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Volume XVI, Number 278 11th Waning of Pyatho 1370 ME Wednesday, 21 January, 2009

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

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

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

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

* Uplift of the morale and morality ofthe entire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integ-rity and preservation and safeguard-ing of cultural heritage and nationalcharacter

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

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed

nation in accord with the new StateConstitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Newly opened Yuzana Market develops trade, creates jobs in Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana

The Union of MyanmarThe State Peace and Development Council

The Law Amending the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Regions Law(The State Peace and Development Council Law No. 1/2009)

The 10th Waning of Pyatho, 1370 M.E(20 January, 2009)

The State Peace and Development Council hereby enacts the following Law:1. This Law shall be called the Law Amending the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Regions Law.2. In section 2 of the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Regions Law:

(a) the expression “that have existed before 1886” contained in subsection (b) shall be substituted by the expression “that have existed since 100 yearsbefore the date on which the Department made inquiries as an ancient monument;”

(b) the expression “that have existed before 1886” contained in subsection (c) shall be substituted by the expression “that have existed since 100 yearsbefore the date on which the Department made inquiries as an ancient site.”

3. The fines contained in sections 24 and 25 of the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Regions Law shall be substituted respectively by theexpression “with fine or”

4. Section 28 of the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Regions Law shall be substituted as follows:“28. Whoever fails to abide by the order passed under section 27, shall be liable to a fine which may extend from kyats ten thousand to kyats one hundred

thousand for each day of failure to abide by such order.”

(Sd.) Than Shwe Senior General

ChairmanThe State Peace and Development Council

Article: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Hla Shwe (Ketumati)

Newly-opened Yuzana Market in Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana being packed with shopkeepers and customers. (See page 7)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 21 January, 2009

Wednesday, 21 January, 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

Climate pattern of a region dependson the extent of the area of the forests in it.People, plants and animals depend on theenvironment, and vice versa.

Good environment is essential forfulfilling basic needs of world people, andfor all living things to survive.

Deforestation is usually followed byclimate changes, drought, and damage tofarmlands along with hindrance to foodproductivity.

Myanmar has sufficient amount offarmland and water for agriculturalpurpose, and temperate climate. So, itcontributes not only to local but also toglobal food security.

In Myanmar, water, land and forestresources are conserved and protectedsystematically. In the process, it designatesand conserves forest reserves, wildlife parksand sanctuaries under the Forest Law.

Mangrove forests need conservationfor protection of fish, prawn and crab thatare the main source of meat for the people.

Good environment prevents landslidesand air pollution, keeps water and air clean,restores scenic natural beauty, maintains soilfertile, protects animals, and conserveswatershed areas.

So, the entire people have to conservethe environment collectively for preventionof environmental degradation and perpetualexistence of woodlands.

Protect forests forenvironmentalconservation

YANGON, 20 Jan—Aceremony to open MobileCorner shop ofMobilemate Tele-communications Co Ltdwas held at the mobilecorner showroom atCapital Hyper Market,here on 17 January.

Executive Director UKaung Htet and DirectorU Wai Yan formallyopened the shop and then

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Jan – Chairman of YangonDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Yangon Command Brig-Gen Win Myint inspectedKungyangon sluice gate in Kungyangon Township on18 January.

The director of Yangon Division IrrigationDepartment and officials reported on supply of waterto 3,800 acres of summer paddy.

The commander met departmental officials,townselders and members of social organizations. TheChairman of Township PDC also reported on factsabout the region, education, health, agriculture andtransport; and departmental officials, on measurestaken for regional development.

The commander inspected broadcasting of natural

Regional development inspected in two townshipsand chemical fertilizers at the farm of farmer U MyaHlaing in Tawkhayan Ashae Village in the townshipand digging of canals for irrigation in Tawku AnaukVillage.

The commander went to 16-bed Letkhokkon stationhospital and provided cash to the patients.

The commander inspected the site for cycloneshelters, breeding of crabs of Blue Sea Co and packagingprocess.

He inspected16-bed Wabalaukthauk stationhospital in Kawhmu Township, basic education highschool and met teachers.

He also inspected village-to-village roads andrepair works in Dalla, Thakhut and Letkhokkon.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20Jan—A workshop onPrevention of Illegal Transferand Illicit Trafficking ofASEAN Artifacts continuedfor the second day at themeeting hall of BaganNanmyint Tower in BaganArchaeological Region ofNyaungU Township inMandalay Division on 18

Workshop on Prevention of Illegal Transfer andIllicit Trafficking of ASEAN Artifacts

Philippines, Ms Heidi Tanof Singapore, MrPongthom Hiengkaew ofThailand and Mrs KhoaThi Khanh Chi of Vietnamread out research papersand those presentdiscussed them.

ASEAN delegatespaid homage toShwesigon, Anandar,Wetgyiin, Gupyaukkyiand visited Bagan

January.At the workshop,

Mr Khalid Bin Syed Aliof Malaysia, Director-General U San Win ofArchaeological Research,National Museum andLibraries Department,Assistant Director DawLwin Lwin Than of theA t t o r n e y - G e n e r a l ' sOffice, Fr Harold LianetaRentoria, OSA of the

Archaeological Museum.In the afternoon,

Chairman Dr Khin MaungNyunt of ASEAN Cultureand InformationCommittee reviewedstatements, suggestionand discussions of thosepresent and the meetingcame to a close. In theevening, the chairmanhosted a dinner to ASEANdelegates.—MNA

Mobile Corner shop opensOperation Director UKaung Hset spoke wordsof thanks.

Renowned brands suchas NOKIA, Sony Ericsson,LG, Apple, Samsung, HTC,Black Berry are availableat the shop.

It will sell GSMhandsets, TDMAhandsets, CDMA800MHz, handsets,CDMA 450MHz

handsets, CDMA450MHz Fixed WirelessPhone. Free ringtone andwallpaper will be given tothe buyers.

Further infor-mation,please contact One StopConvenience MobileShop at Capital HyperMarket (Tel-01-551533Ex 210) and Head Office(Tel-01-507400 and 01-501062 Ex 121). — MNA

Workshop on Prevention of Illegal Transfer and Illicit Trafficking of ASEAN Artifacts inprogress at the meeting hall of Bagan Nanmyint Tower in Bagan Archaeological Region of

NyaungU Township in Mandalay Division.— MNA

Executive Director U Kaung Htet and

Director U Wai Yan formally open the new

shop of Mobilemate Telecommunications Co.,

Ltd. — MNA

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Anti-war protesters throw shoesat White House

WASHINGTON, 20 Jan—Anti-war protesters were throwing shoes outside the gatesof the White House on President George W Bush’s last day in office.

About 500 people marched to the White House and threw about 40 pairs ofshoes at the gate while tourists looked on and took photos. Supporters say theyacted in solidarity with Muntadhar Al-Zeidi (MOON’-tuh-dahr ahl-zay-EE'-dee),the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at Bush during a news conference in Bagh-dad in December.

The event was sponsored by several peace groups. Organizer Jamilla El-Shafei ofKennebunk, Maine, says the event allowed protesters to express their anger overBush. She says he is “leaving with no accountability for eviscerating our Constitu-tion.”—Internet

US military deathsin Iraq war at 4,229

WASHINGTON, 20 Jan—As of Monday, 19 Jan,2009, at least 4,229 members of the US militaryhad died in the Iraq war since it began in March2003. The figure includes eight military civilianskilled in action. At least 3,404 military personneldied as a result of hostile action, according to themilitary’s numbers.

The British military has reported 178 deaths;Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13;Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five;Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Es-tonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, twoeach; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and SouthKorea, one death each.—Internet

22 militants killed inAfghan clashes

KABUL, 20 Jan—The US-led coalition in Afghani-stan says 22 militants have been killed and 11 othersdetained during a series of clashes throughout thecountry. The coalition statement says its troops wereforced to use hand grenades in one of the clashes inthe southern province of Kandahar on Monday.

In the east, troops used airstrikes in their clash withmilitants in Kapisa Province, killing 19 militants. Vio-lence has been rising across Afghanistan over the lasttwo years, and the United States is rushing thousandsof new troops to counter a resurgence in Taleban-ledviolence following the initial defeat of the militantgroup in the US invasion in 2001.

Internet

Afghan policemen andfirefighters respond withfire extinguishers at thesite of a suicide attack infront of the German em-bassy in Kabul. Two sui-cide bombs claimed byTaleban insurgents ex-ploded in AfghanistanSaturday, killing five civil-ians and a US soldier, asanother foreign troop diedwhen a chopper camedown in gunfire, officialssaid.—INTERNET

Twin explosions woundten in E Afghanistan

KABUL, 20 Jan—Two explosions in Afghanistan’seastern Khost Province wounded 10 persons includ-ing nine civilians on Monday, officials said.

In the first explosion, a suicide car bomb wentoff close to international troops outside Khost city,the capital of Khost Province, injuring nine peopleincluding five children, press department of US-ledcoalition forces in the province told media.

The four more suffered injuries in the blast werealso civilians, the source added.

These people, according to the sources, were vis-iting the local health clinic when the blast occurred.

A senior police officer in Khost city Amir Hassanalso confirmed the blast but declined to give de-tails.

In another incident, a roadside bomb struck a po-lice van in Khost city, wounding one police officer,head of crime department of police MohammadGuldad told Xinhua. No group or individuals haveclaimed responsibility for the attacks.

However, Taliban fighters who staged a violentcomeback three years often carry out such attacksagainst Afghan and international troops’ interests.

