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Volume XVII, Number 129 4th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Sunday, 23 August, 2009

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round * Uplift of the morale and morality of development of other sectors of the economy as well and tranquillity, prevalence of law and the entire nation * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic order * Uplift of national prestige and integ- system * National reconsolidation rity and preservation and safeguard- * Development of the economy inviting participation in * Emergence of a new enduring State ing of cultural heritage and national terms of technical know-how and investments from Constitution character sources inside the country and abroad * Building of a new modern developed * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept * Uplift of health, fitness and education nation in accord with the new State in the hands of the State and the national peoples Constitution standards of the entire nation

Developing Budalin Township of Sagaing Division Article: Kyawt Maung Maung; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Photo shows thriving Ngwechi-6 long staple cotton plantation in Budalin Township.

Upon arrival at the entrance to Budalin recently, the news crew of Myanma Alin Daily saw the equestrian statue of Maha Bandoola that brings honour to the town. Located on the east bank of Chindwin River, Budalin is sharing border with Dabayin Township in the north, Ayadaw Township in the east, Monywa Township in the south and Yinmabin and Kani townships in the west. Budalin of Sagaing Division is situated at an altitude of 1449 feet at the highest area and 300-400 feet at the lowest area. The township has an area of 265,243 square miles and it is formed with three wards and 188 villages of 54 village-tracts. Under the arrangements of Chairman of Township Peace and Development Council U Zaw Lwin, accompanied by Executive Officer U Soe Win of Township Development Affairs Committee and Head of Township Information and Public Relations Department U Tin Aung Win, we went to the tributary Inter-village road at the entrance to Ngapayin Model Village of Budalin Township. (See page 7)

23-8-09 NL 1 7/29/18, 8:26 PM 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 PERSPECTIVES People’s Desire * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views Sunday, 23 August, 2009 * Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation Produce new export * Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State * Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy items extensively The government is extensively engaged CPT Deputy Minister performs regional in reclamation of fallow land and growing quality strain crops to meet the food, development tasks in Magway Div

clothing and shelter needs of the growing NAY PYI TAW, 22 Aug—Deputy Minister for undertakings. population. Communications, Posts and Telegraphs Maj-Gen Thein Next, the deputy minister presented a computer For the development of the agricultural Tun visited Auto-Exchange of Yenangyoung Industrial set for Basic Education High School in Aunglan and K sector, it places special emphasis on full Zone in Magway Division on 19 August and fulfilled 1 million for the People’s Hospital through officials. utilization of land and water resources, the requirements. At Thayet Auto-Exchange, the deputy minister boosting the per acre yield of crops, extensive The deputy minister then went to Radio Station met with service personnel, and held discussions on use of machinery and application of No (1) in Yenangyoung and inspected the control room. regional development tasks with local people and agricultural methods and quality strain On 20 August, the deputy minister delivered an departmental officials at town hall. The deputy minister crops. address in meeting with service personnel of Auto- donated a copier for BEHS in Thayet and oxygenation Exchange in Aunglan. device for People’s Hospital. Applying various ways and means , the At the town hall in Aunglan, the deputy minister On 21 August, the deputy minister visited Auto- government is extending the sown acreage met with local people and departmental officials and Exchange in Pyay. by reclaiming virgin and fallow lands and called for timely completion of regional development MNA wet lands. As cultivation of Noni is now meeting Prizes awarded to winners in Martial Arts Competition with success, efforts should be made for the YANGON, 22 Aug— growing of Noni on a commercial scale. A The final matches of the total of 290 Noni saplings can be grown on 7th Inter-State/Division one acre, thus producing about 69,600 pounds Myanmar Olympic of Noni. Fifty per cent of juice can be extracted Committee Chairman’s from Noni fruits, and nine pounds of the Cup Martial Arts juice is equivalent to one gallon. Competition took place at One litre of Noni juice can fetch US$ 6 Aung San Gymnasium, here, this morning. in the international market. If the growing of On behalf of the marketable Noni on a commercial scale Chairman of MOC achieves success, there will be a new export Minister for Sports, MOC item for the nation in the international General Secretary market. Director-General U Noni juice is popular among male and Thaung Htaik of Sports female for their health. Although Noni is and Physical Education more suitable to an equatorial climate it Department presented all- round championship grows well in any other climates with a lower MOC General Secretary Director-General U Thaung Htaik presents a shield and duplicate risk of being subject to insects. trophy to a winning team.—MNA All in all, if marketable Noni is shields to Yangon Division team, Aye of the Central Work extensively grown, processed and exported and the first prize in the Also present on the championship shield for MOC Chairman’s Cup to occasion were officials of Committee of Myanmar as a new export item it will surely help the skill demonstration to Ministry of Defence (B) the Ministry of Sports, Women’s Sports Fede- country earn foreign exchange. Shan State (South) team team. Chairperson Daw Aye ration and fans.—MNA Fully Automated Total Laboratory Automation Tax-free Professor Dr Khin Maung Win opens fully markets automated total laboratory automation system System in Yangon GI & Liver Centre opened in Yangon GI & Liver Centre (30th Street YANGON, 22 Total Laboratory Laboratory Automation inspected Clinic). — MNA Aug— Fully Automated Automation System in System and Dr Thein YANGON, 22 Aug— Yangon GI & Liver Centre Than, executive director Vice-Chairman of (30th Street Clinic) was of Yangon GI & Liver Yangon City opened at a ceremony at Centre, “Upgrading of the Development Committee Traders Hotel here at 2 Clinical Laboratory Vice-Mayor Col Maung pm today. Services”. Pa this morning inspected Chairman of the GI The GI & Liver shops at tax-free markets & Liver Centre Professor Centre was opend at 30th in Shwepyitha, Hlinethaya Dr Khin Maung Win and Street in Pabedan and Kamayut townships. Mr Liew Lee Min from Township here at 4.30 pm He cordially greeted Siemens Healthcare today. the buyers at the markets Diagnostics extended The advanced and gave necessary greetings. clinic can make 140 instructions to officials. U Nay Min Myo different tests. It is the first The vice-mayor and Thein, director of Lion clinic to use such modern officials inspected Myanmar Co, presented equipment at No (191/ maintenance of the road at th matters related to Fully 193), 30 Street in Pabedan Bayintnaung Ka/6th Street in Automated Total Township.—MNA Insein Township.—MNA

23-8-09 NL 2 7/29/18, 8:26 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 3 Major temblor jolts Indonesia’s West Sumatra JAKARTA, 22 Aug — agency reported on Satur- a depth of 10 km under the Aftershock quakes measur- day. The local meteorology sea level. ing 5.0 and 5.1 on the Rich- and geophysics agency On Thursday, 20 Aug, ter scale jolted the Sipura (BMG) said the quake’s three earthquakes also Mantawai region in Indo- epicenter was located at rocked West Sumatra and nesia’s West Sumatra Prov- 1.53 degrees southern lati- North Sulawesi. The initial ince at midnight and 1.48 tude and 99.81 degrees earthquake, measuring 5.1 am local time on Saturday eastern longitude at a depth on the Richter scale, rocked morning, the Antara news of 10 km under the sea West Sumatra at 12.25 pm level. Its epicenter was located Explosion kills The temblor occurred 1.42 degrees southern lati- 49 minutes after an earlier tude and 99.96 degrees east- four Afghan one measuring 5.0 on the ern longitude at a depth of police in north Richter scale at 00:06 after 39 km under the sea surface, midnight at 1.59 degrees 67 kilometers southwest of A general view of the site of a truck bomb attack outside the Iraqi Ministry of KABUL, 22 Aug — An southern latitude and 99.81 the province’s capital city of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, on 19 Aug, 2009. — XINHUA explosion carried out by degrees eastern longitude at Padang.—Internet Taleban militants in Terror group responsible for Wednesday’s Baghlan Province in the Damaged homes and vehicles are seen in Vaughan, north of Afghanistan on Ontario, Canada on 21 Aug, 2009 after a tornado attacks in Baghdad arrested Saturday left four police- touched down in the neighbourhood north of Toronto BAGHDAD, 22 Aug — Wednesday, which has 87 killed and 1,203 peo- men dead and two others on Thursday night. Residents allowed back into the A terror group responsible claimed casualties nearly ple wounded, most of injured, a local official said. neighbourhood said they had never seen any for Wednesday’s deadly 1,300 people. whom had already recov- “Anti-government thing like this in Canada.—INTERNET attacks against Iraqi min- Atta said, the terror ered from hospitals, only militants organized a road- istries in Baghdad was ar- group was linked to the more than 100 injured side bomb in Baghlan-e- rested, Baghdad Opera- former Ba’ath party, and were still under treatment. Markazi area this morning tion Command said. they planned and carried Interior Ministry leaving four police dead Major general Qassim out the two deadly at- sources previously told and injured two others. All Atta, spokesman of the tacks. He didn’t say how Xinhua, on condition of the dead bodies and in- Baghdad Operation Com- many were arrested, but anonymity that the blasts jured men have been taken mand said at Iraqia TV that, confirmed that the group killed 95 people and to hospital,” director of after several hours of raid, under arrest would be wounded 563 others. Atta hospital in the area Khalil they have arrested a terror- shown on TV in a few also confirmed that the Narmgoi told Xinhua. ist group responsible for the hours. first suicide truck bomber Meantime, Taleban truck attacks against Iraq Qassim Atta said that which drove to the Min- purported spokesman Ministry of Finance and casualties of Wednesday’s istry of Finance carried Zabihullah Mujahid Ministry of Foreign Affairs attacks had increased to 1.5 ton explosives, and the claimed responsibility for other, against the Minis- the attack and in talks with Panama reaffirms its withdrawal from try of Foreign Affairs, car- media from undisclosed Central American Parliament ried 2 tons of explosives. location via telephone said Interior Ministry has PANAMA CITY, 22 Aug — Panamanian Foreign seven police were killed in yet to release the number Minister Juan Carlos Varela reaffirmed Friday his blast.—Xinhua of casualties of govern- country’s decision to withdraw from the Central ment officials from the An Iraqi man mourns American Parliament (PARLACEN) and asked other Car bombing in northern blasts, but a Foreign Min- after receiving his member countries to respect it. istry staff told Xinhua brother’s body, who “Panama’s decision is a taken decision, we began Iraq kills four soldiers anonymously that at least was killed in a twin the process in a formal and respectful way of the dip- BAGHDAD, 22 Aug — Four soldiers were killed and 25 were killed and truck bombing the day lomatic practice,” Varela told the press. “We will not two others injured in a car bomb attack on Friday night in 100wounded in the min- before near the minis- accept that any deputy from the PARLACEN, by any northern Iraq, a police source said.A car bomb targeting istry.—Xinhua try of foreign affairs, means, question the sovereign decision by the Pana- a police patrol in the car exploded on the way between outside a morgue in manian President, who was elected by the Panama- towns of Zomar and Rabiaa, northwest of Mosul, all casu- 5.6-magnitude Baghdad.—INTERNET nian people,” Varela said.— Xinhua alties were soldiers, the police source told Xinhua on con- earthquake hits dition of anonymity. The police car was totally damaged. The two wounded NZ’s N Island were immediately sent to a local hospital, the source WELLINGTON, 22 Aug added. Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, is said to — An earthquake measur- be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaeda militants in the ing 5.6 on the Richter war-torn country. Security forces intensified security scale struck off Te Araroa, measures after the series of deadly bombings in central on the tip of New Zealand Baghdad Wednesday targeting Iraqi ministries of Finance North Island’s East Cape and Foreign Affairs, killing 95 and wounding563 peo- on Saturday morning. ple, the most fatal in 18 months. The quake hit at 05:24 Despite a security upgrade, a bicycle bomb hit the a.m. local time (17:24 commercial area of Hafiz al-Qazi at the al-Rasheed street GMT Friday) and was in central Baghdad Thursday, killing two people and centered 200 km northeast wounding eight others, a police source told Xinhua. An of Te Araroa at a depth of apparent attack resurge raises fears that more violence 140 km, New Zealand’s would follow this week’s deadly strikes in the Iraqi capi- Institute of Geological tal, casting shadow and uncertainty on the fragile secu- and Nuclear Science re- rity situation in the war-torn state. — Xinhua ported.— Xinhua

