the new light of myanmar 25-09-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 162 7th Waxing of Thadingyut 1371 ME Friday, 25 September, 2009

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

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

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national 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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

FIVE THOUSAND KYATS NOTE

Dimension : 15 x 7 cmDominant Colour : RedObverse Side : On the top, the inscription

“�mn\maNiuc\cMeta\bhiuB%\” isprinted. In the middle portion,the Note carries the depictionof Royal White Elephant inMyanmar artistic style andthe Myanmar inscription“cå;eTac\k¥p\” mentioningthe value of the Note. At thebottom, floral designs inMyanmar artistic style areprinted. On the three corners,the value of the Note isprinted in numeral figures.Bank Note numbers areprinted in Myanmar andEnglish. On the right handside, the Note bears thewatermark image of thewhite elephant. A securitythread is embedded uprightin the Note.

Reverse Side : On the top, the inscription“CENTRAL BANK OFMYANMAR” is printed. Atthe bottom, the inscription“FIVE THOUSANDKYATS” is printed. In themiddle, the Note bears theillustration of the building ofHluttaw. On the threecorners, the value of theNote is printed in numeralfigures.

OBVERSE SIDE

REVERSE SIDE

The followings are reproductions of the new note.

Central Bank of Myanmar will put into circulation new denomination ofFive Thousand Kyats currency note with effect from October 1

All legal tender currency notes, coins will continue to be in circulation

CENTRAL BANK OF MYANMARNAY PYI TAW

September 24, 2009PRESS RELEASE

The Central Bank of Myanmar will put into circulation a new denomination of Five Thousand Kyats currency note with effect from October 1, 2009. Thenew currency note will be issued to the public at the Currency Department of the Central Bank of Myanmar, Banks and Government Treasuries during the bankinghours.

All legal tender currency notes and coins will continue to be in circulation.General description of the new currency note is as follows:-

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 25 September, 2009

Friday, 25 September, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Due to the climate change, such natural

disasters as floods, droughts, landslides,

earthquakes and storms occur all over the

world every year. Whenever natural disasters

take place in a country, its Red Cross society

and other social organizations are always on

hand to save and rescue the victims.

Myanmar Red Cross Society was formed

with the aim of alleviating trouble and suffering.

It is a humanitarian organization and takes

part in national development work, national

health promotion, disease prevention and

rescue and relief works.

With the help and support of the

government, Myanmar Red Cross Society is

actively doing humanitarian work. Now, state,

division, district and township Red Cross

committees have been formed all over the

nation. Red Cross members are constantly

trained to be skilled in their work.

It is the nature of Myanmar people to work

for the good of others and help the needy and

those in trouble. The active and enthusiastic

participation of Red Cross members in relief

and rehabilitation work for the victims in the

storm-hit areas shows their good nature.

Not only developed nations but also

developing ones place special emphasis on Red

Cross work and contribute a lot to public

health care, health education and first-aid work.

We believe that, under the aegis of

Myanmar Red Cross Society, Red Cross

members will keep on carrying out public and

humanitarian work, always treating people

kindly and warmly.

Keep on carrying out public

and humanitarian work

The Buddhas’ Teachingin Brief

Sabbapapassa akaranam,Not to do evil whatsoever.Kusalassa upasampada,Cultivate the good in every way.Sacittapariyodapamam,Exert oneself to control one’s mind.(i.e., Control one’s mind not to do evilwhatsoever.)Etam Buddhana sasanam.This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

(Dhammapada 41)

Member of panel of patrons of Myanmar ASEAN Women’s Friendship

Association Daw Myint Myint Soe accepts cash donated by well-wisher

at 8th AGM.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Sept—The State Peace and

Development Council has confirmed the appointment

of Director-General U Soe Kyi of the Social Welfare

Department under the Ministry of Social Welfare,

Relief and Resettlement on expiry of the one-year

probationary period.

The State Peace and Development Council has

appointed Pro-Rector Dr Aung Myint of University of

Traditional Medicine (Mandalay) of Traditional

Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health as

Rector of the same university on one year probation

from the date he assumes charge of his duties.—MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTE

A & I Minister supervises

development tasks in Hinthada

YANGON, 24 Sept —

The 8th Annual General

Meeting of Myanmar

MAWFA holds 8th Annual General MeetingASEAN Women’s

Friendship Association

was held at Hotel

Yangon here today.

The meeting was

opened with an address

by Member of the panel

of patrons of the

association Daw Myint

Myint Soe, wife of

Foreign Affairs Minister.

Chairperson of the

association Daw Thida

Nyunt extended greetings

and the Vice-Chair-

person of the association

wife of the Ambassador

of Singapore to

Myanmar, the Dean of the

Diplomatic Corps in

Yangon, also extended

greetings.

Participants of the

meeting discussed

matters related to tasks

carried out and future

tasks of the association.

Members of the panel of

patrons presented

certificates of honour to

the diplomats who

participated in the

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo meets with locals in Wegyi Village post BEPS.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 24

Sept—Minister for

Agriculture and

Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay

Oo on 20 September

inspected thriving paddy

fields along Hinthada-

T a l u h t a - D g a m m i

motorway.

The minister met

with locals from village-

tracts in Dhammi station

and fulfilled the needs

for boosting of

production of

agricultural produce and

regional development

tasks.

The minister then

met with local people

from Wegyi, Shansu,

Gyoungsein, Gyogon

and Kanaunggyun

villages at Basic

Education Post Primary

School in Wegyi village

and set up educational

funds for school-age

children to be able to go

to school and provided

village libraries with

periodicals.—MNA

Pearl Sales begin

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Sept—The 27th Pearl Sale of

Myanma Pearl Enterprise under the Ministry of

Mines commenced at Myanma Gem Museum here

yesterday.

In the evening, guests and pearl merchants were

hosted a dinner in the compound of the Museum.

MNA

international cultural

concerts at the National

Theatre in Yangon on 9

May.

Wellwishers donated

cash to the association

and the meeting ended

with concluding remarks

by the chairperson of the

association. —MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 25 September, 2009 3

File photo of people enjoying online services at anInternet shop in downtown Hanoi. A pair of

French entrepreneurs has come up with a way toidentify people whose Internet comments carry

weight.—INTERNET

Briton’s body found in Afghan guest house

Suicide bomber in Somalialived in US

NEW YORK, 24 Sept—An online report has iden-tified a Somali-Americanfrom Seattle, Washington,as one of the suicidebombers who killed 21peacekeepers in Mog-adishu, Somalia, lastweek. The Somali-lan-guage Web site Dayniilecom said the bomber livedin Washington until 2007.The report could not inde-pendently be confirmed.

An FBI spokesman in

Seattle, Fred Gutt, saidinvestigators are aware ofthe report, but he declinedto comment about it indetail. When asked if theFBI was looking into thereport, Gutt said only that“we have continuingoutreach efforts with the[Somali-American] com-munity.”

Federal agents havebeen investigating possi-ble recruiting efforts in theUnited States by Al-

Shabaab, a Somali groupwith ties to al Qaeda thatthe US classifies as a ter-rorist organization. Morethan a dozen young menof Somali descent havedisappeared recently fromtheir homes in and aroundMinneapolis, Minnesota,which has a sizable So-mali population, as doesSeattle. At least three haveended up dead in Soma-lia, community leaderssay.—Internet

People visit the SeventhQinghai folk handicraftsexhibition held in Xining,capital of northwest Chi-na’s Qinghai Province,on 23 Sept, 2009. Over6,000 kinds of folk han-dicrafts were exhibitedat the exhibition held in Xining. — XINHUA

Mideast peace talks will restart soonNEW YORK, 24 Sept—Former British Prime Minister

Tony Blair said on Wednesday that he believes withinweeks Israel and the Palestinian Authority will begintalks aimed at a permanent resolution of their decades-long conflict. “I think that’s what will happen, actu-ally, over the next few weeks,” Blair told CNN’sChristiane Amanpour on Wednesday.

“In the end, the issue really is this: What is the con-text within which this negotiation is being launched?”he said.” The worry for the Palestinians is that, if youdon’t lay down some conditions ... the negotiation won’tbe credible. What the Israelis say is, ‘Look, we’ll nego-tiate without precondition. We’re not prepared until westart negotiating to yield this or yield that,’” he said onCNN’s new show “Amanpour.” “Now, personally, Ithink ... what will happen and should happen is that wetry and put together the best possible context of thelaunch of the negotiation. It may not be everything thateveryone wants, but get the thing under way.”—Internet

Israel welcomes Obama call for Mideast talks

Obama to chair historic UNcouncil nuclear meeting

UNITED NATIONS, 24 Sept—US President BarackObama will chair a historic meeting of the UnitedNations Security Council on Thursday that is expectedto ask nations with nuclear weapons to scrap theirdeadly arsenals. When the leaders of the 15-nationcouncil gather at UN headquarters in midtown Man-hattan, Obama will preside over the meeting, the firsttime a US president has chaired a Security Councilsummit since the elite panel was established in 1946.

Diplomats said council members were expected tounanimously adopt a US-drafted resolution that de-clares there is a “need to pursue further efforts in thesphere of nuclear disarmament” and urges all coun-tries that have not signed the 1970 nuclear Non-Pro-liferation Treaty (NPT) to do so.—Internet

Bombings across Iraq kill 11BAGHDAD, 24 Sept—A bomb exploded on Wednes-

day outside a home in southwestern Baghdad, killinga woman and her two children, as other bombingskilled at least seven Iraqi security personnel and a lo-cal politician in the capital and a volatile northern area.

The blast outside the home of Mohammed Ali Waisin the Baghdad neighbourhood of Radwaniyah killedhis wife and two children. Wais, who was unharmed,is a friend of a hard-line Sunni leader who has beenaccused of supporting insurgents in Iraq. A month ear-lier, Wais’ brother, a professor at a university in west-ern Iraq, was killed. A police official, who spoke aboutthe bombing on condition of anonymity because he isnot an official spokesman, did not have informationon a possible motive.

