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NAYPYITAW,18 Dec

The nal matches of track

and eld events of the 27th

SEA Games took place at

Wunna Theikdi Stadium,

here, this afternoon.

Indonesia grasped gold

medal, followed by Thailand

silver and Vietnam bronze

in Womens Long Jump

event. In Mens High Jumpevent, Malaysia snatched

gold medal, Vietnam silver

and Thailand bronze. Phil-

ippines clinched gold medal

Indonesia brings gold back home

in Track & Field eventswhile Vietnam silver and

Thailand bronze in Mens

3000m Steeplechase. While

Indonesia brought gold

medal to home, Vietnam

was content with silver

and Philippines bronze in

Womens 3000m Stee-

plechase. Thailand took

pride in Womens Jave-

lin Throw after receivinggold and silver medals for

home and Vietnam was

just p leased with bronze.

Htin Lin Aung (NLM)

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecThe aim of observ-

ing the International Migra-

tion Day by Myanmar that

is 147th member of Inter-

national Organization for

Migration (IOM) is to make

known the migrants at home

and abroad and the interna-

tional community that the

government, in its part, is

International Migration Day observed in Nay Pyi Taw

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham addresses ceremony to commemorate the International

Migration Day.MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecAccompanied by

Union Ministers U Wun-

na Maung Lwin, U Thein

Nyunt, U Maung Myint

and Dr Kan Zaw, Kachin

State Chief Minister U La

John Ngan Sai, Lt-Gen

Sein Win of the Minis-

try of Defence, Deputy

Ministers U Ye Htut, U

Maung Maung Htay and

Dr Daw Thein Thein Htay

and Vice-Governor of the

Central Bank of Myanmar

U Set Aung, President UThein Sein arrived back

in Nay Pyi Taw this morn-

ing.

They were welcomed

back at Nay Pyi Taw Air-

port by Vice-Presidents

Dr Sai Mauk Kham and

U Nyan Tun, Deputy

Commander-in-Chief of

Defence Services Com-

mander-in-Chief (Army)

Vice-Senior General Soe

Win, the Union ministers

and ofcials.

President U Thein Sein back homeDuring his visit to

Japan from 12 to 17 De-

cember, the President to-

gether with ASEAN lead-

ers attended the summit to

mark the 40thAnniversary

of Japan-ASEAN ties and

the fth Mekong-Japan

Summit.

Moreover, the Presi-

dent visited industrial zones

in Japan and held talks with

Japanese entrepreneurs on

investment prospects in

Myanmar.

The President andparty left Kyoto for Itami

International Airport in

Osaka on a motorcade

and they ew to Narita

International Airport yes-

terday. They then left for

Yangon by Japanese ight

at 11.45 am LST and ar-

rived in Yangon in the

evening.

The President and

party left Yangon for Nay

Pyi Taw by air this morn-

ing. MNA

striving for protection of

the rights of Myanmar mi-

grants who have been living

outside their own country,

said Vice-President Dr Sai

Mauk Kham at a ceremony

to commemorate the In-

ternational Migration Day

at Myanmar International

Convention Centre, here,

this morning.

The governments drive

to protect the rights of My-

anmar migrants emphasizes

promoting positive out-

comes on migration, devel-

oping awareness of internal

migrants and more social

protection for them and

improving socio-economic

status of migrants and their

families, he added.

The Vice-President ac-

knowledged that remittances

of Myanmar migrant work-

ers are contributing towards

national economic devel-

opment to a certain extent.

He pointed out that poverty

reduction and better socio-

economic development can

be envisaged in the presence

of effective use of oversea

work experience, skills and

knowledge, upgrading theskills of returning migrant

workers and job creation at

home.

He called for imple-

mentation of polices and

proposals included in

ASEAN Declaration on the

Protection and Promotion

of the Rights of Migrant

Workers, saying that col-

laboration and cooperation

of the governments of re-

gional and global countries

and NGOs.

Next, Union Minister

for Labour, Employmentand Social Welfare U Aye

Myint extrapolated meas-

ures being undertaken by

the government in coopera-tion with NGOs and INGOs

for promotion of rights of

migrant workers and fol-

low-up tasks.

Then, IOM chief of

mission Mr. Kirean Wil-

liam Gorman-Best read

out a message sent by the

UNSG.

After the ceremony, the

Vice-President and party

observed documentary pho-

tos relate to migration and

biometric devices to be used

in security measures and im-

migration matters displayedby Diamond Place Services

Co., Ltd.MNA

President U Thein Sein being welcomed back at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport by Vice-Presidents

Dr Sai Mauk Kham and U Nyan Tun.MNA

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LOCAL NEWS

New Light of Myanmar

GA N G A W, 18 Dec

As Pontaung-Ponnya road

section of Monywa-Pale-

Gangaw-Haka Road is

being expanded with the

use of heavy machinery, the

vehicles use wider facility on

their runs.

Pontaung-Ponnya road section being

Due to narrowing and

damaging road in the last

monsoon, the vehicles

faced difculties and trafc

congestions for several times.

At present the road is being

upgraded with expansion of

road shoulders on both sides,

repaving work and lling

gravels.

The road was constructed

in 1962. It was 113 miles long

and 14 feet wide from Pale

to Gangaw.

MMAL-KyeeMyint

Naing (Loilaw)

Shwehlay Village of Singu Tsp enjoy

electrifcation

ministrator switched on the

electrication for the village.

Mandalay Region Hluttaw

representative U Tauk and

ofcials sprinkled scented

water on the facility.

With K 80 million

loan f rom MandalayRegion government, the

electrification committee

bought a 315 KVA

transformer and installed

it in the village. Now,

the transformer supplies

electricity to lamp-posts.

With the concerted efforts

of Electricity Supply En-

terprise and New Ever

Light Co coordinated

to supply electricity to

houses.

