Volume II, Number 46 5th Waning Day of Nayon 1377 ME Saturday, 6 June, 2015 Environmental conservation a national duty: president

President U Thein Sein poses for documentary photo with Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and prize winners in contests to mark World Environment Day 2015.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June tal Conservation Day. adoption of an ambitious ronment and ecosystem, crease in population from world loses 30 percent of — The adoption of sus- In his speech at Myan- global environmental pact. the president said. over 40 million in 1990 its forestland, 20 percent tainable development mar International Conven- It is necessary for Supplying food, hu- to 51.4 million today, the of farmland and 10 percent goals and climate change tion Centre (2), the presi- people around the world man needs and resources president added. of pasture land every year, protocols by the Unit- dent said the UN General including Myanmar to fun- to the growing global pop- Then president said having lost 50 percent loss ed Nations this year will Assembly is going to adopt damentally change their ulation, which is estimated 925 million people around of its wetlands between be milestones for the in- sustainable development individual lifestyles so that to grow from 7 billion to- the world are facing food 2000 and 2010, before ternational community, goals in September, while extraction, consumption day to 9.6 billion in 2050, shortages, while anoth- adding that such condi- President U Thein Sein the climate change confer- and waste of natural re- is a major challenge for all er 600 million lack clean tions are threatening the said Friday, in a speech to ence to be held in Decem- sources will not affect the countries including Myan- drinking water. lives of 7 billion people. mark World Environmen- ber in Paris will see the sustainability of the envi- mar, which has seen an in- The president said the (See page 3)

Gov’t team seeks to determine Myanmar, UK business chambers agree to origins of rescued boat people strengthen partnership Maungtaw, 5 June — return them as quickly as A team of officials led by possible, sources said. By Ye Myint Kingdom and Myanmar. Myanmar, the two cham- and responsible firms. Deputy Minister for Im- The team is com- According to the bers are committed to pro- The signing will help Yangon, 5 June — The agreement signed by UM- moting international trade develop trade between Brit- migration and Population posed of Rakhine State country’s largest business FCCI President U Win and investment, supporting ish companies here and their U Win Myint on Friday Security and Border Af- federation signed a mem- Aung and Mr Tony Picon, joint networking opportu- Myanmar counterparts, visited a camp in Rakhine fairs Minister Col Htein orandum of understand- President of the British nities and facilitating sus- said Mr John Longworth, State housing 733 boat Lin and other officials. ing Friday with the British Chamber of Commerce tainable economic growth (See page 2) people rescued at sea last The team also in- Chamber of Commerce month by the Myanmar spected food and health Myanmar aimed at strength- Navy. conditions of the boat peo- ening partnerships between The team has been ple, who were rescued at the two associations and assigned to investigate the sea southeast of Pyapon, promoting ethical business countries of origin of the some 75 miles south of practices. boat people at the camp Yangon, on 29 May. The MoU will strength- in Taungpyo (Letwe), and MNA en business relationships and enable the sharing of INSIDE information and organiza- tion of exhibitions among Senior General Min Aung Hlaing members of the two asso- and wife hoist umbrella atop ciations, said Dr Maung pagoda, comfort patients at military Maung Lay, vice president of the Republic of the Un- hospital Page-2 ion of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce Postponement of general elections and Industry. only likely in face of disaster and Dr Maung Maung Lay said there were numerous UMFCCI President U Win Aung and BCCM President Mr Tony Picon sign instability: UEC successful business partner- a memorandum of understanding to strengthen business relations between Page-3 ships between the United Myanmar and UK in Yangon on Friday.—Photo: Ye Myint 2 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 Parliament & National

Pyithu Hluttaw Self-reliant electrification projects carried out in some villages: councilor

Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June uency, who asked about the the power grid, he added. — Self-reliant electrifica- collection of K267.68 mil- U Myint Soe of Pyaw- tion projects had to be car- lion from farmers to electri- bwe Constituency asked ried out in some villages fy 14 villages in Pobbathiri whether there is a plan to with the consent of locals Township this fiscal year. build toilets at pagodas, as spending state budget The council member religious edifices, sites of on electrification of over said village electricity sup- cultural heritage and pub- 63,000 villages in the en- ply committees estimated lic places. Deputy Minister tire country will reduce the expenditures for power sup- for Religious Affairs Dr spending for other impor- ply works before collect- Maung Maung Htay replied tant sectors, Nay Pyi Taw ing the money from local that toilets have been built Council member U Phone farmers under supervision at separate areas of famous Zaw Han told the Friday of district and township religious edifices. However, session of the Pyithu Hlut- electrification committees. some boards of trustees can- Chief Minister of Mandalay Regiion U Ye Myint, Commander of Central taw. Authorities in Nay Pyi Taw not afford to build toilets. Command Maj-Gen Soe Htut and authorities together with well-wisher s The council member Council Area coordinate Likewise, most buildings at fix jade orb atop Wairawsana Jade Pagoda in Hsinywa Myinhmu Village was replying to a question with the Ministry of Electric cultural zones have not yet in Amarapura Township, Mandalay Region, on Friday. raised by U Phyo Zeyar Power to supply electricity been equipped with public Tin Maung (Mandalay) Thaw of Pobbathiri Constit- to local people residing near toilets.—MNA

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife hoist umbrella Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June er with religious objects — Senior General Min to the venerable monks. Aung Hlaing, Command- The senior general atop pagoda, comfort patients at military hospital er-in-Chief of Defence and wellwishers enshrined Services, and wife Daw the religious objects into Kyu Kyu Hla attended the reliquary. They also the ceremony to enshrine hoisted tiers of the um- religious objects into the brella, pennant shape vane reliquary of Lawkananhga and diamond orb atop the Abhaya Pagoda, hoist an pagoda. umbrella atop the pago- The senior general da, offer an emerald alms and wife together with at- bowl and golden robes tendees planted a Bo tree and consecrate the pago- in the northern ward of the da in Mayingyi region, platform. Yebyu Township, Tanin- In the afternoon, the thayi Region, on Friday senior general and wife morning. comforted patients at the The command- military hospital in Dawei er-in-chief and wife and Station individually and well-wishers offered a di- provided cash assistance amond orb, pennant shape and foodstuffs to them. vane and umbrella togeth- Myawady

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing comforts patients at military hospital in Dawei Station, Taninthayi Region.—Myawady

Myanmar, UK … Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June — Government departments Departmental officials need to accept good (from page 1) should adopt departmental Director-General of the policies for relations with opportunity for relations with media British Chambers of Com- media and releasing infor- preparation for the press merce. mation, Union Minister release, holding press con- The UMFCCI has a for Information U Ye Htut ference and programmes membership of more than told the opening ceremony for media. 30,000 firms. The British of the training course on Altogether 83 officers Chamber of Commerce My- relations with media and from Supreme Court of the anmar was founded in 2014 releasing information at the Union, ministries, the At- and has 11 global sponsors, Ministry of Information, torney-General of the Un- as well as 140 member com- here, on Friday. ion, the Auditor-General of panies, including those from The union minister the Union, the Union Civil Myanmar, the United King- stressed the need for de- Services Board and Central dom, ASEAN and Europe. partmental officials to ac- Bank of Myanmar are at- As of 30 April 2015, cept relating with media as tending the course, which 48 firms from the United a good opportunity. continuesup to 6 June. Kingdom have invested a Journalist U Ye Na- MNA total US $3.5 billion in My- ing Moe of Yangon-based anmar since 1988-89, mak- Journalism School gave Journalist U Ye Naing ing the United Kingdom the lectures on nature of media, Moe gives lectures fourth-highest overall for- ideology on media, defini- on media relations to eign investor in the country. tion, relations with media, GNLM salient points at interview, trainees.—mna Saturday, 6 June, 2015 3 National

ernment, in cooperation Later, the president Environmental conservation with international commu- presented prizes to win- a national... nity, has emphasized en- ners of an essay competi- vironmental conservation, tion. development of the green After the ceremony, (from page 1) adopting environmental economy and frameworks the president viewed an The Myanmar con- regulations, while organ- for climate change in its environmental exhibition stitution promulgates that izations are being formed 20-year plan for national and posed for documenta- the state and all its citizens to cooperate on environ- development. ry photo with attendees. shall protect the environ- mental conservation, he In conclusion, the Present at the cere- ment, the president said. said. president said active par- mony were Vice President The government has been In addition, the gov- ticipation in environmen- Dr Sai Mauk Kham, union tal conservation to reduce ministers and deputy min- President U Thein Sein climate change is a nation- isters, the resident repre- al duty, so that Myanmar sentative of the UNDP and sends messages of can achieve sustainable officials.—MNA development and hand felicitations to Sweden down favourable environ- UNDP Resident mental conditions to future Representative Ms. Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June—U Thein Sein, President of generations. Renata Lok-Dessal- the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent mes- After the president’s lien presents second sages of felicitations to His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf of speech, the resident rep- prize to Ma Htet Htet resentative of UNDP read Sweden and His Excellency Mr Stefan Lofven, Prime Lin in open essay Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden, on the occasion of out messages of UN Secre- contest to mark World the National Day of the Kingdom of Sweden, which falls tary General Ban Ki-moon on 6 June 2015. and the executive director Environment Day MNA of the UNEP. 2015.—mna will remain unchanged as Postponement of general elections only likely in they represent townships. Union FM sends There are 330 townships in message of face of disaster and instability: UEC the country. The chairman briefed felicitations to on the functions of the Sweden Union commission, urging the Nay Pyi Taw, 5 Election subcommissions to play a June—U Wunna Maung Com- supervisory role and stick Lwin, Union Minster for mission to the letter of the law in Foreign Affairs of the Chair- undertaking their missions. Republic of the Union man U The meeting discussed of Myanmar, has sent Tin Aye the designation of constitu- a message of felicita- explains encies and polling stations. tions to Her Excellency functions According to an an- Ms Margot Wallstrom, Minister of Foreign Af- of nouncement made by the Union Election Commis- fairs of the Kingdom of UEC and sion on 1 January, general Sweden, on the occasion subcom- elections were planned in of the National Day of missions. late October or early No- the Kingdom of Sweden, mna vember. which falls on 6 June MNA 2015.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June— only either at the outbreak ty, the chairman of the Un- with its subcommissions. The postponement of gen- of natural disaster or in the ion Election Commission U Tin Aye said the eral elections will be likely absence of regional securi- on Friday told a meeting number of constituencies By Khaing Thanda Lwin Hospital sees rise in female patients living on streets

