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Volume XX, Number 137 3rd Waning of Wagaung 1374 ME Tuesday, 4 September, 2012

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration ofthe Union

* Non-disintegration ofNational Solidarity

* Perpetuation ofSovereignty

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—President of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar U TheinSein received Canadian International TradeMinister Mr Edward Fast and party at theCredentials Hall of the Presidential Palacethis evening.

Also present at the meeting togetherwith the President were Union Minister forForeign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin,Union Ministers at the President Office UThein Nyunt and U Hla Tun, Union Ministerfor Industry U Aye Myint, Union Ministerfor Commerce U Win Myint anddepartmental heads.

The President warmly welcomed theCanadian minister on his first-ever trip toMyanmar, overcoming the geographicaldistance. He said the Canadian foreignminister also paid a call on him on his visit.With diplomatic ties having beenestablished since 1958, the two countrieshave opened a new chapter through thesetwo high-level visits.As the political systemhas changed the foreign policy of Myanmaris to establish amicable relations with everynation whether they are from the East or theWest. The President expressed his hopefor continuation of friendship andcooperation between the two countries.

The Canadian minister said he wasswollen with pride by the President’s warmwelcome and he witnessed dramaticchanges in Myanmar. He continued to saythat not only Myanmar citizens but theinternational community hold the same viewthat the President spearheaded the reforms.

Under new political system foreign policy of Myanmar establishesamicable relations with every nation whether from East or West

President U Thein Sein

Canada worth recognition as a trustworthy partner from Myanmar peopleCanadian Minister Mr Edward Fast

NAY PYI TAW, 3Sept—According to theobservations at 18.00 hrsMST today, the lowpressure area hasformed over WestCentral and adjoingNorthwest Bay of Bengal,announced Meteorologyand HydrologyDepartment.

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President U Thein Sein thanked theCanadian government for easing theeconomic sanctions. Plans are under wayto open Myanmar embassy in Ottawa ofCanada. The President said Myanmar isgeographically surrounded by vibranteconomies, inviting investments in labour-intensive industries, workshops and value-added factories and workshops. Being anagro-based country, Myanmar has heldthe opportunities to export high-qualityagricultural produce, the President said. Hedisplayed the possibility of establishingdownstream industries in Myanmar as thecountry has a number of rubber and oilpalmplantations. He also said the country nowhas the legal framework for safeguardinginvestors. The President pinned his hopefor increase in bilateral trade volume on theCanadian minister.

The Canadian minister said he wasaccompanied by 26 corporate delegationsto seek economic prospects inMyanmar. He assured that the Canadiangovernment has set high standards ofCorporate Social Responsibility forCanadian companies.

The President said Myanmar needshelp from established democracies likeCanada for endurance of democracy inMyanmar. He expressed his hope forinvestment in factories and workshops oflower technologies, which he said, is thefundamental requirement of the country.He tipped the Canadian minister’s trip forimproved friendship and increased trade

cooperation. He handed the messagewishing good health of the Canadian Headsof State/Government to the Canadianminister.

The Canadian minister requested therecognition of Canada as a trustworthypartner from Myanmar people. Theeconomic sanctions were lifted in

recognition of human rights and economicreforms in Myanmar. He made a request forvisa on arrival for Canadian citizens whowill invest in Myanmar.

Negotiations will be made as regardson-arrival visa after Myanmar embassy inCanada is opened soon.

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Russia eyes furthercooperation withAPEC partners

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 4 September, 2012

PERSPECTIVES

Preserve and promotenational prestige and integrity

Tuesday, 4 September, 2012

At present, there is a growing trend amongthe people towards adoring alien culture.Making breakthrough in a series of core andkey technologies plus the superiority in wealth,some big nations are making an attempt tooverwhelm developing countries like Myanmarpolitically, socially and economically, whiletrying to export their culture and traditions tothe latter.

Youths are found to be under the influenceof alien culture, idea, expression and lifestylesince they are copying the imported music, finearts, song and dance and modes of dress.Trying to keep pace with changes anddevelopments of the global nations is a goodsign. But they are required to make their idea,knowledge and way of thinking sensible andappropriate to keep their culture, traditionsand customs alive and dynamic.

As the new generation youths are a sourceof great strength for the country going forward,they should remain vigilant against thecomplication of alien culture, traditions andcustoms that are contrary to Myanmar culture.Failure to preserve the national culture maylead to undermining national prestige andintegrity, and that may also result in thedisappearance of the nation and people.

The infiltration of alien culture into thenation has grown from a lesser-known problemto a major cultural challenge. With a growingpopularity in alien culture and tradition,preservation of culture and tradition appearsto be a more pressing issue for a nation or arace, and it is like a new wave of thought for thefuture of the nation.

The elimination of alien culture entrenchedin the country is both an urgent priority and along-term project that requires thecommitment of all. And it is incumbent upon allthe citizens to equip themselves with a greatsense of responsibility, solidarity andrationality. Only then, will they be able topreserve and promote their national prestigeand integrity.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Myanmar delegation led byUnion Minister for ForeignAffairs U Wunna MaungLwin attended the 16th

Summit of the Non-AlignedMovement held in Tehran,Islamic Republic of Iran from26 to 31 August 2012.

The Summit was alsoattended by heads of state orgovernment, ministers andrepresentatives from (87)member countries, (15)observer countries andorganizations and (14) guestcountries and organizations.

Union Minister forForeign Affairs U WunnaMaung Lwin delivered astatement at the PlenarySession during the generaldebate of the Summit on 31August 2012. In hisstatement, the Union Ministerupdated the Summit on theprogress achieved in theprogress of democratictransformation in Myanmar.

He also touched on thetrue and objective situationconcerning recent communalviolence in Rakhine State.He said that Myanmar ismulti-ethnic and multi-religious country whereBuddhists, Christians,Muslims and Hindus havebeen living together in peaceand harmony throughouthistory. Although Buddhismis the principal religionprofessed by about 89% ofthe total population of 60millions, the country is hometo many people of other faiths.

The recent incident inthe Rakhine State was onlyon inter-communal violencethat broke out following therape, robbery and killing of ayoung Rakhine woman bythree Muslim youths inYanbye Township on 28 Mayand the subsequent killing often Muslims on a passengerbus in Taungup Townshipon 3 June as an act ofretaliation. The two incidentshad been manipulated and

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs attends 16th Summit ofNon-Aligned Movement

instigated by some quartersto turn it into religious andracial issue, hence resultingin escalation of sectarianviolence and lawless criminalacts. As a result of the violence,there were loss of lives andproperties on bothcommunities.

Myanmar has neverpracticed policy of violenceagainst Muslims or any otherfaiths. Therefore, theGovernment categoricallyrejects accusations made bysome organizations that theMyanmar Government ispracticing such a policy ofabuses. Myanmar will notaccept any attempt topoliticize or internationalizethis conflict as a religiousissue which is purely aninternal affair of a sovereignstate.

He continued to informthat the Government has beenworking closely withinternational community forrelief and rehabilitation forthe victims of bothcommunities in a non-discriminatory andtransparent manner, andinternational relief assistanceare also welcomed if they areintended for bothcommunities.

The Union Minister saidthat the Government of theRepublic of the Union ofMyanmar will continue toguarantee freedom ofreligion and the rights of allits citizens withoutdiscrimination against theirrace or creed in accordancewith the Constitution.

The Union Ministermentioned that Myanmar hasconsistently adhered to andfaithfully followed theprinciples of the Non-Aligned Movement as afounding member. He saidthat Myanmar will work hand-in-hand with other memberstowards achieving peace,prosperity, justice, equalityand development of thedeveloping countries asenvisaged by the foundingfathers of the Movement.

On the sideline of theSummit, Union Minister UWunna Maung Lwin heldseparate meetings with H.E.Mr. Ali Akbar Salehi,Minister of Foreign Affairsof the Islamic Republic ofIran, H.E. Mr. Pak Ui Chun,Minister of Foreign Affairsof the Democratic People’sRepublic Korea, H.E. Dr.Marty Natalegawa, Ministerof Foreign Affairs of the

Republic of Indonesia, H.E.Ms. Jounna Hewitt, SpecialEnvoy of the Prime Ministerof Australia, H.E. Mr. KanduWangchuk, ForeignMinister-in-charge of theKingdom of Bhutan, H.E.Dato’ Sri Anifah Aman,Minister for Foreign Affairsof Malaysia, H.E. Mr.Yerzhan Kazykhanov,Minister for Foreign Affairsof Kazhastan, H.E. Mr. BoldLuvsanvandan, Minister forForeign Affairs of Mongoliaand H.E. Mr. Hor Namhong,Deputy Prime Minister andMinister for Foreign Affairsof the Kingdom ofCambodia. They hadexchanged views onpromotion of bilateralrelations and cooperationbilaterally as well as in themultilateral contexts.

The Summit adopted theFinal Document, TehranDeclaration, Tehran Plan ofAction of the Non-AlignedMovement, SolidarityDeclaration on Palestine andDeclaration on PalestinePolitical Prisoners.

The Summit waspreceded by Senior OfficialsMeeting and PreparatoryMinisterial Meeting.

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Vice-Chairman of PyithuHluttaw Legal Affairs andSpecial Cases AssessmentCommission Chairman ofTransport, Communicationsand ConstructionCommittee U Thein Swe, onbehalf of Pyithu HluttawSpeaker Thura U Shwe Mann,received delegation led byChairman of Military AffairsCommittee of House ofRepresentatives MrAumnuay Khlangpha atPyithu Hluttaw CommitteeHall (I-1) in Hluttaw Complexhere this morning.

The meeting focused oncooperation between the twoparliaments, road transportbetween the two countries,

investments and cooperationin all sectors, undertakingsof the military affairscommittee of House ofRepresentatives of Thailandand the role of the parliament.

Also present at the

meeting were Chairman ofAgriculture, Livestock andFishery Development Com-mittee U Soe Naing, Secretaryof Communications andConstruction Committeee UMyo Swe, Commission

members U Taik San and UKhin Maung Soe, andDefence Services PersonnelPyithu Hluttaw Repre-sentatives Col Myint Ko Koand Col Tin Hsan.

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Pyithu Hluttaw Commission Vice-Chairman receives Thai delegation

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin meets IranianForeign Minister Mr. Ali Akbar Salehi.—MNA

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Greek PM sings in tune, now must hit the hard notesembrace. In front of the manrepresenting Greece’sbiggest creditor, thegovernments of the eurozone, Samaras wasunderstandably eager tomake an impression, and dulypledged to do his utmost towin back Europe’s trust.Theconservative leader was notalways so keen.

Barely nine months agohe infuriated Europeanofficials by refusing to givehis written backing toausterity policies demandedin return for the rescue fundsthat spared Greece fromfinancial collapse.Given hishistory of dubious political

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (L) arrives for acabinet meeting at the parliament in Athens on 31 Aug,

2012.— REUTERS

ATHENS, 3 Sept — WhenJean-Claude Juncker, head ofthe euro zone’s financeministers, arrived in Athens

last week, Greek PrimeMinister Antonis Samaras randown red-carpeted steps toenvelope him in a warm

choices that included votingagainst Greece’s first bailout,Samaras has surprised many— including some officialsamong skeptical EU and IMFlenders — by trumpeting hisresolve to push through cutsand reforms that have trippedup previous leaders.

Deftly sidestepping pre-election rhetoric of anoverhaul to the bailout andpledges to avoid across-the-board wage cuts, Samarasmeekly promised to restoreGreek credibility and promptlyset to work on new austeritycuts that include plans forcontroversial labor re-ductions.

Much of that appears tiedto his determination to secureGreece’s next tranche of aidof about 31 billion euros thatis on hold, in the hope it willend constant speculation of aGreek exit from the euro zoneand shore up its banks,ultimately setting the wheelsof the depressed economy inmotion again.“He isdetermined to adapt becausehe doesn’t want the grenadeto explode in his hands. Andat the moment there is a riskthat the grenade, in otherwords bankruptcy, willexplode in his hands,” saidpolitical analyst John Loulis.

Reuters

Colombia tofight rebels

despite possiblepeace talksBOGOTA, 3 Sept — The

Colombian government andmilitary will continue tocombat the leftist insurgentsdespite possible talks for atruce, Defence Minister JuanCarlos Pinzon said on Sunday.In an interview with the ElTiempo newspaper, Pinzonsaid “the Colombian peoplecan rest assured that neitherthe president (Juan ManuelSantos) nor I, nor the armedforces will lower our resolveto fight all outlaworganizations.”

The president ordered tokeep pressure on the rebelsand “not giving an inch,”Pinzon noted, pledging thatthe defence ministry and thearmed forces would supportthe pursuit of a settlementwith the rebels. In fact, “what’scoming could be even harder,because we are going tocontinue strengthening thepublic (security) forces ...improving their intelligencecapabilities, increasing theirhardware and resources,” saidthe minister.

Last week, governmentenvoys and leaders of theRevolutionary Armed Forcesof Colombia (FARC) madecontact in Cuba to discussthe possibility of holdingpeace talks to end the half-century-long armed struggle.Santos said last Monday thatleaders of Colombia’s second-largest leftist group, theNational Liberation Army(ELN), also attended the“exploratory talks.” TheFARC and the ELN have atotal of 10,000 members,according to governmentfigures.— Xinhua

Russia eyes further cooperation with APEC partnersMOSCOW, 3 Sept —

Russia is seeking to furtherdevelop the mutuallybeneficial cooperation withpartners of the Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation(APEC), a senior Russianofficial said. “We have bighopes for further cooperationwith our APEC partners in theimplementation of a numberof projects,” Viktor Ishayev,Minister for the Developmentof the Russian Far East, saidin an interview with Xinhuaon the eve of the APEC summit,which is to be held in Russia’sFar East city Vladivostok from8 to 9 September.

Ishayev highlightedAPEC’s role in the globaleconomy, saying the bloc,comprising some of the mostdynamic and robust

economies in the world,accounts for over half of theglobal economic output and48 percent of its total trade.“Unlike the crisis-shakenEurope, the Asian-Pacificregion has developed rapidly,and the APEC economies,including China, are ourimportant economic andpolitical partners,” theminister said. Ishayev saidVladivostok was named asthe APEC host city onstrategic consideration, sincethe Far East is the core regionfor Russia’s economicintegration with other APECmembers.

