The New Light of Myanmar 15-02-2010

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Volume XVII, Number 305 3rd Waxing of Taboung 1371 ME Monday, 15 February, 2010

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the en-tire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Feb—Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to HisExcellency Mr. Boris Tadic, President of the Republic of Serbia, on the occasion of theNational Day of the Republic of Serbia, which falls on 15 February 2010.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwefelicitates Serbian President

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Feb—General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has senta message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Mirko Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of the Republicof Serbia, on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Serbia, which falls on 15 February2010.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein sendsmessage of felicitations to Serbian counterpart

YANGON, 14 Feb—Member of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Tin Aye of the Ministry ofDefence and wife Daw Kyi Kyi Ohn attended the cer-emony to mark the birthday of Chairman of the NationalDefence Commission of the Democratic People’s Re-public of Korea Mr. Kim Jong Il at Chartrium Hotel hereyesterday evening.

Lt-Gen Tin Aye attends birthdayceremony of National Defence Commission

Chairman Mr. Kim Jong Il of DPRK

They were welcomed by Ambassador of the DPRKto the Union of Myanmar Mr. Kim Sok Chol and wife.

Also present on the occasion were Minister forForeign Affairs U Nyan Win and wife, Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo and wife,Chairman of Yangon City Development CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin and officials.—MNA

Sittway Township

DAC striving for

regional development

Article & Photos:Reporter Singu Soe Win

On a recent trip, I left Yangon for Sittway.At Sittway Airport, I met Deputy Director U

Tin Nu of Rakhine State Development AffairsCommittee, Assistant Engineer Daw Khin SweAye of Sittway Township DAC and Junior Engi-neer-2 Daw Hnin Hnin Yi who were at the airportto welcome U Myo Kyi, new Director of RakhineState DAC. They introduced me to Sittway Town-ship DAC Executive Officer Deputy Director UWin Naing and Senior Engineer U Aung Than.

The township executive officer explainedefforts of the committee for all-round developmentof Sittway, water supply and storage of water.

“Sittway is surrounded by seawater. Thenatural environment plays an important role intapping underground water. Fortunately, fresh wa-ter is available at almost all the tube-wells in Sittway.The committee built the tanks for storing rainwaterto be supplied as drinking water to the local people.Creeks do not flow into the tanks,” said ExecutiveOfficer U Win Naing.

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Lt-Gen Tin Aye and wife Daw Kyi Kyi Ohn being welcomed by DPRK AmbassadorMr. Kim Sok Chol and wife.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 15 February, 2010

Monday, 15 February, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

Fire—good servant but badmaster

* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

Fires mainly break out in the dry season,so each and every person needs to be well awareof and prevent the danger of fire. Localauthorities concerned are to cooperate with thepeople in taking fire preventive measures.

A total of 89 fires broke out in the nationin January due to negligence, electric shortcircuit, arsons and forest fire. Most of the firesbroke out because of negligence.

The Fire Services Department isconducting a public campaign for fireprevention. It is also collaborating withdevelopment affairs committees in preventingfires at markets and high-rise buildings.Moreover, people are being informed aboutthe danger of fire and preventive measuresthrough media such as radio, TV, newspapersand journals. Fire prevention talks are alsobeing given in townships, wards and villages.

The department is carrying out fire drillsand door-to-door fire inspections. As authoritiesconcerned are taking nationwide fire preventivemeasures extensively to reduce fire breakouts,the people on their part are to follow andrespect rules and regulations.

Every one is duty-bound to take firepreventive measures. Townships, wards andvillages and markets are to build a 5000-gallonbrick tank each and always fill it with waterwithout fail. Every house and building is tohave fire extinguishers and equipment, waterbuckets and bags of sand. Fire check-points areto be set up systematically and the people needto cooperate with the fire brigade in firepreventive measures.

All cities, wards and villages will be ableto thwart the danger of fire only when they usefire carefully and systematically by takingmeasures such as putting out fire remnantsand mosquito coils when going to bed andavoiding the use of plastic containers in fillingpetrol in the hot, dry season.

Foreign Minister felicitatesSerbian counterpart

NAY PYI TAW, 15 Feb—U Nyan Win, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, hassent a message of felicitations to His ExcellencyMr. Vuk Jeremic, Minister of Foreign Affairs ofthe Republic of Serbia, on the occasion of theNational Day of the Republic of Serbia, which fallson 15 February 2010.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14Feb—The Ministry ofForestry is striving forboosting production of itsfactories and departmentsacross the nation.

Employees of No. 21Sawmill in Kyweshin ofNay Pyi Taw of DomesticTrade and SawmillDivision under MyanmaTimber Enterprise arestriving for meeting thetargeted production.

On his inspection tourof Nay Pyi Taw, Ministerfor Forestry Brig-GenThein Aung looked intothriving 1000 acres of teakplantations being nurturedby the Forest Departmentin Ngalaik Forest Reserveof Nay Pyi Taw TatkonTownship.

The department isplacing emphasis onincreasing the sownacreage of teak plantation.As part of efforts toimplement the Bagomountain range greening

Emphasis placed onboosting forest products

project, a total of 300 acresof teak plantation,established in 2007, isthriving in KinmontaungForest Reserve inTaungdwingyi Township.Staff of the department are

working in concert forconservation of forestplantations and firepreventive measures.

MNA

YANGON, 14 Feb—Vice-Chairman of theMyanmar NationalCommittee for ChildRights, Chairman of theWorking Committee

Dy Minister inspects fire stations, departmentsOn 11 February, he

explained matters on “UNConvention on ChildRights”; and Director UMyo Set Aung of the SocialWelfare Department,“Prevention againstRecruitment of Minors forMilitary Service” in

NAY PYI TAW, 14Feb—As part of Japan’sGrass Root GrantAssistance, Japanesepeople donated 88,250 USdollar worth of hospitalequipment to JivitadanaSangha SpecialistHospital (Mandalay) on21 January.

Officials fromJapanese embassy inMyanmar and residentrepresentative Dr Daw

Japan donates hospital equipment toJivitadana Hospital (Mandalay)

Khin Khin Htar of theFriendly Asians Homehanded over equipmentand documents.

Chairman of HospitalUpathaka ThihaThudhamma Manijo-tadhara Dr Chit Tun andSecretary SaddhammaJotikadaza U Thant Zinand medicalsuperintendent Dr NyanTun and officials acceptedthe donation.

Those wishing tomake donation maycontact ph-02-36436 and09-2002569. And Forthose who want to donateK 1,000 monthly, contactDr Win Thant (Ph-09-6801350) in Mandalay,Dr Daw Khin Khin Htar(Ph-09-5014933), U TinTun (01-228242), DawMya Mya and Daw Hlaing(Ph-01-540496) inYangon.—MNA

meeting with chairmen ofthe Mandalay Division,District and TownshipCommittees for ChildRights and departmentalofficials at MandalayDivision General Admi-nistration Department.

MNA

Deputy Minister for SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement Brig-GenKyaw Myint inspected firestations, departmentsunder the ministry inMagway and MandalayDivisions from 8 to 10February.

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aunginspects 1,000 acres of teak plantation inNgalaik Forest Reserve of Nay Pyi Taw

Tatkon Township.—MNA

Hnin Hnin Maw (CAE) Education Services donates two GS batteries to

Staff Officer U Mya Kyaing of District Fire Services Department under

Mandalay Division Fire Services Department on 24 January.—NLM

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Deficit forces LA schools to cutschool days

Three US soldiers killed inS Afghanistan

KABUL, 14 Feb — Three American soldiers withthe NATO-led International Security Assistance Force(ISAF) were killed in a roadside bomb in south ofAfghanistan on Saturday, a Press release issued bythe alliance said.

“Three ISAF service members from the UnitedStates died following an IED (Improvised ExplosiveDevice) strike in southern Afghanistan today,” thepress release said. However, it did not give moredetails.

A suicide bomber riding a motorbike, according toa local official Captain Abdul Rahman, targeted a jointpatrol of Afghan and NATO soldiers in Taleban birth-place Kandahar this morning inflicting casualties onUS troops and civilians.

Today’s attack occurred in the wake of Afghan andUS-led NATO forces launched a major operationagainst Taleban militants in the neighbouring HelmandProvince on Friday night which has left five insur-gents dead so far.—Xinhua

US helicopters fly over the suicide attack site in Kandahar province, southernAfghanistan, on 13 Feb, 2010. Three US soldiers died in an improvised bomb

attack in southern Afghanistan, NATO said, as thousands of Americantroops led an assault on an insurgent stronghold in the region. —XINHUA

At least 20 killed byelectrocution in Nigeria

PORT HARCOURT, 14 Feb — At least 20 bus passengerswere killed in Nigeria on Saturday when a cable fell ontothe bus and electrocuted people inside, police said.

Police confirmed 20 deaths, but spokeswoman RitaAbbey said the toll could climb further.

An Associated Press cameraman saw more than 10bodies, some charred beyond recognition, at a local hos-pital in the provincial capital of Port Harcourt. Another10 people were seen being treated for gashes and burns.