Wais is a friend of Harith al-Dhari, leader of theSunni Association of Muslim Scholars, which somegovernment officials have accused of supporting al-Qaeda in Iraq. The US has accused al-Dhari, who isbelieved to be living in Jordan, of ordering thekidnappings of foreigners and directing an October2006 plot to bring bombs into Baghdad’s fortifiedGreen Zone as part of an effort to assassinate the com-mander of US forces in Iraq and the US and Britishambassadors.

Internet

KABUL, 24 Sept — Police in Afghancapital Kabul have found a body of aBritish national from a guest house inthe city, a local newspaper reported onThursday. “The body of a British na-tional, who had worked as advisor withthe Ministry for Rural Rehabilitation andDevelopment, was found from a roomin Qasar Park Guest House last Satur-

day,” daily Rah-e-Nejat writes in its edi-tion.

It did not identify the reason for theBriton’s death but quoted deputy to Ka-bul police chief Syed Ghafar Syedzada assaying the body had been sent for autopsyin hospital. The Ministry for Rural Reha-bilitation and Development had not madeany comment.— Xinhua

JERUSALEM, 24 Sept—Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu haswelcomed PresidentBarack Obama’s call at theUN for Israelis and Pales-tinians to resume peacetalks without precondi-tions. Palestinian leaderssay there can be no nego-tiations without a complete

halt to Israeli settlementconstruction in the WestBank. Netanyahu is pro-posing a partial and tem-porary slowdown.

In his UN speech onWednesday, Obama said,“America does not acceptthe legitimacy of contin-ued Israeli settlements.”Netanyahu told Israel Ra-

dio in a telephone inter-view from New York onThursday that eventhough he and Obama donot see eye-to-eye on set-tlements, “the president ofthe United States said un-equivocally that is not anissue that should preventthe start of negotia-tions.”—Internet

File photo of a woman flapping her arms to make a character fly on a Wii FitPlus game at a Nintendo exhibit in Los Angeles. Nintendo said Thursday it wascutting the price of its Wii video game console by a fifth in Japan and the United

States, following similar moves by rivals Sony and Microsoft.—INTERNET

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A South Korean woman walks near an advertisement for locally manufac-tured mobile phones, with similar features and looks to those of Apple Inc’siPhone, in Seoul, South Korea, on 23 Sept, 2009. South Korea’s telecommu-nications regulator said on Wednesday it has given approval for Apple Inc’s

hit iPhone to be sold in the country.—INTERNET

NEW DELHI, 24 Sept —Ford has announced thatit is to make a new car inIndia, as part of its $500m(£304m) investment planin the country.

Production will beginon the Ford Figo at thecarmaker’s plant inChennai in the first quar-ter of 2010.

The four-doorcompact car will

compete in India’ssmall car

sector.—INTERNET

Ford to launch new carin India

Ford has described theFigo — which is Italianslang for “cool” — as a“game changer” and saidit was confident it wouldbe popular with Indianconsumers.

The Figo will competein India’s small car seg-ment, which makes upabout 70% of the new ve-hicle market.

The car will initiallyonly be for sale in India,but there are plans to ex-port it to other countries,Ford said.

In April, the world’scheapest car, the TataNano, went on sale in In-dia.

The Nano is 10 feet (3metres) long. “[The Figo]reflects our commitmentto compete with greatproducts in all segmentsof this car market,” saidFord president and chiefexecutive Alan Mulally.”

We are confident theFord Figo will be a prod-uct that Indian consumersreally want and value.”

Internet

BEIJING, 24 Sept —Aviation Industry Corpo-ration of China (AVIC),China’s top aircraft manu-facturer, has announcedcooperation plans withSafran and GE, aimedchiefly at boosting thecountry’s homemade

WASHINGTON, 24 Sept— One week before theUS fiscal year 2009 endson 30 Sept, top US offi-cials may not volunteerthe unsettling news on thefederal budget deficit andAmerica’s record-break-

LONDON, 24 Sept —Britain has written to Eu-rope’s competition chiefchallenging plans by autoparts maker Magna to buycarmaker Opel, as fears ofjob losses gather steam, areport said on Thursday.

Business SecretaryPeter Mandelson said theCanadian company’splans for restructuring ofOpel were too expensiveand susceptible to “politi-

TOKYO, 24 Sept —Honda’s new “personalmobility” device lookslike a unicycle, but all youneed to do to zip aroundon it — sideways as wellas forward and back — islean your weight into thedirection you want to go.The U3-X — available fora test-run for reporters inTokyo on Thursday —was designed to be small,safe and unobtrusiveenough to mingle with pe-destrians, according toHonda Motor Co.

The single wheel onthe U3-X — U stands for

A Honda employeedemonstrates Honda’snew ‘personal mobility’

device at a pressconference in Tokyo,

Japan, on 24 Sept, 2009.INTERNET

SINGAPORE, 24 Sept —Oil prices dropped to near$68 a barrel on Thursdayin Asia as an unexpectedjump in US crude inven-tories suggested con-sumer demand remains inthe doldrums.

Benchmark crude forNovember delivery wasdown 71 cents at $68.26a barrel by midday Singa-pore time in electronictrading on the New YorkMercantile Exchange.

The contract tumbled$2.79 to settle at $68.97on Wednesday.

The $70 a barrel levelhas been a magnet formonths, with growing op-timism that the globaleconomy is recoveringfrom recession offset bysigns that crude demandisn’t picking up. Crude sup-plies grew by 2.8 millionbarrels and gasoline by 5.4million barrels last week,according to the Energy In-formation Administrationon Wednesday.—Internet

Honda shows small light‘personal mobility’ device

“unicycle” and “univer-sal” — is made up ofmany tiny motor-control-led wheels, packed insidethe bigger wheel, allow-ing the device to swervein any direction.It standsupright on its own. Sit onit as though it’s a stool,and shift your weight todrive. The thing maintainsits own balance as itscoots along at a speed ofup to 6 kilometres (3.7miles) per hour.

Honda PresidentTakanobu Ito said the ma-chine was still “a pro-posal,” and the company

has no sales plans, pricingor firm ideas on where orhow it will be used.Honda declined to givedetails of the U3-X’s tech-nology, but said it weighsless than 10 kilogramms(22 pounds), runs on a fullcharge for an hour, andhas a lithium-ion bat-tery.—Internet

China’s top aircraftmanufacturer in partnership

with Safran, GEjumbo jet programme,China Daily reported onThursday.

The C919, China’slargest domesticallymanufactured jetliner thatis expected to take off in2016, will source partsand components globally,but foreign suppliers areencouraged to enter intopartnerships with Chinesemanufacturers, the news-paper said, citing WuGuanghui, chief designerand deputy general man-ager of the Shanghai-based Commercial Avia-tion Corporation(COMAC), which is pro-ducing the jet.

Xinhua

Britain complains to EU over Opel plancal intervention”, the Fi-nancial Times said. “Wedo not believe the casehas been demonstratedthat the current Magnaproposal is commerciallythe most viable plan,”Mandelson said in the let-ter, obtained by the news-paper.” Capacity at highlyefficient plants in Britainand Spain is planned to beunder-utilized, in favourof higher utilization of

some of GM?s other lessefficient plants,” he said.

The letter sent on Tues-day to European Commis-sioner for CompetitionNeelie Kroes comes as fearsmount of thousands of joblosses across Europe, andpossible plant closures aspart of Magna’s plans forOpel.—Internet

US sees debt, deficiteverywhere one year after

economic crisising public debt at the G20Summit in Pittsburgh.

According to theWhite House’s own esti-mate, the federal govern-ment’s deficit for the fis-cal year 2009 would reach1.84 trillion US dollars,roughly 13 percent of theestimated GDP.

This would be thehighest level since 1945when the United Stateswas involved in a worldwar.

The total amount ofnational debt will reachnearly 13 trillion dollars -an almost unimaginablenumber that is bigger thanevery country’s annualGDP except that of theUnited States.

Xinhua

Oil falls tonear $68 asUS crude

supplies jump

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

Former Jihadi commander killed inN Afghanistan

Vietnam to startwork on

547-mln-USDhighway project

HANOI, 24 Sept—Vi-etnam will start buildinga highway link-ing Ho Chi Minh Citywith southern provinceof Dong Nai with invest-ment of 9.76 trillion Vi-etnamese dong (547.15million US dollars) nextmonth, local newspaperthe People reported onThursday. The highwayis 55 kilometers long andhas 18 overpasses, saidthe newspaper.

The road, part of thecountry’s North-Southhighway, is expected to beoperational in 2012. Itwould create favorableconditions for trade ac-tivities among three bigeconomic centers in thesouth of Vietnam includ-ing Ho Chi Minh City,Vung Tau and Dong Nai,according to the newspa-per.

Xinhua

Venezuela’s resort island readyfor South America-Africa Summit

Home-made moon cakes: great ideasells like hot cakes

Home-made moon cakes.— XINHUA

Chinese President meets Russian,South Korean leaders

NEW YORK, 24 Sept—Chinese President Hu Jintao met his Russian counterpartDmitry Medvedev here on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and also re-gional and international issues of common concern.The two leaders met on thesidelines of the UN climate change summit and other UN meetings.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak here on Wednesday morning on the sidelines of the UN meetings to discussbilateral ties and other issues of common interests.—Xinhua

KABUL, 24 Sept —Unknown armed men shotdead former Jihadi com-mander Mullah AbdulRauf in Baghlan province,north of Afghanistan, onThursday, police said.“Mullah Abdul Rauf wason his way to provincialcapital Pul-e-Khumriwhen unidentified men

opened fire on his car inAinal area, killing him onthe spot and injuring twoothers including his son,”a police officer Abdul HaiRamzi told Xinhua.

However, he did notrule out old enmity behindthe incident. Rauf, a pro-government Jihadi com-mander was among those

who had already handedover his arms to govern-ment and supported dura-ble peace in the country.Dozens of former Jihadileaders who fought theformer Soviet Union andresisted Taleban on-slaught have been assas-sinated over the past cou-ple of years.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 24 Sept—With Mid-Autumn c ap-proach-ing, Li Haiyinghad a “brilliant idea” anddecided to sell her ownmoon cakes online. It ap-pears she could not havepicked a better businessidea.

Although there is still10 days until moon cake-giving time begins, Li hassold thousands of thetreats made all by herself.

