The New Light of Myanmar 21-10-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 188 4th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Wednesday, 21 October, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic sys-tem

* Development of the economy inviting participation interms of technical know-how and investments fromsources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be keptin the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards

of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tranquil-lity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* 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, 20 Oct—The second session ofsecond day of 17th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions continued under thetitle of “Thakaung Yadana” at the convocation hall ofUniversity of Veterinary Science in Nay Pyi TawYezin yesterday. Drama troupe from Yangon Divisionparticipated in the competition.

Among the audience were Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing of the Ministry of Defence and wife Daw KyuKyu Hla, Chairman of the Leading Committee forOrganizing the 17th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions Commander of NayPyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Wai Lwin and wife,Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe and wife,Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing enjoys“Thakaung Yadana” drama contest of

Yangon DivisionMaj-Gen Maung Maung Swe and wife, Deputy Ministerfor Labour Brig-Gen Tin Tun Aung, departmentalheads, officials of the committee and sub-committees,members of panel of judges from the states anddivisions, and enthusiasts.

Drama troupe from Yangon Divisionparticipating in the competitions comprised ManagerU Ga Mon, scriptwriter Hsan Nwe Oo, directorNyan Win Oo, leading actors Min Yazar and ZawWin Maung and leading actress Cherry Myint Kyawand Lin Zar Ni Zaw and side parts. They activelystaged the plots in association with pianist TekkathoHsan Ni and traditional orchestra musician Sein HlaNgwe.

MNA

Kanma-Thayet railroad section making west Ayeyawady dwellers smile

Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing of the Ministry of Defence and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla enjoy competition of Yangon Division in “Thakaung Yadana” Drama contest.—MNA

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Article & Photos: Thant Zin Tun (Kyemon)

First train plying Kanma-Thayet Railroad section.

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 21 October, 2009

Wednesday, 21 October, 2009 * 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 DesirePERSPECTIVES

Nowadays, it is essential for all nations inthe world to possess human resources well versedin modern science and technologies to be able tostand on their own in the long run.

Exhibitions on information and communi-cation technologies at a time when Myanmar isstriving for IT development are an opportunityfor those who want to study IT technologies.

Myanmar Information and Communica-tion Technology Exhibition 2009 was held at theTatmadaw Convention Hall from 15 to 18 Octo-ber and local IT companies displayed latest hard-ware and software at the exhibition.

Displayed at the exhibition were softwarefor medicine production and distribution, res-taurants, hotel and hospital management, secu-rity, staff performance and payroll system. Com-puterized accounting software is used in budgetand financial reports. Software used in hospitalsand clinics can store all data about patients suchas the time of registration and diagnostic andtreatment records.

If IT technologies are applied in economicand social fields, work can be carried out speedilyand accurately.

As IT technologies are advancing with thepassage of time, holding exhibitions on informa-tion and communication technologies from timeto time will enable the youth to study the latest ITdevelopments.

Strive for developmentof IT technology

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct—Chairman of BagoDivision Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Southern Command Maj-Gen Hla Minand Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myintattended the opening ceremony of new schoolbuilding of No.2 Basic Education PrimarySchool in Thayethamein (model) village ofWaw Township in Bago Division on18 October.

Director-General U Kyaw Thu of No.1 BasicEducation Department under the Ministry of Educa-tion, Chairman of the School Construction CommitteeU Kyin Te and officials from City Mart Holdings CoLtd opened the school building.

UMFCCI meets SriLankan Ambassador

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct—Vice-President U TunAung of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Cham-bers of Commerce and Industry, General Secretary DrMaung Maung Lay and CEC member Dr Thin NweWin received Ambassador of the Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka Mr Newton Gunaratna andFirst Secretary Mr Charitha Yattogoda at the head-quarters of the federation here on 14 September.

They frankly discussed boosting of mutual tradeand investment between the two countries, seekingpotential markets in Sri Lanka for Myanmar agricul-tural produces, further co-operation between tradersand industry organizations of the two sides and exhi-bition of home products in trade fair.

MNA

Commander, Minister attend opening of new school building

The commander unveiled the stone inscription.The school building measuring 190 feet by 30 feet wasbuilt at a cost of K 54 millions.

Afterwards, a ceremony to hand over the newschool building followed.

The commander accepted K 34 millions do-nated by City Mart Holdings Co Ltd and the ministerK 20 million by Chan Tha Construction.

The commander and the minister inspectedNo.3 BEHS and station hospital in Thayethamein(model) village. The commander and the ministerencouraged the patients and provided the cash assist-ance to them.

MNA

Workshop on revision of plans for child health development opened

NAY PYI TAW, 20Oct—The Ministry ofHealth, World Health Or-

gic plan for child healthdevelopment (2010-2014) at the RoyalKumudra Hotel here thismorning.

It was attended byMinister for Health DrKyaw Myint, DeputyMinisters Dr Mya Oo andDr Paing Soe, directors-general, responsible per-sons from WHO (Head-quarters) and the Direc-torate for Southeast AsiaRegion, Acting ResidentRepresentative of WHODr Leonard Ortega,UNICEF Resident Rep-

resentative Dr RameshShrestha, professors/deans from universities ofmedicine, specialists, rep-resentatives from INGOsand social organizationsand guests.

Deputy Minister DrMya Oo gave an intro-ductory speech. TheWHO acting resident rep-resentative and theUNICEF resident repre-sentative delivered ad-dresses.

The workshop con-tinues till 22 October.

MNA

ganization and UNICEFco-organized Workshopon revision of existingfive years strategic planfor child health develop-ment (2005-2009) and de-velopment and formationof next five years strate-

Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint delivers an address at the opening ceremony of new schoolbuilding of No.2 BEPS in Thayethamein (model) village of Waw Township.—MNA

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint addresses the workshop on revision of plans for child healthdevelopment.—MNA

Vice-President of theUMFCCI U Tun

Aung meeting withSri Lankan Ambas-sador Mr NewtonGunaratna and

party.—MNA

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Civilian killed, eight injuredin Baghdad minibus bombing

Three killedin train-car

crash insouthern Miss

MCCOMB, 20 Oct—Au-thorities say three peoplehave been killed and an-other person critically in-jured after the car theywere riding in collidedwith a passenger train insouthern Mississippi.

No one on the Amtraktrain was injured in thecrash on Monday after-noon in McComb.

Authorities identifiedthe dead as a 2-year-old,a 12-year-old boy and a17-year-old woman. A17-year-old man wastaken to a hospital in criti-cal condition.—Internet

Airbus, others sued in USover Air France crash

IAEA chief praises Iran talks

Disputed US base likelyto stay on Okinawa

A helicopter for display is placed at an exhibition hall in Seoul Airport inSeongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, on 19 Oct, 2009. The Seoul Inter-national Aerospace and Defence Exhibition (ADEX) 2009, one of the largestarms exhibitions in Asia, will take place here from Tuesday to Sunday.—XINHUA

A worker transports steel bars at a steel market in Hefei, Anhui Province, on20 Oct, 2009. China’s gross domestic product grew more than 7 percent in the

first nine months, a senior official from the National Development andReform Commission said on Monday.—INTERNET

A survivor of a col-lapsed three storyedbuilding is carried

away by rescuers inKiambu, Kenya, on 19Oct, 2009. A Kenyanpolice official says anunknown number ofpeople are trapped in

the rubble of acollapsed three storybuilding in Kiambu.

INTERNET

TOKYO, 20 Oct—De-spite political pressureamong Tokyo’s new lead-ers to shut down a US Ma-rine base on Okinawa, thetop American defense of-ficial says he expects thebase will remain.

US Defence SecretaryRobert Gates was to meeton Tuesday with JapaneseForeign Minister KatsuyaOkada on a visit to Tokyowhere the Futenma basewas expected to be a toptopic.

“There really, as far aswe’re concerned, are noalternatives to the ar-rangement that was nego-tiated,” Gates told report-ers late Monday as heheaded to Japan.

At issue is the fate ofthe air field, a major Ma-rine hub, in the wake ofJapanese Prime MinisterYukio Hatoyama’s elec-tion last month.

US and Japanese offi-cials in 2006 agreed toshift 8,000 Marines to the

US territory of Guam andto move the Futenma baseto another US military lo-cation on Okinawa, CampSchwab, where a new run-way would be built.

But some members ofHatoyama’s governmentwant the Futenma baseclosed and the remainingUS troops moved out ofJapan altogether. Okinawaresidents have complainedthat the military basescause too much noise andcrime.—Internet

BAGHDAD, 20 Oct—AnIraqi civilian was killedand eight others werewounded in a bomb ex-plosion inside a minibusin northeastern Baghdadon Monday, an InteriorMinistry source said.

The incident occurredin the afternoon when abomb stuck to the minibusdetonated while travellingin the neighbourhood of

Sha’ab, the source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity.

The explosive chargewas of a magnetic kind,which had been stuck inthe minibus, and totallydestroyed the minibus, thesource said.

The powerful blastalso caused damages toseveral nearby civiliancars, he said, adding thatIraqi security forces im-mediately sealed off thearea and began evacuatingthe victims.

Xinhua

ATLANTA, 20 Oct—AUS lawyer filed suitagainst planemaker Air-bus SA and many aero-space suppliers on Mon-day seeking unspecifiedcompensation on behalfof survivors of eight of the228 passengers who diedwhen an Air France flightcrashed off the coast ofBrazil in June.