Most of the dead had been passengers aboard thebus, though some had been passing nearby when thecable came tumbling down during heavy rains that havepummeled southern Nigeria.—Internet

Woman, 60, in serious condition after shark biteBRISBANE, 14 Feb — A 60-year-old woman is in serious condition after being

bitten by a shark off northeastern Australia and losing several pints (liters) of blood.A spokeswoman for the Department of Community Services says the woman

has severe lacerations to her buttocks from the Saturday afternoon attack.She was being transported by dive boat from Dent Island in the Whitsunday

Islands of Queensland state to the Australia mainland where she will be airlifted toa hospital, the spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity because she was notauthorized to talk to the media.

No other information was immediately available.It is the second shark attack in Australia this week. On Thursday, a man was

bitten in the leg at a Sydney beach and was treated for minor injuries.—Internet

In this image from video,a victim is seen inside anambulance after beingelectrocuted on Satur-day 13 Feb, 2010, in PortHarcourt, Nigeria, whenan electrical cable fellonto a passenger bus,electrocuting those in-side the bus, and otherpeople nearby, killing atleast 20 people, police said.—INTERNET

Egypt to manufacture firstfighter, drone plane

CAIRO, 14 Feb —Egypt is set to produce itsfirst fighter and drone “incooperation with a foreignside”, official MENAnews agency reported onSaturday.

“Talks and negotia-tions are underway abouta project to produceEgypt’s first fighter anddrone plane,” MENAquoted Lt General HamdyWaheba, Chairman ofArab Organization for In-dustrialization (AOI),Egypt’s state-owned com-pany specialized in pro-ducing civilian goods aswell as military products.

The official did notname the foreign partywhich will take a hand atthe process.

“Local production ofthe aircraft will meet thedemand of the Egyptian

Armed Forces, as it willbe sold at a very competi-tive price,” Wahebaadded.

The AOI was estab-lished in 1975 with theaim of building an ad-vanced technology indus-trial base.

Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 14 Feb — Due to anestimated 640- million-dollar deficit, sixschool days will be cut off from theschool year in Los Angeles, it was re-ported on Saturday.

The move, proposed by Los Angelesschools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, wasdesigned to avoid the need for wide-spread layoffs in the nation’s second-larg-est school system, according to the LosAngeles Times. Cortines said the movewould save the district 90 million dol-lars and could spare up to 5,000 jobs.

The alternative to this drastic action,he said, would be to let the district gobankrupt. “Do I think (this) is good edu-

cation policy? No,” he said. “ But we are ina real crisis.” Cortines has repeatedly saidthat he did not want to shorten the schoolyear. This is the first time in recent historythat a Los Angeles school superintendent hasmade such a suggestion.

Five of the affected days would be class-room days and the sixth would be anoninstructional day, according to the report.

Union leaders would have to agree to themove. Nonunion employees, including sen-ior district staff, have been ordered to takefour furlough days by May, and Cortinescriticized groups that have not been will-ing to make concessions, said the paper.

Xinhua

27 Taleban militants killed as massiveoperation going on in S Afghanistan

LASHKAR GAH,14 Feb— As the joint NATO-Afghan military operationentered its third day inTaleban bastion Marjadistrict of Helmandprovince in southAfghanistan, over twodozen Taleban insurgentshave been killed so far,commander of Afghan205th Corps in the regionsaid on Sunday. “Duringthe cleanup operation untilnow, 27 insurgents werekilled and 11 othersdetained by joint forces,”Shir Mohammad Zazi tolda press conference here inLashkar Gah capital ofHelmand province.

There has been a littleresistance but the operationwill go ahead until thesecurity is ensured in thearea, he said, adding “ awomen caught in cross fireand was injured.”

Marja, a town with apopulation of 80,000, is aTaleban stronghold inHelmand while militaryanalysts are of the viewthat over 1,000 insurgentsincluding some 100foreign fighters might behiding in the town.

He also added that twointernational troopers hadbeen killed in operationdubbed as “Mushtarak” ortogether in both Dari and

Pashto languages spokenin Afghanistan.

Speaking at a pressconference, Helmand’sprovincial governor GulabMangal said that the troopsfound and defused over2,500 kg of explosivedevice which has beenplanted by militants inMarja’s bazaar and roadsto target the security forces.

The operationMushtarak, launched onlate Friday night with theinvolvement of nearly15,000 Afghan, NATO andUS Marines, aims to pavethe way for reestablishinggovernment control in thearea. —Xinhua

Blast killsthree in

S PakistanISLAMABAD, 14 Feb —

At least three persons werekilled and 15 others wereinjured as a powerful blastoccurred in a rickshaw insouth Pakistan on Sundaymorning, local TVchannels reported.

The blast shattered thewindowpanes of closelylocated shops andbuildings on New Chowkearea in Dadu, a town ofSindh province, the privateGeo news reported. Theresidents of the areascaught a suspected personfrom the blast site andhanded him over to police,eyewitnesses said.

Xinhua

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Profits in China’s non-ferrousmetal sector fall in 2009

despite rising output

Yanukovych says to form gasconsortium with Russia, EU

Salmonella concerns promptpet food recall

LINCOLN, 14 Feb—Nature’s Variety of Lincoln,Neb said it has voluntarily recalled certain pet foodproducts amid concerns the items may contain Sal-monella.

The company said in a release Thursday the re-call is for Chicken Formula Raw Frozen Diet prod-ucts for dogs and cats. The products either containchicken medallions, patties or chubs, and each fea-tures a “Best If Used By” date of 10 Nov.

The recalled products may be returned for full re-fund or replacement to local retailers, the companysaid.

A consumer complaint alerted Nature’s Variety tothe possibility of Salmonella contamination in thenamed products, but no people or pets have beenreported sickened by the products.—Internet

Unsafe conditions prompt4.9 million pound meat recall

CHICAGO, 14 Feb—Unsafe conditions haveprompted a California meat company to recall an-other 4.9 million lbs of beef and veal, expanding itsprevious recall to nearly 5.8 million lbs, the Agri-culture Department said on Saturday.

No illnesses have been linked to the meat, pro-duced as early as January 2009, but US Departmentof Agriculture said the expanded recall was in con-nection with a criminal investigation.

Huntington Meat Packing Inc of Montebello,California, initially recalled 864,000 lbs of beef on18 January due to suspected E coli contamination.The recall was expanded because the beef and vealwere not produced in accordance with the compa-ny’s food safety plan, US Department of Agricul-ture said.—Internet

Senegal’s cattle sidelined for importedpowder milk

Air Arabia announces $123 m 2009 net profitSHARJAH, 14 Feb—Sharjah-based Air Arabia posted a net profit of 452 million

dirhams (123.1 million dollars) for 2009, the company said on Saturday.The Emirati airline served 4.1 million passengers in 2009, up 14.2 percent from

3.6 million in 2008, a statement on the company’s website said.The company’s turnover for all of 2009 was two billion dirhams (544 million

dollars), down 4.5 percent from the company’s 2.066-billion-dirham (562-mil-lion-dollar) turnover in 2008, it said.

“The previous 12 months represented one of the most challenging periods inthe history of the global aviation sector,” the company’s chairman Sheikh Abdullahbin Mohammed al-Thani said in the statement.

“During that time of great instability, Air Arabia nevertheless continued to charta path to profitability,” he said.—Internet

French transport and

utility group Veolia

was given the green

light on Saturday to

run passenger trains

in France in

competition with

national rail operator

SNCF.

INTERNET

Cattle drink from a basin near the village of Merine Dakhar in Senegal.Senegal has three million cattle, but it is imported European powdered milk

that is found at the breakfast table, in coffee or local yoghurt as poorinfrastructure keeps fresh milk from consumers.—INTERNET

BEIJING, 14 Feb—Prof-its in China’s non-ferrousmetal industry declined in2009 despite rising outputdue to low prices, accord-ing to statistics from theMinistry of Industry and

Information Technology(MIIT). Output of 10 kindsof non-ferrous metals, in-cluding copper, alumina,zinc and lead, increased5.8 percent in the countryfrom a year earlier to 26.81million tonnes last year.

However, combinedprofit of 70 major enter-prises in the sector totaled17.6 billion yuan (2.58 bil-lion US dollars), down 1.46percent year on year, theMIIT said. Although theindustry maintained a gooddevelopment momentumin 2009, many challengesremained, including theproblems of excess capac-ity and outdated productioncapacity.—Xinhua

Sharjah-based AirArabia has posted a net

profit of 452 milliondirhams (123.1 milliondollars) for 2009. TheEmirati airline served4.1 million passengersin 2009, up 14.2 per-

cent from 3.6 million in2008, a statement on

the company’s websitesaid.—INTERNET

DAKAR, 14 Feb—Sen-egal has three million cat-tle, but it is imported Eu-ropean powdered milkthat is found at the break-fast table, in coffee or lo-cal yoghurt as poor infra-structure keeps fresh milkfrom consumers.

In a Dakar suburb,“milk powder with veg-etable fat content” fromFrance is poured intolarge tanks and mixedwith filtered water at theJaboot factory to makelocal favourites like cur-dled milk and yoghurt and

cereal mix, or “thiakri.”Reducing dependence

on imported foodstuffs isa challenge on the conti-nent, and new AfricanUnion leader, MalawiPresident Bingu waMutharika has prioritisedfood security to ensure“Africa is able to feedAfrica.”

In five years, Senegalhas more than doubled itsbill for imported milkfrom 25 billion CFAFrancs (38 million euros,52 million dollars) in2002 to 58 billion in 2007,said Djiby Dia, researcherwith the SenegaleseInstitute of AgriculturalResearch.