Li Jing, who teachesbakery at Betty’s Kitchencooking school in Beijing,has seen her classroomfilling up recently, and isnow teaching threeclasses a week.”It surely

has something to do withthe upcoming Mid-Au-tumn Festival,” Li said.“People want to give ahandmade delicacy as atoken of love to their fam-ily.” Li has made more

than 60 moon cakes thismonth to share with herfamily and friends. “Theyare fresh and has no addi-tives. It’s better than thoseon the market,” she said.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 24 Sept—An8.7 kg baby boy, theheaviest newborn ever re-corded in Indonesia, wasborn recently at a publichospital in North Sumatraprovince, according to anAFP report on Wednes-

day. Binsar Sitanggang, a

gynaecologist who tookpart in the operation, toldthe media that the 62-cen-timetre-long still-un-named boy was born onMonday by caesarean sec-tion, and in a healthy con-dition now though ini-tially doctors had to givehim oxygen to overcomebreathing problems.” Thisheavy baby made the sur-gery really tough, espe-cially the process of tak-ing him out of his mum’swomb.

His legs were so big,”Sitanggang said. Thebaby also has a “strongappetite,” he added,“every minute, it’s almost

non-stop feeding...theway he’s crying is not likea usual baby. It’s reallyloud.”

Sitanggang pointedout the boy’s massive sizewas likely the result of hismother, who has diabetes,as previous studies havelinked high birth-weightto gestational diabetes.

According to the re-port, the baby, her fourth,was the only child not de-livered by a traditionalmidwife. According tothe Indonesian Museumof Records website, Indo-nesia’s previous heaviestbaby, weighing in at 6.9kg, was born in 2007 onthe outskirts of Jakarta.

Xinhua

CARACAS, 24 Sept —Margarita Island, in north-eastern Venezuela, hasgeared up for theupcoming 2nd SouthAmerica-Africa Summit(SAAS), which will takeplace on Saturday andSunday. Morel Rodriguez,governor of NuevoEsparta State, declared on25 Sept as a public holidayin Margarita to underlinethe importance of the sum-mit, local media said onWednesday.

During a press confer-ence, Rodriguez saidcleaning work wasunderway and road signs

had been put up in themain avenues ofMargarita, the largest is-land of Venezuela. Re-gional security forces willbe mobilized to block the

area around the hotelswhich are to host the sum-mit and Santiago MarinoInternational Airport, 20km away from the host cityPorlamar.—Xinhua

A girl plays with a tame wolf in the village ofNadbiarezha, some 250 km (156 miles) northwest

of Minsk, on 23 Sept, 2009.— XINHUA

Immense 8.7kg boy born in Indonesia

BEIJING, 24 Sept—The Internet company Yahoo hasrelaunched its web portal with a 100 million US dol-lar global advertising campaign.

The new front page allows users to integrate third-party web services like Facebook or Hotmail into itsportal, something which Yahoo hopes will help boosttraffic and revenue.

When Yahoo announced its relaunch plans someanalysts argued that many Internet users ignore suchportals and instead use search engines to go directlyto the web page they require.

But Yahoo! insist many of its users start from theirYahoo! homepage making it an important platform toplace advertising and help boost the company’s fall-ing profits.

“Frontpage adverts are incredibly powerful,” saidYahoo’s senior vice-president for Europe, Rich Riley,and can cost millions of dollars for a single day ofglobal advertising.—Xinhua

Yahoo launches new web portal

Vietnam to buy 500,000tons of rice to stabilize price

HANOI, 24 Sept—Vietnamese PrimeMinister Nguyen TanDung decided to ask theVietnam Southern FoodCorporation to buy500,000 tons of rice fromnow to late November tostabilize domestic riceprice, local newspaperthe Pioneer reportedWednesday.

The company willbuy rice at a price whichallows local growers tohave profits of at least30 percent, said thenewspaper. Earlier, the

Vietnam FoodAssociation asked itsmembers to buy 500,000tons of rice in Septemberat the price of 3,800Vietnamese dong (21 UScents) a kilogram tostabilize price, accordingto the newspaper.

In the summer-autumn rice crop of2009, the Mekong Deltaprovinces producedabout two million tonsof rice, said Ministry ofAgriculture and RuralDevelopment. Vietnamexported about 4.7

million tons of rice inthe first eight months ofthis year, bringing home2.14 billion U.S. dollars,up 43 percent year-on-year in volume, down 1.4percent year-on- year invalue, according to theGeneral Statistic Officeof Vietnam.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A severed human hand has beenunearthed from the yard of a Marylandhome, but police say this is no whodunit.

Investigators believe it’s a decades-old medical school specimen left by aformer resident.

Still, it was an odd discovery for theelectrician who dug it up in thenortheastern part of the state. It wasmuddy, but only the fingertips showedsigns of decay.

Maryland State Police Trooper FirstClass Dave Feltman says the handfound on Tuesday appeared to besurgically removed.

Specimen hand startlesman digging in Md yard

Three sky divers on Tuesdayjumped from an altitude of 20,000 ft(some 6000 metres) and landed atGorakshep, some 130 km east ofNepali capital Kathmandu.

“This Jump has been concluded atthe World’s Highest Landing Point atGorakshep, 5,164 metres making theWorld’s Highest Landing Point,” saida press release received on Wednes-day, from Himalaya ExpeditionsAgency Nepal.

An Australian cat named Smokey sur-vived 13 shots to the head from an airrifle and then found his way home afterwhat police on Tuesday called a “shock-ing” act of animal cruelty.

The nine-year-old moggy turned up onhis owners’ doorstep bleeding from hishead last week, three days after he wentmissing from the family home inMaryborough, central Victoria.

A medical examination revealed 13pellets lodged in his head and face. Ser-

An Australian cat named Smokeysurvived 13 shots to the head froman air rifle and then found his wayhome after what police on Tuesday

called a “shocking”act of animal cruelty.

Smokey the cat shot 13 times in head,walks home

This handout picture released by TheAdventure Sports Tourism Society

shows a skydiver preparing to land atGorak Sshep, a sandy plateau 5,165metres above sea level. 120 km (69

miles) north east of Kathmandu duringa parachute jump over Mount Everest.Three skydivers plunged through the

shadow of Everest to land at theworld’s highest drop zone.

British, Indian men sky diving at world’shighest point

This August 2009 handout photoshows a male giant sable antelopebeing handled at the Cangandala

National Park in Malanje, Angola.They are Angola’s national symboland the nickname for the country’sfootball team — yet fewer than 100

are believed still alive.

geant Craig Pearse said it was remark-able Smokey had managed to get homeafter his ordeal.

“This is just a shocking incidentwhere someone either working aloneor in a group has shown no regard foranimal life and left Smokey for dead,”Pearse said.

The distressed feline had to beheavily sedated while 11 of the pelletswere removed, he said, adding thatSmokey was expected to recover.

Animal welfare advocate HughWirth said the incident was “utterlydisgraceful”, and that Smokey’s tor-mentors deserved jail.

Briton Leo Dickinson, RalphMitchell and Indian Ramesh ChandraTripathi made the jump in the south sideof Mt Qomolangma on Tuesday earlymorning.

With a free fall timing of around fiveto six seconds, all touched the groundat 4 minutes time.

All three members have returned toNepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesdayand are “physically fit”, said the pressrelease.

ATLANTA , 24 Sept —Flooding in north Georgiathat killed nine peoplecaused $250 million worthof damage to property andtens of millions of dollarsmore damage to infra-structure, the state insur-ance commissioner saidon Wednesday.

Parts of the I-20 inter-state highway that runsthrough downtown At-lanta were closed throughthe on Wednesday morn-

WASHINGTON, 24 Sept— New satellite informa-tion shows that ice sheetsin Greenland and westernAntarctica continue toshrink faster than scien-tists thought and in someplaces are already in runa-way melt mode.

British scientists forthe first time calculatedchanges in the height ofthe vulnerable but mas-sive ice sheets and foundthem especially worse attheir edges. That’s wherewarmer water eats awayfrom below. In some parts

This April 2003 handout photo provided by theBritish Antarctic Survey shows a glacier meeting

the ocean at Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.New satellite data shows that ice sheets in Green-

land and western Antarctica continue to thin fasterthan scientists thought and in some places are

already in runaway melt mode.—INTERNET

Castro praises Obama on climateHAVANA , 24 Sept — The former Cuban President

Fidel Castro has praised US President Barack Obama’sspeech before the UN General Assembly for its wordson climate change. Mr Castro described PresidentObama’s admission that the US had been too slow toact on climate change as a brave gesture.

But he added that the American capitalist systemwas incompatible with a clean planet. Mr Castro haslong been a fierce critic of US presidents. In his latesteditorial, published in all the state media, Mr Castroquoted widely from Mr Obama’s address to the UN.

He praised the American president for saying thatthe US had been slow to act on climate change andthat richer countries had to take the lead since theyhad caused much of the damage. No other US presi-dent, he said, would have had the courage to makesuch remarks. But the 83-year-old revolutionary criti-cised what he called America’s aggressive militaryforeign policy which threatened the survival of ourspecies.—Internet

Greenland, Antarctic ice melt worseningof Antarctica, ice sheetshave been losing 30 feeta year in thickness since2003, according to a pa-per published online onThursday in the journalNature.

Some of those areasare about a mile thick, sothey’ve still got plenty ofice to burn through. Butthe drop in thickness isspeeding up. In parts ofAntarctica, the yearly rateof thinning from 2003 to2007 is 50 percent higherthan it was from 1995 to2003.

These new measure-ments, based on 50 mil-lion laser readings from aNASA satellite, confirmwhat some of the morepessimistic scientiststhought: The meltingalong the crucial edges ofthe two major ice sheetsis accelerating and is in aself-feeding loop. Themore the ice melts, themore water surrounds andeats away at the remain-ing ice.—Internet

US flood damage in Georgia to top $250 millioning rush hour and at least20 bridges, includingsome over the highway,appeared damaged, com-missioner John Oxendinesaid.”

There was a lot of wa-ter pressure building upon those bridges andthat’s a major concern,”said Oxendine who basedhis damage estimate on anaerial inspection.