Yangon, 5 June— being treated for tubercu- U Tun Lin said the de- Yangon General Hospital’s losis. partment is seeking dona- Medical Social Work De- “We received five pa- tions from the public and is partment in recent months tients in May and two pa- in urgent needs of women’s has seen an increase in the tients in June, most of them clothing. number of female patients women,” Daw Yin Yin “The department is in admitted after living on the Hnin said. need of the contributions streets, a department of- The department nor- by private donors such as ficer said Friday. mally receives about 50 cash assistance, clothes “Some do not want patients per year, most and other needs for those to receive treatment while of them men, including patients, even though the others want to remain at the monks. Many of its patients department is providing hospital for fear that they are found to be suffering medical treatments to them would face difficulties for from undernourishment as free of charge,” he said. their daily survival,” medi- well as mental health prob- “The department cal social officer U Tun Lin lems. One-third of them die transports the patients to said. at the hospital. the place where they want Medical social work- Most patients are from to. Among them, those who er Daw Yin Yin Hnin said other regions and states and have no families or rela- ship in Yangon, but some ical social work depart- call Yangon General Hos- there are currently three have moved to Yangon in tives are usually transport- patients do not want to go ment has provided care to pital on 01 256112 to make women staying at the de- search of job opportunities, ed to Thabawa Meditation there.” patients picked up on the contributions. partment, one of whom is Daw Yin Yin Hnin said. Centre in Thanlyin Town- Since 1957, the med- streets. Well-wishers may GNLM 4 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 Local News Archway opened, religious objects enshrined at Jade Pagoda Thura U Myint Maung, departmental officials and well-wishers attended the ceremony. Mandalay Region Minister for Forestry, Mining and Religious Af- fairs U Than Soe Myint,

well-wishers U Soe Naing Namkham and U Aung Thein formal- ly opened the archway of Mogok the pagoda. Mandalay A ceremony to en- shrine religious objects into the upper reliquary was lat- er held at the pagoda. Tatkon The chief minister and Nay Pyi Taw party donated provisions to Mandalay, 5 June — wa Myinhmu village, Am- Chief Minister of Man- members of the Sangha on A ceremony marked the arapura Township, Man- dalay Region U Ye Myint, the occasion. opening of an archway of dalay Region, on 4 June leader of the religious advi- Tin Maung the Jade Pagoda at Hsiny- morning. sory team to the president (Mandalay) Bago Yangon Nay Pyi Taw Council member supervises regional development tasks Tatkon, 5 June — Nay Pyi Taw Council member U Myint Shwe held a meeting with departmental officials and social organizations Today’s on regional development at the township General Ad- Myanmar ministration Department in Tatkon on Thursday. News sites Deputy Township Administrator U Thiha Zaw spoke about progress of current projects, while Bago Region sports township officials dis- cussed future projects. grounds set The council member observed the electrification for maintenance of Thayetpin and Paytaw Bago, 5 June — Bago grade the sports ground villages through solar pan- Region Sports and Physi- in Kyaukdaga Township, els and supply of potable cal Education Department to build a stadium with water. China Taipei donated 70 lamp-posts, one tube-well, villages.—Tin Soe Lwin will carry out mainte- 400-meter track in Gyobin- Tatung Company of solar panels, batteries, two and one water tank to two (Tatkon Township IPRD) nance works on four sports gauk Township, maintain grounds in the region, us- the inner fencing, stand and Public Health Dept team treats Photo shows ing more than K170 mil- 400-m track at Thayawady upgrading of sports lion from the fiscal 2015- District football ground, 16 budget. and upgrade the Aungda- villagers, shares knowledge grounds in Bago The department invit- gun sports ground in Min- on reproductive Region with the use ed tender proposals from hla Township. health. of heavy machinery. 16 May to 1 June to up- Tin Soe (Bago) Nurse Daw Moe Moe Khaing spoke about the root causes of dengue haem- orrhagic fever, while health as- sistant Daw Nang Shwe Htay dis- cussed dysentery and diarrhea. The team led by Dr Nang Kyawt Khaing, Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June After an address by Township Health Officer — A medical team provid- Head of Township Pub- Dr Thiha Than and den- ed treatment and gave talks lic Health Department tist Dr Thit Thit Toe pro- to local residents in the pre- Dr Nang Kyawt Khaing, vided health services free cinct of the monastery in Chairwoman Daw Nweni of charge to five pregnant Kyeintawmyaung Village Tun of the Township Ma- women, 15 dental patients in Pobbathiri Township on ternal and Child Welfare and 147 general patients. 4 June. Association gave a talk Shwe Ye Yint Saturday, 6 June, 2015 5 regional Philippine pres ready to create pact with Japan for joint exercises Tokyo, 5 June — Phil- pines, which mark the 60th ippine President Benigno anniversary of bilateral ties Aquino said on Friday his next year, have increasingly nation is ready to begin talks stepped up their coopera- to create a visiting forces tion in the face of China’s agreement with Japan, a increasing assertiveness move that would allow Jap- in the contested waters in anese troops to refuel in the South China. China claims Southeast Asian country and sovereignty over most of hold joint exercises with the the South China Sea, which Philippine forces. is a vital shipping lane and Aquino said at a Press believed to have rich fish- conference he discussed ing grounds. Rival claimants with Japanese Prime Minis- Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) shakes in the dispute are Vietnam, ter Shinzo Abe during their hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after Malaysia, Brunei, Taipei and summit talks on Thursday their joint Press conference at the Akasaka State the Philippines, which is one that the “the relevant entities of the most vocal in oppos- Guesthouse in Tokyo on 4 June, 2015.— Kyodo News will start discussions lead- ing China’s push for over- ing up to a Visiting Forces sparked by the pace and ex- by foreign forces to the Phil- lapping territorial claims. Agreement.” “The Philip- tent of China’s reclamation ippines and enable joint mil- While Japan is not directly pines does welcome this work in the South China Sea. itary exercises. linked to the South China development and we will Although details have “It does not behoove a Sea dispute, it fears Bei- be initiating all of the diplo- yet to be worked out, Jap- good partnership or relation- jing’s expanding influence matic requirements to come anese government sourc- ship if you are not able to in the sea. The United States, up with a Visiting Forces es have said P3-C patrol work at the interoperability an ally of Japan and the Phil- Cambodian volunteers collect rubbish along a Agreement,” Aquino said aircraft and radar-related with the other,” he said at the ippines, does not take a stand riverside to mark World Environment Day in on the last leg of his four- equipment are seen as po- Japan National Press Club. in the territorial issues but Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 5 June, 2015. World day state visit to Japan from tential export items. Aquino An agreement of such has expressed concern over Environment Day is marked every year on 5 Tuesday. underlined the importance kind, ratified by the Philip- unilateral attempts to change June to raise global awareness to take positive He made his remarks a of having a visiting forces pine Senate, is “needed” to the status quo at sea by force. environmental action to protect nature and the day after he and Abe agreed agreement especially for Ja- enable holding joint exer- Asked if he favours Ja- earth. This year’s theme is “Seven billion dreams. to begin negotiations on an pan and the United States, cises since the Constitution pan patrolling in the South One planet. Consume with care”.—Xinhua accord for the transfer of with whom the Philippines bans foreign troops from China Sea, Aquino said, defence equipment and tech- has strategic partnerships. entering the Philippines, “We welcome Japanese pa- Quake strikes Malaysia’s nology in the fields of disas- His country has visiting Defence Secretary Voltaire trols or joint patrols” given ter relief and maritime secu- forces agreements with the Gazmin told a group of jour- that such actions will take Sabah state, climbers rity, as their nations bolster United States and Australia. nalists on Thursday. place in “international wa- stranded on mountain security ties due to tensions Such accords allow access Japan and the Philip- ters.”—Kyodo News Kuala Lumpur, 5 June Kinabalu because of falling — About 145 climbers, in- rocks. South Koreans squabble about MERS cluding foreigners, were The Star daily quoted stranded on Mt Kinabalu, a Malaysian doctor, who as more cases appear Malaysia’s highest moun- is one of the climbers, con- Seoul, 5 June — South A woman wearing al authorities of being slow tain, after a magnitude 6.0 firming that at least one per- Korean authorities squab- masks to prevent to share information, in par- earthquake struck the west son died. bled on Friday over their contracting Middle ticular about a doctor who coast of Sabah state on Bor- Rezlan Abdul Rahman handling of an outbreak of East Respiratory had treated a MERS patient neo island on Friday, though was quoted as saying that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and subsequently went to a no major damage was re- he checked the pulse of the Syndrome (MERS), as a (MERS) uses her 30 May gathering attended ported in the town area. woman and confirmed that fourth person died and five mobile phone by 1,565 people. The US Geological she was dead. Two other new cases were reported. at Myeongdong The doctor was later di- Survey said the quake struck women with her were re- The government has shopping district agnosed with MERS and the shortly after 7 am at a depth ported to be injured. promised to do everything in central Seoul, people at the gathering have of 10 kilometres, with the The three were report- it can to end the outbreak South Korea on been advised to stay in vol- epicenter located 12 km edly attached to a rope while which began in South Korea 3 June, 2015. untary quarantine. from the town of Ranau and climbing the steep rocky sur- last month when an infected Reuters Moon rejected asser- 54 km from Kota Kinabalu, face of the 4,101-metre high South Korean man brought rises daily, fear and anger from the same family as the tions his ministry had mis- the capital of Sabah. mountain when the earth- it back from a business trip are growing. South Korea’s one that caused SARS. handled the case. Pictures shared on so- quake struck. to the Middle East. neighbours are also increas- Health Minister Moon “The announcement by cial media showed shattered “They were apparent- With 41 cases, South ingly concerned. Hyung-pyo accused author- the city of Seoul yesterday windows, cracked walls and ly swung out before hitting Korea has the most infec- Memories are still fresh ities in the capital, Seoul, of has parts that are not fac- roads. back to the mountain,” Re- tions outside the Middle in Asia of Severe Acute Res- giving out incorrect informa- tual and can increase pub- The New Straits Times zlan said. East where the disease first piratory Syndrome (SARS), tion about a case which he lic concern,” he said. The daily quoted Sabah Park The military has dis- appeared in 2012, and where which emerged in 2002- said would spread alarm and comments would only hurt Director Jamili Nais as say- patched helicopters to rescue most of the 440 fatalities 2003 and killed about 800 undermine the fight against the credibility of the govern- ing that at least 145 people the trapped climbers. have been. As the number people worldwide. MERS the disease. On Thursday, ment’s effort to stamp out were stranded on top of Mt Kyodo News of infections in South Korea is caused by a coronavirus city officials accused nation- MERS, he said.—Reuters Vietnam’s Hoi An voted one of 10 best cities in Asia Ho Chi Minh City, 5 the 15th to 19th centuries as Japanese Covered Bridge, islands. For the fashion- via traditional coloured lan- gapore, Hong Kong, Mum- June — The Vietnamese it thrived in the spice trade. first built in the 1590s by the able set, Hoi An is known terns, as the town shuts off bai, Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul, city of Hoi An, a UNESCO One-time merchant homes Japanese to connect them for its tailors, it is home to its electric lights and shuts Siem Reap and Taipei. world heritage site, has re- represent Vietnamese, Jap- with the Chinese commu- hundreds of them, who can down to motorized vehicles. Vietnam received near- cently voted as one of the anese and Chinese styles nity. The river is a hub of make you a custom-made The lantern festival offers a ly 3.3 million foreign visi- 10 ideal cities for visiting in and are currently a mix of activity, offering up activi- coat or dress just by look- glimpse at what life was like tors in the first five months Asia by US online travel re- antique shops, eateries and ties such as boat rides, fish- ing at a photograph,” Smart hundreds of years ago. Hoi of this year, down 12.6 per- source Smarter Travel. galleries. ing-like- a-local lessons and Travel said. On the 14th day An is ranked ninth in the cent against the same period Hoi An remains a trad- “Wander among canals al fresco dining. Or take a of a lunar month, visitors can list of Smarter Travel. The last year, its General Statis- ing port, just as it was from and bridges, including the visit to nearby beaches and experience Hoi An aglow others include Beijing, Sin- tics Office said.—Xinhua 6 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 world China urges no new demands at Iran nuclear talks New US forces framework for a nuclear pact on counterparts. commander 2 April in Lausanne but several “All sides’ legitimate con- issues remain unresolved. cerns ought to be paid attention assumes post They have a self-imposed 30 to and rationally resolved; all June deadline to arrive at a com- sides should meet each other half at Yokota base prehensive agreement. way and not drift further apart,” Western powers fear Iran Wang added. ceremony wants to build an atomic bomb A swift agreement would and years of talks have focused benefit the global non-prolifer- on eradicating the alleged threat. ation system as well as regional Iran says its nuclear programme peace and stability, and China is for peaceful purposes. would continue to play a con- Chinese Foreign Minister structive role, he said. Wang Yi, who is in Russia, said China and Iran have close the situation had become more diplomatic, economic, trade and complex now that the talks pro- energy ties, and China has re- cess was in its final stages but peatedly urged Iran to reach an The head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi that everyone should be patient. agreement. (R) looks over papers before meetings at the Beau Rivage Palace “(We) must push forward the China’s crude oil imports Hotel on 28 March, 2015 in Lausanne.—Reuters next stage of talks on the basis of from Iran jumped by nearly 30 Beijing, 5 June — China’s pants be respected, the Chinese the Lausanne framework ... and percent last year to their high- foreign minister has urged that government said late on Thurs- all parties should not raise any est average level since 2011, as all parties involved in talks on day. new demands to prevent com- Iran’s largest oil client boosted Iran’s nuclear programme make Iran, the United States, Brit- plicating the talks process,” the shipments after an interim deal no new demands and that the le- ain, France, Germany, Russia foreign ministry quoted Wang eased sanctions on Teheran. Lt Gen John Dolan gitimate concerns of the partici- and China reached a tentative as telling his Russian and Iranian Reuters addresses a change of command ceremony at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo Australia appoints panel to oversee on 5 June, 2015, taking over the top post from Lt Gen Salvatore Angelella. submarine acquisition programme Kyodo News