Internet

MOSCOW, 14 Feb—Ukraine will seek to estab-lish a gas consortium withRussia and the EuropeanUnion, Viktor Yanu-kovych, who won thecountry’s presidentialpolls, told a Russian TV onSaturday. Yanukovych,who beat incumbentUkrainian Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko lastSunday in the run-off by anarrow margin, told thestate TV channel Russia-24 that gas relations with

Russia did not move in theright direction during thelast five years.

He hoped that theUkraine-Russia relation-ship would be restored toa friendly strategic one andUkraine would properlyhandle its gas relationswith Russia and the EU.

Ukraine, along withRussia, should becomemajor gas suppliers of EUcountries, saidYanukovych. Ukraine andEU countries are consum-

ers of Russian gas.A gas consortium will

help update Ukraine’s gaspipeline network, whilethe EU will get energy se-curity guarantees, he said.

Russia and the EU,which gets a quarter of itsgas supplies from Russia,have begun to build newpipelines to reduce gastransit through Ukrainedue to repeated gas dis-putes between the twoformer Soviet neighboursin recent years.—Xinhua

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Carnival goers rest at the flooded St Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy, on 12Feb, 2010, during the annual Venice Carnival.—XINHUA

Singaporeans must remainvigilant in 2010

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

SINGAPORE,14 Feb—Singapore’s Prime Minis-ter Lee Hsien Loong onSaturday urged Singa-poreans to remain vigilantin the year of the tiger.

“We must remain vigi-lant in the year of the ti-ger. The tiger is a force ofnature, and this year holdssome risks and uncertain-ties,” Lee said in his Chi-nese new year message.

The year of the ox be-gan on a challenging noteas Singapore faced theworst economic crisis

since its Independence, hesaid, adding that in the firstquarter of 2009, the citystate’s Gross DomesticProduct (GDP) fell 10 per-cent, but its economypulled back up so that forthe whole year GDP onlydeclined 2.1 percent.

Lee praised Singa-poreans for facing the dif-ficulties with resolutionand fortitude.

“We were apprehen-sive, but did not panic. In-stead, we calmly made acollective effort to find

practical solutions, to keepcompanies viable and getworkers properly skilled tohold on to jobs. Becausewe responded as one peo-ple, we prevailed, Leesaid. However, he warnedthat although economieshave largely stabilized,there may still be surprisesand close calls. For exam-ple, property values inDubai have fallen sharply.Greece is in severe finan-cial distress, and Spain andPortugal are under pres-sure too.—Xinhua

Business area in NY’s Queens Boroughcatches big fire

Firefighters work on the scene as a bustling business area catches a bigfire in Queens Borough of New York City, the United States, on 13 Feb,

2010.—XINHUA

NEW YORK, 14 Feb—A bustling business areain Queens Borough ofNew York City caught abig fire Saturday, whenthe city is bracing forValentine’s Day.

No one was injured,according to fire depart-ment officer.

The fire began at 10am in a row of stores on37th Avenue and the af-fected businesses includea furniture store, a frame

shop, an art supply store,a packaging store, a liq-uor store, a grocery storeand a beauty supply store.

Maria Lalita, theowner of a grocery store,told Xinhua that she wasbringing flowers and toysto the outside when shenoticed the fire. Sheyelled and dragged herhusband out of the base-ment to safety.

“All is gone,” shesaid, with tears in her

eyes.Firemen, numbered at

dozens, are still strug-gling to control the fire,which is still burningwhen the story is filed.One helicopter was hov-ering above the affectedarea and left afterwards.

Huge clouds of smokecan be seen from kilome-tres way.

The cause of the fireis still unknown.

Xinhua�

Nine killed, 45 injured inmajor bomb attack in India

European missile defence system must beconceived together with Russia

Police gather at the siteof a bomb blast in Pune

on 13 Feb, 2010. Abomb ripped through apacked restaurant in theIndian city of Pune on

Saturday.—XINHUA

terror attack in India sincethe November 2008Mumbai attacks, said of-ficials.

Meanwhile, more than45 people were rushed tohospital with varying de-grees of injury in the at-tack caused by a home-made improvised explo-sive device, said Indiansecurity officials.

The blast took place at19:15 pm local time whenthe restaurant was full ofpeople, many of them for-eigners.

Indian Home Secre-tary G K Pillai told localmedia there was an unat-tended packet which ex-ploded when a waiter triedto open it.

Xinhua

NEW DELHI, 14 Feb—At least nine people, fourof them female foreign-ers, were killed when apowerful bomb explodedin a terrorist attack on arestaurant popular withtourists in the westernIndian city of Pune onSaturday evening, policesaid.

This is the first major

Two Yemeni soldiers killedin the south

SANAA , 14 Feb—Two Yemeni soldiers were killedand four others wounded in an ambush southeast ofthe country on Saturday, security officials said.

The incident occurred in Yemen’s southeast prov-ince of Shabwa when gunmen ambushed an army pa-trol, officials said.

“This kind of unrest was not related to the separa-tist Southern Movement, but rather it’s a sort of at-tacks that al-Qaeda always stands behind, said an of-ficial of the Interior Ministry, who asked not to be iden-tified because he is not authorized to speak to media.

The official confirmed two Yemeni army soldiershad been killed in the ambush.

Meantime, death toll from the clashes between se-curity forces and demonstrators that took place Satur-day during a protest in southern Yemeni province ofLahij rose to two, according to witnesses and localsources.

Xinhua

BUCHAREST, 14 Feb—The issue of missile de-fence system must be dis-cussed primarily at Euro-pean level and the dealmust not draw anger fromRussia, visiting French

Deputy Foreign MinisterPierre Lellouche said hereon Friday.

“I would like to prima-rily see Europe interestedin and debating this issueat its level,” said the offi-

cial at a press conference,stressing that “a defensivesystem against proliferat-ing countries is not meantto affect our Russianneighbour. On the con-trary, a shield must beconceived together withRussia and I would like tosee us working together inthis problem.”

Romanian PresidentTraian Basescu an-nounced on 4 Februarythat Romania decided toparticipate in the develop-ment of the United States’missile defence systemand host components onits territory, adding thatthe system would be op-erational by 2015.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Photo taken shows a large-scale“porcelain tiger” on a square inJingdezhen, east China’s JiangxiProvince. The “porcelain tiger”,consisting of various porcelain

dishes, plates, cups and bowls, hasbecome a unique decoration in thecity, also known as China’s porce-

lain capital, for the upcomingLunar New Year of the Tiger.

A giraffe foal tries to stand shortlyafter being born at Aalborg zoo in

northern Jutland.

Man fined $50 for sniffingbakery cakes

A Canadian man in Regina, Saskatch-ewan was fined $50 Friday for sniffingand touching cakes in a supermarket bak-ery department.

Alexander Rodrigue, 23, was also or-dered to make restitution for the cakes andstay away from the supermarket for fourmonths, the Regina Leader-Post reported.

He had previously pleaded guilty to amischief charge relating to the June 15incident in which staff claimed he hadbeen licking the cakes, the newspapersaid.

However, at his sentencing, Rodriguetold the judge he had not licked the cakes,but admitted to sniffing and touchingthem, but did not explain why.

If he pays the fine, the offense won’tbe recorded as a conviction, the reportsaid.

Rare white jackdaw inUkraine spurned by flock

In a story that could have comestraight out of Aesop’s Fables, a rare whitejackdaw in eastern Ukraine has beenspurned by its flock.

The albino bird, called Katya, was spot-ted by Lutsk resident AlexanderMoiseyenko, who tosses her scraps of breadfrom his apartment window.

“She flies together with other jackdaws,but stays apart. The black jackdaws usuallysteal the food and fly away,” Moiseyenkosaid. Ornithologists say there have been only15 confirmed sightings of white jackdawsin the world over the past three decades.And this is the first time that one has beenseen in Ukraine.

“There is a certain set of genes that leadsto albinism,” said Mikhail Khimin, an or-nithologist and conservationist in the Volynregional government. “These kinds of birdsare a result of degeneration and gene muta-tion.” Katya’s plight bears shades of Aesop’stale about the envious jackdaw that paintedhimself white to fit in with the well-fedfarmyard pigeons. As soon as the decep-tion was exposed, he was chased away, butthen shunned by his fellow jackdaws,who no longer recognized the bird as oneof their own. A snowboarder sails through the Ol-

ympic rings during the opening cer-emony for the Vancouver 2010 Olym-pics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Man, 73, robbed threebanks unarmed

Police in Florida said a 73-year-oldman managed to rob three banks beforehe was arrested on a tip resulting fromsurveillance video.

Tampa police said James Bruce, 73,who walks with a slow shuffle, robbeda Bank of America 15 Jan, a SunTrustbank 1 Feb and a second Bank ofAmerica 10 Feb, the St Petersburg (Fla.)Times reported.

Each time, police said the unarmedBruce handed a teller a note asking for$600.

Bruce was arrested Thursday after hewas recognized from surveillance videoreleased to the public Wednesday night.He was charged with three counts ofbank robbery and jailed in lieu of$22,500 bond.

20 million children in Bangladeshto be vaccinated against measles

DHAKA, 14 Feb — More than 20 million childrenwill be vaccinated against measles during a two-weekmeasles campaign across Bangladesh, starting Sundayand ending on 28 February.