But two days afterflood waters reached theirpeak, only nine roads andsix bridges in the south-eastern state remained

closed, according to theGeorgia Department ofTransportation.

The flooding struck onMonday after days of rainthat in some parts ofAtlanta were the heaviestin the city in more than100 years, according tostate climatologist PamKnox at the University ofGeorgia in Athens.

Georgia GovernorSonny Perdue askedPresident Barack Obamaon Tuesday to declare astate of emergency forGeorgia.—Internet

A roller coaster at Six Flags of Georgia Amuse-

ment Park is flooded on 24 Sept, 2009 in Austell,

Ga. Several days of heavy rain has flooded parts of

the Atlanta area.

INTERNET

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There is a sumptuous temple on the island in themiddle of a natural lake in Nyaung Shwe township insouthern Shan State. This temple is well known as“Inlay Phaungdaw Oo Yelai Phaya” which literallymeans “the Temple in the middle of Inlay Lake shelter-ing Buddha Images from the shrine on the bow ofRoyal Barge.” This world-renown Temple is easilyreachable by land and by air. Rail and road run 306miles from Yangon to Thazi from where they continueuphill to Shwe Nyaung. To reach the lake, only the roadtakes you for a distance of 19 miles to Nyaung Shwetown on the Lake’s bank. You may fly direct to Hehoand take a bus to Inlay Lake. Choose either of the twowatercrafts— engined boat or leg-rowed boat to get tothe Temple.

Next to Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State, Inlay isthe largest water body formed by falls, streams andrivers of surrounding mountains to the east and west.The lake used to be one hundred square mile big, so saygeologists, but due to climate, geographical and humaneffects, the lake today measures 9 miles long and 31/2miles wide. It is 2915 feet above sea level and its depthvaries from 20 feet in monsoon and 12 feet in summer.Not a still lake, for many streams flow into it and manyflow out of it, of which the Bilu chaung is the principaloutlet to operate Lawpita Hydro-electric power Plantin Loikaw in Kayah State.

With human settlements in and around the lake,arrived Buddha Sasana. The legend and history of thePhaungdaw Oo Images tell the origin of human settle-ment in the lake. Inthar or the inhabitants of the lake saythat they are the decendants of Daweithas (the inhabit-ants of a seaport town Dawei on the Taninthayi Coast).To back up their story, Bagan history is referred to.King Alaungsithu of Bagan dynasty who made longland and water journeys, reaching out to the sea,sojourned in Jambudipa Island. There an ogress pre-sented him a piece of sandalwood of Himalayan Forestas a token of thanks for salvaging her child son from thesea. Sakka Deva carved five images out of the sandal-wood. Inside the images were enshrined sacred dhaturelics of the Buddha. The four images represented thefour Buddhas already revealed, Kaukkusanda,Gonagamana, Kassapa and Gotama and the fifth wasthat of an arahat Saint. The king kept the images in theshrine at the bow of his barge, and returned home. AtDawei, where he stayed for some time, he recruitedinto his flotillas select Daweithas who were cleverseafarers and brave fighters into his regiments— Taung(south) Dawei and Myauk (north) Dawei. When royalentourage reached Inlay Lake, the Daweithas requestedthe king to let them settle in the lake as they found it liketheir home town. The dialects of Daweithas and Inthasare the same and akin to that of old Bagan. Shans callInthas “Mont Naung” meaning “Myanmars living onthe lake.”

There is another story of Inthas’ origin.Daweithas who repulsed the invaders from across theborder of their home town Dawei, came up inland fortrade. Later 36 families of Daweithas trading in SouthShan States were settled in the lake. Originally, therewere four villages in the lake. They were known inMyanmar as In, Lay Ywa (Four villages in the Lake).(1) Nant Pan (2) Wamt Long (3) Naung Taung and (4)Haing Ya (now Heya).

A long legend of the Temple to shelter the fiveimages is interesting. As the King’s plan to enshrine theimages in a pagoda on the hill did not succeed as the sitechosen was not auspicious, they were kept in thecustody of the head monk Ariyadhajadhamma Yanthiof Mahagama village. In 1359 A.D, four images werediscovered in a cave when the villagers cleared the wildvegetation for reclaiming land. A pavilion zayat wasbuilt to house the images. The fifth image was still at theMahagama village monastery. Every year, on the 7thWaxing moon of Thadingyut, (October) the public

Inlay Phaungdaw Oo Yelai Phaya

paid homage to the four images in the pavilion built inthe compound of the monastery.

In 1515 A.D., the four Images were moved toIntein village. A board of Trustees was formed to takecare of the sacred objects. Every year the imagesincluding the fifth image at the Mahagama villagemonastery received public homage in the pavilionconstructed in the monastic courtyard. Since thenbegan the annual tour of the sacred Images conveyedon the ceremonial barge “Karaweik” making over-night stops at six stations in the lake. During the tour ofone year, a strange happening took place. On the wayto Nyaung Shwe, in the middle of the lake to the eastof Lin Kin village, the ceremonial barge was suddenlycapsized by an unexpected strong wind and was sunk.Only four images were salvaged. But when these fourimages were restored to the shrine, the missing fifthimage was found there at its original place with someunderwater mosses on it. This happening was repeatedin the following years. So, the belief was establishedthat the fifth image being the guardian should never bemoved from its place on the shrine.

As pilgrims and visitors increased year by year,festival days and tour stations increased year by year—from 6 to 15 days and from 6 to 21 stations. The originaltemple at Mahagama village and the new temple atBantpwe village were destroyed by fire in 1771 and1881 A.D. respectively. In 1890 A.D. a one-storeytemple was built at Nant Hu village. After over 60years of existence, the temple fell into ruin. The presenttwo-storey grand Temple of brick and cement built in1951 was completed in 1956.

Over two-week long festival takes place everyyear in October. Pilgrims and visitors from far andnear, at home and abroad come to pay homage to thesacred Images, or to view and participate in the festiveactivities in and around the lake. Pilgrims gild theimages with gold foils. Believers donate yellow piecesof cloth as robes to the Images and take them back asamulets for protection from all dangers.

Attractions for the visitors are many— the spec-tacular sight of the ceremonial tour of four Imagesconveyed on the decorated Karaweik Barge followedby a long retinue of colourfully arranged watercraftsladen with devotees and performing artists displayingtheir best, boat races, on-water bazaars selling localgreen products, traditional fast food, clusters of shophouses of different designs and sizes built on stiltswhere you may purchase at bargain prices a variety ofutility and vanity goods ranging from clothings of purecotton or silk, pieces of ready-to-wears, jewelleryprecious, or semi-precious stones fancifully set insilver or gold, facial make-up of Thanakha cream toarts and crafts of local origin to decorate your home orsouvenirs to take with you, etc, etc. The most eye-catching sights are the floating man-made islands onwhich all crops, vegetables and flowers are farmed, theleg-rowers of slim boats reminding you of gondolersand gondoliers of Venice, water-adapted pets like dogsand cats which get on any boat that goes to theirdestination they know by their instinct.

“Star-less” hotels and inns of any type await youin the hotel zones both on land and on the water whereyou find comfortable accommodation at reasonablerate and enjoy food and drink of your choice to gour-met’s delight.

Inlay Lake is an all-season centre of attraction forvisitors. Festival days in October are of course verycrowded. If you want to avoid “voices and noises” andcare for relaxation, open seasons, both summer andwinter are good time, warm sunshine, cool breeze, blueskies and blue mountains, green foliage and clear lakewater with white birds in the air will largely reduce yourstress and strains. Above all, Inlay Phaungdaw Oo YelaiPhaya beckons you to the bliss of solitude and peace.

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Public warningabout soft drink

The Ministry of Health constantly examinesvarieties of foodstuff on the market to make sure thatall types of foodstuff in trade are safe for humanconsumption.

The following soft drinks on sale in Mandalaymarket are found without any recommendation bythe Department of Health. The bottles are the reusedones. The label on each bottle does not state manu-facturer, address, manufactured date or expiry date.According to the laboratory test, the soft drink iscontaminated with bacteria, so, consumers may suf-fer from dizziness, vomiting, stomach upset, andfood poisoning.

The ministry hereby announces today that thefollowing soft drinks are unfit for consumption.

1. Sponsor(High Speed) 250 cc Glass bottle

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Talks on consequences ofEl Nino 2009 on 26 Sept

YANGON, 24 Sept—Under the arrangement ofMyanmar Fishery Federation and Myanmar PrawnEntrepreneurs’ Association and with sponsorship ofFortune International Ltd, Dr Tun Lwin (Meteorologyand Hydrology Department-Retd) will give talks onconsequences of El Nino 2009 and earthquake pros-pect of Myanmar at MFF on Bayintnaung Road inInsein Township here on 26 September (Saturday).Interested persons may attend the talks.—MNA

Mutations make evolution irreversible

Fish fossil. Researchers resurrected and manipu-late the gene for a key hormone receptor as itexisted in our earliest vertebrate ancestors morethan 400 million years ago. Over a rapid period oftime, five random mutations made subtle modifica-tions in the protein's structure that were utterlyincompatible with the receptor's primordial form.

SCIENCE DAILY, 24 Sept—A University of Or-egon research team has found that evolution cannever go backwards, because the paths to the genesonce present in our ancestors are forever blocked.The findings — the result of the first rigorous studyof reverse evolution at the molecular level — appearin the Sept. 24 issue of Nature.

The team used computational reconstruction ofancestral gene sequences, DNA synthesis, proteinengineering and X-ray crystallography to resurrectand manipulate the gene for a key hormone receptoras it existed in our earliest vertebrate ancestors morethan 400 million years ago. —Internet

Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt

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Talks on Dip in Softwareengineering on 29 Sept

YANGON, 24 Sept—Organized by MyanmarProfessionals Education Centre (MPEC), talks onCICT Diploma in Software Engineering course willtake place at MPEC training centre on 29 Septemberat 10 am.

Technical Director U Zaw Moe Htun ofMyanmar Information Technology will give talks onrole of Software Engineer in IT industry and jobopportunities, advantages of CICT Diploma in Soft-ware Engineering course, syllabus conducted at thecourse and teaching methods.