Our village is formed

with 280 houses. Thecommittee has collected K

750,000 from each house to

supply electricity to them

with three bulbs and one

electric meter. Now, K 35

million collected from 111

houses and loan were spent

on electrication of lamp-

posts. So, the whole village

will be illuminated, said

village administrator U

Myint Kyu.

Village electrication

committees were formed

by Mandalay Regiongovernment to be able to

supply them with electricity

by 2015. So far, ten villages

of Singu Township enjoy

electricity on a self-reliant

basis.

MMAL-433

Actions of Financial Monetary and Economic Coordination Subcommittee in response

to discussion between district/township development committee, merchants and

businessmen on 23-01-2013 in Pathein of Ayeyawady Region

S I N G U ,

1 8 D e c A

ceremony to

launch the self-

reliant electri-

cation was held

in Shwehlay

V i l l a g e o f

Singu Township

in Mandalay

Region on 12

December.

U A u n g

Ky aw Th an ,

Township Ad-

Heavy rain causes overow at Namkhin,

Namlak creeks in Kengtung

KENGTUNG, 18 Dec

As of 12 December, heavy

rain hit Kengtung of Shan

State (East).

I n c o n s e q u e n c e ,

Kamkhin and Namlak

creeks caused inundation

t o s o m e w a r d s o f

K e n g t u n g , f l o o d i n g

religious buildings, offices

and departments, schools,

residences and factories

and farmlands.On 1 4 Decem b er

morning, Ward 4 and Ward

5 of the town were flooded.

The Kengtung-Mongyang

Road was inundated and

some acres of paddy fields

flooded.

As of 15 December

night, Namlak Creek was

swollen the Kengtung-

Loimwe Road. Residences,

offices and departments

in Ward 3, Hokhon and

Thesaing villages were

inundated.

T e n o f f i c e s a n d

d e p a r t m e n t s , p r e -primary school, nunnery,

residences, private hospital

and car workshop in Ward

3, four departmental offices

and one training school

in Ward 4, Kengtung

Home for the Aged,

residences, car workshops

social organizations, ward

administrators and local

people, moved office

equipment and o ther

No. Discussion Actions

Provision of loans in timely manner during business

seasons and introduction of hire purchase loans

Myanma Economic Bank meets twice a month and the ministerial meeting is held

once a month to make decisions on provision of loans to borrowers. Banks have beengiven more power to provide loans and therefore become faster in providing loans.

Provision of loans for hire purchase will start in 2014-15 FY.

The process of withdrawing pension with e pension

card was easy and speedy in the past, but there are

difculties in switching banks.

If an e-pension card holder wants to change the bank branch from which to withdraw

his pension, the bank branch from which he is taking his pension record it in e-pension

card program on the day of application and sends it to the headquarters. The headquarters

issues a new card and sends the personal information of pensioner and the new

e-pension card for him to the bank branch he wants to change. All banks have been

instructed to give pension to the applicant through conventional method before he gets

his new e-pension card.

Account holders can transfer money between bank

branches in major towns, but if there is a plan to

provide money transfer services between bank

branches in other smaller townships?

The service of money transfer between account holders was launched at 68 district bank

branches and Pyinmana Township bank branch as of 18-3-2013. Measures will be

taken for money transfer between bank branches in townships beginning 2014-15 FY.

Is there a plan to reduce bank interest rates? Small savers and pensioners are enjoying the interests from their savings at banks.

Reduction of bank interest rates is being considered based on the economic statistics of

the Central Bank of Myanmar.

Can the cards are serviceable at banks in regions? At present, MPU Card, Master card, Visa Card and China Union Pay Card are serviceable

at banks. Money transfer can be done through partner banks. Banks are also improving

their services.

and farmlands

were placed

under floods.

A s a

worst incident,

K e n g t u n g

Airport was

also inundated.

Departmental

officials and

authorities of

State, Districtand Township

l e v e l s ,

members of

m a t e r i a l s

to the safer

places and

c l e a r e d

blockages of

motor roads.

T h e y

also providedfoods to the

ood victims

and meals to

nuns.

MMAL-

Naing Naing

Aung Wai

A roller

being

used in

repaving

Pontaung-

Ponnya

road

section of

Monywa-

Pale-

Gangaw-

Haka

Road.

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US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) talks to reporters after

a Senate cloture vote on budget bill on Capitol Hill inWashington on 17 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

US budget deal clears

crucial vote in SenateWASHINGTON, 18 Dec

A two-year US budgetdeal on Tuesday cleared aSenate procedural vote thatall but assured its passage

by a simple majority laterthis week in the Democrat-ic-controlled chamber.

The Senate voted 67-33 to limit debate on themeasure, exceeding the re-quired 60 votes and over-coming the opposition of

conservative Republicanswho objected to increasednear-term governmentspending. Twelve Republi-cans joined 53 Democratsand two independents insupporting the measure,which aims to minimize the

threat of another govern-ment shutdown through 1October, 2015.

It won passage inthe House of Representa-tives by an overwhelming

margin last week. A 16-daypartial government shut-down in October left manyRepublicans skittish aboutwithholding their support

for legislation to keep agen-cies operating.

The Senate, whereDemocrats have a 55-45 ma-jority, is expected to vote onnal passage of the budget

measure as early as Wednes-day. Several conservative

Republican senators, includ-ing Tea Party supportersRand Paul and Ted Cruz,tried to stop the measure andkeep automatic sequesterspending cuts in place. Thebudget deal eases some ofthe sequester cuts by allow-

ing budgets for governmentagencies and discretion-ary programs to rise by $63billion over two years inexchange for future savingselsewhere.Reuters

Britains Prime Minister David Cameron leavesDowning Street in London on 19 Dec, 2012.REUTERS

UK rushes out welfare

curbs to deter East

European migrantsLONDON, 18 Dec

British Prime Minister

David Cameron said onWednesday he was rushingout regulations to stop mi-grants from the EuropeanUnion being able to imme-diately claim welfare ben-ets amid public fears of

an inux of Romanian andBulgarian workers.

