 2009. Two unidentified persons attacked

a police station in north suburb of Athens late on Tuesday, injuring at leastfive policemen, two of them seriously. —XINHUA

US drone strikes maybreak international law

relation to Pakistan andAfghanistan,” UN SpecialRapporteur on Extrajudi-cial Executions PhilipAlston told a press confer-ence.

“My concern is thatdrones/Predators are be-ing operated in a frame-work which may well vio-late international humani-tarian law and interna-tional human rights law,”he said. US strikes withremote-controlled aircraftagainst Al-Qaeda and

Taleban targets in Af-ghanistan and northwest-ern Pakistan have oftenresulted in civilian deathsand drawn bitter criticismfrom local populations.

“The onus is really onthe United States govern-ment to reveal more aboutthe ways in which itmakes sure that arbitraryextrajudicial executionsaren’t in fact being carriedout through the use ofthese weapons,” he added.

Internet

BEIJING, 28 Oct—China added 16.45 mil-lion broadband users inthe first nine months,bringing the total to 99.33million, data released bythe Ministry of Industryand Information on Tech-nology (MIIT) on Tues-day showed.

China had 360 millionInternet users by the endof September, said ZhuJun, deputy director of thetelecom development de-partment under the MIIT.The figure was comparedwith 338 million by theend of June.

Broadband was avail-able in 96 percent oftownships, and 91 percentof administrative villageshad access to Internet bythe end of September.

Xinhua

Rocket from Lebanon hitsIsrael; Israel fires back

China’sbroadbandusers top99.33 mln

Five policemen injured in terrorist attackat Athens police station

Paraskevi around 10 pmlocal time (20:00 GMT).

Five policemen wereinjured, two of them seri-ously, when two uniden-tified persons opened firewith AK- 47 assault rif-fles, the Greek state tel-

evision said.According to wit-

nesses, the two attackerswho wore helmets es-caped on a motorbike. Ananti-terrorism squadrushed to the spot, collect-ing important data, whilepolicemen are searchingfor suspects around Ath-ens.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 28 Oct—Ahmed Wali Karzai, thebrother of the embattled Afghan President and a sus-pected drug trafficker, has been on the CIA payrollfor most of the past eight years, The New York Timesreported.

The US spy agency pays Karzai for a variety ofservices, the newspaper said, such as fielding recruitsfor an Afghan paramilitary force operating at the CIA’sdirection in and around his home city of Kandahar, aTaleban stronghold.

He also helps the CIA contact and sometimes meetTaleban followers. Karzai, who is said to have ties toAfghanistan’s lucrative illegal opium trade, has a“wide-ranging” relationship with the CIA, the Timessaid, citing US officials.—Internet

Afghan leader’s brother onCIA payroll

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28Oct—The condition ofthe Congon has Airport’srunway was not the causeof the crash of TAM air-lines flight 3054, one ofBrazil’s worst planecrash, local daily OGlobo said on Tuesdayquoting a report of theBrazilian Air Force.

Runway not to blame for TAMAirlines Flight 3054’s crash

TAM Flight 3054, anAirbus A320, landed indriving rain at SaoPaulo’s Congonhas air-port on 17 July, 2007,speeding down the run-way and crashing into agas station and air cargobuilding at 109 mph (175kph).

All 187 people aboardand 12 people on theground died.

The accident is thesecond worst in the his-tory of Brazilian aviation,only surpassed by thecrash of Air France Flight447 from Brazil to Francein May, which killed 228people.

At the time of the ac-cident, much of the reportfocused on the runway,where landings were pe-riodically suspended dur-ing rainstorms as the run-way got too slippery.

Xinhua

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Singapore businessmen intend toincrease business ties with Indonesia

Nepal-India new tradetreaty comes into effectKATHMANDU, 28 Oct—Nepal and India have signed

Treaty of Trade and Agreement of Cooperation toControl Unauthorized Trade in Nepali capitalKathmandu.

According to Wednesday’s The Himalayan Timesdaily, Nepali Minister for Commerce and SuppliesRajendra Mahato and Indian Minister for Commerceand Industries Anand Sharma signed the treaty onTuesday that will come into effect immediately.

New trade treaty is the revision of 1991 treaty. Itaddresses changes that took place in bilateral, regionaland international trade in the last 18 years, said Mahato.

“The new treaty will help Nepal reduce trade defi-cit with India,” he was quoted by the daily as saying,“It will be a milestone for Nepali exports if Nepal canproduce quality goods at competitive prices,” he added.

Two-third of Nepali trade is with India and the tradevolume has been growing.—Xinhua

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterraexpands investment in Malaysia

AUCKLAND, 28 Oct—The New Zealand dairy prod-ucts giant Fonterra, has spent 9.8 million NZ dollars(7.3 million US dollars) in upgrading its plant in KualaLumpur as a sign of its confidence in the Malaysianmarket after signing a free-trade agreement with thecountry at the weekend.

During their visit to Malaysia, New Zealand PrimeMinister JohnKey and Fonterra chairman Henry vander Heyden, unveiled a plaque to commemorate theexpansion, which will increase the production capac-ity for cultured products in Malaysia.

With a 64 percent market share, Fonterra Brands isthe largest dairy supplier in Malaysia. FernleafCalciYum is now the number one yogurt brand inMalaysia. —Xinhua

SAARC trade portal launchedto boost regional trade

Fiji sugar industrysuffers more

financial lossesSUVA, 28 Oct—Fiji’s

Sugar Corporation thatsupports 200,000 people’slife in Fiji has recorded anoperating loss of 40.1 mil-lion Fiji dollars (21 mil-lion US dollars) before in-come tax for the year end-ing on 31 May, 2009.

In the 2009 FSC AnnualReport, it is stated that theloss for the year after in-come tax benefit of 3.3million Fiji dollars is 36.8million Fiji dollars.

This news came as theFiji Sugar Corporationmeets for its annual gen-eral meeting on Wednes-day. FSC Chief Execu-tive, Deo Saran, said thecorporation incurred atrading loss of 3.9 millionUS dollars.

Xinhua

A worker is busy with fitting in the wheel hub, on the heavy truck productionline of the Shanxi Dayun Automobile Production Co Ltd, as the ceremony

marking the formal production of Dayun Heavy-Duty Trucks is held here, inYuncheng City, north China’s Shanxi Province, on 26 Oct, 2009. —XINHUA

JAKARTA, 28 Oct—Singaporean businessmenintend to increase busi-ness ties with Indonesia insectors of logistics, trans-portation, and property,Bisnis Indonesia dailyquoted an official as say-ing on Wednesday.

However, the intentionis hampered by lack ofdomestic infrastructure.

Iwan DermawanHanafi, the head of steer-ing committee for Singa-pore at the IndonesianChamber of Trade and In-dustry (KADIN), said that

the intention is based onfact that Singapore is In-donesia’s third biggestexport destination.

“Singaporean delega-tion will visit Surabaya ofEast Java and KalimantanIsland to explore coopera-tion,” he said on the side-line of business meetingof Indonesia-Singaporeon Tuesday.

He also said the visit by22 Singaporean delega-tions to Kalimantan is be-cause of many mining ac-tivities in the area whilevisit at Surabaya is be-

cause the city is the sec-ond largest town after Ja-karta.

Iwan said that somebusinessmen of the del-egation have been invest-ing in Indonesia whileothers are starting to in-vest and are exploring op-portunity.

On the trade field, hesaid, Indonesia could in-crease its export to Singa-pore because many ex-ports should be via thecountry before sent to thedestination countries.