Those interested who aim to join a profession asa software engineer, under graduates and graduatesmay attend the talks.

For further information and registeration, con-tact the following address: No. (112), Room 11 & 12,8 Miles, Pyay Road, Mayangon Township, Yangon(Tel: 668779, 668259 and 650124).

MNA

Cultivation of monsoonpaddy inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Sept—Chairman of MagwayDivision Peace and Development Council Col PhoneMaw Shwe together with members of Division Agri-cultural Supervisory Committee made an inspectiontour of soil preparations and cultivation of monsoonpaddy in Natmauk, Myothit and Taungdwingyi town-ships on 26 August.—MNA

Electric Power No. 2 Minister receivesChinese guests

NAY PYI TAW, 24Sept—Minister for Elec-tric Power No. 2 Maj-GenKhin Maung Myint re-ceived General Manager

Mr Yuan Xizhong andparty of Central ChinaPower Grid Co Ltd of thePeople’s Republic ofChina at the ministry, here,

on 22 September.They discussed

matters related to coop-eration tasks.

MNA

Roads upgraded in Mayangon, Thingangyun

YANGON, 24 Sept—Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin this morningviewed repaving ofThanthuma Road near thejunction of Gandama andThanthuma Roads andupgrading of the road withthe use of heavy machin-ery in Mayangon Town-ship for ensuring smoothtransportation.

The mayor also in-spected placing of asphaltconcrete on LaydauntkanRoad near the junction ofThanthuma andLaydauntkan roads in

Thingangyun Townshipand progress of tasks.

MNA

Commander honours victoriousAyeyawady Division women’s Judo team

NAY PYI TAW, 24Sept—Chairman ofAyeyawady DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-West CommandMaj-Gen Kyaw Swe on 15September attended a cer-emony to honour victori-ous Ayeyawady DivisionWomen’s Judo team inState/Division Judo Tour-

nament held at the meetinghall of Division office ofPathein. The commandermade a speech andawarded cash prize.

On 17 September,the commander inspectedBegayet station inKangyidaunk and donatedexercise books to studentsin No.1 Ward.

Afterwards, the com-

mander inspectedWetchaung village library,growing of monsoonpaddy and kitchen cropsand site chosen for con-struction of station hospi-tal, and met with depart-mental officials, teachersand members of schoolboard of trustees at villageBasic Education MiddleSchool (Branch).—MNA

Commander inspects regional developmenttasks in Mawlamyine District

NAY PYI TAW, 24Sept—Chairman of MonState Peace and Devel-opment Council Com-mander of South-EastCommand Maj-Gen ThetNaing Win, on 14 Sep-

tember, inspected cropplantations in Lettek Vil-lage of Mudon Township,construction of extendedbasic education highschool in Kalotthot Vil-lage, keeping the beach

in Thanbyuzayat Town-ship of Kyaikkami clean,growing shady trees andwindbreakers, andThutagaba library inPadangangyi Village.

MNA

Canon EOS digital camera introduced

YANGON, 24Sept—A press conferenceon Canon EOS DigitalCamera, imported byAccel International Co.,Ltd and Canon (SingaporePte., Ltd), was held atTraders Hotel here this af-ternoon.

Managing Direc-tor Mr Alvin Law of AccelInternational Co., Ltd ex-tended greetings and Sen-

ior Director & GeneralManager Mr IsseiMorimoto of Canon Sin-gapore Pte Ltd made anopening speech.

Afterwards, Sen-ior Manager Mr RolandPoon of Canon SingaporePte Ltd explained the factsabout latest technologiesof Canon.

Special SpeakerMr Teoh Peng Kee of

Canon Singapore Pte Ltdmade demonstration onability and advantages ofEOS Digital Camera.Photographers tried tak-ing photos.

Canon Club

Myanmar is opened atNo.422/426 on 11th floor,FJVC Tower onBotahtaung Pagoda Roadhere (ph-202110) andEOS digital cameras areavailable there.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint receives General ManagerMr Yuan Xizhong of Central China Power Grid Co Ltd of the PRC.—MNA

Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin inspectsrepaving of Thanthuma Road in Mayangon

Township.—YCDC

Senior Director & General Manager

Mr Issei Morimoto of Canon Singapore Pte Ltd

extends greetings at introduction to use of EOS

Digital Camera.

MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 24Sept—Chairman ofRakhine State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of WesternCommand Maj-Gen

YANGON, 24 Sept—Yangon Command Com-mander’s Shield Men’sand Women’s VolleyballTournament was openedat the gymnasium of the

Aerobics Training Techniquefor coaches concludes

YANGON, 24 Sept—A ceremony to concludeAerobics Training Technique for coaches for 2009,jointly organized by Ministry of Sports and MyanmarWomen’s Sports Federation, took place at Union hallof Kyaikkasan sports ground, here this morning, withan address by Chairperson Daw Aye Aye of CentralWork Committee of MWSF. She presented first, sec-ond and third prizes to outstanding trainees and certifi-cates through a trainee.

The course generated 17 trainees succeeding inGrade A and 46 trainees in Grade B. Seventeen win-ners with Grade A are allowed to join referee course.

MNA

Concert for raising fundsfor the disabled heldYANGON, 24 Sept—Shwe Min Thar Foundation

(Myanmar) arranged concert for raising funds for thedisabled at Hmyawsinkyun in Kandawgyi here on 13September evening. At the concert, presenters ex-plained purpose of holding the concert. Celebrities andartistes of Training Centre for the Disabled presentedtheir performance. The celebrities and audiences con-tributed cash to the disabled.—MNA

Gold entrepreneurs meetYANGON, 23 Sept—Myanmar Gold Entrepre-

neurs Association held its executive committee meet-ing 9/2009 at UMFCCI Tower in Lanmadaw Town-ship on 11 September.

Chairman of the association U Thu Daw (Acad-emy Gold Refinery) and Vice-Chairman U KyawMyint (Shwe Myinbyan Gold Refinery) made speeches.

Secretary U Kyaw Win (U Hton Goldsmith)submitted the minutes of the previous meeting. Themeeting discussed the instruction of the Ministry ofLabour and the future tasks of the association. Later,responsible persons reported on organizing the asso-ciations in States and Divisions.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 24Sept—Minister for HealthDr Kyaw Myint andDeputy Minister Dr MyaOo inspected cardiovas-cular treatments at Nay PyiTaw People’s GeneralHospital (1000-bed) yes-terday.

There, the ministercomforted heart patient UThan Aung. He had ameeting with cardiologistsand members and in-spected the computer con-trol room.

Cardiac tests and car-diovascular operationswere performed by Cardi-ologist Dr Lwin Tin Ayeand members CardiologistDr Myint Soe Win, Asso-ciate Professor (MedicalScience) Dr Si Si Tun,Associate Professor (X-

Cardiovascular operations performed in Nay Pyi Taw

YANGON, 23 Sept—AMyanmar Karatedo teamled by Vice-President ofMyanmar Karatedo Fed-eration U Ai Yi left hereby air this morning to takepart in the 9th AKF SeniorKaratedo Championshipand Congress, organizedby Asian Karatedo Fed-eration and ChineseKaratedo Association tobe held in Foshan City of

Myanmar Karatedo team leaves for ChinaGuangdong Province ofthe People’s Republic ofChina from 21 to 28 Sep-tember.

The team was seen offat Yangon InternationalAirport by General Secre-tary U Soe Win of MKFand executives.

The team comprisedJoint General Secretary ofMKF Assistant DirectorU Htein Win Myint of

Sports and Physical Edu-cation Department as thecoach, manager and medi-cal in-charge Dr Aye MyatLwin and seven athletes.

Honorary Patron ofthe federation Police ColKhin Maung Tun (Retd)and Vice-President U AiYi will attend the AsiaKaratedo Federation Con-gress.

MNA

Development tasks in AnTownship inspected

Commander’s Shield VolleyballTournament kicks off

Command in Hline Town-ship of Yangon West Dis-trict, attended by Chair-man of Yangon DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of

Yangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint.

The Commanderand guests enjoyed thematch.

MNA

ray) Dr Naw The Say andSpecialist (Cardiac Sur-geon) Dr Aung Thu withthe assistance of Medical

Superintendent DrThaung Tin Tun under theclose supervision of Di-rector-General Dr Win

Myint. Four cardiovascu-lar patients were given car-diac tests and they re-ceived operations for en-largement of their arteriesperformed by specialists,five nurses and one tech-nician (X-ray) with theassistance of the doctor incharge of the IntensiveCare Unit and party.

Yesterday, two car-diovascular patients re-ceived operations and an-other one had his heartequipped with a pacemaker. Today, a cardio-vascular patient receivedan operation with a tube inhis artery.

This morning, the car-diologists made a roundchecking to the cardiacpatients and they were allin good health.—MNA

Thaung Aye on 14 Sep-tember looked into the con-dition of a new road andconstruction of a bridge inWard 5 of An. On 15 Sep-tember, the commander in-

spected the site chosen forconstruction of the town-ship gymnasium and thecondition of the road toPepadon SuspensionBridge.—MNA

Four heart patients after undergoing operations seen with cardiologistsand medical staff at Nay Pyi Taw People’s General Hospital

(1000-bed).—MNA

Chairman U Thu Daw (Academy GoldRefinery) of MGEA delivers speech

at the meeting.—NLM

Cardiologists attending to heart patient at Nay Pyi Taw People’s General Hospital (1000-bed).—MNA

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Vehicles of today and motorways in Myanmar (6)Article: Kayan Soe Myint; Photos: Ministry of Construction

A container truck running on a road.

Photo shows a road section of Mongkhok-Mongphyat strategic road.

(from page 16)

construction materials (soil, gravel, sand, cement,tar) whether they meet set standards or not. Therehas been a sharp increase in load of a truck, likeincrease in number of vehicles, on the roads. Early1988, the maximum load of a truck was 13 tons. Butload of a truck has increased to 60 tons from 13 tonslater. In setting road designs, therefore, road designsthat are suitable for a 60-ton trucks were substitutedin the place of road designs that are suitable fororiginally designed for a 30-ton trucks. It is calledupgrading of roads.