Internet

Debate arises over Iraqishoe thrower’s future

Afghans watch the scene of a suicide bomb attack, unseen, after a suicide

attack near to US Forward Operating Base Chapman in the city of Khost east

of Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 Jan, 2009. A suicide car bomb attack near the

gates of a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday killed one Afghan and

wounded several more, officials said.—INTERNET

Iraq’s Central CriminalCourt has decided topostpone the trial of Iraqijournalist Muntazeral-Zaidi who won globalfame for throwing hisshoes at US PresidentGeorge W Bush, a court spokesman has said. INTERNET

GENEVA, 20 Jan—A dis-pute broke out Mondayover future plans for theIraqi journalist who threwhis shoes at PresidentGeorge W Bush. A Swisslawyer said the Iraqi wasplanning to seek politicalasylum in Switzerland butone of his brothers vehe-mently denied that report.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s lifeis in danger if he stays inIraq, Geneva-based lawyerMauro Poggia told The As-sociated Press. But one ofthe journalist’s three broth-ers denied he wanted toleave Iraq. Al-Zeidi has

been detained in an Iraqijail awaiting trial since hewas seized by guards afterhis 14 Dec outburst at ajoint news conference inBaghdad by Bush and IraqiPrime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Al-Zeidi’s gestureof anger at Bush turned theemployee of a minor TVstation into a national heroto many Iraqis fed up withAmerica’s six-year presencein the country. But concernhas been raised about hissafety after allegations thathe had been severely beatenand tortured in detention.

Internet

Barack Obamaswears in as

the 44thpresident of theUnited Statesof America infront of the US

Capitol inWashington

DC on 20 Jan,2009.

INTERNET

Obama becomes first black US presidentWASHINGTON, 20 Jan

—Barack Obama took theoath of office of presidentof the United States onTuesday using the sameBible that was used toswear in Abraham Lin-coln.

Obama was the firstpresident sworn in as the44th president using theLincoln Bible since its ini-tial use in 1861. The Bi-

ble is part of the collec-tions of the Library ofCongress. Though there isno constitutional require-ments for the use of a Bi-ble during the swearing-

in, presidents have tradi-tionally used Bibles forthe ceremony, choosing avolume with personal orhistorical significance.

Internet

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BRUSSELS, 20 Jan —The NATO secretarygeneral on Mondaypraised the Chinese navy’santi-piracy operations offthe coast of Somalia andindicated NATO’s will-ingness to work withChina on the issue.

A soldier of Chinese navy special force watches aseabird flying over him on destroyer “Wuhan”,flagship of the Chinese naval fleet for an escort

mission against piracy off Somali coast, in the Gulfof Aden, on 18 Jan, 2009. —INTERNET

BEIJING, 20 Jan—Along with drastic taxreductions, almost allnations have resorted toan expansive fiscal and aloose financial policy overthe past four months totackle the global financialcrisis that broke out in theUS.

However, the globaleconomic situation has notturned better as expectedand the crisis continues toexert a deepening impacton the global economy.

Thus, it is particularlyimportant at this time thatall countries should reachan extensive consensus onthe cause of the ongoingfinancial tsunami and thengauge their macro-economic policies.

It is regrettable to see aresponsibility-evadingattitude from the UnitedStates, the epicenter of theglobal financial crisis.

Internet

MOSCOW, 20 Jan—Russia and Ukraine pledged torestore natural gas supplies to Europe after signingdeals to end a bitter dispute that led to a chilling two-week cutoff of shipments.

Early on Tuesday, Gazprom chief Alexei Miller or-dered the resumption of deliveries bound for Europevia Ukraine to begin at 10 am (2 am EST).

Europeans, who normally get about one-fifth oftheir gas from Russia via Ukrainian pipelines, anx-iously waited for the fuel to start flowing.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and hisUkrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Mondaysigned the documents at Putin’s government headquar-ters on the Moscow river. They resulted from an out-line agreement they had clinched in late-night talksSunday as heads of Russia’s state-run natural gas mo-nopoly Gazprom and the Ukraine’s Naftogaz.

“As a result of intensive and lengthy talks we havereached agreement on all issues concerning natural gassupply to Ukraine and its transit to Europe,” Putin said.He said Gazprom had been instructed to resume ship-ments bound for Europe that had been halted since 7Jan as Moscow and Kiev argued over 2009 gas pricesand allegations that Ukraine was stealing gas destinedfor Europe.—Internet

NATO chief praises China’s participationin anti-piracy campaign off Somalia

“I am applauding whatis a rather unique positionof the Chinese navyparticipating in the anti-piracy (campaign),”Secretary General Jaap deHoop Scheffer toldChinese journalists at aNATO New Year

reception.“I do not exclude, at a

certain stage, that whenthe United Nations wouldcreate a sort of roof underwhich these whole anti-piracy operations takeplace, NATO and Chinawill meet under that roof,”he said.

The deployment of twowarships in the Gulf ofAden was the ChineseNavy’s first expeditionarymilitary mission.

“I welcome the en-gagement of China... It isa very important contri-bution to anti-piracy oper-ations,” the secretarygeneral said.

Internet

Activists demonstrate water boarding in front ofthe Justice Department in 2007. Pretrial hearingsbegan at the Guantanamo US naval base Mondayfor terror suspects even as incoming US presidentBarack Obama prepares to shut down the contro-versial prison and its special tribunals.—INTERNET

Bulldozers clear icestacks off the road at

the Hukou (KettleMouth) Cataract

scenery spot in Jixiancounty, north China’sShanxi Province, on

19 Jan, 2009.XINHUA

Russia, Ukraine sign gas deal,end standoff

GAZA CITY, 20 Jan—Uniformed Hamas secu-rity teams emerged onGaza City’s streets Mon-day as leaders of the Is-lamic militant groupvowed to restore order inthe shattered Palestinianterritory after a three-week pummeling by theIsraeli military.

Hamas proclaimed itwon a great victory overthe Jewish state — a viewthat appeared greatly ex-

SEOUL, 20 Jan—South Korea and European Unionsaid on Tuesday they have narrowed differences stand-ing in the way of a free trade agreement, but that an-other round of negotiations was needed.

“We have made significant progress,” EU TradeCommissioner Catherine Ashton said at a joint newsconference with her South Korean counterpart KimJong-hoon. Kim said that the two sides had “confirmedthat we narrowed the gap on the major issues andreached a considerable level of consensus.”—Internet

South Korea, EU narrow differencesover free trade

US has itselfto blame for

financialmeltdown

Hamas fighters seek to restore orderin Gaza Stripaggerated — and the taskof reconstruction faceddeep uncertainty becauseof the fear of renewedfighting and Israel’s con-trol over border crossings.

Cars and pedestriansagain clogged streets.Donkey carts hauled pro-duce and firewood pastrubble and broken glass.

The parliament build-ing and other targets ofIsraeli attacks were pilesof debris, while orange

and olive groves on theedge of town were flat-tened.

UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon planned totravel to Gaza on Tuesdayto inspect damage andvisit UN facilities hit inthe fighting.

Ban did not scheduledmeetings with officialsfrom Hamas, whose gov-ernment is not internation-ally recognized.

Internet

A man walks through the new Porsche museum in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tues-day, 20 Jan, 2009. The new Porsche museum will open on 31 Jan, 2009 and

presents 82 cars to document the German car manufacturer’s history.—INTERNET

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China’s defence technology servesboth military, civilian needs

China urges Obamaadministration to remove

military obtaclesBEIJING, 20 Jan—With US President-elect Barack

Obama’s inauguration hours away, China’s military onTuesday called for the new US administration to removeobstacles in bilateral military relations.

“Facing current difficulties in military relations, wedemand the United States take concrete measures toremove the obstacles,” Chinese Defence Ministryspokesman Hu Changming said at a news conference torelease the defence white paper.

China-US military ties suffered setbacks as thePentagon announced a $6.5 billion Taiwan arms deal lastOctober. It included 30 Apache attack helicopters and330 Patriot missiles. It was the biggest arms sale toTaiwan since China and the United States signed the“August 17 Communique” in 1982, in which the UnitedStates agreed to gradually reduce its arms sales to Taiwan.

Hu said China always values the military relationswith the United States as they are in the common interestsof the two nations.—Xinhua

SEOUL, 20 Jan—The loandelinquency ratio of South Koreaninsurers reached 3.72 percent as ofthe end of November, up from 3.61percent at the end of September, thefinancial watchdog said on Tuesday.

The Financial SupervisoryService (FSS) attributed the rise tothe slumping economy whichjacked up bad loans by householdsand businesses.

According to the FSS, thedelinquency ratio for householdloans extended by insurers also roseto 3.31 percent as of the end ofNovember, compare with 3.19percent at the end of September.

Meanwhile, default ratio ofcorporate loans rose 0.07percentage point to 4.75 percent,the watchdog added.—Xinhua

A Palestinian child sits in front of destroyed houses by Israeli strikesin the east of northern Gaza Strip, on 19 Jan, 2009. Right after aceasefire was declared by both Israel and Gaza militant groups,

thousands of Gaza residents went back to their homes they had fledduring the war, only to see how huge the destruction was.—XINHUA

WASHINGTON, 20 Jan—Two persons were killed andsome others seriously injured as a result of pileup of 40cars in a highway in Maryland on Monday, said thestate police. Maryland state police told reporters that71 injured have been taken to a Red Cross shelter inWashington County, including infants and elderly, 12people who were seriously wounded have beenhospitalized.

The tragedy took place on Interstate 70 innorthwestern Maryland around noon, where the roadhas been covered by snow. Police said that thepreliminary investigation result showed the accidentcould be blamed partly for the snowy road.

Emergency aids including blankets, cots, food andwater were delivered by the Red Cross to people whohave to stay in the shelter to take interview with policeand retrieve their cars from the pileup, it said.

Part of the highway has been temporarily closed toallow cleanup, it added. —Xinhua

S Korean insurers loandefault ratio increase

Two killed, more injured inUS car pileup accident

15 Panamanians rescued from Pacific shipwreckPANAMA CITY, 20 Jan—The Panamanian navy

rescued 15 people drifting in the Pacific Ocean after ashipwreck about 23 km to the western port of Pedregal,officials said Monday.