23-8-09 NL 3 7/29/18, 8:27 PM 4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 Indonesia becomes promising market for Singaporean property JAKARTA, 22 Aug— Singaporean property was Singapore to look for Indonesia becomes a bought by foreign buyers. qualified education and promising market for “We are optimistic that health services. Singaporean property, Indonesia still has a chance He also said that in contributing a big share for to contribute much, average foreign buyers filled foreign investment in the especially buyers from big 13 percent of Singapore sector, the Kompas daily cities like Jakarta, Bandung an property, the second reported on Saturday, of West Java province, largest after Malaysia. “At quoted an official. Surabaya of East Java least Indonesia had once Eindrata Tanukusuma, province and Semarang of dominated foreign the general manager of Central Java province,” said purchasing in Singapore. property sales in the Far Tanukusuma in Semarang We hope that Indonesian East Organization, the on Friday. He said that the buyer percentage could largest property developer trend was initiated by return to 2007 level,” said in Singapore, said that at growing people who chose Tanukusuma.—Xinhua the peak of Singaporean A man inspects a prototype of an electric automo- Italian Red Cross doctors give first aid to one on five would-be immigrants at booming property in 2007, bile presented by German energy supplier RWE AG Lampedusa harbour, in southern Italy, on 20 Aug, 2009. Italian coastguards Indonesian investors filled in July 2009 in Berlin. The German government searched the Mediterranean Sea on Friday for the bodies of 73 migrants from 31 percent of foreign unveiled plans on Wednesday to get one million elec- Eritrea feared dead from hunger and thirst while trying to reach Europe from market in the country. That tric cars zipping around the country by 2020, offer- North Africa.—INTERNET time, 27 percent of ing sweeteners to jump-start national giants like BMW and Volkswagen into action.—INTERNET Argentina, Chile to speed up trans-Andean railway plan BUENOS AIRES, 22 Aug— said on Friday. Both ministers also Argentina and Chile After meeting in agreed to create a permanent announced the creation of a Santiago, the capital of Chile, commission to speed up permanent commission to Argentine Transport negotiations between the two advance the Central Trans- Minister Juan Pablo Schiavi sides on the project. The Andean Railway project, and Chilean Public Works project will reduce the transit Argentine Transport Ministry Minister Sergio Bitar agreed burden of the Cristo Redentor to include the initiative in a International Pass and Honda to sell bilateral agreement to be facilitate cargo transportation electric cars in US ratified by Argentine between the Atlantic and President Cristina Fernandez Pacific Oceans, boosting TOKYO, 22 Aug — and her Chilean counterpart trade exchange within the Honda Motor Co plans to Michelle Bachelet in continent and with Asian introduce electric vehicles October. markets.—Xinhua in the US early next decade, joining a growing number GM board to review final bids for Opel Chile prepares new capital of automakers vying for the CHICAGO, 22 Aug —US automaker General Motors Co. is expected to review lead in clean technology final bids for its Opel subsidiary on Friday amid mounting pressure from Germany market reforms development, local media to accept an offer from Magna International Inc. According to a Detroit News SANTIAGO, 22 Aug—Chilean Treasury Minister reported on Saturday. report, the German government would provide 6.4 billion US dollars in loans to Andres Velasco said Friday that the third Reform of Japan’s second-biggest Adam Opel GmbH, if GM selected the bid from a Magna-led consortium. the Capital Markets (MKIII) will soon be delivered to car maker, which has Magna, a Canadian supplier, proposes to acquire 27.5 percent of Opel, with the National Congress for approval. During a seminar, focused on gas-electric Russia’s Sberbank taking an equal stake. GM would keep 35 percent, and Opel Velasco said that the reform will not bring “an hybrids so far, is building employees would get 10 percent. Magna recently revised its bid to allay GM’s earthquake” for the financial world and it won’t an all-electric prototype to concerns about the risk of intellectual property losses, notably to Russian carmakers. include “great modifications.” be unveiled at the Tokyo GM is entitled to select the bid, but may have little choice. As Germany’s According to Velasco, the reform will focus on Motor Show in October, money appears to be the only option to provide Opel with a viable future, precisely measures to boost exports of the financial service and according to the Nikkei what decision GM has to make seems academic, analysts say. Opel has 25,000 increase market liquidity. Velasco said he was financial newspaper. It said employees in Germany, representing about half of GM. “optimistic” of Chile’s financial system, adding that Honda would begin sales Xinhua the reform will bring benefit to everyone in the of electric vehicles in the country.—Xinhua United States in the first half of the decade. California’s unemployment A Honda spokesman said the Tokyo-based company rate hits record high has begun to develop electric L OS A NGELES, 22 Aug—California, the most populous vehicles, but has not decided state in the United States, saw an unexpected rise in on a release date. He unemployment rate which reached a new high of 11.9 declined to be named, citing percent in July, according to figures released on Friday. company policy.Honda The rise came even as the national rate declined in the released its new Insight same period, the US Labour Department said. earlier this year, billing it as Having lost 760,000 jobs over the last year, the the cheapest gas-electric state lost a net 35,800 jobs last month, shedding more hybrid on the market, to jobs than any other state, said the department. California compete with Toyota Motor A GM logo is seen behind an Opel logo at the Opel plant of Antwerp on 21 Aug, is tied with Oregon for the fourth-highest Corp’s top-selling Prius. 2009. US carmaker General Motors’ board of directors is set to decide on Friday unemployment rate in the nation, behind Michigan, Internet which suitor for the Opel business in Europe it will support.—XINHUA Rhode Island and Nevada.—Xinhua

