The New Light of Myanmar 19-02-2010

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 309 7th Waxing of Taboung 1371 ME Friday, 19 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, 18 Feb — Land preparation andconstruction of bridge and retaining wall for Kengtung-Yamlu railroad section of Mongnai-Kengtung railroadconstruction project are being carried out at full capac-ity. Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of the Ministry of Defencevisited the project and inspected it on 16 February.

In meeting with officials, social organizationmembers, local people and servicemen and their fami-

Mongnai-Kengtung railroad project —govt makes impossible dream come true

for brethren in eastern Shan Statelies at Mongkhok Station Hall, Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing presented medicines, sports gear, clothes andfoodstuff to them.

He also visited Mongkhok and Mongton, andpresented gifts, clothes and foodstuff to servicemenand their families at Nakaungmu Station Hall andMongton Station Hall separately.

(See page 8)

Myanmar is an agro-based country. Relying onnatural resources and favourable climate, farmershave been engaging in agricultural task since longago.

As a result of applying modern agriculturalmethods and using quality strains, the country achieveslocal food sufficiency and exports the surplus to theforeign market.

Out of over 22 million hectares of cultivablelands, Myanmar puts over eight million hectares offarmlands under paddy. Therefore, the country pro-duces 18 million metric tons of rice. In addition, thecultivation and production of maize, beans and pulses,edible oil crops, kitchen crops and other crops are onthe increase year by year.

Nowadays, the whole world is suffering fromthe impacts of climate change. In accord with theguidance of the Head of State, all-out efforts are beingmade in supplying water for agricultural purpose. Sofar, over 200 dams and sluice gates, river waterpumping stations and underground water tappingworks have been built across the nation to increase theirrigated sown acreage.

As Myanmar has a foreign market share forbeans and pulses, all the farmers have to make effortsfor carrying out the extended cultivation and produc-tion of the crops. In this regard, they should payserious attention to exporting only high quality beansand pulses. Taking technological assistance of agri-culturists, the farmers should grow beans and pulseswith the use of natural organic fertilizers.

At present, the farmers extend cultivation of crops

Yesagyo to produce abundantcold season crops soon

Article & Photos:Pe Tun Zaw (Yesagyo)

in all regions of the nation the whole year. YesagyoTownship in central Myanmar is one of them.

Among three seasons namely summer,monsoon and cold season in the country, the growerscan secure the benefit by a wide margin in cultivationof cold season crops at minimum cost.

(See page 9)

Thriving corn plantation seen at field No. 111 in Yesagyo Township.

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Feb—Chairman of the Com-mittee for Prevention against Recruitment of Minors forMilitary Services Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thura MyintAung participated in 9th coordination meeting held atAdjutant-General’s Office of the Ministry of Defencehere today.

Ways and means sought to prevent againstrecruitment of minors

The chairman reviewed the reports by the Joint-Secretary on progress of implementation of the 8thmeeting’s resolutions and by the Secretary and mem-bers on arrangements for protection of child’s inter-ests.

(See page 9)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 19 February, 2010

Friday, 19 February, 2010

PERSPECTIVES

Every nation in the world has placed aspecial emphasis on tourism as it is a businessthat can be successful. The countries in the AsiaPacific region, including Myanmar, havebecome one of the major tourist attractions inthe world.

During the tourist season this year, thenumber of foreign visitors to Myanmar hasincreased and most of them enter the nationthrough Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan and bordercheckpoints. Last year, more than 700,000tourists visited Myanmar.

Most of the tourists visit Bagan, thearchaeological treasure house of Myanmar. TheInlay Lake and Pindaya in Shan State (South),with their scenic views and traditionalhandicraft industries, are also a magnet fortourists. Moreover, tourists are interested intraditional new year celebrations of nationalraces and traditional festivals held in variousregions.

As Myanmar has sanctuaries and nationalparks with rich bio diversity, it has the potentialfor development of eco-tourism. Snow-cappedmountains in the northern part of Myanmar,tropical monsoon forests and beautiful beacheslined with coral reefs are favourable naturalconditions for development of eco-tourism.

At the time when there is an influx oftourists, it is necessary to offer warm hospitalityand to make preparations and meetrequirements to be able to provideaccommodation and transportation facilities ofinternational standards.

With development of tourism,communications will develop among people ofvarious regions. Increased eco-tourism willhelp generate more income for local peopleand contribute to regional development. Astourism is a lucrative business, we should strivefor further development of the tourist industryof Myanmar by extending warm welcome andhospitality and offering the best possibleservices.

* 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

Myanmar, land of touristdestination

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Feb—The State Peace andDevelopment Council has appointed Professor/Dean Professor Dr. Pe Thet Khin of Child HealthDepartment of University of Medicine (Mandalay)under the Department of Medical Science of theMinistry of Health as Rector of University ofMedicine (1) under the same department onprobation from the date he assumes charge of hisduties.—MNA

MYANMAR GAZETTE

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Feb — A ceremony to provideaids for regional development tasks took place at thehall of Namhsan Township on 13 February.

Minister for Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe presenteda CDMA telephone, K 1 million donated each by DanaAung Co and Shwe Supan Co, cash donation forreconstruction of Aryam village monastery ravagedby fire and sets of computer and CI sheets for basiceducation schools through the township chairman.

Officials and a wellwisher presented 150 CIsheets, medicines and iron tablets to responsiblepersons.

Next, the minister looked into construction of

New fire station, staff quartersto emerge in Shan State (North)

new fire station for Namhsan Township.On 14 February, the minister visited Hsipaw,

Kyaukme and PyinOoLwin Fire Stations and chosethe sites for construction of staff quarters. —MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb— Minister for ForestryBrig-Gen Thein Aungoversaw thriving plantsgrown at Phan-khar-seingreening zone of Arid ZoneGreening Department inYenangyoung Township ofMagway Division on 15February.

On his inspection tourof Chauk, the ministervisited 900-acreShwepontaung neemplantation and 650-acreShwepontaung greeningsite. While in Chauk andNyaungU, he inspectedgrowing of teak andeucalyptus plants, landpreparation for one-acreteak plantation, greening ofMya Lake, thriving 100-acre vegetable plantation

Works for greening of Magway, Mandalay Divisions in progress

and nurturing of saplings.After hearing reports

on work progress and

follow-up tasks at Mt. PopaPark in KyaukpadaungTownship on 16 February,

the minister looked intoplantations and nursery.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb—Thongwa TownshipAssociation (Yangon)planned to organize theannual general meetingand to pay respects to olderpersons of over 75 years atPhayabyu Monastery inPazundaung Township on

Thongwa Association to hold AGM28 February.

In addition, theassociation will award theoutstanding students of itsmembers.

The outstandingpersons in education,social, literary, sports andfine arts are to contact

Chairman U Mya Thein(Tel: 661379), U SawHlaing of Hla GabarFurniture Mart (Tel:291311), U Aung ThanSoe (Tel: 095171031), UAung Than (Tel:095101998) andexecutives.—MNA

Talks on C#.NET on 20 FebYANGON, 18 Feb—The

talks on Microsoft C#.NETHand on Training,organized by MyanmarProfessionals EducationCentre (MPEC), will be

held at No 407/408 ofZaygyo Plaza in Mandalayfrom 9 am to 12 noon on 20February.

Topics on basicknowledge on Microsoft

net, application ofMicrosoft.NET frameworkand creation of C#.NETwill be lectured at the talks.

Interested persons maydial 02-86234.—MNA

Take Fire Preventive Measures

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Aung inspects production of gypsum powderin Chauk Township.—MNA

A tutor from Shwebo Degree College gives educative talks on high passrate for Grade-11 students at Mawlu BEHS in Indaw Township of

Sagaing Division on 27 January.—NLM

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US hails capture of Taleban leaderWASHINGTON, 18 Feb — The White House said on Wednesday that the capture

of the Taleban military leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is a “big success” forjoint efforts by the United States and Pakistan.

“It is a big success for our mutual efforts in the region,” White House spokes-man Robert Gibbs told reporters, but did not offer details on the capture and thefollowing interrogation. In a statement issued early on Wednesday, the Pakistanimilitary said that the Afghan Taleban’s number two leader was arrested from thesouth Pakistani port city of Karachi, while Taleban claimed that Baradar is safeand leading fight in Afghanistan.

Pakistani analysts believe the arrest of the top Taleban commander will be ahuge shift in the policy toward Taleban, and US officials say it is a breakthroughin the cooperation between Pakistan and the United States on the fight againstterrorism. —Xinhua

Saudi Arabia arrestsal-Qaeda-linked suspect

RIYADH, 18 Feb — Saudi security authorities havearrested a al-Qaeda-linked suspect in the western prov-ince of Yanbu, the Interior Ministry said on Wednes-day. Ahmed Quteim al-Huzali was the No 10 on a listof 85 wanted militants published by the Gulf Arabkingdom last year, an Interior Ministry spokesman wasquoted by the state-run SPA news agency as saying.

“The security apparatus is taking all measures nec-essary that will lead to tracking down all the wantedmen, arresting them and bringing them to justice,” saidthe unidentified security spokesman. Yet, the spokes-man said that there is still a chance for the remainingmilitants to surrender and “return to the right path.” Ifthey do so, it will be taken into consideration whenthey are under interrogation, he said.—Xinhua

Embattled AfghanTaleban rely onhuman shieldsMARJAH, 18 Feb —

Taleban fighters holdingout in Marjah are increas-ingly using civilians ashuman shields, firingfrom compounds whereUS and Afghan forces canclearly see women andchildren on rooftops or inwindows, Afghan and UStroops said on Wednes-day.

The intermingling offighters and civilians alsohas been witnessed by As-sociated Press journalists.It is part of a Taliban ef-fort to exploit strict NATOrules against endangeringinnocent lives to impedethe allied advance throughthe town in HelmandProvince, 610 kilometres(360 miles) southwest ofKabul.

