THENew MOST RELIABLE NEWSPAPER LightAROUND YOU of Myanmar Volume XXI, Number 283 9th Waning of Pyatho 1375 ME Friday, 24 January 2014 Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham attends meeting on implementation of Myanmar People’s Forum’s suggestions

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham addresses work coordination meeting on implementation of Myanmar People’s Forum’s suggestions.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 includes 17 points related to ination of gambling, em- ing the resolution-1325 of Jan—Vice-President Dr human rights and equality, ployment, creating markets, the UN Security Council. INSIDE Sai Mauk Kham deliv- group (2) 13 points related preventive measures for Group-IV includes Mobile library Doctors from ered an address at a work to development, group (3) disasters, education for eth- 12 points related to dem- coordination meeting on 13 points related to peace nic people and cooperation ocratic reforms includ- gives services to Imphar of India to implementation of Myan- and group (4) 12 points re- of Ministry of Health and ing education, social and local people give free health care mar People’s Forum’s sug- lated to democratization. private sector to upgrade the political reforms, role of to people of Kalay Page-2 gestions at a meeting hall Points included in the standard of people’s hospi- young people in the rural Page-2 of the President’s Office, Group (I) call for protection tals. areas and of ethnic armed th here, this morning. of human rights, women Group-III includes de- groups, fighting corrup- 6 Rakhine In his address, the Vice- and children rights, guide- veloping the spirit of un- tion, establishing asso- Traditional President said the forum lines on how EIA, SIA and derstanding and forgiveness ciations for promoting Coach presented 55 proposals to HIA are carried out for the among national people, democracy, solving traf- the government. In accord future projects, formation inviting non-governmental fic congestion problems, pulling with the guidance given by of a organization in order to organizations to participate smuggling and copy festival on the President, the points deal with public complaints in the work, establishing rights and role of disa- were categorized and put and other legal matters. monitoring and reporting bled people. 12-14 Feb into four groups. Group (1) Group-II includes elim- mechanism and implement- MNA Page-10 Mawlamyine Airport to INSIDE By: Aung Nay Min Thai court defers invite tender for privatization election date Deputy Minister for ed to upgrade the airport ruling, capital Transport U Zin Yaw ap- and the upgraded plan calm proved Mawlamyine airport will include construction will be liberalized to pri- of a recreation centre, vate sector at a coordination restaurants, stores and meeting with Mon State money exchange coun- government in order to in- ters, he added. vite tenders for privatization He continued, re- of the airport on 16 January. garding the inland wa- Page-3 In meeting with Mon ter transport, that jetties State Chief Minister U in Mawlamyine will be Abe pledges cor- Ohn Myint, Bamar Nation handed over to Mon State porate tax cuts to Affair Minister U Thet government as the jetties attract Win and Secretary of Mon once offered a round-the- investment State Government U Zaw clock service to large ves- Lin Tun, the deputy min- sels from foreign coun- Page-3 ister said local companies tries to moor are needed Chinese leaders meet will be allowed to operate to be upgraded. senior US envoy Mawlamyine airport busi- Kyemon: 23-1-2014 Page-4 Photo shows a plane lands at Mawlamyine Airport. ness. Tenders will be invit- Trs: YM 2 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar LOCAL NEWS Meeting held to organize Buddha Pujaniya Myanmar Red Cross Society of historic Bawkyo Pagoda 72nd Central Council Meeting 23-24 January, 2014 Assembly Hall Myanmar Red Cross Society (Headquarters), Nay Pyi Taw

Health Care HRD Doctors from Imphar of Mobile India to give free health care library gives to people of Kalay services to local people Hsipaw, 23 Jan—The It was also attended by entertainments, stage show of Yangon, 23 Jan—Dala first meeting on holding Township Administrator U Shan Literature and Culture Township Information Buddha Pujaniya of ancient Myo Tint Zaw, Chairman Troupe, Chinlone contest and Public Relations Bawkyo Pagoda in Hsipaw of the pagoda board of and Sepak Takraw Contest, Department of Yangon was held at the hall in the trustees U Aung Khin, local first Lashio-Kyaukme- South District manages town on 21 January. authorities and officials. Namtu-Nawngkhio-Hsipaw mobile library services to Member of the pagoda The Buddha Pujaniya of the invitational volleyball villages and wards of the board of trustees U Hla pagoda will include religious tournament from 10 to 15 township, departments Win Maung read the plan of ceremonies, Shan and March. and schools for enabling holding the Pujaniya. Myanmar theatrical dramas MMAL-Hsipaw Ko Latt the local people to have reading access as of will the January, this year. people have On 21 January good habit K a l a y , 23 Jan— Indian doctors will take evening, staff of Township of reading Altogether 44 doctors from registration of the patients IPRD gave mobile library in rural and Imphar of India will arrive to give surgical operations services at Dala Township urban areas, in Kalay of Sagaing Region when they arrive there Police Station. said Head of on 25 January to provide once more. Those wishing Head of the police Township health care to 1000 people to receive medical checkup station Khin Maung Lwin, IPRD Daw of Kalay on 26 January at are to enlist at the out- police officers, servicemen Hla Hla Kalay People’s Hospital. patient department of Kalay and family members Nwe. They will focus on People’s Hospital on 24 and borrowed about 100 books MMAL- treatment of cancer, liver 25 January. in various genres. Only Banya and HIV dieases to the MMAL-Lin Let Kyei when will the number Maung people. If necessary, the Sin of library increase and Maung Raw opium, related items seized in drugs there on motorbikes at about 4 am on 21 January. Narcotic drugs and related camp raids in Shan State During a raid on a Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan south of Nanneint village and Bawyan village in heroin-producing camp materials seized from two —Acting on a tip-off, in Lonpyin village-tract in Khaung-ei village-tract in on a hillock at about 6 anti-narcotics squads of Pinlaung Township of Shan Pekhon Township seized am, they arrested Ta Pay opium refineries near Nanneint Myanmar Police Force in State on 21 January. 89.9 kilos of raw opium and Ta Naing together Village of Pinlaung Township cooperation with a local The joint force from Soe Maung, Maung with two kilos of opium battalion raided camps used stationed at the junction Koh, Ko Ral, Maung Ko grease, 20 liters of opium for production of heroin, between Nanneint village and Moe Myat who arrived liquid, 1.6 kilos of ammonia chloride and related items in a makeshift tent. While clearing an encampment on Lonehu hill, they confiscated 6,070 liters of opium liquid, 10 kilos of morphine, three kilos of opium grease, four kilos of ammonia chloride, 12 liters of hydrochloric acid and related items and one percussion lock firearm in the two huts. Pinlaung Myoma police station filed lawsuits against seven suspects including Soe Maung who were caught together with opium and related items valued at K 200.742 million. MNA New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 3 WORLD Thai court defers election date ruling, capital calm Bangkok, 23 Jan — sion says the country is too pong. The protests are the lence, including two gre- Thailand’s Constitutional volatile to hold a general latest eruption in a political nade attacks in Bangkok Court on Thursday deferred election now and that tech- conflict that has gripped the last weekend. A leading a ruling on whether a gener- nicalities mean it is anyway country for eight years. The pro-government activist al election scheduled for 2 bound to result in a parlia- emergency decree failed was shot and wounded on February can be postponed, ment with too few lawmak- to clear the demonstrators, Wednesday in Thailand’s as protesters who say they ers to form a quorum. The though the capital has been northeast, a stronghold will boycott the vote kept government says the decree relatively calm this week. of the Shinawatra family, up pressure on the govern- to hold the election on that Broadly, the conflict in what police said may ment to step down. Prime date has been signed by the pits the Bangkok middle have been a political at- Minister Yingluck Shi- king and cannot be changed. class and royalist establish- tack, adding to fears the nawatra declared a 60-day “The Constitutional ment against the mainly violence could spread. A state of emergency in Bang- Court has accepted this case poorer supporters of Yin- ruling in favour of the Elec- kok and surrounding areas and we will look at the legal gluck and her brother, tion Commission would from Wednesday, hoping to issues involved. If there is ex-premier Thaksin Shi- deepen Thailand’s political Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra prevent an escalation in the enough evidence, we may nawatra, who was toppled quagmire, already weighing gestures as she leaves the Royal Thai Air Force Head- protests now in their third hand down a decision to- by the military in 2006. on investor enthusiasm for quarters, after a cabinet meeting in Bangkok on month. morrow,” said court spokes- Nine people have been Southeast Asia’s second- 23 Jan, 2014.—Reuters The Election Commis- man Pimol Thampithak- killed in outbursts of vio- biggest economy.—Reuters Abe pledges corporate tax cuts to attract Russian court orders release of investment Khodorkovksy’s Davos, (Switzerland), deflation, became Japan’s development), and raises premier’s policies dubbed 23 Jan — Prime Minis- first prime minister to de- in workers’ salaries. To do “Abenomics,” along with business partner ter Shinzo Abe pledged to liver a keynote speech at this, we will put tax incen- drastic monetary easing by world business and politi- the main session of the an- tives into place in a way the Bank of Japan and mas- Moscow, 23 Jan — The cal leaders on Wednesday nual forum. completely different from sive public spending. ex-business partner of for- that Japan will “set about In the speech, Abe put before,” he added. Abe also demonstrated mer oil tycoon and Kremlin further reform on corporate emphasis on the signifi- To invigorate private- his strong intention to pro- critic Mikhail Khodorko- tax this year,” expressing cance of structural reforms sector investment, Abe mote negotiations on the vsky will be released from eagerness to carry out tax in Japan, particularly aimed promised that the govern- US-led Trans-Pacific Part- Japanese Prime Minis- prison early under a ruling cuts in order to attract in- at restoring the country’s ment will end its decades- nership free trade frame- ter Shinzo Abe delivers by Russia’s Supreme Court vestment from abroad. international competitive- long policy of protecting work, noting in the speech a speech at the opening on Thursday. In the speech he gave ness and reinforcing its in- rice farmers by limiting that entry into the tariff- session of the World Eco- Platon Lebedev and at the opening session of the novation capacity. their production and al- cutting TPP “will remain nomic Forum in the Swiss Khodorkovsky were sen- World Economic Forum in The Japanese govern- low firms to enter the retail a central pillar of my eco- resort of Davos on tenced to jail in 2005 after the Swiss resort of Davos, ment must “make the tax electricity market, saying, nomic policies.” 22 Jan, 2014. falling out with Vladimir Abe also emphasized that system for companies in- “In Japan, people have long Kyodo News Kyodo News Putin. The president par- uncertainties in Asia would ternationally competitive,” said that such a thing is just doned Khodorkovsky last affect “the entire world,” Abe said. impossible.” Italy’s Renzi flexes muscles month, ahead of the Sochi apparently warning against “We will also encour- The measures are set Winter Olympics, but Leb- China’s aggressive military age companies to use the to be implemented under in electoral reform drive edev did not seek a pardon expansion. cash they have gathered the government’s econom- Italy’s centre-left and stayed in jail. Lebedev had been due Abe, who is trying to towards capital invest- ic growth strategy, which Democratic Party for release in May but the beat nearly two decades of ment, R&D (research and is the “third arrow” of the (PD) leader Matteo Supreme Court ruled that Renzi gestures as he his sentence should be re- Romania arrests suspected appears as a guest duced and that he would be on the RAI televi- able to walk free on Friday. hacker of Bush family emails sion show Porta a It did not change a Porta (Door to court order under which Burcharest/San Fran- confidential data.” to get access to customer Door) in Rome on Lebedev and Khodorko- cisco, 23 Jan — Romanian Police declined to give accounts at Facebook, 21 Jan, 2014. vsky must pay 17 billion authorities have arrested a LML’s full name. A Roma- Comcast Corp, AOL Inc Reuters roubles ($521 million) in man they suspect of being nian prosecutor, who did and other companies. tax arrears - an obstacle the hacker “Guccifer,” fa- not want to be identified, Romania’s public radio Rome, 23 Jan — Ital- the chronic inability to create to Khodorkovsky’s return mous for breaking into the told Reuters that the suspect Radio Romania identified ian centre-left leader Matteo stable governments capable to Russia after leaving for email accounts of former is believed to be the hacker the suspect as Marcel La- Renzi’s brisk dismissal of of passing effective reforms. Germany in December. US President George W. known as Guccifer and The zar Lehel, who received a party critics who opposed a “He’s