Although terms of the roads are set 10 yearsfor a tarred road and 40 years for a concrete road ingeneral, motorways in Myanmar are deteriorating ina short term.

Road damage in the short term is caused byone of the following points.1. More traffic pressures on the road than initialestimate2. Although traffic pressures are within initial esti-mate, strength of the road layer cannot withstandtraffic pressures as it is less than initial limit. Inmeasuring the amount of the damage caused bytraffic, damage caused by two-axle-fixed 20-tontruck is equivalent to damage caused by runningseven two-axle-fixed 13-ton trucks.

Thus, it is not allowed to vehicles whichhave more load than fabricated vehicles to drive onthe road for durability of roads. (There are twotollgates of the Public Works, 70 tollgates underauction system and 38 tollgates run by companies

under B.O.T System, totaling 110 in 2009-10 fiscalyear. It is learnt some trucks with heavy loads areusing the road by paying extra charge for overloads).

- Using vehicles with more axles than fabri-cated trucks in order to allow overload andsetting maximum axle load limit.

- Building roads in accord with set standards

(thickness of road layer, soil and strength ofthe road layer, type and condition of theroad)

- Undertaking necessary maintenance system-atically.

- Not allowing vehicles with heavy loads torun on the road.

- Allowing vehicles with more axles to carryheavy loads (or) prescribing axle load limit.

- Maintaining and building roads in accordwith the set standards.Regarding motorways in Myanmar, law and

bylaws on roads had been promulgated in Law No 8/2000 of the State Peace and Development Council ofthe Union of Myanmar. Law on roads has six chap-ters and bylaws on roads, nine chapters.

In conclusion, the State Peace and Develop-ment Council is striving for emergence of a peace-ful, modern and developed nation. With a view toensuring secure and smooth transport for the people,the government has built Union Highways, inter-state/division roads, inter-township roads and stra-tegic roads. However, It is regretable to see that theseroads are deteriorating. I would like to urge servicepersonnel who are undertaking road maintenanceand entrepreneurs who are engaged in B.O.T tomaintain the motorways in Myanmar in accord withthe standards set internationally and trucks ownersto use the prescribed axles, avoid overloads and tofollow limits on vehicles in accord with type ofvehicles, traffic rules and laws and bylaws promul-gated by the State Peace and Development Councilin order to avert unnecessary damage to roads.

Translation: YM

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LONDON, 24 Sept—Being fat could become the leading cause of cancer inwomen in Western countries in the coming years, European researcherssaidThursday.

Being overweight or obese accounts for up to 8 percent of cancers in Europe.Experts said that figure is poised to increase substantially as the obesity epidemiccontinues, and as major causes of cancer, such as smoking and hormone replacementtherapy for menopausal women, drop dramatically.

“Obesity is catching up at a rate that makes it possible it could become thebiggest attributable cause of cancer in women within the next decade,” saidAndrew Renehan, a cancer expert at the University of Manchester. Renehanpresented his findings to a joint meeting of the European Cancer Organization andthe European Society for Medical Oncology in Berlin on Thursday.—Internet

Obesity could become top cancer cause

WASHINGTON, 24Sept—Water particleshave been detected on thesurface of the Moon bythree missions, includingan Indian probe.

The evidence,disclosed in newscientific papers,

Water detected on the Moon

ANKARA, 24 Sept—The death toll from floods triggeredby torrential rains in a Black Sea coastal province innortheast Turkey rose to five on Thursday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister VeyselEroglu was quoted by the report as saying that the death tollincreased to five.Anatolia reported earlier in the day thatfloods killed four people after a building on a stream bedcollapsed in the Borcka town of the Artvin province lateWednesday.

“Four people were killed in flooding. One personwent missing. We assume that person is dead too. So, wecan say death toll rose to five,” Eroglu was quoted assaying.On Thursday morning, search and rescue teamsrecovered two bodies from the rubble of the three-storyhouse that was wrecked by a landslide caused by the rainsand floods in Borcka.

The bodies of a 54-year-old woman and a 17-year-oldgirl were recovered for Two other people died in floods inthe Borcka town and a three-year-old baby was pulled outalive from the debris of another house wrecked by thelandslide, according to the report.Earlier this month, flashfloods triggered by heavy rains killed 37 in northwestTurkey’s Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces.—Internet

Floods kill five in northeastTurkey

SINGAPORE, 24 Sept—A recent study has foundthat 15 percent of Singaporeproblem gamblers haveattempted suicide, localmedia reported onThursday.

Conducted bySingapore’s NationalAddictions ManagementService at the Institute ofMental Health, the studysaid that the problemgamblers often have anxietyor depression issues, whichcan lead them to take theirown lives, according to localradio 938live.

The report said thatabout 2 percent of theSingapore population areprobable problemgamblers, adding that thenumber of gamblersturning up for treatment lastyear was double that of

15% of Singapore problem gamblershave attempted suicide: study

Rescuers move a crew member of a plane which crashed into a school fieldshortly after take-off in Durban, September 24, 2009. An Airlink passenger

plane crashed into a school’s playing fields near Durban InternationalAirport Thursday, seriously injuring three crew members and one person on

the ground, the South African airline said.INTERNET

Fallstreak holes likethis captured in

Florida, are largecircular gaps that can

appear in cirrocumulusor altocumulus clouds.The holes are formed

when the watertemperature in the

clouds is below freezingbut the water has notfrozen yet.—INTERNET

overturns the longaccepted view that lunarsoil is dry and comes justtwo weeks before aNASA probe is to crashinto the surface near theMoon’s southern pole tosee if water can bedetected in the dust anddebris released by theimpact.

The new data wasgathered by probesequipped with NASAinstruments designed tomap the Moon’s mineralcomposition.The so-called “MoonMineralogy Mapper,” orM3, uses the reflection

of sunlight off the Moon’ssurface to determine soilcomposition.

In one of the threepapers published in thelatest edition of the journalScience, researchers saidthey analyzed light wavesdetected by an M3instrument on board anIndian satellite,C h a n d r a y y a n - 1 . T h ereflected light wavesindicated a chemical bondbetween oxygen andhydrogen — proof, theresearchers said, of theexistence of water on theMoon’s surface.

Internet

LONDON, 24 Sept — Woman make more caring andcautious doctors than their male counterparts and are alsoless likely to be suspended from work, according to arecent British study.

An assement study spread across 8 years by the UKgovernment found that the fairer-sex fared better asdoctors because they were had more patience and weremore patient-centric.

Rosemary Field, deputy director of the NationalClinical Assessment Service (NCAS) said,”It is not thatwomen are better doctors than men, but there is researchshowing that they tend to have longer consultations andare more patient-centred than men,” according to DailyMail.—Internet

Women doctors more caringand cautious

LONDON, 24 Sept—Want to remain slim?Avoid eating with skinnypals and go out with fatfriends. Researchers havefound that eating out with athin person who eats a lotmakes others eat moreportions than they normallywould.

Sitting opposite a fatperson at meals encourages

Eat with fat friends tostay thin: study

one to eat less than normal.Researchers from US

and Canadian universitiessaid, “Our findingsindicate that the size of theperson you dine withmatters much less than thesize of the meal theyorder.”

“If a heavy-setcolleague eats a lot, youare likely to adjust yourbehaviour and eat less. Buta thin friend who eats a lotmay lead you to eat morethan you normally would”,the Daily Mail reported.

Internet

2007. Singapore’s totalpopulation reached 4.84million in 2008.

Local expert onaddiction Thomas Lee saidthat a lot more publiceducation is needed forfamilies and health carepractitioners to recognizethe signs of addiction,adding that the public needsto be aware of the varioushelp-lines and centersavailable for treatment andcounselling.

Singapore will opentwo casino-based integratedresorts in next year. Thegovernment is introducingfamily exclusion order, self-exclusion order and third-party exclusion order toprevent local problemgamblers from entering theresorts.

Internet

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The Pacific

Ocean

around the

California

coastline is

being used

more often by

Mexican

smugglers.

INTERNET

India launches seven satellites

India’s space programme is more than 45 yearsold.—INTERNET

NEW DELHI, 24 Sept—India has successfullylaunched seven satellitesin a single mission, nearlya month after the coun-try’s inaugural Moon mis-sion was aborted.Therocket was carrying an In-dian remote-sensing satel-lite and six smaller ones,

Police hold suspect after chopper robbery

Africa leaders unite on malariaLONDON, 24 Sept—Fourteen African heads of state

are due to launch a scheme aimed at ridding the conti-nent of almost all malaria-related deaths within sixyears. More than $3bn (£1.8bn) has already been raisedto fund the project.

The money will pay for the distribution of 240 mil-lion insecticide-treated bed nets throughout sub-Sa-haran Africa by the end of next year. Malaria accountsfor a quarter of all deaths of children under five yearsold in Africa. Rwanda is one of the countries involvedin the new scheme, and Health Minister RichardSezeibera admitted the disease posed a huge challenge.“Malaria stills kills more people in Africa than HIV/Aids and tuberculosis combined... we need more fundsto fight it,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa.

But he said a lot of progress had been made in fight-ing the disease—and that politicians had helped theprocess.” There’s been a lot of mobilisation by politi-cal leaders and this has brought results on the ground,”he said.”So this launch will certainly add momentumand impetus to what is already happening on the groundin Africa.” The leaders will announced the new body— African Leaders Malaria Alliance (Alma) — on thesidelines of the UN summit in New York.—Internet

all of them foreign. TheIndian satellite will helpspot fishing zones in thesea by monitoring oceantemperatures.

Observers say India isemerging as a majorplayer in the multi-billiondollar space market.Wednesday’s launch,

from the Sriharikota spacecentre off India’s eastcoast, is being describedas another milestone forthe country’s 46-year-oldspace programme. This isthe 16th mission for In-dia’s Polar SatelliteLaunch Vehicle (PSLV) -a seven-storey-high, 230tonne rocket.