All children aged nine months to less than five yearswill be given measles vaccines, while all children aged0 to five years will be given two drops of poliovaccines, leading English newspaper The Daily Starreported on Sunday.

More than 50,000 health staff, 600,000 volunteersand NGO workers have been mobilized in order tocarry out the campaign. They will work in 120,000vaccination sites.

To cover all the 20 million children through thisfortnightly campaign, 23 million doses of measlesvaccines, 29 million doses of polio vaccines, 23 mil-lion auto-disabled syringes, 2.3 million reconstitutionsyringes and 150,000 safety boxes have already beenprocured and distributed.

Xinhua

A boy stands under aposter promoting the vac-cination campaign on thefirst day of VaccinationWeek in the Americassponsored by UNICEF inAsuncion on 25 April,2009. The campaign in-cludes widespread vacci-nation against measles,German measles and polio.—XINHUA

EU approves HP’sbid for 3Com

BRUSSELS, 14 Feb —The European Commis-sion has approved US tech-nology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP)’s bid for3Com, a US networkequipment provider.

The European Union(EU)’s antitrust watchdogsaid in a statement on Fri-day that the deal would notsignificantly impede effec-tive competition in the Eu-ropean market.

HP is a leading providerof products, technologies,software, solutions andservices to individual cus-tomers and businesses, in-cluding the public and edu-cation sector, while 3Comis active in the research anddevelopment, productionand marketing of commu-nications equipment thatprovide network solutionsfor businesses.—Xinhua

Cyclone misses American Samoa,turns toward Tonga

PAGO PAGO, 14 Feb—A powerful tropical stormmissed American Samoaearly Saturday morning,causing heavy rains andhigh winds but sparingmore devastation to theUS territory battered by adeadly autumn tsunami.

Tropical Cyclone Renewas about 110 miles southof Pago Pago and movingsouthwest on a track thatwill take it into central andsouthern Tonga, said cy-clone forecaster AlipateWaqaicelua of the NadiTropical Cyclone Centerin Fiji. The storm centerwas about 485 milesnortheast of the islandchain.

Strong winds from the

storm were still expectedto batter American Sa-moa, which promptedforecasters to replace thehurricane warning with agale warning that pre-dicted winds of 30 to 45mph, said meteorologistMase Akapo Jr with theNational Weather Servicein Pago Pago.

“The public still needsto continue to take precau-tionary measures due tothe strong winds,” Akaposaid, adding that the highsurf will continue, withwaves of 15 to 18 feet ex-pected through Saturdayevening.

“We are still faced withhigh waves,” he said.

Internet

A teenager walksaround the town area

with his umbrelladuring a drizzling rain

as Tropical CycloneRene approaches

American Samoa on 12Feb, 2010.—INTERNET

Dazzling car extravaganza captivates autoenthusiasts at Chicago Auto Show

CHICAGO, 14 Feb — Bustling with car lovers, McCormick Place’s 1.3 millionsquare feet of exhibition space was jammed with enthusiasts test-driving, admir-ing, touching — even smelling — the nearly 1,000 new vehicles on display at the102nd Chicago Auto Show on Friday.

Finally opening its doors after two days of media hype and public anticipation,America’s largest and longest-running auto show began its 10-day run to an ex-cited crowd craving a first look at the rich variety of new models, along withfreshly “tweaked” versions of existing lines and a good number of hybrids.

The show featured multiple world and North American introductions, includ-ing a complete range of domestic and imported passenger cars, trucks, sport-util-ity vehicles, minivans, and experimental and concept cars.—Xinhua

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Sittway Township DAC striving for regional developmentArticle & Photos: Reporter Singu Soe Win

(from page 1)Kandawgyi Lake,

dug in 1906, is locatedtwo miles northwest ofSittway and its lowestwater level is at analtitude of 44 feet andnine inches. The lakeis 136.74 acres and itstores 409.46 milliongallons of water. Thelowest water level ofthe lake is 25 feet.

At present, Sittwayformed with 32 wardsis home to 150,000population. As theKandawgyi Lake alone

“Point” a well-known site of relaxation in Sittway.

Clock tower standing at the corner of main road andMeyu Road in Sittway.

Deputy DirectorU Win Naing,

Executive Officer ofSittway Township

DAC.

A nursery seen in the compound of Sittway Township DAC.

Local people waiting to fetch water at Kandawgyi Lake in ShwebyaWard of Sittway.

could not supply wateradequately for the localpeople, the 7.44-acreKandawlay Lake to store12.48 million gallons of

water and the 3.44-acreextended lake to store2.31 million gallons of

water were reclaimed tostore 454.25 milliongallons of water on172.49 acres.

The committee

manages to supply 1.2million gallons of waterto 27 wards daily. Dailywater consumption isthree million gallons.Therefore, the plan isunderway to build areservoir by dammingHsatyokya Creek to northof Sittway.

In the time ofTatmadaw Government,many regions withscarcity of water inSagaing, Magway andMandalay Divisions getenough water thanks toconcerted efforts of the

Ministry of Progress ofBorder Areas andNational Races andDevelopment Affairs andgoodwill of the State and

wellwishers.The local authorities

sanctioned the SittwayTownship DAC to spendK 179.7 millionincluding K 79 million

donated by Shwe naturalgas explorationenterprise on 28 tasksrelated to the supply ofwater for 2009-2010financial year.

roads, gravel roads andearth roads in SittwayTownship in additionto rural bridges.

Large and smallbridges were built in

A total of 22 wells inthe wards store 65.14million gallons of waterand 14 earthen lakes,12.26 million gallons,totaling 77.40 milliongallons.

While in Sittway, Itogether with Director UMyo Kyi, DeputyDirector U Win Naing,Assistant Engineer DawKhin Swe Aye and JE-2Daw Hnin Hnin Yiobserved storage ofwater at Kandawgyi Lakeand other water tanks andwater pumping stations.

To have citycharacteristics, theTownship DAC hasequipped SittwayTownship with tarred

Wunphaik mangroveforest through theunited strength of thelocal people.Moreover, railroadsand railway stationswere constructed there.In addition,hydropower projectsare being implementedin Sittway Township.

With the relentlessefforts, SittwayTownship DAC isstriving forenhancement of theliving standard of thelocal people.

*****

Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin:

2-2-2010

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— For all national races to uphold the na-tional policy—non-disintegration of the Un-ion, non-disintegration of national solidar-ity, and perpetuation of sovereignty

— To boost the sense of Union Spirit of thenational people

— To defend and safeguard the Union withconsolidated unity of all national racesagainst dangers posed to disrupt State sta-bility and development by internal andexternal subversives

— For all national races to work harder tobuild a modern, developed, discipline-flour-ishing democratic nation in line with theState Constitution approved with the greatmajority of the ballot

— For all national races to make concertedefforts for successful accomplishment ofthe seven-step Road Map

63rd Anniversary Union Day Objectives

Commander, mayor attendopening of tarred roads

YANGON, 14 Feb—Chairman of YangonDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Yangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint andChairman of Yangon City Development CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin arrived at the meetinghall of Thakayta Township Development AffairsCommittee yesterday. The commander and the mayorheard the reports presented by officials concerned onpreventive measure against DHF and cholera, andsanitation tasks and drainage system.

The commander gave necessary instructions.Then, they looked into undertakings by departments,social organizations and people for preventive measureagainst DHF, better drainage system, and givingeducative talks in No.7 market road.

Afterwards, they attended opening ofNgwezinyaw tarred road in No.88 ward, DagonMyothit (Seikkan) Township.

The mayor and officials opened the road. The

commander and the mayor sprinkled the stoneinscription with scented water, and strolled along theroad.

They attended opening of Dhammayadana tarredroad in No.89 ward. They sprinkled the stone inscriptionwith scented water, and strolled along the road.

They attended opening of Shweli tarred road inNo.89 ward.

They attended the opening of two-storey newschool building of No. 2 Basic Education High School,and looked round it.

The handing over ceremony was followed at theschool. The mayor made a speech on the occasion andhanded over documents related to the school to theMinistry of Education.

The school head accepted school uniformsdonated by a wellwisher. The township educationofficer spoke word of thanks.

MNA

YANGON, 14 Feb—Hinthada TownshipAssociation opened its new building this morning.The opening ceremony was attended by HonourablePatrons of the Association Minister for CooperativesMaj-Gen Tin Htut, Minister for Agriculture andIrrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo and Chairman of theSanghadana Association U Than Shwe formally

MGH to provide reliablehealth care

NA Y PY I TA W ,1 4 F e b — D e p u t yMinister for Health DrPaing Soe called forimproving medicalscience to meetinternational standardand providing warm andreliable health care inmeeting with staff inMawlamyine General

Priority given to construction of bridgesNAY PYI TAW, 14 Feb—

Deputy Minister forConstruction U Tint Sweheard reports on progress ofBago Bridge and future

tasks presented by SeniorEngineer Daw Than Yi ofBridge ConstructionGroup-2 at the briefing hallof Bago Bridge

Construction Project inBago on 8 February.

Deputy Chief EngineerU Khin Maung Swe ofPublic Works and Deputy

Managing Director (Works)U Kyaw Lin gavesupplementary reports.

The deputy ministergave instructions on timelycompletion of constructionand priority to be given toworksite safety.