According to the Aeronaval National Service (SNA)Authorities, the survivors were nine minors, fourwomen and two men, who were all in good healthdespite the dehydration caused by the sun.

The people were floating in the Pacific for more

than seven hours, after their ship “Maitee” sufferedmechanical failures, according to the SNA.

The ship, which set sail from Pedregal port forrecreation activities, was found later by a patrol at alocation some 27 km off the coast.

A woman, who had a cell phone and made an SOScall, played a vital role in getting the help.

Authorities said the shipwreck occurred becausethe boat ran out of battery.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 20 Jan—China is striving toestablish a new system of defense-related science, technology and industrywhich caters to both military and civilianneeds, according to a white paper issuedon Tuesday.

The white paper on China’s NationalDefence in 2008, issued by theInformation Office of the State Council,says China is accelerating reform andinnovation in its defense-related science,technology and industry, promotingstrategic and specialization-orientedrestructuring of defense industryenterprises, enhancing the capabilitiesof independent innovation in the R&Dof weaponry and equipment.

The paper says China will establisha licensing system for weaponry andequipment research and production.

In accordance with the ImplementationMeasures for Weaponry and EquipmentResearch and Production Licensingpromulgated in May 2005, the defense-related science, technology and industryhas adopted a licensing system forweaponry and equipment research andproduction featuring management ofcategorization. “While maintaining statecontrol over weaponry and equipmentresearch and production, the documentallows the non-public sector to enter thisfield and compete for research andproduction projects,” says the paper.

In March 2008 the State Council and theCMC issued the Regulations on theLicensing Administration of Weaponry andEquipment Research and Production,further improving the system, says thepaper.—Xinhua

All item from Xinhua News Agency

A worker prepares redlantern decorations for

the Spring FestivalTemple Fair at the

entrance to Ditan Parkin Beijing on 20 Jan,2009. Red decorationsare customarily used

by the Chinese tousher in the Lunar

New Year, which startson 26 Jan this year.

XINHUA

Khadra Abed Rabbo tries to cover belongings she managed to salvage from therubble of her family home, destroyed during Israel’s military operation in eastGaza City, on Tuesday, 20 Jan, 2009. Abed Rabbo, fearing looters, stays on therubble till late at night every day and then spends the night at a relative’s housethat remained intact nearby. At least 1,259 Palestinians were killed in Israel’sair and ground onslaught, more than half of them civilians, according to the

United Nations, Gaza health officials and rights groups.—XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUM Rampaging wild elephants kill 3 in northeast India

Woman goes to hair appointment after crash

Goose-icle! Frozen fowlrescued by police diversSheriff’s divers have come to the rescue

of a trapped goose that sat too long infrigid waters of a Detroit suburb.

Police responded on Friday night afterbeing told the goose was trapped in theClinton River near Shadyside Park.

Divers and a marine officer first triedputting warm water around the goose,which was frozen in the ice.

Macomb County Sheriff’s diverschipped away at the ice and within an hourfreed the goose. The bird then waddled toa group of geese sitting in open waternearby. Sgt Dan Willis says it honked,then “swam away with the rest of thepack.”

Japan’s toy maker Sega Toysemployee Minako Sakanoue displaysthe company’s new toy “Hanappa”,

sunflower, daisy and margueritemodels, which can bow and flap itsflowers and leaves in response to

human voice in Tokyo.

A refiner controls the quality ofRoquefort cheeses in a cellar at

Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, southernFrance. French cheese producers

sought to cause a stink for incomingUS president Barack Obama onFriday, sending him a case ofpungent Roquefort to protest

American import tariffs.

An elderly woman in Palm BeachCounty crashed with her vehicle into aman on a scooter and then kept driving tomake her hair appointment, police said.

Louise Davidson, 77, was arrestedThursday for leaving the scene of aninjury crash, Boynton Beach police said.

Police spokeswoman StephanieSlater said the woman was turning rightwhen she veered into the path of the

oncoming scooter that had the right ofway. The man was thrown by the impactonto the windshield and then fell to theroad, she added.

Police said they later spotted thewoman’s car after she had her hairappointment.

Authorities said the man sufferedabrasions all over his body but the injurieswere not believed to be life threatening.

A herd of nearly 150 hungryelephants rampaged through a villagein India’s remote northeast, tramplingto death a young family as they slept intheir hut, a resident and a wildlifeofficial said Saturday.

The Asiatic elephants destroyed fourhomes in Assam state’s Karbi Anglongvillage Friday night, said resident RimiMarak.

“The herd was just too large. Thevillagers could do nothing,” Marak said.A farmer, his wife and their 5-year-olddaughter died in the incident, he said.

The herd left a nearby forest reservein search of food nearly two weeksago, said state forestry officer MKDhar.

Forest guards had tried in vain todrive the elephants back usingfirecrackers and lighting torches, Dhartold The Associated Press.

The region is home to some 5,000wild elephants, whose natural habitathas been increasingly diminished byhuman development. Conservationistssay wild elephant attacks have killedmore than 700 people in Assam in thepast 17 years.

“We take pride at the large elephantpopulation in our region, but theincreasing man-elephant conflictfollowing the shrinkage in their habitatdue to the growing human populationis turning out to be a huge challenge,”said Pradyut Bordoloi, a former stateforest and environment minister.

SAO PAULO, 20 Jan— Authorities picked through alatticework of bent steel on Monday after the roof atone of Brazil’s largest evangelical churches collapsedbetween services, killing nine people and injuringmore than 100.

The toll could have been much higher because theroof caved in less than an hour after a Sunday serviceat the Reborn in Christ church attracted thousands ofyoung worshippers — and minutes before anotherservice for adults.

Two of the injured died at local hospitals on Mon-day, said church spokeswoman Marli Goncalves. Thatraised the death toll to nine.

At least nine of the injured were still hospitalizedon Monday night in serious condition, one of them in“very serious” condition, according to a statement bythe church.—Internet

BEIJING, 20 Jan—China launched a programme toprovide new drugs to AIDS patients across the coun-try, a senior health official said on Monday.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has begun to dis-tribute the second-line medicines - three anti-retroviraldrugs among full-blown AIDS patients for free, saidHao Yang, deputy director of the ministry’s diseasecontrol bureau.

The second-line regimen includes two new drugs,TDF and Kaletra- as well as 3TC, which is also part offirst-line drugs.

All these medicines are imported and cost between12,000 (1,760 US dollars) and 15,000 yuan a patient ayear, reported China Daily on Tuesday.

Internet

Brazil church collapse kills nine, injures 106 China provides free newdrugs to AIDS patients

Foot-and-mouth disease hits2 Vietnamese provinces

HANOI, 20 Jan— Vietnamese Ministry of Agricul-ture and Rural Development confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease has hit two Vietnamese provinces, lo-cal newspaper The Youth reported on Tuesday.

The disease has broken out in southern Long AnProvince and the Central highlands province of KonTum, according to the ministry.

Seventy-three cows in southern Long An Provincehas contracted the deadly disease, local animal healthauthority said.

In Kon Tum Province, two districts reported foot-and-mouth disease cases. The foot-and-mouth diseasein livestock hit 14 Vietnamese provinces in 2008, af-fecting more than 2,400 bulls and buffaloes and 67pigs.

Internet

An Iraqi policemanfrisks a resident nearpainted blast walls at

a checkpoint inBaghdad on 18 Jan,2009. Flowers andpaint cannot maskbullet and shrapnel

marks in the concreteblast walls of Iraq’scheckpoints, where

recruits like 23 year-old Jawad Jaddou

face frequent attacksdoing one of the

world’s most danger-ous jobs.INTERNET

KATHMANDU, 20 Jan—At least 73 Nepali women and children who weretrafficed after being allured for employment have been rescued, Nepali nationalnews agency RSS reported on Tuesday.

They were trafficked during the past six months from various entry points ofParsa district (bordering to India), some 90 km south of Nepali capital Kathmandu.

Though joint effort of local police and people remained substantial to bringback helpless Nepali women and children, only one case was filed against thetraffickers during the period.

A crime case on human trafficking was registered against Kanchha Lama, alocal of Parsa district on Monday; report quoted a local police as saying.

Lama was bringing 20-year-old woman Mandira Thapa Magar ofSindupalchowk district, some 40 km east of Nepali capital Kathmandu and hersister Hema Kumari, 15, to India alluring them to employ in India, said the report.

According to the report, local policemen argued saying that the number ofcases registered was very nominal due to the rising trend of mediation to settle thecase each other.—Internet

73 trafficed Nepali women andchildren rescued

Snow-covered cars are lined upalong Castleton Street, following a

winter storm in Boston.

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Newly opened Yuzana Market develops trade, creates jobs in Nay Pyi Taw PyinmanaArticle: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Hla Shwe (Ketumati)

U Myo Thant, Head of Department and Member of Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Committee, cuts the ribbon to open Yuzana Market.

(from page 1)While building Nay

Pyi Taw as a modern,neat and tidy capital withmight and main, the NayPyi Taw DevelopmentCommittee opens newmarkets one after anotherfor enabling the localpeople of Nay Pyi Tawand the towns in the areato have the opportunitiesfor buying goods at rea-sonable prices.

Nay Pyi TawMyoma Market,Thabyegon Market,Arhara Thukha Marketand Thiri Yadana Mod-ern Market are popular

Pyi Taw Pyinmana.On the occasion, re-

sponsible persons of theNay Pyi Taw Develop-ment Committee,townselders and local peo-ple attended and cut theribbon to open the market.

It was the second veg-etable, meat and fish mar-ket built in Nay Pyi TawPyinmana by Nay Pyi TawDevelopment Committee.

