THENew MOST RELIABLE NEWSPAPER LightAROUND YOU of Myanmar Volume XX, Number 317 6th Waning of Tabodwe 1374 ME Sunday, 3 March, 2013 President U Thein Sein sends message of Our Three Main National Causes felicitations to Bulgarian counterpart * Non-disintegration of the Union

Nay Pyi Taw, 3 March—U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a * Non-disintegration of National message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Rosen Plevneliev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria, on Solidarity the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Bulgaria, which falls on 3 March 2013.—MNA * Perpetuation of Sovereignty Political reform process is being implemented by means of all inclusiveness of all political parties and peace-making with national races armed groups

N a y P y i T a w , 2 departmental heads, Finnish two countries would be law and peace-making March—President U Thein Foreign Minister Mr Erkki seen. processes in Myanmar. Sein arrived at Helsinki Tuomioja and high-ranking Political reform process After the meeting, International Airport of officials. is being implemented by both leaders met the press. Finland yesterday morning The Finnish President means of all inclusiveness Finnish President hosted via Oslo of Norway. said that he welcomed of all political parties and a lunch to the Myanmar The President and party Myanmar’s President on peace-making with national President and party. were welcomed at the Airport his first-ever visit to Finland races armed groups. Peace- In the evening, the by Myanmar Ambassador to and Myanmar’s democratic making process is the President met Noble Finland U Soe Nwe, Finnish reform processes under most challenging one. He Laureate former Finnish Ambassador to Myanmar the leadership of his highlighted government’s President Mr Martti Ms Sirpa Maenpaa, Head counterpart. Finland wanted efforts from ceasefire to Ahtisaari at Finland Foreign of Protocol department to extend a helping hand eternal peace by holding Ministry. of Ministry of Foreign to Myanmar’s political political talks. Political talks The President Affairs of Finnish Ms Tiina and economic reforms, with national races could explained Myanmar’s Myllyntausta and officials. peace-making processes be held. Rehabilitation current reform processes In the afternoon, the and human resources tasks called for donor and peace-making President held discussions development tasks. countries’ assistance. For processes with national with Finnish President Mr President U Thein Sein economic development, races armed groups. Sauli Niinisto, at Presidential for his part replied that both Myanmar needed The former President Palace in Helsinki. countries have established international’s aids for discussed Crisis It was also attended by diplomatic ties since 1954 capital, technology, human Management Initiative the Deputy Commander-in- although both countries resource development. Group’s urging EU to engage Chief of Defence Services, are far from each other in The Finnish President with Myanmar in 2006, his the Union ministers, terms of the geographical also said that Finland was a role played in international the deputy ministers, location. The establishment Paris Club member country peace-making processes and of diplomatic relations was and had already written assistance in Myanmar’s President U Thein going to turn 60 years. Due off 50 percent of debt peace-making processes. Sein shakes hands to the different political Myanmar owed to. In 2014, In the evening, with Finnish President systems practiced over past Euro 6.5 million would be International Development Mr Sauli Niinisto at 20 years, relations between granted for Myanmar’s Minister Ms Heidi Hautala Presidential Palace in the two countries were development tasks. He hosted a dinner to the Helsinki. cool. Thanks to Myanmar’s pleaded that Finland would Myanmar delegation at mna democracy system, more assist in establishment of Presidential Palace. cooperation between the good governance, rule of MNA

President U Thein Sein and Finnish President Mr Sauli Niinisto meet the press after the meeting at Presidential Palace in Helsinki.—mna 2 Sunday, 3 March, 2013 New Light of Myanmar local news Hotel services, telecommunication facilities discussed Nay Pyi Taw, 2 March— Sao Aung Myat of Shan hotels. The state government Shan State Government and State made a speech, and officials and departmental Inlay Region hoteliers held Secretary of the Shan State officials explained general a meeting at the hall of Shan Government U Ye Naing round discussions. State Government Office in Aung reported on progress of On 22 February, the Taunggyi on 21 February hotel services in Inlay region. Shan State government morning. Officials replied to queries and Myanma Posts and Chief Minister U raised by entrepreneurs from Telecommunications held a coordination meeting at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw office of Shan State Manager of MPT in Taunggyi. Their Speaker’s Cup Football discussions focused on Tourney commences progress of telecommu- nication matters. Pyawbwe, 2 March— referees and contending Myanma Alinn The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw football teams. Speaker’s Cup Men’s Open Mandalay Region Football Tournament was Hluttaw representative Mudita Clinic provides health care to people Township kicked off at the people’s U Tin Oo and Deputy sports ground in Pyaw- Township Administrator Ywangan, 2 March— The wellwisher officer and nurses provided DAC gets 5% bwe on 26 February U Kyaw Soe Lin made Mudita free clinic, built Sayadaw, member of health care services to 40 afternoon. speeches. by Sayadaw Bhaddanta Leading Body of Danu Self- older persons. The clinic of tax Among the spectators Eight ward and village Puññavara of Thiri Mingala Administered Zone U Ko Ko, was opened with the aim N y a u n g s h w e , 2 Monastery of Hse Village in Township Administrator U of providing necessary were Mandalay Region football teams are taking March—Nyaungshwe Ywangan Township of Danu Phone Htet Naing Myint and pharmaceuticals to the aged Hluttaw representative U part in the tournament from Township Internal Revenue Self-Administered Zone, Township Medical Officer of above 65 years old and Tin Oo, Deputy Township 26 February to 19 March. Department handed over was opened at the clinic on Dr Aye Lwin formally cash assistance to needy Administrator U Kyaw Soe Cash awards are K five per cent from the tax to 23 February. opened the clinic. people. Lin and staff, departmental 400,000 for the first prize, K the Township Development Myogyi Sayadaw gave After that, the medical Myanma Alinn officials, members of 300,000 for the second and K Affairs Committee on 22 words of advice for the the football tournament 100,000 for the third. February. opening of clinic. organizing committee and Myanma Alinn Motorcyclist killed by truck after Five per cent tax, knocking down dog on Yangon- accounting for K 2,667,700 has been collected as first Mandalay Highway quarters from tax payers. Nay Pyi Taw, 2 March Pyinmana. He was died of The second and third — A motorcyclist was killed the head injury on the spot. quarters for tax worth K by a truck after falling off his “No damage to the 4.1 million were handed bike that hit a dog crossing motorbike. The crash over to the Township on Yangon-Mandalay Union helmet was found tied on DAC. Highway near Winpyan the bike. If the victim had The ceremony was village at about 6 pm on 25 worn his crash helmet, attended by Township February. he would not have been Administrator U Soe The motorbike driven killed in the road accident. Win Naing, Executive by Aung Ko Min from Now the truck that hit the Officer U Kyaw Zin of Pyinmana to Tatkon knocked motorcyclist without a Township Development down a dog crossing on the crash helmet was being kept Affairs Committee, Head of road and he fell off his bike at Bawgathiri bus terminal. Township Internal Revenue on the opposite lane where The name of the driver is Department U Nay Lin Aye he was hit by the 10-wheeled under investigation,” says and departmental officials. truck driving from Tatkon to a local.—Kyemon Myanma Alinn Mechanical Training Schools turn out Stimulant tablets seized technicians in Mawlamyine Nay Pyi Taw, 2 March— the assistance of GIZ agency China, Mechanical Training Union Minister for Industry of Germany since 1877 and School (Pakokku) with India M a w l a my i n e , 2 tablets in Dunhill brand green stimulant tablet U Aye Myint arrived at created job opportunities for technology, Mechanical March—A team led by cigarette box, weighing 17 weighing 190 grams. The Mechanical Training School the youths. The school admits Training School (Thagara) IP Maung Maung Kyaw grams, one mobile phone drug trafficker managed to (Hsinde) near Hsinde Village 200 trainees a year to provide with Korean technology, of Criminal Supporting from his short sleeve shirt escape from the scene. of Padaung Township in Bago eight subjects to them. Automobile Training School Section of Mon State Police and K 22,300. Myoma Police Station Region on 17 February. The Ministry of Industry (Magway) and Mechanical Force searched Myo Thura According to his opened files of lawsuit The Union Minister has established Mechanical Training School (Hsinde) with Naing (a) Naung Naung confession, the authorities against Myo Thura Naung viewed learning of trainees Training School (Mandalay) Germany technology. sitting near the strand together with witnesses (a) Naung Naung, 31 of at drawing room, electrical with the technology of MNA road of Ngwe Moe Hotel searched a building Mayangon Ward and the fitter shop, electrical machine in Mayangon Ward of in Pabedan Ward and person who escaped from maker shop, motor vehicle Mawlamyine at 11.30 am seized 123 WY brand the scene under Narcotic shop, pattern maker shop, on 15 February. pink stimulant tablets, Drug and Psychotropic machinery fitter shop and The authorities seized 66 R brand stimulant Substances Law. machine tool operator shop. 170 WY brand stimulant tablets and one WY brand Myanma Alinn After inspecting offices, hostels, mess hall and Summer golf course 4 March compound of the school, Yangon, 2 March— at I Win Golf Academy of Golf Professional) and other the Union Minister gave With the aim of turning out Yangon City Development coaches will give training to necessary instructions to new generation golfers for Committee in Yangon as the trainees. officials. the State, the summer golf of 4 March. Experienced The fee for training was The training school has course will be conducted coach U Hsan Tun (PGA K 50,000.—Myanma Alinn turned out 3292 trainees with New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 3 WORLD Putin, Obama agree to work German closely on Syria, Mideast lower house peace passes tighter Moscow, 2 March — peace process,” the Krem- Russian President Vladimir lin’s Press service said. copyright Putin and his US counter- “The leaders shared part Barack Obama on Fri- the common desire to avoid protection bill day agreed to work closely steps capable of negatively Berlin, 2 March—The on Syria and the Middle affecting bilateral rela- German Bundestag, or low- East peace process, the tions,” it said, without giv- er house of the parliament, Kremlin said. ing further details. approved a bill on Friday to The two leaders made The press service said tighten copyright protection the pledge when they had a Putin reaffirmed his invita- for material used on the In- telephone conversation on tion to Obama for an official ternet. Friday, the Kremlin’s Press visit to Russia. Lawmakers voted in The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C) attends a Press conference service said. “The presidents agreed of the Human Rights Council’s 22nd Session in Geneva, Switzerland, on 1 March, favor of the copyright law “The leaders agreed to to have a bilateral meeting by a vote of 293 to 243, 2013. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged both work closely together on on the sidelines of the G8 sides of the Syrian conflict to take the “very small window of opportunity” to hold with three abstentions. It is high-profile issues related summit in Northern Ire- now up to the upper house talks to end the nearly two-year-old crisis.Xinhua to Syria, the Middle East land,” it added.—Xinhua of the parliament to vote for Main Macedonian parties the bill’s final approval. Assad forces take Aleppo village, reopening According to the new reach deal to end political legislation, publishers re- supply line tain the exclusive right of crisis Beirut, 2 March— of the army’s push north, of broader Middle East use of their online content Syrian President Bashar which reversed many rebel conflict, would fall apart if Skopje, 2 March—With early general election has to for one year, requiring in- the help of a European Union be discussed after the local al-Assad’s forces seized advances when they moved the government and rebels ternet search engines to delegation, Macedonian elections,” Howitt said after a village southeast of the south into Hama from keep fighting instead of acquire a licence in order parties on Friday reached the meeting. city of Aleppo on Friday, Aleppo Province at the end seeking a negotiated peace. to republish original con- a deal to end the political The opposition was reopening a supply line of last year. US Secretary of State tent. crisis plaguing the country demanding early general to the country’s biggest The United Nations John Kerry said on Thursday Guenter Krings, vice- in the last two months and elections, arguing that the city where they have been says 70,000 people have Washington would provide chairman of Chancellor threatening its EU ambition. government had lost its battling rebels for eight been killed, nearly a million non-lethal aid including Angela Merkel’s Christian The deal was reached legitimacy to rule after months, a monitoring group Democratic Union (CDU) after hours of meeting among SDSM lawmakers were said. parliamentary group, cited European Enlargement thrown out of the assembly The Syrian Observatory financial losses for publica- Commissioner Stefan Fule, last December when they for Human Rights said the tions as the reason to update European Parliament’s tried to block the vote for the capture of Tel Shghaib the current copyright law in Rapporteur on Macedonia 2013 budget law. marked the last step to the age of the Internet. Richard Howitt, former The incident caused creating a land supply route “This wasn’t necessary president of the European the opposition MPs to north into Aleppo from when papers used to appear Parliament Jerzy Buzek, leave the parliament and Hama Province, crucial for only in print form,” said Macedonian President led to two-month-long Assad’s forces who have Krings. Gjorgje Ivanov, Prime protests on the streets. lost control of part of the However, the bill al- Minister Nikola Gruevski Ivanov and the EU officials main north-south highway. lows the use of “single and leader of the oppositional expressed satisfaction for the Activists reported words or small text pas- SDSM Branko Crvenkovski. agreement. another day of fierce Boys are pictured through a broken windshield as they sages” without royalties, As part of the deal, the “I’m pleased with fighting around Aleppo, stand on a street in Aleppo on 28Feb , 2013.