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Volume XXI, Number 282 8 th Waning of Pyatho 1375 ME Thursday, 23 January 2014

Efforts to increase

sh resources and to end amethod of shing with bat -tery shocks in Inlay Lakeare undertaken in coopera -tion with local people andenvironmentalists, saidU Sein Tun, an of cial ofInlay Lake Wetland Sanc -tuary.

Inlay Lake is home to59 species of sh and 16species of them are foundnowhere. Educative cam -

Byline: Nay Myo ThureinPublic awareness campaign increasing sh resources in Inlay

Lake underwaypaigns are being conductedto promote public aware -ness of shing with batteryshocks that can kill not onlysh but also microorgan -isms that help improve wa -ter quality.

According to a tomatogrower from Kayla village,shing with battery shockshas an adverse impact onoating tomato plantationson Inlay Lake.

An of cial of Fisher -

ies Department warned ofthe decrease in the numberof living water resources inthe lake due to the method ofshing with battery shocks

that can kills all water re -sources. Moreover, growthand fertility problems hap -pen to the sh escaping theelectric shocks and eatingsh that received electricshocks may result humanhealth problems in longterm.

Thats why, shingwith batter shocks hasbeen prohibited by Noti -cation No (10/2005) ofthe Fisheries Department

in order to avoid degrada-

tion of natural resources inInlay Lake.

Kyemon: 21-1-2014Trs: YM

Inlay Lake with spectacular

background of mountain ranges.

N AY P YI T AW , 22 JanVice-President of the Re -public of the Union of My -anmar Dr Sai Mauk Khamreceived European Union(EU) Ambassador to My -anmar Mr. Roland Kobia atthe Credentials Hall of thePresidential Palace here at 2pm today.

The Vice-Presidentalso met UN Secretary-Generals Special Adviseron Myanmar Mr. Vijay

Nambiar at the same venueat 3.30 pm.

At the meeting, they

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives EU Ambassador,UN Secretary-Generals Special Adviser on Myanmar

discussed close cooperationof the EU in reform processof Myanmar, Myanmarpeace-making process, po -litical process, and stabilityand rehabilitation works inRakhine State.

The meetings were alsoattended by Deputy Min -ister for Foreign Affairs UThant Kyaw, Deputy Min -ister for Livestock, Fisher -ies and Rural DevelopmentU Khin Maung Aye, Depu -

ty Minister for Immigrationand Population U KyawKyaw Win. MNA

Vice-President of the Republic of the Union

of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk Kham poses for

documentary photo together with UN Secretary-

Generals Special Adviser on Myanmar

Mr. Vijay Nambiar and party at Credentials

Hall. MNA

W ASHINGTON , 22 JanThe International Mon -etary Fund praised My -anmar's economic reform

efforts on Tuesday, sayingit had met key targets forstrengthening its nancesand reforming manage -ment.

It said the econom -ic outlook for the Asiancountry is good, forecast -ing growth in scal 2013-2014 to rise to 7.5 per centand near 7.8 per cent the

IMF praises Myanmars reform effortsfollowing year.

Myanmar is undergo -ing an exciting transition,Matt Davies, leader of areview team, said in a state -ment.

He cited the sweep -ing reforms that includedremoving exchange restric -tions and adopting a oat -ing rate for the kyat in thepast year; the establishmentof an autonomous centralbank; and large increases ingovernment and spending

on health and education.

The authorities aimto build on these gains andachieve sustained, strong,and inclusive growth, hesaid.

The IMF said the cur -rent target of keeping thede cit below 5 per cent ofGDP was appropriate, butthat tax revenues remaintoo low and the tax base toonarrow. It also said Myan -mar still needs several yearsof sustained reform to mod -

ernise the country's nan -cial sector, stressing closeoversight of new policy

banks set up by the gov -ernment "to ensure theyare managed soundly andto minimize scal risks."

The Fund said it isready to continue help -ing the Myanmar govern -ment with reforms throughpolicy advice, progressmonitoring and tailoredtechnical assistance to helpit build capacity for manag -ing the economy.

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Kawthoung dwellers enjoy health carewith traditional medicines

K AWTHOUNG , 22 JanKawthoung TownshipTrad i t iona l Medic ineDepartment held the healthcare service in conjunctionwith the health knowledgetalks at the Dhammayonof Pulontonton Village of

Kawthoung Township on 18January afternoon.

It is aimed at broadeninghorizon of the local peoplein health sector, preventingthe diseases and providingmedical treatment to beable to prevent outbreak ofdiseases.

Head of Township

Trad i t iona l Medic ineDepartment U MaungMaung Myint Oo and hisassistant Daw Soe Soe Oogave lectures on healthknowledge and gave healthcare to 45 people withtradional medicines.

Kyemon-Kyaw Soe(Kawthoung)

Paungde Free Clinic holds annual meeting,reviews progress of works

P A U N G D E , 22 JanPaungde Township FreeClinic held the 2012-2013annual meeting and reviewedits tasks at the IQ restaurantin Market Ward of Paungdeof Bago Region (West) on20 January morning.

It was attended byBago Region Hluttaw

representative U AungNaing Oo, Commanderof Township Police ForcePolice Major San Wai anddepartmental of cials.

Chairman of the cliniccommittee U Lu Myintmade a speech. ExecutiveU Zaw Lwin read theexecutive committee report

and presented certi cates ofhonour to doctors, nursesand volunteers.

Nex t , we l lw isherspresented K 100,000 eachto seven doctors and K

30000 each to nine nurses.The clinic could givemedical treatment to 6982patients within one year,said executive U Ye Lay.

Kyemon-Tin Win Zaw(Minthargyi)

Nippon Foundation of Japan hands over new schoolbuildings to Education Ministry

L O I L E M , 22 JanUnder the arrangements ofProgress of Border Areas andNational Races Departmentof Shan State (South) andNGO of Japan the NipponFoundation (Cetana Group),the Academic Project forPeace and Development wasimplemented in Panglong

Sub-Township.In implementing the

project one 90x30x15 feetnew school building wasbuilt at Basic EducationPrimary School No. 5 inWard 2 of Panglong Sub-Township.

One more building, 60feet x 30 feet x 12 feet, was

handed over to EducationDepartment in NawnghuVillage of Panwoh Village-tract in Loilem Township.

The handing overceremonies were held atPanglong BEPS No. 5 on20 January.

Township Admini-strator U Hlwan Moe Han,

Shan State Hluttaw MPU Sai Ba Oo, the actingTownship Education Of cerand Project Director ofNippon Foundation DawAye Aye Thant formallyopened the new building andvisited there.

O f f i c i a l s m a d espeeches. Of cials of NipponFoundation (Cetana Group)handed over documentsrelated to the buildings tothe construction committeepatron. The new building isfacilitated with ve toilets,two water tanks, ve sets oftables and chairs, 40 desksfor students, K 4.2 millionfor development fund andteaching aids worth K 36.465million.

Similar ceremony washeld in Nawnghu Village.

The school building inPanwoh Village costs K 22million.

Kyemon-Moe Lwin Oo(Loilem)

Cetanamon Free Clinic(Yamethin) accepts cash

and kind donationsY AMETHIN , 22 Jan

Cetanamon Free Clinic isgiving health care services

to the people regardless ofrace and religion.

Wellwishers doatedcash and kind to the

fund of the clinic for itsdevelopment.

The clinic is kept open

from 12 noon to 4 pm vedays a week. On 8 February,wellwisher will open thesefacilities. Kyemon-011

N AY P YI T AW , 22JanWith the aim ofreducing traffic accidentsand ensuring traf c rulesenforcements, members ofTraf c Police Corps, GeneralAdministration Departmentand of cials of TownshipPolice Force performedsurprise check on vehicles

Surprise checks on vehiclesand motorbikes along theroute from Ahayathukhamarket to Pyinmana ofNay Pyi Taw Council thismorning.

They also carried outsurprise checks on driverlicences and wheel tax, andwearing helmets.

Dekkhina District IPRD

N AY P YI T AW , 22 JanAtraffic accident occurredamong two vehicles andone motorbike at Zabu-kyetthayay Road, in frontof the Tele-communicationsOf ce opposite to Township

Deve lopment Affa i r sCommittee Of ce, ZabuthiriTownship, Nay Pyi TawCouncil Area, at 7 pmyesterday.

A Mazda Jeep drivenby U Aung Than Oo from

Three vehicles collided in arow in Zabuthiri Tsp

Pyinmana-Taungnyo roadsto Zabukyetthayay roadbumped against a garbagevan driven by U Nyan Tun.After that, these vehicles hita motorcycle driven by UZaw Zaw Oo. The MazdaJeep caused upside downand the garbage van hit thewall of Thazin Hall.

The in ju red wererushed to 1000-bed PeoplesHospital.

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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) holds talks with Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations and League of Arab States joint special representative for

Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland, on 21 Jan, 2014.K YODO N EWS

Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade (C) arrives with her father Uttam Khobragade (L) at Maharashtra

Sadan state guesthouse in New Delhi on 10 Jan, 2014.R EUTERS

Perplexed India says US probably still mostimportant ally

W ASHINGTON , 22 Jan The case of the Indianconsul arrested and strip-searched in New York last

month was handled ap-pallingly and needs to beresolved, but the UnitedStates remains probably In-dias most important ally,the Indian Ambassador toWashington said on Tues-day. I wont underplay thisincident, I wont overplaythis incident. I think weneed to see it in perspec-tive, S Jaishankar said inan interview. I think weare in the midst of workingthis one out.

Jaishankar said Indiawas perplexed by thedecisions of US authoritiesto arrest and strip-search39-year-old Devyani Kho-bragade, Indias deputyconsul in New York, after

she was accused of visafraud and underpaying hermaid.

There was a fair meas-

ure of anger about both thesubstance of the problemand the way it was han-dled, he said. It was not

just done publicly; franklyit was done appallingly.

