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Volume XVIII, Number 10 4th Waning of Kason 1372 ME Saturday, 1 May, 2010

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

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

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

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

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Esteemed workers,I, in honour of the workers striving with their

intellectual and physical strength and perseverance fordevelopment of nation’s productivity, send this messageon the Workers Day which falls on 1st May 2010.

The present age has witnessed every countryexerting efforts for own national economic develop-ment and enhancement of power and image. Myanmaralso is in the process of standing tall as a peaceful,modern and developed state with consolidated force ofthe entire people. The workers on their part have theirdutiful and effective national role to reach this end.

Thanks to the united endeavours of the entirepeople including workers, we are able to successfully

Greater number of international level productionbusinesses and services means more job opportunitiesSenior General Than Shwe honours workers of the nation

implement the correct national policies and objectives,while witnessing the rapid national development in parallelwith the prevalence of peace and stability.

The arrangements the State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil is making are to ensure harmony between the privatesector of our national races, the state sector and the coopera-tive sector for progress of mechanized farming followed bynational industrialization and development. Necessary in-frastructures and support the SPDC has been providing topromote advanced services based on rapidly developinginformation and communication technology of the world.

The good news for the workers is that greaternumber of international level production businessesand services in the country means more job opportu-

nities for them.A priority task of the SPDC is the promo-

tion and protection of workers’ rights and oppor-tunities that cover the task of ensuring a pleasantwork environment, occupational safety and livingstandard improvement, while acknowledging theirmagnitude in the national development drive.

The Constitution of the Republic of theUnion of Myanmar has already been approvedwith the overwhelming support of the nationalraces to build a new modern and developednation and to place in the fore Our Three MainNational Causes. As Myanmar is going to

(See page 7)

INT’L NEWS

LOCAL NEWS

Prime Minister U Thein Sein looks at documentary photos of Union of Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce and Industry.—MNA

Iraqis inspect the site of acar bomb in Baghdad,

Iraq.

NAY PYI TAW, 30April—Prime Minister UThein Sein addressed the19th Annual GeneralMeeting of the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry (UMFCCI)held at Nay Pyi Taw CityHall here today.

The meeting wasalso attended by Com-mander of Nay Pyi TawCommand Maj-Gen WaiLwin, ministers, deputyministers, diplomats fromembassies, departmentalofficials, the president andvice presidents ofUMFCCI, members of thecentral executive commit-tee of UMFCCI, membersof UMFCCI and guests.

(See page 8)

19th Annual General Meeting of UMFCCI held

UMFCCI members are to try to make sure that their federationbecomes capable one in national economic sector and remains

as an economic force on which the State reliesThe 88 Genera-

tion Student Youths(Union of Myanmar)submitted its applicationfor its registration.

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The Union ofMyanmar Federation ofNational Politicssubmitted its applicationfor its registration.

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Kokang Democ-racy and Unity Partysubmitted its applica-tions for its re-gistration.

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NAY PYI TAW, 1 May— The following is the translation of the Workers Day message sent by Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Unionof Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 1 May, 2010

Saturday, 1 May, 2010

PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views

* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation

* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State

* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

Move forward with thestrength of workers

The First of May, 2010 (Today) isWorkers Day. The mass of Myanmar workersparticipated in the anti-colonialist movementsand Myanmar’s independence struggles.Throughout history, Myanmar has had thetradition of being able to build the nationalunity among the workers, the farmers and thepeople.

Today, the mass of workers are takingpart in national development tasks under theleadership of the government. They are strivingto boost industrial production that plays acrucial role in national development. They areseeking ways and means to increaseproductivities and services for nationaleconomic growth.

Industrial regions and zones, modernfoundry plants and forging workshops havebeen established across the nation with theassistance of the State. More High-techproduction factories, import-substitutefactories and workshops are being built.

With the establishment of moreindustrial zones, factories and workshops,the nation has required new productiontechniques, creating job opportunities forthe local people. Requirements such as worksafety and staff welfare are being fulfilled forthe benefits of the blue and white colourworkers.

The workers have to manufactureproducts depending on the market and thepublic demand. They have to place emphasison meeting the set standard of every productand boosting products that are in high demand.

All in all, the mass of Myanmar workersknown for having nationalistic spirit andnational unity are to make continued efforts fordevelopment of national industrial sector andnational economy with their physical andintellectual strengths.

1. The 88 Generation Student Youths (Union ofMyanmar), headquartered at No. 301, Building(F) of Pearl Condominium on Kaba Aye PagodaRoad in Bahan Township, Yangon Division, on29 April, 2010 submitted its application forregistration as a political party under Article-5 ofPolitical Parties Registration Law. In itsapplication, it is mentioned that the party will use

Public announcement for remonstration

Union Election Commission

its name, flag and seal described hereunder.2. It is hereby announced in accord with Political

Parties Registration Rules 14 (d) that if there isanyone who wants to remonstrate about the name,flag and seal of the party, they may remonstratewith the Union Election Commission with firmevidence within seven days from the date of theannouncement.

Public announcement for remonstration1. The Union of Myanmar Federation of National

Politics, headquartered at No. 301, Building (F)of Pearl Condominium on Kaba Aye PagodaRoad in Bahan Township, Yangon Division, on29 April, 2010 submitted its application forregistration as a political party under Article-5 ofPolitical Parties Registration Law. In itsapplication, it is mentioned that the party will use


its name, flag and seal described hereunder.2. It is hereby announced in accord with Political

Parties Registration Rules 14 (d) that if there isanyone who wants to remonstrate about the name,flag and seal of the party, they may remonstratewith the Union Election Commission with firmevidence within seven days from the date of theannouncement.

EP-1 Minister receives Vice President of ChinaGuodian Corporation

Guodian Corporation ofthe People’s Republic ofChina, and party at theministry here yesterday.

The meetingfocused on cooperation.

NAY PYI TAW, 30April—Minister forElectric Power No.1 UZaw Min receivedMr. Gao Song, VicePresident of China

Also present at the callwere departmental headsof the departments andenterprises under theMinistry, GeneralManager Mr LiHongyuan of GuodianYunnan Power Co., Ltdfrom China, Chairman UThein Tun of Tun ThwinMining Co., Ltd andofficials.

MNA

Minister for Electric Power No. 1U Zaw Min receives Vice President Mr. Gao

Song and party of China GuodianCorporation of the People’s Republic of

China.—MNA

Flag of the 88 Generation Student Youths(Union of Myanmar)

Seal of the 88 Generation Student Youths(Union of Myanmar)

Flag of the Union of Myanmar Federation ofNational Politics

Seal of the Union of Myanmar Federation ofNational Politics

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France admits troops mistakenly killedAfghan civilians

PARIS, 30 April—French troops inAfghanistan mistakenlykilled four civilians duringa fight with insurgents inearly April, a militaryspokesman told localmedia on Thursday after atwo-week investigation.

French general staffspokesman ChristophePrazuck said theinvestigation found amissile strike on insurgent Vietnamese soldiers wave from a tank replica during a parade in Ho Chi

Minh City, Vietnam on 30 April , 2010. Communist Vietnam marked the 35th

anniversary of the war’s end on Friday with a dramatic reenactment of theday North Vietnamese tanks smashed through the gates of the former

Presidential Palace and ousted the US-backed government. —INTERNET

LO S A N G E L E S, 30Apri l—Los AngelesMayor AntonioVil laraigosa onThursday threw hissupport behind aproposal to institute aneconomic boycott of thestate of Arizona over atough immigration lawadopted there.It wasimportant for the city tomake a s tatementagainst a law which is“un-American,” themayor of the USmetropolis said.Thelaw, signed by ArizonaGovernor Jan Breweron Friday, makes it astate crime for illegal

LA mayor supports economicboycott against Arizona

Civiliankilled, 8

injured inIraq’s

violenceBAGHDAD, 30 April—

A civilian was killed andeight people wounded inseparate bomb attacks inBaghdad and Iraq’seastern province ofDiyala on Thursday,police said.

A roadside bombwent off in the morningnear a police foot patrolin southeastern neigh-bourhood of Mashtal inBaghdad, wounding fourpolicemen and twocivilians, an InteriorMinistry source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity.

Xinhua

Iraqis inspect the site

of a car bomb in

Baghdad, Iraq, on 29

April, 2010.

INTERNET

Umm Hadi reactsduring the funeral forher son, Hadi Saleh,22, in Baghdad, Iraq,

on 25 April , 2010.Saleh was killed whenbombs hidden in threeplastic bags explodedsimultaneously in a

billiard hall onSaturday.INTERNET

positions during a jointFrench-Afghan operationon 6 April mistakenly hitfive civilians, killing four.

“To our knowledge,it’s the first time that suchan event has involved theFrench army,” Prazucksaid, referring to civiliancasualties caused by theNATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF). With thewithdrawal date of the

126,000 foreign troops inAfghanistan still unclear,civilian casualties has beenan increasingly sensitiveissue in the restlesscountry.Public outrage inAfghanistan and raginginternational concernprompted NATO last yearto tighten regulations onthe use of air strikes andother weapons inpopulationdense regions.

Xinhua

immigrants to be inArizona, requires policeto check for evidenceof legal status, and barspeople from hiring orsoliciting work off thestreets.