With his Conserva-tive party trailing in opin-ion polls ahead of a 2015election and polls showingmost Britons dont want thelabor market to be furtheropened up to east European

workers next year, Camer-on is under pressure to act

on the issue.Anxious not to be out-anked by the anti-immi-gration UK IndependenceParty (UKIP), Cameron hassaid he shares public con-cerns about EU restrictionsbeing lifted on Romaniansand Bulgarians working inBritain at the end of thisyear. On Wednesday, incomments pre-released byhis ofce, he said he was

bringing forward to 1 Janu-ary a previously announcedmeasure forcing EU

migrants to wait threemonths before they can ap-ply for welfare benets.

A senior governmentsource told Reuters thatCameron had originally en-visaged the measure takingeffect around the middle ofnext year but had decided to

accelerate the process.Cameron said in a

statement: Acceleratingthe start of these new re-strictions will make the UKa less attractive place forEU migrants who want tocome here and live off thestate.Reuters

A man inspects a damaged motorbike at the suicide at-

tack site in Rawalpindi, a sister city of Islamabad, capi-tal of Pakistan on 17 Dec, 2013. At least three people

were killed and 13 others injured when a blast went offnear a Shiite mosque in Rawalpindi on Tuesday night,

according to local media. XINHUA

Three killed, 13 injured as suicide

blast hits Rawalpindi, PakistanISLAMABAD, 18 Dec

At least three people werekilled and 13 others injuredwhen a blast went off neara Shiite mosque in Rawal-pindi, a sister city of Paki-

stans capital Islamabad, onTuesday night, according tolocal media.

District Police Of-cer of Rawalpindi Akhtar

Laleka told media that asuicide bomber riding ona motorbike tried to entera Shiite mosque located atGracy Lane near the Raw-alpindi airport at about 9:50p.m. local time. When thepolice tried to stop him atthe checkpoint the bomberblew himself up, he said.

One policeman waskilled and nine others wereinjured in the blast, said lo-cal media, adding that theother victims were civil-ians.

Several vehicles nearthe blast site were also

damaged.All the blast victims

have been shifted to Dis-trict Headquarters Hospitaland Benazir InternationalHospital.

Hospital sources saidat least four of the injuredpeople were still in critical

condition.Bomb disposal squad

ofcers have reportedlyfound the head and partsof the body of the suicidebomber. They said an esti-

mated 5 to 10 kg of explo-sives were used in the at-tack.Xinhua

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich (L) gives awink to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during

a signing ceremony after a meeting of the Russian-

Ukrainian Interstate Commission at the Kremlin in

Moscow, on 17 Dec, 2013. REUTERS

Ukrainian president under pressure over Russian bailoutKIEV, 18 Dec

Ukraines president facedcalls to resign on Wednes-day over a $15-billion bail-out from Russia which theopposition and protesterssaid had sold the countryout to its former Sovietmasters in Moscow.

Tens of thousands ofprotesters gathered in Kievon Tuesday after PresidentViktor Yanukovich securednancial assistance and a

gas price discount at talkswith President VladimirPutin, and several hundredspent the night in the freez-ing cold. Russia said it willbuy Ukrainian bonds undera deal which keeps Kievrmly in Moscows orbit

and out of the European

Unions grasp but soweddoubts in some Ukrainiansminds about what Yanu-kovich might have agreedto in secret. Many of theprotesters are angry Yanu-kovich has spurned an offerof closer cooperation withEurope and look on Russiawith suspicion after livingfor decades under Sovietcommunist rule.

I think the people willeventually have it their way.We will sign up to Europe.Thats why Im here, saidSnezhana, a factory workerwho spent the night on Ki-evs snowy main square.

Irina Litvinianko, a busi-nesswoman, said: Its hardto imagine it could end up inanything else but a change ofpower. Opposition leaders

have called for mass ral-lies over the holiday seasonon the central square oc-cupied for weeks by pro-testers, who have pitchedtents behind tall barricades.He has given up Ukrainesnational interests, givenup independence, VitalyKlitschko, an oppositionleader and heavyweightboxing champion, told thecrowd on Tuesday.

Ukraine needs moneyto cover an external fundinggap of $17 billion next year- almost the level of thecentral banks depleted cur-rency reserves - and avoiddefaulting on its debts. Un-derlining the depth of theproblem, Russian FinanceMinister Anton Siluanovsaid Moscow would buy$3 billion worth of Ukrain-ian Eurobonds as early asthe end of this week, mark-ing the rst installment in

debt purchases to total $15billion.Reuters

TEPCO decides permanent shutdown

of two surviving Fukushima reactorsTOKYO, 18 Dec To-

kyo Electric Power Co de-cided at its board meetingWednesday to permanentlyshut down two reactorsat the Fukushima Daiichiplant that avoided melt-downs in the 2011 accident,responding to a request byPrime Minister Shinzo Abein September.

The Nos 5 and 6 reac-tors, however, will not bedismantled and will be usedas research facilities to sup-port the challenging taskof scrapping the four otherreactors that have sufferedcore meltdowns or havebeen affected by hydrogenexplosions.

Local calls are strong

that TEPCO scrap both theFukushima Daiichi and thenearby Fukushima Dainiplants. But the utility hasnot made clear what it willdo with the four-reactorcomplex about 12 kilom-eters to the south.

As new accountingrules regarding decommis-sioning came into force inOctober, TEPCO is likelyto avoid booking a largeextraordinary charge inthe business year throughMarch 2014 due to a short-fall in funds for decom-missioning. After the plantwas hit by a magnitude 9.0earthquake and tsunami on11 March, 2011, the Nos1 to 3 reactors suffered

meltdowns and the buildinghousing the No 4 reactor,which did not have fuel in-side its core because it wasunder maintenance, wasdamaged by a hydrogen ex-plosion.

