New Light of Myanmar (23 Dec 2012)

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Volume XX, Number 247 10th Waxing of Nadaw 1374 ME Sunday, 23 December, 2012

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New Light of MyanmarNay Pyi Taw, 23 Dec On the occasion of the birthday of His Majesty

Akihito, Emperor of Japan, which falls on 23 December 2012, U Thein Sein,President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent messages of

felicitations to His Majesty Akihito, Emperor of Japan and His Excellency Mr.

Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan.

MNA

President U Thein Sein sendsmessages of felicitations to

Emperor of Japan, Japanese PM

NayPyiTaw, 22 Dec

President U Thein Sein ew

to Ratnagiri of India thismorning to visit and lay

a wreath at Tomb of King

Thibaw, the last monarch

of Myanmar, on his visit to

the neighbouring country.

The President and party

left Mumbai for Ratnagiri

at 9.30 am.

I n d i a n o f f i c i a l s

welcomed the President

and party at the Ratnagiri

Airport.

The President then

proceeded to the tomb in a

motorcade.

The President visited

the Royal Residence of theKing where the portrait and

furniture of the King and

traditional appliances were

displayed as well and signed

President U Thein Sein visits the last kings tomb in India

in the visitors book.

President U Thein

Sein met ve descendentsof King Thibaw at the

administrator office of

Ratnagiri district and

provided cash assistance.

In meeting with ofcials

of the Indian district, the

President requested them

to conserve the tombs of

King Thibaw and the royal

family.

The colonialist British

kept the last king of

Myanmar in exile in India

in 1886 and Zafar Shah, the

last king of India, in Yangon

of Myanmar.

The President viewedround the compound of the

residence.

Then, the President and

party returned to Mumbai in

President U Thein Sein and party pose for documentary photo in front of Royal Residence of King Thibaw

in Ratnagiri of India.mna

President U Thein Sein lays a wreath at Tomb of King Thibaw in Ratnagiri of India.mna

the afternoon.

King Thibaw, the last

king of Myanmar, excelled

in Buddhist literature and

was a religious king but

not a superstitious one.

It was made clear by hisencouragement of religious

reform and printing of legal

publications. He was known

to be a kind and generous

king who released slaves.

The British govern-

ment dethroned him on

2 8 No v em b er , 1 8 8 5 ,

and the king alongside with

his royal family arrived at

Ratnagiri where they lived

for 24 years in exile on 10

April, 1886.

He passed away on 15

December, 1916, due to

diabetes and kidney failure.

The remains of KingThibaw and of his wives

were kept at a tomb in

the compound of the

royal residence since 29

December, 1916.

T h e q u e e n a n d

d a u g h t e r s r e q u e s t e d

the colonialist Brit ish

government to convey the

remains back to Mandalay

Palace for many times.

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l o ca l n ew s

New Light of Myanmar

New Ngamoeyeik Br idge (Par ami) put into

public serviceYangon, 22 Dec For

enabling the public to use

it as soon as possible, the

opening of new Ngamoeyeik

Bridge (Parami) took place

on 19 December and Yangon

Region Chief Minister U

Myint Swe formally opened

the bridge.

Yangon Ci ty De-

velopment Commit tee

started construction of the

bridge on 8 October 2011

and put the nishing touches

to it on 30 June 2012, taking

eight months and 23 days to

complete all bridge works.

Of nine bridges linking

with Dagon Myothit (North)

Township, the newly-

built Ngamoeyeik bridge

(Parami) was constructed

next to the old one on which

more than 20000 vehicles

were passing daily, aiming

at ensuring better transport

in the region.

For overcoming the

various kinds of challenges

that are born together with

developmental momentum,

the bridge will serve the

locals in Dagon Myothit

(North) Township with

sp eed y p u b l i c t r an -

sportation.

The main structure

of the newly-inaugurated

bridge that links Dagon

Myothit Townships and

South Okkalapa Township

is 600 feet in length and 40

feet in width. Its motorway

is 28 feet in width and it

is anked by 6-foot wide

pedestrian lanes on both

sides. The RC type facility

can withstand 75-ton loads.

Thanks to emergence

of one more Ngamoeyeik

(Parami) bridge, it can help

reduce trafc congestions

on roads in South Okkalapa

Township and Pinlaung

junction in Dagon Myothit

(North).

Kyemon

Photo shows T atmadawmen providing health care services to local people in

quake-stricken regions recently. Kyemon

Padaukbin oil eld sees 20th re ThaYeT, 22 Dec Are broke out at the block of

Shwe Season Company that

is dealing with oil drilling in

Padaukbin oil eld in Thayet

District of Magway Region at

about 5 pm on 19 December.

It was the 20th time for the

oil eld.The fire started at

Oil Well No. GS 55 in

the block of the company

while drawing oil from the

Cold season crop cultivation needs more efforts

to meet tar geted acreage in Thongwa,

Kayan Townships

Yangon, 22 Dec With

the technical assistance of

Yangon Region Agriculture

Department, efforts are

being made to meet the

targeted acreage of previous

year in putting winter crops

and edible oil crops into

farmlands of Thongwa

and Kayan Townships of

Yangon Region. There had

been untimely rainfalls in the

region till November, with

the result that paddies were

destroyed and rain water

remained in the farmlands,

making the farmers late

for winter crop cultivation.

So they are very busy with

their farming works to be

able to meet the targeted

acreage. A team led by

the head of Yangon Region

Agriculture Department is

providing them with scientic

agricultural methods for

timely completion of winter

crop cultivation works and

per acre high yield.

Kyemon

Award winner Wri ter

Natmauk U Tun Shein and

writer Nyi Say Min left here

for Kunming in Yunnan

Province of the Peoples

Republic of China by air

on 20 December.

1. All the nat ional people to live together in the Union through th ick

and thin

2. All the national people to constantly safeguard non-disintegrat ion

of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity andperpetuation of sovereignty

3. All the national people to par ticipate in the tasks for br inging

about genuine, eternal peace putting an end to the armed conicts

4. To make relentless efforts, in building a modern , developed and

democratic nation, in order to better serve public interest, to

ensure poverty reduction and bring about righteous legislative,

administra tive and j udicial pillars

National Objectives of 65th Anniversary

Independence Day for 2013

Wr iters, poets and journalists in Mandalay go onexcursion tour to Kunming

Ayeyawady Region Trafc Rule Enforcement

Supervisory Committee meets

PaThe i n , 2 2 Dec

A work coordination

meeting of Ayeyawady

Reg io n Tra f f i c Ru le

Enforcement Supervisory

Committee was held at the

briefing hall of the office

of Senior Engineer of

Ayeyawady Region Public

Works on 4 December. Inhis address, Ayeyawady

Region Mini-ster for Road

Transportation U Than

Tun pointed out parallel

During thei r v is i t

to China from 20 to 25

Decem b er , t h ey wi l l

observe the development

of Kunming, sister city of

Mandalay.

Kyemon

MandalaY, 22 Dec

At the invitation of Oversea

Chinese Association, a

12-member delegation

com-prising writers, poets

and journalists in Mandalay

led by National Literary

well by an oil worker. The

fire destroyed nearby oildrilling equipment. Thayet

Police Station led a lawsuit

against the oil worker for his

negligence. Kyemon

trends of infrastructural

develop-ment, a sharp rise

in number of vehicles and

road accidents, calling for

more educative talks on

traffic rules. Next, thosepresent held discussions

a n d p r e s e n t e d t h e i r

respective tasks.

Kyemon


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WORLD


US gun lobby calls for armed guar ds for

every schoolWashington, 22 Dec

National Rie Association(NRA) , a powerful USgun lobby, on Friday called

for armed guards for everyschool in the country, as theresponse of the gun industry

to the mass shooting in SandyHook Elementary School inNewtown, Connecticut.

W a y n e L a P i e r r e ,executive vice president ofthe NRA, told a Washington

Press conference that theonly way to stop a bad guywith a gun is a good guy

with a gun, and called onCongress to appropriate

enough funds to post an

armed guard at every school

in the nation.In the first official

response of NRA after

the Sandy Hook tragedy,LaPierre put the blame onHollywood, video games

industry and the media,saying they were purveyingimages of violence.

At the conference,LaPierre put forward aprogramme called National

School Shield, which wouldessentially put armed guardsat schools, relying mostly

on local police forces.He called on Congress to

appropriate money to fund

the programme, and said the

NRA would put forward amodel of the programme forothers to use. The conference

was interrupted twice byprotesters.

Th e San d y Ho o k

Elementary Massacre,which took place a weekago, saw 20 school kids

killed by one shooter. Sixadults were also killed bythe shooter at the school

before he commit tedsuicide. The shooter killedhis mother before the

shooting rampage. Themassacre renewed calls for

gun control.Xinhua

Russia clashes over energy with Belarus,

Ukraine, EUremarks by BelarusianP r e s i d e n t A l e x a n d e r

Lukashenko that it hadagreed to increase its crudeoil supplies to Minsk, vital

for the Belarus economy,and said that it still intendedto cut them next year.