Seen as the toughestin the nation, the lawwill take effect in mid-summer.Two LosAngeles City Councilmembers — Ed Reyesand Janice Hahn —introduced a motion onTuesday calling on theci ty to ins t i tu te aboycott against Arizonaover the so-called lawSB 1070.

Xinhua

In this photo taken on26 April , 2010,

construction workersuse climbing equipment

as they work on theHoover Dam Bypass

over the ColoradoRiver. Completion is

expected late 2010 andwill result in a bridge

spanning 900 feet abovethe Colorado River

between Arizona andNevada.INTERNET

Radioactive material in scrapyard inIndia kills one

NEW DELHI , 30April—A scrap dealerwho dismantled amachine once used by thechemistry class of amajor Indian universitydied of radioactivepoisoning, police said onThursday, raisingconcerns about thecountry’s ability tosafely dispose ofhazardous waste.Thedealer died Monday inNew Delhi after beingamong workers whosawed open a gamma cellthat Delhi University hadauctioned off in February,

NATO soldier killed in AfghanistanKABUL, 30 April—

An improvisedexplosive device killeda soldier serving withNATO’s InternationalSecurity AssistanceForce (ISAF) inAfghanistan, themilitary announcedFriday.

a police statement said.Seven other workers arebeing treated for radiationexposure.Police tracedthe cell to the school’schemistry laboratory,where it had been lyingaround unused for morethan 25 years. Studentshad used it in the 1970s tostudy the radiation effectsof various chemicals, saidpolice officer SharadAggarwal.

Delhi UniversityVice ChancellorDeepak Pentalapologized on Thursdayand accepted “moral

responsibility” for thelax manner in which theradioactive equipmenthad been handled.Theuniversi ty wouldcompensate the victims,although “no amountcan compensate for thedamage,” Pental said onThursday.

Xinhua

The death occurredin southern Afgha-nistan, but NATO didnot specify the soldier’snationality, in line withpolicy.

A total of 172foreign soldiers havedied in the country thisyear.

In 2009, according toan AFP tally using datafrom icasualties.org,520 foreign soldiers diedfighting the Taliban inAfghanistan, making itthe deadliest year forthem since the war beganin 2001.

Internet

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BEIJING, 30 April—Xinhua News Agency willlaunch a 24-hour, globalEnglish TV service thatwill be broadcast viasatellites, cable systems,the Internet and cellphones.

The English TVservice will be prod-ucedby China NetworkCorporation (CNC),which is affiliated toXinhua.

On Friday, aceremony was held inBeijing to mark the start

Chinese President Hu Jintao use sign language to express greetings to avolunteer at Life Sunshine Pavilion in the expo site in Shanghai, east China,on 29 April, 2010. Chinese President Hu Jintao paid a visit to the ShanghaiWorld Expo Park on Thursday, two days ahead of the opening of the global

event.—XINHUA

MOSCOW, 30 April— Russia was developinga unique satellite system tomonitor climatic changesand survey energyresources in the Arcticregion, Russia’s top spaceofficial said Thursday.

Russia had begun thedevelopment of theArctica satellite system,which will monitor theweather and environmentof the North Pole,pinpoint hydrocarbondeposits on the Arcticshelf, provide telecom-munications over themost remote areas andensure safe air traffic andcommercial shipping in

A model displays a Shoushan Stone seal inShanghai, east China, on 29 April, 2010. Over

200 types of World Expo licensed ShoushanStone seals were put into the market onThursday. Shoushan stone, mined in the

Shoushan village of China’s southeast FujianProvince, have long been used to produce

handicrafts and seals.XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 30April — US rescue teamson Thursday found thebodies of two minerstrapped in a Kentuckycoal mine after its roofcaved in.

Local media quotedKentucky Office of MineSafety and Licensingspokesman Dick Brownas saying the bodies ofthe two miners wererecovered in the CoalDotiki Mine in Webster

. GRESIK, 30 April —Having experience ofdealing with somediseases outbreaks withmore than 100 fatalities,Indonesia has taken somesteps to prevent the peoplein the Archipelagocountry from thepossibility of beinginfected by virus orbacteria.

Indonesia, theSoutheast Asia’s largesteconomy, had been hit thehardest by bird flu andswine flu in recent yearsand also frequently beenhit by other infectiousdiseases, such as waterrelated-diseases. Healthauthorities have called thepeople to implementhealthy way of life and

Xinhua News Agency launches globalEnglish TV service

of a trial broadcastscheduled for Saturday.After a trial operation oftwo months, the Englishservice will be officiallylaunched on 1July.Viewers can tuneinto CNC Englishprogrammes via Asia-Pacific Satellite6 at 134degrees east longitude,with parameters set as“6065MHz/3840MHz.”CNC, backed by thedomestic and overseasXinhua correspondentsnetwork, would quickly

respond to major newsevents home and abroad,and provide objective,comprehensive, in-depthand multi-dimensionalnews analysis, XinhuaPresident Li Congjunsaid at the ceremony.

“CNC will offer analternative source ofinformation for a globalaudience and aims topromote peace anddevelopment byinterpreting the world ina global perspective,” Lisaid.—Xinhua

Shanghai Expo openingceremony to kick off in

good weather

Photo shows a night view of the ShanghaiWorld Expo Garden.—XINHUA

SHANGHAI, 30April — The openingceremony of the 2010World Expo in Shanghaiis to kick off at the ExpoPark on Friday night ingood weather, localmeteorological auth-orities said.

The weather duringthe daytime on Friday,

under the control of highatmospheric pressure,will continue to be clearwith enough sunshineand a maximumtemperature of 25degrees Celsius in thedowntown, according tothe Shanghai Meteorol-ogical Bureau.

Xinhua

Miners trapped in US coalmine

confirmed deadCounty. The two victimswere identified as 27-year-old Justin Travisand 28-year- old MichaelCarter.

The coal mine wasoperated by Alliance CoalCo. A section of themine’s roof collapsedsome 7,000 metersunderground lateWednesday. Travis andCarter were trappedinside.

Xinhua

Russia to develop satellitemonitoring of Arctic

the region, said AnatolyPerminov, the head of theRussian Federal SpaceAgency Roscosmos.

“The creation of theArctica system will notonly allow us to monitorthe ecology of the shelf,the water temperatures, thethickness of the ice floeand the pollution levels allyear round, but will alsoensure the effectivenessand safety of theexploration of the[Arctic] shelf for our andforeign companies,” RIANovosti news agencyreported Perminov assaying.

Xinhua

Indonesia adopts measures to boostbio-securitykeep environment clean.

The government isoptimistic to achieve thetargets of sanitationstipulated at theMilenium Developmentgoals by 2015, as somemeasures on healthy lifehave been exercised.

Palestinian girls uselaptops at a school inRafah, southern Gaza

Strip on 29 April, 2010.The UN Relief andWorks Agency for

Palestine Refugees inthe Near East

(UNRWA) launched onThursday a campaign todistribute some 200,000laptops to Palestinian

school children in orderto link them to teachers

via wireless internet.XINHUA

“The government isoptimistic that the targetof sanitation and accessto clean water can bemet,” senior official at thenational Devel-opmentPlanning Board OswarMungkasa said.

Xinhua

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Heart attack predictors evaluatedCHICAGO, 30 April—

US medical researchersdetermined a person’scoronary artery calciumscore, together withtraditional risk factors, canbetter predict heartattacks. A coronary arterycalcium score is the resultof imaging that providespictures of calciumdeposits suggesting signsof atherosclerosis.

Traditional risk factorsare age, gender, tobaccouse, blood pressure,a n t i h y p e - r t e n s i v emedication use, cholesterol

levels and race/ethnicity.The Northwestern

University FeinbergSchool of Medicinescientists said theirfindings show, for the firsttime, that using a person’scoronary artery calciumscore in combination withtraditional risk factorsprovides a better predictionof heart attack than usingjust traditional predictors.

“Almost one-quarterof the people in the studywho had heart attackswere consideredintermediate risk based on

traditional risk factorsalone, but were consideredhigh risk once we includedtheir coronary arterycalcium score,” said Dr.Tamar Polonsky, leadauthor of the study.

The researchers saidthey predicted the risk offuture coronary heartdisease events in the 6,000volunteers in the studyusing two methods —traditional risk factorsalone and traditionalfactors plus coronaryartery calcium scores.

Internet

Doctors examine theresults of a patient’sPositron EmissionTomography (PET)

scan to look for cancercells. US regulators

have approved aground-breaking

treatment for advancedprostate cancer thatuses a patient’s own

immune system to fightthe disease, officials

said Thursday.INTERNET

In first, heart surgery performedby robot

GLENFIELD, 30 April—British cardiologists useda robotic arm to performsurgery to correct anirregular heartbeat whilethe surgeon was in anotherroom, hospital officialssaid.

The procedure, amedical first, involvedpassing a thin metal wirealong the patient’s bloodvessels and into the heartwhere a precise dot of heatwas then applied to a faultysection of heart muscle,said officials at GlenfieldHospital, one of England’sprimary hospitals forcoronary care.Cardiologist Andre Ng ofthe nearby University ofLeicester carried out theprocedure using the$540,000 CatheterRobotics Remote Catheter

Manipulation System, theofficials said.