But the Nos 5 and 6 re-actors, which were also un-der maintenance at the timeof the earthquake, achievedcold shutdowns through theuse of an emergency die-sel generator that avoidedooding. The Nos 1 to 4reactors were classied as

defunct in April last yearas TEPCO decided to de-commission them, reducingthe total number of oper-able commercial reactors inJapan to 50.Kyodo News

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New Light of Myanmar

Mexicos America Movil connects

cable linking Latam, US

The logo of America Movil is seen on the wall of thereception area in the companys corporate ofces in

Mexico City on 13 Feb, 2013.REUTERS

MAXICO CITY, 18 Dec Latin Americas biggestphone company, AmericaMovil, controlled by bil-lionaire Carlos Slim, said

on Tuesday it had con-nected its Mexican linesto a newly built $1.1 bil-lion submarine cable thatstretches from South Amer-ica to the United States.

The cable, designed forhigh-speed data transmis-sion, will boost service toAmerica Movils custom-ers, particularly in LatinAmerica where demand forinternet capacity is risingrapidly, the company said.

The cable, which took19 months to lay, will con-nect the United States,

Brazil, Colombia, Guate-mala, Mexico, Puerto Ricoand the Dominican Repub-lic.

Mexico-based Ameri-

ca Movil said it will use the17,800 kilometres (11,060miles) of cable for transmit-ting voice, data and videotrafc between the coun-tries.

America Movil said inan annual report led with

US regulators that the cableis designed to transmit dataat speeds of 100 gigabitsper second.

A company spokes-woman said the $1.1 billioncost announced on Tuesdayincluded the cost of the landconnections for the cable,

which reaches Florida inthe United States.

It was not immediatelyclear when the cable willbegin operation, but thespokeswoman said it couldstart early next year. Theling had said it would be-gin being used in late 2014.

America Movil, whichcontrols more than 70 per-cent of Mexicos cellphonemarket and about 80 per-cent of its xed line market,

is facing increasing localcompetition after a govern-ment reform was passedearlier this year.

The company has late-ly been trying to expandoutside of Latin America,with investments in Dutch

phone company KPN andTelekom Austria. Aboutone-third of the companyscore prot still comes from

Mexico.Shares in America

Movil were down 0.9 per-cent at 14.44 pesos in earlyafternoon trading.

The shares, which havebeen under pressure fol-lowing the telecom reformin Mexico and after thecompany made an offer forKPN that it then withdrew,are down 2.7 percent thisyear.Reuters

Sprint, Dish to test wireless

broadband service in TexasNEW YORK, 18 Dec

Wireless service providerSprint Corp and satellitetelevision company DishNetwork Corp said they willjointly develop a trial wire-less service in Texas, in anapparent sign of improvingrelations between the com-panies.

Dish has been seek-ing a partnership with anestablished mobile operatorto help it enter the wirelessmarket. However, its effortsearlier this year to buy Sprintfailed after a bitter publicbattle with Japans Soft-Bank Corp, now the ownerof 80 percent of Sprint.

Investors have beenanxious to see a concrete

wireless plan from Dish and

People talk on their cell phones as passers-by walk past

a Sprint store in New York, on 15 Oct, 2012.REUTERS

analysts see Sprint and T-Mobile US as the most like-ly candidates for a partner-ship if only Dish ChairmanCharlie Ergen can reach anagreement.

While the Press re-lease does not announce ahuge event, the fact thesetwo parties have cometogether in some sort ofpartnership speaks loudlygiven their spotted (andat times acrimonious) his-tory, Wells Fargo analystJennifer Fritzsche said in aresearch note.

Dish, which has spentabout $3 billion on wirelessairwaves and is looking tobuy more, declined to say ifthe trial could lead to a big-

ger agreement.

Dish could potentiallysave billions of dollars if itputs its spectrum to use onan existing operators net-work rather than startingnetwork construction fromscratch.

Sprint, for its part, haslong said it would be open tonetwork sharing with othercompanies, including Dish,if it could reach a deal thatmakes sense.

While Fritzsche sawTuesdays announcementas good news for Sprint,it only involved a limitedxed wireless service using

Sprints airwaves and Dishequipment.

The service will only beavailable in areas of Corpus

Christi, Texas, in the middleof 2014 but the companiessaid they expect it to expandinto other markets.

Dish said it would in-stall either an outdoor routeror indoor equipment forthe service, and use a high-speed technology Sprint isputting in its own network.

Fritzsche said theagreement was good newsfor Sprint, which gained alot of extra wireless capacityafter its buyout earlier thisyear of Clearwire, a largespectrum holder.Reuters

CAPE CANAVERAL,(Florida), 18 Dec As-tronauts aboard the Inter-national Space Stationwillbegin a series of spacewalksthis weekend to repair theorbital outposts coolingsystem, delaying a cargo re-supply ight until January,

NASA said on Tuesday.One of the stations

two ammonia cooling sys-tems shut down on Wednes-

day, forcing astronauts topower down unnecessaryequipment and suspendingsome of the laboratorysscience experiments. Thesix-member crew was notin any danger, NASA said.

Engineers on theground tried to devise ways

Trio of spacewalks planned to x space stationscooling system

to bypass an apparentlyfaulty valve inside a pump,located outside the station.But by Tuesday afternoon,with the cooling systemstill down, the US spaceagency decided to have twoastronauts aboard the sta-tion replace the pump witha spare.

Three spacewalks areplanned to complete thework, the rst of which

is scheduled for Saturdayby station ight engineers

Rick Mastracchio and Mi-chael Hopkins. Two morespacewalks are targeted for23 and 25 December.

Mastracchio and Hop-kins will retrieve a sparepump from a storage site

The International Space Station crew opens a hatch at4:10am EDT (8:10am GMT) to begin unloading cargo

in this NASA handout photo taken on 30 Sept, 2013.

REUTERS

outside the station and re-place the faulty unit. Astro-nauts tackled the same job,which proved more difcult

than anticipated, in 2010.Repairing the stations

cooling system will sidelineOrbital Sciences Corpsrst cargo run to the station,

a $100 billion research labthat ies about 250 miles

above Earth.Reuters

OSLO, 18 Dec A kindof rock that often containsdiamonds has been found inAntarctica for the rst time,

hinting at mineral riches inthe vast, icy continent where mining is banned.