But Jaishankar, whoarrived in Washington inDecember after serving asIndian Ambassador to Chi-na, played down the impacton the practical side of therelationship emphasiz-ing that the two sides werestill talking despite thepostponement of two high-level US visits this month,including one by US Ener-gy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

Frankly, its prob-ably the most importantrelationship, he said. We

are not holding up busi-ness, or Pentagon dealings,or congressional dealings... or science programme

and saying, They dont getdone until things get sortedout. Jaishankar said, how-ever, there was a need to re-solve both the Khobragade

case and the broader issueof the lesser level of diplo-matic immunity accordedto Indian and other foreign

consular staff in the UnitedStates compared with whatWashington expects for itsconsular staff serving over-seas. Reuters

Kennedysdolphin

hunt tweetrefects US

positionW ASHINGTON , 22 Jan

A recent message post-ed online by Ambassadorto Japan Caroline Ken-nedy expressing oppositionto dolphin hunting in thecountry re ected Washing -tons stance, a US govern-ment spokeswoman said onTuesday.

The shing in the tradi -tional whaling town of Tai-

ji, Wakayama Prefecture,western Japan, in whichshermen catch dolphinsafter driving them into acove, has stirred contro-versy, especially after a USdocumentary depicting the

dolphin hunt won an Oscarin 2010.

The US does remaincommitted to the globalmoratorium on commercialwhaling and we are con-cerned with both the sus-tainability and the humane-ness of the Japanese dolphinhunts, State Departmentspokeswoman Marie Harftold reporters.

The Ambassador wasexpressing our view thatweve made public for along time, Harf said in ateleconference call. Wehave discussed our con-cerns directly with Japan,Harf also said, without go-ing into details such as lev-els of the diplomatic con-versations. Kyodo News

Russian police kill Islamist mil itantleader before Olympics

Police of cers patrol at Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi on 21 Jan, 2014. R EUTERS

M OSCOW , 22 Jan Police have killed a seniorIslamist militant in Rus-sias North Caucasus aheadof the Winter Olympics inSochi, where security forc-es searched on Tuesday fora woman they fear is plan-ning an attack during thegames.

Eldar Magatov, a sus-

pect in attacks on Russiantargets and alleged leader

of an insurgent group in theBabyurt District of Dagest-an, died in a shootout, theNational Anti-Terror Com-mittee said on Tuesday.

President Vladimir Pu-tin has staked his politicalreputation on organizing asuccessful Olympics andtightened security nation-wide after insurgents who

hope to create an Islamiststate in the North Cauca-

sus threatened to attackthe games, which start on7 February 7. Putin had aphone call on Tuesday withUS President Barack Oba-ma in which they discussedhow best to have a safeand secure Winter Olym-pics, the White House said.

In Sochi, which plansto host hundreds of thou-sands of visitors duringthe games, security forceswere searching for RuzannaIbragimovaya, 23, who mayhave arrived to the Olympichost city on 11-12 Janu-ary, a letter seen by Reuters said. (She) may be used asa terrorist-suicide bomberby (insurgency) leaders toorganize terrorist acts dur-ing preparations for andduring the 2014 WinterOlympics, read the letter,asking police to look imme-

diately into the matter. Reuters

Six of Spanish cycl ists12 guards ki lled in

Pakistans wi ld westQ UETTA , (Pakistan),

22 Jan Gunmen onWednesday shot dead sixguards protecting a Span-ish cyclist in a violent andremote area of western Pa-kistan where a bus bombkilled 24 Shiite pilgrims aday earlier, police said.

The cyclist, who suf-fered minor wounds, hadcrossed into Pakistanswestern Province of Balu-chistan from Iran, they said.

Six guards were wounded.Police said they did notknow why he was cyclingthrough such a dangerousarea. He was assigned theescort by security forcesbecause the province isplagued by kidnappers,Taleban militants, a violentseparatist insurgency, sec-tarian killers, paramilitarydeath squads and drug traf-ckers.

Two young Czechwomen taking the sameroute by bus were kid-napped in March and arestill being held.

The cyclist and hisguards were travelling

through Mastung Districtwhen gunmen attacked.

Six of our securitymen have been killed tryingto save the Spanish cyclist,who has suffered minor in-

juries, said Shafqat AnwarShawani, the assistant po-lice commissioner for Mas-tung District. One attackerwas also killed, he said.

In the same district onTuesday, a bomb target-ing a bus killed 24 Shiite

pilgrims, many of themwomen and children. Suchsectarian attacks are in-creasingly common in Pa-kistan, where Shiites makeup 20 percent of the 180million people.

On Wednesday, hun-dreds of Shiites protestedagainst the bus bombing bysitting in the road alongsidethe bodies of the dead in theprovincial capital of Quetta.

The community heldsimilar protests demandingprotection after bombingsin Quetta, capital of Balu-chistan, killed around 200

people, mostly Shiites, lastyear. Reuters

Ukraine PM takes hard line on protests, threekilled overnight

A woman addressesUkrainian Interior Min-istry members who linedup during clashes with pro-European protest-

ers in Kiev 22 Jan, 2014.R EUTERS

K IEV , 22 JanUkraines prime ministersaid on Wednesday that

anti-government protestshad brought terroristsonto the streets of Kiev

and pledged to punish allcriminal action, even asprotesters confronted policenear government headquar-ters.

Prime Minister MykolaAzarov, speaking to hiscabinet, took a tough line

on the protesters, who onWednesday massed anewin their hundreds, in amedby reports of at least threedemonstrators dying over-night - two of them fromgunshot wounds.

In words that appearedto foreshadow a policecrackdown, Azarov said:Terrorists from the Maid-an (Independence Square)seized dozens of people andbeat them. I am of ciallystating that these are crimi-nals who must answer fortheir action.

Azarov accused op-position leaders of incitingcriminal action by calling

for anti-government protests,which he said destabilizedthe situation in Ukraine, alarge former Soviet republicof 46 million people.

But in a move under-lining U.S. criticism of hisgovernments heavy-hand-ed treatment of the protest-ers, the U.S. embassy inKiev said it had revoked thevisas of several Ukrainianslinked to police violenceagainst protesters in No-vember and December.

It did not name the of -cials but said it was consid-ering further action againstthose responsible for thecurrent violence. Reuters

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China stressespolitical solution to

Syria crisis

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) meets with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Montreux,

Switzerland, on 21 Jan, 2014. X INHUA

M ONTREUX , (Switzer-land), 22 Jan ChineseForeign Minister WangYi on Tuesday reiteratedChinas stance for a politi-cal settlement of the Syrianissue, calling for continuedpolitical efforts to keep thenegotiations going.

Wang made the re-marks while discussingwith his Russian counter-part Sergey Lavrov Tues-day night about the peacetalks on Syria, known as theGeneva II conference.

The peace conferencewas initiated by Washing-ton and Moscow in May

and will start Wednesday inthe Swiss city of Montreuxto seek the establishmentof a transitional governingbody in Syria to lead thecountry out of a protracted

con ict that broke out inMarch 2011. China hopedthat the negotiations werenot just launched, but, moreimportantly, pushed for-ward, Wang said, addingthat his country put forwardon Monday ve principlesfor a political settlement ofthe Syrian issue.

Both delegations of theSyrian government and op-position arrived in Geneva,Switzerland Tuesday even-ing for the conference so asto embark on a dialogue forthe rst time since the erup -tion of their con ict.

Wang said the most

pressing task now was torealize a cease- re and stopviolence as soon as possi-ble.

The Chinese foreignminister also stressed the

importance of reachingconsensus on a frameworkfor peace talks and establisha follow-up mechanism soas to keep the dialogue, ne-gotiations and other politi-

cal efforts going forward.Lavrov said that the

situation in Syria was verycomplicated, and the onlyway out of the crisis was tonudge the Syrian govern-

ment and the oppositionto come to the negotiatingtable, and reach some con-sensus on their countrysfuture.

Lavrov reiterated that

Russia and China sharedthe same stance on a po-litical solution to the Syriacon ict, calling on the twosides to continue their closecommunication. Xinhua

Nepalsnewly

electedlawmakers

sworn in

ISLAMABAD , 22 Jan The latest wave of militantattacks in Pakistan has ledto calls on the governmentto launch a major offensiveagainst the Pakistani Tale-ban in the restive North Wa-ziristan tribal region, theirlast stronghold.

A Taleban suicide carbomber hit a convoy of se-curity forces in the northw-stern Bannu District, killing22 soldiers and injuring 30others on Sunday. A day lat-er, a Taleban suicide bomb-er blew himself up near acheckpoint jointly mannedby police and army close tothe armys headquarters inRawalpindi, killing six sol-diers and seven civilians.

The Taleban also de-clared war on the media and

killed three staffers of a major media group in the portcity of Karachi last week.

Taleban spokesmanShahidullah Shahid quicklyclaimed responsbility for all

Pakistan under pressure for tough actionagainst Taleban after deadly attacks

recent attacks and vowed tocontinue attacks.

The recent attacks haveprompted widespread an-ger and calls for a decisiveaction against the Talebanin North Waziristan wherethey are believed to beplanning attacks. The tribalregion bordering Afghani-stan has also been the focusof the US drone strikes asAmericans say the mili-tants use North Wazirtistanas launching pad for cross-border attacks into Afghani-stan.

Opposition senators joined hands on Monday topress the government for amajor push against Taleban.Senators from three majoropposition groups Paki-stan Peoples Party (PPP),

Awami National Party(ANP) and the MuttahidaQaumi Movement (MQM)criticized the government ofPrime Minister Nawaz Sha-rif for inaction and demand-

ed a major miltary operationagainst Taleban. The gov-ernment, which had earlierbeen in favour of peace talkswith the Taleban, is now ina x as there is no let up interror attacks. The Talebanleaders are unwilling toclearly accept the dialogueoffer and have rejected callsfor a halt to their attacks.

Nawaz Sharif, after as-suming of ce in June 2013,had announced to pursuepeace talks with the Talibanto end the bloodshed but theprocess was derailed at thestart by US drone strike inNovember last year whichkilled the Taleban chiefHakimullah Mehsud.