On Thursday, RussianPresident Vladimir Putincriticised Ukraine for failing

to agree on a deal, in returnfor cheaper gas, under whichit would lease its pipeline

network to Moscow and theEuropean Union.

Russia, the worlds top

energy producer, supplies

Pipes are seen at a gas compressor station in the village

of Boyarka, outside Kiev, on 19 Dec, 2012.

ReuteRs

Minsk/MoscoW, 22

DecRussia plunged backinto the disputes over energywith Ukraine and Belarus that

have repeatedly disrupted oil

and gas supplies to European

Union countries, and it alsotermed EU energy policy asuncivilised.

Russia on Friday denied

over a quarter of Europesgas and oil needs. Ukraine

ships around two thirds ofEuropes imports of Siberiangas through pipelines across

its territory, while Belarusis mainly responsible for oildeliveries.

Clashes over energypricing and pipeline transitwith Ukraine and Belarus

have led over the past decadeto cuts or halts in Russian oiland gas supplies to Central

and Western Europe. Thesehave most often happenedover the New Year, when

Russia failed to agree on

energy supply terms with thetwo countries.

The European Unionhas accused the Kremlin ofusing its energy might as a

political tool, while Moscowhas argued it wants itsneighbours to pay fair prices

promptly for energy.On Friday, Belarusian

state news agency BelTAquoted Lukashenko as sayingRussia had agreed to increase

oil supplies next year to 23million tonnes (460,000barrels per day) from 21.5

million this year.Reuters

Ten killed

in ring at

passenger

vehicle in SW

PakistanislaMabad

, 22 DecSome unknown gunmenkilled at least 10 peopleon Friday evening as they

attacked a passenger vehiclein Pakistans southwesternProvince of Baluchistan, local

media reported. According tothe reports, the incident took

place in Makran District ofBaluchistan Province nearPak-Iran border.

The bus was comingfrom Sindh Province and washeading towards Iran. Local

sources told media that thepeople on board were goingto Iran illegally.

When the passengervehicle reached the DashtBishuli area of Makran, the

unknown militants stopped itand opened re at it, killingat least 10 people on the spot

and leaving many othersinjured. Security forces andrescue teams have been sent

to the spot and no furtherdetail are available yet.

On Thursday night, at

least ve people were killedand six others were injured

in an attack on two passengerbuses in the Machh area ofthe Bolan District in the same

province.Xinhua

Wayne L aPierre, executive vice president of the

National Rie Association (NRA), attends a newsconference in Washington DC on 21 Dec, 2012. NRA,a powerful US gun lobby, on Friday called for armed

guards for every school in the country, as the response

of the gun industry to the mass shooting in Sandy Hook

Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Xinhua

Russian President Vladimir Putin (5th L), Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (4thL) and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (2nd R), EuropeanCommission President Jose Manuel Barroso (3rd R) and European Unions

Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton (1st R) attend EU-Russia Summit at the EU

headquarters in Brussels, capital of Belgium, on 21 Dec, 2012.Xinhua

Hollande says Frances combat mission in

Afghanistan completedParis, 22 DecFrench

President Francois Hollandeannounced on Friday that the

mission of French ghtingforces in Afghanistan was

achieved, and only non-combat troops are to stayin the country by mid 2013.

Addressing combattroops that already quit Afghanterritory, Hollande said

France has fought for the rightcause in Afghanistan to crackdown terrorist cells. Today

the mission is completed. Al-Qaeda has been driven out ofAfghanistan, its leader was

killed and those who supportedthis organization have been

permanently weakened anddisorganized, the presidentadded.

By mid 2013, 500French soldiers will remain inAfghanistan to support local

authorities in civilian eldsincluding health, education,culture, agriculture and also

assist Afghan defence andinterior ministries in training.

About 2,000 French

soldiers have returned homeso far and 1,500 others were

still in the restless country tobring back military materials,according to the president

who kept his promise towithdraw French combattroops from Afghanistan by

the end of this year, two yearsahead of the alliances plan.

Xinhua

Syr ian r ebels say will target Aleppo Airpor tbeirut, 22 DecSyrian

rebels warned on Friday theywill target the international

airport of the northern Cityof Aleppo after ring at anairliner preparing to take

off, the rst direct attackon civilian a ight in the21-month-old revolt.

Thursdays attack wasanother sign of the growing

condence of rebels who arealso ghting an offensive inthe central province of Hama,

pursuing a string of territorialgains to try to cut armysupply lines and pressure

the capital Damascus to thesouth.

Free Syrian Army ghters are seen at a front lineduring ghting with Syrian forces loyal to PresidentBashar al-Assad at Bustan al-Qasr District in Aleppo

on 21 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs

A rebel commander whogave his name as Khaldountold Reuters by Skype that

snipers from the IntelligenceArmed Struggle Battalion,part of the Islamist Jundallah

brigade, had hit the wheels ofSyrian Airways ight RB201on Thursday.

Those were warningshots, he said, adding that

the plane had been unable totake off. We wanted to senda message to the regime that

all their planes militaryand civilian are withinour reach.

There was no immediatemention of the incident on

Syrian state media.Rebels accuse the

government of using civilian

aircraft to transport weaponsand Iranian ghters who theysay are helping President

Bashar al-Assads forces.Insurgents have cut off manyof the road links to Aleppo,

Syrias biggest city.F i g h t i n g a r o u n d

Damascus has made the roadto the capitals internationalairport unsafe for traffic.

Foreign airlines have stoppedying there. According toight schedules, the Cairo-

bound RB201 usually iesfrom Damascus rather thanAleppo.

What happened withDamascus airport willhappen to Aleppo, even if the

price is higher, Khaldounsaid.

Another rebel urged

civilians not to use Aleppoairport or Syrian Air ightsas they will be targets from

now on.The rebels have scored

advances across the country,

announcing on Friday theyhad taken over Rayhaneya

town in rural Damascus andseveral other towns in Hama.

Reuters


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Sci ence & Technol ogy


Tech

NASA posts YouTube video debunking Maya

Armageddon

Cape Canaveral, 22DecNASA is so surethere will be a 22 Decem-ber, 2012, it has alreadyposted a YouTube video ti-tled Why the World DidntEnd Yesterday.

Scientists say rumourson social media and the In-ternet of Earths prematuredemise have been promptedby a misunderstanding ofthe ancient Maya calendar,which runs through 21 De-cember, 2012.

Its just the end of thecycle and the beginning of

A family of

Osprey are

seen outside

the NASA

Kennedy

Space Centre

VehicleAssembly

Building

(VAB) in

Cape Canav-

eral, Florida

on 13 May,

2010.

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the new one. Its just likeon 31 December, our cal-endar comes to an end, buta new calendar for the nextyear begins on 1 January,Don Yeomans, head ofNASAs Near-Earth Ob-

ject programme at the JetPropulsion Laboratory inPasadena, Calif, said in aseparate YouTube video.

According to the storycirculating on the Internet,an enormous rogue planetcalled Niburu is on a colli-sion course with Earth.

If it were, we would

have seen it long ago andit if were invisible some-how, we would have seenits effects on the neighbour-ing planets. Thousands ofastronomers who scan thenight skies on a daily basis

have not seen this, Yeo-mans said.Still, thousands of mys-

tics and New Age dreamershave descended on ancientMaya temples across Mex-ico and Central Americahoping to witness the birthof a new era when the daydubbed end of the world

dawns on Friday.So is NASA covering

up to prevent panic?Can you imagine

thousands of astronomerskeeping the same secret

from the public for severalyears? Yeomans said.

Initially, Niburu, alsoknown as Planet X, was toimpact in May 2003, butwhen that didnt happen thedoomsday date was movedto coincide with the endof one of the cycles of theancient calendar at wintersolstice 21 December,2012.

Other celestial eventsthat will not be happening:a planetary alignment caus-ing a massive tidal surge ora total blackout of Earth; a

reversal in Earths rotation;an impact by a giant aster-oid; a giant solar storm.

Since the beginningof recorded time, there havebeen literally hundreds ofthousands of predictionsfor the end of the world,Yeomans said. Were stillhere.Reuters

Panasonic to appeal EU ruling

on cathode-ray tube cartelTokyo, 22 DecJa-

pans Panasonic Corp saidon Friday that it would ap-peal a decision by the Eu-ropean Commission to ne

it 252 million euros ($327

million) on charges of x-ing prices for TV and com-puter monitor cathode-raytubes along with ve other

companies.The European Com-

mission ned six rms,

Panasonic Corp logos are seen at an electronics store in

Tokyo on 15 Nov, 2012.ReuteRs

including Philips, LGElectronics Toshiba CorpSamsung SDI and Frenchcompany Technicolour atotal of 1.47 billion euros,its biggest antitrust penalty

in history. The Commissionon 5 Dec said executivesfrom the European andAsian companies had metuntil six years ago to x

prices and divide up mar-

kets for TV and computermonitor cathode-ray tubes,a business that has sincebeen replaced by at panel

displays.Panasonic in a state-

ment said it will seek a fair

judgment. Until now, theCommissions biggest anti-trust penalty had been a 1.38billion euro ne imposed on

participants in a car glass car-tel in 2008.Reuters

Nokia to get payments in patent deal with RIM

A woman walks past a Nokia advertisement board at a

home appliances store in Shenyang, L iaoning Province

on 6 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs

Helsinki, 22 DecStruggling Finnish mobilephone maker Nokia has set-tled its patent dispute withBlackBerry maker Researchin Motion in return for pay-ments, as it tries to exploit itstrove of technology patentsto boost its nances.