Sydney, 5 June — The ples, and that participants have Finlay, a leading Australian in- volvement in the process. Tokyo, 5 June — The US Australian government been treated fairly and equita- frastructure specialist, and James The evaluation process forces in Japan held a change announced on Friday a bly,” Defence Minister Kevin McDowell, who has extensive will take 10 months to com- of command ceremony on four-member advisory panel Andrews said in a statement. defence experience, according to plete and represents an invest- Friday at Yokota Air Base of experts to oversee the com- The Japanese Defence Min- the Australian government. ment of some A$50 billion in Tokyo, with Lt Gen John petitive evaluation process for istry, French company DCNS SA Australia announced in (US$40 billion) to be spent on Dolan taking over the top post the country’s planned acquisi- and German company Thyssen- February it would invite Japan, Australia’s submarine devel- from Lt Gen Salvatore Ange- tion of a submarine fleet from Krupp Marine Systems GmbH France and Germany to partici- opment programme, with the lella. “It is the strength of our one of three potential partners will participate in the evaluation pate in a competitive evaluation actual cost subject to refine- alliance that gives us the abil- including Japan. process for Australia’s Future process for the “largest defence ment. ity to make every challenge “The expert advisory pan- Submarine Programme. procurement programme in Aus- The new submarines are into an opportunity,” Dolan el will assure the government The panel’s members are tralia’s history.” set to replace the navy’s cur- that the competitive evaluation Donald Winter, a professor and Andrews has visited all three rent fleet of six Collins Class said in an address at the cer- process remains sound, is con- former secretary of the US Navy, countries where he met with his submarines, scheduled to retire emony. He pledged “I will do ducted in accordance with pro- Julie Anne Dodds-Streeton, a respective counterparts and in- from service in the mid-2020s. all I can” to foster an environ- bity and accountability princi- former Australian justice, Ron dustry leaders to discuss their in- Kyodo News ment where the United States and Japan will together build a secure and prosperous fu- Nepal’s sole US says North Korea satellite launch would violate UN resolutions ture. Dolan served as an F-16 fighter jet pilot before being int’l airport halts Washington, 5 June — The national organizations and other an arsenal of missiles of various deployed to Afghanistan and United States, responding to a countries,” Paek was quoted as ranges and is believed to be devel- Iraq. He was chief of staff of report that North Korea is devel- saying. Marie Harf, a spokeswom- oping an intercontinental ballistic the Pacific Command before operation for oping a new space satellite, said an for the US State Department, missile aimed at delivering nucle- on Thursday any launch that used said any rocket capable of putting ar weapons. assuming his latest position. 3 hours ballistic missile technology would a satellite into orbit used technol- In 2012, North Korea This is his second assign- be a violation of United Nations ogy almost identical to that of a launched what is generally con- ment in Japan following a Kathmandu, 5 June — The resolutions. The Associated Press ballistic missile. sidered a long-range rocket, put- tour as an F-16 instructor pi- only international airport of Nepal news agency quoted Paek Chang “Any satellite launch that ting what it said was a satellite lot at Misawa base in Aomori Tribhuwan International Airport Ho, vice director of the scientific uses ballistic missile technology into orbit. Pyongyang called it a Prefecture from 1988 to 1992. (TIA) shut down all the flight op- research and development de- would be a violation of multiple space launch vehicle, but the inter- Friday’s ceremony was erations for three hours on Friday partment of North Korea’s space Security Council resolutions that national community said it was a attended by about 500 people morning. agency, as saying that “a more require North Korea to suspend missile that violated UN Security including senior officials from TIA remained closed with advanced Earth observation satel- all activities related to its ballistic Council resolutions. North Korea Japan’s Defence Ministry, halt in all international flights lite” was under development. missile programme,” she told a is under various sanctions for its Self-Defence Forces and For- since 7:00 am local time for the “When it’s complete, before news briefing. missile programme and three nu- eign Ministry.—Kyodo News maintenance of its single runway. launching it, we will inform inter- The secretive country has clear tests.—Reuters General Manager of TIA, Birendra Bahadur Shrestha told Singapore, 5 June — Two In- opened the car boot, they found a strokes of the cane for convey- Xinhua via phone, “There was an Two donesians were convicted and face man crouching inside. The driv- ing Sofyan out of Singapore, immediate need of maintenance of imprisonment and three strokes of er and the “boot passenger,” both while Soeb was sentenced to the runway, which witnessed few Indonesians canes for trying to leave Singa- Indonesians, were immediately three months’ imprisonment damages after the heavy traffic led convicted for pore illegally, the Immigration & placed under arrest. and three strokes of the cane for by 25 April massive earthquake.” Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said The 48-year-old driver, Hasan overstaying in Singapore and Many flights were diverted fol- attempting to in a press release on Friday. Bin Maksum and the 41-year-old failing to present his passport lowing the shutdown of the only ICA said that officers stopped “ boot passenger,” Sofyan Soeb, when leaving Singapore, ICA international airport. Hundreds of leave Singapore a Malaysia-registered saloon car were charged and convicted on 4 said, adding that the vehicle has passengers were stranded at the at the Woodlands Checkpoint for June. Maksum was sentenced to been detained and is liable for airport after the halt.—Xinhua illegally checks on 21 May. When they two years’ imprisonment and three forfeiture.—Xinhua Saturday, 6 June, 2015 7 world Colombia, FARC rebels agree to Argentine president met Edward form truth commission Snowden in Moscow — lawyer Havana, 5 June — The Colombian government and leftist FARC guerrillas Buenos Aires, 5 June — Argentina’s agreed on Thursday to form a truth com- President Cristina Fernandez held talks mission that would seek to shed light on with US whistleblower Edward Snowden atrocities once Latin America’s longest during a visit to Russia in April, Anthony war is over. Romero, director of the American Civil Negotiators reached agreement de- Liberties Union and one of Snowden’s spite a recent escalation of violence that lawyers said on Thursday. has threatened the country’s peace talks, The two hour-long meeting took taking place in Cuba. place after an Argentine TV channel, cit- “The commission ... will begin ing intelligence documents provided by to function after the signing of a final Snowden, revealed Britain spied on Ar- agreement and once the FARC have laid gentine military and political leaders from down their arms,” read the agreement an- Colombia’s President Juan Manuel 2006 to 2011 to safeguard the security of Santos Former US National Security Agency nounced by representatives of Cuba and the disputed Falkland Islands. contractor Edward Snowden appears Norway, two countries sponsoring the ed at 220,000. Millions more Colombians “She met with him toward the end of live via video during a student organized talks. have been displaced during the 50-year-old April,” Romero told reporters in the Ar- world affairs conference at the Upper “The government will commit to ... conflict. gentine capital Buenos Aires. Canada College private high school in the clarification of the truth in all events In March, Colombian President Juan A spokesman for Anibal Fernandez, Toronto, on 2 Feb, 2015. —Reuters from the conflict, including the most seri- Manuel Santos had agreed to halt aerial Argentina’s cabinet chief, said he had no ous human rights violations,” the agree- bombing in recognition of a unilater- information about the meeting and re- lance, its ramifications for world leaders ment said. al cease-fire called by the FARC. But he ferred Reuters to the president’s spokes- and impact on the citizens of foreign coun- The United States has backed Co- ordered new air assaults in response to a man, who was not available for comment. tries,” Romero said. lombia with billions of dollars of military rebel ground attack that killed 10 soldiers Calls to a spokesman at the Ministry of Romero, whose organization lobbies aid in a conflict fueled by the illegal drugs in April. Foreign Affairs went unanswered. for civil liberties ranging from religious trade. Since then three bombing raids in re- Fernandez travelled to Russia to freedoms to immigrant rights and also pro- In addition to government troops cent weeks have killed some 40 guerrillas, deepen bilateral trade ties, signing ener- vides legal counsel, said it was important and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of and the FARC has renewed offensive op- gy cooperation documents, part of a drive world leaders supported Snowden. Colombia (FARC), the war has involved erations. Government and rebel negotiators by Moscow to strengthen ties with South The United States wants Snowden to right-wing paramilitary groups, armed have reached partial accords on three of America. Romero said Snowden had in- stand trial and news of Fernandez’s secret criminal gangs and the leftist rebels of the five agenda points: land reform, the polit- formed him directly of the encounter, add- meeting is unlikely to help improve the National Liberation Army (ELN). ical future of the FARC and an end to the ing it was the ex US spy agency contrac- already-chilly relations between Washing- The 11 commissioners, yet to be illegal drugs trade. Still under discussion tor’s first face-to-face talks with a head of ton and Buenos Aires. selected, are expected to complete the are victim reparations and the FARC’s de- state since he fled to Russia in 2013 after “My government considers him a body’s task within three years. mobilization. leaking details of the US government’s criminal, which he isn’t,” said Romero, a Fighting has continued in Colombia Should the two sides reach a compre- mass surveillance programmes. US citizen. “(The meeting) demonstrates during the two-and-a-half years of talks hensive agreement, it would be submitted “They spoke about the National Se- the bravery, courage and independence of in Havana, adding to a death toll estimat- to the voters for ratification.—Reuters curity Agency’s (NSA) electronic surveil- President Fernandez.”—Reuters Vucic: Serbia is EU/IMF hard stance may force Greece to reliable partner early elections — deputy minister Athens, 5 June — party, and it was not unclear Belgrade, 5 June — Greece’s leftist-led govern- if the statement represent- Serbia today says what it ment may call early elections ed a wider view within the thinks and does what it if the country’s international party. But it underlined the says, and this is the differ- lenders do not soften their deep anger at the proposal ence between the current terms for a cash-for-reforms from lenders and a growing Serbia and the one from deal, Deputy Social Security sense that the party will seek the past, which is why the Minister Dimitris Stratoulis, alternatives to avoid accept- country is a reliable part- a hardliner in the govern- ing the plan. ner, Prime Minister Alek- ment, said on Friday. Greece delayed a key sandar Vucic said. “The lenders want to debt payment to the Inter- Holding a lecture at Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic impose hard measures. If national Monetary Fund due the Johns Hopkins Uni- they do not back down from on Friday as Prime Minister versity in Washington, an agreement on judici- this package of blackmail Alexis Tsipras, facing fury Vucic said Serbia is a ary and an implementa- the government...will have among his leftist supporters, very reliable partner to the tion plan have been made, to seek alternative solutions, A girl scout holds a Greek national flag ahead of demanded changes to tough West. adding that the issues of elections,” he said. Stratou- a student parade in Athens on 24 March, 2015, terms from international We have fulfilled civil protection and mu- lis is closer to the far-left a day before a military parade to mark Greece’s creditors for aid to stave off what we said and prom- nicipal budgets have been faction of the ruling Syriza Independence Day. —Reuters default.—Reuters ised. I will not say an- resolved, and that the ything I will not fulfill, process of opening two I have not said we will crossings on the adminis- Greece cannot accept lenders’ latest proposal recognize the independ- trative line is underway, in London, 5 June — ras demanded changes to while Greece was ready zone, Stathakis said his ence of Kosovo, but I keeping with the integrat- Greece cannot accept the tough terms from interna- to discuss compromises, it Syriza party, elected in have promised we will ed border management latest proposals for a cash- tional creditors for aid to would not accept proposed January on a promise to solve the Bitici case and agreement. for-reforms deal put on the stave off default. Stathakis fiscal adjustments for 2015 end austerity, had not been you will see that we fulfill Also, we have influ- table by its international said Greece had the mon- and 2016. given a mandate to do that our promises. I think this enced Kosovo Serbs to lenders but was prepared ey to pay, but had accept- “It was actually in- by the Greek people. is why Serbia is a reliable return to Kosovo institu- to negotiate a compromise, ed an offer from the IMF cluded in their proposal “Our government has partner today, the Prime tions. We are not far from Greek Economy Minister to bundle four payments without being on the ne- a mandate to remain in the Minister said. reaching an agreement on George Stathakis said on due in June into a sin- gotiation table during the euro and get a better deal to Vucic also noted that, insurance, and I hope we Friday. gle 1.6 billion euro lump last month ... the Greek ... try to change the terms despite difficulties, a lot will make significant pro- Greece delayed a key sum due at the end of the government cannot accept of the agreement that we has been accomplished in gress in terms of the com- debt payment to the Inter- month. “We are looking these new proposals,” he have with European part- the Belgrade-Pristina dia- munity of Serb municipal- national Monetary Fund forward to getting a deal as said. ners,” he said. “Greece has logue so far. ities (ZSO), the PM said. due on Friday as Prime soon as possible,” he told Asked if Greece was to remain within the euro.” He pointed out that Tanjug Minister Alexis Tsip- BBC Radio, but said that prepared to leave the euro Reuters 8 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 Opinion

