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Volume XVIII, Number 178 8th Waxing of Thadingyut 1372 ME Saturday, 16 October, 2010

Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe of Ministry of Defenceattends opening of Food Fair 2010

YANGON, 15 Oct—The opening of Food Fair2010 took place at the Tatmadaw Convention Hall onU Wisara Road in Dagon Township, Yangon Region,this morning.

It was attended by Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe of theMinistry of Defence, Chairman of Yangon RegionPeace and Development Council Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Tun Than and officials,the chairman of the committee for observance of the

fair, officials and guests.The commander and officials formally opened

the fair.Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe, the commander and offi-

cials visited the booths around the hall.Next, Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe, the commander and

officials attended the special sales held at the Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry in Landamaw Township.—MNA

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitu-

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

True patriotism* It is very important for everyone of

the nation regardless of the place

he lives to have strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the true patri-

otism all the nationalities will have

to safeguard.

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—The News and Periodi-cals Enterprise under the Ministry of Information cel-ebrated its founding anniversary for 2010 along withthe awarding ceremony at Bo Waziya Hall of Nay PyiTaw Daily house in Zeyathiri Township, Nay Pyi TawDistrict, this morning, with an address by Minister for

Civil servants to refrain from party politics, but to continuepursuing national causes and national interest

Minister U Kyaw Hsan delivers address atfounding anniversary of NPE.—MNA

Information U Kyaw Hsan.Also present on the occasion were Managing

Director of NPE U Soe Win, Director-General ofMyanma Radio and Television U Khin Maung Htay,Managing Director of Myanma Motion Picture Enter-prise U Aung Myo Myint, Acting Managing Directorof Printing and Publishing Enterprise U Ye Tint, GeneralManager of NPE U Zaw Min Oo, other staff members

the departments and enterprises. Time is limited inimplementing such onerous tasks, so the achievement isto be put on record for the ministry and staff members.Staff members are also to continue public informationtasks for successful completion of the elections.

NPE has laid down the 12 work programmesto be materialized in a year. If compared with previousyear, performance has improved, overall. The achieve-

NPE has laid down the 12 work programmes to be materializedin a year. If compared with previous year, performance hasimproved, overall. The achievement is due to the fact that staffmembers at all levels were extensively engaged in their assignedtasks with a sense of duty and goodwill under the supervision of themanaging director.

of the ministry and guests.In his speech, the minister said that today is the

day to be proud of for the staff members of the depart-ments and enterprises under the ministry because theceremony coincides with successful completion of theState’s printing tasks due to collaborative efforts of all

ment is due to the fact that staff members at all levelswere extensively engaged in their assigned tasks witha sense of duty and goodwill under the supervision ofthe managing director in line with the 14 guidelinesadopted by the ministry.

(See page 8)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 16 October, 2010

Saturday, 16 October, 2010

PERSPECTIVES* 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* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

Sound foundations forposterity

Emergence of a peaceful, modernand developed democratic nation is thenational goal aspired by the entire people.The government, the people and theTatmadaw are joining hands in building thenation through the united strength.

Peace and stability have been restoredacross the nation. The people are enjoyingfruits of peace, stability and prosperity. Dueto prevailing peace and stability, nationbuilding and development projects can beundertaken with momentum. Remarkableprogress can be seen in all aspects includingbetter transport.

The transport infrastructures arebeing built in the Union. In addition to newrailroads, strategic highways, inter-townroads and rural development roads areunder construction. The total length ofgravel, hard, earth and motor roads hasincreased to over 80,000 miles from over10,000 miles in the past. Small and largebridges have been laid across rivers andcreeks including Ayeyawady Bridges.

In the aviation sector, airports andrunways have been upgraded and extended.Likewise, airlines have spead their wings.Over 800,000 domestic passengers and over700,000 foreign passengers are beingtransported yearly by air.

Jetties, wharves for ocean liners andcontainer yards have been facilitated.

Remarkable success has beenachieved in agriculture, forestry, industrial,energy and mining sectors. Soundfoundations have been provided foreconomic, education and health sectors ofthe nation. All the national brethren are tomaintain the fine legacy not only for today’speople but also for new generations. We allare to work in concert for emergence of amodern and developed nation with unityand fine traditions.

YANGON, 14 Oct—MAT ProfessionalTraining & ServicesCentre wil l conductCorporate Leadership &Management Develo-pment Course on 19October.

The course covershuman resourcesmanagement, internalauditing and riskmanagement, selling &sales management,

Ten trainees of Myanmar Fishery Federation being seen off at

Yangon International Airport before departure for Israel to attend

10-week course for Scholarship (Diploma) on the Job Training on

14 October.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct— Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation U Htay Oo received a six-member delegation comprising Vice President MrYuanhong Fan, professors, associate professor andresearch officers of Yunnan Academy of AgriculturalSciences (YAAS) in Yunnan Province of the People’s

A&I Minister receives Chinese guests

Republic of China at his office here this afternoon.The meeting focused on matters concerning

development of agricultural sectors of the two countriesand technological cooperation between the twocountries.

MNA

Mines Ministry’s assistancebenefits students

MAT to conduct managementcourse on 19 Oct

marketing, financialmanagement, andunderstanding accountsfor non-financialmanager lessons.

Moreover, thetraining centre isconducting monthlycourses on HACCP, ISO22000 and marketing,auditing and helping thecompanies to obtain ISOcertificates in line withinternational norms and

standards. It is alsoopening LCCI, CAT,ACCA and ABE courses.To get more information,contact MATProfessional Training &Services (Ph: 246618,242431 and 73002958),www.matprofessional.com.

MNA

Minister U Ohn Myint presents prize to anoutstanding student.

MNA

Minister U Htay Oo receives Vice President Mr Yuanhong Fan, professors, associateprofessors and research officers of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct— Ministry of Mineshonoured outstandingchildren of the staff of theministry for theirachievement in thematriculation examinationfor the 2009-2010 academicyear.

The ceremony tohonour the outstandingstudents and to give cashassistance for education ofthe children of the staff washeld at the ministry heretoday and Minister for MinesU Ohn Myint presentedprizes to three five-distinction winners.

Heads of de-partment and wellwishersalso awarded outstandingstudents. A total of 125students including threefive-distinction winners,three four-distinction

winners, three three-distinction winners, sixtwo-distinction winners, 18one-distinction winners ofthe ministry passedthe matriculationexamination.

During theceremony, the actingdirector-general of theGeological Survey andMinerals ExplorationDepartment presented cashassistance for education ofthe children to an officialconcerned.

MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 16 October, 2010 3

BAGHDAD, 15 Oct—A new US military tallyputs the death toll of Iraqicivilians and securityforces in the bloodiestyears of the warthousands below Iraqigovernment figures.

The little-noticedbody count is the mostextensive data on Iraqiwar casualties everreleased by the Americanmilitary. It tallied deathsof almost 77,000 Iraqisbetween January 2004and August 2008 — thedarkest chapter of Iraq’ssectarian warfare and the

US military says 77,000 Iraqis killed over5 years

A rescuer rappels with a student pretending to be an injured victim during amock earthquake drill inside a university in Manila on 15 October, 2010. The

drill aims to test the preparedness and response capabilities of everyindividual, of communities and organizations towards a disaster-resilient

nation.—INTERNET

KABUL, 15 Oct—Afghanistan’s health authoritiesFriday appealed for international help in dealing witha parasitic disease that is believed to threaten millionsin the impoverished country.

Leishmaniasis, transmitted by a species of sandfly,threatened the health of 13 million Afghans, the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) said in a report onneglected tropical diseases.

It said the disease had affected an estimated 65,000people in Kabul in 2009, markedly higher than the17,000 who were expected to get the disease each year,but many more were likely to have been hit due tounder-reporting.

“This number is likely to be the tip of the icebergas cases are grossly under-reported owing to poordiagnostic tools and the stigma that is attached to thisdisease,” WHO’s Afghanistan representative PeterGraaff was quoted as saying.

The main symptom of the disease is skin sores thaterupt weeks to months after the victim has been bitten,WHO said.—Internet

Millions of Afghans at risk fromparasitic disease

A 10-year-old Afghanleishmaniasis patient is

pictured at a Kabulhospital. Afghanistan’s

health authorities Fridayappealed for international

help in dealing with aparasitic disease that is

believed to threatenmillions in the

impoverished country.INTERNET

Iraqi security forces inspected the scene of a bombattack in Baghdad, Iraq, on 13 Oct, 2010. A bomb

attached to a car exploded in central Baghdadinjuring several people, police said.

INTERNET

Iraqi workers load the wreckage of a Britishmilitary truck as it prepares on 26 June 2003 to

leave the police station in the Shiite Muslim townof Al-Majar Al-Kabir after it was burned by

rioters.—INTERNET

KABUL, 15 Oct—Taleban-linked activitiesclaimed the lives of twomore NATO soldiers insouth Afghanistan onThursday, bringing thenumber of casualties toseven in a single day, thealliance said in astatement.

“Two InternationalSecurity AssistanceForce service membersdied following aninsurgent attack insouthern Afghanistantoday,” the statementconfirmed.

However, it did notidentify the nationalitiesof the victims, saying itis ISAF policy to defercasualty identificationprocedures to the

BAGHDAD, 15 Oct—A member of the cross-sectarian bloc of IraqiaList that won Iraq’sMarch parliamentaryelection escaped a bombexplosion near hisconvoy in southernBaghdad on Thursday,which ki l led threepeople and woundedfour others, a policesource said.

A b d u l - K a r e e mMahoud , a Sh i i t epo l i t i c i an and amember of the IraqiaList headed by formerPrime Minister AyadAl lawi , su rv ivedunhurt a roadside bombexplos ion nea r h i sconvoy in the rural areaof Jur f a l -Nadaf insouthern the capital, the

BAGHDAD, 15 Oct—Iraqi officials say aroadside bomb has hit asenior politician’sconvoy, killing fourpeople and wounding sixothers, including thepolitician. Police andhospital officials say theblast struck the car ofAbdul Karim al-Mohammadawi, aprominent member of theSunni-backed Iraqiyaalliance, while he wastraveling throughsoutheast Baghdad onThursday.

The officials saythree civilians and abodyguard were killed inthe attack. Al-Mohammadawi, threebodyguards and twobystanders werewounded. The officialsspoke on condition ofanonymity because theywere not authorized tospeak to the media.