succeeded in dealing Reuters Bush’s family and other Small Fume. suspended sentence in 2012 deal with their old nemesis with all sides that were will- prominent political and en- Guccifer has said he after a hacking charge. Silvio Berlusconi on elec- ing to discuss the issue and tertainment figures. used a variety of methods, Reuters could not indepen- toral reform has injected came up with a deal that left Romania’s Directorate including guessing the an- dently verify the name. momentum into a political no one completely satisfied for Investigating Organized swers to security questions, Reuters system frozen in deadlock but which was practical,” Crime and Terrorism said for months. The package said Lorenzo De Sio, coordi- on its website on Wednes- now comes before parlia- nator of the Italian Centre for day that it had detained a ment where a wily caste of Electoral Studies at Rome’s suspect with the initials lobbyists is long practiced in LUISS university. LML in the county of Arad, smothering ambitious reform As things stand, the pro- near the border with Hun- plans in back-room amend- posals would favour big par- Platon Lebedev, jailed gary. ments. But for the moment, ties and squeeze out the host business partner of Rus- The agency said there the initiative lies with the of smaller groups blamed sian ex-tycoon Mikhail was “reasonable suspi- 39-year-old mayor of Flor- for thwarting viable govern- Khodorkovsky, gestures cion” that throughout ence. ments. They would also con- after hearing the verdict 2013, the suspect “re- For years, as Italy’s centrate power in the lower inside the defendants’ peatedly and illegally ac- economy slid deeper into house of parliament, all box during a court hear- cessed, breaking security crisis, politicians had wrung but eliminating the Senate, ing to consider a request rules, email accounts be- their hands but failed to act which at present has virtually for parole in Velsk in longing to public persons Marcel Lazar Lehel, 40, is escorted by masked policemen over an electoral system al- exactly equal powers with Arkhangelsk Region in Romania with the aim in Bucharest, after being arrested in Arad, 550 km (337 most universally blamed for the Chamber of Deputies. on 27 July, 2011. of getting electronic mail miles) west of Bucharest on 22 Jan, 2014.—Reuters the alienation of voters and Reuters Reuters 4 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar WORLD Chinese leaders meet senior US envoy Putin sees Beijing, 23 Jan — Chi- properly manage differ- ties this year, calling for nuclear nese Vice President Li Yu- ences and sensitive issues, stronger trust and coop- anchao and State Councilor advance multiple-tier and eration, proper settlement disarmament Yang Jiechi on Wednesday all-round exchanges and of differences and new met separately with visit- seek positive growth of progress in China-US rela- as matter of ing US Deputy Secretary of China-US relations. tions. State William Burns. Burns said good Chi- Burns said the Unit- distant future Noting that this year na-US relations matter not ed States would like to marks the 35th anniversary only to the two countries, strengthen dialogues and Moscow, 23 Jan — of the establishment of Chi- but also to the whole world. cooperation in bilateral The humankind is far from na-US diplomatic relations, He underscored US and multilateral spheres, making a decision to aban- Li called on the two coun- commitment to advanc- manage differences and ad- don nuclear weapons, Rus- tries to implement the im- ing positive and all-round vance new-model relations sian President Vladimir Pu- portant consensus of their cooperation with China between major powers. tin said on Wednesday. presidents and stick to the and building new-model Burns arrived in Bei- “I personally believe direction of building new- relations between major jing on Tuesday on the sec- that someday the mankind model relations between powers. ond leg of his three-nation will have to refuse from nu- major powers. In his meeting with tour after a stop in Republic clear weapons, but this will be a long time before that Li urged the two coun- Burns, Yang said China- of Korea. He will travel to Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao (R) meets with happens,” Putin told stu- tries to actively expand US relations are faced with Japan on Thursday. visiting US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in dents at Moscow’s MEPHI pragmatic cooperation, new important opportuni- Xinhua Beijing, capital of China, on 22 Jan, 2014.—Xinhua University which prepares professionals for nuclear energy industry. Seven dead in tit-for-tat killings in Putin noted that many countries, including Russia, Central African Republic possess nuclear weapons and none of them is ready Bangui, 23 Jan — aka” (anti-machete) have Antoine Mbao Bogo, Seven people died in inter- since taken up arms against president of the Central Afri- to denounce it. religious attacks and reprisal them, and the United Na- can Red Cross Society, said Any unilateral start killings in Central African tions estimates that tit-for-tat nine of the bodies collected by Russia of nuclear dis- Republic’s capital Bangui violence has claimed more in the mostly Muslim north- armament presently would on Wednesday, a human than 2,000 lives. ern neighborhood of PK11 be “highly strange,” Putin rights campaigner said, un- Wednesday’s violence had been set on fire. said, adding that such a derlining the challenge the erupted after Seleka fighters “They were not buried, step could lead to “big and new interim president faces left a military base looking they were dumped on the hard consequences” for the in restoring peace. for food and shot and killed ground,” he told Reuters by country. The local Red Cross two Christians, Human telephone. He added that the Currently, Russia is said it also found another 11 Rights Watch (HRW) said. Red Cross had collected 87 focusing on modernization of nuclear military tech- Tokyo gubernatorial election candidate Morihiro corpses, most burnt beyond In reprisal, “the youth bodies in the past five days nologies, communications, Hosokawa (L), a former Prime Minister, speaks outside recognition. Close to one from the neighbourhood across the country. The fig- high-precision weapons the metropolitan government hall of the Japanese million people, or a quar- went to the prison and took ure did not include the seven and the Glonass navigation capital after the official campaigning kicked off on 23 ter of the population, have out five Seleka detainees and people killed on Wednesday. system, he said. Jan, 2014, for the 9 February election.—Kyodo News been displaced in the former killed them,” Peter Bouck- The arrival of a French colony by clashes aert, an HRW researcher in 1,600-strong French military Last December, the that began when mostly Bangui, told Reuters. mission and another 5,000 Russian Defence Ministry Tokyo gubernatorial Muslim Seleka rebels seized The other 11 bodies African Union peacekeepers said Moscow would put power in a coup in March. were found behind a military has so far failed to stop the more emphasis on devel- Christian self-defence camp in another part of the violence in Central African oping long-range, high- election campaign begins groups known as “anti-bal- city. Republic.—Reuters accuracy weapons in the Tokyo, 23 Jan — “Japan has to make country’s massive defense African Union (AU) upgrade. Also, Russia plans Campaigning officially a drastic shift to renew- peacekeeping soldiers started on Thursday for the able and environmentally- to upgrade 85 percent of its stand on the perimeter of 9 Feb Tokyo gubernato- friendly energies from nu- strategic nuclear weapons a military base belonging rial election, with the main clear power as quickly as by 2020. points of focus being a pos- possible,” Hosokawa said to ex-Seleka soldiers The government has sible massive earthquake, in his first stump speech during a dispute between earmarked 20 trillion rubles the 2020 Olympics and the near the metropolitan gov- members of the local (about 600 billion US dol- aging of society, as well ernment building, vowing Christian community lars) for the massive rear- as whether Japan should to stop a possible restart of and ex-Seleka soldiers in mament programme during continue to rely on nuclear idled nuclear reactors. Bangui on 22 Jan, 2014. that period. power. “The population of Reuters Xinhua The election, the third Japan is now 130 million in as many years, follows but is expected to shrink to the resignation of Naoki 90 million in 50 years and Russian lawmakers warn Western politicians not to Inose as governor last 40 million in 100 years,” month over his receipt of he said. “We won’t be interfere in Ukraine’s standoff 50 million yen from scan- able to live with our mod- Moscow, 23 Jan — For- or the lower house of the the responsibility for the called on the opposition in dal-tainted hospital chain ern day concepts of mass eign politicians should not parliament, said in a newly- deepening crisis on both Ukraine to refrain from vio- Tokushukai. production and mass con- interfere in the confrontation adopted resolution. “extremists wing of the op- lence, halt the standoff with Major candidates in- sumption. We just need to between the government The resolution, submit- position” and western politi- special police units and seek clude former Prime Min- be rich in our hearts.” and opposition in Ukraine, ted by Duma chairman Ser- cians who have sided with constructive dialogue with ister Morihiro Hosokawa, With the help of the Russian lawmakers said on gei Naryshkin, was support- the opposition. the authorities. 76, former health minis- popular and still influential Wednesday. ed by 388 out of 450 MPs. “The State Duma once The Russian parlia- ter Yoichi Masuzoe, 65, Junichiro Koizumi, another “The State Duma urges Lawmakers slammed again admonishes from ment’s upper house, the Fed- former Air Self-Defence former premier, Hosokawa Western political circles to some foreign politicians for mounting outside pres- eration Council, supported Force chief Toshio Ta- plans to stress throughout stop meddling in the internal “interference” in Ukraine’s sure on Ukraine, enforc- the Duma declaration, say- mogami, 65, and Kenji his campaign that the is- affairs of sovereign Ukraine political confrontation ing it a pro-EU geopolitical ing it is unimaginable that Utsunomiya, 67, the for- sue of nuclear power gen- in violation of international which has already claimed choice,” the resolution pub- Ukrainian politicians would mer president of the Japan eration is the most impor- law and to stop contributing three lives in the capital of lished on the Duma website advise the US leaders how Federation of Bar Associa- tant of all for the future of to further escalation of the Kiev. said. they should conduct their tions. Japan.—Kyodo News conflict,” the State Duma, Russian MPs pinned Meanwhile, the Duma policy.—Xinhua New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 5 WORLD John Emerson, United China’s reform leading group States Ambassador to Germany, speaks during a holds first meeting Press conference in Ber- lin, Germany, on 22 Jan, Beijing, 23 Jan — Chi- Attendees of the meet- system. However, Xi said, 2014. The crisis in Syria, na’s leading group for over- ing on Wednesday delib- some problems exist in im- the Iranian nuclear issue all reform on Wednesday erated on and passed the plementing the spirit of the and the worldwide debate convened its first meeting, working rules of the leading Plenary Session, calling for about Internet security are which approved the work- group, the general office, adequate understanding of expected to be the central ing rules of the group as and sub-groups for reforms the difficulty, complexity themes at the 50th Munich well as the working rules in six areas, including the and urgency of reforms, as Security Conference, to be and members of six sub- economy and ecological deeper and deeper interest held on 31 January groups. civilization, democracy and group will be affected as re- on 2 February.—Xinhua Xi Jinping, Chinese law, cultural system, social forms go further. president and leader of the system, system of Party He urged the leading group, presided over the building, and discipline in- group to study different Colombian army steps up offensive meeting, which was also spection system. situations, firmly grasp the attended by deputy group Xi said at the meeting reform in the right way, and leaders Li Keqiang, Liu that the responsibility of the take a firm stand on fun- against rebels Yunshan and Zhang Gaoli, leading group is to imple- damental issues. He also Bogota, 23 Jan— tion, the army caught eight municipality of Planadas. all members of the Standing ment all reform measures called for participation by The Colombian army has rebels, confirmed Colom- Among all the “de- Committee of the Political put forward at the Plenary the people. stepped up military offen- bian President Juan Manuel mobilized,” 14 rebels were Bureau of the Commu- Session. He urged attend- The Chinese president sive against the Revolu- Santos, who is currently in killed in the bombing of a nist Party of China Central ees to understand the spirit urged sub-groups and the tionary Armed Forces of Spain. camp in Tame, Arauca. Committee. of the session, which serves general office to closely co- Colombia (FARC), “de- Santos welcomed the Despite the fighting, the The leading group as the basis of decision ordinate with other depart- mobilizing” 39 rebels al- military’s commitment to government and the FARC for overall reform was es- making. ments, make projects for together in operations over weakening the outlawed rebels are in peace talks in tablished upon a decision A series of reforms reforms, monitor and guide the past 24 hours across the rebel group. Seven FARC Havana, Cuba, with the aim passed at a key meeting, the have already been put in the implementation of re- country. members were “demobi- of putting an end to the five- Third Plenary Session of place after the Plenary Ses- forms, and study major is- On Wednesday, it cap- lized” in the San Miguel decade conflict.