However, Ishayev wasnot satisfied with the foreigninvestment the region has sofar attracted from APECmembers, which only

accounted for 16 percent oftotal money inflow into Russialast year. Ishayev reiteratedRussia’s commitment to thedevelopment of the Far East,which was expected tobecome a Russian hub in AsiaPacific. “Key transport andenergy infrastructures,enterprises of various sectorsand social projects are beingdeveloped in that region,”Ishayev said, adding hisnewly-established postserves to step up thatwork.The minister said thereare still rooms for Russia andAPEC partners to promotecooperation in the Far East,especially in manufacturingand high value-addedproducts.

Cooperation also lies intourism, services, financial

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov (1st R)presides over the APEC senior officials meeting in

Vladivostok, Russia, on 2 Sept, 2012.— XINHUA

industry and joint-venturedprojects, including thereconstruction of the Trans-Korean railway, the buildingof gas pipeline to South Korea,

the ongoing construction ofthe Baikal-Amur railway andthe development of sea portinfrastructure, he added.

Xinhua

Netanyahu urges international“red lines” to stop Iran

JERUSALEM, 3 Sept —Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu urgedworld powers on Sunday toset a “clear red line” forTeheran’s atomic programmethat would convince Iran theywere determined to prevent itfrom obtaining nuclear arms.Netanyahu’s remarkssuggested a growingimpatience with Israel’s mainally, the United States, andother countries that havebeen pressing him to givediplomacy and sanctionsmore time to work and holdoff on any go-it-alone strikeon Iran.

Recent heightenedIsraeli rhetoric has stokedspeculation that Israel mightattack Iran before the USelections in November,believing that PresidentBarack Obama would give itmilitary help and not riskalienating pro-Israeli voters.“I believe the truth must bestated: The internationalcommunity is not placing aclear red line for Iran and Irandoes not see internationalresolve to stop its nuclearprogramme,” Netanyahu told

his cabinet. “Unless Iran seesthis clear red line and thisclear resolve it will not stopmoving forward with itsnuclear programme, and Iranmust not have nuclearweapons,” he said, repeatinghis view that sanctions so farhave not curbed Teheran’satomic ambitions.

Although Netanyahudid not single out Obama inhis criticism, Israeli officialshave said they hope forstronger language from thepresident about possible USmilitary action.Obama, whohas had a frosty relationshipwith Netanyahu, has insistedhe will not allow Iran to buildatomic weapons and that alloptions are on the table.Israel’s popular YNet newswebsite described the primeminister’s latest comments asa stinging rebuke of Obama.In a US election year,Republican candidate MittRomney has also sharplycriticized Obama’s handlingof Iran as not being toughenough.

And in another sign of arift with Washington, Israeliofficials voiced disappoint-

Israel’s Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu

attends the weekly cabinetmeeting in Jerusalem on 2

Sept, 2012.— REUTERS

ment over recent remarks bythe United States’s topgeneral signalling reluctanceto intervene on Israel’s behalfif it attacked Iran. Teheransays it is refining uranium tofuel a planned network ofnuclear power plants so thatit can export more of its oil andgas. The United States and itsallies accuse Iran of a covertbid to develop the capabilityto make nuclear bombs. Israel,believed to have the onlyatomic arsenal in the MiddleEast, views a nuclear-armedIran as a threat to itsexistence.— Reuters

Recalling 1812 battle, Putin calls for unity in RussiaBORODINO, 3 Sept —

President Vladimir Putin madea rousing call for unity amongRussia’s diverse ethnic andreligious groups on Sundayas he led commemorations ofa battle 200 years ago that ledto the defeat of NapoleonBonaparte. Standing by amonument at the scene of the1812 Battle of Borodino, 120km (75 miles) west of Moscow,Putin delivered a speechextolling the virtues ofpatriotism that enabledRussia to repel the Frencharmy in 1812.

Back as president sinceMay, Putin faces more openopposition in big cities thanat any time since he first roseto power in 2000, and apersistent insurgency in theNorth Caucasus. For thesecond time in five days hecalled for unity, underlininghis concern that theinsurgency could spread andthreaten the integrity ofRussia, home to manynationalities and religions.“Only when Russia’s nationswere united, were together,they achieved the best resultsin the development of theirfatherland,” Putin toldRussian and foreign

dignitaries, including formerFrench president ValeryGiscard d’Estaing.

“By and large patriotism,which was the basis of all ourmajor victories, comes downto the unity of the Russiannation.” Putin also evokedthe Battle of Borodino to rallyRussians behind him in hissuccessful presidentialelection bid last winter. Theinsurgency in the NorthCaucasus, more than a decadeafter Putin toppled a separatistgovernment in Chechnya,could also undermine unity inother parts of Russia. Thekilling of a Muslim cleric in

July in the central province ofTatarstan, in Russia’sheartland, showed violencemay be spreading to otherregions.

The Battle of Borodinoon 7 September, 1812,remembered by Russians asan epic victory, iscommemorated in LevTolstoy’s novel “War andPeace”. Neither side won adecisive victory in the battleand tens of thousands ofsoldiers were killed on bothsides before the Russianswithdrew and abandonedMoscow to the French.

Reuters

Russian President Valdimir Putin (R) makes a speechduring an event to commemorate the 200th anniversary

of the Battle of Borodino at the Borodino museum-reserve outside Moscow on 2 Sept, 2012.— REUTERS

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologySamsung’s crisis culture: a driver

and a drawback

A worker fixes an entrance sign at the Samsung boothbefore the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin in

this August 28, 2012 file photo. REUTERS

SEOUL, 3 Sept—In his1997 book, Samsung ChairmanLee Kun-hee wrote that asuccessful company needs a“heightened sense of crisis”,so that it always looks aheadeven when it’s doing well, andneeds to be able to respond tochange.

It’s a credo that has drivenSamsung Electronics tobecome the world’s biggesttechnology firm by revenue—it sells more televisions,smartphones and memory

chips than anyone else - andmakes the group a must-visitcase study for a stream ofChinese firms seeking to tapthe secrets of Korean success.

But, in the wake of lastmonth’s damaging US patentruling, which Samsung hassaid it will appeal—theKorean group was fined morethan $1 billion after a juryfound it had copied keyfeatures of Apple Inc’s iPhone—the group’s top-downcommand structure and

decision-making process areblamed for stifling creativity.

What’s been good forgetting things done quickly,such as making bold decisionson big investments in chipsand display screens, may notnow best suit a company thatneeds to shift from being a ‘fastfollower’—quick to matchothers’ products—to aninnovator.

Within Samsung, wheresome designers feeloverlooked and undermined,there are calls for a change oftack. The ‘constant crisis’ hasworked well, helping Samsungovertake Japanese technologybrands Sony, Sharp andPanasonic in chips, TVs anddisplays, end Nokia’s decade-long supremacy in handsetsand overtake Apple insmartphones. But that has comewith a big reputational hit—that Samsung makes knock-offproducts.—Reuters

Scientists test new marine robothurricane-hunters

MEXICO CITY, 3 Sept—As Tropical Storm Isaac wason its path through theCaribbean before becoming ahurricane in the Gulf of Mexicothis week, US scientists weretesting an experimental newweather spy tool—anunmanned, marine robotabout the size of a surfboardthat can gather storm data atsea level.

A National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration(NOAA)research laboratoryin Miami sent the “WaveGlider,” a floating platform ofsensors with an underwaterstabilizer christened Alex, intoocean waters about 100 milesnorth of Puerto Rico last weekto try to intercept Isaac.

“Isaac did not barrel rightover it,” said Alan Leonardi,deputy director of NOAA’sAtlantic Oceanographic andMeteorological Laboratory inMiami, after the storm passed

to the south of the islandbefore turning north andmaking landfall near NewOrleans as a Category 1hurricane.

“But Isaac being the sizestorm it is, the Wave Gliderwas able to collect data fromthe outer rain bands. We can’tsteer a hurricane, but we didget good data out of it.”

A few days later,scientists got a second lookat Isaac, from another WaveGlider—named G2—on aseparate oil and gas missionin the Gulf of Mexico.

The eye of Isaac passed

barely 60 miles east of G2,enabling it to collect valuableocean data, includingevidence of a dramatic drop inwater temperature, “sugges-ting that Isaac was vacuum-ing the heat from the Gulf,”according to its manufa-cturers, Liquid Robotics,based in Sunnyvale, Cali-fornia.

Bill Vass, CEO of LiquidRobotics, grew up inLouisiana and is a veteran ofhurricanes. His grandparentsdied in Hurricane Camille in1969, and his family lost ahome to Katrina.—Reuters

Android phone makers back platform but consider other optionsBERLIN, 3 Sept—Some

phonemakers are quietlyexploring alternatives to theAndroid operating systemimplicated in the Samsung-Apple ruling, industrywatchers say, despite theirpublic pronouncements theyare sticking with thetechnology.

Last week, a US courtruled Samsung’s Androiddevices were violating Applepatents—a major blow to theleading mobile softwareplatform because it couldlead to sales bans and highlicensing fees.

The impact could alsohit smaller vendors that useAndroid like HTC, ZTE, andSony. Android is used in morethan two thirds of smartphones. Huawei, Sony,Lenovo and ZTE—which alluse Android extensively—told Reuters they werecontinuing to bet on theGoogle’s platform despite theruling.

“(The ruling) is notrelevant to what we aredoing,” said Chris Edwards,chief of ZTE’s businessdevelopment in Europe.

But as the mobile marketmatures and more patentcases look likely, some makersare looking at the alternatives.

Samsung, which hasused a number of platformsbut now mostly usesAndroid, announced a newphone running onMicrosoft’s new WindowsPhone 8 software at aconsumer technologyconference on Wednesday,sneaking ahead of a hotly-

anticipated launch of aNokia-Windows phone duenext week.

Shares in Nokia, whichhas partnered with Windowsand is its main user, jumpedafter the Samsung ruling onexpectations it might be a saferlegal bet than Androidmakers.

The California jury saidSamsung infringed six ofseven Apple patents in thecase, including technologythat recognizes whether oneor two fingers are on thescreen, the front surface ofthe phone and the design ofscreen icons, which is a clearreference to Google’stechnology.

After the verdict, Googlesaid that most of the patentsinvolved “don’t relate to thecore Android operatingsystem.” Android was usedin 68 percent of allsmartphones sold lastquarter, with Samsung makingalmost half of them, whileMicrosoft had 3 percentmarket share.

The balance of power isunlikely to shift quickly asthis season’s new phoneswere all made before the ruling.

Sony launched threeAndroid phones this week atIFA, Europe’s largestconsumer electronics fair.Chinese phone maker Huaweilaunched four.

“We have made ourchoice,” said Lars-ChristianWeissewange, vice presidentat Huawei’s phone unit,adding that consumers weremaking the platform choicefor them by picking Android

phones. Sony said the rulingwas not impacting itsbusiness.

“This is probably notimpacting consumerthinking,” Gianfranco Lanci,chief of Lenovo’s Europeanoperations, said on sidelinesof the conference.

But behind closed doors,companies are looking atalternative routes should theruling impact ripple wider out,said several industry insiders.

“Today, all Androidvendors are considering theirsoftware options,” said PeteCunningham, an analyst atresearch firm Canalys.

Samsung’s brief,surprise launch onWednesday of the world’sfirst smartphone running onWindows Phone 8, should beinterpreted as muscle flexing,analysts said.

However, it should notbe seen as a firm move awayfrom Android as the modelwill likely struggle to standout even among the otherWindows phones, said MalikSaadi, analyst at research firmInforma.

Illustrating the high

interest at stake are thebehind-the-scene meetingsof Google’s and Apple’schiefs Larry Page and TimCook on the patents.

Despite its small marketshare, Windows Phone is stillthe largest alternative toAndroid as Apple andBlackberry maker RIM havenot made their platformsavailable for other handsetmakers.

At the same time, vendorsare pretty much stuck withAndroid as Windows is waybehind in terms ofapplications on offer, offeringjust 100,000 apps against halfa million each on Android andApple. “Microsoft needs tocreate a developer environ-ment for the Window Phone,which is growing, but stilltrails behind the others,” saidRoberta Cozza, analyst atGartner.

Attracting developers isdifficult with tiny marketshares. Navigation firmTomTom launched an apprunning on Android thisweek but said it was notplanning a Windows app.

Reuters

Hundreds pay tribute to NeilArmstrong at Kennedy Space

Centre

A Wave Glider, afloating platform of

sensors with anunderwater

stabilizers, is seen inthis undated handout

photo courtesy ofLiquid Robotics.

REUTERS

CAPE CANAVERAL, 3Sept—As family and friendsof Neil Armstrong gathered inOhio on 31 August for aprivate memorial service,NASA paid tribute to theApollo astronaut, calling hima great American and a spacehero.

“He never dwelled on hisremarkable accomplishmentsor sought the limelight,”Kennedy Space Centredirector and former astronautRobert Cabana said during ashort tribute to Armstrong atthe Visitor Complex’s Apollo-Saturn 5 Center.

“He just wanted to bepart of this remarkable teamand to continue to move usforward,” Cabana said.

More than 400 people,including NASA employees,community leaders andtourists gathered to rememberArmstrong, who died on 25August following complica-tions from heart surgery. Hewas 82.

A national memorial

service in Washington isexpected to be held inSeptember. Armstrongrocketed into the history booksas commander of NASA’sApollo 11 mission in July 1969,the first to land astronauts onthe lunar surface.

Cabana, a retired Marinecolonel who flew four spaceshuttle missions, hailedArmstrong as a pilot andastronaut, but said his greatestcontribution was as a teacher.

“He wanted to share hisknowledge and his experienceand see us continue to be aworld leader,” in space andaeronautics, Cabana said.

“He always took the timeto share his thoughts ontechnical issues and hisexperiences from the past, andhe was greatly interested inKennedy Space Centre’s pathforward to the future,” Cabanasaid. The Florida space port isbeing transformed followingthe end of the 30-year-oldspace shuttle programme lastyear.—Reuters

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & HealthShareholders look to sue RBSover rights issue: newspaper

LONDON, 3 Sept—Shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS.L) are in talks with litigation funds with a view tolaunching a formal 3.3 billion pound ($5.24 billion) fundlawsuit against the bank, the Times reported on Monday.

