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Volume XVII, Number 289 1st Waning of Tabodwe 1371 ME Saturday, 30 January, 2010

Four political objectives Four economic objectives Four social objectives * Stability of the State, community peace * Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel- * Uplift of the morale and morality of the and tranquillity, prevalence of law and opment of other sectors of the economy as well entire nation order * Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system * Uplift of national prestige and integrity and * National reconsolidation * Development of the economy inviting participation in terms preservation and safeguarding of cultural * Emergence of a new enduring State Con- of technical know-how and investments from sources inside heritage and national character stitution the country and abroad * Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit * Building of a new modern developed nation * The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in * Uplift of health, fitness and education in accord with the new State Constitution the hands of the State and the national peoples standards of the entire nation Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, wife Daw Mya Mya San attend inauguration of Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed)

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye inspects Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed).—MNA

NAY P YI T AW, 29 Jan—Vice-Chairman of the State In the second session of the opening ceremony, has been made in the health sector through the con- Peace and Development Council Deputy Commander- Minister Dr Kyaw Myint explained that Kanbalu Town- certed efforts of the government, the people, health in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief ship Hospital was upgraded to a 100-bed hospital for staff and local authorities. (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife providing health care services to the local people. The minister thanked Aye Mya Soe Foundation Daw Mya Mya San, accompanied by Secretary-1 of The Government has extended hospitals and dis- for its contribution to construction of Kanbalu Peo- the State Peace and Development Council General pensaries not only in Kanbalu but also in various ple’s Hospital. Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo and wife, Com- regions of the Union, he noted. In so doing, progress (See page 8) mander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence, the Chair- man of Mandalay Division PDC the Commander of Central Command, ministers and departmental heads, arrived at Kanbalu of Shwebo District, Sagaing Divi- sion, by helicopter yesterday morning. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San were welcomed by Chairman of Sagaing Division PDC Commander of North-West Command Maj-Gen Myint Soe, ministers, the Deputy Chief Jus- tice, departmental heads and officials. At 10.30 am, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San attended the ceremony to open Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed). Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe, Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint and Chairman of Htoo Trading Co Ltd U Teza formally opened the hospital. On behalf of wellwisher Aye Mya Soe Founda- tion, U Kyaw Nyunt unveiled the signboard of the hospital. The commander, the minister, U Kyaw Nyunt and U Teza sprinkled scented water on the stone inscription. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye cordially converses with patients.—MNA

30-1-2010 NL 1 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 PERSPECTIVES People’s Desire

Saturday, 30 January, 2010 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views * Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation Preserve and maintain * Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State ancient cultural heritage * Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy The culture of a race covers human Chinese Ambassador calls on objects used from the cradle to the grave, their language, faith, dress style, social relations, custom and traditions, thoughts, Information Minister

crafts and performing arts. NAY PYI TAW, 29 Jan—Chinese Ambassador Relations Department U Ye Htut, Managing Director Myanmar’s culture has existed for HE Mr Ye Dabo called on Minister for Information of Printing and Publishing Enterprise U Aung Nyein, thousands of years. Since its civilization, Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan at his office, here, this evening. Managing Director of News and Periodicals Enterprise Myanmar has developed its culture in all Also present at the call were Director-General U Soe Win, Managing Director of Myanma Motion aspects. Its cultural heritage and unearthed of Myanma Radio and Television U Khin Maung Picture Enterprise U Aung Myo Myint and head of ancient objects have proved that the country Htay, Director-General of Information and Public office U Myint Htwe.—MNA has existed and maintained itself with its own territory and culture. A great number of ancient pagodas and stupas can be seen in Myanma Ancient Cultural Region (Bagan). There are still plenty of pagodas, monasteries, lakes, wall paintings and magnificent works of arts in edifices. The State maintains and preserves those ancient cultural objects as they can wear out with the passage of time. Moreover, priority measures are being taken to repair and maintain the ancient cultural buildings, excavate ancient sites of palaces and cities and collect stone inscriptions and folded palm-leaf scripts. Civilized ancient cities such as Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan receives Chinese Ambassador HE Mr Ye Dabo.—MNA Beikthanoe, Tagaung, Hanlin, Srekestra and Maimaw and Pinle in Myittha Township have been excavated, and research is being National Workshop on Climate Change done. Ancient buildings, piles of stakes, urns and other objects are still being found from Law and Policy opened those excavation sites. Those who handed

over the ancient cultural objects they found NAY PYI TAW, 29 Jan ace Hotel here yesterday dation (HSF) made tation of climate change to the State have been awarded cash – Jointly Organized by morning with an address opening addresses. policy and law, and rec- according to the cultural value of the objects National Commission for by Secretary of NCEA It was also attended ommendation and way plus the current price. Environmental Affairs Director-General U Sann by officials of the min- forward for strengthen- The thousands-year-old ancient (NCEA) of the Ministry Lwin of Planning and Sta- istry, resource persons ing climate change law cultural regions are proof of Myanmar’s of Forestry and the tistics Department of the and participants. and implementation in high national prestige. So all the people are United Nations Environ- ministry. A total of 40 par- Myanmar, four main to preserve and maintain such ancient ment Programme Next, Dr. Wanhua ticipants from minis- themes focusing on the (UNEP) and sponsored Yang, representative of tries concerned and role of policy and law cultural buildings, art works and other by Hanns Seidel Foun- Regional Office for Asia governmental organiza- relating to climate objects as they are priceless national cultural dation (HSF), a National and the Pacific, UNEP tions are attending the change will be dis- heritage of Myanmar. Workshop on Climate and Dr. Kerl-Peter workshop where cli- cussed. The workshop Change Law and Policy Schoenfich, Director of mate change issues, law concluded today. was held at Aureum Pal- the Hanns Seidel Foun- and policy, implemen- MNA MRCS donates fishing gear in Kyaiklat Director-General

YANGON, 29 Jan – Prof Dr Tha Hla Shwe U Sann Lwin The fishing gear and Chairman of Pyapon donation ceremony of District PDC U Mya addresses National Myanmar Red Cross Kyaing explained Workshop on Society was held at post- purpose of donation. primary school in Kyee- Next, the president Climate Change chaung village in presented fishing boats Kyaiklat Township, and gear worth K 4.3 Law and Policy. Ayeyawady Division, million to fishermen in today. the village. MNA MRCS President MNA

30-1-2010 NL 2 9/7/18, 1:49 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 3 Afghans protest against killing of civilian by NATO-led troops KABUL, 29 Jan — national Security Assist- ISAF forces this morn- Scores of people in ance Force (ISAF) of ing during an incident Paktiakot District in opening fire and killing involving an ISAF con- east of Afghan capital a man from the locality. voy,” the statement said. Kabul came to the street Meanwhile, the The troops expressed on Thursday to protest troops in a statement regret in the statement at the killing of a civil- confirmed the death of and promised a thor- ian by the NATO-led the civilian and regret- ough investigation in forces. ted it. cooperation with au- A US military soldier frisks an Afghan policeman at site of explosion in Kabul, The protesters ac- “We can confirm one thorities. Afghanistan, on Tuesday, 26 Jan, 2010. A suicide car bomber struck near a US cused NATO-led Inter- civilian was killed by Xinhua military base in Afghanistan’s capital on Tuesday, Afghan officials said.—INTERNET Trained dogs sniff out hidden bombs Eleven Iraqis wounded in in Afghanistan Kirkuk attacks TORA, 29 Jan – A tially eaten snack was ig- devices without metal KIRKUK, 29 Jan — bomb explosion near their wounding two policemen French officer unleashed nored. parts or traditional explo- Eleven people were patrol in central Kirkuk, and two civilians, the Arry, and the tall and In less than 10 min- sives, which are nearly wounded in bomb and the provincial capital, source added. muscular dog went to utes, the trucks were impossible to find with mortar attacks in Iraq’s some 250 km north of Also in the day, Iraqi work. cleared for entry to Tora mine-detection equip- oil-rich province of Baghdad, the source told security forces detained Wagging his tail in the Forward Operating Base ment. The use of so-called Kirkuk on Thursday, a Xinhua on condition of four suspects during a early morning chill, he in eastern Afghanistan, “undetectable” bombs ap- provincial police source anonymity. search operation across ran under four Afghan and Arry started barking pears to be on the rise in said. At least one police ve- the province, he said. tractor-trailer trucks, for more. Taleban strongholds in Seven policemen were hicle was destroyed by the Kirkuk Province is one sniffing at the exhaust The US and its allies Afghanistan’s south and wounded on Thursday blast, along with several of the disputed areas be- pipes and motor. He then are turning increasingly to east.—Xinhua morning in a roadside nearby buildings and civil- tween the Kurds and both jumped into the cabins, sniffer dogs to counter ian cars, the source said. Arabs and Turkmans. The slipping behind the driv- roadside bombs and sui- Meanwhile, a mortar area has long been the hot er’s seats and sticking his cide attacks, a major barrage struck a police bed of insurgency since nose into the glove com- threat in the Afghan war. station in the town of al- the US-led invasion in partments. A driver’s par- They can locate low-tech Zab in southern Kirkuk, 2003.—Xinhua Policeman, Sunni Imam killed by Key al-Qaeda leader killed gunmen attacks in Baghdad in Iraq BAGHDAD, 29 Jan — A policeman and a Sunni BAGHDAD, 29 Jan — A key al-Qaeda in Iraq fig- Arab Imam were shot dead in separate incidents ure involved in smuggling hundreds of suicide in Baghdad on Thursday ,an Interior Ministry bombers across the border from Syria has been killed source said. in a raid in northern Iraq, the US military said on Unidentified armed men in a car gunned down Thursday. Sheikh Ahmed Sa’ doun Saleh, Imam of a Sunni Mus- The military called the death a blow to the militant lim mosque in Baghdad’s western district of Adel, the organization in Iraq, though acknowledged it remains source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Tosca, a Belgium Malanois explosive detector dog very much capable of carrying out well planned, coor- Saleh was assassinated in front of his mosque as works to sniff out explosives during a training dinated assaults with large body counts . A series of he was leaving after the noon prayer, the source said, exercise with the Afghan National Army (ANA) in attacks against three hotels and a police crime lab in adding that the gunmen fled the scene. Kandahar, southern Afghanistan on 23 Jan, 2010. Baghdad this week killed dozens. Xinhua INTERNET Xinhua Bomb attack at office of former Greek Premier in Athens, no injuries caused ATHENS, 29 Jan — A small bomb made Akadimias Street. The building is close to of camping gas canisters exploded on state buildings and the Parliament where Thursday afternoon in the Athens city cen- an unprecedented terrorist attack took place tre, causing only minor damage and no earlier this month, also without injuries. injuries. The blast caused a small fire and dam- The device was placed at the entrance age to the building housing the office. of the political office of former Prime Min- Police are searching for clues that could ister Kostas Simitis (1996-2004) on lead to the persons responsible. Anarchist A fire fighter looks at the apartment and terrorist groups operating in Greece building housing the political office have increased attacks against political, of former socialist Prime Minister police and financial targets since Decem- Costas Simitis after an explosion in ber 2008, when a teenager was shot dead central Athens, capital of Greece, on by a policeman, triggering riots across the 28 Jan, 2010.— XINHUA country.—Xinhua