—Reuters easing search engines’ con- opposition parties led by the positive attitude of the including the military cerns that the law would the social-democrats SDSM leaders of all political parties airport at Nairab, three miles have fled the country and medical supplies and food charge them for displaying will not boycott the local that have decided to bring north of Tel Shghaib which millions more have been to rebel fighters, as well search results with snip- elections set for 24 March back on track the European Assad’s forces retook. “It’s displaced or need aid. as $60 million to help the pets of original text. But and their MPs will return to agenda of the country,” a significant gain for the UN Secretary-General civilian opposition provide the length of one such free- the parliament. An agreement Ivanov said. regime,” the British-based Ban Ki-moon said on services including security, of-charge snippet is not de- for early parliamentary “We are pleased to see Observatory’s director Friday that Syria, a major education and sanitation. fined in the bill. elections should be reached that the political leaders have Rami Abdelrahman said Arab state on the fault lines Reuters Xinhua by September. finally been able to show “The agreement also their political responsibility Kenyan leader appeals for peace ahead of Monday polls includes setting joint ad and courage to agree on a with humility and begin hoc commission that will solution,” the EU trio said in Nairobi, 2 March— and aspirations. In casting Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, Kenyan President Mwai your vote, you will be which provides for the journey of serving the investigate the incidents in a joint statement. people in earnest. the parliament. The issue for Xinhua Kibaki on Friday appealed exercising your democratic safeguards against unfair, to citizens to vote peacefully right and taking your place insecure, corrupted, non “Let us send a clear and help determine the in history,” he said. transparent or inefficiently message to the world that future of the nation, saying Some 14.3 million administrated elections. our democracy has come peace is the cornerstone of Kenyans are due to vote Already, the country’s of age. A peaceful vote the country’s development. on Monday elections security agencies and the is a vote for a secure, In a televised address which are regarded as one electoral body charged with prosperous and stable to the nation, Kibaki who is of the most significant overseeing the 4 March Kenya. Remember Monday not eligible for re-election event in the history of this polls have confirmed their 4 March is your date with after serving for 10 years country because they will readiness for the exercise. destiny. Cast your vote and into office, emphasized that be the very first to be held However, despite the keep the peace,” he added. Kenyans must consolidate since the 2007/2008 post eagerness to vote, fear of President Kibaki called the development strides election violence, when, election violence erupting on all Kenyans to play their the country has made by within a seven-week period in the East African nation is individual roles through Construction workers and engineers examine rail ensuring a free, fair, just following the polls, and as growing as the clock ticks tolerance and by embracing tracks in the Huzhou Railway Station in Huzhou, and peaceful election. a direct consequence of the towards 4 March. peace. “To those who will east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 26 Feb, 2013. “This Monday, you, contested results. Kibaki noted that every not win, your country The 150-kilometre Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed as a voter have a date with The elections are election produces winners still needs you. There are railway linking Hangzhou and Ningbo, two hub cities destiny. By voting, you also significant because and losers and appealed to many other roles you can in Zhejiang, commenced its integration test here on decide the leadership that they will be the very first those who shall be declared play in our development Friday.—Xinhua will manage your hopes to be organized under winners to embrace victory endeavors.” —Reuters 4 Sunday, 3 March, 2013 New Light of Myanmar Science & Technology Facebook, Google tech gurus to design Long March-7 cancer research game rocket’s

London, 2 March—Sci- the discovery of new ways targeted way based on their maiden launch entists from a British cancer to diagnose and treat cancer genetic profile and that of charity are teaming up with much more precisely.” their tumors. In a major in- hopefully in technology gurus from the After the GameJam, ternational study on breast likes of Amazon, Facebook which runs in London from cancer genetics published 2014 and Google to design and de- 1-3 March, an agency will last year, CRUK research- velop a mobile game aimed at build the game concept into ers said they are now able Beijing, 2 March— speeding the search for new reality and the team plans to to classify the disease into China’s indigenous carrier cancer drugs. launch it in mid 2013. 10 subtypes—a finding that rocket Long March-7 hope- The project, led by the Cancer already kills could lead to more accurate fully will make its first launch NASA probes reveal new charity Cancer Research more than 7.5 million people and tailored treatment in in 2014, a senior official of UK, should mean that any- the rocket’s designing insti- one with a smart phone and tute said on Friday. radiation belt around Earth five minutes to spare will Liang Xiaohong, Party Washington, 2 March— The Van Allen belts are be able to investigate vital chief of the China Academy The Van Allen Probes affected by solar storms and scientific data at the same of Launch Vehicle Technol- mission has discovered a space weather and can swell time as playing a mobile ogy, made the remarks dur- previously unknown third dramatically. When this oc- game. ing an exclusive interview radiation belt around Earth, curs, they can pose dangers The first step is for 40 with Xinhua. US space agency NASA an- to communications and GPS computer programmers, The Long March-7 nounced on Thursday. satellites, as well as humans gamers, graphic designers rocket, of which key techno- Previous observations in space. and other specialists to take logical break-throughs have of Earth’s Van Allen belts “The fantastic new ca- part in a weekend “Game- been made in the design and have long documented two pabilities and advances in Jam” to turn the charity’s production, is expected to distinct regions of trapped technology in the Van Allen raw genetic data into a game be one of China’s backbone radiation surrounding our Probes have allowed scien- format for future so-called A worker prepares the Cancer Research UK Garden carrier rockets for the na- planet. Particle detection tists to see in unprecedented “citizen scientists”. ahead of the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show 2011 tion’s future space missions, instruments aboard the twin detail how the radiation belts “We’re making great on Tuesday, in London in this file photo taken he said. Reuters Van Allen Probes, launched are populated with charged progress in understanding on 22 May, 2011.— Xinhua on 30 August, revealed the particles and will provide the genetic reasons cancer a year and the number of future. existence of this new, tran- insight on what causes them develops. But the clues to people with the disease That study also found China to use sient radiation belt. Scientists to change, and how these why some drugs will work worldwide is expected to several completely new observed the third belt for processes affect the upper and some won’t are held surge by more than 75 per- genes that drive breast can- new rocket four weeks before a powerful reaches of Earth’ s atmo- in data which need to be cent by 2030, according to cer, offering potential targets interplanetary shock wave sphere,” NASA’s Associate analyzed by the human the World Health Organiza- for new types of drugs. for moon from the sun annihilated it. Administrator for Science eye— and this could take tion’s cancer agency IARC. Yet this type of re- The belts, named for John Grunsfeld said in a years,” said Carlos Caldas CRUK’s scientists are search generates colossal landing their discoverer, James Van statement. at Cancer Research UK’s working hard to identify amounts of data that need Allen, are critical regions The findings were also Cambridge Institute. the genetic faults that drive to be analyzed, CRUK said mission for modern society, which published online on Thurs- “By harnessing the col- cancer to try to find new as it announced the gaming Beijing, 2 March—A is dependent on many space- day in the journal Science. lective power of citizen ways of diagnosing and project. rocket expert said on Friday based technologies. Xinhua scientists we’ll accelerate treating patients in a more Reuters that China has developed a modified model of Long Facebook buys Microsoft ad technology EU aims to prevent astronomically March-3B carrier rocket for costly crashes in space an upcoming moon landing platform mission to be completed Barcelona, 2 March—A systems and encourage them by the Chang’e-3 moon S a n F r a n c i s c o , 2 new EU-wide system to to invest in new technology. orbiter. March—Facebook Inc said track satellites could help Setting up and operating The orbiter’s structure on Thursday it had agreed to reduce collisions with orbiting the service will cost roughly and size are considerably buy advertising technology space debris, crashes that 10 million euros a year and different than those of its from Microsoft Corp that cost operators millions and could be up and running predecessors, requiring some measures the effectiveness could knock out mobile and by 2016, a Commission modifications for the carrier of ads on its website, which GPS networks. The system, spokeswoman said. She said rocket, according to Liang should help in its fight with proposed by the European the EU will pay this cost, in Xiaohong, Communist Party Google Inc for online adver- Union’s executive, aims the hope that it spurs around of China (CPC) chief of the tising revenue. to help monitor dangerous 50 million euros in further China Academy of Launch Under the long-ru- space junk and alert satellite investment from member Vehicle Technology. mored transaction, Face- operators to collision risks states in new technology With its improved de- book will purchase the ahead of time, the European like radar, telescopes, and sign, the modified model of Atlas Advertiser Suite, Commission said on Friday. data centres. March-3B carrier rocket has an ad management and The Facebook logo is pictured in the Facebook The EU could get a “big Space debris includes greater reliability and carry- measurement platform that headquarters in Menlo Park, California on 29 Jan, bang” for its buck, since any man-made litter left ing capacity, Liang said. The Microsoft took on with its 2013.—Reuters last-minute course changes in space parts of rocket Chang’e-3 is scheduled to be $6.3 billion acquisition of launched in the latter half of digital ad agency aQuantive pulling the plug on all paid Facebook site, but analysts to satellites are estimated to launchers, inactive satellites cost operators 140 million and broken pieces from past the year. in 2007. Facebook did not advertising on Facebook’s believe that is Facebook’s Xinhua say how much it paid for network. ultimate goal. euros each year, with that collisions.—Reuters the technology. Unable Since then, Facebook “Although the statement cost expected to rise over 10 to make it work for its has introduced a number announcing the deal focused years. When satellites aren’t own purposes, Microsoft of tools and partnerships on Atlas’ measurement tools able to move out of the way wrote off $6.2 billion of to prove to marketers that rather than its ad targeting in time, impacts can damage the aQuantive deal’s value advertising on its social net- technology, we expect that delicate electronics and last year. work delivers enough bang Atlas will soon be using reduce their operational life. Facebook has long been for the buck. Facebook’s data to target They can also disrupt mobile dogged by doubts about the Brian Boland, Face- sponsorships, in-stream ads, phone calls, cause flight effectiveness of its ads and book’s director of monetiza- and other rich ad formats cancellations and interfere was embarrassed just days tion product marketing, said across the entire web, and with weather forecasts. before its initial public of- the purchase of Atlas was not that’s big news,” said For- The proposal would help fering in May when General a step toward creating a much rester analyst Nate Elliott. EU member states combine Motors Co declared it was wider ad network beyond the Reuters their space surveillance New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 5 BUSINESS & HEALTH Screening might avert many lung cancer deaths