Xinhua

Tourists sightsee on the Pingjiang River by old-fashioned boat in Suzhou city, east China’s

Jiangsu Province, on 27 Oct, 2009. The PingjiangRiver attracts a lot of tourists in this autumn with

its beautiful scenery of water town.—XINHUA

A young woman arranges 3G mobile phones in Beijing. Chinese mobilephone operator Unicom and Apple announced a multi-year deal in Augustoffering the touch-pad iPhone in a bid to turn around weak performance

against rivals by attracting customers with high-end tastes.—INTERNET

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

KATHMANDU, 28 Oct—Importers, exporters andsmall-medium enterprisesof the South Asian regionnow have access to impor-tant trade-related informa-tion with a click of themouse.

The portal —www.saarctrade.info —is launched here onThursday. The portal, firstof its kind in South Asia,is a product of SAARC(South Asian Association

for Regional Coopera-tion) Trade InformationProject jointly imple-mented by the SAARCInformation Center (SIC)Nepal and German Tech-nical Cooperation withthe funding support fromGerman Federal Ministryfor Economic Coopera-tion and Development.

The initiative enjoyssupport of 26 leadingtrade bodies, includingtrade departments, cham-bers and industrial asso-ciations from all eightSAARC member states.

Xinhua

ABU DHABI, 28 Oct—The 2009 Arab Oil and GasShow, one of the leading networking platforms forthe world’s energy industry, opened on Tuesday atthe International Convention and Exhibition Centerin Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Saeed Al Tayer, head of Dubai Electricity and Wa-ter Authority, inaugurated the annual exhibition, atechnical event for engineers, technicians, profession-als and procurement experts in the energy, automa-tion and manufacturing sectors. “The new technolo-gies available will sustain this industry in the longrun, and are critical for the development of this re-gion’s oil and gas industry,” he said at the openingceremony.—Xinhua

Arab oil,

gas

exhibition

opens

in UAE

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NEWS ALBUM

A visitor looks on a caftan a man’scloak of the 16th century, at the

exhibition from Byzantium to Istan-bul at the Grand Palais in Paris. Theexhibition, opened earlier this month

by French President NicolasSarkozy and Turkish President

Abdullah Gul, is the centerpiece ofthe ‘Year of Turkey,’ a panoply ofsome 400 Turkish cultural events

spread over nine months to allow theFrench and others to become betteracquainted with Turkey’s culture.

A 41-year-old man in Germany dueto face questioning over theft got himselfin even more trouble by squeezing inanother robbery on the way to the policestation, police said.

“It was a case of ‘just nipping out todo a bit of thieving before beinginterrogated for shoplifting’,” police inthe western region of Lippe said.

Officers were following up asupermarket robbery in the townof Blomberg with detailed descriptionsof two thieves and their getaway carwhen they had to return to the policestation.

To their amazement, they said theydiscovered a man at the reception waitingto be interrogated for shoplifting wholooked suspiciously like one of the pairwanted for the morning raid.

SC man drives 80 miles togive explosives to copsAuthorities say a South Carolina

man’s good intentions almost caused anexplosive situation.

After the man’s uncle died, hediscovered that his relative had collectedpotentially explosive materials includinggrenades, dynamite and black powder.

The man, who was not identified bypolice, feared the materials might fallinto the wrong hands, so he drove 80miles to his uncle’s house and loaded histruck with some of the items. Then hedrove back to his home county of Unionto give the materials to police.

Union County Sheriff David Taylorsays the man brought the items to himbecause the two know each other.

Japanese miniature craft artist

Rieko Tanaka shows off her 1/144

scale size wooden handmade house

at Design Festa in Tokyo. Design

Festa is Asia’s biggest international

art event, open to anyone who wants

to exhibit their creative talent,

according to the organiszer.

A Mercedes-Benz car oncebelonging to epic swindler BernardMadoff will be sold at auction thisweek, US authorities said.

The 2001 Mercedes E320 blackstation wagon will be offered onFriday with dozens of other vehiclesto be auctioned by the US MarshalsService, which announced earlier thatMadoff’s New York City penthouse

also will go on sale this week.Madoff is serving a 150-year prison

sentence for a $65 billion (39 billionpound) fraud.

Proceeds from auctions of hispossessions, including the recent $9.41million sale of a beach house withsweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean,will go towards reimbursing hisvictims.

Madoff’s Mercedes station wagon up for auction

Man robs shop on wayto interrogation

Argentina accuses Brazilof creating export obstaclesBUENOS AIRES, 28 Oct—The Argentine government

on Tuesday said the export obstacles Brazil had cre-ated were “unacceptable,” diplomatic sources said.

Alfredo Chiaradia, secretary of economic and in-ternational commerce affairs of the Argentine ForeignMinistry, met Brazilian Ambassador to ArgentinaMauro Vieira on Tuesday to forward Argentina’s com-plaint to Brazil.

Argentina demanded that its detained commodi-ties in border points in transit to Brazil be released.

Cause of Argentina’s complaint was Brazil’s stop-ping Argentine trucks loaded with perishable prod-ucts such as wheat flour, oils, garlic, wine, fruits andanimal fodder.—Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 28 Oct—Singapore unveiled onWednesday the design ofthe customary leaders’ at-tire for the Asia PacificEconomic Cooperation(APEC) summit in No-vember.

The APEC Singapore2009 leaders’ attire is de-signed by SingaporeanWykidd Song and takenfrom the inspiration of thePeranakan culture, whichreflects Singapore’s iden-tity as a multi-racial andmulti-cultural society.

The dress has a lotusdesign with 21 petals,which represent the 21APEC economies.

The design maintainsthe traditional style ofcraftsmanship and takeson a modern interpretationof the detailing found inthe Peranakan culture’s ar-tifacts and architecture.

Xinhua

SEOUL, 28 Oct—South Korea’s current account sur-plus posted 4.2 billion US dollars in September on anincrease in cars and semiconductors exports, up from1.91 billion dollars in the previous month, the centralbank said on Wednesday. It is the eighth consecutivemonth that the country’s current account remained inthe black since February as imports have fallen by afaster pace than exports amid the global downturn, theBank of Korea (BOK) said.

The goods balance logged a 5.45 billion dollars sur-plus in the month, up from 3.33 billion dollars surplusa month earlier, due to a decline in exports, it said.

Overseas shipments fell 7.8 percent year-on-yearto 34.51 billion dollars last month, marking an elev-enth consecutive month that it remained in decrease.But the decline slowed from a 20.9 percent fall a monthearlier. While imports dropped 24.6 percent to 29.8billion dollars, it added.—Xinhua

KHARTOUM, 28 Oct—More than 300,000 chil-dren under the age of fivedie of preventable dis-eases each year in Sudan,almost a third of them be-fore they reach the age ofone month, a UN officialsaid on Tuesday.

“We have 305,000children under five yearsof age that die every yearfrom preventable causes...

Sudanese children play in the village of Lobira Boma in south Sudan’sEastern Equatoria state on 2 October. More than 300,000 children under theage of five die of preventable diseases each year in Sudan, almost a third of

them before they reach the age of one month, a UN officialsaid on Tuesday.—INTERNET

Preventable diseases kill 300,000Sudan children yearly

Of those, 110,000 die intheir first 28 days of life,”said Nils Kastberg, theUN’s Children’s FundSudan representative.

He added that about26,000 Sudanese women,out of a population ofroughly 40 million, dieeach year as a result ofchildbirth.