23-8-09 NL 4 7/29/18, 8:27 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 5 Indonesian Air Force pilots to serve in commercial flights JAKARTA, 22 Aug— set up following the The EU uplifted the ban in Indonesian air force pilots aggressive expansion plan July after it imposed it for would be recruited to meet of the airline firm to two years. pilot staffing crisis at double the size of its fleet However, the agree- national flag carrier, PT from 56 to 116 planes ment is still in its infancy Garuda Indonesia, as the within the next five years. as many details have yet to airline firm expands its “We need at least 100 be settled, including fleet, the Jakarta Globe more pilots to fly our restriction on military reported here on Saturday. planes,” Garuda Indonesia employees, who are not Under the Memo- President Director currently allowed to work randum of Understanding Emirsyah Satar said on the as civilians. “We are (MoU) between the air sidelines of the MoU currently waiting for the force and Garuda signing ceremony. The regulation issued by Indonesia signed on Garuda’s plan was the Defence Ministry Friday, the air force will following the European regarding this issue,” File photo shows cargo cranes at the Philippines’ international container port provide pilots on loan as Union’s (EU) revocation Indonesian Air Force in Manila Bay. A Panama-flagged cargo ship with a South African captain well as provide training for on the flight ban against Commander Air Marshall and 12 crew members has been detained by Philippine authorities for alleged Garuda’s pilot and aviation Indonesian planes from Subandrio said. arms smuggling, the coastguard said on Friday.—INTERNET engineers. The MoU was serving in EU’s territory. Xinhua All items from Xinhua News Agency Ariane rocket launches satellites for Japan, Australia Mexico plans to buy Chinese-made PARIS, 22 Aug—An Ariane 5-ECA rocket has successfully launched two flu vaccine communications satellites for Japan MEXICO CITY, 22 Aug— the purchase, Cordoba China to meet with their and Australia at 22:08 GMT on Friday Mexico is considering told Mexican media, add- counterparts there. He at the Arianespace launch site in buying Chinese-made ing that Chinese-made said that the government Kourou, French Guiana. vaccine to fight the deadly vaccines are likely to be is expecting a second The dual payload includes one sat- new strain of A/H1N1 flu cheaper than those made wave of the virus towards ellite for Japanese telecom operator that has killed over 160 in the United States. the end of the year. SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and people in the country, Cordoba, who was in Mexico already has 20 another for Australian operator Optus. Mexican Health Minister the Chinese capital of million doses of vaccine Half an hour after lift-off, the two sat- Jose Angel Cordoba Beijing attending an inter- and hopes to have a fur- ellites left the rocket and entered their Villalobos said on Friday. national conference on A/ ther 10 million vaccines temporary orbit. They are scheduled to “Efficiency, the chance H1N1 flu that would end ready by November. move into earth-synchronous orbit of getting vaccines on on Sunday, said that an- Xinhua several days later.—Xinhua time and cost” are the fac- other possibility is to send tors to be considered in Mexican scientists to Colombia claims destruction of rebel explosives cache Panama burns 6 tons BOGOTA, 22 Aug—Half a ton of explosives hidden by the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels had been destroyed in the east- An Ariane 5 rocket stands at the of drugs ern department of Casanare, Colombian officials said on Friday. The launch site in Kourou, French PANAMA CITY, 22 Aug — The Panamanian Administrative Department of Security and the Army of Colombia dis- Guyana in July 2009. An Ariane 5 authorities burned 6,040 kg of drugs on Friday, covered some 600 detonators and 640 meters of flex in the municipal- rocket is set to propel two communi- the latest demonstration of the country’s resolu- ity Tamara. More than 550 kg of explosives and detonating devices cations satellites into space, one for tion to fight narco-trafficking. The drugs were de- were also found in the three hidden places, said a communiqué.Experts Japanese telecom operator SKY stroyed in a garbage dump called “Cerro Patacon” carried out a controlled destruction of the explosives. According to Perfect JSAT Corporation and in Panama City. Javier Carrillo, director of the investigations, the location where the explosives were found had served second for Australian operator. National Police’s Judicial Investigation Direction, as a camp for ELN rebels.— Xinhua XINHUA said the destroyed drugs included 5,983 kg A wounded Mogadishu of cocaine, 49.43 kg of marijuana and 8.24 kg civilian is wheeled to a of heroine. hospital after fighting Xinhua erupted between Islam- ist rebels and govern- Turkish police confiscates ment forces backed by African Union (AU) 42 kg heroin in Istanbul peacekeepers in the war- ANKARA, 22 Aug—Turkish police confiscated torn capital. Somali gov- 42 kg heroin in an operation conducted in Tur- ernment forces clashed key’s largest city of Istanbul on Friday, the semi- with Shebab rebels in official Anatolia news agency reported. The po- Mogadishu killing at lice stopped a vehicle in Istanbul and seized the least 16 people even as heroin upon information that the heroin would be Ethiopian troops back- brought from southeastern province of Hakkari to ing the government Istanbul and to be sent to European countries, forces made a cross-bor- according to the report. der incursion, witnesses Xinhua said.—INTERNET

23-8-09 NL 5 7/29/18, 8:27 PM 6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 Tire of Thai plane Men walk away from fiery small reportedly explodes while landing plane crash in NJ TETERBORO, 22 Aug — BANGKOK,22 Aug — Tire of a Two men walked away plane of Thai Airways Interna- from a fiery small-plane tional Public Company Limited crash Friday morning and (THAI) exploded on Friday as it were found by emergency was landing at Bangkok’s responders at a bus stop Suvarnabhumi International minutes later — alert and Airport, according to preliminary conscious but badly An woman waits for customers at her flower reports by local media. burned. The mishap oc- stall in Conomi, in the Chapare region, in The tire of the THAI aircraft’s curred after the pilot of the central Bolivia, on 21 Aug, 2009. Brazil’s TG 234, which was carrying 200 twin-engine Beechcraft President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is expected passengers, exploded while Baron aborted a landing at to meet Bolivia’s president Evo Morales in the landing, the local media said. Teterboro Airport and coca-growing region of Chapare on 22 Aug to By 14.45 pm local time, no Investigators survey the burnt wreckage of a twin- crashed into a tree and discuss bilateral issues.—INTERNET injury was reported. — Xinhua engine plane which lies on a property adjacent to sign just after 3 am. Teterboro Airport, after it crashed on approach to Teterboro is the same the airport early Friday, 21 Aug, 2009 in Teterboro, Australia lists Somalia’s airport where a 2005 jet NJ.—INTERNET crash injured 20 people al-Shabab as terrorists and where, earlier this National Transportation wound up in a grassy SYDNEY, 22 Aug — organization by the means it is illegal to be a month, a controller and Safety Board. The pilot field near a warehouse. Australia’s government United States, “has member, provide funds or supervisor were sus- never radioed a distress The plane was sitting up- designated a Somali prepared, planned and associate with the group. pended for their conduct call and it’s not clear why right when it caught fire, extremist group with links carried out frequent Earlier this month, five during a deadly midair he aborted the landing, and the two men inside to al-Qaeda as a terrorist attacks as part of its men linked by police to collision over the Hudson Gretz said. managed to crawl out. organization on Friday, violent insurgency since al-Shabab were charged River. The plane cleared a A bartender waiting at just weeks after several the beginning of 2007,” in an alleged plot to shoot In Friday’s crash, the set of power lines and a traffic light heard the men allegedly associated Australian Attorney- up an Australian military airplane was about half- traffic lights along a crash and saw a flash of with the group were General Robert base. The men — all way down a runway when highway that borders the light over his shoulder, charged with planning McClelland and Foreign Australian citizens with the pilot, George Maddox, airport before hitting a Little Ferry Police Lieu- a suicide attack on Minister Stephen Smith Somali and Lebanese aborted the landing, then tree on the other side of tenant Frank Novak said. an Australian military said in a statement origins — were charged tried to climb and come the roadway, breaking in The man ran to help and base. announcing the with conspiring to plan a around for another try, half and hitting a large came upon the burning Al-Shabab, which is designation. terrorist attack. said Robert J Gretz, a sen- sign, Gretz said. The plane and two men. already listed as a terrorist The terror listing Internet ior investigator with the cockpit and engines Internet

Apple a day helps keep kidney stones away Skeleton found in EWS LBUM US researchers say a healthy diet 5th century church N A high in fruits and vegetables helps pre- Archaeologists have found a skeleton vent kidney stones. in a small 5th century Christian cathedral The study, published in the Journal being excavated in northeastern Syria, au- of the American Society of Nephrol- thorities said. ogy, finds those who eat healthy foods The Byzantine-era cathedral in Tal al- recommended in the Dietary Ap- Hasaka is 59 feet long with a 13-foot- proaches to Stop Hypertension diet wide northern hall, the Kuwait news may effectively ward off kidney stones. agency KUNA reported Saturday. The DASH diet limits salt, red or proc- Center in Portland, scored the diets of A grape squeezer and the skeleton of essed meats and sweetened beverages, 45,821 men enrolled in the Health Pro- a human believed to have been tortured but has lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts, fessionals Follow-up Study; 94,108 to death were found in a service area off low-fat dairy products and whole older women the Nurses’ Health Study the northern hall, Abdul-Maseeh Baghdo, grains. I; and 101,837 younger women of the the leader of the dig team, said. According to reports from British Researchers at the Boston’s Nurses’ Health Study II. A total of 5,645 Archaeologist have uncovered a floor media, a one year old Australian Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led by incident kidney stones developed in the inlaid with reddish-yellow baked clay, the horse is only bigger than a cat. The Dr Eric Taylor of Maine Medical participants. stairway, steps and two intact 16-foot horse was diagnosed to be with Participants with the highest DASH columns that supported a long-ago col- pygmyism. However, after the lapsed ceiling of baked clay and basalt scores were 40 percent to 45 percent less surgery, the little horse can normally stone, KUNA reported. likely to develop kidney stones than live its life now. participants with the lowest DASH Breastfeeding moms stage ‘nurse-in’ scores. The reductions in kidney stone Breastfeeding mothers had a “nurse- WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported. risk were independent of age, body size, in” on Friday at a fast-food restaurant in Florida law allows women to fluid intake and other factors. Orlando, Fla. breastfeed almost anywhere at any time The protest was inspired by a woman and specifically says the nipple does not who said an employee at the Chick-Fil- need to be covered. Jorge Castro gestures while being A had told her to cover her breast and The woman said she tried complain- hung from piercing hooks on his back offered her a towel as she fed her baby, ing to the manager and to Chick-Fil-A’s at the World Trade Center in Mexico Heart attack survivors who eat choco- head office, but to no avail. City, Jorge Castro’s 2-hour and late two or more times per week cut their The restaurant now says it’s educat- 50-minute suspension broke the Guin- risk of dying from heart disease about ing employees about the breastfeeding ness record of a 2-hour and 40-minute threefold compared to those who never law and considering door stickers to tell record that he made in 2007. touch the stuff, scientists have reported. guests it’s a “mom-friendly” place.

