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Volume XX, Number 237 15th Waning of Tazaungmon 1374 ME Thursday, 13 December, 2012
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New Light of MyanmarNay Pyi Taw , 12
Dec Vice-President of
the Republic of the Union
of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk
Kham received Brazilian
Ambassador Mr. Jose Carlos
da Fonseca Junior at the
Credentials Hall of the
Presidential Palace, here, at
1 pm today.
Also present at the call
were Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U Thant
Kyaw, Deputy Minister
for Transport U Han Sein,
Deputy Minister for Electric
Power U Myint Zaw, Deputy
Minister for Energy U Htin
Aung, Deputy Minister
for National Planning and
Vice-President
receives Brazilian
AmbassadorEconomic Development
Dr Daw Khin San Yi and
departmental ofcials.
At the meeting, they
had a cordially discussion on
aviation, trade, investment,
energy and infrastructural
development sectors between
the two countries.
MNA
Vice-President of the
Republic of the Union of
Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk
Kham and party pose
for a documentary photo
together with Brazilian
Ambassador Mr. Jose
Carlos da Fonseca
Junior.mna
Nay Pyi Taw , 12
Dec The 2nd edition of
the ASEAN-Indian Car
Rally -1012 was warmly
welcomed by sports athletes
and staff of the Ministry of
Sports as they reached here
Nay Pyi Taw welcomes ASEAN-India Car Rally
this evening.
T h e y w e r e a l s o
welcomed by Union Minister
for Sports U Tint Hsan and
diplomats.
Eight par t ic ipants
including four celebrities
from Myanmar participated
in it.
Its is a wonderful
journey and very enjoyable.
We rece ived warmly
welcome and enjoyed
hospitality of the local
people along the trip, said
Jyoti Kalash, the team leader
for India Car No.9 as he was
relaxing strolling out the
Zabuthiri Hotel where they
will stay for a night.
Myanmar celebrities
who took part in the rally
also won the Friendship
Award in the rally, bringing
the pride to the country as
they are showing their social
friendship spirit. We got the
Friendship Award presented
by Indonesia and we were
very happy to accept that
prize, said movie star Hsu
Pan Htwar.
The Thailand-Myanmar
leg of the rally was ugged
off on the Friendship Bridge
in Myawady at the border of
Thai and Myanmar at 9 am
yesterday.
They stopped over at
Hpa-an in Kayin State
yesterday evening. Along
the trip in Myanmar local
ethnic people, students and
the people welcomed them
as they wave miniature ags
of the ASEAN countries and
the rally.
The 2nd ASEAN-India
car rally had commenced
from November 26 to
December 20, 2012 to
celebrate the 20thAnniversary
of the ASEAN and India
relationship.
A total of 103 men and
eight women from ASEAN
countries took part in the
rally which started from
Jakarta, Indonesia since
November 26, driving across
ASEAN countries before
arriving India.
Myanmar wins Friendship
Award in ASEAN-India
Car Rally-2012
ASEAN-India Car Rally-2012 reaches Nay Pyi Taw.Photo ayemin Soe
Myanmar celebrity
Hsu Pan Htwar sits
behind the wheel as
she arrives
Nay Pyi Taw.
Photo ayemin Soe
An athlete holds
a miniature ags ofASEAN-India
Car Rally.
Photo ayemin Soe
By Aye Min Soe
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Magway, 12 Dec
RV Orient Pandaw tripple
dekker carrying globetrotters
made a stop at Magway for a
sightseeing tour of the town
recently.It is an eight-day trip
from Pyay to Mandalay.
Tourists visit Magway
Myathalun Pagoda, the
Statue of Bogyoke and
Kantha market and tour
around Magway by trishaw.
Trishaw ride for globetrotters in Magway
There are 45 trishaws
offering trishaw service to
tourists. Tour operators gave
us uniforms.
The ship carrying
tourists makes a stop thereat least twice a week. More
tourist arrivals have been
seen at the moment. Before
their arrival, our leader U
Myint Thein received a
phone call and we are asked
to be ready. The tour agency
pays the trishaw fares. It
cost K 3000. Visitors gave
us a generous tip. More
tourist arrivals make us
convenient, a trishaw driver
who gave them a ride said.Their trip includes
overnight stops at Sale,
Chauk and Bagan after
Magway.
A f t e r t h a t , t h e y
proceeded to Mandalay.
Kyemon
Kawlin, 12 Dec
There has been low rainfall in
Kawlin, Wuntho and Pinlebu
in Sagaing Region this year.
A sharp drop in paddy
output has eaused a major
headache for local paddy
merchants.Al though Kawlin ,
Low rainfall disrupts paddy outputWuntho and Pinlebu were
once recognized as granaries
of the Region each year,
unfavourable weather
patterns, outow of torrent
water and ooding led to
the fall in paddy output and
closure of rice mills in theareas.
Moreover, although
rice of Kawlin, Wuntho
and Pinlebu were once
transported to Myitkyina,
Tanai and Phakant, transport
of rice came to a halt when
those regions lack peace and
security this year. Kyemon
Monywa, 12 Dec
Local farmers in Monywa
chose growing of chilli
for this years winter
crops cultivation season
as chilli is Myanmar-India
border trades marketable
commodity. Now the region
has seen thriving chilli
Thriving chilli plantations in Monywaplantations which are grown
on a wider scale.
A chilli grower said
that onions were grown in
previous years in accord with
the border market demand.
This years rst priority was
growing of chilli; that Chilli
growing was easier than
onion growing; and that there
was no signicant difference
between the two winter
crops. Chilli plantations
are thriving at Monywa
Myauklak and Taunglak
regions where chillies are
commercially grown.
Kyemon
MeiKtila, 12 Dec The
whole Myanmar admire
of Independence architect
national leader Bogyoke
Aung San. After his death
in 1947, statues of Bogyoke
were built around the country.
Pictures of Bogyoke hang in
ofces and houses. A bronze
statue of Bogyoke Aung San
was built near Kandawgyi in
Yangon.
Several of Bogyoke
statues stand in public areas
like intersections or parks
in some townships as a
remembrance of BogyokeAung San.
There is a standing
statue of Bogyoke Aung San
built in 1990 in front of a park
on Meiktila-Kyaukpadaung
road in Nandawkon ward in
Meiktila. But it is unpleasant
to see that a commercial
signpost was set up in front
of the statue.
According to the locals,
they are expecting to remove
the signpost blocking the
view of the statue.Kyemon
Commercial signpost blocking the view of
Bogyoke statue in Meiktila
KyauKtan, 12 Dec
A vaccine for elephantiasis
will be given to those in
urban wards and villages
in Kyauktan Township of
Yangon South District from18 to 24 December.
However, pregnant
Elephantiasis vaccine for locals in Kyauktan
Townshipwomen, children under age of
two and those with diabetes,
kidney failure and other
diseases will be excluded in
the vaccination programme.
The elephantiasis vaccinesare to be taken for five
successive years.
For children, the vaccine
can protect them against
elephantiasis and help
improve brain development.
Thats why, parents
should provide their childrenwith the vaccine.
Kyemon
yaMethin, 12 Dec
Mandalay Region Electrical
Engineer U Pyu Win and
party made an inspection tour
of Yamethin to oversee the
already-installed self-reliant
transformer and power lines
at Hsedwin and Gwaykon
villages in the township
recently.
Now skilled employees
are installing meter boxes
and service power lines at
houses in the two villages.T h e e l e c t r i c i t y
availability scheme was
launched with the spending
of K 90 million under the
Availability of electricity to be realized in Hsedwin,Gwaykon villages in Yamethin Township
leadership of U Mya Win
and U Mya Hsan.
Accord ing to the
township electrical engineer,
the scheme has been
MawlaMyine, 12 Dec
A head-on collision
between a passenger bus and
a light truck occurred on the
approach road to Thanlwin
Bridge (Mawlamyine) on
the bank of Mottama at about
12 noon on 10 December,
leaving six dead including
a girl at age of three and 16
injured.
A passenger bus driven
by Than Zaw (a) Anyarthar
from Mawlamyine to Kyaikto
collided a head-on with alight truck driven by Maung
Zaw on the opposite direction
on the bridge. Six women and
a three-year-old girl died on
Head-on collision claims six
lives, including three-year-oldgirl
completed 95 per cent.
Villages are happy as
electricity will be available
in their villages soon.
Kyemon
Historic monastery in Inlay Lake in need of
repairnyaungshwe, 12 Dec
Inlay Lake is situated
in Nyaungshwe Township
which is an auspicious ground
for ancient historic pagodas
and religious edices. Inlay
PhaungdawU Pagoda built
by King Alaungsithu, Shwe
Intein and Alopauk Pagodas
built by King Thiri Dhamma
Asoka, Yadana Mannaung
Pagoda, Tarkhaung Pagoda
and Shwe Thantaung Pagoda
are among ancient pagodas.
Nyaungshwe Township
is made up of 23 village-
tracts including villages near
Inlay Lake. Ngapechaung
village, one of 23 village-
tracts, has an ancient
historical monastery called
Ngaphechaung Monastery.
It was built in accord with
the guidance of Nyaungshwe
Chieftain Sir Saw Maung.
The Ngaphechaung
Monastery includes eightthree-tier buildings, one
one-tier building, a balcony,
27 altar rooms, six lacquered
Buddha Images, 66 Buddha
Images, 654 wooden pillars,
200 gold-pained pillars and
ve stairways.