The shareholders, known as the RBoS ShareholdersAction Group, plans to sue RBS and its former chief executiveFred Goodwin, as well as former chairman, Tom McKillop, andthe former investment bank chief Johnny Cameron formisleading investors at the time of a landmark 12 billion pound($19.06 billion) rights issue in 2008.

The shareholders lost nine-tenths of their money afterbuying shares in the ill-fated rights issue at an adjusted 20pounds each, but the shares now trade at around 225 poundseach. The shareholders claim they were misled by omissionsin the prospectus which concealed the frailty of the bank,which was bailed out by the British government during the2008 financial crisis.

If the group secures about 12-15 million pounds to pay

for the cost of potential defeat, legal proceedings will beginin the coming weeks, the newspaper said citing sourcesfamiliar with negotiations.

HSBC (HSBA.L), Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), CreditAgricole (CAGR.PA) are among 91 institutional investorsgiving backing to the shareholder group, with 20 more readyto sign up once the group has the necessary cost cover inplace, the Times said.—Reuters

Hushen 300 Index closeshigher — 3 Sept

BEIJING, 3 Sept—The Hushen 300 Index reflecting theperformance of China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen stockexchanges closed at 2,228.37 points on Monday, up 23.5points, or 1.07 percent.

About one fifth of the total stocks listed on the twomarkets are chosen as samples of the Hushen 300 Index,accounting for 60 percent of the market value in China’sstock market.—Xinhua

China stock index futures closehigher — 3 Sept

BEIJING, 3 Sept—China’s stock index futuresall turned higher on Mondaywith the contract forSeptember, the most activelytraded, moving up 0.45percent from the previoustrading day to 2,234.4points.

The October contractadded 0.43 percent to closeat 2,247.2 points. TheDecember contract rallied 0.4percent to 2,272.2 points,while the March 2013contract gained 0.54 percentto finish at 2,306.4 points.

Shenzhen stock indices closehigher — 3 Sept

BEIJING, 3 Sept— TheShenzhen Component Indexon the Shenzhen StockExchange closed at 8,361.67on Monday, up 150.68 points,or 1.84 percent.

A Share Index: 9,292.68points, up 167.45 points, or

Taipei stocks close 0.72 pcthigher

HONG KONG, 3 Sept—Taipei’s share prices closedhigher on Monday with theweighted index up 53.47points, or 0.72 percent, at7,450.53, according to newsreaching here from Taipei.

The stock-indexcontracts, agreements to buyor sell the Hushen 300 Indexat a preset value on an agreeddate, are designed to allowinvestors to bet on and profitfrom both gains and declinesin the market.

The index futures waslaunched at the ChinaFinancial Futures Exchange(CFFEX) and started tradingfrom 16 April, 2010. TheCFFEX has set the base valuefor all the four contracts at3,399 points.—Xinhua

1.84 percent;B Share Index: 4,083.07

points, up 34.1 points, or 0.84percent;

Total turnover: 53.12billion yuan (8.38 billion USdollars).

Xinhua

The local boursefluctuated between 7,462.15and 7,389.68 during the day’strading. Turnover totaled74.70 billion new Taipeidollars (about 2.50 billion USdollars).—Xinhua

Hyundai Motor Aug sales down, first fallin over three years

SEOUL, 3 Sept—HyundaiMotor Co’s (005380.KS) totalsales fell for the first time inmore than three years inAugust, hurt by a slew ofpartial strikes at South Koreanfactories that hit domesticsales hard.

Workers staged thepartial strikes in July andAugust, their first walkout infour years and the SouthKorean automaker’s second-costliest strike, as annualwage talks stalled over pay, a

new shift scheme and otherfactors.

Hyundai and its unionleaders last week reached atentative wage deal, which ifapproved in a Monday votewill allow the carmaker to avertfurther walkouts.

Results of the vote areexpected after midnight, aunion spokesman said.Hyundai, the world’s fifthlargest carmaker along withaffiliate Kia Motors, said itsold 293,924 vehicles globally

last month, down 4.6 percentfrom a year earlier, the firstfall since May 2009 in thewake of the global financialcrisis. Hyundai’s domesticshipments slid 30 percent,while its overseas salesinched up 0.4 percent.

Prior to the results,shares in Hyundai ended up0.42 percent, in line with thewider market’s .KS11 0.4percent gain.

The latest walkoutsstopped Hyundai making76,723 cars worth 1.59 trillionKorean won ($1.40 billion).The firm will try to make up thelosses with extra work laterthis year and it sales targetshould be met on an annualbasis, analysts and companyofficials have said.—Reuters

The logo of HyundaiMotor is seen on a cardisplayed at a Hyundai

dealership in Seoul on 26July, 2012.

REUTERS

Chinese heavyindustry firmtakes stake inGerman truck

maker

JINAN, 3 Sept—WeichaiPower, an automotive andequipment manufacturingfirm under Shandong HeavyIndustry (SHIG) on Mondayclinched a deal to buy a one-quarter stake in Germanforklift truck maker KionGroup.

The 738 million-euro(922 million US dollars) dealwas signed in Jinan, capitalof east China’s ShandongProvince, and marked thegreatest direct investment ina German firm made by aChinese company to date.

Under the deal, WeichaiPower will invest 467 millioneuro to acquire a 25-percentstake in Kion Group, andanother 271 million euro for a70-percent majority stake inKion’s hydraulics business.

Xinhua

Bernanke says Fed ready to act but shorton specifics

JACKSON HOLE, 3 Sept—Federal Reserve ChairmanBen Bernanke on Friday leftthe door wide open to afurther easing of monetarypolicy, saying thestagnation in the US labourmarket was a “graveconcern,” but he stoppedshort of providing a clearsignal of imminent action.

His stark languagegave a temporary lift to USstocks, but economistswalked away from the Fedchairman’s remarks stilldivided over whether thecentral bank would launch afresh round of bondpurchases at its upcomingmeeting in September.

Bernanke said the FedFederal Reserve

Chairman Ben Bernanke

had to weigh the costs aswell as the benefits of moremonetary stimulus,although he hinted the costswere likely worthwhile.

“As we assess thebenefits and costs ofalternative policyapproaches ... we must notlose sight of the dauntingeconomic challenges thatconfront our nation,”Bernanke said at the KansasCity Fed’s annual JacksonHole symposium.

“Taking due account ofthe uncertainties and limitsof its policy tools, the FederalReserve will provideadditional policyaccommodation as neededto promote a stronger

economic recovery andsustained improvement inlabor market conditions in acontext of price stability.”

That was a somewhatweaker hint of policy easingthan the minutes of the Fed’slast policy meeting haddelivered, but Bernanke’sdour economic assessment

left few doubts where hissympathy lay.

“The stagnation of thelabour market in particular isa grave concern not onlybecause of the enormoussuffering and waste ofhuman talent it entails, butalso because persistentlyhigh levels of unemploymentwill wreak structural damageon our economy that couldlast for many years,”Bernanke said.

Financial markets see-sawed in the wake ofBernanke’s comments. USstocks closed roughly wherethey were before Bernankespoke, but yields on USgovernment bonds hit athree-week low inanticipation of Fed actionand the US dollar fell againstboth the euro and the yen.

Reuters

VIENNA, 3 Sept—Ananti-cancer drug developedby a University of Viennaresearcher has proven to beeffective against varioustumour types in its phase Iclinical trials, the AustrianAPA news agency reportedon Wednesday.

The drug, NKP-1338, isdeveloped by BernhardKeppler, Dean of the Facultyof Chemistry of the Universityof Vienna, and is the first anti-cancer drug based onruthenium, a rare transitionmetal belonging to theplatinum group, theUniversity stated in a Pressrelease.

“The study’s findingssupport what has already

New drug to fight cancer showsearly promise

emerged from our pre-clinicalstudies: the drug selectivelyattacks tumors and is effectiveagainst various tumourtypes,” Keppler said.

The active ingredient inthe drug is inserted via theprotein transferrin directlyinto the tumor. It is thenactivated and brings aboutthe tumor cell’s apoptosis, orprogrammed cell death. At thesame time, the protein GBR78which is responsible for theresistance of many tumor cellsto treatment is inhibited.

“Through this processwaste products accumulatein the tumor cell, whichultimately lead to the death ofcell,” said Keppler.

Xinhua

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Bomb hoaxes alert China toaviation threat

WUHAN, 3 Sept — Two airline bombing threats in Chinawithin a week have stirred concern over public education andmanagement of aviation safety. On Sunday morning, a Chineseman whose hoax bomb warning caused the diversion of adomestic flight on Thursday was escorted by police fromGuangdong to a detention centre in central China’s HubeiProvince.

Xiong Yi, a 29-year-old male resident of Shiyan City inHubei, made an anonymous phone call to an airport inShenzhen, Guangdong, at 10:43 pm on Thursday, claimingthat explosives had been planted on Shenzhen Airlines FlightZH9706, according to police.The plane was in mid-air, boundfor Shenzhen from Xiangyang in Hubei. It made an emergencylanding at an airport in Wuhan at 11:24 pm out of concerns forpassenger safety. Police conducted a thorough inspectionbut found no dangerous items on the aircraft or in passengers’belongings.

Xiong was caught on Saturday afternoon in a hotel in thesouthern province of Guangdong and confessed to policehe’d fabricated the information. Police have yet to revealXiong’s motives as the investigation is still going on. Thecase follows a similar incident to hit China’s civil aviationindustry earlier in the week. An Air China flight from Beijingto New York returned to Beijing Capital International Airportafter a threatening message concerning the flight was receivedon Wednesday evening.—Xinhua

Secrets of the Chinese travellers

All freshmen pose for agroup photo with faculty

members and guests at theSouth University of Scienceand Technology (SUSTC)

in Shenzhen, south China’sGuangdong Province, on 2Sept, 2012. The founding

ceremony and the openingceremony of the new

semester of SUSTC washeld here on Sunday. The

university is widelyregarded as the country’s

first test for a neweducational system meantto give the students better

training for innovativeresearch. A total of 188

students from six provincesof the country were

admitted to the SUSTC thisJuly.—XINHUA

Sichuan colliery blast deathtoll rises to 45

PANZHIHUA, 3 Sept — Death toll from Wednesday’scolliery blast in southwest China’s Sichuan Province hasclimbed to 45, with one still missing, authorities said onSunday night. Search was continuing in the Xiaojiawan CoalMine in Panzhihua City, some 750 km southwest of Chengdu,the provincial capital, according to the press office of thePanzhihua city government. The mine was struck by a gasblast at around 5 pm on Wednesday, trapping about a thirdof the 154 miners who were working underground and injuring54 others, 17 of them seriously.

Initial probe indicated that chaotic management and sheerignorance of safety rules in the mine, owned by ZhengjinIndustry and Trade Co, Ltd, were mainly to blame for theaccident. The State Council, or China’s cabinet, has establishedan investigation team, led by Yang Dongliang, head of StateAdministration of Work Safety, to look into the accident.

Xinhua

New students of a local military school take part in aswearing ceremony while they start a new term inSt Petersburg, Russia, on 2 Sept, 2012. —XINHUA

JERUSALEM, 3 Sept —Egypt’s newly-appointedambassador to Israel arrivedon Sunday, local mediareported. Atef Sayed Al-Ahlis no stranger to Israel, as heserved in the past at theEgyptian consulate in thesouthern Red Sea resort cityof Eilat.

The Ministry of ForeignAffairs confirmed the news toXinhua, but refused toofficially comment until Al-Ahl is sworn-in by PresidentShimon Peres on 17 October.Al-Ahl replaces outgoingambassador Yasser Rida, whoconcluded his four-year term.

Sources in the Egyptianembassy in Israel told theWalla news site that Al-Ahl

New Egyptian ambassador arrives in Israelarrived in Israel on Sundaymorning and is expected tostart and attend his officialduties soon. The sourcesadded that Al-Ahl’sappointment as Rida’sreplacement has nothing todo with the change ingovernments in Egypt, andwas planned in advance. Thisis only one appointment outof a group of Cairo’sambassadors who traveled tonew posts, Saudi Arabia,France and Switzerland,among them.

The relationshipbetween Israel and Egypt,who signed a peace treaty in1979 ending nearly threedecades of battles, have hadtheir ups and downs. For the

past 15 years, under the reignof former president HosniMubarak, high-level security,diplomatic and economiccooperation between the twocountries intensified.

However, personalrelations tourism between theneighbouring nationslanguished, due to a “coldpeace” which sawprofessional unions andother agencies impose aseries of sanctions againstanyone visiting the Jewishstate.

Additionally, theoutbreak of the so-calledArab Spring in Cairo alsobrought out visceralresentment of Israel by manyEgyptian residents, including

a ransacking of the Israeliembassy by an enragedcrowd.

Extremists sabotaged anatural gas pipe supplyinggas to Israel some 14 times,and, with the rise of the MuslimBrotherhood into power,Israeli officials feareddisintegrating diplomatic ties,due to the groups entrenchedopposition to Israel’sexistence.However, whenMuslim extremists carried outan attack on the Egypt-Israelborder a month ago killing 17Egyptian policemen, bothcountries’ security forcescoordinated in fighting themutual threat in the SinaiPeninsula.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 3 Sept — HongKong, Beijing and Hainanprovince’s Sanya remain themost popular touristdestinations for onlineshoppers in China, accordingto a recent survey releasedby Taobao, China’s largestonline marketplace.

The survey, whichlooked at the buying habitsof online shoppers in the firsthalf of this year, found thatHong Kong is on the top ofthe list for netizens when theythink of travel, with more than200,000 people makingreservations for hotels inHong Kong throughTaobao’s travel platformbetween January and June.

New couples celebratingtheir weddings in Sanya,in South China’s HainanProvince. Sanya is one ofthe most popular tourist

packages bought byonline shoppers in

China, according to asurvey by Taobao,

China’s largest onlinemarketplace.—XINHUA

The most noteworthyfinding was that people fromdifferent regions of China tendto have different purchasinghabits when arranging theirtravel. For example, amongthose surveyed, people inHangzhou in East China’sZhejiang Province are moreinclined to spend a lot onhigh-end tours, while thosein Shanghai, the economichub of China, prefer to spendmore on lodgings, bookingfive-star hotels when theyarrange their tours.