No diamonds werefound, but researchers saidthey were condent the gems

were there.

Antarctica may have a new type of ice: diamondsIt would be very sur-

prising if there werent dia-monds in these kimberlites,Greg Yaxley of the Austral-ian National University inCanberra, who led the re-search, said in a telephoneinterview.

Writing in the journalNature Communications,an Australian-led team

reported nding the kimber-lite deposits around MountMeredith, in the PrinceCharles Mountains in EastAntarctica. Kimberlite is arare rock where diamondsare often found; it is namedafter the South African townof Kimberley, the site of alate 19th-century diamondrush. That does not mean

Antarctica will soon see itsown diamond rush. Antarc-tica is not only forbiddinglycold and remote but alsoprotected by a treaty that pre-serves the continent for sci-entic research and wildlife,

from penguins to seals. The1991 environmental accordbanned mining for at least 50years.Reuters

Most Telecom Italia investors

sign up to vote on boards

futureMILAN, 18 Dec In-

vestors with a combined53.8 percent stake in Tel-ecom Italia have registeredso far for a key shareholdermeeting on 20 Decemberthat will decide whether tooust the board, the com-pany said on Tuesday.

It means Telecom Ita-lias controlling investorTelco - which has a 22.4percent stake - will need thebacking of other investorsto fend off a proposal by re-bel shareholders to removethe board. To pass, the pro-posal needs a majority of50 percent plus one vote ofshareholders at the meeting.

In a statement, Tel-ecom Italia said the sharesregistered include a stake

of over 4.8 percent held byUS giant investor Black-Rock and its afliates.

More shareholders canregister between now andthe meeting, which wascalled by Italian business-man Marco Fossati, a rebelinvestor with a 5 percentstake in Telecom Italia.

Telecom Italia is con-trolled by Telco, a holdingcompany grouping Tele-fonica, Italian banks IntesaSanpaolo and Medioban-ca, and insurer Generali.

The vote could be cru-cial for the future strategyof Telecom Italia, and es-pecially for its position inBrazil, where it is a directcompetitor to Telefonica.

Reuters

A man usesa Telecom

Italia phonebooth in

front ofSt Peters

Basilica in

Romeon 24 Sept,

2013.

REUTERS

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Thursday, 19 December, 2013 5New Light of MyanmarBUSINESS & HEALTH

Euro zone ministers agree on backstops for

nancing bank closuresBRUSSELS, 18 Dec

Euro zone nance ministersagreed early on Wednesdayhow to ensure nancing forclosing down banks in a

deal that boosts chances ofan agreement on the over-all blueprint on dealingwith failing lenders later onWednesday.

The deal is part ofEuropean Union efforts tobuild a banking union inwhich bank supervision isshared at the EU level andso is the nancial respon-sibility for winding downlenders that are no longerviable.

The nal agreement onall aspects of closing downbanks, for example, whowill decide which bank is tobe shut down and the proce-dure to be followed, is to behammered out by EuropeanUnion nance ministers,or the Econ council, onWednesday.

Tonight we produced

(L-R) European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs

Commissioner Olli Rehn, Executive Board Member ofthe European Central Bank (ECB) Joerg Asmussen and

Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg attend a

European Union nance ministers meeting in Brusselson 10 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

a crucial breakthrough inthe building of a bankingunion for Europe. This willpave the way for an overallcompromise in the Econcouncil, EU Economic andMonetary Affairs Commis-sioner Olli Rehn told Reu-ters.

Banks will provide the

cash to pay for the closureof failed lenders, givingroughly 55 billion euros($76 billion) over 10 yearsaccumulated in a SingleResolution Fund.

Until then, however, ifthere is not enough moneyfrom the fees, governmentswill be able to impose

more levies on banks. Ifthat does not sufce, theywould help with publicmoney.

If a government would

not have enough money, itcould borrow from the eurozone bailout fund ESM,like the Spanish govern-ment did to recapitalise itsbanks in 2012, accordingto the deal reached by eurozone nance ministers.

In the transitional pe-riod, bridge nancing willbe available either fromnational sources, backedby bank levies, or from theESM, in line with agreedprocedures, a draft state-ment by euro zone nanceministers said.

This is a victory forGermany which was reluc-tant for euro zone countriesto share the costs of wind-ing down banks elsewherein the euro zone for as longas possible.

Reuters

New health law may allow

traditional Chinese doctors

to practice in HungaryBUDAPEST, 18 Dec

Hungarys parliamentamended the Health Act on

Tuesday, opening the wayfor the Ministry of HumanResources to issue a decreethat would allow doctors oftraditional Chinese medi-cine to obtain permits topractice.

Until now the Minis-try of Human Resources,which is responsible for thefunctioning of the nationalhealthcare, was obligedto require that all medicalpractitioners have degreesequivalent to Hungarianones.

If and when the minis-try issues the decree, prac-titioners of traditional Chi-nese medicine who havecerticates from schoolsrequiring at least ve yearsof university-level studyand who can prove that theyhave not been banned from

practicing at home or inthe last country where theyworked will be able to ap-

ply for permits to practicein Hungary.

The new law author-izes the Scientic Councilon Health to issue the per-mits. The degrees wouldnot have to be recognizedas equivalent to Hungariandiplomas since the law rec-ognizes that Hungary hasno equivalent to traditionalChinese medicine.

Thirteen permits topractice traditional Chinesemedicine were granted inHungary in 2003 when Pe-ter Medgyessy was primeminister, but none havebeen issued since becauseof the equivalency require-ment, which the new lawnow allows the ministry tobypass for practitioners oftraditional Chinese medi-cine.Xinhua

UK got value for money from Lloyds

share saleLONDON, 18 Dec

The governments rst saleof shares in Lloyds BankingGroup was managed effec-tively and provided value

for money, Britains publicspending watchdog said onWednesday.