—Xinhua the 18th Central Commit- sion, including the axing of sues. Other members of the tured five FARC members tee of the Communist Party the re-education through leading group, and officials in the municipality of Vista of China in November last labour system, an easing of responsible for departments Hermosa in the central Meta Time to end al -Qaeda year, a measure to promote the one-child policy, and of the central authority also department, local El Nuevo the country’s comprehen- reform of the industrial and attended the meeting. Siglo news website re- presence in Falluja sive deepening of reforms. commercial registration Xinhua ported. In a different opera- Baghdad, 23 Jan — from their evil,” Maliki said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri in his weekly televised ad- Ukraine opposition say they’ll brave bullets after al-Maliki said on Wednes- dress to the nation. day it was time to clear Three hours later, heli- talks with Yanukovich fail al-Qaeda-linked militants copter gunships bombarded Kiev, 23 Jan — Ukrain- stay overnight and defend the out of the rebel-held city of eastern and northern dis- ian opposition leaders square in central Kiev, and Falluja, but set no deadline tricts of Falluja, residents emerged from crisis talks drew a roar of support from for any military assault. said. It was not clear if that with President Viktor Yanu- protesters when he declared: The Islamic State in was the prelude to wider kovich on Wednesday saying “If I have to go (on to the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), military action. Helicopters he had failed to give concrete streets) under bullets, I shall an al-Qaeda offshoot also have been in action before answers to their demands, go there under bullets. on the frontlines of Syria’s on the outskirts of the city. and told their supporters on “Tomorrow if the Presi- civil war, overran Falluja On Tuesday, Iraqi air the streets to prepare for a dent does not respond ... then with help from other Sunni force strikes killed more police offensive. Using emo- we will go on the offensive,” Muslim groups on 1 Janu- than 50 militants of vari- tional language following the he said. ary. ous Arab nationalities and deaths earlier in the day of at Former economy min- Iraqi troops and securi- destroyed large amounts of least three protesters - two of ister Arseny Yatsenyuk ech- ty forces have set up a loose ammunition in the western A pro-European protester throws tyres into a fire during cordon around the city, Province of Anbar, a De- them from gunshot wounds - street violence in Kiev on 23 Jan, 2014.—Reuters oed his words, and referred the three opposition leaders to the overnight shooting 50 km (31 miles) west of fence Ministry statement who met Yanukovich said ence Square that during three (the police) are preparing to deaths which the opposition Baghdad, and have clashed said. It did not say exactly they were ready to face po- hours of talks the president clear us out of the ‘Maidan’ has blamed on police despite sporadically with insur- where the raids on “gath- lice bullets. had given no clear response (Independence Square),” official denials. A third man gents inside, but Maliki has erings of terrorist groups” Boxer-turned-politician to their demands that the Klitschko declared. died after plunging from said community leaders and took place. Vitaly Klitschko told the government be dismissed “We must do all we can the top of Dynamo football tribesmen should force ISIL Maliki again urged thousands of protesters gath- and sweeping anti-protest to stop them clearing us out,” stadium while fighting with to withdraw, in order to the people of Falluja to “to ered on Kiev’s Independ- laws ditched. “Today they he said. He urged people to police.—Reuters spare Falluja more blood- take crucial positions on shed and destruction. the presence of those dirty “The time has come people without losses and Kidnapped S Korean trade to settle this issue and end without sacrifices,” but set the presence of this gang in no precise time limit. official freed in Libya this city and save its people Reuters Seoul, 23 Jan—A and was handed over to the South Korean trade offi- South Korean Embassy,” cial abducted by gunmen in the ministry said in a state- Libya at the weekend has ment. been freed unharmed after Han, 39, who has been Libyan forces arrested the in Libya since July 2012, kidnappers, South Korea’s was being driven home Foreign Ministry said on from work when several Thursday. men in a car forced his ve- Han Seok Woo, who hicle to stop last Sunday. heads the Tripoli office of The four kidnappers the Korea Trade-Invest- were arrested in Tripoli by ment Promotion Agency in Libyan security authorities Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hold Libya, was brought to the and found to be members of a demonstration in support of his government near the South Korean Embassy in an armed group, according Gunmen fighters walk with their weapons in the streets venue of Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, Libya late Wednesday. to the statement. of the city of Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of on 22 Jan, 2014.—Kyodo News “Han is in good health Kyodo News Baghdad, on 21 Jan, 2014. —Reuters 6 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar BUSINESS & HEALTH Buzzed drivers under legal limit still risk car accidents New York, 23 Jan — of California, San Diego, level recorded in the data- expected based on previous Even drivers with a slight said. “For the individual set, were 46 percent more research, Phillips said, and “buzz” are more likely to driver it means don’t drive likely to be solely blamed this study won’t be particu- be at fault for accidents while buzzed, and for a pas- for the crash than a sober larly surprising to research- than the sober drivers they senger, don’t get in a car driver, according to the re- ers, but it is the first nation- hit, according to a new with a driver who is buzzed. sults published in the jour- wide analysis of data on study. The authors looked Find a way to make the so- nal Injury Prevention.An “buzzed” drivers.”There’s at fatal car crash data from ber one the driver.”The data adult man would need half nothing magical about .08,” a US national database of Phillips and his colleagues of one 12-ounce beer to he added. No research indi- Strictly following the data, search and Evaluation in more than 570,000 colli- analyzed included blood al- generate a .01 percent BAC cates that a great change in the only safe driver is one Calverton, Maryland.The sions between 1994 and cohol content (BAC) meas- reading on a breathalyzer driving capacity takes place with zero blood alcohol first US legal definition of 2011 and found there ap- urements for the drivers as test. That is well below the between .07 and .08.”The content, he said. “drunk” for the purpose of pears to be no safe level of well as clear indicators of US legal driving limit of lower we can make the le- Although the study driving was set at .15 BAC alcohol in the bloodstream blame for the accident, such .08 percent.For men and gal BAC, the safer every- builds on 50 years of similar in the 1930s and remained when it comes to driving. as which driver ran a red women, as blood alcohol one will be,” he said.Many research, this one is unique until certain states gradu- “This has a very wide light or drove in the wrong level increased, so did the European countries have and exciting because of its ally lowered their limits to range of implications,” lane. possibility of blame for the legal limits of .05, and lim- scale, said James C Fell, .10 in the 1950s and 60s lead author David Phillips, Drivers with a BAC accident. its in Sweden and Japan are senior research scientist at and then to .08, Fell said. a sociologist at University of .01 percent, the lowest That’s what would be even lower, Phillips said. the Pacific Institute for Re- Reuters Mediterranean diet IMF raises global economic may be good for leg forecast as constraints on arteries, too growth gradually ease Washington, 23 Jan — lus should partly offset the New York, 23 Jan — cially during walking. The The International Monetary drag from the consumption People who eat a Mediter- current trial, Martínez- Fund (IMF) on Tuesday tax increase in early 2014. ranean diet high in olive González said, is the first slightly raised its growth Its annual growth was ex- oil or nuts may reduce their to randomly assign people forecast for the world econ- pected to remain broadly likelihood of developing without heart disease to a omy to 3.7 percent in 2014, unchanged at 1.7 percent in clogged leg arteries, ac- Mediterranean or other diet 0.1 percentage point higher 2014, before moderating to cording to new research and see how they fare. than its October projection. 1 percent in 2015.Growth from Spain. The finding He and his colleagues “Global activity strength- in emerging-market and follows results from the allocated 7,477 older Span- ened during the second developing economies was same trial published last iards to one of three diet half of 2013,” the IMF said projected to accelerate from year that showed sticking to plans: a Mediterranean- in an update of its World 4.7 percent in 2013 to 5.1 a Mediterranean diet could style diet supplemented Economic Outlook report. percent in 2014. China’s lower the risk of heart at- with extra-virgin olive oil, a “Activity is expected to growth rate was expected tack and stroke . Mediterranean diet with ex- improve further in 2014- to slow down slightly from “Now we have this tra nuts or a standard low- study, all were deemed to Mediterranean diet supple- 15, largely on account of 7.7 percent in 2013 to 7.5 very strong reduction in fat diet. Participants met be at risk because they had mented with olive oil cut recovery in the advanced percent in 2014. the risk of peripheral ar- with a dietician four times diabetes or a combination people’s risk of peripheral economies.” “In many emerging- tery disease,” Dr Miguel each year to review their of other risk factors. artery disease by 64 per- Growth in advanced market and developing Martínez-González, from eating habits and set goals Over an average of al- cent, and the one with extra economies was expected to economies, stronger exter- the University of Navarra for how to follow their pre- most five years, 89 people nuts cut the risk in half. But be 2.2 percent in 2014, up nal demand from advanced in Pamplona, told Reuters scribed diet more closely. in the study developed pe- because the condition was from 1.3 percent in 2013. economies will lift growth, Health. “This is very reas- The researchers also gave ripheral artery disease. That relatively rare, they calcu- It was 0.2 percentage point although domestic weak- suring.” Peripheral artery them shopping lists, menus included 18 in the olive oil lated that more than 300 higher than the growth rate nesses remain a concern,” disease arises when plaque and recipes as well as free group, 26 in the nuts group people would have to eat projected in October. said the report.” builds up in the arteries that olive oil or nuts for those and 45 in the low-fat com- a Mediterranean-style diet “The euro area is turn- Growth in China re- carry blood to the legs and assigned to the Mediterra- parison group, the research- instead of a low-fat one to ing the corner from reces- bounded strongly in the feet, restricting blood flow. nean diets. Although none ers wrote in the Journal of prevent one case of periph- sion to recovery,” noted second half of 2013, due The condition often causes of the participants had heart the American Medical As- eral artery disease. the flagship report of the largely to an acceleration leg pain and fatigue, espe- disease at the start of the sociation. They found the Reuters IMF. Growth was projected in investment. This surge is to strengthen to 1 percent expected to be temporary, China’s Lenovo nears deal to buy IBM’s server in 2014 and 1.4 percent in part because of policy final price could be close vices. Reuters had reported in 2015, but the recovery measures aimed at slowing the bottom end of the range, on Tuesday that Lenovo would be uneven. The US credit growth and raising the person said. Lenovo, the had resumed talks to buy economic growth was pre- the cost of capital,” accord- world’s biggest PC maker, the IBM’s lower-margin dicted to accelerate from ing to the report. halted trading in its shares unit after failing to reach an 1.9 percent in 2013 to 2.8 The Washington- pending an announcement agreement last year follow- percent in 2014. based global lender also in respect of a transaction. ing differences on pricing. The pickup in kept its forecast The potential deal comes Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s 2014 would be car- for the world after IBM missed revenue Thinkpad PC business in ried by final do- economic expectations for the fourth 2005 for $1.75 billion be- mestic demand, growth in consecutive quarter when it came the springboard for its supported in 2015 un- Boxes containing Lenovo desktop computers are seen in reported earnings earlier this leap to the top of global PC part by a re- changed at week. maker rankings. an office in Kiev on 12 March, 2012. —R euters duction in the 3.9 per- A deal for IBM’s x86 Lenovo said earlier this fiscal drag as cent. New York, 23 Jan — shrinking personal comput- servers, which power cor- week that it was in prelimi- a result of the O n Lenovo Group Ltd is nearing ers market, people familiar porate data centers, fits with nary talks about an acquisi- recent budget risks, the an agreement to buy Interna- with the matter said. Lenovo’s attempts to remold tion. It declined to name the agreement. IMF said tional Business Machines The timing of the deal itself as a force in mobile seller but said it was making In Japan, growth risks of low in- Corp’s low-end server busi- was uncertain, with one of devices and data storage the statement in response to was expected to slow flation in advanced ness for $2-2.5 billion, a the people saying an an- servers. It also helps IBM’s reports about its potential more gradually compared economies, especially the deal that would help the Chi- nouncement could come shift away from hardware acquisition of a server busi- with the October estimate euro area, have come to the nese company counter the as early as Thursday. The towards software and ser- ness.