“As a comparison, inthe entire Latin America

and Caribbean regionwith 550 million people,less than 10,000 mothersdie giving birth,” he toldreporters in Khartoum.

“I think it is very im-portant that we start get-ting our priorities right. Iwas recently in a townwhere there were 20 tanksbut only one ambulance,”he said.

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The vineyards of Lavaux with LakeLeman are seen on an warm autumnday near Lausanne on 26 Oct, 2009.The region of Lavaux was listed intothe UNESCO World Heritage List by

the World Heritage Committee onJune 2008.

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YANGON, 28 Oct—A27-member delegation ledby Vice President U WinAung of the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce

UMFCCI delegation leaves for Philippines

27 to 29 October.It was seen off at

Yangon International Air-port by UMFCCI PresidentU Win Myint and respon-sible persons.—MNA

Delegation of UMFCCI seen at Yangon International Airport beforedeparture for Philippines.—MNA

and Industry left here byair on 26 October to at-tend the World Rice Con-ference 2009 to be held inCebu island of the Repub-lic of the Philippines from

Prime Minister General Thein Sein being seen off by Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Mr KobsakSabhavasa of Thailand at Hua Hin airport.—MNA

YANGON, 28 Oct—Miss People 2009 Stylecontest and sales promo-tion, organized byMyanmar People maga-zine, will be held at InyaLake Hotel on 1 Novem-ber.

The fourth Miss Peo-ple Style contest will takeplace in conjunction withstage show. Fashion wear,cosmetics, medical prod-

Miss People 2009 Style contestand sales promotion on 1 Nov

ucts and foodstuff will beon sale at special prices.

Anyone wishing toparticipate in the contestmay obtain the tickets atKo Ko Beauty Salon inDagon Center on SayaSan street, La Pyae WunPlaza, branch of Sein GayHar Supermarket; TonyTun Tun Beauty Salon on6th street and branch ofYankin Center and Smile

Ko Htike Salon (FMICenter) and People maga-zine office at La PyaeWun Plaza’s 10th floor.The sponsors of the con-test are A21, Shoes Gal-lery, Ba Wang Shampoo,PEP, Daily Vitagin,Smooth E, Revlon, Al-pine, Wellwoman, Xe-non, Dolly Bird, Slenfigand Mann Shwe Pyi trans-portation.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein arrives back from ThailandNAY PYI TAW, 28 Oct—After attending the 15th ASEAN

Summit and Related Summits held in Hua Hin of Thailand,Prime Minister General Thein Sein, accompanied by Min-ister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Minister for NationalPlanning and Economic Development U Soe Tha, Ministerfor Culture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myint, Deputy Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo, Director-General Col Thant Shinof the Government Office, Director-General U KyawKyaw of the Protocol Department and departmental heads,left Springfield @ Sea Hotel for Hua Hin Airport in amotorcade at 3.45 pm Thai Standard Time on 25 Octoberto return home.

The Prime Minister was seen off at Hua HinAirport by Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Mr KobsakSabhavasa of Thailand, Governor of PrajoubkirikanProvince Mr Veera Sriwatanatrakul and wife and offi-cials, Myanmar Ambassador to Thailand U AungThein, Myanmar Military Attaché Col Win Maung,embassy staff and family members.

At the airport, they garlanded the Prime Minister.The Prime Minister and party left Hua Hin Airport of

Thailand at 4.15 pm Thai Standard Time by special aircraftand arrived back in Nay Pyi Taw via Yangon.—MNA

Minister U Nyan Win attends meetingof ASEAN foreign ministers

NAY PYI TAW, 28Oct—Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win, whoaccompanied Prime Min-ister General Thein Seinon his tour of Thailand toattend the 15th ASEANSummit and related sum-mits, attended the meet-ing of ASEAN Coordina-tion Committee held at theDusit Thani Hotel in HuaHin on 22 October after-noon.

The meeting focusedon arrangements for the

15th ASEAN Summit andrelated summits, prepara-tions for summits, subjectsto be under discussion andannouncements, declara-tions and documents to beissued at summits, reportof the ASEAN Secretariat,report of the ASEAN SG,and the plan to approvethe appointment of adeputy director-general tothe ASEAN Secretariat.

Next, the minister at-tended the meeting ofASEAN foreign ministers

and high level legal expertsgroup on ASEAN Charter,together with ASEANcounterparts. They held dis-cussions about the agree-ment on Privileges andImmunities of ASEAN,follow-up agreement (draft)on mechanism to tackle pos-sible disputes betweenmember countries, and ju-dicial procedures.

In the evening, the min-ister attended the workingdinner of ASEAN foreignministers. They held talks

about matters on creation ofa regional disaster prepar-edness programme, contin-ued post-Nargis rehabilita-tion work, holding the 1st

ASEAN-US Summit, fol-low-up agreement (draft) onbuilding mechanism to set-tle disputes betweenASEAN countries accord-ing to ASEAN Charter, non-proliferation of nuclear, es-tablishment of Asia-PacificCommunity and East AsiaCommunity, and latest de-velopments in Myanmar.

On 25 October after-noon, the minister attendedthe ceremony to sign thedeclarations to be issued atthe 15th ASEAN Summitand related summits. Hesigned the agreement onPrivileges and Immunitiesof ASEAN and MoU be-tween ASEAN countriesand the People’s Republicof China to establishASEAN-China Center.

MNA

Culture Minister attends 2nd

Meeting of ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council

NAY PYI TAW, 28 Oct—Chairman of MyanmarASEAN Socio-CulturalCommunity FrameworkImplementation Commit-tee Minister for CultureMaj-Gen Khin AungMyint, who accompaniedPrime Minister GeneralThein Sein for attending the15th ASEAN Summit andRelated Summits, attendedthe 2nd Meeting of theASEAN Socio-CulturalCommunity (ASCC)Council) held in Hua Hinof Thailand at 2 pm on 22October.

The minister partici-pated in the discussions onDraft Cha-am Hua Hin Dec-laration on StrengtheningCooperation on Educationto Achieve an ASEAN Car-ing and Sharing Commu-

nity, the Draft ASEAN JointStatement on ClimateChange to the 15h Sessionon the Conference of theParties to the United Na-tions Framework Conven-tion on Climate Change andthe 5th Session of the Con-ference of Parties Servingat the Meeting of Parties tothe Kyoto Protocol, the Re-vised Draft ASEAN Lead-ers’ Statement on ASEANConnectivity, the DraftTerms of Reference of theASEAN Commission onthe Promotion and Protec-tion of the Rights of Womenand Children-ACWC), theSnap-shot Report of theRegional Assessment onthe Social Impact of theGlobal Financial Crisis, theRecommendations of the 4th

ASEAN+3 High LevelSeminar on Poverty Reduc-tion and the ASEAN Songsand Cultural Festival.

MNA

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Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Seinattends…

(from page 1)management, food andenergy security,cooperative measures toaddress financial crisis andestablishment of EastAsian Community.

Next, Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Seintogether with heads ofState/Government fromEast Asian countriesattended a workingluncheon hosted at NapalaiBallroom (A) at 1130 am.

During the workingluncheon, the AustralianPrime Minister presented

a proposal to establishAsia-Pacific Communityin 2020. Next, East Asianleaders frankly discussedthe proposal submitted.Next, ASEAN headsrecognized the proposal ofthe Australian PrimeMinister as the long-termvision.