Internet Cluster bomb convention tobecome law

WASHINGTON, 18 Feb — A convention banning clus-ter bomb munitions will become law after being rati-fied by 30 countries in just 15 months, a rights group inWashington said. Burkina Faso and Moldova were the29th and 30th countries to ratify the convention, whichwill become binding international law on 11 Aug, Hu-man Rights Watch said in a release on Tuesday.

The Convention on Cluster Munitions was openedfor signatures in December 2008; 30 ratifications werenecessary for it to become binding, HRW said. The 2008Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits the use, pro-duction and shipment of cluster munitions, providesdeadlines for clearing affected areas and destroying clus-ter munition stockpiles and requires assistance be givento victims, HRW said.

“The short time it took to reach this milestone showsthat governments have a strong desire never to see theseterrible weapons used again,” said Steve Goose, HRWarms division director and Cluster Munition Coalitionco-chairman. “But every signatory needs to ratify, andthose who haven’t signed need to come on board tokeep more civilian lives and limbs from being need-lessly lost.”—Internet

A destroyed building

in Marjah, Helmand

Province, south of

Kabul, Afghanistan

seen on 17 Feb, 2010.

INTERNET

One foreign troop killed in OperationMoshtarak in south Afghanistan

An Afghan soldierattempts to break open adoor during an opera-

tion to search forweapons in the town of

Marjah, in Nad AliDistrict of HelmandProvince on 17 Feb,

2010. — XINHUA

KABUL, 18 Feb — Aservicemember with theNATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) was killed by

small- arms fire in south-ern Afghanistan onWednesday.

A Press release issuedby the ISAF said the casu-alty was related to the on-going massive OperationMoshtarak, or Together-ness, which involvedaround 15,000 ISAF and

Pakistani policemen search a vehicle at a securitycheckpoint in Karachi on 16 February. — INTERNET

Afghan soldiers inMarjah area in southernAfghanistan’s HelmandProvince.

The operation, whichaimed at uprooting theTaleban in Marjah, hasso far claimed over 40lives of the militants.

Xinhua

Israel says no proof it carriedout Dubai killing

JERUSALEM, 18 Feb — Israel’s Foreign Minister saidon Wednesday the use of the identities of foreign-bornIsraelis by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamasmilitant in Dubai did not prove the Mossad spy agencyassassinated him. Britain summoned the Israeli am-bassador to a meeting on Thursday to explain how sev-eral British citizens living in Israel found their pass-port details used by the alleged killers.

“There is no reason to think that it was the IsraeliMossad and not some other intelligence service orcountry up to some mischief,” Israeli Foreign Minis-ter Avigdor Lieberman told Army Radio when askedabout the operation and alleged passport subterfuge.But Lieberman did not deny outright Israeli involve-ment in the killing of Hamas’s Mahmoud al-Mabhouhin a Dubai hotel last month, saying Israel has a “policyof ambiguity” on intelligence matters and there wasno proof it was behind the assassination.— Internet

Drone attackkills two inPakistan

ISLAMABAD, 18 Feb —A drone attack targeting asuspected militant com-pound killed two peopleand wounded three othersin Pakistan’s northwest onWednesday, officials said.

The attack took placein Tabbi Took Kil, a vil-lage near the city ofMiranshah in NorthW a z i r i s t a n . N o r t hWaziristan is one of sevendistricts in Pakistan’stribal region along the Af-ghan border. On Sunday,another attack inMiranshah killed six sus-pected militants.

Internet

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BEIJING,18 Feb —First it was gas pedals,then brakes.

Now Toyota and theUS government are look-ing into complaints thatthe popular Corolla is dif-ficult to steer straight.

PARIS, 18 Feb — Air-bus parent EADS lookedclose on Wednesday toclinching a long-awaiteddeal with European gov-ernments to rescue theA400M military transportplane, boosting its sharesand lifting a shadow fromover 10,000 jobs.

EADS is ready to givebroad backing to a pack-age of multinational sup-port worth 3.5 billioneuros (3 billion pounds) tobail out the loss-makingproject, a source familiar

Toyota to recall Corolla?Reuters reported that

US safety regulators willlaunch a formal investiga-tion of steering com-plaints in certain newermodel Toyota Motor CorpCorolla vehicles, for theNational Highway Traffic

Safety Administration hasreceived more than 150complaints about possiblesteering problems in 2009and 2010 Corolla models.

Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 18 Feb —A Singapore research in-stitute on Thursday part-nered Silicon Quest Inc, aUS-based company to de-

BARCELONA, 18 Feb — The Chinese communica-tion giant ZTE Corporation and Spanish telecom op-erator Telefonica announced on Wednesday that a fullrange of “Movistar” branded handsets will be launchedin 12 Latin American countries this year. The two com-panies have signed an agreement for ZTE to manufac-ture the above handsets exclusively available forTelefonica in Latin America, in their first strategic co-operation in the handsets space.

The handsets will be available during 2010 start-ing in the second quarter in Mexico, Colombia, Ven-ezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Gua-temala, El Salvador, Panama and Nicaragua. “Con-sumers in Latin America are becoming increasinglydemanding and have specific requirements in termsof handset design and desired features,” said LuisMiguel Gilperez, director of Mobile Business,Telefonica Internacional.

“By customizing a complete range of handsets, ZTEwill enable Telefonica to meet the requirements of itsLatin American customers and further build theMovistar brand,” he said.

ZTE is the world’s 6th largest mobile phone manu-facturer and the world’s second largest supplier of datacards.

By the end of last year, the company had cooper-ated with eight of the world’s top 10 operators in thehandsets space.

Xinhua

Singapore, US to develop pixelmicromirror for high definition display

velop the world’s smallestpixel micromirror arraydevice for high definitiondisplay.

The Institute of Micro-

electronics, a research in-stitute of Singapore’sAgency for Science,Technology and Re-search, will develop thetechnology platform forthe vertical silicon-basedhinges that support themicromirrors in collabo-ration with the US firm, astatement by the institutesaid.

These micromirrors,which form the image ona display screen by re-flecting the incident lightin a controlled mannerwith an applied voltage,will be used in digital pro-jectors, viewfinders andexposure systems.

The current collabora-tion aims to develop a 2-megapixel micromirrorarray device. — Xinhua

EADS staff stand near

a life-size scale

display of the interior

of the Airbus A400M

military transport

plane, at the EADS

display area at the

Singapore Airshow.

INTERNET

Deal nears to save European military planewith the matter said. Anagreement in principleshould be firmed up thisweek but details need tobe finalized, the sourcesaid.

“It is 90 percent okay.The basics are there. Itclarifies things a lot,” thesource said, asking not tobe identified because thetalks remain confidential.A second source withknowledge of the mattersaid EADS and buyerswere still in talks over theplane, but characterized

these now as a “clarifica-tion” exercise rather thannegotiation.

This source saidEADS would back thetake-it-or-leave-it deal of-fered by seven nations,but declined to give atimetable and cautionedthat final details wereamong the most complex.An EADS spokesman de-clined to comment on itsresponse to the offer andsaid it was still being stud-ied.

Internet

LONDON, 18 Feb — Of-ficial statistics released onWednesday by the Britishgovernment showed un-employment figures fellby 3,000 to 2.46 millionin the final quarter of2009.

This left the joblessrate unchanged on theprevious quarter at 7.8percent.

However, the numberof long-term unem-ployed, those out of workfor more than 12 months,increased by 37,000 to663,000.

This is the highest fig-ure since the three monthsto September 1997,shortly after the LabourParty won the first ofthree general elections onthe trot.

Xinhua

JAKARTA, 18 Feb — In-donesian governmentmay no longer extend theexisting liquefied naturalgas (LNG) contracts in thefuture to meet the surge inthe domestic demand, alocal media reported here

ZTE, Telefonica to launch“Movistar” handsets

in Latin America

Indonesia will no longer renew LNG export contractson Thursday. “It has beenagreed (within the gov-ernment) that the nationalinterest is number one,”Industry MinisterMuhammad S Hidayatwas quoted by the JakartaPost as saying on the side-lines of an industry min-istry coordination meet-ing on Wednesday.

“So (we) will stop (ex-

tending) internationalcontracts that have ex-pired and will allocate(the gas) to the domesticmarket.

The surplus can be ex-ported,” he added.

The country’s indus-trial sector has been hit bythe acute shortage of natu-ral gas.

Xinhua

Britishgovernment

reports small fallin unemployment

figures

Indonesian floods inundated part ofJakarta, East, West Java

Japan’s crude steel production increaseson year in January

TOKYO, 18 Feb — Japan’s production of crude steel increased by 36.8 percentin January, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said on Thursday. The rise is thethird in as many months.

Production of crude steel for Japan stood at 8.72 million tons for the month, a2.5 percent drop on December’s output. Pig iron production also rose by 23.4percent compared to the previous year, with 6.78 million tons produced in Janu-ary. — Xinhua

JAKARTA, 18 Feb —Flood waters have inun-dated western and easternparts of Indonesia’s keyisland of Java on Thurs-day with the deepest levelof 3 meters in the capitalcity recorded in East Ja-karta, a local media re-ported here. The deepestflood occurred inKampung Pulo, East Ja-karta located in the bankof Ciliwung, the landmarkriver that lined the capitalcity.

The flooding forcedresidents to abandon theirwork for the day becausethey needed to evacuateand rescue their valuables.

However, parents decidedthat their children shouldattend school where itwould be safer becausethe building was notflooded. Some people hadgone to shelters, but someothers chose to stay intheir homes, fearing thattheir belongings could belooted.

In Indramayu, WestJava, hundreds of housesand hectares of shrimpfarms were flooded afterthe Cimanuk river damburst due to heavy rain,which has been fallingsince Wednesday after-noon. The residents ofJatibarang and Pilang Sari

tried to stop the water us-ing sandbags, but wereunsuccessful.