Tourists visit there
whenever they arrived in
Inlay Lake. Tourists are very
pleased to see the brilliant
performance of clever cats
there.
Now, the weather-beaten
monastery sees damages to
its some parts.
So locals are expecting
to preserve the ancient
building by the Archaeology
Department.
Kyemon
the spot in the incident. The
other 16 injured passengers
were admitted Mawlamyine
General Hospital. Mon State
ministers, the commander of
Mon State Police Force and
ofcials were at the scene
and comforted the bus crash
victims.
Mottama Police Station
led a lawsuit against the
suspects.
Kyemon
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Syrian Alawite village attacked, rebels ght
around capitalDamascus, 12 DecUp
to 200 members of President
Bashar al-Assads Alawiteminority were injured orkilled in an attack on their
central Syrian village onTuesday, activists said, whileto the south rebels and
state forces battled for theoutskirts of Damascus.
With a broad grouping
of governments opposed toAssad meeting in Morocco on
Wednesday, an ofcial in theSyrian Muslim Brotherhoodcriticized the United Statesfor designating an Islamist
rebel group as a terroristorganization, meaning it
would get no American help
in the ght against Assad.Casualty counts varied
for the attack on the villageof Aqrab in Hama Province,
but several activists saidthey could conrm 10 dead.The Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights said thecasualties came during aseries of explosions in the
town.Opposition activists
posted videos on YouTube
in which survivors saidpro-Assad militias had usedchildren as human shields
in the village. However,the accounts could not be
independently veried andthe events remained unclear.
Sectarian bloodshed haspreviously hit both HamaProvince, where Aqrab is
located, and neighbouringHoms Province. Bothwitnessed massacres of
hundreds of Sunni residentsbut Tuesdays incident, if
conrmed, would be the rstknown large-scale attack onAlawites. The opposition-linked Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights said 125had been hurt or killed but
said it was still trying to ndout what happened. Therewere no reports on Syrias
Syrian refugees warm themselves by a re at a refugee
camp in Atimeh, on the S yrian-Turkish border of the
Idlib Governorate on 10 Dec, 2012. Picture taken on
10 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs
state media.
An Alawite residentof a nearby village said theviolence began in Aqrab when
rebels attacked a checkpointrun by pro-Assad militiamen,known as shabbiha. We
dont believe there was a
massacre but we think thereare a number of hostagesbeing held. Clashes began
when rebels started shellingthe shabbiha checkpoint,he said by Skype. Reuters
Mexicos
ruling party
chooses new
leadermexicocity, 12 Dec
Mexicos ruling Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI)picked a new chairmanon Tuesday, handing the
task of steering the centristparty through a series of
key reforms to a close allyof President Enrique PenaNieto.
Cesar Camacho, likePena Nieto a former state ofMexico governor, will lead
the party that recaptured thepresidency after 12 yearson the sidelines, pledging to
curb drug violence and enacteconomic reforms in LatinAmericas second biggest
economy.We decide to be guided
by principles, not obedient
to dogmas, Camacho saidin speech to party membersin Mexico City following his
selection.The PRI ruled Mexico
from 1929 to 2000, often
becoming a byword forcorruption and heavy-handed
governance.Reuters
Gunman kills at least two at US Oregon mallsan Francisco , 12
DecAt least two peoplewere killed and more injuredon Tuesday when a gunman
opened re at a mall in theUS state of Oregon.
The shooting occurred
Tuesday afternoon at theClackamas Town CentreMall, about 17.7 km
southeast of downtownPortland, the most populouscity in Oregon.
Local po l ice said
the shooter has beenneutralized, but declinedto say whether it meant
the suspect was dead,immobilized or in custody.
According to local
newspaper The Oregonian,preliminary reports to theemergency dispatches said
a man with a semiautomatic
rie opened re near a Macys department store in the mall
at 3:29 local time.
The gunman, whomay have been wearing
body armor and camouageclothing, was also seen nearthe malls food court, saidthe newspaper.
A witness told TheOregonian that as many
as 60 shots were red andcrowds of shoppers wereseen running from the mall.
Xinhua
A still image taken from video courtesy of KATU-T V
shows rst responders at a shooting scene at Clackamas
Town Centre in Portland, Oregon, on 11 Dec, 2012.
ReuteRs
Cayman Islands Premier
McKeeva Bush speaks during a
jobs rally in Seven Mile Beach
outside Georgetown in this
25 June, 2011 le photo. The
leader of the Cayman Islandswas arrested on suspicion of
corruption on 11 Dec, 2012
in connection with a series
of police investigations in the
Caribbean offshore nancial
centre, authorities said.
ReuteRs
Cayman Islands leader ar rested in
corruption probeGeoreGtown,12 Dec
The leader of the CaymanIslands was arrested on
Tuesday on suspicion ofcorruption in connection
with a graft investigationin the Caribbean offshore
nancial centre, authoritiessaid.
Premier McKeeva Bushwas detained at his home by
members of the FinancialCrime Unit of the RoyalCayman Islands Police
Service, a police statementsaid.
The 57-year-old premier
is suspected of theft, allegedmisuse of a government
credit card and abuse of ofceover the alleged importationof explosive substances
without valid permits, it said. I t w o u l d b einappropriate ... to makeany further comment in
relation to these matters atthis time, the statement
said. Further updates willbe made available in duecourse.
A police spokeswomandeclined to elaborate on the
arrest.Leonard Dilbert, Bushs
chief of staff, said the
premier had been detainedon suspicion of wrongdoingpending an investigation
but had not been formallycharged with any crime.
It is important to
remind the people of theCayman Islands not to rushto judgment, he said. Being
suspected of having donesomething is far from ithaving been proven that you
did that thing.Bush was elected in
2009 as premier of the islandchain, a British OverseasTerritory with a population of55,000 people and a leading
global tax haven.The islands are home
to most of the worldshedge funds, offering taxadvantages and financial
secrecy to companies andinvestors.
Bush also holds theposition of minister of
nance and tourism. He isthe longest-serving memberof the Caymans LegislativeAssembly and was first
elected in 1984.Police searched Bushs
home after his arrest and set
up roadblocks restrictingaccess to his residence,
said a government ofcialwho requested anonymitybecause the investigation isstill ongoing.
Earlier this year, CaymanIslands Police Commissioner
David Baines said Bush wasthe subject of three policeinvestigations, two of theminvolving what he described
at the time as financialirregularities.Reuters
China advocates building, maintenance of
harmonious maritime order: UN envoy
Visitors pass by colourful
illuminations on the street
in Amsterdam, the Neth-
erlands on 11 Dec, 2012.The cultural festival of
light and water will last
until middle of January,
2013.Xinhua
uniteD nations , 12
DecChina advocated thebuilding and maintenanceof a harmonious maritime
order under which theinternational communitymust put emphasis on both
the proper protection ofthe ocean and its rationalutilization, a Chinese UN
envoy said here on Tuesday.Li Baodong, Chinas
permanent representative
to the United Nations,made the statement at ameeting of the 67th session
of the General Assembly oncommemorating the 30thanniversary of the opening
for signature of the UnitedNations Convention on theLaw of the Sea.
Li said China advocatesenhanced international
cooperation and coordinationin line with the spirit of theConvention in order to
safeguard peace, securityand openness of the oceanand promote the common
development of all countries.China highly commends
Commission on the Limits
of the Continental Shelf(CLCS) for its contributionto a balanced handling of
the legitimate rights andinterests of coastal statesand the overall interests of
the international community,Li said.
We su p p o r t t h e
Commission in continuing
to fulfi l l i ts mandatein accordance with theConvention and its own
rules of procedure in orderto maintain the qualitya n d p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m
of its consideration ofsubmissions, he said.
While congratulating
the International SeabedAuthority (ISA) on itsachievements over the past
year, Li said China has allalong strongly supportedthe work of the ISA and
promoted the effectiveand full participation ofdeveloping countries in
international seabed affairs.China values and
supports the important role
of the International Tribunalfor the Law of the Sea
in the peaceful settlementof maritime disputes, themaintenance of international
maritime order, and thedissemination of the law ofthe sea, Li said.
China also supportsthe adoption by the GeneralAssembly of the concrete
working recommendationsby the Ad Hoc Open-endedInformal Working Group on
marine biological diversitybeyond areas of nationaljurisdiction, said Li.
The relevant workshould proceed in ani n c r e m e n t a l m a n n e r
and fully accommodate
the legitimate needs ofall countries, especially
developing countries, formarine biological resources.
The Chinese diplomat
stressed that the key toaddressing the question ofgreenhouse gas emissions from
ships is to uphold the principleof common but differentiatedresponsibilities. He said
China also commits itselfto strengthening of the
conservation and management
of shery resources.Xinhua
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Israeli archaeologists unearth elite
Stone Age society ScienceTech
Tech
Tech
Jerusalem, 12 DecAnexcavation of an ancient vil-lage in the north of Israel hasunearthed hundreds of arti-facts linking the residentsupper class to Mesopotamiaand other distant civiliza-tions.
Archaeologist Yair Mi-levski, who headed the exca-vation together with NimrodGetzov at the Ein Tziporisite, near Nazareth, toldXinhua on Monday that thisdiscovery helps understandStone Age upper class socie-ty and commerce in the area.