New York, 2 March in place. example by smoking 20 “That was a pivotal —A calculation based “This is the first paper cigarettes a day for 30 years, event that should have woken on results from a large that attempts to assess the or 40 cigarettes a day for people up,” said Kessler, lung cancer screening trial impact of screening on lung 15 years—were considered who also wrote an editorial projects that 12,000 deaths a cancer cases nationally,” to be at the highest risk for accompanying the new study year among the highest-risk one of the authors, Ahmedin lung cancer. in the journal Cancer. smokers and ex-smokers in Jemal, told Reuters Health. The 20 percent reduction To put a number the US could be avoided “Twelve thousand is a lot of in deaths among people in on the potential benefits with a national screening cases,” he said. that category in the trial demonstrated in the NLST, programme. In the National Lung was “a singular, enormous the American Cancer Society The National Lung researchers used US census Screening Trial, published and health survey data to in 2010, found 20 percent calculate the number of fewer deaths from lung Americans at highest risk for cancer in a group of people lung cancer. at highest risk for the About 60,000 of those disease when they were people die from lung cancer screened annually with every year, according to their CT scans, a form of high- estimates, which could be Volvo Cars appoints senior vice resolution X-ray that can reduced to 48,000 if every president for China operations spot suspicious lung nodules. one of those people had a Based on the 8.6 CT scan to identify early- Stockholm, 2 March— ensure the necessary support million Americans who stage nodules that could be Volvo Cars announced on from the Volvo Group to would fall into that high- removed surgically. Thursday that it had appointed the local Chinese sales Lars Danielson as Senior and marketing team so as risk category because of Cigarette butts in an ashtray in Los Angeles, A national screening a decades-long history of program would represent a Vice President for Volvo to realize progress of sales smoking, researchers at the California.—Reuters breakthrough in the battle Cars China Operations, and brand building in China, American Cancer Society Screening Trial, current or accomplishment” said Larry against lung cancer, which succeeding Freeman Shen, according to a Press release say in a new study that former smokers between Kessler, of the University of kills about 160,000 people who had held the position from the company. 12,000 fewer people a year the ages of 55 and 74 who Washington in Seattle, who in the US every year, the since 2010. Meanwhile Danielson would die of lung cancer if had accumulated 30 “pack- studies the diagnostic value researchers argue. The new Senior Vice was also supposed to national screening were put years” of smoking—for of screening technologies. Reuters President was expected to take a renewed strategic responsibility to secure that China says it could tighten property controls One in five US adult smokers the sales and marketing deliverables were well Beijing, 2 March—Chi- targets in the first quarter, real estate markets. have tried e-cigarettes coordinated and excuted in na could increase required the central government said “Currently the property Washington, 2 March— the local market, it added. downpayments and loan in a statement on its website, tightening campaign is at In 2011, about 21 percent of “China plays a critical rates for buyers of second www.gov.cn. a critical stage, sentiment American adults who smoke role in the transformation homes in cities where prices The State Council, Chi- on rising home prices have traditional cigarettes used of Volvo Cars and the are rising too quickly, the na’s cabinet, on 20 Febru- strengthened,” on Friday’s electronic cigarettes, also realization of our long-term State Council said on Friday ary restated its intention to statement said. known as e-cigarettes, up strategy and business plan in the central government’s extend a pilot property tax In February, average from about 10 percent in depends on us succeeding latest move to contain hous- program to more cities and home prices in China’s 2010, according to a study cigarettes.” Although e- in China,” said Hakan ing costs. urged local authorities to put 100 biggest cities rose for released on Thursday by the cigarettes appear to have far Samuelsson, President and Local governments price-control targets on new the ninth straight month al- US Centres for Disease Con- fewer of the toxins found in CEO of Volvo Cars. must set home price control homes, in an effort to calm though the pace of increase trol and Prevention (CDC). smoke compared to tradi- “Lars Danielson has slowed, a private survey Overall, about six per- tional cigarettes, the impact many years of valuable showed on Friday. cent of all US adults have of e-cigarettes on long-term experience within Volvo Rising home prices tried e- cigarettes, according health must be studied, the Cars and he has successfully have reignited concerns to the study. “E-cigarette use CDC cautioned. led the establishment of about property inflation and is growing rapidly,” said Research is needed to our manufacturing plant in analysts say local govern- CDC Director Tom Frieden assess how e-cigarette mar- Chengdu. I am confident ments may announce plans in a statement. “There is still keting could impact initiation that Lars, together with a to tighten property purchases a lot we don’t know about and use of traditional ciga- dedicated team, will deliver after Beijing reiterated its these products, including rettes, particularly among on the next phase of our pledge to calm the house whether they will decrease young people, it added. China growth plan,” said market. Currently, minimum or increase use of traditional Xinhua Samuelsson.—Xinhua downpayments for second homes are 60 percent of a EU approves Novartis drug for gout home’s value while mort- gage rates for such purchases A logo is A man walks past a wall at a construction site at a new are 1.1 times the central pictured on residential area in Beijing on 27 Feb, 2013. bank’s benchmark interest a building of Reuters rates.—Reuters Swiss drug Chinese power firm’s emissions trading reaps millions maker Novartis before its Taiyuan, 2 March — A kilowatt hours of electricity Through the Clean annual general Chinese power generating last year with natural methane Development Mechanism meeting in firm that uses coal-bed gas extracted from coal beds, (CDM) defined in the Kyoto Pratteln near methane as materials according to the company. Protocol, the JAMG sold its Basel on 22 announced on Friday that it Coalbed methane is a certified emission reduction Feb, 2013. received 278 million yuan byproduct of coal, and a major credits, each equivalent to Reuters (44 million US dollars) in danger in coal mines. If it one tonne of carbon dioxide, 2012 through participating is explored, coal mines will to industrialized nations Zurich, 2 March—The also known as ACZ885 is already sold for treat- in an emissions trading have methane content slashed needing to meet emission European Commission has for patients with acute ing cryopyrin-associated scheme that forms part of by 70 percent to 85 percent reduction targets under the approved Novartis’ drug Ila- gouty arthritis who could periodic syndromes, a rare the Kyoto Protocol. The and become much safer. As a protocol. The JAMG has 91 ris for patients with an often not tolerate other treatment inflammatory disorder. Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite clean energy source close to gas turbine generators with painful form of inflammatory options. In 2011, US health regu- Mining Group (JAMG), natural gas, coalbed methane an installed capacity of 189 arthritis, the drugmaker said Ilaris, which blocks lators rejected Ilaris for use based in China’s largest can be used as industrial megawatts, 138 megawatts on Friday. a protein called interleu- in gout over concerns about coal-producing Province of chemical, a domestic fuel and of which belong to the CDM Novartis said the EU kin-1 beta that is thought side effects. Shanxi, generated 1.4 billion for electricity generation. project.—Xinhua had approved the drug to increase inflammation, Reuters 6 Sunday, 3 March, 2013 New Light of Myanmar WORLD Croatia to Brazil to build first nuclear submarines hold elections Rio de Janeiro, 2 lect club of countries with overcoming and eradicating March — Brazilian Presi- nuclear submarines,” five poverty,” she said. for European dent Dilma Rousseff un- members of the United Na- With an investment of veiled a multi-billion-US- tions Security Council. 7.8 billion reals (about 3.9 Parliament dollar naval plant on Friday Rousseff said Brazil billion US dollars), the na- in southeast Rio de Janeiro can manage to dedicate it- val plant, called the Metal- members in state, where the country self to advanced industry lic Structures Construction plans to build its first nucle- without losing sight Unit, is designed to be part April ar submarine with French of other important goals, of a naval base and ship- technology. Brazil will such as overcoming social yard in the city of Itaguai. Zagreb, 2 March — build five submarines, in- inequalities. “Brazil can The plant will generate Croatian President Ivo Jo- cluding a nuclear-powered do it. It has all the condi- 9,000 direct jobs and 32,000 sipovic announced on Fri- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks sub, in partnership with tions to fulfill its great role indirect jobs, according to day Croatia will hold the during a a Press conference in Kiev on 1 March, France, which agreed to in the science and technol- the Defence Ministry. The country’s first elections for 2013. President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday ex- transfer the technology to ogy development, in the first submarine is expected its representatives to the plained his views on domestic and international issues Brazil in a 2008 agreement. exploration of space, in the to be operational by 2017 European Parliament (EP) and gave an introduction to Ukraine’s economic Rousseff highlighted defence industry, but at the and the nuclear sub is ex- on 14 April. Josipovic told development.—Xinhua the project, saying Brazil same time generate income pected to roll off the assem- the reporters that the date was now joining “the se- and jobs, and deal with bly line in 2023.—Xinhua was set after he had discus- sions with the government, Kenya nabs 181 kg bhang in anti-drug bust parliamentary parties, bod- ies in charge of polls and Nairobi, 2 March — statement. through Jomo Kenyatta In- other relevant officials. Kenya’s revenue authori- “On suspicion that the ternational Airport (JKIA). “I would like to point ties said on Friday they consignment might have The East African na- out the importance of the have seized 181 kg of bhang been contraband items, the tion has been restructuring elections for deputies to the (canabi sativa) at the border officers detained the truck the anti-narcotics police European Parliament. This with Tanzania in the latest for a further and detailed unit which has helped the will be the first time for incident of drug trafficking. verification upon which country improve its capa- the Croatians to elect their The Kenya Revenue they discovered the sacks of bility to arrest drug ped- representatives to the Euro- Authority (KRA) spokes- bhang,” Onyonyi said. dlers using Kenya as a tran- pean Parliament,” he said. man Kennedy Onyonyi said He said the driver of sit hub. Croatia is scheduled to the consignment had been the truck escaped immedi- Kenya recently signed join the EU on 1 July. Ac- declared as sunflower cakes ately the concealment was a bilateral agreement with Somali government security forces stand guard at the cording to Croatia’s Treaty and was being transported detected and the case is cur- some Western nations that restaurant where twin explosion targeted in Moga- of Accession to the EU, into Kenya from Tanza- rently being investigated by among others allows the dishu on 1 March, 2013. Seven people were injured, the country should have 12 nia when it was seized on the anti-narcotics unit of the countries to cooperate on two of them seriously on Friday after twin bomb members in the EP when it Wednesday. police. sharing intelligence on drug attacks targeted a popular beachfront eatery in the becomes the 28th member Onyonyi said the con- The arrest comes as the tracking crime. Somali capital Mogadishu, government official and of the EU. Now it has 12 signment had been placed East African nation stepped The drug use if blamed witnesses said. —Xinhua observers in the EP. in a truck at the Namanga war against drug trafficking for affecting the ability of After Josipovic’s an- border station during a nor- in the country. In January, thousands of youth in the Canada, Peru sign MOU on nouncement, Croatian For- mal verification exercise. the revenue collector ar- coastal town from going to eign and European Affairs “A joint verification rested a 25 year old lady of school or performing eco- defence cooperation Minister Vesna Pusic called team consisting of a KRA Tanzanian extraction with nomically productive roles. on citizens to go to the verification officer and rep- about 5 kg of heroin at the According to the sur- Ottawa, 2 March security,” he said following polls. “It enables us to de- resentatives of other gov- country’s main airport. vey, which was conducted — Canada’s Minister of a signing ceremony held in cide on our broader home- ernment agencies, detected The 25-year-old jour- in 2012, the level of drug National Defence Peter the Parliament building. land, Europe, which ex- several bags of bhang nalist was arrested during consumption reduced for MacKay and his visiting Peru became in 2005 a erts great influence on our which had been covered an ongoing surveillance and most substances abused Peruvian counterpart Pedro member of Canada’s Mili- homeland Croatia,” Pusic with rusted iron sheets in- targeting operation aimed compared to the rate re- Cateriano Bellido signed tary Training and Coopera- said.—Xinhua side a truck,” he said in the at curbing drug trafficking corded in 2007.