The Taliban retaliationspoiled atmosphere for anypeace dialogue at least in the

near future as support for apossible major military ac-tion ran high. Some Islamicgroups however still insiston peace process.

Xinhua

K ATHMANDU , 22 JanNepals newly elected 575lawmakers were swornin Tuesday by the eldestlawmaker Surya BahadurThapa, the parliament sec-retariat said.

Thapa himself wassworn in as assembly chairon Monday by PresidentRam Baran Yadav.

The formal session ofthe assembly will conveneon Wednesday.

The lawmakers wereelected 19 November. Theassembly is convening

more than two months afterthe election because of pro-cedural hurdles caused byconfusion over whether thepresident or the chairman ofinterim government shouldcall the meeting.

Earlier this month,President Yadav entrustedinterim government chair-man Khil Raj Regmi withthe responsibility.

The assembly is taskedwith drawing up a new con-stitution. A previous assem-bly elected in 2008 failed toachieve the task. It was dis-solved in May 2012.

An additional 26 law-makers in the 601-memberassembly will be nominatedby the new government.

Kyodo News

Men brave coldwaters in the town of Mi-

hama, Fukui Prefecture,

participating in the traditional

in-the-water tug-of-war

known as sui- chu tsunahiki

on 19 Jan, 2014, to pray for a good haul

for the year.K YODO N EWS

Aging Fukushima Dainireactor can be safely

of ine for 10 more yrsT OKYO , 22 JanThe

Nuclear Regulation Au-thority on Wednesday con-

rmed that one of the agingreactors at Tokyo ElectricPower Cos FukushimaDaini plant can remain of-ine safely for another 10years, after assessing thedeterioration level of re-lated equipment and theimpact of the March 2011natural disasters.

The Fukushima Dainiplant is located about 12kilometres south of theFukushima Daiichi plant,which saw three of its reac-tors suffer meltdowns dueto the loss of their cooling

functions following a hugeearthquake and tsunami inMarch 2011. The Nos 1,2, 4 reactors at the Dainiplant also lost their cool-ing functions temporarily,but achieved a stable stateof cold shutdown. TEPCOled for the NRAs assess -

ment of the No 2 reactor be-cause it rst started operat -ing in February 1984.

In Japan, utilities arerequired to check the dete-rioration level of reactorsbefore their operation pe-riod exceeds 30 years andseek the NRAs approval.

The assessment on theNo 2 reactor was carriedout on the assumption thatit will remain in a state ofcold shutdown. The reac-tor will have to undergo adifferent safety assessmentprocess if it is to resumeoperation.

All of the nuclear re-actors in Japan are of ine

amid safety concerns in thewake of the 2011 Fukushi-ma Daiichi nuclear powerplant disaster. In order tobe allowed to resume op-eration, reactors must rstsatisfy a set of new safetyrequirements introduced inJuly. Kyodo News

Rubble believed to be from the Hiroshima Peace Memo- rial, known as the Atomic Bomb Dome (seen in background), is salvaged from a nearby river by crane with support from Hiroshima University on 22 Jan, 2014.

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Rubble from HiroshimaPeace Memorial salvaged

from riverH IROSHIMA ,

22 JanRubble believed to be fromthe Hiroshima Peace Memo-rial, known as the AtomicBomb Dome, was salvagedfrom a nearby river Wednes-day by a crane with supportfrom Hiroshima University.

Rebun Kayo, a 35-year-old graduate student atHiroshima University, dis-covered last June granitebelieved to have been usedfor the building registered asa UNESCO World Heritagesite.

Two pieces of granitestone were recovered fromthe Motoyasu River in frontof the dome. The largerpiece measures 110 by 55centimeters and weighsclose to 300 kilograms, ac-

cording to Kayo. The stoneis thought to have been usedfor the eaves on the build-ings third oor.

In 1996, the UN Edu-cational, Scienti c andCultural Organization des-ignated the dome, the onlystructure left standing in thearea where the atomic bombexploded on 6 Aug, 1945, asa World Heritage site.

Many victims of the USatomic bombing died in theMotoyasu River after search-ing for water to quench theirthirst caused by the blast.I found these stone pieces,feeling as if I were gather-ing ashes of those perished,said Kayo. I want manypeople to come and touchthem. Kyodo News

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Israeli President Shimon Peres (front L) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (front R) walk on the red carpet into the Presidents residence in Jerusalem,

on 21 Jan, 2014. X INHUA

Japan Posts new education insurance toreceive approval

T OKYO , 22 Jan TheJapanese government is setto give Japan Post Insur-ance Co approval to launch

a new education insuranceproduct, one and a half yearafter receiving an applica-tion, informed sources saidon Wednesday.

The Financial ServicesAgency and Ministry ofInternal Affairs and Com-munications will endorsethe new educational endow-ment insurance by the endof this month, allowing thecompany to launch it beforethe new school year beginsin April, according to the

sources.The move comes after

Washington has apparentlyeased concern over Japans

insurance market follow-ing an expansion of busi-ness collaboration betweenJapan Post Insurance andAmerican Family Life As-surance Co, or A ac.

Japans insurance sec-tor is one of the key topicsof discussion in bilateraltalks between Tokyo andWashington under the en-visioned Trans-Paci c Part -nership free trade arrange-ment, but the issue has notbeen discussed intensively

since the collaboration be-tween the insurance unit ofthe state-owned Japan Postgroup and the US-based

insurer was announced lastJuly.Japan Post Insurance, a

wholly owned unit of JapanPost Holdings Co., appliedfor the new insurance prod-uct in September 2012 forsales to commence by April2013.

However, the govern-ment froze the screeningof the application after theinsurers nonpayment scan-dal involving 100,000 out-standing policies had been

Teens rescue children, pregnant womanfrom Sydney unit re

S YDNEY , 22 Jan Three Australian teenag-ers have been praised afterrescuing a heavily preg-nant woman and her threechildren during a unit rein Sydneys west, the NewSouth Wales Police said onWednesday.

The girls, aged 12, 13and 15, were walking alongPopendetta Road, Blackettat around 5 pm (local time)

Workers prepare boxlunches in an aseptic

workshop of Qingdao CRH(China Railway High-

speed) catering companyin Qingdao, east Chinas

Shandong Province, on 21 Jan, 2014. A series of boxlunches selling for 15 yuan(2.48 US dollars) to 55 yuan(9.09 US dollars) were put

on the market to meet pas- sengers demands.

X INHUA

Croatian supreme court rejects formerintelligence chiefs appeal against

extraditionZ AGREB , 22 Jan The

Croatian Supreme Courton Tuesday turned downan appeal by former intel-ligence chief against his ex-tradition to Germany.

Josip Perkovic, a Croa-tian who was a ranking Yu-goslav secret service of -cial in 1980s and set up theCroatian intelligence afterits independence from for-mer Yugoslavia, has beenwanted by Germany since2005 for alleged involve-ment in the murder of aCroatian dissident in 1983in Germany.

The Supreme Courts

ruling paves the way for

extradition of Perkovic andhe would be handed over toGermany within 10 days.

But Perkovics attor-ney said they would le acomplaint before the Con-stitutional Court to demandhis extradition be delayed.

Perkovics case causeddisputes last autumn be-tween Croatia and theEuropean Union (EU),which claimed the coun-try changed its laws a fewdays before it became anEU member on 1 July, 2013and effectively preventedPerkovics extradition.

A US Marine Corps F-35B short take-off and verticallanding (STOVL) fghter jet drops a laser-guided bomb during its frst guided weapons release test at Edwards

Air Force Base, California on 29 Oct, 2013.R EUTERS

Engineer charged with trying to sendIran US fghter jet secrets

N EW Y ORK , 22 Jan A former engineer for de-fense contractors has beenindicted on charges thathe tried to send Iran se-cret details on the US AirForces F-35 joint strikeghter programme, the of -ce of the US Attorney for

Connecticut said on Tues-day.

The accused man,Mozaffar Khazaee, a dualUS and Iranian citizen,

was arrested on 9 Januaryat Newark Liberty Inter-national Airport in NewJersey, after he ew fromIndianapolis to Newark,with Teheran as his naldestination, prosecutorssaid.

Khazaee, who movedrecently from Connecti-cut to Indianapolis, wascharged with two countsof transporting, transmit-ting and transferring in in-

revealed.The revised educa-

tion insurance plan will bemore savings-oriented than

its existing education insur-ance. Similar products byother insurers have beenpopular, and the approvalsuspension has been drag-ging down the sales of Ja-pan Post Insurance.

Kyodo News

The European Com-

mission even tried to im-pose sanctions against Cro-atia, claiming its amendedlaw, which limited extradi-tion of suspected criminals,failed to comply with EUlegislation.

Under pressure Croa-tia changed the law back inOctober, paving the way forPerkovics arrest on 1 Janu-ary.

A Zagreb court on 8January ruled he should beextradited to Germany onthe basis of a European ar-rest warrant.

Xinhua

on Tuesday when they no-ticed a unit was on re.

Two of the girls ran tothe womans unit to helpher and her three childrenout of the unit safely whilethe other girl called emer-gency services, policesaid.

The blaze was laterextinguished by re crewsand the pregnant womanchecked at the scene by am-

bulance paramedics.Another woman who

was found in the back yardof the premises was takento Blacktown Hospital forassessment, police said.

The three girls are ex-pected to be nominated foran award by police in rec-ognition of their bravery.

Police are investigatingthe cause of the re.

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terstate commerce goodsobtained by theft, conver-sion or fraud, according tothe indictment.

He faces a maximumpenalty of 20 years in pris-on. Federal agents beganinvestigating Khazaee, 59,in November when of c -ers with US Customs andBorder Protection inspect-

ed a shipment of boxes hesent by truck from Con-necticut to a freight for-warding company in LongBeach, California, prose-cutors said.

