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Volume XVII, Number 33 11th Waning of Kason 1371 ME Tuesday, 19 May, 2009

Kengtung in Shan State (East) benefiting fromsmooth transport and agricultural farms

NAY PYI TAW, 18 May—Lt-Gen Tha Aye ofthe Ministry of Defence, together with Chairman ofSagaing Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of North West Command Maj-Gen Myint

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects regional development tasks in Sagaing Division

Soe and personnel visited Government TechnicalCollege (Shwebo) of Ministry of Science andTechnology on 13 May.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye later visited Yokepyo

Traditional Medicine Factory in Monywa sub industrialzone (Shwebo). Lt-Gen Tha Aye then met with chairmanand personnel of Monywa Industrial zone (Shwebo).

(See page 8)

The entrance road to Kengtung Airport is lush and green with flower beds and landscaping plants.

Article: Tin Win Lay (Kyimyindine); Photos: Htay Aung (Kyemon)

On our tour of Kengtung, where the office ofShan State (East) is based, through Tarkaw Bridgelinking Shan State (South) and Shan State (East),along with small towns such as Mongpyin, Tontah,

Pankyu and Myonge, we enjoyed natural scenes ofhighland paddy fields, some were still green and some,yellowish, like a picture.

The road comprises gentle slopes. Just as

we were greeted by the signboard saying“Welcome to Kengtung”, we felt relaxed andrefreshed.

(See page 7)

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspects a model rice field at Taganan Village, Shwebo Township.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 19 May, 2009

Tuesday, 19 May, 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

In Myanmar, the length of time fromthe middle of April to that of May is the pre-monsoon period and sporadic rain orthundershowers are likely then.

According to the 17 May weatherreport, the southwest monsoon has alreadyadvanced into the Southern Myanmar areasand squalls with moderate to rough seas arelikely at times off and along the Mon-Taninthayi coast and there can be heavy rainin Lower Myanmar areas.

As there can be squalls at the beginningof the rainy season, necessary precautionsshould be taken to ensure that there is safetyfor people who live near old buildings and bigtrees and the vessels plying in the rivers andalong Mon, Taninthayi, Ayeyawady andRakhine coasts.

It should be noted that rain clouds,crashes of thunder and flashes of lightning arethe signs that strong winds can occur in theevening. Therefore, overloading vessels orletting down rainproof sheets while they aremoving should be avoided.

In Myanmar, storms can occur at thebeginning of the rainy season and at the end ofit. People living along the Myanmar coastsshould carefully listen to weather reports.Moreover, storm-proof buildings and thequickest and safest way to them should besought and preparations for rescue work madein advance.

In the event of storms, electric powerlines and gas pipelines should be cut off andpeople should take shelter in safe places intheir houses or in the surrounding area.

This is the time when air and watertransport departments, regional organizationsand people should be on alert and worktogether on precautions against naturaldisasters.

Work together on precautionsagainst natural disasters

YANGON, 18 May—Shan Mawmyay Coorganized a ceremony tohonour peasants and salesagents who undertookorganic farming at StrandHotel on Seikkantha Street

Shan Mawmyay Co honours peasants and sales agentsin Kyauktada Townshipon 9 May.

First, U Nyan Linn,managing director of ShanMawmyay Co explainedpurposes of undertakingof organic farming. He

presented products ofShan Mawmyay Co worth1 million to generalsecretary U Ohn of ForestResource EnvironmentDevelopment andConservation Associationand K 1 million worthproducts to directorU Sein Win of SocialWelfare Department.Next, the sales agents werepresented with certificatesof honour according totheir performance.

Products of ShanMawmyay Co that arenow on the market are ZweMyanmar naturalfertilizer, Ywatsein bioliquid fertilizer, Chikusanpigs and poultry liquidtonic, Chikusan fish and

prawn liquid tonic, TawWin Ywatnu green tea,herbal diet and so on.

While carrying outorganic farming togetherwith farmers, ShanMawmyay Co is alsotrying to fulfill the demandof chemical free rice, fruitsand vegetables in local andinternational market.

Those who want toundertake organicfarming, retailers andconsumers of chemicalfree rice, fruits andvegetables may contactShan Mawmyay CoNo. 150, 49th Street(Upper), PazundaungStreet, here, Ph:01-299728, 09-5045897.

MNA

YANGON, 18 May— A ceremony to donate cash toShweThanLwin Home for the Aged, organized byMyanmar ASEAN Women’s Friendship Association,was held at the Home in Dagon Myothit (Seikkan)Township this morning.

Present on the occasion were members of the panelof patrons Daw Myint Myint Soe, wife of the ForeignMinister, and Dr Daw Khin Mya Win, wife of the deputyForeign Minister, members of the executive committee ofthe association wives of heads of departments under theMinistry of Foreign Affairs, wives of Ambassadors and

Cash donated to ShweThanLwinHome for the Aged

heads of Embassies of ASEAN member countries,members of association, officials of ShweThanLwinCompany, well-wishers, guests and the aged persons.

Daw Myint Myint Soe explained the purpose of thedonation, and presented two million kyats to ThiriThudhamma Theingi Thiha Thudhamma Theingi AggaMaha Thirithudhamma Theingi Daw Ni ofShweThanLwin Company for the Home.

Afterwards, Daw Thin Thin Pu, age, 75, spoke wordsof thanks and the ceremony came to an end.

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Daw Myint Myint Soe, Patron of Myanmar ASEAN Women’s Friendship Association presentsK 2,000,000 to ShweThanLwin Home for the Aged.—MNA

U Nyan Linn, managing director of Shan Mawmyay Co, explains purposes of undertaking

of organic farming.—MNA Tobacco Kills

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 19 May, 2009 3

Bomb kills policeman neargovernor’s home in Mosul

Taleban kill five policemenin SW Afghanistan

KABUL, 18 May—In latest violent attack againstgovernment interest, Taleban militants attacked po-lice in Nimroz Province of southwestern Afghani-stan killing five on Sunday, provincial governorGhulam Dastgir Azad said.

“Two insurgents riding a motorbike opened fire onpolice checkpoint in Ghor Ghori area of Khashroddistrict at 2:00 pm ocal time (0930 GMT) leavingfive police dead and injuring two others,” Azad toldXinhua. The attackers made their good escape, headded. It is the second attack of its kind againstpolice in a single day on Sunday.

In the previous attack on police checkpoint inGereshk district of the southern Helmand Province,six police were killed.—Internet

Six militants killed in S AfghanistanKABUL, 18 May—A joint cleanup operation of

Afghan and international troops Saturday claimedthe lives of six armed militants in Uruzgan prov-ince of southern Afghanistan, a statement of Inte-rior Ministry issued here Sunday said.

“Six armed rebels including a foreign fighter werekilled in a joint operation of Afghan army, policeand the US - led Coalition forces in Deh Rawoddistrict,” the statement added. Two AK-47 assault rifles and a pistol were also dis-covered in the operation which lasted for six hours,it said. According to local media, Afghan security forcesare preparing to launch a operation to set back therebels of these districts in Taliban’s former strong-hold Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul provinces aheadof the second presidential election set for August 20this year.—Internet

File photo shows atruck carrying con-struction equipment

smoulders after beingset on fire by insurgentsin the Kunar Valley ineastern Afghanistan.

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Afghan soldierskill three civilians

KABUL, 18 May—A group of Af-ghan army soldiers opened fire in amarket in eastern Afghanistan earlyMonday, killing three shopkeepers,police said.

The three soldiers are being held inan army compound following the shoot-ing in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarharprovince, said provincial Police ChiefGen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi. A po-lice spokesman had previously said fourwere arrested.

Salangi did not provide further details,saying they are still investigating.

A spokesman for Nangarhar’s gover-nor confirmed three dead civilians andone wounded.—Internet

Premature explosion killsfive suicide bombers

in S AfghanistanKABUL, 18 May— Five suicide bomb-

ers were killed in Ghazni province ofsouthern Afghanistan Saturday night asthe explosive materials in their jacketswent off prematurely, provincial policechief said Sunday. “The incident tookplace in Waqhaz district in a house whichhad been destroyed, five suicide bomb-ers including two Arabian were killed,”Khial Baz Shirzai told Xinhua.

He added that the huge explosion didnot damage other residential houses inthe area. Shirzai further said that anotherwould-be suicide bomber was also de-tained by police in the Gilan district onSunday.—Internet

The remains of hundreds of bodies believed to be those of Iraqi Kurds havebeen found in a three mass graves in southern Iraq, a human rights ministry

official said on Saturday.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 18 May—Acar bomb went off Sundaynear the governor’s resi-dence in the turbulentnorthern city of Mosul,killing a policeman andwounding three civilians,hours after a lone gunmanshot dead a prison officerin the city center, accord-ing to police officials.

It was not immediatelyclear whether Atheel al-Nujeifi, governor ofNinevah Province, wasthe target of the bomb.

He was not at his resi-dence in the Dawasaneighbourhood at the timeof the blast, said the offi-cials, who spoke on con-dition of anonymity be-cause they were not au-thorized to share the infor-mation with the media.

The bomb was in a carparked about 100 yards

(metres) away from hishome, suggesting it wasmeant to be detonatedwhen the governor’s con-voy drove past, a tacticwidely used by Iraqi in-surgents.

The officials said a po-liceman was killed in theblast and three civilianswere wounded.

Earlier Sunday, a gun-man killed an off-dutyprison officer in Mosul,225 miles (360 kilome-tres) northwest of Bagh-dad. A police statementsaid the victim was a 1stlieutenant in his 20s whoserved at Badoosh prisonon the city’s outskirts. Thegunman got out of a car,opened fire on the officerand then fled, it said.

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Blast hits Egypt militarydepot, casualties unclearCAIRO, 18 May—A large blast struck a military camp

and arms depot near the city of Ismailia east of theEgyptian capital on Sunday, witnesses and an ArabicTV channel reported, but the extent of any casualtieswas not clear.

The Arabic-language news channel Al Arabiya saidthere were “reports of injuries and possible fatalities”from the depot blast but said it was unlikely that thiswas caused by an “act of terrorism.”

One source told Reuters that some people werewounded but none killed. Another said there may havebeen deaths. An Interior Ministry official said he hadno information about such an incident.