Terms of the agreementwere condential, but Nokia

said on Friday it includeda one-time payment to bebooked in the fourth quarter,as well as ongoing fees, all tobe paid by RIM.

Nokia is one of the in-dustrys top patent holders,having invested 45 billioneuros ($60 billion) in mobileresearch and developmentover the past two decades.

Facebook tests char ging users

to send certain messages

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a

mobile phone is seen in this ph oto illustration taken in

Lavigny on 16 May, 2012.ReuteRs

san FranCisCo, 22DecFacebook Inc un-veiled a test on Thursdaythat charges users to send

certain types of messagesthrough the social network,the latest example of thecompany looking for newsources of revenue and prof-it. Until now, Facebooksmessaging system sends themost-relevant messages,including those from usersFacebook friends, into anInbox and siphons off less-relevant messages, such aspotential spam, in an Oth-er folder.

Today were start-ing a small experiment totest the usefulness of eco-nomic signals to determinerelevance, Facebook said.This test will give a smallnumber of people the optionto pay to have a messagerouted to the Inbox rather

Red Hat r evenue beats estimates on

subscr iption gains

than the Other folder of arecipient that they are notconnected with. A Face-book spokesman said the

charge for the test is $1 permessage, but added that thecompany is still looking forthe optimum price. Us-ers can only receive one ofthese paid, re-routed mes-sages per week, he noted.

The company said itstest service may be usefulin certain situations, suchas allowing users to send amessage to someone theyheard speak at an event butare not friends with, or con-tacting someone about a jobopportunity.

Facebook, which wentpublic earlier this year, isunder pressure from WallStreet to nd new sourcesof revenue and prot. The

company has respondedwith a series of new ser-

vices and tests in recentmonths. In September, thecompany said it would startcharging merchants to runoffers on its social network.

The test messagingservice is similar to the In-Mail service from LinkedInCorp, the professional net-working rival to Facebook,which lets users with high-end subscriptions sendmessages to other LinkedInmembers outside their net-works. For the receiver,this test allows them to hearfrom people who have animportant message to sendthem, Facebook added.

Reuters

WasHingTon, 22Dec Red Hat Inc, theworlds largest distributorof Linux operating soft-ware, posted third-quarterrevenue above analystsestimates on strong growthin its subscription busi-ness, sending its shares up6 percent in after-markettrading.

The company alsosaid it would buy privatelyheld ManageIQ, whichprovides management andautomation programs forcloud computing, for $104million in cash.

The acquisition, itsfourth since October last

year, is not expected tohave any material impactto Red Hats revenue forthe scal year ending Feb-ruary 28.

Red Hat expects toearn between 29 cents and30 cents per share in thefourth quarter, on revenueof $347 million to $351million, it said on a con-ference call with analysts.

Analysts were expect-ing earnings of 30 cents onrevenue of $350.9 million,according to Thomson Re-uters I/B/E/S.

Third-quarter net in-come fell to $34.8 million,or 18 cents per share, from

$38.2 million, or 19 centsper share, a year earlier.

On an adjusted ba-sis, the company earned29 cents per share, in linewith expectations. Rev-enue rose 18 percent to$344 million, beating esti-mates of $338 million.

Red Hats subscriptionrevenue rose 19 percentto $294.2 million in thequarter ended 30 Novem-ber. Shares of the Raleigh,North Carolina-based com-pany were trading at $55.60after the bell. The stockclosed at $52.61 on theNew York Stock Exchangeon Thursday.Reuter s

It has been trying tomake use of that legacy toensure its survival, amid afall in sales as well as cash.The Finnish rm is battling

to recover lost ground in thelucrative smartphone mar-

ket to the likes of Apple andSamsung. The agreementwith RIM settles all existingpatent litigation between thetwo companies, Nokia said,adding similar disputes withHTC Corp and ViewSonic

still stood. This agreementdemonstrates Nokias indus-try leading patent portfolioand enables us to focus onfurther licensing opportuni-ties in the mobile commu-nications market, said PaulMelin, Nokias chief intel-lectual property ofcer.

Nokia has earnedaround 500 million euros ayear from patent royalties inkey areas of mobile telepho-ny. Some analysts have saidit could earn hundreds of mil-lions more if it can negotiatewith more companies suc-cessfully. Analysts estimatedits June 2011 settlement withApple was worth hundredsof millions of euros. ($1 =0.7555 euros)Reuters


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BUSI NESS & HEALTH


BusinessHealth

Business

Business

US budget setback hits

shares, euro

A cameraman lms rises in share prices at the Tokyo

Stock Exchange in Tokyo on 17 Dec 2012.

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London, 22 DecEuropean and Asian sharesweakened on Friday and boththe euro and gold slipped, as anew setback in talks to avert a

US scal crisis stoked investornerves.

A proposal f romRepublican leader JohnBoehner to avoid the so-called scal cliff failed to

get support from his partyon Thursday, casting freshuncertainty over talks to avoidacross-the-board tax hikesand spending cuts that couldpush the US economy intorecession in 2013.

The worries promptedselling in European sharesas trading resumed, with theFTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3

index of the top Europeanstocks down 0.4, albeit stillon course for a fth straight

week of gains. The marketis still too complacent and theodds are increasing that a (USbudget) deal will not get donein the immediate future, SaxoBank Chief Economist SteenJakobsen said. That leavesEuropean equities (in terms ofearnings multiples) vulnerableto the negative exposure of

the scal drag and even a

compromised deal is goingto do very little to structurallyreform anything, he added.

Londons FTSE 100

.FTSE, Pariss CAC-40

.FCHI and Frankfurts DAX

.GDAXI were down 0.3-0.5 percent following a 0.7percent tumble in Asian stocks.MIAPJ0000PUS, and futuresprices pointed to sharp fallsWall Street later. Anxietywas exacerbated by weaker-than-expected German datawhich showed consumermorale dropped for the fourthmonth running to its lowestlevel in more than a year. Thecombined worries helped pushup German government bondsand the dollar .DXY, both

traditionally favoured by riskadverse investors. The euroeased back to just over $1.32,trimming some of the gainsit has seen this week as eurozone sentiment continued toimprove. Gold was also caughtup in the US disappointment,slipping $1.38 to $1,645.76an ounce, putting it near afour-month low and on trackfor its steepest weekly dropsince June.Reuters

Whole gra ins linked to lower pr ediabetes risk

new York, 22 DecEating whole grains isassociated with a decreasedrisk of prediabetes, a bloodsugar elevation that canprecede diabetes in adults,according to new research.

Swedish residents whoate food containing morethan 59 grams roughly twoounces of whole grainsper day were 27 percent lesslikely to become prediabeticcompared with residentswho ate 30 grams or less,according to the research.

This i s o f g reati m p o r t a n c e b e c a u s eprediabetes is increasing,lead author Tina Wirstrm,a postdoctoral fellow atthe Karolinska UniversityHospital in Sweden, toldReuters Health.

The American DiabetesAssociation estimates thatone in four Americans olderthan 20 have prediabetes.

Nearly a quarter of peoplewith prediabetes eventuallydevelop full-blown diabetes.

Previous research haslinked whole grain rich dietswith a decreased risk ofdiabetes, but the new studyin the American Journal ofClinical Nutrition makes theconnection to the diseaseprecursor.

Whole grains rangefrom oatmeal to popcorn,from brown rice to wholewheat - as long as the entirekernel is consumed.

The study included5,477 Stockholm residentsfrom 35 to 56 years oldwithout diabetes who keptfood diaries of how muchwhole and rened grains they

ate. Researchers measuredblood glucose in study

participants and followed up10 years later.

Overall, one in 13p a r t i c i p a n t s b e c a m e

prediabetic, while one in 33became diabetic, the studyfound. When researcherstook into account the dailyamount of whole grainseaten, they found that eatingmore than 59 grams versus30 grams of whole grain wasassociated with a 27 percentdecreased risk of becomingprediabetic.

The association wasstronger for men, and thosewith an increased geneticrisk for developing diabetesdid not see a difference,researchers found.