The lawsuit said theplaintiffs, relatives ofsome of the dead from AirFrance Flight 447, have“suffered a loss of sup-port” and other losses as

a result of the deaths. Theaction was brought underthe Illinois WrongfulDeath Act and filed in theCircuit Court of CookCounty, Illinois.

The Airbus A330 planethat crashed was “defec-tive and unreasonablydangerous,” the complaintstates.

Other defendants in-clude aircraft parts mak-

ers Honeywell Interna-tional, General ElectricCo, Rockwell Collins Inc,Thales SA and chip makerIntel Corp.

Airbus, a unit of EADS,had no comment. “We areaware of it. We do notcomment on lawsuits,” anAirbus Americas commu-nications manager, MaryAnne Greczyn, said in anemail.—Internet

VIENNA, 20 Oct—Thehead of the UN nuclearagency says talks thatcould persuade Iran tomove most of its enricheduranium out of the coun-try are off to a “goodstart.”

Tehran says it needsenriched uranium for nu-clear fuel, but the Westfears it could be used forweapons. The US saysIran is now one to sixyears away from beingable to make such arms,should it choose to.

Mohamed ElBaradei,who heads the Interna-tional Atomic EnergyAgency, attended the firstday of talks on Monday.He spoke of “quite a con-structive meeting, adding:“We are off to a goodstart.”—Internet

Deadly buildingcollapse in Kenya

NAIROBI, 20 Oct—Atleast one person has diedafter a multi-storyed build-ing collapsed on the out-skirts of Kenya’s capital,Nairobi. Dozens of peopleare feared trapped in the ru-ins of the building in Kiambutown, which was under con-struction. Red Cross offi-cials said 15 severly ill peo-ple had been pulled from therubble and taken to hospital.

It is not clear what causedthe collapse, but correspodentssay kenyan building compa-nies are often criticised forflouting safety regulations.There have been suggestionsthat heavy rain in the arearecently could have weak-ened the five-storeyed struc-ture. The rescue operation con-tinued late into the night, asofficials said an unknownumber of people could stillbe inside the building.

Xinhua

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The Shanghai Yangtze Grand Bridge is brightened with dazzling illuminationand looks more brilliant against the nocturnal sky, as over 1,200 road lampsbeing lightened in a successful overall trial illumination to present a spec-

tacular night scene of the newly-completed Shanghai Yangtze Grand Bridge,in Shanghai, east China, on 18 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

Triple Olympic and world champion sprinter Usain Bolt (R) receives theOrder of Jamaica from Jamaica’s Governor General Patrick Allen during

Jamaica’s annual National Honours and Awards ceremony in Kingston, on19 October, 2009. —XINHUA

A woman shows blue-and-white porcelain clocks at the exhibition hall of 2009China Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair in Jingdezhen, east China’s

Jiangxi Province, on 18 Oct, 2009. —XINHUA

NANNING, 20 Oct—The China-ASEAN FreeTrade Area (CAFTA) willbe established as plannedon 1 Jan, 2010, setting upa significant milestone inregional economic coop-eration, Chinese Vice Pre-mier Li Keqiang said hereon Tuesday.

Li made the remarks atthe opening ceremony ofthe China-ASEAN Busi-ness and Investment Sum-mit, which was held si-multaneously with theChina-ASEAN Exopfrom 20 to 24 Oct inNanning, capital city ofsouth China’s GuangxiZhuang Autonomous Re-gion.

Zero-tariff treatmentNEW YORK, 20 Oct—The New York Times plans to

cut 100 newsroom jobs, about 8 percent of its staff, byend of this year, according to a report available onMonday on its website.

The newspaper will offer buyouts to staff who vol-untarily leave the company, and it will lay off others ifthere are not enough volunteers, Executive Editor BillKeller said in an e-mail to his staff. Employees willhave 45 days to apply for a buyout.

The Times erased 100 newsroom jobs in the springof 2008, while other jobs were created so that the netreduction was smaller, says the report.

About 15 to 20 journalists lost their jobs in thatround of cuts, which was the first time in memory thathad happened.

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China, ASEAN trade ties to enternew stage as FTA established

will be realized for 90 per-cent products traded be-tween China and ASEANcountries when CAFTA isset up, while the servicetrade market between thetwo sides will be openedin a substantial way, ac-cording to Li.

“CAFTA marks thattrade ties between Chinaand ASEAN are to entera new stage. We shouldfurther promote mutualeconomic and trade coop-eration to a deeper level,as well as make joint ef-forts to boost the liberali-zation and facilitation of

trade and investment,” Lisaid.

ASEAN, or the Asso-ciation of Southeast AsianNations, groups Brunei,Cambodia, Indonesia,Laos, Malaysia, Myan-mar, the Philippines, Sin-gapore, Thailand and Vi-etnam with a total area of4.5 million square kilome-tres.

“We firmly opposetrade and investment pro-tectionism in any forms,in a purpose to advanceglobal economic recoveryand sustainable prosper-ity,” Li said.—Xinhua

ROME, 20 Oct—Thegovernments of Italy,Russia and Turkey signedon Monday a joint agree-ment for the constructionof the Samsun-Ceyhanpipeline.

The pipeline is a stra-tegic infrastructure whichaims to transport oil fromthe Black Sea port ofSamsun to the Mediterra-

RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 Oct—Brazil’s state-ownedenergy firm Petrobras saidon Monday its oil outputhit a record 2.003 millionbarrels per day in Septem-ber, up 1.2 percent fromAugust and 5.6 percentyear on year.

The figure surpassedthe previous mark set inMarch by 12,000 barrels.

Petrobras said the in-crease was a result of re-sumed exploiting activi-ties in the pre-salt area ofSantos Basin and in theCampos Basin, both lo-cated off Brazil’s south-eastern coast.

Xinhua

MOSCOW, 20 Oct—TheRussian economy is ex-pected to get back to thepre-crisis level in 2012,Russian news agenciesquoted a senior official assaying on Monday.

“According to our

Brazil’sPetrobras reportsrecord oil output

in September

Russian economy to reach pre-crisis level in 2012forecasts, expecting thebest, Russia will reach itspre-crisis level in terms ofgross domestic product(GDP) in early 2012,”Andrei Klepach, a deputyeconomics minister inRussia’s Ministry of Eco-

nomic Development andTrade, told a forum in thenorthern city of StPetersburg.

Russia’s GDP wouldcontract 8.5 percent thisyear from a year ago, hesaid, adding that the coun-try had witnessed a slightgrowth since June but itwas not stable enough.

Xinhua

File photo taken on 10 March, 2009 shows peoplewalking past the New York Times headquarters

building in New York. —XINHUA

New York Times will cut100 newsroom jobs

Italy, Russia, Turkey sign Samsun-Ceyhanpipeline agreement

nean hub of Ceyhanacross Turkey, avoidingshipping to cross the Is-tanbul Strait, according tolocal media.

The agreement wassigned by Turkey’s En-ergy minister TanerYildiz, Italy’s Industryminister Claudio Scajolaand Russia’s Deputy Pre-mier Igor Sechin and En-

ergy minister SergeiShmatko.

“The planet needs cli-mate-friendly energy in-frastructures and thispipeline is fundamental inthat it considerably re-duces the number of shipscrossing the Istanbulstrait, thus limiting seapollution,” said Scajola.

Xinhua

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A technician debugs devices at the unmanned earthquake monitor in TingriCounty, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, on 17 Oct, 2009.

China’s first unmanned earthquake monitor has been established and put intouse at 4255 metres above sea level on Mt Qomolangma.—XINHUA

Global IT spending to reboundin 2010

Militants bombanother

telecommunicationtower in

S PhilippinesCOTABATO, 20 Oct—Sus-

pected Al-Qaeda affiliatedmilitants bombed anothertelecommunication tower insouthern Philippines, Phil-ippine military officials saidon Tuesday.

Chief Supt Paisal Umpa,regional police commander,said that suspected membersof Abu Sayyaf detonated onMonday night a homemadebomb they planted on GlobeTelecom Inc’s cell site in thetownship of Parang in Sulu.No one was reported hurt orkilled in the incident.

Last week, suspected AbuSayaff militants bombed thecell site of Smart Commu-nications Inc, cutting offmobile communicationsand Internet service inSulu.—Xinhua

Brazil to hostAmazon summit

on climate changeSAO PAULO, 20 Oct—

Brazilian President LuizInacio Lula da Silva an-nounced on Monday inSao Paulo that leadersfrom Amazon countrieswould attend a summit inManaus on 26 Nov to forma common position at theupcoming UN climatechange conference in Co-penhagen. At a press con-ference at the Sao PauloIndustries Federationheadquarters, Lula said theCopenhagen meetingwould be “a golden oppor-tunity” to discuss the Ama-zon’s preservation amongother subjects involvingclimate change.—Xinhua

32 new planets foundoutside solar system

PARIS, 20 Oct—European astronomers announcedon Monday the discovery of 32 new planets outsideour solar system, bringing the number of knownexoplanets to more than 400.

The newly found planets include six that have a massof only a few times the size of the Earth, an encourag-ing sign in the quest for Earth-like worlds that couldharbour life.

The discovery was made with the so-called HighAccuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher or HARPS,a spectrograph for the European Southern Observato-ry’s (ESO) 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile.

“HARPS is a unique, extremely high precision in-strument that is ideal for discovering alien worlds,”said Stephane Udry, a researcher at the University ofGeneva in an ESO statement.—Xinhua

Sport plays major role in promotingworld peace, development

UNITED NATIONS, 20 Oct—China said here on Mon-day that sports has always played a major role in pro-moting world peace and development.