One witness told Reuters by telephone the explo-sion struck Abu Sultan military camp, about 20 km(13 miles) south of Ismailia, which lies on the SuezCanal. He added that armored personnel carriers hadblocked roads leading to the area.—Internet

Afghan President’s brothersurvives attack

KABUL, 18 May—Ayounger brother of Af-ghan President HamidKarzai said he survived anattack when gunmenopened fire on his convoyand killed one of hisbodyguards.

Ahmad Wali Karzai —who heads the provincial

council in troubled south-ern Kandahar — said theattackers opened fire withrockets and heavy ma-chine-guns on his convoyheading down a highwaynear the capital Kabul.

“We were driving toKabul. All of a sudden wewere attacked from the

mountains by rockets andPK machine-guns,”Karzai told AFP.

“My car was in the lead,my bodyguards were driv-ing in a separate car justbehind me which was hit.One of my bodyguardswas hit and later died,” hesaid. The politician saidhe had been returning tothe capital from the east-ern city of Jalalabad aftertalks with dozens of tribalelders from Kandahar.

It was not immediatelyclear who was behind theattack. —Internet

Afghan troops captureTaleban commander

KABUL, 18 May—Afghan troops supported by in-ternational force have captured a Taleban commanderalong with his four men from Taleban birthplaceKandahar of south Afghanistan,a newspaper reportedon Sunday.

“During a joint operation involving Afghan police,Afghan army and Coalition forces, launched inArghandab district two days ago, Mullah Nasim alongwith four of his men were arrested,” Daily Arman-e-Millie writes. The daily quoting Interior Ministryadded there were no casualties on Afghan and Coali-tion forces.—Internet

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SOUTHERN SHUNEH, 18May—Jordan and RoyalDutch Shell PLC signeda concessionary agree-ment Sunday to explorefor oil in the country’svast oil shale deposits.

Jordanian Oil MinisterKhaldoun Qteishat andShell Vice ChairmanMalcolm Brinded signedthe deal on the sidelinesof the World EconomicForum in Jordan.

Shell will spend $540million in the project’spreliminary exploratory

People walk past during a storm at the beach in the city of Cape Town, SouthAfrica on 16 May, 2009. Cape town emergency personnel have been placed

on stand by due to stormy weather around the Western Cape over theweekend.—INTERNET

A handout picture shows electric cars moving on a road embedded with apower strip during a test drive at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science andTechnology (KAIST) in Daejeon, about 160 km (100 miles) south of Seoul, on

13 May, 2009.—INTERNET

Jordan, Shell reach oilexploration deal

SALE, 18 May — Clamor fills the factory as work-ers bent over their industrial sewing machines stitchtogether women’s garments at galloping speed. Yetthe vast workshop is only half full, its blank benchesa testimony to how the global financial meltdownswings back at the developing world.

Morocco’s diverse, open economy has served as amodel to poorer nations in Africa and the Arab world,but it has also left the country exposed to global down-turn as trade with the rich world shrinks. And manyare now watching whether the ripple effects of inter-national finance could turn nasty in a developing na-tion like this north African kingdom with strong po-litical and migration ties to Europe.

Moroccan authorities fear some 20,000 jobs are be-ing cut in the textile industry, about 10 percent of thenational total. Others have vanished in the tourism in-dustry, the backbone of the coastal country’s economy.Carmaker Nissan froze plans for a car plant promisingthousands more positions. Remittances are down, too,as Moroccans working in Europe face layoffs.

“We’re worried more cuts will follow,” said NaimaArour, shouting to make herself heard over the ham-mering of her sewing machine. “Without work, westarve here,” she said, barely lifting her eyes from thecollars she was hastily fixing to women’s blouses.

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and assessment phase be-fore commercial opera-tion.

Jordan, which sits atopan estimated 40 billiontons of oil shale deposits,imports 95 percent of itsenergy needs.

Qteishat said the“long-term concessionaryagreement will take manyyears to prove and study”whether Jordan’s reserveswill produce the badlyneeded oil.

Qteishat said theagreement will be sent to

parliament for final ap-proval next month.

Brinded said Shell willexamine the most promi-sing of Jordan’s 21 oilshale locations and “honein on the area that is mostpromising” for its pilotprogramme.

Jordan also signed 12other agreements on thesidelines of the three-dayconference, which endsSunday.

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In this photo taken on 12 March, 2009, workers are seen at Abdelhai Bessa’stextile factory in Sale, Morocco.—INTERNET

Morocco sheds jobs but hangson in financial storm

DETROIT, 18 May— At789 Chrysler lots acrossAmerica sit 44,000 poten-tial bargains, cars andtrucks that are stuck be-tween shellshocked dealersand a troubled companythat no longer wants theirservices. The dealers havejust a few weeks to sell

SINGAPORE, 18 May—Oil prices hovered above$56 a barrel Monday inAsia as traders backed offlast week’s push to above$60 amid signs of weakcrude demand.

Benchmark crude forJune delivery was up 19cents to $56.53 a barrelmidday in Singapore inelectronic trading on theNew York Mercantile Ex-change. On Monday, thecontract dropped $2.28 tosettle at $56.34.

A series of lower fore-

JAKARTA, 18 May —Indonesia’s famous resortreceived 21,492 touristsfrom China in March,surging by 88.16 percentmonth-on-month, the Ja-karta Post reported onMonday.

The increase, which isexpected to continue in thefollowing months, hasplaced China as the thirdlargest contributors oftourists to Bali only afterJapan and Australia, saidIda Komang Wisnu, headof the Bali Statistic Office.

He said that China rep-resents one of the island’snew markets, with the in-crease in March the mostsignificant compare withother expanding markets.

“The increase in Chi-nese tourists is influencedby the opening up of di-rect flights from Bali toseveral cities in China,”he said.—Internet

These cars have got to go: Dealer cuts mean dealsthe Chryslers, Dodges andJeeps or risk losing thou-sands of dollars on them,giving people who want acar on the cheap a seriouschance for a deal.

“You’ve got some verygood negotiating power,”said Dave Champion, di-rector of automobile test-ing for Consumer Reportsmagazine. “(Dealers are)really looking to shift this

inventory. It’s just stack-ing up all around them.”

On Thursday, ChryslerLLC asked a New Yorkbankruptcy court to endits franchise agreementswith the dealers, castingthem aside so theautomaker can move for-ward as a new companywith a leaner network ofabout 2,400 showrooms.

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Bali receivesmore Chinese

touristsin March

Oil hovers above $56 as rally peters outcasts for world oil con-sumption last week under-cut investor optimism thata global economic recov-ery was imminent. The In-ternational EnergyAgency, the US EnergyInformation Administra-tion and the Organizationof Petroleum ExportingCountries all cut crudedemand expectations.

The outlook for the USeconomy also turneddarker last week after dis-mal news on unemploy-ment and housing were

reported. Retail sales fellunexpectedly in April.

“The fundamentals ofoil remain quite gloomy,”said Victor Shum, an energyanalyst at consultancyPurvin & Gertz in Singa-pore. “The retail sales re-sults show the US economyis still struggling.”

Crude has risen frombelow $35 a barrel inMarch, boosting gasolineand other oil product pricesjust as the US economy isfighting to emerge from asevere recession.—Internet

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Brazilian President arrivesin China for state visit

BEIJING, 18 May—Brazilian President Luiz InacioLula da Silva arrived here on Monday, kicking offhis 3-day state visit to China.

In a written interview with Xinhua ahead of hisvisit, President Lula said he understands that theBrazil-China strategic partnership consists of threekey elements, namely, trade, scientific cooperationand coordination in international affairs.

He said the strategic partnership, established in1993, could broaden the cooperation between the twocountries and other emerging ones, and may evenlead to a new global economic, scientific and tradelandscape in the 21st century.—Xinhua

Vietnamese PM to visit Japan HANOI, 18 May—Vietnam’s Ministry of ForeignAffairs said that Vietnamese Prime Minister NguyenTan Dung will pay an official visit to Japan from 21to 23 May, 2009, said a report of the governmentwebsite on Monday. During the visit, Dung will also attend the 15thinternational conference “The Future of Asia” inTokyo, said the report. According to the local news-paper Vietnam Economic Times, the Vietnamese PMwill deliver his speech at the plenary session of theconference, and exchange views with other govern-ment leaders on measures to navigate the ongoingglobal economic crisis. Japan is now one of the biggest providers withOfficial Development Assistance (ODA) and For-eign Direct Investment (FDI) for Vietnam.—Xinhua

Hong Kong air passenger traffic up 4.1%

One killed, one injured in shooting in western Canada

Official data shows Israelieconomy in recession

JERUSALEM, 18 May—Israel’s Central Bureau of Sta-tistics (CBS) announced Sunday that the country is offi-cially in a recession. According to CBS’s data, Israel’sgross domestic product fell by 3.6 percent in the firstquarter of 2009, following a 0.5 percent drop in the lastthree months of 2008. The formal definition of a reces-sion is two consecutive months of negative economicgrowth. Israeli business sector revenue fell at an an-nual rate of 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2009,following a 1.6 percent drop in the last quarter of 2008and a 1-percent rise in the third quarter of 2008, thedata showed. Imports of goods and services dropped21.8 percent in the first quarter of 2009, while ex-ports decreased by 14.4 percent, the date said.

Per capita expenditure was down 6 percent in thefirst three months of 2009 and investment in the Is-raeli economy decreased by 7.8 percent during thesame period, according to the data.—Xinhua

China-assembled A320 plane makes test flight

HONG KONG, 18 May—Hong Kong air passengertraffic saw a mild growthof 4.1 percent in April, theAirport Authority said onSunday. The mild passen-ger growth was mainlystimulated by a rise in lo-cal residents’ travel duringthe Easter holidays.

Resident traffic saw a 40percent year-on-year in-crease in the month, whileoverall visitor traffic fell 9percent amid the economicdownturn.

In contrast to rise in pas-senger traffic, air cargo

traffic contracted promi-nently in exports to allmajor markets, down 27percent on last year. Im-ports also shrank 16 per-cent, with cargo volumesfrom South East Asia andJapan dropping the most.

Transshipment cargofell 7 percent year-on-year,while the correspondingfigures for China’s Taipeiand the Chinese mainlandsaw double-digit declines.