We discovered somekind of elite part of societythat lived in this village andwho were in contact withother cities in the northernLevant even in Anatolia
and Mesopotamia, Milevskisaid.The artifacts unearthedbelong to the Calcolithic pe-riod, over seven millenniaago, and have been identied
as a part of the local WadiRabah culture.
The nd revealed that
this culture had strong com-mercial ties with other cul-tures as distant as Mesopota-mia and Anatolia, in currentTurkey.
This kind of commercewas not uncommon, butwhats special is that we havea large collection of items inthe same place, and mostprobably they were conduct-ing these exchanges throughterrestrial means, Milevskysaid. We think that theyhad barter deals, becausethey didn't have money, andsometimes this exchangewas coming from farawaysites since we also founditems made from Obsidiancoming from Anatolia andother parts of Turkey, as well
as other items from Syria andnorthern Levant region, theresearcher stressed.
Archaeologists believethat the luxury items discov-ered in Ein Tzipori were forthe upper classs consump-
tion and that the site was nota religious or afuent com-mercial settlement.
Among the artifacts arebowls containing hundredsof colored int beads, en-graved earthenware and pal-ettes decorated with ostrich-es, showing inuence from
Mesopotamia and Syria.We know that there are fewcases in the southern Levantwith such patterns on palettesor other artifacts, even in theNear East. We believe therewas a common backgroundof ideas or beliefs that re-ects continuous commer-cial activity, Milevsky said.
However, this part ofthe Ein Tzipor site that spans200 square meters will becovered by a road in less than
a year. Thats why we callit a salvage excavation, be-cause we dug to nd whatwe could before its coveredby road 79, which leads toNazareth, Milevsky said.
Xinhua
Custom-
ers use
comput-
ers
at an
internet
cafe
in
Sao
Paulo.
ReuteRs
Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the
InternetDubai, 12 DecA Rus-
sia-led coalition on Mondaywithdrew a proposal to givegovernments new powersover the Internet, a plan op-posed by Western countriesin talks on a new global tel-ecom treaty.
Negotiations on the trea-
ty mark the most sustainedeffort so far by governmentsfrom around the world toagree on how, or whether,to regulate cyberspace. TheUnited States, Europe, Can-ada and other advocates of a
hands-off approach to Inter-net regulation want to limitthe new treaty's scope to tel-ecom companies.
But Russia, China andmany Arab states, whichwant greater governmentalcontrol, have been pushingto expand the treaty beyond
traditional telecom operators.Representatives from
about 150 countries mem-bers of the InternationalTelecommunication Union(ITU) have been negoti-ating for the past eight daysin Dubai on the new treaty,which was last revised in1988, before the advent ofthe World Wide Web.
The Russia-led proposalcould have allowed coun-tries to block some Internetlocations and take control ofthe allocation of Internet ad-dresses currently overseen
by ICANN, a self-governingorganization under contract
to the US Department ofCommerce. An ITU spokes-man said this plan had nowbeen scrapped. It looks likethe Russians and Chineseoverplayed their hand, saidAmerican cyber security ex-pert Jim Lewis of the Centrefor Strategic and Internation-
al Studies.US Ambassador Terry
Kramer welcomed the deci-sion to withdraw the Russia-led plan. But he also said:These issues will continueto be on the table for discus-sion in other forms duringthe remainder of the confer-ence. China, Saudi Ara-bia, Algeria, Sudan and theUnited Arab Emirates hadco-signed the aborted pro-posal. The UAE insisted thedocument had not been with-drawn. It may come downto the wire, said a Western
delegate on condition of ano-nymity.Reuters
Japans Renesas secures $1.8 billion government-led bailout
Tokyo, 12 DecJapa-nese chipmaker RenesasElectronics Corp, hit byslumping orders and compe-tition from rivals like Sam-sung Electronics Co Ltd,secured a 150 billion yen($1.8 billion) lifeline from agovernment-led bailout onMonday.
The taxpayer-fundedInnovation Network Corpof Japan (INCJ), will pro-vide 138.4 billion yen inexchange for a two-thirdsstake in Renesas, the world'sbiggest maker of microcon-troller chips for cars.
Eight key manufactur-ing clients including ToyotaMotor Corp, Nissan MotorCo, Canon Inc and Panason-ic Corp will provide roughly12 billion yen. The bailout
was put together to counteran earlier bid by U\S private
Renesas Electronics Corps chips are pictured at the
companys ofce in Tokyo on 23 Oct, 2012.
ReuteRs
equity rm KKR & Co LPamid worries the rm's tech-nology could fall into foreignhands, sources familiar withthe talks have toldReuters.
lion yen of the total supporton research and developmentand capital spending relatedto its core microcontrollerbusiness. The company said
ing whether to agree to therequest but if it did supplythe extra money, Renesascould use it to expand abroadthrough mergers and acquisi-tions. The fact that clientsare putting up money is posi-tive since it means Renesas
will be able to gain somebusiness from them, saidAkira Minamikawa, vicepresident and principal ana-lyst at IHS iSuppli in Tokyo.
But domestic rms
inuence over the companycould prevent the rm from
expanding abroad, he said.Renesas president Yasu-
shi Akao denied that clients-turned-shareholders wouldexert inuence over the com-panys products. I dont seethis becoming a problem. Wehave the government fundholding a two-thirds stakeand this means they will take
leadership on this matter,said Akao.Reuters
Renesas, battling toavoid the fate of fellowchipmaker Elpida MemoryInc which was driven into
bankruptcy earlier this year,said it would spend 60 bil-
it was also requesting anoth-er 50 billion yen in supportfrom the government fund.INCJ CEO Kimikazu Noumi
told a joint news conferencethe fund was still deliberat-
Global climate
change predictions on targetScience
WellingTon, 12 DecPredictions of global climatechange made to a UnitedNations-organized panelmore than 20 years ago haveproved to be accurate, a NewZealand-US academic studyhas found.
The study comparedpredictions of global temper-ature rises to 2030 from the
rst Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change ( IPCC)Assessment Report pub-lished in 1990, with globalclimate change data gatheredover the past 20 years.
Authors ProfessorDavid Frame, director ofthe New Zealand ClimateChange Research Instituteat Victoria University, andDr Daithi Stone, of the Law-rence Berkeley NationalLaboratory in California,found the global climatewas responding largely aspredicted by the rst IPCC
report.Two decades later, datashowed the actual globalmean surface temperatureincrease was 0.35 to 0.39 de-grees Celsius, which was in
Honeywell sees slow 2013, to buy Intermec for
$600 millionreasonable agreement withthe 1990 predictions, Framesaid in a statement.
This was in spite ofunforeseen climate-alteringevents, such as the eruptionof the Philippines MountPinatubo in 1991, the col-lapse of the Soviet bloc in-dustry in the 1990s, and therecent rapid, fossil-intensivegrowth in economies suchas Asia. They concludedthat natural variability aloneseemed highly unlikely to
account for recent changes,even if the forecasting sys-tems signicantly underesti-mated natural variations.
Xinhua
File photo of a view of the corporate sign outside the
Honeywell In ternational Automation and Control Solu-
tions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley, Minnesota,on 28 Jan, 2010.ReuteRs
golDen Valley, 12 DecDiversied US manufac-turer Honeywell Internation-al Inc forecast a scal 2013prot mostly below Wall
Street's estimates on Mondayas sales cool in the aerospaceand transportation sectors.
The company, whosemany industrial products in-clude cockpit electronics andautomotive turbochargers,also said it would buy mobilecomputing device maker In-termec for $600 million, or$10 per share. The subduedforecast was not unexpected
on Wall Street, where sharesof Honeywell were down 0.2percent to $61.86 in middaytrading on Monday.
Chief Executive Of-cer Dave Cote, known for
his strong views on the per-ils of the US scal cliff of
automatic tax increases andgovernment spending cuts,did not mention it as a reasonfor the weaker-than-expectedforecast in a statement onMonday morning. Cote didnot participate in a confer-ence call with investors onMonday to discuss the deal
and forecast.The new forecast was
released a week earlier thanexpected due to the Intermecdeal, which gives Intermecshareholders a 25 percentpremium from Fridays clos-ing stock price. Honeywellexpects the deal to dent its2013 earnings by 3 cents to4 cents per share. The com-pany forecast a 2013 prot of
$4.75 to $4.95 per share, ex-cluding items, while analystson average expect $4.95, ac-cording to Thomson ReutersI/B/E/S.Reuters
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Business
Health
EUs Rehn says euro zone
must pursue structural
reforms
European
Econom ic and
Monetary A ffairs
Commissioner
Olli Rehn
addresses a news
conference at the
EU Commission
headquarters in
Brussels on 14 Nov,2012.ReuteRs
London, 12 DecEurope must continuewith its far reachingstructural reforms thathave helped to rebalancethe euro zone economy andrebuild condence, EUstop economics ofcial, OlliRehn, said in an opinion
piece in the Financial Timeson Tuesday.
In order to overcomethe crisis and restorecondence, we mustcontinue to remove structuralobstacles to sustainablegrowth and employment;pursue prudent scalconsolidation; and turn boldthoughts into convincingactions when redesigning andrebuilding our economic andmonetary union, he said.In short, we need to stay thecourse and pursue decisivereforms in our member statesand deeper integration in theeuro zone.