On 9 February, thedeputy minister inspectedconditions of roads inTaninthayi Division andprogress of LawthaingBridge.—MNA

Dances of brethren atOpen Air Theatre

NAY PYI TAW, 14Feb—National racesrepresentatives, whoattended the 63rd

Anniversary Union Dayceremony, presentedtraditional dance of nationalraces at Open Air Theatreof Nay Pyi Taw City Hallhere this night.

Among thespectators weredepartmental heads of theministers, officers, servicepersonnel and locals.National races culturaltroupes from all states and

Hinthada Association at new buildingopened the building.

The Chairman and the Honourable Patrons extendedgreetings at the ceremony and responsible personspresented financial concerns, objectives and future plansand programme for extended construction of the building.

The Honourable Patrons and members donated K12 million to the association.—MNA

divisions performed thetraditional dances andvariety songs.

The performancewill be continuedtomorrow.—MNA

Take Fire Preventive

Measures

AungmyethazanTownship WJA holdscoordination meetingon 17 January 2010.

NLM

National racescultural troupes

performingtraditional dances.

MNA

Hospital on 9 February.The deputy

minister later visited thehospital and attended tothe needs. On 8February, he inspectedKyaikto TownshipHospital , YinnyeinStation Hospital andPaung TownshipHospital.—MNA

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YANGON, 14 Feb—Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thiinspected AlinyaungTest Well No. 3 ofMyanma Oil and GasEnterprise in HleguTownship this afternoon.

Officials reported ondrilling of the test well,geological conditions ofHlegu and Indaing

Offshore natural gas to satisfydomestic demand

regions, prospects of oiland gas deposits,conducting of seismicsurvey in Hlegu regionand future task.

The minister stressedthe need to timelycomplete the drilling oftest well. Thegovernment is strivingfor boosting productionof offshore natural gas

to satisfy the demand ofthe nation and efforts areto be made for increasingproduction of inlandnatural gas, he said.

From the Gefco IVdrilling platform, theminister looked intodrilling works atAlinyaung Test Well No.3 and left necessaryinstructions.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14Feb—The graduates for1967-2009 academicyears of the BotanyDepartment of YangonUniversity held thesecond ceremony to payrespects to old facultymembers at theUniversities’ Dham-mayon, here, on 12February morning.

Old students paid

Botanists pay respects to faculty membersrespects to 77 old facultymembers and presentedgifts to them.

In memory of the latefaculty members, the oldstudents donated K500,000 to the funds ofJivitadana SanghaHospital.

Chairperson of theorganizing committeeProfessor/Dean Dr ThetThet May extended

greetings. The facultymembers gave advice.Professor U Aye Pepresented gifts to laboratorystaff of over 64 years old.

Patron of theorganizing committeeBrig-Gen Nay Win(Retd) and Daw Hla HlaYi and U Aye Min, onbehalf of the old students,spoke words of thanks.

MNA

Today’s vehicles…(from page 16)

The agreement reached at the 5th ASEANTransport Ministerial Meeting held at Hanoi inVietnam on 15 September 1999 carries an impor-tant resolution: to set up traffic signboards.

The speed limit of 120 kmh is designatedfor first-class ASEAN highways, each of whichcomprises the central line between the two lanes,along with traffic diversion systems. The speedlimits for urban areas are as follows:-

First-class highways 80-100 kmhClass (1) highway 60-80 kmhClass (2) highway 50-60 kmhClass (3) highway 40-50 kmhThat is according to the special limits on

road/bridge designs and construction in Appen-dix (11) of Greater Mekong Sub-Region Treaty.

If trucks, highways and traffic structuresmeet the standards, standards for total weight oftruck, and number of axis and weight of the truck,and speed limits are honoured, and drivers and

road users comprehend the traffic signboards, there will bemany benefits as follows:-

- road safety- maintenance of road quality- smooth trade- better relations between national races (between ASEAN

countries) due to the fact that transportation service can becarried out with convenience in a short time

- improvement of political, economic and socialsectors.

In compliance with the resolutions passed at theUN Convention on Vienna Traffic in Australia in 1968,and the traffic signboards were designated everywherenecessary according to the following categories.

(1) 8 directives(2) 24 prohibitions and restrictions(3) 36 instructions(attached with pictures)

Translation: MSMyanma Alin: 14-2-2010

36 Instructions

T-shaped junctionin front

Railroad with agate in front

No car No motorcycle No bicycleNo over-three-ton

truck

No hand-cart No tractor No vehicles Don’t turn left

No trailer; No cartNo horn Don’t overtake

Don’t turn right No U-turnNo slowing-moving

vehicles No vehicles

Downhill in front Uphill in front

Potential land/bankslide in front

Zebra-crossing infront

Left side street infront

Right side street infront

Stop in front Roundabout in front

Left feeder in front Right feeder infront

Railroad with nogate in front Danger in front

Narrower part infront

Left narrower partin front

Right narrowerpart in front

School in frontTraffic lights in

frontRoad repair in front

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Spectators hurt by waves atUS surfing contest

Italian police seize tonnes of counterfeits

Bystanders scramble as a rogue wave washes over the beach during theMavericks Surfing Contest on 13 Feb , 2010 in Pillar Point, Calif.—INTERNET

Top labels like Gucci are common in Italy andstopping the trade is unlikely.— INTERNET

ROME, 14 Feb — Po-lice in Italy have made amajor seizure of counter-feit goods. The haul in-cluded clothes and leathergoods, which officers sayare of amazing quality.

The fake goods were dis-covered in eight industrialhangars east of Rome.

They included clothes,shoes, leather goods andother accessories.

Police say they could

have come fromAsia.Italy has had a seriesof counterfeit scams in re-cent years.

It is believed that theitems would have beengiven Italian designer la-bels and sold in marketsand on the streets of Ita-ly’s cities, where fakehandbags, wallets andbelts can be seen aroundtourist attractions.

It is the latest in a mas-sive haul of counterfeitgoods in recent years. Ita-ly’s national retailers as-sociation say around6.9bn euros (£6bn) of fakeproducts are sold eachyear.

Internet

MAVERICKS BEACH, 14 Feb —Thir-teen spectators at a leading surfing con-test in California have been hurt, someseriously, after big waves hit the sea-wall they were standing on. Two 6m(20ft) walls of water crashed into thebreakwater at Mavericks Beach, de-stroying scaffolding and sweeping doz-ens of people onto the rocks below. Themost serious injuries involved brokenbones, emergency personnel said.

After the incident, one stretch of the

beach was evacuated and the mainviewing area was closed to newcom-ers. Hundreds of people neverthelessremained to watch South African ChrisBertish win the $50,000 (£32,000) firstprize. The Mavericks Surf Contest isthe most lucrative big-wave contest inthe world, but is only held when con-ditions are ideal, such as on Saturday.Some of the waves were reportedly12m (40ft) high.

Internet

Study urges start obesityprevention in the cradle

Train fire shuts downNE Corridor line

MORRISVILLE, 14 Feb—A fire on a train carryingpassengers from AtlanticCity, NJ, to New York shutdown the busy NortheastCorridor rail line for twohours north of Philadel-phia. The ACES train is aspecial service operatedby New Jersey Transit un-der contract to a group ofAtlantic City casinos. Itwas running behindschedule when the firewas reported in the engineat about 5:45 pm EST, ThePhiladelphia Inquirer re-ported.

The fire in the enginedamaged the overheadelectrical line inMorrisville, Pa, across theDelaware River from

Two babies are picturedat a food store in Colo-rado Springs, Colorado.

A team of US doctorshas urged that obesityscreening start in the

cradle after a study theyconducted showed that

half of US children withweight problems be-

came overweight beforeage two.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 14 Feb—A team of US doctors hasurged that obesity screen-ing start in the cradle aftera study they conductedshowed that half of USchildren with weight prob-lems became overweight

before age two.The “critical period for

preventing childhoodobesity” in the childrenobserved in the studywould have been in “thefirst two years of life andfor many by three monthsof age,” said the study,published in ClinicalPediatrics.

“Unfortunately, thechubby healthy baby mythis alive and well despitethe high prevalence ofchildhood obesity, withonly 20 percent to 50 per-cent of overweight chil-dren being diagnosed andeven fewer receivingdocumented or effectivetreatments,” the authors ofthe study said.

For the study, whichwas conducted to try topinpoint the “tippingpoint” for when a childfirst became overweight,researchers looked at 480medical records for pa-tients between the ages oftwo and 20 at a privatemedical practice and ateaching hospital, both inVirginia.— Internet

Trenton, NJ and about 30miles from Philadelphia,officials said. PennyBassett Hackett, a spokes-woman for New JerseyTransit, said 62 passengersand the four members ofthe train crew were evacu-ated. Three people weretaken to a hospital.

An Amtrak spokes-woman, Karin Romerosaid the line was com-pletely closed for just overtwo hours.

Two of the four tracksreopened at 7:55 pm.Amtrak owns the rail line,which is also used by lo-cal trains from Trenton,NJ, to Philadelphia and theACES service.

Internet

A woman carries a heart-shaped rose bouquet onthe eve of Valentine’s Day in the northern Indiancity of Chandigarh on 13 Feb, 2010.— INTERNET

Truck recall adds to Toyota’s troublesTOKYO,14 Feb—

Toyota was facing moreunwanted publicity Sat-urday after the world’s

biggest automaker said itwas voluntarily calling inabout 10,000 pickups inNorth America, the latestin a series of recalls.