30-1-2010 NL 3 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 Chinese bullet train producer to speed production in 2010 SHIJIAZHUANG, 29 Jan each with eight compart- Another 20 trains are — A Chinese bullet train ments. running on the Beijing- producer said on Thurs- The company is Chi- Tianjin line, which is Chi- day that it is expanding na’s only maker of bullet na’s first fast-speed rail production capacity to trains with an average line operational in August cope with the country’s speed of 350 km per hour, 2008. rising demand for high- or a maximum test speed Wang said the com- speed railways. of 394.3 km per hour. pany was developing new Wang Chenghui, It has produced 22 trains with average speed deputy general manager trains to serve the Wuhan- of 380 km per hour, so as of Tangshan Railway Ve- Guangzhou high-speed to “reinforce its leading hicle Co Ltd, said the railway, which began op- role in the world’s high- company would double eration in December last speed train market.” its monthly production ca- year. Xinhua A view of hotels and buildings by the Vilcanota River after torrential rains in pacity in the first half of Indian, Angolan oil companies Machu Picchu, Cuzco, on 28 Jan, 2010.—INTERNET 2010 to eight bullet trains sign MoU on oil exploration Hunan Valin Steel amends LUANDA, 29 Jan—The largest oil companies of In- profit forecast in 2009 dia and Angola have signed a memorandum of under- standing to strengthen bilateral cooperation in deep BEIJING, 29 Jan—Hunan Valin Steel Co, Ltd, one of China’s major steel makers, on Thursday amended the sea oil exploration and production in the African coun- forecast of its 2009 net profit and expected it to return try, Angola’s official news agency Angop reported on to black. Thursday. In a statement to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, The document was signed late Wednesday between the Hunan-based company amended last year’s net the ONGC Videsh Ltd of India and Sonangol or the profit from losses of 220 million yuan (32 million US national oil company of Angola to map out a frame- dollars) to gains of 100 million yuan. The revised profit work for strategic cooperation between the two coun- was still 89 percent less than 953 million yuan in 2008. tries in Angola’s deep sea oil sector. Valin also amended its earnings per share from The memo was signed after a meeting between vis- minus 0.08 yuan to 0.04 yuan in 2009. iting Indian Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Murli The profit rise was attributable to the greater-than- Deora and his Angolan counterpart Jose Maria Botelho expected rise in domestic steel prices in the last quar- de Vasconeles, which focused on oil exploration and ter of 2009 and good control of production cost, the production, natural gas operations, refinery construc- statement said.—Xinhua tion and upgradation, training and consultancy, accord- ing to sources close to the meeting.—Xinhua Chevron sinks billions into Siemens to eliminate 2,000 Brazil fields jobs in Germany SAN RAMON, 29 Jan—US supermajor Chevron Corp announced its Brazilian subsidiary moved to develop BERLIN, 29 Jan— Industrial giant Siemens AG said its Papa Terra project in the deep waters of the Campos Thursday it will eliminate nearly 2,000 jobs in Germany basin. as part of restructuring measures prompted by lower A baby is vaccinated against Rotavirus in Deposits of heavy oil at the Papa Terra project are market demand. Siemens’ announcement of the layoffs located 70 miles off the coast of Brazil in the southern Tegucigalpa, Honduras in early 2009. A vaccina- in its machine tool and industrial services divisions came Campos basin. tion campaign to combat rotavirus in the world’s shortly after the German government reported a Janu- ary jump in the country’s unemployment rate. The platform associated with Papa Terra, Chevron’s poorest countries could save the lives of hundreds Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering conglomer- first tension rig in Brazil, has the capacity to produce of thousands of children, according to a pair of ate, said in a statement that the decision to cut 1,990 as much as 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day. studies published this week. jobs came in response to a drop in demand and con- Internet INTERNET solidation in the sector.—Xinhua Samsung Electronics profit tops $8 billion SEOUL , 29 Jan— South growth and performance creased to a record 89.77 Korean giant Samsung flowing on into 2010 as trillion won compared to Electronics on Friday said the global economy con- 72.95 trillion in 2008. its annual earnings rock- tinues to stabilize,” said Its leading South Ko- eted last year to more than Samsung Vice President rean rival LG Electronics eight billion dollars Robert Yi. this week also reported thanks to post-crisis de- Compared to 2008 net robust sales of flat-screen mand for flat-screen TVs profit surged 75 percent TVs as the global con- and higher chip prices. last year to 9.65 trillion sumer electronics market Profit and sales for won (8.3 billion dollars) regains health faster than South Korea’s biggest thanks to higher memory expected.—Internet company, a global elec- chip prices and the South Korea’s largest tronics leader that is now stronger demand for prod- company Samsung Elec- trouncing rivals such as ucts including high-end tronics on Friday reported Japan’s Sony, jumped televisions. Samsung, a 75 percent rise in full- over the year as the con- which employs some year net profit to 9.65 sumer market perked up. 164,600 people in 61 trillion won (8.3 billion “We see this positive countries, said its sales in- dollars).—INTERNET