Cargo volume has re-corded a consistent drop of20 percent in the last threemonths. Over the past four

months, passenger trafficfell 4.3 percent year-on-year, to 15.5 million.Cargo throughput and airtraffic movements dipped22 percent and 5.9 percentrespectively.

The authority’s ChiefExecutive Officer StanleyHui said the aviation indus-try worldwide has yet toshow signs of recovery asthe gloomy economic out-look continues to dampentravel demand. This uncer-tainty has been worsenedby the recent H1N1 influ-enza A outbreak.—Xinhua

As the International Museum Day draws near, tourists and local resi-dents came to the new exhibition hall of the Suzhou Garden Museum to

know more about history and culture of the famous Suzhou gardens.XINHUA

OTTAWA, 18 May—Oneman was killed and an-other injured in a shoot-ing Saturday night inwestern Canada that po-lice suspect is a targetedhit, reports reaching heresaid on Sunday.

The shooting tookplace in the washroom ofa hotel located near thecity of Surrey in BritishColumbia Province, a po-lice spokesman said.

The two men were

rushed to hospital, whereone victim, a 34-year-oldlater died. The second vic-tim, at 28, was still in criti-cal condition Sunday af-ternoon.

The initial investiga-tion indicates the two vic-tims did not know eachother. The shooting hasall indications of a tar-geted hit, but it is notknown which victim wasthe intended target, po-lice said.

Police are looking fora male suspect in his early20s who was seen fleeingthe hotel through the rearof the building momentsafter the shooting tookplace.

It was not clear whetherthe incident was related togangs or the drug trade.

Surrey is close to Van-couver, where gang andgun crimes have claimeddozens of lives this year.

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The A/H1N1 patient sur-named Bao (2nd R,Front) poses for a photowith his girlfriend (1st R,Front), his father (3rd R,Front) and medical staffin Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on 17 May, 2009.—XINHUA

Contestant Alyona perfroms Chinese zither duringthe Moscow round of the the “Chinese Bridge”competition, a Chinese-language proficiency

contest for foreign college students in Moscow,capital of Russia, on 17 May, 2009. —XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

TIANJIN, 18 May—Thefirst Airbus A320 planeassembled in China’snorthern city of Tianjintook off at 10:45 am Mon-day for a test flight, fromthe Tianjin Binhai Inter-national Airport.

The plane is due to bedelivered to the domestic

Sichuan Airlines by theend of June, said Jean LucCharles, General Man-ager of the Airbus(Tianjin) Final AssemblyCompany Ltd.

The test flight will takefour hours.

The Tianjin-based as-sembly company is ex-

pected to deliver a total of11 A320 aircraft this year.Starting from 2011, thecompany will be able toproduce 48 A320 planesevery year, said Jean LucCharles. —Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A young Chinese girl looks at theBarbie dolls representing Europeancountries on display at an exhibitionin Beijing, China. More than 2,000

Barbie dolls will be exhibited inBeijing in celebration of Barbie’s

50th anniversary.

A Palestinian leads his camel in thehaze next to Nebi Musa Mosque nearthe West Bank town of Jericho, on 4May, 2009. Desert wind blew sand inthe air during a heat wave in parts ofIsrael and the Palestinian Authority

on Monday.

Cosima Scheiding runs with a horsedressed in a traditional Bavarian Dirndlcostume in the eastern Bavarian villageof Kirchberg im Wald. Bavariandesigner Hildegard Bergbauer, whocreates Dirndl dresses for women, alsomakes and sells Dirndl outfits for home

pets and horses.

53 pounds of packed cocainefound on Texas beach

Beachcombers found more thanseashells while strolling on a Texas beach:two dozen neatly wrapped packages ofcocaine. Jefferson County Sheriff’s LtTroy Tucker said drug smugglers havebeen known to use freighters and thecocaine may have been kicked overboardto avoid detection.The sheriff’s departmentwas working with federal agenciesWednesday to try to determine the sourceof the 53 pounds of cocaine, worth about$500,000. KFDM-TV reported the cocainewas found Tuesday west of Sea Rim StatePark, in the Sabine (suh-BEEN’) Passarea.It was found by people looking fordebris, such as metal, that washes ashore.Their names weren’t released.NJ man says burglar

used razor, took lifesavers

Whiskers were one clue that theburglar wasn’t in it just for the money.A police told he came home to findsomeone had broken into his house andtaken $500 from a bedroom dresser.But that wasn’t all. The man’s razorhad been used and whiskers were leftall over the sink. Some Life Saverswere also missing.The man told policethe burglar had left behind black sockson the floor next to his bed.There hasbeen no arrest.

Doctor receives packagewith 36 pounds of pot

Police are trying to determine whosent a Stockbridge physician a largequantity of marijuana. Police said thedoctor thought the package contained abirthday present but inside the cardboardbox was 36 pounds of pot wrapped incellophane. The doctor, whose name waswithheld, called police. A Henry Countypolice spokesman said the marijuanawas worth between $36,000 to $40,000on the streets. Police said the box wassent from Texas.

New bird found in eastern NepalOrnithologists have found yet another

species of bird in Koshi Tappu WildlifeReserve area in Sunsari district in easternNepal, local media reported on Friday.

According to myrepublica.com, thenew bird has been identified as DaurianRedstart (Phoenicurus auroreus).

According to a press statement issuedby Bird Conservation Nepal, twoornithologists found the bird for the firsttime in the country in one of the islands ofKoshi River on 25 Dec, 2008. Since thenthe ornithologists have seen this bird atleast three times again. They have recordedaround 750 bird species in the country —more than any other ornithologists’ totalfor this country — so far.

The bird forms part of a large bird

family known as Muscicapidae. Thisspecies is known to be found in India,China, Myanmar, Russia, Japan and fewSouth East Asian countries during winter.

Experts believe that this species maybe a migratory species to Nepal. Thehabitat of the bird may not have beensurveyed properly in the past. Furthersurveys are recommended in the area.With this find, Nepal now has 864 speciesof birds. The bird is believed to be aregular winter visitor to eastern Nepal,said the report.

ATHENS, 18 May—Various car dealerships,security companies andshops were damaged in aseries of firebombings byunknown attackers hereSunday morning, localmedia reported.

The attacks caused ex-tensive damage as firebroke out in a SKODA cardealership.

The car dealerships,

CAIRO, 18 May—ThePalestinian factions ofFatah and Hamas, cur-rently holding the fifthround of reconciliationtalks in Cairo, agreed onSunday to form joint se-curity forces in the GazaStrip, said a senior Fatahofficial at the talks.

“Hamas and Fatahagreed to form joint se-curity forces in Gaza,which will be in charge ofthe security service in

WASHINGTON, 18 May— A Punjab-born IndianAmerican lawyer has beennominated by PresidentBarack Obama as the USAttorney for the SouthernDistrict of New York,considered the mostprestigious federalprosecutor's post outsideWashington.

A Harvard graduate,Bharara currently is ChiefCounsel for SenatorCharles Schumer fromNew York. Obamaannounced the nominationof Bharara along with fourother nominations forvarious US attorneys—

Businesses damaged in firebombings in AthensSUZUKI and SKODA,are major suppliers of pa-trol cars and motorcyclesto Greek police.

Several security com-panies and shops sellingsecurity systems werealso damaged in thefirebombings.

No group has so farclaimed responsibility forthe attacks.

In Greece, groups of

anarchists frequently setfire to symbols of stateauthority, banks, govern-ment buildings and carswith foreign licenseplates, to protest govern-ment economic and socialpolicies.

The attacks have beenintensified since theshooting of a teenager bya police officer in Decem-ber 2008.—Internet

Obama nominates Indian American forUS attorney in NY

Tristram Coffin, JennyDurkan, Paul Fishman,John Paul Kacavas andJoyce Vance, the WhiteHouse said.

"This group of men andwomen have distinguishedthemselves as fair,tenacious and respectedattorneys throughout theircareers in both public andprivate service," Obamasaid in a statement. "Theywill serve their countrywith distinction as USAttorneys and it is myhonour to nominate themfor these esteemedpositions", he said.

If confirmed by the

Senate, Bharara would leadan office that is consideredthe most prestigious federalprosecutor's post outsideWashington, with a focuson securities fraud, white-collar crime, publiccorruption and terrorism,The New York Timesreported.

Named the 2007 SouthAsian Lawyer of the Yearby the North AmericanSouth Asian BarAssociation, Bhararaserved as Staff Director ofthe Subcommittee onAdministrative Oversightand the Courts from 2005to 2009. — MNA/PTIFatah, Hamas to establish joint forces in Gaza

Gaza until January,”Nabil Shaath, a leadingFatah delegate, said in astatement at the end ofSunday’s talks.

He added that repre-sentatives of all the Pales-tinian factions will cometo Cairo for the final roundof reconciliation talks on5 July, when the draftdocument of a unity dealwould be discussed.

“On 7 July, the day ofthe signing of the final

agreement, a committeeof Egyptian and Arab of-ficers would go to Gazato supervise the rebuild-ing of Palestinian secu-rity forces,” he said.

The pan-Arab al-Jazeera satellite TVquoted Egyptian sourcesassaying that Cairo in-sists the draft agreementof the current round oftalks be presented to thefinal round of talks on 7July.—Internet

A Silvia butterfly perches on a plant in Galleria Borghese’s tearoom in Romeon 13 May, 2009. The gardens are hosting a springtime educational event enti-tled “Tea with the butterflies” running from 9 April to 23 May, which allowsvisitors to sip tea in an atrium filled with the colourful insects. — Internet

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Kengtung in Shan State (East) benefiting fromsmooth transport and agricultural farms

Article: Tin Win Lay (Kyimyindine); Photos: Htay Aung (Kyemon)

A panoramic view of Kengtung.

(from page 1)Standing at an

altitude of 2710 feet,Kengtung, a multi-cultural town, has an areaof 2100.45 square milesand a population of242,167.

With favourableconditions for agri-cultural farming,Kengtungß is thecommercial hub of theregion and enjoys foodsurplus. There, housingestates are well-

organized with houses,departmental buildings,markets, schools andhospitals, thus reflecting

the living standard of localpeople getting higher.