In Bojonegoro, EastJava, four hours of raincaused hundreds ofhouses to flood. The onemeter high flood affectedfour villages. Most resi-dents chose to stay in theirhomes and wait for thewater to recede. The Indo-nesian Red Cross (PMI)was prepared to handlethe yearly flood, saidJusuf Kalla on the side-lines of his meeting withlawmakers at the Com-mission IX in the parlia-ment.

Internet

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China should lead Asia in achievingmillennium targets by 2015

Philippines among top 10countries at risk from terrorists

MANILA, 18 Feb—The Philippines is among the top10 countries in the world most at risk from terroristattacks, according to global analyst Maplecroft. ThePhilippines ranked the 10th in Maplecroft’s annualTerrorism Risk Index of 162 countries.

The Terrorism Risk Index (TRI) has been devel-oped by Maplecroft for companies to assess terrorismrisks to their international assets. Iraq remained themost dangerous country in the world for the secondyear running. Nearly 4,500 civilians were killed in thewar-torn country last year.

Other countries on the list include Afghanistan, Pa-kistan, Somalia, Lebanon, India, Algeria, Colombiaand Thailand. Maplecroft said the global rankings arebased on analyses of terrorist incidents every sixmonths for their frequency, intensity and number ofvictims.—Xinhua

UNESCAP ministerial conferencein Indonesia to support PPP ProjectsJAKARTA,18 Feb—The Indonesian government

hopes that the United Nations Economic and SocialCommission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)ministerial conference scheduled on 14-17 April willproduce a declaration to support the region’s public-private partnership (PPP) projects, a minister said hereon Wednesday.

The Minister for National Development PlanningArmida S Alisjahbana said that Indonesia, like otherAsia Pacific countries, has done many things to com-pose policies and clearer law, to build enlarged financ-ing mechanism and high capability institutions.” That’swhy we believe that cooperation between Asia Pacificcountries will help Indonesia in preparing public-pri-vate partnership projects,” said Armida.

She said Indonesia has proposed capability enhance-ment of personnel and institutions, creating a regionalinfrastructure fund and aligning cooperation networkof PPP central unit based on understanding and com-mitment of Asia Pacific countries.” — Xinhua

Panama waits for 200,000 A/H1N1 flu vaccine dosages

People wearing masks and splendid garments attend the 2010 Venice Carnivalin Venice, Italy, on 16 Feb, 2010. The 2010 Venice Carnival ended on Tues-

day, with a grand closing party held on the St Mark’s Square. Lots of touristsand local people got their fun during the party.—XINHUA

MANILA, 18 Feb—China, with its huge re-sources and success in re-ducing poverty, shouldlead developing Asiancountries in attaining theAsia-Pacific region’s Mil-lennium DevelopmentGoals (MDG), a senior of-ficial of the United NationsDevelopment Programmesaid on Wednesday.“China is the champion ofthe Millennium Develop-ment Goals,” UNDP Re-gional Director for Asiaand the Pacific AjayChhibber told a briefing

after the launch of the re-gional report entitled “Achieving the MillenniumDevelopment Goals in anEra of Global Uncer-tainty”. The report wasprepared by the UNDP, theAsian Development Bank(ADB) and the UnitedNations Economic andSocial Commission forAsia and the Pacific(ESCAP).

China has been on trackin attaining most of itsMDG targets includingslashing poverty rate from60 percent to 16 percent in2005, reducing malnutri-tion, halting the spread of

HIV and AIDS and provid-ing universal primary edu-cation. China has also al-located a quarter of its fis-cal stimulus package tosocial protection pro-grammes such as allocat-ing for low rent housingand improving rural livingstandards. Chhibber notedthat China has set “veryimportant positive exam-ple” to other countries whoare yet to fulfill their MDGcommitments. But morethan that, China, owing toits substantial resources,can also help other devel-oping countries attainMDG targets.—Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

An 8.2-metre optical telescope which forms partof the VLT (Very Large Telescope) at the Euro-

pean Southern Observatory in Chile. Astronomersat the facility have said they had uncovered the

oldest stars in our galactic neighborhood thanksto the massive telescope.— INTERNET

Magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolts China,Russia border

PANAMA CITY, 18 Feb—Panama waits for 200,000dosages of vaccines toprevent the A/H1N1 influ-enza, to arrive before theend of February, chief ofEpidemiology of thePanamanian Health Min-istry, Gladys Guerrerosaid on Tuesday.

The purchase of thevaccines was done throughthe Pan American HealthOrganization, and it is partof a pack bought by thePanamanian governmentto be used with the groupsof most vulnerable people.

Guerrero said that thefirst to get these vaccineswill be those children un-

der 5 years old, the seniorcitizens and those patientswith chronic diseases.Guerrero said that lastyear the country received

100,000 vaccines, and 83percent of them were al-ready used during the firststage of sanitary cam-paign.— Xinhua

BEIJING, 18 Feb — Amagnitude 6.5 earth-quake jolted border re-gion between China andRussia on Thursdaymorning, according toChina Earthquake Net-works Centre (CNEC).So far no casualties arereported. The CNEC saidthat the quake struck at9:13 am. Its epicentrewas located at 42.6 de-

grees north Latitude and130.8 degrees east Lon-gitude, with a depth of540 km.— Xinhua

Israel tightens vice on Gaza Strip,UN reports

UNITED NATIONS, 18Feb — The ability tobring essential commodi-ties into Gaza was furthercut in January by morecrossing closures by Is-rael, the latest United

Nations report said onWednesday, noting thatGaza has been alreadyunder the Israeli block-ade which is undermin-ing health care, theeconomy and rehabilita-

tion after last year’s dev-astating Israeli offensive.

The UN and other hu-manitarian organizationshave repeatedly called onIsrael to immediatelyopen all border crossingsnot only for basic neces-sities, which it allows inlimited amounts, but forthe reconstruction mate-rial needed to rebuild thescores of buildings de-stroyed by the offensive,which Israel says itlaunched to halt rocket at-tacks by Palestinian mili-tants in Gaza.

Xinhua

A girl gives directionto her father while

touring a temple fair tocelebrate the ChineseLunar New Year at a

crowded park in Beijing,China, on 18 Feb,2010.— INTERNET

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Brides participate in a mass weddingceremony in Goyang, South Korea, on17 Feb, 2010. The Unification Churchorganized the biggest mass wedding ina decade, which about 14,000 people

around the world attended.

Egypt’s King Tutankhamun likelydied from malaria and a degenerativebone disease, a German study hasfound.

Researchers at the Institute of Hu-man Genetics at the University ofTubingen reported on Tuesday the boyking likely did not suffer fromgynecomastia, the excessive develop-ment of breasts in men resulting froma hormonal imbalance, despite the pic-torials found in his tomb, The New YorkTimes reported.

The results, published in the Jour-

A Bolivian airline is giving freeflights to a child born on one of its air-liners.

Spokesman Jerry Holters says the girlwas born two weeks early as theTransportes Aereos Militares planeheaded toward La Paz at an altitude of24,000 feet on Sunday. A doctor and anurse who were passengers on the flighthelped out.

Holters says the military-run com-mercial airline known as TAM will givethe child free domestic flights until shereaches age 21. She’ll also get a schol-arship through high school at a Boliv-ian Air Force school.

A replica of the death mask ofEgyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun is

on display in 2009 at an exhibition insouthern Germany. Tutankhamunhad a club foot, walked with a caneand was killed by malaria, a study

that harnessed modern genetictesting and computer technology tolift a veil on the secrets of ancient

Egypt showed.

Malaria, bone diseases killed King Tutnal of the American Medical Associa-tion, are part of a study of a number ofmummies, all of whom suffered from anumber of deformities, including clubfoot, cleft palate and deformed bones.

The study found no evidence of foulplay or such diseases as Marfan syn-drome.

King Tut, known as the boy king,died at age 19 around 1324 BC. Thestudy found he suffered from Kohlerdisease II, along with avascular bonenecrosis, which leads to serious weak-ening or destruction of bone tissue be-cause of diminished blood supply.

Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays with hernewborn spotted cub inside their cageat Jordan’s zoo in Yaduda on 16 Feb,2010. The two-month-old cub made

his first public appearance on Tuesdayafter being born to Lolo and Falah,who originate from South America.

Archaeology professors have dis-covered in Illinois what they said ap-pears to be a coppersmiths’ workshopfrom the American Stone Age.

Ancient Mississippian-era ham-mered-copper decorations, includingheaddress ornaments, jewellery andclothing embellishments, have been un-earthed near the Cahokia Mounds StateHistoric Site in Collinsville, the Bell-eville News-Democrat reported on Tues-day.

The site was the location of Cahokia,a large, prehistoric city of perhaps20,000 inhabitants, the News-Democratsaid.

NEWS ALBUM

Ancient copper workshop big find in Ill“It’s the only one (copper workshop)

that’s been discovered,” said James A.Brown, a professor of archaeology atNorthwestern University in Evanston,Ill.

A self-taught archaeologist, GregPerino, who died in 2005 at age 91,originally found the workshop in the1950s.

Birth on Bolivian plane;baby gets free flights

Carnival revellersdressed as

“Peliqueiros” are seenin a street in Spain’s

northwestern village ofLaza on 16 Feb,2010.— XINHUA

ROME, 18 Feb — A topItalian food presenter hasbeen suspended indefi-nitely from the country’sversion of ‘Ready SteadyCook’ for recommendingstewed cat to viewers as a

LOS ANGELES, 18 Feb— NASA on Wednesdayreleased the first imagesof cosmic characters fromthe Wide-field InfraredSurvey Explorer, orWISE. “These first im-ages are proving thespacecraft’s secondarymission of helping totrack asteroids, cometsand other stellar objectswill be just as criticallyimportant as its primarymission of surveying theentire sky in infrared,”said Ed Weiler, associateadministrator of the Sci-ence Mission Directorate

BEIJING, 18 Feb — China’s operational high-speedrailways have exceeded 3,300 kilometres, leading theworld in both length and technologies, the Ministry ofRailways said on its official website on Thursday. Lastyear China finished two high-speed railways betweenWuhan-Guangzhou and Zhengzhou-Xi’an, with anoperating speed of 350 km/h. Before that, China hadbuilt high-speed railways between some of its majorcities, including Beijing-Tianjin, Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan, Qingdao-Jinan, Hefei-Wuhan and Hefei-Nanjing.