able to turn them into something of value. change, institutions that swim against the tide will There has been an increasing awareness of the not last. potential of young men and women as crucial part- As Aesop’s fable about the hare and the tor- Saturday, 6 June, 2015 ners in political change. They may possess the crea- toise reminds us, the fastest runner doesn’t neces- tivity required to effect meaningful change for sarily win the race. Using one’s abilities to the Make most of young minds for themselves, their communities and the world as a fullest is more important. whole. good of nation The time has come for older generations to ac- Write for us By Kyaw Thura cept the reality that young people are an indispensa- We appreciate your feedback and contributions. isdom is commonly linked with age, but ble element of society, as well as a driving force for If you have any comments or would like to submit being old does not automatically qualify the future development of a nation. In addition, editorials, analyses or reports please email wallace. one as wise. People in privileged posi- people in authority should realise leadership is not [email protected] with your name and title. W Due to limitation of space we are only able to tions often entertain the illusion that they know just about wielding power. publish “Letter to the Editor” that do not exceed 500 better than ordinary folk, especially those at grass If the youth of today are to be the leaders of to- morrow, they must be encouraged to better them- words. Should you submit a text longer than 500 roots. What matters most are the experiences words please be aware that your letter will be edited. gained in the process of aging, and whether one is selves as partners of today. At a time of rapid Food wastage versus Welcoming new partners to fight an old world hunger enemy: Poverty institutions to be rivals. In- To reach those targets, sailing ships and where lab- transportation facilities, and By Jim Yong Kim By Hla Maung deed, there’s more than we now are collaborating orers use their backs to lift spoiled or eaten by pests and Jakarta, Indonesia, 5 enough work to go around with governments to create tons of cargo into the hulls he United Nation’s rodents. This is considered June—Over the past 25 to fight a common, old ene- customized poverty reduc- of the ships. Tanjung Priok, Food and Agricul- “food lost”. Even if only years, with almost no notice my: poverty. tion programs. These plans in contrast, is an industrial- ture Organization half of this food lost or or acclaim, more than 1 bil- T Building new infra- are based on analyses of a ized port in which huge con- (FAO) estimates that the wasted can be recovered, lion people lifted themselves structure will be critical. We wide range of local factors, tainer cranes lift 20-foot world produces 4.3 billion we would have more than out of extreme poverty, are currently doing all we including demography and containers onto the decks of tons of food each year. This enough to feed the billion thanks in large part to gov- can now with our private location of people living in modern freighters. is enough to feed about 10 people who are hungry, if ernments that promoted eco- sector arm, the International extreme poverty. These In this tale of two ports, billion people. For the last the food can be distributed nomic growth and invested Finance Corporation, and plans also will highlight nu- it was clear that investing in twenty years, food produc- to those in need. in people. through our public sector merous types of investments Indonesia’s port infrastruc- tion rate has increased faster It is unlikely that we Today, fewer than 1 bil- work, to support countries that countries need to end ture could reap huge bene- than the rate of population will be able to keep on in- lion people remain in such in identifying and then fi- extreme poverty and boost fits for the economy. One growth, and the world now creasing food production. It difficult circumstances. We nancing bankable infra- shared prosperity. Many of port authority told me that if produces 17% more food is estimated a 60% increase now have the opportunity to structure projects. The gap these projects will surely be Indonesia can reduce its per person than 20 years in food production is needed be the first human genera- in infrastructure funding for led by our partners. logistics costs from the cur- ago. The world’s population to meet a population in- tion in history to end ex- developing countries re- Just last month when I rent 24 percent of gross do- is about 7 billion people. We crease to 9 billion by 2050. treme poverty. It will not be mains enormous – estimated was in Jakarta, I met with mestic product to 16 percent therefore produce more than If we do not find ways to easy and will take the coor- to be $1 trillion to $1.5 tril- country leaders, including —the same as Thailand’s enough food to feed all the reduce food waste and food dinated efforts of many or- lion a year – and any new President Joko Widodo, and — it can save an estimated people in the world. Tragi- loss, a billion people will ganizations, but it’s entirely funding source for roads, was impressed with their vi- $70 billion to $80 billion a cally, the sad truth is that for continue to live in hunger. doable. rail, seaports, airports, and sion to boost the economy year and attract more global the past 30 years or so, near- Indeed, with food produc- Still, the world needs other infrastructure should and to fight poverty. I also manufacturers. ly a billion people continue tion reaching a plateau and more champions to fight help the poor. learned much more about That’s the core of our to remain hungry or short of population increasing, the poverty. That’s why I warm- We are already work- Indonesia’s development work: To help countries find food. number of hungry people ly welcome the China-led ing with the AIIB, sharing needs, ranging from dealing solutions to their most vex- This is because the may increase. Asian Infrastructure Invest- our expertise in laying the with health crises (child- ing development challenges food produced is not distrib- In the history of man- ment Bank (AIIB). We be- foundations for a new struc- hood stunting is estimated at and build their economies. uted equally, and not all is kind, the disparity between lieve the AIIB has great po- ture, just as we did for the 37 percent) to its infrastruc- This will create jobs and consumed. About 5 % of rich and poor has perhaps tential to help Asia build European Bank for Recon- ture gap estimated at more boost the earnings of the food produced is used to never been greater. Restau- power plants, roads, bridges, struction and Development. than $600 billion in the next poor. For Indonesia and the make bio-fuel, 30% is used rants are filled with custom- schools, and clinics that will With strong environment, five years. rest of Asia, more partners to feed animals, and as ers merrily feasting on deli- create jobs and boost econo- labour and procurement As part of my trip, I vis- means more development. much as 30%, or 1,3 billion cacies while the mies. standards, the AIIB can be- ited two ports – Sunda And more development tons, is lost or wasted. unfortunately hungry stay When it comes to pro- come a powerful new force Kelapa Harbor and Tanjung means we can end extreme In the wealthy devel- hungry. It is easy to become moting development in low- in development. Priok Port. Sunda Kelapais poverty. oped countries, much of the complacent and uncaring and middle-income coun- There’s no doubt that an old port that accommo- produced food is discarded because most of us have tries, there’s no reason for Dr. Kim is the president of the aspirations of leaders to dates two-masted wooden because it is not attractive never known prolonged the World Bank Group. promote development have enough to appeal to custom- hunger day after day after are going to impact world grown in middle- and ers even though perfectly day. The nearest we have food production in the com- low-income countries. edible and tasty. Sometimes been “hungry” is once in a ing decades. We need to Many understandably want fruit and vegetables are dis- while when, for some rea- Are you having No! The building find ways to minimize food to accelerate their nation’s carded because they are too son, lunch or dinner is de- a tenement contractor has just loss and food waste, and to ascent into middle- or small or too big. And not all layed. Moreover, the hun- block built? left it unfinished! find better ways to both pro- high-income status. cooked food is eaten. It has gry people, whether they be duce food and distribute At the World Bank been estimated that nearly in poor slums or in refugee food so that all of humanity Group, we firmly believe 20% of restaurant-served camps, are also always out is adequately fed and nour- that establishing time-bound food is left uneaten and of sight and out of mind. ished. As sages and saints targets will help meet our thrown away. All this is re- Global warming, ex- have been telling us through objectives. We have set two garded as “food waste”. treme weather, population the ages, all Humanity is goals: to end extreme pover- In the poorer underde- increase, loss of nutrition in one, we are our brother’s ty by 2030 and increase the veloped countries, much of soils – these are factors that keeper. incomes and well-being of the food produced is spoiled About author : U Hla Maung went to school in London the poorest 40 percent of because of lack of proper re- and graduated from London’s Imperial College of Sci- people in developing coun- frigeration or packing and Maung Tagun ence and Technology in 1966. tries. Saturday, 6 June, 2015 9 Local News Mogok Lake dredged to increase capacity, cut flood risk Mogok, 5 June — making the surrounding Mandalay Region Minister environment greener and for Agriculture and Live- reducing the flood risk for stock Breeding U Myint nearby homes. The project Than together with depart- is also aimed at making the mental officials on 3 June lake a focal point for recre- inspected the dredging of ation. Mogok Lake by the Irriga- On arrival at Shweh- tion Department. ninsi agricultural farm, the The minister instruct- minister and party viewed ed officials to stockpile thriving tea, macadamia gravel and earthen works and jack fruit plants, hold- for the embankment of the ing discussions with work- lake. ers of the farm on welfare Upon completion, tasks and wages. Mogok Lake will store a Thiha Ko Ko greater amount of water, (Mandalay) Needy students receive MCDC election campaign hits uniforms, stationery home stretch Mandalay, 5 June — Candidates are campaign- ing ahead of the 7 June elec- tion for new Mandalay City Development Committee members in Aungmyethaz- an and Chanmyathazi town- ships. The MCDC will be reconstituted with pub- lic-elected members and government assigned mem- bers. Electoral rolls have been released in respective wards of the townships. In Aungmyethazan Maung, U Myo Nyunt, U and Dr Thein Tun Hsaung Township, the candidates Khaing Mye, U Kyaw Moe will contest the election in are U Aung Naing Oo, and Dr Than Myint. Chanmyathazi Township. U Htay Aung, U Nyunt U Zaw Myo Lwin Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay) Mandalay Region gov’t assigns

Mandalay, 5 June on 4 June. and teachers. regional projects — Local authorities and The ward adminis- Likewise, they provid- well-wishers donated trator and well-wishers ed school uniforms and sta- Mandalay, 5 June— partment officials with re- job opportunities of resi- school uniforms and sta- presented notebooks and tionery to needy students The economic develop- gional project assignments dents. tionery to needy students stationery to 108 prima- from No 18 BEPS in east ment of Mandalay Region for the fiscal year. Director U Kyaw at No 15 Basic Education ry and middle school stu- Chanayethazan Ward. depends on cooperation At the office of Man- Kyaw Shein of Mandalay High School in Chanayeth- dents through headmis- Thiha Ko Ko between the government, dalay Region government Region Planning Depart- azan Township, Mandalay, tress Dr Myat Soe Moe (Mandalay) state-run enterprises and on 2 June, the chief min- ment reported on visions private businesses, Chief ister said regional projects for this year’s projects. Police officers check JICA to assist water Minister U Ye Myint said are necessary to improve Maung Pyi Thu at a ceremony to give de- the education, health and (Mandalay) sales of prohibited supply for urban areas chemicals, medicines in Pyigyidagun Tsp