—Reuters as temporary fiscal stimu- fore. —Reuters New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 7 Science & Technology Facebook tests ad network business on other companies’ mobile apps San Francisco, 23 Jan world’s No 1 online social aim is to demonstrate even constellation of independent — Facebook Inc said on network is closer to launch- greater reach with the same websites and apps, typically Wednesday that it is dis- ing an ad network business. power of Facebook target- share a portion of the ad playing ads from a small Facebook said that the ing for advertisers both revenue with their partners. group of marketers on other test is currently limited to a on and off Facebook,” the Selling ads that appear in companies’ smartphone “few” advertisers and mo- company said in a post on mobile apps could provide apps, the latest sign that the bile app publishers. “Our its official business blog. Facebook with a new source Facebook generates the of revenue by expanding the bulk of its revenue from ads amount of ads it sells. In the that appear on its own pages current test, Facebook said and in the Facebook mobile it will effectively operate its app. It has experimented own ad network. with offering ads beyond Analysts expect Face- the confines of its own so- book, which has roughly cial networking website 1.2 billion users, to report A man using his mobile phone walks past a Samsung in the past, including an revenue of $2.34 billion Electronics shop in the company’s main office building effort last year in which for its fourth quarter next in central Seoul on 23 July, 2013. it partnered with other ad week. Facebook declined Reuters networks and a previous ex- to comment on the financial periment with social game aspects, including any rev- Samsung SDI signs deal company Zynga Inc. enue sharing arrangements, A portrait of the Facebook logo in Ventura, California Ad networks, which of its mobile ad network distribute online ads across a to build China battery on 21 Dec, 2013.— Reuters test.—Reuters Mystery white rock inexplicably appears near factory Seoul, 23 Jan — Sam- April this year to invest sung SDI said on Thursday a total of $600 million in NASA Mars rover that it had signed a prelimi- the factory and other elec- Cape Canaveral, the rock was flipped over by nary deal to build an elec- tric car battery businesses (Florida), 23 Jan — Scien- one of the rover’s wheels. tric car battery factory in over the next five years. tists are stumped as to how a It also may have been China by next year, betting Samsung SDI said the joint rock mysteriously appeared deposited after a meteorite on the growth potential of venture consists of Chinese in images taken two weeks landed nearby. Either way, the country’s electric car parts maker Anqing Ring apart by NASA’s Mars rov- the rock, dubbed “Pinnacle market. New Group and an uniden- er Opportunity. The rover, Island” is providing an un- South Korea’s Sam- tified company owned by which landed in an area expected science bonus. sung SDI also said it will China’s Shaanxi province. known as Meridiani Planum “Much of the rock is form a joint venture by Reuters a decade ago, is exploring bright-toned, nearly white,” the rim of a crater for signs NASA said in a statement of past water. Another rov- A NASA combination handout photograph shows the on Tuesday. “A portion is VMware to buy mobile er, Curiosity, touched down surface of Mars in front of the Mars rover on 26 Dec, deep red in color. Pinna- on the opposite side of the 2013 (L) and on 8 Jan, 2014.—Reuters cle Island may have been security firm AirWatch planet in 2012 for a more ing a more immediate ques- Oddly, it showed a bright flipped upside-down when a ambitious mission to look tion. On 8 January, while white rock, about the size of wheel dislodged it, provid- for $1.54 billion for past habitable environ- preparing to use its robotic a doughnut, where only bar- ing an unusual circumstance ments. arm for science investiga- ren bedrock had appeared in for examining the underside New York, 23 Jan — desktops with AirWatch’s For the moment, how- tion, Opportunity sent back a picture taken two weeks of a Martian rock.” Cloud software maker VM- in the mobility space.” ever, scientists are ponder- a picture of its work area. earlier. Scientists suspect Reuters ware Inc said it would buy The VMware-Air- privately held mobile se- Watch deal is the third ma- Water vapour plumes raise question about life on dwarf curity company AirWatch jor acquisition in the mobile for $1.54 billion to tap into security market, a business planet Ceres rising demand from com- which ABI Research esti- Washington, 23 Jan the moon. “This is the first Dramatic geysers have been before the discovery in 1930 panies to secure the smart- mates will double to more — The dwarf planet Ceres, time water vapor has been spotted on Enceladus, one of the more famous —and phones and tablets used by than $1 billion by 2015. one of the most intriguing unequivocally detected of the innermost moons of more distant — dwarf planet employees. Last year, IBM bought objects in the solar system, on Ceres or any other ob- the giant ringed planet Sat- Pluto. It is one of the few While some analysts mobile device management is gushing water vapour ject in the asteroid belt and urn. Scientists think Ceres places in the solar system view the deal as a threat company Fiberlink Com- from its unusual ice-covered provides proof that Ceres holds rock in its interior aside from Earth where wa- to BlackBerry Ltd, which munications, while Citrix surface, scientists said on has an icy surface and an and is wrapped in a mantle ter has been located. A big has long been the go-to for Systems Inc bought Zen- Wednesday in a finding that atmosphere,” Michael Küp- of ice that, if melted, would question about the discovery companies looking for se- prise in 2012. UBS analyst raises the question of wheth- pers of the European Space amount to more fresh water of the water vapour on Ceres curity products, others say Amitabh Passi said the deal er it might be hospitable to Agency in Spain, who led than is contained on Earth. is what it means regarding the deal could spur more will make it more chal- life. Using the European the research published in Ceres was discovered the possibility of life. acquisitions in the mo- lenging for BlackBerry as Space Agency’s Herschel the journal Nature, said in a in 1801, more than a century Reuters bile security market. VM- it now faces strong com- infrared space telescope, statement. ware itself has entered this petitors and said he expects researchers spotted plumes The question is what market recently. Its main Google Inc, Apple Inc and of water vapor periodically is causing these plumes of business is making virtual- Microsoft Corp to look for spewing from Ceres, the water vapour from two loca- ization software, which cre- acquisitions to bolster their largest object in the asteroid tions on Ceres. One idea, ac- ates a virtual machine that presence in the mobile en- belt residing between the or- cording to scientists, is that acts like a real computer. terprise market. bits of Mars and Jupiter. the sun sometimes warms This helps companies cut VMware shares were The discovery comes parts of the icy surface IT costs by saving on server up 2.3 percent at $99.57 in just over a year before the enough that water vapor and storage space. afternoon trade on the New scheduled arrival of NA- emerges. Another possibil- “AirWatch will be the York Stock Exchange after SA’s Dawn spacecraft for a ity, they say, is that there center of our mobile activi- the company also forecast closer look at Ceres, a round is liquid water under the ties,” CEO Pat Gelsinger fourth-quarter and current- body measuring about 590 frozen surface of Ceres and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft heads toward the dwarf told Reuters. “We are re- quarter revenue above ana- miles in diameter—less that vapour is shooting out planet Ceres as seen in this undated artist’s conception ally bringing together the lysts’ estimate. than a third of the size of of geysers or icy volcanoes. released on 22 Jan, 2014. —Reuters strength we have in PCs and Reuters 8 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar national for selling banned stimu- Brig-Gen Kyaw Oo Lwin, approval from Amyotha lant tablets, said the deputy Member of the Amyotha Hluttaw to approve the (from page 16) minister at Amyotha Hlut- Hluttaw Bill Committee, bill. Eighteen were arrested taw today. put forward a report on The bill was approved Friday, 24 January, 2014 during the raids on phar- During today ses- findings of the Anti-Ter- by Amyotha Hluttaw today. macies in Yangon Region sion of Amyotha Hluttaw, rorism Bill and sought the MNA Peaceful co-existence Peaceful co-existence is one the Five Princi- Equal aid for both communities in Rakhine State discussed ples of Peaceful Co-existence of the United Na- tions. It means the peaceful co-existence of all mankind living in the world, regardless of race, religion and color. Despite differences, peaceful co-existence could bring substantial benefits for global citizens. If each and every family, community, coun- try and region live together in peace, it is sure all will have the benefit of peaceful co-existence. If the concept of peaceful coexistence prevails among the people of the world, regardless of the level of wealth and color, peace is possible. Peaceful coexistence is one and only way to ensure peace in the world. A genuine will for peace is imperative. World peace can only be brought about by those who wish and long for peace. It is the only way to ensure a peaceful re- gion and peaceful society. Union Minister for Border Affairs Lt-Gen Thet Naing Win holds talks with EU Ambassador to Myanmar Stability can be realized by establishing a Mr. Roland Kobia.—mna lasting peace in a region or in a society. Stability Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan— Kobia at the Border Affairs munities in Rakhine State sistance for needy regions, Union Minister for Border Ministry this evening. and more humanitarian as- and further cooperation be- is not possible in a region or a society that lacks Affairs Lt-Gen Thet Naing At the meeting, they sistance, equal assistance of tween EU and Ministry of security. Stability is important for achieving Win received EU Ambassa- discussed aid of EU mem- EU for both communities in Border Affairs. sustainable development in a certain country. dor to Myanmar Mr. Roland ber countries for both com- Rakhine State and more as- MNA There can be true happiness and peace through the fullest respect for peace and stabil- Union SWRR Minister holds talks with UNSG’s Adviser ity. Without peace and stability, development Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan cannot be realized. It is required to value peace — Union Minister for So- and stability for achieving development. cial Welfare, Relief and Likewise, prosperity can be obtained only Resettlement Dr Daw Myat through effective development project imple- Myat Ohn Khin held talks with UNSG’s Special Ad- mentation management. Prosperity would come viser Mr. Vijay Nambiar as a result of sustainable development that ena- at the ministry, here, this bles a certain country to achieve prosperity and afternoon. develop a prosperous society. The Union minister Let’s build a prosperous world through our talked about completion of commitment to peaceful co-existence for ensur- formulation of social secu- ing peace, stability, sustainable development and rity policies and laws for prosperity. women, children, persons with disabilities and the aged and ongoing works, Sniper scopes, military equipment works being carried out for seized on Mongla-Kengtung road provision of assistance to IDPs in Rakhine State in co- operation with UN agencies and INGOs and homecom- Union Minister Dr ing of 134 Myanmar fisher- Daw Myat Myat Ohn Republic of the Union of Myanmar men who drifted out to the Khin receives UNSG’s Union Election Commission sea due to the bad weather in 2013 and were rescued in Special Adviser Mr. Nay Pyi Taw neighbouring countries. Vijay Nambiar.—mna Notification No. (6/2014) The UNSG’s adviser 8th Waning of Pyatho, 1375 ME equally and fairly in Rakh- insisted that the UN’s hu- (23 January, 2014) manitarian agencies have ine State. helped both communities MNA Union Pa-O National Organization Regional stability ... allowed to register as political party The Union Election Commission announced today Kengtung, 23 Jan — a diameter of 1.5 inch, 250 (from page 16) ship and met with locals in that Union Pa-O National Organization headquartered A combined team seized containers of sniper acces- They visited Kantha Ht- MraukU Township. at No. (Nya/ 1094), region (3), West Circular Road, sniper scopes, military sories, 500 military equip- wetwa and Taungpaw re- On 22 January, they Nyaungphusakan Ward, Taunggyi Township, Shan equipment and illegal cans ment and 1656 cans of meat lief camps and donated visited Kyeinipyin and State, has been allowed to register as a political party as of meat while conducting were found in the truck. offertories to Thiri Min- Hsintetmaw relief camps of 23 January, 2014 in accord with Section 9 of Political a search of a six-wheeled It is learnt that actions gala Southern monastery in Pauktaw Township and Parties Registration Law. The registration number of the truck heading for Kengtung will be taken against driver Sayadaw. coordinated the essentials. party is 73. from Mongla at about 11 Sai Sam Aun, 34, and his They looked round They also inspected relief By order, am yesterday. colleague Aye Tun, 40, who basic education primary camps, rehabilitation and (Myint Naing) Officials said 250 have been taken into police schools being constructed progress of housings in Member sniper scopes measuring custody in accord with the with the assistance of In- Sittway in the evening. Union Election Commission 11.5 inches in length with law.