A number of new high-speed railways are beingbuilt and will be finished in the coming few years, ofwhich the Beijing-Shanghai line has a length of 1,318km and a designed travel speed of 350 km/h. Con-struction of the line started in April 2008 and wouldfinish in around five years.

It would cut travel times between the two cities toonly five hours from about 12 hours. China’s railwaylinks had expanded to 86,000 kilometres by the end of2009, the world’s second longest only after the UnitedStates.

Railway passengers topped a record 1.53 billionlast year. Cargo transportation hit 3.32 billion tonnes,according to the ministry. —Xinhua

NASA releases first images of WISEat NASA Headquarters inWashington.

The images revealed aglowing comet, a star-forming cloud, a newview of the Andromedagalaxy and a dense galaxycluster. “We’ve got acandy store of imagescoming down fromspace,” said Edward(Ned) Wright, the princi-pal investigator for WISE.“Everyone has their fa-vourite flavors, and we’vegot them all.” Launched inDecember, WISE beganits scan of the entire skyin infrared light on 14 Jan.

Since then, the space tel-escope has beamed backmore than a quarter of amillion raw, infrared im-ages. NASA processedseveral of them for thepublic.

During its survey, themission is expected tofind perhaps dozens ofcomets, including somethat ride along in orbitsthat take them somewhatclose to Earth’s patharound the sun. WISE willhelp unravel clues lockedinside comets about howour solar system came tobe.—Xinhua

China’s high-speed railwayshit 3,300 km

TV chef dropped in the stewfor cat casserole dish

“succulent dish”. RAI, thepublic broadcasting net-work, said that it haddropped Beppe Bigazzi(77), for offering therecipe on ‘La Prova delCuoco’ (‘The Proof of theCook’), which is broad-cast at midday on themain channel.

Its switchboard wasinundated with com-plaints from viewers andanimal rights groups.

Mr Bigazzi said that‘casserole of cat’ was afamous dish in his homeregion of Valdarno, inTuscany.

“I’ve eaten it myselfand it’s a lot better thanmany other animals,” hetold viewers. “Better thanchicken, rabbit or pi-geon.”

He said that for opti-mum flavour the meatshould be “soaked inspring water for threedays” before beingstewed.

Elisa Isoardi, the pro-gramme’s presenter —tried to steer Mr Bigazzioff the subject.

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S Williams travels to Kenyafor new school project

NAIROBI, 18 Feb — Female tennis world numberone Serena Williams will visit Kenya for three daysnext week to inaugurate a school built with her fundsand several other partners, local media reported onThursday.

The school, which is located in Makueni districtof eastern Kenya, was built through partnership be-tween Hewlett Packard (HP), one of the world’s larg-est technology firms, and Build African Schools (BAS)initiative — an American non-profit making organi-zation. The school will give chance to hundreds of pri-mary school pupils in the area to continue with theireducation and an opportunity to pursue secondaryschool education.— Xinhua

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Local sculptors sculpt the Maori canoe in Rotorua, New Zealand, on 18 Feb ,2010. The New Zealand government held a ceremony on Thursday to give a

Maori canoe as a gift of 2010 Shanghai Expo to China.—XINHUA

BEIRUT, 18 Feb —Lebanese PresidentMichel Suleiman onWednesday called onFrance to interfere andexert pressure on Israel toput an end to its threatsagainst Lebanon. Leba-nese President’s officeannounced in a statementthat when meeting withvisiting French senatePresident Gerard Larcher,Suleiman spoke about theissue of Israeli threatswhich constitute a clear

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) expert shows an unexploded World WarII vintage Japanese bomb and other explosives found in one of the archeo-logical diggings on 18 Feb, 2010 at Manila’s Intramuros walled city, Philip-pines. The government is rebuilding the famous Spanish walled city which

were used by Japanese during WWII.—INTERNET

A Qantas jet is seen at the international terminal of Sydney’s airport on 18Feb, 2010. Australia’s national carrier, Qantas Airways Ltd, upset investorswith an uncertain outlook, dashing hopes for a resumption of dividends and

sending its stock skidding to a two-month low.—INTERNET

BRUSSELS, 18 Feb — The driver of the Belgian com-muter train that missed a red light and crashed into anoncoming express train, killing 18 people, was foundsobbing by rescuers after he jumped from his cabinjust before impact.

The 32-year-old, named only as Robin, franticallysounded his locomotive’s whistle and hit the brakebefore he scrambled away from his cab down thetrain’s corridor.

Luciaan Spiessens, a retired station manager atBuizingen, a suburban station outside Brussels wherethe crash happened in Monday’s rush hour, describedthe driver’s desperate efforts to avert the disaster. MrSpiessens was a passenger in the first carriage of thecommuter train travelling from Leuven, which struckthe Mons to Liege express.—Internet

LOS ANGELES, 18 Feb — Americans live longerdue in large part to the surging use of improved medi-cal technology, according to a national report releasedon Wednesday. Advanced medical technology alsodrives down rates of major killers such as heart dis-ease and cancer, said the annual report issued by theUS National Center for Health Statistics, part of theCentres for Disease Control and Prevention. Ameri-cans are living longer than ever before — 77.9 yearson average, according to the report.

Improved medical technology has become a driv-ing force of the nation’s medical system.—Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 18 Feb— Hollywood horror filmlovers now have a chanceto take a close look at thereal mummies in Los An-geles beginning this sum-mer as the city is chosento host the first and thelargest global travellingexhibition of preservedhuman bodies, the Ameri-

UNITED NATIONS,18Feb — A new UnitedNations report onWednesday called forgreater efforts to advanceenvironmentally sustain-able development in LatinAmerica and the Carib-bean, a region that haswitnessed the constant re-duction of forest areas andthe sustained increase ofcarbon dioxide emissions,UN officials said here.

According to the re-port, entitled “MillenniumDevelopment Goals: Ad-vances in Environmen-tally Sustainable Devel-opment in Latin Americaand the Caribbean,” therate of deforestation in theregion is double the glo-bal average, said the offi-cials.

Xinhua

Lebanon asks France toend Israeli threats

violation of resolution1701 and which affect thecountry’ s interests oneconomic and investmentlevels.

Suleiman also stressedLebanon’s determinationto implement UN Resolu-tion 1701, which endedthe 2006 war between Is-rael and the Lebanesearmed group Hizbollah.Tensions between Israeland Lebanon have raisedin recent weeks, as Israelsaid Lebanese govern-

ment would hold respon-sibility for any violencealong the border, whileHizbollah chief HassanNasrallah said on Tuesdaythat the group would re-taliate Jewish state’s infra-structure if Lebanon’swere attacked.

Xinhua

UN reporturges greatergreen efforts

in LatinAmerica,

Caribbean

Driver jumped out of trainbefore disaster

Improved medical technologyhelps prolong Americans’ lives

LA to host biggest travelling show of mummiescan Exhibition Inc said onWednesday.

Sponsored by theAmerican Exhibition Inc,the show will begin on 1July at the California Sci-ence Centre as part of thethree-year tour that also

descend at museums andscience centres in sixother prominent cities inthe United States and isexpected to attract arecord-breaking attend-ance.

Xinhua

Death toll rises to 9 in Ramadi suicidecar bombing

RAMADI, 18 Feb — Thedeath toll of suicide carbomb attack in western Iraqicity of Anbar on Thursdayrose to nine, while 15 peo-ple were injured, a provin-cial police source said. “Thelatest reports said nine peo-ple were killed and 15injured by the suicide carbomb attack in Ramadi,”the source told Xinhuaon condition of anonym-ity. Four policemen wereamong the killed and four

others were among thewounded, the sourcesaid.

Earlier, the source putthe toll at six killed and 10injured. The attack occurredat about 11:00 a.m. (0800GMT) when a suicide carbomber struck a police andIraqi army checkpoint nearthe provincial governmentoffice in central Ramadi,some 100 km west of Bagh-dad, the source added.

Iraqi security forces

sealed off the scene whiledozens of them deployedin the surrounding areaand blocked the mainroads leading to the scene,the source said. Anbarprovince which has beenrelatively calm in the pastfew years after Sunnitribes and anti-US insur-gent groups turned to co-operate with the US troopsand Iraqi security forcesagainst al-Qaida in Iraqnetwork. —Xinhua

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(from page 1)While in Mongton,

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaingpresented publications andcash for the fund of library atthe office of the townshipInformation and Public Re-lations Department. Aftergiving instructions on re-gional development, heurged officials to make aplan to widen the scope ofknowledge of local peopleby offering more publica-tions.

Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing called for successfulrealization of regional de-velopment tasks in meetingwith officials, social organi-zation members and localpeople at Thiri Yadana Hallin Monghsat.

M o n g n a i -K e n g t u n grailroad…

At Women’s Voca-tional Training School inMonghsat, Lt-Gen Min

Aung Hlaing observedlearning of trainees at basictailoring and knitting

courses, and presented cashfor the fund of the school.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb — Commander ofNay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwin in-spected tea nursery at MePauk village-tract in NayPyi Taw Pyinmana

Commander’s visit to tea nursery,summer paddy plantation

Township and summerpaddy plantation atGamontaung village ,and attended the open-ing of new building forrural health center thismorning.

After delivering anaddress at BEPS (9), thecommander handed overcash awards and CDMAtelephones to responsiblepersons.

MNA

YANGON, 17 Feb—A Buffalo Breeding Farmwas established in LabuttaTownship recently. A to-tal of 10-acre pasture landis being nurtured there.The plan is underway to

Labutta establishes buffalo farmbreed about 300 buffalosat the farm for satisfyingthe cattle demand of agri-culture sector.