23-8-09 NL 6 7/29/18, 8:27 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 7 Developing Budalin Township of Sagaing Division

Article: Kyawt Maung Maung; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

(from page 1) furlongs long road from 40,000 acres of monsoon a result, the township FAO, according to canal No. 1 of Budalin Ngapayin model village paddy against the target annually won the prize Township PDC Chairman river water pumping to Buta village. of 77,700 acres. for the largest cultivation U Zaw Lwin. station between At present, local The local farmers of sunflower awarded by Arrangements are being made to raise the pass rate of matriculation examination of the local students. Moreover, the township has been facilitated with one 25- Chairman of bed hospital in Budalin, Township PDC one 16-bed hospital in U Zaw Lwin. Maunghtaung Station, five rural health centres, areas. As a result, the 23 health care branhes and local people engaged one delivery room of in the agriculture task Maternal and Child are enjoying the fruits Welfare Association. of regional deve- Now, the local lopment. authorities are striving ***** for better transportation Translation: TTA through the roads Myanma Alin: Landscaping of gateway to Budalin Township. linking urban and rural 22-8-2009

Maunghtaung and people have easy access are trying hard to carry Hsewa villages. On the to neighbouring villages out cultivation tasks way, we saw the female and the urban area relying on water sources paddy transplanters in through inter-village of Yebudalin and Indaw the paddy fields. roads and the roads river water pumping At the Auto- linking urban and rural stations. Exchange of Myanma areas. Budalin Township Posts and Budalin Township puts over 1200 acres of Telecommunications in is one of eight in Monywa lands under Ngwechi-6 Myawady Ward, we District. The local people long staple cotton in witnessed the local are engaged in the addition to paddy, people calling agriculture task. In 2009- sesame, groundnut, telephones to various 2010 fiscal year, they sunflower, pigeon pea, regions. have cultivated over green gram and gram. As Moreover, we saw conveniently Budalin Auto-Exchange providing cycling of students along communication services to local people. the 3 miles and 3

Performing Arts 3rd Nay Pyi Taw Inter- Workshop on traffic rules Competitions organized Ministry men's football education held in Magway in Yangon North District NAY PYI TAW, 22 Aug—Magway Division Su- tournament continues pervisory Committee for Traffic Rules Enforcement YANGON, 22 Aug—The opening ceremony of organized a workshop on traffic rules education at the 17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts NAY P YI T AW, 22 Aug —The third round knock- hall of No (1) Basic Education High School in Magway Competitions 2009 of Yangon North District was held out match of the third Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry on 15 August attended by Chairman of Magway Divi- at the hall of Main Heavy Machinery Station (South) of Men's Football Tournament took place in Nay Pyi sion Peace and Development Council Col Phone Maw Public Works in Insein Township yesterday. Taw Pyinmana playgrounds (Paunglaung) at 4 pm Shwe and party. Secretary of Yangon Division Peace and Devel- today. In the match, the Construction Ministry that Firstly, the chairman delivered an opening ad- dress and observed educative books displayed at the opment Council U Khin Maung Tun and officials stood first in the group (BB) beat the Progress of formally opened the competitions. hall. Border Areas and National Races and Development The artistes performed entertainments. The ceremony to unveil the billboard of Magway Affairs that stood second in the group (DD) 1-0. The secretary of Division PDC and wife pre- Division War Veteran Organization Conference was sented flower basket to the artistes. Industry-1 Ministry that stood first the group held in front of the town hall in Magway on 16 August. Yangon North District continued the Perform- (CC) will play against Transport Ministry that stood The chairman pressed the button to unveil the bill- ing Arts Competitions today. second in the group (AA) on 24 August. board. MNA MNA MNA

23-8-09 NL 7 7/29/18, 8:27 PM 8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 Primary School in Tachilek Township gets Magway Div PDC Chairman inspects cultiva- new school building tion of monsoon paddy in Pwintbyu and Minbu

NAY PYI TAW, 21 Aug—Chair- paddy cultivation ceremony in Kanthagyi NAY P YI T AW, 22 Aug—The open- ment Council Commander of Triangle man of Magway Division Peace and village of Pwintbyu Township on 12 ing of the new school building for Basic Region Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Phyo, Development Council Col Phone Maw August Education Primary School at Ma-an- senior military officers, departmental of- Shwe together with members of divi- Next, the Chairman looked into kham village in Tachilek Township was ficials, social organizations, students and sion cultivation supervisory committee Kyauksan (Mann Creek) water pump- held at the school on 15 August. local people. The commander formally inspected ploughing of farms and win- ing site in Minbu Township and gave It was attended by Chairman of unveiled the signboard of the new school nowing of summer paddy at the monsoon necessary instructions.—MNA Shan State (East) Peace and Develop- building.—MNA Labour Minister meets Members of Electric Power No.1 Minister meets National Assembly of ROK Chinese guests NAY P YI T AW, 22 Aug—Minister Ministry of Labour, here, this morning. NAY PYI TAW, 22 Aug—Minis- of China at the ministry yesterday for Labour U Aung Kyi received Mem- They cordially discussed develop- ter for Electric Power No.1 Col Zaw evening. bers of National Assembly of the Re- ment of job opportunity abroad and im- Min received Chief Economist Dr Du Also present at the call were public of Korea Mr Huang Woo-yea, provement of workers’ skills. Zhigang and party of State Grid Corpo- deputy Minister U Myo Myint, depart- Mr Kim Se-yeon and party accompa- Also present at the call were Deputy ration (SGCC) from People’s Republic mental heads and personnel.—MNA nied by Ambassador of the Republic of Minister for Labour Brig-Gen Tin Tun Korea to the Union of Myanmar Mr Aung and officials. Park Key Chong, at the hall of the MNA Myanmar delegation leaves for Thailand to attend 1st ASCC Council Meeting

NAY PYI TAW, 22 for Bangkok of Thailand ter was accompanied by Aug—Member of Central by air to attend the first Secretary of the Central Committee for Implemen- ASEAN Socio-Cultural Committee Director-Gen- tation of Myanmar- Community Council eral U Sann Win of De- ASEAN Socio-Cultural (ASCC) Meeting to be partment of Archaeology, Community Deputy Min- held in Bangkok from 22 National Museum and Li- ister for Education Brig- to 24 August. brary under the Ministry Gen Aung Myo Min left The Deputy Minis- of Culture and Deputy Director-General U Tint Swe of ASEAN Affairs Department under the Ministry of Foreign Af- fairs. MNA Labour Minister U Aung Kyi meets Mr Huang Woo-yea, Mr Kim Se-yeon and party of ROK.—MNA A delegation led by Deputy Minister Mandalay Mayor inspects roadworks Brig-Gen Aung Myo NAY PYI TAW, 21 Aug—Chair- ship on 13 August. Min poses for photo man of Mandalay City Development The mayor heard reports on com- before its departure Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Phone Zaw pleted tasks presented by personnel in for Thailand to attend Han accompanied by officials concerned Pyigytagon Township and gave instruc- th 1st ASEAN Socio- inspected laying of tar on 35 Street and tions. roadworks in Chanayetharzan Town- MNA Cultural Community Council meeting. MNA Basic Course No. 44 for Junior Officers concludes YANGON, 22 Aug—The con- Rector U Win Maung awarded best Building Society of MADB holds cluding ceremony of Basic Course male trainees and best female trainees. annual meeting No. 44 for Junior Officers of Central The rector then spoke on the occasion and Institute of Civil Service (Phaunggyi) presented completion certificates to train- was held at Parade Ground of the insti- ees. YANGON, 22 Aug —The annual an address by Managing Direcor tute yesterday morning. meeting of Building Society of Myanma U Tin Lwan. MNA Agriculture Development Bank under Officials concerned read out an- the Ministry of Agriculture and Irriga- nual report, financial report and profit Food & Beverages Services Refresher tion was held at MADB (Head Office) sharing account and new executive mem- on Pansodan Street here yesterday with bers were elected.—MNA Course opens in PyinOoLwin YANGON, 21 Aug — Under the lay), was held in PyinOoLwin Station on supervision of the Ministry of Hotels 3 August. and Tourism, the opening of Food & A total of 24 trainees from staff of Beverages Services Refresher Course, hotels, motels and restaurants in PyinOoLwin Tobacco Kills jointly-organized by Nann Myaing Ho- and servicemen of the Station attended the tel and Hotel Training School (Manda- two-week course.—MNA

23-8-09 NL 8 7/29/18, 8:27 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 9 Mandalay Division Myanma Posts and Telecommunications contributing towards rural areas

(from page 16) In the interview, Article: Yangyi Aung Manager U Eiddhi Hla said, "MDMPT is pro- Photos: Yangyi Aung and viding public commu- Tin Maung (Mandalay) nication services the three sectors — postal, MPT satellite terminals. emails, high-speed telegraphic and tel- With the nine auto ex- ADSL line has been ephone services. Com- changes, a total of launched in Mandalay, munication services 60,279 phone lines have TadaU, Kyaukse, are being provided not been installed in Man- PyinOoLwin, Meiktila only in urban areas but dalay. The whole divi- and NyaungU and 98 also in rural areas, es- Mandalay Post Office offering postal services. sion has 60,279 lines. private lines and 110 pecially those with Similarly, the manual departmental lines fices, 31 post and tel- crowave station and 20 exchanges provide 720 have been installed. egraph offices and one fibre cable stations have lines and MPT satellite Through the Dial-Up radio and telegraph of- been opened in the divi- terminals, 388 lines. Line E-mail & Internet fice totalling 48. sion. There are 45 auto In the mobile Service, 112 depart- Telephone is the exchanges and seven phone service sector, mental lines and 178 most important and ef- manual exchanges total- there are GSM, CDMA private lines totalling fective service in com- ling 52. Moreover, com- and cellular services. 290 have been in- munication sector. For munication services are CDMA mobile stations stalled in Mandalay. smooth communication, being provided by open- have been established in The emergence 19 digital microwave ing 28 rural telephone Mandalay, of Yadanabon Teleport stations, one analog mi- exchanges and five PyinOoLwin, Myittha, will contribute to the

A signboard on Yangon-Mandalay Highway showing area where phone lines can be installed. difficult access." Next, Office is offering postal he explained services services with the use of of each sector. domestic express mail There are 73 post service track and trace. offices, 19 post offices Through this system, (branch) and 57 repre- whereabouts of a letter sentative offices total- or thing sent can be ling 149 in Mandalay checked online. Letters Division. The post of- can be sent through the fices offer regular and system from Mandalay express mail services, to 20 other towns. Tel- money order services egraph has been a reli- and international par- able service till today. cel services. There are In the division, there are 31 post offices. one division telegraph Mandalay Post Office offering express mail services. Mandalay Post office, 15 telegraph of- Yamethin, Popa, developemt of infor- Moegok and Yadanabon mation technology in Teleport, installing Mandalay Division. 15,100 lines. Two cel- Myanma Post and Tel- lular mobile stations ecommunications of each have been opened Mandalay Division is in Mandalay and providing widespread Moegok with 5500 communication serv- lines. So there are more ices that are contrib- than 100,000 mobile uting towards even phone lines in the whole rural areas. division. ***** For effective use Translation: ST Internet users at the Public Access Centre of Mandalay Division Post and Telecommunications. of the Internet and Kyemon: 19-8-09