30-1-2010 NL 4 9/7/18, 1:49 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 5 China builds first sewage treatment plant on river to Russia HARBIN, 29 Jan—The said Zhao Decheng, an average a day, and 13,000 first modern sewage treat- official with the tons at the maximum, said ment plant on the China Dongning Water Affairs Zhao. section of the Suifen Bureau. He said the plant had a River, known as the The Suifen River runs daily treatment capacity Razdolnaya River in Rus- for 443 km, of which 258 of 20,000 tons and it sia, has begun operating, km is in China, and emp- would be upgraded to said a water affairs official ties into the Sea of Japan 30,000 tons in the future. in Dongning County, through Russia. There are He did not give the northeast China’s no big cities on the upper schedule of the plant’s Heilongjiang Province on stretches before it reaches upgrading. Thursday. Dongning, which has a “The river water will “The plant has been de- population of 210,000. reach China’s best level of Rescuers search survivors on the debris of damaged houses in south of La Paz, signed to fully treat sew- The county bordering river water quality, after Bolivia, on 28 Jan, 2010. A landslide triggered by torrential rain occured in La age that is discharged into Russia produces about being processed by the Paz, and three people were injured and 50 houses were destroyed.—XINHUA the river from the county,” 9,000 tons of sewage on plant,” he said.—Xinhua Russia sends military Schools closed in Cook Islands satellite into space as Cyclone Nisha nears MOSCOW, 29 Jan—A WELLINGTON, 29 Jan—Schools were closed in the south military satellite launched Pacific island nation of Cook Islands on Friday as peo- early on Thursday has suc- ple prepare for the arrival of tropical cyclone Nisha. cessfully entered orbit, the The storm is expected to hit the Southern Cook Is- Defence Ministry said. lands on Saturday morning, bringing with it strong and The satellite, aboard a damaging winds, heavy rain and rough seas. Proton-M heavy carrier Charles Carlson, the direct of emergency manage- rocket, was launched from ment, said a meeting will be held on Friday afternoon Baikonur Cosmodrome of the response agencies to decide the next move. in Kazakhstan at 03:18 “At this stage we have closed the schools, and eve- Moscow Time (00:18 ryone is just preparing for the cyclone. The informa- GMT). The satellite tion has gone out through the radio warning people, successfully separated especially those who live along the coastline to be from the rocket at around aware and to make preparations. Basically to secure Photo taken on 27 Jan, 2010 shows the hand-woven straw handicraft of two 12:19 Moscow Time their roofs, and make sure they are ready to evacuate pairs of 30-metre-long dragon with the connotation of bringing forth auspices (09:19 GMT), said Space if it ‘s required,” Radio New Zealand International and prosperity, on the building of the Liuzhou Museum in Liuzhou, southwest Forces spokesman Alexei quoted him as saying.—Xinhua Zolotukhin. China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. —XINHUA “Contact is steady, and nd the onboard equipment India sets up Coast Guard station Spain does 2 full-face operates well,” he said. The launch was Rus- at Andaman and Nicobar islands transplant sia’s first this year. NEW DELHI, 29 Jan—India has set up a new Coast Guard station at the Andaman MADRID, 29 Jan—Spain Rocio Hospital in Seville. Space Forces Com- and Nicobar islands southeast to the Bay of Bengal, reported the Press Trust of on Wednesday finished its Local health authorities mander Oleg Ostapenko India on Thursday. Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Bhupinder Singh second full face transplant, did not release any details called the satellite “a new on Thursday unveiled a plaque at the commissioning of the station at Hutbay in a procedure that took 23 concerning either the do- project that will help Little Andaman, said the report. doctors 30 hours to com- nor or the recipient. significantly increase Singh lauded the Coast Guard for playing an important role in ensuring the plete, hospital officials They only told the the capabilities of the security of maritime zones in and around the islands which Indian officials said said. The operation, start- press that the next 72 space communication have potential political, economic and strategic development in the Indian Ocean ing on Tuesday, was per- hours would be critical system.”—Xinhua region, according to the report. —Xinhua formed at the Virgin de for the success of the op- A worker fumi- eration, only the ninth in gates in the Somali pirates seize the world. Face trans- drainage to plants are still experimen- prevent mosqui- Cambodian cargo ship tal medical procedures to toes breeding. NAIROBI, 29 Jan—Somali pirates have hijacked a replace all or part of a per- An experimental Cambodian cargo ship early on Wednesday off Soma- son’s face disfigured by vaccine provided lia’s Berbera port with unknown crew members from trauma, burns, disease or 100 percent six countries, a regional maritime official confirmed birth defects. protection on Thursday. The world’s first full- against the Andrew Mwangura, East Africa’s Coordinator of Sea- face replant was done in mosquito-borne farers Assistance Programme, said the MV Layla-S was 1994 and the world’s first chikungunya seized after it unloaded at the port in the semi-autono- partial face transplant virus in primates mous region of Somaliland. was done in 2005. The and mice, “Crew members on board the ill-fated vessel are first full-face transplant offering hope it comprised of Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan, Somali was done in London will work for and Syrian nationals,” Mwangura told Xinhua from in 2006. humans too, a Mombasa.—Xinhua Xinhua new study found.—XINHUA All Items from Xinhua News Agency

30-1-2010 NL 5 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 6 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 Hundreds airlifted from Peru site when skies clear Dog rescued from Baltic ice floe MACHU PICCHU were left to eat from com- out of the remote village, WARSAW, 29 Jan— An spotted floating on the ice afloat.” PUEBLO, 29 Jan— Skies munal pots and sleep out- the closest to the ancient exhausted dog stranded on in the Vistula River at Another crew member cleared over the fabled doors after weekend Inca ruins 8,000 feet up in an ice floe in the Baltic Grudziadz, Poland, Satur- said the dog clearly was Machu Picchu citadel on flooding and mudslides the Andes mountains. Sea in below-zero tem- day but firefighters in trouble. Thursday, speeding the cut access to the area. Tourism Minister Martin peratures was rescued by couldn’t get to it and the “It was obvious that evacuation of stranded By nightfall, helicop- Perez told Lima’s RPP ra- a passing Polish marine dog made it all the way the dog was very weak,” tourists, many of whom ters ferried 1,402 people dio that only 800 tourists research ship, crew mem- into the sea, enduring second engineer Adam remained in town. bers say. temperatures down to mi- Buzinski said. “He almost Perez said helicopters The vessel Baltica nus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. went under the surface of had evacuated a total of reached the dog on Mon- “A shape was moving, the water. So I grabbed 2,542 tourists since Mon- day, with crew members so we decided to get the dog and put him in the day. More than 3,000 using an inflatable pontoon closer to see if it was a inflatable and returned to travelers were trapped in boat to get close enough to seal,” Jan Jochim, the the ship.”One researcher the town for days, strap- pluck it off a bobbing ice ship’s senior officer, was aboard the Baltica, ping resources and testing chunk only a few yards in quoted as saying on a Natalia Drgas, said they travellers’ patience. diameter, The Times of Lon- video aired online by The massaged, fed and Peruvian police help with the evacuation of tourists “It’s been an adven- don reported on Thursday. Guardian. “As we moved warmed up the dog until by helicopter in Machu Picchu town, in Cuzco on ture, a bit more than we The dog, now nick- in, we saw that it was a it was back on its feet. 28 Jan, 2010. Hundreds of tourists emerged from a bargained for,” Karel named Baltic, had been dog struggling to stay Internet gruelling 28-mile (45 km) trek along Peru’s Inca Schultz, 46, of Niagara trail on Thursday to find the ancient Machu Falls, NY, told the Asso- Weight-loss pill using leptin in the works Picchu ruins cut off by floods and mudslides, and ciated Press as she waited joined the 1,200 or so travelers waiting to be to be flown out. MONTREAL, 29 Jan— rise during meals. It has treal. airlifted out.— INTERNET Internet Researchers at the Uni- been proven to be an ap- “Taken orally, such a versity of Montreal say petite suppressant when pill would provide obese KANDAHAR, 29 Jan—A security official says a Fighting gunbattle has broken out between militants wearing they are developing a pill administered intrave- people with the sensation suicide vests and security forces in a major city in composed of leptin — the nously to pathologically of being full. They would southern Afghanistan. protein that tells the brain obese people. eat less and in turn lose breaks out An official with the counterterrorism department to stop eating. Dr Philippe Camm- weight,” Cammisotto said says security forces have trapped five militants on top Moise Bendayan, a isotto, a postdoctoral stu- in a statement. in of a building that is under construction in Lashkar Gah, pathology professor at dent and the study leader, “We hope to start ani- capital of Helmand Province. the University of Mon- is working on the leptin- mal testing in 2010, the southern Almas, who like many Afghans goes by one name, treal says leptin regu- based, appetite suppress- molecule is easy to syn- says two people have been killed, including one of the lates appetite in mam- ing pill with Bendayan thesize and the protocol is city attackers and a civilian who was passing by when on mals, and its levels de- and Emile Levy, also of ready.” Friday’s fighting began.—Internet crease when fasting and the University of Mon- Internet World second pregnant man due in February Did Leonardo paint himself as “Mona Lisa”? Scott Moore, the second world him listed as a female. The legend of Leonardo da Vinci is If the skull is intact, the scientists can known pregnant man, is due to give “We know some people will criticize shrouded in mystery: How did he die? go to the heart of a question that has fas- birth next month, according to media us, but we are blissfully happy and not Are the remains buried in a French cha- cinated scholars and the public for cen- reports Thursday. ashamed,” said Scott. teau really those of the Renaissance turies: the identity of the “Mona Lisa.” Both Scott and his husband, Tho- They already have two adopted chil- master? Was the “Mona Lisa” a self- Recreating a virtual and then physical mas Moore, were born women and dren, Gregg, 12, and Logan, 10, who are portrait in disguise? reconstruction of Leonardo’s face, they have undergone surgery to change their “the children of a former female part- A group of Italian scientists believes can compare it with the smiling face in sex. ner of Thomas’.” the key to solving those puzzles lies with the painting, experts involved in the Scott still has female reproductive Thomas Beatie of Oregon is the first the remains — and they say they are project told The Associated Press. organs, and he got pregnant by using pregnant man and made headlines seeking permission from French authori- “We don’t know what we’ll find if sperm donated by a friend last June. around the world in 2008 when he gave ties to dig up the body to conduct car- the tomb is opened, we could even just They are legally married now be- birth to a girl. bon and DNA testing. find grains and dust,” says Giorgio cause Scott’s birth certificate still has Gruppioni, an anthropologist who is par- China unearthed oldest known ancestor of birds ticipating in the project. “But if the re- China has un- primitive lizards, latest issue of the young adult when mains are well kept, they are a biologi- earthed the fossil small mammals journal Science. it died, had a long cal archive that registers events in a per- of a two-legged and reptiles, the The individual, tail and a total body son’s life, and sometimes in their death.” carnivorous dino- experts wrote in the believed to be a length of between saur that lived 160 190 and 230 cm. (6 million years ago feet 2 inches to 7 and which re- feet 6 inches). It searchers have was found in or- identified as the ange mudstone earliest known beds in the Junggar member of a long Basin in China’s Thomas Beatie, better known as the lineage that in- far western This combination of images shows an cludes birds. Xinjiang region. Pregnant Man, shows off his undated self portrait of Leonardo Da The “Haplo- “It has unique Vinci, left, and the Mona Lisa. A newborn baby girl in a photo cheirus sollers” features but it group of Italian scientists is seeking published in People magazine had a long, narrow An image showing the fossil bones of shares some fea- permission from French authorities skull, many small a newly discovered carnivorous tures with birds. It to dig up Leonardo Da Vinci’s body to three weeks after the labor. teeth and powerful dinosaur called “Haplocheirus moves its hands conduct carbon and DNA testing in biceps and fore- sollers” is released by the Chinese sideways, like how order to solve the mysteries of how he limbs, which ena- Academy of Sciences on 28 January, birds can fold their died, and whether the Mona Lisa was NEWS ALBUM bled it to hunt 2010. wings. actually a self-portrait in disguise.