Internet

Roadsidebomb in

Baghdad killsfour, wounds

six

US troop surge to quell it.But the tally falls short ofthe estimated 85,694deaths of civilians andsecurity officials betweenJanuary 2004 to 31 Oct,2008, as counted last yearby the Iraqi HumanRights Ministry. Casualtyfigures in the US-led warin Iraq have been hotlydisputed because of thehigh political stakes in aconflict opposed by manycountries and a largeportion of the Americanpublic. Critics on eachside of the divide accusethe other of manipulating

the death toll to swayopinion.

The new data wasquietly posted on the USCentral Commandwebsite withoutexplanation in July, and aspokesman at its militaryheadquarters in Tampa,Florida, could not answerbasic questions Thursdayabout the information,including whether itcounted government-backed Sunni fightersamong Iraqi securityforces or militants amongcivilians.

Internet

Taleban attack kills two NATO soldiersin S Afghanistan

relevant nationalauthorities.

The alliance inseparate statements earlyin the day confirmedlosing five more soldiers

in Taleban-linkedactivities particularlyImprovised ExplosiveDevice (IED) attacksThursday.

Xinhua

Iraqia List member escapesbomb attack

PESHAWAR, 15 Oct—At least one child was injuredas an explosion hit the northwestern Pakistani city ofPeshawar on Friday, residents said.

Locals said they heard the blast near the office ofa political agent who deals with the nearby Khybertribal region.

“It was a huge blast,” several residents said.Local TV channels showed smoke emitting of theblast site.

Xinhua

source told Xinhua oncondi t ion o fanonymity.

The blast ki l ledthree civilians at thescene and wounded fourothers, while slightlydamaging a vehicle ofMahood’s convoy, thesource said.

Xinhua

One child injured as blast hitsPeshawar in NW Pakistan

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Technology

ScienceNew species of carnivorous

mammal found in MadagascarANTANANARIVO, 15 Oct—A new species of

carnivorous mammal, likely highly endangered, has beendiscovered in eastern Madagascar, conservationists toldAFP Thursday.

The animal, brown and similar to a mongoose, wasfound in the wetlands of Lake Alaotra, the largest expanseof fresh water on the Indian Ocean island.

It has been baptised Durrell’s vontsira (Salanoiadurelli) after the late British naturalist Gerald Durrell,who led conservation projects in Madagascar.

The mammal belongs to the eupleridae family, whichis endemic to Madagascar.

“We noticed the existence of this mammal severalyears ago but we thought it was a species we already knewand that is found in the forest,” said Robert Bourou, anassistant researcher with the Durrell Wildlife ConservationTrust who took part in the operation to capture a specimenof Durrell’s vontsira in 2004. The specimen capturedallowed scientists at the Natural History Museum inLondon to determine they were looking at a specieshitherto unknown.

Experts fear Durrell’s vontsira is already highlyendangered. “It is likely one of the species of carnivorethat numbers the fewest individuals and that are the mostendangered in the world,” said Frank Hawkins ofConservation International. Bush fires and insufficientrain are contributing to the drying up of the Alaotrawetlands and conservationists have been trying for thepast several years to increase local awareness of theimportance of protecting biodiversity.—Internet

A Madagascanworker for the

Durrell WildlifeConservation Trust

holds a new species ofcarnivorous mammalthat was discovered in

Madagascar in thisSeptember 2004

image. The cat sizecreature has beencalled Durrell’s

vontsira (Salanoiadurrelli) in honour of

conservationistGerald Durrell.

Scientists found thecreature in the

wetlands of LakeAlaotra, the largestlake in Madagascar.

INTERNET

Dead animals are Exhibit A in Gulf investigationNEW ORLEANS, 15 Oct—Dead birds

are wrapped in foil or paper, then sealedin plastic bags to avoid crosscontamination. Dolphin tissue samplesand dead sea turtles are kept in lockedfreezers. Field notebooks are collectedand secured.

Scientists examining dead animalsthat were discovered along the GulfCoast in the wake of the BP oil spill areobserving strict laboratory protocols,knowing everything they touch couldbecome evidence in what may prove tobe the biggest environmental case inUS history.

Like detectives on a murder case,government scientists and outsideexperts under contract to thegovernment — are using CSI-styletechniques to determine whether theoil is to blame for the wildlife deaths.

The US Justice Department isinvestigating whether thoseresponsible for the spill violatedenvironmental laws that carry civil andsometimes criminal penalties, and thescientists are taking extraordinary stepsto make sure their findings hold up incourt.

“What we want to do is to makesure that the findings and the resultswe get aren’t called into question in

An aerial view shows the landscapein the coastal waters near Gingst onthe Baltic See island of Ruegen in2009. Many residents of the nine

countries surrounding the Baltic Seahave concerns about its environment

and pollution levels, but denyresponsibility, a survey published

Thursday showed.INTERNET

court based on chain of custody orother legal issues,” said Dr MichaelZiccardi, a veterinarian. “We’retreating oiled wildlife response like acrime scene.”

Justice Department spokeswomanHannah August declined to commenton the investigation. Attorney GeneralEric Holder said in June that thegovernment will prosecute violationsof such laws as the Clean Water Act,the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and theEndangered Species Act.—Internet

Google’s 3Q proves company canafford big spending

SAN FRANCISCO, 15 Oct—Google Inc is still spending moneylike the recession is a distantmemory, but investors can’tcomplain too much as long as theInternet search leader keepsexpanding its advertising empirelike it did in the summer.

The evidence of Google’sdominance and prosperity emergedin its third-quarter results releasedlate Thursday. The performancemarked the latest sign that thetechnology industry is rolling again,even as other parts of the economy

Google signs are seen outside thecomapny’s headquarters inMountain View, California.

Google reported that its quarterlyprofit soared on the back of its

thriving Internet advertising serviceand that its display and mobile ad

businesses are taking win.INTERNET

lag.Net income surged 32

percent to trounce analystestimates, and would have beeneven higher if Google’smanagement hadn’t decided tohire so many more workers, buyother companies and invest inmore equipment to keep itsservices humming.

Google’s liberal spendingdismayed some investorsduring the first half of the year,causing the company’s stock tosag. But the third quarterprovided a big lift as Googleshares soared $49.07, or morethan 9 percent, in Thursday’sextended trading after finishingthe regular session at $540.93.

It probably helped thatGoogle shared some data thatshowed some of the company’sprevious investments arestarting to pay off. As a result,Google finally appears to beturning it into something morethan a one-trick pony dependentsolely on text ads that appearalongside search results on acomputer screen.

Internet

Sony Ericsson Q3 phoneshipments fall, profits hit

STOCKHOLM, 15 Oct—Mobilephone maker Sony Ericsson reportedthird-quarter profit below marketexpectat ions on Friday as thecompany shipped far fewer phonesthan expected, though it said its high-end handsets were selling well.

Pretax profit for the firm, ownedby Ericsson and Sony Corp , was 62million euros ($87.28 million), wellbelow a mean forecast in a Reuterspoll of 72 million.

Sony Ericsson posted third-quarter sales of 1.6 billion eurosagainst a forecast for sales of 1.8billion and shipped 10.4 million units,missing all 27 analysts expectationswhich ranged from 10.5 million to13.9 million units.

The average forecast was for SonyEricsson to ship 12 million phonesduring the July-September periodcompared to 11 million in the secondquarter.

Chief Executive Bert Nordbergsaid Sony Ericsson’s overal lperformance was “stabilizing.”

“Our strategy to focus on thesmartphone segment is succeedingand smartphones now comprise morethan 50 percent of our total sales,” hesaid in a statement.—Reuters

US videogame sales remainuninspired

SAN FRANCISCO, 15Oct— Sales ofvideogame gear andsoftware at stores slidanew in September, datashowed, but thesignificance of the dropwas difficult to assessgiven a trend todownloading titlesonline as digital content.

Revenue fromvideogame hardware andtitles tallied 1.22 billiondollars, eight percent lessthan the 1.32 billiondollars taken in duringthe same month last year,according to datareleased on Thursday byNPD Group. “Whileindustry sales of newphysical retail sales showa decline versus year ago,it’s important toremember that there is agrowing volume ofcontent being solddigitally,” said NPDanalyst Anita Frazier.

“These numbersreflect the largest channel

Bungie Creative DirectorMarcus Lehto is pictured

as he reveals the new‘Halo: Reach’ video game

in Los Angeles,California, in June.

INTERNET

for hardware, software andaccessories sales, but thereare content saleshappening elsewhere.”

Sales of videogameconsoles totaled 383million dollars, a 19percent drop from the 472million dollars logged inSeptember of last year,according to NPD.

Science fiction battlevideogame “Halo: Reach”published by Microsoftfor play on Xbox 360consoles was ranked as thetop title, with 3.3 millioncopies sold not countingthose bundled withhardware.—Internet

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Health

Business

Health Tip:signs that youmay have mono

Mononucleosis, often dubbed“mono,” is a viral infection that causes arange of symptoms that may be mild tosevere.

The American Academy of FamilyPhysicians offers this list of commonsymptoms:

* Running a fever.* Having a sore throat.* Feeling weak and fatigued.* Having swollen glands in the

armpits and neck.* Having loss of appetite.* Sweating at night.—Internet

Immune protein plays role inabnormal brain development

LOS ANGELES, 15 Oct— Exposing fetal neurons to higher thannormal levels of a common immune protein leads to abnormal braindevelopment in mice, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles( UCLA) based their conclusion on analysis of a protein called majorhistocompatibility complex, or MHC.

The protein plays a dual role in the body: It helps the immunesystem to identify infected cells, and it enables neurons to make theright connections with each other in the brain.

The finding may provide new insights into factors contributingto human neurological disorders like schizophrenia and autism, theresearchers said in the study published Thursday on the onlineJournal of Neuroimmunology.

“When neurons sense infection or damage to the brain, theyproduce more MHC,” said Daniel Kaufman, professor of molecularand medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicineat UCLA. “We wanted to explore whether higher levels of MHCaffect how the brain develops.”

Kaufman and his colleagues studied the development of micewhose neurons were genetically engineered to produce more MHCthan normal.

Focusing on two key regions of the brain, the researchers lookedat neurons that process vision and neurons involved in learning andmemory. Next, the team compared these cells with their counterpartsin normal mice.