Dr Aung Gyi,Deputy Director-Generalof Livestock Breeding and

Veterinary Department,together with officials ofthe department, lookedinto Buffalo BreedingFarm in Labutta on 13February.

MNA

YANGON, 18 Feb—Myanmar TimberEntrepreneurs Association plans to organize the 16thAnnual General Meeting at its office in Nay Pyi TawUttarathiri on 5 March.

To attend the meeting, members of theassociation and companies may enlist at the office ofthe association at 29, Min Ye Kyawswa Road inLanmadaw Township, not later than 12 noon on 3March.

The attendees in two groups for the meeting willleave here by car at 1 pm on 4 March and 3 am on 5March.—MNA

MTEA to organize AGM

Water, Water everywhere in arid zone

YANGON, 18 Feb—Maugon Lankye inMaugon Ward of TamwayTownship was repaved asan asphalt concrete andinaugurated recently.

Tamway Townshipof Yangon is makingpreparations for upgradingthe roads to AC facility on164th street and Sethmu

Repaved roads emerge oneafter another in Tamway

Yadana street. InThingangyun Township,tarmacking of a road linkingthe ring road around YouthTraining Centre of Thu-wunna and construction of

Khunnapinlein Creek RCBridge are in progress.Mayor Brig-Gen AungThein Lin made an inspectiontour of the two townships on16 February.—MNA

medical professionals, theProject Management Unitof Myanmar Medical As-sociation will conduct theBasic Course on Leader-ship and Management forMedical Professionals atits hall of No. 249 onTheinbyu Road in MingalaTaungnyunt Township on22 February noon.

Those wishing tojoin the course may enlistat MMA, Tel: 380899 and394141 (extension119).—MNA

Leadership and Management forMedical Professionals on 22 Feb

YANGON, 18 Feb—To uplift efficiency of

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing visiting library ofInformation and Public Relations

Department in Mongton.—MNA

Fire fighting course No. 5/2009 was opened at Mandalay Division FireServices Department on 29th Street in Chanayethazan Township on 5February. The Commanding Officer of Auxiliary Fire Battalion Com-

mander of Township Police Force speaking at opening ceremony of thetraining course. — NLM

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb — In order to meetthe instruction given bythe Prime Minister on hisinspection tour ofMandalay Division inAugust 2009, new tubewells were openedyesterday separately atIntaw, North Kanlun andKanthaya villages in

Kyaukpadaung Townshipwhere local people oncelived with water stress.

The Ministry ofProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs madeall-out efforts for supply ofsafe drinking water to 3500dwellers of the villages.

Chairman of

Mandalay Division PDCCommander of CentralCommand Maj-Gen TinNgwe and DeputyMinister for PBANRDACol Tin Ngwe opened thetube wells and cordiallyconversed with those whowere there to enjoy watersufficiency.

MNA

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(from page 1)Also present at the

meeting were Secretary ofthe Committee Judge Ad-

Ways and means sought to prevent…

(from page 1)Water is essential

for undertaking cultiva-tion of summer crops.

In the arid regionof the nation, the farmersuse natural water sourcesin growing monsooncrops when the rainingseason is over.

Cold season cropsare cultivated as doublecropping pattern on thefarmlands maintainingmoisture after monsooncrops have been har-vested. Therefore, the

Yesagyo to produce abundant...

farmers need to spend lessfor cultivation. The allu-vial lands are the best forcold season crops.

Yesagyo Townshipof Magway Divisiongrows 26 kinds of coldseason crops, namely ed-ible oil crops, beans andpulses, maize, kitchencrops and others.

The township hascultivated 137,522 acresof cold season cropsagainst the target of145,017 acres in 2009-2010. Therefore, the town-ship is striving for exceed-ing the target of crops cul-tivation this year.

A total of 40 vil-

lage-tracts located in thealluvial lands of the town-ship are reliable areas incultivation of crops.

During my visit, Iasked Assistant OfficerKo Teza of Township Set-tlement and Land RecordsDepartment to know thesown acreage and coldseason crops at the fieldNo. 111 in NyaungdawVillage-tract. He ex-plained that at field No.111, a total of 529 acres ofland is put under beansand pulses, 375 acres un-der cold season ground-nut, 125 acres under corn,620 acres under cold sea-son sunflower as mixed

cropping, 50 acres underniger, 310 acres underkitchen crops, 133 acresunder vegetables, 22acres under other cropsand 60 acres as pastureland.

I saw thriving one-month-old crops planta-tion. In the near future,beans and green grocerybrokerages would bepacked with sellers andbuyers. Likewise, the lo-cal consumers can buyfresh vegetables andkitchen crops at YesagyoMyoma Market in thenear future.

Translation: TTAKyemon: 21-1-2010

1. To uphold Our Three Main National Causes at risk to life as thenational policy

2. To work hard with national people for successful completion of electionsdue to be held in accordance with the new constitution

3. To crush internal and external subversive elements through the strengthand consolidated unity of the people

4. To build a strong, patriotic modern Tatmadaw capable of safeguardingthe sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation

Objectives of 65th Anniversary Armed Forces Dayvocate-General Lt-GenSoe Maung and membersdeputy ministers, theDeputy Chief Justice, the

Deputy Attorney-General,senior military officersand guests.

MNA

Dagon Myothit(North) gets library

YANGON, 18 Feb—AyonU Library wasopened in Ward 37 ofDagon Myothit (North)Township on 12 Februaryto broaden the horizon oflocal people. Head ofTownship Informationand Public RelationsDepartment Daw Hla HlaHtay gave talks aboutdevelopment of the libraryand its durability.

On the occasion,wellwishers donatedperiodicals and books tothe library.

MNA

New concrete roads inaugurated in Insein, Hline TownshipsNAY PYI TAW, 18

Feb—Honouring the 63rdAnniversary Union Day,the opening of newconcrete roads were heldin conjunction with a

ceremony to launch thetransformer at thedesignated places inTaungthugon Ward inInsein Township on 12February.

Chairman of YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Linopened the new roads andinspected them.

He sprinkled scentedwater on stone inscrip-tions of the roads.

Next, the mayor,together with officials,opened two concrete roads

namely Aungmyittaconcrete road and 1stAungmyitta Street inWard 1 in HlineTownship of YangonWest District.—MNA

Cold season groundnut plantation thriving at field No. 111.

Photo shows 45-day old mung bean and sunflower mixed croppingplantations at field No. 111.

Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thura Myint Aung addresses the 9th coor-dination meeting of Committee for Prevention against Recruitment of

Minors for Military Services.MNA

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(from page 16)We then proceeded

to Hsenwi and sawborder goods inspectiongate before reachingHsenwi. The gate iscalled hot springinspection gate. Hsenwiis surrounded by manyacres of farm lands. It isa beautiful town withShan mountain rangesin the distance. Wearrived at Kutkai which

is about 15 miles awayfrom Hsenwi. However,we had to pass manymountains beforereaching Kutkai.

We saw expressbuses and vans plyingfrom Mandalay as wellas lorries on Lashio-Muse Union road. Wearrived at Mongyu beforereaching Muse. Mongyuis a village in which Muse105th mile border trade

camp is located. Lorrieshave to stop at the camp.At the camp, goods fromMyanmar are to be loadedonto lorries from China.And goods from Chinaare to be loaded ontolorries from Myanmartoo.

In Muse, we visitedMuse Township Peaceand DevelopmentCouncil Office and hadan interview with

chairman of MuseTownship SPDC, U MyaHan.

He said that the townis a border town sharingborder with China. It isformed with nine wardsand a district town. It issurrounded by Gongyantownship in the east,Kutkai in the south,Namkham in the west andChina in the north.Mongko and Manheroalso include in MuseTownship. Mongko isformed with seven wardsand Manhero, with threewards.

The major livelihoodof the region is

agriculture. Paddy, beansand pulses, corns, tea andcoffee are grown in theregion. There are fiveBasic Education HighSchools, two BEHSs(Branch), two BEMS,three BEMS (branch), 44BEPS, four BEPS(branch), 12 post-primary schools. InMuse, roads are good.We saw three-wheeledmotorcycles running fortransportation andbeautiful motor cars thatare from China. Theplace where Musemarket and clock towerare located is busier thanany other ones. In the

markets, we saw farmproduce from ShanState, clothing shopsand stores.

In Muse, one cansee beautiful houses,buildings, hotels andmotels. Muse isbecoming developed inparallel with Jwekhaungin the south of China.

Nowadays, Musehas become a bordertourism town due tobetter transport, beingdeveloped into a bordertrade town andeconomic development.

***** Translation: MT

Myanma Alin:29-1-2010Neat and tidy road in Muse.

Photo shows a view of Muse.

Dy Transport Minister receives ExecutiveDirector of Asia-Europe Foundation

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb—Deputy Ministerfor Transport Col NyanTun Aung receivedExecutive Director ofAsia-Europe FoundationAmbassador Mr

Dominique Girard at themeeting hall here thismorning.

Also present on theoccasion were Director-General U Win Pe ofTransport Department,

Director-General U HlaMyint Thein (Attached) ofDirectorate of WaterResources andImprovement of RiverSystems and officials.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb—In meeting withofficials from six religiousassociations in Kanpatletof Chin State on 10February, DeputyMinister for ReligiousAffairs Brig-Gen Thura

Deputy Minister undertakes religious affairs in Chin StateAung Ko providednecessary assistances.

On 11 February, hemet with reponsiblepersons of religiousassociations in KanpetletTownship. On 12February, he paid homage

to Ngarawkyinmissionary sayadaw inNgarawkyin village andoffers provisions.

From 14 to 16February, he visitedvillages of MindatTownship.—MNA

YANGON, 18 Feb — A ceremonyto contribute K 38.27 million to thefund of organizing the annual generalmeeting-2009 of Myanmar Women’sAffairs Federation by 37 wellwisherstook place at the meeting hall of MWAFin Bahan Township on 16 February.