30-1-2010 NL 6 9/7/18, 1:49 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 7 Ice, snow chill southern Plains amid power outages OKLAHOMA CITY, 29 Jan and high winds snapped Will Rogers World Air- —A powerful storm electrical lines across port in Oklahoma City dumped snow, sleet and Oklahoma, knocking out over concerns about icing freezing rain on the south- electrical power to tens of on aircraft, spokeswoman ern Plains on Thursday, dis- thousands of customers. Karen Carney said. She rupting power to thousands “In some places, as far said additional flights will of homes and businesses, you can see there are hun- likely be cancelled on Fri- cancelling flights and shut- dreds of utility poles on day morning. ting down major highways the ground,” said Andrea Another 35 flights across three states. Chancellor, spokes- were cancelled at Tulsa The National Weather woman for Public Service International Airport, said Service issued winter Company of Oklahoma. Alexis Higgins of the A Stillwater, Okla. Firefighter walks around a rolled over Chevy pickup truck storm warnings through “It could be five days Tulsa Airport Authority. on the southbound side of Interstate 35 at the Oklahoma Highway 51 on Friday for much of for all customers who can Internet interchange on 28 Jan, 2010. —INTERNET Oklahoma and the Texas take power to get power Panhandle. restored,” she said. Over 30 displaced women give birth One US Ice accumulations of Airlines cancelled in Nigerian camps trooper killed more than one-half inch more than 100 flights at KANO, 29 Jan—More tral mosque in Jos South,” “These women are by IED in Diamonds made even stronger than 30 pregnant woman, Binta Hassan, a midwife among the internally dis- among the thousands of in the central Nigerian placed persons whose southern by pressure people displaced by town told AFP. homes were destroyed in LIVERMORE, 29 Jan— US scientists say they have deadly ethnic and reli- “Many pregnant the violence,” Moham- Afghanistan discovered that compression makes a diamond so gious strife in Nigeria last women have given birth med added. According to KABUL, 29 Jan—A strong it can withstand nearly a million times atmos- week, have given birth in in the last week in bar- the Red Cross official, the United States serviceman pheric pressure. camps and mosques, offi- racks and mosques they displaced people are shel- with the NATO-led Inter- Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National cials said on Thursday. are staying after losing tered in 17 camps in Jos, national Security Assist- Laboratory, the University of Rochester and the Uni- “We have recorded their homes in the recent capital of central Plateau ance Force (ISAF) was versity of California-Berkeley noted that most natu- some births in the camps. violence,” Auwalu Mo- State. There are some killed on Thursday in an ral diamonds result from the compression of carbon- We have 31 mothers who hammed, head of the Ni- other camps in neighbour- containing minerals under high-temperature condi- IED (improvised explo- have given birth in bar- geria Red Cross in Jos, ing Bauchi State, relief sive device) attack in tions at depths of 87 to 120 miles over periods rang- racks and the Bukuru cen- also said by telephone. officials said.—Internet ing from 1 billion to 3.3 billion years. southern Afghanistan. The scientists said they applied laser-generated A Press release issued by shock waves to rapidly compress a diamond and found Brown calls for support in delivering peace to Afghanisttan the ISAF confirmed the death of the US trooper natural diamond crystals under shock-wave compres- LONDON, 29 Jan— , co-hosted by Britain, the Secretary General Anders but failed to give any fur- sion withstood nearly one million atmospheres of pres- Prime Minister Gordon United Nations and Af- Fogh Rasmussen, and in- ther detail. sure, but collapsed and melted in one-billionth of a Brown on Thursday ghanistan, was to agree ternational representa- The incident followed second under pressures between 1 million and 10 called for international on a clear international tives including US Secre- a number of IED strikes, million atmospheres. support in delivering plan for the next 18 tary of State Hillary The authors said their experiments simulated con- roadside bombings and peace and security to Af- months in the war-torn Clinton. ditions found on icy gas giant planets, such as Uranus suicide attacks which the ghanistan. Brown out- country. "This is a decisive time and Neptune, where icebergs of diamond could float insurgents have launched lined the aims of the Af- Earlier, the prime min- for international operation on seas of liquid carbon. since the start of the year, ghanistan Confernece in ister met with Afghan that is helping the Afghan The study that included then graduate student claiming the death of doz- London during an President Hamid Karzai, people secure and govern Stewart McWilliams, the study’s lead author, and ens of international sol- openiong adress, saying UN Secreatry General their own country, Brown Lawrence Livermore’s Jon Eggert, appears in the jour- diers most of whom were the aim of the confernece Ban Ki-moon, NATO said. —MNA/Xinhua nal Physical Review B.— Internet from the US.—Xinhua Study shows dramatic rise in natural disasters over past decade

GENEVA, 29 Jan— to 1989, and of 67 percent that climate change itself There has been a “dra- since 1990 to 1999, ac- is an important factor.” matic” rise in natural dis- cording to CRED data. Sapir said that CRED asters during the past dec- Though earthquakes lacked sufficient research ade, the director of the made up 60 percent of to determine the role of Centre for Research on natural disasters from global warming in the in- the Epidemiology of Dis- 2000 to 2009, climate-re- crease in climate-related asters (CRED) said on lated events, such as natural disasters. Thursday. droughts, storms and CRED, an interna- “The number of events floods, have made up the tional nonprofit, was cre- have gone up very, very majority of disasters over- ated in 1971. dramatically,” CRED Di- all, increasing tenfold It is part of the Univer- rector Debarati Guha- since data was first col- site catholique de Louva- Sapir said in Geneva. lected in 1950. in in Brussels, and has A statue is covered with snow at a park in Berlin, capital of Germany, on 28 During the 2000 to “Have climate-related been a collaborating cen- Jan, 2010. A storm front covered much of Germany with snow on Wednesday 2009 period, there were disasters increased? The tre with the World Health night into Thursday, adding to what has been an unusually cold and snowy 385 disasters, an increase answer is yes,” Sapir said, Organization since winter.—XINHUA of 233 percent since 1980 adding, “But it is not clear 1980.— Internet

30-1-2010 NL 7 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, wife (from page 1) On behalf of wellwisher Aye Mya Soe Foundation, U Kyaw Nyunt handed over documents re- lated to the hospital to Min- ister Dr Kyaw Myint. To mark the 10th Bud- dha Pujaniya of Maha Shwesigyi Pagoda of Kanbalu, Sagaing Divi- sion PDC, Myanmar Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and wife Daw Mya Mya San attend opening ceremony of Women’s Affairs Federa- Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed).—MNA tion, Myanmar Maternal

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attends inauguration of Kanbalu People’s Hospital Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed) is located on an area (100-bed).—MNA of 28 acres at the corner of Tabinshwehti Road and the and Child Welfare Asso- tients with eye complaints. ciation, Sagaing Division Wellwishers also do- detour in Ward 3 of Kanbalu. The hospital is formed with MCWSC, Sagaing Divi- nated cash to the funds of sion Women’s Affairs the hospital to the com- out-patient ward, child ward, maternal and delivery ward, Committee, Aye Aye mander. Khaing Gems Co and Tin After the ceremony, surgical and orthopaedic ward, medical ward and operation Win Tun Co donated cash Vice-Senior General to the funds for providing Maung Aye and wife Daw theatre in addition to the staff quarters. free health care to the pa- Mya Mya San visited the hospital. Associate Professor Dr Next, they comforted Ye Lwin of Mandalay the eye patients from EENT and eye special- Kanbalu, YeU, KhinU, ists from hospitals of Shwebo, Katha, Kyunhla, Sagaing Division gave Tamu, Mogaung, eye care to 8150 patients Banmauk, Kawlin, and performed surgical Wuntho, Pinlebu, Wetlet operations on 581 pa- and Monywa townships. tients from 25 to 28 Janu- Afterwards, they viewed ary at the new hospital. surgical operations of pro- During the period, a to- fessors and specialists at tal of 331 patients were the operation theatre. undergone minor opera- Eye specialist Lt-Col tion and 4,000 patients Daw Yupa Aung of No. were presented optical 2 Military Hospital (500- glasses and 6,000 tubes bed) and specialists, of eye drops. Project Manager Deputy Kanbalu People’s Director Dr Daw Khin Hospital (100-bed) is Nyein Lin of Ministry of located on an area of 28 Health, eye specialists acres at the corner led by Prof U Than Aung of Tabinshwehti Road and A bird’s eye view of Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed).—MNA and Prof U Mya Aung (See page 9)