According to thesurvey, people in Hangzhouare more casual and are moreinclined to travel inde-pendently and randomly.

It found that 28,791people from Hangzhou choseto book their air tickets as lateas the day of their departure,the highest at a percentage of14 percent, followed bypeople from Guangdong at13.8 percent.

Xinhua

Vehicles move on aflooded street in

northwest Pakistan’sPeshawar, on 2 Sept,

2012. Over the last tendays or so, at least 40

people have reportedlybeen killed as heavyrains and floods hitparts of northern,northwestern andeastern Pakistan.

XINHUA

CHICAGO, 3 Sept — A Chicago-areawoman wanted to return an overdue copy of“The Picture of Dorian Gray” to the ChicagoPublic Library, but first she wanted to be sureshe wouldn’t go to jail. That’s because thebook, a rare limited edition of the OscarWilde novel, was checked out in 1934. HarleanHoffman Vision found it in her late mother’spossessions, with a Chicago Public Librarystamp. The library is conducting a rare three-week amnesty programme for overdue items,and Vision figured this was her chance to

Book returned to Chicago library after 78 yearsreturn the book, said Ruth Lednicer, thelibrary’s marketing director. The books wasreturned on Thursday.

“She kept saying, ‘You’re not going toarrest me?’ and we said, ‘No, we’re so happyyou brought it back’,” said Lednicer.

Vision didn’t know the library caps latefines at $10 on books — without the cap andthe amnesty, total fines on “Dorian Gray”would have amounted to $6,000. The lastamnesty was held 20 years ago, and resultedin the return of 77,000 items.— Reuters

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—The Commander-in-Chief(Army) Office allowed 42minors from respectivecommands to quit militaryservices, handing them overto their parents at No (1)Transit Centre in Yangon thismorning.

It was attended by Maj-Gen Tin Maung Win from theCommander-in-Chief (Army)Office, senior military officers,directors-general anddirectors of the Home AffairsMinistry, the DefenceMinistry, the Foreign AffairsMinistry, Social Welfare,Relief and ResettlementMinistry, the LabourMinistry and the UnionAttorney-General’s Office,officials of UNICEF, UNHCR,ILO, Save the Children, WorldVision, World FoodProgramme and UNDP, 42minors who were allowed toresign and their parents.

Maj-Gen Tin MaungWin and UNICEF ResidentRepresentative Mr RameshShrestha delivered

42 minors allowed to resign fromDefence Services

1. It is reported that 301 Pyithu Hluttaw representatives at first have signed aproposal and sent it to the Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw to impeach Chairman ofthe Constitutional Tribunal of the Union and members. Those representativesare adverse parties in this case.

2. They have no right to be as a chairman and members of the Investigation Boardformed by Pyithu Hluttaw. This concept can be seen at Penal Code SectionNo.556 and paragraph 41 of Services Regulations Manual Book issued by theformer State Council Office.

3. PREM’s Law of Habeas Corpus, Certiorari, Mandamus and EmergencyLegislation says that “Nobody has the right to make decision in the case inwhich they get engaged”. This law principle is the prime of fair judiciary in theworld.

4. Thus, according to the investigation ways and practices, as those 301representatives who proposed to impeach the Chairman of ConstitutionalTribunal of the Union and members, have no rights to participate in PyithuHluttaw Investigation Board, they are objected.

Republic of the Union of MyanmarConstitutional Tribunal of the Union

Announcement No.2/20122nd Waning of Wagaung, 1374 ME

(3rd September, 2012)

Remonstration of Chairman of InvestigationBoard U Thein Swe and members

addresses. The officials thenhanded letters approvingtheir resignation from theDefence Services andcitizenship scrutiny cards forchildren between 10 and 18 tothe children who werehanded over to their parentsor guardians.

The children and theirparents were thentransported interim camparranged by CTFMR and theMinistry of Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlement. Thecamp will help the minorscontact their parents if theyhave lost contact andprovides medical treatmentif necessary. The camp willalso enable the children torejoin the school or pursueinformal education.Vocational trainings andmaterials are provided by thecamp which will also fundthe homecoming of theminors.

Myanmar signed UNCTFMR on 27 June, 2012, towage campaign against minorrecruitment for military

services.As the country has

agreed with the detailed plans,the measures will be carriedout to get rid of all minors inthe Defence Services within18 months.

The Tatmadaw is takingmeasures to prevent draftingminors and to allowresignation as early aspossible if there is anymistaken recruitment ofminors.—MNA

NOURISHMENT WEEK LAUNCHED: The nourishmentweek activity was launched at Basic Education

Primary School No. 2 on 23 August. After Acting Headof Pabedan Township Health Department Dr Ei Ei

Khaing had given facts about iodized salt, Chairpersonof Township Maternal and Child Welfare AssociationDaw Aye Aye Maw and party distribute iodized salt to

students.—MYANMA ALIN

MANDALAY, 3 Sept—Under the arrangements ofElectricity Supply Enterprise under the Ministry of ElectricPower No. 2, analog electric meters are being substitutedwith modern digital ones in Mandalay as of 11 August.

Thanks to use of digital meters, the meter readers canread the digits of electricity consumption without any errors.

In the installation of new digital electric meters, thepeople do not pay any charge.

Myanma Alin

MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 3Sept—The health careservices on field trips ofWhite Heart gourp was heldat Nyaungdon New SchoolBuilding in Myoma Ward 2of Mawlamyinegyun on 28August.

Dr Wai Min, Dr Ye MinLwin and health care serviceteam of White Heart providedhealth care services to 108,

New digital electric metersinstalled in Mandalay

Health care services providedto local people in Mawgyun

workers of TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee, sanitationworkers and local people fromMyoma Ward 2.

Officials attended to theneeds of health care servicesand Chairman of the group UKhin Maung Zin explainedpurpose of giving health careservices to the localpeople.—Myanma Alin

District News

UNICEF Resident Representative Mr RameshShrestha gives a speech.—MNA

Maj-Gen Tin MaungWin from

Commander-in-Chief (Army) Office

speaking at theceremony to handover 42 minors to

their parents.—MNA

MYEIK, 3 Sept—In 2012-2013 academic year, MyeikDistrict of Taninthayi Region was allowed to upgrade 11basic education schools.

These numbers of upgraded schools in the district wereone Basic Education High School Branch and two BEMSsin Myeik Township, one BEHS branch and one BEPS branchin Taninthayi Township, four BEHS branches, one BEMS,seven BEMS branches and three BEPS branches in KyunsuTownship.—Myanma Alin

Basic education schoolsupgraded in Myeik District

HLAINGBWE, 3 Sept—Hlaingbwe Township WarVeterans Organizing Committee provided cash assistanceto disabled veterans and older veterans at its office on 24August morning.

Chairman of Township War Veterans OrganizingCommittee Captain Khin Soe (Rtd) gave a speech andpresented K 7000 each to 48 disabled veterans and K 15000each to older veterans of above 70, amounting to K 396,000to 52 persons.—Myanma Alin

Cash assistance provided towar veterans in Hlaingbwe

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Union Minister forEnvironmental Conserva-tion and Forestry U Win Tunattended the opening ofASEAN-Korea MinisterialLevel Special Meeting for

Union Environmental Conservation and ForestryMinister back from Republic of Korea

Lao People’s DemocraticRepublic Dr Stipho maskaand Korean Forest ServicesMinister Dr Don Ko Leeextended greetings and PrimeMinister of the Republic ofKorea Mr Kim Hun Sik made

impact project for climatechange with the assistanceof Korean Forest Services,for uplift of living standardof people is needed tobeneficially use naturalresources.

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—According to the MyanmaJDS programme for 2013-2014, the first CoordinationCommittee meeting washeld at the meeting hall ofthe Higher EducationDepartment (Lower Myan-mar) this afternoon chairedby Deputy Minister forEducation Dr Myo Myintand co-chaired by JapaneseAmbassador to the Republicof the Union of MyanmarMinister-Counsell Mr.Maruyama, Ichiro.

The committeemembers presented mattersrelated to programme on

1st Coordination Committee meeting held underMyanma JDS programme

Cash donated to MCWAbranches of Border Affairs

Ministry

awarding stipends andscholarships to thedesignated ministries in2013-2014 academic year,

and its related forms andselecting system at themeeting. The Chairmanapproved the presentations

and then urged those presentto cooperate with Japan’sUniversities.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Union Minister for BorderAffairs and for MyanmaIndustrial Development Lt-Gen Thein Htay and DawMyint Myint Khaingattended a donationceremony at the assemblyhall of the Ministry of BorderAffairs, here, at 10 amtoday.

Also present on theoccasion were patrons, thechairperson of Ministry ofBorder Affairs Maternal andChild Welfare AssociationBranch and members,members of DepartmentalMCWA branches and stafffamilies, totalling 130.

(from page 16)At report-submitting session, member of Bill Committee

U Khin Maung Lwin submitted the committee’s report on theBill revoking Land Confiscation (Mines) Act.

At the proposal-submitting session, U Aung Thein Linof South Okkalapa Constituency submitted the proposal on“giving permits only to farmers who are actually doingfarming as pasture lands across the country are allottedunder the names of departments and companies and thesedepartments and companies allow farmers to do farmingthere and are taking tenancy from farmers”.

At the informing session, the Speaker of Pyithu Hluttawinformed Hluttaw of the appointment of U Thein Swe of AnConstituency as Chairman of Investigation Board which isformed by Pyithu Hluttaw for investigation of Chairman and

Road safety measures would… members of the Constitutional Tribunal in the place ofDeputy Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw U Nanda Kyaw Swa.

At the proposal-discussion session, nine representativesheld discussion on the proposal submitted by U Than Nweof Butalin Constituency on 16 July on “emphasis shouldbe placed on conservation of natural forests in the countryfor the stability of natural environments, restoring eco-system and long-term extraction of forests and forestproducts”.

With respect to that proposal, Deputy Minister forEnvironmental Conservation and Forestry U Aye MyintMaung said that the Ministry inspects blocks in accord withlaws, procedures and disciplines in connection with privatetimber extractors’ over extraction and compensation fordamaged plants. The ministry is taking action and supervisesthe compensation for damages.

The Ministry had made amendments to laws and bylaws,

and sent them to the Attorney-General Office. After LandUse Policy and Land Use Plan have been drafted, theMinistry will carry out the conservation of natural forests.

Hluttaw decided that responsible persons,organizations and people are to participate in it, and approvedit.

At the urgent proposal submitting session, U Yaw DiDway of Putao Constituency submitted the proposal on“urging the Union government to provide necessaryassistances to government staff who are facing difficultiesin discharging their duties in their posting areas andprivate entrepreneurs from home and abroad, especiallyfrom Putao district and Chiphwe and Sawlaw regions aswell as displaced persons in Kachin State”.

Today’s meeting came to an end at 4.05 pm, and the dayon which the 39th day session will be held will be announced.

MNA

Union Minister for Environmental Conservation and Forestry U Win Tunposes for a documentary photo together with the attendences at ASEAN-Korea Ministerial Level Special Meeting for Cooperation in Forestry Sector

held in Seoul of the Republic of Korea.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Semifinal of the 6th Nay Pyi TawInter-Ministry Men’s Football Tournament was held atNay Pyi Taw Sports Ground No. 1, here at 3.30 pm today.

In the match, Ministry of Defence routed Ministry ofLivestock and Fisheries 3-0.—MNA

Defence cruises into final inInter-Ministry Football

Tourney

Deputy Minister for Education Dr Myo Myint makes address at 1st

Coordination Committee under Myanma JDS Programme.—MNA

conservation law was ratifiedand is arranging to formenvironmental conservationdepartment, said the UnionMinister.

The Union Ministerdiscussed with ministers fromASEAN countries and Koreafor cooperation of forestrysector in ASEAN region,implementation of projects,cooperation on developmentof human resources andmitigation of climate change.

On 29 August, the UnionMinister met with KoreanForest Services Minister DrDon Ko Lee and discussedmeasures for cooperation ofMyanmar-Korea forestrysector, sending for traineesto attend forest andenvironmental conservationpost graduate course,cooperation in research anddevelopment tasks andinvestment in forestrysector. Environmentalconservation tasks will becarried out two region levelproject and nine State levelproject in ASEAN countrieswith the assistance of the fundfrom the Republic of Koreaaccording to ASEAN-Koreaforestry sector cooperationagreement.—MNA

Cooperation in ForestrySector held in Seoul of theRepublic of Korea on 30August morning.

At the openingceremony, Agriculture andForestry Deputy Minister of

an opening speech.Union Minister U Win

Tun said at the meeting thatMyanmar is implementingconservation of ecosystem inBago Yoma MountainRanges and reduction of

Myanmar is strivingpolitical and economicreforms with momentum andcarrying out social andeconomic programmes forsustainable development,recently environmental

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Union Minister forCommunications, Posts andTelegraphs U Thein Tun paidvisit to Myaing Townshipwhere he drove stakes forconstruction of radiologydepartment in MyaingPeople’s Hospital inPakokku District of MagwayRegion on 1 September.

He thanked thewellwishers and local peoplefor their cooperative effortsin equipping the hospital

Union CPT minister ontour of Myaing Township

with operation theatres,generators and other medicalequipment, saying it was afine tradition of the township.

The Union Ministerdonated cash for theconstruction.

The Union Ministeralso attended the ceremonyto grant agricultural loans tofarmers of six villages inLetyetma village in thetownship, with the call forboosting production ofcrops.—MNA

Daw Myint MyintKhaing, wife of the UnionMinister for Border Affairsand for Myanma IndustrialDevelopment, Patron ofBorder Affairs MinistryMCWA Branch delivered anaddress and donated K500,000 each to MCWAbranches of Progress ofBorder Area and NationalRaces Department,Education and TrainingDepartment and RuralRegion DevelopmentDepartment. ChairpersonDaw Nan Aye Khaing ofMCWA Branch spoke wordsof thanks.