Namkham, 5 June — Police in Na- Mandalay, 5 June — Mandalay City kham Township, Shan State, have been Development Committee and the Japan scrutinizing pharmacies and medicine sell- International Cooperation Agency signed ers as part of a crackdown on illegal drug an agreement on a water supply project for sales. Pyigyidagun Township at the MCDC of- Commander of Namkham Township fice, here, on 3 June. Police Force Police Major Maung Aye Mandalay Mayor U Aung Moung and police officers on Thursday inspected thanked JICA Chief Representative Mr 16 medicine sellers at Myoma market to Keiichiro Nakazawa for the assistance be- see whether prohibited chemicals or drugs fore they signed the agreement worth USD were being sold. 22 million. They gave an educative talk at the According to the agreement, JICA market on prohibited chemicals to the will help supply water to 30 percent of shopkeepers and departmental officials. wards in Pyigyidagun Township. Mong Nyan Soe Maung Pyi Thu (Mandalay) 10 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 world

Bomb at Yemen’s Houthis agree to talks as bombing market in reportedly kills 58 people northeastern Nigeria kills Sanaa/Dubai, 5 June yah said. “I think Decisive — Yemen’s dominant Storm ... has restored legit- around 30 — Houthis agreed on Thurs- imacy in Yemen. eyewitnesses day to join United Na- “Is it enough or not? tions-backed peace talks I think it will be enough Yola, 5 June — A in Geneva planned for 14 when the Houthis and bomb at a market in the June, a day after their op- Saleh’s followers fulfil the town of Jimeta, north- ponents in the exiled gov- elements of 2216.” eastern Nigeria, has killed ernment confirmed their Overnight, around 12 around 30 people, eye- attendance. A Saudi-led air raids hit weapons stores witnesses told Reuters on coalition of Arab states around the presidential pal- Thursday. has been bombing Houthi ace in Sanaa, according to a The device, which an forces, the strongest fac- Reuters witness, triggering eyewitness said was plant- tion in Yemen’s civil war, secondary blasts that lit up ed in a three-wheeled mo- for over two months in an the night sky. torized scooter inside the attempt to restore President Air strikes also hit a market in Adamawa state, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, naval base and Yemen’s was detonated around 2000 who has fled to Saudi Ara- naval command in the Red London time, a few minutes bia. Around 2,000 people Sea port city of Hodaida, after a female suicide killed have been killed and half residents said, and the state two people at a checkpoint a million displaced by the news agency Saba said six in Maiduguri. fighting. people were killed. “We have evacuated Coalition Arab bomb- Saudi shelling also hit 32 bodies, we are taking ings killed around 58 Smoke billows from a Houthi-controlled military site after it was hit by a Saudi-led the main border crossing them to two hospitals,” a people across Yemen on from Saudi Arabia, the Red Cross ambulance driv- air strike in Sanaa, Yemen, on 3 June, 2015.—Reuters Wednesday and Thurs- world’s top oil exporter, in er, who wanted to remain day, the state news agen- Daifallah al-Shami, The Houthis for their Saudi Arabia and al- the far northern province of unnamed, told Reuters on cy Saba, controlled by the a member of the Houth- part had sought a suspen- lied Sunni Muslim states Haradh, demolishing Yem- the telephone. Houthis, said. is’ politburo, told Reuters sion of the bombing raids. fear that the Houthis, who eni customs offices. Nobody has claimed 48 people, most of his movement would take Yemeni politicians say rep- hail from a Shi’ite sect, will In the southern city of responsibility but the at- them women and children, part, and “supports without resentatives of long-time spread the influence of the Aden, a bastion of support tacks bore the hallmarks were killed in air strikes on preconditions the efforts president Ali Abdullah Gulf states’ Shi’ite arch-ri- for Hadi and scene of street of Boko Haram, the mili- their houses in the Houthi of the United Nations to Saleh will also accept a UN val Iran in the Arabian Pen- clashes, air raids hit Houthi tant Islamist group that has heartland in the rural far organise Yemeni-Yemeni invitation to the talks, but insula. positions in the northern waged a six-year insurgen- north adjoining Saudi Ara- dialogue”. that southern rebel factions, The foreign minister suburbs on Thursday. cy in the northeast of Afri- bia. The reports could not Both sides appeared to who also control swathes of one of those allies, Qa- Local fighters in the ca’s biggest economy and be independently verified. have relaxed their condi- of Yemen, are unlikely to tar, told Reuters in Paris city and in a tangled bat- top oil exporter in a bid to The UN envoy to Yem- tions for opening the talks. be invited. that the armed intervention tle line stretching through set up an Islamic state. en, Ismail Ould Cheikh Hadi had previously The Houthis, who had prevented a Houthi Yemen’s south oppose the The bombing is the Ahmed, has for weeks insisted that the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa last takeover. Houthis, but many support latest attack in a series of been shuttling between the obey UN Security Council September and now control “If there had not been eventual independence for explosions in the last few Houthi-controlled capital, Resolution 2216, passed in much of the country with (Operation) Decisive South Yemen, which was days that has killed around the exiled government in April, which required them the help of forces loyal to Storm, we would have seen forced to unify with the 80 people, following the Riyadh and other regional to recognize his adminis- Saleh, say they are part of the Houthis and Ali Abdul- north, under Saleh, in a inauguration of new Pres- capitals to garner support tration and quit Yemen’s a “revolution” against cor- lah Saleh’s people all over 1994 civil war. ident Muhammadu Buhari for peace talks in Geneva. main cities. ruption. Yemen,” Khaled al-Atti- Reuters last week.—Reuters Texas-born al-Qaeda suspect Lebanon deploys army against pleads not guilty in New York IS, jihadists near border town

New York, 5 June — 2011 US drone strike. camp in Pakistan in Sep- Beirut, 5 June— Leb- demanded the army’s sup- However, Lebanese A US citizen accused of That was the first in- tember 2008 to Najibullah anon decided on Thursday port to oust the Islamic officials warned Hezbollah travelling to Pakistan to stance in which the United Zazi and two other men to deploy army inside the State (IS) and the al-Qae- earlier in March against train with al-Qaeda plead- States targeted and killed later convicted of plotting northeastern town of Arsal, da linked al-Nusra Front attacking Arsal, saying ed not guilty to terrorism an American citizen with a suicide bombing attack bordering Syria, against militants from Arsal’s out- protecting the town is the charges in federal court in a strike, prompting criti- in the New York City sub- militant attacks, after “vi- skirts. responsibility of the Leba- New York on Thursday. cism from civil liberties way system, according olent clashes” there on On Wednesday, Hez- nese state and army. Texas-born Muhan- advocates that the act was to the US Justice Depart- Wednesday between Hez- bollah’s official media re- The army has been ad Mahmoud Al Farekh unlawful. ment. bollah and jihadists. ported “violent clashes” confronting the jihadists spoke only briefly during Farekh studied at the Imam’s whereabouts Lebanese Information with al-Nusra near Arsal, since last August, when the a short court appearance University of Manitoba are unknown. Minister Ramzi Jreij said a Sunni Lebanese town on IS and al-Nusra militants in Brooklyn, confirming in Winnipeg, Canada, ac- The criminal com- that the cabinet had tasked the frontier with Syria. overran Arsal and abducted to a US judge that he un- cording to prosecutors. plaint against Farekh said the military with making Hezbollah has been at least 35 soldiers and po- derstood the indictment Around 2007, he and that two cooperating wit- the “best assessment of the fighting al-Nusra, al-Qae- licemen after a fierce five- against him and his rights. two other students, Ferid nesses in his case were situation in Arsal and its da’s Syria affiliate, in the day battle with the army. Prosecutors said Imam and an unnamed also involved in the sub- outskirts,” indicating that mountainous area north of The al-Nusra Front Farekh was at least par- person, decided to trav- way plot. “any decision to intervene Damascus, bordering Syr- later executed four soldiers tially radicalised by the el to remote tribal areas Farekh faces charges militarily to oust jihadists ia. and the IS beheaded anoth- online sermons of Anwar along Pakistan’s border of providing material sup- from Lebanese territory Hezbollah leader er one. The Lebanese gov- al-Awlaki, the US-born with Afghanistan and train port to terrorists as well as would be left to the mili- Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah ernment is negotiating the militant preacher associ- with al-Qaeda, US author- attempting and conspiring tary’s leadership.” has pledged to liberate Ar- release of the remaining ated with al-Qaeda in the ities said. to provide such support. Lawmakers, includ- sal’s outskirts from the mil- captives through a Qatari Arabian Peninsula who Imam also provided He faces up to life in pris- ing those from the Shitte itants if the Lebanese state mediator. was killed in Yemen in a training at an al-Qaeda on if convicted.—Reuters movement Hezbollah, have failed to do so. Xinhua Saturday, 6 June, 2015 11 business & health China treasury Lloyds fined 117 million pounds for bond futures PPI complaints failings open higher London, 5 June — Lloyds Signs are Banking Group (LLOY.L) has Friday been fined 117 million pounds seen outside Beijing, 5 June — Chi- for failings in its handling of na’s five-year treasury bond fu- complaints about the mis-selling a branch tures opened higher on Friday, of loan insurance between March with contract for settlement in 2012 and May 2013, in the larg- of Lloyds June 2015 opening at 96.78 est penalty imposed since the 26 yuan (15.82 US dollars), up 0.12 billion pounds scandal erupted. yuan. Bank in Britain’s financial regulator The contract for settlement on Friday handed out its largest in September 2015 opened 0.11 central ever fine in a case relating to re- yuan higher at 96.37 yuan, and tail banking and said that Lloyds, the December contract opened at London which is 19 percent-owned by the 98.2 yuan, up 0.13 yuan. British government, had failed to The contracts are agreements treat its customers fairly. on 28 Oct, to buy or sell treasury bonds at a The Financial Conduct Au- predetermined price and set date. thority said Lloyds dismissed 2014. They allow investors to bet on or customers’ personal accounts of profit from the movements in the what had happened during the Reuters value of the bonds. PPI sale in some cases or did FCA said a significant number of tomers who had been affected. protect borrowers in the event The treasury bond futures not fully investigate customers’ claims were unfairly rejected. Lloyds has already set aside of sickness or unemployment were launched at the Shang- complaints. In some instances, Lloyds said that it will reduce 12 billion pounds to compensate but were often sold to customers hai-based China Financial Fu- Lloyds did not contact customers bonuses paid to staff by 30 mil- customers mis-sold payment pro- who did not require them, or who tures Exchange and started trad- to enable them to give their ac- lion pounds in 2015 in response tection insurance (PPI) policies. would have been unable to claim. ing on 6 September, 2013. count of the sale. As a result, the to the fine. It apologized to cus- The policies were meant to Reuters Xinhua Cholesterol Nestle pulls Maggi noodles off Indian drugs might be linked to lower shelves as food scare spreads risk of cancer Mumbai, 5 June — Nestle SA in India, which also include dairy will pull its Maggi instant noo- products, chocolate and baby death dles from stores across in India, food. withdrawing one of the country’s But the importance of con- London, 5 June — A years- long study indicates that women most popular snacks after weeks taining damage to the brand has who take cholesterol-lowering of damaging headlines triggered not been lost on Nestle, whose drugs might have a reduced risk by regulators’ reports that some group chief executive Paul Bul- of death caused by cancer, ac- packs contained excess lead. cke will speak later on Friday in cording to a report released on In what has become India’s New Delhi to seek to draw a line Thursday by the Cancer Research most significant packaged foods under the scare. UK. During the 15-year long scare for nearly a decade, Nestle Maggi two-minute noodles, study, researchers tracked nearly reiterated on Friday that its noo- which sell at roughly a dozen 150,000 post-menopausal wom- dles were safe. But after com- rupees ($0.20) per single-serv- en between age 50 and 79, of ing under fire for what domestic ing packet, are a hugely popular whom over 3,100 died of cancer media said was a failure to react snack in India. The food is fre- over the period, the report said. swiftly and decisively, the group quently served to children and Researchers said they found said it would pull the product re- eaten at roadside shacks and that women who reported taking gardless, more than two weeks “Maggi points” across the coun- statins, drugs that lower choles- Packets of Nestle’s Maggi instant noodles are seen on display at a after food inspectors first report- try. terol levels, were 20 percent less grocery store in Mumbai, India, on 3 June, 2015. ed their findings. Often using Bollywood likely to die of cancer during the Reuters course of the study, when all can- At least six states, several superstars in advertising cam- cers were taken into account. major retailers and even the Indi- paigns, Maggi has been a market Despite poor public hy- knows how much lead and other Previous research has sug- an army have banned Maggi noo- leader for three decades, though giene, India has not experienced things are to be found?” gested that cholesterol, which dles. On Thursday, Tamil Nadu it now competes with rival brands food scares on the scale that has The noodle scare is India’s statins targets, helps cancer to became the first state to ban a like Hindustan Unilever Ltd’s hit neighbouring China in re- biggest involving packaged spread. handful of brands of instant noo- Knorr and GlaxoSmithKline cent years. But analysts say the foods since 2006, when a New However, researchers said dles, including Nestle’s. PLC’s Horlicks. country’s increasingly affluent, Delhi environmental group raised the study did not prove statins “Unfortunately, recent de- Analysts and industry ad- health-conscious consumers and questions over pesticide traces in were the reason why people were velopments and unfounded con- visers welcomed the recall but easy access to social media are Coca Cola Co and PepsiCo Inc less likely to die from cancer, and cerns about the product have led questioned the firm’s strategy of likely to mean more incidents are fizzy drinks. that more research was needed. to an environment of confusion denying the problem for weeks, brought to public attention, and Food inspectors in the north- It is still not sure if the link for the consumer, to such an ex- even as headlines proliferated. international brands need to be ern state of Uttar Pradesh last shown between a decreased risk tent that we have decided to with- “If you ask me everything better prepared. month reported high lead content of dying from cancer, and statin draw the product off the shelves, that Nestle has done is wrong,” Employees questioned by was found during routine tests use, is due to the drugs them- Reuters at several multinational on two dozen packets of instant selves, or some other reason, said despite the product being safe,” said Arvind Singhal, chairman of Dr Richard Roope from Cancer the Switzerland-based firm said retail consultancy Technopak. food companies operating in In- noodles. Research UK. in a brief statement. “In this day and age of social dia reported what one described Nestle India had said earlier Further studies, including Sales of Maggi in India rep- media you cannot question the as a “state of alert”. this week it had conducted inter- the Cancer Research UK-fund- resent just 0.005 percent of Nes- government and consumers...If “You have to understand nal and external tests on samples ed LungStar trial, are exploring tle’s global revenue of almost 92 your product is safe and you are multinationals are soft targets,” of 125 million Maggi packets whether the cholesterol-lowering billion Swiss francs ($98.6 bil- confident, you recall it immedi- said a top executive at one, speak- which showed the noodles were drugs could help treat cancer. lion). Maggi noodles account for ately without question, because it ing on condition of anonymity. safe to eat. Xinhua roughly a fifth of Nestle’s sales is safe, and will pass tests.” “If they checked street food, who Reuters 12 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 World Former UK finance minister says Cameron Sri Lankan president likely to attend UN will only achieve ‘trivial’ EU reform Human Rights Council session in September