What the scientists saw confirmed their hunch.“The mice whose neurons produced extra MHC showed subtle

changes in the connections between those neurons and other neuronsin both brain regions,” Kaufman said.

The UCLA finding could be of relevance in unraveling theorigins of schizophrenia and autism, he noted.—Xinhua

US teens arriving at a Los Angelesschool. Around half of US teens meetthe criteria for a mental disorder and

nearly one in four report having amood, behaviour or anxiety disorder

that interferes with daily life,American researchers say.—INTERNET

Photo illustration of bottled water. Alcohol has becomecheaper than bottled water in New Zealand, a study

showed Friday, with researchers warning there could bemajor implications for public health.—INTERNET

1 in 22 blacks will get HIV, CDCreport says

ATLANTA, 15 Oct—Health officials estimatethat 1 in 22 blackAmericans will bediagnosed with the AIDSvirus in their lifetime —more than twice the riskfor Hispanics and eighttimes that of whites.

The Centres forDisease Control andPrevention reported thenumbers Thursday. Thereport says the lifetimerisk is 1 in 52 forHispanics, and 1 in 170for whites.

Asian-Americanshad the lowest lifetimerisk, at about 1 in 222.The data is not consideredsurprising. Earlierresearch has shownblacks, especially, have ahigh risk of HIVinfection. The estimatesare based on 2007 deathcertificates, populationfigures and HIVsurveillance data from 37states and Puerto Rico.They update similarcalculations reported twoyears ago.—Internet

German economy to increase3.5 percent in 2010

BERLIN, 15 Oct— German economy will rise 3.5percent in 2010 and 2 percent in 2011, asunemployment rate falls to 7 percent next year, leadingeconomic institutes said on Thursday.

Eight economic institutes selected by the Germangovernment together issued their two-year report,saying, “German economy is on an upward track tomake up for the fall in production caused by thecrisis.”

Growth is expected to slow down due to thecooling of global economy, but it is still healthy, anddomestic consumption will become a shining point,the report said.

“Domestic consumption and investment haswitnessed significant acceleration,” the report said,influenced by surging exports since 2010.

The people out of work are expected to fall below3 million in 2011, the lowest level since 1992, whichwill push domestic consumptions to see a “noticeablerise for the first time in several years.” The Germangovernment deficits are also expected to fall to 2.7percent of GDP in 2011, as the government’s stimulusprogramme fades out and serious budget saving plantakes effect.

Then Germany will become the first major EUnation to realize the goal of limiting governmentdeficits within 3 percent of GDP, while Spain andFrance both forecasted their deficits would be 6percent of GDP in 2011 and Italy predicted 3.9percent.—Xinhua

In this 25 Aug, 2010

photo, Grant Griffin,

of Flint, Mich., fills out

information while

attending a job fair in

Southfield, Mich.

Applications for jobless

benefits rose last week

for the first time in

three weeks, evidence

that companies are

reluctant to hire in a

slow economy.

INTERNET

China’sSeptember

FDI hits 8.384bln USD,

growth rateacceleratesBEIJING, 15 Oct—

Foreign directinvestment (FDI) inChina in September rose6.14 percent year onyear, compared with agrowth rate of just 1.38percent in August.

China received8.384 billion US dollarsin FDI last month,compared with 7.602billion US dollars inAugust, the Ministry ofCommerce (MOC) saidFriday.

The Septemberfigure brought the totalamount for the first ninemonths to 74.34 billionUS dollars , MOCspokesman Yao Jiansaid.—Xinhua

US wholesale inflationremains tame in Sept

WASHINGTON, 15 Oct— US wholesale prices roseby a modest 0.4 percent in September, despite a spikein food prices, US Labour Department figures revealedThursday.

The growth of the Producer Price Index (PPI) inthe United States was the same as that in August. Inthe 12 months ended September 2010, wholesaleprices advanced 4 percent, their 11th straight year-on-year spike.

Excluding the volatile food and energy sectors,core wholesale prices ticked up 0.1 percent inSeptember, the same as in August. Economists believethat inflation remains no problem at the momentbecause of downward pressure on wages and pricesas a result of the recession. They also contend that thesubdued inflation pressure gives the US FederalReserve room to keep interest rates low and takefurther quantitative easing moves to boost the falteringeconomic recovery.

Xinhua

Pedestrians walk by a Yahoosign in Times Square in New

York City. Yahoo! shares surgedon Thursday following a report

the Internet’s largest portalcould be the target of a purchase

by AOL and several privateequity firms.

INTERNET

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PORTLAND, 15 Oct— Fibromyalgiapatients may benefit from acomprehensive yoga programme, USresearchers suggest.

James W Carson of the OregonHealth & Science University inPortland led a study of a yogaprogramme tailored to address thesymptoms of fibromyalgia, whichinclude muscle and joint pain, fatigue,sleep disturbance, and emotionaldistress versus standard care.

The study, published in Pain, findswomen assigned to the yogaprogramme showed significantlygreater improvements on standardizedmeasures of symptoms andfunctioning, including pain, fatigue,mood and demonstrated better coping

Yoga may ease fibromyalgia pain

For many people, today is not World Food Day. It is another No Food Day. Although the number of hungry people has fallen from last year’s historic highof more than one billion, there are still 925 million hungry people in the world. We are continually reminded that the world’s food systems are not working inways that ensure food security for the most vulnerable members of oursocieties.

The hunger target set out in the first Millennium Development Goal — tocut the proportion of hungry people by half by 2015 — is a pillar for achievingall the goals. When people are hungry, they cannot break the crippling chainsof poverty, and are vulnerable to infectious diseases. When children arehungry, they cannot grow, learn and develop.

This year alone, millions have been thrown into life-threatening hunger bythe earthquake in Haiti, drought in the Sahel and floods in Pakistan. The foodand financial crises continue to affect the world’s most vulnerable. Food pricesremain volatile and recently hit a two-year high.

This year’s theme for World Food Day, “United Against Hunger,” reflectsa welcome development: a growing number of governments, intergovernmentalorganizations, regional and sub-regional bodies, businesses and civil societygroups are forming partnerships and implementing joint solutions. Increasingly,their approach is comprehensive — focusing on more stable supplies of food,better access to food and optimizing nutrition at the household level. Theycover the full spectrum of food security, from smallholder farming to feedingschoolchildren. They help save lives in emergencies through food assistance.

In recent months, there has been more attention to nutrition and gettingthe right food to the right people at the right time. This calls for agriculture,health and social security systems to be sensitive to nutritional needs, and forspecific interventions to improve the nutrition of children from conception tothe age of two years.

I urge everyone to work towards such a comprehensive approach, and to doso in partnership, so that we can build on the progress we have made in reducingthe numbers of hungry people. Let us unite against hunger and ensure food andnutrition security for all.—UNIC

UNSG’s Message onWorld Food Day

“United against hunger”16 October 2010

A worker harvests grapesin a vineyard at

Nipozzano castle, one ofItaly’s Frescobaldi

family estate, 30 km (19miles) northeast of

Florence in this picturetaken on 8 October,

2010.—INTERNET

ONKERS, 15 Oct—About 37 percent of US adultssay they plan to get the seasonal influenza vaccine thisyear, down from 45 percent last flu season, a surveyindicates.

A nationally representative poll of 1,500 adultsfrom the Consumer Reports National Research Centresays one of the top reasons given for avoiding the flushot this flu season is that people thought last year’sepidemic was overblown.

Tim Uyeki, a medical epidemiologist in the Centresfor Disease Control and Prevention’s influenza divisionsays although last year’s estimated flu death toll wasabout half that of an average seasonal flu season from1976 to 2006, the numbers do not reflect the severityof the pandemic.

“It had a disproportionate impact on youngeradults,” Uyeki says in a statement.

About 270,000 people in the United States werehospitalized with H1N1 and 12,470 died, the CDCestimates. In most years about 90 percent of the deathsfrom seasonal flu are among those 65 and older but 87percent of the deaths last year were among those age 65and under.—Internet

Basenji rescue : WilliamKey, a volunteer forBasenji Rescue and

Transport, takes a groupof Basenji dogs out for a

walk around LoganCircle Park in

Washington DC.INTERNET

TEMPE, 15 Oct—Human and naturalimpacts on the world’srivers are affecting theircentral role in supportingglobal fish species, USresearchers say.Scientists at Arizona StateUniversity say rivers andstreams around the world

LONDON, 15 Oct—Greater ManchesterPolice have offeredBritons a fascinatinginsight into the daily lifeof a bobby on the beat bypublishing on Twitterevery call they receivedover 24 hours.

The force tweetedevery report made from 5am on Thursday until 5am on Friday todemonstrate the amountand variety of calls policedeal with.

It comes a week

UK police hail “bobby on the tweet”experiment

Man, nature affecting fishin rivers

A McDonald’s HappyMeal. A New York

woman whopurchased a

McDonalds HappyMeal six months ago

says the uneatenburger and fries are inas good shape as they

were the day shebought them.

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strategies.“Although yoga has been practiced

for millennia, only recently haveresearchers begun to demonstrateyoga’s effects on persons sufferingfrom persistent pain,” Carson says in astatement. “The findings of this pilotstudy provide promising preliminarysupport for the beneficial effects ofyoga in patients with fibromyalgia.”

The yoga programme included 40minutes of gentle stretching poses, 25minutes of mindfulness meditation, 10minutes of breathing techniques, 20minutes of didactic presentations onthe application of yogic principles tooptimal coping and 25 minutes of groupdiscussions of experiences whilepracticing yoga.—Internet

Fewer plan to get influenza shot

are being affected byhuman use, or drying updue to climate change,altering the naturalvariability of river flows,S c i e n c e D a i l y . c o mreported. Some rivershave dried completelyand no longer run, whileothers are experiencingextreme variability offlows due to storm floods.The two forces areconspiring to shortenfood chains, especially byeliminating top predatorslike large-bodied fish, oneresearcher says.

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before the governmentannounces spending cutsto address a recordpeacetime budget deficit,which could lead policeforces to have to makesavings of up to 25percent.

The tweets rangedfrom someone callingpolice to say there was arat in their house and a catcould be responsible, awoman reporting a manwho shouted “you’regorgeous” at her, toserious incidents such as

injuries to a child and amotorway pile-up.