He said decisions madeso far have begun to rebuildcondence, calm marketsand counter fears of a
collapse of the euro.Far-reaching structural
reforms are helping torebalance the euro zoneeconomy. Progress istangible, said Rehn, whois vice-president of theEuropean Commission,responsible for economic
and monetary affairs and theeuro.
Euro zone sentimentimproved for a fourthconsecutive month inDecember, as investorstook heart from pledges bythe European Central Bankand politicians to stand bythe euro. Rehn also saidthe European Commissionintends to explore furtherways to accommodatepublic investment in itsassessment of national scalplans.
Last week, Rehn urgedEuropean nance ministersand leaders meeting inBrussels this week to reachan agreement on plans forpan-EU banking supervision.
Reuters
Diageo weighs on FTSE after
Cuervo talks founder
The outside of the London Stock Exchange building is
seen in the City of London.ReuteRs
London, 12 DecTheFTSE 100 edged loweron Tuesday, consolidating9-month closing highs, withbeverages group Diageoweighing after it called offlong-running acquisitiontalks with Jose Cuervo.
Shares in Diageo fell1.2 percent on the newsbringing to a close its planto buy the worlds number 1
tequila brandand knocked2.1 points off the FTSE 100,which was down 7.58 points,or 0.1 percent at 08:06 am.
The index reached itshighest closing level in nearlynine months on Monday andis now capped by technicalresistance at 5,930, an intra-day high hit in September.
Reuters
Business
HSBC to pay record $1.9 billion US fne in moneylaundering case
A view
shows the
entrance to a
HSBC Bank
branch in
New York on
1 Aug, 2011.
ReuteRs
new York, 12 DecHSBC Holdings Plc hasagreed to pay $1.92 billion(1.19 billion pounds) to set-tle a multi-year US criminalprobe into money-laundering
lapses at the British lender,the largest penalty ever paidby a bank. HSBC admitted toa breakdown of controls and
apologised in a statement onTuesday announcing it hadreached a deferred-prosecu-tion agreement with the US
Department of Justice, as wasrst reported byReuters lastweek. We accept responsi-bility for our past mistakes.We have said we are pro-foundly sorry for them, andwe do so again. The HSBCof today is a fundamentally
different organization fromthe one that made those mis-takes, said Chief ExecutiveStuart Gulliver.
Over the last two years,under new senior leadership,
we have been taking concretesteps to put right what wentwrong and to participate ac-tively with government au-
thorities in bringing to lightand addressing these matters.The bank said it expected toalso reach a settlement with
British watchdog the Finan-cial Services Authority. USand European banks have nowagreed to settlements withUS regulators totalling some$5 billion in recent years oncharges they violated US sanc-tions and failed to police illicit
transactions. No bank or bankexecutives, however, havebeen indicted as prosecutorshave instead utilized deferredprosecutions. The deferredprosecution agreement, when
detailed by US Justice Depart-ment ofcials later on Tues-day, could yield new informa-tion about a failure at HSBCto police transactions linkedto Mexico, sources familiarwith the matter said. Details ofthose dealings were reportedthis summer in a sweeping USSenate probe. HSBCs set-tlement also includes agree-ments or consent orders withthe Manhattan district at-torney, the Federal Reserveand three US Treasury De-
partment units: the Ofce of
Foreign Assets Control, the
Comptroller of the Currencyand the Financial Crimes En-forcement Network.
HSBC said it would pay$1.921 billion, continue tocooperate fully with regula-tory and law enforcementauthorities and take further
action to strengthen its com-pliance policies and proce-dures. US prosecutors haveagreed to defer or forgo pros-ecution.
The settlement is the
third time in a decade thatHSBC has been penalizedfor lax controls and orderedby US authorities to bettermonitor suspicious transac-tions. Directives by regula-tors to improve oversightcame in 2003 and again in2010. Last month, HSBCtold investors it had set aside$1.5 billion to cover nesor penalties stemming fromthe inquiry and warned costs
could be signicantly higher.
Analyst Jim Antos of Miz-
uho Securities said the state-ment on Tuesday indicates
an extra $420 million for thesettlement costs, calling it atrivial gure in terms of thecompanys book value. Butin terms of real cash terms,thats a huge ne to pay,said Antos, who rates HSBCa buy.Reuters
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Flor ida judge keeps GPS monitor on Trayvon Mar tins
killer
George Zimm erman (L) sits with defence coun sel at the
Seminole County courthouse for a hearing in Sanford,
Florida, on 11 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs
Sanford, (Florida), 12Dec A Florida judge onTuesday denied a requestfrom accused murdererGeorge Zimmerman to let
him remove his GPS mon-itoring device and travelfreely in the state pendinghis trial next June in theshooting death of unarmedblack teenager TrayvonMartin.
Zimmerman, 29, hasbeen conned to Semi-nole County under a $1million bond since July,when a judge concludedthat he had presented falseinformation about his as-sets and was a ight risk.
Zimmerman and his wife,Shellie, who is charged
with perjury for allegedlylying to the judge aboutthe couples nances, live
in hiding and in fear ofviolence, according to a74-page motion led by
his lawyer, Mark OMara.OMara said Zimmer-
man needed the exibilityto travel for his personalsafety and to be availableto assist his lawyers inmeetings with witnesses.
But Judge Debra Nel-son summarily denied therequest at a hearing deal-ing with a series of mo-tions led by OMara,
most requesting access topotential evidence.
At the time of theshooting on 26 February,Zimmerman was a neigh-borhood watch volunteerin a gated community in
the central Florida city ofSanford. Prosecutors sayhe pursued, confronted
and killed Martin, a black17-year-old who was re-turning with snacks to thetownhouse where he was
staying with his fatherto watch the NBA nals.Zimmerman is expected
to claim self-defence un-der Floridas controversialStand Your Ground law,which makes it difcult to
prosecute a shooter whoclaims self-defence.Reuters
nicoSia, 12 Dec TheHigh Court of Cyprus onTuesday ordered a retrial inthe case of four former air-line executives who had been
acquitted of multiple man-slaughter charges in a 2005plane crash, which has beendescribed as one of the mostbizarre aircraft accidentsever. The Court upheld byan appeal by the AttorneyGeneral against the verdictof a criminal Assize Courta year ago that cleared thenow defunct Helios AirlinesCEO, executive president,ight operations manager
and chief pilot of negligentlycausing the death of all 121people aboard the plane.
The Court said the trialcourt had committed errors
and the case must be retrieddespite being one of the most
Cyprus high cour t orders
retrial over 2005 air crashcomplex ever tried in Cy-prus. The Boeing 737-300jet on a ight from Cyprus
to Athens crashed near theGreek capital on 14 Aug,
2005, after ying pilotless incircles for about two hours.An inquiry into the accidenthas concluded that the pres-surization system of the air-craft had been left to manualafter an overnight inspection,leading to sudden depres-surization of the cabin aftertakeoff, which knocked outall crew members and thepassengers.
The report blamed thecrew for not checking thepressurization system beforetakeoff. The plane ew on
automatic pilot and crashed ashort distance from the Ath-
ens airport after it ran out offuelXinhua
Photo released on 11 Dec, 2012 shows Xi Jinping, gen-
eral secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central
Military Comm ission (CMC), visits th e residents com-
mittee of a community in Shenzh en, south Chinas
Guangdong Province. Xi made an inspection tour in
Guangdong from 7 to 11 Dec.Xinhua
Beijing, 12 DecChinese Vice Premier LiKeqiang on Tuesday metformer US President JimmyCarter, calling for the com-mon prosperity of the twocountries.
Li recalled the estab-lishment of China-US dip-lomatic relations in 1979,while Carter served as the
US president.Thanks to the joint ef-
forts of several generationsof leaders and people of thetwo countries, China-USrelations have become ma-
Chinese vice premier meets former US
president Car terture and gone beyond thebilateral scope, Li said.
The major trend of theties has remained strength-ening China-US coopera-tion though various prob-lems have cropped up,according to Li. As longas the two countries respecteach other, manage differ-ences and expand common
ground, they can seek com-mon prosperity, he toldCarter.
Saying China is work-ing toward building a well-off society, Li reafrmed
the countrys commitmentto deepening reform, fur-ther opening up, promot-ing sustainable and healthyeconomic development andpromoting social progress.
The vice premier saidChinas modernizationdrive will bring more bene-ts to people and offer huge
opportunities for Chinas
cooperation with other na-tions.
Li called on Carter tomake use of his inuence
and introduce the true Chi-na to US statesmen and peo-
ple. He also asked Carter toshare with US people theimportance of China-US re-lations to the two countries,Asia and the Pacic and the
whole world.Carter hailed the pro-
gress of China and U.S.-China relations over thepast decades.
As an old friend of
China, Carter said he iscommitted to boosting US-China cooperation and pro-moting the growth of bilat-eral relations.
Xinhua
MoScow, 12 decPresident Vladimir Putinwill need to mix fresh ideaswith his trademark patri-otism and tough-guy im-age on Wednesday whenhe lays out his plans to a
cynical population wearyof corruption and poor stateservices.
Thirteen years after herose to power, and morethan two decades after thecollapse of the Soviet Un-ion, Putin still seems to besearching for an overarch-ing idea to unite Russians.There is no imminent threatto his ruleoppositiongroups who accuse the au-thorities of stiing dissent
have failed to build enoughmomentum to pose a seri-ous challenge to the state.