MNA

The best time to plant a treewas 20 years ago. The second

best time is now.

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NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Union Minister for TransportU Nyan Tun Aung receiveddelegation led by CanadianInternational Trade MinisterMr Edward Fast at theministry here this afternoon.

The meeting focused oncooperation in aviation andmercantile cooperation, CRJaircrafts manufactured byBombardier company, TwinOtter aircrafts, installation ofengines manufactured byCanada and possibilities ofinvestments for Canadianinvestors in Dawei SpecialEconomic Zone.—MNA

Union Transport Minister receives Canadian minister NAY PYI TAW, 4 Sept—The Government of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar has agreed to theappointment of Mrs Maria Michail as non-residentAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of theRepublic of Cyprus to the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar.

Mrs Maria Michail was born in 1973. She graduatedfrom the University of Leicester, United Kingdom in 1994with a B.A in Politics and obtained a M.A in EuropeanStudies from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom in1995.

Mrs Maria Michail joined the Ministry of ForeignAffairs of Cyprus in 1997. She served as Deputy HighCommissioner in London in 2003 and Deputy PermanentRepresentative at the Mission of Cyprus to the UnitedNations in Geneva from 2009 to March 2012. Mrs MariaMichail is currently High Commissioner of Cyprus to Indiawith effect from 1 April 2012.

Mrs Maria Michail will serve as AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic ofCyprus to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar withresidence in New Delhi.

MNA

Appointment ofAmbassador agreed on

YANGON, 3 Sept—More than 65000 victims are takingrefuge at 20 relief camps in Sittway and Maungtaw Township,receiving aids from the government, social organizations,INGOs and NGOs.

About 500 make-shift tents have been constructed for

Displaced persons in RakhineState receive aids

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Union Minister for ElectricPower No.2 U Khin MaungSoe and a delegation led byDeputy Minister of theMinistry of Energy ofThailand Dr WichianchotSukchotrat discussedinstallation of two 125 Megawatts generators inMyanmar from ElectricityGenerating Authority ofThailand (EGAT) in order toimplement bilateralcooperation as well as toprovide electricty needs atthe Ministry, here, thisafternoon.

The installation ofthose generators inMyanmar will be ready to

Union EP-2 Minister,Thailand Deputy Minister ofMinistry of Energy discussed

YANGON, 3 Sept—A total of 3129 dentists registered atDental Medicines Council are providing dental care to thepublic, said Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin in hisaddress to the opening of the first academic refresher coursefor dentists at Myanmar Dental Medicines Council Officehere yesterday morning.

He underlined the need to keep in touch with newfindings and therapies in fast changing world of medicines,saying the purpose of the training is to fill that gap.

The course that concludes on 8 September is beingattended by 310 dentists.—MNA

More than 3000 dentistsin action

Amyotha Hluttaw approves…(from page 16)

government is allocated thatduty, the ministry is ready tolend a hand to thegovernment, especially fortechnical assistance incarrying out survey tasks.

Afterwards, sixAmyotha Hluttawrepresentatives madediscussions about foreigninvestment bill that has beenapproved by AmyothaHluttaw.

The bill committee ofAmyotha Hluttaw decided toreview the discussions.

Then, one AmyothaHluttaw representativediscussed about the bill foramending of Auditor-General of the Union’s Lawthat has been approved by

Pyithu Hluttaw.The bill committee of

Amyotha Hluttaw decided toreview the discussions.

Chairman of Women andChild Affairs Committee ofAmyotha Hluttaw ProfessorDr Mya Oo and committeemembers read out the reportsof the committee to theHluttaw.

The Hluttaw announcedthat those wishing to partakein discussion about the reportmay register.

One representativeagreed with the proposal on“urging the uniongovernment to emphasizeon SME that helps grassroots survive in life beforestarting AFTA projects in2015”, proposed by

Representative Dr MyatNyana Soe from YangonRegion Constituency No. 4.

Deputy Minister forCommerce Dr Pwint Hsanmade clarification theproposal.

The Hluttaw announcedthat the proposal couldn’t beapproved on account of more“No” than “Yes” votes.

The today’s sessioncame to an end at 3:25 pmand the 39th day sessioncontinues at 10:00 am on 5th

September.The new names for

Chairman, secretary andmembers of the reformedcommittees were presentedby the Speaker of AmyothaHluttaw, two queriesanswered, two billsdiscussed, one reportsubmitted and one proposal

discussed and approved bythe Hluttaw.

MNA

supply electricity in fullswing in 2013 when the SEAGames are held.

The installation of GasTurbine will be provided byThailand. The expenses ofurbanized area where thegenerators will set up have

to cost by Myanmar. EGATwill provide necessaryassistance as well astechnical assistance.

MNA

the local people who had fled the violence before it returnedto normalcy. UNHCR has also confirmed the donation of 400make-shift tents which, on arrival, will be transferred to thevillages for extension of the camps.—MNA

ASSOCIATION FORMED: Perennial Crops andIndustrial Crops Producers Association of NamhkamTownship of Muse District was held at the hall of thetownship on 17 August. Shan State (North) In-charge

of Industrial Crops Development DepartmentU Hlaing Min Tun, Township Administrator

U Aung Kyaw Soe, Head of District Industrial CropsDevelopment Department U Kyaw Htay and members

participated in discussions.MYANMA ALIN

D

Union EP-2 Minister U Khin Maung Soe andDeputy Minister of Energy Dr WichianchotSukchotrat of Thailand and party pose for

documentary photo.—MNA

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SITTWAY, 3 Sept—Thenourishment week activity2012 was launched at UttamaHall in Sittway of RakhineState on 30 August morning,with an address by ChiefMinister of Rakhine State UHla Maung Tin.

YEDASHE, 3 Sept—Aungzeya gravel road

THAGARA, 3 Sept—Astrucks rolled along Yangon-Mandalay Highway, someroad sections were damagedin the rainy season.

In the last week ofAugust and the first week ofSeptember, repairing ofdamaged road works areaccelerated in the sunny day.

After designating theASEAN standard in thetransport services, trackshung with trailers along theirtrips.

Due to heavy loads ofvehicles, pits and damagesemerged on some road

Non-Formal PrimaryEducation launched inMyaungmya Township

MYAUNGMYA, 3 Sept—A ceremony to open the non-

formal primary educationcourse was held at BasicEducation High SchoolNo. 1 in Myaungmya ofAyeyawady Region on 17September noon.

On the occasion,Township Administrator UKo Ko Latt made a speech.Region Supervisor U Tin Tunreported on opening of Non-Formal Primary Educations inthe townships of the regionand Township EducationOfficer Daw Myint Myint Ayeon opening of the Non-Formal

Nourishment Week launched in Sittway

Head of Rakhine StateHealth Department Dr ThanTun Aung explained thepurpose of holding thenourishment week activity.

Next, the State Chief

Minister and guests viewedgiving vitamin-A tablets tochildren and ferrous sulphateand vitamin-3 to expectantmothers.

Myanma Alin

OUTSTANDING STUDENTS HONOURED: Theannual meeting of parent-teacher association of BasicEducation Primary School No. 1 of Bahan was held in

conjunction with the prize awarding ceremony foroutstanding students in 2012-2013 academic year at

the school on 26 August. Assistant Director U Sein Winof No. 3 Basic Education Department of YangonRegion presents prize to Maung Kyaw Lin Htet in

poster contest.MYANMA ALIN

MANDALAY, 3 Sept—Directorate of RoadTransport, CustomsDepartment, MyanmaInsurance and MyanmaEconomic Bank giveslicences to about 700motorcycles a day throughone stop service at PoliceInstitute ground inChanayethazan Township ofMandalay as of 5 June.

Up to 24 August, thedepartments have issuedlicences to 36750motorcycles with 24Ya/-…number plates.

The 4th October which isthe last date for issuance ofmotorcycles, the owners andmotorcycles took in thequeue at night. However,members of Myanmar PoliceForce from Mandalay Regionsupervised the people in thequeue because snatchingcases occurred daily.

A warning was issuedthat the motorcycles are totake a queue at 4 am tominimize motorcyclesnatching cases and losses.If not, action will be takenagainst offenders.

At present, brokers takeK 5000 to K 10000 for a placein the queue from themotorcycle owners.

Myanma Alin

MEIKTILA, 3 Sept—Yanaungmyin Social Group,Myatnoepiti Social Group,Withakhar Women’s Groupof Meiktila Township socialorganization and facultymembers of MeiktilaUniversity on 2 Septemberdonated clothes to thepeople of Rakhine State whoare suffering loss of houses

Snatching casesoccur in queueof motorcycles

for licences

Gravel road serves as production road inYedashe Township

linking Ngakhonma Creekand Zaydan Ward of

Thagara in YedasheTownship was repaired byYedashe TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee recently.

Local people from over20 villages such as EastKyaunggon of Thagara,Wedaunt, Letpankhon andHngetpyawtaw use thegravel road for transport ofagricultural produce. Thedamaged road made troublesto transport of local peoplein the past. At present, thenew gravel road becomesbetter transport facility forthe local people.—Kyemon

People in Rakhine Stateprovided with clothes

and their property in recentsituations through DistinctFire Services Department.

Head of District FireServices Department U KyawHsan said, “This donationwas organized byMyatnoepiti Sayadaw, and3346 pieces of clothes worthabout K 500,000 through ourdepartment.”—Kyemon

Damaged sections of Yangon-MandalayHighway repaired

sections.In consequence, some

high model cars need to be

repaired after driving on thedamaged road sections.

Kyemon

Information for anti-humantrafficking

Nowadays, the government is accelerating itstasks in taking preventive measures against traffickingin person.

In so doing, telephone numbers are announced asthe connections with authorities concerned forenabling the people to actively participate in takingthe anti-human trafficking measures.

These telephone numbers are 067-412555 and067-412666 in Nay Pyi Taw, 09-49555666 in Muse, 09-49555777 in Mandalay and 09-49555888 and 09-49555999 in Yangon.

Primary Educations-NFPEs inurban areas and villages.

After that, officialspresented over K 4 million tothe fund of the educationdepartment. Wellwishersdonated bags, umbrellas,slippers, school uniformsand exercise books for 120students of six camps.

The TownshipAdministrator presentedcertificates of assignment tocamp supervisors.

Myanma Alin

Dawei Magazine fundedDAWEI, 3 Sept—With

the aim of enabling the localpeople to know Daweiculture and development ofthe region, a coordinationmeeting was held for

publishing of DaweiMagazine at the hall ofTaninthayi RegionGovernment on 23 Augustafternoon.

Chief Minister of the

Region U Myat Ko deliveredan address. Those presentparticipated in the meetingwith suggestions onemergence of DaweiMagazine.

The Region ChiefMinister donated K 500,000to the fund of the TownshipWriters Association throughChairman of the associationU Ba Myint.

Myanma Alin

DistrictNews

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British government ready to underwriteinfrastructure projects

LONDON, 3 Sept — BritishChancellor of the ExchequerGeorge Osborne on Sundaysaid the government wouldunderwrite altogether 50billion pounds (79.3 billionUS dollars) of infrastructureand house building projects,in a bid to boost the country’ssluggish economy. Osbornesaid the Infrastructure(Financial Assistance) Billwould be introduced in thenext few weeks and shouldbecome law by the end ofOctober.

The Bill is to give greenlight to 40 billion pounds ofconstruction projects byusing the government’s lowinterest rates to underwritethem.

Projects qualified forgovernment guarantee mustbe “nationally significant,”ready to start constructionwithin 12 months, financiallycredible and be of “goodvalue” for taxpayers.

Meanwhile, ministers are

British government ready to underwrite infrastructureprojects.—XINHUA

expected to make plans tounderwrite up to 10 billionpounds worth of new homes,including guaranteeing thedebt of housing associationsand private sectordevelopers.

The government willoutline details for theseprojects very soon as theParliament resumes fromsummer break this week.

Commenting on theexpansion of the Heathrowairport which has been

repeatedly appealed by seniorConservative politiciansrecently, Osborne did not ruleout the possibility of a thirdrunway for Britain’s largestairport, and agreed that extrarunway capacity was neededin the South East of England.“It is a question of where itshould go — Heathrow, a new(Thames) estuary airport,Stansted, Gatwick — peoplehave lots of differentoptions,” the Chancellor said.

Xinhua

APEC to bring opportunities for Russia,regional integration: expert

MOSCOW, 3 Sept — Theupcoming Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation(APEC) summit will open upopportunities for Russia’sdevelopment and regionalintegration in general,according to a Russian expert.During a recent interview withXinhua, Gleb Ivashentsov,deputy director of the RussianAPEC Study Centre, saidRussia intended todemonstrate its huge growthpotential in the Far East aswell as its aspiration tointegrate into the Asia-Pacificregion by hosting the top-level gathering.

Ivashentsov said theresource-rich Transbaikal andEastern Siberia regions in theFar East would lead Russia’scooperation with APECeconomies.

Russia would notbecome a “raw materialsappendage” of its Asianpartners, but would focus on

Bus crash kills two, injures 13students in central China

WUHAN, 3 Sept — Two high school students were killedand another 13 injured after their bus crashed into a tree andoverturned in central China’s Hubei Province, local authoritiessaid on Monday.

A group of 34 senior high school students and a teacherwere on their way to a chemistry competition in downtownJingzhou when their bus crashed into a roadside tree androlled over at 6:20 am on Sunday, said an official with the citygovernment’s information office.

Two students died in the accident and another 13 werewounded, among whom two suffered severe injuries, said thespokesman. The students were from the No1 High School inSongzi city which is administered by the city of Jingzhou. Therainy weather may have been one of the reasons that causedthe tragedy and a further investigation is underway.—Xinhua

Rescuers work at a traffic accident site in LonghuaVillage of Jingzhou City, central China’s Hubei

Province, on 2 Sept, 2012.—XINHUA

Evangelist Reverend Moon Sun-myung blessesnewlyweds during a mass wedding ceremony at Sun

Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul in this 14 Oct,2009 file photo.—RETUERS

Unification Church head SunMyung Moon dies in South

KoreaSEOUL, 3 Sept — Sun

Myung Moon, the founderand head of the UnificationChurch which has millions offollowers around the world,died at a retreat near the SouthKorean capital Seoul onMonday, church officials said.Moon was 92 and had sufferedcomplications frompneumonia, the officials said.Moon had been hospitalizedin Seoul in mid-August andwas moved to the retreat lastweek when his family andchurch believed there was littlechance of recovery.