The endorsement ofthe sale process by Brit-ains National Audit Of-ce (NAO) may inuencethe Conservative-led coali-tion as it ponders how bestto ofoad its remaining 33percent stake. It wants toreturn Lloyds to full privateownership by the time ofthe next election in 2015.

The government raised3.2 billion pounds ($5.20billion) through the saleof a 6 percent stake in the

bank in September. It sawthe disposal as a milestone

A man walks past the en-trance to the head ofce of

Lloyds Banking Group inthe City of London on

11 Dec, 2013.REUTERS

in the countrys recoveryfrom the 2008 nancial cri-sis during which taxpayerspumped a combined 66 bil-lion pounds ($107 billion)into Lloyds and Royal Bankof Scotland.

The shares were sold

to nancial institutionssuch as pension funds and

insurers via an acceleratedbookbuild enabling theshares to be placed in theperiod between the marketclosing and re-opening the

following day.Amyas Morse, head ofthe National Audit Ofce(NAO), said that UK Finan-cial Investments (UKFI),which managed the sale forBritains Finance Ministry,had reviewed its optionsthoroughly and got its tim-ing right.

The sale took placewhen the shares were trad-ing close to a 12-month highand at the upper end of es-timates for the fair value ofthe business. Furthermore,the share price in tradingafter the sale has remained

steady, Morse said.Reuters

Drugmakers urge FDA security audit

after cyber breach

BOSTON, 18 Dec The

US Food and Drug Admin-istration is under pressurefrom the pharmaceuticalindustry and lawmakers toundergo an independent

security audit, after hack-ers broke into a computer

A view shows the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA) logo at the lobby of its headquarters in Silver

Spring, Maryland on 14 Aug, 2012.Reuters

system used by healthcarecompanies to submit infor-mation to the agency.

Drug companies fearthe cyber thieves may haveaccessed corporate secrets

that are on le with theagency, such as data about

drug manufacturing, clini-cal trials, marketing plansand other proprietary infor-mation.

While some lawmak-

ers charge that the hackersbreached the FDAs gate-way, compromising con-dential business data, theagency argues that the ac-cess was limited.

The breach came tolight last month when theFDA sent letters to us-ers of an online system atthe Center for BiologicsEvaluation and Research.The letters said the breachwas detected by the FDAon 15 October and thatit resulted in the theft ofusernames, phone num-bers, email addresses and

passwords.Reuters

Asia business sentiment falls in fourth quarter as global worries weighSEOUL, 18 Dec

Business sentiment amongAsias top companiesdropped sharply in thefourth quarter, extend-ing last quarters declines,with global economic un-certainty and rising costsweighing on the regionsrms, a Thomson Reuters/INSEAD survey showed.The Thomson Reuters/IN-

SEAD Asia Business Sen-timent Index fell to 62 inthe fourth quarter from 66in the third quarter of 2013,the lowest reading since

A man talks on the phone as he surfs the internet on hislaptop at a local coffee shop in downtown Shanghai on

28 Nov, 2013.REUTERS

the third quarter of 2012. Areading above 50 indicatesan overall positive outlook.

Sentiment in SoutheastAsias $1.5 trillion economywas undermined by politicalturbulence in Thailand and atyphoon in the Philippines,causing dismal readingsof 40 and 58 respectively,which were the lowest forboth countries since the poll

was rst compiled in 2009.Although China and

Indias bullish scores of 75and 82 respectively sup-ported the index, export-

driven north Asian econo-mies such as South Koreaas well as regional tradinghub Singapore also showedweaker readings, under-scoring still-anaemic globalbusiness conditions.

The global economicrecovery is still very frag-ile, Zhang Shiyuan, aneconomist at Shanghai-based Southwest Securities

Co said. There is a funda-mental problem that theresstill too much debt. Its atime bomb that may be deto-nated if monetary and scal

ing of 33, a sharp drop from63 in the previous quar-ter, followed by the foodand resources sectors withfourth-quarter scores of 50.The index surveyed morethan 100 of the Asia-Pacif-ic regions top companiesincluding Hyundai HeavyIndustries (009540.KS),Fast Retailing (9983.T)and International Con-

tainer Terminal ServicesInc (ICTSI) (ICT.PS) in 11economies, across sectorsincluding property, nan-cials and tech.Reuters

policies dont coordinatewell. The survey showed

that the auto sector was themost negative with a read-

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XXVIISEA GAMESSPECIAL

27thSEA Games

XXVII SEA GAMESPHOTOGALLERY

Saw

Dar Pot

(Right) of

Myanmar

lend a

blow to

Bouaphan

Phankeo

of Laos

during

54-kg

category

of Muay.

PHOTO:

AYEMIN

SOE

Victoria of

Myanmar kicks

Sottha of Thailand

during below 62 kg

Taekwondo

category.

PHOTO: AYEMIN

SOE

Winners of

equestrian event of

27thSEA Games.

PHOTO: JULYMOE

Cyclists from different

countries participate

in 163 km Road Race

of 27thSEA Games.

PHOTO: YEHTUTTIN

K K Thin of Myanmar

strikes a caneball dur-

ing double regu event

between Myanmar

and Indonesia.

PHOTO: AYEMINSOE

Mans Best

Friend:Two secu-

rity ofcerstake care

of a snifferdog asthey goWunnaTheikdiStadium

in Nay PyiTaw.

PHOTO:

AYEMIN

SOE

27thSEA Games

Womens Football

Result

Myanmar 10 - 11 Thailand

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7New Light of Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecThe Judo events of27thSEA Games kicked off

at Zeyathiri Indoor Stadi-

um(C) today.

The rst prize went

to Thailand (430 points),

second to Vietnam (423

points) and third to Myan-

mar (421 points) in mens

Nage No Kata event. Mean-

while, Thailand won rst

prize (442 points) in Ju no

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecOpening ceremony

of Vovinam event of 27 th

SEA Games took place at

Zeyathiri Indoor Stadium

(A) here today.