The shipment, listedas containing householdgoods, actually held boxesof documents with sensi-tive technical manuals,speci cation sheets andother material relating tothe F-35 programme, andit was intended for ship-ment to Iran, prosecutorssaid. Khazaee has beendetained in New Jerseypending his transporta-tion to Connecticut to facecharges. He has not yetbeen arraigned in the case.

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Australia rejects claims that navy

mistreated asylum seekersS YDNEY , 22 Jan Australia on Wednesdayrejected claims by a groupof asylum seekers that theywere beaten and sufferedburns while being returnedto Indonesia by the Austral-ian navy under a policy thathas strained ties betweenthe neighbours.

The Australian Broad-casting Corporation (ABC)on Tuesday aired videoof asylum seekers gettingtreatment for burns theysaid were caused by Navypersonnel forcing them tohold onto hot pipes com-ing out of the boats enginewhile it was being towedback to Indonesian waters.

Immigration Minister

Scott Morrison lashed outat the media for reportingwhat he called unsubstan-tiated allegations and saidthat he would conduct noinvestigation into the in-cident as he accepted theword of navy personnel.

The Australian gov-ernment is not going to putup with people sledgingthe Australian navy, hetold reporters in Sydney.Ive been given assur-ances about their conductand I believe those assur-ances because I believe inthose individuals. Indone-sian police con rmed thata group of asylum seekershad required treatment forsevere burns on their hands

after they were picked up inIndonesian waters on 6 Jan-uary. I received a reportfrom police in Kupang thatthey said they were burnedbecause they were forced tohold on to the boat engine,Agus Barnas, spokesmanfor the coordinating minis-try of legal, political and se-curity affairs, told Reuters .

They said they wereforced by the Australians.We are trying to nd outmore. Prime MinisterTony Abbotts conservativegovernment came to powerpartly because of its toughcampaign against asylumseekers and he insists it willnot reverse course despitepublic pressure. Reuters

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Rolls-Royce expected to make a public offer onWartsila

H ELSINKI , 22 Jan British engineering compa-ny Rolls-Royce (RR.L) isexpected to make a public

offer on the Finnish shipand power plant enginemaker Wartsila (WRT1V.HE), a Finnish newspaperreported on Tuesday, citingunnamed investors. Wart-sila declined to commenton the report and Rolls-Royce did not immediatelyrespond to an emailed re-quest for comment.

Earlier this month,the companies said Rolls-Royce had made a prelimi-nary approach to Wartsila,

but the talks ended withouta deal. Wartsila clari edto Reuters that the Britishcompany had been inter-ested in buying its entirebusiness. According to thereport by Helsingin Sano-

mat newspaper, investorssaid Rolls-Royce has beenplanning to pay at least 50euros per Wartsila share,

which would value thecompany at around 9.9 bil-lion euros ($13.4 billion).The stock closed at 40.68euros on Monday.

By buying Wart-sila, Rolls-Royce the

worlds second-largest air-craft engine maker - wouldstrengthen its marinebusiness, which lowered

its pro t guidance in No -vember.Wartsilas largestowner, with a stake of 22percent, is a joint ventureof Fiskars (FIS1V.HE),which is backed by Fin-lands Ehrnrooth family,and Investor AB (INVEb.ST), the investment arm ofSwedens Wallenberg fam-ily. Reuters

Logo of German company SAP is pictured at the CeBit

computer fair in Hanover, on 6 March, 2012.R EUTERS

SAP pushes backprot goal to fund

cloud growthW ALLDORF , (Germany),

22 Jan German busi-ness software maker SAPhas pushed back its pro ttarget as it makes furtherinvestments in its cloudbusiness to keep up with afast-growing market. SAPsaid on Tuesday its operat-ing margin goal of 35 per-cent would now be reachedin 2017 instead of 2015.

Its shares were indi-cated down 1.1 percent be-fore the market open, whileGermanys blue-chip DAXindex was seen 0.4 percenthigher.

SAP and rivals such asIBM and Oracle are racingto meet surging demand forweb-based software prod-ucts, which allow clientsto reduce costs by ditch-ing bulky local servers fornetwork-based softwareand storage in remote datacentres.

The fast-growing cloudbusiness would create a

more predictable stream ofrevenue, SAP said, but ad-ditional investments wereneeded. The global cloudmarket is currently estimat-ed to be worth $131 billionby research rm Gartner.SAP in recent years hassplashed out $7.7 billion tobuy internet-based comput-ing companies Ariba andSuccessFactors.

SAPs co-Chief Execu-tive Bill McDermott toldreporters he did not excludemore acquisitions to reachthe rms goals. When anacquisition makes sense,we will do it, he said, de-clining to elaborate.

The company expectstotal revenues to reach atleast 22 billion euros ($29.8billion) by 2017, of which3-3.5 billion is expected tocome from the cloud busi-ness. SAP published pre-liminary results on 10 Janu-ary.

Reuters

Roches schizophrenia drug missesgoal in two late-stage trials

Z URICH , 22 Jan Anexperimental Roche drugdesigned to treat the nega -tive symptoms of schizo-phrenia failed to meet itsmain goal in two late-stagestudies, dealing a blow tothe Swiss drugmakers re-search hopes in the riskyarea of brain science. Re-sults of two Phase III trialsfound bitopertin in combi-nation with antipsychotictherapy did not signi cantlyreduce negative symptomsafter 24 weeks of treatmentcompared with placebo. Athird late-stage study is on-

The logo of Swiss phar- maceutical company

Roche is seen at a plantin the central Swiss

village of Rotkreuz on 6 Nov, 2013.

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going.Roughly 26 millionpeople are affected byschizophrenia worldwide,but current treatment op-tions for the disorders neg-ative symptoms whichinclude social withdrawal,lack of motivation and re-duced emotional reactivity are limited. These re -sults are disappointing forpeople with negative symp-toms because more effec-tive treatments are neededfor these debilitating effectsof schizophrenia, saidSandra Horning, Roches

chief medical of cer andglobal head of product de-velopment. Reuters

Japans ANA pulls big nose TV ad afer online urorT OKYO , 22 Jan Ja-

pans largest carrier AllNippon Airways said onTuesday it was pulling aTV advertisement featuringa Japanese actor in a largefalse nose and blonde wigafter it was criticized onlinefor having racist overtones.The ad, which is in Englishwith Japanese subtitles,promotes ANAs expandedinternational ight sched -ule from Tokyos HanedaAirport. Japan, host of the2020 Summer Olympics, istrying to attract more tour-ists amid a sharp rise invisitors over the last year,

Four All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing Cos 787 Dreamliner planes (top) are seen behind another ANA plane at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on 29 Jan, 2013.

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particularly from Asia.In the ad, which began

airing on 18 Jan, two menin ANA pilot uniforms chatabout how they will nowbe heading off to new des-tinations such as Hanoi andVancouver. Lets changethe image of Japanese! onesays, and turns to his com-panion, who now wears alarge fake nose and a brassyblond wig, in line withJapanese stereotypes aboutEuropeans. Of course, hereplies. In another versionof the ad, one man surpriseshis companion by offeringto hug him. Public displays

of affection, especially be-tween men, are uncommonin Japan. The ad unleasheda torrent of mostly nega-tive comments on ANAsFacebook page, with somepeople saying they had can-celled their loyalty cards.Other online commentators,however, said they liked thecommercial while somesaid it was simply strange,rather than racist. ANAapologized for the ad on itsFacebook page, and Japa-nese media said the com-pany had also apologized tocustomers who called in tocomplain. Reuters

Pluristem stem cell trial to treat muscle injurymeets main goal

T EL A VIV , 2 Jan Pluristem Therapeutics Incsaid results from its early/ mid-stage clinical trial in-dicated its placenta-derivedstem cells for the treatmentof muscle injury were safeand provided evidence thecells might be effective intreating orthopedic inju-ries. Patients treated withPLX-PAD had a greater im-

proved change of maximalvoluntary muscle contrac-tion force than the placebogroup, Israel-based Pluris-tem said in a statement onTuesday.

The trial was conduct-ed at the Orthopedic Clinicof the Charite UniversityMedical School under theauspices of the Paul-Ehr-lich-Institute, Germanys

health authority. This wasa very important study notonly for Pluristem but forthe cell therapy industry ingeneral, Pluristem chiefexecutive Zami Abermansaid. Based on these re -sults, we intend to moveforward with implementingour strategy towards us-ing PLX cells in orthope-dic indications and muscle

trauma.The injured muscle

studied was the gluteus me-dius muscle in the buttock.Total hip replacement sur-gery via the standard trans-gluteal approach necessi-tates injury of the gluteusmedius muscle, and post-operative healing is crucialfor joint stability and func-tion. Reuters

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Controversial arctic crusader claims prestigiousscience prize

S YDNEY , 22 Jan Emerging from an ice-locked Christmas while theworld watched and waited,an Australian scientist and

researcher with the Univer-sity of New South Wales(UNSW) was announcedon Wednesday as the win-ner of the prestigious Aus-tralian Academy of Scienceprize for his work in climatechange science.

After nding himselfin the centre of both an in-ternational media and local-ized arctic storm, Profes-sor Chris Turney will be acontroversial winner of thehonouri c award, presented

by the Australian Academyof Science, to celebrate re-searchers who have madeoutstanding contributionsto their eld. Professor

Turney has been awardedthe 2014 Frederick WhitePrize for his research onunderstanding past and pre-sent climate change and onimproving climate changemodels.

The energetic Turney,an Australian ResearchCouncil (ARC) Laure-ate Fellow in the UNSWClimate Change ResearchCentre, was also the nowinternationally famous (orinfamous) leader of the ill-

fated expedition to Antarc-tica that ended with a inter-national ice-breakers alsobecoming locked in the ice.It was Professor Turneys

calm reports that becamethe very human voice ofunseen climate impacts. Inthis little haven of civiliza-tion surrounded by a cha-otic jumble of white to thehorizon, everyone is takingstock of being locked in seaice for 10 days, he wroteduring the ordeal.