London, 5 June — Colombo, 5 June — Sri scheduled to begin in Sep- are said to have taken place Prime Minister David Lankan President Maithri- tember in Geneva after the mostly in the final months Cameron will not achieve pala Sirisena has informed establishment of the new of the country’s civil con- anything of significance in UN Secretary General Ban government in Sri Lanka, flict between the Sri Lankan his planned renegotiation Ki-moon that he wishes to “ a statement by the Presi- military and Tamil Tiger of Britain’s ties with the attend the United Nations dent’s office said here on rebels. European Union, former fi- Human Rights Council ses- Friday. The UN Human Rights nance minister Nigel Law- sions in September when a During the conver- Council voted last year to son said. crucial report on Sri Lanka sation, Ban Ki-moon also investigate war crimes in Cameron, whose Con- is expected to be submitted. assured UN support for the island nation, saying servatives won a surprise During a telephone the work done by the Sri former President Rajapaksa majority at an election last conversation between Ban Lankan government and had failed to do so properly month, has begun talks with and Sirisena on Thursday, appreciated the new gov- and a report was expected to other European leaders in the Sri Lankan president ernment’s forward march be submitted to the Council his bid to reform Britain’s Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron leaves said that he wishes to travel under the leadership of in March by UN rights chief relationship with the bloc Number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister’s to Geneva to attend the Sep- President Sirisena, which Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein. ahead of a membership Question Time in Parliament, in London, Britain tember sessions after the builds peace and reconcil- Al-Hussein however referendum by the end of on 3 June, 2015.—Reuters establishment of a new gov- iation in the country while said he had recommended 2017. “It is likely that the more than that but what he the changes he wants. Law- ernment in the island nation. protecting democratic rights deferral of the team’s re- changes David Cameron will secure will be trivial ... son said he expected Brit- President Sirisena had of the people, the statement port until September, and secures will be inconse- they are not going to give ain would vote to remain recently said that a new added. the president of the Human quential, of no significance him anything significant,” within the bloc but would government will be in place Sirisena defeated for- Rights Council had agreed, at all. He will present them said Lawson, who has pre- later lament doing so. by September and parlia- mer President Mahinda given “the changing context as a major change,” Law- viously said Britain should “I think they will come mentary elections are ex- Rajapaksa in a presidential in Sri Lanka, and the pos- son, finance minister from leave the bloc. to regret staying in because pected anytime soon. election in January and soon sibility that important new 1983-89 under Conserva- Cameron has said he they will discover that there “The president said after, his government won a information may emerge tive Prime Minister Marga- would prefer to stay in a hasn’t been any fundamen- that he wished to attend six-month delay in the pub- which will strengthen the ret Thatcher, told the BBC. reformed EU but will rule tal change,” he said. the United Nations Human lication of a UN report on report.” “He is looking for nothing out if he cannot get Reuters Rights Council session alleged war crimes which Xinhua Death toll climbs to 97 as China rights capsized ship have found no more survi- release the names of sur- Cranes work vors. vivors and the confirmed on righting The weather improved deaths, and questioned why markedly on Friday, after most of those rescued were the capsized days of heavy rain, which crew members. should help rescuers. How- Some have demanded Eastern Star ever it was forecast to to know why the boat did worsen again at the week- not dock in the storm, and cruise ship end. how the rescued captain About 1,200 relatives and crew members had at the Jianli have come to Jianli county time to put on life vests but in Hubei Province where did not sound any alarm. section of the disaster happened. Beijing has pledged Showing the sensitivi- there would be “no cov- the Yangtze ty of the disaster, the ruling er-up” in the investigation. Communist Party’s Polit- Police have detained River, Hubei buro Standing Committee, the captain and chief en- China’s apex of power, gineer for questioning, Province, called on local authorities although authorities have China, on 5 to take measures to help given no details. An ini- grieving families and to tial investigation found the June, 2015. “earnestly safeguard social ship was not overloaded stability”. Relatives have and had enough life vests Reuters asked the government to on board.—Reuters