Tony Blair was treatedfor a similar atrial flutterand atrial fibrillationcondition when he wasBritain’s Prime Ministerin 2004 — but hisprocedure, at a differenthospital, was carried outby hand, Britain’s DailyTelegraph reported.

Doctors normallymust stand over the patientwearing lead aprons to

protect themselves fromdangerous levels ofradiation from frequent X-rays, taken to guide to thewire into place, theTelegraph said.

But with the newrobot, made by CatheterRobotics Inc of Budd Lake,NJ, a doctor can sit in anadjacent room, with noneed for protection, andcontrol the metal wireusing a joystick andmonitors.—Internet

The robot

arm can be

operated

from

another

room.

INTERNET

Supplements linked to less kidney functionLONDON, 30 April—

Those with diabeticnephropathy, kidneydisease caused bydiabetes, who took highdoses B vitamins had morekidney function decline,Canadian researcherssay.Dr Andrew A. Houseof the University ofWestern Ontario and Dr.J. David Spence of theRobarts Research Institutein London, Ontario, andcolleagues conducted arandomized, placebo-controlled trial at fiveuniversity medical centres

in Canada involving B-vitamin therapy anddiabetic nephropathypatients.

The patients receivedsingle tablets of Bvitamins containing 2.5milligram dosage of folicacid, 25 mg/d of vitaminB6 and 1 mg/d of vitaminB12 or matching placebo.

Study participantsassigned to the B-vitamingroup had poorer kidneyfunction compared withthe placebo group and asignificantly greaternumber of heart attacks,

stroke, revascularizationcompared to the placebogroup, the study says.

“Given the recentlarge-scale clinical trialsshowing no treatmentbenefit, and our trialdemonstrating harm, itwould be prudent todiscourage the use of high-dose B vitamins as ahomocysteine-loweringstrategy outside theframework of properlyconducted clinicalresearch,” the studyauthors said in astatement.—Internet

Protein may help control insect pestsBALTIMORE, 30 April—

US researchers say theyhave identified a protein infruit flies that helps theflies detect noxiouschemicals and decide whatto eat and what to avoid.

Johns HopkinsUniversity scientists saidtheir discovery of theprotein TRPA1 in sensorycells on the “tongues” offruit flies raises thepossibility of a newmolecular target forcontrolling insect pests.

“We’re interested in

how TRPA1 and a wholefamily of so-called TRPchannels affect not just thesenses, like taste, but alsobehavior,” Professor CraigMontell, who led the study,said.

Montell said when histeam knocked out theTRPA1 sensor, thebehavior change — analteration in foodpreference — was stark.

“This is the first TRPchannel in insects thatresponds to a naturallyoccurring plant chemical

known as an anti-feedant,so now we have a target forfinding more effectivechemicals to protect plantsfrom destruction by insectpests,” Montell said.

The study, whichincluded researchers SangHoon Kim, YoungseokLee, Bradley Akitake,Owen Woodward andWilliam Guggino, appearsin the 19 April early onlineedition of the Proceedingsof the National Academy of

Sciences.—Internet

Pupils of a primary school draw Haibao, themascot of Shanghai World Expo, on a painting inHarbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province,on 29 April, 2010. Some 300 teachers and studentshere on Thursday drew a total of 2010 Haibao onten scrolls of paintings on the eve of the opening

of Shanghai World Expo.XINHUA

Immune cells predict neck cancer therapyANN ARBOR, 30

April—By studying theimmune cells of patientswith head and neck cancer,physicians can choose amore individualizedtreatment, US researcherssay. Study author Dr.Gregory T. Wolf of theUniversity of MichiganCoprehensive CancerCenter says levels of animmune cell are higher inhead and neck cancerpatients whose tumors arelinked to the humanpapillomavirus.

“In the past, we wouldgive toxic chemotherapy

to a patient, look at howthe tumor responded andthen decide whether thepatient needed surgery orradiation,” Wolf says in astatement. “This studysuggests we can look inthe microscope, measurethe level of these immunecells and, based on that,select a treatment that isgoing to be potentially lesstoxic for the patient andmost effective at curing thecancer.” The studyinvolved 66 patients withoropharyngeal cancer —cancers of the tonsils andthe tongue base.Those

patients who were HPV-positive had higher levelsof a subset of T-lymphocyte cells — a typeof immune cell that isresponsible for killingtumor cells.—Internet

Surgeons working on apatient. A team of

Saudi doctors led by thecountry’s health

minister on Thursdaysuccessfully separated

two baby boys fromJordan conjoined at the

stomach in a seven-hour operation.

INTERNET

HEALTH

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YELLOWKNIFE, 30 April—Canadian scientists saythey are finding a treasure trove of ancient huntingtools due to the melting of arctic ice that’s been inplace thousands of years.

Tom Andrews, an archaeologist with the Prince ofWales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife,Northwest Territories, said he is amazed at theimplements being discovered.

“We’re just like children opening Christmaspresents,” said Andrews, the lead researcher of theInternational Polar Year Ice Patch Study. “I kind ofpinch myself.”—Internet

Arctic ice melt reveals ancientartifacts

Too risky to phone ET? Toolate — NASA’s tried it

Lolo, a black jaguar, is seen with her spotted cubinside their cage at Jordan’s zoo in Yaduda on 27April, 2010. The four-month-old cub was given the

name Ward on Tuesday after being born to Loloand Falah, who originate from South America.

INTERNET

Brand inspector JoeLaunderville, of DeerLodge, serves to showthe scale of how large‘Cletus’ really is, on

Wednesday, 28 April,2010 in Ramsay, Mont.The nearly 3,000 poundHereford who kept the

herd in line on an Avoncattle ranch for years

has been sold for$1,670 at auction.

INTERNET

LONDON, 30 April—ACE measurements andSTEREO vision buildspace weather forecas-ting system Scientistsfrom the University ofLeicester have used

ACE Measurements and STEREO VisionBuild Space Weather Forecasting System

KENYA, 30 April—After studying theinteractions of human and animal populations inAfrica, Kathleen Alexander, associate professor ofwildlife science in Virginia Tech’s College ofNatural Resources, found powerful evidence ofhow human behavior can influence the emergenceof infectious disease in humans andanimals.Although human behaviour is frequentlycited as a factor that influences disease emergenceevents, most behavioral research has focused onthe pathogen, the reservoir hosts (animalspopulations that maintain the pathogen in theenvironment), or the vectors (agents that transmitpathogens from host to host) of infectious disease.

Internet

Virginia Tech researcher exploresrole of human behaviour in

infectious disease emergenceWASHINGTON, 30

A p r i l — S t e p h e nHawking says it is toorisky to try to talk to spacealiens.

Oops. Too late.NASA and others

have already beamedseveral messages intodeep space, trying tophone ET.

The US spaceagency, which two yearsago broadcast the Beatlessong “Across theUniverse” into the

cosmos, on Wednesdaydiscussed its latest searchstrategy for life beyondEarth.

“The search for life isreally central to what weshould be doing next inthe exploration of the solarsystem,” said CornellUniversity planetaryscientist Steve Squyres,chairman of a specialNational Academy ofSciences panel advisingNASA on future missions.

Internet

PASADENA, 30 April—“Avatar” d i rec torJames Cameron ishelping to build a high-resolution 3-D cameraon the next-generationMars rover.

The camera will bemounted a topCurios i ty , the nextrover mission to Marsset for launch next year.

Pasadena’s Je tPropulsion Laboratoryscaled back its plans in2007 to mount a 3-Dcamera atop Curiositybecause the upcomingf lagship miss ion toMars was consistentlyover budget and behindschedule.

But Cameronlobbied NASAadministrator CharlesBolden for inclusion ofthe 3-D camera during a

Cameron helping build 3-D camera forMars rover

January meet ing,saying a rover with abetter set of eyes willh e l p t h e p u b l i cc o n n e c t w i t h t h emiss ion.Bolden wasconvinced.

San Diego-basedMalin Space ScienceSystems is now buildingthe 3-D mast camera withCameron listed as co-investigator.

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SCIENCE

observations fromNASA’s STEREO andACE satellites to comeup with more accuratepredictions of whenblasts of solar wind willreach Earth, Venus and

Mars. Anthony Williamspresented the results at theRAS National AstronomyMeeting in Glasgow on14th April.

We have recentlybeen experiencing anunusually quiet and long-lasting solar minimum,and solar storms causedby Coronal MassEjections have beenscarce. Despite this, highpressure pulses of solarwind, called CoronalInteraction Regions(CIRs) have beenkeeping the spaceweather unpredictable.

Internet

Tulips poke up out of fresh snow in the villagecentre of Montgomery, Vt on 27 April, 2010, as

heavy wet snow fell across the state.INTERNET

A gray whale surfaces near the mouth of the Duwamish River late onSaturday 27 March, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. The nearly 40 feet-long

animal was watched by excited spectators as it hugged the shore around theWest Seattle peninsula earlier in the day.—INTERNET

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Nerinzara Youth Training Centre nurturing national race youthsArticle: Didyl (IPRD); Photos: Kyaw Thura (IPRD)

Recently, I had anopportunity to visitNerinzara YouthTraining Centre whileobserving progress inconstruction of NgweThalla self-reliantlibrary in 9th-MileVillage of KalayTownship.