23-8-09 NL 9 7/29/18, 8:27 PM 10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 Arsenal 4-1 Portsmouth LONDON, 22 Aug—Abou Diaby netted a brace as S P O R T S Arsenal continued their excellent start to the season Arsenal 4 - 1 Portsmouth with a win over Portsmouth. Birmingham C 0 - 0 Stoke C Arsenal enjoyed a comfortable win against Pompey Hull C 1 - 0 Bolton W Wigan Athletic 0-5 at the Emirates Stadium to continue their impressive Manchester C 1 - 0 Wolverhampton W start to the new Barclays Premier League season. Sunderland 2 - 1 Blackburn R Manchester United Diaby set them on their way with two first-half Wigan Athletic 0 - 5 Manchester U Manager Sir Alex goals in the space of three minutes. Ferguson had asked his Younes Kaboul pulled one back before the break - Sunderland 2-1 Blackburn Rovers side for goals and they but William Gallas and substitute Aaron Ramsey ensured LONDON, 22 Aug—Kenwyne Jones scored twice responded in style with a comfortable finish as the Gunners maintained their as Sunderland came from behind to beat Blackburn five in the second half at 100 per cent Barclays Premier League record.—Internet Rovers at the Stadium of Light. the DW Stadium. The Trinidad and Tobago international levelled Wayne Rooney netted 13 minutes before the break after being played in by twice to take his tally for Steed Malbranque. the club to 101. Dimitar It had been all Rovers up to that point with Gael Wayne Rooney Berbatov scored the Givet firing the visitors ahead with 21 minutes gone LONDON, 22 Aug— second, Michael Owen the after Black Cats old boy El-Hadji Diouf had forced Champions Manchester fourth and Nani the fifth Marton Fulop into a fine save. United bounced back as United recovered Sunderland went in front on 54 minutes when from their midweek strongly from their shock Lee Cattermole broke down the left and sent in an defeat with a defeat at Burnley. Abou Diaby of Arsenal celebrates his goal with inviting cross for Jones to power a header past Paul comprehensive victory. Internet teammate Eduardo.—INTERNET Robinson.—Internet Paris’ Picasso Museum shuts for 2-year Xinhua, China Telecom launch TV news renovation channel in Shanghai PARIS, 22 Aug—Paris’ It will stop lending out prolific career. Picasso SHANGHAI, 22 Aug— Subscribers in president of Xinhua, Picasso Museum is closing Picasso artworks during died in 1973. Xinhua News Agency Shanghai can get attended the ceremony to its doors for renovations, the overhaul, which will Renovation of the and China Telecom, one multimedia news services launch the service. Xinhua spiriting away its begin with experts 3,000-square-meter of China’s three leading of Xinhua with their “e started its video news masterpieces under high updating, computerizing (32,000-square-foot) mobile telecom carriers, surfing” cell phones service on March1 this security to government and restoring the space will begin early next on Saturday launched a provided by China year. warehouses for more than inventory, museum year. It is expected to last Xinhua TV News channel Telecom, said Zhang High-quality two years while seeking to director Anne Baldassari two years and cost euro20 through the high-speed Weihua, general manager information services are expand the much-visited said Saturday. million, the museum said third-generation network of China Telecom needed to build Shanghai but cramped site. The The museum, in a in a statement.—Internet (3G) in Shanghai. Shanghai Branch. into an international museum will be free to all baroque mansion in Paris’ Xinhua will provide financial center as well as visitors Sunday, the last Marais district, opened in China Telecom Shanghai an international shipping day before the work 1985, and it traces the Branch with exclusive center, said Zhang. begins. Spanish-born artist’s news about the Shanghai State-owned China Expo, analysis reports and Telecom boasted 214 Death toll in Nigerian various news items, while million fixed-line the latter will offer telephone subscribers, 35 cholera outbreak hits 52 telecommunications million mobile phone services, according to the subscribers and 47 million KANO (Nigeria), 22 Aug—A cholera outbreak in deal. broadband customers at northern Nigeria has killed 13 more people, taking the Lu Wei, vice the end of 2008.—Internet death toll to 52, the health commissioner said on Saturday. “We recorded more cases of cholera outbreak in US man faces lesser the state in the last five days,” Zainab Baba Kwanci told AFP of the outbreak in Adamawa state. manslaughter charge in HK “In Demsa, we have recorded nine deaths while HONG KONG, 22 Aug—A drunken American 120 people are hospitalised. In Fufure, we recorded university student accused of causing a taxi crash and four deaths and 18 hospitalised.” the death of its driver in Hong Kong had his murder On Tuesday, 39 people were reported killed by charged reduced to manslaughter, his lawyer said the disease in Maiha, according to local government Saturday. official Yahaya Hamman-Julde. The murder charge against California State He said “scores of people” had been hospitalised University, Chico student Kelsey Michael Mudd was as a result of the disease, stressing that an ongoing reduced to manslaughter in a brief court hearing on strike by medical workers in the state was hampering Friday, lawyer Ian Polson told The Associated Press. efforts to assist the sick. It was unclear why the charge was reduced. No Julde could not pinpoint the cause of the outbreak, one from the Hong Kong Judiciary could be reached but recalled that a similar one in June killed 20 people for comment Saturday. If convicted, Mudd — who holds American and in the area. A civil guard watches over some 600 mortar Cholera is an intestinal infection that causes serious Australian passports — faces a maximum penalty of shells from World War II in a field near diarrhoea and vomiting leading to dehydration. With life imprisonment. Sallenelles, France in 1992. An unexploded a short incubation period, it can be fatal if not treated Prosecutors said earlier that Mudd was more than in time. artillery shell dating from World War II was three times over the legal alcohol limit on June 27 Last September, a spate of cholera outbreaks in discovered under a runway at Pulkovo airport in when the crash occurred. But Polson argued the alcohol northern Nigeria claimed almost 100 lives in Katsina, Saint Petersburg and safely removed, an airport test results were irrelevant because there was no Zamfara and Bauchi states.—Internet spokeswoman said Friday.—INTERNET evidence that Mudd was driving.—Internet