We are all incrediblygrateful for the bravery ofour Russian crew, the cour-age of Captain JianzhongWang on the Chinese ice-breaker Xue Long and thewonderful perseverance ofthe Australian icebreakerAurora Australis. TheAustralasian Antarctic Ex-pedition (AAE) set outto retrace the journey ofDouglas Mawson usingthe Russian ship AkademikShokalskiy.

The six-week expedi-tion was split into two legs,

the rst focusing on theNew Zealand sub-antarc-tics, the second the South-ern Ocean and the immedi-ate area around Mawsons

Huts at CommonwealthBay.As the expedition tra-

versed the Southern Ocean,oceanographic measure-ments were made, weatherconditions recorded, trawlsof the surface taken andbird counts noted; while onthe sub-antarctic islands,teams cored trees, dug peatsections, investigated birdburrows and underwatersurveys were made in theshallows.

Many were rsts forthe region.When criticizedfor single-handedly drag-ging the world into an icyAntarctic Christmas, Pro-fessor Turney responded,In spite of the situation wefound ourselves in, the AAEhad a conversation with thepublic about science, explo-ration and (Douglas) Maw-son. Xinhua

W ELLINGTON , 22 Jan Conservation of cials werehopeful on Tuesday thatmost of a pod of 46 strandedpilot whales had made it outto sea after nding one deadanimal on the coast at the topof New Zealands South Is-land.

Department of Conser-vation (DOC) rangers havefound the dead whale onFarewell Spit and were stillchecking beaches in the areafor any sign of the other 45pilot whales that were re-oated on Monday. Whenrescuers left the FarewellSpit area late Monday, thewhales had been milling in

Rescuers hopeful strandedwhales safely at sea in New

Zealandshallow water offshore forseveral hours, said a DOCstatement.The whales are thesurvivors of a pod of 71 thatbegan stranding on Saturday.

Efforts to re oat themSaturday and Sunday endedwith the whales beachingagain further along the coast.It is the third mass strand-ing on Farewell Spit in lessthan two weeks. Twelvepilot whales died and DOCstaff euthanized another 27after a mass stranding on 6January. Another nine pilotswhales were euthanized andve died after a second massstranding on 14 January.

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China Internet outage could have beenhacking attack

SHANGHAI , 22 Jan Amajor Internet outage in Chi-na on Tuesday that reroutedusers to the US website of acompany which helps peopleget around Beijings censor-ship may have been due toa hacking attack, the of cial

Xinhua news service re-ported. The state-run ChinaInternet Network Informa-tion Center (CNNIC) saidin a microblog post that theoutage, which lasted for sev-eral hours, was due to a mal-function in Chinas top-leveldomain name root servers onTuesday afternoon.

Chinese Internetusers were rerouted to a US-

based website run by Dy-namic Internet Technology, acompany that sells anti-cen-sorship web services tailoredfor Chinese users, includinga product that enables theretrieval of microblog postsdeleted by Chinese censors.Dynamic Internet Technol-

A Chinese Internet user browses for information on the popular search engine Google in Beijing

on 25 Jan, 2006. R EUTERS

ogy did not immediately

respond to requests for com-ment.The company websitelists the Epoch Times, apublication produced by theFalun Gong religious sectwhich is banned in China, asa client.

Other clients includeVoice of America and Hu-

man Rights in China.

It is still unclear as to ex-actly what happened to causethe outage. The Xinhua re-port quoted Chinese secu-rity experts saying the outagecould have been exploited byhackers, or could have beenthe result of a hacking attack.

Reuters

Apple gets reprieve from e-bookmonitors oversight

N EW Y ORK , 22 Jan AUS appeals court gave Ap-ple Inc a reprieve from an

external monitor appointedto oversee its compliancewith antitrust laws after thecompany had been foundliable last July for conspir-ing to raise e-book prices.The 2nd US Circuit Courtof Appeals in New Yorkon Tuesday granted Ap-ple a hearing on whether tostop the monitor, MichaelBromwich, from doing his

job while the company pur-sues a formal appeal, whichcould last several months.

In granting an admin-istrative stay, the 2nd Cir-cuit said a three-judge panelwould hear Apples motionfor a stay pending appeal assoon as possible. The USDepartment of Justice didnot oppose the short staybut will ght Apples effortto get rid of the monitor orelse disqualify Bromwich.It has until 24 January to

le opposition papers.Ap -ple has complained thatBromwich has been too in-

trusive, including by seek-ing interviews with topexecutives and board mem-bers, and has been chargingan in ated $1,100 per hourfor his services to rack uphigh fees.

The Cupertino, Cali-fornia-based maker of theiPad, iPod and iPhone hassaid Bromwichs activities

could interfere with its abil-ity to develop new prod-ucts.Courts often appoint

monitors in litigation to en-sure that companies complywith the law.But Apple hassaid US District Judge Den-ise Cote in Manhattan, whoin a nonjury trial found thecompany liable for a price-xing conspiracy with vemajor publishers, improp-erly granted Bromwich toomuch power. Reuters

A woman looks at the screen of her mobile phone in front of an Apple logo outside its store in downtown

Shanghai on 10 Sept, 2013. R EUTERS

Ancient fossil shows new link in dolphin evolution: New Zealand scientistsW ELLINGTON , 22 Jan

New Zealand scientistssaid on Wednesday haveidenti ed a previously un -known type of fossil dol-phin that could be the an-cestor of modern dolphinsand toothed whales. Papahutaitapu, the rst of its kindever found, lived 19 millionto 22 million years ago, and

is one of the few dolphins tobe reported globally datingto the start of the Mioceneepoch, according to Univer-sity of Otago researchers.

Judging from the size ofits skull, Papahu was about2 metres long, roughly thesize of a common dolphin,and like most living dol-phins, it had many simple

conical teeth, but its headwas probably a bit wider,and not as high-domed, DrGabriel Aguirre said in astatement.

It lived at a time ofglobal warmth, in shallowseas around Zealandia , thecontinental fragment thatNew Zealand rests upon,along with ancient penguins

and baleen whales.The skull, one jaw, and

a few other parts of Papahutaitapu were found in ma-rine sedimentary rocks inthe northern South Island,and only a single specimenhad been found so far.Ourstudy of structures of theskull and earbone suggestthat Papahu could make and

use high frequency soundto navigate and detectprey in murky water. Theyprobably also used sound tocommunicate with each oth-er, said Aguirre.Features ofthe Papahu skull showed itwas distinct from all previ-ously-reported fossils, Pro-fessor Ewan Fordyce said inthe statement. Reuters

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Tapping techMyanmar is a country rising from ashes. It

has many tasks to do to become fully revitalized,but it still has many latecomers advantages inhands. These advantages include technology. Weare building the countrys e-government systemfrom scratch after a series of attempts in vain.

We have got a number of useful web sitesand web portals from government agencies overthe past few years. But it is still miles away fromachieving e-government network. We need spe-ci c IT solutions for procedures of the entiregovernment. Itll cut the red tape, boost the ad-ministration mechanism and promote the easyaccess to information among the public.

The government mechanism still excessivelyrelies on papers. Fire outbreaks and other disas-ters could easily destroy them. It is costly, con-sumes much space and promotes red tape.

There is a joke about record keeping practic-es at the of ces, rather thought to be a true eventin Myanmar. A clerk asked for permission fromhis superior to destroy old papers seemed use-less. His superior replied, Make one new copyand go ahead! There are a number of interna-tional organizations helping the government toestablish the e-government system. Some pilotprojects have been initiated. Although we arelatecomer to the e-government effort, we stillhave a chance to learn from experiences of theother countries. All we need is changing ourmindset.

(from page 16)Deputy Minister for Immi-gration and Population, saidthe ministry had alreadydrawn plans to upgrade thecitizenship scrutiny cardsto smart cards. However,

it will take time to put therecords on papers to digital-database and the ministry ismaking strenuous efforts tobe able to issue smart cardssimultaneously across thecountry, the deputy minis-ter said.

U Tin Maung ofChanmyathazi Town-ship asked the Ministryof Home Affairs to stopsmuggling cattle. Regard-

ing the question, Brig-GenKyaw Zan Myint, DeputyMinister for Home Af-fairs, said draught cattlecould be transported withseal of approval from lo-cal authority and depart-

ments concerned and thecattle could be on salesat markets with approvalfor ownership of the cat-tle from local authority.Ministry of Commercehas issued license for trad-ing goats and other cattleexcept draught cattle withrecommendations of Min-istry of Livestock Breed-ing and Fisheries, the dep-uty minister said.

At Amyotha Hlut-taw today, Deputy Ministerfor Agriculture and Irriga-tion U Khin Zaw said theministry is working togeth-er with NGOs and INGOsto issue organic certi catesto organic farms and to ndmarket for organic crops

and fruits. The ministry isassisting farmers in organicfarming so that they can setup organic zones.

During the Q & A ses-sion, U Than Tun, DeputyMinister for Cooperatives,replied the question raisedby U Phone Myint Aungof Yangon Region Con-stituency No 3, whether theministry had already soldSuper World Hall 1 and 2 at

Bogyoke Aung San Marketin Yangon to business men.

According to the dep-uty minister, Dagon Town-ship Cooperative Syndicatewhich hired the two hallsfrom Yangon City Devel-opment Committee, havesold out them to the Super

World Cooperative Ltdto be able to pay off theirdebts to the Ministry Coop-eratives with the decision ofthe Procurement Commit-tee formed by the Ministryof Cooperatives. In 2001,Yangon City DevelopmentCommittee has allowed thetwo directors to pay theirregistration fee for hiringthe two halls by their namesto the committee. MNA

Chin National Party headquartered at No. 120,Room (52) of Thukha Hline Housing on Insein Road inHline Township, Yangon Region, registered at the Un-ion Election Commission as a political party under theArticle 9 of Political Parties Registration Law, submit-ted its application to change its name as Chin NationalDemocratic Party to the Union Election Commission on16-1-2014.