Patrons and the president of the

Cash donations for annual meeting of MWAFfederation accepted cash donationsand presented certificates of honourto wellwishers and Asia World Co.who gave helping hands intransportation.

Next, MWAF President Dr DawMyint Kyi spoke words of thanks.

MNA

YANGON, 18 Feb—The Basic TailoringCourse No. 1/2010,conducted by MyanmarWomen’s AffairsFederation, will be openedat No. 005 on 5th floor ofBuilding-P on Setyon

Basic Tailoring Course on 1 MarchRoad between Sabei Roadand Aungthabye Road inMingala TaungnyuntTownship on 1 March.

The course limitsto admit 20 trainees.Those wishing to join thecourse may contact KSS

Natthokda Biriani Shopat 101 on Setyon Road ofThayagon Ward inMingala TaungnyuntTownship, Tel: 203289,not later than 28February.

MNA

Gyaing (Kawkareik) River crossingPontoon Bridge put into service

NAY PYI TAW, 18Feb—The Gyaing(Kawkareik) Rivercrossing Pontoon Bridgewas inauguratedyesterday morning.

Deputy Minister forConstruction U Tint Swetogether with officialsformally opened thearchway of the bridge.

The pontoon bridge,300 feet north of Hpa-an-

Myawady Road andGyaing (Kawkareik)Bailey Suspension Bridgein Hpa-an Township, hasa 629 feet long mainbridge with 2400 feet longapproach on Kyondo bankand 2200 approach roadon Hpa-an bank. It has 13feet and 7 inches widemotor way. It is a steelpontoon bridge. Itsclearance is 4.5 feet high

and 12 feet wide. Thefacility can withstand 60-ton loads.

After attending theopening ceremony, thedeputy minister checkedmaintenance of Gyaing(Kawkareik) baileysuspension bridge, Gyaing(Zathabyin) bridge,Attayan Bridge andThanlwin (Mawla-myine).—MNA

Deputy Minister for Transport Col Nyan Tun Aung receives ExecutiveDirector of Asia-Europe Foundation Ambassador Mr Dominique

Girard.—MNA

Seeing is believing:...

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Brain control can be a neural workout

Aspirin cuts breast cancersurvivors’ risk

Peru’s Inca ruins site toreopen in April

LIMA, 18 Feb—Machu Picchu, a renowned ancientInca ruins site, will reopen to the public from April,Peru’s Minister of Trade Martin Perez announced onTuesday.

“From 1st April we hope to receive millions of tour-ists who have always come to Cusco”, the ministersaid after highlighting the progress of the railway re-habilitation that was damaged by heavy rains in CuscoProvince.

Perez said that the level of Vilcanota River has de-creased to its normality, and this situation has allowedthe work to continue.

The access to Machu Picchu has been restricted untilApril because of the repairing work, he said.

However, the minister stressed that despite the tor-rential rains which caused flooding and great losses tothe tourism sector in southern Peru, the famous IncaCity is still intact.—Xinhua

Hormone therapy increases heart riskNew device aims to hikesolar power output

SEATTLE, 18 Feb—Uni-versity of Washington sci-entists say they’ve discov-ered interacting withbrain-computer interfacescan produce strongerbrain signals.

The research team, con-sisting of computer scien-tists, physicists, physiolo-gists and neurosurgeons,said harnessing brain sig-nals to control keyboards,robots or prosthetic de-vices is an active area ofmedical research. And

now they’ve discovered ahuman brain hooked up toa computer shows the twocan quickly adapt to eachother — possibly to thebrain’s benefit.

The scientists said theystudied signals on thebrain’s surface while aperson used imaginedmovements to control acursor and found thatwatching a cursor respondto one’s thoughts promptsbrain signals to becomestronger than those gener-

ated in day-to-day life.“Bodybuilders get mus-

cles that are larger thannormal by liftingweights,” said doctoralstudent Kai Miller, thestudy’s lead author. “Weget brain activity that’slarger than normal by in-teracting with brain-com-puter interfaces. By usingthese interfaces, patientscreate super-activepopulations of braincells.”

Internet

MitsubishiMotors Corp

PresidentOsamu

Masuko smilesas he intro-duces theJapanese

automaker’snew compact

crossover RVRin Tokyo,

Japan, on 17Feb, 2010.INTERNET

A view of the village of Aguas Calientes with the flooded Vilcanota River, nearMachu Picchu archaeological site in Cuzco, Peru on 28 Jan. Heavy floodingin southern Peru, which trapped thousands of tourists visiting the Inca city of

Machu Picchu, has killed 20 and left at least five missing, Peru’s Civil De-fence force said on Saturday.—INTERNET

BOSTON, 18 Feb—Tak-ing an aspirin two days aweek significantly reducedbreast cancer survivors’risk of metastasis — can-cer spread — and death,US researchers said.

Dr Michelle D Holmesof the Channing Labora-tory at Harvard andBrigham and Women’s

Hospital in Boston, andcolleagues found an aspi-rin at least two days a weeksignificantly reducedbreast cancer death risk by64 percent to 71 percent,Medpage Today reportedon Tuesday.

The analysis includedresponses from 4,164 fe-male registered nurses di-

agnosed with early stagebreast cancer from 1976-2002 with follow-upthrough death or June2006. Holmes said aspirinuse assessments in thefirst year after the breastcancer diagnosis wereexcluded since the drugis discouraged duringchemotherapy.

For the women who sur-vived for more than a yearafter diagnosis, those whoused aspirin more wereless likely to subsequentlydie from breast cancer, thestudy said.

The findings, publishedin the Journal of ClinicalOncology, were “all themore notable because theNurses’ Health Study didnot find an association be-tween aspirin use andbreast cancer incidence.”

Internet

WASHINGTON, 18Feb—Amid a globalscramble to invest in so-lar power as a viable re-newable energy option,pressure is mounting onmanufacturers to maxi-mize electricity outputwith minimum outlay.

Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation announced ithas developed the world’sfirst technology to maxi-mize output power in pho-tovoltaic systems in poorweather conditions.

Mitsubishi said the PVsystems’ output would beenhanced through theinclusion of a new maxi-mum power-point track-ing system in PV invert-ers.

The technology, whichworks with a single PV in-verter, achieves the maxi-mum power point evenwhen part of a PV arrayis hidden by shadowor dust, Mitsubishi said.Solar power as a renew-able energy of the futurehas gained ground world-wide but with its popular-

ity pressure has built onboth energy producersand plant manufacturersto extract maximumresults at minimum cost.Industry analysts said so-lar energy output and costefficiency increasinglywould depend on thequality of equipment sup-plied.

Internet

BETHESDA, 18 Feb—Analyses from theWomen’s Health Initiative confirm com-bination hormone therapy increases heartdisease risk, US researchers said.

Researchers from the Harvard Schoolof Public Health and the National Heart,Lung and Blood Institute re-analyzeddata from the landmark Women’s HealthInitiative clinical trial of the effects ofcombination hormone therapy — pro-gestin in combination with estrogen —in 16,608 post-menopausal women withan intact uterus, ages 50-79 years atenrollment.

The study, published in the Annals ofInternal Medicine, found a trend towardan increased risk of heart disease dur-ing the first two years of hormonetherapy among women who begantherapy within 10 years of menopause,and a more marked elevation of riskamong women who began hormonetherapy more than 10 years after meno-pause.

“Today, most women who take hor-mone therapy for menopausal symptomsbegin therapy shortly after menopause.

Internet

Snakes are draped on a woman’s body during a performance at the DitanTemple Fair held to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Beijing on 18 Feb, 2010.

INTERNET

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV CARAVEL PRIDE VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV CARAVELPRIDE VOY NO ( ) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 18.2.2010 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T/SPW(7) where itwill lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws 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 Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S VARAMARPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV RATHA BHUM VOY NO (510)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV RATHA BHUMVOY NO (510) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 19.2.2010 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S REGIONAL CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

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US airports to use new flexibleexplosives screeners

500,000 people vaccinatedagainst A/H1N1 fluin Mexican capital

MEXICO CITY, 18 Feb—At least 500,000 residentsof Mexico City have got vaccinated against theA/H1N1 flu, the city’s health official told mediaon Wednesday. The city has launched a vaccinationcampaign in the main stations of its metro, light rail-way and its largest markets.

Armando Ahued, head of Mexico’s health depart-ment, urged the residents to get vaccinated becausea series of cold spells were passing over the city rais-ing risks for respiratory illnesses, including the A/H1N1 virus.

The A/H1N1 flu had killed 780 people and infectedmore than 67,200 others in the country till the endof 2009 since its outbreak in mid-April. —Xinhua

Three dead in small plane crashin US state of California

Bus crash inIndia kills 22NEW DELHI, 18 Feb— A

bus loaded with peopletravelling to a weddingfell into a river onWednesday in India’snorthern Uttar Pradeshstate, killing at least 22people, police said. hirtyother passengers were in-jured in the incident in thevillage of Maharajpura inthe Jalaun District, theTimes of India-IANS re-ported.

Police said the busplunged in the PahujRiver shortly after mid-night while using a make-shift bridge.” We believenow no one is trapped in-side the bus.—Internet

The besttime to planta tree was 20

years ago.Second besttime is now.

23 taken to hospital in US schoolcarbon monoxide incident

WASHINGTON, 18 Feb—Twenty-three students andteachers were taken to a hospital in a US high schoolcarbon monoxide incident on Wednesday, local me-dia reported. The incident occurred at St ThomasAquinas High School in Derry, New Hampshire.