A spokesman for state-run Indian Space Re-search Organization (Isro)S Satish told the BBC thatthe Indian satelliteOceansat-2 is carrying anew instrument which canmeasure wind speed overthe surface of the ocean.He said the device willhelp track monsoons andcyclones.The rocket isalso carrying six smallersatellites from Germany,Switzerland and Turkey.Wednesday’s launchcame as a boost to India’sspace scientists after thecountry terminated its in-augural Moon missionlast month. —Internet

STOCKHOLM, 24 Sept —Swedish police said theywere holding one suspectafter armed robbers useda helicopter to stage aspectacular raid on a cashstorage unit on the out-skirts of the capital onWednesday.

The gang landed a heli-copter on the roof ofa cash storage facilitybelonging to Anglo-Dan-ish firm G4S inVastberga, just southof Stockholm, and madetheir way into thebuilding through awindow, police said.Witnesses reported sev-

eral explosions. The gangthen loaded up the heli-copter and flew off.”The attackers used heli-copters and explosives toenter the premises andthey escaped with an un-confirmed amount of

money,” G4S said in astatement.

“A substantial rewardis being offered for infor-mation leading to the ar-rest and conviction ofthose responsible and re-covery of the stolen

Police officerssearch the area

around thestolen helicopter

used for arobbery and

found inArninge, north

of central Stock-holm on 23 Sept,

2009.INTERNET

money.” Police said theywere questioning oneperson suspected of be-ing involved in the heistbut that the person hadnot been charged. Theygave no further details

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In this image provided by NASA the mobile servicetower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral AirForce Station has been rolled back to reveal theUnited Launch Alliance Delta II rocket ready to

launch the Space Tracking and SurveillanceSystem — Demonstrator into orbit on 24 Sept,

2009.—INTERNET

Police say the crocodile was fed liverabbits on the terrace.

INTERNET

The Wall Street Journal announced last week that it will begin charging foraccess to the newspaper on mobile devices such as the Blackberry or Apple

iPhone from on 24 October. Tien Tzuo on Wednesday called on fellowtechnology entrepreneurs to join him on a quest to rescue newspapers that

are dying as their readers get stories free on the Internet.—INTERNET

‘Mafia crocodile’ seized in ItalyROME, 24 Sept — Italian police say

they have seized a crocodile they believewas used by a suspected mafia boss toterrorise people into paying protectionmoney.

The reptile was 1.7m (5.5ft) long andweighed 40kg (88lb). It was found dur-

ing a weapons search at the man’s homein the southern town of Caserta. It waskept on the terrace and fed live rabbitsin full view of neighbouring homes, po-lice said.

The mafia suspect was charged withillegal animal possession.

The crocodile has been sent to a reha-bilitation centre. Maurizio Vallone, headof Italy’s anti-mafia squad, said the ani-mal had been held in a secure area of theterrace fitted with high-tech video sur-veillance.

He said the owner of the home wassuspected of running several protectionrackets in Caserta, where the Camorrabranch of the Naples mafia is active.Noweapons were found on the premises, hesaid.—Internet

Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection Seasonal flu shot increases A/H1N1 flu risk

Drugmaker reports shortage of kids’ TamifluDoubling chemo dosehelped leukemia patientsLOS ANGELES, 24 Sept — Adults with a common

form of leukemia had a better chance of remission ifthey got a double dose of a long-used cancer drug,two new studies found. Doctors said the findingsshould change the standard of care for younger adultswith acute myeloid leukemia, but work remains to findbetter treatment for the elderly, who are more likely todevelop the disease.

Acute myeloid leukemia is a cancer of the bloodand bone marrow. It’s the most common type of acuteleukemia in adults. About 12,810 new cases will bediagnosed in the United States this year, according tothe Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Patients typically receive two chemotherapy drugsto slow or stop the growth of cancer cells in the body.Two studies published in Thursday’s New EnglandJournal of Medicine looked at how patients fared ifthe dose of one of the chemo drugs, daunorubicin, wasdoubled.

One study led by researchers at the Moffitt CancerCenter and Research Institute in Florida gave 657leukemia patients ages 17 to 60 either the standardchemo dose or double the amount and followed themfor about two years. Complete remission occurred in71 percent of those who took the higher dose, com-pared with 57 percent in the regular dose group. Over-all survival was also higher in those who had morechemo: 24 months versus 16 months.

Internet

BANGKOK, 24 Sept —For the first time, an experi-mental vaccine has pre-vented infection with theAIDS virus, a watershedevent in the deadly epi-demic and a surprising re-sult. Recent failures ledmany scientists to thinksuch a vaccine might neverbe possible. The vaccine

cut the risk of becominginfected with HIV by morethan 31 percent in theworld’s largest AIDS vac-cine trial of more than16,000 volunteers in Thai-land, researchers an-nounced on Thursday inBangkok.

Even though the benefitis modest, “it’s the first evi-

dence that we could have asafe and effective preven-tive vaccine,” Col JeromeKim said in a telephone in-terview. He helped lead thestudy for the US Army,which sponsored it with theNational Institute of Al-lergy and Infectious Dis-eases. The institute’s direc-tor, Dr Anthony Fauci,warned that this is “not theend of the road,” but saidhe was surprised and verypleased by the outcome.

“It gives me cautiousoptimism about the possi-bility of improving this re-sult” and developing amore effective AIDS vac-cine, Fauci said in a tel-ephone interview. “This issomething that we cando.”—Internet

OTTAWA, 24 Sept — Preliminary re-sults from some studies have found thatseasonal flu shot may increase the riskof catching A/H1N1 flu, Canadian sci-entists said on Wednesday. About 2,000people from four Canadian provinceswere involved in the separate studies,which showed that people who had re-ceived the seasonal flu vaccine in thepast were more likely to get sick withthe H1N1 virus, the Canadian Broad-

casting Corporation (CBC) said in a re-port on Wednesday.

Researchers know that, theoretically,when people are exposed to bacteria ora virus, it can stimulate the immune sys-tem to create antibodies that facilitate theentry of another strain of the virus. Den-gue fever is one example, scientistssay.But experts stressed that these arevery preliminary results and need to bevalidated.—Xinhua

ATLANTA, 24 Sept —The maker of Tamiflu onWednesday said there’s ashortage of the children’sversion of the drug — thefirst-line treatment forswine flu and seasonalflu.Switzerland-basedRoche Holdings is sendinga notice to doctors andpharmacists about a short-

Store launches underpantsfor left-handed men

LONDON, 24 Sept — A British store is launching arange of underpants for left-handed men, an innovationit says will save them both time and embarrassment infront of the porcelain. The new range, by UK-based Hom,will have a horizontal opening instead of a vertical slitaccessed from the right-hand side, breaking a traditionthat has lasted for 75 years.”In our view, this is a vitalstep toward equality for left-handed men,” said RobFaucherand of Debenhams store.

Almost 10 percent of British men are believed to beleft handed but men’s Y-fronted underpants have tradi-tionally had a right-handed opening from the time theywere invented in 1935.”As a result,” Debenhams said,“left-handed men have to reach much further into theirpants, performing a Z shaped maneuver through two 180degree angles before achieving the result that right handedmen perform with ease.” Previously, it added, boxershorts, with an adaptable, ambidextrous opening in themiddle, have been the underpants of choice for left handedmen.—Internet

age of the liquid version ofTamiflu for children andhow to handle prescrip-tions in the meantime.Thecompany has been facingincreasing demand forTamiflu since swine flufirst appeared in April, andhas decided to focus pro-duction on adult-strengthpills, which itcan make faster than chil-dren’s formulations, com-pany spokeswomanKristina Becker said on

Wednesday.The adult-dosage pills

are still in good supply,and pharmacies can grindthem and turn them intosmaller doses for children,she said.Tamiflu is oneof two drugs that workagainst swine flu. Anotherflu treatment, Relenza,is in good supply aswell, government healthofficials said this weekin a message to phar-macists.—Internet

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S P O R T SCole intent on return to peak

form after injury

Chelsea’s Joe Cole

Kaka nets first goal as Real keep pace withBarca in Spanish league

Real Madrid’s Brazilianmidfielder Kaka

Lorena Ochoa,of Mexico

Rio carrying Olympic hopes of entire continentRIO DE JANRIRO, 24 Sept—South America has never hosted a

Summer Olympics. If Rio de Janeiro breaks that streak and gets the2016 games, the setting could hardly be more spectacular.Braziliansare promising to transform the region and captivate the world with awell-organized Olympics played out near the city’s stunning beachesand famous landmarks.

Rio anxiously awaits the 2 Oct host-city vote in Copenhagen,especially after gaining front-runner status following a positiveevaluation by the International Olympic Committee in its final reporton the four finalists for 2016.

Thousands of Cariocas, as Rio citizens are known, are expected tomake it to Copacabana beach to watch the IOC announcement, hopingfor a big celebration by the Sugar Loaf mountain and the Christ theRedeemer statue.Competing against Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo, thecity gained IOC praise for having strong public support, financialguarantees from all levels of government and experience fromsuccessfully hosting the Olympic-style Pan American Games in 2007.Brazil also will host the 2014 World Cup.—Internet

In this computer generated photo illustration released by ComiteRio 2016 is seen the Maracana soccer venue, right, and the

Maracanazinho volleyball venue. Rio de Janeiro is hoping tobring the Olympics to South America for the first time,

promising to transform the region and captivate the world withwell-organized games near the city’s stunning beaches and

famous landmarks.—INTERNET

Fergie dreams of takingon son Darren’sPeterborough

MANCHESTER, 24 Sept—ManchesterUnited manager Sir Alex Ferguson ishoping for only one outcome when thedraw is made for the last 16 of theLeague Cup on Saturday - a tie againstson Darren and his Championship clubPeterborough.Ferguson junior reachedthe fourth round of the competition withvictory over Newcastle on Tuesday, 24hours before a 1-0 win for the ten men ofUnited against WolverhamptonWanderers earned his father’s LeagueCup holders their spot in the fourth round.

The two managers have never competedagainst each other in a competitive contestand, while the odds are obviously stackedagainst that particular outcome, Fergusonis clearly relishing another extended run ina tournament he has used so successfullyto blood young players over theyears.”Peterborough at home,” replied SirAlex when asked whom he wanted tomeet. “All the family will be happy withthat! But blooding the young players is theonly thing we can do.