Nutrition experts notedthat the study had littlerelevance to the US sincemost Swedes get their grainsfrom whole grain sourcessuch as rye crisps. In contrast,Americans get most grains

from refined wheat suchas our that contains fewernutrients and ber compared

to rye. To say it has any

relevance to the U.S. isreally a stretch, said JoanneSlavin, nutrition professor atthe University of Minnesota,who was not involved inthe current study. US foodmanufacturers can label foodthat contains eight gramsper serving as whole grain,whereas Sweden requiresthat a food product containat least half whole grains toreceive the label.

Many foods with claimsof whole grain goodnesshave extra calories, fats andcarbohydrates in additionto the grains, which can berisk factors for diabetes,Slavin said.

Further, fewer thanthree percent of Americansget the recommended 48grams per day of whole

g ra i n s . Th e av erag eAmerican eats 15 grams ofwhole grain daily.

Reuters

Former Singapore banker ar rested in US over

Olympus fraud

A man sits near a logo of Japans Olympus Corp at the

company headquarters in Tokyo on 19 June 2012.

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new York, 22 Dec-A former Singapore bankerwas arrested in Los Angeleson Thursday and accused of

helping liquidate hundredsof millions of dollars in anaccounting fraud at OlympusCorp (7733.T), one of the

biggest corporate scandals inJapans history.

Chan Ming Fon, a one-time bank vice president, isthe latest former executiveand the rst from outside of

Japan to become ensnared inthe $1.7 billion accountingcover-up at the camera and

medical equipment maker.The company has admitted itused improper accounting toconceal massive investmentlosses under a scheme thatbegan in the 1990s. Courtpapers in the United States saidChan was paid $10 million byOlympus or entities controlledby Olympus for his role in thefraud. The case against Chanwas led in a federal court in

New York.

The defendant hada direct role in the secretliquidation of hundreds ofmillions of dollars of Olympusinvestments. He then waged asix-year campaign to concealthat misdeed by lying,certifying to auditors that theinvestments still existed years

after liquidation, said FBIAssistant Director-in-ChargeGeorge Venizelos. Olympusdeclined to comment. Chansarrest comes after three formerOlympus executives pleadedguilty in September to chargesrelated to the fraud.

Chan,was interviewedby the Federal Bureau ofInvestigations this week, USauthorities said.

Reuters

A logo is seen infront of a Credit

Suisse building

in Zurich,

on 4 May, 2012.

ReuteRs

ECBs Weidmann sees no big leap

toward EU scal union

Presidentof German

Bundesbank Jens

Weidmann reacts on

the podium duringthe Frankfurt Euro

Finance Week in

Frankfurt on 19 Nov,

2012.ReuteRs

FrankFurt, 22 DecEuropean Central BankGoverning Council memberJens Weidmann expectslittle progress toward aEuropean fiscal unionbecause there is little politicalwill to relinquish nationalsovereignty, he was quotedas saying in an interview.

I do not see the bigleap toward scal union,Weidmann said in aninterview with Germanmagazine Wirtschaftswochepublished online.

W e i d m a n n , w h o

also heads GermanysBu n d esb an k , warn edagainst pooling risks withoutaddressing the issue ofsovereignty that a fiscal

union would entail.If responsibility and

control are not aligned,it would undermine thecurrency union, he said.

Weidmann repeatedprevious objections tothe ECBs bond-buyingprogramme for crisis-struckeuro zone states, saying, Wehave embarked on a slipperyslope. Once a country slipsinto crisis and requires ECB

support through the program,it would be difcult for the

ECB to then withdraw itssupport should the countrydepart from reforms agreedto as a condition for thesupport, he was quoted assaying. We should interpretour mandate narrowly andnot even put ourselves insuch a predicament in therst place, he said.

Reuters

Business

Credit Suisse tops US IPO tables for rst timenew York, 22 Dec

Credit Suisse Group AG

(CSGN.VX) was the topunderwriter for U.S. initialpublic offerings this year forthe rst time, bolstered by its

role in helping large privateequity backed companiesgo public. The Swiss bankgenerated $4.7 billion inIPO proceeds during 2012from 41 issues, vaultingit in front of JP MorganChase & Co (JPM.N) with$4.6 billion, according toThomson Reuters data.

Goldman Sachs GroupInc (GS.N) placed thirdwith $4.5 billion, whilethe previously top-ranked

Morgan Stanley (MS.N)came in fourth. Credit Suissewas ranked eighth lastyear in the US IPO leaguetables with $2.8 billion in

proceeds.2012 was a challenging

year for IPO issuances,said Joe Reece, global headof Credit Suisses equitycapital markets group.This fact makes it evenmore critical to be acutelyfocused on clients. Largedeals the bank helpedunderwrite include private

equity rm Carlyle Groups(CG.O) $671 millionoffering, payment processorVantiv Incs (VNTV.N)$575 million offering and

industrial company RexnordCorps (RXN.N) $426million offering. It alsomade a number of changesinternally which may havecontributed to its climb,Reece said.

In May, formersyndicate head DavidHermer was named head ofequity capital markets of the

Americas. The group alsointegrated its originationand syndicate units underone structure.

Reuters


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Sunday, 23 December, 2012

WORLD

6 New Light of Myanmar

Argentina r ejects British decision to name disputed

Antarctica terr itoryBue nos A ir e s , 22

Dec Argentina on Fridaycondemned Britains decisionto name a controversial part

of the Antarctica as QueenElizabeth Land to honour

Queen Elizabeth II.Argentina expressed

its strongest rejection ofBritains decision to give

a name to an area in theArgentine Antarctic sector,the Foreign Ministry said in

a statement. It said London,in naming the territory, hasviolated the spirit of the

Antarctic Treaty System,

signed half a century ago bydozens of countries includingBritain and Argentina to

avert territorial disputes inthe Antarctic. The Argentine

government summonedBritains Ambassador toexpress its rejection of anyBritish territorial claim in

Antarctica and reaffirmits sovereignty over theArgentine Antarctic sector,

the statement said.Britain on Tuesday

named the southern portion

of the so-called British

Antarctic Territory asQueen Elizabeth Landin tribute to the throne of

the reigning monarch. TheBritish Antarctic Territory

was the rst ofcial claimin Antarctica, made in 1908.

With no ofcial namebefore, the portion is located

on the west side of thecontinent and has an area ofabout 169,000 square miles

(437,000 square kilometres).Argentina and Chile madeoverlapping claims to the

area in the 1940s, though all

claims were suspended bythe Antarctic Treaty System.

To be able to recognize

the UKs commitment toAntarctica with a permanent

association with Her Majestyis a great honour, BritishForeign Minister WilliamHague said in a statement.

The dispute has stokedtensions between the twocountries which went into

war in 1982 over the disputedMalvinas Islands, known asFalkland in Britain.Xinhua

People visite New Y ork Citys Intrepid Sea, Air an d

Space Museum on 21 Dec, 2012. After six week closure

to repair major damage to the electrical

systems caused by Hurricane S andy, Intrepids

doors are reopened on Friday.

Xinhua

Soldiers march during a celebration of the 77th

foun ding ann iversary of the Armed Forces of the

Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, the

Philippines, on 21 Dec, 2012.Xinhua

More non-Mexican illegal migrants apprehended

in TexasHouston, 22 Dec

Illegal migrants from CentralAmerican countries account

for a slight majority ofthe US Border Patrols

recent apprehension in SouthTexas, US media reportedon Friday.

Usually, about 35percent of the Border Patrolsapprehensions are illegal

immigrants from CentralAmerican countries, but now,

the apprehensions of illegalimmigrants from Mexico andCentral America are about

50/50, an online report by theHouston Chronicle quoted

a Border Patrol ofcial asreporting. From October2011 to 31 July, Border

Patrol agents apprehendedmore than 40,000 non-Mexican migrants from

Central American countriesincluding El Salvador,

Guatemala and Honduras,compared to about 39,000individuals from Mexico,

according to the report.The number of non-

Mex ican im m ig ran t sapprehended during thesame 10-month period a year

earlier was about 16,000.Rising violence as well

as economic conditions in

various Central Americancountries may be fueling the

increase in illegal migrants,the report said.

Meanwhile, the number

of illegal immigrant deathsand rescues of migrants also

saw an increase, ofcialssaid. In 2011, the Rio GrandeValley sector had 66 deaths

and 238 rescues. In 2012,there were 140 deaths andmore than 300 rescues,

according to the report.Xinhua

Venezuelas Chavez muses politics while

recovering from cancer surgeryCArACAs, 22 Dec

While recovering from a

cancer surgery on bed,Venezuelan President HugoChavez was studying the

results of the latest localelections, Vice PresidentNicolas Maduro said on

Thursday.Chavezs general

state of health continues

to progressively stabilize,Maduro said of Chavezsrecovery following hiss

fourth surgery in Cuba.The president was

informed of the election

results, in which the ruling

party won 20 of 23 stategovernorships, Maduro said.

I have been informedthat the report of Sundaysvictory was given to the

president and that hehas expressed his deeprecognition for all the men

and women of the country.He is evaluating the gures,Maduro said.