23-8-09 NL 10 7/29/18, 8:27 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 11 Germany: 100 professors suspected of Ph.D. bribes BERLIN, 22 Aug— Feld confirmed university faculties. German prosecutors are reports of the The Neue investigating about 100 investigation in both Westfaelische newspaper professors across the Focus magazine and the reported that “hundreds” country on suspicion they Neue Westfaelische of students were involved, took bribes to help newspaper, but would not and that the company paid students get their doctoral give further details. professors between degrees, authorities said The Institute for euro2,000 to euro5,000 Saturday. Scientific Consulting did when their clients had The investigation is not answer its phone successfully received focused on the Institute Saturday. their Ph.D.’s. It was not for Scientific Consulting, According to the two clear whether the students based in Bergisch publications, students knew that bribes were Gladbach, just east of paid between euro4,000 being paid.—Internet Cologne, which allegedly to euro20,000 ($5,700 to A man passes by a poster of a watch at the acted as the intermediary $28,500) to the company, Baselworld 2009 watch and jewellery show in between students and the which promised to help Basel on March 2009. The collapse of Swiss professors, said Cologne them get their doctorate watch exports slowed in July, figures from an prosecutor’s spokesman degrees through its industry body showed, as sales in the major Guenther Feld. extensive contacts within markets of the United States and Hong Kong Six dead, one injured in north picked up.—INTERNET China gas poisoning SHIJIAZHUANG, 22 Aug—Six workers were killed Indian actress held for and another one was injured in a cargon monoxide poisoning case in north China’s Hebei Province, an violence against child official with the local government said on Saturday. NEW D ELHI, 22 Aug—In a rather appalling episode The accident occurred at 9:30 pm on Friday when of brutality against a juvenile, Urvashi, an Indian two workers were immitting gas into the furnace at This Australian Maritime Safety Authority photo small time TV actress, was arrested in Mumbai on Shuanglong Metal Products Co Ltd in Nanggong received on 22 August, shows an oil leak coming Saturday for cruelly abusing a 10-year-old girl she City, he said. from the offshore West Atlas oil rig (top), located employed as her domestic help, said police. The gas leaked from the valve of the gas pipeline, about 250km off the far north Kimberley coast of The actress had inhumanly punched the girl in her poisoning the two workers who neither wore respirators Western Australia. AMSA is co-ordinating response eyes. Her entire body turned black and blue with nor bought alarms with them as required by operation arrangements with regard to the oil spill said to unignorable bruised marks. She had apparently also burnt the child’s arm mercilessly, the police sources in standards, he said.—Internet measure eight nautical miles long.—INTERNET Maharashtra said. ADB assists China in financial The actress has now been booked under the Juvenile Justice Act and the Child Labour Act. planning for agriculture sector The victim in her statement said that the actress MANILA, 22 Aug— effective public had brought her from Amravati in Maharashtra, after The Asian Development expenditure policies and telling her parents that she will send her to school in Bank (ADB) is assisting plans for increasing Mumbai. China in reviewing agricultural production,” However, the actress made the girl work in her government spending in said Tun Lin, natural house and then abused her. The girl was locked up in the agriculture sector to resources economist of the house for a week and when she finally was let out; further improve ADB’s East Asia the neighbors noticed the bruises and took her to the productivity and ensure Department said in a news nearest police station. food security. release on Friday. Urvashi, who is being kept at the Amboli Police The finishing ceremony of a 6,042-meter six-lane “The grant will ADB will provide a Station for now, is expected to be produced in the court traffic tunnel under the Yangtze River is held in enhance the ability of 1-million-US dollar grant later today. The girl is under the custody of the police Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, concerned government from its Technical and is awaiting the arrival of her parents. on 22 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET agencies in adopting Assistance funding Internet program and Climate Road tunnel across Yangtze through in Change Fund, while the balance of 120,000 US east China dollars will come from NANJING, 22 Aug—A 6,042-meter traffic flow will actually double that Chinese government. six-lane traffic tunnel under the Yangtze across the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge The comprehensive River in Nanjing now spans both sides to help ease traffic across the Nanjing review will test the central of the river as of Saturday. section of the river, which lies inside the and local governments’ It is the third traffic tunnel built booming Yangtze River Delta. agriculture spending in under the Yangtze River, China’s A four-lane tunnel has been open terms of efficiency, longest river. for traffic in Wuhan, capital of central effectiveness, and The 3.3-billion-yuan (483-million- China’s Hubei Province since interagency coordination. US-dollar) traffic tunnel, which December last year. Decision makers will then connects the city on both sides of the Another tunnel in Shanghai was be provided with key Two bulls fight against each other during the bull- river, is expected to open for traffic in built last September and is expected to policy recommendations fighting season organized by local Chinese villagers June next year. be ready for traffic at the end of the year and necessary resources to of Miao ethnic group at Gaotang Township near Cars will be able to travel at a speed and before the city hosts the 2010 World strengthen the agricultural Guiyang, capital city of southwest China’s Guizhou of 80 km per hour in the tunnel, and Expo.—Internet sector.—Internet Province, on 22 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICE CLAIMS DAY NOTICE MV KOTA TAMPAN VOY NO (267) MV KMA II VOY NO (908) Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA Consignees of cargo carried on MV KMA II VOY TAMPAN VOY NO( 267) are here by notified that the NO (908) are here by notified that the vessels will be vessels will be arriving on 23.8.2009 and cargo will be arriving on 23.8.2009 and cargo will be discharged into discharged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will the premises of B.S.W (3) where it will lie at the lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. and conditions of the Port of Yangon. Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from the Vessel. from the Vessel. No claims against this vessel will be admitted after No claims against this vessel will be admitted Yucca plants, seen here in Califormia in 2008. the Claims Day. after the Claims Day. After a three-year slog Colombian scientists have SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT revved up a car that runs on yucca-derived MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY ethanol, spurring hopes that the Latin American AGENT FOR: ADVANCE CONTAINER LINES AGENT FOR: M/S KMA SHIPPING CO.,LTD staple could be transformed into an abundant Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 fuel.—INTERNET WHO predicts ‘explosion’ of swine flu cases BEIJING, 22 Aug —The global spread of swine flu will endanger more lives as it speeds up in coming months and gov- ernments must boost preparations for a swift response, the World Health Organi- zation said on Friday. There will soon be a period of further global spread of the virus, and most coun- tries may see swine flu cases double every three to four days for several months un- til peak transmission is reached, said WHO’s Western Pacific director, Shin Young-soo. “At a certain point, there will seem to be an explosion in case numbers,” Shin told a symposium of health officials and A man takes a picture on a beach in Saint Michel de Greve in western experts in Beijing. “It is certain there will France, where green seaweed covers the sand. Mounds of rotting seaweed be more cases and more deaths.” clogging beaches across northwestern France are emitting a toxic and WHO has declared the swine flu strain potentially lethal gas, test results released by the government have shown. a pandemic, and it has killed almost 1,800 INTERNET people worldwide through last week. In- ternational attention has focused on how US researchers devise wearable A pedestrian walks through the the pandemic is progressing in southern central business district wearing a hemisphere countries such as Australia, kidney for dialysis patients face mask in Kuala Lumpur, Malay- which are experiencing winter and their LOS ANGELES, 22 Aug nia at Los Angeles. It is chine in hospitals. With sia, on 20 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET flu season.—Internet — US Researchers were essentially a miniaturized the new “kidney belt,” Alisa Eagleston, left, and testing a wearable artifi- dialysis machine and can patients are free to walk, Three Chinese tourists Elizabeth Cornu, both cial kidney for dialysis be worn as a belt. It work, or sleep while tak- conservators with the patients, which might re- weighs about 10 pounds ing continuous and gen- robbed at knifepoint in NZ San Francisco Fine place dialysis machine, (4.5 kilograms) and is tle dialysis that approxi- WELLINGTON, 22 Aug — Three Chinese tourists were Arts Museum cover an the American Society of powered by two nine-volt mates natural kidney robbed at knifepoint in New Zealand North Island’s Far Egyptian mummy after it Nephrology reported on batteries. function. North region on Friday, police said. Detective Sergeant underwent a scan at the Thursday. Currently, dialysis pa- “Our vision of a tech- Trevor Beatson said the tourists were assaulted on the Stanford Medical Center The equipment is de- tients have to spend hours nological breakthrough roadside after stopping to help two Maori men aged in in Stanford, Calif, on 20 vised by researchers of each week hooked up to has materialized in the their 20s, at about 3:30 p.m. local time Friday (03:30 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET the University of Califor- a full-size dialysis ma- form of a wearable artifi- GMT Friday), Radio New Zealand reported. cial kidney, which pro- He said the tourists were flagged down on a gravel vides continuous dialysis road running through Te Paki Reserve, just south of Cape 24 hours a day, seven days Reinga, by the men who claimed they were lost. The a week,” lead researcher tourists were then set upon and assaulted as the men pro- Victor Gura said. Prelimi- duced knives and demanded money and property. nary tests, including two Beatson said it was a shocking incident. studies in dialysis pa- “It was the worst possible thing that could have hap- tients, have been proven pened to them when they went out of their way to help successful. The research- these two men. They had come to New Zealand fully ers will test the device in believing it was a safe place to holiday and now their clinical trials. holiday and impressions of our country have been shat- The details will be de- tered,” he said. So far, the police have not captured the scribed in an upcoming robbers. A team of detectives has been working through paper in the Clinical Jour- the night at the scene, looking for forensic evidence and nal of the American Soci- dealing with the victims. ety of Nephrology. Xinhua Xinhua

23-8-09 NL 12 7/29/18, 8:27 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 13 Gene discovery reveals critical protein’s function in hearing WASHINGTON, 22 Aug —Discovery of a deafness- causing gene defect in mice has helped identify a new protein that protects sensory cells in the ear, according to a study led by University of Iowa researchers in the United States. The findings, which also involved Kansas State University, appeared in the 21 Aug issue of the open- access journal PLoS Genetics. In humans, hereditary deafness is one of the most common birth defects, yet most genes involved in hearing are unidentified. Mice In this computer generated image provided by EADS are used as research models because mouse and human Astrium on 12 Aug, 2009, a lunar landing vehicle and auditory genetics are very similar. mobile robot device proposal are seen. Germany’s aero- Using a deaf mouse model generated at the space coordinator says the country should invest in Jackson Laboratory, the team identified the deafness- an unmanned mission to the moon in the next decade. causing defect in the claudin-9 gene. The mutated gene The official, Peter Hintze, told broadcaster ZDF in an fails to produce normal claudin-9 protein, which, ac- interview on 12 Aug, 2009 that he wants to see 1.5 cording to findings of the University of Iowa team, is Rescue workers search for survivors after part of a billion euro (US$2.1 billion) allocated to the program needed to maintain the proper distribution of potas- cliff collapsed and buried bathers on Maria Luisa over the next five years.—INTERNET sium in the inner ear. in Albufeira on southern Portugal’s Algarve coast “Genes in the claudin family number at least 24 on 21 Aug, 2009. The landslide killed one person New grants awarded to boost and produce proteins that prevent ions, including po- and injured at least eight while two others are still California stem cell research tassium, from moving between cells,” said the paper’s missing.—INTERNET senior author Botond Banfi, assistant professor of LOS ANGELES, 22 Aug nisms underlying stem anatomy and cell biology in the University of Iowa Brazilian, Argentinean scientists —The California Institute cell biology, cellular plas- Carver College of Medicine. —Xinhua for Regenerative Medi- ticity and cellular differ- discover long-term memory mechanism cine (CIRM) announced entiation, the CIRM said. RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 Aug — A team of Brazilian and on Friday that it has Alan Trounson, CIRM Argentinean researchers made an important discov- awarded more than 10 president, said the grants ery on the role of neurotransmitter dopamine in the million US dollars in will help maintain the flow consolidation of memories, the Pontifical Catholic grants to promote stem of ideas entering the re- University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) announced cell research. The grants, search pipeline. ”These on Friday. which will go to three basic biology grants will The research was also published on Friday’s edi- universities in Southern generate new ideas for fu- tion of Science magazine. It lasted two years and was California, are intended to ture therapies and also pro- headed by PUC-RS’ Medicine School Professors Mar- generate new ideas for vide information to help tin Cammarota, Janine Rossato, Lia Bevilaqua and future therapies and overcome barriers in Ivan Izquierdo, as well as visiting Professor Jorge lead to advances in under- bringing therapies to pa- Medina, from the Buenos Aires University. standing the basic mecha- tients,” he said.—Internet In the study, the scientists managed to demonstrate through biochemical tests and experiments with mice Workers disinfect and clean a truck at the Chilean tur- that dopamine is responsible for the long-term memo- key farm Sopraval SA during a quarantine in La Calera, rization or forgetfulness of a traumatic event. Accord- Chile, on 21 Aug, 2009. Chile’s health ministry said it ing to the scientists, 12 hours after a crucial event oc- ordered a quarantine Friday for two turkey farms out- curs (in the experiment, the mice were subjected to an side the port city of Valparaiso after genetic tests con- electric shock), the brain produces a high dose of firmed sick birds were afflicted with the same virus that dopamine, which leads to the mice remembering the has caused a pandemic among humans.—INTERNET painful experience for a long time.—Xinhua 850 new A/H1N1 flu cases US reports 45 more A/H1N1 flu deaths, Number of A/H1N1 flu cases confirmed in Europe 472 more hospitalizations in past week up to 98 in Bangladesh STOCKHOLM, 22 Aug— A European health agency HOUSTON, 22 Aug—The A/H1N1 flu death toll in HAKA said Friday that 850 new A/H1N1 flu cases were re- D , 22 Aug— Eleven new cases of A/H1N1 the United State has reached 522 with hospitalizations ported in European countries within the last 24 hours. flu have been detected in Bangladesh taking the to- Of the new cases, 560 were confirmed in Ger- of 7,983, according to the latest statistics released by tal number to 98 while officials feared it could reach many, 154 in Portugal, 54 in Britain, 33 in Denmark the federal Centers for Disease Control and Preven- 70,000 to 80,000 within two to three months, local and 17 in Iceland while the other cases were reported tion (CDC) in Atlanta on Friday. newspapers reported on Saturday. in other seven European countries, the European The CDC said that 45 more deaths have been re- Among the 11 new cases confirmed on Friday, Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ported in the past week, a big jump from the previous six were imported, Director of Institute of Epide- said in its daily situation report. record of 477 released a week ago by the agency. miology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) The cumulative number of confirmed cases of the Meanwhile, there have been 472 more patients of the under health ministry Mahmudur Rahman, accord- H1N1 flu virus in the European Union (EU) and Eu- new virus admitted to the hospitals in the past week, ing to leading English-language newspaper The ropean Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries in- bringing the total number of the hospitalizations around Daily Star. creased to 41,788, with 13,740 cases in Ger- the country to 7,983, compared with the previous “We cannot avoid a pandemic like the swine flu,” many,12,957 in Britain, 1,987 in Portugal, 1,538 in record of 7,511. Mahmud was quoting as saying. He said the health Spain and 1,473 in Netherlands, the ECDC said. Since the outbreak of the A/H1N1 flu in late April, ministry is conducting 13 surveillance programs to The total number of fatal cases rose to 79, with The CDC has reported on its website the latest devel- check the swine flu across the country. Meanwhile, one new fatal case from the Netherlands and five from opment of the new virus every weekend including English-language newspaper The Independent on Britain, the ECDC added. The ECDC publishes a daily numbers of deaths and conformed and probable cases Saturday said that health officials apprehend an ex- situation report about the H1N1 flu cases in the EU of the new flu virus. But beginning from 24 July, the plosion in the number of cases in the next couple of and EFTA countries based on official information CDC has changed the reporting requirements for the months. from these countries.— Xinhua A/H1N1 flu by local health jurisdictions.— Xinhua Xinhua