It is hereby announced in accord with Political Par-ties Registration Rules 14 (d) that if there is anyone whowants to remonstrate about the name Chin NationalDemocratic Party, they may remonstrate with the Un-ion Election Commission with rm evidence within sev -en days from the date of this announcement.

Union Election Commission

Public announcement forremonstration of changing

political partys name

Departmental of cials and police of cer

meet local people and Bengali village ad -

ministrative of cialsin Maungtaw Town - ship GAD Of ce on 20 January. MNA

Police sergeant...(from page 16)ASEAN Foreign MinistersMeeting (Retreat) in Baganthat the news stories arewholly and totally wrong.

In a joint statement re-leased by US Embassy andBritish Embassy in Yangonon 17 January, the embassiesexpressed concerns over out-break of violence, deaths andinjuries and use of excessiveforce and called for thoroughinvestigations with a greatertransparency and punitiveactions against those for the

violence. Moreover, A dip-lomat of the US Embassy inMyanmar came to the Minis-try of Home Affairs and saidduring a discussion on therole of the Ministry of HomeAffairs in Myanmars reformprocess that the internationalcommunity is watching theincident occurred in RakhineState; they were informedthat a police member waskilled in an incident occurredin Maungtaw last week; andtransparent and independentinvestigations will be con-ducted in cooperation with

UN agencies as they receivedfurther information from IN-GOs that civilian deaths oc-curred there.

The real incident was

four police members ledby Police Sergeant AungKyaw Thein patrolled Kin-nchaung village togetherwith U Maung Ba Tun, headof Khayay Myaing village,on 13 January, 2014. Theycontinued the patrol togetherwith U Aung Than, 10-house-hold head, U Maung TheinHla and U Than Tun Oo,Du Chee Yar Tan village-tract clerk. On their arrival atDucheertan (middle) villageat about 9.30 pm, they founda group of Bengalis, number-ing about 20, sitting around

a re in front of shops. Al -though the patrol made themknown that they were po-lice and members of village

(See page 9)

M AUNGTAW , 22 JanChief Minister of RakhineState U Hla Maung Tin hascalled for cooperation of lo-cal people in Ducheertan Vil-lage, Rakhine State, wherepolice were attacked bymobs, to discover the policesergeant who went missingafter the violence.

During his visit to thearea, the chief minister lookedinto the recent violence andtold the people about the falsenews published and aired byforeign media that childrenand women were killed in theviolence.

At the Gawduthara Vil-lage, he met with villagerswho left Ducheertan Village.

During the meeting, thevillagers told him that theydid not hear that Rakhanesepeople killed children andwomen.

Police Brig-Gen Tin KoKo clari ed that some villag -ers are under interrogationand they would be freed ifthey were found no guilty.

A Mawlawi fromGawduthara Village said hedid not see any killing peo-

Rakhine State Chief Minister looks into Maungtaw violence

ple.During the meeting,

Rakhine State Hluttaw rep-resentative U Aung MyoMin, Rakhine State Hlut-taw representative of Buthi-daung Township Dr BawshiAhmed, Barbara Babista,coordinator of OCHA andRoka Kodo, resident repre-sentative of UNHCR, whovisited there along with the

chief minister, also talked tothe villagers and investigatedthe situation.

They also inspected thearea where police were at-tacked by mobs while patrol-ling and the place where uni-forms of the police sergeantwho still went missing werefound.

In the evening, the rep-resentatives from UNHCR

and OCHA met with author-ity at Maungdaw DistrictAdministration Of ce.

Police Brig-Gen TinKo Ko and Police ColNay Myo of Rakhine StatePolice Force answered thequestions raised by repre-sentatives from UNHCR andOCHA.

Rakhine State IPRD

Rakhine State Chief Minister U Hla Maung Tin and party meet local people.MNA

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N AY P YI T AW , 22 Jan The following are messages of felicitations from foreign Heads of State/Government sent toPresident of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U TheinSein, on the occasion of the 66 th Anniversary Independence

Day of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.From Mr. Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jabar Al SabahAmir of State of KuwaitExcellency,

I would like to convey my sincere felicitations to His Excel-lency on the occasion of the 66 th Anniversary of the IndependenceDay of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

With my best wishes for Your Excellencys continuedgood health and wellbeing and for the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar and its friendly people progress and prosperity.

Please accept my sincere appreciation.From Mr Giorgi MargvelashviliPresident of GeorgiaYour Excellency,

On behalf of the Government and people of Georgia, al-low me to extend to you my sincere congratulations on the

occasion of the National Day of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar.I believe that in the coming years bilateral relations be-

tween Georgia and Myanmar will be further enhanced in thespirit of mutual respect, trust and amity.

Excellency, please accept the assurance of my highest con-sideration along with wishes for peace, security and prosperity tothe people of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.From Mr Janos AderPresident of the Republic of HungaryYour Excellency,

On the solemn occasion of the Independence Day of the Re-public of the Union of Myanmar I would like to convey my bestwishes and warmest congratulations to Your Excellency and tothe friendly people of your country.

I follow with great interest the reforms taking place in My-anmar in many areas including the economy, the political struc-ture and human rights, as well as the development of bilateralrelations between Hungary and Myanmar.

I am convinced that our joint efforts will further strength-en these mutually bene cial ties, re ecting the potentials andopportunities of our countries.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of myhighest consideration.

From Jigme KhesarKing of BhutanYour Excellency,

It gives me the greatest pleasure to convey my warm

felicitations to Your Excellency and the people of Myan-mar on the celebration of your Independence Day.

Allow me to express my best wishes for Your Excellen-cys wellbeing and happiness, and the peace and prosperity ofthe people of Myanmar.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of myhighest consideration.From Mr Abdulla Yameen Abdul GayoomPresident of the Republic of MaldivesYour Excellency,

The Government and people of the Maldives and Itake great pleasure in conveying warm felicitations andgood wishes to Your Excellency, the Government andpeople of Myanmar on the occasion of the IndependenceDay of Myanmar.

Please also accept my best wishes for the progress, wel-

fare and harmony of the people of Myanmar.From Mr. Alexander LukashenkoPresident of the Republic of BelarusYour Excellency,

On behalf of the People of the Republic of Belarus andon my own part I congratulate You and the People of the Re-public of the Union of Myanmar with the National holidaythe Independence Day.

Mutual respect and friendship between the Republic ofBelarus and the Republic of the Union of Myanmar assuresof perspective development of bilateral cooperation in allspheres.

Taking the opportunity, I would like con rm to YourExcellency the invitation to visit the Republic of Belarus atanytime of Your convenience, I am con dent that Your visitto Belarus will start a new page in Belarusian-Myanmar rela-tions.

I wish You sound health, prosperity and success.Please, accept the assurance of my highest consideration.

From Mr Giorgi MargvelashviliPresident of GeorgiaYour Excellency,

On behalf of the Government and people of Georgia, al-low me to extend to you my sincere congratulations on theoccasion of the National Day of the Republic of the Union

of Myanmar.I believe that in the coming years bilateral

relations between Georgia and Myanmar will befurther enhanced in the spirit of mutual respect, trust and

amity.Excellency, please accept the assurance of my highest

consideration along with wishes for peace, security and pros-perity to the people of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.From Mr. Willem-Alexander R.King of the Kingdom of NetherlandsExcellency,

On the occasion of your National Day I extend to YourExcellency my congratulations and my best wishes for thewell-being of the people of Myanmar.From Mr. Ollanta Humala TassoPresident of the Republic of PeruYour Excellency,

I have the honor to address Your Excellency in order toexpress, on behalf the Government and the people of Peru,and on my own, the warmest congratulations on the occasion

of the commemoration of the National Day of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar.While expressing my best wishes for the wellbeing and

prosperity of your noble people, I would like to reiterate thewill of my Government to strengthen the ties of friendshipand cooperation that unite our two countries.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Ex-cellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguishedconsideration.From Mr. Nawwaf Al Ahmad Al Jabar Al SabahCrown Prince of State of KuwaitExcellency,

I would like to convey my sincere felicitations to HisExcellency on the occasion of the 66 th Anniversary of the In-dependence Day of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

With my best wishes for Your Excellencys continuedgood health and wellbeing and for the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar and its friendly people progress and prosperity.

Please accepty my sincere appreciation.From Mr. Mikhail MyasnikovichPrime Minister of the Republic of BelaurusYour Excellency,

On behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Be-larus and on my own part I congratulate You with the Na-tional holiday of the Republic of the Union of MyanmartheIndependence Day.

Particular importance is attached in our country to thestrengthening of relations between the Republic of Belarusand the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

I am con dent that with the joint effortscooperation between our countries in political, economic,trade and other spheres will continue to expand dynami-cally.

Please, accept, Your Excellency, the wishes of soundhealth, happiness and prosperity as well as the assurance ofmy highest consideration.

Foreign Heads of State/Government send felicitations toPresident U Thein Sein

U Tint Swai presents Credentialsto President of Romania

N AY P YI T AW , 23JanU Tint Swai, Am-bassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the

Republic of the Union ofMyanmar to Romania, pre-

sented his Credentials toHis Excellency Mr. Tra-ian Basescu, President ofRomania, on 15 January

2014, in Bucharest. MNA

(from page 8)administration, the group ofBengalis started throwingstones at the patrol, callingothers to join them. A groupof about 100 villagers armedwith knives and sticks ap-

peared and tried to attackthe patrol, shouting that theywould kill police as well asvillage administration mem-bers. As it was night andthe crowd became a largermob, the patrol decided notto confront the mob. Po-lice Private Min Yan Naing,U Maung Ba Tun, U AungThan, U Than Tun and UMaung Thein Hla ed thescene heading for a concreteroad while Police PrivatesMin Min Khaing and MinZaw for Khayay Myaing vil-lage. Police Sergeant AungKyaw Thein with his rearmwas left in the middle of themob. Police members escap-ing the mob attack said theyheard two shots from the vil-

Police sergeant...lage. They arrived back thepolice outpost at about 11pm and reported the incidentto Maungtaw Myoma policestation by phone. Shortly af-ter getting the phone report,police members accompanied

by a local battalion marchedto Ducheertan village and ar-rived there at about 12 mid-night. They blocked someplaces and launched searchfor the missing police mem-ber. While arrival of searchgroups at the western partof the village, a 500-strongmob armed with knives andsticks appeared and movedforwards, shouting abuse. Asthe mob reached a spot, 50yards from the search groups,eight warning shots werered in order to avoid possi -ble dangers. The mob ed thescene, heading for south ofthe village.