30-1-2010 NL 8 9/7/18, 1:49 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 9 Vice-Senior General Maung Aye… (from page 16) been a granary in upper Myanmar with the rice sufficiency like Ayeyawady Division. Kyunhla Myothit was shifted from inundated area. The Government would continue to render assistances in the drive for improving transport and agriculture in the township. Local people and officials at different levels were to make efforts to further strengthen regional economic development based on the State's assistance. It was required to extend farmlands and increase per acre yield using various ways for the development of agricultural production. It is necessary to correctly know facts and figures of sown acreage and per acre yield for different crops and seek ways how to improve agriculture sector. The Government, in its part, would provide assistance as much as it could. After Vice-Senior General Maung Aye had cor- dially greeted local people, he paid homage to Secre- tary of Division Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee Vice-Senior General Maung Aye offers provisions to members of the Sangha in Kyunhla. Presiding Sayadaw of Settawya Kyaungtaik Bhaddanta Naradhipati and members of the Sangha at Laykyun MNA Manaung Buddha Wihara Beikmantaw in Myoma measures of increasing water supply to the farmlands Vice-Senior General Maung Aye attended to the YoneU Kyaungtaik in Kyunhla and donated alms to by helicopter, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and needs for basic schools and people’s hospital in them as well as supplicated religious matters to the party arrived in Kanbalu in the evening. Kyunhla after asking officials concerned about the Sayadaw. Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein and necessities. After viewing thriving crops in the town and Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint accompanying MNA Vice-Senior General Maung Aye meets with departmental officials, townselders, members of social organizations and local people in Kyunhla.—MNA

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the detour in Ward 3 of Kanbalu. The hospital is formed with out-patient ward, child ward, maternal and delivery ward, surgical Eye specialists from No-2 Military Hospital (500-bed) perform surgial operation on eye patients and orthopaedic ward, at Kanbalu People’s Hospital (100-bed).—MNA medical ward and opera- tion theatre in addition to Myanmar Medical Research Conference concludes the staff quarters. YANGON, 29 Jan – Township here yesterday Director-General research award winner, partment submitted report The new hospital was The fifth day programme morning. Dr Khin Pyone Kyi of the best applied research of the award scrutinizing sponsored by Aye Mya of Myanmar Medical Re- Resource persons Medical Research Depart- award winner, the best sub-committee and re- Soe Co and built by Htoo search Conference (2009) read out 13 papers at three ment (Lower Myanmar) health system research vealed the award winning Trading Co Ltd. The con- continued at the meeting paper reading sessions read out the message sent award winner and the best papers. Officials later pre- struction started on 10 hall of Medical Research presided by rectors, pro- by the Minister for Health poster award winner. Pro- sented prizes to the win- May 2009. Department (Lower fessors/heads of depart- at prize awarding cer- fessor/Dean Dr Kyi Kyi ners. MNA Myanmar) in Dagon ments and directors. emony to the best basic Thin of Microbiology De- MNA

30-1-2010 NL 9 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 South Africa probes World Cup price fixing by airlines JOHANNESBURG, 29 They are suspected of want to exploit the situa- Jan—South Africa’s Com- colluding on prices and tion by engaging in anti- petition Commission said pricing strategies during competitive conduct. The on Thursday it has opened the World Cup, which Commission is obliged to an investigation into pos- kicks off on 11 June, it investigate all legitimate sible price-fixing by air- said. “The soccer World complaints in such in- lines during the football Cup tournament provides stances.” World Cup. South African business President Jacob Zuma’s The investigation tar- with a good opportunity to office asked the commis- gets British Airways and showcase our international sion to look into concerns its local partner Comair, competitiveness, an oppor- about airlines raising South African Airways tunity which could have prices for the World Cup, and its partners SA Airlink positive and lasting ben- the statement said. and SA Express, as well as efits,” said Commissioner Airfares during the People wait to sign some of the 32 four-metre high Goodwill Balls, representing discount carriers 1Time Shan Ramburuth. World Cup have sparked all the qualified nations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. South and Mango, the commis- “But it is also possible a public uproar for Africa’s Competition Commission said on Thursday it has opened an investiga- sion said in a statement. that some firms might months.—Internet tion into possible price-fixing by airlines during the football World Cup.—XINHUA Algerian court sentences drug traffickers Worst drought in 50 years hits southwest ALGIERS, 29 Jan—The life, after the seizure in cigarettes and three brand China, affects three million people Oran criminal court in 2008 of two tonnes of new all-terrain vehicles BEIJING, 29 Jan—More than three mil- was 1.7 degrees higher, said Ma western Algeria has sen- cannabis resin at Bechar were seized in that opera- lion people faced water shortage as a Lianxiang, chief forecaster of Yunnan tenced eight people to jail in the southwest. tion, APS said. worst drought in 50 years hit parts of Provincial Meteorological Department. terms ranging from 20 Border guards from During a separate op- south and southwest China, according He said the provincial meteorological years to life imprisonment Hassi Khebi near Bechar eration, the security serv- to local meteorological officials. department issued a drought alert on for drug trafficking, the intercepted a convoy of ices later arrested one of The drought affected 2.91 million peo- Wednesday. APS news agency re- drug traffickers in March the suspects and seized ple and 1.48 million large livestock in In neighbouring Guizhou Province, ported on Thursday. 2008, but the suspects weaponry including Yunnan, while up to 57.5 percent of where about 250,000 people suffered Six of the convicted then managed to escape Kalashnikov assault rifles, crops, or 21.24 million mu (about 142 drinking water shortage, the government men were sentenced on towards Morocco, aban- ammunition, fuel, mobile hectares), in the southwestern province mobilized 61,000 people, 1,140 water Wednesday to 20 years, a doning their vehicles and phones and global posi- were also affected. transporting vehicles to tackle the prob- seventh to life and the their contents. tioning system (GPS) Yunnan’s rainfall since last July was lem, according to Guizhou Provincial eighth, who was on the Two tonnes of cannabis, equipment. 207 millimetres lower than the peren- Flood Control and Drought Relief Head- run, was also sentenced to 4,520 cartons of foreign Internet nial average, whereas the temperature quarters.—Xinhua Saudis drive Yemeni rebels out Spanish police arrest two World’s second-largest of border region suspected ETA members chipmaker Hynix to be MADRID, 29 Jan—Spanish police say they have ar- RIYADH, 29 Jan—Saudi Khaled said most of the 133 rested two suspected members of Basque separatist sold through block sale forces have driven Yemeni Saudi soldiers killed in the group ETA in northern Spain and discovered a hidden SEOUL, 29 Jan—Credi- will have to consider vari- rebels out of the border re- battles died in the fierce cache containing explosives and bomb-making equip- tors of South Korea’s ous options such as a block gion between the two fighting during the first ment. Basque regional police said in a statement that Hynix Semiconductor Inc. trade,” Ryu Jae- han, countries, a top Saudi de- three weeks of the offen- the two men were arrested on Thursday on suspicion are mulling a variety of President of the Korea Fi- fence official said on sive against a string of stra- of belonging to ETA. options, including a block nance Corp, told a Press Wednesday, suggesting tegic mountains on the bor- They were identified as Zunbeltz Bedialauneta and sale, in case the sale of the conference. The creditors that the three month con- der. Urtza Alkorta. The arrests and explosives find hap- world’s second-largest in mid-January decided to flict along the mountain- Saudi forces captured pened in the Basque fishing port of Ondarroa where a memory chipmaker nears put their 28 percent stake, ous frontier may be wind- some 1,500 Yemenis dur- car bomb explosion blamed on ETA injured 10 people a failure, the head of the amounting to 4 trillion ing the course of the con- ing down. on 21 Sept, 2008. state-run financial agency won (3.8 billion US dol- flict, though some were The announcement by Police arrested five ETA suspects on Tuesday, three said on Thursday. lars), on sale for the sec- just smugglers rather than Assistant Defence Minis- of them in Ondarroa. “If the attempt to sell the ond time after its previous rebel fighters, Prince ter Prince Khaled bin Sul- Internet chipmaker fails, creditors attempt to sell the stake Khaled added.—Internet tan came a day after the went in vain. rebels themselves an- Spent ammunition on Hyosung Group, the nounced a unilateral 27 Jan, 2010 on Mt only bidder for Hynix, cease-fire. withdrew its bid in Novem- Doud, a high strategic Yemen’s Hawthi rebels ber due to growing ru- have been battling their position occupied by mours in the market that the own government since houthi rebels from in-law relations between 2004 over neglect and dis- Yemen that was retaken President Lee Myung-bak crimination, but when they by the Saudi military a and the Hyosung chairman crossed the border and may have affected the killed two guards in No- week ago. Mt Doud is group’s takeover bid. vember, Saudi Arabia in the southern Saudi The creditors this time launched a massive coun- province of Jizan, near say they are considering to teroffensive using artillery take a flexible approach, and airpower.Speaking to the border with Yemen. such as selling the stakes in reporters in the southern INTERNET smaller bundles.—Xinhua city of Jazan, Prince