The Japanese gianthas recalled millions ofvehicles worldwide inpast months due to prob-lems linked to acceleratorand brake functions, sul-lying the company’ssafety reputation.

The latest vehicle castinto the spotlight is the2010 model of Tacomafour-wheel drive pickupsin the North Americanmarket, including 8,000in the United States and1,500 in Canada.

The voluntary recallwas to inspect their frontdrive shafts, which may

include a component thatcontains cracks that de-veloped during the manu-facturing process, thecompany said.

Earlier global Toyotarecalls covered modelswith “sticky accelerators”that can cause cars to raceout of control, a defectcited in several deadlycrashes, and later widenedto brake system problemsin the Prius and other hy-brid models.

On Friday a USwoman filed a federallawsuit in Los Angelesagainst Toyota, blamingthe company for the deathof her husband when thePrius she was driving sud-denly accelerated.

Internet

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A woman assembles a box of dark chocolates ata store in Miami in 2003. Cabernet and choco-

late are potent medicine for killing cancer,according to research presented on Wednesday.

INTERNET

Four sea lions, one seal shot near Seattle

In this undated photo provided by Robin Lindsey, ateam of biologists from the Washington State Depart-ment of Fish and Wildlife perform a necropsy on anadult male California sea lion, estimated to be 8-10

years of age, at Constellation Park.—INTERNET

Lack of sleep increasesdisease risk

BOSTON, 14 Feb — If people usually wake upgroggy and grumpy, they’re probably not gettingenough sleep and increasing their risk of disease, aUS report says.

A newly updated report from Harvard MedicalSchool, “Improving Sleep: A guide to a good night’srest,” explains how lack of sleep does more than makea person bleary — it can put a person at risk for heartdisease, diabetes, obesity and other health problems.

For some people, late-night TV watching or Websurfing is to blame, but for many others, the culprit isinsomnia or sleep apnea, a condition in which the air-way closes and breathing stops or becomes shallowerhundreds of times each night.“Sleep apnea can alsowreak havoc on the cardiovascular system, becausethe heart must work harder every time the brain sendsout a ‘wake up and breathe’ signal,” the report said.

“People with sleep apnea are prone to high bloodpressure, heart failure and stroke. Although more thanhalf of the estimated 18 million American who havesleep apnea are overweight, many are not. By age 65,about one in 10 people has sleep apnea.”—Internet

Small farmers key to global food securityNAIROBI, 14 Feb — Helping the world’s smallest farms stay abreast of climate

change and competition is key to feeding the planet’s growing population, scien-tists in Kenya said.

Small farmers are neglected by agricultural aid policies, yet collectively theyfeed most of the world’s 1 billion low-income people, said the Kenyan-based In-ternational Livestock Research Institute.

Small farmers need help in understanding and coping with climate change,which will alter growing conditions, institute officials said in a recent issue ofScience. They also need help in dealing with finite natural resources, includingwater, arable land and fossil fuels needed to produce fuel and fertilizer.—Internet

Space stationcupola offerspanoramic

viewCAPE CANAVERAL, 14

Feb — US astronautsaboard the InternationalSpace Station say they’reputting the finishingtouches to a module thatoffers a 360-degree viewof space.

“We will have the mostspectacular view of theEarth anyone’s ever hadfrom the inside of the sta-tion,” astronaut SteveRobinson said of the mod-ule Tranquility.

The $400 millionTranquility and its Italian-built cupola — a domed-shaped annex with sevenwindows — is the lastmajor US addition to thestation, which is now 98percent complete.

Internet

Volkswagen recalls 20,000cars in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 14 Feb — German automakerVolkswagen said it was recalling some 20,000 cars inMexico, a day after it announced the recall of nearly200,000 cars in Brazil over potential wheel malfunc-tions.

The company said the recall in Mexico had beenordered over the “possibility that the rear wheel bear-ings could be insufficiently lubricated, causing thento make noise.”

“If the situation is not addressed, it could cause thewheel bearings to lock,” the company said in a state-ment released by its Puebla factory.

The company said it was recalling “approximately20,000 cars,” all of them Gol and Gol Sedan models,the statement said.

A day earlier, the company said it was recallingnearly 200,000 of its Novo Gol and Voyage model carsin Brazil over the same issue.—Internet

SEATTLE, 14 Feb — A harbour seal andat least four sea lions, including one listedas endangered, were shot to death nearSeattle, authorities said on Friday. One wasa Steller sea lion protected by the federalEndangered Species Act. The others weresmaller, more common California sea li-ons listed under the Marine Mammals Pro-tection Act.

National Marine Fisheries Servicespokesman Brian Gorman said an inves-tigation was under way because it’s ille-gal in most cases to shoot any kind ofsea lion or seal. Shooting these mammalscan result in fines of up to $50,000, hesaid.

Wildlife photographer Robin Lindsey

said she was shocked at the sight of thedead male Steller sea lion that appeared tobe 8 to 10 years old and weigh about 1,200pounds. “It’s really heartbreaking to thinkanybody would shoot a creature becausethey’re out there trying to survive,” saidLindsey, who also volunteers with a groupcalled Seal Sitters. “I hope to God it’s nota trend.”

Seal Sitters gets calls from federal offi-cials when a seal or sea lion death is re-ported. Lindsey is often asked to check outthe animal and take photographs. WestSeattle residents have reported at least oneother sea lion carcass was floating in PugetSound, Gorman said.

Internet

Homeless Haiti quake victims gettarps, want tents

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 14 Feb—Ask any of the hundredsof thousands of earthquake victims living outdoors inHaiti’s shattered capital and you’re apt to get the sameplea: “Give us a tent.”

Few will get one. Aid agencies and Haitian offi-cials have given up plans to shelter the homeless intents, even if that means many will likely face hurri-cane season camped out under flapping sheets of plas-tic. Tents are too big, too costly and too inefficient,aid groups say. So Haitians must swelter under flimsytarps until fixed shelters can be built — though noone believes nearly enough can be will be up in timefor spring storms.

“A tent would give us more space. There are toomany people in here,” said Marie-Mona Destiron,sweating under the hot blue light of her family’s do-nated plastic tarp. When it rains, she said, water slidesthrough the gaps and turns the dirt floor to mud.

Destiron, 45, got her tarp from US soldiers withthe 82nd Airborne Division. Her husband, JoselinEdouard, tied it to a thin mahogany tree on a dustyslope below the country club that the soldiers use as aforward-operating base. It is home to them and theirsix children.

Internet

A child stands among makeshift tents at arefugee camp in the Cite Soleil neighbour-

hood inPort-au-Prince, on 13 Feb, 2010.

INTERNET

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Kuwait City’s banking complex is decorated with lights and the national flagin 2009. OPEC member Kuwait is projecting a 22.4 billion dollar budget

deficit for the 2010-2011 fiscal year after raising spending by more than 33percent, according to a draft budget seen on Tuesday.—INTERNET

DAVIS, 14 Feb— Researchers at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, said beer may help prevent oste-oporosis — the loss of bone density that can result infractures.

Lead author Charles Bamforth says the study sug-gests that beer is a significant source of dietary sili-con, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral den-sity.

Bamforth and colleagues studied commercial beerproduction to determine the relationship between beerproduction methods and the resulting silicon content.

Silicon is present in beer in the soluble form oforthosilicic acid, which yields 50 percentbioavailability, making beer a major contributor to sili-con intake in the Western diet.—Internet

Beer may help prevent osteoporosisChocolatemay lowerstroke riskHAMILTON, 14 Feb —

Eating chocolate maylower your risk of havinga stroke, but more re-search is needed, Cana-dian researchers found.

Study author Sarah Sa-hib of McMaster Univer-sity in Hamilton and col-leagues examined threestudies involving strokeand chocolate.

One study involved44,489 people who ateone serving of chocolateper week were 22 percentless likely to have a strokethan people who ate nochocolate. A second studyfound that 1,169 peoplewho ate 50 grams ofchocolate — about 5ounces — once a weekwere 46 percent less likelyto die following a strokethan people who did noteat chocolate.—Internet

Drug halts tumour growth in miceSAN DIEGO, 14 Feb—

Scientists in Californiasay they’ve developed adrug that stops the growthof kidney and pancreatictumors in mice.

The drug binds to amolecular “switch” foundin cancer cells to keep itin the “off position,” re-searchers at the Universityof California, San Diego,said in a recent issue of the

Proceedings of the Na-tional Academy of Sci-ences. The drug halts agrowth signaling enzyme,known as kinase, whichcan foster growth intumors and cancer-associ-ated blood vessels, saidDavid Cheresh, a patholo-gist who led the researchfor the university’s MooresCancer Centre.

The research combi-

ned chemistry withsupercomputer technologyto allow for rapid screen-ing and development ofdrugs that selectively tar-get tumors, Cheresh said.

The novel approach,which custom designsmolecules, could be a use-ful strategy in developingfuture cancer drugs,Cheresh said.

Internet

Report blames Eurostar for notwinterizing trains

A Eurostar train arrivesin northern Frenchtown Coquelles after

coming out theChannel Tunnel,2008.—INTERNET

LONDON, 14 Feb—Areview concluded Fridaythat Eurostar must domore to protect elec-tronic gear on its high-speed trains from melt-ing snow to avoid deba-cles like one thatstranded five trains in theundersea tunnel betweenFrance and Britain.