The training centreis located in KhaingkamVillage of Tiddim

Religious Affairs, thecentre was built at a cost ofmillion of kyats in 2004-2005 and it was opened on22 August 2006. Thegovernment created theopportunities for orphansand needy children ofnorthern Chin State andnorthern Sagaing Divisionto learn education. Thereare only two trainingcentres of this kind—one

U Naing Aung Moe,who is also DeputyDirec tor o f DPPS,said, “The centre istraining the local youthto be equipped withpa t r io t ic sp i r i t fo renabl ing them topar t ic ipa te in theregional developmenttask , cement ingcordial relat ionshipamong them and

Two-storey building training hall of Nerinzara Youth TrainingCentre.

Greater number of international…

Students learning computer application. Kitchen of Nerinzara Youth Training Centre.

Photo shows hostel for students.

(from page 1)hold an election according to the new Constitutionthis year, the SPDC formed the Union ElectionCommission in addition to promulgating necessarylaws.

At the same time, we are aware of theconspiracy saboteurs from inside and outside thecountry are making to harm the election and to

hinder the seven-step Road Map.All along the course of history, you the workers

proved your worthiness with your fine traditions. So,I would urge you all to ward off attempts of saboteursand aliens to interfere and to sow seeds of mistrust inour country while further fostering your unyieldingspirit, anti-colonialist spirit, nationalism and UnionSpirit. Moreover, you need to join hands with the

entire people for the successful implementation ofthe Road Map.

In reality, you the workers are the peoplestriving with your intellectual and physical powerfor national modernization and development andsocial improvement of the entire people. On thisauspicious occasion, may you all enjoy peace ofmind while exerting greater efforts in serving theinterest of the nation and the people.

MNA

Township of Chin State.As the management bodyfor the centre is locatednear Kalay, the trainingcentre is namedNerinzara YouthTraining Centre (Kalay).

Under the supervisionof Department forPromotion and Pro-pagation of the Sasanaunder the Ministry of

in Kalay and another inPakokku.In the compound of thetraining centre, onemonastery, a two-storeybuilding, a one-storeyhostel, one hall, kitchenand staff quarters wereconstructed on 18.074acres of land.

In an in te rv iew,Principal of the centre

assigning them dutiesof governmentpersonnel on the hillyregions.”

He added that thecentre gives priority toselection of orphansand needy children forenro lment o f theschools. Although theschool admi t ted 45students at third andfourth standards in theopening year , thenumber of students roseto 78 at the classroomsfrom fourth to seventhstandards. They camefrom Tiddim, Haka andFalam townships ofChin State and Kalayand Leshi Township ofUpper Saga ingDivision.

The principal

explained, "Thegovernment provides K500 to each student,personal goods, food andrefreshments. In theacademic matter, theSayadaw and I trainthem to be equipped withthe Buddhism ethics, theUnion Spirit, moralecharacter and socialethics subjects. We openone school library forthem and give computerbasic lessons to themwith the use of 11computers. Moreover,we arrange sportsprogrammes for their

health and fitness.“During summer

holidays, we haveopened the cultural andmissionary courses sixtimes,” he added.

I saw thrivingvegetables and shadetrees including mando,banana, catchew andothers in addition to coldseason crops on 13.024acres of vacant lands inthe compound of thecentre. Moreover, Ilearned that threebuffaloes and six cowsare being bred there.

At the centre among

flowery plants andshade trees, I noticedthat the students are inuniforms. They forgottheir bitter past lives andnow they happilylearning education atthe centre.

Before departurefrom the centre, Iwished may thegovernment lend ahelping hand to all theoffspring of the nationalraces including needyyouths and orphans.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 24-4-2010

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UMFCCI membersare to try…

(from page 1)Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister U

Thein Sein stressed the importance of peace andtranquility, economic objectives, skills, basic infra-structures and economic opportunities to build apeaceful and modern country. Therefore, the gov-ernment has built basic infrastructures for stabilityand prevalence of law and order in the country whilebuilding necessary economic infrastructures as partof efforts for creating the market oriented economicsystem on a right way, he said.

The private investment sector plays a majorrole in making efforts for all-round development ofthe country and making the country stand with othernations shoulder by shoulder. Therefore, to encour-age the private investment sector, the governmenthas taken measures for laying down economic poli-cies, rules and regulations that can boost the privateinvestment, he said. The booming of private busi-nesses represents the strong economy of the countryand development of the country as well. Therefore,the government has encouraged the private invest-ment sector as one of the infrastructures of the State,he added.

In accordance with the guidance of the Headof State, the Union of Myanmar Federation of Cham-bers of Commerce and Industry was established asa leading chamber to support the private businesssector, the state economy and all-round develop-ment of the country. Prime Minister U Thein Seinpraised the 19-year old federation for its achieve-ments as the federation, joining hands with thegovernment, could build economic infrastructureand environments, and could attract the nationalentrepreneurs to participate in building the infra-structures as well.

The number of the members of the federationhas reached 19,834 as 1339 more joint it this year,and the federation has cooperated with 59 brother-hood business associations.

The federation has conducted talks, work-shops and business matching for 23 times and send207 trainees abroad to participate in training courses,meetings and forums, and 779 members abroad toexhibit national pavilions at 20 exhibitions of thefederation. The Prime Minister also expressed hisdelight for the federation as it signed 71 Memoran-dums of Understanding with foreign business groups.

Prime Minister U Thein Sein also called forthe federation to play a major role in the 2010-2011fiscal year, the last year of the fourth 5-year shortterm plan of the 30-year long term plan, to achieve

the trade target of the fiscal year. In the fourth 5-yearshort term plan from the 2006-2007 fiscal year to the2010-2011 fiscal year, the government has targetedto meet the average growth rate of 12 percent peryear.

Increase in production has boosted the tradevolume. Production is related with trade, and thecooperative efforts of the government, farmers, in-dustrialists and traders have resulted in high tradevolume of the State, the Prime Minister said.

He continued to say that the global economiccrisis has hit the nations in the world, and thegovernment has realized that the country must over-come the crisis by itself. The steering of the govern-ment is necessary during the period of transition tomarket economy at such a time when the govern-ment has not yet built the balance of the economy.

Therefore, the government made arrangementsto minimize the loss and to boost efficiency afterassessing the global financial crisis from variousangles.

The Prime Minister also elaborated on thegovernment's measures to facilitate trade proce-dures, import and export business and import substi-tute good production and its role in reaching tradeagreements between governments, searching newmarkets, promoting maritime and border trade andencouraging partial trade activities.

While promoting regional and internationaleconomic cooperation, the nation will have to par-ticipate in the ASEAN free trade area in 2015. So inorder to face the challenges then, it is necessary toextend production of quality goods.

The government is not only building nationaleconomic infrastructures but also creating economicopportunities for national entrepreneurs. Encourage-ment is being given for industrial development byestablishing industrial zones in the strategic regionsand privatizing State-owned factories and workshops.In this age of globalization, it is important to improvethe economy in parallel with the international arenarelying on qualified human resources and modern,sound management rather than capitals, natural re-sources and unskilled workforce. The State on its partwill render necessary assistance and the entrepre-neurs are to create a skilled economic communityunder the leadership of the UMFCCI.

As the domestic market of the State is inprogress and stable condition, international eco-nomic forces are coming to make investments in thecountry. Economic entrepreneurs are to try to holdthe tremendous domestic market as well as focus onrural markets. Accepting the fact that the domesticmarket is fundamental and the foreign market is notto be neglected, it is necessary to ensure speedy

distribution of commodities to the consumers. Thisis why the government is systematically draftingrules and regulations on formation of brokerages.

Rice and beans and pulses companies arebeing established in states and divisions. There havenow been 31 rice companies, 24 beans and plusescompanies and 55 crops companies. Up to March2010, those companies rendered assistance to farm-ers. As a result, the production sector has improvedand the farmers as well as the local brokers havereaped benefits.

Today's natural disasters and climate changeare the economic challenges for the humanity, in-cluding economic entrepreneurs. In making plans toserve social and economic interests, every nationhas focused on food security as a priority policy.Nowadays, in the global food market, priority hasgiven to food security and clean, healthy food. So itis required to produce goods that are suited to themarket requirements. Therefore, the government,traders, brokers, associations, entrepreneurs and allresponsible persons from supply chain sector, are tomake efforts for ensuring food security with nation-alistic spirit.

Looking at the economic environment, if eachand every person seeks his own interest, the wholeenvironment will break down. So, individuals aswell as organizations need to have economic ethics.Only then, will the domestic market be stable andthe nation will be able to compete economicallywith the international community. In both nationaleconomy and international economy, trust is morevaluable than jewelries. Associations themselvesneed to follow economic ethics as lack of qualityproducts and promise can cause loss of trust ininternational trading. Economic ethics are impor-tant in international trade.

The government is building up a peaceful,modern and developed nation aspired by the na-tional people step by step. Free and fair electionswill be held soon. Therefore, merchants and indus-trialists under the leadership of the federation areurged to choose good people's representatives withconsideration and farsightedness.

In conclusion, all the members are to try tomake sure that their federation becomes a capableone in the national economic sector and remainas asan economic force on which the State relies.