Afterwards, PrimeMinister General TheinSein attended ceremoniesto sign declarationsproduced from theASEAN+1, ASEAN+3and 4th East AsianSummits held at RoyalDusit Grand Ballroom ofDusit Thani Hotel in HuaHin at 1.30 pm.

Present at the signingceremonies were heads ofState/Government ofASEAN countries,

Chinese Premier Mr WenJiabao, foreign ministersand economic ministersfrom ASEAN countries,the ASEAN Secretary-General and high rankingofficials.

Next, ceremonies tosign declarationsproduced from the 15thASEAN Summit andrelated summits were heldat 1.30 pm. Minister forNational Planning andEconomic DevelopmentU Soe Tha signed MoUon StrengtheningCooperation in the Fields

of Standards, TechnicalRegulations andConformity Assessmentand another MoU onCooperation in the Fieldof Intellectual Property

Rights, and Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin, Agreement onPrivileges and Immunitiesof ASEAN and MoU onEstablishing the ASEAN-

China Centre in thepresence of heads ofASEAN countries and theChinese Premier.

Afterwards, the ThaiPrime Minister handed

over MoUs andAgreement to the ASEANSecretary-General.

After that the closingceremony of the 15thASEAN Summit

continued at Royal DusitGrand Ballroom of DusitThani Hotel at 2 pm,attended by heads of State/Government of ASEANcountries, the ASEANSecretary-General andofficials.

At the outset, the ThaiPrime Minister and theVietnamese PrimeMinister made speecheson the occasion.

Next, the Thai PrimeMinister delegated dutiesto the Vietnamese PrimeMinister who will be anASEAN AlternativeChairman in 2010.

Afterwards, heads ofState/Government ofASEAN countries posedtogether for adocumentary photo tomark the successfulholding of the 15thASEAN Summit.

MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attending 4th East Asia Summit held at Dusit Thani Hotelin Hua Hin of Thailand. —MNA

Minister U Soe Tha together with ministers from ASEAN countries signs MoU between ASEAN and China onStrengthening Cooperation in the Fields of Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment and another

MoU on Cooperation in the Field of Intellectual Property. —MNA

Minister U Nyan Win together with ministers from ASEAN countries signs Agreement on Privileges and Immunities ofASEAN and MoU on Establishing the ASEAN-China Centre.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 28 Oct—Prime Minister Gen-eral Thein Sein of the Union of Myanmar attendedGala dinner hosted by Prime Minister of Thailand MrAbhisit Vejjajiva and wife at Phetchaburi Grand Hallof Holiday Inn Resort Regent Beach in Hua Hin ofThailand at 7 p.m. on 24 October.

It was also attended by King of BruneiDarussalam Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah MuizzaddinWaddaulah, Prime Minister of Cambodia SamdechHun Sen, President of Indonesia Dr Susilo BambangYudhoyono, Laotian Prime Minister Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato SeriMohd Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, President ofPhilippines Madame Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,Singaporean Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong,Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr Nguyen Tan Dung,Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republicof China Mr Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister MrYukio Hatoyama, President of the Republic of KoreaMr Lee Myung-bak, Indian Prime Minister DrManmohan Singh, Australian Prime Minister Mr KevinMichael Rudd, Prime Minister of New Zealand MrJohn Key and ASEAN Secretary-General Dr SurinPitsuwan.

Thai Prime Minister Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva andwife cordially greeted heads of State/ Government ofASEAN countries, the Premier of the State Council ofthe PRC, the Prime Ministers from Japan, India, Aus-

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attendsGala Dinner hosted by Thai PM

tralia and New Zealand and the President of ROK. Thai Prime Minister Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva

extended greetings at Gala Dinner.

Afterwards, dinner was served to those present.Thai traditional cultural troupe entertained with songsand dance during the dinner.—MNA

YANGON, 28 Oct—The Central Executive Com-mittee meeting No. 10/2009 of Myanmar Writers andJournalists Association took place at its office ofSarpay Beikman Building, here, this afternoon, withan address by meeting chairman U Hla Myaing (KoHsaung).

Secretary of MWJA Dr Tin Tun Oo (Dr Tin TunOo) reported on accomplishment on the minutes ofprevious meeting and leaders of the work groups onpreparations for conducting the journalism course andarrangements for paying respects to the literati for1371 ME.

The meeting ended with concluding remarks bythe meeting chairman.

MNA

MWJA CEC holdscoord meeting

Prime Minister General Thein Sein poses for documentary photo together with heads of State/Government of ASEAN countries, the Premier of the State Council of the PRC, the Prime

Ministers from Japan, India, Australia and New Zealand and the President of ROK at GalaDinner held at Phetchaburi Grand Hall of Holiday Inn Resort Regent Beach in Hua Hin of

Thailand.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends closing ceremony of 15th ASEAN Summit held atDusit Thani Hotel in Hua Hin of Thailand. (News on page 8)—MNA

Prime Minister

General Thein Sein

together with heads

of State/ Government

of ASEAN countries

poses for documen-

tary photos at 15th

ASEAN Summit held

at Dusit Thani Hotel

in Hua Hin of

Thailand.(News on

page 8)—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 28Oct—The Illisa DvicittaDrama Marionette Contestof the Performing ArtsCompetitions continuedfor the third day at the train-ing hall of No. 7 TransitCentre, here, this evening.

Among the audi-ence were Lt-Gen KhinZaw of the Ministry ofDefence, Chairman of theLeading Committee forOrganizing the Perform-ing Arts CompetitionsCommander of Nay PyiTaw Command Maj-GenWai Lwin, Minister forForeign Affairs U NyanWin and wife, Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung,Deputy Minister for Rail

Illisa Dvicitta Drama Marionette Contest continues

Transportation Thura UThaung Lwin, members ofCivil Service Selection and

Training Board U Nyi Tunand U Kyaw Aung andwife, departmental heads,

the secretary of the workcommittee and members,officials of the subcommit-

tees, members of the panelof judges (central) andthose from States and Di-

visions, members of the ex-cursion teams of States andDivisions.—MNA

Oil Mill and Battery Factory…(from page 16)

The oil mill beganrunning in 2003. Peanutsare first cleaned and driedfor ensuring good qual-ity of the oil before beingcrushed. Crushed pea-nuts are bought bychicken, pig, cattle andfish breeders as animalfeed and they are said tobe more demanded thanpeanut oil.

The factory is sell-ing peanut oil for K 2,600per viss and crushed pea-nut for K 600 per viss.As peanut oil is reason-ably priced, consumers

Packaging of DGH brand batteries at Two Golden Horses batteryfactory in Lashio.

Production of pure peanut oil at oil mill inLashio.

prefer peanut oil to edibleoil.

Manager U HlaMyo of the oil mill said,"Consumers sometimesuse edible oil in summerand rainy season. But, theyuse peanut oil mostly incold season. There is aconstant demand for pea-nut oil in the township andwe don't even need to dis-tribute to other regions.And, we have enough sup-ply of raw materials, pea-nuts."

We then observedthe production process,and found that production

of scented peanut oil wasnot simple and easy as itseemed to be.

We also grasped anopportunity to visit TwoGolden Horses batteryfactory of Two GoldenHorses Industrial Co, Ltdin Kaungkha village in-dustrial zone, Mehan vil-lage-tract, Lashio.

The battery factorywith a capacity of 60,000batteries per day stands asa factory of import-sub-stitute goods. The capac-ity of each machine in-stalled is 200 batteries perminute with average pro-duction of about 2 mil-lions batteries per month .