Moon had led an activepublic life until recently,officiating a mass wedding for2,500 in March and leading aservice of more than 15,000followers in July. The churchsaid he had fallen gravely ill inearly August after a lingeringbout of cold and exhaustionthat began in July. Moon issurvived by his wife — thepair are called “true parents”by followers — and 10 of their13 children.Born in what isnow North Korea in 1920,

Mexicantraditional music

performers, knownas “mariachis”,participate in a

parade during the19th International

Meeting ofMariachi andCharreria, inGuadalajara,Jalisco State,

Mexico, on 2 Sept,2012. — XINHUA

US Steel, union reach tentative agreementNEW YORK, 3 Sept —

United Steelworkers said onSunday it reached a tentativeagreement with US Steel on athree-year labour contract formore than 16,000 workersemployed at the company’sUS facilities. The union said ina statement it had beennegotiating for a collective-bargaining agreement with thesteelmaker since June.Members of the union will casta deciding vote on theagreement over the next fewweeks.

But union negotiations

Threekilled, fiveinjured asblast hitsPeshawar,PakistanISLAMABAD, 3 Sept—

At least three people werekilled and five othersincluding foreigners gotinjured when a blast hitPakistan’s northwest cityof Peshawar on Mondaymorning, reported localmedia Geo.

The nature of the blastis not known yet. Somelocal media reports saidthat the blast took placenear a UNHCR office andthe target was a UNHCRvehicle.

There is no officialconfirmation about thisyet.

Xinhua

regional modernization bypouring funds gained fromnatural resources exports intorailways, highways and otherinfrastructure construction inthese areas, the expert said.

The Russian govern-ment had drawn a blueprintfor boosting its industrialsector and exports of high-tech products in the Far Eastregion, Ivashentsov said.

For example, an aircraftplant in the Far Eastern city ofKomsomolsk-na-amure couldproduce “the most advancedmilitary planes in the world”and these fighters werepopular among Russia’sAPEC partners, he said.

The “East” cosmodromeunder construction in theAmur region would bringRussia more chances of spacecooperation with APECeconomies.”

Currently, Russia hasbeen engaged in active spacecooperation with China,

Japan and South Korea. It hasalso launched a number ofspacecraft for APECpartners,” he said.

Ivashentsov praisedRussia-China cooperationunder the APEC format,saying there were “broadprospects” for furtherdevelopment between thetwo sides.

China’s support ofRussia’s initiatives in theforum was “very important,”Ivashentsov said, adding thetwo countries had similarviews on various issues,which contributed to theircomprehensive strategicpartnership.

In general, the APECforum had been a facilitator ofregional integration, pushingfor free trade agreementsamong several membereconomies. However, Russiawas a “spectator” in thisprocess, he said.

Xinhua

Moon founded the churchsoon after the Korean Warthat ended in 1953, rapidlyexpanding the ministryinternationally and building abusiness at the same time thatserved as the backbone of theempire.

The Unification Churchruns the Segye Timesnewspaper in South Korea andmore than a dozen other firmsin South Korea along withoverseas businesses. Criticsof the church have for yearsvilified the organization as aheretical and dangerous cultand questioned its murkyfinances and how itindoctrinates followers,described in derogatory termsas “Moonies.”

Moon has handed overday-to-day operations of thechurch, which has itsheadquarters in Seoul, to oneof his sons and the managementof the Tongil Group withinterests in construction,resorts, travel agencies and anewspaper to another son.

Reuters

continue with Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal — theworld’s largest steelmaker —over a new labour contract,after a midnight deadlinepassed without anagreement.“We have beenexchanging proposals with thecompany and remain engagedin negotiations,” USWpresident Leo W Gerard saidin a statement. He added thatmembers of the union willcontinue to work under theterms set in a 2008 contractwhile the negotiations areongoing. The contract,

however, has not beenformally extended.

The company isrestarting blast furnaces idledin the run-up to the contractexpiry at midnight on Saturday,Gerard said. ArcelorMittaloperates steel plants inIndiana, Ohio and several otherstates. United Steelworkersrepresents about 850,000workers in the United States,Canada and the Caribbean. Thedeal with US Steel comes a daybefore the Labour Day holidayon Monday, which honoursAmerican workers.— Reuters

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SEA FLOURISH VOY NO (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SEA FLOUR-ISH VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 4.9.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand 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: CITIC SHIP MANAGEMENTLTD

Phone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SINAR BIMA VOY NO (123N)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SINAR BIMAVOY NO (123N) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 3.9.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of H.P.T 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 SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TABAH VOY NO (507)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA TABAHVOY NO (507) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 3.9.2012 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T 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 ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

Storm Isaac moves east while impact lingersin Louisiana

StTammany officials inspect lock two of the Pearl RiverNavigational Canal after Hurricane Isaac in Bush,

Louisiana, on 1 September, 2012.— REUTERS

NASHVILLE, 3 Sept—Asthe remnants of HurricaneIsaac moved east on Sunday,bringing with it a wet LabourDay holiday weekend, thestorm’s impact was still beingfelt in Louisiana, where morethan a hundred thousandpeople were still withoutpower.

Entergy, Louisiana’slargest power provider, saidabout 160,000 of theLouisiana homes andbusinesses it serves remainedwithout electricity, leavingthem without airconditioning undersweltering temperatures.

The storm, which wasdowngraded from hurricanestrength last week, is headedalong the drought-strickenOhio Valley, which is due tosee heavy rains on Monday,the Labour Day holiday.

From the spine of the

Appalachian Mountains onwest, downpours andthunderstorms could disruptoutdoor holiday activities,especially on Mondayafternoon and early evening,said Carl Erickson, ameteorologist withAccuWeather.com.

“People might be ableto sneak some plans in there,but they’re going to have towatch the sky,” Erickson said.Storms are likely to continuein the northeast through theearly part of the week.

President BarackObama is scheduled to visitLouisiana on Monday — oneday before the DemocraticNational Convention kicksoff in Charlotte, NorthCarolina. The White Househas said Obama will visit firstresponders and survey thedamage from Hurricane Isaac.

Isaac was the first

hurricane to strike the UnitedStates this year and it hit NewOrleans almost exactly sevenyears after Hurricane Katrinadevastated the city, causingan estimated 1,800 deaths.

At least five deaths inLouisiana and two inneighboring Mississippiwere blamed on Isaac andboth states suffered fromwidespread flooding,authorities said.

Isaac was expected to bea mixed blessing for thedrought-parched Midwestfarm belt, since experts saidits rains came too late for thisseason’s crop of corn andmost soybeans.

The worst drought innearly half a century remainsdeeply entrenched acrossnearly two thirds of the UnitedStates.

Isaac’s rains could helpspeed up pasture recovery,however, and get the USwinter wheat crop off to agood start.

Isaac lingered over NewOrleans for the better part oftwo days, providing a firstand successful test of thecity’s new $14.5 billionflood-control systemassembled after Katrina.Areas outside those floodprotections fared worse.

At least one levee wasovertopped southwest of NewOrleans, leaving some homesunder 12 feet of water.

Reuters

Tibet to receive 10 mlntourists this year

Chinanon-manufacturing

sector’s growthrises

BEIJING, 3 Sept — ThePurchasing Managers Index(PMI) of China’s non-manufacturing sector, a keyeconomic indicator, rose 0.7percentage points to 56.3percent in August, new surveyresults have indicated.

The figure reboundedafter a fall in July as growth inthe non-manufacturing sectorstabilized, according to datareleased by the ChinaFederation of Logistics andPurchasing (CFLP) onMonday. A PMI reading above50 percent indicates expansionfrom the previous month, whilereadings below this markindicate contraction.— Xinhua

A humanoid robot knownas “Nao” performs during

the 11th ChinaInternational Equipment

Manufacturing Expositionin Shenyang, capital of

northeast China’sLiaoning Province, on 1

Sept, 2012. A total of fourhumanoid robots, whichcan sing, dance and evendemonstrate the popularmartial art Tai chi, were

displayed during theExposition. — XINHUA

LHASA, 3 Sept —Southwest China’s TibetAutonomous Region isexpected to receive a record10 million-plus tourists thisyear, a local tourism officialsaid on Monday.

These tourists will bringrevenue of 12 billion yuan(1.89 billion US dollars), or17 percent of the region’sgross domestic product(GDP), said Yu Yungui, headof the Communist Partycommittee of the region’stourism bureau. Yu said morethan 7 million domestic orforeign tourists visited Tibetfrom January to August, upmore than 25 percent year onyear. Tourism revenue overthe past eight months jumped30 percent year on year to 7.5billion yuan.

Yu attributed the boomto tour activities organizedthis year. Such activities haverun under the themes of

Tibetan culture and scenicbeauty, such as mountains,snowy landscapes andsunshine. Large-scaleadvertising and variousfestivals, such as Tibetan NewYear, have also helped attracttourists, he said.

Tibet is situated on theQinghai-Tibetan Plateau, anarea predominantlypopulated by ethnic Tibetansand prevailed by Buddhistculture. Signature touristdestinations include theworld’s highest peak MountQomolangma, the sacred lakeNam Co and TibetanBuddhism heritage sites suchas Potala Palace, JokhangTemple and Zhaxi LhunboMonastery.

Nearly 300,000 people inthe region are employed in thetourism sector with fixed assetsexceeding 25 billion yuan,according to governmentfigures.—Xinhua

European shares lifted by central bank hopes Bushfire engulfs 4 sq kmvegetation near Los Angeles

A cameraman stands infront of the DAX board at

the Frankfurt stockexchange on 29 Aug, 2012.

REUTERS

health of the world economy,keeping alive talk of freshstimulus from major centralbanks. However, with USinvestors out for the LabourDay holiday, markets werelikely to trade in a limitedrange.

Expectations that centralbanks would take steps toboost growth increased aftertwo Chinese surveys showedfactory activity in world’ssecond largest economyslowing more than expected

LONDON, 3 Sept —European shares crept higheron Monday after weak factorydata highlighted the poor

in August. “I think we’re goingto see more stimulus frompretty much every central bankon the face of the planet,” saidMichael Ingram, marketanalyst at BGC Partners. “Youknow we’re living in aglobalised economy. It’s aglobalised slowdown so policymakers have to step up to theplate.”

The FTSEurofirst 300index .FTEU3 of top Europeanshares was up 0.5 percent inearly trade on Monday to

1,088.42 points, adding togains of 0.5 percent on Friday.The euro stood at $1.2575,just below an eight-week peakof $1.2638 set on Friday whenUS Federal Reserve ChairmanBen Bernanke left the dooropen for further stimulus.

But any move from theFed is not expected until itsnext meeting in mid-September at the earliest andwill be heavily influenced bythe August payrolls report dueout this Friday.—Reuters

LOS ANGELES, 3 Sept—Local authorities said onSunday they are probing intothe cause of a bushfire thatengulfed more than 1,000 acres(4 square km) of vegetationnear Los Angeles.

The fire, started earlyafternoon in AngelesNational Forest on the SanGabriel Mountains nearGlendora, 37 km east ofdowntown Los Angeles,

prompted an evacuation ofcampgrounds and arehabilitation centre in thearea.

Authorities havedispatched 200 firemen andnine water-dropping tankers,Angeles National Forestspokeswoman L’Tanga Watssaid.All buildings in the areaare safe, according toofficials.

Xinhua

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Woman’s prize-winning pumpkins destroyed

Mae Powellsurveys theremains of

herdestroyed

prizewinning

pumpkin.

A 93-year-old womansays vandals destroyed giantpumpkins she was growing inher yard in Pasadena, Calif.

Mae Powell found herpumpkins, including a 300-pound “giant pumpkin” sheplanned on entering in a weigh-off in Irvine this October,smashed to pieces along thestreet in front of her house

Friday morning, the Pasadena(Calif) Star News reported.

“Every year I win a prize,”Powell said, “but I can’t enterthis one now. ... Who knowswhat I’ll do.”

Four other pumpkins thatwere destroyed were going tobe donated to the HuntingtonLibrary’s Children’s Garden,Powell said. Powell reported

the vandalism to the TempleCity Sheriff’s Station, but LtIgnacio Somoano said therewas no “workableinformation” at this point. Shealso offered a $1,000 reward toanyone who had informationabout the vandalism.

BJ Ledyard, a friend ofPowell’s, said the pumpkinswere a source of pride in theneighborhood. “It bringspeople together becauseeveryone says ‘Oh, I knowthat house it’s the one with thepumpkins,’” Ledyard said.“It’s something people love tocome by and see.”

Goodbye George, the lastgiant Galapagos tortoise

Lonesome George: he was truly one of akind.

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It was a sad day for Darwinians when theGalapagos National Park in Ecuadorannounced that Lonesome George had died.

George was the last giant tortoise of hiskind, the sole surviving member of a speciesfrom La Pinta, one of the smallest islands inthe Galapagos. He was found in 1972 and hadbecome a conservation icon for Ecuador’sGalapagos Islands. He was estimated to beover 100 years old.

“This morning the park ranger in chargeof looking after the tortoises found Lonesome

George (and) his body was motionless,” saidthe head of the park, Edwin Naula. “His lifecycle came to an end.” Giant Galapagostortoises can live up to 200 years and wereamong the many species that helped CharlesDarwin formulate his theory of evolution.

The park said they had planned anecropsy to determine what caused George’sdeath, after which they would considerembalming his body so that he could still beon display. The park gets over 180,000 visitorsa year with George being one of the biggestattractions. The islands also pull in celebrities;Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited theGalapagos recently.

Scientists had been trying to get Georgeto mate since 1993 and introduced two femalesof a different subspecies into his pen. Bothpartners laid eggs twice, but they were allinfertile.

Actors shine in Venice filmbased on Scientology

VENICE, 3 Sept—PhilipSeymour Hoffman shines as acult leader in “The Master”, acompelling new film inspiredby the real life of Scientologyfounder L Ron Hubbard abouthow power and faith cancorrupt.