In an interview, alocal as well as Assistant

U Aung Htay Kywe said,“We work together withthe Township GeneralAdministration Depart-ment to keep our townshipclean and pleasant. Wealso collaborate withrelated departments forrenovation of the roads,supply of safe water, andhealth care.”

I noticed that the mainroads in Kengtung werewide and were kept clean.In particular, Kengtung-Tachilek Road andKengtung-Mongla Roadwere as fine as the mainroads in Yangon andMandalay. Moreover, thenewly-built road toKengtung Airport wasfound grand. The fineroads inside and outsideKengtung reflected thesmooth transport of theregion. Conducting meround Naungkun Market,U Aung Htay Kywe of thetownship DAC and ChiefEngineer U Myo MinThan explained that themarket used to be messedwith illegal sellers; andthat then the committeewas renovating it. I saw

U Aung Htay Kywe, Assistant Director ofKengtung Township Development Affairs

Committee.

that Myoma, Naungnwan,Yankham and Naungpanmarkets were bustlingwith trade activities.

Chief Engineer UMyo Min Than said thatin 2008-2009 fiscal yearthey managed to upgradeseven rural into tarredroads and construct ruralgravel roads; and that theregion's transport hadimproved a lot.

He said that in orderto supply safe water tourban people, Kwephyanand Nang Khin Nwewater supply enterpriseshave set up 960 taps inthe region.

We went around thetown and saw NaungtonLake in the centre of thetown. Around the lake areshade trees such asYaytamar (cedrelafebrifuga) and gold mohurtrees. And it is fenced witha brick wall. So, it is freefrom rubbish and the wateris clear.

Then, we drove ontothe Thittabin Mountain.On both sides along theroad are large trees. Whenwe got to the summit, we

were surprised by a largeKanyin (dipterocarpusalatus) tree. The stoneplaque said that it wasgrown in the time of KingAlaung Mintragyi in 1115Myanmar Era. So, it is now256 years old. It is 218feet high and is 36 feet andeight inches incircumference.

We took somedocumentary photos ofKengtung from thecompound of the Myanma

Posts and Tele-communications on thetop of the mountain.Kengtung is differentlypleasant from other hilly

towns.Unlike in the past,

Kengtung has got manyinfrastructural buildingsfor development in thetime of the Tatmadawgovernment. Now, it isenjoying significantdevelopment withsmooth transport,thriving agriculturalfarms, and markedincrease in trade as fruitsof the guidance of theHead of State that all parts

of the Union will enjoyequitable development.

Translation: MSKyemon: 15-5-2009

***

Kanyin (dipterocarpus alatus) tree onThittabin Mountain in Kengtung.

Kyauktaing Junction of Kengtung is decorated with landscaping trees.

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Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen MaungMaung Swe and wife being welcomed by Ambassador of EU Mr DavidLipman and wife at the reception to mark European Union Day at the

office of European Union in Yangon on 18 May.—MNA

Deputy Minister for Finance and Revenue Col Hla Thein Swe attends42nd annual meeting of Asian Development Bank.—F&R

Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspectsregional development…

(from page 1)Lt-Gen Tha Aye inspected renovation tasks of

Maha Nanda Lake in Pauk-kaung village-tract ofShwebo Township being carried out by IrrigationDepartment. Lt-Gen Tha Aye also inspected beautifyingtasks and progress of Shwebo in a motorcade.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye also visited Ayadaw-2 WaterPumping Project near Magyisauk village in AyadawTownship, Monywa District being implemented by

Water Resources Utilization Department of Ministryof Agriculture and Irrigation. Lt-Gen Tha Aye theninspected irrigation of water from artesian well No.1of Water Resources Utilization Department in Myaynatvillage of Ayadaw Township.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye and party inspected constructionof Union Highway from Homes for the Aged to Kywe-ye Junction in a motorcade and visited Aung Theikdibriquette factory of Thiha Tun Co Ltd in Obotaungvillage, Monywa.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye also inspected upgrading ofroad at the corner of Kanthya Street and Kywe-yeStreet on Union Highway.

Afterwards, Lt-Gen Tha Aye visited foundryand machine tools factory of Thiha Tun Co Ltd inwhich he inspected production of different kinds ofmachine tools, power tillers and automobiles. Onarrival at physic-nuts grinding mill of MonywaDivision Peace and Development Council, Lt-GenTha Aye inspected grinding of physic-nuts andmanufacturing of natural fertilizer from the wastesof physic-nuts.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye then met with industrialistsof Monywa Industrial Zone and stressed the needsfor higher output of the factories.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 May—Minister for Industry-2 Vice-Admiral SoeThein received the Chi-nese delegation led byMs Luo Yan, Presidentof China CAMC Engi-

Industry-2 Minister receives Chineseindustrial delegation

neering Co Ltd, at theministry here today.

The meeting focusedon completion of theprojects being carriedout by the Company inMyanmar ahead of

schedule and they dis-cussed matters related tothe future cooperationbetween Ministry of In-dustry-2 and ChinaCAMC Engineering CoLtd. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 May— Myanmar delegationled by Deputy Minister forFinance and Revenue ColHla Thein Swe arrivedback here after attendingthe 42nd annual meeting ofAsian Development Bankheld in Bali, Indonesia,from 1 to 5 May.

The 42nd meetingkicked off at InternationalConvention Centre in Balion 4 May with an addressby President of IndonesiaMr Susilo BambangYudhoyono. Delegatesfrom member countries ofADB, officials from ADBand invited guests

attended the meeting.Myanmar delegation

also participated in themeeting of the highranking officials from theSoutheast Asia, specialmeeting of ASEAN+3countries, the meeting ofthe deputy ministers ofthe finance and centralbanks of ASEAN+3

F & R Dy Minister attends 42nd

annual meeting of ADB

YANGON, 18 May—Chairman of the RakhineState Peace andDevelopment Council andCommander of WesternCommand Maj-GenThaung Aye, Minister forIndustry-1 U Aung Thaungand Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe visitedKyetaw village, SittwayTownship yesterdaymorning. They met withlocal people from Kyetaw,Pyaiseik and Shwe Pyithavillages at Kyetaw BasicEducation Post-Primaryschool. After hearing reportby local people, theCommander and theMinisters fulfilled therequirements, andexplained the situation onthe use of bio-batteries forlighting villages.

Next, the Commanderpresented bio-batteries andclothes, Minister U AungThaung presented K500,000 for repairing ofKyetaw Basic EducationPrimary School, 100 bags

of cement forKyetawywama BasicEducation Primary School,50 bags of cement for ShwePyitha village BasicEducation Primary School,500000 kyats forKyetawywama Dham-mayon and Shwe Pyithamonastery each and 50 bagsof cement for Pyaiseikvillage monastery, andMinister Maj-Gen TheinSwe 65 CI sheets for ShwePyitha Dhammayon and200 CI sheets for monasteryand 100 CI sheets forPyaiseik village monastery,and Director-General ofCivil Service Selection andTraining Board U KyawZan Hla exercise books,publications and clothes forvillagers.

They cordially greetedlocal people.

Then, the Com-mander and Ministersarrived at Yaychanpyinvillage, they metlocal people fromMaungnipyin, Yay-

chanpyin, Kyettawpyinand Ohnyaybaw villages.

After hearing thereport, they fulfilledrequirements.

Commander Maj-GenThaung Aye presented bio-batteries for lighting thevillage and clothes, MinisterU Aung Thaung K 1 millionfor Yaychanpyin BasicEducation Primary school,100 bags of cement forKyeettawpyin BasicEducation Primary school,50 bags of cement forMaungnipyin andOhnyaybaw BasicEducation Primary schoolseach and 575 plasticcommodes for villages, andMinister Maj-Gen TheinSwe bio-batteries andclothes, 100 CI sheets forMaungnipyin andOhnyaybaw BasicEducation Primary schools,and Director-General ofCSSTB U Kyaw Zan Hlaexercise books, publicationand clothes to villagers.

MNA

Regional development tasks in SittwayTownship inspected

countries, the specialmeeting on investmentand the meeting oninfrastructure network ofASEAN and WorldBank.— MNA

U Aung Thein,managing directorof Jumbo mosquitocoil introduces new

product JumboSuper Mosquito coil.

(News reported).NLM

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Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of the Ministry of Defence inspects Myanma Tyre and Rubber Industries.—MNA

Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo attends theopening ceremony of Pakhan Seikkan road in Hinthada.—MNA

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw inspects upgrading of roads in Kayin State, tyre factory project in Bilin

NAY PYI TAW, 18 May— Lt-Gen Khin Zaw ofthe Ministry of Defence,accompanied by Chairmanof Mon State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of the South-East Command Maj-GenThet Naing Win, Chair-man of Kayin State Peaceand Development Council

Brig-Gen Zaw Min anddepartmental officials, in-spected the condition ofThanlwin Bridge (Hpa-an)on 16 May.

After the inspectiontour, they went to Univer-sity of Computer Studies(Hpa-an) and Lt-Gen KhinZaw presented sportsequipment and gifts to the

principal of the university.Afterwards, they vis-

ited the village of Barkapand inspected the physicnut plantation in the vil-lage.

Lt-Gen Khin Zaw andparty inspected the up-grading of the road to Uni-versity of Computer Stud-ies (Hpa-an).

They also inspectedpaving of asphalt onThaton-Hpa-an road sec-tion and Yangon-Myeikroad section being carriedout by Shwethanlwinhighway Co.

At the briefing hall ofthe Co, the managing di-rector of Shwethanlwin Coreported on road works for

Kyeikto-Mawlamyineroad section and Thaton-Myainggalay road section.

Afterwards, Lt-GenKhin Zaw visited radial tyrefactory project in Bilin wherethe director of Myanma In-dustrial Construction Serv-ices reported on constructionwork for the project.

The factory manager

of Myanma Tyre and Rub-ber Industries reported ontypes of tyres to be manu-factured by the factory andmachinery to be equippedat the factory.

After the briefing, Lt-Gen Khin Zaw visited thefactory project construc-tion site of the Ministry ofIndustry-2.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18May—Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo, on 11May, attended the openingceremony of PakhanSeikkan gravel road pavedby the TownshipDevelopment Committeein Hinthada.

With the emergenceof the 2320 feet long and12 feet wide gravel road,over 60 thousand localsfrom 23 wards and 8villages in Hinthada nowhave transportation access

to Pakhan jetty in allseason.