23-8-09 NL 13 7/29/18, 8:27 PM 14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 Van Persie backing Arsenal Murray joins Federer, Nadal S P O R T S to defy predictions in World Tour Final LONDON, 22 Aug—If without another expert Finals, scheduled to take Lyon stepping on the gas again Arsenal really are mired in forecasting Arsenal’s place here from 22-29 PARIS, 22 Aug—Shorn of the mantle of reigning crisis, they are doing a fine demise, their pessimism November. champions going into a domestic season for the first time job of disguising it. fuelled by Wenger’s Murray, who deposed in seven years Lyon look to be emerging from the minor Arsene Wenger’s side steadfast refusal to spend Nadal as world number trauma of not sweeping all before them last time out. were supposed to be the big in the transfer market. two this week, has made After Wednesday’s 5-1 hammering of Anderlecht in weakest member of the But, just two games into World number two sure of his place in the Champions League qualifiers at the Stade Gerland Premier League’s ‘big the new campaign, those Andy Murray the eight-man field for there seems little likelihood that seven years of famine four’ this season, rendered predictions are looking LONDON, 22 Aug— the season-ending will follow the seven years of plenty which began with vulnerable by the decidedly dicey. World number two Andy championships after a first ever league crown in 2002. emergence of Manchester Internet Murray has joined Roger winning in Montreal and Third last season, the club then saw the likes of Brazilian City, the continued Federer and Rafael Nadal reaching the Cincinnati midfielder Juninho and star French international striker progress of Tottenham, in booking his place in Masters quarter-finals. Karim Benzema move on. With champions Bordeaux and Aston Villa and Everton, the ATP World Tour Internet Marseille back to prominence and Paris St Germain and the departures of determined to emerge from years in the doldrums, Lyon, Emmanuel Adebayor and Creamer’s clutch putt gives who only scraped a draw on the opening day at Le Mans, Kolo Toure. Inkster Solheim record are fully galvanised once again following their Anderlecht Hardly a week went by SUGAR GROVE, 22 Creamer knocked in a showing, says coach Claude Puel.—Internet in the close-season Aug—Pushing 50 and 20-foot putt late Friday to Milan face early test as Serie A kicks off winless the last three give the United States a 4 years, Juli Inkster showed 1/2-3 1/2 lead over ROME, 22 Aug—Serie A kicks off on the potency of their armoury and depth of Saturday with former European champions their creativity following the loss of Arsenal’s Gael Clichy she still has some of the Europe in the Solheim AC Milan facing searching questions over Brazilian superstar Kaka to Real Madrid. (centre) with Nicklas strokes that drove her to Cup and make Inkster the Milan, as well as champions Inter and Bendtner (left) and Robin the top. highest-scoring US player fellow powerhouses Juventus, begin their van Persie celebrate a Now, she also has a in the event’s history. The campaigns with relatively gentle openers goal against Celtic during record. For that, she can veteran now has 17 1/2 this weekend before facing their first big a Champions League thank Paula Creamer. points, one more than challenges in only the second week of the play-off first leg in assistant US captain Meg season. Glasgow, on 18 August. Mallon. Internet The two Milans will clash in their city INTERNET derby while Juventus will travel to the Serena storms Team USA’s Juli capital to tackle AS Roma, only sixth last Inkster reacts after AC Milan players pose for a team photo season but the runners-up from the into Toronto making a putt on the before the 19th Luigi Berlusconi trophy previous three campaigns. But first there semi-finals third hole during a match between AC Milan and Juventus are some potential banana skins to foursome match at the TORONTO, 22 Aug— at San Siro Stadium in Milan negotiate and most eyes will be on Milan Solheim Cup golf Second-seeded Serena on 17 August .—INTERNET following their torrid summer.—Internet tournament on 21 Williams stormed into the Aug, 2009, at Rich Chamakh snubs semi-finals of the two CROSSWORDS PUZZLE Harvest Farms in million-dollar WTA Sugar Grove, Ill. West Ham to Rogers Cup Friday with a INTERNET stay at Bordeaux 6-3, 6-2 victory over Lucie Safarova. BORDEAUX, 22 Aug— Federer, Murray, Nadal Bordeaux’s highly-rated Williams, the reigning Moroccan striker Wimbledon, Australian through to Cincinnati semis Marouane Chamakh Open and US Open CINCINNATI, 22 has snubbed English champion, made short Aug—Two-time Premier League suitors work of the Czech winner Roger West Ham to stay qualifier, needing just 57 Federer and with the French minutes to advance reigning champions. without facing a break champion Andy In an interview with point. Williams fired Murray lined up regional television station seven aces past Safarova a top-two semi- France 3 Aquitaine, the as she booked a meeting final showdown Roger Federer of Switzerland hits 25-year-old said: “From a with fourth-seeded at the Cincinnati a forehand volley against Lleyton sporting point of view, I Russian Elena Masters. Hewitt of Australia during day five ACROSS DOWN prefer to stay at Bordeaux Dementieva.—Internet Federer, the of the Western & Southern 1 Propagated 1 Tied than go to West Ham.” world number Financial Group Masters on at the 3 Boiled sweets 2 Finish Chamakh admitted one and top seed, Lindner Family Tennis Center in 9 Beneath 4 Loose overcoat that he was still “in the never faced a Cincinnati, Ohio. Federer, won 6- 10 Moved 5 Fishing-boat process of mourning break point as he 3, 6-4.—INTERNET 11 Short swim 6 Lacking in vigour Arsenal” after the dismissed former world number one Lleyton Hewitt of 13 Magnitude 7 Lovers of cruelty Premier League side Australia 6-3, 6-4. 14 Go-between 8 Rugged rock targeted him at the It was his 13th straight victory over Hewitt, and the 16 Crawls 12 Prone beginning of August, but 200th Masters series match win of Federer’s career. 18 Unwelcome visit 14 French spongecake that he had been He fired 11 aces past the Aussie, a two-time Grand Slam 20 Propitiatory gift 15 Learned convinced to stay after winner who is still fighting to regain his top form after hip 22 Intense desire 17 Move restlessly talks Bordeaux coach surgery last year. Third-seeded Murray, who seized the 23 Hurl 19 Memorandum Laurent Blanc. world number two ranking en route to capturing the 25 The weather 21 Strength Internet Moroccan striker Montreal Masters last week, rallied to beat French lucky 26 Asterisk 24 Rodent Marouane Chamakh loser Julien Benneteau 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.—Internet