Officers arrested 341people and 126 were stillin custody.—Internet

A devotee of the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui has hischeeks pierced with umbrellas as he takes part in

a procession to mark the annual VegetarianFestival in southern Thailand’s town of

Phuket.—INTERNET

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US responsible for a quarter of UNbudget gap

UNITED NATIONS, 15Oct—\Member states owethe UN 4.1 billion U.S.dollars, of which theUnited States isaccountable for more thana quarter, a UN officialtold a Press conferencehere Thursday.

The global financialmeltdown contributed tothis gap in the UN budget,UN Under-Secretary-General for ManagementAngela Kane said. “It hasbeen a difficult year inmany ways for manymember states because ofthe economic recession,”she said, noting that “they

have to tighten their belts.”The US is the biggest

non-payer, followed byChile, Iran, Mexico andVenezuela accounting forthe nine percent dividingthem with the other 68countries that wereaccountable for theremaining three percent ofthe unpaid sum.

Unpaid assessedcontributions currentlytotal 787 million USdollars, down 43 millionfrom assessedcontributions in Octoberlast year, according toKane.

The budget for UN

peacekeeping missions fellshort of 3.2. billion USdollars, some 1.3 billiondollar more than in 2009,Kane said, linking thecause of the increase tothis year’s higherassessments.

But the “unpredictablenature of the demand forpeacekeeping activitiesmakes it difficult to predictfinancial outcomes,” shenoted.

The UN moneyshortfall nearly doubled,going from 2.24 billion USdollars at the end of 2009to 4.1 billion US dollarsthis year.—Xinhua

Auto-rickshaws, the ubiquitous three-wheeled transport seen on India’sroads, are seen displayed on the aerostat during the Commonwealth Games

closing ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, on 14October. Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest city, will be host to the next

Commonwealth Games in 2014.—INTERNET

Tropical storm Paulaaffects western Cuba

HAVANA, 15 Oct—The rains of tropical stormPaula began affecting Cuba since early Thursdaymorning, mainly in Pinar del Rio province in the westof the island state, according to the National InstituteMeteorology (INSMET).

At 6:00 a.m. local time (1000 GMT), Paula wascentered some 50 km north-northeast of Cabo SanAntonio and was moving northeastward at 7 km perhour, with the maximum sustained winds at 120 km perhour.

According to INSMET’s forecast, in coming hoursPaula will change its course to the east-northeast andeast, so it will pass Cuba’s northwestern coast of Pinardel Rio.

The Civil Defence Department placed somemunicipalities of Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzasand Juventud Island on alert on Thursday.

Paula is the 16th tropical storm of the currenthurricane season.

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Tropical storm clouds form over Havana’sseafront boulevard “El Malecon” on 14 October,

2010.—XINHUA

Food crisis not in sightdespite price surge

BEIJING, 15 Oct—AUN food agency has saidthat an impending foodcrisis is not in sight,although grain prices in theinternational market havesurged over the past fewmonths.

Nevertheless, theRome-based Food andAgricultural Organizationof the United Nations(FAO) has warned that therecent price volatility isposing a “major threat” tothe global food security.

Wheat prices in theinternational market havesurged by 60-80 percentsince July, and maizeprices rose by about 40percent, arousing concernsover the possibility of a

repeat of the 2008 worldfood crisis.

However, there is “noindication of an impendingworld food crisis,” FAOsaid in a statement in lateSeptember.

World cereal outputthis year is forecast to beabout 2.239 billion tons,while global consumptionin 2010/2011 would be2.248 billion tons, thestatement said, adding thatalong with carry-overstocks, cereal supply anddemand appeared“sufficiently in balance.”

The current grainprices are still one thirdlower than their 2008 peak,it said.

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Phnom Penh Authority alertsresidents of flooding

PHNOM PENH, 15 Oct—Phnom Penh MunicipalityAuthority has alerted residents living in suburban areaof the capital to cautious of any risks to property,animals and human lives that may cause by the flooding.

In the public notice sent out late Thursday andcopied to the media on Friday suggested that thoseliving along Prek Thnauth Stream which lies along thesuburban area of Phnom Penh must be cautious withtheir property, animals and human lives.

It said the bad weather is affecting the country andit may cause more rain and flooding in the area.

At least seven communes located in Phnom Penhare being affected by the heavy rain over the past fewdays and the rain will continue for the next few days.

Due to flooding, at least two workers were reporteddead caused by electrocuted while working the factorythat submerged by the floods over the past two days.

The first victim identified as Chan Bunthy, 52,while he was working in his metal handicraft in KhandMeanchey in Phnom Penh and another victim wasThan Long, 50, while he was working in the constructionfield as his hand touched with the metal while powersupply was running.

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UNICEF says diarrhea claims194,000 lives in Nigeria annually

ABUJA, 15 Oct—Diarrhea has killed morethan 194, 000 childrenunder five annually inNigeria, according to theUnited Nations Children’sFund (UNICEF).

This figure was thesecond highest in the world,

Severely wounded soldier describes Ft Hood spree

after India, the world bodysaid in a statement.

The simple act ofwashing hands with soapor ash and waterparticularly after using thetoilet and before handlingfood can reduce theincidence of diarrheaamong children under fiveby almost half, UNICEFsaid.

The statement quotedSuomi Sakai, UNICEFRepresentative in Nigeria,as saying that handwashing was simple,powerful and could be doneby everybody. Sakai urgedNigerians to do it daily,not just on Global HandWashing Day.

Diarrhea is thecondition of having threeor more loose or liquidbowel movements per day.It is a common cause ofdeath in developingcountries and the secondmost common cause ofinfant deaths worldwide.

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FORT HOOD, 15 Oct—Everything had stopped.

Not a whisper, not acough, not even the soundof someone shuffling in hisseat could be heard as StaffSgt Patrick Zeigler, hiscane gripped in his righthand and an extensive scarvisible across his closelyshaved head, carefullymade his way to the witnessstand.

Then, in a strongthough sometimes haltingvoice, Zeigler describedThursday to a militaryinvestigating officer howfour gunshots left him themost seriously injuredamong the survivors of last

year’s deadly shootings atFort Hood.

Maj Nidal Hasan, 40,an American-bornMuslim, has been chargedwith 13 counts ofpremeditated murder and32 counts of attemptedpremeditated murder.Zeigler testified at anArticle 32 hearing, aproceeding unique tomilitary justice that will

determine if Hasan shouldstand trial. The hearingwas to continue Friday.

Prosecutors have notsaid whether they’ll seekthe death penalty if the casegoes to trial.

Zeigler had justreturned from his seconddeployment in Iraq and wasat a Fort Hood center toget routine medical testson Nov. 5, preparing to goto the Army’s OfficerCandidate School at FortBenning, Ga. Then heheard someone shout“Allahu Akbar!” — “Godis Great!” in Arabic,Zeigler testified.

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Major Nidal Hasan

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(from page 1)The minister also called for hard work for greater

success in implementing the 12 tasks including doingtheir bit in the tasks for completion of the State’s seven-step Road Map, effective application of media means forsuccessfully holding of 2010 multiparty democracygeneral elections, improving daily newspapers in

Civil servants to refrain…

appearance and quality, raising incomes, opening moresub-printing houses, ensuring that every village getsnewspapers, and better welfare for the staff throughagricultural and livestock farming.

He noted that civil servants are to refrain fromparty politics, but to continue implementing tasks fornational causes and serving national interest. Servicepersonnel are responsible for the three national duties:State’s stability and peace, national development, im-provement of socio-economic status of every individualand family, and freedom of settlement and business inaccordance with the law. Emergence of firm hluttawsand reliable government is essential for sustainableprogress in implementing those national duties. Ac-cordingly, the entire people including service personnelshould choose the persons and organizations capablefor accomplishing national duties in the forthcomingelections.

In conclusion, the minister urged all staff mem-bers to remain cohesive in pursuing the tasks of theministry and mother units. The minister presented prizesto Editor U Soe Soe Naing of Kyemon Daily on behalf of12 staff who were awarded Public Service Medals by theState Peace and Development Council.

Next, the minister gave the award for best displayand appearance for Myanma Alin Daily to Chief Editor UHlaing Win, the award for earning highest income fromcommercials for Kyemon Daily to Chief Editor U KhinMaung Kyaw Din, the award for earning foreign exchangefor the New Light of Myanmar Daily to Chief Editor UThan Myint Tun, the award for best operating andmaintaining rotary press to Chief Editor U Tin MaungThan of Myanmar Alin Press.

The minister also presented the award for pro-duction of best printing quality and standard to in-chargeofficer U Hla Shwe of Nay Pyi Taw Daily, the award forearning most from commercials to Deputy Chief EditorU Nyunt Zaw of Sub-printing House (Mandalay), theaward for minimizing loss and wastage and best productionto Editor U Naing Tun of Sub-printing House (Taunggyi)

and the award for best maintenance of sheet-fed press toEditor U Than Lin Oo of Sub-printing House (Kengtung).

Managing Director U Soe Win of NPE awardedthe outstanding service personnel. He handed over costfor uniforms of staff to Manager (Admin) U Khaing MinKyaw of NPE (Head Office) and the self-help cultivationmodel prize to Assistant Manager (Circulation) U HlaKhaing of Nay Pyi Taw Daily.

Director-General U Khin Maung Htay of

Myanma Radio and Television, Managing Director UAung Myo Myint of Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise,Acting Managing Director U Ye Tint of Printing andPublishing Enterprise, General Manager U Zaw Min Ooof NPE and Chief Editor U Thet Swe of Myanmar NewsAgency (Internal) awarded the respective outstandingstaff. After that, lucky draw programme followed. Afterthe ceremony, the minister cordially conversed with thosepresent.—MNA

Minister U Kyaw Hsan presents prize to CE U Khin Maung Kyaw Din of Kyemon Daily.—MNA

Minister U Kyaw Hsan presents prize to CE U Than Myint Tun of New Light of Myanmar Daily.—MNA

Minister U Kyaw Hsan presents prize to CE UHlaing Win of Myanma Alin Daily.—MNA

Minister U Kyaw Hsan presents prize to CE UTin Maung Than of Myanma Alin Press.—MNA

Managing Director U Aung Myo Myint ofMMPE presents prize to Junior Reporter U Ye

Htut Myat of NPE (Head Office).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—Heavyrains caused floods in Thanatwa ofKyitkon Village-tract and Paypyin andMaubin Villages of Kywedaga Village-tract in Pwintbyu Township on 13 Octo-ber. Some households were evacuatedinto safe place. Floods damaged someparts of the road.