Jianli, (China), 5 June lack of information has ed an honest investigation ter, raising the boat, overall — The death toll from a grown among families because family members salvage and looking for Chinese cruise ship that of the missing. Seven- doubted the weather was victims’ bodies,” Trans- capsized on the Yang- ty-year-old Xia Yunchen the real cause of the disas- port Ministry spokesman tze River climbed to 97 burst into a room where ter. Xu Chengguang said just on Friday as authorities senior officials had just fin- “You view the com- before Xia’s dramatic in- righted the battered ves- ished a media conference, mon people as if we are tervention. Rescuers, many sel and turned their efforts screaming and yelling and all your enemy. We are from the military, worked to recovering bodies still demanding answers. tax payers. We support the through the night to right on board amid simmering “Is it necessary to treat government. You had bet- the ship. Pictures on state anger from distraught fam- the common people, one ter change your notion of television showed the ship, ilies. by one, as if you are facing this relationship. You are which had capsized com- The rescue mission some kind of formidable here to serve us. You need pletely, sitting upright in has become an operation to foe?” said Xia, whose sis- to be humane,” Xia said, the water. Large dents and recover hundreds of bodies ter and brother-in-law were before being escorted out. gashes scarred its blue roof. Photo taken on 5 June, 2015 shows billboards from the ship, which was on board the Eastern Star. Police then kept re- Most of the four-deck of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and carrying 456 people when Xia, from the east- porters back while they ship remains under water, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in it overturned in a freak ern city of Qingdao, told moved away relatives and sitting on the river bed. Dhaka, Bangladesh. The state visit of Indian tornado on Monday night. reporters she had wanted passersby on the street out- More than 200 di- Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh, Only 14 survivors have to get into the news con- side. vers have groped through scheduled this weekend, is expected to strengthen been found, including the ference to hear for herself “The next step is to murky water after cutting bilateral relationship between the two neighbouring captain. what the government was concentrate on doing a through the hull, searching countries.—Xinhua Frustration over the saying, and that she want- good job of purging the wa- every cabin on board, but Saturday, 6 June, 2015 13 advertisement & general Claims Day Notice Claims Day Notice Claims Day Notice MV JRS CARINA VOY No (1506-14N) MV ASIATIC GLORY VOY No (003N) MV KULTHARA VOY No (06/15) Consignees of cargo carried on MV JRS CARINA Consignees of cargo carried on MV ASIATIC Consignees of cargo carried on MV KULTHARA VOY No (1506-14N) are hereby notified that the GLORY VOY No (003N) are hereby notified that the VOY No (06/15) are hereby notified that the vessel will vessel will be arriving on 6.6.2015 and cargo will be vessel will be arriving on 6.6.2015 and cargo will be be arriving on 7.6.2015 and cargo will be discharged discharged into the premises of A.I.P.T where it will discharged into the premises of H.P.T where it will into the premises of S.P.W (6) where it will lie at lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. 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Agent for: M/s G LINK EXPRESS PTE LTD. an advertisement in the [email protected] Phone No: 2301191/2301178 Phone No: 2301191/2301178 GNLM, (+95) (01) 8604532 Vietnam launches special ‘sovereignty’ AWenotherather patient dies after liver report cruise, angering China transplant surgery in Kobe Hanoi, 5 June — Vi- pushing its claims in the face with potentially vast energy etnam is offering scores of of China’s own growing as- reserves. Photo taken in April 2015 following massive bleed- patriotic citizens the holiday sertiveness. The cruise mirrors those shows the Kobe Interna- ing during the surgery, ac- of a lifetime with a cruise to “Travelling to Truong offered by China on ships tional Frontier Medical cording to the hospital. some of Asia’s most hotly Sa ... means the big trip of like its “Coconut Princess”, Centre in the western Jap- Tanaka denied any contested islands, in a move your life, reviving national and illustrates a growing ci- anese city of Kobe, which malpractice, saying at a likely to stoke its simmering pride and citizens’ aware- vilian presence in the South opened in November press conference in Kobe dispute with Beijing over ness of the sacred maritime China Sea as countries vie 2014. A fifth patient died that the hospital will con- South China Sea sovereign- sovereignty of the country,” to cement their competing on 5 June, 2015, after un- tinue its transplant surger- ty. the promotion said. claims. dergoing liver transplant ies. “We will make utmost In a special $800 pro- “Tourists will no longer China has been criti- surgery at the hospital, efforts to meet the needs of motion offer, 180 Vietnam- feel Truong Sa as far away, cized for extensive reclama- where four patients previ- patients,” he said. ese will get to see parts of the the blue Truong Sa ocean tion work and moves to turn ously died within a month The man’s 64-year-old disputed Spratly archipelago will be deep in people’s submerged rocks into man- of undergoing surgery, wife, who donated part of later this month and take hearts.” made structures. The United the hospital said the same her liver to her husband, re- part in night fishing, visit a Chinese Foreign Min- States last week said Beijing day.—Kyodo News covered consciousness af- lighthouse and enjoy local istry spokesman Hong Lei had placed mobile artillery ter the operation and is still seafood. expressed anger at the move systems in contested territo- Kobe, 5 June — A fifth tor of the hospital and a in the hospital, the medical High-rollers will have on Friday. ry. patient died on Friday after surgeon who performed the facility said. VIP hotel rooms and can “Vietnam’s actions vi- Despite close par- undergoing liver transplant transplantation for the man, His family said in a fly in on their private heli- olate China’s sovereignty. ty-to-party ties with Com- surgery at a newly opened said he “feels a heavy re- statement issued through copters, according to the Ho We demand that Vietnam munist neighbour China and hospital in Kobe, where sponsibility” for not being a lawyer that they do not Chi Minh City government’s respect China’s sovereignty, nearly $60 billion of annual four patients previously able to save the patient’s regret the surgery, which website. not take actions that compli- trade, analysts say Vietnam died within a month of un- life. offered the patient a ray of The elaborately worded cate or magnify the situa- has taken a harder line since dergoing surgery, the hos- The man was diag- hope. offer is for a six-day cruise tion, and make proper efforts a fresh territorial row erupt- pital said. nosed with liver cancer in A report by the Jap- that will visit two reefs and to safeguard the peace and ed last year and wants to The 63-year-old man 2007 after developing hep- anese Liver Transplanta- two islands in the Spratlys, stability of the South China boost diplomatic and mili- from Nishinomiya, Hyogo atitis C and liver cirrhosis. tion Society, which looked or Truong Sa in Vietnamese, Sea,” he said. tary alliances. Prefecture, was the ninth His operation scheduled into the cases, said three which the country has occu- Vietnam, the Philip- Its media ran news last patient to undergo a liv- for 22 April was postponed of the four patients who pied for some time despite pines, Brunei and Malaysia month of the opening of a er transplant from a living due to the previous deaths died could have been saved rival claims. each compete for jurisdic- new school on the Spratlys, donor at the Kobe Inter- at the hospital. if the medical staff’s ap- It makes little attempt tion of the Spratlys with Chi- and Vietnamese troops sta- national Frontier Medical His operation was proach to the transplants to disguise its political fla- na, which claims nine-tenths tioned there joined counter- Centre, which opened last finally performed on and the surgery plans had vor, and comes as Vietnam of the South China Sea, a parts from the Philippines in November. Wednesday and Thursday, been problem free. pursues a bolder agenda in vital global shipping lane a soccer match.—Reuters Koichi Tanaka, direc- but he died early Friday Kyodo News 14 Saturday, 6 June, 2015 Entertainment Bieber pleads guilty to assault, Sam Smith gets his voice back careless driving in Canada Toronto, 5 June — Justin Bieber pleaded guilty to Bieber’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, said the absolute assault and careless driving charges in connexion with discharge for the assault “recognized the fact that it was a collision and altercation with a photographer near his an incident that was somewhat provoked and that it last- Canadian hometown, his lawyer confirmed on Thursday. ed less than a minute.” The 21-year-old singer, who ap- “The assault was described even peared at the hearing via video link by the photographer as a couple of from Los Angeles, received an abso- slaps, certainly three at the most, lute discharge on the assault charge that he deflected with his shoulder,” and a C$750 ($600.00) fine for the Greenspan said, adding that Bieber Los Angeles, 5 June — Four-time Grammy-win- careless driving charge. He was also acknowledged his responsibility to ning singer Sam Smith has rescheduled his cancelled required to pay a C$100 victim sur- the judge. Australia tour after recovering from a throat surgery. charge. Bieber, whose songs include the The British soulman had ended the April tour ear- The pop star had originally been hits “Boyfriend” and “Beauty and a ly, when it transpired that he had suffered a hemor- charged with dangerous driving fol- Beat,” has been a favourite paparazzi rhage to his vocal cords, reported Aceshowbiz. lowing the August incident, but that target and has had several run-ins with The 23-year-old singer will perform in Australia charge was dropped. the law. starting 28 November at Perth Arena before visiting The incident happened during In August, he pleaded guilty to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in early a visit to the Stratford, Ontario, area careless driving and resisting an of- December, the promoter Frontier Touring announced. with pop star Selena Gomez. The two ficer without violence in Florida, part “Australia, I am so so happy to finally have some were “disrupted by the unwelcome of a deal to resolve allegations that he good news for you… I can now announce that my can- presence of paparazzi,” his lawyer had been drag racing in a Lamborghi- celled IN THE LONELY HOUR tour dates have been said at the time. Local media, citing police, reported ni under the influence of drugs and alcohol. In July, Bie- rescheduled!!,” Smith said in a statement. there was a “physical altercation” following a collision ber pleaded no contest to misdemeanour vandalism for The “Stay With Me” singer said he was excited between a minivan and an all-terrain vehicle outside the pelting a neighbour’s California home with eggs. He was to perform again and promissed it will be better than town. sentenced to two years probation.—Reuters before.—PTI