He said the respiratoryinfection that was diagnosedis still being treated and

controlled by the medicalteam through rigorous andconstant monitoring.

Earlier this week, the

Two killed as looter s raid supermar kets

in Argentina

An employee sits amidst a ransacked gas station after

looters stole goods from it in San Fernando, on the

outskirts of Buen os Aires, on 21 Dec, 2012.

ReuteRs

Bu e n o s A ir e s , 22

DecTwo people werekilled in Argentina on

Friday as looters broke intosupermarkets in severalcities, stirring memories of

the countrys devastatingeconomic crisis 11 years ago.

Police fired teargas

and rubber bullets to stopdozens of stone-throwingyouths from looting a

supermarket owned by

French retailer Carrefournear the capital, a day after

the unrest erupted in thePatagonian ski resort ofBariloche.

Venezuelan governmentreported Chavez had suffered

a respiratory infection thatwas brought under control.The infection was a common

occurrence among patientswho undergo complicatedsurgeries, they later said.

Chavez was orderedto bed rest and had hisfamily and friends by his

side, Maduro said. Chavezwas first diagnosed withcancer in 2011 and has since

undergone four operations,as well as radiotherapy andchemotherapy treatments in

Havana.Xinhua

Government ofcialscondemned the violenceand sent 400 military

police to the southern city,where raiders stormed a

supermarket owned by thelocal unit of Wal-Mart andmade off with at-screen

televisions and other goods.The violence spread to

the central city of Rosario,

where two people werekilled, and to the northernProvince of Chaco. About

250 people were arrestedin total in four differentprovinces and police battled

to avert fresh incidents

in the urban sprawl that

encircles Buenos Aires.When you see that

theyre taking at-screens,you know its not hunger,said Daniel Scioli, governorof Buenos Aires province

and an ally of PresidentCristina Fernandez.

F e r n a n d e z o f t e n

contrasts the countryscurrent economic stabilitywith the 2001/02 crisis

that plunged millions ofArgentines into poverty andunleashed a wave of looting

for food in supermarkets.She was re-elected

by a landslide just over ayear ago, but her approval

ratings have since plungeddue to sluggish economicgrowth, surging prices, andmiddle-class anger over

currency controls and hercombative style.

Fernandezs admini-

stration blamed the violenceon opposition trade unionleaders, who rallied in

the capital this week todemand wage rises andlower taxes due to double-

digit ination.There are elements

in Argentina that want to

provoke havoc and violenceand stain our holiday season

with b lood , nat ionalsecurity secretary SergioBerni said. Argentina is

not the same as it was in2001.Xinhua

Cuba slams US nes against rms for

violating tr ade embar goHAvAnA, 22 Dec Cuba

on Thursday denounced theUS government for imposing

hefty nes on banks and rmsthat do business with theisland nation over alleged

violations of the US tradeembargo.

In a statement published

by the ofcial dailyGranma,the Cuban Ministry ofForeign Affairs said that

British bank HSBC wasned 375 million US dollarson 11 December by the US

Department of TreasurysOffice of Foreign Assets

Control (OFAC).A day later, OFAC

announced a ne of some 8.6

million US dollars againstthe Japanese bank Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ for the same

reason.The implementation

of these unjust and illegal

penalties demonstratesthat the policy of viciouspersecution by the United

States of Cuban nancialand commercial transactionsand of those countries which

have legitimate relationswith our country, protectedby international law, not only

remains unchanged, but hasintensified, the ministry

said. The ministry alsocondemned the extensionof the blockade to third

countries and stressedthat merely a monthago the United Nations

General Assembly onceagain demanded, virtuallyunanimously, an end to the

long-running blockade. In1962, Washington imposedan economic, nancial and

trade embargo against Cuba.The policy has been votedagainst 21 times by nearly

all UN member states, exceptthe US its political ally Israeland several small countries

dependent on US aid.According to Cuban

authorities, the embargo hascost Cuba more than 100billion dollars.Xinhua


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Sunday, 23 December, 2012 7New Light of Myanmarl o ca l n ew s

NayPyiTaw, 22 Dec

In commemoration of the

Literary Day, a talks on literary

affairs took place at Basic

Education Middle School

No. 3 in Kintha of Tatkon

Township on 14 December

afternoon.

At rst, Headmaster U

Kyar Nyo of the school made

a speech.

Anti-human trafcking entertainment draws

large audienceyaNgoN, 22 Dec

Under the arrangements of

MTV Exit, Grammy award

winner Jason Mraz and

Cauliower of cold season

crops in regular trading

MyiNMu, 22 DecA

ceremony to open the

administrative law and rules

course for townselders and

clerks of ward/village-tract

was held at the hall in

Myinmu Township General

Administration Department

Administrative law, rules

course openedon 15 December morning.

At first, Township

Administrator U Thein Zaw

explained matters related to

law and rules in detail.

Next, Township Law

Officer U Aung Paing

discussed abiding by the

Tatkon high school hosts

literary talksWriter Soe Myint Nge

(Law) read the message

sent by Myanmar Writers

Association.

After that, writers Myat

Phone (Tatkon), Myakyauk

Aye Chan (TeinU Nannwe)

and Nyan Lin (Tatkon)

shared knowledge about

literary affairs.

Myanma Alinn

Shwegu, 22 DecThe

Forest Department under the

Ministry of Environmental

Conservation and Forestryis making management for

fully applying economic

benets from forest resources

in social and environmental

con-servation while exposing

and seizing illegal timber

extraction.

Forest workers from

Tiddim Township of Falam

District seized 15.0420 tons

of teak timber, 2.1500 tons of

hardwood and 1.9400 tons of

other woods totalling 19.1320

tons and two saw mills from

four places in Naychinsara

protected public forests

on 2 December. The staff

members are conducting

investigation for arresting

the related persons.

Likewise, forest workers

of Momauk, Bhamo and

Shwegu townships of Bhamo

District, Tatmadawmen of

No. 21 Operations ControlCo m m an d an d lo ca l

battalions, staff of Bhamo

Township General Ad-

ministration Department

and members of Myanmar

Police Force participated

in searching and seizing

the illegal timber extraction

in Momauk, Bhamo and

Shwegu townships of the

district on 30 November.

They seized 1182

pieces of illegal teak sawn

timber weighing 36.7296

tons, four vehicles, four

motorcycles and one person.

The department opened a le

of lawsuit against the person

under section 6 (1) of the

Public Property Protection

Law.Myanma Alinn

Illegal timber, saw mills seized

in Falam, Bhamo Districts

law and rules.

Township Judge Daw

Margret Tharmi and Head

of Township Immigration

and National Registration

Department lectured 11

significant points. The

elections of 10-house group

and administrators will be

held from 17 to 23 December.

Myanma Alinn

artistes recently presented

entertainment for combating

human trafcking, crowded

with audiences f rom

Mandalay, Taunggyi and

Pathein in addition to those

of Yangon, exceeding the

estimated numbers.

The show was packed

with a large number of

e n t h u s i a s t s d u e t o

entertainment of Jason Mraz.

Even Jason Mraz arrived

here to entertain, we must

cheer the entertainment.

Wonderfully, there was

no one problem. All the

audiences happily enjoyed

the entertainment. It was

benefic ial to comba tin g

human trafficking. The

d rama p ro g ram g av e

message to the youths. It

was excellent, said Ko Sai

Naung (Taunggyi).

Jason Mraz and Slot

Machine Band of Thailand

joined hands with Myanmar

Anti-Human Trafficking

Representatives star singer

Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein and

R Zarni and Lin Lin, Phyo

Gyi, Chit Thu Wai and Chan

Chan participated in the

entertainment.

Grammy Award winner

Jason Mraz who is focusing

on anti-human trafficking

tasks in developing countries

said, I am pleased for sharing

knowledge of anti-human

trafficking and showing

off my entertainment in

Myanmar. The entertainment

is a plan to organize a large

number of people at the

same time and educative

works to be handed to new

generations.

The show was attended

by over 50,000 people from

all walks of life who ooded

the whole Peoples Square in

addition to streets.

Myanmar is one of the

countries with problems

of trafficking in persons.

Human trafficking occur

in some townships for

many times. The authorities

c o n c e r n e d a n n o u n c e

emerg en cy t e l ep h o n e

numbers for prevention

against trafcking in persons.

Myanmar is now joining

hands with the international

organizations for combating

human trafcking.

Myanma Alinn

Nay Pyi Taw, 22DecIn cold season, farmers of

male and female are actively

carrying out farming works

at cauliowers.

In an interview, a farmer

said, I live in Nweyit

Village. I grow cauliower

and cabbage. Now, I am

nurturing 10000 cauliower

plants . Al though I hav e

spent money on pesticide,

fertilizers and labour, I thinkI might have much benet

from the plantations due to

raising price of cauliowers.