—Xinhua here on Friday a Defence tion Programme, which to Cooperation Memorandum date has provided courses Pentagon allows F-35 jets back in air of Understanding (MOU). in peace support operations, MacKay said that this language, civil-military re- Washington, 2 March Kyra Hawn, spokeswoman test aircraft at the Edwards other operational stressors document signals Canada’s lations, and professional — The US Defence Depart- with the F-35 Joint Program Air Force Base, F- 35 Inte- on this specific engine were interest in working with its and staff development for ment on Friday announced Office, said that engineers grated Test Facility during determined to be the cause hemispheric partners to- more than 70 Peruvian of- that it has lifted the ground- have so far discovered no a routine inspection,” Hawn of the crack,” Hawn said. ward deeper policy, peace ficers, according to the Ca- ing of F-35 Lightning II other cracks in inspections said. The Pentagon ground- and humanitarian opera- nadian defence department. joint strike fighter jets after of other engines, and that no The engine in question, ed the F-35 fleet after a rou- tions, disaster response Canada also interacts analysis concluded that a engine redesign is needed. she explained, was part of tine engine inspection last and military education and with Peru in a number of cracked turbine blade found “This decision con- the F-35 test aircraft fleet month revealed a crack on training. multilateral hemispheric in an engine on a single cludes a cautionary flight and had been operated for a low pressure turbine blade “I’m pleased to estab- defence fora, including the plane of the model had re- suspension that began on extended time in a high- of an Air Force-model F- lish a defence partnership Conference of Defence Min- sulted from overuse in test 21 February after a 0.6-inch temperature environment. 35A at the Edwards base in with Peru that strengthens isters of the Americas. Peru operations. crack was found on a third “Prolonged exposure California. our ties and contribute to will be hosting the Confer- In an email statement, stage turbine blade of a to high levels of heat and Xinhua hemispheric stability and ence in 2014.—Xinhua Journalists take photos of World Bank chief pledges more efforts balloon explosion debris on the site in Luxor, to combat climate change Egypt, on 1 March, 2013. Luxor governorate Washington, 2 March a special event titled “Con- to deliver a very simple is scheduled to hold a — World Bank Group nect4Climate: Right Here, message. The World Bank mourning ceremony here President Jim Yong Kim Right Now” to celebrate cre- is committed to tackling for the victims of the on Friday pledged that the ative youth engagement in climate change more than explosion. A total of 19 World Bank was committed the effort to combat climate anything else,” Kim said. tourists were killed and to tackling climate change change. “I want you under- Kim proposed start- two others injured in a “more than anything else.” stand that in a world today, ing a social movement to balloon explosion Tues- “What we have to real- especially the poorer coun- engage broader and more day morning in Luxor ize is that climate change is tries, this is a problem with diverse audiences to deliver governorate. —Xinhua not a future threat. It is here us right now,” he noted. bold solutions on climate with us today,” Kim said at “I’m here today just change.—Xinhua New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 7 WORLD Jamaica closes debt reducing offer Peruvian Kingston, 2 March— The authorities have estimated at 1.7 trillion Jamaica closed a debt re- still been working to court Jamaica dollars (17.71 bil- president says ducing programme offer the support of the remaining lion dollars) or 140 percent on Thursday with almost 1 percent for the National of the island nation’s gross free trade unanimous acceptance of Debt Exchange (NDX) pro- domestic product. the bondholders, according gramme. The NDX offer, In the offer, the Jamai- accord with to an official statement re- launched on Feb. 12, was can government is swap- leased on Friday. key to reaching a staff-level ping high interest payouts EU to “The participation rate agreement with the Inter- on 860 million dollars of achieved for the exchange national Monetary Fund domestic bonds for lower advance ties is approximately 99 per- (IMF) for a 750-million-US rate ones. Lima, 2 March— The cent,” said the statement dollar economic support Under the programme, free trade agreement be- issued by the finance min- programme. holders of the 12.5 percent tween Peru and the Euro- istry and the public service The executive board of fixed-rate Jamaican dol- pean Union (EU) will help ministry. the IMF is expected to de- lar bonds were offered a promote bilateral ties, Peru- The statement also cide on final approval at a new 7.25 percent fixed-rate US President Barack Obama delivers a statement vian President Ollanta Hu- said that the government meeting this month. bonds maturing in 2016, on the sequester at the White House in Washington mala said on Friday. is happy to see “the strong The NDX is part of while the 6.75 percent dol- DC, capital of the United States, on 1 March, 2013. The accord, which participation from across the austerity measures im- lar bonds were swapped US President Barack Obama said Friday that the took effect on Friday, the country and from all plemented by the Jamaican for a new 5.25 percent ones across-the-board government spending cuts were “consolidates the historic segments of the investor government to reduce the maturing in 2020. “dumb” but the nation will survive the so-called relationship that we have community.” country’s spiraling debt, Xinhua “sequester.” —Xinhua maintained with Europe,” Humala said. Under the deal, the EU Tunisia extends state of will eliminate tariffs on 93 percent of Peruvian im- emergency for another ports, including farm prod- ucts on which a tariff of up three months to 45 percent was previous- ly levied. Tunis, 2 March—Tu- Jaafar, the communique “We have the capac- nisia’s President Moncef said.The state of emergen- ity, through this multilat- Marzouki has extended the cy was imposed on Jan. 14, eral accord, to improve our country’s state of emer- 2011 following the upris- national industry and have gency for another three ing that overthrew Zine El access to this significant months, the official TAP Abidine Ben Ali. market, which last year be- Press agency reported on The last time the state came Peru’s main source of Friday evening, quoting a of emergency was extended direct foreign investments,” communique from the pres- was on 1 Feb, 2013. said Humala. idency of the republic. The news comes as the In 2012, the EU over- The decision was tak- country is facing a major took China to become Pe- en following consultation political crisis triggered by ru’s largest trade partner. with outgoing Prime Min- the assassination last month Two-way trade amounted Working staff arrange an exhibition area during the 2013 Beijing Wedding Expo in ister Hamadi Jebali and the of a leading opposition fig- to 12.9 billion US dollars Beijing, capital of China, March 1, 2013. The three-day event kicked off on Friday. speaker of the Constituent ure and fears of arms smug- with Lima in trade surplus. Xinhua Assembly Mustapha Ben gling.—Xinhua Xinhua Macao int’l Russia assumes rotating UN SC airport presidency for March

records 25 % United Nations, 2 cy from Kim Sook, the South Federation is one of the five passenger March— Russia on Friday Korean UN ambassador who permanent members on the assumed the rotating presi- held the council presidency 15-nation UN body. The growth in dency of the UN Security for the month of February. other four are China, France, Council for March. Vitaly Churkin is expected to Britain and the United States. February Churkin, the permanent rep- brief the press here Monday The council also has 10 non- Macao, 2 March—Ma- resentative of Russia to the on the work program of the permanent members elected cao International Airport United Nations, took over most powerful UN body to two-year terms. (MIA) handled 390,000 pas- the rotating council presiden- in this month. The Russian Xinhua sengers in February 2013, up 25 percent year-on-year, ac- 1,087 judges relocated to avoid conflicts of cording to figures released on Friday by the airport. interest MIA achieved the first Beijing, 2 March—A Court (SPC) announced on in the same jurisdiction. peak season in 2013 due to total of 1,087 court officials Friday. The regulation was intend- the Chinese Spring Festival and judges who were work- China issued a regula- ed to address public com- vacation. The average daily ing in the same jurisdiction tion in February 2011 to plaints about justice being passenger volume in Febru- as with their lawyer family require judges to change of- undermined by judge-law- ary was over 13,000. A new members have been relocat- fice if their spouses, sons or yer collusion, string-pulling daily record of over 19,000 ed, the Supreme People’s daughters work as lawyers and bribery.—Xinhua passengers was made on 15 February. For the whole Feb- ruary, MIA also recorded 21 Lebanon arrests 54 kidnapping suspects percent increase in aircraft Beirut, 2 March— Following a meet- more than 39 cases of ab- movement over the same pe- Lebanon’s Interior Min- ing with Central Security ductions, the minister told riod last year. ister Marwan Charbel Council, Charbel said that reporters. Moreover, passengers of revealed on Friday that “those responsible for the Lebanon witnessed lots the Chinese mainland, Tai- security forces have ar- kidnappings... will not re- of kidnapping cases lately, Tourists watch the rape flowers by boats during the wan and East Asia routes in- rested 54 people involved ceive any politician cover.” mostly targeting wealthy 6th rape flower festival in Tongnan County, southwest creased 38 percent, 9 percent in dozens of kidnapping So far, 54 suspects businessmen or their family China’s Chongqing Municipality, on 1 March, 2013. and 28 percent respectively cases, but scores remained have been arrested while 87 members for ransom. The festival will last until late March. year-on-year.—Xinhua on the run. others are still on the run in Xinhua Xinhua 8 Sunday, 3 March, 2013 New Light of Myanmar national Union Foreign Affairs Sunday, 3 March, 2013 Minister felicitates Make overall investment in Bulgarian counterpart agricultural development N a y P y i T a w , 3 E. Mladenov, Minister March—U Wunna Maung of Foreign Affairs of the The numbers of farmlands of a certain Lwin, Union Minister for Republic of Bulgaria, on country indicate its food security while the Foreign Affairs of the the occasion of the National world is calling for farmers to produce more Republic of the Union Day of the Republic of food to be able to meet the need of its rapidly of Myanmar, has sent a Bulgaria, which falls on 3 growing population. With the degradation message of felicitations to March 2013. of land and water resources, climate change, His Excellency Mr Nickolay MNA population explosion and continued disputes over farmland confiscation in developing Union Border Affairs Minister countries make the world vulnerable to food insecurity and uncertain to feed its expected oversees regional development nine-billion-strong population by 2050. Being a country mainly relying on and rehabilitation tasks in agr.business, arable farming is of vital importance northern Rakhine State to food sufficiency and economic growth of N a y P y i T a w , 2 arable and vacant land-rich Myanmar where The Union Minister and March—Union Minister farmers make up 70 per cent of total population. party visited construction for Border Affairs Lt- site of Waithali-Udaung So development of agricultural sector is the Gen Thet Naing Win, road section being President U Thein Sein shakes hands with top on the list of priorities for rural region accompanied by Rakhine implemented by the ministry Former Finnish President Mr Martti Ahtisaari at development and poverty alleviation scheme. State Chief Minister U on 27 February. They then Presidential Palace in Helsinki. This mean that, to meet the government’s drive Hla Maung Tin, Western donated offertories and cash (News on page 1)—mna to alleviate poverty, sustainable intensification of met departmental officials agricultural productivity on existing farmlands and locals at the office and more reclamation of vacant and virgin lands of general administration will be necessary, calling for overall investment department in Taungpyo in agricultural development. Letwe sub-township in If our country wants to see agricultural Maungtaw Township and output growth, new technologies, pesticides fulfilled the requirements and high-yield crops are needed following presented by the sub- the transformation from conventional to township administrator. mechanized farming although she is believed The Union Minister and party also viewed to be one blessed with fine topography and the functions of No. 1 favorable climate patterns. Poor farming checkpoint in Maungtaw practices, coupled with highly-degraded and met principal and farmlands, could lead to a decrease in trainees at the women’s productivity of the nation’s agro-industry, vocational training school. thereby contributing towards profound effects Afterwards, they provided on socioeconomic status and living standards of cash assistance to the staff those whose livelihood depend on agricultural and trainees. sector. Moreover, it would do serious harm to MNA domestic food sufficiency and export of surplus, Union Minister Lt-Gen Thet Naing Win greets jeopardizing the national goal of ensuring rural locals in Maungtaw of Rakhine State.—mna region development and poverty alleviation. Command Commander assistance to the Sayadaw What’re Overall investment in agricultural sector— Maj-Gen Ko Ko Naing in Mawyawady Village these? new farming methods such as use of high- and officials inspected and met villagers. They yield strains and modern farm equipment, regional development and also presented agricultural Today’s list of effective measures for changing the trend in the rehabilitation tasks in tools to villagers in Kinegyi vehicles breaching Maungtaw Township of nation’s export of agricultural produce to be an village. traffic rules, sir! Rakhine State on 27-28 On 28 February, the exporter of valued-added processed agricultural February. Union Minister and party products and conservation of farmlands which are at risk of soil erosion, land degradation ‘Textiles of the Two Lands’ and being confiscated by unscrupulous profit- th seekers—are to be made. Only then, will the to mark 65 anniversary of Traffic country achieve success in its top priority of Myanmar-Thai diplomatic ties Police agricultural development for 70 per cent of its total population. Yangon, 2 March— at the Thai Embassy in ‘Textiles of the Two Lands’ Dagon Township, here, this Loans disbursed to farmers in in Yangon on 9-10 March afternoon.