A total of 300 shopsat 25 sheds were con-structed with to put onsale to selling vegetables,meat, fish and other food-stuffs including groceries.

We witnessed sales ofvegetables, fruits, flow-ers, meat, fish, rice, ed-ible oil, salt and otherfoodstuff at the marketbuilt by Diamond Mer-cury Company.

Indeed, agriculturework strives well in NayPyi Taw Tatkon, Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana and NayPyi Taw Lewe. The localfarmers have been extend-ing cultivation of vegeta-bles and fruit yearly as thenew markets for paddy,beans and pulses,sugarcane and edible cropshave emerged in the above

Customers seen at neat and tidy shops at newly opened Yuzana Market.

towns. The extended cul-tivation reflects the in-creasing income of thelocal farmers.

Thanks to construc-tion of newly openedYuzana Market by NayPyi Taw DevelopmentCommittee, the localpeople have the opportu-nities to buy vegetables,meat and fish at reason-able prices. Moreover,the trading at the marketwill create jobs for thelocal people.

Translation: TTAMyanma Alin:

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shopping centres in NayPyi Taw. At present, themarkets are being packedwith sellers and buyersdaily.

On 15 January, a newscrew of the Myanma AlinDaily had a chance to at-tend the opening cer-emony of Yuzana Marketbuilt in Nay Pyi TawPyinmana.

The newly-openedshopping facility was lo-cated near the junction ofYangon-Mandalay Ex-press Highway andYazahtani Road leadingto Nay Pyi Taw, inPaunglaung Ward of Nay

MADRID, 20 Jan — ASpanish research team hasresearched and describedfor the first time in Europethe spread of the invasivedojo loach (Misgurnusanguillicaudatus) fishspecies. The fish comesfrom East Asia and wasfirst discovered in theEbro delta in 2001. Sincethen, it has occupiedvarious parts of the riverduring its lightningspread, and is nowdefinitively established.The researchers do notrule out that it couldoccupy new areas withincoming years and threatenthe survival of native Dojo loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus).

New invasive fish spreads through Ebro deltaspecies. The spread of thedojo loach (Misgurnusanguillicaudatus) orweather loach, as thisoriental fish from the samefamily as the colmilleja(Cobitis Paludica) ofSpain and Portugal is

commonly known,contrasts starkly with thedecline of native fish inthe rivers and wetlandsthroughout the IberianPeninsula, where 80% ofspecies are threatened.

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Bleeding hearts revealed with new scanSCIENCE DAILY, 20

Jan— Images that for thefirst time show bleedinginside the heart afterpeople have suffered aheart attack have beencaptured by scientists, ina new study published 19

January in the journalRadiology.

The research showsthat the amount ofbleeding can indicate howdamaged a person's heartis after a heart attack. Theresearchers, from the

MRC Clinical SciencesCentre at Imperial CollegeLondon, hope that thiskind of imaging will beused alongside other teststo create a fuller picture ofa patient's condition andtheir chances of recovery.

People suffer heartattacks when an artery thatfeeds blood to the heartbecomes blocked,stopping the heart's bloodsupply and depriving theheart muscle of oxygen.Currently, most peopletreated for a heart attackare fitted with a metal tubecalled a stent to keep theblocked artery clear.

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YANGON, 20 Jan – School family day of MonState for 2008-2009 academic year was observed atNo. 6 Basic Education High School in Mawlamyine on3 January. Present were Chairman of Mon State Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of South EastCommand Maj-Gen Thet Naing Win, Secretary ofMon State PDC U Khin Maung Tun and members,departmental personnel, members of social associationsand students. The secretary of Mon State PDC and Mon StateEducation Officer U Tun Yi formally unveiled thearchway to mark Mon State School Family Day. Students from No. 8 Basic Education High Schoolsang songs. Next, the commander delivered a speech. The commander and wife Daw Myint Myint Soeand officials presented prizes to outstanding students. Students from No. 9 Basic Education High Schoolentertained the guests and audience.

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School family day ofMon State observed

YANGON, 20 Jan—A study group of diplomatscomprising Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in theUnion of Myanmar Ambassador of Brunei DarussalamH.E Pehin Datu Inderasugara Brig-Gen (B) DatoPaduka Haji Mohammad Yusof bin Abu Bakar andwife Mrs Datin Mastura Mohsin, ambassadors offoreign embassies, charge d’ affaires, representativesof UN agencies and their wives led by Minister forForeign Affairs U Nyan Win and wife arrivedMyitkyina Air Base on 16 January to go on study tourof Kachin State.

The diplomats were welcomed at the Air Baseby Chairman of Kachin State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of Northern Command Brig-Gen Soe Win and wife, departmental officials, nationalraces and traditional cultural dance troupes. Thecommander extended greetings and explained salientpoints of Kachin State and the Brunei ambassadorspoke words of thanks.

Diplomats tour Myitkyina and Phakant inKachin State

Dinner was hosted to the diplomats at UruYadana Guest House in Phakant. The diplomatsviewed the 3000-ton Jade Museum of the Ministry ofMines in Nanhmaw Village in Lonekhin/Phakant gemland on 17 January.

Upon arrival at Ever Winner Jade Workshop,the diplomats studied production process of finishedjade. The commander and wife hosted dinner todiplomats in Myitkyina. After the dinner, traditionalcultural dance troupes presented songs and dancesto the diplomats. The commander and the ministerand the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps presentedflower basket and cash awards to the culturaltroupes.

The diplomats visited Maykha and MalikhaConfluence on 18 January morning and viewedMyoma Market and Hsan Gem Sale Room inMyintkyina in the afternoon on the same day.

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YANGON, 20 Jan —Executives and officials ofMyanmar Music Asiayon(Central) and chairmen andsecretaries of the Asiayonin 17 townships in YangonDivision met at the MusicAsiayon, at No. 2, DhammaDana street, Natchaung Ward,Tamway Township today.

Chairman of theAsiayon gave an account onthe instructions given byMinister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan at Myanma

Myanmar Music Asiayon (Central) holds meetingRadio and Television on 20December 2008.

The meetingfocused on instructions thatmust be followed byMyanmar Music Asiayon(Central) and MusicAsiayon in townships,matters relating to provideassistance to agedmembers, to find the

effective way for piratedcopies, to use specificmodern curriculums for themusic course, to see to theincrease of members of theAsiayon, and to maintainMyanmar culture andlineage while initiatinginnovation for thedevelopment of musiccircle. —MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20Jan—Deputy Attorney-General Dr Tun Shinreceived delegate leadersof ASEAN countries, whoare attending the SeventhMeeting of HLEG hostedby Myanmar at thediplomatic hall, here on

ASEAN legal experts call on DeputyAttorney-General Dr Tun Shin

18 January afternoon.The delegate

leaders of ASEANcountries are Mr VasinTeeravechyan fromThailand, Ms Hjh NorHashima Hj Mohd Taibfrom Brunei, Mr SokKhavan from Cambodia,Mr Rachmat Budimanfrom Indonesia, Mr KhamKheuang Bounteum fromLaos, Ms Noor Farida

Ariffin from Malaysia, MrJose Eduardo Malaya fromthe Philippines, Mr JeffreyChan from Singapore, MrNguyen Xuan Thuy fromVietnam and Secretary DrTemsak Chalerm-palanupap of ASEAN legalexperts group.

Also present at thecall were Director-General U Tin Myint ofthe Attorney-General’sOffice and officialsconcerned.

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Foreign Affairs

Minister

U Nyan Win and

diplomats visit

Maykha-Malikha

Confluence.

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Deputy Attorney-General Dr Tun Shin receiving delegate leaders ofASEAN countries to the Seventh Meeting of HLEG hosted by

Myanmar at the diplomatic hall, Nay Pyi Taw on 19 January.—MNA

Please readDirector U Kyaw Hsanof Office of the Attorney-General in the news“Myanmar hosts the 7thmeeting of ….” on page9 of this daily issued on20-1-2009. Error isregretted. —Ed

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YANGON, 19 Jan —At the invitation of theASEAN SecretaryGeneral Dr SurinPitsuwan, Myanmardelegation led byChairman of TripartiteCore Group(TCG)Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U KyawThu left here for Bangkok,Thailand to participate inthe Coordinating Meetingand Fifth Meeting of theASEAN HumanitarianTask Force (AHTF) forthe victims of CycloneNargis to be held inBangkok from 16 to 17

NAY PYI TAW, 20Jan—The Directorate ofWater Resources andImprovement of RiverSystems todayannounced thatpreviously the areabetween pillar Nos 1 and2 of Ayeyawady Bridge(Magway) in theAyeaywady River wasdesignated as the onlygate for vessels to passthrough. Since 16January, the area between

YANGON, 20 Jan—STIEducation will openAdobe Certified Expertcourse as the first of itskind in Myanmar on 8February.

The curriculumcovers adobe photoshop,flash, illustrator, andpreparation for ACEexaminations.

The course isdesigned for cartoonists,graphic designers, artists,visualizers, architecturalillustrators, archaeo-logists, science fictionvisual artists, caricaturists,TV commercial directorsand film directors.

After completing thecourse, a trainee will beready to take the adobecertified expert ex-amination. Trainers are all

YANGON, 20 Jan—Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin visited PhyoCetana Free Eye SpecialClinic at the corner ofKyeikwaing Pagoda roadand Insein road inMayangon Township thismorning and comfortedthe patients.

Mayor inspects development workThe mayor looked

into upgrading of 1020feet long and 12 feet widetarred road in No. 2 Ward,Mayangon Township.

He also oversawprogress in paving road atthe housing project onMindamma road beingcarried out by YCDC andFortune International Ltd.