But public condence
is low. While some guresin government have fallenfoul of corruption scandals,high-prole probes have
not convinced Russians that
Putin needs more than r hetor ic to win over
weary nationPutin will uproot rampantgraft.
Pressure is growing onthe government to translatesky-high oil and gas incomeinto improvements in roads,schools, police, pensions,
housing and healthcare thatmillions nd wanting.Abroad, Putin has
sought to revive Russias20th century status as acounter-balance to US he-gemony, but political ex-perts say Putins ideologicalmessages are wearing thin.There is a gap betweenthe peoples pragmatic de-mands and government at-tempts to feed them abstractideologies such as patriot-ism, anti-Westernism, neo-industrialization, said ana-lyst Pavel Salin. Citizenswant concrete action, con-
crete success from govern-ment institutions they dealwith every day.
Putin is likely to cut acondent gure in Wednes-
days annual Kremlin ad-dress, nine months afterweathering the biggest op-position protests of his ruleand winning a third term aspresident after four years asprime minister. The speech
to lawmakers and a nation-wide TV audience comesthree days before opponentsstage what they hope willbe the rst big protest in
Moscow since September.People want to see
promises that salaries willbe increased, ination
curbed, a solution to prob-lems with housing, medicalcare and education and an-swers to the question of cor-ruption raised by the recentscandals, said Lev Gudkov,director of independentpolling agency Levada. Pu-tin has not ruled out seeking
another six-year presiden-tial term in 2018 and seemsdetermined to put his stampon Russia for decades tocome.Reuters
Egypts presidential ofce renews call for absent
par ties to join in dialogue Wednesdaycairo, 12 DecEgyp-
tian presidential ofce re-newed its call for the absentparties in the previous na-tional dialogue last Satur-day to join in a new one onWednesday, ofcialMENA
news agency reported onTuesday night.
The presidential of-ce said in a statement that
it had called for the absentparties to join in a newround of national dialoguescheduled for Wednesdayevening, in order to reachlarger participation andagreement among differ-ent political forces, and tocomplete President Mo-hamed Morsis call for thedialogue.
During the previous di-alogue last Saturday, whichwas called for by Morsi, the
participating parties agreedto modify the disputed con-stitutional declaration is-sued on 22 Nov.
The statement added
that a second round of talkwas held on Tuesday, whichlasted about ve hours, dur-ing which the participatingparties discussed some ar-ticles of the draft constitu-tion. Morsi issued early
Sunday a new constitution-al declaration after a mara-thon dialogue on Saturdaybetween Morsi and some
national and political forcesat the presidential palace inCairo, ruling that the previ-ous one issued on 22 Novhas been wholly cancelled.
The new constitutionaldeclaration also ruled that
the upcoming draft consti-tution referendum will startas planned on 15 Dec.
Xinhua
Japan an d the United States hold a joint n uclear
disaster drill at the US Navys Yokosuka base in
Kanagawa Prefecture on 11 Dec, 2012.Kyodonews
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China, Maldives pledge str engthened
military tiesBeijing, 12 DecChi-
nese Defence Minister Li-
ang Guanglie on Tuesdayheld talks with MohamedNazim, the Maldives min-
ister of defence and nation-al security, with both sides
pledging strengthened mili-tary ties.
They exchanged views
on regional security aswell as relations betweenthe two countries and their
militaries.Liang said during
their talks that China and
the Maldives enjoy a longhistory of friendship andsound development of bi-
lateral relations.He said China will con-
tinue to develop friendly,
cooperative and mutually
benecial relations with theMaldives under the prin-
ciple of building a good-neighbourly relationshipand non-interference in in-
ternal affairs.China has always
positively developed its
military relations with the
Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie (R) shakes
hands with Mohamed N azim, the Maldives minister
of defence and national security, in Beijing, capital of
China, on 11 Dec, 2012.Xinhua
Maldives and hopes to en-
hance communication andcooperation, promote theconstruction of both mili-
taries and safeguard region-al peace and stability., thedefense minister added.
Nazim hailed the twocountries good relationsand thanked China for its
assistance to the Maldives.
He said the Maldiveswill always adhere to theone-China policy and is
willing to cement relationsbetween the two countriesand their militaries.
Prior to their talks, Li-ang held a welcoming cer-emony for Nazim.Xinhua
The hague, 12 Dec
The Dutch railways com-panies NS and ProRail aresubject to increased super-
vision of the Inspectorate
for Environment and Trans-port (ILT) in response to a
frontal collision earlier thisyear in Amsterdam.
The ILT is part of the
Dutch Ministry of Infra-structure and Environmentand oversees compliance
with laws and regulations.It has demanded measures
to reduce the risks andtherefore both companiesare placed under stricter su-
pervision on Tuesday.According to the ILT,
national Dutch railways
Dutch railways under str icter
supervision after collisionNS and ProRail, which
regulates the infrastruc-ture, took excessive risksin the schedule during the
collision in April this year,
where one was killed and190 others wounded.
Due to maintenance ofthe railways, the timetablewas adjusted and one train
missed a red light to end upon the same track as an on-coming train.
According to the in-spection, ProRail and NS
trusted too much on the redsignal as the last safe barri-er, despite previous recom-
mendations.Following the investi-
gation into the train crash
near Amsterdam, the Dutch
safety board OVV on Tues-day declared in a report thatthe NS has not done enough
to make the trains as safe as
possible. According to theresearch council, the NS
has the legal duty to do so.NS and ProRail reacted
that they drew some les-
sons from the collision. Thecompanies will take meas-ures on safety, planning,
technology and the trainingof drivers.
The NS will also installan additional warning sothat alerts will be given to
drivers when they are ap-proaching a red signal.
Xinhua
Photo taken on 11 Dec, 2012 shows an icefall in the
Taihang Mountains, north Ch inas Hebei Province.
Xinhua
Snow storm claims four lives in SerbiaBelgrade, 12 Dec
Four people have died
across Serbia in the relent-less snow storm that along
with frigid temperatureshas snarled trafc, closedschools and led to power
outages in the country, localmedia reported on Tuesday.
Hardest hit by the snow
storm is the northern Prov-ince of Vojvodina, in which
four people have died inweather-related incidentsand where most of 60 Ser-
Pr o-secession gunmen kill two
soldiers in southern Yemenaden, (Yemen), 12
DecAt least two soldiers
were killed on Tuesdaywhen masked gunmen rid-ing on motorbikes attacked
a military checkpoint inYemens southern Provinceof al-Dhalea, a government
ofcial toldXinhua.A group of masked
gunmen suspected of be-
longing to an armed factionof the pro-secession South-ern Movement attacked a
military checkpoint in al-Dhalea Province, leaving
President of Japanese main opposition Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP) Shin zo Abe (2nd L ) delieversa speech during a campaign for December 16 lower
house election in T okyo, capital of Japan,
on 11 Dec, 2012.
Xinhua
A Hong Kong dragon and lion dance team performs at a Press conference in Hong
Kong, south China, on 11 Dec, 2012. The preparatory Committee of Hong KongDragon and Lion Festival announced at the Press conference on Tuesday that a
dragon and lion dance festival would be held on 1 Jan, 2013.Xinhua
UN to open new ofce for sustainable energy
in ViennaVienna, 12 DecVi-
enna is to become home to
a new United Nations (UN)ofce for sustainable en-ergy, the Austrian Foreign
Ministry said on Tuesday.Michael Spindelegger,
Austrias foreign minister,
said the ofce in Viennawas another important sig-
nal toward worldwide af-fordable and sustainable ac-cess to sustainable energy.
Vienna will therebybecome the energy-hub ofthe United Nations and will
be further developed as animportant UN seat, he
added.Spindelegger said sus-
tainable energy was an es-sential condition for thereduction of global poverty
and for the achievementof the eight UN Millen-nium Development Goals
(MDGs) established in2000, set to be met by 2015.
Vienna already hoststhe Vienna Energy Fo-rum every two years, and
the Global Forum on Sus-tainable Energy (GFSE)was also launched in the
city.The new UN ofce
will be headed by currentUnited Nations Industrial
Development Organization(UNIDO) Director-GeneralKandeh Yumkella, who
will leave for the new rolein mid-2013.
Xinhua
bian schools closed due tothe snowfall, Radio Televi-
sion Serbia said.Although the main
international transit routerunning the length of Serbiaremains slow but passable,
a section near the Bulgarianborder was closed for more
than ve hours due to anoverturned transport truck.
With the exception of
trucks carrying food stuffs,all other heavy vehicleshave been ordered off main
roads by Serbian police.
Trafc on many regionalroads has been restricted topassenger vehicles with full
winter equipment.Over the weekend, some
travelers were stranded for up
to 22 hours on roads beforethey could be reached byemergency crews. Predrag
Maric, head of emergencysituations, offered his apol-
ogy for the hell enduredby stranded passengers,explaining that a convoy
of 30 transport trucks hadblocked the highway and
only eight snow removalvehicles were available to
deal with the heavy snow-fall.
Belgrade Mayor Dragan
Dilas also apologized to citi-zens for the shortage of citytransit vehicles on the roads
over the past days. Homelessin the Belgrade shelter slept
in hallways, as there wereinsufcient beds to meet thedemand.Xinhua
at least two soldiers killed,the local government of-
cial said on condition ofanonymity.