Then, the Prime Minister and party and theUMFCCI President, CEC members and executivesposed for a documentary photo. The Prime Ministercordially greeted those present. Later, the PrimeMinister and party viewed local and foreign achieve-ments made by the UMFCCI and congenial associa-tions and documentary photos.—MNA

Prime Minister U Thein Sein addresses 19th Annual General Meeting of Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry.—MNA

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(from page 16)We, the news crew, accompany by U Myaing,

staff officer of Construction 4, left for the dam. Thedam is situated south of Laygyun Sekkya StandingBuddha Image. The dam contributes not only toadequate water supply but also to greening of theregion. In order to generate hydropower, steel pipe isbuilt-in. It can irrigate 100 acres of farmlands. It alsoincludes construction of pick up weir and head regu-lator in the irrigated area.

Its catchment area is two square miles and itsannual inflow of water is 560 acre feet. Water storagearea is 683 acre feet and still water area is 81 acre feet.Water surface area is 32 acre feet. Conduit is of RCtype. Its size is 6 feet x 5 feet and it has 285 feet inlength. Spillway of the dam is combine spillway andvertical shaft type. The main spillway is six feet wideand modulating spillway is 20 feet long. Main canal

Bawditahtaung Dam…

Photo shows Bawditahtaung Dam.

is 3000 feet in length and there are four canal struc-tures.

The annual rainfall of the region is 32 inches, andso it is a dry region. Although it is a medium-size dam,it contributes much to the region. Thanks to the dam,

the local people are now enjoying the benefits of thedam—water sufficiency, greening of the region andhigher crops yield.

Translation: MTKyemon: 25-4-2010

1. The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party,headquartered at No. B/6/137 on Dawna Streetof Region 6 in Ward 2 of Lashio, Shan State

Public announcement for remonstration

Flag of the KokangDemocracy and Unity

Party

Seal of the KokangDemocracy and

Unity Party

Hydropower Implementation Department, NEWJEC, HTCT Co Ltd sign agreement ofConsulting Services, Memorandum of Understanding

NAY PYI TAW, 30 April—A signing ceremonybetween Hydropower Implementation Department underthe Ministry of Electric Power No. (1) and NEWJEC Incof Japan took place at the ministry here this morning.

Also present at the ceremony were Minister forElectric Power No. (1) U Zaw Min, Deputy Minister UMyo Myint, departmental heads, official concerned, Presi-

dent and Director Mr Masaki Matsumoto and members ofNEWJEC Inc, Chairman of High Tech Concrete Technol-ogy Co Ltd and Officials.

On the occasion, Director -General U Myint Zaw ofHydropower Implementation Department under the min-istry and Director and General Manager Mr Yukao Tanakaof NEWJEC Inc signed the contracts on Agreement of

Consulting Services for In-House Engineering Services.Memorandum of Understanding on tasks of con-

crete of Upper Yeywa Hydropower Project was signed byHID and High Tech Concrete Technology Co Ltd. After-wards, Director-General U Myint Zaw and responsiblepersons of the campanies posed for documentary photo.

MNA

Signing ceremony on Agreement of Consulting Services of In-HouseEngineering Services between Hydropower Implementation Depart-

ment and NEWJEC Inc of Japan in progress.—MNA

Signing ceremony on concrete work of Upper Yeywa HydropowerProject between Hydropower Implementation Department and High

Tech Concrete Technology Co Ltd in progress.—MNA

(North), on 29-4-2010 submitted its applica-tion for registration as a political party underArticle-5 of Political Parties Registration Law.In its application, it is mentioned that the partywill use its name, flag and seal described here-under.2. It is hereby announced in accord with Po-litical Parties Registration Rules 14 (d) that ifthere is anyone who wants to remonstrate aboutthe name, flag and seal of the party, they mayremonstrate with the Union Election Commis-sion with firm evidence within seven days fromthe day of the announcement.


NAY PYI TAW 30 April—Those wishing to setup political parties are submitting applications to theUnion Election Commission. All Mon Region De-mocracy Party and the United Democracy Party(Kachin State) submitted the applications today. Sofar, a total of 27 groups have submitted applicationsto set up the parties. The Kokang Democracy andUnity Party that falls within the competence ofPolitical Parties Registration Law Article-25 sub-mitted the application to the UEC for continuedexistence as political party today. So far, five partieshave submitted their applications for continued ex-istence as political parties to the UEC.—MNA

Applications to form politicalparties, for continued existence

as political party

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MADRID, 30 April—Spanish climber ToloCalafat, who sufferedswelling on the brainwhile descendingNepal’s famed MountAnnapurna in theHimalayas, died onThursday before he couldbe rescued, a climbingpartner said.

“He is dead,” veteran

HOUSTON, 30 April—Shrimpers in Louisianaand Alabama have filedclass-action lawsuitsagainst oil giant BP Plcand owners of the drillingplatform that explodedin the Gulf of Mexico, asclaims for economiclosses anticipated from

ABILENE, 30 April —About of H1N1 flu sixmonths ago may be thereason a Texas teenexperienced heart failureand may need atransplant, his doctorssay.

Doctors at BaylorMedical Centre in FortWorth say almost threeweeks ago 18-year-oldJoe Goforth went to theemergency room in

ALICE SPRINGS, 30April— Wind ripped am u l t i m i l l i o n - d o l l a rNASA space balloonfrom its mooring in theAustralian outback,overturning a car and justmissing a crowd ofspectators.No one wasinjured in the accident,but almost the entirescientific payload —including a $10 millionGamma-ray-measuringNuclear ComptonTelescope developed bythe University ofCalifornia, Berkeley —was destroyed, Balloon

DALLAS, 30 April—United Airlines andContinental AirlinesInc. are moving closerto announcing as earlyas Monday that theywill combine to formthe wor ld’s l a rges tcarrier by passengertraffic, according topeople familiar withthe matter.

Continental’s boardplans to meet Fridayand Sunday to considera deal, according to oneperson familiar with thediscussions but whowas not authorized to

‘Spanish climber dies on Nepal’sAnnapurna’

Spanish climber JuanitoOiarzabal, who reachedthe summit of MountAnnapurna on Tuesdayalong with a third Spanishclimber, told Spain’sNational Radiostation.Calafat, a 39-year-old father of twofrom Majorca on Spain’sBalearic Islands, was nolonger answering the

satellite phone which hehad used to speak withhis family and call forhelp, he added.

He had been stuckand unable to move at7,500 metres (24,000feet) above sea level asbad weather hampered hisrescue after he suffered acerebral oedema.

Internet

A Nepalese soldier stands in front of the Mount Everest in December2009. Spanish climber Tolo Calafat, who suffered swelling on the brain

while descending Nepal’s famed Mount Annapurna in the Himalayas, diedon Thursday before he could be rescued, a climbing partner said.

INTERNET

Gulf state shrimpers sue BPover oil spill

A shrimp boat and an oil rig are seen in the Gulf of Mexico near theChandeleur Islands, off the Southeastern tip of Louisiana on Tuesday, 27April, 2010. The barrier islands and the gulf seafood industry are at risk

from a growing oil spill and leak that resulted from the explosion andsinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last week.—INTERNET

the disaster began tomount.

Two similarlawsuits, filed late onWednesday in USDistrict Court in NewOrleans and on Thursdayin the adjacent Gulf Coaststate of Alabama, accusethe companies of

negligence.The huge oilslick was expected toreach a wildlife reserveat the mouth of theMississippi River onThursday as it menacedthe environmentallysensitive coastline offour states.

Internet

Teen may need heart transplant due toH1N1

Stephenville comp-laining of stomach fluand was transferred toBaylor where he wasdiagnosed withcatastrophic heartfailure and failingkidneys due to a virus,the Abilene ReporterNews reported.

The teen’s father,Wayne Goforth, aChurch of Christminister in

Brownwood, said hisson’s doctors told himthe only virus the doctorscould link the heartfailure to was H1N1.

Six months ago thehealthy teen had beenattending Tarleton StateUniversity when hecaught H1N1 flu and hewas sent home to bequarantined, his fathersaid.

Internet

A waiter carries amink whale dish anda reindeer burger at

Icelandic chefEythor

Halldorsson’sIcelandic Barrestaurant in

Reykjavik, on 23April. Iceland’sexotic culinary

landscape includesshark, whale,

puffin, reindeer,horse, ram’s

testicles and entiresheep’s heads, allancient dishes that

Halldorsson believeshave a place on the

modern table.INTERNET

Workers move containment booms to a samller vessel on the MississippiRiver at Port Eads, La on 29 April , 2010. A huge effort is underway to helpmitigate the effects of an oil spill caused by the explosion of the Deepwater

Horizon rig.—INTERNET

Giant space balloon breaksloose

Launch Station DirectorRavi Sood told theAustralian BroadcastingCorp, which caught thedebacle on video.Thegondola beneath the car-size balloon stumbledalong the ground morethan 1,600 feet, forcingspectators to run for theirlives, as the balloon waspushed by the samestrong winds that hadripped it from its mooringas it was being filled withair in preparation forlaunch, the TV videoshowed.

Internet

United, Continentalcloser to deal

speak publicly about it.Another pe r son

briefed on the talks saidon Thursday tha tnego t ia to r s haveagreed tha t thecombined companywould be ca l l edUnited, i t would bebased in Uni ted’shometown of Chicago,and run by ContinentalCEO Jeffery Smisekwi th Uni ted CEOGlenn T i l ton aschairman. All thosedecisions would needapprova l o f bo thboards.—Internet

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Pixar’s Up wins China’s topanimation award

Pixar’s computer-animated film“Up” picked up the best foreign

feature category at the Monkey KingAwards, China’s top animation

award event.—XINHUA

HANGZHOU, 30 April—Alreadyhaving won two Oscar awards, Pixar’scomputer-animated film “Up” baggedanother honor Thursday, picking upthe best foreign feature category at theMonkey King Awards, China’s topanimation award event.