Local authorities and social or-ganization members provided bags of rice,bottles of purified drinking water and cash

Heavy rains cause floods in Pwintbyu, Ngaphe Townships

assistance to the flood victims. Workers ofRoad Project Group are repairing thedamaged parts of the road section.

Due to heavy rains, floods oc-curred between Panhtein and Hsinchidaingvillages in Ngaphe Township on 13October. There was no man or animalcasualty. Local authorities, officials andsocial organization members provided thevictims with necessary assistance.

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NAY PYI TAW,15Oct—According to the(12:30) hr M.S.T obser-vation today, the waterlevel of DokehtawadyRiver at Myitnge is (885)cm. It may fall below itsdanger level (870) cmduring the next (24) hourscommencing noon today.

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Dokehtawady River at885 cm in Myitnge

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(from page 16)production to exportbased on all the paddyseed producers, rice mill-ers, rice merchants, ricecompanies and those in-volved in rice produc-tion.”

The governmenthas been providing allpossible ways of boost-ing paddy production thatare in conformity with theregions. Myanmar hasbeen extending manyacres of arable lands. Be-fore1988, there were 23.8million acres of arableland. But for now, thereexist 53.1 million acres ofland. With respect to cul-tivation and production,paddy output was 630million baskets before1988. To hit the target of1625 million baskets ofthe paddy in 2010-2011paddy growing season hasbeen set. We went to theoffice of the Associationbefore the ceremony. Isaw departmental offi-cials, townselders andmembers of the associa-tion at the front of the

A visit tomodel agri-cultural …

Thriving quality paddy plantation in model agricultural farm in Bawaing Village inPantanaw Township.

at farmer U Sein Win'smodel agricultural farm. Iwas inspired by thrivingpaddy plantations. So, I in-terviewed farmer U SeinWin about it in the farm.He said, "I grow paddythree times in the farm. Pre-monsoon paddy is grownin March and harvested atthe end of May. I had tomake land reclamation. Inthe second week of June,monsoon paddy is grownand it will be harvested inthe third week of October.In November, green peaand sun flower will begrown. Two acres ofHsinthwelat, four acres ofHsinthukha and three acresof Shwethweyin are grownon nine acres wide planta-

tion. I asked about thecultivation methods. Hesaid, "I take quality paddyseeds from Pathein. Infirst year, I cultivatedpaddy in my farm. In sec-ond year, I grew paddyfrom my farm. I put natu-ral fertilizer before grow-ing paddy and so did T-super and Potash fertiliz-ers. And then I broadcastPearl fertilizer.

I discussed withfarmer U Sein Win andlocal farmers about grow-ing of paddy and beans,food sufficiency of theregion and trading of sur-plus crops. Then, I left forYangon by car.

Translation: MTMyanma Alin (13-10-10)

Farmers visiting model paddy plantation.

office. The signboard wasunveiled by Chairman ofTownship Peace and De-velopment Council U MyaOo, the district managerand Chairman U Sein Winof the Association.

Then, all those at-tended went to Bawaingvillage. I accompaniedthem to Nyaunghnabinmodel high-yield agricul-tural farm in Bawaing vil-lage beside Yangon-Pathein road. There, Chair-man of Maubin DistrictPDC held discussion withthose in charge inagriculture in the districtand township, the chair-men from 55 village-tracts,

townselders and members.The discussion focused onboosting agricultural pro-

duction in the township.Then, we visited thrivingquality paddy plantations

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—Members of Shan StateElection Subcommissionand Kalaw Township Elec-tion Subcommission ofTaunggyi District met withmembers of Ward/Village-tract ElectionSubcommissions at the hallof Basic Education PostPrimary School in Heho on

Meetings on electoral process held in Shan State9 October morning.

Also present weremembers of four village-tracts Election Sub-commissions in and aroundHeho, polling station offic-ers, deputy polling stationofficers and polling stationmembers and townselders.

Chairman of Town-ship Election

Subcommission U Pwintextended greetings. ShanState ElectionSubcommission mem-bers presented electoralrules and laws, votingprocess, TaunggyiDistrict ElectionSubcommission mem-bers on arrangement forelectoral work,Township Election Sub-commission members onsystematic preparednessof polling station andbooths.

The chairman an-swered the queries raisedby those present and themeeting came to an end.

A total of 1080 peoplefrom 23 wards and 24village-tracts attended thesimilar meetings on elec-toral process held at BasicEducation High School inBawsai Village-tract, at thecooperative hall ofAungban and at the TownHall of Kalaw till 11October.

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YANGON, 15 Oct — To mark the end of RainyRetreat Season, 555 Indian Fashion Store in PabedanTownship is offering 10 to 50 percent discount on allIndian traditional costumes from 9 to 31 October.

Besides, they are selling Indian made steelwares, bronze statues, cosmetic, clothes, food,medicines and household goods at discount.

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Indian clothes, utensils onsale at discount

YANGON, 15Oct—The Basic Manage-ment Proficiency CourseNo. 2/2010 of the Ministryof Electric Power No. 2

Basic Management ProficiencyCourse concludes

concluded at the office ofYangon City ElectricitySupply Board in AhlonTownship today.

Chairman of theYESB U Khin Maung Soeawarded the outstandingtrainees.

Secretary of theYESB U Maung MaungLatt presented completioncertificates to the leader oftrainees.

Altogether 28trainees attended the two-week course.

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Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe of Ministry of Defence visits booths at Myanma

Food Fair 2010. (News on page 1)—MNA

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Danube water within normalparameters at entrance in Romania

BUCHAREST, 15 Oct—The values ofquality indicators on the Danube arewithin the normal parameters at its pointof entry in Romania, national waterauthorities announced Thursday.

According to the Romanian WatersNational Administration, the latest labanalysis revealing a pH value of 7.86 andexperts measured the Danube waterquality every four hours at Bazias, wherethe Danube enters Romania in thecountry’s south-west.

In the next 24 hours, water sampleswill be collected once every eight hoursand afterwards on a daily basis, accordingto the same release.

Millions of gallons of red mud, a

bauxite residue, from an alumina facilitybroke through a container barrier earlylast week in western Hungary, dousing onthe tiny hamlet of Kolontar and theneighbouring village Devecser withmillions of gallons of caustic liquid, killingat least four.

The red mud contains heavy metalsthat are highly toxic. Hundreds of tons ofplaster are being used to bind the toxicmud, and military helicopters have beenpouring neutralizing materials into thewaterway from the air.

The accident has caused concern inthe Danube riparian states, alarmed by apossible vast contamination.

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A teacher helps children recognisingdifferent kinds of grain in a kindergarten inHaozhou, east China’s Anhui Province, 13

Oct, 2010. Kindergartens and schools aroundChina held various theme activities prior tothe 30th World Food Day which falls this

Saturday. —XINHUA

Two killed, twoinjured in

another car,train collision

in UkraineKIEV, 15 Oct—Two

people were killed and twoothers seriously injuredwhen an ambulancecollided with a passengertrain about 50 km west ofKiev, local police said ina statement on Thursday.

“The incident tookplace on Wednesdayevening when anambulance went on therailroad tracks ignoringthe signal. Pregnantwoman and her husbanddied in the crash, driverand nurse were taken tohospital being in toughconditions,” a statementsaid. The accidentoccurred just the next dayafter a bus collided with atrain locomotive inEastern Ukraine killing 43people. Ukraine’sPresident ViktorYanukovych ordered tocheck all railroadcrossings in the countryas many of them are notproperly equipped.

Xinhua

Gunmen kill police chief in central Mexican town

MEXICO CITY, 15 Oct—The police chief of a smalltown in central Mexico waskilled by hooded gunmenafter attending a regionalmeeting of police chiefs,local media reportedThursday.

It is believed to be thelatest of a series of murderstargeting public officialsand related to the war ondrug smuggling. MarioMejia Ruvalcaba, 33, wasthe police chief ofMexticacan, a small townin the central state of Jalisco.He was ambushed lateWednesday on his wayhome after attending aregional police chiefmeeting in nearby Canadas,

local broadcaster Milenioreported. Mejia wasdriving. He slowed hisvehicle after finding theroad blocked by road conesand then came under fire.The hooded gunmenquickly fled the scene. Hispassenger and patrolmanPetronilo Martinezsuffered non-fatal injuriesin the attack.

Officers from theJalisco Forensic ScienceAgency (IJCF) said theyfound 50 shells at the scenefrom AK-47 or AR15assault rifles. A Tiguan vanwas found abandoned in anearby ravine with shellsand balaclavas.

Mexico has seen a

number of public officialsmurdered this year,including 10 mayors,mostly from small towns,and one gubernatorialcandidate from the state ofTamaulipas.

Analysts have linkedthe killings with Mexico’swar on drug smugglers.Official statistics showsome 28,000 people havebeen killed in gang-linkedmurders.

Xinhua

Suspected bank robber shot byNew York police

NEW YORK, 15 Oct—A suspected bank robberwas shot on Thursday inMidtown Manhattan byNew York police,according to the NewYork City PoliceDepartment. A NYPDspokeswoman toldXinhua that a knife-wielding man was shot bypolice by the Chase bankat Two Penn Plaza inMidtown around 12:40today.

Police said thesuspect, who was notimmediately identified,had demanded bills of 50and 100 US dollars. Hewas shot in the leg by auniformed officer, whowas patrolling nearby.

The suspect, in this

60s, had twice beenordered to drop the knife.The suspect was in criticalsituation and was takento Bellevue Hospital, aFDNY spokesman toldXinhua. A spokesman forChase said no money wastaken from the bank.Authorities have blockedoff a portion of West 31stStreet right near the bank,which is temporarilyshuttered, for furtherinvestigation.—Xinhua

Chen Laikang, who is 101 years old, is dressedup for photos in a suit of wedding dress inTianjin, north China, 13 Oct, 2010. Chen

realized her dream of taking pictures in weddingdress as the Double Ninth Festival draws on.

The festival is also known as “ChongyangFestival” or “Old Veneration Festival”, a

Chinese traditional occasion to pay respect tothe aged. —XINHUA

British aid workerabducted in SomaliaMOGADISHU, 15 Oct—Masked gunmen have

abducted a Briton and a Somali working for aidagency Save the Children from a compound inwestern Somalia, the agency and a witness saidFriday.