The statement came as Zhang Yesui, the Chinesepermanent representative to the United Nations, wastaking the floor at the General Assembly on the agendaitem “Sport for Peace and Development.”

“China believes that sport has always played a ma-jor catalytic role in mankind’s pursuit of peace anddevelopment,” Zhang said. “It deepens understandingand exchanges among different cultures and promotesdialogue and cooperation.”

“China appreciates efforts by the UN to integratethe values of sport with the goal of peace and devel-opment,” he said. “We support the (UN) secretary-general’s special advisor and the UN Sport Office intheir endeavour to mobilize all resources to incorpo-rate sport into activities and programmes for peace-keeping, development, education, health, gender equal-ity, and the safeguarding of the rights and interests ofpersons with disabilities, so as to further advance therole of sport in helping to achieve the UN MDGs (Mil-lennium Development Goals).”

Last year, the Chinese government successfullyhosted the 29th Summer Olympic Games and the 13th

Paralympic Games in Beijing, he said, adding that twoyears ago, Chinese delegation sponsored and tabledfor adoption an Olympic Truce resolution at the 62nd

Session of the General Assembly.—Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, 20Oct—Global informationtechnology (IT) spendingis expected to return togrowth in 2010, leavingthe worst year ever behind,market research firmGartner said on Monday.

According to Gartner’slatest forecasts, worldwideIT spending next year willclimb to 3.3 trillion USdollars, a 3.3-percent in-crease compared with2009.

Gartner also predicted

that global IT spending asa whole will see a 5.2-per-cent drop year-on-year in2009, and enterprise ITspending will fare worsewith a decline of 6.9 per-cent.

“While the IT industrywill return to growth in2010, the market will notrecover to 2008 revenuelevels before 2012,” PeterSondergaard, Gartner’sglobal head of research,cautioned in a statement.

“2010 is about balancing

the focus on cost, risk, andgrowth. For more than 50percent of CIOs (chief in-formation officers) the ITbudget will be 0 percent orless in growth terms. It willonly slowly improve in2011,” he said.

Analysts at Gartnernoted that emerging re-gions will resume stronggrowth in the comingyears and are expected tohave increasing influenceson the future of the IT in-dustry.—Xinhua

An audience appreciates an oil painting created byVietnamese artist in Nanning, southwest China’sGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on 19 Oct,

2009.—XINHUA

The giant luxurious Ro-Ro Passenger Vessel Bo Hai Bao Zhu (Pearl on BohaiSea), is launched at the wharf of the dockyard of Yellow Sea Shipbuilding Co Ltd,

in Rongcheng, east China’s Shandong Province, on 18 Oct, 2009. —XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, 20 Oct— The first Chinese-made largeamphibious aircraft is scheduled to take off in 2013,and ready for mass production in 2015, China Dailyreported on Tuesday.

The amphibious aircraft, about the size of an Air-bus 320, will handle emergency services and militarytasks that are difficult or impossible with current air-craft in China today, the newspaper quoted a seniorengineer of the manufacturer as saying.—Xinhua

China’swater

aircraft totake offin 2013

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NEWS ALBUM

Saxony’s State Opera is getting readyfor a world premiere of “UT-OP er,” awork inspired by 16th century Englishstatesman Thomas More’s “Utopia.”

The musical is being staged in thehigh-voltage lab, built in 1925, atDresden’s Technical University.

Swiss charge Brazilian with faking skinhead attack

Five persons made four solos and onetandem jump from a height of 25,000feet (around 7,600 meters)in the southside of Mt Qomolangma.

According to a press release from theevent organizer Explore Himalaya, inthe first batch, Tom Noonan (UnitedStates), Ian Bishop ( Australia) andKishan (India) made solo jumps at 10:30am. (GMT 0445). In the second batch,world record holder and also chiefcoordinator of the team, Wendy Smith(New Zealand) made a solo jump, while

Swiss prosecutors have charged aBrazilian woman with faking an attackby skinheads that she said made hermiscarry twins, officials said.

Prosecutors, however, are seekingonly a fine and not prison time if PaulaOliveira is convicted of deception ofjustice. They did not say how high thefine could be.

Police said Oliveira claimed she wasattacked outside a Zurich train station bythree skinheads, one with a Nazi symboltattooed on the back of his head, and thatthe purported assailants cut the initialsof Switzerland’s main right-wing partyinto her stomach and legs, causing her to

miscarry twins.Pictures of her scarred body appeared

in newspapers and Brazil’s PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemnedthe “remarkable violence against aBrazilian woman abroad.”

But after a series of tests, Swisspolice said Oliveira was not three monthspregnant as she claimed, and ZurichUniversity forensic medicine chiefWalter Baer called it a “textbook case”of self-mutilation.

Her passport and legal papers wereordered blocked so an investigatorscould examine whether she misled law-enforcement authorities. Prosecutorsfiled the charges, according to astatement.

Visitors admire the displayed terracotta warriors at the Houston Mu-

seum of Natural Science in Houston,the United States, on 18 Oct, 2009.The exhibition “Terra Cotta Warri-

ors: Guardians of China’s FirstEmperor” is concluded at the mu-seum on Sunday, receiving over

200,000 visitors duringits 5-month-long exhibition period.

Americans enchanted byancient Chinese warriors

Just like his first meeting with them,Nestor Dub still found the terra-cottafigures of ancient Chinese warriors andhorses before him fascinating and un-believable. These soldiers and horsesmade people feel insignificant and re-alize that in a different time, in a dif-ferent part of the world, “things thisgrand had existed,” said Dud, stand-ing before a bust of a terra-cotta sol-dier.

Dub was one of the more than200,000 Americans who visited the 5-month-long terra-cotta exhibition in theHouston Museum of Natural Science,which ended here.

A Fox News grab showing rescuersgathering around a homemade balloonafter it landed in a field. A six-year-oldColorado boy feared to have fallen tohis death from a homemade helium

balloon was found hiding in hisgarage, ending a televised drama that

transfixed the nation.

Five persons jump from 25,000 feet in Mt QomolangmaSkydive

Ganesh Pandey (Nepal) made a tandemjump with TomNoonan(USA) at 12:30am (GMT 0645).

The jumps were made from TaraAir’s Pilatus Porter aircraft atShyangboche, some 150 km east ofNepali capital Kathmandu.

Krishana Aryal, the skydivecoordinator of the event organizerExplore Himalaya, told Xinhua onFriday that the five landed atShyangboche area with an altitude of12,500 feet (around 3,800 metres).

PRINCETON, 20 Oct—US scientists report evi-dence that monkeys, likehumans, experience anemotional response toslightly unrealistic imagesof themselves. The emo-tional response was named“the uncanny valley” in1970 by Masahiro Mori, aJapanese researcher of ro-botics. Mori found peopleenjoy looking at humanimages that are highly re-alistic or highly unrealis-tic. When examining hu-man images that are gen-erally realistic, but also

TOKYO, 20 Oct—Toyota Motor Corp has unveileda more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model thanits hit Prius, underlining the Japanese automaker’s am-bitions to make green technology more widespread.

The “Sai” sedan is Toyota’s second hybrid-onlymodel after the Prius. Toyota offers hybrid versionsof other car models

Sai, which means “talent” and “colour,” will be soldonly in Japan, starting on 7 Dec, targeting monthlysales of 3,000 vehicles. No global sales plans havebeen decided, the world’s biggest automaker said onTuesday.

Hybrids get better mileage than regular gasolineengine cars by switching between an electric motorand a gas engine. Other automakers are also beefingup their hybrid lineups, including hybrid-only mod-els.

Internet

Journalists view the Toyota Motor Corp’s hybridsedan ‘Sai’ during the news conference in Tokyo,Japan, on 20 Oct, 2009. Toyota is coming out with

a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only modelthan its popular Prius, the Sai.—INTERNET

MANHATTAN, 20 Oct—US scientists say they’vediscovered human periph-eral vision is more impor-tant than central vision fordetermining what type ofscene is being viewed.

Two Kansas State Uni-versity psychology re-searchers say the mostsurprising part of theirstudy is that they didn’tanticipate peripheral vi-sion to be so important forperceiving scenes.

OTTAWA, 20 Oct—Three workers were in-jured, one seriously, whena boiler exploded at aheating plant in the heartof Canada’s capital Ot-tawa on Monday.

One man has second-degree burns to 50 per-cent of his body and a se-vere head laceration. Heis reportedly in seriouscondition in hospital, theCanadian BroadcastingCorporation (CBC) citedparamedics at the scene assaying.

Another man has first-degree burns and is in sta-ble condition while thethird has minor injuries,the paramedics said.

Firefighters evacuated27 people from the heat-ing plant, which suppliesheat to buildings on Par-liament Hill.

A hazardous materialsteam has been brought into make sure no toxic sub-stances were released bythe blast.—Xinhua

Toyota unveils new hybrid-onlymodel

Study shows peripheral vision importanceAssistant Professor

Lester Loschky andgraduate student AdamLarson said they are at-tempting to determinehow people understandand label what they see.

“We found that yourperipheral vision is im-portant for taking in thegist of a scene and thatyou can remove the cen-tral portion of an image,where your visual acuityis best, and still do just

fine at identifying thescene,” Larson said.

Loschky and Larsonalso showed people’s cen-tral vision benefited morefrom just a few additionalpixels than did their pe-ripheral vision. That, theysaid, suggests how the ar-eas of our eyes known asour visual fields use infor-mation differently. Thestudy is detailed in theJournal of Vision.