“Up” defeated “Madagascar:Escape to Africa” and productionsfrom nine other countries to earn theaward at the event in Hangzhou City,capital of east China’s ZhejiangProvince.

“The Magic Tulip,” produced byShanghai Animation Film Studio, wasawarded best Chinese animationfeature.

“Up” was the winner of bestanimated feature film and best pictureof 2010 Academy Award.

The Monkey King Awards, co-sponsored by the State Administrationof Radio Film and Television, the

Egypt rejects claims that itgassed Gaza tunnels

CAIRO, 30 April—AnEgyptian intelligenceofficial on Thursdaydenied allegations leveledby Hamas that Egyptpumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used tosmuggle goods into the

ACAPULCO, 30 April— Police in southern Mexico say a crowdof villagers chased down a group of alleged kidnappers, freed theirvictims and shot the three men to death.

Guerrero state police say the men apparently entered thehamlet of La Union, near the coastal resort of Zihuatanejo, andabducted a man and two boys. They allegedly also shot anotherman to death.

A statement says residents pursued the kidnappers as they fledin a truck Thursday, and freed the kidnap victims.The three allegedabductors were apparently related.

The Pacific coast region where the confrontation took place isplagued by violent crime, illegal logging and drug trafficking.

Internet

Mexican villagers kill 3 suspectedkidnappers

US smoking kills 440,000a year

Gaza Strip, killing fourPalestinians.

Egypt has been underpressure to shut down thehundreds of tunnels that area key economic lifeline forthe blockaded Palestinianterritory but which are alsoused to bring in weaponsfor the militant group.

The intelligenceofficial confirmed thatEgyptian security forces

ATLANTA, 30 April—More than 440,000 US residents dieannually from cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke, while 8.6million are sickened by smoking, officials said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidityand Mortality Weekly Report said tobacco use is the single leadingpreventable cause of disease, disability and death in the UnitedStates.

Smoking costs $96 billion in medical costs annually in theUnited States and $97 billion in lost productivity annually, thereport said.

US smoking rates among teens had been on the decline — from1997 smoking dropped from 36.4 percent to 21.9 percent in 2003among high school students largely due to price increases becauseof taxes — but remained relatively unchanged from 21.9 percent in2003 to 20 percent in 2007.—Internet

destroyed the entrances toseveral tunnels this week,but said that no gas wasused in the operations. Hesaid that Egypt routinelyblows up the mouths to thetunnels to seal them off,and that the blast and anensuing fire could quicklyuse up all the oxygen in theconfined space, causingpeople caught inside tosuffocate.—Internet

Car breaks throughseventh-storey wall

A white Mercedesbreac-hed the exteriorwall on the seventh floorof an Oklahoma parkinggarage and rained debrisinto a parking lot below,police said. Police saidthe driver’s foot becamestuck on the gas pedaland he was unable to stopthe vehicle before itbroke through the wall

on the seventh floor ofthe Bank of Americabuilding’s parking garagein Tulsa about 2 pmWednesday, the TulsaWorld reportedThursday.

Several cars weredamaged by falling debrisfrom the wall but noinjuries were reported,police said.

In this on 27 April,

2010 photo, Jerry

Gilbert stands next to

Big Jake, the

Guinness World

Record-holder for

world’s tallest living

horse at nearly 6-

foot-11, at the

Smokey Hollow Farm

near Poynette, Wis.

A goat

performs wire-

walking with a

monkey on its

back at a zoo

in Fuzhou,

Fujian

province on 28

April, 2010.

A trainer guides a sealion in presenting a

performancearranged specially forMay Day holiday in

the Sea World Park inQingdao, east China’sShandong Province,on 29 April, 2010.

Bulldozer punches hole in wrong houseA Texas woman said

a demolition crew went tothe wrong side of the streetand punched a hole in herhouse with a bulldozer.

Francis Howard, 69,said she was staying withher son in Frisco, Texas,Wednesday when thebulldozer tore a hole inthe front of her house at724 Ruddell in Denton,

the Denton Record-Chronicle reportedThursday.

Howard said a womanwas digging irises inflower beds at the houseand was able to stop thecrews before theycontinued tearing it down.

City records state thehouse across the street,721 Ruddell, was

scheduled for demolitionWednesday.“I just wantthis house put backtogether,” Howard said.“I think I need a lawyer.”

Denton’s Con-struction and AdvisoryAppeals Board orderedthe house at 721 Ruddellto be repaired ordemolished in January,city records show.

Hangzhou municipal government andthe China Animation Association, hasbeen held in Hangzhou every two yearssince 2006.

The awards aim to encourageanimation innovation, animationexchange and recognition of industrytalent.

Xinhua

Toyota sets up designquality division

TOKYO, 30 April—Toyota, its reputationbattered by global recalls, is setting up a newdivision devoted to feeding customer concernsinto the design process to improve quality, theautomaker said Friday.

Toyota Motor Corp, the world’s biggestautomaker, has been fighting to win back buyertrust after getting slapped with a $16.4 million fineby the US authorities for being slow in comingforward with defects.

The Japanese automaker, once reputed forquality, has recalled more than 8 million vehiclesaround the world since October.

Toyota Motor Corp said Kiyotaka Ise willhead the new Design Quality Innovation Division,set to start Saturday, and designed to more quicklyreflect “customer feedback in designs.” Iseformerly oversaw product and Lexus development.

Some of the production methods that have wonToyota worldwide praise for maintaining qualityhave to do with rank-and-file discipline andempowerment - ensuring that quality is maintainedin the factories.

But the recent recalls were not caused by suchproblems, but instead appear to center around designdefects that didn’t surface until users complained.

Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG DA VOY NO (1016 )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG DAVOY NO (1016) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 1.5.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

China respectsIOC decisionon underage

gymnastBEIJING, 30 April—The

Chinese Gymnastics As-sociation said on Thurs-day it is “pained” by theruling to strip its women’steam of a bronze medalfrom the 2000 Sydney Ol-ympics for using an un-derage athlete but respectsthe decision. The Interna-tional Gymnastics Fed-eration found that DongFangxiao was only 14during the 2000 Games.The International Olym-pic Committee then or-dered China to return theirmedals, which will nowbe awarded to the UnitedStates. Gymnasts mustturn 16 during the Olym-pic year to be eligible.

“We are pained over thisincident. We will learn alesson and furtherstrengthen all kinds of ad-ministrative work on ath-letes and resolutely pre-vent a similar incidentfrom happening again,”the Chinese associationsaid in a statement carriedby the official XinhuaNews Agency. “The atti-tude and stance of the Chi-nese Gymnastics Associa-tion is completely thesame as that of the IOC.”

News that China waslosing its bronze over agefalsification was reportedonly briefly in the coun-try’s entirely state-run me-dia. Such an incidentis considered hugely em-barrassing to the Commu-nist government in thesports-crazy country thatputs heavy emphasis onOlympic achievement.

Internet

Bayern coach happier facing Inter than Barca

Mancini not anticipating axeif City miss top four

his team will be facing Ita-ly’s Inter Milan, ratherthan Barcelona, in theChampions League finalon 22 May in Madrid. Af-ter Bayern saw off Lyon3-0 in Wednesday’s sec-ond leg, to claim a 4-0 winon aggregate, JoseMourinho-coached Interlost their second-leg tie1-0 at Barcelona to booktheir place in the final 3-2on aggregate.

“Against Inter, ourchances are much betterthan they would be

against Barca,” said vanGaal, who is chasing thetreble of Bundesliga, Ger-man Cup and ChampionsLeague titles in only hisfirst season in charge.”Inter do not play as offen-sively as Barcelona.” TheChampions League finalwill pit tough disciplinar-ian van Gaal against In-ter’s flamboyant coachMourinho and the pairworked together when theDutchman coached Span-ish giants Barcelona.

Internet

Bayern Munich’s Dutchhead coach Louis van

Gaal.—INTERNET

MUNICH, 30 April—Bayern Munich coachLouis van Gaal admittedon Thursday he is relieved

Bayern appeal Riberythree-match ban

MANCHESTER, 30April—Roberto Mancinihas made it clear he doesnot expect to be sacked asManchester City boss if hefails in his quest to turnAbu Dhabi’s petrodollarsinto the footballing hardcurrency of a place in theChampions League.Mancini was installed asCity manager in Decem-ber after the club’s own-ers lost faith in his pred-ecessor Mark Hughes’sability to deliver a top fourfinish in the PremierLeague.

City currently lie sixthand meetings with AstonVilla on Saturday andTottenham four days laterwill determine if Mancinican succeed whereHughes was deemed tohave failed. Whateverhappens, Mancini does

not believe he should beregarded as a failure if re-sults do not go City’s way.“No, I don’t think I willhave failed,” he said. “Wewant to finish fourth andthat is what we are work-ing for.