The review said fil-

ters apparently failed toprevent moisture fromcausing short circuits inthe December incidentsand needed to be im-proved. It also said thecompany had to improvecommunication duringemergencies in the tun-nel.

Eurostar said it plan-ned to spend euro 30 mil-

lion ($41 million) to dealwith the issues, includingeuro12 million alreadyearmarked for new com-munications systems inthe tunnel.

“Our duty now is toensure that we quickly re-gain the trust of our cus-tomers,” said EurostarChief Executive RichardBrown.—Internet

Hair sample revealspicture of ancient manCOPENHAGEN,14 Feb—Scientists from the Univer-

sity of Denmark say they’ve reconstructed the firstdetailed genome of an ancient human by analyzing atuft of hair.

The hair was found in Greenland in the 1980s andits owners nicknamed “Inuk,” meaning “man” inGreenlandic.

“Inuk’s receding hairline, brown eyes, dark skinand shovel-shaped front teeth are all dictated by his4,000-year-old genetic coding,” said NukaGodfredtsen, who used the genome results as a blue-print to put together a picture of how Inuk might havelooked.

The genome results indicate Inuk’s ancestorscrossed into Greenland from northeastern Siberia be-tween 4,400 and 6,400 years ago, The CopenhagenPost reported on Friday.

Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TAMPAN VOY NO (309)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTATAMPAN VOY NO (309) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 15.2.2010 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claim Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Toy makers’ crystal ball: High-tech on the cheap Triple H, a superstarwrestler with WorldWrestling Entertain-ment, poses with his

FlexForce actionfigure, on 12 Feb,

2010 at the New YorkToy Fair.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 14 Feb —If the Zhu Zhu Pets taughta lesson, it’s that a bit oftechnology and a low pricetag can go a long way. Toymakers are taking that ex-perience to heart.

From a digital Scrabblegame that checks thewords to a hovering UFOto miniature radio-controlcars, toy makers areamping up the tech quo-tient but not prices.

Zhu Zhu Pets, the furrymechanical hamsters thatzoom around, were therunaway hit of the holidayseason. One key to theirsuccess: a price tag under

$10. The American Interna-tional Toy Fair begins Sun-day. This is the annual eventwhere toy makers show offnew offerings that willmake their way into nextyear’s stockings. Previewsfrom toymakers and inter-views with analysts makeclear that the focus is on in-novation and price. Fewtoys will retail for morethan $100, and most will bepriced below $30.

“There’s still going to besome hesitancy to raiseprices too much,” saidNeedham & Co analystSean McGowan. “Last yearthe feeling was under $30

is where you needed to be.This year there may bemore willingness to be$30 to $50. But I don’tthink we’ll see a wave of$300 stuffed horsesagain.”—Internet

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Obese mom-to-be may risk preterm birth

Smoking, low IQ top cardiorisk factors

GLASGOW, 14 Feb— Researchers in Scotland saylower intelligence was second only to smoking as apredictor of cardiovascular disease.

The study, published in the European Journal ofCardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, quan-tified the associations of cardiovascular disease andnine risk factors, including cognitive ability assessedusing a standard test of general intelligence.

The researchers found the Top 5 risk factors pre-dicting cardiovascular death were smoking, low IQ,low income, high systolic blood pressure and lowphysical activity.

“It may also be worthwhile for health promotioncampaigns to be planned with consideration of indi-vidual cognition levels,” Dr David Batty of the Medi-cal Research Council in Glasgow and the Universityof Edinburgh said in a statement.

Batty also noted intelligence may well be one im-portant factor behind the place of social class as a fun-damental determinant of inequalities in health.

Batty and colleagues analyzed data collected forthe West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study — a popula-tion study investigating the influence of social factorson health. The researchers looked at data collected in1987 of 1,145 men and women about age 55 andtracked for 20 years.—Internet

Scientists findway to stop cell

migrationADELAIDE, 14 Feb—

Australian medical re-searchers say they’ve founda new way to block themovement of cells that canspread cancer and produceautoimmune diseases. TheUniversity of Adelaide re-searchers led by ProfessorShaun McColl said theyhave identified molecular“receptors” on the surfaceof cells that are involved inhelping a cell migrate tosites where it can cause dis-ease.

“Our research showsthat these receptors … canbe blocked pharmaco-logically, preventing thecell migration whichcauses the disease,” saidMcColl, who added histeam has identified anumber of such receptorsin multiple sclerosis andhave developed potentialtherapeutic drugs thatcould control the disease,and other autoimmune dis-eases.—Internet

Self-cannibalizingcancer cells studied

PRINCETON, 14 Feb—US cancer researchers say theyhave started a major study to determine the role ofself-cannibalizing cancer cells found in tumours.

The scientists from Princeton University and TheCancer Institute of New Jersey said such cells becomedormant and self-cannibalize to apparently survive pe-riods of stress. The researchers said their work mighthelp produce new cancer therapies to stem changesthat render cancer cells dangerous and resistant to treat-ment.

“We want to know: What role is this self-canni-balization playing in the middle of a tumour?” saidPrinceton Assistant Professor Hilary Coller. “To treatcancer, it may be that you want to get rid of this abil-ity in tumor cells, so we’re searching for inducers andinhibitors of this process.”

Internet

BOSTON, 14 Feb — USresearchers say pre-preg-nancy obesity and gesta-tional weight gain in-crease preterm birth riskin African-Americanwomen.

The researchers atBoston University lookedat mothers of 1,000 ba-bies born at less than 37weeks and mothers ofmore than 7,000 full-terminfants. All mothers werepart of the Black Wom-en’s Health Study.

The study, published inthe journal Epidemiology,found weight gain withinthe range of Institute ofMedicine recommenda-tions — between 0.4 to0.6 pounds per week inthe second and third tri-mesters — was optimal inreducing the risk of hav-ing a baby born at less

than 37 weeks.“Our data suggest that

it is especially importantfor obese women to ad-here to the Institute ofMedicine guidelines forpregnancy weight gain toreduce their risk ofpreterm birth,” study leadauthor Lauren Wise saidin a statement.—Internet

A Palestinian checks washing machines imported from China, in Gaza, on 13

Feb, 2010. Chinese goods such as clothes, toys and home appliances are

popuplar in Gaza for their lower prices and good quality. — XINHUA

Children show a snowman made by themselves on a coal carrier in theZaozhuang section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Zaozhuang,

east China’s Shandong Province, on 13 Feb, 2010.—XINHUA

Rhubarb shows promise infighting cancer

SHEFFIELD, 14 Feb —Rhubarb, especially whencooked, shows potentialfor killing or preventingcancer cells, researchers atBritain’s Sheffield HallamUniversity said.

As with many redvegetables, rhubarb con-tains cancer-fightingpolyphenols, The DailyTelegraph reported Satur-day.

Baking rhubarb for 20minutes, as is done withsome recipes, increases

the concentration ofpolyphenols, Nikki Jor-dan-Mahy, a Sheffieldbiomedical researcher,wrote in a recent issue ofthe journal Food Chemis-try.

Oriental medicinalrhubarb has been used intraditional Chinesemedicine for thousandsof years. Now, Jordan-Mahy said, garden rhu-barb grown in Britainhas shown medicinalpromise, especially a va-

riety grown in SouthYorkshire.

Jordan-Mahy’s team isstudying a combination ofrhubarb polyphenols andchemotherapy agentsneeded to kill leukemiacells.

“Cancer affects one inthree individuals in (Brit-ain) so it’s very importantto discover novel, lesstoxic, treatments, whichcan overcome resistance,”she said.

Internet

Young dancers performin the samba parade inRio de Janeiro, Brazil,on 12 Feb, 2010. The

Rio de Janeiro Carnival2010 kicked off on

Friday. XINHUA

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Real Madrid’s Alvaro Arbeloa(L) celebrates after scoring a

goal with team-mate CristianoRonaldo during their Spanish

first division soccer matchagainst Xerez at the Chapinstadium in Jerez, on 13 Feb,

2010.— XINHUA

Real Madrid wins in Xerez to pressure Barcelona

Chelsea’s Portuguese defender RicardoCarvalho (L) vies with Cardiff City’s

English striker Jay Bothroyd (R)during the FA Cup fifth round football

match between Chelsea and CardiffCity.— INTERNET

Wilkins salutes Chelsea’s focusLONDON, 14 Feb—Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins

praised his side’s professionalism after they put aside off-the-fielddistractions to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals with a 4-1 winover Championship club Cardiff. Blues captain John Terry wasabsent for the match at Stamford Bridge on Saturday after flyingto Dubai to see his wife in a bid to solve his marital problemsfollowing reports of an affair with the ex-girlfriend of Englandteammate Wayne Bridge.

Ashley Cole was also missing through injury, but his privatelife has been thrust into newspaper headlines too over reports oftext picture messages which were sent from his phone to a glam-our model. While those issues could be a problem for a less expe-rienced squad, Chelsea are showing no signs that any of it willhinder their push for trophies as they bounced back from a mid-week defeat at Everton. Carlo Ancelotti’s side are already top ofthe Premier League table, and soon resume their ChampionsLeague campaign with a two-leg clash against Inter Milan, led byformer Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.—Internet

US Open to have another late finish

Van Nistelrooy at the double, Bayernmake it nine

BERLIN, 14 Feb—Former Real Madrid and Manchester Unitedstriker Ruud van Nistelrooy was in double form on only his secondrun out since joining Hamburg on Saturday. The Dutch forwardscored in the 75th and 77th minutes to add to Marcus Berg’s first-half opener to lift Hamburg to a 3-1 win over Vfb Stuttgart thatmaintained their hold on fourth place.