The factory pro-duces R 20 and R6 sizeRed Monkey brand andDGH brand batteries. Thefactory is staffed with over100 workers includingdaily wage earners. Thefactory runs from 8:30 amto 5:30 pm daily exceptgazetteed holidays andSunday.

Manager U Hla Pyosaid "We believe in qual-ity and that's why we as-signed two QCs for ensur-ing that customers are al-ways supplied with qual-ity products."

The aims of the fac-tory are to save foreignexchange by manufactur-ing import-substitutegoods, development ofindustrial technology,creation of job opportuni-ties, to make contributionto development of the re-gion, to supply fair-priced

batteries to the public, andto increase the value ofGross National Products(GNP).

The constructionwork of the factory beganon 21, May, 2001 and thefactory started running on27, June, 2002. DGH bat-teries are distributed to thewhole country via Lashio,Mandalay and Yangonand are penetrating the

markets of border townsof India, Thailand andBangladesh.

Two GoldenHorses battery factory wasspecially designed andconstructed to be environ-mentally friendly one. Thefactory creates a goodworking environment forits workers, giving spe-cial attention to health andsafety of them.

Thus, oil mill andbattery factory of Lashiosupply quality refinedpeanut oil and batteriesto consumers at reason-able price and create jobopportunities for localpeople, thereby contrib-uting partly to develop-ment of the region.

*****Translation: TKK

Kyemon:15-10-2009

Storage of peanuts at oil mill of Lashio.

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of the Ministry of Defence enjoys Illisa Dvicitta Drama Marionette Contest of Mandalay Division troupe.MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 28Oct—Minister forNational Planning andEconomic Development USoe Tha, whoaccompanied PrimeMinister General TheinSein of the Union ofMyanmar who attendedthe 15th ASEAN Summitand related summits, waspresent at the preliminarymeeting of ASEANEconomic Ministers heldat Dusit Thani Hotel, HuaHin, Thailand, on 22October morning.

Agreements onestablishment of free tradezone in ASEAN region tobe adopted and future planswere discussed at themeeting.

Minister U Soe Thaalso attended a meetingbetween ASEANEconomic Ministers andadvisory committeemembers of ASEANEconomic Enterprise anddiscussed partnershipbetween government andprivate sectors and futureprospects. The minister

Minister U Soe Tha attends ASEANEconomic Ministers’ Meeting and signs MoU

then attended anexplanation of automobilemanufacturing federationin ASEAN region.

In the afternoon, theminister attended the 2ndASEAN EconomicCommunity (AEC)Council Meeting.Implementation ofASEAN EconomicCommunity Councilregulations of (AEC)Council and agenda of theministerial meeting werediscussed during themeeting.

In the evening, theminister attended aworking dinner andtouched on matters for theestablishment of free tradearea and observations onthe integration of EastAsian region betweenASEAN and dialoguepartners.

On 24 Octobermorning, he attended thecoordination meeting withASEAN EconomicMinisters and the IndianCommerce Minister.Vietnam and India signed

the trade agreement ofASEAN-India anddiscussed matters relatingto services andinvestments.

In the afternoon, heattended the 1st Meetingof Japan-MekongEconomic Ministers anddiscussed previouscooperation of Japan-Mekong and mattersrelated to Japan-MekongSummit to be held incoming November.

On 25 Octoberafternoon, he attended theceremony to signdeclarations producedfrom the 15th ASEANSummit and relatedsummits.

Next, he signed MoUon Strengthening Cooper-ation in the Fields ofStandards, TechnicalRegulations andConformity Assessmentand another MoU onCooperation in the Field ofIntellectual Propertytogether with otherASEAN EconomicMinisters.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 28Oct—The 17th MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions continuedfor the 11th and final dayat the designated places,here, today.

Among the audiencewere Minister for Hotelsand Tourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing, Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min and DeputyMinister Thura U ThaungLwin, the secretary of thework committee andmembers, officials ofsubcommittees, membersof the panel of judges(central), contestants andsupervisors of States andDivisions.

At the assembly hallof University ofAgriculture in Nay PyiTaw Yezin, a total of 12girls took part in the basic

17th Performing Arts Competitionscontinues for 11th and final day

education level (aged 15-20) girls' Maha Gita songcontest and 10 men in theamateur level (secondclass) men's Maha Gitasong contest.

Four troupescompeted in the amateurlevel (second class)Sotthisena + SambhulaDrama narration(Kwetseik) contest at theconvocation hall ofUniversity of VeterinaryScience.

At the lecture hallof University ofAgriculture, sevenstudents participated in thebasic education level(aged 15-20) boys'xylophone contest andfive women in the amateurlevel (second class)women's xylophonecontest.

A total of six boystook part in the basic

education level (aged 10-15) boys' mandolincontest, five in the basiceducation level (aged 10-15) girls' mandolincontest, 12 men in theamateur level (secondclass) men's mandolincontest and three womenin the amateur level(second class) women'smandolin contest at theassembly hall of ForestResearch Department.

At the hall ofAgricultural ResearchTraining School, fourwomen competed in thehigher education level(women's) orchestratroupe contest and threein the amateur level(second class) women'sorchestra troupe contest.

All the contests ofthe Performing ArtsCompetitions concludedin the evening.—MNA

Tip Top Brand engine oil, lubricants in circulationNAY PYI TAW, 28

Oct—Lucky Choice CoLtd, the sole agent forMyanmar, distributesUAE-produced Tip TopBrand engine oil andlubricants in the nation.

The company is nowconducting a lucky drawprogramme covering cashawards, TV and EVDworth over 150 millionkyats. In September,representatives of thecompany presented TVsets to 40 winners, andEVD sets to 200 winnersright up to their doors. Thesale promotion periodcontinues till 31December.

It distributes engineoil, gear oil, brake oil,

grease, and hydraulic oilin 0.7-, 1-, 4-, 5-, 25- and200-liter tanks.

Wholesale centers ofthe products are No. 31(B), Naungyoe Street,Tetlan Housing Estate,Bayintnaung, MayangonTownship, Yangon (Ph:01-686066, 686064, 09 5083122, 09 86 20142, 09 8620133), and No. F/37, 6thKywesegan Street, ChanMya Thayar Ward,Pyigyidagun Township,Mandalay (Ph: 02 70412,09 68 04150, 09 20 55830).

Nationwide saleagents are Ko Myo Myint(Yin Nyein, Paung) (0987 20617); Miba Metta(Thaton) (057-40619/0987 01194); Ko Moe

Khaing Soe (KandawlayAutomobile AccessoriesShop, Magway) (063-25808/09 65 60265/09 5340167); Bo Bo Tar, NayPyi Taw Lewe (067-30753/30130); AnandaGon Japan-madeAutomobile AccessoriesShop (Shwebo) (075-22188/09 20 17176); UKo Ko Myat (Monywa)(071-25255/25959/09 2034839/09 21 30477); KoKhin Maung Shwe(Pakokku) (062-29176/0923 01176); U Khin MaungThan (Myaukmi) (09 2020793); U Kyi Nyein(Taunggyi) (081-22827/09 52 41118); and U TinWin (Loikaw) (09 5601200).—MNA

Minister for Rail Transportation Maj-Gen Aung Min enjoysperformance of contestants in 17th MTCPAC.—MNA

U WinAung ofKayahState inamateur

level(secondclass)men’s

Maha Gitasong

contest.MNA

U Yan Paing Soe of MagwayDivision in amateur level (second

class) Drama narration(Kwetseik) contest.

MNA

Ma Khaing Zin Lin ofSagaing Division in amateur level

(second class) women'sxylophone contest.