—Kengtung IPRD donesia in Minbya Town- MNA New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 9 national MYANMAR GAZETTE UEC Chairman receives MPA trainees Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan—The President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has confirmed the appointments of the following heads of service organization shown against each on probation from the date they assume charge of their duties. (1) Daw Hla Hla Kyi Managing Director Director (Admin) Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise Administration Department Ministry of Energy Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise Ministry of Energy (2) Professor Dr Myint Han Director-General Professor Food and Drug Administration Medical Education Department Ministry of Health University of Medicine (1), Yangon Medical Science Department Ministry of Health (3) U Aung Thwin Director-General Chairman of Union Election Commission U Tin Aye meets faculty members and Deputy Director-General Directorate of Road Administration trainees from Master of Public Administration of Institute of Economics.—mna Directorate of Road Administration Ministry of Rail Transportation Nay Pyi Taw 23 Jan— UEC and its responsibilities tions for 2015 general elec- Ministry of Rail Transportation Chairman of Union Elec- and reviewed the election tions. ending armed conflicts. He tion Commission U Tin held in Nepal and replied Applied Economics C-in-C receives ... also expressed his willing Aye met with the profes- queries raised by the train- Department of Yangon In- for coordination between the sor (Dean), faulty members ees. stitute of Economics opens (from page 16) Main Causes: Non-disinte- Defence Services of My- and trainees from Master UEC Chairman U Tin two-year MPA course for Senior General Min gration of the Union, Non- anmar and the UN to work of Public Administration Aye clarified programmes the officers who mainly Aung Hlaing said the De- disintegration Solidarity and for the social security of the Course of Yangon Institute for holding free and fair serve to make policy deci- fence Services has taken the Perpetuation of the Sover- people. of Economics at UEC Of- elections, arrangements sion. The course includes national duty of “Our Three eignty” and made efforts for Myawady fice, here, this afternoon. for casting vote of eligible MPA, economics, statistics, UEC members Dr Daw citizens, establishment of finance and statistics, pub- Joint committee for Reviewing the Myint Kyi and U Win Kyi political parties, rights of lic affairs policy and law. Constitution meets explained formation of eligible voters and prepara- MNA Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan— Deputy Speaker of Amyo- reviewing committees Union Minister at President Office receives The meeting (4/2014) of tha Hluttaw U Mya Nyein presented reports on their Joint Committee for Re- extended greetings. findings and undertakings. German guests viewing the Constitution Joint Secretary of the Committee members partic- Germany and Minister for took place at Pyidaungsu committee U Khin Maung ipated in the discussion on Finance and Economics Dr. Hluttaw Building, here, to- Yi clarified the tasks car- reviewing the constitution. Nils Schmidt at the Creden- day. ried out on the minutes of The vice-chairman and the tials Hall of the Presidential On the occasion, Vice- the meeting (3/2014) of joint secretary gave supple- Palace here yesterday. Chairman of the committee the committee. The five mentary remarks.—MNA At the meeting, they had a cordial discussion on Tourists travelling Myanmar in their the progress of Myanmar reforms in political, eco- automobiles nomic and administrative Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan— This morning, Deputy Yangon-Toungoo-Nay Pyi machinery sectors, reforms A total of 53 foreigners of Ministers for Hotels and Taw-Kalaw-Inlay-Pindaya- for decentralization, and The Road to Mandalay 2014 Tourism Dr Tin Shwe and Mandalay-PyinOoLwin- prospects to industrialize Classic Car Rally reached Dr Sai Kyaw Ohn welcomed Monywa-Bagan-Popa- the nation through develop- here on board 26 antique cars them at Golden Palace Ho- Bagan-Pyay-Yangon. ment of agricultural sector, yesterday. tel. The classic car rally left Their trip started on 19 Union Minister U Hla Tun shakes hands with assistance for opening of They went sightseeing here for Kalaw. The rally January and will finish on 8 Deputy Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg more vocational training in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. will go along the route of February.—MNA of Germany and Minister for Finance and schools to turn out techni- Two children injured as Mingaladon Economics Dr. Nils Schmidt.—mna cians for SMEs in Myan- Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan— ceived a delegation led by mar, and sharing of experi- explosion in critical condition Union Minister at the Presi- Deputy Minister-President ences of Germany in reform dent Office U Hla Tun re- of Baden-Württemberg of of decentralization.—MNA Yangon, 23 Jan—An explosion occurred at 7:20 776 illegal huts evicted in Hlinethaya Township am today in Mingaladon, Yangon, 23 Jan—Il- Shwe Linban Creek in Hli- The authority could injuring two children. legal settlements that can nethaya Township today. remove the illegal huts af- An unidentified item be harmful to rule of law, Illegal settlers blocked ter negotiating with the exploded at the backyard of stability and livelihood the routes to their squatted settlers. Those who made Room No (6) of U Hla Win of the people in Twantay huts and used women and profits on the illegal settlers and Daw Khine Khine Win and Hlinethaya areas in children as human shields have managed to escape at staff quarters No (A) in Yangon Region have been to prevent the eviction. from the areas.—MNA Htautkyaunk Akarit Ward evicted in a systematic way. on Yangon-Bago Road Over 2800 squatted huts in CNA officially opens ... in Mingaladon Township Twantay Township and 102 (from page 16) mar); Associate Professor while 8-year-old Maung in Ward-19 in Hlinethaya It includes Dr Maung Simon Tay, Chairman of Myo Ko was playing it Township have already Maung Lay, Vice President Singapore Institute of Inter- along with his 10-month- been evicted recently. They of the Republic of the Un- national Affairs; and William old sister Ma Khaing Thaz- continued removal of 776 ion of Myanmar Federation Greenlee, Jr., Partner/Deputy in Win. squatted huts in Ward-15, of Chambers of Commerce Managing Director, DFDL, The two children got Wunhtangyi Housing and and Industry (UMFCCI); Myanmar. Business Insights life-threatening injuries in Kanthan Shankar, Country Myanmar—Understanding the explosion. They were Investigation is under Manager, East Asia & Pacif- the Changing Myanmar is rushed to Yangon General way and no immediate re- ic of The World Bank Group; recorded and will broadcast Photo shows child injured in explosion in Hospital where intensive ports about the explosion is Melvyn Pun, CEO, Serge on Channel News Asia on 2nd Mingaladon Township.—mna care is given to them. available.—MNA Pun & Associates (Myan- September, 2014.— MNA 10 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar LOCAL NEWS th traditional festival of th 6 Rakhine Traditional Coach pulling Rakhine national. National Objectives of 67 festival on 12-14 Feb The winning team has to incinerate the coach before Anniversary Union Day 2014 Sittway, 23 Jan— Ground in Ywagyitaung committee will hold the noon of the fullmoon day of Rakhine traditional coach Ward of Sittway, Rakhine ceremony in Rakhine Tabodwe. - For all the national races to cultivate pulling ceremony will be held State from 12 to 14 February. traditions. MMAL-Sittway for the sixth time at Wingabar The organizing It is a significant District IPRD the Union Spirit to perpetuate the Union - For all the national races to live in unity and harmony - For all the national races to build up the prevailing national reconciliation - For all citizens to participate in tasks for tranquility and the rule of law - For all the national races to join efforts for modern, developed and discipline- flourishing democratic nation

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Meiktila, 23 Jan—The Commissioner U Tin Maung Suspects in playing card, illegal two-digit paper of ledger book used circular corridor of Meiktila Soe inspected the collapsed in illegal two-digit lottery, Lake collapsed at 8 pm on 7 corridor at the night and said lottery seized in Meiktila District three voucher books and October 2013 near Yangon- the plan will be implemented K 32850. Mahlaing Police Mandalay Road in Meiktila. to repair the corridor as soon Meiktila, 23 Jan— police stations of Meiktila, police of Hseto Police Station Station opened a file of The collapsed corridor as possible. Under the supervision of Wundwin, Mahlaing and of Mahlaing Township lawsuit against Aung Ko was worth K 6 million. It was After three months, the Meiktila District Police Thazi townships seized those searched a motorbike driven under the law. built 60 years ago. corridor is being repaired. Force Commander Police from gambling. by Aung Ko, 23, of Htantabin The same day, the Meiktila District Deputy NLM-017 Lt-Col Sao Nay Lin, On 20 January, the Village. They seized one police of Mahlaing Myoma Three traffic lights to be installed in Police Station together with witnesses raided the house downtown Meiktila of Saw Tun, 58 of Phettaw Village and arrested five Meiktila, 23 Jan—Plans such as the junctions near The traffic lights and persons of Phettaw Village are underway to install No 1 Basic Education High traffic police outposts have while they were playing three more traffic lights School in Nandawgon Ward, built in Tawwinnan Junction cards together with K 26700. at downtown Meiktila of near Meiktila Education in Aungzeyar Ward, Yoma The police station Meiktila District in Mandalay College in Paukchaung Bank junctionin Myoma opened a file of lawsuit Region. Ward and near Highway Bus Ward in Meiktila. The against them under the law. “As Meiktila is a Terminal in Thiri Mingala already built traffic lights are One police squad of district level town, it has five Ward. Tenders have been located on the inner circular Meiktila Myoma Police highways in a junction. The invited for the works. The road of the town heading Station also raided the tea town is bustling with runs of installation of traffic lights for Yangon-Mandalay- shop of Ywathitgon Village opened a file of lawsuit vehicles. Hence, three more will be completed soon,” said Myingyan-Kyaukpadaung- in Aungsan War and seized against Myo Kyaw Han, 40 Pay Your traffic lights will be installed Township Administrator U Taunggyi.—MMAL-Chan documents related to illegal of Ywathitgon Ward under in three junctions of the town Myo Hlaing. Tha (Meiktila) two-digit lottery and K the law. Tax 58000. The police station NLM-017 Special sales of Chanmyae Trading Cooperative Society Mandalay, 23 Jan— Chairman of Township 1992 Cooperative Law. The Chanmyae Cooperative Cooperative Syndicate U accountant explained the Trading Cooperative Society Han and party. financial statement. held the special sales at The Staff Officer The staff officer and its office at the corner of met with Chairman of the party cordially greeted the 22nd and 86th Streets in cooperative society U Ba customers at the special Aungmyethazan Township Kyi and party, accountant sales and viewed the display of Mandalay on 21 January U Tun Hla Aung and staff of goods. Members of the incommemoration of its 20th at the office. cooperative society got anniversary ceremony. The chairman reported the opportunity when they It was attended by on purpose of holding the bought goods worth K 3000, Township Cooperative special sales after abolishing they would get one Pyi of Department Staff Officer U the consumer cooperative Manaw Thukha rice worth Kyaw Hsan Lin and officials, society in line with the K 1500.—MMAL-387 New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 11 Regional LDP lawmakers urge government to Japan calls devise nuclear phase-out policy on S Korea