exhibition will commemo- Thai Ambassador In-charge Kalay District rate 65th Anniversary to Myanmar Mr Pisanu Kalay, 2 March—The acre for croplands to farmers. of establishment of Suvanajata told the press government rose loans to In Kalay District, Myanmar-Thai diplomatic that the purpose of the event farmers as of 2013-2014 farmers got K 213.65 million relations and 80th birthday at Junction Square Shopping fiscal year for development in Kalay, those in Kalewa K of Her Majesty Queen Mall and Chatrium Hotel of agricultural sector. The 11.04 million, and those in Sirikit of Thailand, the in Yangon is to further government disbursed Mingin K 230.95 million, organizers said at the press improve amicable relations K 100,000 per acre for accounting for K 455.64 conference. between the two peoples. Min Zaw Oo farmlands and K 20,000 per million.—Myanma Alinn They met the press MNA New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 9 NATIONAL Ordination ceremony of Union Science and Technology Minister meets US guests Koreans held N a y P y i T a w , 2 March—Union Minister for Yangon, 2 March— Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Organized by Korea- Religious Affairs U Hsan Ko Ko Oo held talks with Myanmar Friendship Hsint and wife and Deputy a 13-member delegation Association, Department for Minister U Soe Win and wife led by Director of Global Promotion and Propagation attended the ceremony and Partnerships Mr. Chris of the Sasana under the donated offertories to the Jurgens of United States Ministry of Religious Affairs Sayadaws. The ceremony Agency for International held an ordination ceremony is meant to promote and Development Office of of 27 Koreans, at State propagate Theravada Innovation and Development Pariyatti Sasana University Buddhism among Korean Alliances of United States of (Yangon) on Kaba Aye Hill, monks. America at the ministry, here, here, this afternoon. MNA on 27 February morning. Talks on hepatitis B given in Both sides discussed development of ICT sector Pakokku in Myanmar, materialization Union Minister Dr Ko Ko Oo holds talks with Director of Global of e-Government, Partnerships Mr. Chris Jurgens of United States Agency for International implementation of public- Development Office of Innovation and Development Alliances of United private-partnerships (PPP) States of America and party.—mna projects, teaching of necessary marketing strategies to manufactured by IT experts, research works in cooperation scholars and cooperation students to distribute hardware provision of online teaching with companies, universities in network infrastructure and software in the market from the US, undertaking of from the US, sending of development.—MNA Union Cup Games Dates and Venues for Sports Events Nos Sport categories Event Period Venue Remark Pakokku, 2 March— National Hall of Ward 8 in From To The talks on hepatitis B Pakokku on 25 February disease was given at the morning. Opening ceremony 28-2-2013 - Wunna Theikdi Stadium Liver specialist (Zabuthiri Township) Corrigendum Professor Dr Khin Maung 1. Track and field 3-3-2013 7-3-2013 Wunna Theikdi Stadium Win gave lectures on Please read “for (Zabuthiri Township) hepatitis diseases. temporary publications 2. Badminton 23-2-2013 27-2-2013 TC-1 Badminton Training Hall It was attended by as of 1-4-2013 under (Zabuthiri Township) Township Administrator U the section 8 (i) of 3. Basketball 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 TC-1, Basketball Training Ground Aung Naing Oo, Chairman Printers and Publishers (Zabuthiri Township) of Myanmar Medical Registration Law 4. Billiards and snooker 23-2-2013 2-3-2013 TC-2 Billiards Hall, Lewe Township Association (Pakokku (1962)” instead of “for 5. Physical fitness 12-2-2013 - MCC (Yangon, Thingangyun Township Branch) Dr Sein Win and temporary publications 6. Boxing 24-2-2013 1-3-2013 TC-1 boxing training gym member doctors, health as of 14-4-2013 (Zabuthiri Township) staff, members of Red under the section 8 7. Chess 26-2-2013 2-3-2013 Gold Camp (mess hall) (Zabuthiri Township) Cross Brigade, nurses, (i) of Printers and 8. Cycling (Cross Country) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 Mount Pleasant cycling ground Fire Brigade, Women’s Publishers Registration (Ottarathiri Township) Affairs Organization and Law (1962)” which Cycling (Down Hill) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 Mount Pleasant cycling ground Maternal and Child Welfare appeared in the second (Ottarathiri Township) Association, workers of paragraph, second Cycling (BMX) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 Mount Pleasant cycling ground Development Affairs column in the news (Ottarathiri Township) Committee and other under the heading of Cycling (Road Race) 1-3-2013 6-3-2013 TC-1 Cycling training gym (Zabuthiri Township) totalling over 250. The “Eight private daily Pinlaung road/ Taungkya Village talks was jointly organized newspapers get green and Leinli bridge by Myanmar Medical light” on page 9 in this 9. Football (Men/women) 20-2-2013 7-3-2013 Wunna Theikdi Stadium (Zabuthiri Township)/ Association (Pakokku daily issued on 2-3- Paunglaung ground (Pyinmana Township) Branch) and Zifam Co. 2013.—MNA Training grounds (1) and (2) (Zabuthiri Township) Myanma Alinn 10. Fustal (Men/women) 23-2-2013 6-3-2013 TC-1 Fustal training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 11. Judo 25-2-2013 27-2-2013 TC-2 Judo training gym (Lewe Township) 12. Karatedo 4-3-2013 6-3-2013 TC-2 Karatedo training gym (Lewe Township) 13. Sepak Takraw 25-2-2013 5-3-2013 TC-1 Sepak Takraw training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 14. Table Tennis 23-2-2013 27-2-2013 TC-1 Table Tennis training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 15. Taekwondo 1-3-2013 3-3-2013 TC-1 Taekwondo training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 16. Tennis 23-2-2013 28-2-2013 TC-1 Tennis training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 17. Pancek Silat 2-3-2013 6-2-2013 TC-2 Martial Arts training gym (Lewe Township) 18. Traditional Boxing (Muay) 3-3-2013 5-3-2013 TC-1 Boxing training gym (Zabuthiri Township) 19. Volleyball 27-2-2013 7-3-2013 TC-1 Volleyball training gym Vice-Presidents of Myanmar Hockey Federation U (Zabuthiri Township) Kyaw Kyaw Hlaing and U Zaw Win and General 20. Weightlifting 1-3-2013 3-3-2013 Paunglaung Gymnasium (Pyinmana) Secretary U Khin Maung Latt seen at the airport on 21. Wushu 1-3-2013 3-3-2013 TC-2 Wushu training gym (Lewe Township) 1 March before their departure for Kuala Lumpur 22. Wrestling 4-3-2013 7-3-2013 Paunglaung gym (Pyinmana Township) of Malaysia to attend Asian Hockey Federation Closing Ceremony 7-3-2013 - Wunna Theikdi Stadium (Zabuthiri Township) Conference.—nlm 10 Sunday, 3 March, 2013 New Light of Myanmar WORLD Chinese, Cote d’Ivoire leaders mark 30th anniversary of ties Beijing, 2 March— and maintain close coordi- between the two countries, Chinese President Hu Jin- nation in international and and also is confident in a tao on Saturday exchanged regional affairs, Hu said, bright and fruitful future of congratulatory messages adding that the two coun- China-Cote d’Ivoire rela- with Cote d’Ivoire Presi- tries’ political mutual trust tions. dent Alassane Ouat tara to has continuously deepened The Chinese side has mark the 30th anniversary over the decades. been firmly supporting for of diplomatic ties between He said that China, tak- Cote d’Ivoire’s peace and the two countries. ing the 30th anniversary as development, he said, add- Hu said that with mu- an opportunity, is willing to ing that his country is ready tual respect and equal treat- make joint efforts with Cote to work with China in ad- ment, development of the d’Ivoire in continuously vancing the two countries’ China-Cote d’Ivoire friend- promoting the two coun- bilateral ties. ly cooperation remains tries’ friendly cooperation Also on Saturday, Chi- healthy and stable since for the benefit of the two nese Foreign Minister Yang establishment of the two peoples. Jiechi exchanged congratu- sides’ diplomatic relations. In his message, Ouat- latory messages with his Both sides support tara said that Cote d’Ivoire Cote d’Ivoire counterpart Correspondents attending report on the upcoming first annual session of the 12th Na- each other over issues re- is satisfied with the high- Charles Koffi Diby. tional Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) lated to significant concerns level friendly cooperation Xinhua queue up to get their Press cards in Beijing, capital of China, on 28 Feb, 2013.—Xinhua US energy intensity projected to continue Spanish steady decline through 2040 unemployment Houston, 2 March— cent per real dollar of GDP, 2007-09 recession but ul- rate reaches Energy intensity in the according to the EIA. timately decreases 25 per- United States has been de- The EIA expects resi- cent below its 2005 level in 26.2 percent clining steadily since the dential energy intensity, 2040, according to the EIA Madrid, 2 March— early 1970s and is expected measured as delivered en- projections. Spain’s unemployment rate to decline through 2040, the ergy used per household, Transportation sector reached 26.2 percent in US Energy Information Ad- to decline about 27 percent energy intensity is more January, according to data ministration said on Friday. from 2005 to 2040. difficult to measure because published on Friday by the A country’s energy in- Commercial energy of the multiple modes of European Union’s statisti- tensity is usually defined intensity, measured as de- transportation, the agency cal office (Eurostat). as energy consumption per livered energy used per said. Spain’s unemploy- unit of gross domestic pro- square foot of commercial Light-duty vehicle ment rate increased by 0.1 duct (GDP). floorspace, is projected to energy intensity, which is percent in the first month Chinese artists perform traditional dance during the “Greater efficiency and decline about 17 percent measured as their consump- of 2013, after decreasing “Chinese Spring Festival 2013” at Rabindra Bharati structural changes in the from 2005 to 2040. tion divided by the number by 0.1 percent in Decem- University in Calcutta, capital of eastern Indian state economy have reduced en- Industrial sector en- of vehicle-miles traveled, ber. West Bengal, on 1 March, 2013. The Chinese Embassy ergy intensity,” the agency ergy intensity, measured as is projected to decline by This week also saw the to India and the India China Economic and Cultural said in a report on Friday. delivered energy per dollar more than 47 percent from Bank of Spain warn about Council organized the “Chinese Spring Festival 2013” From 1950 to 2011, en- of industrial sector ship- the 2005 value, the EIA the situation of the Span- to showcase Chinese music, dance, and martial art. ergy intensity in the United ments, rises above its 2005 said. ish economy, which will Xinhua States decreased by 58 per- level initially owing to the Xinhua continue falling in the first Eight S Africa police officers quarter of 2013 because of a contraction in domestic arrested for brutality demand and fall in invest- ment. Johannesburg, 2 March “From the video, which The contraction of the — Eight police officers, im- has gone viral, it is obvious domestic demand is due to plicated in brutality that led that the rights of Mido Macia increased prices and high to the death of a taxi driver, were violated in the most ex- unemployment rate, both have been arrested on mur- treme form,” Phiyega said. affecting Spaniards’ pur- der charges, authorities said The suspects will re- chasing power. on Friday. main in custody until they On Thursday, the Na- The eight officers, two appear in the Daveyton Mag- tional Institute of Statistics warrant officers and six con- istrate’s Court on Monday, (INE) confirmed this trend, stables, were arrested after IPID said. pointing out GDP con- being suspended and dis- Phiyega has also or- tracted by 0.8 percent in the armed by National Police dered the removal of the fourth quarter of 2012. Commissioner Riah Phiyega commander of Daveyton po- The Spanish govern- earlier in the day. lice station for the duration of ment also reported the The suspects were held an internal police probe. public deficit for 2012 was accountable for the death Police claimed that 6.7 percent of GDP, miss- A visitor selects rattan products during the 23th East China Import and Export of Mido Macio, who was the 27-year-old driver, who ing the EU target of 6.3 Fair in east China’s Shanghai Municipality, on 1 March, 2013. The fair, with the dragged behind a police ve- came from Mozambique, percent. participation of more than 3, 500 exhibitors, opened here on Friday.