MNA

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 29 October, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI PRIDE VOY NO (23410)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI PRIDEVOY NO (23410) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 29.10.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe 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 GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

China, US to advanceagricultural cooperationBEIJING, 28 Oct—China and the United States should

promote a mutually reciprocal cooperation on agri-culture from a strategic perspective, said Chinese VicePremier Hui Liangyu on Tuesday.

In a meeting with US Secretary of Agriculture TomVilsack, Hui called on the two countries to enhancetrade on agricultural products and scientific research,and to contribute to improving world agricultural in-dustry and food security.

Vilsack said he was impressed by China’s develop-ment, and hoped the two countries continue to expandagricultural cooperation.

Vilsack is here to attend the 20th meeting of theChina-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade(JCCT) to be held in Hangzhou.—Xinhua

Mexican military finds tunnel 100 feet from US

A cameraman takes footage inside a tunnel near the US-Mexico border inTijuana, Mexico, on 27 Oct, 2009.—INTERNET

TIJUANA, 28 Oct—Mexican soldiers havediscovered a secret tunnelcomplete with electricityand an air supply that mayhave been planned forsmuggling migrants ordrugs under the US bor-der into San Diego.

Reporters in Tijuanawere invited by militaryofficials on Tuesday to aprivate, industrial prop-erty about 100 feet southof San Diego’s Otay Mesaborder crossing. Law en-forcement officials

opened the property forthe media and then left.

The journalists, includ-ing about 20 reporters,photographers andvideographers, walkedaround until they spotteda big hole, the entrance toa 4-foot-wide tunnel be-hind a tractor-trailer.

Several walked insidebut reached a dead end.Inside they saw blue-prints, a shovel and mapsof the border region.

Lauren Mack, aspokeswoman for US Im-

migration and CustomsEnforcement, said heragency assisted theMexican military afterthe tunnel was discov-ered. She said it was in-complete, stopping rightunder the edge of the bor-der fence.

Authorities have dis-covered dozens of tunnelsburrowed under the bor-der in recent years, manyof them incomplete. USauthorities typically de-stroy the tunnels.

Internet

British couple hijacked bySomali pirates

LONDON, 28 Oct—The boat of a British couple washijacked by Somali pirates, Britain’s Sky News reportedon Tuesday. It was reported that Paul and Rachel Chan-dler, 58 and 55, were heading for Tanzania from theSeychelles as part of an Indian Ocean cruise, a routenear Somalian waters, which are notorious for attackson ships and small boats.

A pirate was quoted as saying that the British couplewere in their hands now.

The British Foreign Ministry said it was urgently in-vestigating the event and two Royal Navy ships werenow searching the area.

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said, “We arein touch with the family in Britain and the Seychellescoast guard, which continues to monitor the situation.”An Indian cargo ship was hijacked off the coast of theSeychelles last Wednesday and its more than two dozencrew members have not been heard from since.

Xinhua

A map locating where the vessel lost contact.Somali pirates said on Tuesday they had hijacked asmall sailing yacht with two foreigners on board,

most likely a British couple reported missing sinceleaving the Seychelles last week.—INTERNET

STONY BROOK, 28 Oct—US scientists say they have discovered oceanacidification might be contributing to global shellfish declines.

Stony Brook University researchers said they’ve determined rela-tively minor increases in ocean acidity caused by elevated carbon di-oxide concentrations can impede the growth and survival of hard clams,bay scallops and Eastern oysters.

The scientists at the university’s school of marine and atmosphericsciences said their research is among the first studies looking at theeffect of ocean acidification on shellfish.

Professor Chris Gobler and doctoral candidate Stephanie Talmagesaid they showed the larval stages of the shellfish species are extremelysensitive to enhanced levels of carbon dioxide in seawater.

Internet

Psych patient stabs doc, is shot deadBOSTON, 28 Oct—A man stabbed a doctor while being

treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical build-ing on Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-duty secu-rity guard who saw the attack, police said.

The attack took place in the afternoon at a high-riseaffiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital.

The female doctor, identified by hospital officials asDr Astrid Desrosiers, was in serious, but stable condi-tion. Police said the suspect died of the gunshot wounds.He was identified as Jay Carciero, 37, of Reading. “Dur-ing the course of the stabbing incident an off-duty secu-rity officer who was armed interceded. He produced aweapon and ordered the suspect to drop the knife. Andwhen the suspect did not comply, he shot the suspect,”said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.—Internet

Philippine Coast Guard divers prepare to tow adead whale shark, locally known as ‘Butanding’

after it was found by fishermen floating on ManilaBay early on 28 Oct, 2009 in the Philippines. The15-foot whale shark will be brought to the Bureauof Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to determine

the cause of its death.—INTERNET

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maycause

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WHO chief foresees end of A/H1N1 flu pandemic HAVANA, 28 Oct—Visiting Director-General of the World Health Organization

(WHO) Margaret Chan said on Tuesday that the A/H1N1 pandemic would reach itsnatural end when enough people are immunized.

During a conference at the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri in Havana,Chan said more vaccines against the A/H1N1 flu would be distributed in more than100 developing countries, including Cuba, in November.

Chan, who arrived in Cuba on 24 Oct, said vaccines against the flu were ready inless than six months because of international cooperation and the WHO’s call forworld solidarity. The WHO considered this pandemic “moderate,” despite the virushaving spread at an exceptional speed, she said, adding that “the causal agent hasnot mutated” and its resistance to antiviral drugs was “very low.” —Xinhua

Epilepsy drugs mighthelp treat other ills

One cigarette can harm healthyyoung adult

The damaged hull of South Korean container ship Carina Star is seen offKitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture (state), southern Japan, on Wednesday

morning, on 28 Oct, 2009. —INTERNET

EDMONTON, 28 Oct—Smoking one cigarette in-creases the stiffness of thearteries in those ages 18-30by 25 percent, researchersin Canada say.

Dr Stella Daskalo-poulou of McGill Univer-sity Health Centre in Mon-treal told the Canadian Car-diovascular Congress inEdmonton that arteries thatare stiff or rigid increase re-sistance in the blood ves-sels, making the heart work

harder — the stiffer the ar-tery, the greater the risk forheart disease orstroke.“Young adults ages20-24 years have the high-est smoking rate of all agegroups in Canada,”Daskalopoulou said. “Ourresults are significant be-cause they suggest thatsmoking just a few ciga-rettes a day impacts thehealth of the arteries.”

The study compared thearterial stiffness of young

smokers — five to six ciga-rettes a day — to non-smokers. Arterial measure-ments were taken in the ra-dial artery in the wrist, thecarotid artery in the neckand in the femoral artery inthe groin, at rest and afterexercise.

After exercise the arte-rial stiffness levels in non-smokers dropped by 3.6percent, but in smokers ar-terial stiffness increased by2.2 percent.—Internet

Military personnel runto a helicopter crashed

during a celebrativeceremony at the

Mariscal Sucre Airport,in Quito, capital ofEcuador, on 27 Oct,

2009. Two pilots on thehelicopter were injured.

XINHUA

A miner walks

through the

Corocoro

copper mine,

some 60 km

( 38 miles ),

southeast of La Paz,

Bolivia,

on 27 Oct, 2009.

INTERNET

Meningitis outbreak kills four innortheastern Brazil

Iceland’s pigs infectedwith A/H1N1 virus

STOCKHOLM, 28 Oct —Pigs from a pork farm in Ice-land have been infected with the A/H1N1 virus, ac-cording to reports reaching here from Reykjavik onTuesday.