Blood stained pieces ofuniform, belt, whistle, piecesof equipment and a pair of

boot were discovered nearDucheertan Village and inthe garbage tank west of Is-mai Mosque, in the cupboardof the Arabi School on 14January. The authorities alsofound an empty magazine ofthe gun of Police Sgt AungKyaw Thein. So far, 16 sus-pects are being interrogated.

To take actions againstthe attack, the authoritiesmet with 80 residents fromMaungtaw and villagesat Post-Primary School ofMaungtaw Township on 19January and 160 residentsincluding departmental of-cials, Hluttaw representa -

tives and townselders fromMaungtaw at the MaungtawTownship General Admin-istration Department on 20January and clari ed theplanned attack by the mobs.After the clari cation, oneMawlawi asked residents tocooperate with the police tond Police Sgt Aung KyawThein and his arm. The mobsattacked the Myanmar PoliceForce while they were pa-trolling along with local au-thorities to provide commu-nity peace and security andthey committed the criminalcase. Police Sgt Aung KyawThein is still missing with his

arm and ammunition.Acting on tip-off, 19

people from Ducheertan Vil-lage involved in the criminalcase and one of the main at-tackers is K Phike Dullah,23, and he attended the train-ing of the RSO in the neigh-bouring country. He arrivedat the village 10 days beforethe attack and trained fourto ve friends for using gun.Abdul Muna who reenteredMyanmar from Bangladeshand Jawbullah who had gottwo-year sentence for a crimi-nal case led the attack. Theyplanned to attack the police

force not to be able to carryout patrol in the area as crimi-nals and those who reenteredMyanmar from the neigh-bouring country are hidingthere. According to tip-off,out of 19 attackers, 11 are liv-ing in exile in the neighbour-ing country currently and try-ing to win awards from theRSO for attacking the police.Myanmar Police Force hasrequested local people to co-operate with them to discov-ered Police Sgt Aung KyawThein, his gun and ammuni-tion and not to harm the ruleof law.- MNA

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Building of child care development centreopened in Gangaw

H OPONG , 22 JanThemidwifery six-month courseand the public health workerone-month course concludedat Hopong Hospital inHopong of Shan State on20 January.

Head of TownshipHealth Department Dr TinZaw Win explained thematters related to the courses.

Midwifery, public health worker coursesconclude in Hopong

Nurse Staff OfficerDaw Hnin Wai of ShanState Health Departmentpresented certificates totrainees of midwifery courseand Chairman of the needypatients fund committeeU Sai Hla Maung gavecertificates to traineesthrough a trainees.

N e x t , To w n s h i p

Administrator U MaungMaung presented first,second and third prizes totrainees of the midwiferycourse and Chairperson ofTownship Maternal andChild Welfare AssociationDaw Khin May Lin, rst,second third to the publichealth worker course.

A total of 15 traineesfrom 15 villages of HopongTownship attended themidwifery course and tookpractical works at respectiveHealth Department from 16July to 17 January.

Altogether 15 traineesalso attended the public

health workers course.Those courses were

conducted with the assistanceof GAVI.

Kyemon-Nan Oo Khan

K YAUKHTU , 22 JanAceremony to open thebuilding of pre-primaryschool of Child Care

Development Centre washeld in Kyaukma Village ofKyaukhtu Sub-Township inSaw Township of Gangaw

District in Magway Regionon 20 January.

Local authorities andChairman of the school

committee U Aung ZawMyint and Project Of cerU Myingt Hlaing (Save theChildren) formally opened

the school building.The education project

of cer handed documentsrelated to the school building

to the village administrator.The trust fund of the

school was constructed at acost of K 3.3 million by thelocal people and Save theChildren.

The building wasconstructed with contributionK 6 million by Save theChildren and K 4.5 million bythe local people. As of 2014-15 academic year, the schoolwill admit school childrenfrom Kyauk-maVillage.

Kyemon-Sub-Township IPRD

Head of Pyay District Directorate of Road Administration Daw Khin Hla Myint, of cials

and staff of Myanma Insurance extend thelicences of 186 vehicles and issue licences to

600 new vehicles at Market 2 Ward in PaungdeTownship on 18 January.

K YEMON -T IN W IN Z AW (M INTHAGYI )

D A I K U ,2 2 J a n Afire drill wasp e r f o r m e da t P h a u n g -

dawthi Marketo f D a i k UT o w n s h i pDevelopmentAffairs Com-mittee on 18January.

The firefighters andw o r k e r s o fT o w n s h i pDAC together

Fire drill exercised in DaikU Township

Farming workers enjoy job opportunities in cold seasoncrops cultivation period

with families of the marketused the water taps, tanks,water bowser and fire truckand fire engines in fire drill.

It was supervised byTownship AdministratorU K y a w S w a A u n g ,DAC Executive Officer

a n d t o w n s h i p l e v e lofficials.

Kyemon-Nay Lin(Nyaunglebin)

A MARAPURA , 22 JanCold seasoncrops andchrysanthemum plants arecultivated on the alluviallands in ShwekyetyetVillage-tract if Amarapura

Township, creating jobopportunities for the localpeople.

The fa rm ownersrecruited the workers fortheir farms of floweryplantations.

Depending on the areaof plantations, the ownerscalled the workers from 10 to20 daily The workers weed,water, broadcast fertilizerand spray pesticide daily.The farm owners pay K 3500per male worker ad K 2500per femaleworkers that haveto work at the farms from 9am to 5 pm daily.

Moreover, farmland

National Objectives of 67 th AnniversaryUnion Day 2014

- For all the national races to cultivate the Union Spirit to

perpetuate the Union

- For all the national races to live in unity and harmony

- For all the national races to build up the prevailing nationalreconciliation

- For all citizens to participate in tasks for tranquility and the

rule of law

- For all the national races to join efforts for modern, developed

and discipline-fourishing democratic nation

owners recruit daily wageworkers to nurture their farmsof groundnut, maize, corn,bea, water melon and other

plantations in Shangale-kyun and Shwekyetyetareas. Kyemon-Nanda

Min Lwin

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Vocational courses openedin DaikU Tsp

D AIK U , 22 JanRuralDevelopment Departmentunder the Ministry ofLivestock, Fisheries andRural Development openedthe vocational courses in

Shweindon Village ofDaikU Township, BagoRegion, on 20 January.

T h e c o u r s e s a r emasonry, carpenter, fish

breed ing and an imalbreeding courses, attendedby 60 trainees.

The courses will lastone month.

Departmental of cials

inspected equipment to beused in training courses.

The opening ceremonyof the course was alsoattended by Bago Region

Hluttaw representative UMin Aung and townselders.

Kyemon-Nay Lin(Nyaunglebin)

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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda heads for the second day of a two-day policy meeting

of the central bank at its head of ce in Tokyo on 22

Jan, 2014.K YODO N EWS

BOJ maintains ultraeasy monetary policy, FY2015 price outlook

T OKYO , 22 Jan TheBank of Japan decided onWednesday to maintain itsultraeasy monetary policyand kept unchanged itsconsumer price outlook forscal 2015 at 1.9 percent,near its 2 percent in ationtarget aimed at beatingde ation. The nine-mem-ber Policy Board unani -mously decided that thecentral bank will continuewith its large-scale mon-etary easing policy intro -duced in April, centering ondoubling the monetary baseand boosting the purchaseof government bonds.

After reviewing itssemiannual economic out -look issued in October,the BOJ slightly reviseddown its estimate for thenations growth in scal2014 to 1.4 percent fromthe 1.5 percent forecastin October, while keepingintact its growth estimatesfor this scal year at 2.7percent and scal 2015 at1.5 percent.

The bank retained itsprice outlook for the yearending March and scal2014, expecting core con-sumer prices excludingfresh foods to rise 0.7 per-

cent and 1.3 percent, re-spectively.

The scal 2014 projec-tion excludes the impactof three-percentage-pointsales tax hike scheduledfor next April. The movecomes after the consumerprice index excluding freshfoods climbed 1.2 percentin November from a yearearlier.

It left unchanged itsassessment of the domes -tic economy for the fourthstraight month, saying in astatement that it has con -tinued to recover moder -ately, while noting an in -

crease in demand has beenobserved recently ahead ofthe consumption tax hike.

On the outlook, theBOJ said the domesticeconomy is expected tocontinue a moderate recov -ery as a trend, while it willbe affected by the front-loaded increase and sub -sequent decline in demandprior to and after the con -sumption tax hike, it said.

It said the year-on-yearrate of increase in the con -sumer price index is likelyto be around 1.25 percentfor some time.

Kyodo News

A Spring Festival tea party is held for representatives of various ethnic groups to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing, capital of China,

on 21 Jan, 2014. X INHUA

Japan urges peacefulsolut ion to Thai

emergencyT OKYO , 22 Jan The

Japanese government onWednesday called for apeaceful solution to theemergency situation inThailand, where antigov -ernment protesters haveconfronted security forces.

We are deeply con -cerned and watching close -ly, Chief Cabinet Secre -tary Yoshihide Suga tolda Press conference. Wehope violence will not beused and that the situationwill be addressed peace -fully through dialogue.

The government will

Singaporeelevates

statusof lowercourts

S INGAPORE , 22 Jan Singapore is going toelevate the statues of itslower courts, with somechanges passed on Subordi -nate Courts Bill mentionedin parliament, local paperthe Straits Times said onWednesday.