Next, the chairman

inspected upgrading of tarredroad on Seinpanmying Street,No.14/1 Ward in SouthOkkalapa Township. Themayor also visitedconstruction of Futsal pitchin No13 Ward in the townshipand supervised paving theroad at east horse racingcourse road in TamwayTownship.—MNA

Notice to marinerspillar Nos 2 and 3 has beendesignated as the gate fordown-vessels, and the gatebetween pillar Nos 1 and2, as the gate for up-vessels.

The clearance areabetween pillar Nos 2 and 3is 110 metres wide, andbetween pillar Nos 1 and2, 85 metres wide. The newclearance areas are 17metres high at maximum.

On the entrancesthrough which vessels are topass through is seen a green

triangle mark each indaytime and a green light atnight. On the areas throughwhich vessels must not passthrough is seen a red crossmark each in daytime, anda red light at night.

The foundation ofeach pillar protrudesabout 20 feet on eitherside. So, vessels are torun only one after anotherin passing through thesame area between twopillars.—MNA

Deputy Foreign Minister attends fifthMeeting of ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force

(AHTF) for victims of Cyclone NargisJanuary.

Deputy Minister UKyaw Thu and delegationmember participated in theCoordinating Meeting forthe Fifth Meeting of theASEAN HumanitarianTask Force (AHTF) forthe victims of CycloneNargis at Amari WaterGate Hotel on 16 January.The deputy ministerattended the Fifth Meetingof the ASEANHumanitarian Task Force(AHTF) for the victims ofCyclone Nargis at thesame venue on 17 Januaryand presented report of the

Tripartite Core Group(TCG). The participantsalso discussed theoutcome of the TCG highlevel roundtable on post-Nargis relief and recoveryefforts in Myanmar.

The deputyminister and delega-tion members—DeputyDirector-General U ThanAye of the Ministry ofAgriculture and Irrigationand Deputy Director DawKyawt Kyawt Khaing ofthe Ministry of ForeignAffairs—also arrivedback on the same flight.

MNA

Adobe Certified Expert course on 8 Feb

adobe certified expertcertificate holders with atleast over 10 years'service.

Those interested mayenroll at STI trainingcentre at No. 377, Room

(7), Building (4),Myanmar Info-Tech onupper Shwebontha Street,Pabedan Township,Yangon, (Ph: 507048,507151, 507152, 250056,700273).—MNA

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Thu attends FifthMeeting of the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force (AHTF) for the

victims of Cyclone Nargis held in Thailand.—MNA

Lt-Gen Myint Swe of Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Khin Thet

Htay being welcomed by Mr Wang Zongying, charge d’ affaires of the

People’s Republic of China, and wife at the reception to mark the

Chinese Spring Festival 2009, on 20 January.— MNA

Logo of Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).

Monywa Cup Invitational GolfTournament continues

YANGON, 20 Jan —Jointly organized byMyanmar Golf Federationand Monywa Golf Club,Monywa Cup InvitationalGolf Tournamentcontinued for its secondround at Monywa GolfClub in Monywa thismorning.

After the secondround, Min Naing(Srixon) took a lead with141 strokes in two daytotal in professionalgolfers division.

Kyaw Swa Lin(Srixon), Soe Kyaw Naing

(Srixon) and Naing NaingLin (Point) shared secondposition with 146 onaggregate. Thein ZawMyint (KM Golf Centre)positioned himself at thethird place with 149 intotal.

In men’s amateurgolfers division, AungWin (Forestry) led thetournament with the firstposition by shooting 143in tow day total.

Nay Bala Win Myintsecured the second placewith 148 whereas ThanNaing Oo and Tin Lin Ko

tied at the third place byfiring 151 each. Bo Bowas in the fourth positionwith 152.

With the aim ofturning out excellentMyanmar golfers, thetournament was mainlysponsored by FutureEngineering Group, Moeand More Co., Ltd andCherry Yoma Co., Ltd.and cosponsored byInternational BeveragesTrading Co., Ltd. HanEvent Management sawto success of thetournament.—MNA

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(from page 16)I run this farm withsome other farmersfor mutual interest.It is designed to dis-seminate agricul-tural methods tofarmers and to earnforeign exchange.

Q: When did you growmusk melon and wa-termelon this sea-son?

A: In October that is theinterval of harvest-ing monsoonsesame and ground-nut and growing cot-ton. We harvestthem in December.They are three-month fruit. Theycan be harvestedwhen they are at theage of 75 to 80 days.

Q: How did you learnthat these fruit aremarketable?

A: I visited China sevenyears ago, and thereI noticed that Chi-nese people like fruitvery much. Duringthe visit, I saw theirfruit festival. Then,I learnt that water-melon and muskmelon are short-term cash fruit. Sup-posing, a water-melon weighs 10kilos, we can earn20 yuns from a wa-termelon at the priceof two yuns a kilo.

Grow seedless watermelon, yellowish muskmelon to earn more foreign exchange

Article & photos: Kyaw Oo (Kyaukse)Q: How many musk

melons and water-melons do you get anacre?

A: We get about 4000musk melons an acre.But, if we choose onlymarketable size ones,we get 3000 to 3500.And that is the samefor watermelon.

Q: It is said that farmingseedless watermelonis quite an art. Couldyou explain it to me?

A: That is right. Farm-ing seedless water-melon is not as easyas farming ordinarywatermelon, becausewe have to pollinateseedless watermelonplants with pollen ofordinary watermelonin a very limited time.But it is nothing if afarmer has gained alot of knowledge ofit. We need to grow0.25 acre of ordinarywatermelon for everyacre of seedless wa-termelon for pollina-tion.

Q: What species of wa-termelon and muskmelon are in demandthis year?

A: In watermelon, seed-less watermelon is indemand and in muskmelon, yellowishmusk melon is in de-mand this year. Farm-ers grow mostly or-

dinary watermelonand greenish muskmelon, so they do notget high prices.Growers make profitfrom this fruit, but notmuch.

Q: How much is invest-ment and profit froman acre of seedlesswatermelon andmusk melon thisyear?

A: The cost of growingan acre of seedlesswatermelon is roundabout 1.2 millionkyats. We have tospend one millionkyats on transport,and 400,000 kyats onduties and labourcharges, so overall in-vestment is around2.6 million kyats. Onaverage, 130 seedlesswatermelons weighone ton. If the per acreyield is 3000, theyweigh 23 or 24 tons,and it is just right fora 10-wheel truck. Wegain around four mil-lion kyats from atruck of seedless wa-termelons. So, on av-erage, we make aprofit of 1.4 millionkyats from an acre.Here, if seedless wa-termelons are not at-tractive and bigenough, they are notmarketable. Yellow-ish musk melon is in

high demand this yearbecause farmers donot gain good yieldsof this fruit. The costof growing an acre ofyellowish muskmelon is around onemillion kyats.Transportation costsabout 500,000 kyats,and duties and la-bour charges cost200,000 kyats,totaling around 1.7million kyats. Onaverage, 500 yel-lowish musk melonsweigh one ton, so wehire six-ton trucks totransport this fruit.A six-ton truck cancarry around 3000fruits. Mostly, farm-ers hire a truck forthe fruits from an

acre of farm. We gainover 2.2 million kyatsfrom a six-ton truckof fruits. If so, wemake a profit of morethan 500,000 kyats.

Q: Well, U Ye Soe, Iwould like to knowwhat you will growafter harvesting seed-less watermelon andmusk melon.

A: Now, musk melon isin fruit, and I growNgwechi (6) straincotton as a mixed cropamong musk melonplants. So far, I havegrown 40 acres of cot-ton. When the muskmelon is harvested,cotton plants will re-main in the farms. Formy partner farmersand I, cotton is the

The yellowish musk melon plantation of U Ye Soe of MaunghtaungVillage in Kyaukse Township, Mandalay Division.

major crop. I amvery fond of grow-ing crops. So, I growpaddy, chick pea,cotton, watermelon,musk melon and soon. I am very pleasedwith my career. Inparticular, I amproud to have earnedforeign exchangefrom seedless water-melon and muskmelon.

I would like to urgeother farmers to try grow-ing short-term cash cropsof seedless watermelonand yellowish muskmelon for higher in-comes.

*****Translation: MS

Myanma Alin:19-1-2009

mobility. The so-called LINE-1 retrotransposon is amobile genetic element that can multiply and insertitself into chromosomal DNA at many different loca-tions. This disturbs the genetic code at the site ofintegration, which can have serious consequences forthe organism.

On the other hand, this leads to genetic varia-tion, an absolute prerequisite for the evolution ofspecies. The structure of the L1ORF1p protein nowallows a much more precise investigation of the mecha-nism of LINE-1 mobilization. This provides new in-sight into the relation between retrotransposons andretroviruses and probably also into certain evolution-ary processes in humans and animals. Moreover, theresearchers assume that the mechanism of LINE-1retrotransposition can be exploited one day to pre-cisely insert genetic information into specific loca-tions. This would be an alternative to contemporary,less location-specific methods that are based on aretroviral mechanism.—Internet

Molecular parasite could play important role in human evolution

TÜBINGEN, 20 Jan — Researchers at the MaxPlanck Institute for Developmental Biology inTübingen, Germany, determined the structure of aprotein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasiticgenetic element and which is responsible for its

SCIENCE DAILY, 20 Jan — Using a NASA radarflying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scien-tists are getting their first look inside the moon'scoldest, darkest craters.

The Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, syn-thetic aperture radar, has passed its initial in-flight testsand sent back its first data. The images show the floorsof permanently-shadowed polar craters on the moonthat aren't visible from Earth. Scientists are using theinstrument to map and search the insides of the cratersfor water ice. "The only way to explore such areas isto use an orbital imaging radar such as Mini-SAR," saidBenjamin Bussey, deputy principal investigator forMini-SAR, from the Johns Hopkins University Ap-plied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. "This is anexciting first step for the team which has workeddiligently for more than three years to get to thispoint."—Internet

Radar provides look insideMoon’s shadowed craters

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A child feeds pigeons in Beijing. A 16-year-old boy has died from bird flu incentral China, state media said on 20 January, marking the nation’s third

fatality from the disease in less than a month.—INTERNET

A street is decorated with red lanterns in Changsha, capital of central-southChina’s Hunan Province, on 20 Jan, 2009, before the Chinese traditional Spring

Festival, or lunar New Year, begins on Jan. 26.—INTERNET

DHAKA, 20 Jan—Rescuers have so farrecovered 22 bodies of thevictims of Monday’strawler capsizal inBangladesh’s south-eastern Chandpur district,about 115 km from capitalDhaka, an official said.

A Bangladesh InlandWater TransportAuthority (BIWTA)official said rescuercontinued to recover threemore bodies that were stillmissing.

BIWTA divers pulledout the bodies from insidea cabin of the sunken

A gas pump is hung at a gas station inSeoul August 12, 2005. crude oil pricesand firm raw materials costs.—INTERNET

227 people under observation in bird flu scareBEIJING, 20 Jan—At least 227 people

who had close contact with two bird flupatients in the provinces of Hunan andGuizhou are under observation, althoughnone has yet been found to be infected,health officials said Tuesday.

�A Hunan health departmentspokesman said 140 people had beenexamined including the patients’relatives and medical workers inChangsha County and Huaihua City asof Tuesday noon. No abnormalities werefound.

A two-year-old girl fell ill on Jan. 7in Changsha County and was confirmedto be infected with bird flu in ShanxiProvince on Saturday. On Tuesdaymorning, a 16-year-old male student,

who fell ill on Jan. 8 in QiandongnanPrefecture, Guizhou, died in a hospital inHuaihua.

The Qiandongnan prefecturalgovernment said Tuesday that 87 peoplewho had close contact with the studentwere not affected.

Three people have died of bird fluand another has been infected in Chinaso far this year. The first death was a 19-year-old woman in Beijing on Jan. 5,followed by a 27-year-old woman inShandong on Jan. 17 and a 16-year-oldmale student in Hunan on Jan. 20. A two-year-old patient surnamed Peng was stillreceiving treatment in Shanxi.

The fatality rate for bird flu patientsis more than 60 percent.—Internet

22 bodies recovered after trawler capsizesin S Bangladesh

Oil falls $3 after Russia-Ukraine gas deal

Cancer patients in Britain eligiblefor free drugs

LONDON, 20 Jan—People being treated forcancer in Britain can applyfor free prescriptions as ofTuesday, according to theHealth Department.

The new plan,promised by PrimeMinister Gordon Brownlast September, abolishesNational Health Service(NHS) prescriptioncharges for everyone

undergoing treatment forcancer, the effects ofcancer, or the effects ofcancer treatment.

“This new schemegives people living withcancer one less worry atsuch a difficult time,” saidDawn Primarolo, thePublic Health Minister.

Up to 150,000patients alreadydiagnosed with cancer areexpected to benefit, andeach may annually save100 pounds (about 150 USdollars) in prescriptioncharges.

All cancer patients areentitled to apply for a five-year exemptioncertificate, which willentitle them to all theirNHS prescriptions free ofcharge, not just those onesrelated to cancer. The

certificate can be renewedas many times asnecessary and will nothave to be returned if thepatient’s conditionchanges.

Ciaran Devane, chiefexecutive of MacmillanCancer Support, describedthe plan, expected to beextended to cover somefive million cancerpatients, including thosewith long-term conditions,as “absolutely the rightthing to do.”

“Cancer not onlythreatens your life, but canalso make you poor. Freeprescriptions willtransform the lives ofthousands of people livingwith cancer who werestruggling to pay fordrugs,” Devane said.

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A sculpture depictingthe logo of the Com-

munist Party of Chinaat the Chinese MilitaryMuseum in Beijing on

20 January, 2009.INTERNET

trawler till Tuesdayafternoon.

The trawler witharound 50 day laborers onboard capsized earlyMonday in the riverMegna river, one of thecountry’s three biggestrivers, after being hit byan empty cargo vessel.Some 25 people swam

ashore. The divers locatedthe trawler 50 feet underwater Tuesday morning,but salvage operation wasdelayed due to dense fog.

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LONDON, 20 Jan—Oil fell $3, slidingbelow $34 a barrel after Russia andUkraine agreed a deal on Tuesday leadingto the resumption of gas supplies toEurope, while gloomy economic news

presaged weaker demand for oil products.Following a deal between Moscow

and Kiev, Russian gas company Gazprom(GAZP.MM) resumed pumping gas intoUkraine on its way to Europe. This meantthat there would no longer be an increasedneed for oil products to replace gas.

US light crude for February deliverywas $3.01 lower at $33.50 a barrel by1139 GMT (6:39 am EST), havingpreviously hit a new 2009 low of $32.70.There was no official settlement onMonday due to a US holiday.

The March contract, which takes overas front month on Wednesday, was down$2.69 to $39.88, and was more than $6.00a barrel above the February contract dueto brimming crude stocks at Cushing,Oklahoma, the delivery point forNYMEX contracts.

London Brent crude fell 65 cents to$43.85 a barrel, having closed $2.07 loweron Monday. “The weak (US) contract isdue in part to the Russian gas deal and theeffect the gloomy economic picture hason demand. Weak sterling is also havingan impact,” said Christopher Bellew ofBache Financial.—Internet

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TRADE MARKCAUTION NOTICE

BOSCH CORPORATION,a company organized underthe laws of JAPAN, andhaving its principal officeat 3-6-7, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan is theowner and sole proprietorof the following Trade-marks:-

Reg. Nos. 4/2394/2003, 4/2397/2003,

4/2398/2003, 4/9619/2005,4/9620/2005, 4/9621/2005

& 4/9622/2005

Reg. Nos. 4/2394/2003, 4/2397/2003,

4/2398/2003, 4/9619/2005,4/9623/2005, 4/9624/2005

& 4/9625/2005The above mentioned-marksare used in respect of:-“International Classes 07,11& 12”Any unauthorized use, imi-tation, infringements orfraudulent intentions of theabove marks will be dealtwith according to law.

Tin Ohnmar TunB.A (LAW) LL.B, LL.M (U.K)

P.O.Box. 109,Ph: 723043(For. Mark-i Inc.,Japan)

Dated. 21 January, 2009.

Toyota taps founder’sgrandson as new president

TOKYO, 20 Jan—Toyota says Akio Toyoda, grand-son of the company’s founder, has been picked as thenew president to lead the Japanese automaker througha slump in the global auto market.

The widely expected selection of Toyoda, 52, willbecome formal once shareholders approve the appoint-ment in June, the company said in a statement.

Toyoda’s promotion marks the first time a Toyodafamily member takes the helm at the company in 14years.

Toyota is forecasting a 150 billion yen ($1.69 bil-lion) operating loss for the fiscal year ending March31 — its first such red ink in 70 years.

Internet

SINGAPORE, 20 Jan—Oil prices fell to near $34 abarrel Tuesday in Asia as traders sold the expiringfront-month Nymex contract due to a lack of space ata key US storage facility.

Light, sweet crude for February delivery was down28 cents at $34.27 a barrel, after falling as low as$33.89, by midday in Singapore in electronic tradingon the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract,which expires on Tuesday, fell $1.96 overnight to set-tle at $34.55. The February contract has fallen about athird in two weeks, in part because burgeoning sup-plies in Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for theNymex contract, have left traders with little space tostore crude, forcing them to sell. Traders say some oilfirms are storing crude on rented tankers.—Internet

In this 28 June, 2007 file photo, a Toyota Motor

Corp worker kneels down to check a Lexus at the

Japanese automaker’s flagship production line for

luxury Lexus models in Tahara, central Japan.

INTERNET

WHO chief fears Gaza exposed to disease outbreaksGENEVA, 20 Jan—The densely-populated Gaza Strip has been left vulnerable to

outbreaks of disease following Israel’s 22-day military offensive, the head of theWorld Health Organization warned Monday.

“Right now, we very sadly see ideal conditions for outbreaks of disease,” WHOdirector general Margaret Chan said at the opening of the executive board’s an-nual meeting.

“Densely packed and displaced populations are weakened by hunger, little powerfor cooking and heating, and severe psychological trauma. Drinking water is scarce,sewage lines have been broken, and garbage is piling up,” she said.

“Immunization, along with most routine health services, has been interruptedfor more than three weeks. An outbreak under such conditions would be anotherhealth crisis that should not happen,” Chan said.

Israel started a unilateral ceasefire Sunday, while Hamas and other Palestinianmilitant groups called a week-long truce of their own, following a war that leftmore than 1,300 Palestinians dead, according to Gaza medics.—Internet

Oil falls to $34 ahead ofFeb contract expiry

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John Loines, of the British Antarctic Survey, holds up his arm to fend off anattack by a south polar skua as he checks the nest of one of the birds on LagoonIsland, Antarctica on 14 Jan, 2009. The birds, the most southerly in the world,are becoming a threat to planes at Antarctic airstrips by developing a liking forsitting on the runways, which are warmer than surrounding snow.—INTERNET

A construction worker stands beside a solar panel in Dubai. Oil-rich Abu Dhabisaid Monday it will press ahead with plans to develop solar energy, shruggingoff a huge drop in oil prices which is cutting the emirate’s revenues.—INTERNET

Japan ‘moves closer to allowingcloned food’

TOKYO, 20 Jan — Japanmoved closer to ending aban on food products fromcloned animals as a panelof experts concludedMonday they are as safe toeat as those from con-ventionally bred livestock.

“Considering thecurrent scientific tech-nology, I believe they(cloned animals) are thesame as ordinary ones,”said Takao Hayakawa, thepanel’s chairman.