—Xinhua hicle and was later found had tried to disarm an officer Xinhua dead in the holding cells at who had confronted him be- Daveyton police station in cause his minibus was ob- Benoni near Johannesburg structing traffic. Guangzhou limiting non-local vehicles to ease congestion on Tuesday, the Independ- But a witness report- Guangzhou, 2 March programme has been draft- at the Press conference. quality. ent Police Directorate (IPID) edly denied the claim, saying —The southern Chinese ed to keep a certain number Traffic jams in Guang- Last year, the city an- said. Macia had been trying to get megacity of Guangzhou of out-of-town vehicles off zhou have worsened re- nounced that it would al- President Jacob Zuma his driving license back from is set to put restrictions on the city’s roads. cently. Average rush hour locate the city’s annual has ordered an investigation the police instead of trying to vehicles registered outside The programme will speeds have slowed to 20 120,000 new car registra- into the incident. disarm the officer. of the city in a bid to ease be released to the public for km per hour, and are ex- tion quota through a dual The incident, videoed A post-mortem revealed congestion. An official with comments before being im- pected to become even auction-lottery model, forc- by an amateur and went viral Macia died of head and inter- the city’s traffic committee plemented, said the official. slower. Increasing motor ing many residents to regis- on the YouTube, has sparked nal injuries. said at a Press conference Details of the pro- vehicle emissions have ter their vehicles elsewhere. outrage in the country. Xinhua on Friday that a preliminary gramme were not disclosed also worsened the city’s air Xinhua New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 11 Regional Cambodia launches green growth plan Photo taken on 1 March, 2013 shows 2013-2030 the sceneny of a park Phnom Penh, 1 March enhance people’s well-be- roadmap for green growth, in Shijiazhuang, capi- — Cambodia on Friday ing and living conditions,” the memorandum of under- tal of north China’s adopted the national policy said a media statement after standing on green growth and strategic plan for green the meeting. cooperation between Cam- Hebei Province. A growth 2013-2030, aiming “The strategic plan for bodia and South Korea’s cold front cleared the at developing the economy green growth 2013-2030 Global Green Growth Insti- smog that lingered in with consideration for en- is to promote Cambodi- tute (GGGI), the National the city for days. vironmental and natural re- an economy towards the Council of Green Growth, Xinhua sources sustainability. green economy, focusing and Cambodia’s member- The plan was approved on effective use of natural ship into an agreement on during the weekly cabinet resources, environmental the establishment of the Four dead, seven missing in C Philippine meeting presided over by sustainability, green jobs, GGGI. Prime Minister Hun Sen. green technologies, green The GGGI was offi- landslide “The national policy, finance, green credit, and cially launched in March Manila, 2 March — said two weeks of intermit- mal plant, 32 workers were compiled by the ministry green investment,” the 2010 by former President of Four people were killed tent rains triggered a land- injured and are already be- of environment, aims to statement said. South Korea Lee Myung- while seven others are slide in the Upper Mahiao ing treated in a nearby hos- balance between economic It said the country has bak. Its core activity is ad- missing following a land- Geothermal Project of the pital. A search and rescue development and environ- already adopted several vising member countries on slide in a geothermal power Lopez Group in Leyte. operation for the missing ment, society, culture and legal instruments for the forming a Green Growth plant in central Philippines The company was workers has already been sustainable consumption of green growth implementa- Plan (GGP). on Friday, media reported. quoted as saying that of the launched by the company. natural resources in order to tion. Those included the Xinhua Local media reports 43 workers at the geother- Xinhua Cambodian PM orders “strict measures” to curb bird flu outbreaks Phnom Penh, 2 March of agriculture to continue the ministry of interior try meat is therefore safe to — Cambodian Prime Min- strengthening necessary and to take a firm and urgent consume,” he told reporters. ister Hun Sen on Friday or- urgent measures to prevent measure to prevent the il- Sonny Krishnan, com- dered all relevant ministries and eliminate the spread of legal trafficking of poultry munications officer with the and institutions to take “strict H5N1 virus. and poultry-made products World Health Organization measures” to prevent and “The ministry must in all images and at any- (WHO) in Cambodia, said eliminate the spread of Avian thoroughly and constantly where. Cambodia sees the that home slaughtering and Influenza H5N1 virus, which inspect poultry’ s health worst outbreak of the virus preparation of sick or dead has killed 8 people so far this throughout the country, and this year since the disease poultry for food is hazard- year. carry out bio-safety and sani- was first identified in 2004. ous. In a circular signed on tary measures at all poultry To date, the country has re- He said parents and Students do ear exercises during an activity celebrat- Friday, Hun Sen said during farms, slaughter-houses and corded 30 human cases of guardians should keep their ing the upcoming Ear-care Day, which falls on 3 the first two months of 2013, markets,” he said in the cir- the virus, killing 27 people. children away from poultry March every year, at a primary school in Zaozhuang the H5N1 virus has bro- cular. “The ministry must The latest death was a —do not allow them to touch City, east China’s Shandong Province, on 28 Feb, ken out and infected to nine promote broader awareness 35-year-old man from east- feathers and do not keep people—eight of them died. of bird flu virus to the pub- ern Kampong Cham Prov- poultry in their house. Xinhua 2013. “Even though there are pre- lic.” He also instructed the ince, who died on Monday. “Parents and guardians ventive measures by relevant ministry of agriculture and On Tuesday, Health must also make sure children Animal abusers in Singapore institutions, the spread and the ministry of health to con- Minister Mam Bunheng ap- wash their hands with soap death toll from the virus are tinue strengthening coopera- pealed to people to be more and water after any contact may see tougher punishment still alarmingly concerned,” tion in information exchange careful about the outbreaks with poultry,” he said. “If he said. to take measures timely to of bird flu virus, urging peo- they have fast or difficult Singapore, 2 March — es, with penalties up to The Animal Welfare Leg- 100,000 Singapore dollars, To ensure the safety for prevent and eliminate the ple not to eat ill or dead poul- breathing, they should seek islative Review Committee and a ban from operating people more effectively, the virus. try. “Poultry must be cooked medical attention at the near- said on Friday that they are for up to a year. premier ordered the ministry In addition, he ordered well. Properly cooked poul- est health facility.”—Xinhua calling for tougher punish- Besides some regula- ment for animal abuse and tions on commercial pet Singapore to host 16th round abandonment in Singapore, breeding activities and pet after a first ever one-year boarding facilities, the pro- of TPP negotiations long review set up by the posals also advice that the Singapore, 2 March combined Gross Domestic government according to government should set a — Singapore is scheduled Product (GDP) of about 21 the city-state’s existing ani- minimum age of 16 years to host the 16th round of trillion US dollars, which is mal welfare laws. old for buying a pet, even Trans-Pacific Partnership over 50 percent of the total Among the 24 recom- including pet fish. (TPP) negotiations from GDP of the 21 members of mendations in total, the It is said that the com- 4-13 March, the city-state’s the Asia Pacific Economic committee has proposed mittee has submitted its Ministry of Trade and In- Cooperation (APEC). that repeat or malicious of- recommendations to the dustry said on Friday. Singapore had previ- fenders could be slapped city-state’s National De- Over 600 delegates ously hosted the 6th round with fines reaching 50,000 velopment Ministry for Tourists queue to enter the Tian’anmen Square from the 11 TPP countries, of the TPP negotiations in Singapore dollars (40,323 consideration. during a sunny day in Beijing, capital of China, on Australia, Brunei, Canada, March of 2011, “where sol- US dollars) and / or three- It’s very common to 1 March, 2013. The first session of the 12th National Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, id progress was made with year jail terms, comparing see some offenders sen- People’s Congress (NPC) and the first session of the New Zealand, Peru, the substantive discussion in all with the current maximum tenced to jail or fined 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s United States, Vietnam areas, including goods, ser- penalty of fine up to 10,000 because of their animal Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will open and Singapore, will attend vices, investment and gov- Singapore dollars or one abuse here. At the end on 5 March and 3 March respectively. —Xinhua the meeting. Besides, 300 ernment procurement,” the year in jail, or both. of last year, two cats had stakeholders, including ministry added. They would also be been cruelly dismem- 5.2-magnitude quake hits business representatives, The controversial TPP barred from keeping pets bered in a community. academics and non-govern- negotiations initially includ- for up to one year, the com- The case had arisen in- Mindanao, Philippines mental organizations from ed four countries like Chile, mittee added. tense condemns both on around the world, are going New Zealand, Singapore Some first-time animal the internet and the local Manila, 2 March — The epicentre, with to attend the Stakeholders’ and Brunei. After the US abusers may see the original media. K Shanmugam, An earthquake measuring a depth of 89.40 km, was Forum on 6 March, and decided to join the nego- penalty, as well as perform the city-state’s Law and 5.2 on the Richter scale initially determined to be at various seminars and panel tiations, Australia, Vietnam community service. Foreign Affairs Minister, jolted Mindanao, Philip- 5.4972 degrees north lati- discussion sessions. and Peru announced their Meanwhile, the com- called the act “gruesome” pines at 00:11:08 GMT on tude and 126.9683 degrees According to the state- decision to join the TPP, fol- mittee also calls for higher and “sick.” Saturday, the US Geologi- east longitude. ment by the ministry, the lowed by Malaysia, Mexico penalties for business- Xinhua cal Survey said. 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Shipping Agency Department Shipping Agency Department An Indonesian airlines firm, Sky Aviation, received on Myanma Port Authority Myanma Port Authority Wednesday the initial delivery of SSJ 100, expecting Agent for: m/s samudera shipping Agent for: m/s china shipping five to join the fleet by the end of this year.—Xinhua lines (Malaysia) agency sdn bhd Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 Accident in Russia’s chemical Portugal hosts tourism exhibition targeting plant injures 30 Moscow, 2 March—A Perm Territory, the Inter- foreign destinations total of 30 people were in- fax news agency quoted the Lisbon, 2 March—Por- At the AHP pavilion, in 2012 some 13 million opened six hotels in Brazil jured and 27 others hospi- Emergency Situations Min- tugal’s largest travel fair Siza Vieira told Xinhua visitors who came to Por- which has become a very talized after an accident at istry as saying on Friday. Bolsa de Turismo de Lis- that, “Portugal remained tugal were able to choose important market for the a chemical plant in Russia’s Xinhua boa (BTL) kicked off on competitive within the from 1,019 hotels or 91,670 Portuguese hotel sector. Wednesday and will last European market offer- rooms leaving around 20 The Vila Gale CEO Fire breaks out at Texas until Sunday with slogans ing good value for money, percent more hotels than said that after a boom in such as “Travel in your although demand from currently required. construction and real estate refinery, no injuries world. Embrace Portugal”. Spanish holidaymakers has This year BLT is fo- companies building hotels Houston, 2 March—A There are no reports This year, the trade fair dropped by 10 percent.” cusing on the domestic it was now time for indus- Marathon Petroleum refin- of injuries or threats to the is appealing to Portuguese The AHP president market with large stands try specialists to innovate ery in the US state of Texas environment, said the offi- to travel abroad dedicating said, “A heavy fiscal load, representing northern and the Portuguese market. caught fire on Thursday, but cials, adding that an inves- half of its space to promot- bureaucratic and often ex- central Portugal as well as Rebelo de Almeida no one was injured in the tigation will start as soon as ing 36 foreign destinations pensive municipal legisla- the up and coming Alentejo said, “The number of hotels blaze, said the company. the fire is fully extinguished. although the general mood tion means that Portugal’s region. According to Gon- and tourists has grown in The fire broke out in The plant is also the site of was one of optimism. hotel industry has become calo Rebelo de Almeida, Portugal but clients are now the mid-afternoon when a a deadly explosion almost According to President unprofitable.” CEO of Vila Gale Hotels, spending less money and hose leading to a tank came eight years ago. Marathon of Portugal’s Hotel As- “Demand from Brazil Portugal’s second largest less time in Portugal aver- loose, setting fire to a pump Petroleum took control of sociation (AHP) Cristina and Angola has kept the hotel chain, “As Portuguese aging four to five nights in- at the plant, which is lo- the plant from BP on 1 Feb- Siza Vieira, Portugal plans luxury market afloat while and international customers stead of a week or 10 days.” cated in Texas City, Mara- ruary and renamed it. to open 27 new hotels in many three star hotels are spend less time and money “The key to growth thon officials were quoted The 2005 explosion at 2014. This comes at a time operating at a loss,” she in Portugal there is a need will be marketing Portugal by newspaper the Houston the plant, which was owned when there is a 20-percent said. to grow more abroad to sus- and reaching untapped mar- Chronicle as saying. by BP at that time, killed 15 gap between supply and AHP, which represents tain portuguese market.” kets such as Germany, Rus- Emergency officials people and injured scores demand as hotel prices go 70 percent of Portugal’s Rebelo de Almeida sia and Brazil,” Rebelo de said the pump was carrying of others. The incident led down. hotel market, estimates that said that Vila Gale has Almeida said.—Xinhua a gasoline-like substance, to safety operation changes UN chief believes attempts to and fire officials allowed at BP and other refineries the fire to burn itself out, around the country. arm protagonists in Syria according to the report. Xinhua unhelpful United Nations, 2 ternational conference called March—UN Secretary-Gen- “Friends of Syria” earlier on eral Ban Ki-moon on Thurs- Thursday in Rome to discuss day said arming the parties rendering more support to involved does not help to ad- the opposition, whose mem- dress prolonged crisis in Syr- bers in exile have been call- ia, which has claimed more ing on the international com- Vehicles move as they are engulfed by a hazy day in than 70, 000 lives so far. munity to provide the rebels Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong “The Secretary-General on ground with qualitative Province, on 28 Feb, 2013. —Xinhua believes that any attempts to weaponries to tilt the balance arm the protagonists in the in the fight against the Syrian AQIM commander Abou fighting in Syria are unhelp- army. John Kerry, the US ful,” Eduardo del Buey, the Secretary of State, reportedly Zeid killed in northern Mali deputy UN spokesman, said said that the Obama’s ad- at a daily news briefing when ministration will provide the Bamako, 2 March— al-Qaeda’s branch in asked about outside involve- rebels Free Syria Army “non A senior commander of north Africa, was killed ment in the Syrian conflict. lethal” help, with Washing- AQIM, al-Qaeda’s branch with some 40 militants in The UN chief has con- ton offering 60 million US in north Africa, was killed northern Mali after French tinuously reiterated his firm dollars as for the opposition. during a French military troops’ operation. conviction that resorting to The US government has de- operation in northern Mali, Last week, Malian violence and military means clared its latest intention to a TV station reported on Prime Minister Diango Cis- will only lead to more suffer- push for Syrian President Thursday. soko announced that large- ing and destruction, saying Bashar al-Assad’s resigna- Dancers of the National Ballet of China perform Algerian television scale military operations in that “a political solution is tion and a political transition “Swan Lake” in Vancouver, Canada, on 27 Feb, 2013. Ennahar monitored here his country “are coming to the only way out.” to end the almost two-year- The Chinese ballet troupe performed “Raise the Red said that Abou Zeid, a sen- an end.” Representatives from long conflict in Syria. Lantern” last week in Montreal as the beginning of ior commander of AQIM, Xinhua dozens of nations held an in- Xinhua their two-week Canadian tour.—Xinhua New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 13 ENTERTAINMENT