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An Belgium apartment building apart- ment collapses after gas explosion LIEGE, 29 Jan—A five-storey apart- “It is likely there was a gas explosion,” building ment building collapsed after an appar- Liege Mayor Willy Demeyer said. There col- ent gas explosion early on Wednesday, was a gas alert in the building over injuring at least 20 people and leaving at the weekend but no leak was discovered, lapses in least two caught under the rubble, offi- he said. the city cials said. It remained unclear whether Immediately after the blast, a fire of Liege, those trapped in the debris of the century- raged through the building and thick old building were still alive, officials said. smoke billowed into the air from the top Bel- Firefighters heard at least two differ- windows. The blast shattered windows gium. ent voices under the rubble when they in the city hall, 100 meters away and looked for survivors after the ornate fa- spread debris and dust throughout the INTERNET cade of the building collapsed, some five adjacent streets in downtown Liege. hours after the 2 am (0100 GMT) blast. Internet Paraguayan Amazon 4Q profit climbs 71 Cabanas health pct on strong holidays SANFRANCISCO, 29 Jan— Amazon.com Inc.’s condition worsen fourth-quarter earnings skyrocketed 71 percent, as MEXICO CITY, 29 Jan— shoppers spent more than ever during a holiday season The health conditions of that improved over the previous year for retailers on Uruguayan soccer player and off the Web. Salvador Cabanas worsen Despite the sluggish economy, Amazon did well as swelling around the throughout the year, drawing shoppers with its Kindle brain area after being shot e-reader and deals on an immense selection of goods in the head in a Mexico ranging from alarm clocks to stuffed zebras. City on Monday early Amazon reported Thursday that this behavior morning, his doctors said carried through the holiday season, which is typically on Wednesday. Cabanas’ the busiest time of the year for retailers. And Amazon doctor in charge, Ernest doesn’t expect growth to slow: The company predicted Martinez Duhart said on first-quarter revenue that exceeds analyst expectations. Wednesday that they have Amazon said it earned $384 million, or 85 cents Brahminy Kites (Haliastur indus), also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle, increased the sedation per share, in the October-December period. rest inside a cage at Pulau Kotok bird rehabilitation centre in the Thousand dosage for Cabanas. Internet Islands, north of Jakarta on 27 January.—INTERNET “Cabanas has been clinical stable, however, Obesity problem alarming in Samoa Two Filipinos killed in we have had some prob- WELLINGTON, 29 Jan—Statistics about men were obese or overweight and 89.8 lems because the brain obesity in the Pacific island nation of percent of women were obese or over- explosion in Cyprus edema has grown,” Samoa were alarming and the Ministry weight. It means two out of three women NICOSIA, 29 Jan—Cy- and Salibia Mairo- Martinez said in a Press of Health was moving to tackle the prob- between 25-64 years were obese or over- prus Police identified on secastanas, a female aged conference. “We are go- lem. According to a survey done in 2002, weight. Only 9.9 percent of females fit Wednesday two victims 35, both from the Philip- ing to keep him with se- some 85.2 percent of the population is the normal weight category and 18.7 who died on Wednesday pines. dation and the risk contin- obese. Christine Quested, Principal Nu- percent of men. The survey showed none morning in an explosion They both died when a ues being high, because tritionist with the Ministry of Health of the population is underweight. which was followed by a fire broke out early this the pressure in his brain is (MOH), said the survey of chronic dis- Quested said health officials were work- fire in an apartment in morning in a flat in the old increasing, so we will be ease was most relevant to date, the Sa- ing on ways to lower the percentage of Nicosia, capital of Cy- part of Nicosia, a run- observing him and inform moa Observer reported on Thursday. obese and overweight among the popu- prus. They are Nardy down area enclosed by any change in his condi- The survey showed 81.1 percent of lation.—Xinhua Nuguid, a male aged 39, mediaeval Venetian walls, tion,” Martinez added. where thousands of immi- Martinez said that on New King Kong attraction grants working in Cyprus Thursday it will be the 72 have taken residence. Act- critical hours, so the doc- debuts this summer ing on exhibits recovered tors will be able to see the LOS ANGELES, 29 Jan—A newly-constructed King from the burned out flat, maximum peak, and he Kong attraction will make its debut this summer after the the police have launched added that to the moment, original one was burned down in a massive fire 19 months a murder investigation. Cabanas will not have an- ago, it was reported by The Los Angeles Times on Wednes- “Certain clues found on other surgery.—Xinhua day. Dubbed as “King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World”, the attraction will replace the old one at the same the scene, among them a Justine Henin of Bel- plot and setting, only it will be based on the Academy liquid fuel plastic con- gium signs autographs Award-winning director Peter Jackson’s King Kong tainer, appear to indicate foul play,” said Nicosia for fans after beating which will include a new element recreating the fight District Police Chief Zheng Jie of China to between Kong and a T-Rex in the beginning of the at- traction from the King Kong film. Kypros Michaelides. win their Women’s “After the 2008 fire, we knew we had to bring him Their room in a flat in singles semifinal match back to the back lot studio tour, but in a way that has a nine-storey apartment at the Australian Open never been experienced before,” Universal Studios building was burned out, tennis championship in Hollywood President Larry Kurzweil was quoted as but a Coroner said the Melbourne, Australia, saying.The new, 3-D Kong has been taking shape in bodies did not bear any on 28 Jan , 2010. the old Howard Hughes Spruce Goose hangar in Playa burns. The bodies were found under a bed. INTERNET Vista, where Peter Jackson led a team in designing the attraction.—Xinhua Xinhua

30-1-2010 NL 11 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 CLAIMS DAY NOTICE CLAIMS DAY NOTICE MV DIBENA HAPPY VOY NO (116) MV XIANG XIU VOY NO (1014) Consignees of cargo carried on MV DIBENA Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG XIU HAPPY VOY NO (116) are here by notified that the VOY NO (1014) are here by notified that the vessels vessels will be arriving on 31.1.2010 and cargo will be will be arriving on 30.1.2010 and cargo will be dis- discharged into the premises of S.P.W.2 where it will lie charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. byelaws 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 after the Claims Day. the Claims Day. SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPING AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING CO,LTD (MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD Phone No: 256916/256919/256921 Phone No: 256908/378316/376797 CLAIMS DAY NOTICE S Korea sees “green vision” Closing date: 14 February 2010. MV SANG THAI QUARTZ VOY NO (02) as growth engine Consignees of cargo carried on MV SANG THAI China’s anti-piracy role off SEOUL, 29 Jan—As South Korean president Lee QUARTZ VOY NO (02) are here by notified that the Myung- bak continues to express his deep-hearted zeal vessels will be arriving on 30.1.2010 and cargo will be Somalia expands for green growth in a number of side meetings with discharged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will BEIJING, 29 Jan—China has agreed to join an inter- global business and political leaders at the 2010 World lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the national naval operation to fight piracy off the coast Economic Forum (WEF), South Korea’s proactive ap- byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon. of Somalia. China has been focusing on protecting its proach to take a lead in creating a low carbon society is Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am own shipping in the area, but it will now join the na- garnering mounting attention from the international to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now val forces of the US, Nato and the European Union. community. With projections to generate additional eco- declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo This grouping, the Shared Awareness and nomic output worth 206 trillion won (162.7 billion US from the Vessel. Deconfliction (Shade), protects a shipping corridor dollars) and around 1.8 million new jobs overall, South No claims against this vessel will be admitted after in the western Indian Ocean. This is the area where Korea is vehemently encouraging its people as well as the Claims Day. pirate attacks are most frequent. Members of the other countries to follow steps in its effort to push for SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT international naval task force say that although eco-friendly growth. Lee first proclaimed his plan to MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY attacks there have increased, fewer have been push forward with eco-friendly policies in his speech AGENT FOR: SANG THAI SHIPPING CO LTD, successful. on 15 Aug, 2008, the 60th anniversary of the founding Phone No: 256924/256914 Internet of South Korea.— Xinhua Russia’s 5th-gen fighter makes first flight A cell phone shows the conditions at the MOSCOW, 29 Jan—A new jet fighter first of the new fighters. The plane took Sugarbush ski resort seen as Russia’s response to US ad- off from Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Rus- in Warren, Vt on 20 vances in military aviation made a suc- sia’s Far East, Kayukova said. Authori- Jan, 2010. Econo- cessful first test flight on Friday, ties had initially promised the maiden mists Jonathan planemaker Sukhoi said. The “fifth-gen- flight last year. Zinman and Eric eration” fighter—Russia’s first all-new The fighter, which Rossiya 24 said has Zitzewitz, skiers who warplane since the Soviet collapse— been tentatively dubbed the T-50 by its took offense to a flew for about 45 minutes, Sukhoi makers, is crucial to demonstrating that fluffed-up claim, spokeswoman Olga Kayukova said on Russia can hold its own and even chal- studied snow reports Rossiya 24 television. lenge US technology. It is seen as Mos- from 2004 to 2008 “The plane performed very well. All cow’s answer to the US-built F-22 Raptor and compared them our expectations for this first flight were stealth fighter, which first flew in 1997. to area government met,” Kayukova said. “The premiere Fifth-generation jets are invisible to ra- weather stations. was a success.”Analysts have said it dar, have advanced on-board flight and INTERNET would probably be five to seven years weapons control systems and can cruise before Russia’s military gets to fly the at supersonic speeds.— Internet Eleven die in heavy fighting in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, 29 Jan—At after rebels waged coor- cal emergency services. least eleven people were dinated attacks on a “Nine people all of them killed and almost 25 others number of positions of civilians died as a result of were wounded on Friday in Somali government forces the shelling while 22 others an early morning fighting and AU peacekeepers. mostly women, were in the Somali capital The attacks, which broke wounded,” Ali Muse, a head Mogadishu between mili- days of relative stability in of local ambulance service tants and Somali govern- the city, were followed by told Xinhua. Many of the ment forces backed by Af- heavy shelling that mainly wounded were trapped in rican Union (AU) peace- hit residential areas in south their homes as ambulance keeping forces, emergency and north of the restive So- vans could not move around sources and residents said. mali capital Mogadishu, during the dark hours and The fighting which be- leaving a number of civil- some have died of blood A new Russian T-50 fighter lands at an airfield of the Sukhoi aircraft manu- gan in the small hours of ians dead and others loss, emergency officials said.—Xinhua facturing plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on 23 Jan, 2010. — INTERNET Friday morning erupted wounded, according to lo-