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Monkeys found to have human-likeresponse

have unrealistic or dis-torted features, Mori foundpeople experience a feel-ing of revulsion.

The “valley,” scientistssaid, is a reference to thedrop in positive emotionalresponses when peopleview the slightly unrealis-tic images of humans.

In the new study,Princeton University As-sistant Professor AsifGhazanfar and researcherShawn Steckenfingerstudied the responses ofmacaque monkeys as theyviewed computer-gener-

ated images of monkeysthat were realistic, but lessthan perfect. The scien-tists found the monkeysaverted their gaze and be-came fearful when shownthe close-to-but-not real-istic images.

The researchers saytheir results are the firstsuch findings in any ani-mal, other than human,that show there is a bio-logical basis for the phe-nomenon. The study ap-pears in the Proceedingsof the National Academyof Sciences.—Internet

Three injuredas boiler

explodes inOttawa

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Myanma Railways of theMinistry of RailTransportation, Kanma-Thayet railroad section ofKyangin-Pakokku RailRoad Project wasinaugurated on 17October.

Before theinauguration of the newrailroad section, the mainthreat to the developmentof the region was

Article & Photos: Thant Zin Tun (Kyemon)

Merchant U WinAung, Thayet.

Daw Sein Ngwe, Pazinneik Village, KanmaTownship.

Teacher Daw Wah Wah Khine, Thayet.

Ma Aye Aye Nwe and party from Thayet BEHS (1).

transportation issue. Themotorway and waterwaywere used for 35-mileKanma-Thayet trip.Travelling throughwaterway was hard inrainy season. There wouldbe cost K 2000 such ashort trip because the roadwas rough.

The locals couldonly generate a littleincome from theirseasonal fruit plantations

as the transportationcharge was high. Thanksto the new railroad, thefee for a passenger willonly cost K 250 for thewhole Kanma-Thayettrip. So, the locals cannow enjoy the chance totransport their productseasily with low-cost.

Attending to theinstructions of the Head ofState, the development ofthe west region ofAyeyawady was set as a

priority and Pathein-Monywa motorway hadbeen constructed. So, morepassengers and goods canbe transported in a shortrange of time.Kyangin-Pakokku railroad is asection of Pathein-Kyangin-Pakokku-Kalayrailroad and the entirerailroad sections will becompleted soon.

Kyemon news crewhas heard the heartfelt

voices from all of the localpeople who attended theinauguration of the newrailroad section.

Teacher Daw WahWah Khine of Thayet saidthat they had mainly usedthe waterway before thecompletion of the newrailroad section and she isthanking to the governmentfor easy transport.

Merchant U WinAung of Thayet also saidthat the using ofwaterway and motorwaymade the commodityflow delayed, caused theaccidental losses of thegoods and theinauguration of the newrailroad section can leadto economic upturn of thelocal merchants.Students of No (1) ThayetBasic Education HighSchool in Ma Aye AyeNwe and party who were

on the special train forthe opening ceremonysaid, “We have only seenthe train while we visitedPyay with our families.

with Kyemon news crewwas a farmer nearThayettaw Rail Station,Pazinneik Villager DawSein Ngwe. She said that

The happy faces ofall the attendees weresupposed to be symbolsof welcoming theemergence of newrailroad.

There are six railstations, 131 under-40 ftbridges, three 40-180 ftbridges and one 500-1000ft bridge along theKanma-Thayet railroadsection.

So, the localpeople should enjoy thefruitful results of theemergence of newrailroads contributed bythe government. Localstoo are now responsiblefor preservation of thefacility.

*****Translation: HKA

Kyemon (19-10-2009)********

Now, we have alreadybeen enjoying the tasteof riding a train and weall thank those whoconstructed the railroad.”

The last who met

she is now at the age over70, she haven’t evenknown before what thetrain is and she will take atleast a trip by train whileshe lives.

YANGON, 20 Oct—The final match and prizepresentation of U 16ASEAN Women's FootballTournament hosted byMyanmar took place at theYouth Training Centre(Thuwunna), here on 18

Prize presentation of U 16 ASEAN Women’s Football Tournament held

October evening, attendedby Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen WinMyint. The Commanderand guests watched the final

match between Australiaand Thailand.

After that, Vice-Presidents of ASEANFootball Federation andPresident of MyanmarFootball Federationpresented the prizes to the

winning teams andindividual prizes to referees.

Afterwards, thecommander presentedindividual gold medals toplayers of first prizewinning team andPresident of ASEANFootball Federation gavethe championship cup.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct —Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint cordially greeted contestants fromSagaing Division who are taking part in the 17th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions at No(7) Transit Center in Nay Pyi Taw this evening.

Next, the minister presented cash assistance for thecontestants through member of the panel of judges (modernsong) Yaynatha Soe Hlaing.

MNA

Sports Minister meetscontestants from Sagaing Div

Commander Maj-Gen Win Myint presenting individual gold medals toplayers of first prize winning team at the final match and prize

presentation of U 16 ASEAN Women’s Football Tournament.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thura AyeMyint presentscash assistancefor the contest-ants through

member of thepanel of judges(modern song)Yaynatha Soe

Hlaing.MNA

Kanma-Thayet railroad section making west Ayeyawady dwellers smile

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NAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct —The 17thMyanmar Traditional Cultural Perform-ing Arts Competitions went on at thedesignated venues here today.

Among the audience were Minis-

17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural PerformingArts Competitions continue

ter for Communications, Posts and Tel-egraphs Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, Ministerfor Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi, Ministerfor Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint,Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint,Deputy Minister for Social Welfare, Re-

lief and Resettlement Brig-Gen KyawMyint, Deputy Minister for Rail Trans-portation U Pe Than, member of CivilService Selection and Training Board UHla Myint Oo, Secretary of Work Com-mittee for Organizing the CompetitionsDirector-General U Yan Naing Oo ofFine Arts Department, members of workcommittee and subcommittees, membersof the central panel of judges, membersof the panel of judges from states anddivisions, managers and contestants.

Fourteen contestants took part inthe basic education level girls’ classicalsong contest (aged 10-15) held at theassembly of the University of Agricul-ture at 9 a.m. In the afternoon, fivecontestants participated in the amateurlevel (first class) men’s classical song

contest.Fourteen contestants competed in

the professional level men’s modern songcontest held at No (7) Transit Center inNay Pyi Taw at 9 a.m. In the afternoon,

fifteen contestants took part in the ama-teur level (second class) women’s mod-ern song contest.

Basic education level girls’ danc-ing contest (aged 10-15) took place atthe convocation of the University of

Veterinary Science at 9 a.m. with theparticipation of 25 contestants. In theafternoon, fourteen contestants partici-pated in amateur level (second class)men’s dancing contest.

At the assembly hall of the Univer-sity of Agriculture, leader of panel ofjudges Guitar U Pe Win and party super-vised the participation of 4 contestants inbasic education level (aged between 5and 10) boys’ guitar contest , 3 contest-ants in the basic education level (agedbetween 5 and 10) girls’ guitar contest, 2contestants in basic education level (agedbetween 15 and 20) boys’ guitar contest,4 contestants in basic education level(aged between 15 and 20) girls’ guitarcontest, 4 contestants in the amateur level(first class) men’s guitar contest and 4

contestants in the amateur level (firstclass) women’s guitar contest.

At the hall of Agricultural Re-search Department, leader of panel ofjudges U Ni Ni and party supervised theparticipation of 5 contestants in the ba-sic education level (aged between 5 and10) boys’ piano contest and 5 contest-ants in the amateur level (second class)women’s piano contest.

At the hall of Agricultural Re-search Department, leader of panel ofjudges U Sa Ba Htay supervised theparticipation of 8 contestants in the ama-

teur level (second class) men’s flute con-test, 4 contestants in the higher educationlevel men’s flute contest and 7 contestantsin the amateur level (first class) men’sflute contest.

At the training hall of AgriculturalResearch Department, leader of panel ofjudges U Sein Sa Tin and party super-vised the participation of 3 troupes in thebasic education level (aged between 5and 10) boys’ orchestra troupe contestand 4 troupes in the basic education level(aged between 10 and 15) boys’ orches-tra troupe contest.—MNA

Ma Myat Eaindray Htet fromShan State participates in dancing

contest.MNA

Ma Hnin Ei Khine fromMandalay Division participates

in guitar contest.MNA

Mg SoeNyi Nyi

andpartyfrom

Ayeya-wady

Divisionpartici-pate inboy’s

orches-tra

troupecontest.

MNA

U Tin

Shwe

from

Mon

State

partici-

pates in

guitar

contest.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi enjoys the presentations of contestants.MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thein Zaw enjoys the presentations of contest-ants.—MNA

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YANGON, 20 Oct—The work coordinationmeeting of AyeyawadyDivision Court and dis-trict/township courts was

Ayeyawady Division Court holds coord meeting

NAY PYI TAW, 20Oct—Insurgent terroristsare constantly commit-ting destructive acts al-though the governmentis fulfilling requirementsof improving transportfacilities in all parts ofthe country. Threebridges on Papun-Kataingti-Kamamaung

Insurgents destroy three bridges onPapun-Kataingti-Kamamaung

motor road

9th Plenary Meeting of 6th

47-member SSMNC on 7-8 NovNAY PYI TAW, 20

Oct—Members of theState Sangha MahaNayaka Committee areinvited to come to theKaba Aye Hill inMayangon Township on3 November (2nd Wan-ing of Tazaungmon) toattend the 9th Plenary

meeting of 6th 47-mem-ber State Sanggha MahaNayaka Committee.