23-8-09 NL 14 7/29/18, 8:27 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Sunday, 23 August, 2009 15 Asleep in Jesus Daw Koi (Retired Sister, Namkham Hospital) MRTV-3 88 years Programme Schedule Residing at No.31, Thu Mingalar Ward, Circular Road, (23-8-2009) (Sunday) PyinOoLwin; beloved wife of (U Bo); beloved mother of Dr Sai Khin Zaw-Daw Wah Wah Hla and Dr Daw Aye Nwe (Dentist, People’s Hospital, PyinOoLwin); beloved grandmother of Dr Transmissions Times Saw Min Htoo-Ma Aye Sandar and Maung Nyan Lin Zaw fell asleep in Jesus peacefully on 21-8-2009 (Friday) at 4: 53 am. Local - (09:00am ~ 10:00am) MST Funeral service was held at Calvary Baptist Church on 22-8- Europe - (15:30pm ~ 23:30pm) MST 2009 (Saturday) at 1 pm and the remains were buried at 8th Mile Christian Cemetery at 2 pm. North America - (23:30pm ~ 07:30am) MST Bereaved family Local Transmission Asleep in Jesus * Signature Tune * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights Mrs Dorothy Monteiro * Myanmar’s Ancient City Bagan Age (85) years * Illustrious handiwork in Kyeethe Daughter of Mr & Mrs G.D Montclar, beloved * Extensive use of Farm Equipment in Agriculture * Culture Stage “Harmonious and Beautiful Dance” wife of the late Retd Capt Ngwe Thein (BAC) * Invaluable heritage of the Pyu mother of Daw Ohmar Thein (Anne-Canada), U * Song “Infactuated with Love” Aung Gyi Thein-Daw Win Win Myint (S.H.S-5 * The Exotic Land of Myanmar Botataung), Daw Khin Ngwe Thein (Thuzar-Star * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights Kids Pre-KG)-U Aung Myat, U Aung Kyaw Europe/ North America Transmission Thein- Daw Khin Khin Htwe, Sr. Darothy (S.J.A. * Signature Tune Mandalay), Daw Nilar Thein, Daw Thidar Thein- * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights U Aye Naing (USA), U Aung Myint Thein-Daw * Myanmar’s Ancient City Bagan * Illustrious handiwork in Kyeethe Win Win Mar, grandmother of seventeen, great- * Extensive use of Farm Equipment in Agriculture WEATHER grandmother of nine, residing at No. 42, 88 Street * Culture Stage “Harmonious and Beautiful Dance” Mingalar Taungnyunt, Yangon passed away * Invaluable heritage of the Pyu Saturday, 22nd August, 2009 peacefully at 11:30 am on Saturday, 22 August * Song “Infactuated with Love” * The Exotic Land of Myanmar Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST: 2009. Funeral service will be at 11:00 am on * Myanmar Modern Song ‘‘Pleasant Kayah’’ During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Monday, 24 August 2009. St Anthony’s Church * All Lives Under The Sky: “Catch of Fish by Cooperation Kayah State and Magway Division, rain or thundershowers the remains will be laid to rest at Yeway Christian of Fisherman and Dolphin” have been isolated in Bago and Yangon Divisions, scattered Cemetery. * Glimpse at the Architecture (The Dhammayangyi) in lower Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions, fairly widespread * Boost Production of Quality Cotton Thread Bereaved family. in Chin State, upper Sagaing, Ayeyawady and Taninthayi * Song “Two, Together” Divisions and widespread in the remaining areas with (Buses will leave from 42, 88 Street, at 10:30 a.m.) * Beautiful Birthplace of the Ayeyawady isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine, Mon States and upper * Hukaung Valley Rattan Survey (Part I) Sagaing Division. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights were Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin) (0.08) inch,Nay Pyi Taw Don’t Smoke Website: www.mrtv3.net.mm (Pyinmana) (0.67)inch, Nay Pyi Taw(Lewe) (1.42) inches, Maungtaw (5.71) inches, Hkamti (3.93) inches, Kyeikkhame Ekdif&ef (r[m*Dw) yvwfpwpfxkwfukefrsm; 6:00 pm (3.35) inches, Myitkyina(2.84)inches, Putao (2.72) inches, (0goem&Sif('kwd,wef;)tqifh) 2:30 pm 8. Evening News Paung(1.77)inches,Kyaukpyu (1.49) inches and Kawkareik (trsKd;om;? trsKd;orD;) 9. Musical Programme 6:15 pm (1.42) inches. 8:40 am 2:40 pm 9. Weather Report Maximum temperature on 21-8-2009 was 91°F. 8. International News 10. tqkdNydKifyGJ 6:20 pm Minimum temperature on 22-8-2009 was 73°F. Relative 8:45 am 2:50 pm 10. umwGef;tpDtpOf humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 22-8-2009 was 98%. Total 9. Song of National 11. International News ]]Pocket Dragon Sun shine hours on 21-8-2009 was (8.8) hours approx. }} Races 4:00 pm Adventure Rainfall on 22-8-2009 was Nil at Mingaladon, (0.16)inch Sunday, 23 August 8:50 am 1. Martial Song 6:35 pm at Kaba-Aye and Nil at Central Yangon. Total rainfall since wpfrsufESmwpfuGufpm View on today 10. Musical Programme 4:15 pm 11. 1-1-2009 was (81.30) inches at Mingaladon, (93.03 ) inches ]]taiGUvlom;}} ([efav;? 11:00 am 2. twD;NydKifyGJ at Kaba-Aye and (93.70) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum 7:00 am oZFmjrifhrdk&f? eE´[ef? rwl;) awmifwef;omoemjyK 1. Martial song wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southwest 1. 4:25 pm ('g½dkufwm-vSaX;atmif) q&mawmfbk&m;BuD;\ 11:10 am 3. Musical Programme at (12:30) hours MST on 21-8-2009. y&dwfw&m;awmf 2. Musical Programme 4:40 pm 6:55 pm Bay inference: Monsoon is weak in the Andaman Sea 11:30 am 12. *DwoHpOftvSqif 7:25 am 4. ta0;oifwuúodkvfynma&; and Bay of Bengal. 3. Round Up of The ½kyfjrifoHMum;oifcef;pm 7:20 pm th 2. To Be Healthy tuNydKifyGJ Forecast valid until evening of 22 August 2009: Rain Exercise Week’s International yxrESpf (&opmayta&; 13. or thundershowers will be isolated to scattered in Kayah 7:30 am News 7:30 pm tom;txl;jyK) wm;qD;umuG,fvlwkwfauG; State, lower Sagaing, Magway, Bago, Yangon and 3. Morning News 11:35 am 14. EkdifiHjcm;Zmwfvrf;wGJ (&opmayta&;tom;) tEÅ&m,f Ayeyawady Divisions, fairly widespread in Chin State, 7:40 am 4. Mandalay and Taninthayi Divisions and widespread in the ]][mourÇm}} (tykdif;-22) 4:55 pm 7:40 pm 4. t*H¾Z,r*FvH remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (80%). 12:35 pm 5. Songs to Uphold 15. tEkynmaMu;rHkjyifwpfcsyf (,Ofa0,HxGef;? aw;a&;- State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate in *Dwpmqdk rsdK;EG,faqG) 5. Goft Magazine (TV) National Spirit udkcHpm;jcif; Myanmar waters. 12:50 pm 5:00 pm 8:00 7:50 am Outlook for subsequent two days: Weak monsoon. 6. jrefrmAD'D,dk Zmwfvrf; 6. 2009 ckESpf(17)Budrfajrmuf 16. News 5. Nice & Sweet Song Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for ]]tvGrf;oifh rsuf&nfjzL}} jrefrmh½dk;&m,Ofaus;rI tqdk? 17. International News 8:05 am 23-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of ,Ofaus;vdr®m (38) jzm (Edkif;Edkif;? pdk;jrwfeE´m) tu? ta&;? twD; 18. Weather Report 6. certainty is (80%). r*Fvm ('g½dkufwm-armifeE´) NyKdifyGJ? NyKdifyGJ0ifrsm;avhvmEdkif 19. umwGef;tpDtpOf Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for 8:15 am 2:10 pm Mu&ef (r[m*Dw) (0goem&Sif ]]'dkifEdkaqmrdom;pkpGefYpm;cef;}} 23-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of 7. 2009ckESpf (17) Budrf 7. The Mirror Image of ('kwd,wef;) tqifh) (tydkif;-36) ajrmuf jrefrmh½kd;&m,Ofaus;rI Oldies (trsKd;om;? trsKd;orD;) 20. EdkifiHjcm;Zmwfvrf;wGJ certainty is (80%). tqkd? tu? ta&;? twD; 2:20 pm 5:25 pm ]]tjzLa&mifatmufutMuifem Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for NydKifyGJ? NydKifyGJ0ifrsm;avhvm 8. pGrf;tm;jynfhxkwfvkyfxm; 7. Sing & Enjoy ESvHk;om;}} (tydkif;-15) 23-8-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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23-8-2009.pmd 15 8/23/2009, 3:25 AM 4th Waxing of Tawthalin 1371 ME Sunday, 23 August, 2009 ★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop ★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

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

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC - sowing hatred among the ■ We favour peace and stability people ■ ■ We favour development RFA, DVB - generating public outrage ■ We oppose unrest and violence ■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed ■ Wipe out those inciting unrest ■ By broadcasts designed to cause and violence troubles Twentieth patient Mandalay Division Myanma Posts and Telecommunications contributing towards rural areas discharged from hospital I recently went to Mandalay that I had not Remaining four getting better visited for long. Blocks of brick buildings, grand Article: Yangyi Aung hotels, stores and markets are indication of Man- Photos: Yangyi Aung and NAY PYI TAW, 22 Aug—News were released dalay's socio-economic growth. Tin Maung (Mandalay) earlier that 19 patients out of 24 with New Influenza Among those civic infrastructures, I saw A (H1N1) were discharged from the hospitals as they Internet centres and small public telephone com- had been fully recovered from their illness and the munication stations. ager's Office of Mandalay Division Myanma Posts remaining five we being given treatment at the To study communication services in Man- and Telecommunications for an interview. hospital. dalay Division, I paid a visit to the Division Man- (See page 9) Today, the 20th patient aged three years and seven months was discharged from the hospital as the child had fully recovered form illness. Surveil- lance measures against the five family members who came into contact with the patient were halted. There are now only four patient being treated – two at Waibagi Specialist Hospital, one at Yangon General Hospital and one at Insein General Hospital. They are kept at the separate rooms of the hospitals and they are not in critical conditions. Up to now, National Health laboratory de- tected 185 flu-suspected persons and 24 had been found with New Influenza A (H1N1).—MNA Flood warning

NAY PYI TAW, 22 Aug—According to the 12:30 hr MST observation today, the water level of Sittoung River at Madauk is 1095 cm and it has exceeded by 25 cm (about one foot) above its danger level. It may remain above its danger level 1070 cm during the next 48 hrs commencing this noon, said the Department of Hydrology and Mete- Office of Mandalay Division Myanma Posts and Telecommunications in the distance. orology.—MNA

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