Two soldiers were
shot on their chests anddied on the spot, the gov-ernment source said, adding
that two others were seri-ously injured in the armedattack. The attack targeted
a key checkpoint near anarmy base in central al-Dhalea Province, according
to the ofcial.Xinhua
Serbia
Netherlands
United Nations
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Thursday, 13 December, 2012
Stand up for our beloved
farmersMost Myanmar people used to idolize
far mer s as great contr ibutor s to the society and
the nations breadwinner s. Many often addr essfarmers as Uncle Peasant. But it is a pity that
the farmers of our country enjoy only meagre
living standar ds. The har dworking farmer s lived
in ru r al ar eas where utility services simply mean
just their ch ores. Fr om dawn to dusk , their faces
are always wet with elbow grease. But many
of them never gure out how much their hard
work is worth and complaint against their less
protable business.
Ofcial gures of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Irrigation for more than a decade show
constant increases in agricultural production
of the country for all kinds of crops. Not even
a slight decline. It means the agro-industry
is thriving and the peasants are committedthemselves to working har der and ha rd er. There
should be an an swer to the question why they do
ear n less if they continue to invest more efforts
in farming. Farmers who do not have access
to the market directly have depended largely
on brokerages. Most of the prots of farming
went into broker ages as there was no regulation
nor mechanism to stand up for farmers. The
rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The
government which is committed to bringing
about development of rural areas to root out
the poverty needs to add ress the issue urgently.
After years of deprivation, farmers now
become far m worker s, losing their far ms out to
companies and bu sinessmen who have substantialresources, according to a survey. Some of the
farmers abandoned their farms for well-paid
overseas jobs. The ofcial gures indicate that
national entrepreneurs are granted more
than 1.3 million hectres to run large-scale
commercial farming while only 0.01 percent
ar e reclaimed for terr ace farming. Due to the
natu r e of business, the bigger companies often
swallow the smaller ones.
The agro-industry needs nancial, technical
and other resources what the companies
can offer. But, it would bear more adverse
consequences than fr uitful outcomes if regulators
fail to protect the rights and a ddr ess the concern s
of the farmers.
All the Buddhist
people throughout the
Republic of the Union of
Myanmar know that the
First concrete unity of the
Sangha of All Orders in
the Republic of the Union
of Myanmar could be
established within one-
hundred year after the
First Congregation of the
Sangha of All Order had
been successfully held
in 1980. It was clearly
found in the history of
Buddhism that it was
impossible to carry out the
purication, perpetuation
and propagation of the
Buddha Sasana without the
unity of the Sangha.It was found that
multifarious sects and
ganas of the Sangha
appeared and separately
existed in the Republic
of the Union of Myanmar
before the First Con-
gregation of the Sangha of
All Orders. According to
the confuse and contended
situation of different sects
and ganas of the Sangha of
All Orders, many unlawful
views (Adhammavadas)
which lead to endangers
and destroy the true
teachings of the Buddha
appeared in the Union of
Myanmar in those days.
A need was felt that the
Buddhist people through-
out the country worries
about this situation. Some
farsighted learned monks
and devotees of those
days tried to establish the
unity of different sects
and ganas of the Sangha
Orders, and but they were
not successful because of
being not encouraged and
supported by the British
Colonial Government atthat time.
The farsighted learned
monks and the authorities
concerned tried to hold the
very First Congregation of
the Sangha of All Orders in
order to establish the unity
of the Sangha which ever
leads to the purication,
The State Sanghamahanayaka Committee of
the Republic of the Union of MyanmarBa Sein (Religious Af fairs)
perpetuation and propaga-
tion of the Buddha Sasana
in 1965. However, it was
not successful because of
unstable political and social
situation at that time.
According to the strong
wishes of the most of the
members of the Sangha,
the Buddhist people and the
Government of the Republic
of the Union of Myanmar
to establish the unity of the
Sangha of All Orders for
unanimously carrying out
the purication, perpetua-
tion and propagation of the
Buddha Sasana (The true
teachings of the Buddha),
the thorough and systematic
necessary arrangements tohold the First Congregation
of the Sangha of All orders
for the purication, per-
petuation and propagation
of the Buddha Sasana were
made in advance by the
farsighted and learned chief
monks and the Government
of the Union of Myanmar
of that time. And so, the
First Congregation of the
Sangha of All Orders for the
purication, perpetuation
and propagation of the
B u d d h a S a s a n a w a s
successfully held in 1980.
The congregation was
attended by the Sangha.
Samuti representatives
who represented the whole
members of the Sangha of
All Orders throughout the
country. According to the
resolutions of the Successful
First Congregation of
the Sangha of All orders,
the very rst unity of the
Sangha of All Orders of the
Republic of the Union of
Myanmar could be formed
and established within one-
hundred year in the history
of Buddhism of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar.
In accordance with
the resolutions of the
Congregation, the different
levels of the Sangha organi-
zations which take ofce
and settle various matters
relating to the members of
the Sangha could be formed.
They are as follows:-
(1) The State Sangha-
mahanayaka Committee.
(2) The State / Regional
Sanghanayaka Committes
(3) The Township San-
ghanayaka Committees and
(4) The Ward / Village-tract
Sanghanayaka Committees.
Of the four different
levels of Sangha Organi-
zations, the State Sangha-
mahanayaka Committee
co m p r i s in g 4 7 ch i e f
members of Sangha Orders,
is the highest level of the
Sangha Committees of the
Republic of the Union of
Myanmar.
Functions and duties of theState Sanghamahanayaka
Committee
(1) Taking responsibilities
of the unity of the Sangha
and carry ing out the
purification, perpetuation
and propagation of the
Buddha Sasana
(2) Instructing the super-
vising the Theravada Bud-
dhist monks to behave and
dwell in accordance with the
Vinaya Rules
(3) Car ry i ng out i t s
functions and duties in
accordance with the adoptedand prescribed rules and
regulations of different levels
of the Sangha Committee,
procedures, settlements
of Vinayadhammakamma
A d h i k r a n a D i s p u t e s
Act, other decisions and
instructions
(4) Accord i ng to the
above-ment ioned sub-
para (1) (2) and (3), the
State Sanghamahanayaka
Com-mittee shall have
to supervise and instruct
the Sangha Committees at
different levels.
(5) Instructing and super-vising the matters relating
to the administration of the
respective Sangha Com-
mittees at different levels.
(6) Occasionally notifying
the Dhammavinaya gazette
concern ing the whole
members of the Sangha
(7) Being able to make
suggestions, prescribed
canonical text and its
curriculums relating to
the Government Pariyatti
e x a m i n a t i o n s , a n d
supervise and amend the
systems of the Pariyatti
examinations,
(8) Being able to make
scrutinization, decision,
permission and prohibition
regarding different views
and opinions on Buddhism
(9) Being able to make
scrutinization, devision
and prohibition of talks,
wr i t i n g s , t each in g s
and displays which are
contradictionary to and
imcompatible with thePitaka Cononical Texts
(10) Being able to make
scrutinization, decision
an d p ro h ib i t i o n o n
practices of Patipatti
which are contradictory to
and incompatible with the
Pitaka Canonical Texts,
(11) If the funct ions
and activities carried
o u t b y r e s p e c t i v e
Sangha Committees at
different levels were not
in agreement with the
basic principles of the
Sangha Committees, theplenary meeting of the
State Sanghamahanayaka
Committee shall cancel
these funct ions and
activities by approval of
at least 75 per-centage
of members of the State
Sangha Maha Nayaka
Committee who attend the
meeting.
According to the
functions and duties of the
State Sanghamahanayaka
Committee, it is found that
various matters relating to
the members of the Sangha
or Sangha Committees canonly be decided and settled
by members of the Sangha
themselves. Any matters
relating to the members
of the Sangha cannot be
decided and settled by any
civil courts or authorities
concerned.
*****
Emergency medicines kits distr ibuted to
villages in Kayin StateNayPyiTaw, 12 Dec
The Ministry of Health
provided kits of Myanmar
traditional medicines for
emergency use to villages in
Kayin State on 1 December.
At the ceremony, Kayin
State Chief Minister U
Zaw Min, Deputy Minister
for Health Dr Win Myint
and Chairman of Nippon
Foundation Mr Sasakawa
presented the packages to
the village representatives
from Hpa-an, Hlaingbwe
and Thandaung Townships,
and Speaker of Kayin State
Hluttaw U Saw Aung
Kyaw Min, State Social
Affairs Minister U Chit
Hlaing, Director-General
of Traditional Medicine
Dep ar tm en t Dr Tu n
Naing Oo and State
Government Secretary
U Myo Aung Htay, the
village representatives
from Kawkareik, Kya-in-
Seikkyi, Myawady and
Phapon Townships. The state
chief minister, the deputy
minister and the Nippon
Foundation chairman visited
herbal garden near Hpa-an
industrial zone.MNA
Lottery.Yes, its low in
possibility! But I
just tr y it.
Myay Zar
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Lashio, 1 2 Dec
T h e K a n b a w z a C u p
Golf Tournament will be
organized at Hsinshweli
Golf Course in Lashio from
15 to 18 December.