The meeting willbe held on 7 and 8 No-vember (on 6th and 7thWaning of Tazaungmon,1371 ME) at Kaba AyeHill.

The Religious Af-

fairs Department has sentthe invitations to themembers of the commit-tee, and asked them toarrive at Kaba Aye Hillon 3 November (2ndWaning of Tazaungmon)if they do not get the invi-tations in time.

MNA

Minister Dr Kyaw Myint enjoys the performance of contestants.

MNA

U Pyay

Phyo Lin

from

Taninthayi

Division

partici-

pates in

song

contest.

MNA

Contestants and managers from States/Divisions enjoy the performance of contestants.—MNA

U Kyaw

Ko Latt

from

Magway

Division

partici-

pates in

oboe

contest.

MNA

Mg Ye

Min Htet

from

Bago

Division

partici-

pates in

piano

contest.

MNA

held at the division courtin Pathein on 16 Octo-ber.

Ayeyawady Divi-sion Judge U Myint Thein

gave necessary instruc-tions on judicial mattersand heard reports pre-sented by those present.

MNA

motor road betweenMahtaw and Kataingtivillages in Papun town-ship, Kayin State wereburnt to the ground byterrorist insurgents on20 September.

Officials of RoadConstruction SpecialGroup-9 of the PublicWorks in cooperation

with local authorities andlocal people repaireddamaged bridges not tocause traffic delay. As thethree damaged bridgeswere repaired completelyon 13 October, it is lerntthat the traffic has re-turned to normal as fromthe day.

MNA

YANGON, 20 Oct— Un-der the programme of In-ternational Olympic Com-mittee Solidarity 2009,Ministry of Sports,

National level Sports Management Course3/2009 opened

Myanmar Olympic Com-mittee and InternationalOlympic Committeejointly-organized nationallevel Sports Management

Course 3/2009 at Sportsand Physical EducationInstitute (Kyaikkasansports ground) on 18 Oc-tober morning.

On behalf of the Chair-man of Myanmar Olym-pic Committee Ministerfor Sports, Director-Gen-eral U Thaung Htaik ofSports and Physical Edu-cation Department madean opening speech.

A total of 50 trainees

are attending the coursethat lasts up to 23 Octo-ber.

The director-general at-tended the opening cer-emony of 5th Inter-Stateand Division Men’s,Women’s Track & Fieldevent at Youth Training

Centre (Thuwunna). Hepresented championshipshield and duplicate shieldto Bago Division womenteam, to Yangon Divisionmen’s team and combinedchampionship shield toYangon Division team.

MNA

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L & F Minister meets departmentalofficials, local people in Myeik

YANGON, 20 Oct —Minister for Livestockand Fisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein metwith departmentalofficials and local peoplein Myeik on 18 Octoberand fulfilled the require-ments for development ofthe region.

The minister held ameeting with departmental

officials in TaninthayiDivision, businessmenfrom the fishery sector andowners of the cold storagefactories at the office of theHead of TaninthayiDivision FisheryDepartment in Myeik. Inthe afternoon, the ministerwent to Ingamaw ModelVillage and SandawutVillage in Myeik District

and met with local people,members of social organi-zations and local people.

On 17 October, theminister attended an ex-tempore talk on Englishat Pale Yadana Hall inMyeik. Students frombasic and highereducation levelparticipated in the talks.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein meeting with departmentalofficials and businessmen from the fishery sector.—L&F

Ministers U Aung Thaung and Vice-Admiral Soe Thein view themachine parts produced by the Ministry of Industry-2.—MNA

Meeting on industrial development heldNAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct –

An industrial developmentwork coordination meetingof Myanmar IndustrialDevelopment WorkCommittee took place atthe Ministry of Industry-2here this morning.Chairman of MyanmarIndustrial DevelopmentCommittee Minister forIndustry-1 U Aung Thaungand Chairman of MyanmarIndustrial DevelopmentWork Committee Minister

for Industry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein spokeon the occasion.

Next, Deputy Ministerfor Industry-2 Lt-Col KhinMaung Kyaw, DeputyMinister for RailTransportation Thura UThaung Lwin anddepartmental headsdiscussed matters relatedto industrial development.

Chairmen andsecretaries of industrialzone supervisory

committee andmanagement committeealso reported on industrialdevelopment matters.Minister Vice-Admiral SoeThein gave a concludingremark.

After the meeting, theministers and officialsviewed machine partsincluding engines,gearboxes, pistons andcasting parts producedby the Ministry ofIndustry-2.—MNA

YANGON, 20 Oct—Author Khin Maung Nyo(Economics) will give talksat Wise International Hall,at Room No.1009, on the

Talks on money matters on 24 Oct10th Floor of YuzanaTower, at the corner ofKaba Aye Pagoda Roadand Shwe Gondaing Road,Bahan Township, here on

24 October. The topic ofthe talk is Money Mattersand those interested maydial 556183, 095157032.

MNA

Regional development tasks performed in Natogyi TspNAY PYI TAW, 20

Oct—Deputy Minister forTransport Col Nyan TunAung on 12 October madea speech in meeting withwith local people fromMagyikan model Villageof Natogyi Township andhanded over K 10 millionfor construction ofMagyikan model villageBasic Education MiddleSchool (branch) donatedby U Kyaw Kyaw Moe, UKyaw Kyaw Oo and wife

Daw Ei Ei San family(Kyaw San Co).

Afterwards, Donor UKyaw Kyaw Moeexplained the purpose ofdonation. The deputyminister accepted K 10million donated by U KyawKyaw Moe and presentedK 50,000 for teachers ofthe school throughheadmaster U Aung Kyaw.Afterwards, townselder UYe Kyi spoke words ofthanks. The deputy minister

and donors viewedconstruction of one-storeybuilding measuring 80 feetby 28 feet.

The deputy ministermet with local people fromMagyikon Village anddonated 75 bags of cementfor construction of rainwater tank for the primaryschool.

Afterwards, the deputyminister met with localpeople from Yonbingonvillage.—MNA

Third round of Myanmar Golf Tour 2009-2010 on 29 OctYANGON, 20 Oct—

Jointly Organized byMyanmar GolfFederation and MyanmarPGA and mainlysponsored by Air BaganLtd, Air Bagan Open GolfChampionships, the thirdround of Myanmar GolfTour 2009-2010 will beheld at PyinOoLwin Golf

Club in PyinOoLwin ofMandalay Division from29 October to 1November on a grandscale.

Participants must beprofessional level andamateur level (Handicap0-12) golfers.

The tournament willbe held in compliance

with St Andrews rules andregional regulations andhandsome prizes will beawarded to golfers whowin Hole-In-One prizes.

Golfers may registerat PyinOoLwin Golf Cluband Ph-095017049 and092037671 not later thanat 2 pm on 27 October.

Air Bagan Ltd is main

Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint presents a gift toLaotian Prime Minister Mr Bouasone Bouphavanh.—SPORTS

(NEWS REPORTED)

sponsor andInternational BeveragesTrading Co., Ltd (IBTC),KBZ Bank Ltd, HotelYangon, KM GolfCentre, HAN GolfMasters Pte Ltd,Myanmar Thiha TradingCo., Ltd, Bay of BengalResort (BOB), (INAX,T-Home), CEPSALubricantes, ACCELInternational Co., Ltd(Canon), Impearl JadePurified Drinking Water,Lifeline Co., Ltd, GPWatch and PyinOoLwinGolf Club are co-sponsors.

MGF

Ma Phyu Phyu Kyaw of Kayin State in singingcontest. (News on page-8)

MNA

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KUWAIT CITY, 20Oct—OPEC memberKuwait plans to spend 18billion dinars (63 billiondollars) over the next fouryears on 250 massiveprojects, a newspaperreported on Tuesday.

The projects areincluded in a four-yearprogramme approved bythe cabinet on Mondayand will be sent toparliament later this week,Al-Watan newspaperreported, citing

LONDON, 20 Oct—One of Britain’s mostprestigious museumssaid Tuesday it hadnothing to hide, afterChina announced itwould dispatch experts torecord relics abroad itsays were looted fromBeijing’s Old SummerPalace.

Museums, librariesand private collections inthe United States,Britain, France and Japanwill be targeted by theinitiative, according tothe director of Beijing’sYuanmingyuan, or OldSummer Palace, quotedin the China Daily.

China views theburning and pillaging ofthe Yuanmingyuan in

The general view shows the ruins of theGuanshuifa Fountain at the Old Summer Palace

in Beijing, February 2009.INTERNET

Local residents clear snow on the road in Hexigten Banner, north China’sInner Mongolia Region, on 20 Oct, 2009. A snowfall hit the area on

Tuesday.—INTERNET

LONDON, 20 Oct —The national defici tballooned last month,reaching a record forSeptember as the publicpurse buckled under theweight of a s teeprecession, according toofficial data publishedon Tuesday.

The data, publishedby the Office for

Kuwait plans to spend 63 bln dlson mega projects

government sources.The daily did not

name any project butKuwait, awash with cashfrom oil revenues, hasbeen planning a newbusiness hub dubbed SilkCity as well as a newmodern harbour, arailway and metrosystem.

The plan which runsfrom the current 2009/2010 fiscal year until2012/2013 will focus onboosting the private

sector ’s role in thedomestic economy.

Kuwait’s privatebusiness accounts for justa quarter of grossdomestic product.

The emirate isestimated to have foreignassets of close to 230billion dollars, run by itssovereign wealth fund,despite sharp losses inthe past year due to theglobal economicdownturn.