He continued, Last

week, the price of cauliower

was lower. It was sold at K

80-100 per cauliower. With

regard to many reasons that

cauliflowers were wet in

untimely rain and Shan State

produced same products to

the market, we could not get

good price. Now, we have

access to good price but not

much. Last year, we sold

cauliower at K 200.Thahtaygon-Nweyit

bus stop is bustling with

vegetable trading. It is a

place for grading of maize,

cauliower and carrot.

A broker load ing

cauliowers onto the truck

said, This season every

year, I buy cauliflowers

and cabbage. Trucks from

Yangon, Mawlamyine, Hpa-

an, Kyaikto and Thaton carry

vegetables from Nweyit.

Brokers from Meiktila,

Yamethin, Pyawbwe and

Pyinmana arrive here to

check and buy vegetables.At present each cauliower

is sold for K 140-150. About

10 trucks carry the vegetables

daily. Local farmers from

Kyathayaing, Thahtaygon,

Nweyit and other villages in

Tatkon Township gather here

to sell vegetables.

Now, local farmers

wear sweet smiles on their

faces due to good price of

vegetables that can exceed

cultivation costs.

Myanma Alinn

Bewareof Fire

Roads upgraded

in KathaKaTha, 22 DecLocal

people of Katha Townshipjoin hands with Development

Affairs Committee of the

township in repaving andupgrading roads. They

emphasize expansion of roadwidth and placing of asphaltconcrete on the roads for

better and smooth transport

on a self-reliant basis.Myanma Alinn

65th Anniversary Independence Day

2013

Scene of Manda lay Moat


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Sunday, 23 December, 20128 New Light of Myanmar


Nati oNal

Public transit efciencyIs that such strange that Yangonites are

frustrated with trafc woes daily, especially in

ru sh hours? Th e answer is No. It now seems

fairly common. Sounds of a collective sigh ofannoyance came from the crowded bus stops

and a weary sigh given by those seated behind

the wheel in Yangon are recently revealed to

be famed as the commercial hub of gridlock

within an upcoming decade. Precious time of

common people has been stolen on the buses

stranded in the trafc jams and at the bus

stops, waiting in spending several minutes for

an already-crowded bus. For taxi drivers, they

have to spend much of their time sitting in the

trafc moving at a snails pace, with the result

that their daily earnings have been reduced.

Some analysts put a blame for breach of

trafc disciplines on all road users, calling for

mass participation in obedience to laws. Someargued that trafc rule enforcement measures

need to be inculcated in all r oad users a s well

as cops. Trafc delays and public frustrations

in Yangon have ooded media reports. The

blame, moreover, was laid on relaxation of

vehicle import restrictions that leads to more

luxurious cars to take to the roads instead of

improvement in bus services. Some experts

envision reduction in the volume of trafc

by 60 per cent when ongoing construction of

three yovers at Hledan, Bayintnaung and

Shwegondine junctions where trafc is brought

to a grinding halt frequently.

Trafc congestion is common to a certain

developing country with full of potentials tobecome a gem of Asia. When a population

threshold of more than one million is reached,

cities start to encounter a vicious headache

for congestion problems. It is a bit of a

modernization shock when the doors began to

open up. If short-term and long-term plans of

public transportation are employed effectively

and efciently, they can help lessen the recent

problems on the roads.

Options in long-term solutions for

overcoming congestion include establishment

of an excellent public transportation system

like sky trains and subways that can carry

a large number of people at one time and

at low cost and building of more overheadbridges at all intersections of railroads with

motorways and yovers at the places clogged

with trafc. Investing in speedy services with

the help of foreign investments is a must for

possible occurrence of unbelievable trafc jams

in Yangon. Options in short-term solutions

include increasing nes for trafc violations and

more deployment of trafc inspectors with the

incentive of the percentage of nes collected as

bonus to make them more vigilant and improve

the law enforcement. All aforesaid solutions

are within our reach.

Beauty is in the eye ofthe beholder.

Yangon, 22 Dec The

second talent show of Fine

Arts Department under the

Ministry of Culture and

National Culture and Fine

Arts University (Yangon)

took place at National

Theatre on Myomakyaung

Street yesterday evening with

the participation of Yangon

Region Chief MinisterU Myint Swe and region

ministers, enthusiasts and

students.

The doyen Thabin

Second talent show ofNational Culture and Fine

Arts University (Yangon)

performedartistes above 65 years were

paid respect by students from

National Culture and Fine

Arts University (Yangon).

The students from

various departments of the

university and staff from Fine

Arts Department entertained

their performances at the

talent show.

Before the show,paintings and sculptures of

students from paintings and

sculptures departments were

displayed.MNA

Yangon, 22 DecThe

course is an important step

towards the emergence of

Biomedical Engineering

Department that can help

the staff carry out the

maintenances and handling

of modern equipment

installed at hospitals and

health departments, said

Union Minister for Health

Dr Pe Thet Khin, at the

concluding ceremony of


Training Course, at National

Blood Centre, here, this

morning.

Next, Senior Lecture

Mr. Chua Tji Leng of Ngee

Ann Polytechnic of School


Tr aining Course concludesof Enginnering Singapore

shared experiences to those

present and Chief Marketing

Ofcer Mr. Moez Attia spoke

words of thanks.

The Union Minister

and Vice President Prof Toh

Siew Lak of Singaporean


Society presented the

certicates. A total of 40

trainees from departments

under the Ministry of Health

and Hospitals, attended the

two-semester course, jointly

conducted by Ministry of

Health and Biomedical

Engineering Society of

Singapore.

MNA

President U Thein Sein and party visit King Thibaw Museum in Ratnagiri of India.mna

President U Thein Sein views portrait of King

Thibaw and spouse at King Thibaw Museum.

mna

(from page 1)

The remains were

President U Thein Sein visits the last kings....moved and buried by the

British government in the

outskirts of Ratnagiri on 5

February, 1917.

The tomb is now under

management of Maharashtra

state government.

President U Thein Sein

is the rst-ever Myanmar

leader visiting the residence

and tomb of the king in

Ratnagiri.

MNA

Whom or what

does the zebr a

crossing stop?

Ive found only

pedestrians stop

for vehicles.

Thein Tun


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NATI ONAL

9New Light of Myanmar

M y a n m a r

invites Indian (from page 16)

tax reforms and changes

in the banking system

which has become more

customers friendly. Thanks

to easing of economic and

financial restrictions bythe United States and the

European Union and return

of the World Bank and

other international nancial

institutions to Myanmar,

he said he hoped for the

increase of commerce, trade

and investment in Myanmar.

While introducing the

recently enacted Foreign

Investment Law, the

President said the new

Foreign Investment Law

will provide various degrees

of privileges to the potential

investors in respect of taxes

and duties and guarantees

protection of property and

profits and rights of the

investors.

He said the Myanmar

government put huge

emphasis on infrastructural

development projects as

it saw the connectivity as

one of the main factors in

promoting trade. He said

India-Myanmar-Thailand

Tripatite Highway project

which would be extended

to Laos and Cambodia with

the assistance of the Indian

government would enhanceregional connectivity and

Nay Pyi Taw, 23 Dec On the occasion of

the birthday of His Majesty Akihito, Emperor of

Japan, which falls on 23 December 2012, U Wunna

Maung Lwin, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of

the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a

message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Koichiro

GEMBA, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.MNA

Union Foreign Affairs

Minister felicitates

Japanese FM

yaNgoN, 22 Dec

An opening of a Seminar

on ICT for e-Government,

sponsored by Korea

International Cooperation

Agency (KOICA), was

held at Myanma Science

and Technology Research

Department, here, on 17

December, attended by 40

trainees from the Ministry of

Science and Technology.

Experts from the Republic

of Korea gave lectures on

procedures required for

e-Government based on

advancements in information

a nd c ommun i -c a t ion

technology and provided

trainees with suggestions

and made suggestions for

ongoing e-Government

procedures at the seminar.

Directors-general, rectors, pro

rectors, the KOICA residentrepresentative and ofcials

attended the opening and

closing ceremonies of the ve-

day seminar.MNA

Seminar on

ICT for

e-Government

held

Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing observes farm

machinery.mna

Investment opportunities in agricultural sector

Nay Pyi Taw , 22

DecThere are still lots

of investment opportunities

in agricultural sector, said

Union Minister for Agriculture

and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing,

at the implementation of 3000-acre farmlands in Nay Pyi

Taw Dekkhinathiri Township,

here, this morning.

It was also attended

by Chairman of Pyithu

Hluttaw Economic and Trade

Development Committee

U Maung Maung Thein,

Chairman of Pyithu Hluttaw

Agriculture, Livestock and

Fisheries DevelopmentCommittee U Soe Naing,

ofcials and farmers.

The Union Minister and

party visited sunower and

maze plantations and land

reclamation there.

Afterwards, they also

visited farmer educative

farms, seeds sales room of

Shwethanlwin Co and CETC

Co in Chaing village ofDekkhinathiri Township and

Agricultural Research Farm in

Tatkon Township.