Tokyo, 23 Jan — A lower house member Taro Kono said the group Democratic Party of Japan to move group of ruling Liberal Kono, said. opposes nuclear power be- crafted an energy strategy Democratic Party lawmak- The proposal, which ing given such a status and that sought to phase out nu- bilateral ties ers on Thursday compiled also calls for the need to that it should be referred to clear power by the end of a proposal calling on the end Japan’s long-standing as “an energy source in a the 2030s. forward government to devise an spent fuel recycling policy, transition period.” But the LDP returned Montreux, (Switzer- energy policy that seeks to goes against the content of “We must not allow to power in December the land), 23 Jan — Japanese phase out nuclear power a draft energy plan devised the government to decide same year, seeking to re- generation in the wake of by a government panel in a Basic Energy Plan that tract the goal and shape Foreign Minister Fumio the 2011 Fukushima nu- December. does not show our regret what it calls a “responsible” Kishida on Wednesday clear crisis. The draft said that over the accident at the energy policy. Photo taken 24 Oct, stressed his hopes for “The plan should make nuclear power is an “im- Fukushima Daiichi nucle- Nuclear power sup- 2013, shows “rokyoku” moving Tokyo’s rela- clear that new commer- portant base-load power ar power plant,” Kono told plied about 30 percent of storyteller Keiko Haruno, tions with Seoul forward cial reactors should not source” that should con- reporters. Japan’s total electricity be- who will make her first in a meeting with South be built...and that reactors tinue to be used. Base-load The group plans to sub- fore the Fukushima crisis, overseas performance in Korean Second Vice that have operated for 40 power refers to electricity mit the proposal to the gov- but concerns over its safety New York in March 2014 Foreign Minister Cho years should be scrapped,” sources that are cheap and ernment in the near future. have led to a prolonged halt with money raised on Tae Yul. the group of about 50 law- stable, and can also be used In 2012, the previ- of many nuclear reactors. an online crowdfunding According to the makers, led by anti-nuclear continuously. ous government led by the Kyodo News platform.—Kyodo News Japanese Foreign Minis- try, Kishida described Ja- Philippine president gets “very good” pan’s relations with South Korea as “important to rating from typhoon victims Japan” in his talks with Cho and said he “would Manila, 23 Jan — SWS noted that the cent were dissatisfied with like to move the relation- The performance of Phil- survey found higher satis- Aquino’s performance, ship forward with South ippine President Benigno faction ratings for Aquino bringing his net satisfaction S Aquino III was rated among typhoon victims rating to +48. SWS said this Korean Foreign Minister “very good” by victims of compared to those who is classified as “good.” Yun Byung Se.” Typhoon Haiyan, locally were not victimized by Hai- Typhoon Haiyan struck Cho said he will con- known as Yolanda, accord- yan. Among typhoon vic- central Philippines on 8 No- vey Kishida’s message to ing to a survey published tims, 73 percent reported vember, killing more than Yun and expressed hopes Zuo Linshu(L) and his partner Xi Hongqiang wait for by research institute Social that they were satisfied with 6,200 people and causing that the two countries will a train on Wuhan Changjiang River Bridge in Wuhan, Weather Stations (SWS) Aquino’s performance as billions of pesos worth of have productive discus- capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on 22 Jan, on Thursday. Results of the president. This boosted the damage to agriculture and sions, the Japanese minis- 2014. Zuo Linshu is a trackwalker who is in charge SWS fourth quarter survey, net satisfaction rating of infrastructure. try said. of maintainance work of Wuhan Changjiang River which was conducted on 11 Aquino to +54 which the Aquino’s government Kishida and Cho met Bridge. Because of the Spring Festival travel rush, to 16 December, showed SWS classifies as “very was criticized earlier for the more frequent and careful check is needed for the on the sidelines of an in- that 13 percent of Filipino good.” delay in delivering relief ternational conference on safety of trains. He spends 8 hours to check the track 8 households suffered “seri- In contrast, 69 percent goods and other assistance times a day. The 57-year-old Zuo would soon embrace Syria in Montreaux. ous harm” during the recent of non-victims said they needed by typhoon victims. Kyodo News the 34 Spring Festival on the bridge without his super typhoon. were satisfied while 21 per- Xinhua family. —Xinhua Indonesian police prepares Philippine education chief fears rise of to dispatch personnel to out-of-school youth Manila, 23 Jan — who have failed to return to buildings. by a month-long free food catastrophe-hit areas The Philippines’ education their schools. According to the gov- provision in school. Jakarta, 23 Jan — In- Indonesia, a vast archi- minister expressed fear on “When I toured the af- ernment, close to 2,800 On Luistro’s prod- donesian national police pelago country, has been Wednesday of a possible fected places at a time that classrooms in various el- ding to encourage the start plans to deploy 3,500 of its battered by floods, land- increase in the number of schools have already reo- ementary and high schools of normalcy, almost all af- personnel to catastrophe- slides and volcano eruption the country’s out-of-school pened, I saw some children were totally destroyed fected schools started op- affected areas nationwide as the country enters wet youth as a result of the dev- walking around on a Thurs- while 13,021 others were erations on 2 December last to help affected people as season and vulnerable to astation caused by super ty- day, which is supposed partially damaged by what year to account for and de- fears for risks of heavy volcanic upheaval. phoon Haiyan on 8 Novem- to be a school day. I was was described as the strong- brief their students. Formal, downpours linger in months Consecutive days of ber last year. wondering why they were est typhoon to hit land ever. partial classes resumed only to come, police officer said torrential downpours have Armin Luistro said not in school, or do they re- Some 1.5 million el- on 6 January this year. here on Wednesday. indulged several areas, in- even as the government is ally intend to go to school?” ementary and high school “I’m looking at around Badrodinhop Haiti, cluding Jakarta, West Java, working doubly hard with Luistro told reporters after students, representing 10 percent (of the total af- senior police officer at the South Sumatra, Jambi, Cen- private donors for the re- receiving pledges and ac- around 7 percent of the fected students) who may police headquarters, said tral Java and South Sulawe- habilitation of damaged tual donations from several country’s total enrollment either be out of school and that the deployment was si, leaving dozen of casual- schools in the central Phil- private organizations and for the current school year, may not plan to return. But part of police participation ties and forced more than ippines, there are also ef- companies for the recon- were affected, of which, I will have to validate that in a quick response to the 80,000 others to flee home. forts to account for children struction of wrecked school 254,723 need to be covered number because we have yet possible catastrophe in the Seasonal downpours to estimate those who might Local residents receive country. “We prepare our have often incurred floods have migrated already else- vegetable for free at a personnel as the meteorol- each year in Indonesia, a where,” Luistro said. “In community in Beijing, ogy agency foresees rain is chain of 17,500 islands past disasters, we really capital of China, on 22 going to peak up to March. where millions of people monitored an upsurge in the Jan, 2014. In order to We are preparing to take live in vulnerable flood number of street children, ensure a warm Spring part in efforts to handle its plains that are near to riv- or out-of-school youth,” he Festival for families with risks in a long term,”Haiti ers. Indonesia is homed by said, adding that it is im- difficulties, a total of 32 told the media. 129 active volcanoes and is portant to locate them early tons of vegetables were “Once the provincial located on the Pacific “Ring on because if they have not given to needy residents police require help from of Fire,” an arc of volca- been in school for three to for free in Xi’cheng us, we are ready to comply noes and fault lines encir- six months, it will be more District of Beijing on with it, sending personal cling the Pacific Basin. difficult to encourage them Wednesday.—Xinhua and equipment.” Xinhua to return.—Kyodo News 12 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar ADvertisement & General Claims Day Notice Claims Day Notice Claims Day Notice M V giang hai 05 voy No (-) M V pacific trader voy No (019) M V mcp larnaca voy No (025) Consignees of cargo carried on MV giang hai Consignees of cargo carried on MV pacific Consignees of cargo carried on MV mcp lar- 05 VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel will trader VOY NO (019) are hereby notified that the naca VOY NO (025) are hereby notified that the be arriving on 24.1.2014 and cargo will be discharged vessel will be arriving on 24.1.2014 and cargo will be vessel will be arriving on 24.1.2014 and cargo will be into the premises of s.p.w-6 where it will lie at the discharged into the premises of m.i.p where it will lie discharged into the premises of m.i.p where it will lie consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byel- at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the aws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. 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Agent for: M/s tasneem int’l Agent for: M/s cosco shipping co ltd Xinhua Phone No: 256916/256919/256921 Phone No: 256916/256919/256921 Pedestri- First chocolate salon China shoe ans walk workshop in snow in Brussels set for in Altay collapse kills Prefecture, February northwest Brussels, 23 Jan — homage to its founder Leo- five, injures China’s The first chocolate salon in nidas Kestekides who bore Xinjiang Brussels will be held from 7 the same name as the Greek two Uygur Au- to 9 February in the Belgian King. Chongqing, 23 Jan — tonomous capital, announced Vice Chocolate is consid- Five people were crushed Region, Mayor Marion Lemesre at ered as one of the three spe- a Press conference on Tues- cialties of the small king- to death and two injured on 22 Jan, day. dom Belgium, along with after a building rented by a 2014. The salon will be at- diamond and beer. small leather shoe factory Xinhua tended by 89 chocolatiers, Belgium is now the as workshops in southwest Belgian and international. second largest consumer China collapsed on Tues- Nigerian parliament seeks end At the salon, visitors of chocolate in the world, day night, local authorities can not only follow the behind Switzerland, with announced Wednesday. great masters and sample an average of nearly ten The accident took to communal crisis nationwide their recipes, but also try pounds per year per person. place at about 7:45 pm Lagos, 23 Jan — The The resolution fol- duty of any government, as their skills at the work- Belgian chocolate is known Tuesday when 13 workers Nigerian House of Repre- lowed a motion moved by enshrined in section 14(2) b shops. for its original and diverse were having meals in the sentatives on Wednesday a member of the parliament of the 1999 Constitution, is The event will also tastes. first floor of a three-story urged President Goodluck from central north Kogi to guarantee the welfare of include a parade of choco- Chocolate is a major building in a village in the Jonathan to intervene in State Sunday Karimi, which the people. late dresses, fashion crea- player in Belgium’s local Nan’an district in the city the incessant communal was unanimously adopted. He stressed that as rep- tors and chocolate masters’ economic development. of Chongqing, the district clashes resulting in deaths Karimi told the lower resentatives of the Nigerian common work. The pentagon of Brus- government said in a state- between herdsmen and chamber that the contin- people they owed them the Famous Belgian choc- sels alone has 32 companies ment. farmers. The House also ued attacks on communi- duty to protect them. olatier Leonidas will show specializing in the manufac- The rescue operation urged the Nigerian leader ties across the country by The west African a colossal chocolate sculp- ture of cocoa and chocolate. ture, measuring nearly four Between 2004 and ended on Wednesday and to convene a stakeholders’ herdsmen and the counter- country has a population meeting of leaders of ethnic attacks has become a daily of 167 million and disputes meters high, for its 100th 2009, the turnover of the among seven buried, two anniversary. chocolate rose 53 percent in were pulled out alive and groups to put an end to the occurrence. about land and the ensuing incessant clashes. He said within the last violence has long been a A work of Jean-Luc Brussels, while investment five were already dead. More than 500 people 30 days over 100 innocent headache for the Nigerian Decluzeau, the sculpture rose in the same period by An investigation into were killed in various com- lives have been lost on ac- government, who is strug- is an effigy of the king of 50 percent, from 10 million the cause of the collapse is munal clashes across the six count of these needless at- gling to fight the rampant Sparta, the emblem of the to 15 million euros (13.68 underway. geopolitical zones in Nige- tacks and counter attacks. Boko Haram militants in brand Leonidas since its million to 20.52 million US Xinhua ria in 2013. According to him, the the north.—Xinhua creation. It is created to pay dollars). —Xinhua New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 13 ENTERTAINMENT Boy band, The Wanted, to take a break after tour New York, 23 Jan — Wanted and look forward with their infectious dance Boy band, The Wanted, to many successful projects songs. said on Wednesday they together in the future,” they Known for their rau- were taking a break and said on their website, which cous behaviour, the band that their upcoming Word also announced the release appeared in a reality show of Mouth Tour would be of a new video and single produced by Ryan Seacrest their last for a while. “Glow in the Dark.” Productions on US cable The group, whose The group, comprising network E! that premiered members are British and Max George, Siva Kane- in June. It followed the Irish and whose hit singles swaran, Nathan Sykes, Tom band as they prepared for include “I Found You,” Parker and Jay McGuiness, their album and world tour. “Chasing the Sun” and was formed in 2009 and its The Wanted’s 2014 “Glad You Came,” said members are in their early tour will take them to Eu- they had decided to pursue 20s. rope and Britain and Ire- their own personal plans. They were signed by land during February and “The band wants to Justin Bieber’s manager March, and to the US in stress to their fans that they Scooter Braun and hit the April and May. Members of The Wanted, an English-Irish boy band, perform in the Village during will continue on as The US pop charts in 2012 Reuters the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 Sept, 2013.