Internet

Top Opel manager warns of cash crisis

Flags outside theOpel car factory

building in Antwerp inSeptember. The top

manager at strugglingGerman carmaker Opelwarned it could run out

of cash within threemonths unless a deal to

sell it off to theCanadian group Magnagoes ahead quickly.—

INTERNET

FRANKFURT, 20 Oct—The top manager atstruggling Germancarmaker Opel warnedon Tuesday it could runout of cash within threemonths unless a deal tosell it off to the Canadiangroup Magna goes aheadquickly.

Opel “only hasliquidity until mid-January 2010, that meansthe decision must bemade as quickly aspossible,” Fred Irwin,head of the Opel Trustwhich now manages thecarmaker, toldDeutschlandfunk radio.

Opel’s parentcompany, the USautomaker GeneralMotors, is expected thisweek to sign a dealselling a 55-percent stakein Opel, which includesVauxhall in Britain, toMagna and the state-owned Russian bankSberbank.

But on Friday, theEuropean Commissionvoiced serious doubtsabout whether Germanaid to help the dealsucceed conformed toEuropean Unioncompetition regulations.

Berl in, keen toprotect as many of the25,000 Opel jobs inGermany as possible,has offered up to 4.5billion euros (6.7 billiondollars) in state aid.

A Germangovernnment spo-kesmansaid on Monday that hedid not expect the EU tothrow up “fundamental”problems for the sale.

“It is not in OpelTrust’s interest torelaunch the biddingprocess,” Irwin added onTuesday. GM’smanagement board“should meet today(Tuesday) or tomorrow”and consider the matterin a pragmatic manner,

he said.About half of Opel

and its sister brandVauxhall’s workforce islocated in Germany, withthe rest in other countriesincluding Belgium,Britain, Poland andSpain.

Internet

Baker Greggs says it will create6,000 jobs

The baker Greggs, a

seller of sandwiches

and pastries, has

announced a plan to

open at least 600

shops in Britain in

the coming years,

creating 6,000 jobs.

INTERNET

LONDON, 20 Oct—The baker Greggs, a seller ofsandwiches and pastries, announced a plan Tuesdayto open at least 600 shops in Britain in the comingyears, creating 6,000 jobs.

The group also said in a management statementthat sales so far this year had increased 3.8 percentcompared with the same period of 2008.

“The growth opportunities within (Britain) aresignificant,” it said. “It remains our belief that a further600-plus shops can be opened in the medium termwith little cannibalisation from our existing shops. Thiswill take our shop numbers above 2,000, making usaccessible to many more customers and creating some6.000 new jobs.”

The company said it hoped to open 50-60 newshops in 2011 and then at least 70 per year starting in2011.—Internet

Public finances slump to record deficit

A model displays a

creation by Japanese

designer Aya

Furuhashi at a

fashion show during

Japan Fashion Week

in Tokyo 19 October,

2009.

INTERNET

National Statistics, is amajor headache forPrime Minister GordonBrown, whose Labourgovernment is alreadytrailing the oppositionConservatives before anelection due next year.

The public sector netborrowing requirement— the government’spreferred measure of

public finances — hit14.8 billion pounds inSeptember, the ONSsaid in a statement.

That was almostdouble the 8.7 billionpounds in the samemonth one year ago,but marginally less thanthe 15 billion poundsforecast by analysts.

T h e g o v e r n m e n thas now borrowed atotal of 77.3 bi l l ionpounds in the first sixmonths of the 2009-10financial year, whichbegan at the start ofApril.

That is the highesthalf-year PSNBR figuresince records beganback in 1946, accordingto the ONS.

Internet

British Museum relaxed about Chinese relics’ search1860 by British andFrench armies as one ofits greatest humiliations.

The British Museumin London, which has asubstantial collection ofChinese artifacts, said it

did not believe theChinese initiative wasaimed at seeking thereturn of any items, butsimply to cataloguethem.

Internet

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Several visitors take souvenir photos of the florid float of Soaring Shanghai,which participated in the grand parade in celebration of the 60th anniversaryof the founding of the People’s Republic of China on the Tian’anmen Squareon the Oct 1st National Day, and now makes presence on the Oriental PearlSquare to start its 1-month-long public show to local citizens, in Shanghai,

east China, on 18 Oct, 2009.—XINHUA

Lifestyle, not alcohol, may stem decline

Study looks at malariaparasite genetics

BALTIMORE, 20 Oct—US scientists say they’ve foundcreation of a broadly protective malaria vaccine maybe difficult due to genetic differences in most malariaparasites.

Researchers at the University of Maryland Schoolof Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development saidthey charted the extreme genetic differences that oc-cur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasitein the world.

The findings, the scientists said, suggest develop-ing a broadly protective vaccine for malaria might bechallenging because the parasite’s genetic makeup isso variable and constantly changing. If a vaccine tar-gets only a single protein in the parasite, and there aremany different versions of that protein, the parasitebecomes a moving target for vaccine development.

Drug-resistant malaria has been a major barrier totreating the disease, and the new study suggests “vac-cine-resistant” malaria might also become a problem.

The research led by Assistant Professor ShannonTakala appears in the Journal Science TranslationalMedicine.—Internet

Tulane doctor killscancer cells with cold

NEW ORLEANS, 20 Oct—A surgeon at New Orleans’Tulane University said he used extreme cold to freezetumors and kill cancer cells inside of a patient.

Tulane urologist Dr Benjamin Lee said instead ofusing conventional surgical methods to deal with JosephDavis’ kidney cancer, he used specially-designed in-struments to freeze the patient’s tumors using a mix-ture of nitrogen and argon, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune said on Monday.

The use of the tiny instruments meant Lee only hadto make an incision in Davis’ midsection no larger thana quarter.

Davis, 65, said he was shocked with how much couldbe done to aid his body through such a small incision.

“I was amazed at what they could do through thatopening with those tools … to manipulate the tools andnot destroy you in the process,” Davis said of the tech-nique used in his 30 March procedure.

Unidentified experts told the Times-Picayune that atypical kidney cancer surgery results in a foot-long in-cision in the patient and occasionally the removal of arib.—Internet

Vietnamese PM expects morecooperation with China’s

Guangdong provinceHANOI, 20 Oct—Vietnamese Prime Minister

Nguyen Tan Dung said here on Monday that he ex-pects Vietnam could strengthen all-round coopera-tion with the Guangdong Province of China.

Dung made the remarks when meeting with HuangHuahua, governor of south China’s Guangdong Prov-ince who is leading a business delegation to visit Vi-etnam.

Dung said Vietnamese provinces and cities havemade good cooperation with China’s GuangdongProvince in recent years, bringing benefits to the twosides.

Dung hoped the two sides could enhance coopera-tion in trade, investment, tourism and education, con-tributing to the Vietnam-China comprehensive stra-tegic cooperative partnership.

Huang said Guangdong and Vietnam boast of greatpotentials in cooperation. During this visit, theGuangdong business delegation is expected to signcontracts valued at 1.8 billion US dollars with Viet-namese partners, he said.

Huang hoped the visit could push forward coop-eration between Guangdong and Vietnam to a newlevel.—Xinhua

FERRARA, 20 Oct—Ital-ian researchers say life-style related characteris-tics — rather than alco-hol—may affect func-tional decline in drinkers.

The study, published inthe Journal of the Ameri-can Geriatrics Society,finds participants con-suming moderate levels ofalcohol had the lowest in-cidence of mobility limi-tation and disability.

However, after adjust-ing for demographic char-acteristics, moderate alco-hol intake was still asso-ciated with reduced riskcompared to never or oc-casional consumption, butadjusting for lifestyle re-

lated variables substan-tially reduced the strengthof the associations.

The study of more than3,000 adults ages 70-79found the association be-tween light-to-moderatealcohol consumption andreduced risk of functionaldecline over time did nothold up after adjustmentswere made for character-istics related to lifestyle— in particular physicalactivity, body weight,education and income.

Given the risk of alco-hol-dependence and the

health hazards associatedwith excessive alcoholconsumption, the re-searchers advise caution.

“From this point ofview, in our opinion, life-style recommendationsfor the prevention ofdisability should be basedon interventions proven tobe safe and effective, suchas weight control andphysical exercise,” studyauthor Dr Cinzia Maraldi,of the University ofFerrara in Italy said ina statement.

Internet

Lower income linked to poorerbreast cancer survival

BEIJING, 20 Oct—A newstudy using data on over100,000 US women diag-nosed with breast cancerbetween 1998 and 2002found that lower-incomewomen appear less likelyto survive the disease thantheir richer counterparts.

The study, in the onlinejournal BMC Cancer,found that those living ineconomically depressedareas had poorer survivalrates through the end of2005. Considering socio-economics alone, womenin the poorest areas werealmost one-third morelikely to die during that

period than those living inthe highest-income areas.

When other factors wereweighed, the timing of awoman’s diagnosis seemedto explain much of the in-come gap.

It found that women inlower-income areas wereless likely to receive radia-tion as part of their firstcourse of treatment: 55 per-cent to 58 percent ofwomen in the two higher-income groups receivedradiation, versus 48 percentin each of the two lower-income groups. Radiationis typically recommendedto destroy any remaining

cancer cells after a breasttumor, or the breast itself,has been surgically re-moved.