Asked if he would eatcloned beef, he replied: “I

could do that.”His panel’s recom-

mendations, which ap-proved the safety of foodfrom cloned livestock,will be studied further byanother panel of expertsbefore being submittedto the Food Safety Com-mission.

Even if the commissiongives the green light forcloned foods to be servedat home and restaurantsin Japan, more delibe-ration will be neededwithin government before

the ban is lifted.Food from cloned

animals has facedopposition on ethical andhealth grounds, but a seriesof reports by domestic andforeign laboratories foundthat cloned animals are ashealthy as conventionallybred ones.

In January last year, afteryears of research, the USFood and Drug Admi-nistration approved the saleof food from clonedanimals and theiroffspring.—Internet

Go to a party to cut dementia risk,study suggests

Study doubts heart disease genetictesting value

WASHINGTON, 20 Jan —A study tracking a largegroup of women for adecade casts doubt on thevalue of testing for a certaingenetic trait linked to heartdisease to predict one’schances of illness, USresearchers said onMonday.

Knowing a woman hadthe abnormality onchromosome 9 did notimprove cardiovascularillness prediction com-pared to typical risk factorssuch as high blood pres-sure, smoking, cholesterollevels, diabetes, familyhistory of heart attack andC-reactive protein as anindicator of arterialinflammation, they found.

This common genetictrait has been shown to raisethe risk for heart attack,stroke and other car-diovascular conditions,and commercial tests for itare available to consumers.

“Once you alreadyknow the traditional riskfactors, the additionalinformation about thegenetic variation doesn’thelp any. It doesn’timprove your ability topredict,” Nina Paynter ofBrigham and Women'sHospital in Boston, wholed the study in the Annals

of Internal Medicine, saidin a phone interview.

“It definitely suggeststhat as a population scre-ening tool -- to give it toeverybody and add it towhat we already know --the test for this trait byitself doesn’t seem tohave value,” Paynter said.

Internet

Chemical used in makingrubber linked to cancer

LONDON, 20 Jan — A chemical commonly used tomake rubber products may cause cancer in peopleexposed to fumes during the manufacturing process,British researchers said on Tuesday.Workers exposedto 2-mercaptobenzothiazole, or MBT, at a rubberchemicals plant in North Wales were twice as likely todevelop colon cancer and four times as likely to get bonemarrow cancer compared to the general population,they said.“Perhaps MBT should be handled withincreased care as it may be a human carcinogen,” TomSorahan of the University of Birmingham and colleaguessaid in the journal Occupational and EnvironmentalMedicine.The risk is probably limited to factory workersexposed to MBT when added to a mixture of chemicalseventually used as a component to make rubber products,he added.—Internet

A photo releasedby the South

African NationalParks Authori-ties on 16 Janu-

ary shows arhino killed for

his horn. Asyndicate of 11

suspected poach-ers have beenarrested for aspate of rhinoslaughters in

South Africa’stop wildlife

areas, authoritiessaid on Friday.

INTERNET

LONDON, 20 Jan —Keeping a full socialcalendar may help protectyou from dementia,researchers said onMonday.

Socially active peoplewho were not easilystressed had a 50 percentlower risk of developingdementia compared with

men and women who wereisolated and prone todistress, they reported inthe journal Neurology.

“In the past, studieshave shown that chronicdistress can affect parts ofthe brain, such as thehippocampus, possiblyleading to dementia,” Hui-Xin Wang of theKarolinska Institute inSweden, who led thestudy, said in a statement.

“But our findingssuggest that having a calmand outgoing personalityin combination with a

socially active lifestylemay decrease the risk ofdeveloping dementia evenfurther.” An estimated 24million people worldwidehave the memory loss,problems with orientationand other symptoms thatsignal Alzheimer’s di-sease and other forms ofdementia.

Researchers believe thenumber of people withdementia may quadrupleby 2040, underlining theimportance of betterunderstanding thecondition.—Internet

Living with a smokerhard on tiny infants

NEW YORK, 20 Jan —Infants born at very lowbirth weights are atincreased risk of lungailments in the first12 months of life, and anew study suggeststhat modifiable indoor

respiratory triggers,namely exposure tocigarette smoke and pestsin the home, may be atleast partly to blame.

In a study of 124 verylow birth weight infants,Dr Jill S Halterman fromUniversity of Rochester,New York and colleaguesanalyzed the impact ofmodifiable exposures onrespiratory illness 1 yearafter discharge from theneonatal intensive careunit. “In this study, wefound that respiratoryillnesses were very com-mon among very low birthweight infants in their firstyear of life,” Haltermannoted in comments toReuters Health. “In fact,almost 1 in 10 infants hadalready been diagnosedwith asthma at this veryyoung age.”—Internet

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S P O R T SSoccer title is still within our

grasp, insists Benitez

Liverpool manager RafaBenitez, seen here, in-sisted that his side couldstill win the PremierLeague despite watchinghis side carelessly dropmore points in a 1-1 draw

with city rivalsEverton.—INTERNET

Kaka staying at Milan,says Berlusconi

MILAN, 20 Jan—AC Milan president and ItalianPrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has ended transferspeculation surrounding Kaka by telling a TV pro-gramme on Monday that the 26-year-old Brazilian willbe staying at Milan.

The former World Player of the Year had been thesubject of a reported 100 million euro bid from mega-rich Manchester City in a transfer saga that had beenpicking up pace over the last week.

Berlusconi said last week that with the money onoffer he could not force Kaka to stay if he wanted toleave.

But he seems to have changed his mind and claimedon Monday that he had intervened personally to en-sure the fans’ favourite will be staying in Italy.

“Both I and he (Kaka) have intervened,” saidBerlusconi.—Internet

Angola pours millions intoAfrican Nations Cup

LUANDA, 20 Jan—Oil-rich Angola is pouring mil-lions of dollars into new stadiums, hotels and airportsto get ready for the 2010 African Nations Cup, whichofficials say will kick off on schedule in less than 12months.

The decision to award Nations Cup - known asCAN - to Angola surprised some who did not believethe former Portuguese colony could get itself ready intime, having only ended a 27-year civil war in 2002.

But according to the organising committee, stadiumconstruction is running to schedule and preparations arewell underway. “In relation to the construction of stadi-ums, the schedule will be met,” CAN’s marketing di-rector Manuel Mariano told journalists after a meetingwith top government officials last week.—Internet

Murray, Williams sisters takeeasy route as Open sizzles

British hope AndyMurray, seen here, washanded an easy passageinto the Australian Opensecond round whenRomania’s Andrei Pavelretired with a back injury

during their match onTuesday.—INTERNET

Federer getting used tolife as number two

MELBOURNE, 20 Jan—Swiss ace RogerFederer previously chafed at the label “worldnumber two,” but he said he was getting usedto the idea after starting the Australian Openseeded second for the first time since 2004.

Federer, who is seeking a record-equalling14th Grand Slam title here, said he felt morerelaxed and able to enjoy life without the pres-sure of being the world’s top player.

“Maybe I’m a bit more relaxed. The timeswhen you’re number one in the world, youput your head down, you try to win as manytournaments as possible,” he said.

“Maybe sometimes you forget to enjoy itas much as you can because everything hap-pens so quickly.”—Internet

Allardyce says Santa Cruzcan go for 40 million pounds

Blackburn Rovers newmanager Sam Allardyce,seen here in 2008, hassaid striker Roque SantaCruz can leave for 40 mil-lion pounds (58 milliondollars) - but he does notexpect to be inundatedwith offers.—INTERNET

Inter Milan’s presidentMassimo Moratti

Inter president rules outtransfer window swoop

ROME, 20 Jan—Inter Milan president MassimoMoratti on Monday ruled out a January transfer win-

Ibrahimovic voted Italianplayer of year

ROME, 20 Jan—Inter Milan forward ZlatanIbrahimovic Monday was named Italian player of theyear for his brilliant performance in his club’s run forthe Serie A title last season.

The 27-year-old received the award from the Ital-ian players’ association whose members also voted theSwede best foreign player while Brazilian world playerof year Kaka failed to win this time.

Veteran Italy and Juventus forward Alessandro DelPiero, who topped the scoring charts last season, pickedup the best Italian award while Fiorentina boss CesarePrandelli was named best coach after steering his sideinto the Champions League at the expense of AC Mi-lan. Gianluigi Buffon of Juventus was named bestgoalkeeper, his team-mate Giorgio Chiellini best de-fender, Napoli’s Marek Hamsik best young player andRoberto Rosetti best referee.—Internet

Inter Milan’s ZlatanIbrahimovic reactsafter scoring a goal

against Cagliari duringtheir Italian Serie Asoccer match at theSan Siro stadium in

Milan on 10 Jan,2009.—XINHUA

Swiss ace Roger Federer, worldnumber two.—INTERNET

LONDON, 20 Jan—Blackburn Rovers man-ager Sam Allardyce hassaid striker Roque SantaCruz can leave for 40 mil-lion pounds (58 milliondollars) - but he does notexpect to be inundatedwith offers.

Allardyce has repeat-edly insisted he does notwant to sell Santa Cruzduring the January trans-fer window.

However, the Paraguayinternational has made itclear he wants to joinManchester City and link-up again with managerMark Hughes, whobrought him to EwoodPark fromn German gi-ants Bayern Munich lastseason.

But Allardyce, whotook over at Blackburnfrom the sacked Paul Ince

dow swoop despite histeam’s 3-1 humbling at thehands of Atalanta on Sun-day.

Jose Mourinho’s teamwere simply woeful in thefirst 45 minutes in whichthey conceded three goalsand barely registered a sin-gle shot of their own.

But Moratti insistedthere would be no knee-jerk reaction to Inter’ssecond league loss of theseason.

“Yesterday was a terri-ble match, we played verybadly, it was a match thatreally hurt,” he said.