Next, the Minister metwith locals and presentedthem with 50 LED lamps,generator charger andexplained how to makewaste-used batteries.TheMinister then inspectedconstruction of classroomsin Alesu village No.1BEMS in HinthadaTownship.

The Minister alsodemonstrated how tomake and use waste-usedbatteries in Nathmaw

village.The Minister

inspected wells and lakesin wards and villages ofthe township, tube wellsin Ywathagon andTanhlagyi villages anddemonstrated lightingwith waste-used batteries.

The Minister met withlocal people from Sipin,Tagwa, Zhongdon, Zigon,Chaungpya, Leti andAyema villages anddemonstrated lightingwith the use of waste-usedbatteries.—MNA

Minister supervises development tasks in Hinthada

Subject doing math problems with arms swinging.

Body movements can influence problem solvingCHICAGO, 18 May —

Swinging their armshelped participants in anew study solve a problemwhose solution involvedswinging strings,researchers report,

demonstrating that thebrain can use bodily cuesto help understand andsolve complex problems.

The study is the first toshow that a person’s abilityto solve a problem can be

influenced by how he orshe moves.

“Our manipulation ischanging the way peoplethink,” said University ofIllinois psychologyprofessor Alejandro Lleras,who conducted the studywith Vanderbilt Universitypostdoctoral researcherLaura Thomas, his formergraduate student.

“In other words, bydirecting the way peoplemove their bodies, we are –unbeknownst to them –directing the way they thinkabout the problem.”

Internet

YANGON, 18 May—Myanmar Writers andJournalists’ Association(MWJA) will openJournalism Course (2/2009) in the third week ofJune. Those wishing toattend the course must beat least matriculation exam

Journalism Course (2/2009) to be openedpassed, those between 20and 35 with over two yearsexperience in media as areporter or higher level.The six-week coursewhich starts from 8:30 amand ends at 11:30 am costsK 30,000.

Applicants are to

apply at MWJA, No.5292nd Floor on MerchantStreet, Sarpay BeikmanBuilding here by 4 pm on5 June together with therecommendation letter ofCEO or CE of respectivejournals and magazines.

MNA

Bangladeshi delegation winds up visit to MyanmarYANGON, 18 May —

Bangladeshi delegationled by Foreign Minister ofthe People’s Republic ofBangladesh Dr. DipuMoni left here yesterdayby air after concluding thegoodwill visit toMyanmar.

They were seen off at

the airport by Deputy Di-rector-General of the Pro-tocol Department of theMinistry of Foreign Af-fairs U Myint Oo, Charged’ Affaires ai Mr. Md.Golam Mostafa, MilitaryAttache’ Brig-Gen A.N.MShawkat Jamal, ndc, pscof the Embassy of the

People’s Republic ofBangladesh.

The delegation vis-ited Shwedagon Pagodayesterday morning anddonated cash to the fundsof the pagoda.

Afterwards, they vis-ited the tomb of King ZafaSha.—MNA

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Notification on unregisteredtraditional medicines

The Ministry of Health is conducting laboratory tests on traditionalmedicines for the people to use quality and potent medicines that are harmless tothem. In that regard, people are hereby informed that the following traditionalmedicines currently in the market are the ones incapable of guaranteeing potencyas they have been unregistered, and they do not suit the people.

SN Medicines Origins

1. Black cat brand No addressphysical tonic

2. Five lotus brand Five lotus medical houseYesin blood purifier 79/Namyin, Mogaung

3. White dove brand Dove pharmaceutical industryKachin blood tonic Myitkyina

4. Hammer-sickle brand Hammer-sickle pharmaceuticalPain killer powder industry

5. Thamadaw Thamadaw medical hallDigestion powder Mogaung market

6. Kyaw brand

Asthma killer No address

7. Paediatric medicine Ngwesabai medical houseSanpya Ward, Namma, Kachin State

8. Shwelayaung brand Thamadaw medical houseInfantile ailment killer Mogaung market

9. Woman blood purifier Bawathit medical house155/Dukataung Ward, Myitkyina

10. Women blood purifier No address

11. Cross-bow brand Wanya medical houseGastric killer 105/Ward-3, Waingmaw

12. Mucus removing lotion Shwegonwin medical houseSangyoung, Yangon

13. Five lotus brand 79/Namyin, MogaungBlood purifier

14. Yawlayba Yawlayba medical houseDigestion powder 36/Ward-12, Thitsa Road, Kanbe

Yankin Township, Yangon

15. Diamond key brand Diamond key pharmaceutical industryPain killer 37/A, 20th Street, Latha Township,

Yangon

16. Hypertension reducer No address

The people are advised not to purchase medicines that are not registeredat the Traditional Medicine Department of the Ministry of Health and purchaseand use the registered ones only.

The medicine distributors and medicine shops are not to distribute andsold the unregistered ones, and if they fail to do so, action will be taken againstthem according to law.

Ministry of Health

YANGON, 18 May—Myanmar JuniorWeightlifting Team thismorning left here by airfor Thailand to participatein the 1st World JuniorWeightlifting Cham-pionship to be held atChingmai from 19 to 24May.

Myanmar weightlifting contingent leavesThe team comprises

leader U Htay Win, coachJoint Secretary of theMyanmar WeightliftingFederation Daw Win WinMaw, and players KayKhine (YCDC), Ma AyeCho (Sports and PhysicalEducation Institution-Mandalay) and Moe

Thuza (Sports andPhysical EducationInstitution-Yangon) andSecretary of theFederation and AssistantDirector U Myint Shwe ofthe Sports and PhysicalEducation Departmentwho will act as umpireGrade-1.—MNA

Medicinal plant, St John’s Wort, mayreduce neuronal degeneration

Hypericum perforatum.

MADRID, 18 May —A research team from theUniversidad Complu-tense de Madrid (UCM)has carried out a studyentitled, “Hypericumperforatum. Possibleoption against Park-inson's disease”, whichsuggests that this plantwith antidepressantproperties has antioxidantactive ingredients thatcould help reduce theneuronal degenerationcaused by the disease.

In the last few years,the idea that the excessivenumbers of free radicalshas an important role inthe complex etiology ofParkinson's disease hasspread. Post-morteminvestigations haverevealed evidence of lipidperoxidation as well as

oxidative damage to theDNA of brain proteins in

patients suffering fromthe disease. —Internet

Old genes can learn new tricks

Two Onthophagustaurus males. ArminMoczek and Debra

Rose's study suggestsseveral genes involved

in making legs andantennae were co-opted

to make the beetles'horns. Horns are anovel trait that isunique to horned

beetles.

BLOOMINGTON, 18 May — A popular view amongevolutionary biologists that fundamental genes do notacquire new functions has been challenged by a newstudy in the Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences.

Indiana University Bloomington biologist ArminMoczek and research associate Debra Rose reportthat two ancient genes were "co-opted" to help builda new trait in beetles -- the fancy antlers that givehorned beetles their name. The genes, Distal-less andhomothorax, touch most aspects of insect larvaldevelopment, and have therefore been consideredoff-limits to the evolution of new traits.

In the two horned beetle species Moczek andRose studied, the genetic sequences of Distal-less andhomothorax were hardly different, suggesting thetwo genes have retained their unique identities becauseof selective pressures not to change. —Internet

SCIENCEDAILY, 18May — Scientists havelong wondered how tinysilicate crystals, whichneed sizzling hightemperatures to form,have found their way intofrozen comets, born in thedeep freeze of the solarsystem's outer edges. Thecrystals would havebegun as non-crystallizedsilicate particles, part ofthe mix of gas and dustfrom which the solarsystem developed.

A team ofastronomers believes they

Spitzer catches star cooking up comet crystals

The image shows a young sun-like star encircledby its planet-forming disk of gas and dust. The

silicate that makes up most of the dust would havebegun as non-crystallized, amorphous particles.

have found a newexplanation for bothwhere and how thesecrystals may have beencreated, by using NASA'sSpitzer Space Telescopeto observe the growingpains of a young, sun-likestar. Their study results,which appear in the 14May issue of Nature,provide new insight intothe formation of planetsand comets.

The researchers fromGermany, Hungary andthe Netherlands found thatsilicate appears to have

been transformed intocrystalline form by anoutburst from a star. Theydetected the infraredsignature of silicatecrystals on the disk of dustand gas surrounding thestar EX Lupi during oneof its frequent flare-ups,or outbursts, seen bySpitzer in April 2008.These crystals were notpresent in Spitzer'sprevious observations ofthe star's disk during oneof its quiet periods.

"We believe that wehave observed, for thefirst time, ongoing crystalformation," said one ofthe paper's authors, AttilaJuhasz of the Max-PlanckInstitute for Astronomyin Heidelberg, Germany."We think that thecrystals were formed bythermal annealing ofsmall particles on thesurface layer of the star'sinner disk by heat fromthe outburst.—Internet

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US military probes BlackwaterKabul killing

Recession threatens US progressin child wellbeing

New York City closes 9 schoolsover A/H1N1 concerns

NEW YORK, 18 May—Three more schools inQueens of New York City will be temporarily closedover A/H1N1 flu concern, thus bringing the totalschools closed over the concern to nine, the cityannounced Sunday.

Starting on Monday, the newest closings are inaddition to three other schools that will not be open thisweek as well as three others that were closed last week.

Local channel NY1 quoted Scott Harper of theNew York City Department of Health as saying Sundaythat “We’ve been monitoring schools for absenteeismand cases of influenza-like illness that present to theschool nurses on a daily basis and these three schoolsas we looked at their numbers over the last few dayslooked like it would be prudent to close them as we’veclosed other schools.”

The schools previously announced as closingMonday will remain closed for at least five days whilecrews work to sanitize the buildings. They join the firstthree which will be closed through Thursday.

Only one school has confirmed A/H1N1 cases.Among the infected in the school, assistant principalMitchell Wiener died Sunday evening, the first A/H1N1 death in New York State.—MNA/Xinhua

Singapore non-oil domesticexports drop 19% in AprilSINGAPORE, 18 May—Singapore’s key non-oil

domestic exports (NODX) declined by 19 per cent inApril over the same period last year, following the 17per cent decrease in the previous month, the officialdata showed on Monday. International EnterpriseSingapore (IE Singapore), the country’s trade-promotion agency, said in its monthly report that thedecline was due to lower electronic and non-electronicexports. On a year-on-year basis, electronic NODXcontracted by 26 per cent in April, identical to thedecline in the previous month. The decrease waslargely due to lower domestic exports of parts ofintegrated circuits, personal computers and disk drives.