Revealed: the all new desi Mallika International vocal arts Mallika Sherawat Sherawat competition starts in Mumbai, 2 March— “She is keen to be seen in Mallika Sherawat who has a new image and shed her Russia’s Vladivostok done a cover up act in K C sexy image for this film. Vladivostok, 2 March groups. Bokadia’s upcoming film Mallika is banking on this —The international vocal The competition is Dirty Politics, now loves to project as her last film Kis- arts competition for chil- held in three categories: go desi as well. In a stark met Love Paisa Dilli was a dren and youth “Voice of academic, folk and modern change of image, the sex si- dud. She hopes the makeo- Friendship” opened in Rus- singing. There are three age ren has decided to wrap her- ver will prove to be lucky sia’ s Vladivostok city on categories of participants: self in six yards for her next for her.” Friday. 9-11 years, 12-14 years and B-Town outing in which Though initially it Children from Russia, 15-17 years. she essays an orphan. was claimed that the film China and Vietnam partici- It aims to popularize While she still har- is based on the controver- pated in the three-day com- the vocal arts among chil- bours Hollywood dreams sial Bhanwari Devi case petition for soloists, vocal dren and young people. and keeps travelling be- in Rajasthan, the makers groups, vocal and choral Xinhua tween Mumbai and US, the have now rechristened her actress was recently busy character as Anokhi Devi shooting in Indore with co- to avoid any problems. The Abhishek Bachchan is a great stars Om Puri and Rajpal last shoot schedule how- dad: designer Ritu Beri Yadav. ever will be in Jodhpur and Says a unit source, Jaipur in Rajasthan.—PTI Actress Jennifer Lawrence’s “Silver Linings” clothes fetch $12,000 beat expectations by taking “Silver Linings Playbook” in about $12,000 at auction. performance. The wool, full-length The custom-tailored winter coat worn by Law- white pants Lawrence wore rence in the Oscar-nomi- during the film’s climactic nated comedy topped all ballroom dance scene with items, selling for $4,652 in co-star Bradley Cooper the three-day online auc- went for $3,493, and a tion, Los Angeles auction package of a teal sports bra house Nate D Sanders said and blue long-sleeved shirt on Friday. sold for $3,175. The memorabilia deal- A black tank top from er had expected the items Lawrence’s wardrobe, New Delhi, 2 March— Abhishek, 37, who to fetch between $500 and but not worn in the film, Ace designer Ritu Beri has has one-year-old daugh- Jennifer Lawrence, best actress winner for her role $1,500 each following the fetched $624.Movie studios roped in Abhishek Bach- ter Aaradhya with wife in ‘’Silver Linings Playbook,’’ poses with her Oscar 22-year-old’s Best Actress often hand off costumes to chan to launch the fourth Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, backstage at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, win at the Academy Awards auction houses, where even edition of her annual chil- will be the star guest at California, on 24 Feb, 2013.—Reuters on Sunday. Lawrence also small outfits can bring in dren’s fashion collection this year’s charity Baby Los Angeles, 2 March Oscar-winning role as an won awards from the Gold- high prices from fans and and she says the actor is the Beri show for The Blessed —Clothing worn by Jen- outspoken young widow in en Globe and Screen Actors collectors. perfect choice because he is Hearts Foundation. nifer Lawrence in her “Silver Linings Playbook” Guild in January for her Reuters a great father. PTI Richard Burton immortalized in Bollywood film recreates Mumbai attacks of 2008 the city police and their re- Hollywood next to Taylor sponse to the attacks. Veter- an actor Nana Patekar play- Los Angeles, 2 March “The same beach that I the 2,941th installed, starred ing a high ranking Mumbai —British actor Richard Bur- built my boyhood sand cas- in 11 films with Taylor, in- police officer referred to ton finally received a star tles (on) and learned to fail- cluding “Who’s Afraid of only as “joint police com- on the Hollywood Walk of ingly swim — it was that Virginia Woolf?” in 1966 missioner.” Patekar’s char- Fame next to that of his two- same beach, that one legend- and “The Taming of the acter, based on a real po- time wife, Elizabeth Taylor, ary day, Richard Burton and Shrew” in 1967. liceman, narrates the film, on Friday, nearly 30 years Elizabeth Taylor descended The couple’s scandal- which portrays in graphic after his death. Welsh-born from the heavens, like gods ous love affair during 1964’s detail how the hapless po- Burton, who died in 1984, from Olympus, in a helicop- “Cleopatra” was made into lice force, caught complete- received the career honour ter ... and landed on those a US television movie “Liz People walk underneath a promotional billboard for ly unawares, struggles to as part of the 50th anniver- sands,” Sheen said. “They & Dick,” starring Lindsay cope with an attack of such sary of ancient Egypt movie stepped out swathed in luxu- Lohan, last year. Burton Ram Gopal Varma’s film ‘’The Attacks of 26/11’’ by a roadside in Mumbai on 28 Feb, 2013.—Reuters enormity. drama “Cleopatra,” in which rious fur coats — it was the and Taylor wed for the first At one point he franti- he and co-star Taylor began ‘70s — and walked among time in 1964 and divorced in Mumbai, 2 March—A movies taking inspiration cally tells a government of- their storied and tumultuous us for too short a time,” he 1974. dramatized Bollywood ac- from real-life incidents, a ficial, “I don’t know what to love affair. added. Burton, whose star is Reuters count of the Mumbai at- practice that used to be unu- do.” “You need to understand The couple’s adopted tacks of 2008, when 166 sual. Just over the last few that the police were confused daughter, Maria Burton, ac- people died in a three-day years, there have been films and didn’t know what to do,” cepted the honour of the rampage, opened in Indian on the gruesome murder of Varma said. “If you were in iconic terrazzo and brass star cinemas on Friday to pre- a model and a daring bank their shoes, you would react along Hollywood Boulevard sent an unusually emotive heist. The film’s director, the same way to an incident in the historical heart of the tale told from the perspec- Ram Gopal Varma, said he of this magnitude. It is im- US film industry. Burton tive of a police officer. “The decided to make the film to portant to understand their was nominated for an Oscar Attacks of 26/11” chroni- try and answer questions point of view.”Advertising seven times between 1953 cles the events that began about how a small handful posters show a group of 10 and 1978 but never won on 26 Nov, 2008, when 10 of attackers was able to lay men, the attackers, in a din- the prize. Actor and fellow gunmen went on a killing siege to a vast metro-polis ghy heading towards the Welshman Michael Sheen spree throughout the coast- the size of Mumbai. iconic sea-facing Taj Mahal spoke at the unveiling and al city, attacking two luxury “How can 10 men hold hotel, one of the most rec- recalled the awe he felt when hotels, a train station and a a city of 1.5 crore (15 mil- ognized buildings in Mum- Burton and Taylor, one of Family members and friends pose together during a Jewish centre, among other lion) people to siege? That bai—a nod to the powerful Hollywood’s most famous ceremony posthumously honouring actor Richard places. is something everyone shock and emotions the at- couples, visited the village Burton with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in It is the latest in a re- should know,” Varma told tack still evokes, symbolized where Sheen grew up. Hollywood, California, on 1 March, 2013.—Reuters cent spate of Bollywood Reuters.The film focuses on by the hotel.—Reuters 14 Sunday, 3 March, 2013 New Light of Myanmar SPORTS Olympic champion Chen withdraws halfway US among nations aiming to supplant Japan at IAAF Race Walking Challenge at WBC Dominicans Jose Reyes, Taicang, (China), 2 walking in great rhythm. low temperature as well as Edwin Encarnacion, and March—London Olym- But it was quite cold and continuous rain and wind Nelson Cruz. “For us, it’s pic champion Chen Ding with the National Games did make great trouble for serious.”Players may be in withdrew halfway from the and World Championships the walkers. Several ath- the early stages of building men’s 20 kilometres event yet to come this year, my letes almost fell down at the up to form, but a sense of of 2013 Taicang IAAF coach and I both agreed wet and slippy course at the urgency can be felt among Race Walking Challenge that I need to save my ener- very beginning of the race. many challengers. The US here on Friday, which saw gy and strength for the fol- China’s Li Jianbo, a team was knocked out in the his national teammate Li Ji- lowing competitions, which 50km specialist who fin- second round in 2006 and in anbo claim the title in chilly are of greater importance ished seventh in London the semi-finals in 2009, and and wet conditions. for me,” said Chen. The at that distance, clocked they seem determined to It was the season 1:18:52 to win the men’s play to their potential as a opener for the 20-year- 20km race. The runner-up point of pride. old Chen who clocked one Cai Zelin, 21, who finished “I’m very excited to hour 18 minutes and 48 fourth in the 20km in Lon- Japan’s Ichiro Suzuki (C) celebrates with team mates represent the country and seconds to claim the 20km don, was three seconds be- after defeating South Korea during the World Baseball wear the red, white and walk title at 2012 London hind Li, while three-time Classic (WBC) Tokyo round in Tokyo Dome in this file blue,” said US second base- Olympic Games. However, Olympic medalist Jared photo taken on 7 March, 2009.—Reuters man Brandon Phillips of the 20-year-old seemed Tallent of Australia fin- New York, 2 March ahead of their own regular the Cincinnati Reds, whose reluctant to show his full ished third in 1:20:41.It’s —Championship baseball seasons for the sport’s top WBC team mates include strength. After leading for the third successive year for comes early this year as international competition, Ryan Braun, Joe Mauer, several kilometres, Chen this competition to be held Japan aims to extend their with baseball powers such Mark Teixeira and last slowed down as he was left in Taicang and the 28-year- dominance over hungry as the Dominican Republic, year’s National League Cy out from the leading group old Tallent become the first rivals, including the Unit- Venezuela, Cuba and South Young winner RA Dickey. and quit the race at the 10 foreigner that managed to ed States, in the 16-team Korea eager for a chance to “It’s something I’ve always km mark. break the domination of lo- World Baseball Classic supplant Japan, winners of wanted to do since 1996, “I felt good today. I led London Olympic cal walkers and clinched a starting on Saturday. Top the first two editions of the and I was a batboy in the in the early stage and was champion Chen Ding podium finish.—Xinhua players have come together event. Olympics,” he said, recall- “Our one mission is ing his time as a 15-year-old Tiger says McIlroy should choose words more carefully to win,” New York Yan- in his hometown of Atlanta. kees second baseman “Hopefully, we can go out Palm Beach Gar- asked after his second more before you say some- can go wrong.” Robinson Cano told New there and make the USA dens, (Florida), (Florida), consecutive even-par 70, thing or do something,” Woods has seen both York’s WFAN Radio about proud. Get that first place- 2 March—Tiger Woods, whether he had talked to said Woods. “It can get out sides of the media, having playing alongside fellow bring it home.”—Reuters who has endured his share McIlroy about handling of hand, especially when been elevated to superstar of controversy and media the media focus. “He’s just you get into social media status during his glory years scrutiny, said world number got to be more just got and start tweeting and all and then watching his mar- one Rory McIlroy should to think about it a little bit those different things that riage fall apart in the public choose his words more eye after a series of affairs carefully after withdraw- came to light. He has also ing from the Honda Clas- had to deal with constant sic with what was initially questioning of his ability to a mysterious explanation. get back to his best, chang- Before driving away from es of coach, re-worked the PGA National course swing and injuries that led on Friday after a nightmare him to withdraw from tour- start to his round, McIlroy naments.Woods is 14 years told reporters: “I’m not in a McIlroy’s senior and says Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after winning his great place mentally. I can’t the media is a very differ- men’s singles semi-final match against Juan Martin really say much, guys. I’m ent beast to when he first Del Potro of Argentina during the ATP Dubai Tennis just in a bad place mental- become world number one Championships, on 1 March, 2013.