The movie, from “ThereWill Be Blood” director PaulThomas Anderson, has itsworld premiere at the Venicefilm festival on Saturday andwith the Weinstein Companybehind it as US distributor,Oscar nominations look like adecent bet. It was labeled“controversial” monthsbefore release mainly becauseof parallels with Scientology,a self-described religionfollowed by some ofHollywood’s biggest namesthat has a reputation forcarefully guarding its image.

Its detractors describethe movement as a cult, whichthey say harasses people who

seek to quit, although themovement rejects thecriticism.

Anderson confirmedthat Hoffman’s characterLancaster Dodd, acharismatic, charming andcontrolling man who leads afaith named “The Cause”, wasbased on Hubbard, who diedin 1986.

“It’s a character that Icreated based on L RonHubbard. There are a lot ofsimilarities with the early daysof Dianetics,” he told reportersafter a press screening,referring to the self-helpsystem that Hubbarddeveloped into Scientology.

“I don’t really know awhole lot about Scientology,particularly now, but I do knowa lot about the beginning ofthat movement and it inspiredme to use it as a backdrop forthese characters.”

He added that he hadshown the film to Tom Cruise,a follower of Scientology whostarred in Anderson’s 1999drama “Magnolia”. “We arestill friends. Yes, I showedhim the film and the rest isbetween us.”—Reuters

Second “Hobbit” movie gets new name, July 2014release for third

LOS ANGELES, 3 Sept—The third film in the upcoming“Hobbit” movie trilogy willbe released worldwide in July2014, the movie studiosbehind the venture said onFriday, and the second filmnow has a new name.

The third film — “TheHobbit: There and BackAgain” — will open in movietheaters on 18 July, 2014 - justseven months after the newlytitled second film “TheHobbit: The Desolation ofSmaug” arrives on 13 Dec,2013. The second filmoriginally carried the “Thereand Back Again” title. Thefirst film, “The Hobbit: An

LOS ANGELES, 3 Sept—Hal David, a lyricist who alongwith composer BurtBacharach took the pop worldby storm in the 1960s withhits such as “Raindrops KeepFallin’ on my Head” and“Walk on By,” died in LosAngeles on Saturday at age91, a representative said.

David died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre ofcomplications from a stroke,said Jim Steinblatt,spokesman for the AmericanSociety of Composers,Authors and Publishers, orASCAP.

Earlier this year, Davidand Bacharach received theGershwin Prize for PopularSong from the Library ofCongress, during a WhiteHouse musical tribute.

David, a native of

Brooklyn, New York, beganhis songwriting career in thelate 1940s by collaboratingwith writers he had met atManhattan’s famed BrillBuilding, which at the timewas the center of the popindustry.

He started working withBacharach in the late 1950s

and their songs wererecorded by such artists asFrank Sinatra, Marty Robbins,Tom Jones and BarbraStreisand.

The singer mostassociated with thesongwriting duo is DionneWarwick, who rose to fameby scoring a number of Top10 hits in the 1960s withmaterial from David andBacharach.

Bacharach’s andDavid’s song “RaindropsKeep Fallin’ on my Head”was written for the 1969 movie“Butch Cassidy and theSundance Kid” and won theAcademy Award for Best

“Raindrops Keep Fallin’”songwriter Hal David dies at 91

Song.They also won a Grammy

in 1969 for best score from anoriginal cast show album fortheir Broadway musical“Promises, Promises,” whichincluded the song “I’ll NeverFall In Love Again.” The playreturned to Broadway in 2010starring Kristin Chenowethand Sean Hayes.

The songwriting duo’sother hits included “What theWorld Needs Now Is Love,”“I Say a Little Prayer,” “DoYou Know the Way to SanJose,” and “(They Long toBe) Close to You,” which isbest known from a version bythe Carpenters.—Reuters

Unexpected Journey” starringBritish actor Martin Freemanas Bilbo Baggins, has alreadybeen set for a 14 Dec, 2012opening.

Director Peter Jackson,Time Warner Inc’s WarnerBros. and New Line Cinema,and MGM announced in Julythat the 3D-film adaptation ofthe classic novel by JRRTolkien would be split intothree films rather than the twooriginally envisaged.

Warner Bros executivessaid they believed the thirdmovie would play well in thesummer — the most lucrativeperiod for the movie industryand the launch pad for action-packed blockbusters.

“We wanted to have ashorter gap between thesecond and third films of ‘TheHobbit’ trilogy. Opening inJuly affords us not only theperfect summer tentpole, butfans will have less time to waitfor the finale of this epicadventure,” Dan Fellman,president of domesticdistribution at Warner Brossaid in a statement.

Reuters

Broadway’s ‘Spider-Man’ producers, Taymorsettle sticky suit

Actor Jackie Chan (C)carries an auction object to

show to audience at the2012 BAZAAR Stars

Charity Night in Beijing,capital of China, on 1 Sept,2012. Chinese showbiz stars,

entrepreneurs andcelebrities attended theevent which raised morethan 40 million yuan (6.3

million US dollars) inBeijing on Saturday.

XINHUA

NEW YORK, 3 Sept—Abitter legal dispute betweenthe producers of Broadway’sversion of “Spider-Man” andthe musical’s ousted director,Julie Taymor, has beenresolved, a court filingshowed on Thursday.

“The parties in this actionhave reached an agreementin principle,” US DistrictJudge Katherine Forrest inManhattan said in a threeparagraph order that gave noadditional details.

The order said theparties have 60 days to comeback to court to reopen thelitigation before the orderbecomes final.

While it has packed the

theater, “Spider-Man: TurnOff the Dark” made adisastrous start on Broadwayin 2010, with injuries to actors,opening night delays and theeventual firing of Taymor, theTony-winning director of“The Lion King.”

The stunt-heavy

musical, which is based onMarvel Comics’ most famouscharacter and cost more than$70 million to bring to thestage with music by Bonoand The Edge, was reworkedafter Taymor left theproduction in March 2011.

In November 2011,Taymor filed a copyrightinfringement lawsuit againstthe “Spider-Man” producers.

Taymor said that she hadworked on the musical’soriginal book — the non-sungwords — before she left theshow and that the producerscontinued to make“unauthorized and unlawfuluse” of her written works aftershe left.—Reuters

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Oosthuizen takes control of Deutsche Bank withbirdie blitz

NORTON, 3 Sept— SouthAfrican Louis Oosthuizenproduced a tournament recordbirdie blitz to take control ofthe Deutsche BankChampionship duringSunday’s third round, leavingthe highly fancied RoryMcIlroy and Tiger Woods inhis wake.

Oosthuizen reeled offnine birdies on his way to aneight-under 63, including atournament record seven in arow from the fourth, to moveto 19 under par for thetournament.

It left the 2010 British

Open champion three shotsclear of McIlroy, who returneda tidy 67 to sit alone in secondand in striking distance at 16-under.

Woods managed a 68 tomove into tie for third withfellow American and RyderCup hopeful Dustin Johnson(65) at 13-under.

“It was obviouslyprobably the start anyonewould dream of on that frontnine,” Oosthuizen, who wentout in a course record 29, toldreporters. “I made every-thing, so you get those dayswhere you just look at a putt

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic

Andy Roddick serves to Italy’s Fabio Fognini in thethird round of play at the 2012 US Open tennis

tournament, on 2 Sept, 2012, in New York.—REUTERS

Louis Oosthuizen of SouthAfrica

and you hole it.” Oosthuizenstarted his charge with a tapin birdie on the par fivesecond hole before his gamewent white hot on the fourth.

He coaxed in a seven-foot birdie putt on the drivablepar four to start his blitz.

The 29-year-old drainedback-to-back 20-foot birdieson five and six to take theoutright lead and when heknocked in a five-footer onthe seventh he led by three.

The 2012 Mastersrunner-up kept the streak alivewith a 42-foot bomb on theeighth and impressed when a

23-footer went down on theninth for an opening 29, acourse record for TPC Boston.

Reuters

Djokovic eases through,Roddick parties on

NEW YORK, 3 Sept—Novak Djokovic continuedhis stroll through the US Opendraw on Sunday while formerchampion Andy Roddickstaved off retirement bywinning in front of 20,000 ofhis new-found best friends atraucous Arthur AsheStadium.

While Djokovic had aworkmanlike 6-3, 6-2, 6-2victory over FrenchmanJulien Benneteau to reach thefourth round, the stadiumturned rowdy watchingRoddick’s 7-5, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4triumph over Italy’s FabioFognini.

Other winners includedtop-seeded BelarusianVictoria Azarenka anddefending champion SamStosur of Australia on thewomen’s draw and DavidFerrer of Spain and SwissStanislas Wawrinka on themen’s side.

The party continued atFlushing Meadows for

Roddick, who has become arock star since announcingon Thursday he would retireafter the US Open.

New York fans alwaysenjoyed watching Roddickbut it has been raised severalnotches. Fans in AsheStadium cheered the 30-year-old American’s every moveand repeatedly broke intochants of “Let’s go An-dy,let’s go, An-dy.”

When Fognini’s servicereturn slammed into the neton match-point, the crowd,including Roddick’s model/actress wife Brooklyn Decker,erupted.—Reuters

Juventus pile on the misery for hapless Udinese

MILAN, 3 Sept—Juven-tus thumped Udinese 4-1away on Sunday after thehosts, still coming to termswith their failure to qualify forthe Champions League, hadgoalkeeper Zeljko Brkic sentoff after 13 minutes.

Forward SebastianGiovinco, back at Juve aftertwo seasons with Parma,scored twice for the Serie A

champions, who have nowwon their first two games ofthe new campaign, havinggone unbeaten in the leaguelast season.

Brkic was controver-sially dismissed afterclattering into Giovinco as heran on to a long Andrea Pirlopass.

Chile midfielder ArturoVidal fired the penalty past

replacement goalkeeperDaniele Padelli, to setJuventus on their way.

Udinese, beaten in theirChampions League playoffby Braga on penalties lastTuesday to fall at the samestage for the second seasonrunning, made little headwayas Juventus kept possession.

Montenegro forwardMirko Vucinic scored thesecond goal at the end of thefirst half with a curling shot,after linking up with KwadwoAsamoah, who left Udinesefor Juventus in the closeseason. Giovinco then putthe visitors further ahead inthe 53rd minute when Padellifailed to hold ClaudioMarchisio’s shot, and addedthe fourth in the 71st minutefollowing a move nicely setup by Pirlo. Midfielder AndreaLazzari, a recent signing fromFiorentina, pulled aconsolation goal back forUdinese in the 78th minute.

Reuters

Juventus’ Sebastian Giovinco (R) shoots to score a fourthgoal past Udinese’s Maurizio Domizzi during their

Italian Serie A soccer match at the Friuli stadium inUdine on 2 September, 2012.—REUTERS

Pienaar pullsout of Brazil

friendlyJOHANNESBURG, 3 Sept

—South Africa captainSteven Pienaar has pulledout of Friday’s friendlyagainst Brazil in Sao Paulo, astatement from the country’sfootball association said onSunday.

The Everton midfielderwithdrew from the game afterpulling a thigh muscle duringSaturday’s 2-0 defeat byWest Bromwich Albion inthe English Premier League.

South Africa’s StevenPienaar speaks during an

interview following thelaunch of Puma’s kits for

nine African nationalsoccer teams at the DesignMuseum in London on 7

November, 2011.REUTERS

Rodgers left to ponder Liverpool striker shortageLONDON, 3 Sept—The

hot seat at one of England’spowerhouses was alreadyfeeling a little uncomfortablefor Liverpool managerBrendan Rodgers on Sundayafter a 2-0 home defeat byArsenal left him reflecting onthe club’s worst start to aleague campaign for 50 years.

Four months after

gaining plaudits for guidingPremier League newcomersSwansea City to 11th placewith an eye-catching brandof football, the NorthernIrishman has plenty ofproblems to solve if Liverpoolare to challenge for a top-fourplace.

The most pressing ofthem is a lack of goals.

Luis Suarez has provedprofligate this season andFabio Borini, signed from ASRoma, ran around to littleeffect before beingsubstituted against Arsenal.

The fact that he wasreplaced by Stewart Downing,a shot-shy winger, hardlyimpressed the Anfield faithfulstill scratching their heads asto why England striker AndyCarroll was loaned to WestHam United with noreplacement signed.

While Liverpool enjoyedspells of the kind ofpossession football Rodgerspreached at Swansea, too

often moves ended in cul-de-sacs or fizzled out in the finalthird.

Rodgers acknowledgedthe transfer window had lefthim with a lack of options upfront.

“It’s something that’sgone now,” he toldLiverpool’s website. “We allknow we neededreinforcements and theplayers needed help, but thewindow is shut.

“We can’t do anythingabout it now. My onlyconcentration is with theplayers that are here andthey’ve been fantastic.They’ve given me absolutelyeverything every day and Icouldn’t ask for any more fromthem.

“We’ve got what we’vegot. A lot of young playersare going to get anopportunity.” “What hashappened has happened,we’ll reflect on it as a club andhopefully come January and

the next window we cantransition the group thatallows us to compete.”

While the opening daydefeat by West BromwichAlbion and Sunday’s loss toArsenal have beendisappointing, a 2-2 draw withchampions Manchester Citysuggested that Rodgers’ sidewill not be languishing nearthe bottom for too long.

“We’ll get better as ourseason progresses,” he said.

“It was always going tobe a difficult start. I have aninherent belief in this way ofworking, and I’ve had successwith it. Over time here, thatwill be the same.

“These are the hard yardsthat you’ve got to put in earlyon and take the flak for.”

Because of nextweekend’s World Cupqualifiers Rodgers will haveto wait two weeks to try andkickstart Liverpool’s seasonwhen his side travel toSunderland, after which theyare at home to ManchesterUnited.—Reuters

Liverpool’s managerBrendan Rodgers

watches his team playArsenal as fans leave

early during theirEnglish Premier

League soccer matchat Anfield in Liverpool,northern England on 2

September, 2012.REUTERS

Racing Genk full backAnele Ngcongca, whopicked up an injury in histeam’s UEFA Europa Leaguetie against Luzern last week,is also missing while SouthAfrica Footballer of the YearSiyabonga Nomvethe is adoubt.