30-1-2010 NL 12 9/7/18, 1:49 PM THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 13 Overweight septuagenarians live longer WASHINGTON , 29 Jan— dex,” or BMI, which esti- weight but not obese. Overweight septuagenar- mates a person’s body fat, “These results add evi- ians are less likely to die the researchers also took dence to the claims that within 10 years than peo- into account the state the WHO (World Health ple of “normal” weight in of their health and their Organization) BMI the same age group, an lifestyle. thresholds for overweight Australian study said on Participants whose and obese are overly re- Thursday. The study in the body mass index was strictive for older people. Journal of the American classified as overweight It may be timely to review Geriatrics Society fol- were 13 percent less likely the BMI classification for lowed 4,677 men and to die than those classified older adults,” said Leon 4,563 women aged 70 to as being of normal Flicker, of the University 75 for a ten-year period weight. The benefits, of Western Australia and from 1996. In addition however, were seen only the lead researcher. to their “body mass in- in those who were over- Internet Egyptian workers make beds of sand to protect their palm trees in the Archaeologists clear stones in a newly discovered tomb at the Mayan Tonina Nile Delta region of archeological site near Ocosingo village in Mexico’s Chiapas State, on 27 Rosetta, northwest of Jan, 2010. Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology the captial Cairo. an History (INAH) announced they discovered in Dec 2009 the ancient INTERNET sarcophagus in a tomb dated 840-900 BC.— INTERNET Children who are at risk for High vitamin D levels, ear infection lower colon cancer risk? WASHINGTON, 29 Jan—Ear infections are common NEW YORK, 29 Jan—Higher levels of vitamin D in in children, and may be chronic. The American Acad- the blood may help protect both men and women from emy of Family Physicians offers this list of risk fac- cancers of the colon and rectum, confirm results of tors for ear infections in children: the largest study ever conducted on the topic. Among * Being around smokers. more than 1200 people who developed colorectal can- * Having had a prior ear infection or a family cer and an equal number who did not, researchers history of ear infection. found that those with the highest levels of vitamin D * Going to day care. in their blood had a nearly 40 percent reduced risk of * Being born prematurely or having a low birth developing colorectal cancer compared to those with weight. the lowest levels. * Having frequent colds or other infections. The findings from the EPIC study — short for Eu- * Going to bed with a bottle, or using a pacifier. ropean Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nu- * Being a boy. trition—confirm previous findings from smaller stud- * Having allergy-related nasal congestion. ies conducted largely among North American * Having nasally speech.—Internet populations. —Internet Too much Australian scientists to study whales alive Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta CANBERRA, 29 Jan—Australian Envi- kill whales to study them. The research- alcohol impairs ronment Minister Peter Garrett said on ers will investigate the feeding behaviour falls prey to climate change Thursday that whales can be studied alive of whales and their interaction with pack seniors’ thinking in their natural habitat and harpoons were ice, along with the population structure ROSETTA, 29 Jan—The Nile Delta, Egypt’s bread not necessary. “We do not need to kill of whale populations. basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty WASHINGTON, 29 Jan— whales to study them,” he told Austral- The research programme has the motto wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers Elderly people who ian Associated Press. Garrett revealed of “respect for the oceans and the crea- off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate are heavy drinkers are Australian scientists will sail for Antarc- tures that make their home in the vast bid to turn back the tide. Experts warn that global more likely to suffer tica on Friday as part of the federal gov- waters of our planet”. Commercial whal- warming will have a major impact in the delta on agri- memory and cognitive ernment’s whale research programme. ing is banned but Japan hunts whales in culture resources, tourism and human migration be- problems than mild-to- They are collaborating with colleagues the name of scientific research, measur- sides shaking the region’s fragile ecosystems. moderate drinkers, a new from New Zealand on a six-week field ing the carcasses and assessing the stom- Over the last century, the Mediterranean Sea, which study shows. trip to demonstrate you do not need to ach contents and dead foetuses.— Xinhua fronts the coast of the Nile Delta, has risen by 20 cen- Brazilian researchers timetres (six inches) and saltwater intrusion has cre- examined drinking and ated a major challenge, experts say. A recent govern- memory/cognition in ment study on the coast of Alexandria, Egypt’s sec- 1,145 volunteers aged 60 ond largest city, expects the sea to continue to rise and and older. The partici- flood large swathes of land. pants included 419 men “A 30-centimetre rise in sea level is expected to and 726 women from dif- occur by 2025, flooding approximately 200 square ferent socioeconomic kilometres (77 square miles). “As a result, over half a levels. million inhabitants may be displaced and approxi- “We found that heavy mately 70,000 jobs could be lost,” the study said. En- alcohol use among the vironmental damage to the Nile Delta is not yet one of elderly people we inves- Egypt’s priorities, but experts say if the situation con- tigated was high, at 8.2 tinues to deteriorate, it will trigger massive food short- percent, and affected ages which could turn seven million people into “cli- principally men from low mate refugees” by the end of the century. socioeconomic levels. A man looks at a mobile phone at the Microsoft booth during the 2010 Interna- Internet Internet tional Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. — INTERNET

30-1-2010 NL 13 9/7/18, 1:49 PM 14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 30 January, 2010 Wilson, Dredge share Man City confirm Robinho to S P O R T S 1st-round lead in Doha join Santos on loan DOHA, 29 Jan —Oliver MANCHESTER, 29 Jan —Robinho, Manchester City’s Williams sisters win Wilson of England shot a unsettled Brazilian forward, is to join his first club 5-under 67 on Thursday Santos on a six-month loan, the English Premier League doubles title despite gusting wind to side confirmed on Thursday. In a statement on their of- share the first-round lead ficial website, City said the Brazilian club had agreed with Bradley Dredge of to pay all of the player’s wages and bonuses for the Wales at the Qatar Mas- period, which begins immediately and ends on 4 Au- ters. Tied for second were gust. Robinho reportedly earns 160,000 pounds a week. Robert Karlsson, Alexan- Manager Roberto Mancini said: “Robinho is der Noren, Lee Westwood someone who needs to be playing regularly and we and Marcel Siem. wish him well for the period of his loan.” The 26- Wilson had a chance to year-old, who began his career at Santos, will leave take the lead on the 18th, Sweden’s Robert for Brazil on Sunday. Signed from Real Madrid in 2008 for a British transfer record of 32.5 million where he missed a 5-foot Karlsson lines up a putt birdie putt. The wind pounds, Robinho has failed to make a major impres- reached 40 mph early in the on the 18th green sion on English football. during the Qatar Mas- Internet Venus (L) and Serena Williams of the US play in day before dying down. the women’s doubles final against Cara Black of Karlsson had one of the ters at the Doha Golf Smalling completes United Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the US at the most spectacular shots of Club, in Doha, Qatar, the round when he holed an Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on 28 Jan, 2010. switch 8-iron from 182 yards for on 29 Jan, 2010.— INTERNET LONDON , 29 Jan— Trafford in July. an eagle.—Internet INTERNET Manchester United on “Chris is an extremely MELBOURNE, 29 Jan— Venus and Serena Williams won their fourth Australian Open women’s doubles Last-gasp Balotelli helps Inter Thursday completed the talented young defender, title, beating Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-4, 6-3. pile on Juve agony signing of highly-rated who we have been moni- The Williams broke Huber’s serve to open the sec- Fulham defender Chris toring for some months,” ROME , 29 Jan—Mario Balotelli scored a last-gasp ond set Friday and won the match when they again Smalling on a four-year said United manager Sir winner to help Inter Milan add to Juventus’s misery broke Huber, ending it on Serena’s winning reflex deal, the English champi- Alex Ferguson. on Thursday with a 2-1 comeback win at the San Siro volley. ons announced. “He is very quick and that takes them into the semi-finals of the Italian Cup. The sisters high-fived each other at the side of the The 20-year-old, who reads the game well. He The forward, so often the target of racist abuse from court after the match. only two years ago was will be a great asset to the Juve fans, thumped in the rebound of a Thiago Motta The Williams sisters won the Australian title for playing non-league foot- club, playing alongside shot, one minute before the end after Lucio’s 71st- the first time in 2001 and added championships in 2003 ball, completed his medi- some of the best defend- minute goal had cancelled out Diego’s early opener and last year. cal and will move to Old ers around and we are de- for the visitors. Black, from Zimbabwe, and Huber, a South Afri- lighted to have secured Inter will face Fiorentina in a two-leg semi-final, can-born American citizen, won the 2007 title. his signature.” the first of which will take place next week. The match “I have to congratulate Venus and Serena for a great Smalling said: “Join- could be Ciro Ferrara’s last in charge of Juve as Ital- tournament — you guys are too good,” Black said. ing Manchester United is ian media say the club intend to sack him after a dread- Internet an unbelievable opportu- ful run of form. Thursday’s defeat leaves his side with nity for me. Cypress Mountain will host little real chance of winning a trophy this season as Manchester United on “My time at Fulham they are already out of the Champions League and have Thursday completed the has been great and I have despite little snow dropped to sixth in Serie A, 16 points behind leaders signing of highly-rated learned a lot about the VANCOUVER, 29 Jan — snow to ensure courses Inter, after losing five of their last six league games. game from Roy Hodgson Snow or no snow, free- are ready, Tim Gayda, Internet Fulham defender Chris and the coaching staff. style skiing and snow- vice president of sport for Egyptians wipe out Algeria to Smalling, on a four- “But the chance of boarding at Cypress the Winter Games, said on year deal, the English coming to the biggest Mountain will go for- Thursday. face Ghana in final champions club in the world is some- ward. “We are running these thing I just couldn’t turn LUANDA, 29 Jan—Af- Crews are working events at Cypress,” Gayda announced. rica Cup of Nations’ kings down.” around the clock using said. “We have no inten- INTERNET Egypt walloped eight-man Internet natural and man-made tion of moving from that Algeria 4-0 on Thursday to venue. Ghana down Nigeria, into set up a fascinating clash We have enough peo- with Ghana’s youngsters ple and enough snow to Africa Cup of Nations final in on Sunday’s final. get the job done.” LUANDA , 29 Jan— Ghana are into the Africa Cup Egypt’s charmed run Unseasonably warm, of Nations final for the first time in 18 years after a 1- to what would be a sev- wet weather in the Van- 0 defeat of Nigeria at the 11 November stadium here enth title looks all but as- couver area has been a on Thursday. In form striker Asamoah Gyan got the sured if they mete out the worry for organizers in priceless first half goal to claim the honours as Ghana same treatment to Ghana recent weeks. moved to within one win of a fifth continental crown. as they have done to Ni- Cypress Mountain was The Black Stars’ opponents in Sunday’s 2010 climax Wael Gomaa (left) of geria, Mozambique, closed to the public 2 1/2 will emerge from Thursday’s second semi-final in In this 22 Jan , 2010, Benin, Cameroon and weeks earlier than Egypt vies for the ball Benguela between holders Egypt and Algeria. file photo, a closed sign now bitter rivals Algeria. planned to protect the with Karim Matmour of “It’s unbelievable,” said Gyan. “We are a young is displayed in front of a Egypt assistant coach team and not many people gave us a chance of mak- snow. More than 300 Algeria during their parking lot at at the Chaouki Gharib said: ing the final.” Ghana coach Milovan Rajevic added: dump trucks of snow have mogul and aerial 2010 semi final match in the “We’ve played against “I told my boys we were not going to play beautiful already been used to cre- Vancouver Olympic African Cup of Nations three World Cup qualifiers football today, we were going to play for a result. “Ni- ate courses, and straw and venues at Cypress in our five matches here, geria had a few good chances but my team are very wood are being laid to at the Ombaka stadium Mountain in West we’ve beaten them all and young and sometimes due to inexperience it led them create bases for the snow. Vancouver, British in Benguela. scored ten goals against all (Nigeria) to create chances.” Internet Columbia.— INTERNET INTERNET of them.—Internet Internet