—Reuters Bruce Springsteen’s ‘High Hopes’ lands atop Billboard chart Los Angeles, 23 Jan to top the soundtrack of the 13 No 1 albums, and the selling 54,000 copies. —“The Boss” is back on film “Frozen,” which had Beatles’ record 19 chart- Christian alterna- top of the Billboard 200 topped the charts for the topping albums, Billboard tive rock band Switchfoot album chart on Wednes- past two weeks and sold said. capped the new entries in day as Bruce Springsteen 87,000 copies last week, But “High Hopes” is the top 10 at No 6 with their scored his 11th No 1 album according to figures from Springsteen’s first album ninth studio album, “Fad- with “High Hopes,” more Nielsen SoundScan. to have fewer than 100,000 ing West,” selling 39,000 than three decades after Springsteen now has in first-week sales since copies. first reaching the chart’s the third-most albums to Nielsen SoundScan began Pop singer Katy Perry’s apex. reach the top of the weekly compiling figures for Bill- song “Dark Horse,” featur- Kristen is working with Julianne in Still Alice. The album from the Billboard chart, surpassing board in 1991, the maga- ing rapper Juicy J, kept its 64-year-old rocker sold Elvis Presley and trailing zine said. top spot on the digital songs Kristen Stewart excited 99,000 in its opening week only rapper Jay Z, who has More than a third of chart with 261,000 down- the album’s sales were loads in the past week, up physical copies sold online, 7 percent from last week. to work with Julianne Billboard said, noting that Total album sales for the Amazon.com’s special of- week were 4.4 million, an Moore fer of the album paired with 11 percent decline from the Los Angeles, 23 Jan “They will film in New a DVD of a Springsteen same week last year but up — Actress Kristen Stewart York and Kristen plans on concert helped boost over- 4 percent from sales last is said to be excited about bringing her dog Bailey, all sales. week. working with Julianne who may have a part in the “Kidz Bop 25,” the Album sales for the Moore in emotional drama film,” the source added. newest release from the year to date are 14.1 mil- Still Alice. An adaptation of Lisa Kidz Bop series of albums lion, a 14 percent decline “Kristen is super ex- Genova’s novel, Still Al- in which children sing pop from the same period in cited to work with Julianne ice centres around Moore’s hits, entered the charts at 2013. Moore. It’s just been con- character, a psychology No 3, selling 76,000 copies. Individual song down- firmed that she will play professor who battles an Country singer Jen- loads total 80.3 million for the part of her daughter in early onset of Alzheimer’s Singer Bruce Springsteen and the E-street band perform nifer Nettles, half of the the year so far, off 12 per- a movie called Still Alice,” disease. The production is during their concert at Molinon Stadium in Gijon, duo Sugarland, entered the cent over the same period showbizspy.co.uk quoted a set to begin in mid-Febru- northern Spain on 26 June, 2013. chart at No 5 with her first last year. source as saying. ary.—PTI Reuters solo album, “That Girl,” Reuters Selena Gomez parties Kareena Kapoor not sure about Shuddhi Mumbai, 23 Jan — pend on my mood at that with mystery man Actress Kareena Kapoor time.” singer, who was recently is not sure about the status The film got postponed thought to have reunited of Shuddhi and says she following Hrithik’s health with her ex-boyfriend Jus- will now “decide whether issues. The actor had to un- tin Bieber, appeared at the to do it” depending on her dergo brain surgery follow- festival to promote her new “mood”. ing a blood clot. film Rudderless Tuesday Karan Johar’s produc- Shuddhi is yet to go on night (21 January) and at- tion Shuddhi, to be directed the floors. Kareena says she tended the Grey Goose by Karan Malhotra, fea- doesn’t know about what party alongside a man de- tures Hrithik Roshan in the lies ahead for the project. Selena was attending a scribed as having shaggy lead role. But the movie has “As of now I don’t Grey Goose party in Los blond hair and wearing a been delayed. know what is happening re- Angeles. green sweater. “She went At an event for a tea garding that film (Shuddhi) Los Angeles, 23 Jan — right up to him really early Singer Selena Gomez was on in the evening,” people. brand, when Kareena was as since one and half years Kareena says she doesn’t know about what lies ahead partying with a mystery com quoted a source as asked about doing the film it is being postponed,” Ka- for the project. man at the Sundance Film saying. Selena Gomez was when it goes on the floors, reena said. Festival. then seen getting very close she said, “I will decide “I have not met Karan even has got Hrithik’s dates with Bang Bang,” she add- The Come & Get It to the mystery man.—PTI whether to do it. It will de- Johar and I don’t think he for the film as he is busy ed.—PTI 14 Friday, 24 January, 2014 New Light of Myanmar SPORTS Roger Federer of Real Madrid stay top of money league despite Switzerland celebrates vic- barren year tory after his London, 23 Jan — 5.4 billion euros, Deloitte ly. The two clubs enjoy the manding a bigger share of men’s singles Spain’s Real Madrid retained said, underlining the appeal financial advantage of being cash from broadcasters. quarterfinal the title of the world’s rich- of soccer to broadcasters and able to negotiate their own Speaking to Reuters this against Andy est soccer club in the past sponsors targeting mass con- TV deals, rather than pooling week, Barcelona Vice Presi- Murray of year thanks to sponsorship sumer markets. TV rights income as teams dent Carles Vilarrubi said UK at 2014 and TV deals robust enough Real Madrid and Barce- in other major leagues have only the bigger teams could Australian to endure a season without a lona are two of the most con- to do. Yet Spain’s TV rights deliver the kind of view- Open tennis major trophy, a study showed sistently successful teams in model and the country’s eco- ing figures TV companies tournament on Thursday. Europe, fielding top players nomic crisis have left many demand. “It’s a question of in Melbourne, Real’s revenue of 519 such as Cristiano Ronaldo of its smaller clubs facing a balance because people want Australia, on million euros put the club and Lionel Messi respective- struggle to survive and de- to watch Barca and Real Ma- 22 Jan, 2014. ahead of domestic rivals Bar- drid and PSG and Bayern Federer won celona in fiscal 2012/2013, Munich games,” Vilarrubi 3-1. with European champions said. Xinhua Bayern Munich edging into “We should equalise third ahead of Manchester a little bit the income of the Federer ousts Murray into United, in the annual Foot- clubs but at the same time we ball Money League compiled should consider that the TV 11th consecutive Australian by accountants Deloitte. channels need to offer the Qatari-owned Paris St games that people want to Open semi Germain (PSG), where for- watch.” Manchester United Melbourne, 23 Jan— four by eliminating Mur- mer England captain David won the English premier Roger Federer has set up ray 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3 Beckham ended his career league for a record 20th time a 33rd clash of his epic ri- in a compelling encounter last year, underlined its emer- last year, but the team has valry with Rafael Nadal loaded with sublime shot- gence as a soccer power with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (L) and Karim struggled on the pitch this with four-set quarterfinal making and lung-busting an 81 percent rise in revenue Benzema (2nd R) battle for the balll against Espanyol’s season and risks missing out triumph over Andy Mur- rallies. The win set up a to almost 400 million euros Joan Capdevila (11) and Sidnei Rechel during their on qualification for a place in ray at Australia Open on showdown with Nadal who to claim fifth spot. King’s Cup soccer match at Cornella El Prat stadium, the lucrative UEFA Champi- Revenue for the top 20 ons League. Wednesday. beat Bulgarian 22nd seed in Barcelona on 21 Jan, 2014. —Reuters The revitalised Swiss Grigor Dimitrov 3-6, 7-6 teams rose by 8 percent to Reuters reached his 11th consecu- (7-3), 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 in the tive Australia Open last other quarterfinal.—Xinhua Moyes suffers nightmares at Theatre of Dreams London, 23 Jan — trophy after trophy arriving ton, Newcastle United and sive and shy away from the Li Na beats Bouchard, When Alex Ferguson took at Old Trafford. West Bromwich Albion all crowd-pleasing, attacking the microphone at Old Traf- Their trophy hopes this end this season. style his predecessor imple- reaches third Australian ford in May to implore Man- season now lie only in the The absence of Wayne mented. chester United supporters to Champions League, where Rooney and Robin van Per- “Of course, you would Open final back his self-appointed suc- the English champions will sie from the starting lineup expect a better standard be- Melbourne, 23 Jan— cessor, David Moyes, he did remain confident of beating in recent weeks has been cause, don’t forget, there China’s Li Na reached her so with a warning of tough Greeks Olympiakos Pireaus greatly felt, with reports link- are a lot of internationals third Australian Open in four times ahead. Few, though, in the Last 16 next month but ing both forwards away from out there,” Moyes said after years after beating Canadian would have expected it to be less so of taking out others the club, but the problems lie the penalty shootout loss to rising star Eugenie Bour- this trying. after that. deeper than their return to fit- Sunderland, who will play chard 6-2, 6-4 in Thursday’s “I’d like to remind you The challenge of Euro- ness. Manchester City in the final semifinals here. Li broke that we’ve had bad times pean giants such as Barce- Defenders are making at Wembley. Bouchard three time just here,” Ferguson said after lona, Real Madrid or Bayern mistakes, midfielders are be- “In the end, I just don’t from the signing off his last match in Munich looks far beyond a ing overrun, chances not be- think we got the level of per- charge at United’s fortress confidence sapped side who ing created, while commen- formance we needed to go home he had spent 27 years have seen long unbeaten tators question why Moyes through the game. If we had building up with a 2-1 win home records against Ever- is opting to be more defen- got through, I would have over Swansea City. Manchester been disappointed with the “The club stood by me. United’s manager performance, but I’m doubly All my staff stood by me. David Moyes ges- disappointed that we haven’t beginning, The players stood by me. So tures during their got to the final.” winning all three by love- your job now is to stand by English League United are not in action game, to establish a 5-0 our new manager. That is im- Cup semi-final this weekend as their rivals lead in the first set. portant.” second leg soc- City, Liverpool, Arsenal The 19-year-old Following Wednesday’s cer match against and Chelsea compete in the Bouchard, 12 years young- League Cup semi-final exit at Sunderland at Old fourth round of the FA Cup, er than Li, fought back to the hands of struggling Sun- Trafford in Man- a tournament Ferguson once break Li in the sixth game derland, that request is being chester, northern famously shunned in favour and serve the next one out, severely tested by United England on 22 of going after what is now but still could not stop Li fans all over the world who Jan, 2014. the Club World Cup. from winning the first set have gorged on the glory of Reuters Reuters 6-2. Li and Bouchard broke each other five times in the Cibulkova beats Radwanska to make first-ever Grand second set. It was the two- time runner-up Chinese who finally took her chance to Slam final serve the match out. Melbourne, 23 Jan— Dominika Cibulkova Li will play the win- Dominika Cibulkova be- of Slovakia celebrates ner between Dominika came the first Slovakian after winning women’s Cibulokova of Slovakia and tennis player ever to reach singles semifinal against Agnieszka Radwansha of the final of a Grand Slam Agnieszka Radwanska Poland in Saturday’s final. event when she beat Ag- of Poland at 2014 Aus- Li Na Li made into finals at Mel- nieszka Radwanska of Po- tralian Opentennis bourne Park in 2011 and land 6-1, 6-2 at the semifi- tournament in Mel- 2013, losing to Kim Clijsters nals of the Australian Open bourne, Australia, and Victoria Azarenka. here on Thursday. on 23 Jan2014. Xinhua Xinhua Xinhua New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 15 GENERAL Expert warns MYANMAR Toronto Mayor Rob INTERNATIONAL of grim flu 24-1-14 07:00 am ~ Ford calls latest rant 25-1-14 07:00 am) MST season in * Local News video a ‘minor setback’ * Naga Traditional China Cultural Showroom Toronto, 23 Jan — A somehow impacting their video of Toronto Mayor work,” he said. “Folks, Beijing, 23 Jan — A * World News Rob Ford ranting in a Ja- that is absolute nonsense.” low vaccination rate and * In The Studio: LCO maican accent and slurring Ford, who pledged last year multiple active virus strains * Local News his words on Monday was to clean up his act after a have led to a more seri- * “Pride of Myanmar” a “minor setback,” he said, crack-smoking scandal, ad- ous flu control situation in Bagan Arts and Crafts maintaining that his per- mitted on Tuesday he had China this winter, a disease * World News sonal life did not interfere been drinking the previous Toronto Mayor Rob Ford arrives to make a statement control expert warned on * Dengue Fever with his job. “Monday was evening when the video was about his personal life and the Capital and Operating Thursday. * Local News unfortunate. I had a minor shot at a suburban eatery. Budgets meeting that had just finished at City Hall in Compared with previ- * Rakhine Traditional setback. We all experi- In the video, taken Toronto, on 22 Jan, 2014.