“But we have im-proved a lot in the last fivemonths and we must im-prove more if we want tobe a good team. I think theowners can see that.”Mancini believes hewould benefit from hav-ing a full pre-season withhis players.—Internet

Manchester City man-ager Roberto Mancini

PARIS, 30 April—Bayern Munich are ap-pealing Franck Ribery’sthree-match ban whichwould see him miss nextmonth’s ChampionsLeague final, UEFA con-firmed on Thursday. TheFrenchman was shown astraight red card for tread-ing on the foot of Lyonstriker Lisandro Lopez inthe first-leg semi-final lastWednesday, whichBayern won 1-0 in Mu-nich. He then missedTuesday’s 3-0 second-legwin while serving part ofthe ban.

UEFA’s decisionmeans he will miss the fi-nal in Madrid on 22 May,against Italian side InterMilan. The appeal date hasnot yet been fixed, butmany former players inGermany have expressedtheir amazement thatRibery was given such aharsh ban.” A red card wasjustified, but UEFA havegone well beyond that withthe ban,” said former inter-national and TV pundit

Guenter Netzer.Former Germany

striker Uwe Seeler alsoagreed.” Missing the nextgame with a suspension,that would have beenokay, but three matches?”he said.” Fair play has tobe taken into account, butthat was too severe.”

Internet

Bayern Munich are ap-pealing a three-matchban for Franck Ribery,seen here on April 21after being sent off thepitch, which would seehim miss next month’sChampions League final,UEFA confirmed onThursday.—INTERNET

Man claims he ate, drank nothing for 70 years

Woman bites man after being called fat’NEBRASKA, 30 April—Police say a 24-year-old Ne-

braska man is missing a chunk of his right ear thatwas bitten off by a woman who didn’t like being called“fat”. Police spokeswoman Katie Flood said officerswere called to a Nebraska hospital around 3.25am lo-cal time yesterday to talk to the injured man. He toldthem that he’d been bitten at a party.

Ms Flood said officers later learned that the in-jured man and two others had been arguing with otherpeople at the birthday party. Ms Flood says the mantold 21-year-old Anna Godfrey that she was fat. Of-ficers said Ms Godfrey then tackled the man and tooka bite. Ms Flood said the ear chunk was not found.Ms Godfrey was arrested on suspicion of felony as-sault and remained in custody yesterday. Case recordsdon’t yet list her lawyer’s name.—Internet

AHMEDABAD, 30 April— Scientists are studyingan 82-year-old man whoclaims he has not had anyfood or drink for 70 years.Prahlad Jani’s claims arebeing put to the test at ahospital in Ahmedabad,where he is being closelymonitored and studied byIndia’s Defence ResearchDevelopment Organiza-tion, which believes hemay have a quality whichcould help save lives, TheTelegraph reports.

He has so far spent six

days without food or wa-ter under the strict obser-vation of doctors who sayhis body is yet to show anysigns of hunger or dehy-dration. Mr Jani is re-garded as a “breatharian”who can live a “spirituallife-force” alone. He be-lieves he is sustained bythe “elixir” of a goddess.

The research organiza-tion believes Mr Janicould hold the key to help-ing soldiers or disaster vic-tims survive without foodfor longer periods in times

of crisis. “If his claims areverified, it will be a break-through in medical sci-ence,” said Dr GIlavazhagan, director ofthe Defence Institute ofPhysiology & Allied Sci-ences.” We will be able tohelp save human lives dur-ing natural disasters, highaltitude, sea journeys andother natural and humanextremities. — Internet

Indian patient Prahlad Jani at Sterling Hospital inAhmedabad where he has so far lasted six days

without food or drink .— INTERNET

A man had part of his ear bitten off by a womanin revenge for calling her fat.

INTERNET

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ATHENS, 30 April—Greek Prime MinisterGeorge Papandreou onWednesday called onother eurozone membersto use all their powers toprevent the spread of the“fire that was fueled inGreece,” referring toEurope’s severeeconomic crisis.

The aid Greecewould receive would beinvested properly,Papandreou told acabinet meeting which

Staff members prepare rails to direct waiting queue in front of the PrivateEnterprise Joint Pavilion in Puxi Section of the Expo Park in Shanghai, east

China, on 28 April, 2010.—XINHUA

The internet homepage of the YouTube website.YouTube turned five on Friday. In the scant timesince the first video was uploaded to YouTube on23 April, 2005, the website has rocketed to global

stardom and become a key player in a shift toInternet television.

INTERNET

BRASILIA, 30 April—Brazil’s President LuizInacio Lula da Silva saidon Wednesday during thevisit of his Venezuelancounter-part HugoChavez to Brasilia thatupcoming purchase of oilfrom Venezuela willbalance the trade betweenthe two countries.

“When Abreu e Limarefinery is concluded, ashare of the oil will comefrom Venezuela andcertainly the oil that we

CHICAGO, 30 April—Toyota Motor Corp willrecall about 50,000 2003Sequoia SUVs toupgrade programmelogic in its VehicleStability Control (VSC)system, Toyota said onits website onWednesday.

The VSC system canhelp control a loss oftraction in turns as a resultof front or rear tireslippage during cornering.In vehicles without theupgrade, the VSC systemcould, in limitedsituations, activate at lowspeed (approximately 9mph) for a few secondsafter acceleration from astopped position and, as aresult, the vehicle may notaccelerate as quickly asthe driver expects, Toyotasaid.

Xinhua

TEHERAN, 30 April —Iran will inauguratecopper wire factory inBelarus in the presence ofIranian Minister ofIndustries and Mines Ali-Akbar Mehrabian nextweek, the official IRNAnews agencyreported.Iranian privatesector has invested eightmillion US dollars on theproject.It will produce12,000 tons of copper wirein the first year to beincreased to 50,000 tonsin the second year, thereport said.The factory’sproduction will beexported to Russia andUkraine, according toIRNA.

Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, 30April— Hewlett-PackardCo (HPQ.N) announceda $1.2 billion deal to buyPalm Inc (PALM.O),betting it can resuscitatethe strugglingsmartphone maker tocompete with the likes ofApple Inc (AAPL.O) andRIM (RIMM.O).

Greek PM calls for joint efforts toprevent crisis across Europe

was broadcast on statetelevision, sending amessage to otherEuropean partners to actin order to prevent adomino effect inEurope, as analysts havewarned.

“This burden is notonly a burden for Greeceto bear, but also forEurope, and perhaps allmankind,” the GreekPremier said.

He said the measurestaken by the Greek

government had alreadyproduced positiveresults, noting Greecewas called upon todayto correct mistakes ofdecades.

Repeating thegovernment’s deter-mination for success anda plea to Greeks tosupport the changes, thepremier presented a planto restructure localgovernment acrossGreece.

Xinhua

Lula says purchase of oil will balanceBrazilian trade with Venezuela

will buy from them willbalance a little our tradebalance, which isimportant forVenezuelan economygrowth and is alsoimportant for streng-thening strategicrelationship betweenBrazil and Venezuela,”said Lula. The search forgreater balance inbilateral trade was one ofthe topics discussed byLula and Chaves, sinceout of a total of 4. 2 billion

Toyotarecalls

50,000 ’03Sequoia

SUVs in US

Iran toinauguratecopper wire

plant inBelarus

HP to buy Palm in bet onsmartphone arena

Analysts say 2010’sthird-largest US techacquisition grants Palm’sdevices globalproduction anddistribution reach whilelaunching the world’s topPC maker into a techarena experiencingblistering growth.

The news on

Jon Rubinstein, chairman and chief executiveof Palm, talks about new games for Palm phones

during a news conference at the 2010International Consumer Electronics Show.

INTERNET

Wednesday surprisedmany on Wall Street,since much of the long-running takeoverspeculation surroundingPalm had shifted in recentweeks to focus onpotential Asian bidders,such as China’s Lenovo(0992HK).

An early pioneer inhandheld devices, Palmonce dominated themarket but has since beensurpassed by Apple’siPhone and Research inMotion’s (RIM.TO)BlackBerry.

Palm put out a newmobile operating system,the well-reviewedwebOS, last year but eventhat has beenovershadowed by GoogleInc’s (GOOG.O)Android software.

Internet

Telecommunicationsequipment is seen ondisplay at a trade fair

in Hanoi. SK Telecom,South Korea’s largest

mobile carrier, hasposted a forecast-

beating rise inquarterly net profit

but said highermarketing costs had

eroded earningsoverall.

INTERNET

dollars in 2009, 3.6 billiondollars corresponded toBrazilian exports.

Brazil and Venezu-ela have also signedcooperation agreementsin the fields of industry,agriculture, urbandevelopment, bankingservices globalization andborder integration.

The leaders held aprivate meeting at thestart, then extended to agroup of collaborators,sulminating in a signingceremony of agreementand press statement,after which a luncheonwas offered in honourof the VenezuelanPresident.

Xinhua

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S P O R T S ATHENS , 30 April —French striker DjibrilCisse assured Panathina-ikos fans on Thursdaythat he would honor hiscontract with the currentGreek champions.

“I have a four-yearcontract. I will remainhere,” the 29-year-old,the leading scorer in theGreek Super League thisseason, told reporters.

Cisse’s remarks cameas rumors circulated inGreece that the Frenchinternational striker wasinterested in transferringto another team.