The golf course is
located on Lashio-Namtu
Road. The golf course
constituted with 18 holes
Kanbawza Cup Golf Tourney 15-18 Decturns out a lot of golfers
who brought prestige of the
nation, said a veteran golfer
U Ba Khin of over 70 years
old in Lashio.
In-charge of the golf
course U Than Aung said,
All golfers from the
state will take part in the
tournament. So far, a total
Illegal timber extractions seized in
Mawlamyine TownshipNayPyiTaw, 12 Dec
Concerted efforts are being
made for preservation of
natural forest resources with
momentum and focusing
on searching and arresting
those who committed illegal
extraction of timber from
the natural forests and forest
reserves in Mon State.
Myanma Alinn Daily
reported recently that as an
operation, a departmental
team led by Director U
Chit Paw of Mon State
Forest Department searched
and arrested illegal timber
extraction along the banks
of Attaran and Gyaing rivers
from 27 November to 5
December.
The team seized 21 logs
of illegal timber and other
woods weighing 5.06 tons
and arrested two owners.
Action is being taken
against the two persons under
the Forest Law.
Myanma Alinn
Railroad sections to
Myitkyina inspected
MyiTkyiNa, 12 Dec
Kachin State Minister for
Transport U Kaman Tu
Naw, accompanied by
State Engineer of Myanma
Railways, rail track senior
engineer and ofcials, made
a trip to inspect the railroad
section to Myitkyina by RGC
on 4 and 5 December.
The minister looked
into rail tracts on Myitkyina-
Mohnyin railroad section,
maintenance of Nankway
Bridge, Bridges No 719 and
715, Bridge No 698, Bridge
No 684, Bridge No 681 and
Bridge No 673.
On 5 December, he
inspected rail tracks between
Mohnyin and Nantsiaung
railway stations, prevention
of erosion at rail tracts, line
clearing points and railway
trafc lights at the entrance
to the railway stations and
bridges. The State minister
also viewed the sites for
digging of drains along the
both sides of railroads where
water and swamps are.
Myanma Alinn
of 51 golf teams have got
registration to take part in
the cup. The tournament
will be categorised as inter-
club scratch event, inter-
club handicap, individual
scratch event, senior scratch
event and individual junior
handicap event.
Myanma Alinn
Nay Pyi Taw , 12
DecVice-President of
the Republic of the Union
of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk
Kham met a delegation ledby Mr Marovenic A. Semaan,
Chairman of Petrofac Ltd,
at Credentials Hall of
Presidential Palace, here,
this evening.
At the call, they had
a cordial discussion on
opportunities for Myanmars
agricultural development
in t ransforming in to
mechanized farming system,
Vice-President
Dr Sai Mauk Kham r eceives
Chairman of Petrofac LtdMyanma tourism develop-
ment and investments in
Myanmar.
Also present at the
call together with the Vice-President were Deputy
Minister for Foreign Affairs
U Thant Kyaw, Deputy
Minister for Electric Power U
Myint Zaw, Deputy Minister
for Energy U Htin Aung,
Deputy Minister for National
Planning and Economic
Development Dr Daw Khin
San Yi and departmental
heads.MNA
Nay Pyi Taw, 12 Dec
Chief of the General
Staff (Army, Navy and
Air) General Hla Htay
Win received Director Lt-
Gen Chai Shaoliang of
Political Department of
Chengdu Military Region
of the Peoples Republic of
China and party at Zeyathiri
Beikman, here, yesterday
morning.
Also present together
with General Hla Htay Win
Bronze statues cast in honour of Grandma
Daw Oo Zun, Myanma Alinn U Tin
yaNgoN, 12 DecIn
commemoration of the 80th
anniversary of Hninzigon
Home for the Aged, two
bronze statues of Daw Oo Zun
who established the Home
and Myanma Alinn U Tin
who succeeded the tasks of
the Home will be opened on
1 January, 2013.
As of January 1933,silk merchant Daw Oo Zun
(a) Nun Daw Sumala of
Mandalay established the
Daw Oo Zun Home for the
Aged in Hninzigon Ward
of Thingangyun Township
in Yangon Region to
accommodate older persons.
In 1943, Manager of
Myanma Alinn daily U Tin
took the responsibility of
Chairmanship of the Home
for the rst time at No 21
on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road
in Bahan Township due to
assignment of Daw Oo Zun.
He was the rst-ever chairman
General Hla Htay Win meets Director of Political
Department of Chengdu Military Region of PRC
were Lt-Gen Aung Than
Htut of Commander-in-
Chief (Army) Ofce, Chief
of Staff (Navy) Commodore
Tin Aung San, Chief of
Staff (Air) Maj-Gen Khin
Aung Myint, Commander
of Nay Pyi Taw Command
Maj-Gen Maung Maung
Aye and senior military
officers of Commander-
in-Chief (Army) Office.
Lt-Gen Chai Shaoliang was
accompanied by Maj-Gen
Zhang Bing, Maj-Gen Li
Jicai and ofcials, Chinese
Military Attach to Myanmar
Sr-Col Xiong Shaowei.
T h e y h e l d
comprehensive discussions
on strengthening bilateral
friendship between the two
armed forces and peace and
stability in border regions.
After the meeting, they
exchanged gifts and posed
for a documentary photo.
MNA
of the Home.
In honour of the founder
and first successor, the
museum was established
and their statues will be kept
there, said Vice-Chairman of
the Home Major Aung Than
(Rtd).
A four-storey building
to mark Grandma Daw Oo
Zun and another four-storey
Hninzimyaing Geha Building
in honour of Myanma Alinn
U Tin have been constructed
with the stone plaques.
Since the Home was
moved from Hninzigon Ward
of Thingangyun Township,
there were 45 older persons
at the Home. Now, the home
accommodates 100 grandpas
and 140 grandmas. Since
its establishment, the home
has given care to 2300 older
persons, said the vice-chairman
of the Home.
As the 80th anniversary of
the Home falls on 1 January
2013, the bronze statues of
Grandma Daw Oo Zun, founder
of the Home and Myanma Alinn
U Tin, successor of founder,
will be kept in their honour at
the entrance to the Home on a
grand scale.Myanma Alinn
Bronze statues of Hninzigon Home for the Aged
founder Grandma Daw Oo Zun and her successor
Myanma Alinn U Tin.
Time and
Tide Waits
for No Man
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham meets
Mr Marovenic A . Semaan, Chairman of Petrofac
Ltd, at Creden tials Hall of Presiden tial Palace.
mna
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Drunk policemen shoot minibus
dr iver in St PetersburgSaint PeterSburg, 12
DecTwo drunk police
officers are suspected ofopening re at and injureda minibus driver on Monday
night, authorities said onTuesday.
While full details of the
incident remain unclear, thepair are believed to shoot at
one of St Petersburgs manyminibuses on their way backto the base, according to the
Ghana police assure post-election secur ityaccra, 12 Dec Ghana
police on Tuesday said theyhad put in an elaborateprogramme to ensure peace
and stability in the WestAfrican country to forestallany acts of violence following
the 7 December polls.Director of PublicAffairs for the Ghana
Police Service and DeputySuperintendent of Police(DSP) Cephas Arthur
told journalists here thecomprehensive operationalprogramme was to ensure
peace before, during and afterthe countrys presidential
and parliamentary elections.
We have our men onthe ground to ensure peopledo not take the law into their
own hands, DSP Arthursaid.
Ghanaians went to the
polls on Friday and Saturdayto elect a president and a275-member legislature.
Accord ing to theElectoral Commission (EC),the presidential election was
won by incumbent JohnDramani Mahama with50.70 percent of the total
valid votes cast, while hisclosest challenger, Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
obtained 47.7 percent of thevotes.
The main opposition
party New Patriotic Party(NPP), just after theannouncement of the election
results by EC ChairmanKwad wo Afar i -Gy anon Sunday, accused the
ruling National DemocraticCongress of rigging theelection.
Subsequently, the partyrejected the outcome andstated its decision to head
for the countrys SupremeCourt.Xinhua
Afghan border policemen take part in their train ing
at a training centre in Herat Province, western
Afghanistan , on 11 Dec, 2012.
Xinhua
Relatives
celebrate
after a couple
registered
their
marriage in
Vladivostok
in the
Russian Far
East on 12
Dec, 2012.
Many couples
registered
their
marriages
to mark the
date, which
can be written
as 121212.
Kyodonews
UN agency says Syrians refugees keep rising, exceeding
half a millionunited nationS , 12
DecSyrian refugees havekept on the rise, with the
number exceeding half amillion, according to the UNRefugee Agency (UNHCR).
The information wasdisclosed by UN spokesman
Martin Nesirky at a dailynews brieng held here onTuesday.
Syria has been sufferingfrom a long-standing crisiswhich broke out in March
2011, and has sent a largeinflux of refugees intoits neighbouring Turkey,
Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.More than half a
million Syrian refugees
have now been registered orare awaiting registration infour surrounding countries
and North Africa, saidNesirky, quoting statistics
given by the UN RefugeeAgency (UNHCR). Sincethe beginning of November,
the number of registeredrefugees region-wide hasrisen by about 3,200 a day,
including both new arrivalsfrom Syria and those whohad already been in the
asylum countries for sometime but had not sought helpthrough registration.
UNHCR predicted thenumber of those who comeforward to register would go
up as the conict in Syriacontinues, resources were
depleted and host countriesand families could no longersupport them.