—Reuters ous years, the flu virus is Wedding Ceremony ence these difficult bumps from a low angle and posted fore using a Jamaican pro- por” and driven a car after much more active, espe- * World News in life,” Ford said at a on YouTube, Ford stands at fanity. In much of the video, drinking. Those admis- cially in south China, said * Myanmar Movie Press conference called on the counter of a fast-food Ford puts on a Jamaican ac- sions came after police re- Feng Zijian, deputy direc- Review “Superb” Wednesday to discuss the restaurant and rants about cent. “He’s hiding here; I’m vealed they had a video of tor of the Chinese Center * Local News city’s budget vote. surveillance that police car- hiding here. You know how the mayor smoking what for Disease Control and * A Trip to Mon State “This is completely a ried out last year during a much money that costs?” appeared to be crack. The Prevention (CDC). “Mawlamyine” private matter. There are drug investigation. In November, Ford video had been uncovered According to Feng, * World News some counselors who claim “Chase me around five said he had smoked crack in the course of a drug in- health departments have * Myanmar Harpist that my personal life is months, man,” he said, be- while in a “drunken stu- vestigation.—Reuters detected three major strains * Local News of the flu virus: H1, H3 and * Adventurous Journey 42 killed in Afghanistan since Friday, Influenza B. to Bontalar Waterfall In past years, usually * World News only one strain prevailed, * Myanmar Movie with Taleban vowing to speed up attacks but this winter all three Review “The White Castle of Romance” Kabul, 23 Jan — were killed. Among the 21 southern Kandahar Prov- suicide attacks and gunfire strains are active, adding difficulty to both prevention * Local News The ongoing violent at- civilians, 13 were foreign- ince on Saturday evening, lasted for several hours in a * Marketable Goods tacks mostly in the shape ers, according to officials. spokesman for provincial main base of foreign forces and treatment, Feng said. The best way to pre- (Myanmar Arts & of suicide bombings have Taleban outfit imme- government Jawed Faisal in Kandahar on Monday, Handicrafts) claimed 42 lives with ma- diately after the incident said. In another bloody sui- which was rebuffed by of- vent the flu is vaccination, but China’s vaccination rate * World News jority of them civilians in claimed responsibility for cide bombing which took ficials. A day later on Tues- * Myanmar Masterclass: remains at 2 to 3 percent of the militancy-hit Afghani- the deadly suicide attack. place on Monday in the day, three more civilians Cubism the population each year, stan since Friday amid the The Taleban purported southern Kandahar prov- lost their lives as a mine * Local News lagging far behind 27 per- Taleban threat to continue spokesman Zabihullah Mu- ince, 12 people including planted by militants on a * Tea Leaves fighting until eviction of jahid immediately after the two civilians, one US sol- road in Maiwand District cent in the United States, * World News foreign forces from the attack said in a statement dier and nine attackers were of Kandahar province ex- noted Feng. * Art Students: country. In a massive sui- that the armed outfit tar- killed, according to local of- ploded. The main reason for Theatrical Art cide attack against a res- geted elements supported ficials. Anti-government mili- the low vaccination rate is * Local News taurant in the diplomatic invaders in Afghanistan. However, Qari Yusuf tants in another incident but a general lack of awareness * Shorts & Logs (EP-2) enclave of Wazir Akbar In a related incident, Ahmadi who said to speak bloodless kidnapped 63 de- among the public about the Ye’Pyae Khan District in Kabul on three Afghan youths were for the Taleban outfit in miners from Pashtun Zarg- dangers of the flu, as well as * World News Friday which has drawn killed while four others talks with media via tele- hond district in the western concerns about the safety of * The Pride of worldwide condemnation, wounded when a rocket phone from unknown loca- Herat Province on Tuesday domestic vaccines, accord- Myanmar “Traditional 24 people including three fired by the Taleban land- tion claimed that dozens of morning but set them free ing to Feng. Handicraft” attackers and 21 civilians ed in Maiwand District of foreigners were killed in the in the afternoon.—Reuters Xinhua two layouts co-hosting this the record total set by Jack Tiger likes look of firm and fast Torrey Pines week’s event. Nicklaus. “All I know is “It’s fantastic to be able that I’m still in I feel my New York, 23 Jan — record eighth victory. ago. “The greens, I haven’t Woods. “I’m hitting it well. to have had the success that peak years, I’m still play- Tiger Woods could not Not only was the pictur- seen them this firm maybe I have the option now as my I’ve had on this golf course, ing well,” he said. wish for a better place to esque venue perched above since the (2008) Open,” the swing has evolved working and not just playing here in “There have been a launch his 2014 PGA Tour the Pacific Ocean the scene defending champion told with (coach) Sean (Foley) the Tour event but also put- number of guys who have campaign than at the Tor- of his remarkable playoff reporters on the eve of the that I can start elevating it ting a stamp on it with a US gone on even in their early rey Pines Golf Club for this win at the 2008 US Open tournament on Wednesday. again. Open win. 40s to win major champi- week’s Farmers Insurance but the firm, fast and dif- “It’s hard to imagine “Probably going to “That was a very spe- onships. Open outside San Diego ficult conditions this week watching wedges, nine- need it a little bit this week. cial week, especially con- “Mark (O’Meara in where he will be hunting a mirror those of six years irons and some of the short We’re going to have to start sidering the circumstances, 1998) did it, he’s the old- irons, balls bounce up as setting some balls up, but the things that I had to kind est one to do it, to win high as the top of the flag- it’s important to get the ball of go through to get to that multiples in the same stick but that’s what was in the fairway. The rough is point.” Woods won the year. Jack won in his 40s, happening this morning. thick.” 2008 US Open in a playoff (Ben) Hogan won multi- “If they keep the golf Woods, who won last with fellow American Roc- ples in his 40s, actually course like this it’s going to year’s Farmers Insurance co Mediate, sealing victory 38 and above. be one hell of a test as the Open by four shots in a fog- at the 91st hole despite hav- “I feel like I’ve got a week progresses. It’s going delayed Monday finish, has ing suffered a double stress number of years ahead of to get really difficult to post always relished competing fracture in his left shinbone me and I’m really looking some good numbers.” at Torrey Pines. two weeks. forward to that.” Asked whether he “I feel comfortable He has not landed an- This week, Woods liked the challenging, sun- here, there is no doubt,” other major title since then will attempt to win his 80th baked conditions at Torrey said the 14-times ma- but, at the age of 38, be- PGA Tour title with only Pines, the world number jor champion, who will lieves he has enough time Sam Snead (82) ahead of one smiled broadly. launch his title defence on to pile up the additional him in the all-time stand- Tiger Woods “I find it good,” said the South course, one of five he needs to overhaul ings.—Reuters R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, [email protected] the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information. www.facebook.com/thenewlightofmyanmar 9th Waning of Pyatho 1375 ME New Light of Myanmar Friday, 24 January, 2014 MoI no plan to publish Book on Panglong Conference Two sent to prison for banned sexual stimulant tablets sales

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan— It needs to form a com- ference on full record. of Pyithu Hluttaw, Daw to construct the bridges as one staff of Tawwin Centre Ministry of Information has mittee first with the level of U Min Swe also sug- Mi Myint Than of Ye Con- Kawdutchaung-Kadoseik have been sentenced to one no plan to publish a book on expertise required for the gested including intention stituency asked if there is a Village and Hnitkayin Vil- month in prison and fined the Panglong Conference gigantic task said the deputy of the conference, discus- plan to construct necessary lage are easily accessible by K50000 each and two sales that took place at Panglong minister in his reply to the sion of the delegates dur- bridges in Ye Township in motorized boat and by car. staff have been released in Shan State on 12 Febru- question of U Min Swe of ing the conference and the the 2013-14 FY. Regarding the sales on restrictions, according ary, 1947, said Information DaikU Constituency if there agreements reached dur- U Aung Thein, Deputy of sexual stimulant tablets to Brig-Gen Kyaw Kyaw Deputy Minister U Paik is a plan to publish a book on ing the conference in the Minister at the President which are banned in My- Tun, Deputy Minister for Htway at Pyithu Hluttaw the historic meeting as part of book. Office, replied that the anmar, one staff of Sein Home Affairs. today. efforts for keeping the con- During today session government has no plan Gay Har Supermarket and (See page 8) Speaker of Pyidaungsu, Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw receives receives EU Ambassador, UNSG’s New Zealand Ambassador to Myanmar Special Adviser on Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan— here at 1.30 pm today. tee Chairperson Daw Nan Ni Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U It was also attended by Ni Aye, Amyotha Hluttaw Nay Pyi Taw, 23 The Speaker also met of law, national unity, na- Khin Aung Myint received Mining and Resources Af- Committee members U Kan Jan—Speaker of Py- UN Secretary-General’s tional reconciliation and New Zealand Ambassador to fairs Committee Chairman Nyunt and U Tin Shan, and idaungsu and Pyithu Hlut- Special Adviser on Myan- internal peace-making Myanmar Mr. Tony Lynch at U Nay Win Tun, Women officials of Amyotha Hluttaw taw Thura U Shwe Mann mar Mr. Vijay Nambiar at processes.—MNA Amyotha Hluttaw Building and Child Affairs Commit- Office.—MNA received EU Ambassador the same venue at 2 pm. to Myanmar Mr. Roland At the meetings, they Kobia at Hluttaw building cordially exchanged views C-in-C receives UNSG’s Special Adviser here at 8.30 am today. on legislative matters, rule on Myanmar Regional stability and development tasks inspected Nay Pyi Taw, 23 and departmental officials Jan—Secretary of Central at state government office Committee for Implemen- on 20 January. The chief tation of Stability and De- minister clarified work pro- velopment in Rakhine State gress, requirements and on- Deputy Minister for Border going work procedures and Affairs Maj-Gen Maung the deputy ministers, plans Maung Ohn, Deputy Min- to be made field trips to ful- ister for National Planning fill requirements and pro- and Economic Develop- motion on tasks of emer- ment Daw Le Le Thein gency coordination center and party made field trips (ECC). in Sittway, Myebon, Min- They together with bya, MraukU and Pauk- State Minister for Secu- taw Townships to inspect rity and Border Affairs Col peace, stability and devel- Htein Lin and representa- opment tasks in the state. tives from UN agencies met Senior General Min Aung Hlaing poses for documentary photo together with Mr Vijay Nambiar, They held a meeting townselders, members of UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Myanmar and party.—Myawady with Rakhine State Chief township supportive com- Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Jan ar, UN Secretary-General’s of Myanmar want to see though there are challenges Minister U Hla Maung mittee and officials in My- — Commander-in-Chief Special Adviser on Myan- stability and development of the process, said Senior Tin, state ministers, chair- ebon Township on 21 Janu- of Defence Services Senior mar, at Zeyathiri Beikman in the country and would General Min Aung Hlaing men and secretaries from ary. General Min Aung Hlaing here today. contribute to reform pro- at the meeting. six working subcommittees (See page 8) received Mr Vijay Nambi- The Defence Services cess till to the success Mr Vijay Nambiar said the UN pushed Myanmar to CNA officially opens Myanmar News Bureau In his opening speech, said. do reforms in the past and Ms Debra Soon, Managing The ceremony to it was currently assisting in Yangon Director of Channel News open the news bureau in reforming process of the Yangon, 23 Jan— Asia said that CNA would was formally opened by country. He continued to Channel News Asia (CNA) step up not only news cov- Deputy Minister for In- say that the UN recognized officially opened its news erage, but also documen- formation U Ye Htut and the efforts of the Defence bureau here today. taries and programmes on Ms Debra Soon at the Services to achieve peace Myanmar News Bu- Myanmar in the past few Sedona Hotel. with ethnic armed groups. reau has become the region- years. The opening cer- The United Nations al broadcaster channel’s “Today, we are adding emony was followed by is interested in role of the 13th bureau in Southeast and another thrust to our en- the seminar, Business In- Defence Services in im- East Asia. gagement with Myanmar sights—Understanding the plementing democratic and Ms Debra Soon, with a regional business Changing Myanmar at the peace making process and Managing Director of seminar. This provides Sedona Hotel, gathering willing to cooperate with Channel News Asia a platform for political think tanks, captains of in- the Defence Services of speaking at opening and business leaders to dustry and leaders from the Myanmar in providing so- of CNA bureau in understand more about governmental and private cial security of the people, the changing face of My- banking sectors. Yangon.—mna Mr Nambiar said. anmar,” Ms Debra Soon (See page 9) (See page 9)