Los Angeles, 5 June — A rare, them. This was one of his favourite Nazi-era work Carmina John once-lost 1962 guitar belonging to guitars, he talked about wishing he still Lennon’s former Beatles member John Lennon had it,” Julien said. will go up for auction this year and Lennon died on 8 December, 1980, Burana debuts at Israel’s long lost could break a record, Julien’s Auctions after he was shot by a fan in New York said on Thursday. City. Masada Festival Gibson The jumbo J-160E Gibson Acous- His Gibson guitar went missing Masada, (Israel), 5 June — Carl Orff’s Carmina guitar up tic guitar, purchased by Lennon in Liv- in 1963 during the Beatles’ Finsbury Burana, composed in the Nazi era, will be showcased erpool, is expected to fetch between Park Christmas Show, and turned up at an Israeli opera festival against the backdrop of a for sale $600,000 and $800,000 when it goes 50 years later, after it was purchased towering desert plateau that stands as a symbol of Jew- on sale on 6 November at an auction of by a man named John McCaw in a US ish resistance and sacrifice. John Lennon’s rock’n’roll memorabilia in Bev- second-hand goods shop. Orff’s cantata comprising 24 poems, mostly in original 1962 erly Hills. Darren Julien, own- Its authenticity was verified by Latin, is one of the most popular works in classical mu- J-160E Gibson er of Julien’s Auctions, called Andy Babiuk, who has written about sic, particularly the opening bars of the first movement Acoustic guitar the guitar “one of biggest finds musical equipment used by the Beatles, “O Fortuna”. is shown in in music history,” and said its by matching the guitar’s serial number, Orff, born in Bavaria in 1895, thrived under the this handout sale could top the $965,000 wood grain and scratches to photo- Nazis, who adored his rousing choruses and pagan publicity auction record set in 2013 graphs and videos of Lennon playing themes. But unlike Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s photo for an electric guitar owned the instrument. favourite composer and a virulent anti-Semite whose released to by Bob Dylan. Babiuk said Lennon used the guitar music remains unofficially banned in Israel, Carl Orff’s Reuters on 2 “John Lennon items to record the Beatles hit single “Love work has been performed publicly in the country for June, 2015. don’t come up very often Me Do,” and played it in live shows decades. It will now be performed for the first time at Reuters because a lot of people keep and writing sessions.—Reuters the annual Opera Festival at Masada, on the shores of the Dead Sea, first on Friday and then on 12 June. “I don’t think that in the (death) camps in Auschwitz and Treblinka they played Carl Orff, but Taylor Swift turns ‘love coach’ they played Wagner before (people) went to the gas chambers,” Daniel Oren, music director of the Israeli Opera that is staging the festival, told Reuters. Michael Ajzenstadt, the company’s artistic admin- istrator, said “the art was the message” when it came to controversial composers. “If we are going to look into the lives and the beliefs and doctrines of every artist around the world, I’m sure we won’t be able to per- form, at least here in Israel, a lot of music,” Ajzenstadt said. “I think in the 21st century, there should not be censorship, definitely not of artists, especially those who lived in Germany and tried to remain alive. Some did it because it is what they felt, some believed (in Nazi ideology), others didn’t,” he said. The site of Masada strikes a special historic chord with Israelis. It was at Masada in 73 AD that hundreds London, 5 June — reported Contactmusic. lenhaal and is now dat- source added. of Jewish rebels who rose up against the Roman Em- Pop star Taylor Swift has “Taylor is very good ing DJ Calvin Harris, has Swift, known to ad- pire committed mass suicide rather than fall as slaves reportedly got trained as a at offering advice. She’s drawn up an “ex rulebook” vice friends including to the occupiers, according to the writings of the Jew- “love coach” to advise her secretly trained to be a as a go-to reference for her Lorde, Gigi Hadid and ish Roman historian Josephus. The Carmina Burana friends. love coach and was doing a friends who have recently Emma Stone, is currently production on Masada’s enormous open-air stage has The 25-year-old course online. She qualified split up. counselling actress Jen- been designed by Polish director Michal Znaniecki, “Blank Space” hitmak- last month,” said a source. “She’s also very good nifer Lawrence, who is with the Kielce Dance Theatre providing colourful er has taken up a course Swift, 25, who previ- at advising her girl group dating Gwyneth Paltrow’s movement on brightly lit, innovative sets. This year’s online to help her friends ously dated Harry Styles, on how to get more com- estranged husband Chris Masada festival will also include four performances of going through a break-up, John Mayer and Jake Gyl- mitment from a man,” the Martin.—PTI Puccini’s opera Tosca.—Reuters Saturday, 6 June, 2015 15 general Safarova silences Ivanovic to reach first slam final Paris, 5 June — Lucie too bad for Ivanovic that Safarova became the first Safarova decided to steal Czech woman in 34 years the idea. to reach the French Open The left-handed fore- (6-6-2015 07:00 am~ 7-6-2015 07:00 am) MST final after she fought back hand that had looked rath- * News of Shan State to topple 2008 champion er ordinary during the first * Let’s Cook (EP-1) * Myanmar Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 7-5 on seven games suddenly Savory Dory Steak Masterclass: Thursday. caught fire, helping Safaro- with Lemon & Mixed Caricature Just when it looked as va to win 20 of the last 26 Berry Smoothie * News if her title aspirations were points in the first set. * Black Gold (P- II) * A Visit To Kayah th floundering, the 13 seed Ivanovic’s celebrato- * News State (Part-I) shook off her jitters and ry cries of “hajde”, Serbi- * Sagaing: Pe Kwel * Products of Myanmar unleashed her A Game to an for ‘come on’, that had Kone Nat Festival — Mya Setkyar Pure pummel Ivanovic into sub- often reverberated around * Size Does Matter Silk Fabric From Inle mission. the arena during the first 30 (Ep-6) Human- Lake “It’s a dream come minutes of the contest dried Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic celebrates Elephant Conflict, * Shaping Life with true, I still cannot believe up as Safarova pocketed after defeating Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during their “Escape Tips” Music it. The happiness is unre- the first set when the sev- women’s semi-final match at the French Open tennis al,” said a jubilant Safaro- enth seed slapped a service tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, * The Beauty In The * News va, who will be aiming to return long. France, on 4 June, 2015.—Reuters North of Myanmar * Size Does Matter become the first Czech to However, for a player break point with a double en opportunity slip through * News (Ep-5) Human- lift the Suzanne Lenglen who was looking to reach fault, and having survived her sweaty fingers on the * The Eel Business Elephant Conflict, trophy since Hana Mand- her first grand slam fi- that wobble, she then sur- hottest day of the cham- (Fisherman the eel “Habitat Loss” likova in 1981. nal, keeping her nerves in rendered match point with pionships and two games culture) * Travels In Monywa- With his girlfriend check proved to be a task another pair of misfired later, her bare upper back * Daingnak Style Moe Hnyin Ivanovic looking unstoppa- easier said than done. serves. was caked in red clay as she * Goldsmith Sambuddhe Pagoda ble at 5-2 up in the first set, After breaking in the The dramatic marked her triumph with a * News * Art Students: Bayern Munich midfield- third game of the second nine-minute game featured celebratory roll. * Discovering Tribes Theatrical Art er Bastian Schweinsteiger set, it seemed nothing a matchpoint, two dou- “When I realized that I “Lisu: Their Life and * News held up two clenched fists could stop Safarova from ble faults and four break could be in the final, I got Customs (Part- I)” * Myanmar Wedding to his face before swinging setting up a final date with points before Ivanovic fi- tense... I was overthinking * Around The Maha Dresses out his right arm to deliver Serena Williams when she nally struck to level at 5-5 and couldn’t really concen- Boditahtaung * Kyauk Gu Umin a knock out punch. went up to serve for the when Safarova’s netcord trate,” she said. “But when * News Cave Gu Pha Ya The message from the match at 5-4. bounced wide into the I lost the serve I shook it * Food Trip (Ep-10) * News players’ box on Philippe The occasion, howev- tramlines. off and played aggressive (Part -1) * A Way of Life — But Safarova was de- again.” Chatrier Court was clear er, turned Safarova’s legs * News Karate-do termined not to let the gold- Reuters for all to see — it was just to jelly as first she gifted a * Ancient Shwe-San- * One of the Useful Taw Pagoda Purposes of Bamboo Sick Serena battles on to set up Safarova final * A Tourist Destination * The Iron Rider Paris, 5 June — Sere- her ailing body back to her ton, California — was de- terview. na Williams did not smile, seat after completing a 4-6, termined not to give up on “Sorry I am sick,” she celebrate or even acknowl- 6-3, 6-0 semi-final win over her dreams of a third French added before a coughing fit Several homes edge the standing ovation the Swiss outsider. Open title. abruptly ended the conver- she was receiving from It was a victory that To do that, the Amer- sation. the roaring crowd as she an hour earlier, when she ican will need to recover Safarova, who had damaged as tornadoes watched Timea Bacsinsz- was a set and a break down, quickly to overcome Czech staged her own fightback ky’s backhand float out on seemed nigh on impossible firecracker Lucie Safarova from 5-2 down in the first hit Colorado match point at the French as her body seemed to be in Saturday’s final. set to beat Serbia’s 2008 Open on Thursday. letting her down with the On Thursday, howev- champion Ana Ivanovic Denver, 5 June — Tor- about 40 miles north of Den- Instead, the pained ex- mercury tipping at 27 de- er, Williams — who always 7-5, 7-5 in the other semi, nadoes and hail-produc- ver, destroying at least three pression on the ailing Amer- grees Celsius on the hottest thanks Jehovah for her has been left wondering ing thunderstorms struck homes and damaging 12 ican’s face spoke volumes day of the championships. grand slam victories — was which Williams will show the greater Denver area on more, prompting officials about what she must have But a woman who has not thinking that far ahead. up on Saturday. Thursday, damaging several in Larimer County to warn been thinking — ‘Thank Je- built a career on overcom- “I tried everything. The one who has clung homes in two counties in the of flash floods through the hovah it’s over’. ing every obstacle life can I thought if I lose I must on for dear life to survive northern part of Colorado, evening. Hundreds of power Using her racket like a throw at her — be it a piece fight. I have tried and tried, four three-set battles at this though no injuries were re- outages were also reported walking stick Williams, who of glass that sliced her foot I don’t know where I found year’s championships or the ported, emergency officials in the area. now stands one match away open or a childhood spent the energy,” the world num- one capable of crushing op- said. The Northern Colorado from winning a 20th grand dodging bullets during ber one spluttered during ponents without so much as A storm packing hail Red Cross opened an evac- slam title, gingerly shuffled practice sessions in Comp- the obligatory on court in- a second glance.—Reuters and heavy rain produced a uation center in Berthoud. tornado in Elbert County The National Weather that damaged at least five Service issued a “flash flood Gatlin wins third successive Rome Golden Gala 100m houses and tore down farm emergency” for Boulder Rome, 5 June — Amer- one hundredth of a second. fences near the town of and Larimer Counties, two ican sprinter Justin Gatlin At a news conference Silma, southeast of Denver, areas that were hit by severe won this third successive on Wednesday to promote the county’s emergency floods in 2013, and officials Rome Golden Gala 100 the first European Diamond management officials said. warned residents to stay off metres when he clocked League meeting of the sea- Images of the damage roads. 9.75 seconds at the Olympic son Gatlin, also the world posted by emergency crews “This is an extremely stadium on Thursday. leader in the 200, said it was showed roof shingles ripped dangerous and life threaten- Gatlin, 33, has faced a too early to be considered off a home, a smashed win- ing situation,” the National barrage of criticism since the world championships dow, and debris scattered Weather Service said, advis- clocking a lifetime best of favourite in Beijing in Au- next to what appeared to be ing residents not to travel in 9.74 seconds at the opening gust ahead of defending a flipped camper. Boulder and Larimer Coun- Diamond League event in champion and Olympic gold “Please be careful for ties. “Excessive runoff from Doha from sceptics who medallist Usain Bolt. livestock on the roads due heavy rainfall will cause point out he has served two “I’m just trying to stay to broken fences,” Elbert flooding of small creeks and doping bans. healthy and strong,” he said. County Emergency Man- streams.” On Thursday he shot “But having two world leads agement said on its Twitter Traffic lights failed in Justin Gatlin from the US reacts after winning the out of the blocks to lead does put me in a position to feed, adding no injuries the city of Longmont, which men’s 100 metres event during the Golden Gala IAAF from start to finish and finish say entering a race, ‘Okay, were reported. activated an Emergency Diamond League at the Olympic stadium in Rome, in an unofficial 9.74 seconds I’m the man to go out there A tornado also struck Operations Centre as a pre- Italy on 4 June, 2015.—Reuters which was rounded up by and go against.”—Reuters around the town of Berthoud, caution.—Reuters 5th Waning Day of Nayon 1377 ME Saturday, 6 June, 2015 Vice President U Nyan Tun attends opening ceremony of 28th SEA Games Singapore, 5 June— committee, delivered an The 28th SEA Games address while Singapore was opened on a grand President Mr. Tony Tan scale in Singapore at the Keng Yam kicked off the National Gymnasium in 28th SEA Games. Singapore at 8 p.m. on After athletes took Friday, with Vice Presi- the sports oaths, entertain- dent U Nyan Tun togeth- ments were presented to er with Union Minister audiences. for Sports U Tint Hsan The SEA Games will and Deputy Minister for hold 402 events of 36 main Foreign Affairs U Tin Oo sports. More than 300 ath- Lwin, leaders of ASEAN letes from Myanmar will countries, ministers and take part in 31 sports events. senior officers in attend- Singapore hosted ance. South East Asian Penin- Athletes from 11 sula Games in 1973 and countries marched into the 17th SEA Games in the stadium by hoisting 1993.—MNA

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Wellington, 5 cheer. stunned, and it almost Billingsley with a simple June — New Zealand Despite the margin got worse for the home tap-in from six yards out. came from behind to de- of their defeat, Myanmar support minutes later as Within 90 seconds of feat Myanmar 5-1 and dominated the opening the goalscorer Thu, brim- the restart, New Zealand give the hosts hope of stages and took the lead ming with confidence, let were ahead and, after scor- reaching the FIFA U-20 with a wonderfully-crafted fly from 30 yards, but his ing the first, the youngest World Cup knockout goal. After winning the ball thunderous effort crashed of the Junior All Whites set stages. The excellent in their defensive third, red off the underside of the bar up the second. The ball was Noah Billingsley equal- shirts flooded forwards, and away. worked into the Myanmar Fans of Myanmar enjoy the atmosphere prior to the ized Aung Thu’s superb working their way towards Myanmar were made box and a superb backheel FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015 Group opener, before Monty the edge of the Junior All to pay for their profliga- nutmeg from Rufer found A match between Myanmar and New Zealand at Patterson pushed the Whites’ penalty area. Thu cy. The home crowd had Clayton Lewis, who in Wellington Regional Stadium on 5 June, 2015 in Junior All Whites ahead was fed inside the box and, been made to wait for turn set up Billingsley. His Wellington, New Zealand.—FIFA minutes after the break. taking an excellent touch something to cheer, and cross-cum-shot was turned more, with echoes of their and give the hosts more A late collapse from to cut inside onto his right almost three-and-a-half home by Monty Patterson six-goal collapse against than a glimmer of hope the Asian side saw Joel foot which left Brock Mes- hours into the hosts’ cam- and the elation from the Ukraine on Tuesday. of reaching the knockout Stevens, Sam Brother- senger on his backside, the paign, they had their first crowd was touched with a With every goal cru- stages. ton and Clayton Lewis Myanmar No9 curled a su- goal. Deklan Wynne was tinge of relief. cial in the race to finish as In the closing mo- score to bring the Kiwi perb effort beyond Nikola set free down the left, af- It was to get even the best third-placed side, ments, Wynne found goal difference back to Tzanev. ter a defence-splitting pass better for the hosts, as Darren Bazeley threw on space once more on the zero and finally give the The Wellington found him in the Myanmar Myanmar faded quickly forward-thinking midfield- New Zealand left, Latt home fans something to Regional Stadium was penalty area. His cross left in the second half once er Joel Stevens for defend- failed to clear his tame er Messenger, and it proved cross and Lewis had the an inspired switch. Billing- simple task of bringing

sley found space down the the hosts’ overall goal New Zealand left, who cut difference in Group A back to Stevens, and the back to zero. No7 sidefooted home with The home fans will his first touch. have to wait and see if The Kiwis’ new-found this victory was enough confidence bore fruit again for them to progress, with moments later, with Sam the Round of 16 picture Brotherton rising highest becoming clearer over from a corner to head home the coming days.—FIFA

FIFA U-20 World Cup results 5 June, 2015 Group A Myanmar 1-5 New Zealand Ukraine 3-0 USA Group B Austria 0-0 Argentina Panama 0-1 Ghana

Match Schedules for 6 June 2015 (all times local) Group C Senegal - Qatar 07:30 Nanda Kyaw (R) of Myanmar is challenged by Noah Billingsley of New Zealand during the FIFA U-20 World Colombia - Portugal 07:30 Cup New Zealand 2015 Group A match between Myanmar and new Zealand at Wellington Regional Stadium Group D Serbia - Mexico 10:30 on 5 June, 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand.—FIFA Mali - Uruguay 10:30 “R/489 Printed and published at the Global New Light of Myanmar Printing Factory No. 150, Nga Htat Kyee Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, by the Global New Light of Myanmar Daily.” Yangon, Township, Nga Htat Kyee Pagoda Road, Bahan