MNA

President U Thein Sein being seen off at Mumbai Airport by ofcials.mna

trade.

He said that the new

Foreign Investment Law

allows 100 percent foreign

ownership while it also

allows joint ventures. It also

allows foreign investors to

sell, exchange and transfershares with the approval

of the Investment Com-

mission.

He said the investment

commission could also

reward investors for their

quality enhancement and

environmental friendly

initiatives while introducingtax exemption and tax relief

granted to the investors

for investments in less-

developed areas.

He invited investments

in D a w e i , Th i l a w a ,

Kyaukpyu deep sea ports

projects and other special

economic zones.

The President said there

are still many untapped oil

and gas deposits for Indian

companies to invest.

Director-General of

the Confederation of Indian

Industry Mr Chandrajit

Banerjee spoke words of

thanks.

The President and the

confederation president

exchanged gifts before they

enjoyed dinner.

MNA

Union C & IT Minister meets

Thai ICT Minister and par tyNay Pyi Taw , 22

Dec Union Minister

for Communication and

Information Technology U

Thein Tun met Information

a n d C o m m u n i c a t i o n

Technology Minister of

Thailand Mr Anudith

Nakornthap and party at the

ministry yesterday morning.

They discussed measures for

construction of communica-

tion network in Dawei

SEZ with the effectively

use of GMS Superhighway

and Myanmar-Thai Trans-border Fiber Network,

opportunities for offering

communication and IT

services in cooperation with

Thailand, linking direct

underwater fiber cables

from Myanmar to Thailand

in fullling communication

need for Tha i Pe t ro l

company and extension of

roaming between Myanmar

and Thailand.

The Union minister

also discussed factors being

undertaken in Myanmar

for use of internet access

rapidly, communication

bill to be discussed with

a group led by the deputy

minister in detail andimplementation of roaming

between Myanmar and

Thailand before ASEAN

sport festival.MNA


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Abdulahat Abdulrix it (C), vice chairman of th e National Committee of the Chin ese

Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), attends the ceremony for

the 4th China-Africa Friendship Award in Beijing, capital of China, on 21 Dec,

2012.Xinhua

Italy PM Monti resigns, elections likely

in Februar yRome, 22 DecItalian

Prime Minister Mario Monti

tendered his resignationto the president on Fridayafter 13 months in ofce,

opening the way to a highlyuncertain national electionin February.

The former Europeancommissioner, appointed tolead an unelected government

to save Italy from nancialcrisis a year ago, has kept hisown political plans a closely

guarded secret but he hasfaced growing pressure toseek a second term.

President Giorg ioNapolitano is expected to

dissolve parliament in thenext few days and hasalready indicated that themost likely date for the

election is 24 February.In an unexpected move,

Napolitano said he would

hold consultations withpolitical leaders from all themain parties on Saturday to

discuss the next steps. Inthe meantime Monti will

continue in a caretakercapacity.

Eu ro p ean l ead er s

i n c l u d i n g G e r m a nChancellor Angela Merkel

and European CommissionPresident Jose Manuel

Barroso have called forMontis economic reformagenda to continue but

Italys two main parties havesaid he should stay out ofthe race.

Monti, who handedin his resignation duringa brief meeting at the

presidential palace shortlyafter parliament approvedhis governments 2013

budget, will hold a newsconference on Sunday atwhich he is expected clarify

his intentions.

Ordinary Italians areweary of repeated tax hikes

and spending cuts andopinion polls offer littleevidence that they are ready

to give Monti a second term.A survey this week showed61 percent saying he should

not stand.Whether he runs or not,

his legacy will loom over an

election which will be foughtout over the painful measureshe has introduced to try to

rein in Italys huge publicdebt and revive its stagnanteconomy.

Reuters

Italys Prime Minister Mario Monti (C) looks as he makes

his speech during a visit to the Fiat car factory in the

southern city of Mel on 20 Dec, 2012.ReuteRs

WTO race wide open as NZ, Kenya, Jordan,

Mexico joinWellington/geneva, 22

DecThe eld of candidatesto succeed Pascal Lamy ashead of the World TradeOrganization burst open on

Friday, as New Zealand,Mexico, Jordan and Kenya

threw names into the ring with10 days left for nominations.

Whoever wins, faces

the challenge of being theface of an institution thathas been stuck for years

in stalled global tradenegotiations, with little realpower to force a deal beyond

cajoling, encouraging andoccasional ly b lamingmembers.

K e n y a s A m i n aMohamed, deputy head of theUnited Nations Environment

Programme, became the third

woman and second Africancontender, while Jordan

nominated former ministerof trade and industry AhmadHindawi, the first Middle

Eastern nominee so far.Mexico put forward its

former trade minister HerminioBlanco, who negotiated the

North American Free TradeAgreement.

Earlier on Friday New

Zealand nominated itstrade minister Tim Groser,

who joins Ghanas AlanKyerematen, Costa RicasAnabel Gonzalez and

Indonesias Mari Pangestuin the race to take over afterLamys second term expires

on 31 August.Many trade diplomats

think the job should go to an

African, Latin American orCaribbean candidate, since allbut one head of the 17-year-

old WTO has been fromdeveloped countries. The

exception was ThailandsSupachai Panitchpakdi.

As well as seeking trade

agreements, the body is alsothe global trade policeman,

facing a surge of litigation asmembers ght for a share of apie that is not quite shrinking,

but expected to grow by a mere2.5 percent this year.

The boom in disputes is

forcing the WTO to reallocatestaff, according to diplomatsand documents at the global

trade body in Geneva that inAugust had 157 members.

Reuters

New Zealands

Trade Minister

Tim Groser

speaks at the

Asia-Pacic

Business

Symposium in

Honolu lu, Hawaii

on 10 Nov, 2011.

ReuteRs

Colombia peace talks said advancing, many

challenges aheadHavana, 22 DecTalks

to end Colombias bloody,

half-century-long conictwith Marxist-led FARCrebels have made progress,but many challenges lie

ahead, the governments topnegotiator said on Friday.

Former vice president

Humberto de la Calle,speaking after the two sides

nished their second round ofmeetings and broke until 14January, said they had agreedon some unprecedented

mechanisms for civic inputinto the peace process.

Since 19 Novemberwhen we formally began,weve had 21 sessions and

more than 100 hours of intensework, and concrete advances,

all as expected, said de laCalle, who read a statement butdid not take questions.

The challenge is great.We have ve more points(on the agenda), all sensitive

and vital, he said. We hopeto be able to advance withgreater celerity and in an

expedited way.The two sides are trying

to end a war that dates back

to 1964 when the FARC,or Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia, was

formed as a communistagrarian movement to ght

decade-long, US-backedoffensive has weakened therebels enough that they will

want to end the ghting onthe best possible terms.

If peace is not achieved,

the FARC still has 9,000troops that can keep inictingdamage on the continents

fourth-largest economy.The negotiations, which

are being held in a Havana

convention centre in theritziest part of the Cubancapital, have begun with the

topic of rural development,the rst of six points to be

Colombias lead government negotiator Humberto de la

Calle arrives to talks in Havana on 6 Dec, 2012.

ReuteRs

addressed. Others range from

the rebels involvement in theillicit drug trade to their futurepolitical participation.

De la Calle said so farColombians, whose opinions

are being sought online and in

public forums, had providednearly 3,000 suggestions to

aid the peace process, someof which were being closelystudied.Reuters

the countrys long history of

social inequality.Tens of thousands of

people have died and millions

have been displaced in SouthAmericas last Marxist-led

armed rebellion, a vestige

of the Cold War.Three previous peace

attempts have failed, butColombian President JuanManuel Santos hopes a

UN Security Council str onglydeplores shooting down of UN

helicopter in South Sudan

United nations , 22DecThe UN SecurityCouncil on Friday strongly

deplored the shootingdown of a UN helicopter inSouth Sudan and strongly

urged the UN mission inthe country, known as theUNMISS, and the South

Sudanese government toconduct a swift and thorough

investigation into theincident.

The members of the

Security Council stronglydeplored the shooting downin Jonglei, the largest state

in the eastern part of SouthSudan, a UNMISS MI8helicopter performing

reconnaissance ights to thearea, by the Sudan PeoplesLiberation Army (SPLA),

with all four Russian ightmembers killed, said a UNstatement.

The members of thesecurity council extended

their heartfelt condolencesto the families of thecrew, members and to the

government of the RussianFederation, the statementsaid.Xinhua

Raiders armed with machetesburn Kenya village, kill 30mombasa, 22 Dec

Raiders armed with guns,machetes and spears killed

30 people, including severalchildren, and torched theirhouses in Kenyas coastal

region on Friday, police said,heightening security concernsahead of next years election.