According to study au-thor Dr Xue Qin Yu, a re-searcher at Cancer CouncilNew South Wales, in KingsCross, the findings point toa need for “targeted inter-ventions” to increase breastcancer screening and earlytreatment of lower-incomewomen. That, the re-searcher said, could includeeducation for women andmore government fundingof screening programmesfor low-income or unin-sured women.—Xinhua

Mexico fells trees to save butterfly reserve

In this photo taken on 16 Oct, 2009, RosendoCaro, Director of Mexico’s Monarch butterfly

reserve, stands in front of a group of trees severlydamaged by the bark beetle, outside of the reserve

near Ocampo, Mexico.—INTERNET

MEXICO CITY, 20 Oct—Authorities who havestruggled to stop illegallogging in Mexico’sfamed monarch butterflyreserve now are cutting

down thousands of treesthemselves to fight an un-precedented infestation ofdeadly bark beetles.

Biologists and parkworkers are racing to fell

as many as 9,000 infectedfir trees and bury or ex-tract infested wood be-fore the orange-and-black monarchs start ar-riving in late October tospend the winter bunchedtogether on branches, car-peting the trees.

Environmentalists saythe forest canopy of tallfirs is essential to shelterthe butterflies on their an-nual migration throughMexico, the United Statesand Canada. The journeyis tracked by scholars andschoolchildren acrossNorth America and drawstens of thousands of tour-ists to the reserve, a UNHeritage site.—Internet

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Second wave of A/H1N1infections hits China

BEIJING, 20 Oct— China is experiencing a secondround of A/H1N1 flu infection, as recent infectionsare more widespread and increasing rapidly, said ZengGuang, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center forDisease Control and Prevention, was quoted by ChinaDaily on Tuesday. China has reported two deaths fromA/H1N1 influenza, an 18-year-old woman in Tibetwho died on 4 Oct, 4 and a 43-year-old woman whodied last Friday in Qinghai. Zeng said as seasonschange, A/H1N1 infections slow in the southern hemi-sphere, while they rocket in the northern hemisphere. The number of H1N1 cases reported daily nowequals the number of cases reported during 10 days oflast month, he said. The Chinese mainland had reportedmore than 26,300 cases of A/H1N1 influenza as oflast Friday. About 86 percent had already recovered. More than 17,000 of the cases were reported in Sep-tember alone. A/H1N1 infections are spreading tosmall and medium-sized cities, as well as central andwest China, Zeng said.—Xinhua

Internet surfing found to haveboosted brain function for elders

LOS ANGELES, 20 Oct—Scientists at University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles(UCLA), have found thatweb surfing for middle-aged and seniors with littleInternet experience haveboosted their brainfunction.“We found that forolder people with minimalexperience, performingInternet searches for evena relatively short period oftime can change brain ac-tivity patterns and enhancefunction,” said study authorDr Gary Small, professor ofpsychiatry at the Semel In-stitute for Neuroscienceand Human Behavior at

UCLA.Dr Small and his team

selected 24 volunteers be-tween the ages of 55 and78. Half of the participantshad Internet experience,while the other half hadvery little experience.

After Internet training,participants with minimalonline experience dis-played brain activation pat-terns very similar to those

seen in the group of expe-rienced Internet users afterjust a short period of time.“The results suggest thatsearching online may be asimple form of brain exer-cise that might be em-ployed to enhance cogni-tion in older adults,” saidTeena D Moody, thestudy’s first author and asenior research associate atUCLA.—Xinhua

A laboratory technician is seen at a Sanofi-Pasteur production plant manu-facturing Panenza, a vaccine for the H1N1 flu virus, in Val-de-Reuil, west-

ern Paris, on 19 Oct, 2009. France will begin vaccinating key medicalworkers against swine flu on 20 Oct, 2009.—INTERNET

Study shows ancientmeat-butchering clues

US study shows protein may predictheart attack, early death

TEL AVIV, 20 Oct— Is-raeli and US scientistsstudying an ancient ani-mal bone found in an Is-raeli cave have discoverednew clues concerning thehistory of meat butcher-ing. Scientists from TelAviv University and theUniversity of Arizona saidtheir research is providingnew insights about how,where and when man’scommunal habits ofbutchering meat devel-oped, and they’re chang-ing the way anthropolo-gists, zoologists and ar-chaeologists think aboutevolutionary develop-ment, economics and so-cial behaviors through themillennia.

The bone and other ob-jects unearthed at QesemCave in Israel suggest thatduring the late LowerPaleolithic period (be-tween 400,000 and

200,000 years ago), peo-ple hunted and sharedmeat differently than theydid in later times.

Instead of a prey’s car-cass being prepared byjust one or two people —which would result inclear and repetitive cut-ting marks — the marksfound on the bone suggestsomething else.

“The cut marks we arefinding are both moreabundant and more ran-domly oriented than thoseobserved in later times,such as the Middle andUpper Paleolithic peri-ods,” Tel Aviv UniversityProfessor Avi Gophersaid. “What this couldmean is that either oneperson from the clanbutchered the group’smeat in a few episodesover time, or multiple per-sons hacked away at it intandem.”—Internet

First case of H1N1 fluconfirmed in US pig

Storm watchers run from the deck at a hotel onMedano Beach as a large wave overtakes theirperch as Hurricane Rick approaches Cabo San

Lucas, a popular tourist resort at the Southern tipof Baja California, Mexico. Rick has claimed its

first victim as it churned up Mexico’s PacificCoast whipping up a giant wave which swept

away a Mexican at the Los Cabos tourist resort,authorities said on Monday.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 20 Oct— US Agriculture Secre-tary Tom Vilsack an-nounced on Monday thatUS Department of Agri-culture’s (USDA) Na-tional Veterinary ServicesLaboratories has con-firmed the presence of2009 pandemic H1N1 in-fluenza virus in a pigsample collected at theMinnesota State Fair sub-mitted by the Universityof Minnesota. Additionalsamples are being tested.

“We have fully en-gaged our trading part-ners to remind them thatseveral international or-

ganizations, including theWorld Organization forAnimal Health, have ad-vised that there is no sci-entific basis to restricttrade in pork and porkproducts,” said Vilsack ina statement. “People can-not get this flu from eat-ing pork or pork products.Pork is safe to eat.”

Sequence results on thehemagglutinin, neurami-nidase and matrixgenesfrom the virus isolate arecompatible with reported2009 pandemic H1N1 se-quences.

The samples collectedat the 2009 MinnesotaState Fair were part of aUniversity of Iowa andUniversity of Minnesotacooperative agreement re-search project funded bythe US Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion which documents in-fluenza viruses where hu-mans and pigs interact atsuch as fairs.

Internet

Treating HIV moms-to-beprotects baby WASHINGTON, 20 Oct—

People with high levels ofa protein called C-reac-tive protein (CRP), amarker for inflammationin the blood, may be athigher risk for heart attackand death but not stroke,according to a study thatwill be published Tuesdayin Neurology, the medicaljournal of the AmericanAcademy of Neurology.

The study involved2,240 people from theNorthern ManhattanStudy who were 40 yearsold or older and stroke-free. Of the group,63 per-cent were Hispanic, 20percent non-Hispanicblack and 15 percent non-Hispanic white residents. All participants hadtheir blood tested for CRPlevels and were evaluated

for stroke and heart attackrisk factors. They werefollowed for an average ofeight years. In that time,there were 198 strokes,156 heart-related eventsand 586 deaths.

BALTMORE, 20 Oct—USresearchers recommendquickly treating maternalhuman immunodeficiencyvirus to prevent transmit-ting the virus to newborns.

The study, publishedonline in ahead of print inthe on 15 Nov, issue of TheJournal of Infectious Dis-ease, finds 82 percent of themothers in the Africancountry of Malawi in-volved in the study whoreceived highly active anti-retroviral therapy did notinfect their newborns withHIV through breast-feeding.The study, led byTaha E Taha of Baltimore’sJohns Hopkins UniversityBloomberg School of Pub-lic Health, involved 2,318infant/mother pairs. A totalof 130 infants — about 6percent — became HIV-1-infected. —Internet

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S P O R T S

Injured Giggsdoubtful for ManUtd’s Champions

League tie LONDON, 20 Oct—

Welsh midfielder RyanGiggs could be Manches-ter United’s injury doubtfor the English Premier-ship team’s ChampionsLeague away match toCSKA Moscow onWednesday.

“Ryan Giggs has got aknock and is a doubt forWednesday,” said Unitedmanager Alex Ferguson.

The veteran had beenknocked down duringSaturday’s 2-1 win overBolton and is unlikelyto travel to the LuzhnikiStadium at the Russiancapital.

Other key playersmight miss the Moscowshowcase include PatriceEvra, Dimitar Berbatov,Wayne Rooney andNemanja Vidic.

United top Group Bwith full points from twogames, while CSKA havewon one and lost one.

InternetFrance handed tough Irish draw for playoffs

Republic of Ireland’s coach GiovanniTrapattoni (left) warms up with his

team during training in Bari. Formerchampions France have been handeda potentially tough test in their bid toqualify for the World Cup finals after

drawing the Republic of Ireland inthe play-offs.—INTERNET

Alex Ferguson

Ferguson charged over referee remarks

Dutch wingerArjen Robben

Bayern’s Robben out ofBordeaux trip

Stoke City’s Huth chargedover Upson clash

Stoke City defenderRobert Huth

Fulham’s BobbyZamora celebrates

scoring his goalagainst Hull Cityduring a Premier

League football matchat Craven Cottage inLondon. Fulham won

2-0.—INTERNET

Fulham enjoy birthday celebrationat Hull’s expense

South Africa fire coachJoel Santana

South Africa firedcoach Joel Santana

European PGA Tour adds 2 tournamentsfor 2010

WENTWORTH, 20 Oct—The European PGA Tour added a pair of tournaments toits 2010 schedule on Monday and left three others off the list.