Vovinam events will

be held from 19 to 21 De-

cember. Seventy-two med-

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecIndonesia defeat-

ed Malaysia in womens

volleyball play-off event

of the 27th SEA Games.

Meanwhile, Myanmar

Vovinam event on 19-21 Decemberals18 gold, 18 silver and

36 bronze medals for men,

women and mixed events

will be conferred.

Tomorrows events in-

clude men (65 kg), women

(60 kg), dual sword form

(two women), self-defence

for women (mix), weapon

self defence (mix) and dual

machete form (two men).

Altogether 120 ath-

letes76 male and 44

femalefrom Indonesia,

Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

and Cambodia participate

in the three-day events.

Myo Than (NLM)

Mens and womens volleyball events go on

womens volleyball

team lost to Thailand. In

men's volleyball event,

Vietnam won over Laos.

Mens volleyball semifi-

nal events and womens

playoff event will go on

tomorrow at Zeyathiri

Indoor Stadium (B). The

final events will be on 21

December.

Myo Than (NLM)

Thailand secure two gold medals in Kata

eventsKata event, Vietnam, sec-

ond (433points) and Myan-mar, third (418 points).

Singapore, Laos, My-

anmar, Vietnam, Thailand

and Indonesia participated

in mens Nage No Kata

event and Indonesia, Singa-

pore, Malaysia, Myanmar,

Vietnam, Laos and Thai-

land competed in womens

Ju No Kata event. The rst

prize went to Sel Wee of

Myanmar in womens 45

kilo Judo event, second toPhilippines and joint third

prizes to Thailand and

Laos.

In mens 55 kilo judo

event, Vietnam won gold

medal; Myanmar, silver;

and Malaysia and Laos,

joint bronze medalsThe

Judo events will go on till

21 December.

Myo Than (NLM)

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecFinal match of

Equestrian event of the 27th

SEA Games took place at

Wunna Theikdi Horse Race

Course, here, this morning.

Altogether 19 riders

from Myanmar, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Thailand, Cam-

Gold medal goes to Singaporein Equestrian event

bodia and Singapore partic-

ipated in todays event.

Gold medal went to

Janine Khoo (Singapore),

silver to Jaruporn Limpi-

chati (Thailand) and bronze

to Jendry Palandeng (Indo-

nesia) in individual show

jumping event.July Moe

NAYPYITAW, 18 DecCycling event of

the 27thSEA Games continued for the second

day at Leinli Bridge, here, this morning.In mens team cycling 163-kilometre

road race event, goal medal went to Indone-

sia, silver to Malaysia and bronze to the Phil-

ippines.

President of Myanmar Cycling Federa-

tion U Tha Htay awarded the winners and his

wife Daw Kyi Khin presented gifts to them.

Ofcials and mediamen from the ASE-

AN countries and spectators enjoyed the

match.Ko Myo (Shwe Paukkan)

Indonesian team takes gold in cycling event

NAYPYITAW, 18 DecMens cycling 163 km event of the

27thSEA Games started from Leinli Bridge this morning.

No (22) Phounsavath Ariva of Laos swept gold medal with

(4:24:22) in the event, followed by Vietnamese cyclist No (78)

Mai Nguyen Hung, the silver with (4:29:07) and No (11) Manul-

lang Robin of Indonesia the bronze with (4:29:26).

President of Asian Cycling Federation Mr. Datuk Hajiabu

Samah Wahab and Vice-President of Myanmar Cycling Federa-

tion U Thet Oo presented medals and SEA Games mascots to the

winners.Ko Myo (Shwe Paukkan)

Laotian cyclist capture gold inmens 163 kg cycling event

Two Judo

athletes

attacking

against

each other

in action at

Zeyathiri

Indoor Sta-

dium (C) in

progress.

PHOTO:

MYOTHAN

(NLM)

Indonesian and Malaysian players in womens volleyball play-off event of the 27thSEA

Games.PHOTO: MYOTHAN(NLM)

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Thursday, 19 December, 2013

Migration and humanityThe world has just celebrated the International

Migrants Day on 18 December. The 18 Decemberis appointed by United Nations General Assembly

in 2000, about 10 years after adoption of interna-

tional convention on the protection of the rights of

NATIONAL

Is it true that

people can watch

the yacht race on

boats at the sea?

Yes! Tickets are now

available in

advance on the

Lovers Island at

Ngwehsaung

Beach. So fans can

sail up to 15 nautical

miles to watch the

race.

Cartoon Tha Byay

Vice-Senior General

Soe Win visits

Parachute

Division in IndiaNAY PYI TAW, 18

DecDeputy Commander-

in-Chief of Defence Ser-

vices Commander-in-Chief

(Army) Vice-Senior Gen-

eral Soe Win left Palam

Tech Area Airport in New

Delhi for Agra by air on 12

December where they were

welcomed by No (50) Para-

chute Division Commander

Brig Jagjeet Singh Nanda,

SM and wife.

The Vice-Senior Gen-

eral and party looked round

migrant workers and members of the families. We

have celebrated the day for 14 years. Have the condi-

tions of migrant workers improved?

Myanmar has seen a lot of migrant workers

migrating to neighboring countries over past two

decades. They include a lot of ethnic groups. Do

they really get protected by any legal framework

or enjoy their rights?There is also a huge amount of internal migra-

tion in Myanmar as people from least developed

areas are owing into a few relatively more devel-

oped parts of the country. Do they get decent jobs

or are they treated as just cheap labour?

The number of migrant workers from My-

anmar to neighbouring countries, especially to

Thailand is ever increasing since 1990.

What we still need to do now is to give at-

tention to the rights of migrant workers and get

them treated well as a fellow human being in abid to promote the humanity. The migration

should not lose them the sense of being another

human sharing the planet.

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecMuay boxing events

of the 27th SEA Games

continued today at Wunna

Theikdi Sports Complex.