Nine of the raiders werealso killed in what appeared

to have been a revenge attackby settled Pokomo farmersagainst the semi-nomadic

Orma pastoralists after a seriesof clashes in August in whichmore than 100 people were

killed.The two groups have

fought for years over accessto grazing, farmland andwater, but human rights

groups have blamed the latestviolence on politicians seekingto drive away parts of the

local population they believewill vote for their rivals inpresidential and parliamentary

elections in March.If those charges are true, it

further raises fears of a repeat ofthe ethnic violence that rockedKenya after the disputed 2007

presidential election, in whichmore than 1,200 people werekilled countrywide and many

more thousands driven fromtheir homes.Reuters


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Abe to seek r elocating US Futenma bases

within OkinawaTokyo, 22 DecShinzo

Abe, Japans premier-in-waiting, said on Fridaythat he will seek to relocate

the US Futenma base toa less populated placewithin Okinawa Prefecture,

according to Japans KyodoNews Agency.

Abe said at a press

c o n f e r e n c e h e l d i nYamaguchi Prefecture thathe will try to gain supports

from local community soas to move the air base to

Okinawas coastal Henoko

area in Nago city, where isless populated than its currentlocation.

The plan was existed foryears under the rule of theLiberal Democratic Party,

but it was interrupted whenthe Democratic Party ofJapan (DPJ) swept to power

in 2009.However, the DPJ

complicated the thorny issue

and made then DPJ PrimeMinister Yukio Hatoyama

resigned for the very issue as

he failed to realize his wordsthat to remove the base.

Abe also said he will

try to ask for supports fromvarious communities to easeOkinawas burden while

maintaining deterrence.The issue of relocating

the Futenma base has been

an obstacle between Japanscentral government and localresidents, who want the US

base moved out of Okinawa.Xinhua

People play

motorboats on the

sea in Haikou,

capital of south

Chinas Hainan

Province, on 21

Dec, 2012. Thu rsday

marks the Dongzhi

Festival, or Winter

Solstice. Contraryto people in north

China who are

expected to welcome

the coldest winter

days, people in

Hainan still enjoy

the warm climate.

Xinhua

A supporter of Bh aratiya Janata Party (BJP) wears

the mask of Narendra Modi to celebrate BJPs

victory in the Gujarat assembly elections in Varanasi,

India, on 20 Dec, 2012. Indias main opposition

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJ P)-led governmen t in the

western state of Gujarat scored a political hat-trick

by winning the state assembly elections by a huge

margin un der the leadership of controversial Hindu

nationalist Chief Minister Narendra Modi.Xinhua

US

unmanned

aircraft

crashes in

NW PakistanIslamabad, 22 DecA

US unmanned aircraft, which

was reportedly being used totarget militants hideouts,crashed in Pakistans

northwestern tribal regionof South Waziristan, localmedia reported on Friday.

According to the reports,the pilotless plane crashed onThursday night in the Wana

District of South Waziristan,a restive tribal regionbordering Afghanistan.

Local media quoting

official sources reportedthat the US drone crashed

apparently due to sometechnical fault. US-ledNATO forces fighting in

Afghanistan believed thatPakistans bordering areasespecially North Waziristan

and South Waziristan are thesafe haven for the militants

who allegedly attack NATOforces in Afghanistan.

In 2012, US-led NATO

forces conducted around38 drone attacks (countedon daily basis) in Pakistan,

killing at least 269 people.On 9 Dec, at least four

people were killed when aUS drone red four missilesat a house in Pakistansnorthwest tribal area of North

Waziristan.Xinhua

Cambodia opens rescue centr e for

endangered pangolinsPhnom Penh, 22 Dec

Cambodia opened a newPangolin Rehabilitation

Centre (PRC) on Friday

to provide special care tothe kingdoms endangered

pangolins rescued from thegrowing wildlife trade.

The facility is established

to rehabilitate injured pangolins(scaly ant-eaters) rescuedfrom hunters throughout

Cambodia, according to ajoint Press release from theConservation International

(CI) and Cambodian ForestryAdministration (FA) onFriday. The center aims to

bolster conservation effortsfor this species.

The facility is located atthe Phnom Tamao ZoologicalPark and Wildlife Rescue

Centre in Takeo Province and

staffed by a well- trained anddedicated team who care for

the pangolins until they areready for release back into thewild, the Press release said.

The centre also aimsto raise awareness of theplight of the pangolin and to

do so have been tted withinformation signs about thespecies, the wildlife trade

and how the public can help, it said. There are alreadysix pangolins under its care,

which are all victims ofthe wildlife trade and are

receiving treatment for arange of injuries. Annette

Olsson, Scientic TechnicalAdvisor of CIs Greater

Mekong programme saidthat the launch of the facility

gave rescued pangolins hope.Pangolins are often

transported in very cruel

ways by trafckers to avoiddetection by authorities.Sometimes they are kept for

days in plastic bags, withoutfood or water, hidden in smallspaces. Its common for the

animals to die in transit, orafter rescue, due to theseterrible practices, Olsson

said in the statement.Xinhua

Stewardesses provide service for passengers during

a trial trip for journalists from Beijing, capital of

China, on 22 Dec, 2012. China is set to open the

worlds longest high-speed railway on 26 Dec,

linking Beijing and the southern economic centre ofGuangzhou. Ru nning at an average speed of 300 km

per hour, the 2,298-km Beijing-Gu angzhou high-

speed railway will cut travel time between the two

cities to about 8 hours.Xinhua

Cambodia r emoves about 3 million mines,

unexploded ordnances in 2 decadesPhnom Penh, 22 Dec

Cambodia has removed anddestroyed some 3 million

mines and unexplodedordnances in the last twodecades and the country

will completely eliminatelandmines in the next 10

years, a senior ofcial saidon Friday.Heng Ratana, Director

General of Cambodian Mine

Action Centre ( CMAC),said that since 1992 to

date, the center has clearedsome 2. 5 million minesand unexploded ordnances

and the Royal CambodianArmed Forces and non-governmental organizations

have removed about 500,000mines.

We set the target toclear all types of landminesfrom Cambodia in the next10 years, he said, adding

that to realize this goal, thecountry needs an estimated

30 million US dollars a year.The Southeast Asian

nation is one of the worlds

worst countries affected bymines as the result of almostthree decades of war and

internal conicts from themid-1960s until the end of

1998.The ve most mine-laidProvinces are Battambang,Banteay Meanchey, Oddar

Meanchey, Pailin and PreahVihear.Xinhua

ADB provides 251 mln USD loans forsustainable development in Vietnamhano I , 2 2 Dec

The Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB) and the

Vietnamese governmentsigned on Friday threeloan agreements totaling

251 million US dollarsto help Vietnam improveeducation quality, enhance

capacity of the powertransmission network and

improve ood and droughtr i sk management andmitigation.

At the signing ceremony,

ADB Country Director forVietnam Tomoyuki Kimurasaid although Vietnam has

experienced rapid growthover the past two decades,

future growth will dependon a labour force skilledenough to meet the needs

of the job market, a reliableelectricity supply to meetrapidly growing energy

demands, and the countryscapacity to mitigate risksand vulnerabilities posed by

ood and drought.According to ADB,

a 90 million US dollars

concessional loan from theADBs Asian DevelopmentFund (ADF) for the

Second Upper SecondaryEducation DevelopmentProject will focus on

improving readiness of uppersecondary school graduates

for tertiary and vocationalcareer development throughenhancing upper secondary

education quality to meetthe international standards,increasing access and

retention of disadvantagedgroups with a special focuson girl and ethnic minority

students coming from poorand near- poor households.

The second 110.19

million US dollars loanagreement represents thesecond tranche of the 730

million US dollars powertransmission investmentprogramme to Vietnam that

ADB approved in Dec 2011.Xinhua

Soldiers try to

get through a

brook during a

military training

in central

Chinas Henan

Province, on

19 Dec, 2012.

Thousands of

soldiers went

through harsh

environment asthey participated

in the m ilitary

training here.

Xinhua


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with vioations of thForign Corrupt PracticsAct (FCPA). Th SeC

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Xinhua

Five dead, 27 injured a China bu fallff rvin

Chengdu, 22 DcFiv pop wr kid and

27 injured after a bus fellinto a ravin in southwstChinas Sichuan Provinc on

Thursday, authoritis said.Th accidnt occurrd

at about 9:30 am whn a bus

brok through a guardrai andoverturned off a 47-metre-dp ravin in th Daxian

County of Dazhou City, thprovincia administrationof work safty said in a

statmnt.Two of th 32 pop

aboard th 35-sat bus wr

kid at th scn, two didn rout to hospita andon did at hospita aftr

Fireghters conduct a rescue operation at the site of

an accident during which a bus fell into a ravine in

the Daxian County of Dazhou City, southwest ChinasSichuan Province, on 20 Dec, 2012. Xinhua

Passengers wait bus in snow in Beijing, capital of

China, on 20 Dec, 2012. A strong cold front senttemperatures down across China and brought heavy

snow to some regions from Wednesday and Thursday,

according to the National Meteorological Centre ofChina.Xinhua

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