Van Nistelrooy left Real Madrid on a free transfer in the Januarytransfer window and has made an instant impression for his newteam despite being well short of full fitness after spending much ofthe season in Spain on the bench. Later Bayern Munich stretchedtheir winning run in the league to nine games and 12 overall with a3-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund to draw level on points withBayer Leverkusen, who remain top by the slenderest of margins ongoal difference — 30 to 29.—Internet

Hiddink to leaveRussia job aftercontract expires

BRUSSELS, 14 Feb—Guus Hiddink will leaveas Russia coach when hiscontract expires on June30. Hiddink led the Rus-sian team to the 2008 Eu-ropean Championshipssemifinals but the teamdidn’t reach the 2010World Cup finals in SouthAfrica. Hiddink wrote ina Dutch newspaper that hehad spoken with Russiansoccer chief SergeiFursenko on his departureafter the expiration of thecontract.—XinhuaMADRID, 14 Feb—A goal from defender

Alvaro Arbeloa and two from Cristiano Ronaldogave Real Madrid a 3-0 win away to bottom ofthe table Xerez in the Spanish soccer league.The result takes Real Madrid temporarily towithin two ponits of league leaders FC Barce-lona, who plays on Sunday away to AtleticoMadrid, but the win was not as easy as expectedagainst the bottom team of the table.

Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini includedCristiano Ronaldo back in his starting 11 fol-lowing the end of the striker’s suspension.Xerezwas never going to get back into the game afterthat double blow and Real Madrid takes threevaluable points back to the capital.

Xinhua

Manchester City’sEnglish defender

Wayne Bridge

Mancini praises Englandhope Bridge after Stoke draw

MANCHESTER, 14 Feb—Manchester City managerRoberto Mancini praisedthe performance ofWayne Bridge after thefull back impressed in histeam’s 1-1 FA Cup drawwith Stoke in front ofEngland coach FabioCapello. Bridge has beenat the centre of media at-tention after allegationsthat his former partner hadan affair with John Terry.

But an injury to AshleyCole, who could miss theWorld Cup after sufferinga fractured ankle, meansthat Bridge is likely to beCapello’s first choice if heputs himself forward forselection. Bridge has onlyrecently returned from hisown ankle problem butMancini has been im-pressed with his displays.He said: “Wayne playedvery well. I think that

Wayne is always improv-ing. He played very welland he needs to train andplay and he will im-prove.— Internet

PEBBLE BEACH, 14Feb—The US Open isplanning for another primetime finish this year. Mike

Davis, the senior directorof rules and competitionfor the USGA, said on Sat-urday evening that the USOpen at Pebble Beach willbe televised until 11 pm

EDT on Saturday, with a10 pm EDT finish for thefinal round.

The last time the USOpen went into prime timeon the East Coast was in2008, when it was held atTorrey Pines in San Diego.Two years ago, third-round television coveragewent until 10 pm EDT,with the fourth roundended at 9 pm EDT. TigerWoods and Rocco Medi-ate tied for the lead, andWoods won in a Mondayplayoff. The US Open re-turns to Pebble Beach forthe fifth time on 17-20June .—Internet

Brighi sends irrepressibleRoma second

ROME, 14 Feb—Unstoppable Roma roared back upto second in Serie A after a 4-1 home success againstPalermo extended their unbeaten run to 20 games.Claudio Ranieri’s team have now won 17 and drawnthree of their last 20 matches in all competitions andshow no signs of letting up. Matteo Brighi scored abrace while Brazilian substitute Julio Baptista andNorway left-back John Arne Riise added the otherswith Fabrizio Miccoli scoring a late consolation forthe Sicilians from the spot.— Internet

Cristiano Ronaldoconfident of Champions

League successMADRID, 14 Feb—Real

Madrid striker CristianoRonaldo is optimistic thathis side can overcome itsChampions League in thisyear. Real Madrid has notgot into the quarter-finalsof the competition for fiveyears and now facesOlympic Lyon in the firstleg of its last 16 tie onTuesday night.

With this season’s finalto be played in Real’s San-tiago Bernabeu stadium,Ronaldo is confident thisyear will be different, al-though the club has neverwon away to Lyon.”Wehad not won away toDeportivo La Coruna in 18years and we won there thisseason. We are changingthings like that this year,”said Ronaldo.—Internet

Second seedFernando Verdasco

Verdasco books San Jose final slotSAN JOSE, 14 Feb—

Second seed FernandoVerdasco of Spain quali-fied for the final of theATP San Jose tournamentafter beating Uzbekistan’sDenis Istomin here onSaturday. Verdasco, 26,won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in onehour 43 minutes and willmeet the winner of theother semi-final betweenAmerican top seed Andy

Roddick and his seventh-seeded compatriot SamQuerrey in Sunday’sfinal.— Internet

Hamburg’s striker Ruud van Nistelrooy iscongratulated by his teammate after scoringduring the Bundesliga football match VfBStuttgart vs Hamburger SV in Stuttgart,southern Germany. Hamburg won 3-1.

INTERNET

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* Signature Tune* Sightseeing Around Mandalay and Sagaing

(Amarapura, Inn Wa, Sagaing, Mingun)* News* Culture Stage* Traditional Chin Clothes* News* Thiri Zeya Buhmi Bagan Golden Palace and Museum of

King Anawrahta* Music Gallery* News* Life-time achievement National Literary

Award (2008)* News* Unique Biodiversity of Indawgyi Lake

(Part-III)Oversea Transmission

* Signature Tune

MRTV-3Programme Schedule

(15-2-2010) (Monday)

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin, Rakhine States and Taninthayi Divisionand generally fair in the remaining States and Divisions.Night temperatures were (6°C) above February averagetemperatures in Taninthayi Division, (3°C) to (4°C) aboveFebruary average temperatures in Kachin and Mon States,Mandalay Division, (3°C) to (4 °C) below February averagetemperatures in Chin State, upper Sagaing and Bago

Divisions and about February average temperatures in theremaining areas. The significant night temperatures wereLoilem (2°C) and Namhsan (4°C).

Maximum temperature on 13-2-2010 was 97 °F.Minimum temperature on 14 -2-2010 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 14-2-2010 was 64%.Total sun shine hours on 13-2-2010 was (10.1) hoursapprox.

Rainfall on 15-2-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010was (Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was(4) mph from West at (16:30) hours MST on 13-2-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the SouthBay and generally fair in the Andaman Sea and elsewherein the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 15thFebruary 2010:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin State andTaninthayi Division and generally fair in the remainingStates and Divisions.

State of the sea: Seas will be slight in Myanmar waters.Outlook for subsequent two days:Weather is generally

fair in the whole country.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for

15-2-2010:Fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for15-2-2010: Fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for15-2-2010: Fair weather.

Monday, 14th February, 2010

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Asleep in JesusBernd Bieger

(58 Years)Representative,

Fritz Werner Industrie-AusrustungenYangon Branch Office

Beloved husband of Diyah Bieger and lovingfather of Sally Brieger passed away suddenly at 9pm on Thursday 11 February 2010. FuneralService on Tuesday 16-2-2010 at St AugustinesChurch, 64, Inya Road at 9:30 am. Then toYayway Crematorium at 12:00 noon. (Buses willleave Micasa Hotel, Dagon Centre at 9:00 am +From St Augustine’s Church to Yayway at 10:30am).

R.I.PFamily Bieger

Mr. Bernd Bieger(58 Years)

Director, Myanmar Fritz Werner IndustriesCo. Ltd

With Deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences tofamily of late Mr. B Bieger, passed away suddenly at 9 pmon Thursday, 11 February 2010.

From: The Management and staff ofMyanmar Fritz Werner IndustriesCo, Ltd. Ministry of Industry (2)

The best time to plant a treewas 20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

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3rd Waxing of Taboung 1371 ME Monday, 15 February, 2010

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ★ VOA, BBC-sowing hatred amongthe people

★ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

★ Do not allow ourselves to be swayedby killer broadcasts designed tocause troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

Today’s vehicles and motorways in Myanmar (14)Article: Kayan Soe Myint; Photos: Ministry of Construction

There will be cross-border trade between ASEAN countries in the nearfuture. So, it will call for road safety, and internationally comprehensible trafficsignboards in addition to designation of vehicle sizes, and limitation of loadweight. (See page 9)

Eight directives

Turn left Turn right Go straightGo straight or

turn left

Go straight or turnright

Go anticlockwise inroundabout

24 prohibitions and restrictions

No car No motorcycle No bicycle No over-three-tontruck

No hand-cart No tractor No vehicles Don't turn left

One-way streetin front

No trailer No cart No horn Don't overtake

Don't turn right; No U-turn;No slow-moving

vehicles and trucks;No vehicles

Speed limit (over speed)

No truck with ( )tons of total weigh

No ( ) long truckNo ( ) wide

vehicle

Don't stop over (Don'tstop too long) Don't stop over

Prioritize trafficin front Stop

Go as directed byarrow

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