According to theagency, only about 40 percentof registered Syrian refugees
across the region actually livein refugee camps, said the
spokesman. The majority
Police arrest
suspects inBonn bomb
scareberlin, 12 DecPolice
have arrested two suspectswho are believed to haveplanted explosive devices
in Bonn central railwaystation, local media reportedon Tuesday.
Spiegel Online said twoSalafist terrorist suspects
identied as Omar D andAbdirazak B have alreadybeen arrested. Both are
reportedly well-known toauthorities as extremists whowere detained in 2008 due to
a terrorist attempt.On Monday, a bag with
no apparent owner was
found on a platform of Bonncentral railway station, andthe authorities shut down
the station due to the alarm,causing many delays andcancellations. The station
was reopened on Mondayevening.
The bags contents were
described by investigatorsas potentially explosivematerial, although no
detonator was found. Thepolice conducted a search
across the state of NorthRh in e-Wes tp h a l i a o nTuesday.Xinhua
live outside camps, oftenin rental housing, with hostfamilies, or in various types
of collective centres andrenovated accommodation.
UNHCR is stepping up
its outreach activities in theregion to provide registration
and to help those who needit, he said.
L a s t w e e k , U N
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited refugee campsin Jordan and Turkey to
express his solidarity andto help highlight the needfor more funding.Xinhua
Algeria to help Libya reinforce internal securityalgierS, 12 Dec
Algeria will help Libyastrengthen security, Algerian
Prime Minister AbdelmalekSellal said on Tuesday atthe end of a two-day visit of
his Libyan counterpart AliZaidan.
Algeria will extend a
helping hand to Libya in termsof security to reinforce theauthority there, Sellal told
reporters at the InternationalAirport of Algiers while
sending off Libyan PrimeMinister Zaidan.
Zaidans visit is a new
beginning for the bilateralrelations, Sellal said.
During the visit, the
Libyan PM discussed thecooperation with Algeriain the military and security
fields. Earlier Monday,after meeting with AlgerianP r e s i d e n t A b d e l a z i z
Bouteika, Zaidan said thetwo countries have agreed
to boost border securitycooperation to thwart arms
inltration.Libya and Algeria share
convergent visions on most ofthe issues of common interest,
including border security andcounterterrorism, Zaidansaid. Previously, Algeria
agreed to send a delegation ofpolice experts to Libya to helprestructure and train Libyan
police forces.Xinhua
Colourful illuminations are seen projected on a
building in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 11 Dec,
2012. The cultural festival of light and water will
last until middle of January, 2013.Xinhua
authorities.
One of the bullets struckthe driver in the arm, causinghim to lose control of hisvehicle, said the authorities.
The two shooters, a38-year-old warrant ofcerand a 25-year-old sergeant,
have been taken into custody,and police said they have
launched a investigation intothe incident.
Xinhua
Police conduct dawn raids in Sydney as
investigation into shooting continuesSydney, 12 DecMore
than 100 police officersconducted dawn raids in
Sydneys southwest onWednesday, arresting sixmen over a drive-by shooting
in July, the New South Wales(NSW) Police said.
Po l i ce sa id t h ey
executed search at six homesin Merrylands, Punchbowl
and Bankstown at 6 am(local time) on Wednesdayand arrested six men.
The operation relatesto a drive-by shootinginvolving an exchange of
gunre between three menin Broughton Street in OldGuildford in Sydneys west
on 21 July, the NSW Policesaid in a statement.
The shooting resultedin a woman suffering minor
injuries after a stray bulletentered her home. The incidentis being investigated by the
Middle Eastern OrganizedCrime Squad under StrikeForce Sevenoak, police said.Two men remain before
the court in relation to theincident.Xinhua
US now recognizes Syrian opposition coalitionWaShington, 12 Dec
President Barack Obama saidon Tuesday that the UnitedStates now recognizes anewly formed coalition of
Syrian opposition groups, amove aimed at ratcheting up
pressure on Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad.
Weve made a decision
that the Syrian OppositionCoalition is now inclusive
enough, is reflective andrepresentative enough of theSyrian population, that we
consider them the legitimaterepresentative of the Syrian
people in opposition to theAssad regime, Obama saidin an interview with Barbara
Walters of ABC News.The move, which was
widely expected, could givenew international legitimacyto the rebels fighting to
overthrow Assad, but stopsshort of authorizing US arming
of the opposition, somethingObama has steadfastly refusedto do.Reuters
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China to open rst subway crossing YangtzeWuhan, 12 Dec
Chinas rst subway lineto cross the Yangtze River,the countrys longest water-way, is expected to start testrun this month in the centralcity of Wuhan, local of-cials said on Tuesday.
Subway trains have
run through the 27.73-kmtunnel for Wuhan Line 2,which links Wuchang and
Hankou two major areasof the city over the pastthree months. But passen-
gers will only be allowed toboard the trains on 28 Decwhen the test run starts, of-cials with the Hubei pro-
Commun ity catering staff prepare meal at a community dining room in Donggaodi
sub-district of south Beijing, capital of China, on 11 Dec, 2012. Local sub-district
ofce took measures and established 4 community dining rooms and 3 food trucksserving the aged citizens exclusively. Around 2,000 senior citizens beneted from
the convenience-for-people measures since 2011.Xinhua
vincial transportation bu-reau said.
The subway line hasrecently passed the experts
assessment, they said.It will be Wuhans rst
subway, which is estimated
to transport at least 600,000passengers daily by 2015.
As a key transportationroute, the line is expectedto handle half of the citys
cross-Yangtze trafc ow,easing gridlock on bridgesover the river.
The construction costsaround 14.9 billion yuan(2.37 billion US dollars),
according to estimates by
previous reports.
The 6,300-km YangtzeRiver, which originates innorthwest Chinas Qing-hai Province and owsthrough 10 provinces andmunicipalities before emp-tying into the East ChinaSea, is a major transport
link between the west andeast China. More than 100bridges across the river are
in use.Wuhan lies at the in-
tersection of the Han and
Yangtze rivers. Its cityproper is divided into threemajor areas by the rivers.
Xinhua
SKoreas jobless rate falls to 2.8 pct
in NovemberSeoul, 12 DecSouth
Koreas jobless rate fell to2. 8 percent last month dueto strong job creation in
the manufacturing sector, agovernment report showed
on Wednesday.
India asks Pakistan to hand over Mumbai
attacks mastermind
The unemployment
rate stood at 2.8 percentin November, down 0. 1percentage point from the
same month last year, ac-cording to Statistics Korea.
From a month before, the
rate was unchanged.
After peaking at 4.2percent in February, thejobless rate has trended
down to 2.8 percent that isnearly at a full employment
level.Xinhua
neW Delhi, 12 DecIndia will demand that Pa-kistan hand over the allegedmastermind of the Mumbai
terror attacks, Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Haz Saeed,during Pakistani Interior
Minister Rehman Maliksvisit later this week.
I am quite sure that
when he (Malik) will comehere, I will discuss with him
this issue, Indian HomeMinister Sushilkumar Shin-de told media on Monday.
Malik is likely to beginhis three-day visit to India
this Friday. India has givenPakistan at least seven dos-siers containing evidence
of Saeeds involvement inthe 2008 Mumbai attacksin which over 170 people
were killed and more than
300 others injured.India last month ex-
ecuted Mohammed Aj-mal Amir Kasab, the onlymilitant caught alive in theMumbai massacre, after the
countrys Supreme Courtupheld his death penaltyhanded down to him by a
special court which in 2010convicted him for his rolein the attacks.Xinhua
A soldier f rom Yanchen g border detachmen t plays
with a red-crowned crane which comes here to
overwinter at national nature reserve of rare birds in
Yancheng, east Chinas Jiangsu Province, on 11 Dec,
2012. The reserve was set to protect rare birds suchas red-crowned cranes since 1980s. Over the past
30 years, soldiers here have been protecting the rare
birds and wetlands.Xinhua
Port Klang, (Malay-sia), 12 DecMalaysianSelangor state customs
department crippled an at-tempt to smuggle 24 tonesof African elephant tusks
worth 60 million ringgit(19.6 million US dollars) in
the countrys largest seizureof illegal ivory to date, thedepartment said on Tues-day.
The shipment, boundfor China from the Lomeport in Togo, had berthed at
Malaysias port Klang nearKuala Lumpur on Friday.
Selangor Customs di-rector, Azis Yacub saidthe tusks were concealedin piles of wood carried in
two containers that weredeclared as Mahogany oortiles on immigration docu-ments.
The seizure, fourth of
such in the country, wasmade on Monday after au-thorities received a tip.
The tusks, Azis said,cost 2,500 ringgit per kilo-
Malaysia makes largest
seizure of illegal ivory worth
20 mln USD
15 killed in road accident in SW PakistaniSlamabaD, 12 Dec
At least 15 people includ-ing four soldiers were killedand 25 others injured when
a coach collided with amilitary vehicle in Khuzdar
in central Balochistan prov-ince of southwest Pakistanon Tuesday afternoon, re-ported local Urdu TV chan-nel Samaa.
But there is no ofcial
conrmation about the g-ures. Deputy Commissionerof Khuzdar Mansoor Khan
earlier told local media thatonly ve people were killedand 16 others were injured
in the accident.All the injured have
been shifted to a military
hospital in Khuzdar, saidrescue workers.
Hospital sources sai