Local resident Moalim Bashir said he did notknow who had taken the two men on Thursdayevening from the town of Adado, near the borderwith Ethiopia.

He said tensions in the town were high as amilitia was massing to the south and might attemptto try to take the town from those currently incontrol.

Several forces have gunmen in the area,including pirate gangs and factions of militiasallied to the government. The area was consideredto be a safer part of Somalia and some aid agencies,which have mostly pulled out of the chaotic country,were considering returning.

“At this point, Save the Children have nofurther information as to the whereabouts or well-being of their staff,” the organization said in astatement.

The British Foreign Office said it wasinvestigating the reports of the kidnap.

Kidnapping for ransom is common in Somalia.The hostages are rarely hurt and people are usuallyfreed after a ransom is paid.

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Workers are seen on the site of the 57kms (35-mile)railway tunnel under construction under the Alps at

Sedrun, in 2009. The new St Gotthard tunnel isexpected to be the world’s longest when completed.But the 9.8 bln Swiss franc (7.0 billion euro) tunnelis also the fruit of a popular wave of concern about

pollution in the Alps with booming road traffictransiting from neighbouring countries.—INTERNET

MOSCOW, 15 Oct — Russia would allocate 85billion rubles (2.8 billion US dollars) for theconstruction of a research hub near Moscow overthe next three years, said a billionaire participantof the project on Friday.

Earlier reports said the figures were more than54 billion rubles (1.8 billion dollars).

“The government is ready to allocate 85 billionrubles (2.8 billion dollars) over the next threeyears,” said the oil and metals giant ViktorVekselberg as quoted by the RIA Novosti newsagency.

The Skolkovo scientific and research hub,which was currently being built some 20 kilometresfrom Moscow, has already been dubbed Russia’sSilicon Valley and will focus on five areas —energy, information technologies, communication,biomedical research and nuclear technologies.

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Russia to put up 3billion dollars for

future “SiliconValley”

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Lebanon, Iran sign 16agreements, no military aid

BEIRUT, 15 Oct — Lebanon and Iran signed 16agreements and memoranda of understanding duringIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s first dayin Lebanon, none of which is on military aid, unlikewhat was predicted before, the local An Naharnewspaper reported Thursday.

With the 16 documents, Lebanon and Iran willdevelop bilateral relations and cooperation in theareas of agriculture, energy, oil and gas, trade andhandicrafts, tourism, higher education, health,environment, media, communications, informationtechnology and techniques.

The agreements, however, did not include militaryaid to Lebanon. It was expected before that somemilitary aid agreements would be signed duringAhmadinejad’s visit.

Iran said on August that it would supply Lebanonwith military equipment, following US congress frozeits aid to Lebanese Armed Forces on concerns overHezbollah’s influence in the army.—Xinhua

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) attend apress conference with Lebanon’s President MichelSuleiman in Beirut, capital of Lebanon, on 13 Oct,2010. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

arrived in Beirut on Wednesday morning, starting avisit to the Mediterranean country. —XINHUA

Bus accidentkills 10 in

PeruLIMA, 15 Oct— At

least 10 people died, 25more injured and anunidentified number ofpeople went missing dueto a bus accident in thePeruvian Andes onThursday.

The accidentoccurred on a highwaybetween La Mejorada andIzcuchaca towns inHuancavelica depart-ment, some 450 kmsoutheast to Lima,according to local radiostation Radio Programasdel Peru. The HighwayPolice are investigatingthe causes of the accident,which allegedly ran outthe trail and fell into acliff of Mantaro River.

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Russia puts US telecoms satellite into orbitMOSCOW, 15 Oct— A US Sirius XM-5 satellite has been successfully

put into orbit on Friday by a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket, said aspokesman for Russia’s federal space agency.

“The Russian part of the programme is complete: the (US) spacecraftseparated from the Briz-M upper stage rocket 9 hours and 12 minutes afterthe blastoff,” said the Roscosmos spokesman.

A Proton-M carrier rocket carrying the telecoms satellite blasted offfrom the Kazakh Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan at 10:53 pmMoscow time (1853 GMT) on Thursday

The 5,980-kg Sirius XM-5 which takes the station point on thegeostationary orbit 85.2 degrees West longitude, will work as a reserve forthe Sirius XM satellite radio network. Its designed service life was 15years.

The US radio company has 20 million subscribers. Russian Protonrockets have previously orbited all four Sirius spacecraft.—Internet

Photo taken on Oct. 12 shows amodel of a solar-poweredaircraft at Belgium-EU

Pavilion in World Expo Park inShanghai, east China. The

solar-powered aircraft made thehistory record as it landed on

July 8, 2010 at Payerne airbasein western Switzerland, after

flying around the clock on thesun’s energy alone.

Xinhua

Asian Gamestorch relayheld in hostcity of Asian

Winter GamesChangchun

Ron Root of Citrus Heights, Californiashows off his first place ribbon next to

his 1,535 pound Atlantic GiantPumpkin during the Half Moon Bay

Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay,California on October 11, 2010. Rootpocketed more than 10,000 dollars for

his colossal cucurbita. UPI/TerrySchmitt.—INTERNET

OPEC holds oil output,warns on risks to recovery

VIENNA, 15 Oct—The Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries left its official oil productiontarget unchanged on Thursday, claiming the marketwas well supplied amid risks to the economicrecovery.

OPEC, which pumps 40 percent of the world’soil, agreed to keep its target at 24.84 million barrelsa day at a ministerial meeting here against an unclearprice outlook and data pointing to surprisingly strongenergy demand.

“Based on its detailed analysis of importantmarket drivers, which clearly reveals that the marketremains well supplied, and given the persistingsignificant downside risks to world economicrecovery, the conference decided to leave currentproduction levels unchanged,” OPEC said in a finalcommunique.

OPEC also elected Iran to become the cartel’spresident in 2011, a post it will hold for the first timein 36 years. Ecuador is the current president.

The oil market registered little reaction to theoutput decision, with Brent North Sea crude forNovember delivery remaining close to 85 dollars abarrel in London trade after solid gains in recentdays. Ahead of the meeting, and mindful that a spikein prices could harm a slowing global economicrecovery, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia said it washappy for crude to stay around 70-80 dollars, whereit has been for much of the past year.—Internet

Yang Lishan harvests in arice field in Taoshu Village,southwest China’s YunnanProvince, on 13 Oct, 2010.Farmers were busy reaping

the harvest of their hardwork at this time of the

year. —XINHUA

Los Angeles int’l airport on-timedeparture percentage slips

LOS ANGELES, 15 Oct—The Los Angeles InternationalAirport (LAX) slipped to sixthplace among US airports in on-time departure percentageduring the first eight monthsof the year, according tostatistics released on Thursday.That is a decline from the sameperiod last year, when LAXranked fifth in the country with84.72 percent of its flightsdeparting as scheduled, theDepartment ofTransportation’s Bureau ofTransportation Statistics said.

The figures showed that82.95 percent of flightsdeparted LAX on time from 1Jan through 13 Aug.

Magnitude-5.0 quake hitsIndonesia’s West JavaJAKARTA, 15 Oct— A quake

measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hitIndonesia’s West Java Province at 2:48am. local time on Friday (0748 GMT onThursday), the Meteorology,Climatology and Geophysics Agencysaid here in a statement.

The quake’s epicenter was at 120kilometres of southwestern Sukabumiregency and at a depth of 10 kilometresunder seabed.—Xinhua

The best on-time departurerate was out of Seattle-TacomaInternational, Washington,where 89 percent of flightsdeparted on time this year. Seattlealso ranked first in on-timearrivals, at 86.5 percent.

Portland International andSalt Lake City International werealso on top of the list, with almost90 percent of their flightsdeparting on time. Meanwhile,at the bottom of the list were JFKInternational Airport in NewYork, Miami InternationalAirport and Chicago MidwayInternational Airport. Theseairports had about 30 percent oftheir flights departing late.

Xinhua

CHANGCHUN, 15 Oct—The torch relay of the 16th Asian Games kicked offFriday at northeastern Chinese Changchun City, which is the host city of the sixthAsian Winter Games.

Xin Qingshan, the coach of winter Olympic speed skating champion WangMeng, was the first torch bearer at 10 am Friday.

A total of 16 torch bearers covered 1.2 kilometres of the relay.Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, whose network is fighting against US and

local forces in neighboring Afghanistan, is also active in the region. The networkis run by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the son of former Taleban commander JalaluddinHaqqani.

Pakistan is under pressure to launch operation against Haqqani network. Anumber of high-profile militant leaders, including Pakistani Taleban chief BaitullahMehsud were killed in the drone attacks.—Xinhua

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Water levels in the Dead Sea are falling sharplyand farms and businesses along its shore are

suffering. — INTERNET

Father in hope of seeing hisnew baby girl

Don’t Smoke

CAMP ESPERANZA, 15Oct — Ariel TiconaYanez will be the second-to-last miner to climb intothe metal cage and makethe 2,047ft journey to thesurface of the mine, and aspecial member of thefamily he has been desper-ate to meet will be thereto greet him. BabyEsperanza was born on 14September and she hashad to wait a month untilthe moment her fathercould take her in his arms.Only days before the

29-year-old entered theSan Jose mine he and hiswife Elizabeth Segoviadiscovered they would behaving a baby girl.

Between the ultra-sound and the disaster on5 August the couple de-cided to name their thirdchild Carolina. But deepunderground during the 17days cut off from the restof the world before rescu-ers discovered them alive,the miner came up with abetter name.

Internet

Top Chinesecontemporaryartists to travelalong silk roadBEIJING, 15 Oct —

China’s top contempo-rary artists will start ajourney late Octoberalong the ancient silkroad to create worksabout the historic path.Fifty artists, including 25traditional Chinese paint-ers and 25 oil painters,will attend the event,which is organized by theChinese Artists Associa-tion (CAA).

The event is aimed topromote the cultures ofthe ethnic minorities andportray the region’s richpast, Wu Changjiang, ex-ecutive vice chairman ofCAA, said on Tuesday ata press conference inXi’an, capital city ofnorthwest China’sShaanxi Province.

Internet

Researchers use MRI to catch autismLOS ANGELES, 15 Oct—Autism in children may be

caught at earlier age than currently possible by MRIimaging, University of Utah said in a news release onThursday. Focusing patients already diagnosed withautism, researchers at the university used MRIs to lo-cate areas of the brain where the left and right hemi-spheres do not communicate properly, according tothe release.