Non-electronic NODX decreased by 15 per cent inApril, following the 12 per cent decline in the previousmonth. The contraction was led by reduced domesticexports of petrochemicals, pumps and disk mediaproducts.

MNA/Xinhua

Vietnamese rice exportcontinues to reach record

highHANOI, 18 May—Vietnam has so far this year

exported 2.57 million tons of rice, bringing homerevenue of 1.05 billion US dollars, said a report of theVietnam Food Association on Monday.

In the first two weeks of May, the country exported280, 827 tons, worth 117.62 million US dollars, saidthe report.

The figure shows the ever-high record rice exportvolume of Vietnam despite the global economicdownturn, according to the local newspaper VietnamEconomic Times on Monday.

The association proposed the government toincrease by 200,000 tons to 5.2 million tons of rice forexport this year from the previous target of 4.5 to 5million tons due to the expected high yield from thisyear autumn-summer and winter-autumn harvest.

MNA/Xinhua

CHICAGO, 18 May—Hard economic times arehitting the United States’youngest citizens,threatening to roll backdecades worth of gains inhealth, safety andeducation, according to areport released on Monday.

It suggests thecountry’s most severerecession in a generation,which has cost more thanfive million Americanjobs since it began in late2007, is having a drasticimpact on children. “Ourprojections show thatvirtually all the progressmade in family economicwell-being since 1975 willbe wiped out,” Ken Landof Duke University inDurham, North Carolina,and colleagues wrote in2009 Child Well-BeingIndex and Special Focus

LOORRS unlimited super lite driver Joey Granatelli flips as he crashes in round 3 ofthe Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series in Wittmann, Ariz, on 2 May 2009.—INTERNET

Mexican wrestler LilChicken looks like a

pollo loco as he fightsoff one of Los

Cavaleras’ luchadores atthe Lucha Vavoom

Cinco de Mayo show inLos Angeles, on 5 May.

Lucha Vavoomcombines elements of

theatrical Mexicanmasked wrestling withAmerican burlesque.

INTERNET

A man positions roasted pigs dressed as a bride

and a groom during an annual roasted pig festival

in Manila, Phillipines, on 17 May, 2009.

INTERNET

Report.The annual report,

sponsored by theFoundation for ChildDevelopment, a privatechild advocacy group,measures economic,health, safety and socialfactors affecting children

and teens. Based oncurrent estimates, thereport projects that thecurrent recession will paremedian annual familyincomes back to 55,700US dollars by 2010, downfrom 59,200 US dollars in2007.—MNA/Reuters

KABUL, 18 May—TheUS military isinvestigating a shootingincident in which fourcontractors from the re-named firm formerlycalled Blackwater areaccused of killing anAfghan man after a trafficaccident, a spokesmansaid on Sunday.

The firm said it hadfired the four men forfailing to followregulations. A lawyer forthe four men said theywere being held against

their will by the firm inKabul. The North Carolinafirm, which once had alucrative contract todefend US diplomats inIraq, has changed its nameto Xe Services and lost itsIraq contract this year.

It gained notoriety inIraq after its staff killed 17civilians in Baghdadduring a traffic incident in2007. One Blackwaterguard has pleaded guiltyto manslaughter and othercharges over that incidentand five others areawaiting trial.

“At this time, we canconfirm an incidentinvolving some of our off-

duty contractors forParavant in Afghanistan,”Anne Tyrell,spokeswoman for the firm,said in an e-mail toReuters. She identifiedParavant as a subsidiaryof Xe, the renamed firm.

US military spokes-man Lieutenant ColonelChristian Kubik said thefour men were employedto train Afghan troops.After being involved in acar crash in Kabul on May5, they fired on anoncoming car that they sawas a threat, wounding threeAfghans, one of whom diedtwo days later, Kubiksaid.—MNA/Reuters

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI PRESTIGE VOY NO (002)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI PRES-TIGE VOY NO (002) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 18.5.2009 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 up 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

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SIRI BHUM VOY NO (330 )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SIRI BHUMVOY NO (330) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 19.5.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV JUTAWAN VOY NO (03/09)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV JUTAWANVOY NO (03/09 ) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 18.5.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: K.M INTERTRANS-CO., LTDPhone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GOLD MENAM VOY NO (93)Consignees of cargo carried on MV GOLD

MENAM VOY NO ( 93) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 19.5.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: EASTERN CAR LINER LTDPhone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SEA CHART-1 VOY NO (05/09)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SEA CHART-1 VOY NO (05/09) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 19.5.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of S.P.W where it will lie atthe consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: SEA CHART & AGENCIES CO.,LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

Russia issues Spaintravel warning

MADRID, 18 May—The Russian government’s Epi-demiology Service on Sunday officially recommendedits citizens avoid visiting Spain which has 100 con-firmed influenza A/H1N1 cases, according to Spanishmedia.

“A hundred flu cases is something serious,” saidGuennadi Onischenko, head of the epidemiologicalservice. “We are asking our citizens to cancel trips toSpain.” Russian airports already have strict controlson passengers who began their journey in the Ameri-cas and are landing or changing planes in Russia.

Onischenko said that the service had examinedaround 6,000 passengers in the last 24 hours and nosingle case of the new deadly strain had been spotted.

According to official statistics, there are some500,000 Russian travel to Spain every year.

Russia has also issued travel warnings on the UnitedStates, Mexico and Canada.—Internet

China sorts out 3,400 problematic ruralhydropower plants in six years

HANGZHOU, 18 May—China sorted out more than3,400 problematic ruralhydropower plants in sixyears in an effort to curbrising number of safety ac-cidents, the Ministry ofWater Resources said Sun-day.

Underlying danger wasfound in more than 20,000old hydropower plantsbuilt in rural areas beforethe 1990s, whose buildingand equipment were less

sturdy, a ministry officialtold an industry confer-ence on rural water re-sources held in Hangzhou,capital of east China’sZhejiang Province.

In 2006, eight peoplewere killed in theShuanglong hydropowerplant in Pingshan Countyof Sichuan Province afterthe water-holding wall col-lapsed during a trial runviolation.

A year later, the water

channel in the Zhenaipower station in YunnanProvince collapsed, claim-ing five lives.

In order to reduce safetyaccidents, the ministry hadsince 2003 tightened su-pervision on work safetyin major hydropower sta-tions, and carried out an-nual overhauls, said TianZhongxing, head of theministry’s ruralhydropower developmentdepartment.—Internet

3G ready but users lag behindBEIJING, 18 May —

China Unicom, one of thenation’s three leadingmobile operators, startedtrials of its high-speed,third-generation (3G) net-work yesterday.

3G lets users enjoyfaster wireless datadownloads, make videocalls and watch TV pro-grams via mobile phones.The trial network covers55 cities and would ex-pand to 284 cities by the

end of September, saidcompany president ChangXiaobing. He said regularservice would start atyear-end. China Unicomis the last operator afterChina Mobile and ChinaTelecom to start trial op-eration for a 3G service.However, experts warnthat the new service maynot give a boost to the tel-ecommunications marketdue to its high cost.

Internet

A customer displays her3G mobile phonein Fuzhou, capital ofsoutheast China’s Fujian Province.—XINHUA

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Chile confirms secondA/H1N1 flu case just hours

after firstSANTIAGO, 18 May—Chilean health authorities on

Sunday confirmed a second case of the A/H1N1 flu,hours after the first case was confirmed.

Both victims were women over 30 who had arrivedin Chile from the Dominican Republic. The secondwoman is a friend of the first, who had arrived fromPunta Cana, aboard Copa Airlines flight 437.

That flight carried over 100 people and healthauthorities are now working hard to locate all of thoseaboard, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo told reporters.

Earlier in the day, Erazo said the first woman hadbeen quarantined at the Thorax Hospital in the capitaland was receiving anti-viral treatment.

He said the fever scanner installed at the airportterminal had shown effectiveness, “allowing us ap-propriate detection and information of every personentering the country.”Sources at Copa Airlines saidthey were cooperating with authorities in seekingpassengers on the Saturday flight.

The World Health Organization said that there arenow 8,451 cases of the disease worldwide, but onlysix deaths outside of Mexico, with four in the UnitedStates and one each in Canada and Costa Rica.

Internet

Japan’s domestic infectionof new flu hit 92

US firm plans to launch solar powercollectors into orbit

People wearing protective masks walk on a streetin Kobe in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan.

Japan said that nine more high school studentshad tested positive for swine flu, bringing the total

number of domestic infections to 92 amid fearsthe virus has a foothold in the community.

INTERNET

Participants, who attain the age of 20 years, take an oath during a Coming ofAge Day ceremony and representation of traditional ‘Gwan-Rye’ in Uwang,

South Korea, on 17 May, 2009. The ceremony was held to authorize people atthe age of 20, who have been living under the protection of their families, as

independent individual.—INTERNET

Explosions rock Sunoco refinery

Quake hits LA area

LOS ANGELES, 18May—The San Francisco-based Pacific Gas &Electric (PG&E) hassigned a contract to buypower from an ambitiousstart-up that plans tolaunch solar powercollectors into orbit toback energy as radiowaves, it was reported onSunday.

The start-up calledSolaren Corp. won’tdiscuss the details or costsof its plan, other than togive a ballpark price tag at

more than 2 billion USdollars, according to theLos Angeles Times.

The Mahattan BeachSolaren aims to generateenough electricity for150,000 homes acrossmuch of Northern andCentral California, thepaper said.

The PG&E has agreedto buy the power ifSolaren can make thetechnology work, said thepaper.

Solaren executives saythat by 2016 they can put

together the technology toharness energy that con-stantly bathes Earth from148million kilometresaway, said the paper.

“If our numbers areanywhere near where wethink they will be, we willbe able to provide powerat a cost that’s comparablewith anything on Earth,that is much cleaner and allfrom space,” GarySpirnak, Solaren’s chiefexecutive, said in remarkspublished by the paper.