“Pig A/H1N1 cases from the Minni-Vatnsleysa porkfarm in southern Iceland have been confirmed by theUniversity of Iceland’s Institute for Experimental Pa-thology at Icelandic southern city Keldur,” said theIcelandic electronic newspaper Iceland Review.

It also said the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Au-thority reported the first case of pigs infection in thecountry on Tuesday morning.—Xinhua

Older pregnant women refuse defect testingLONDON, 28 Oct—A

British study publishedon Tuesday showed anincrease in Down Syn-drome births becausemany older womenrefuse birth defects test-ing during pregnancy.

Researchers fromQueen Mary, the Univer-sity of London foundDown syndrome pregnan-cies increased sharplysince 1989, largely be-cause of a rise in olderwomen attempting to

have children, The Timesof London reported.

The scientists analyzeddata dating back to 1989from the National DownSyndrome CytogeneticRegister for England. Thestudy was publishedonline by the BritishMedical Journal, thenewspaper said.

The study showed thatpre- and postnatal diag-noses increased by 71 per-cent, from 1,075 in 1989to 1,843 in 2009, but thenumber of babies bornwith Down has remainedconstant during the sameperiod. Down baby birthsfell only by approxi-mately 1 per cent over thesame period, from 752 to743.—Internet

BRASILIA, 28 Oct—Anoutbreak of meningitistype C resulted in fourdeaths in the Bahia stateof northeastern Brazil, lo-cal health secretaryMessias Boaventura saidon Tuesday. Four otherpeople have been hospi-talized, and two of them

are confirmed to havebeen infected

Boaventura said thevictims attended a partyin Trancoso of Bahia on18 Oct and did not knoweach other. Health offi-cials said an ambulancewould be kept at theTrancoso health center to

respond to emergenciesand prevent the spreadingof the disease. Trancoso’scentral laboratory willalso work on a continu-ous basis to receive andprocess the biologicalsamples to diagnosedisease.

Xinhua

ST LOUIS, 28 Oct—USscientists say they’ve foundanti-epileptic drugs may beeffective in treatingneurodegenerative disor-ders such as Alzheimer’sand Parkinson’s diseases.

The researchers saidthey determined neurons inthe brain were protectedafter treatment with T-typecalcium-channel blockers,which are commonly usedto treat epilepsy. AssistantProfessor Jianxin Bao andcolleagues from the Wash-ington University Schoolof Medicine in St Louissaid they were one of thefirst teams to explore thepossible protective effectsof blockers for T-type cal-

cium channels. The mecha-nisms for neuro-protectionby anti-epileptic drugswere previously unknown.Bao’s team established cellculture models to directlytest whether the drugscould preserve neurons inlong- and short-term cul-tures in vitro.

They said they foundneurons showed an in-crease in viability aftertreatment with either L-type or T-type calciumchannel inhibitors. Further-more, they said their re-search suggests more thanone calcium-signalingmechanism exists to regu-late long- and short-termneuron survival.—Internet

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S P O R T SSpurs boss sees brighter

future for Bentley

Tottenham managerHarry Redknapp

Holders United cruise into League Cup quarter-finals

Manchester United’s English forwardDanny Welbeck (R) celebrates afterscoring the opening goal during theCarling Cup fourth round football

match against Barnsley at theOakwell Stadium in Barnsley. United

won 2-0.—INTERNET

Real Cup-hijacked by third division minnows

Alcorcon’s Borja Perez-Penas, left con-trols the ball as Real Madrid’s EstebanGranero falls during a Copa del Reysoccer match at the Santo Domingo sta-dium in Alcarcon on the outskirts ofMadrid, on 27 Oct, 2009.—INTERNET

Rangers power into ScottishLeague Cup semi-finals

Steven Whittaker

Serena rescues Williamsfamily honour

DOHA, 28 Oct—Serena Williams’s dream of snatch-ing back the world number one spot stayed alive onTuesday as sister Venus wilted in the heat and humid-ity of the WTA Championships.

Serena gained revenge over French Open conquerorSvetlana Kuznetsova, winning her opening groupmatch at the 4.55 million dollar tournament 7-6 (8/6),7-5 in an error-plagued encounter.

The American, the champion in 2001, did it the hardway against the Russian, saving two set points in thefirst set tie-breaker and coming back from a 1-3 defi-cit in the second.

Internet

Babbel on the brink afterStuttgart’s cup defeat

Stuttgart’s goalkeeperJens Lehmann applaudsto supporters after theGerman soccer cup DFBPokal, third round matchbetween SpVgg Fuerthand VfB Stuttgart inFuerth, Germany, on 27Oct, 2009. Stuttgart lost

0-1.—INTERNET

Football rounds up poor S African youngsters

SAfrican children are seen taking partin ‘football for Hope’ in Alexandratownship in Johannesburg.—INTERNET

Newcastle nolonger for sale asHughton handed

full-time jobNEWCASTLE, 28 Oct—

Fallen giants Newcastleare no longer for sale af-ter owner Mike Ashleytook the club off the mar-ket on Tuesday and thenconfirmed Chris Hughtonwill be the Championshipleaders’ permanent man-ager. Hughton, who hadbeen working as caretakerboss, has been given acontract until the end ofthe 2010-11 season aftertaking Newcastle to thetop of English football’ssecond tier as the Magpiesbid for a quick return tothe Premier League.

Ashley has alsopledged to put another 20million pounds into New-castle this week to keepthem financially stablefollowing his unsuccess-ful attempt to sell the club.

Internet

LONDON, 28 Oct—Manchester Unitedgot back on track after their defeatagainst Liverpool as the League Cupholders moved into the quarter-finalswith a 2-0 win over Barnsley onTuesday.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s side suffered onlytheir second loss of the season at Anfieldon Sunday, but there was no hangoverat Oakwell as goals from DannyWelbeck and Michael Owen saw off theChampionship outfit.

United played the last 27 minutes with10 men after United captain GaryNeville was shown a red card by refereeChris Foy for his lunge on AdamHammill.

The Tykes are managed by Mark Rob-ins, the former United striker whose win-ning goal in an FA Cup third round tieagainst Nottingham Forest in 1990 iswidely held to have saved Fergusonfrom the sack.

But there was never any chance ofanother headline grabbing win for Rob-ins, even though Ferguson made 11changes to the team beaten by Liverpool,with young French winger GabrielObertan making his debut.—Internet

thin ice after theBundesliga club suffereda 1-0 shock defeat onTuesday in the thirdround of the German Cupat second divisionGreuther Fuerth.

Babbel was given avote of confidence byStuttgart’s bosses onlylast week, but with hisside now suffering theirfifth consecutive defeatand hovering above therelegation zone in theleague, Babbel’s positionis precarious.

“We wanted to winhere and reach the nextround, which we haven’tdone and the situation isnot easy now,” said Stutt-gart’s grim-faced directorof sport Horst Heldt whenasked about Babbel’s po-sition.—Internet

BERLIN, 28 Oct—VfBStuttgart coach MarkusBabbel’s position is on

GLASGOW, 28 Oct—Rangers powered into theScottish League Cup semi-finals with a 3-1 victoryover Dundee in the lasteight on Tuesday.

Walter Smith’s side,who reached the LeagueCup final last season, tookan early lead when StevenWhittaker headed homeJohn Fleck’s cross in the15th minute.

Dundee’s LeighGriffiths equalised after 29minutes with a superbfree-kick to claim his 12thgoal of the season.