The Africa Open in South Africa and the Hassan 11 Golf Trophy in Moroccowere put on the schedule, while the Johnnie Walker Classic in Australia, theMalaysian Open and the Indonesian Open were missing.

The three missing events had a combined prize fund of more than $4 million in2009.

The Africa Open, which will be co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Golf Tour,will be held at the East London Golf Club in the first week of January. In March,the Hassan 11 Golf Trophy, which dates back to 1971 and is being upgraded toTour status, will be played at the Royal Dar-Es-salam Club in Rabat. The tourna-ment features a new celebrity pro-am format over the first two rounds.

Internet

MUNICH, 20 Oct—Bayern Munich coachLouis van Gaal has de-cided against riskingDutch winger ArjenRobben for Wednesday’sChampions League clashat Bordeaux.

The 25-year-old in-jured his right knee in the0-0 draw at home toJuventus on 1 Octoberwhich required surgery.

Bayern beat Freiburg2-1 in the Bundesliga onSaturday and are fifth inthe table while the Ger-man giants are joint lead-ers at the top of Group Ain the Champions Leaguealongside Bordeaux whoalso have four points.

Aside from RobbenBayern are also withoutFrench internationalFranck Ribery.—Internet

JOHANNESBURG, 20Oct—World Cup hostsSouth Africa fired coachJoel Santana on Mondayafter eight losses in ninematches, a national foot-ball association spokes-man said here.

The 60-year-old Bra-zilian tasked with build-ing a team capable ofholding its own at the

2010 tournament paid theprice for a string of poorresults and consistentrefusal to accept criticismof his hyper-cautiousunderperformers.

After 1-0 defeats atEuropean middleweightsNorway and Iceland lastweek, the man appointedin mid-2008 said he hadnot been hired to winfriendly fixtures.

Many South AfricanFootball Association(SAFA) officials consid-ered this comment an in-sult to the nation and itbecame an issue of whenrather than if he would beaxed.

InternetZURICH, 20 Oct—Former champions

France have been handed a potentiallytough test in their bid to qualify for theWorld Cup finals after drawing theRepublic of Ireland in the play-offsMonday.

Giovanni Trapattoni’s Irish side wereone of the most impressive teams in theirqualifying group eight, which was domi-nated by Italy.

And they were one of two teams, theother being Ukraine, the French wantedto avoid for the two-leg playoff in whichIreland play at home on 14 Novemberbefore travelling to France four dayslater.

Internet

LONDON, 20 Oct—Fulham celebrated theclub’s 130th anniversaryby pulling clear of the Pre-mier League’s relegationzone with a 2-0 win overfellow strugglers Hull atCraven Cottage onMonday.

Bobby Zamora’s first-half header and aDiomansy Kamara strikejust after the hour marksettled a contest whichlifted Fulham up to 12thplace in the table and leftthe visitors mired in thedrop zone.

Zamora said Fulham

had earned the threepoints.

“In previous gameswe’ve worked hard andnot got the result we de-served but we deserve thepoints tonight,” he said.

Zamora’s opener cametwo minutes before the in-terval, the striker heading

home following a fierceshot from Ireland wingerDamien Duff, which Hullgoalkeeper Boaz Myhillwas unable to hold.

Internet

LONDON, 20 Oct—StokeCity defender Robert Huthwas charged Monday withviolent conduct by theFootball Association (FA)following a clash withWest Ham’s MatthewUpson at the Britannia Sta-dium on Saturday.

Huth appeared to swingan arm into Upson’s faceas the pair tried to gainposition at a free-kick but,with Stoke 2-1 up, theeventual full-time score,the incident went unseenby referee MartinAtkinson.

Stoke manager TonyPulis, speaking after thegame, said: “I will have alook at it and obviously ifhe has done it we willspeak to him and deal withhim in-house.”

West Ham managerGianfranco Zola added: “Isaw the incident. Matthewis okay now, he had a fewstitches.

“Looking at the videoafter the match obviouslyit was a sending-off. I canonly assume the refereedidn’t see it.

“I haven’t spoken to thereferee about it. I don’tthink I need to talk to him.It is down to the authori-ties to decide (whether fur-ther action is required) - itwon’t change the story forme.”—Internet

LONDON, 20 Oct—AlexFerguson was chargedMonday with improperconduct by the FootballAssociation (FA) for pub-licly labelling refereeAlan Wiley “unfit”.

The ManchesterUnited manager made hiscomments after the Pre-mier League championswere held to a 2-2 drawby Sunderland at OldTrafford on 3 October.

Ferguson apologisedfor the remarks but thatdidn’t stop the FA frompressing charges againstthe Scot which could leadto a possible touchlineban and fine.

Ferguson accused

Wiley of not being “fitenough for a game of thatstandard” and of “walk-ing up the pitch for thesecond goal needing arest”.

The FA said Mondayin a statement: “Man-chester United managerSir Alex Ferguson hasbeen charged with im-proper conduct.

“The charge relates tomedia comments madeby Ferguson about ref-eree Alan Wiley follow-ing United’s matchagainst Sunderland atOld Trafford on 3 Octo-ber. He has until 3 No-vember to respond to thecharge.”

Ferguson, in his apol-ogy, said: “I apologise toMr Wiley for any personalembarrassment my com-ments may have causedand to the FA for goingpublic with my views.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Rakhine, Kayin and Kayah States, upper Sagaingand Magway Divisions, rain or thundershowers have beenwidespread in Taninthayi Division, scattered in Kachin,Shan, Mon States and Bago Division and isolated in theremaining areas with isolated heavyfall in TaninthayiDivision. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Launglon (5.04)inches, Mudon (1.38)inches, Heho(0.98)inch, Bago (0.95)inch, Myeik (0.87)inch, Pinlaung(0.67)inch and Mandalay (0.16)inch.

Maximum temperature on 19-10-2009 was 90°F.Minimum temperature on 20-10-2009 was 71°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 20-10-2009 was 88%.Total sun shine hours on 19-10-2009 was (3.1) hours approx.

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Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy inthe Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay and generally fairelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 21st October 2009:Rain or thundershower will be widespread in Mon State andTaninthayi Division, scattered in Kayin State, Ayeyawadyand Yangon Divisions, isolated in Kachin, Chin, Shan andRakhine States, Sagaing, Bago and Mandalay Divisionsand weather will be partly cloudy in the remaining Statesand Divisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofrain or thundershowers in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for21-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for21-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for21-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.Degree of certainty is (60%).

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Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina

LONDON, 20 Oct—Liverpool goalkeeperPepe Reina has admittedhe took his eye off thereal ball for DarrenBent’s controversialwinner for Sunderland.

The Spanishinternational was beatenwhen Bent’s shot strucka stray beach ball insidethe penalty area tototally deceive thekeeper.

Under the laws ofthe game the goal shouldhave been disallowedwith a drop ball given,but the officialsappeared not to notice

the change of directionthe ball took after it hitthe beach ball.

Reina admits thebeach ball made himlose sight of the real ballas he instinctivelymoved towards thebeach ball.

“It was such badluck. I lost sight of theofficial ball and stayedon the red one,” Reinatold Spanish radiostation Cope.

“When he shot, itstartled me and I wentfor the red ballinstinctively as it wasthe closest to me andthe other went past me.It all happened veryquickly.

“This had neverhappened before in mylife. I didn’t know whatto do.

“A lot of things weregoing through my headbut I honestly thoughtthat the goal would standand no one was going todisallow it.”

Internet

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4th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Wednesday, 21 October, 2009

★ 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 swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

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

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct—The 25th Defence Serv-ices Commander-in-Chief’s Cup Tatmadaw (Army,Navy, Air) U-21 Football Tournament for 2009continued at Taunggyi Stadium this afternoon.

North-West Command beat South-East Com-mand 2-0 and Eastern Command beat Yangon Com-mand 2-1.

MNA

Tatmadaw (Army, Navy,Air) U-21 Football

Tournament continues

NAY PYI TAW, 20 Oct—The first session of thethird day of the 17th Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions continued under thetitle of “Thakaung Yadana” at the convocation hall ofUniversity of Veterinary Science in Nay Pyi TawYezin this evening.

Drama troupe from Kayin State participated inthe drama contest. Among the audience were Lt-GenKo Ko of the Ministry of Defence and wife Daw SaoNwan Khun Hsam, Minister for Finance and RevenueMaj-Gen Hla Tun and wife, Minister for Education DrChan Nyein, Deputy Minister for Health Dr Paing Soe,Deputy Minister for Immigration and Population Brig-

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defence enjoysperformance of troupe from Kayin State in

“Thakaung Yadana” drama contestGen Win Sein, Deputy Minister for National Planningand Economic Development Col Thurein Zaw, Mem-ber of Civil Service Selection and Training Board UWin Aung, heads of department, officials of workcommittee and sub-committees, members of panel ofjudges from states and divisions and those who loveMyanma traditional cultural performing arts.

Drama troupe from Kayin State participating in thecompetition comprised Director Tun Myint (a) Zin MoeHnaung, U Saw Htar Lon, U Thaung Tun, Than Aung(Mudita) and side parts. They actively stated the episodeswith the accompaniment of Thaton Sein Kala traditionalorchestra troupe and pianist Thaung Myint Tun.—MNA

Lt-Gen Ko Ko and wife Daw Sao Nwan

Khun Hsam enjoy “Thakaung Yadana”

Drama Contest.

MNA

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