One student and one teacher fainted when fire offi-cials arrived, and many others also showed symptomsof carbon monoxide poisoning, local WMUR-TV re-ported. The building has been evacuated. Firefightersand ambulances have come to the scene for emergencyresponse. —Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 18 Feb—US aviation security au-thorities will begin usingportable screeners at air-ports to check for explo-sives from passengers andtheir carry-on bags, theUSA TODAY reportedon Wednesday. SterlingPayne, spokeswomanof US Transportation Se-curity Administration(TSA), said that the port-able machines havealready been tested at five

airports after the failedChristmas bombingattempts and will be rolledout nationwide in a fewweeks.

The explosives detec-tors are usually fixed at air-port checkpoints.Screeners take chemicalswabs from passengersand their bags to check forexplosives under sensors,which are so sensitive thateven passengers who haverecently taken heart pillscontaining nitroglycerin

can ring the alarm. Itmarks the first time thatexplosives screeners,whose size is like a micro-wave oven, will be usedoutside checkpoints.Screeners can use thosemachines to take randomchecks on passengerswaiting in lines for board-ing an airplane.

The new explosivesscreeners will fill the secu-rity hole under currentmetal detectors widely usedat all airports.—Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, 18 Feb — A smallplane crashed on Wednesday morningin a residential neighbourhood in EastPalo Alto in the US state of California,killing three people on board, local me-dia reported.

A house was damaged in the crashand the plane also destroyed three cars,but there were no reports of injuries onthe ground, the San Francisco Chroni-cle newspaper said in a report on itswebsite.

The plane was a twin-engine Cessna310 that had taken off from Palo AltoAirport and was bound for HawthorneMunicipal Airport in Los AngelesCounty, Ian Gregor, a spokesman for theUS Federal Aviation Administration,was quoted as saying.

The cause of the crash was not im-mediately known, but there were reportsthat the plane hit an electrical tower orwires on takeoff, causing power outagesin the area. —Xinhua

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Gardasil protects older women, gay menWASHINGTON, 18 Feb—

Gardasil, the vaccine thatprotects against the cervi-cal-cancer-causing humanpapilloma virus, may soonbe approved for womenover age 27. New clinicaltrial data involving morethan 3,800 women ages 24to 45 showed that the shotwas nearly 90 percent ef-fective at preventing per-sistent HPV infections—which are sexually trans-mitted—over the study’sfour-year duration, accord-ing to manufacturerMerck, which released thestudy today. (The vaccineprotects against two strains

of the virus responsible for70 percent of cervical can-cers and two strains thatcause genital warts.)

Merck is hoping that theFood and Drug Adminis-tration will grant the com-pany permission to expandits product label to includewomen over 27; it’s cur-rently approved only forthose ages 9 to 26. Theagency deferred a decisionon Merck’s application forexpanded use in June 2008and again last year.The FDA asked Merck forlonger-term efficacy dataout to four years, accord-ing to Merck spokesperson

Pamela Eisele. She saysthe company expects anFDA decision by June.

Single women couldbenefit big time from anexpanded approval of thisvacc ine—espec ia l lyif they’re back on the dat-ing scene after a longhiatus. Many, warned bytheir doctors against therisk of HPV infections, arecurrently footing the billfor the $360 cost of thethree injections since in-surance usually won’tcover vaccines or drugsthat doctors administer“off label.”

Internet

In this handout image released by Yves Marre on 17 February , French sailorCorentin de Chatelperron (centre) prepares to set sail. Chatelperron has setsail from Bangladesh in an “unsinkable” eco-friendly boat partly made of

jute in a bid to promote the natural fibre and highlight the plight of Bangla-deshi fisherman.— INTERNET

A woman and two children make their way down a slope on an inflatable tubein Berlin in January 2010. Kids in Berlin are free to make as much din as

they like from now on after changes to the city’s noise pollution laws whichnow “tolerate” their racket.— INTERNET

A cat jumps over ancient Roman ruins in centralRome. Italy has marked “national cat day” amid astorm of controversy over a television host’s insist-

ence that feline meat is a “delicacy” to be sa-voured.— INTERNET

Foot-long surgical tool left in woman’s abdomen

Photographerin the frame over

track soakingWHISTLER, 18 Feb—A

photographer caused a de-lay during a crucial mo-ment of the women’s lugecompetition on Tuesdaywhen he accidentallyknelt on a switch thatsent water spurting onto the track.

Germany’s bronze med-allist Natalie Geisenbergerwas just about to push offfor her fourth run down theWhistler course when ared warning light flashedat the starting gate — caus-ing a two-minute delay.

“It was a hold put on thetrack as a result of a hy-drant being accidentallyactivated, spraying wateron the track. It was a ob-viously a matter of safetyfor the athlete,” race di-rector Ed Moffat said.

Internet

Australian state issueswhooping cough warningCANBERRA, 18 Feb—Queensland Health on Thurs-

day renewed its call for parents and carers of babies tobe immunized against whooping cough with the ill-ness still on the rise. More than 700 have been re-corded since January this year following the reportingof about 6,000 cases last year. Dr Jeanette Young saidwhooping cough can be fatal for babies, and parentsand carers need to have a booster dose of the vaccine.

“The most important group that we need to look af-ter are young babies because they can’t be vaccinateduntil they’re at least two months of age and they don’tget full protection until they’ve had their third shot whenthey’re six months of age,” she said.” —Xinhua

Talebancommanderkilled in N

AfghanistanKABUL, 18 Feb—Af-

ghan troops, during op-eration against Talebanmilitants in northernKunduz Province, elimi-nated their commanderand detained three mili-tants, a local newspaperreported on Thursday. “ATaleban commandercalled Mullah Zabihullahwas killed and three of hisarmed were arrested,”Daily Afghanistan re-ported.

Quoting the provincialgovernor MohammadOmar, the newspaperadded that security forcesraided Taleban hideout inChardara district Wednes-day night as a resultMullah Zabihullah waskilled and three of his menwere caught.

Xinhua

Suicide car bomber killssix in western Iraq

RANMADI, 18 Feb—At least six were killed and 10others injured in a suicide car bomb attack on Thurs-day in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, a pro-vincial police source said. The suicide bomber drovehis explosive-laden car into a checkpoint near the pro-vincial government office in central Ramadi, some 100km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condi-tion of anonymity. Most of the victims were civiliansas the blast hit several civilian cars at the checkpoint,the source said. Iraqi security forces sealed off the scenewhile dozens of them deployed in the surrounding areaand blocked the main roads leading to the scene, thesource said.— Xinhua

IVANCICE, 18 Feb—Czech medical staff arebeing disciplined after afoot-long surgical instru-ment was found in the ab-domen of a woman whowas operated on fivemonths ago. The patient,66-year-old ZdenkaKopeckova, repeatedlycomplained of severe ab-dominal pain following agynaecological operationat a hospital in the south-eastern town of Ivancice.

“I said that nobodyhelps me and I cannot

live like this till the endof my life. I’ll get pills,have a glass of an alco-hol and hang myself,” shesaid after the spatula-likeinstrument was discov-ered a week ago and suc-cessfully removed.Kopeckova is seekingcompensation over theerror, claiming staff ini-tially tried to cover up themistake by saying therewas nothing they coulddo but recommend painkillers. “I told the headsurgeon that if I had no

pain I would not be com-plaining. I’m not a hypo-chondriac,” she said, add-ing she had requested anx-ray but was told thiswould needlessly exposeher to radiation.

Jaromir Hrubes,Ivancice hospital direc-tor, said strict operationprocedures should havebeen followed by medi-cal staff and an unnamedhospital official toldReuters Television thatthose concerned wouldbe disciplined.

Internet

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PARIS , 18 Feb — Italian giants Juventus will take astab at European glory for the second time this seasonwhen they meet Dutch heavyweights Ajax in the first-leg of their Europa League tie on Thursday.

The last 32 clash is a rematch of the 1996 ChampionsLeague final, which saw the Italian club triumph overthen holders Ajax in a penalty shootout 4-2 after it fin-ished 1-1 at the end of normal time.

With the Amsterdam side nine points off league lead-ers PSV Eindhoven and Juventus trailing first-placed In-ter Milan by 16 points, the Europa League representstheir last chance at winning a major title in 2010.

Juve’s French midfielder Jonathan Zebina concededthat another Serie A title is out of the club’s reach but thathis team would give their all to win the trophy. “We haveto continue now as the season is still long and there areobjectives.

It might not be the Scudetto, but it won’t be bad if wewin the Europa League,” Zebina told the official Juventuswebsite.

Internet

MEMPHIS, 18 Feb—Top-seeded RussianMaria Sharapova cruisedinto the quarter-finals ofthe WTA Tour event here,crushing AmericanBethanie Mattek-Sands6-1, 6-1.

The Russian remainedon course for a clash withsecond-seeded AmericanMelanie Oudin, who beatcompatriot Lilia Osterloh6-2, 6-1. Oudin neededjust 61 minutes to winthrough, despite havingwon her opener late onTuesday.

“I didn’t have muchtime to recover from myfirst match, but my recov-ery was good.

I got to sleep in this

PORTO, 18 Feb—Arsene Wenger accused refereeMartin Hansson of gifting Porto the winning goal inthe Portuguese side’s 2-1 victory over Arsenal in thefirst leg of their Champions League last 16 tie.

The Swedish official allowed Porto to take a quickfree-kick in the 52nd minute of Wednesday’s gamehere after Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski han-dled a back-pass, allowing Falcao to score what provedto be the winner.

Hansson came under fire in November after fail-ing to spot a clear handball by Thierry Henry in thebuild-up to France’s winning goal in their World Cupqualifying play-off with the Republic of Ireland.

“It is better than a penalty. It is unbelievable thathe allows Porto to play straight away and put the ballin the net. I’ve been in football for a long time and I’dnever seen something like that,” Wenger said.

Wenger also queried the decision to award the free-kick, arguing that Sol Campbell had not deliberatelypassed the ball back to his goalkeeper, and said Arse-nal should have been given a penalty for a foul onTomas Rosicky shortly before Porto’s second goal.