The lower courts, pre -viously named the Subor -dinate Courts, will be re -named State Courts.

The of ce of Chief Dis-

trict Judge will be elevatedto the of ce of the Pre-siding Judge of the StateCourts, one held by a judgeor judicial commissioner ofthe Supreme Court. At thesame time, the amended billalso increases the minimumstatutory requirement fora legally quali ed personto be a magistrate and dis -trict judge from one year tothree years, and ve yearsto seven years respectively.

The changes re ectthe primary role the lowercourts play in the judicialsystem and the growingcomplexity of the cases be-fore them, said Senior Min -ister of State for Law andEducation Indranee Rajahon Tuesday. Xinhua

South Korean army soldiers take part in an anti-terror drill in Seoul, South Korea, on 21 Jan, 2014.

X INHUA

study possible measures toensure the safety of Japa -nese citizens as well asthe smooth operation ofJapanese companies in theSoutheast Asian country,the top government spokes -man said.

On Tuesday, the Thaigovernment declared a stateof emergency in Bangkokand surrounding areas todeal with the protests thathave stirred up violent at -tacks, ahead of the nationsgeneral election scheduledearly next month.

Kyodo NewsLocal legislative sessions stress balanced development

B EIJING , 22 Jan An -nual two sessions meetings of local legis -latures and local politicaladvisors kicked off inJanuary across China.

Despite differencesof economic and socialsituations from province to

province, many local legis -lative sessions have topicsin common.

Many local govern -ments have lowered GDPgoals for 2014 in pursuitof more balanced develop -ment. In days gone by itwas all about GDP.

Shanghai Mayor YangXiong declared that in2013, the citys GDP wasexpected to grow by 7.7percent and scal revenueby 9.8 percent. In 2014,Shanghai plans to raiseGDP by 7.5 percent andkeep scal revenue increas-ing in step with economicgrowth.

Similarly, Liu Weip -ing, governor of Gansuin the northwest, also re -

duced GDP expectationsfrom 12.1 percent growth in2013 to 11 percent in 2014.Hebei and Fujian loweredgrowth goals by 0.5 per-cent.

According to centraleconomic and urbanizationwork conferences last year,

China plans steady, proac -tive forward progress inhuman-centered urbaniza-tion for 2014.

Urbanization throughnew construction work isthe chosen route towardmodernization, and is seenas offering a solution to ru -ral problems. Gansu Prov-ince, for example will presson with development of theSilk Road economic belt.

Many local govern -ment reports reiterate theimportance of quality ur -banization and its poten -tial to increase domesticdemand, raise productivityand end the urban-rural du-ality.

Fighting smog alsoappears near the top many

of the government reports,much as in 2013, more than100 big and medium citiesin 25 regions were affectedby smog. According to ave-year plan on air pol-lution, China will cut coaluse, shut down polluters,promote cleaner production

and cut the density of inhal -able particulate matter.In recent government

reports, the environmentwas given much moreweight in assessing of cialperformance.

At Beijings PeoplesCongress, Mayor WangAnshun declared an all-outeffort to cut coal use by2.6 million tons and trans-form 300 polluting compa-nies this year.

North Chinas HebeiProvince, one of the mostpolluted, is trying to cutsteel and cement produc -tion capacities by 60 mil-lion tons each year by 2017,striving for a better envi -ronment.

Xinhua

No leap forward in improvinginter-Korean ties

S EOUL , 22 Jan SouthKorean Uni cation Minis-ter Ryoo Kihl-jae said onWednesday that there willbe no leap forward in im -proving inter-Korean rela-tions, referring to the recent

peace call from the Demo-cratic Peoples Republic ofKorea (DPRK).

If there is any wayto make the inter-Koreanrelations leap forward ata bound, (South Korea)will follow that way. But,I promise there would beno such a way in the south-north relations, Ryoo saidat a forum held in centralSeoul. Ryoo said it wouldbe a mythology to believethat the inter- Korean tiescan be improved by SouthKoreas epoch-making con-cessions, reiterating thatthe DPRK failed to keep itsword on family reunions.

Seoul and Pyong -yang originally planned tohold reunions of families

separated by the 1950-53Korean War in late Septem -ber last year, but Pyong -yang abruptly delayed thereunions at the last minute.

Ryoo said if the DPRKfollows through on what it

promised and agreed upon,the two Koreas can reachanother agreement, urg -ing Pyongyang to acceptSeouls proposal to hold the

family reunions.In her rst New Years

Press conference, SouthKorean President Park Ge -un-hye proposed to resumethe family reunion aroundthe Lunar New Years Day

that falls on late January.Pyongyang rejected theproposal, saying that atmos -phere should be created.

Reuters

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An Iranian man prepares a traditional cookie at an old bazaar in the western city of Kermanshah, Iran, on 20 Jan, 2014. X INHUA

Environment graduates popular in ghtagainst smog

H EFEI , 22 Jan Chi-nese college graduates inenvironmental engineeringhave seen their job pros-pects improve as frequentbouts of serious smog haveprompted more effectivesteps to tackle air pollution.

In the fourth quarterof last year, environmentalprotection posts entered thetop ten hot categories in the

job ma ket fo the st t me,sa d an of c a w th the ta -ent market service centre of

Hefei City, capital of AnhuiProvince.

The latest statisticsshowed env onmenta o -tection and quality safety

jobs in the city reached1,457 in the fourth quarterin Hefei, an increase of 84.7percent from the third quar-ter, according to the centre.

The employment rateof 2013 university gradu-ates who majo ed n en -vironment or ecology sci-ences was a so h ghe than

US condemns violence in

Tailand, urges restraintW ASHINGTON , 22 Jan

The United States strong-ly condemns increasingviolence in Bangkok andurges all sides to exerciserestraint, the State Depart-ment said on Tuesday.

We urge all sides torefrain from violence, ex-ercise restraint, and respectthe u e of aw, s okes -woman Ma e Ha f sa d na statement.

The US also called onthe Thai authorities to in-vestigate attacks that haveresulted in deaths and inju-

ries and bring those respon-sible to justice.

The Thai caretakergovernment on Tuesday de-clared a state of emergencyin capital Bangkok and itssurrounding areas after vio-lence continued to escalatesince protest began in No-vember last year.

Politically-related vio-lence in Thailand has killednine people and injured 554others since 30 Novemberast yea , the E awan Eme -gency Med ca Se v cesCente of Bangkok Met o -

politan Administration saidon Tuesday.

We encourage all in-volved to commit to sinceredialogue to resolve politicaldifferences peacefully anddemocratically, Harf said,adding that the US supportsdemocratic processes in theAsian ally.

The US has issued at ave wa n ng on Tha and,urging American citizensto kee away f om o -tests and large gatheringsin Bangkok and other prov-inces. Xinhua

Photo taken on 20 Jan,

2014 shows the scenery of Taq-e Bostan in the ancient city of Kermanshah,western Iran.Taq-e Bostanis a site with a series of large

rock relief from the era of Sas- sanid Empire of Persia, the

Iranian dynasty

which ruledwestern Asia from 226 to 650

AD.X INHUA

Dumbuya elected SierraLeone speaker

F REETOWN , 22 JanThemajority leader in the Parlia-ment of Sierra Leone, ShekuB Dumbuya commonlyknown as SB Dumbuya, waselected as speaker on Tues-day fo ow ng the es gnat onof the substantive speaker asa result of an amendmentmade in the Constitution.

He defeated oppositionmember Bubakei Jabbie 100

to 15. The position of deputys eake went to the fo medeputy speaker, CherrnoBah.

According to section79 of the Constitution, onlyelected members of parlia-ment are eligible for theposition of speaker. Formers eake Abe St ong wasa judge of the high court inSierra Leone. Xinhua

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GOLDEN FAN VOY NO (-)

Cons gnees of ca go ca ed on MV GOLDEN FANVOY NO (-) a e he eby not ed that the vesse wbe a v ng on 23.1.2014 and ca go w be d scha gedinto the premises of M.i.p.l whe e t w e at theconsignees risk and expenses and subject to the byel-aws and cond t ons of the po t of Yangon.

Damaged ca go w be su veyed da y f om 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 m to C a ms Day nowdec a ed as the th d day afte na d scha ge of ca gof om the Vesse .

No c a ms aga nst th s vesse w be adm tted aftethe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S SEALS CO. LTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV EVER ABLE VOY NO (367)Cons gnees of ca go ca ed on MV EVEr ABlE

VOY NO (367) a e he eby not ed that the vesse wbe a v ng on 23.1.2014 and ca go w be d scha gedinto the premises of H.P.T whe e t w e at the con -s gnees sk and ex enses and subject to the bye awsand cond t ons of the po t of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S EVER GREEN SHIPPINGLINE

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV WEST SCENT VOY NO (033)Cons gnees of ca go ca ed on MV WEST SCENT

VOY NO (033) a e he eby not ed that the vesse wbe a v ng on 23.1.2014 and ca go w be d scha gedinto the premises of A.W.P.T whe e t w e at theconsignees risk and expenses and subject to the byel-aws and cond t ons of the po t of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S INTERASIA LINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

7 killed as police vehicleattacked in NW Pakistan

I SLAMABAD , 22 JanAtleast seven people includingsix policemen and a studentwe e k ed and n ne othe snju ed when a bomb wentoff near a police vehiclen no thweste n pak stanWednesday morning, localmedia reported.

Dunya TV sa d that ao ce mob e was on tsway to ov de secu tyto polio-eradication teamswhen t came unde attack nSardheri Bazar area of Char-sadda, a district in Khyberpakhtunkhwa ov nce.

According to earlier re-o ts, some unknown m -tants parked an explosive-laden bicycle near the roadand b ew t u w th a emotecont o ed dev ce when theo ce mob e was t ave ngnear a private school.

The injured peopleincluding school kids ando cemen we e sh fted toa nearby hospital. No grouphas cla

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