Internet

LOS ANGELES,18May—A magnitude 5earthquake struck south ofLos Angeles InternationalAirport Sunday, causingshaking but apparentlylittle damage, officialssaid.The Los AngelesTimes said there were noinjuries.

The Times said thetemblor hit at about 8:30pm near Lennox on SouthBay. A magnitude 3aftershock hit the Lennox

area a few minutes later.Lennox residents said

the temblor knockedchina off shelves, butcaused no seriousdamages.

The US GeologicalSurvey said the temblorstarted 8.4 miles belowthe surface, and the LasAngeles Fire Departmentwent into “emergencyquake mode,” simply as aprecaution, the Timessaid. —Internet

MARCUS HOOK, 18May—Firefighters werebattling the flames at aSunoco refinery on thePennsylvania-Delawareborder early Mondaymorning, officials said.

The blaze followedmassive explosions at therefinery, one of the largestin the Northeast, lateSunday. There appearedto be no injuries, thePhiladelphia Inquirerreported.

The explosionsapparently began in asmall part of the refineryin Claymont, Del, whichis just south of the mainrefinery in Marcus Hook,Pa., the Inquirer said.

Reports said the chemicalinvolved in the explosionwas ethylene, a byproductof oil refining used inplastics, the newspapersaid.

There were no eva-cuations from nearbycommunities, thoughflames could be seenas far away as thePhiladelphia Airport,the Inquirer reported.However, police blockedoff roads near therefinery.

Sunoco officials didnot have official in-formation on the cause ofthe explosions, theInquirer said, but theblasts came just three

days after Pennsylvaniafined the Marcus Hookfacility more than$762,000 for air qualityviolations. —Internet

TOKYO, 18 May—Thenumber of domestic in-fections cases of in-fluenza A/H1N1 in Japanhit 92 as of Mondaymorning with all the pa-tients in Osaka andHyogo prefectures, localmedia reported.

The total number of theinfection in the countrynow stands at 96, includ-ing the first four casescontracted in NorthAmerica.

The country is nowfacing the risk of grass-root outbreak which couldlead the WHO to raise itsnew flu pandemic alertfrom the current 5 to thehighest level of 6, whichmeans community-leveloutbreaks in two differentWHO regions, experts

has warned.The WHO is launching

investigation on thesituation in Japan.

The Japanese govern-ment will convene anemergency meeting todiscuss countermeasureson the spread of theepidemic.

The newly confirmeddomestic cases includedhigh school students,college students, theirfamily members andteachers, the healthministry and localgovernments said onSunday.

Japan on Saturday con-firmed the first eight casesof domestic infection onstudents of a Kobe highschool.

Internet

Cholera outbreak continues spreadingnorth of Vietnam

HANOI, May 18—Thenorthern Thai Binhprovince of Vietnam

reported three individualshad tested positive forcholera, making the 9thlocality to report thedisease in the north-centralregion of the country, theYouth reported Monday.

The patients had eatendog meat while workingin Hanoi and showedsymptoms of the diseaseafter returning to theirhometown, said theprovincial Center ofPreventive Health.

Although there are noofficial figures so far, thenumber of individualssuffering acute diarrheain Vietnam has been

reportedly increased overthe past month.

Meanwhile, the Na-tional Institute of Hygieneand Epidemiology re-ported samples of dogmeat, both cooked anduncooked, from slaugh-terhouses in Ha Dongdistrict of Hanoi had testedpositive for the cholerabacterium.

Vietnam’s health of-ficials instructed localagencies to step up earlydetection of suspectedcases to offer timelytreatment and prevent thespread of the potentiallydeadly disease.—Internet

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S P O R T S

Benitez fuels feud with Ferguson over title

Indian man finishes 90thmarathon in US

Two down, one to gofor treble chasers Barcelona

Coach Pep Guardiola

Hiddink urges Chelsea to stopUnited juggernaut

Chelsea managerGuus Hiddink

Perfectionist Mourinho stillfocussed on winning

ROME, 18 May—Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinhowas in no mood to party despite his side having al-ready clinched the Serie A crown ahead of their 3-0win over Siena. AC Milan’s 2-1 defeat at Udinese aday earlier had ensured a fourth straight scudetto crownfor Inter, but that was not enough to make the Portu-guese boss forget his hard-working principles.

“It was important to win, there wouldn’t have beenmuch point to our party if we hadn’t won,” saidMourinho.”This was a serious match, we weren’t kid-ding around. Our strength is that we always play veryseriously. “Even today I got angry because we stillhad the aim of winning the top scorer trophy, not for(Zlatan) Ibrahimovic but for the whole team — even(Mario) Balotelli had to play for Ibra.”

The big Swede did indeed score his 22nd leaguegoal of the season in the 76th minute and is only onegoal behind Bologna’s Marco Di Vaio in the Serie Agoalscoring charts. But despite his personal achieve-ment in having his most prolific season after five yearsin Italy, it was captain Javier Zanetti and goalkeeperJulio Cesar who pleased Mourinho the most.—Internet

Safina sweeps to second successive tennis title

Russian Dinara Safina returns a ballagainst Danish Caroline Wozniackiduring their final match of the WTAMadrid Open claycourt tournament

in Madrid.—INTERNET

Federer stuns Nadal to winMadrid Masters

MADRID, 18 May—Roger Federer defeated worldnumber one Rafael Nadal 6-4, 6-4 to win the MadridMasters on Sunday and strike a timely blow in his cam-paign to lift an elusive French Open.

His win ended a five-match, 18-month losing streakagainst the Spaniard, a run which included three GrandSlam finals - the 2008 French Open and Wimbledon,as well as this year’s Australian Open.It also haltedNadal’s 33-match winning streak on clay, a sequencestretching back over a year to the Rome second roundin 2008.

Federer fired two aces, his fifth and sixth of the 88-minute final, to wrap up the victory and lift his recordin finals against his Spanish rival to 5-11.Federer nowheads into the French Open, which starts next Sun-day, with a huge confidence boost after finally defeat-ing the man who stripped him of his Wimbledon titlelast summer.

“Clearly I’m very happy to win,” said Federer. “Iplayed well - you have to against Rafa on clay. Thereare no easy ways to beat him. I mixed it up well, servedwell and was dangerous on the return game.”I took allthe right decisions. In the end it looked very comfort-able, it was a perfect win.—Internet

Swiss Roger Federer (R) and Spanish Rafael Nadalcelebrate after the final match of the ATP MadridOpen claycourt tournament against Spanish RafaelNadal in Madrid. Federer won 6-4, 6-4.—INTERNET

Rafael Benitez extended his feud withSir Alex Ferguson, by refusing to con-gratulate the Manchester United man-ager for his title triumph, following Liv-erpool’s 2-0 victory over West BromwichAlbion which saw the losers relegated

to the Championship.—INTERNET

BIRMINGHAM, 18 May—RafaelBenitez extended his feud with SirAlex Ferguson by refusing to congratu-late the Manchester United managerfor his title triumph, following Liver-pool’s 2-0 victory over West BromwichAlbion which saw the losers relegated

to the Championship.The Spaniard has been daggers drawn

with his opposite number at Old Traffordall season in an intriguing side-show tothe challenge for the title between theirtwo sides and he remained bitter towardsthe Glaswegian 24 hours after having toconcede defeat to United.

Benitez was asked if he would like toextend his congratulations to Sir AlexFerguson and Manchester United forwinning the title.”I will say congratula-tions to Manchester United. I prefer tosay that to them,” said the Spaniard.

But when pressed further to extend hiscongratulations to Ferguson in person,Benitez would only say: “They are a bigclub and a good club. I normally showrespect and be polite to other managersat the end of the season.”But there havebeen a lot of things I don?t like this sea-son. I say congratulations to Manches-ter United because they have won the ti-tle, but that is it.”—Internet

LONDON, 18 May—Chelsea coach GuusHiddink bid an emotionalfarewell to StamfordBridge on Sunday, butwarned his successor he’llneed to spend big moneyif the Londoners are tostop the ManchesterUnited juggernaut.

Since being drafted into replace Luiz FelipeScolari, Hiddink has nar-rowly missed out on aChampions League finalspot, guaranteed a topfour league finish andcould still win the FACup.But the Dutchmaninsists that Chelsea don’tyet have a squad capableof competing with Unitedwho retained their EnglishPremier League title onSaturday.

He believes the newmanager will need morestrength in depth to over-haul the champions.“When you want to com-pete, you have to renewyour squad almost everyyear,” he said. “To be re-alistic in the upcomingyears we have playerswho are ageing.

Internet

NEW DELHI, 18 May—India’s grand old mara-thon man Ashis Roy hascompleted his 90th mara-thon, finishing the Dela-ware Marathon inWilmington, the UnitedStates, in a time of sixhours and 32 minutes, re-ported the Indo-AsianNews Service on Monday.

The 76-year-old Roywas the oldest of 600 par-ticipants in the match. Ittook him nine minutesmore to finish the 26-milerun Sunday than he did in

the Potomac River RunMarathon in Alexandriatwo weeks ago, said thereport.

Roy had to wear twolayers of tee shirts to keepwarm. His arthritic rightknee also acted up slow-ing him down consider-ably especially on thedownhill slopes, said thereport.Roy plans to par-ticipate in yet anothermarathon, the BobPottsmarathon in Penn-sylvania on May 31 tocomplete three long runsin a month.

Back home in India, hecompleted his last mara-thon in Noida in Februaryin six hours and 4 minutesand the one in Mumbai amonth earlier in six hoursand 7 minutes.— Internet

MADRID, 18 May—Women’s worldnumber one Dinara Safina claimed hersecond major clay title in a row here onSunday as she outclassed Danish teen-ager Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-4 to winthe Madrid Masters.

MADRID, 18May—Barcelona,with a first domesticdouble since 1998secured, can com-plete the most suc-cessful season intheir 110-year historywith victory overManchester Unitedin the ChampionsLeague final on 27 May. No Spanish side has everachieved this treble, but coach Pep Guardiola has thechance to do it in his debut season although defeatingholders, and English champions, United is a tall order.

“The league is the most important title,” insistedGuardiola. “It is more important than being championsof Europe because it is the prize for the most consistentteam.”In Europe, you can have a bad ten minutes and itis over for you. You just have to look at our game againstChelsea when Andres Iniesta rescued us in the lastminute.”