Internet

Bolton stay in relegation zoneafter stalemate at Wigan

WIGAN , 18 Feb — Bolton remained in the PremierLeague relegation zone after grinding out a 0-0 drawagainst fellow strugglers Wigan on Wednesday. OwenCoyle’s 18th placed team moved up one spot as a re-sult of the stalemate at the DW Stadium, but theymissed a chance to climb out of the bottom three.Wigan are also still in trouble and lie just two pointsabove the drop zone after their fifth league game with-out a win.

Latics boss Roberto Martinez handed a first startto Bolivian striker Marcelo Moreno, signed on loanfrom Ukraine’s UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk,while Bolton named an unchanged side following Sun-day’s FA Cup draw against Tottenham. With Boltonin the bottom three and Wigan just above the relega-tion zone, there was more than just Lancashire prideat stake for both teams in this local derby.—Internet

LIVERPOOL, 18 Feb —Emiliano Insua feels thisseason has seen him so-lidify his place as a regu-lar in the Liverpool sidedespite a campaign of dis-appointments at Anfield.The 21-year-old Argentin-ian left back has been aregular in RafaelBenitez’s teams this sea-son, playing 24 games inthe Premier League. Liv-erpool were knocked outof the Champions Leaguein the group phase and,having been tipped tochallenge for the Englishtitle, are now battling forfourth place.

They now face Roma-nian side Unirea in thefirst leg of the round of 32at Anfield here on Thurs-day as they begin theirEuropa League campaign.Insua has made the most

Bayern leave it late against10-man Fiorentina

MUNICH, 18 Feb—Bayern Munich left it late to beata dogged 10-man Fiorentina with a controversial last-minute goal to hand the German giants a 2-1 win,making it 13 in a row in all competitions. German in-ternational striker Miroslav Klose headed home in the89th minute after the ball went loose from a long dis-tance shot from Dutch international Arjen Robben, buthe was in a clear offside position.

The strike gave the Bundesliga outfit a slender ad-vantage when the two sides head to Florence for thesecond leg on 9 March, with the Italians clinging to aprecious away goal. After the game, Klose admittedthat he was offside, saying: “I haven’t seen the replaybut it felt like I was offside.” Shown the replay, heacknowledged that the goal should not have beengiven.—Internet

On fire Wendel hits double todump Lorient out of cup

PARIS , 18 Feb —Bordeaux’s Brazilian midfielderWendel struck his second double in as many games asdefending French League Cup holders Bordeaux beat10-man Lorient 4-1 in their semi-final clash onWednesday.

Much of the pre-match hype had centred on thefather and son match-up between Bordeaux playmakerYohann Gourcuff and Lorient coach Christian, who isstill chasing the first piece of silverware of his mana-gerial career.

However, the fate of the match was effectively de-cided in the 24th minute when Lorient were leading1-0 but their goalscorer Laurent Koscielny was harshlyadjudged to have fouled Marouane Chamakh and wasalso sent-off while Wendel converted the ensuing pen-alty. Gourcuff senior said that the manner of the de-feat had left a bitter taste in his mouth.—Internet

Dalglish claims Celtic face door die Old Firm clashes

GLASGOW , 18 Feb—Kenny Dalglish admits Celtichave to win their two remaining Old Firm gamesagainst arch rivals Rangers if his former club are towin the Scottish Premier League title. Celtic currentlytrail Rangers by 10 points with 13 games remaining,but they can claw back six of those points by defeat-ing their Glasgow neighbours twice - starting with thevisit to Ibrox at the end of February.

Dalglish knows all about the pressure of fightingRangers for the title after an eight-year spell as a Celticplayer. The Liverpool legend also had a brief spell asCeltic director of football and, speaking in Glasgowat the launch of a new football youth initiative onWednesday, he said: “Celtic have to get 11 more pointsthan Rangers before the end of the season.—Internet

Arsenal’s French coach Arsene Wenger is seen

during their UEFA Champions League match

against FC Porto at the Dragao Stadium in Porto,

on 17 February.

INTERNET

Europe’s giants makelast-ditch bid for glory

Wenger blames ref overcontroversial Porto goal

Emiliano Insua.

Insua grateful for Reds run

of constant injuries toFabio Aurelio and thepoor form of AndreaDossena, who joinedNapoli last month, tocarve out a regular placein the Liverpool line-up.

And he admitted evenhe had been surprised byhis emergence, which ledto him winning an inter-national cap in a 2-1 winover Peru in Septem-ber.—Internet

Top-seeded RussianMaria Sharapova.

Sharapova cruises into Memphisquarter-finals

morning and I felt goodout there today,” Oudinsaid. In the ATP tourna-ment, top-seeded Ameri-can Andy Roddick had atougher time but snappeda three-match losingstreak to fellow AmericanJames Blake with a 6-3,4-6, 7-6 (7/3) first-roundvictory.

Internet

Bayern Munich’s striker Miroslav Klose celebratesscoring during the 1st leg UEFA Champions

League football round of 16 match FC BayernMunich (Germany) vs Fiorentina (Italy) in thesouthern German city of Munich.— INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, light rain has beenisolated in Kachin, Chin States and upper Sagaing Division,weather has been partly cloudy in Shan State, Mandalayand Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in the remainingareas. Night temperatures were (7°C) above Februaryaverage temperatutes in Shan State and Mandalay Division,(5°C) to (6°C) above February average temperatures inKachin, Kayah States, Magway and Taninthayi Divisions,(3°C) to (4°C) above February average temperatures inMon State, lower Sagaing, Bago and Yangon Divisionsand about February average temperatures in the remainingStates and Divisions. The significant night temperatureswas Hakha (4 °C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Putao (0.20) inch and Machanbaw (0.16)inch.

Maximum temperature on 17-2-2010 was 99°F.Minimum temperature on 18-2-2010 was 74°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 18-2-2010 was 64%.Total sun shine hours on 17-2-2010 was (7.6) hours approx.

Rainfall on 18-2-2010 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(6) mph from West at (18:30) hours MST on 17-2-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 19thFebruary 2010:Likelihood of isolated light rain in Kachin, Chin, Shan andNorth Rakhine States, upper Sagaing and MandalayDivisions, weather will be partly cloudy in Mon and KayinStates, Taninthayi Division and generally fair in theremaining areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight to moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days:Likelihood ofcontinuation of isolated light rain in Northern Myanmarareas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for19-2-2010:Partly cloudy to cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for19-2-2010: Grenerally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for19-2-2010:Partly cloudy.

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In memoriamFamily shares merits gained

Lt-Gen Tin OoIn memory of benefactor Phay Phay Gyi Lt-Gen Tin Oo who suddenly

left us nine years ago, we family members have made donations and offered‘soon’ and provisions to members of the Sangha today on 19-2-2010. Wefamily members share with you the merits gained.

Wife Daw Khin Than NweSons and daughters-

- Major Maung Maung Kyaw (Retd) (BSI) + Daw Cho Leh Oo- Phyu Phyu Tin Oo- Dr Myat Noe + Yin Mar Oo- Zaw Tun Oo + Khin Thida- Nay Tun Oo

Grandchildren- Hein Htet, Yin Myat Noe. Phu Ngon Kyaw,- Thant Thi Han Zaw (Po Thila)

Shen, Zhao strike agolden finish fortheir career at

VancouverBEIJING, 18 Feb—

China’s figure skatingcouple Shen Xue and ZhaoHongbo finally realizedtheir Olympic dream,dancing to gold in thefigure skating with a nearlyflawless routine.

The husband and wifeteam who came out ofretirement in quest ofOlympic glory, brokeRussia’s stranglehold onthe Games figure skatingpairs event on Mondaywith a performance worthyof 18 years’ hard worktogether.—Internet

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★ 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 violencePatients with A/H1N1 given

systematic medical treatmentNAY PYI TAW, 18 Feb

— No new patients werefound infected with NewInfluenza A/H1N1 inKyaukme of Shan State(North) and DagonMyothit (North) Townshipof Yangon Division andpatients with the virus haverecovered from theirillness. They have to stayat hospital before a periodof quarantine is over. Newcases of A/H1N1 werereported two days ago—two persons were foundwith the virus at a privateschool in Dagon Myothit(East), three at a factory inShwepyitha Township andsix at a religious school in

Seeing is believing: Go Muse

Byline: Myint Maung Soe;Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Due to better transport in the time of Tatmadawgovernment, Muse in Shan State (North) has developedinto a border tourism town.

Having a more consolidated relationshipbetween Myanmar and China, it becomes a bordertourism town. In the past, Muse has difficulties intransport sector due to transport and securitybarriers.

Being a border trade centre of Myanmar, tradebetween Myanmar and China has increased. In orderto write articles on regional development, MyanmaAlin daily news crew made a trip to Muse, a border

town, through Lashio.It was about 8 am when we left Lashio. We saw

trucks and motorcycles heading for Muse 105th mileborder trade camp on Lashio-Muse Union Road.Soon after leaving Lashio, we saw Hopeik andSanlaung villages. These villages have developedinto towns due to restoration of peace.

(See page 10)

Archway reading “Welcome to Muse” at the entrance to Muse, in Shan State (North).

Yangon Division preservestraditional cane-ball sportYANGON, 18 Feb—In line with one of the Social

Objectives: Uplift of health, fitness and educationstandards of the entire nation, Yangon Division Peaceand Development Council organized the inter-township traditional cane-ball contest 2010 recently.

On 14 February, officials awarded prize winningteams in the skills demonstration event and the point-score event.

Best outstanding award went to Ye Win Htut(Thakayta) and the best player award to San Yu (a)Doe Lay (Hlinethaya).—MNA

Hmawby Township. Theywere sent to the hospitaland surveillance measuresare being taken by thehealth departmentsconcerned. No outbreak ofA/H1N1 was reported instates and divisions.Disease control measuresare being taken with addedmomentum by central andlocal authorities.

The Ministry ofHealth urged the peopleto follow the preventivemeasures against the virusin order to avoid spread ofvirus in the public and totake part in the campaignto prevent the disease.

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