But the First Divisionleaders were denied anupset as Gary MacKenzienodded Whittaker’s crossinto his own net in the57th minute beforeFleck’s 85th minutestrike, set up by NachoNovo’s run, completedthe job for the Scottishchampions.—Internet

MADRID, 28 Oct—Real Madrid weregiven a Spanish Cup shock on Tuesdaywhen third division minnows and

unheralded city neighbours Alcorcondished out a 4-0 drubbing to the nine-time European champions.

The tiny provincial side, with aminiscule annual budget of just 1.2 mil-lion euros - 300 times less than their es-teemed visitors - added a notable foot-note to their modest history in front oftheir home fans at the 3,000-capacityEstadio Municipal de Santo Domingo.

Real were undone by the club whichwas only founded in 1971 with an owngoal by former Liverpool defenderAlvaro Arbeloa, Borja Perez’s brace, andErnesto Gomez.

Not pleasant viewing for Real presi-dent Florentino Perez and club directorJorge Valdano watching from the stands.

Internet

JOHANNESBURG, 28 Oct—The smallgirl zigzags between plastic cones witha football, hardly obstructed by her pinktulle dress as she attempts to master thegame, and life lessons from her coach.

As Sinethemba, 6, grasps footballskills with other children, their trainersimpart crucial points that range from theimportance of a healthy diet to the dan-gers of unprotected sex for the varyingages from five to 15 years old.

South Africa has been seized by foot-ball fever ahead of the 2010 World Cup,and FIFA is making the most of a sportloved by children to attract them intothe “Football for Hope” programme inthe country’s poorest townships.

Every Monday after school, childrenin the heart of Johannesburg’s oldestshantytown Alexandra, take part in the

unconventional training where the mes-sage includes boys being encouraged torespect their female partners.

This is a crucial message in SouthAfrica where a quarter of men admit tohaving raped at least once in their life-time, according to a study done inAugust.—Internet

LONDON, 28 Oct—Tottenham managerHarry Redknapp is opti-mistic that misfitmidfielder David Bentleymay have turned the cor-ner at White Hart Laneafter inspiring his team tovictory over Everton inthe fourth round of theLeague Cup.

The former Blackburnstar created the first ofSpurs’ goals in a 2-0 winon Tuesday which heapsmore pressure on disgrun-tled Toffees managerDavid Moyes, who re-fused to turn up to thepost-match press confer-ence. “His (Bentley) atti-tude in training has notbeen as good as it couldhave been, I’ve told himand he accepts it, but Ithought he was fantastichere,” Redknapp saidof his inconsistentmidfielder.

“He’s a decent boywith great ability but withAaron Lennon playing sowell I think he couldn’tsee any light at the end ofthe tunnel.

“He got the opportunityand took it with bothhands. It will be very hardnot to play him at theEmirates,” the ex-WestHam boss said, referringto Saturday’s north Lon-don derby with Arsenal.

Internet

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* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights* Night Scene of Tazaungtaing Festival in Pine Land

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershower have beenscattered in Taninthayi Division, isolated in Shan, Mon andKayin States, Mandalay and Bago Divisions and weather has

been partly cloudy in the remaining States and Divisions. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw(Yezin) (0.63) inch, Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.56) inch, Nay PyiTaw (Pyinmana) (0.24) inch, Thantaunggyi (0.91) inch,

Pinlaung (0.43) inch and Myeik (0.35) inch.Maximum temperature on 27-10-2009 was 96°F.

Minimum temperature on 28-10-2009 was 71°F. Relative

humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 28-10-2009 was 80%. Totalsun shine hours on 27-10-2009 was (8.1) hours approx.

Rainfall on 28-10-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-

Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was(111.06) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09) inches at Kaba-Ayeand (129.41) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed

at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mph from East at (17:30) hoursMST on 27-10-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the

Andaman Sea and the Southeast Bay and generally fairelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 29th October 2009: Rain

or thundershower are likely to be scattered in Mon State andTaninthayi Division, isolated in Mandalay, Bago, Yangonand Ayeyawady Divisions, weather will be partly cloudy in

the remaining States and Divisions. Degree of certainty is(60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Generally fair in thewhole Country.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for29-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for29-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for29-10-2009: Partly cloudy.

WEATHERWednesday, 28th October, 2009

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BEIJING, 28 Oct—A Mona Lisa art creation thatclaimed the largest reproduction in the world of DaVinci’s masterpiece has been on show at a shoppingmall in Wrexham, in the United Kingdom, accordingto media reports Wednesday.

Dozens of adults from local community groupsand youngsters from Wrexhamschools colored 82vinyl tiles to make the paint-by-numbers portrait.

At 17.5m across, and covering 240 sqm, thisgiant Mona Lisa is some 50 times than the original.

The massive creation is on display on a speciallybuilt plinth at the shopping mall and will be used toraise money for the children's hospice charity.

The artwork was put together by artist KatyWebster, who graduated with a first class honoursdegree in fine art from North Wales School of Artand Design at Wrexham's Glyndwr University in2009. Pupils from Victoria Primary School andmembers of the Haulfan Centre, a communitycentre for people with disabilities, were involved inthe project. Unlike the original in Louvre Museum,shoppers in Wrexham will be allowed to touch thisMona Lisa portrait.—Xinhua

Magnifying MonaLisa's smile!

A boy runs across a giant copy of the Mona Lisa as itis unveiled in Wrexham, north Wales on 28 Oct, 2009.The giant version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiecemeasuring 17.5 metres across and 50 times biggerthan the original, is an attempt to produce the largest

ever reproduction of the painting.—INTERNET

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

■ Do not allow ourselves to be 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

Lashio, metropolis of Shan State (North), isdeveloping at a great pace, because of an easy accessto the region and its strategic position in border tradewith neighbouring countries. Lashio is bustling withbusinesses and trade activities and is making progressin all sectors, along with enhanced socio-economicstatus of local people.

On our tour of Lashio, we visited animal feedproduction and oil mill and Two Golden Horsesbattery factory and it was really heartening to see suchthriving factories.

Oil Mill and Battery Factory of LashioByline & Photos: Tin Htwe (MNA)

The animal feed production and oil mill, situ-ated on Layyingwin road in No.12 Ward of Lashio,being supplied with sufficient raw material peanuts,runs the whole year for production of pure peanut oil.

The oil mill can crush 12000 viss of peanuts perday and 55 viss of peanut oil can be produced from100 viss of peanut with only 5 percent wastage. Theoil mill distributed its products via wholesale centrein Myoma Market of Lashio and also sells wholesaleand retail at the mill.

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Production of DGH brand batteries at Two Golden Horses battery factory in Lashio.

SCIENCE DAILY, 27 Oct—Rogue waves—giantwaves that spring up suddenly and tower over theseas around them—have inspired physicists to lookfor an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulsescan cross large distances without losing information.Now a team of physicists have identified one set ofconditions that produces optical rogue waves. Theirfindings are reported in Physical Review A andhighlighted with in the October 19 issue of Physics.Rogue waves were thought to be a sailor's tall taleuntil an 85-foot wave broke over an oil platform inthe North Sea in 1995. Since then, scientists havetried to understand how such outsized waves arisefrom the erratic interactions of smaller waves on achoppy sea, with an eye toward creating them onpurpose in the form of light traveling in an opticalfiber.—Internet

Physicists are discovering ways tobuild rogue waves out of light

Under the rightconditions, collid-ing waves can addto create a roguewave that's largerthan the sum of its

parts.

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