Friday’s match is the firstin charge for new SouthAfrica coach GordonIgesund, brought in after the2010 World Cup hosts failedto win either of their openingtwo qualifiers for the 2014finals in Brazil.

Reuters

International Sports

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Focus Myanmar TV ProgrammeWeather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 4th September, 2012

* News* Yadana Labha Muni

Pagoda Festival* News* Jetro Business

Support CentreYangon

* Myanmar AgriculturalSector: Window to theWorld

* News* 27th SEA Games

Preparations “Judo”* Yearning For Khin Art

Exhibition* News* Mobile Living Style

and Car Expo* News* Topic on Journal

“The Consequencesof Climate Change”

* Skilful MarionettePerformance of NewGeneration Artistes

* News* Victory of ASEAN

Youths (Myanmar)* News* A Holiday Paradise &

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Communal Temple* Myanmar Movie

‘‘Life As Parents’’

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw-Uppatathandi Paritta

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy Exercise7:50 am 3. Nice & Sweet Song8:05 am 4. Songs of Yester Years8:15 am 5. Teleplay (Health)8:25 am 6. Selected Songs For 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions (2012)(Oldies & Mono Classical)(Amateur (Second)Division Level) (Women)

8:55 am 7. Song of National Races4:10 pm 8. Musical Programme4:45 pm 9. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)-Second Year (English)

5:05 pm10. The Mirror Images of The

Musical Oldies5:30 pm11. Sweet Melody6:20 pm12. Kyae Pwint Myaye Yin

Khone Than6:35 pm13. Sing A Song7:05 pm14. TV Drama Series8:00 pm15. News16. Bakery World17. India Drama Series

Pistorius cries foul after 200mloss to Oliveira

LONDON, 3 Sept—Oscar Pistorius complainedvociferously about the length of his opponent’s blades afterhe was beaten into second by Brazil’s Alan Oliveira in themen’s 200 metres final at the London Paralympic Games onSunday. South African Pistorius streaked into an early leadand was almost 10 metres ahead as the athletes came into thehome straight, before the Brazilian launched an astonishingfightback.

Oliveira ate up the ground and surged past Pistorius inthe final few metres. The underdog finished with a time of21.45 seconds, seven hundredths of a second ahead ofPistorius, who won gold in the event four years ago inBeijing, with American Blake Leeper in third.

The result left Pistorius seething about his opponent’sprosthetic blades, which he claimed were too long.

“This is a really strong race of mine, and as I said in themixed zone, the size of some of the other guys’ legs areunbelievably long,” Pistorius told Britain’s Channel 4.

“Not taking anything away from Alan, he’s a greatathlete, but the guys who do the measuring in the courtrooms,some of these guys are a lot taller and you can’t compete forstride length.”

“We’re not racing a fair race. The International ParalympicCommittee (IPC) have the regulations, but the regulationsallow the athletes to make themselves unbelievably high.We tried to address the issue in the weeks leading up to this,but it fell on deaf ears.”—Reuters

South Africa’s OscarPistorius crosses thefinish line in second

place during the men’s200m T44

classification at theOlympic Stadium

during the London2012 Paralympic

Games on 2 Sept, 2012.REUTERS

Sharapova shines after the rain delay

Maria Sharapova of Russiacelebrates match point todefeat Nadia Petrova of

Russia during their matchat the US Open women’s

singles tennis tournament inNew York, on 2 Sept, 2012.

REUTERS

Motor racing-Button enjoys Spa win afterAlonso crashes

SPA FRANCORCHAMPS, 3Sept— McLaren’s JensonButton won the Belgian GrandPrix from pole position onSunday after a first corner pile-up ended the hopes of teammate Lewis Hamilton andFerrari’s Formula One leaderFernando Alonso. Buttonenjoyed an untroubledafternoon in the Spa sunshine,making just one stop and takingthe chequered flag 13.6seconds clear of Red Bull’sdouble world championSebastian Vettel, who wonfrom pole last year.

Finland’s KimiRaikkonen, the 2007champion, took third placefor Lotus to strengthen histitle challenge in hiscomeback year with a fourthpodium in five races. Alonso,who started the race with a 40point lead over Red Bull’s

Australian Mark Webber, hadhoped for a record-equalling24th successive points finishbut that was shattered in acloud of carbon-fibre after amatter of metres.

His lead was slashed to24 points, less than a race win,with Vettel rising to secondoverall. Webber dropped tothird, 32 points adrift ofAlonso. Raikkonen is onepoint behind in fourth.

The Spaniard could atleast consider himselffortunate not to have been hiton the head by the flying Lotusof Frenchman RomainGrosjean, whose car took offafter colliding with Hamiltonand flew over the front of theFerrari. Grosjean was handeda one-race ban for causing thecollision, which brought outthe safety car, meaning he willmiss next weekend’s Italian

Grand Prix at Monza.Sauber’s Sergio Perez

also retired on the spot in amiserable afternoon for hisSwiss team after a Saturdayqualifying session that hadpromised so much with boththeir cars in the top four.

Kamui Kobayashi, onlythe second Japanese driver tostart from the front row, wasalso caught up in the first lapmayhem and went to the backof the field and finished 13th.

His brakes had alreadystarted smoking before thestart, which was jumped byVenezuelan PastorMaldonado — who washanded a 10 place penalty forMonza for that and a latercollision that ended his race.

Button’s 14th career win,and first at the classic Spacircuit, came in his 50th racefor McLaren and his

McLaren Formula Onedriver Jenson Button ofBritain celebrates afterwinning the Belgian F1

Grand Prix in SpaFrancorchamps 2September, 2012.

REUTERS

satisfaction was evident as heposed for a team photographwith father and girlfriend in‘rocket red’ T-shirts. “Thiscircuit is such a special one tomost drivers, the way it flowsand the history, so to get a lightto flag victory is very special,”said the 2009 champion afterhis second win of the season.

Reuters

NEW YORK, 3 Sept—Maria Sharapova shruggedoff a verbal jab from NadiaPetrova about being savedby the rain after sneaking intothe quarter-finals of the USOpen on Sunday.

Sharapova won a nail-biter 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 against herfellow Russian to set up aclash with FrenchwomanMarion Bartoli. Petrova led2-0 in the third set when rainhalted proceedings for anhour and 13 minutes.

Sharapova spoke to herfather, Yuri, on the telephoneduring the break and took hisadvice to play with increasedenergy and aggression whenplay resumed. Petrova said itwas Sharapova’s lucky daybecause she could regroupwhen the match was slippingaway.

“You should ask her

my hands.”“Maria looked hesitant

and she couldn’t get a hold ofher game. But then after therain break, actually it went inher favour because she hadtime to think, regroup, talk toher coach.”

“And then she came outcompletely cool andcollected. She started playingbig tennis. Unfortunately,luck was on her side today.”

Sharapova paused andthen shrugged when told ofPetrova’s remarks. “Great,”Sharapova said. “I’m thewinner so whatever she wantsto call it is fine with me.”

Sharapova was told byher coach, Thomas Hogstedt,during the delay that herfather wanted to speak to her.

“I called him,”Sharapova said. “I didn’twant to hear it after, if I didn’t

call him. I didn’t want to havethat conversation.”

“He just said, ‘Yourenergy dropped in thebeginning of the second set.That’s over. That’s done. Nowyou got to go out there andfight.’ I wasn’t going to leavethat court without a fight.”

Sharapova’s two hour,14-minute victory was her11th win in as many three-setmatches this year.

“It’s a nice statistic,” shesaid. “It certainly wasn’t onmy mind because every matchis different, differentcircumstances, whether youhave started slow and comeback in the second set orwhether you had a letdown inthe second. “No matter howyou start the match, it’s alwayshow you finish. Whether it’san hour or whether it’s threehours that you’re out there, Idon’t want to give up until thelast point.”—Reuters

what happened,” a frustratedPetrova said. “I don’t knowwhat went through her head.I had been in control in thethird set. I had everything in

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow Sr.

No. Regions/States Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 29/84 25/77 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

2 Kayah 30/86 21/70 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

3 Kayin 30/86 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

4 Chin 21/70 17/63 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

5 Upper Sagaing 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

6 Lower Sagaing 32/90 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

7 Taninthayi 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

8 Bago 31/88 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers

(IH) (100%)

9 Magway 35/95 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershower (IH) (100%)

10 Mandalay 37/99 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershower (IH) (100%)

11 Mon 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

12 Yangon 31/88 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

13 Rakhine 28/82 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

14 Southern Shan 23/73 18/64 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

15 Northern Shan 27/81 20/68 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

16 Eastern Shan 28/82 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

17 Ayeyawady 31/88 24/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 35/95 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershower (100%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 31/88 22/72 Some rain or thundershower (100%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 37/99 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershower (80%)

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Magway Region, scattered in Mandalay Region, Chin and Kayah States, fairly widespread in Bago Region and Rakhine State and widespread in the remaining Regions and States withRegionally heavyfalls in Lower Sagaing Region and Mon States and isolated heavy falls in Upper Sagaing, Magway and Yangon Regions. The noteworthy amount of rainfall recorded were Kyeikkhame (6.18) inches, Minkin (4.76) inches, Kalaywa (4.41) inches, Chaungson (4.09) inches, PyinOoLwin (2.80) inches, Moekok (2.71) inches, Gangaw (1.58) inches, Shwebo (1.53) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is moderate to strong in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squalls with moderate to rough sea are likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35) mph.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Likelihood of increase of rain Northern Myanmar areas.

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Amyotha Hluttaw approves names for Chairmen, Secretary andmembers of the reorganized committees

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Amyotha Hluttaw regularsession continued for 38th day at Amyotha Hluttaw Hall ofthe Hluttaw complex, here, at 10:05 am today, in the attendanceof Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint and 200Amyotha Hluttaw representatives.

At today’s session, the Amyotha Hluttaw Speakerproved the names of new Chairmen, Secretary and members

of the reorganized Hluttaw committees.Concerning with the query on “there is any plan

to grant permissions for State level projects and thegovernment’s projects to businessmen in transparentmanners to ensure fair competitiveness”, DeputyMinister for National Planning and Economic DevelopmentDr Set Aung said that the ministry has been using open

tender system rather than those for giving privateentrepreneurs permissions to privatize State-owned assetswithout running any advertisements in the newspapers topurchase things from the government since the countrybegan its reforms. On the other hand, the ministry issupporting SME/SMI to keep away from choosing heavycompanies with a lot of demands. In doing so, it makes SMEget market access besides getting only demands, as well ashelping it set supporting industries in cooperation withforeign countries.

Besides, the ministry follows rules and regulationsof the constitution in carrying out businesses for economicdevelopment implements putting eyes on market orientedsystem. As for the governmental departments, corruptionis needed to keep away to upgrade State-owned andprivate-owned businesses to keep abreast of internationalstandard.

Regarding the query on “there is any plan to recoversufferings from natural disasters such as floods, erosionand landslides causing in Ye in Mon State”, Deputy Ministerfor Transport U Han Sein said that the Directorate of WaterResources and Improvement of River Systems under theministry is carrying out repairing of courses of rivers forsmooth of waterway with the use of allotted budget. Butthere is no plan to allot budgets for recovering of floods andlandslides in towns.

There has yet been to get better landslide causes ofYe because it is out of the allotted budget. If the State (See page 9)

Road safety measures would be achieved only when there is cooperationbetween responsible departments, organizations and people

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Pyithu Hluttaw regular sessioncontinued for 38th day, at Pyithu Hluttaw Hall in HluttawComplex, here, at 10 am today, attended by Speaker of PyithuHluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann and 383 MPs.

At today’s session, four questions were raised andreplied, one report submitted, one new proposal submitted,the matter informing the Hluttaw undertaken, one proposaldiscussed and one urgent proposal submitted.

U Kyaw Ni Naing of Laukkai Constituency raised thequestion on “if there is a plan to designate the appropriaterates for service charges for issuance of citizenshipscrutiny card and census”. Regarding the question, DeputyMinister for Immigration and Population U Kyaw Kyaw Winreplied that the Ministry is making preparation for thereviews on designation of appropriate rates. Plans are underway to make amendment to Myanmar Citizenship Procedures(1983).

With respect to the question of U Ko Gyi ofMahaaungmyae Constituency on “how to tackle increasingnumber of traffic accidents that occur in cities across thecountry”, Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Police Maj-Gen Kyaw Kyaw Tun said that implementation of FiveInternational Vehicle Control Systems is in progress so asto reduce traffic accidents. Road safety measures would beachieved only when there is cooperation between responsibledepartments and organizations and people.

Regarding the question of U Than Myint of WundwinConstituency on “if there is a plan to carry out theupgrade of schools in Wundwin Township, renovation of

the damaged schools and fund request for buildings”,Deputy Minister for Education U Aye Kyu replied thatschools will be upgraded depending on the number ofstudents. Fund will be allotted for renovation of fourdamaged schools. And arrangements are under way to allotfund for schools that are in urgent need of construction inthe coming financial year.

With respect to the question of U Kyaw Win of

Kangyidaunt Constituency on “whether there is a plan tohave hospitals and clinics in Universities and Collegesand to upgrade health care system there”, Deputy Ministerfor Health Dr Win Myint said that Hospitals have high-quality health coverage for students of universities andcolleges, staff and their families. So, there is no any plan toestablish hospitals in the universities at present.

(See page 8)

NAY PYI TAW, 3 Sept—Nowadays, the increasednumber of tourists entersMyanmar daily. Thus, someforeign airlines areinterested in running of theirflights to Myanma economichub Yangon.

Some foreign airlines to fly to YangonAt present, Thai

Airways, Thai Air Asia,Bangkok Airways, Silk Air,Jetstar Asia, MalaysianAirlines, China Airlines,China Southern Airlines,China Eastern Airlines, AirAsia and Vietnam Airlines

are running their flights toMyanmar.

As of October, fivemore foreign airlines will flyto Yangon. These airlinesare ANA Air NipponAirways (Japan), WaterAirline, China (Taipei)-

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based EVA Airlines,Korea Airlines andGermany-based CondorAirlines.

Moreover, otherforeign airlines arepreparing to fly toMyanmar directly.

Myanma Alin

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