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MRTV-3 Programme Schedule (30-1-2010) (Saturday)

Transmissions Times Local - (09:00am ~ 10:00am) MST Europe - (19:30pm ~21:30pm) MST North America - (23:30pm ~ 07:30am) MST Apple’s new tablet PC is not the first product to Local Transmission be called the “iPad” — Fujitsu said its US subsidiary launched an “iPad” mobile device * Signature Tune * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights (pictured) in 2002.—INTERNET * Nan Pan Market Day Criminal suspect escorted * Glazed Earthen Pot * Myanmar Movies Impact back to China from Thailand * Myanmar Modern Song BEIJING, 29 Jan — A Chinese national suspected * Mind... the essene of Love! of embezzling more than 13 million yuan (1.9 * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights million U.S. dollars) has been escorted back from Europe/ North America Transmission Thailand where he had stayed 11 years, China’s * Signature Tune Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Friday. * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights Chen Zhiming, a former manager of securities * Nan Pan Market Day business with the Shanghai branch of the Hainan * Glazed Earthen Pot SEG International Trust and Investment * Myanmar Movies Impact Corporation, escaped to Thailand after investing * Silk-Ware from Amarapura WEATHER the money he embezzled from his company in * Myanmar Modern Song stocks in 1998. In October 2009, Chen was * Mind... the essene of Love! Friday, 29th January, 2010 persuaded by the Chinese police liaison officer in * Woods Finishing Industry Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. Thailand to return to China and confess his crime. * Memorial Stones from Chin Mountain Ranges M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly He was escorted back on Dec. 29. * Culture Stage cloudy in Rakhine State and Taninthayi Division and The MPS said the ministry will strengthen * Starry Emperor Breeding Camp generally fair in the remaining States and Divisions. Night international communication and cooperation with * Myanmar Modern Song temperatures were (5°C) to (6°C) below January average foreign police in law enforcement and go deeper to * Amrapura Bargaya Monastery temperatures in Chin State and upper Sagaing Division, seize criminal suspects at large overseas. * Song of Myanma Beauty & Scenic Sights (3°C) below January average temperatures in Rakine State, Xinhua Website: www.mrtv3.net.mm (5°C) above January average temperatures in Taninthayi Division and about January average temperatures in the 7:45 am (tydkif;-1) 5:10 pm remaining areas. The significant night temperatures were 5. Nice & Sweet Song 1:10 pm 7. ]]wpfoufpm}} Loilem (-1°C), Haka (0°C), Namsam and Heho (2 °C) each. 7:55 am 8. Musical Programme 5:35 pm Maximum temperature on 28-1-2010 was 96°F. 6. uAsmyef;O,smOf 1:25 pm 8. MuHcif;bdvyfajrpuf½Hk Minimum temperature on 29 -1-2010 was 61°F. Relative 8:05 am 9. ]]zefcg;ajrrS&xm;vrf;opf}} 5:45 pm humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 29-1-2010 was 49%. Total sun shine hours on 28 -1-2010 was (9.6) hours approx. 7. Song Of National 1:40 pm 9. ola&G;oD&maw;uAsm Races tuNydKifyGJ Rainfall on 29-1-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba- 10. 6:00 pm 8:10 am Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 1:55 pm 10. Evening News 8. twD;NydKifyGJ 11.]]ZrÁL'DygrSmxGef;wJhuRef;}} was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at Central 6:15 pm 8:30 am (vGifrdk;?rif;OD;?cefYpnfol? Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was 9. yJcl;jrpful;wHwm;(u0) pdk;jrwfeE´m) 11. Weather Report (4) mph from Northeast at (15:30) hours MST on 28-1- Saturday, 30 8:40 am ('g½dkufwm-armifoD) 6:20 pm 2010. tvS&Smr,f? tvSurÇm0,f January 10. International News 2:30 pm 12. Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the 8:45 am 12.International News 6:45 pm Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. View on today th 11. Musical Programme 2:40 pm 13. ,Ofwpfudk,fr,f Forecast valid until evening of 30 January 2010: 11:00 am 13.*DwoHpOftvSqif ]]aqmif;&JUSqnf;qmtvS}} Likelihood of isolated light rain in Rakhine State and 7:00 am 1. Martial Song 4:00 pm (tr&marmif)('g½dkufwm- Taninthayi Division, weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Shan and Kayah States, Ayeyawady, Magway and 1. awmifwef;omoemjyK 11:05 am 1. Martial Song acwfbkef;rdk) Mandalay Divisions and generally fair in remaining States q&mawmfbk&m;BuD;\ 2. jrL;jrL;

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15 (30).pmd 15 1/30/2010, 1:09 PM 1st Waning of Tabodwe 1371 ME Saturday, 30 January, 2010 ★ 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 people We favour peace and stability ■ RFA, DVB-generating public ■ We favour development 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 Vice-Senior General Maung Aye on inspection tour of Kyunhla

NAY PYI TAW, 29 Jan—Vice-Chairman of the quirements. Maung Aye said that requirements presented by local State Peace and Development Council Deputy Com- Afterwards, Minister for Agriculture and Irri- officials would be fulfilled after being reviewed. The mander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander- gation Maj-Gen Htay Oo reported to Vice-Senior Government was focusing on the development of the in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye General Maung Aye on measures of improving agri- whole Sagaing Division including Kyunhla Township. who was in Kanbalu, Shwebo District, Sagaing Divi- cultural sector and feasibility study on water re- Thaphanseik dam was built to improve the agriculture sion, together with Secretary-1 of the SPDC General sources such as Minmyin creek, Kyunpinle creek and sector in Sagaing Division with regional rice surplus Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Commander-in- Thaik creek for seeking irrigation water. after damming Mu River. Now, Sagaing Division has Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander- In response to the reports, Vice-Senior General (See page 9) in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence, commanders, ministers and heads of department, arrived at Kyunhla, Shwebo District by helicopter at 1.15 pm yesterday. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and party were welcomed there by Director-General of General Ad- ministration Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs U Myat Ko and departmental officials at divi- sion, district and township levels. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and party viewed the development of Kyunhla in a motorcade. At the meeting hall of Kyunhla Township PDC Office, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye met depart- mental officials, members of social organizations and local people. Chairman of Kyunhla Township PDC U Aye Naing reported to Vice-Senior General Maung Aye on the population of the town, economic, social , education and health sectors and require- ments of the town to be fulfilled, and a local on the status of development and requirements after Kyunhla has been shifted. Next, Commander Maj-Gen Myint Soe re- ported to Vice-Senior General Maung Aye on devel- opments of Kyunhla Myothit, the organizational set- Vice-Senior General Maung Aye cordially greets departmental officials, members of social up of the township, population, agriculture and re- organizations and local people in Kyunhla.—MNA

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