“It’s hard to say what Iwas happy about, it wasn’ta match, from the firstwhistle to the last therewas no running, no con-centration, nothing. It’severyone’s and no-one’sfault.

“Yesterday’s matchshows you that it would beabsurd to look to the trans-fer market. Either youhave 22 players who arewashed out or it’s absurdto look to the transfermarket.”—Internet

MELBOURNE, 20 Jan—Andy Murray and theWilliams sisters took theeasy route at the Austral-ian Open Tuesday, breez-ing into the second roundin furnace-like conditions.

As temperatures soaredpast 40 Celsius (104 Fahr-enheit), fourth seedMurray barely broke asweat against RomanianDavis Cup captain AndreiPavel who retired with aback injury when the Scotwas leading 6-2, 3-1.

Second-seeded SerenaWilliams was equallycomfortable in her 6-3, 6-2 mauling of China’sMeng Yuan, not needingthe ice vests offered toplayers between games insuch sizzling heat. Match-ing her sister, sixth seedVenus barely broke strideas she sauntered past Ger-many’s Angelique Kerber6-3, 6-3.

While they cruised,Russian fourth seed Elena

Dementieva survived agruelling test before grind-ing down Germany’sKristina Barrois in threesets, while Polish ninthseed AgnieszkaRadwanska became thebiggest casualty so far.

Internet

last month, said the onlyconceivable way hewould let Santa Cruz jointhe world’s wealthiestfootball club was if Citypaid 40 million pounds,which he reckons is whatit is worth for Rovers tostay in the PremierLeague.—Internet

LIVERPOOL, 20 Jan—Liv-erpool manager RafaBenitez insisted that hisside could still win the Pre-mier League despite watch-ing his side carelessly dropmore points in a 1-1 drawwith city rivals Everton.

Benitez’s side looked tobe heading two points clearthe summit after skipperSteven Gerrard gave hisside the lead against neigh-bours Everton at Anfield onMonday.

But Liverpool wereforced to settle for a drawafter Australian interna-tional Tim Cahill pouncedin the dying moments toearn Everton a pricelesspoint.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin State and Sagaing Division and gener-ally fair in the remaining States and Divisions. Nighttemperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C) below January averagetemperatures in Kayin State and Taninthayi Division,(5˚C) to (6˚C) below January average temperatures inChin and Mon States, (3˚C) above January average tem-peratures in Kayah State, upper Sagaing and MandalayDivisions, (6˚C) above January average temperatures inKachin State and about January average temperatures inthe remaining areas. The significant night temperatureswere Haka (-2˚C), Pinlaung (3˚C) and Namhsam (4˚C).

Maximum temperature on 19-1-2009 was 90˚F.Minimum temperature on 20-1-2009 was 60˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 20-1-2009 was 74%.Total sunshine hours on 19-1-2009 was (9.1) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 20-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (4) mph from North at (09:30) hours MST on 20-1-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the SouthBay and generally fair in the Andaman Sea and else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21th January 2009:Likelihood of isolated light rain in Kachin State, weatherwill be partly cloudy in Shan State, upper Sagaing, Man-dalay and Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in theremaining areas. Degree fo certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight increase of night temperatures in the EasternMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 21-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 21-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 21-1-2009: Generally fair weather.

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* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights* Central Glass Pavilion* New Transport Facilities designed for Regional

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* Signature Tune* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights* The Alaung Daw Kathapa National Park* Mularsheedi we Love!* Hydropower Light Radiating from Danyawady Land* Reed Mats* The Wonderful Peikchin Ravine* Rubber.....a lucrative Business* Cruise Along Yangon River ... Feel Enchanting Scenes

With Pleasure* Myanmar Modern Song* Central Glass Pavilion* New Transport Facilities Designed for Regional

Development* Myanmar Jaggery* Resort for Rest and Recreation (Inle Khaung Taing Village)* The Art of Aesthetic Mosaic* Myanma Indigenous Ornamental Fish (Part-2)* Engineered Floors made with Unique Technology* Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights

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Spain’s Marc Coma (C) poses with team-membersJordi Viladons (L) and Gerard Farres (R), teammanager Jordi Arcarons (R, standing) and Repsol’sdirector of communications Jaume Giro upon arrivingin Madrid after winning the motorcycle race in theSouth American edition of the Dakar Rally 2009

on 20 January, 2009.—INTERNET

Drought affects 7.9 mln hectares ofwheat farmland in China

��BEIJING, 20 Jan—China’s Ministry of Agriculturesaid on Tuesday that lack of rainfall in major wheat-growing provinces has brought drought to 119 millionmu (7.9 million hectares) of wheat farmland.

��The figure was 100 million mu more than thesame period last year. Most of northern China sufferedfrom lack of rain during this winter, and in some areas,the amount of rainfall is 70 to 90 percent less thanaverage, said officials with the ministry.

��More than half of the wheat farmland in Henan,Anhui and Shanxi provinces is suffering drought, saidthe official. As drought harms crop’s ability to weatherthe winter, the ministry has sent six expert teams tohelp farmers cope, and local governments have alsoorganized similar instruction groups.

��Also in freak weather, 1,003 kilometers of theYellow River become ice-locked by Jan. 19, and 200people from 27 families in Hukou of Shanxi Provincesuffered the effects of flooding as ice blocked the riverSaturday night, according to the State Flood Controland Drought Relief Headquarter.—Internet

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11th Waning of Pyatho 1370 ME Wednesday, 21 January, 2009

The 1860 acres of watermelon and 476 acres ofmusk melon the Myanmar Kitchen Crops ProducersAssociation grow in Mandalay Division prove suc-cessful in 2008-2009. It exported watermelon andmusk melon and earned foreign exchange from it.Wondering how farmers grew and exported water-melon and musk melon to earn foreign exchange forthe State, I conducted an interview with farmer U YeSoe of Kyaukse Township as well as a member of the

Grow seedless watermelon, yellowish muskmelon to earn more foreign exchange

Article & photos: Kyaw Oo (Kyaukse)Myanmar Kitchen Crops Producers Association.Q: Well, U Ye Soe, what crops do you grow in

2008-2009?A: This year, we grow 185 acres of monsoon

paddy, 40 acres of seedless watermelon and40 acres of musk melon. The 185 acres offields we grow monsoon paddy on are ours.Now, we have harvested all the monsoonpaddy, and cultivated chick pea. We also grow

seedless watermelon and musk melon. I amvery interested in farming watermelon andmusk melon that I went to China to study themethods of farming these fruit. I have farmedthese fruit for seven years in Kyaukse District.This year, I run more acres. My farm is at thesite near Maunghtaung Village, south ofKyaukse, so I named it Maunghtaung farm. (See page 10)

Two female workers packing seedless watermelons at Thittetkon Village in Myittha Township, Mandalay Division.

BRUNELUNIVERSITY, 20 Jan — New researchstrengthens the link between water pollution andrising male fertility problems. The study, by BrunelUniversity, the Universities of Exeter and Readingand the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, shows forthe first time how a group of testosterone-blockingchemicals is finding its way into UK rivers, affectingwildlife and potentially humans.

The study identified a new group of chemicalsthat act as ‘anti-androgens’. This means that theyinhibit the function of the male hormone, testoster-one, reducing male fertility. Some of these are con-tained in medicines, including cancer treatments,pharmaceutical treatments, and pesticides used inagriculture. The research suggests that when they getinto the water system, these chemicals may play apivotal role in causing feminising effects in male fish.Earlier research by Brunel University and the Univer-sity of Exeter has shown how female sex hormones(estrogens), and chemicals that mimic estrogens, areleading to ‘feminisation’ of male fish. Found in someindustrial chemicals and the contraceptive pill, theyenter rivers via sewage treatment works. —Internet

Declining male fertility linkedto water pollution

MUNICH, 20 Jan—Bayern Munich generalmanager Uli Hoeness has

Bayern want record fee for Riberyslapped a £140million(150m euro) price tag onmidfielder Franck Ribery.

The France interna-tional was a reported tar-get for AC Milan, whowere thought to see him asa possible replacement forKaka before his proposedmove to Manchester City

fell through.Hoeness, though,

values the former Mar-seille man higher than theBrazilian.

"If Kaka is meantto be worth 120million,then Franck Ribery isworth 150million,"Hoeness told Eurosporttelevision.

"We would onlyperhaps start to considerselling him at a sum likethis."

Hoeness wasspeaking at the end ofBayern's 2-0 friendly winat second division sideKaiserslautern.Cap: Ribery - was linkedwith Milan.—Internet

MADRID, 20 Jan — Astronomers from the Institutode Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain) used NACO, a sharp-eyed adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very LargeTelescope (VLT), to study the fine detail in NGC 253,one of the brightest and dustiest spiral galaxies in thesky.

Adaptive Optics (AO) corrects for the blurringeffect introduced by the Earth's atmosphere. This turbu-lence causes the stars to twinkle in a way that delightspoets, but frustrates astronomers, since it smears out theimages. With AO in action the telescope can produceimages that are as sharp as is theoretically possible, as ifthe telescope were in space.

NACO revealed features in the galaxy that wereonly 11 light-years across. "Our observations provideus with so much spatially resolved detail that we can,for the first time, compare them with the finest radiomaps for this galaxy — maps that have existed formore than a decade," says Juan Antonio Fernández-Ontiveros, the lead author of the paper reporting theresults [1].

Astronomers identified 37 distinct bright re-

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gions, a threefold increase on previous results, packedinto a tiny region at the core of the galaxy, compris-ing just one percent of the galaxy's total size. Theastronomers combined their NACO images withdata from another VLT instrument, VISIR, as wellas with images from the NASA/ESA Hubble SpaceTelescope and radio observations made by the VeryLarge Array and the Very Large Baseline Interfer-ometer. Combining these observations, taken indifferent wavelength regimes, provided a clue to thenature of these regions.—Internet

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