These so-called “hot spots” are central to motorfunction, attention, facial recognition and social be-haviour — types of behaviours that are abnormal inpeople with autism. “We know the two hemispheresmust work together for many brain functions,” studyauthor Dr Jeffrey S Anderson, an assistant professorof radiology, said in the news release.—Internet

Supermarket to sell red sprouts

A new variety of redBrussel sprouts will go onsale in Asda stores thisChristmas.— INTERNET

LONDON, 15 Oct — Anew variety of red Brus-sels sprouts is set to graceChristmas dinner tablesfor the first time this year,a retailer has said. Asdahopes the sprouts will ap-peal to children and adultswho would not normallytouch the vegetable. Itclaims to be the first re-tailer to sell the sproutscommercially followingtrials in Cambridgeshire,where they are grown.

The sprouts are har-vested between Octoberand February and are saidto have a milder, sweeterflavour than the green va-

riety. Asda produce buy-ing manager Anne Spen-cer said: “Sprouts are astraditional as FatherChristmas and we sellmillions of them everyyear.”—Internet

Tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces intoAfghanistan through Pakistan’s Torkham border

crossing point on 10 October, 2010.INTERNET

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NEW YORK, 15 Oct—The Chileanmine rescue was an “uplifting andexciting” story in contrast to accounts oftragedy and woe that dominate the news,a top television executive said Thursday,explaining a rush to tell the tale in manyformats.

Already, there’s a book deal aboutthe rescue, a reality show about miningand a Discovery Channel special on thesaga. Wednesday’s quickie ABC Newsspecial on the rescue of the 33 miners,who were trapped underground for 69days, drew the biggest audience thenetwork has gotten in the time slot in 10months.—Internet

TV, publishing jumping on storyof Chilean miners

In this photo released by the Chileangovernment, miner Raul Bustos, left,

embraces an unidentified woman afterafter being rescued from the collapsed

San Jose gold and copper mine where hehad been trapped with 32 other miners

for over two months near Copiapo, Chile,on 13 Oct, 2010.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 15 Oct—“30 Rock” went live.Thank goodness for film.

This much-hyped,much-awaited departureinto live-ness was a one-time-only (one hopes)stunt by “30 Rock,”which any other week isone of TV’s funniestshows.

Instead, Thursday’sepisode was anoverheated slice of self-indulgence and excess. Itwas “30 Rock”transformed into a shrill,gags-filled sitcom,complete with a studioaudience roaring itsapproval.

Any other week, thezany intricacies of thisNBC comedy make ahalf-hour episode seemlike a comedic Swisswatch or ship in a bottle.Instead, the live versionof “30 Rock” seemedvaudevillian.—Internet

Silhouette of JackTretton, President andCEO Sony Computer

Entertainment America,is seen with the display of

video game GranTurismo 5 in the

background. Sony willagain delay the global

release of the latestversion of its popular“Gran Turismo” car-

racing game, which wasdue out early next month,

officials saidThursday.—INTERNET

NBC’s ‘30Rock’ lives it up

with a liveepisode

A Nepalese man entered the Guinness Bookof World Records on his 18th birthday Thursdayas the world’s shortest man, standing at 26.4inches.

Marco Frigatti, vice president of records atGuinness World Records, said he flew to Pokhara,Nepal, and confirmed Khagendra Thapa Magar’sstatus as the world’s shortest man, CNN reportedThursday.

“I am very happy with the recognition,” fatherRup Bahadur Thapa Magar told CNN. “For thelast few days, Khagendra has been saying that heis a big man now.”

The previous record holder was Edward NinoHernandez, 24, of Colombia, who stands at 27.4inches.

World’s shortest man:26.4 inches

Khagendra Thapa Magar (front)celebrates with President of

Khagendra ThapamagarFoundation Min Bahadur Gurung

after receiving a certificatenaming him as the world’s

shortest man at a ceremony inPokhara, some 200 kilometers

west of Kathmandu, Nepal on 14Oct, 2010. The Nepalese teenagerwhose tiny stature has made him acelebrity in his homeland enteredthe record books as the world’s

shortest man at 67.08 cm or 26.4inches according to new

measurements by Guinness, as hecelebrated his 18th birthday.

Officials with Chicago’s Metra commuter trainssaid they are seeking opinions from the public aboutpotential “quiet cars,” where cellphones would bebanned.

Metra officials said in the October issue of thetrain system’s “On the Bi-Level” newsletter that theyare considering adding quiet cars, which would alsocarry bans on other noisy electronics, to trains as anexperiment in January and they want opinions fromthe public, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.The newsletter stated Metra is “not opposed to quietcars per se, but we’re not sure about how great theneed is, and we have concerns about how it would beimplemented.”

Chicago trains consider‘quiet cars’

A state in southern India is running a competition fordesigners to produce an “air-conditioned” jacket for outdoorlabourers with prize money of more than 20,000 dollars up forgrabs.

Local authorities in Kerala have challenged individualsand research organisations to produce a prototype coolingjacket that could be used by workers who toil in hot weather.

“If it is successful, then it is bound to increase theirefficiency as they will be in an air-conditioned environment,”a senior official from the industries department, T Balakrishnansaid.

He said 10 viable ideas would be selected by an expertpanel, with each inventor then given 100,000 rupees (2,200dollars) to develop the concept.

“The winner will be awarded with one million Indianrupees (22,000 dollars) and monetary assistance will be givenby the state to manufacture the prototype,” he said.

India seeks ‘cool jacket’ design tohelp hot labourers

An Indian mahout covers hishead with a cloth as he rideshis elephant on a hot day in

New Delhi. A state insouthern India is running acompetition for designers to

produce an “air-conditioned” jacket for

outdoor labourers with prizemoney of more than 20,000

dollars up for grabs.

News Album

BUSAN, 15 Oct—Two South Koreanproductions won themajor awards at Asia’stop film festival Friday,lauded for their richlyevocative reflections ofmodern Korean society.

Park Jung-Bum’s“The Journals of Musan”and Yoon Sung-Hyun’s“Bleak Night” took thetwo prizes of 30,000dollars in the NewCurrents section for firstor second time Asiandirectors at the 15thPusan International FilmFestival.

Park was a doublewinner, also picking upthe InternationalFederation of Film Critics(FIPRESCI) award for hisfilm, which follows theproblems faced by aNorth Korean defectorwhen he moves to thesouth.

“Independent filmsare always very personalso I am very happy thatmy film was able to find

South Korean films take topawards at festival

South Korean directorPark Jung-Bum posesafter the International

Federation of FilmCritics (FIPRESCI)

award cremony duringthe 15th Pusan

International FilmFestival, on 15 October,

in Busan.INTERNET

an audience here inBusan,” he said.

Yoon’s film followsthree schoolboys caughtup in a murder and howthe South Korean schoolsystem and society dealwith it.

Internet

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S P O R T S

IOC satisfied with Russia’s progress on 2014 Games

Mourinho says planning nonew signings at Real

UEFA eyes extra refs by Euro 2012 for goal spats

Hodgson plays down Kuytinjury fears

President of the Union of EuropeanFootball Associations (UEFA)

Michel Platini

WARSAW, 15 Oct — UEFA wants tohave extra officials on hand for matchesat Euro 2012 in a drive to deal with dis-puted goals, the body’s chief, MichelPlatini, said on Thursday. “I am goingto seek the possibility of having an extraofficial in place for the finals in Poland

and Ukraine,” Platini told reporters at theconstruction site in Warsaw of the sta-dium where the European champion-ships will kick off on 8 June , 2012.

“That way, extra officials will be ableto see if the ball has crossed the line,” saidthe head of European football’s govern-ing body, on a whistle-stop visit takingstock of preparations for the tournament.The International Football AssociationBoard, which determines the rules of thegame, has been wrestling with how finallyto end years of controversy over goalsdeemed to have been disallowed or ap-proved unfairly. “The International Boardhas accepted extra officials for EuropaLeague and Champions League matches,but not for games involving nationalteams,” Platini noted.— Internet

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin,left, and Jean-Claude Killy, right, theChairman of the IOC coordination com-mission monitoring work in Sochi, visita newly built village near Sochi wherelocal residents evicted due to Olympicconstruction from the Imereti Lowlandare rehoused, near the Black Sea resortof Sochi, southern Russia.— INTERNET

SOCHI, 15 Oct — International Olym-pic Committee officials said Thursdaythey are satisfied with Russia’s prepa-rations for the 2014 Winter Games inSochi, only urging the Russians to speedup work on building hotels.

The IOC coordination commissionwrapped up a three-day visit to theBlack Sea resort. The commission wasaccompanied Wednesday by Prime Min-ister Vladimir Putin, who has taken per-sonal responsibility for the success of thegames.

“The work done so far reconfirms myconviction that Russia and Sochi willhost the 2014 Olympics at a very highlevel,” commission chairman Jean-Claude Killy said.

Internet

MADRID, 15 Oct —Real Madrid coachJose Mourinho said onThursday he has noplans to sign more play-ers during the wintertransfer window. “Thisis our squad from nowuntil the end of the sea-son,” he was quoted assaying on the club’swebsite.

“These are the playerswe have faith in. Real

Madrid made the invest-ment it had to in previousseasons and this pastsummer. We don’t havethe perfect squadbecause it doesn’t exist.“We have an optimalsquad with players whoboost my confidence, soI don’t want any playersin the winter transfer win-dow,” said the Portu-guese coach, whotook over at Real lastsummer.

Internet

Real Madrid’sPortuguese coach

Jose Mourinho

Liverpool manager RoyHodgson expects Dirk

Kuyt, to be back inaction within weeksdespite the Holland

forward’s fears that hewould be sidelined for

several month. INTERNET

LIVERPOOL, 15 Oct —Liverpool manager RoyHodgson expects DirkKuyt to be back in actionwithin weeks despite theHolland forward’s fearsthat he would be sidelinedfor several months.

Kuyt suffered an ankleinjury after landing awk-wardly after an aerial chal-lenge in Holland’s Euro2012 qualifying victoryover Sweden in midweek.