Guardiola won the European Cup as a player in 1992,but has problems ahead of the final with suspensions andinjuries to key players.Thierry Henry, back to his bestthis season, is currently out with knee ligament trouble,but the French forward is optimistic of making the Romefinal.—Internet

The 23-year-old Russian - who lost the2008 Roland Garros final to AnaIvanovic — showed she is on track as aserious title contender when the FrenchOpen gets underway in a week. Safinahas figured in WTA finals over the lastthree weeks in the grand slam buildup,losing Stuttgart to compatriot SvetlanaKuznetsova but turning the tables to beather in Rome a week ago.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours weather has been partly cloudy inKayah State and Magway Division, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Rakhine and Kayin States, Bago andAyeyarwady Divisions, scattered in Shan and Chin States,Mandalay Division, fairly widespread in lower SagaingDivision and widespreads in the remaining areas with locallyheavyfall in Mandalay Divisions, isolated heavyfalls inShan State and Lower Sagaing Division. Day temperatureswere (3°C) to (4°C) above May average temperatures inRakhine, Kayin and Mon States, Mandalay, Magway, Bago,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions, (6°C) above May averagetemperatures in Ayeyarwady Division and about Mayaverage temperatures in the remaining States and Divisions.The significant day temperature were Chauk and Minbu(41°C) each, Magway, Aunglan and Pyay (40°C) each. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nawnghkio(3.50) inches, Mandalay (2.91) inches, Toungoo (Aviation)(2.64) inches, Shwebo (2.28) inches, Pyinoolwin (2.24)inches, Kyaukse (2.20) inches, Toungoo (1.61) inches,Kawthong and Sagaing (1.26) inches each.

Maximum temperature on 17-5-2009 was 96°F.Minimum temperature on 18-5-2009 was 69°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 18-5-2009 was 89%.Total sunshine hours on 17-5-2009 was (6.1) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 18-5-2009 was (0.12) inch at Mingaladon,(0.04) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.67) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (3.66) inches atMingaladon, (4.65) inches at Kaba-Aye and (6.42) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from South at (13:30) hour MST on17-5-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is weak to moderate in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and weather is partly cloudyelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 19th May 2009: Rainor thundershowers are likely to be fairly widespread inKachin, Chin, Mon and Kayin States, Sagaing andTaninthayi Divisions, scattered in Shan State, Mandalay,Bago and Yangon Divisions and isolated in the remainingareas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times Gulf of mottama, off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach(35) mph. Seas will be slight to moderate elsewhere inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of rain or thundershowers in the lowerMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for19-5-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for19-5-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for18-5-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Four killed in car accidentin Singapore

SINGAPORE, 18 May—Four people were killedand another six were injured in an accident involvinga lorry and a trailer here on Monday morning.

According to local radio 938 live, the accidentoccurred along the Gul Road. The Singapore CivilDefence Force(SCDF) said that the front passenger’scabin of the lorry was crushed as a result of thecollision.

The SCDF used hydraulic spreader, cutter andtwo winches to free the front seat passenger fromthe wreckage.

The report said the four victims are all foreignworkers but did not tell their nationality. Three ofthem were pronounced dead at the scene. Anotherdied later at the National University Hospital.

Six other injured workers on the lorry havebeen sent to the National University Hospital.

MNA/Xinhua

A monkey does a handstand on the horns of a goatwho’s balanced on a tightrope during aperformance in Shenyang, China, 2May.—INTERNET

Over 43,500 Australianskilled workers

unemployedCANBERRA, 18 May—More than 43,500

Australian skilled workers lost their jobs in the firstquarter of 2009 ended in March, according toClarius Skills Index released Monday. Skilledemployment has plunged to its record low since2001 as a slowing economy saw demand for tradesfall in every category while skilled unemploymentsurged by 48.2 per cent in the same period.

During which, the number of skilled peopleout of work including professionals, associateprofessionals and tradespeople rose by 43,500 to133,700. Those seeking jobs exceed vacantpositions by 9,800. Advertised trade vacancies fellin category, with wood and metals taking thebiggest hits. Chefs were the most sought after whileaccountants saw reduced demand, as a slowingeconomy put pressure on business costs.

Clarius Group executive manager Kym Quicksaid the drop in employment demand showed thatthe government needed to do more to support thelabour market.— MNA/Xinhua

When Manni met Candy: A baby boar namedManni plays with Candy, a Jack Russell terrier,

in Ehringhausen, Germany, 10 May. Manniwas found abandoned in a forest.

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11th Waning of Kason 1371 ME Tuesday, 19 May, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

Special Sales of Ministryof Industry-1 coming soon

YANGON, 18 May—Ministry of Industry-1will organize Special Sales in YeU of SagaingDivision from 18 to 24 May, Mogaung in KachinState from 19 to 25 May, Natmauk in MagwayDivision from 20 to 26 May, Loikaw in Kayah Statefrom 22 to 28 May, Thongwa in Yangon Divisionfrom 25 to 31 May, Katha in Sagaing Division from26 May to 1 June, Patheingyi in Mandalay Divisionfrom 27 May to 2 June.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 May—Restrictions were imposed on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of No (54/56),University Avenue, Shwetaungkya (1) Ward, Bahan Township, Yangon, by issuing the restriction orderagainst her fundamental rights under section-7 of the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers ofThose Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts, the arrest order under section-10 (A) and the prohibition orderunder section-10 (B)/11 and the continued prohibition order under section-13/14.

Amid such restrictions imposed on her, an American citizen by the name of Mr John William Yettawon the night of 30 November 2008 swam across Inya lake to the back of the compound of Daw Aung San SuuKyi’s house, met with Daw Khin Khin Win and Ma Win Ma Ma at the gate and left a book titled ‘Book ofMormon’ in the house compound for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to read. Likewise, on the night of 3 May 2009,he secretly entered the compound of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s house by swimming across Inya Lake. Shereceived Mr John William Yettaw and served him with meals. He was allowed to stay there up to the nightof 5 May. Daw Khin Khin Win and Ma Win Ma Ma also helped her with her act. In connection with the case,Police Lt-Col Zaw Min Aung acting as a plaintiff filed law suits against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under section-22 of the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts; againstDaw Khin Khin Win, Ma Win Ma Ma and Mr John William Yettaw under section-22 of that law and section-109; and against Mr John William Yettaw, who violated the prescribed rules and regulations although hearrived on a tourist visa, under section-13(1) of the Immigration Act (Emergency Provisions) at BahanTownship Police Station in accord with (Pa) 301/2009 and (Pa) 302/2009.

Likewise, Executive Officer of Mayangon Township Development Affairs Committee U AungNaing Htoo filed a lawsuit against Mr John Willian Yettaw under section-28 of Yangon City DevelopmentCommittee Law for breaching the restriction on swimming in Inya Lake imposed according to the YCDCWater Supply and Sanitation Rules (40) at Yangon North District Court.

District Judges U Thaung Nyunt and U Nyi Nyi Soe sitting at Yangon North District Court on 14May heard the cases filed by Bahan Township Police Force and a case filed by the Executive Officer ofMayangon Township Development Affairs Committee under Criminal Case Nos 47/2009, 48/2009 and 49/2009. On that day, Yangon North District Law Officer U Myint Kyaing presented the arguments related tothe cases to the court. After hearing the cases presented by the law officer, the district court adjourned thecases until 18 May after informing the defendants that they may defend through their lawyers.

Today, the defendants appeared in the court, and Advocates U Kyi Win, U Nyan Win and U Hla MyoMyint who are defending Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Advocates Daw Khin Htay Kywe, U Hla Myo Myint andU Nyan Win who are defending Daw Khin Khin Win, Advocates Daw Khin Htay Kywe and U Hla Myo Myintwho are defending Ma Win Ma Ma, and HGP U Khin Maung Oo who is defending Mr John Willian Yettawpresented their legal documents. The court continued hearing the cases until 3 pm, during which a prosecutionwitness appears for each case .—MNA

Biological particles trigger iceformation in high-altitude clouds

Biological particles—bacteria, pollen, fungi—actas nuclei for formation of ice in clouds.

SAN DIEGO, 18 May— A team of UC San Di-ego-led atmosphericchemistry researchersmoved closer to what isconsidered the “holy grail”of climate change sciencewhen it made the first-everdirect detection of biologi-cal particles within iceclouds.

The team, led byKerri Pratt, a Ph.D. stu-dent of atmosphericchemistry Professor KimPrather, who also holdsappointments at ScrippsInstitution of Oceanog-raphy as well as the De-partment of Chemistryand Biochemistry atUCSD, sampled waterdroplet and ice crystalresidues at high speedsfrom an aircraft flying

through clouds in theskies over Wyoming infall 2007.

Analysis of the icecrystals revealed that theywere made up almost en-tirely of either dust or bio-logical particles such asbacteria, fungal spores andplant material.

While it has longbeen known that micro-organisms or parts ofthem get airborne andtravel great distances, thisstudy is the first to yieldin-situ data on their par-ticipation in cloud iceprocesses.

Internet

Can happiness be inherited?MEXICO CITY, 18

May—A new study sug-gests that our feelings inour lifetime can affect ourchildren.

Dr. Halabe Bucaysuggests that a wide rangeof chemicals that ourbrain generates when we

are in different moodscould affect ‘germ cells’(eggs and sperm), the cellsthat ultimately produce thenext generation. Suchnatural chemicals couldaffect the way that spe-cific genes are expressedin the germ cells, and

hence how a child devel-ops.

In his article in thelatest issue of BioscienceHypotheses, Dr AlbertoHalabe Bucay of Re-search Center Halabeand Darwich, Mexico,suggested that the hor-mones and chemicalsresulting from happi-ness, depression andother mental states canaffect our eggs andsperm, resulting in last-ing changes in our chil-dren at the time of theirconception.

Brain chemicals suchas endorphins, and drugs,such as marijuana andheroin are known to havesignificant effects onsperm and eggs, alteringthe patterns of genes thatare active in them.

Internet

Can Happiness Be Inherited? Hormones andchemicals resulting from happiness, depressionand other mental states can affect our eggs and

sperm, resulting in lasting changes in our childrenat the time of their conception.

American citizen Mr John William Yettaw,Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw Khin Khin Win,

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