—Reuters ly.” and was the center of atten- Later, in a statement, tion. Serena gets in trouble for the 23-yerar-old Northern “I’ve been through it Irishman said he was having for a long time. But also trying to photograph Woods pain with a wisdom tooth this is a slightly different Palm Beach Gardens, of players on competition and that he was unable to era, as well. It’s even faster Tiger Woods of the US hits the ball at the 9th tee during (Florida), 2 March—Tennis days.A short video posted concentrate. Former world than what it was when I second round play in the Honda Classic PGA golf world number one Serena on CBSSports.com shows number one and 14-times came out,” said Woods. tournament in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Williams found herself in a tournament official pull- major winner Woods was Reuters on 1 March , 2013.—Reuters trouble with security of- ing Williams’s phone down ficials at the PGA Tour’s as she was about to snap a Berdych downs Federer to reach Dubai final Honda Classic on Friday photograph with her phone Dubai, 2 March— past 10 Dubai titles be- after she tried to photo- during the second round of Third seed Tomas Berdych tween them and the 5,000 graph Tiger Woods. the Honda Classic and she saved three match points capacity crowd were urg- Under PGA Tour rules, then tweeted about the epi- before beating defending ing the world’s top two spectators are not allowed sode. champion Roger Federer in to win through under the to take pictures or video “Apparently you can’t the semi-finals of the Dubai floodlights. Serb Djokovic take pictures of golfers. In championships on Friday to obliged in the first semi but my defence peeps always set up a final against Novak a tired Federer fell short, take pics of tennis play- Djokovic. Czech Berdych losing at the semi-finals ers,” Williams tweeted. recorded his fifth win in stage of the tournament Williams, who did manage eight matches over Federer, for the first time in eight to post a picture of Woods triumphing 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 appearances. “I couldn’t Serena Williams of the US driving from the tee on her while top seed Djokovic ex- have a better feeling than serves the ball to Victoria Twitter account, although it tended his winning streak to this one, coming from court Azarenka of Belarus dur- was not clear if she herself Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic hits a return to 17 matches by beating Juan playing Roger almost in ing the final match at the had taken the picture, also Roger Federer of Switzerland during their men’s singles Martin del Potro 6-3, 7-6. front of his home crowd,” Qatar Open tennis tourna- said the security was “mad” semi-final match at the ATP Dubai Tennis Champion- Djokovic and Federer Berdych told reporters. ment in Doha on 17 Feb, and “yelled” at her during ships, on 1 March, 2013.—Reuters have claimed eight of the Reuters 2013.—Reuters the episode.—Reuters New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 15 GENERAL MYANMAR Loan for tri shaw drivers INTERNATIONAL DaikU, 2 March — Or- drivers to become owner. U kyawswar Aung, Excecu- (3-3-13 09:30 am ~ (3-3-2013, Sunday) ganized by DaikU Township At the ceremony, Bago tive Officer U Aung Khine 4-3-13 09:30 am) MST 7:00 am 2:20 pm Development Committee, the Region Hluttaw Representa- of DaikU Township Devel- * News 1. Paritta By Venerable 14. Union Cup Games * US-Myanmar Trade and ceremony to pay loan to driv- tive U Ko Htay and Chair- opment Committee present- MinGun Sayadaw (Live Broadcast) ers was held at Kawliya Hall man of DaikU Township ed three million kyat to the Investment Relations: The 7:25 am (Football-Men, in DaikU under poverty al- Development Committee tri shaw drivers. Path Forward 2. Health Programme * Myanmar payment Union Semi-final) (Magwe leviation scheme enabling the and Township Administrator Kyemon 7:30 am and Chin Union Pay Vs Yangon) * Evergreen Classical Music 3. Morning News French * News 7:40 am 4:50 pm * Beautiful Sun Rise in 4. International News 15. Musical Programme tribunal MraukU 8:00 am 5:00 pm “No single statementF or carries a price higher * Beauty & Colour 5. (38) Phyar Mingalars blocks Roland 16. Sing & Enjoy than the blood of a person.” * “Acute & Chronic 8:15 am 6:00 pm The US Secretary of State joined the Israeli Prime Liver Disease” Training 6. SEA Games (Go for Garros Workshop 17. Evening News Minister and UN Secretary-General to criticize the Gold) (Diving) * To be Upgrades National Turkish Prime Minister’s 6:20 pm extension Museum 8:35 am Zionism to crimes against 7. Musical Programme 18. Cartoon Series Paris, 2 March — The * MI People’s Celebrities humanity on his first trip extension of the French “Are they Futuer brides?” 8:45 am 7:00 pm Open’s Roland Garros site, to the country. He said * Grnius Fashion 8. Teleplay (Traffic) 19. News Tayyip Erdogan’s com- which has been championed * “Myanmar Movies 11:00 am 7:10 pm by Paris mayor Bertrand ment at UN meeting in Impact” dramatic Film or 9. Martial Song 20. TV Drama Series Delanoe, was stopped by an Vienna was found to be Comedy, Which One do 11:25 am administrative tribunal on “objectionable”. you like best? (Part-1) 10. Round Up Of The 8:00 * News Friday. John Kerry Week’s TV local News 21. News The project was US Secretary of State * “Myanmar Movies 11:50 am 22. International News approved by the city’s Impact” dramatic Film or “Every bomb, in a period of democracy, is targeted 11. Myanmar Video 23. Weather Report government two years ago Comedy, Which One do against democracy itself, and not against specific but the tribunal ruled that the you like best? (Part-2) 2:20 pm 24. Tamnyethnar individuals.” local residents’ complaints * 24th Gangaw Village Art 12. Documentary Takwetsar The Greek minister made Exhibition 2:35 pm 25. TV Drama Series the above comment after the * Case Studies for 2014 13. Joint Performace by bomb explosion Tuesday near his ASEAN Chairmanship State Orchestra and 10:00 pm * People’s Voice residence in central Athens. State Traditional 26. News * Myanmar Movies He was believed to be the 28. New Melody “Only Mom Can” Orchestra target of the bomb blast that A ball boy holds tennis caused no casualty. Schwarzenegger flexes muscles again balls during an exhibition George Voulgarakis match ahead of the Greek Culture Minister in bodybuilding world French Open tennis “We don’t want to run a risk of a second No to Los Angeles, 2 March The “Terminator” star, tournament at the Roland the constitution.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger who began his Hollywood Garros stadium in Paris in Italian Prime Minister and Ex- is going back to his career as a bodybuilder this file photo taken on 24 President of European Commission bodybuilding roots. The and went on to win five Mr May , 2008.—Reuters Prodi Monday said the 25-member action movie star turned Universe titles, held the same were not thoroughly EU needs a new “simplified” politician will become group position at the magazines considered and the fee constitution text acceptable executive editor for the before he was elected payable by the French tennis to all members. He said the magazines Flex, and Muscle California governor in 2003. federation (FFT) was set too charter should be drafted & Fitness, writing monthly “Bodybuilding has low.The extension, which in “more corporate and columns in the publications always been part of my the FFT said would cost and their online websites, life, and I know Muscle Sources: Reuters and Xinhua Reuters Sources: Romano Prodi optimistic atmosphere”. Actor Arnold 273 million euros ($356.90 American Media said on & Fitness and Flex will Schwarzenegger attends a - NLM - million), has been fought Friday. continue to motivate others photo call of the film ‘’The by residents’ associations Last Stand’’ in Cologne because the building work Guthrie in Honda driver’s seat, McIlroy withdraws on 21 Jan, 2013. would encroach on the euters Palm Beach Gardens, one shot from missing the R nearby Auteuil botanical (Florida), 2 March—Amer- cut and nine strokes behind — as it did me — to lift greenhouse complex.The ican PGA Tour rookie Luke the lead going into Satur- weights and lead a healthy FFT said it would appeal. Guthrie shot a sparkling day’s third round. lifestyle (and) promote the Reuters Guthrie, 23, was flaw- sport of bodybuilding,” Obituary less as he carded seven Schwarzenegger said in a birdies at PGA National statement. Schwarzenegger’s Daw Chaing to move into the driver’s relationship with the two Aged 86 seat with a one-stroke lead magazines goes back to over compatriot Michael 1968, when he was just 21, Beloved wife of U Ba Win (a) Aw Teong Whei Thompson (65). Canadian and he has appeared on their of Los Angeles in US, mother of Dr U Kyaw Tun-(Daw Graham DeLaet (68) and covers more than 60 times. Mya Yin), Dr Daw Mya Khin, Dr U Maung Sein-Dr American Boo Weekley Schwarzenegger, 65, has taken Daw Than Than Myint, Dr U Soe Win-Daw Kathy, Dr U (67) were a further shot off a diverse path since stepping Myo Tun Win-Daw Khin San Myaing and U Min Maw- Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits the ball into the the pace. down as California governor Dr Daw Mya Win (Myanmar Life Hotel), Grandmother water near the 18th hole during second round play in But the attention was in January 2011, returning to of Dr Tommy Kyaw Tun-Christina, Dr Jimmy Kyaw the Honda Classic PGA golf tournament in Palm Beach all on McIlroy, who pulled movies in films like “The Last out on his ninth hole after a Stand” and “The Expendables Tun, Dr Julie Kyaw Tun, Jimmy Hu, Oscar Hu, George Gardens, Florida on 1 March, 2013.—Reuters Hu, Alex Aw, Ma Mya Sanda Min (a) Chi Chi, Ma Mya nightmare start to his sec- 2,” writing an autobiography, Nanda Maw (a) Non Non passed away in Los Angeles seven-under 63 for a one- abruptly withdrew citing a ond round, dropping seven and launching an eponymous shots from his opening at 6.45 am LST on 27-2-2013 (Wednesday). The funeral stroke lead after the second toothache. global policy think tank at round of the Honda Clas- Tiger Woods struggled eight holes with a triple- the University of Southern will be held in Los Angeles on 4-3-2013. sic on Friday while world to a second consecutive bogey, a double-bogey and California’s Los Angeles Bereaved Family number one Rory McIlroy even-par 70 that left him two bogeys.—Reuters campus.—Reuters R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information. 6th Waning of Tabodwe 1374 ME New Light of Myanmar Sunday, 3 March, 2013 Vice-President U Nyan Tun calls for employment of modern machinery and technologies to manufacture value-added products until 15 February during farmers and businessmen. 2012-2013 fiscal year. The exhibition will go The exhibition on until 5 March, hosting reportedly includes 145 booths of 40 foreign dissemination of pre- and and local companies. It post-harvest technologies, is jointly organized by paper reading session, Myanmar Rice Dealers and business matching Association and Myanmar and is believed to fulfill Agribusiness Public the requirements for Corporation Ltd under agricultural modernization the aegis of the Ministry to a certain extent, opening of Commerce. up business opportunities for MNA Union Defence Minister receives Russian Defence Minister and party N a y P y i T a w , 2 and Mobile Communications March—Union Minister for Enterprise of Myanmar Defence Lt-Gen Wai Lwin Economic Cooperation, received a delegation led by here, today. General Sergey K. SHOIGU, They discussed further Minister of Defence of the bilateral cooperation between Russian Federation at the the two armed forces.—MNA meeting hall of Information Vice-President U Nyan Tun at Myanmar Rice Mill and Machinery for Value-added Agricultural Produces Exhibition-2013.—mna N a y P y i T a w , 2 and Machinery for standardization of the March—Vice-President U Value-added Agricultural farmland measurements, Nyan Tun called for swift Produces Exhibition-2013 construction of production domestic transactions and at Myanmar Convention routes and irrigation speedy export procedures Centre in Mayangon canals, establishing market for trading of agricultural Township, Yangon this network and ensuring produces. morning. appropriate prices for The Vice-President He demanded shift to agricultural development. says farmland reforms are marketable quality strains, He also underscored essential as he addressed supply of suitable inputs the need for manufacturing the Myanmar Rice Mill and machinery for harvest, value-added products rather than exporting agricultural output in raw Significant night temperature to help enhance the socio- (2-3-2013) economic status of farmers who make up of the 70 per Chauk 41°C cent of the population. He noted the record Aunglan 41°C high export volume of rice Taungdwingyi 41°C in 46 years as 1.26 million Vice-President U Nyan Tun visits booths at Myanmar Rice Mill and tons have been exported Machinery for Value-added Agricultural Produces Exhibition.—mna Myanmar selects final squad for AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers By Shine Htet Zaw Myanmar national Thet Naing, Zaw Min Tun, Win made the final squad. football team’s head coach Aung Hein Kyaw, Thein Myanmar will play has called up final 23 players Than Win, Pyae Phyo Aung, India, Guam and China to the squad for 2014 AFC Ye Zaw Htet Aung and Zaw (Taipei) in the group (A) Challenge Cup qualifiers Zaw Oo, Midfielders Naing matches on 2-6 March Group (A) football matches Lin Oo, Phyo Ko Ko Thein, at Thuwunna Stadium in to be hosted by Myanmar. Yan Aung Kyaw, Yazar Win Yangon. On 2 March, India The backroom staff of Thein, Kyi Lin, Sithu Aung, plays China (Taipei) at 4 pm Myanmar national football David Htan, Paing Soe, Myo and Myanmar faces Guam team are Manager U Tin Zaw Oo and Forwards Soe at 6.45 pm. Myint Aung, Head Coach Kyaw Kyaw, Kaung Sithu, Here are schedule of Park Sung-Hwa, Assistant Soe Min Oo and Kyaw Zeyar group matches:- Coach U Zaw Win Tun, 2-3-2013 India Vs China (Taipei) 4.00 pm Fitness Coach Ha Hyeok- Myanmar Vs Guam 6.45 pm Joon, Goalkeeping Coach U 4-3-2013 Guam Vs India 4.00 pm Myo Chit, Media Officer U China (Taipei) Vs Myanmar 6.45 pm Soe Moe Kyaw, Interpreter 6-3-2013 China (Taipei) Vs Guam 4.00 pm U Aung Thura and Dr Aung Myanmar Vs India 6.45 pm Kyaw Oo. *All matches will be played at Thuwunna Youth Goalkeepers Thiha Training Centre. Sithu, Pyae Phyo Aung and Kyemon:2-3-2013 Kyaw Zin Phyo, Defenders Trs: HKA