The 30-year-old ad-mitted he expected to beout until next year, butHodgson is confident hewill be back in one monthfollowing an assessmentby the club’s medicalstaff at their Melwoodtraining ground onThursday. “The initialrumours coming out ofHolland were that it was

Melzer defeats Nadal atShanghai tennis Masters

Ivanovic through in Linz despite yoghurt wobble

Serbian Ana Ivanovic

LINZ, 15 Oct — Ana Ivanovic won 6-3, 6-2 against Czech Barbora ZahlavovaStrycova to reach the quarter-finals at theWTA event here on Thursday, despite agame penalty for an unauthorised toiletvisit. The seventh-seeded Serb left thecourt after holding serve to lead 1-0 inthe opening set and upon her return waspenalised a game. Rather than argue thematter, Ivanovic swept through the next

three games with the loss of just twopoints to lead 4-1.

“When I left the court I was reallyfeeling sick,” Ivanovic explained. “I’mreally embarrassed because I had yo-ghurt right before I walked on. Don’tever have yoghurt before you have toplay! “I told the umpire I really have togo to the bathroom and he said I couldn’tgo before her serve, but I said I have to.Then he said I could go on my own time.When I came back he said for every 20seconds I got a point penalty. “It turnedout to be good. I think I was so consumedwith trying to feel a little bit better, but Ithink in normal circumstances it wouldmake me really mad.” Strycova was atricky opponent and just one break de-cided the opening set.

Jurgen Melzer of Austriahits a backhand returnagainst Rafael Nadal ofSpain during their thirdround match at theShanghai Masters ATPTennis tournament in Shanghai.— INTERNET

Tyson plans to be a boxingambassador in China

SHANGHAI, 15 Oct —World number one RafaelNadal was on Thursdaydumped out of the 3.24-million-dollar ShanghaiMasters in the third roundby Austrian 13th seedJurgen Melzer. It was onlythe ninth defeat of the sea-son for the Spaniard, whocame into this tournamenton the heels of victory inthe Japan Open last week.It was also the first timesince the 2009 FrenchOpen that he has failed toprogress further than thethird round: in the 21 tour-naments since then, Nadalhas reached at least thequarter-final stage.

“I felt slow on court, Ihad more mistakes thanusual,” Nadal said. “Iplayed shorter than usual.I was a little bit more tiredjust physically and men-tally. I congratulate himand that’s it.” Despitenever having taken a setoff Nadal in their threeprevious encounters,Melzer stormed the firstset here, winning 6-1.Nadal claimed the second,6-3, but the Austrianranked 12th in the worldrankings, took the third,decisive set 6-3 to set up aquarter-final against JuanMonaco.

Internet

LAS VEGAS, 15 Oct —Just call him AmbassadorIron Mike. Mike Tysonwas once the baddest manon the planet. Now he’ll becircling that planet as aself-titled ambassador tospread the gospel of box-ing to the Chinese. “Ididn’t even know what anambassador really was,”he said on Thursday.

“When I think of am-bassadors I think of living

off government moneyand jet-setting with girl-friends.” No governmentmoney just yet, though aChinese company is pay-ing Tyson to visit in De-cember. No girlfriends, ei-ther, especially since hiswife is due with a baby boyearly next year. And noreal formal agenda just yetfor his trip to China inDecember, either.

Internet

Internet

going to be a really longinjury, maybe months,”Hodgson toldLiverpoolfc.tv.

InternetSpanish forward

David Villa

Miner’s son Villa voices relief at rescue in Chilecoal mining family innorthern Spain, on Thurs-day expressed his joy atthe rescue of the 33trapped miners in Chile. “Ihave lived with uncertainty,hoping that everythingwould turn out well. Itseemed that the rescueequipment was perfect, butin these situations there canalways be complications,”Villa told reporters. “I’mhappy that everything hasgone well and everyone isnow on the surface,” saidthe Barcelona striker,Spain’s top scorer in theWorld Cup in South Africaand who had sent twosigned Barca shirts to theminers last month.

“I’ve lived aroundmining since I was a child.It’s always the same. Let’ssee if this situation servesto improve infrastructureand that this sort of thingdoes not happen again,”said Villa, who comesfrom the town of Tuilla inthe northern region ofAsturias. — Internet

MADRID, 15 Oct—World Cup star DavidVilla, who comes from a

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Region MissionarySayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise7:30 am 3. Morning News7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja Song

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Pogoda8:05 am 6. Nice & Sweet Song8:15 am 7. Poem Garden8:25 am 8. International News8:30 am 9. Islands Of Dhamma

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Weekly TV LocalNews

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5:45 pm 2. Musical Programme6:00 pm 3. Evening News6:15 pm 4. Weather Report

6:20 pm 5. Ahlashamae

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(Repeat)10. International News11. Weather Report12. ‘‘How to Cast

Vote’’ (MyanmarMotion PictureAsiayon)

13. ‘‘Budding LotusFlower at Dawn’’(Part-3)(Film Artistes)(Director-WriterTin Than Oo)

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Programme Schedule(16-10-2010)(Saturday)

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am) MSTOversea Transmission - (16-10-10 09:30 am ~

17-10-10 09:30 am) MST

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Kayah and Kayin States andAyeyawady Region, scattered in Rakhine and Mon States,Mandalay, Magway and Yangon Regions, fairly widespreadin Bago Region and widespread in the remaining States andRegions with locally heavy falls in Mandalay Region andisolated heavy falls in lower Sagaing Region. The notewothyamounts of rainfall recorded were ChaungU (4.17) inches,TadaU (3.05) inches, Cocogyun (2.95) inches, Mindat (2.79)inches, Kyaukse (2.48) inches, Homalin (1.77) inches,Meiktila (1.61) inches, NyaungU and Pyawbwe (1.53)inches each, Monywa (1.46) inches and Minkin (1.38)inches.

Nay Pyi Taw WeatherMaximum temperature on 14-10-2010 was 90°F.

Minimum temperature on 15-10-2010 was 75°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 15-10-2010 was (84%).Rainfall on 15-10-2010 was (Nil) .

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 14-10-2010 was 89°F.

Minimum temperature on 15-10-2010 was 75°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 15-10-2010 was (84%).Total sunshine hours on 14-10-2010 was (2.4) hours.

Rainfall on 15-10-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and (Tr) at Central Yangon. Total rainfall since1-1-2010 was (75.75) inches at Mingaladon, (87.99) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (99.41) inches at Central Yangon.

WEATHERFriday, 15th October, 2010

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mphfrom Southeast at (16:30) hours MST on 14-10-2010.

Bay Inference: According to the observations at(12:30) hrs MST today, yesterday’s depression overNorthwest Bay has moved Northwest wards and crossingOrissa Coast near Gopalpur (India). Weather is partly tocloudy in the North and Central Bay and partly cloudy inthe Andaman sea and elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until afternoon of the 16th October2010: Rain or thundershowers will be scattered in KayahState and Mandalay Region, fairly widespread in Kachin ,Shan States, Sagaing, Magway, Bago, Yangon andAyeyawady Regions and widespread in the remainingStates and Regions with likelihood of isolated heavy falls inSagaing and Taninthayi Regions. Degree of cetainty is(80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times off and along Myanmar Coast. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofincrease of rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor16-10-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for16-10-2010: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for16-10-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Weather Outlook For Third Weekend Of October2010 : During the coming weekend, One or two rain orthundershowers in Yangon Region and isolated rain orthundershowers Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay Region.

Malaysia’s AirAsia, Asia’s biggest budget

carrier, said Friday it plans to list its Thai unit by

the third quarter of 2011 in order to raise funds

and buy new aircraft.

INTERNET

Drive With Care

Mobile phones help lift poor outof poverty

GENEVA, 15 Oct—Mobile phones — spreading fasterthan any other information technology — can improvethe livelihoods of the poorest people in developingcountries, a United Nations report released on Thursdaysaid.But governments must design responsive policies toensure that the benefits reach the broadest number in themost effective way, the United Nations Conference onTrade and Development said in its Information EconomyReport.Mobile phone subscriptions will reach five billionthis year almost one per person on the planet, UNCTADSecretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi told a newsconference on the report.Penetration in developedcountries is over 100 percent, with many people havingmore than one phone or subscription.

In developing countries, the subscription rate is now58 per 100 people, and rising rapidly, with the rate in thepoorest Least Developed Countries (LDCs) up at 25from only 2 per 100 a few years ago, UNCTAD figuresshow.The potential of mobile phones in developingcountries has been highlighted by the efforts of Russia’sVimpelcom to tie up with the telecoms assets of Egypt’sOrascom, which include Algerian operator Djezzy thatAlgiers wants to nationalize.—Reuters

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

8th Waxing of Thadingyut 1372 ME Saturday, 16 October, 2010

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—According to the obser-vation at 5.30 hr MST today, the bay storm formednorthwest of Bay of Bengal is crossing Orissa coastnear Gopalpur, India, said the Department ofMeteorology and Hydrology.

The DMH’s evening bulletin also said that thestorm is now coded at yellow stage and it is notmoving to Myanmar,

Due to the storm, the sea condition is likely tobe moderate and rough along and off Myanmar coastsduring the period and squally winds with speed reach-ing 35 mph would prevail along and off Myanmarcoasts.—MNA

Bay Storm crosses OrissaCoast, India

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct—M’Jangyang TVretransmitting station in Kachin State on 5 Octoberbegan airing high resolution Myanma TV programmeswith 50-watt waves (J-13).

The project was completed on 4 October. Thestation was built under the programme for extensivecoverage of TV programmes.—MNA

M’Jangyang TV retransmittingstation commissioned

A visit to model agricultural farm inBawaing village, Pantanaw Tsp

Article & Photos: Thet Htet Ko (Bawgarmyay)

Photo shows Shwethweyin, Hisnthwelat and Hsinthukha strain paddy plantations.

I recently paid a visit to Pantanaw Township,Ayeyawady Region in order to write an article about atceremony to erect signboard of Township RiceAssociation and to visit thriving quality paddy planta-tion.

Although the ceremony would start at 9 am, I

reached there in advance. Before the ceremony, Ichatted with district manager U Toe Lwin. He said,“Myanmar Rice Association was formed with 14 ob-jectives. One of them is to have continuous develop-ment in Myanma paddy cultivation sector from

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ChaungU (4.17) inchesTadaU (3.05) inchesCoco Island (2.95) inchesMindat (2.79) inchesKyaukse (2.48) inchesHomalin (1.77) inches

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