“The fans have notstopped showing theirsupport for us,” said

French star Cisse says will stay at Panathinaikos

French striker DjibrilCisse.—INTERNET

Cisse, whose 29 goals inhis first season in Greecehelped Panathinaikos winthe double.

Last June Cisse signed

a four-year contract withthe Athens club in whatwas the most expensivetransfer in the country’ssoccer history.

Press reports saidCisse’s transfer from Mar-seille cost the Greek cluba total of 20 million euros.Cisse reportedly earns 2.5million euros a year, plusbonuses.

Internet

STUTTGART,30 April –Justine Henin outlastedBelgian teammate YaninaWickmayer 6-3, 7-5 onThursday to advance tothe quarterfinals of thePorsche Grand Prix.Henin’s path to the finalwas eased when top-seeded Caroline Wozni-acki, still bothered by asore ankle, lost 6-4, 6-4 toLucie Safarova. DinaraSafina, playing her firstmatch since retiring at theAustralian Open with alower-back injury, beatAgnes Szavay 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-0 to make the lasteight.

Henin took a 5-1 leadin the second set and twiceserved for the match but

BUENOS AIRE, 30 April— Four Argentinian foot-ballers suspected of having used false Italian pass-ports to play in Europe have been summoned to ap-pear before a judge here at an as-yet-undetermineddate, a legal source said. Diego Placente, who playsfor French champions Bordeaux, Zaragoza goalkeeperJuan Pablo Carrizo, Panathinaikos midfielder Sebas-tian Leto and Boca Juniors defender Juan Forlin allreceived summons along with Forlin’s father Hugo.

They are all accused of having used false Italianpassports to play in Europe without taking up a quotaplace for overseas players. Federal judge NorbertoOyarbide said the summons were based on a reportfrom the Italian consul general in Buenos Aires thatthe passports used were “false”. Oyarbide had not yetfixed a date for a hearing.—Internet

Argentinian footballerssummoned over false passports MORELIA, 30 April—

Ai Miyazato is trying tospoil Lorena Ochoa’s go-ing-away party.

Miyazato, the Japanesestar who won the first twoevents of the LPGA Tourseason, shot a 10-under63, the best round of hercareer in relation to par, totake the first-round leadon Thursday in the TresMarias Championship.

Spanish rookieAzahara Munoz openedwith a 65, and the top-ranked Ochoa, who willretire after the tourna-ment, matched MichelleWie with a 66.

Miyazato won theEvian Masters last season— her first LPGA Tourvictory — and has risen toNo 5 in the rankings.

She’s short off the tee— in the 240-yard range— but she may be themost accurate player inwomen’s golf.

She needed only 22putts on Thursday, mostfrom 8-12 feet.

Internet

Mexico’s Lorena Ochoa

waves to the audience

during the first round

of the LPGA Corona

Morelia golf

championship.

INTERNET

Miyazatotakes firstround leadin Mexico

LONDON, 30 April —Roy Hodgson believesFulham’s fairytale run tothe Europa League finalshould be acknowledgedas the one of the bestachievements by an Eng-lish team in recentmemory.

After coming from be-hind to defeat Hamburg 2-1 on aggregate in thesemi-finals, Hodgson’sclub will play in a Euro-pean final for the firsttime in their 131-year his-tory when they faceAtletico Madrid on 12May. The unfashionablePremier League outfitlooked to be on their wayout with 21 minutes toplay in the second leg atCraven Cottage on Thurs-day as they laboured torecover from Mladen

Hodgson hails Fulham’s remarkablerenaissance

Fulham’s Zoltan Gera(right) chases after the

ball in front of SVHamburg’s DennisAogo during their

UEFA Europa League,semi-final match atCraven Cottage in

London.—INTERNET

rope this season and onceagain they defied the oddsthanks to two goals inseven minutes from SimonDavies and then ZoltanGera. Just two years afteravoiding relegation fromthe Premier League with awin at Portsmouth on thelast day of the season,Hodgson has led his teaminto uncharted territory.

Internet

Petric’s first half goal andthe loss of Bobby Zamorato injury.

But the Cottagers havedelivered some remark-able performances in Eu-

ROME, 30 April —Claycourt king RafaelNadal was at his dominantbest as he trounced Roma-nia’s Victor Hanescu 6-3,6-2 to storm into the ATPRome Masters 1000 quar-ter-finals at the Foro Italicoon Thursday. Earlier Span-ish 13th seed David Ferrerupset world number fourAndy Murray 6-4, 6-4while world number twoNovak Djokovic had fewproblems in disposing ofBrazilian ThomazBellucci 6-4, 6-4.

Nadal blasted 31 win-

LIVERPOOL, 30 April –Liverpool manager RafaBenitez said that he mayneed to sign up to fivenew players after watch-ing his side miss out onthe Europa League final.The five-time Europeanchampions defeatedAtletico Madrid 2-1 atAnfield in on Thursday’ssemi-final second leg, butwent out on the awaygoals rule after the tie fin-ished 2-2 on aggregate af-

Benitez wishes fab five to rescue Liverpool

Atletico Madrid’s DiegoForlan celebrates after

scoring during theirUEFA Europa Leaguesemi-final second leg

match against Liverpoolat Anfield, in Liverpool,north-west England, on

29 April .—INTERNET

Spanish Rafael Nadal

returns a backhand

volley to Romanian

Victor Hanescu

during their ATP

Tennis Open match in

Rome.

INTERNET

ter extra-time. Benitezadmitted that his squadneeded strengthening af-ter a fourth successiveseason without a trophy.”The season has not beengood enough. It’s clearthat we have had someproblems,” said the de-flated Liverpool man-ager.

“We have two gamesleft and we have to tryand do well in thosegames.—Internet

Henin, Stosur, Safina win in Stuttgart

Belgium’s Justine

Henin.could not finish it off.Wickmayer tied it 5-5 be-fore Henin won the nexttwo games.

“I got a little tight atthe end,” Henin said. “Iwas controlling thematch, but she came back.it wasn’t easy to stay inthe match.”

Internet

Nadal dominates RomeMasters as Murray crashes

ners and broke Hanescuthree times, winning inone hour 22 minutes, ashe goes in search of a fifthtitle here in six years.

Internet

CARLOTTE, 30 April —Tiger Woods delivered afew memorable shots ofhis own Thursday at QuailHollow on a pleasant daythat produced birdies andeagles and plenty of ex-citement. It’s just not whathe had in mind.

He hit a tee shot intothe water on the par-317th that produced littlereaction except to holdout his hand for anotherball.

He hit his next tee shot

Woods all wet at Quail Hollow

Tiger Woods.

And he wound up witha 2-over 74 that left himnine shots behind Bo VanPelt and ended his streakof 21 straight rounds atpar or better.

“I hit a bunch of ballsleft, I hit a bunch of ballsright, hit a few down themiddle,” Woods said.“And that was about it.”For everyone else - Mas-ters champion PhilMickelson included withhis 70 - there was so muchmore.—Internet

into the water and had toscramble for bogey.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, r ain or thundershowershave been scattered in Kachin State and upper SagaingDivision, isolated in Shan,Chin,Kayah and MonState s,lower Sagaing,Mandalay,Magway and TaninthayiDivisions, weather has been partly cloudy in the remainingStates and Divisions. Day temperatures were (3°C) to(4°C) above April average temperatures in Kachin, Shan,Chin, Rakhine and Mon States , Sagaing, Mandalay,Magway, Bago and Ayeyawady and TaninthayiDivisions, (6 °C) above April average temperatures inYangon Division and about April average temperatures inthe remaining States and Divisions. The significant daytemperatures were Minbu (43.0°C), NayPyiTaw(Yezin),Nyaungoo, Chauk, Magway and Thayawady(42.0°C)each.The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Hakha (0.91) inch, Kalay(0.6 8)inch andKalaywa (0.67) inch.

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OBITUARYU Hoke Kyaw

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The epicentre of this earthquake was located 50kilometers in the sea, west to Concepcion with a depthof 35 km.The second earthquake occurred at 9:41 amlocal time and according to the Seismology Institute ofthe University of Chile, it measured 5.2 on Richterscale.—Xinhua

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

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

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

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

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Bawditahtaung Dam contributes togreening of Bawditahtaung region

Byline and Photos:Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

In line with the guidance of the State, Min-istry of Agriculture and Irrigation is makingefforts in order to tap water and land resourcesthroughout the country. Construction ofBawditahtaung Dam project started in Septem-ber 2006. It is located on Yayhtwet Creek southof Standing Buddha Image near Khatakan vil-lage, Monywa Township, Sagaing Division, andwas opened in July 2007.

It is 670 feet long and 75 feet high earth embank-ment. It was constructed so as to irrigate 100 acres offarmland and to ensure adequate water supply forwater consumption in the region.

(See page 9)

Control Tower of Bawditahtaung Dam.

Synapse Resolution

Dendrites of a nerve cell in brain appear likebranches of a tree. —INTERNET

SCIENCEDAILY, 30 April — Pioneering a novelmicroscopy method, neuroscientist Arthur Konnerthand colleagues from the Technische UniversitaetMuenchen (TUM) have shown that individual neuronscarry out significant aspects of sensory processing:specifically, in this case, determining which directionan object in the field of view is moving. Their methodmakes it possible for the first time to observeindividual synapses, nerve contact sites that are justone micrometer in size, on a single neuron in a livingmammalian brain.—Internet

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