“Give them the experience of playingat Old Trafford in front of 50,000. It’s agood crowd and it?s a good tournamentfor young players.”The quality of notknowing when you are beaten is a qualitythis club has. You have to have it. Theyoung players have come in andresponded. They’ve accepted thechallenge and enjoyed it.”One of thoseyoung players, Danny Welbeck, scoredthe decisive goal for United onWednesday after a 66th minute exchangeof passes with Michael Owen.— Internet

Ochoa trying to hang onto No 1 ranking

Henin says she can still do itLIMELETTE, 24 Sept—Former world number one Justine Henin vowed Wednesday

to return to the top of women’s tennis after deciding to come out of self-imposedretirement.”Today I’m aware that there is more than just tennis,” the seven-timeGrand Slam winner said at her tennis school here in central Belgium.

“But tennis is what I do best. I’m 27 and still physically capable.”Now the hardwork starts. I’m going to have to get back the confidence and go through stages whichI’d forgotten about.” Henin said.”Time is on my side. But it’ll be a long road.”I likea real challenge. Ambition is part of me, I need to live something exceptional, to feelthe adrenalin. It’s part of me.”Surprise US Open winner Kim Clijsters hailed as“fantastic” the return to the circuit of a fellow Belgian and great rival.—Internet

DANVILLE, 24 Sept—Lorena Ochoa is runningout of tournaments in astartlingly averageseason for a player whowon 21 times in theprevious three years.Since winning theCorona Championship inher native Mexico in lateApril for her secondvictory of the year, thetop-ranked Ochoa iswinless in 10 starts.

South Korea’s Jiyai

Shin leads the player ofthe year — and rookie —races and is withinstriking distance ofcatching Ochoa in therankings. Norway’sSuzann Pettersen and ahandful of other playersare also close headinginto the CVS/pharmacyLPGA Challenge, set tostart Thursday atBlackhawk CountryClub.

“It’s not easy so.That’s why I need towork harder,” Ochoasaid Wednesday. “That’swhy I need to startplaying better and dowhatever it takes to keepthat No. 1 position.” Fornearly two years thatwasn’t much of an issuefor the 27-year-old starwho replaced AnnikaSorenstam at the top ofthe rankings in April2007.—Internet

MADRID, 24 Sept—Real Madrid keptpace with champions Barcelona at the topof the Spanish First Division defeating10-man Villarreal 2-0 at El Madrigal onWednesday with Cristiano Ronaldocontinuing his goal-a-game record whileBrazilian Kaka scored his first Real goalfrom the penalty spot.Ronaldo scored agreat solo goal in the very first minute tomake it five goals in four games and Kakaconverted a controversial penalty for hisfirst goal in Real’s colours.

“It was important to start (the season)winning games,” said Ronaldo. “I amreally happy to win here and also tocontinue scoring goals.”Villarreal arestrong at home but we managed to get

the three points.”It was a fourth straightwin for Real as they joined Barcelona,who defeated Racing Santander 4-1 onTuesday, on a maximum 12 points.

Internet

LONDON, 24 Sept—JoeCole insists he still has someway to go before he is backto his best after completinghis first 90 minutes sincedamaging knee ligamentslast January. Cole’sperformance was one of thehighlights of a pedestrianChelsea display as thePremier League leadersstruggled to overcomeChampionship club QPRRangers, eventually edgingto a 1-0 victory in theLeague Cup third roundclash at Stamford Bridge

on Wednesday.The England midfielder

was crocked in an FA Cuptie against Southend ninemonths ago and he knowshe has to keep working toreach a high enough levelto press for a regularstarting spot in CarloAncelotti’s first team - aswell as pressing for a recallto Fabio Capello’sEngland squad.”This is sstepping stone for me,” hesaid. “It’s not a case ofsaying I’m back oranything like that.

“This is just another stepand I will keep workinghard and get back to thetop of my game and beyondas soon as I can.”I don’tthink it?s as much aboutme playing 90 minutes inthe Premier League. Youhave to get the knee usedto all the movement andall the twisting and turningwhich is a big part of mygame.” This is a steppingstone for me and if I amback to my best onSaturday, or next week ornext month we will haveto see. All I can do is workhard in training.— Internet

New boys fireMourinho-lessInter to top ofItalian league

ROME, 24 Sept—InterMilan brushed aside theabsence of manager JoseMourinho to climb to thetop of Serie A on thestrength of a 3-1 successover Napoli on Wed-nesday. A verbal assaultagainst the referee in lastweekend’s win overUdinese earned Mourinhoa one-match touchline banbut these three points willhave eased the Portuguesecoach’s mood.

Samuel Eto’o put asidehis financial dispute withformer club Barcelona toopen the scoring in the thirdminute and his new strikepartner, former Genoaforward Diego Milito,doubled up two minuteslater. Another Internewboy, Brazil World Cupwinning defender Luciowho moved from BayernMunich in the close season,made it 3-0 just after thehalf hour mark with aheader.—Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenwidespread in Chin and Mon States, upper Sagaing andTaninthayi Divisions, fairly widespread in Shan, Rakhineand Kayin States, Bago, Yangon and AyeyarwadyDivisions, scattered in Kachin State and isolated in theremaining areas. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (0.99) inch, Gangaw(2.80) inches, Kani (2.32) inches, Yinmabin (2.09) inches,Thaton (1.97) inches, Shwegyin (1.70) inches, Dawei (1.65)inches, Mawlaik (1.57) inches, Myeik (1.33) inches andPhyu (1.26) inches.

Maximum temperature on 23-9-2009 was 92°F.Minimum temperature on 24-9-2009 was 71°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 24-9-2009 was 79 %.Total sun shine hours on 23-9-2009 was (8.4) hours approx.

Rainfall on 24-9-2009 was (0.04) inch at Mingaladon,(0.12) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.15) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (96.26) inches atMingaladon, (105.87) inches at Kaba-Aye and (112.87)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon(Kaba-Aye) was (7) mph from Southwest at (17:30) hoursMST on 23-9-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy inthe North Bay and monsoon is weak in the Andaman Seaand elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 25th September 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be widespread in Mon, KayinStates and Taninthayi Division, fairly widespread in Chinand Shan States, upper Sagaing, Yangon and AyeyarwadyDivisions, scattered in Rakhine State and Bago Divisionand isolated in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is(80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Increase of rain inEastern Myanmar areas .

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for25-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for25-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for25-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

WEATHERThursday, 24th September, 2009

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Asleep in Jesus

Daw Tin May @ Josephine CeciliaD’Rozario

Age: 90 years.Daw Tin Mya-beloved wife of (Dr. H. Ah Keong) and

Mother of Dr. Khin Hla Kyi-(U Saw Tun), John Hla Tin(uniteam Marine)-Camille Hla Tin, (Mary Ah Keong),(Hillary Kyaw Lwin), (Noel Aung Min), Clarence AungToe (Uniteam)-Agnes Khin Than Yee, Grandmother of 11and Great Grandmother of 3, passed away peacefully in hersleep at her residence No. 42, Bo Aung Kyaw St, BotataungTownship, Yangon.

Funeral cortege will leave her residence at 09:00hours for funeral service at St. Mary’s Cathedral andthence to Yay Way cemetery for entombment.

Bereaved Family.

US warns citizens aboutAl-Qaeda threat to Germany

WASHINGTON, 24 Sept—The US State Departmentwarned American citizens on Wednesday to be awareof a threat by Al-Qaeda that it would attack Germanyaround the time of its federal election on Sunday.

“Al-Qaeda recently released a video specificallywarning Germany of attacks. German authorities aretaking the threat seriously and have taken measures toenhance the level of security throughout the country,”the State Department said in a travel alert that expireson November 11. “The Department of State urges UScitizens to maintain good security practices at alltimes, and to maintain a heightened situationalawareness and a low profile,” it said.

Germany stepped up security at airports and trainstations last weekend due to the heightened risk ofattack, fearing that militant groups could use theelection as a stage for strikes to punish Germany forits troop deployment in Afghanistan. Of the fiveparties in Germany’s Bundestag Lower House ofParliament, only the far-left “Linke” or Left Party iscalling for an immediate troop pullout fromAfghanistan.—MNA/Reuters

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★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

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

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

Vehicles of today and motorways in Myanmar (6)Article: Kayan Soe Myint; Photos: Ministry of Construction

New Influenza A (H1N1)control measures gaining

momentumNAY PYI TAW, 24 Sept—The Ministry of Health

has been steadfastly taking preventive measuresagainst New Influenza A (H1N1) since 28 April. Upto now, 46 cases have been confirmed, but there is nocase of mortality.

Out of the flu patients, 41 have been dis-charged from the hospital after full recovery fromthe disease. And the remaining five are in a state ofgood health.

The ministry urged the people to follow strictlythe public notices about New Influenza A (H1N1)flu and give a hand in the disease control meas-ures.—MNA

Photo shows a road section of Yangon-Pathein road.

Road Design Branches of Public Works of theMinistry of Construction

Public Works formed two branches —RoadDesign Branch and Road Research Branch — to setroad design. In setting road design, these brancheshave to choose grade of road to be built at first. It islearnt that grades of road accepted and used by PublicWorks are from D-VI to D-I and Highway and SuperHighway. In building two-lane motorway that can

allow running 50 vehicles per day, for instance, theroad should be grade D-VI, a lowest-grade road. A D-VI grading road has 12 feet in width. The gradient ofthe road is 5 % in the plain and 8 % in the hill. The roadhas a 50 mph speed limit in the plain and 30 mph inthe hill. If the number of vehicles which are allowedto run on the road per day is from 200 to 500, the roadshould be grade D-VI. A D-VI grading road has 18feet in width. The gradient of the road is 3 % in the

plain and 6 % in the hill. The road has a 60 mph speedlimit in the plain and 40 mph in the hill.

With a daily sharp increase in the number ofvehicles running on the road, it is required to widenthe road and road shoulders, to level the gradient, toincrease speed limit and to minimize curves of theroad that are in conformity with speed limit to be freefrom road accidents. Besides, it is necessary not onlyto set thickness of the road, design to be built andstandards based on the road to be built, number ofvehicles, load, number of axles, strength of the soilbelow the road to be built and materials to be usedin road construction but also to test road

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