Among the spectators

were Chairman of Union

Election Commission U Tin

Aye and the Union minis-

ters, deputy ministers, of-

cials and fans.

In mens 54 kg prelimi-

nary level competition, Saw

Dar Pot of Myanmar won

over Laotian Muay boxer

Bouaphan Phankeo.

A total of 86 boxers

UEC Chairman enjoys Muay boxing events

including managers and

coaches from Myanmar,

Thailand, Laos, Vietnam,

Malaysia, Indonesia and

the Philippines participatedin todays Muay contests.

Mens Muay events in-

clude 48 kg, 51 kg, 54 kg,

57 kg, 60 kg, 63.5 kg, 71

kg and 75 kg and womens

Muay events include 48 kg,

51 kg, 54 kg, 57 kg and 60

kg.

The preliminary com-

petitions will continue to-

morrow and seminals and

nals will be held on 21 De-

cember in conjunction with

prize awarding ceremony.

MNA

Dignitaries give boxers applause in Muay

boxing events at Wunna Theikdi Sports

Complex.MNA

demonstration of soldiers in

the parachute division and

went to Agra Fort and Taj

Mahal where they observed

artifacts and preservations.

In the evening, they

ew to Jaipur via Agra Air-

port and attended a dinner

hosted by South-Western

Command Commander

Lt-Gen Gyan Bhushan,

PVSM, UYSM, AVSM,

VSM, ADC at the ofcers

mess hall.

Myawady

Vice-Senior General Soe Win attends dinner party hosted by South-Western

Command Commander Lt-Gen Gyan Bhushan, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM,

ADC of India at OTA ofcer mess hall.MYAWADY

Public AnnouncementThe following junctions that have access to Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex in

Zabuthiri Township, Nay Pyi Taw will temporarily be closed from 12 noon on 22-12-

2013 when the closing ceremony of the 27th SEA Games will be held till the end of the

ceremony.

(1) Junction of Pyinmana Taung Nyo Road and Nyana Aung Myay (at the top of

Soe San street)

(2) Junction of Mya Yee Nandar Road and Mani Sandar Road (near the junction

of Swa road)

(3) Junction of Zeyar Aung Myay Road and Mani Sandar Road (at the top of

BEHS No (11) street)

(4) Junction of Mani Sandar Road and Gate-5 (at Gate5)

(5) Junction of Zeyar Aung Myay Road and Mani Sandar Road (at the top of Ath-

letes Village)

(6) Junction of Pyinmana Taung Nyo Road and V4 Road (at the top of Nay Pyi

Taw ring road)(7) Junction of Zeyar Aung Myay Road and Nan Chun village monastery road

(8) Junction of Maha Zeyar Road and Zeya Bala Road (at the top of Kha Yay

Housing)

Trafc Police Force

NGWEHSAUNG, 18 Dec

Optimist Team Racing

and Half Rater competi-

tions of sailing event of the

27thSEA Games took place

yesterday.

Optimist Team Racing, Half

Rater in progressAfter the match ofLaser Standard Sailing on

16 December, Malaysia

stood rst in mens event

while Myanmar managed

to sail fth place. Singa-

pore topped Laser Radial

event while Myanmar was

ranked fth in this event.

Thailand stood rst in RS

One (Boy) event followed

by Myanmar. In RS One

(Girl) event led by Thai-

land, Myanmar nished

third. While Malaysia

stood rst place in Opti-

mist (Boy) Myanmar third.

In the Optimist (Girl) and

RS One Open events Sin-

gapore and Thailand stood

rst respectively.

Singapore seized the

rst place while Wai Pwint

Wah Bo and Theingi WinShwe of Myanmar took

fourth place in Intl 420

(Girl) event.

MNA

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9Wednesday, 18 December, 2013New Light of MyanmarN A T I O N A L

We, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States

of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

and Japan;

Acknowledging the important of the joint Declaration

for Enhancing ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership for

Prospering Together (Bali Declaration);

Notingthe Five Principles of Japans ASEAN diplomacy

announced by the Prime Minister of Japan on 18 January

2013.

Committedto the principles, common values and norms

stipulated in the ASEAN Charter and the Treaty of Amity

and Cooperation in Southeast Asian (TAC);

Herebyreafrm that ASEAN and Japan strengthen coop-

eration in the following four areas of partnership:

Partners for Peace and Stability

We reafrm our enhanced commitment for the main-

tenance of peace, security, and stability, which is in the

regional and global interests through:

- Further maintaining the stance as a peace-loving

nation and strengthening peace-oriented values

through, inter alia, respect for universally recognized

principles of international law, and upholding the

principle of moderation;

- Resolving disputes by peaceful means including

through dialogue and consultations, renunciation of

the threat or use of force and in accordance with uni-

versally recognized principles of international law;

- Enhancing dialogue and cooperation to promote therule of law, good governance, democracy, and hu-

man rights law;

- Strengthening cooperation on disaster management,

UN Peace-Keeping Operations, non-proliferation

Vision statement on ASEAN-Japan friendship and cooperation

Shared vision, shared indentify, shared futureand disarmament, counter-terrorism, translational

crime and maritime security, among others.

Partners of Prosperity

We are committed to further enhancing our compre-

hensive economic partnership through:

- Strengthening cooperation in areas of mutual inter-

est related to trade in goods, trade in services and in-

vestment, including to enhance the utilisation of the

ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Agreement and the implementation of the ASEAN-Ja-

pan 10-Year Strategic Economic Cooperation Road-

map;

- Supporting efforts to enhance ASEAN Connectively

and a wider regional connectivity, as well as the uti-

lisation of enhanced connectivity by business sectors,

further promoting sustainable economic development,

knowledge-based and innovation-driven industries,

and continuing cooperation to narrow the develop-

ment gap in the region; and

- Strengthening cooperation in air and maritime link-

ages between ASEAN and Japan in the region as well

as ensuring freedom and safety of navigation and

overight, in accordance with the universally recog-

nized principles of international law, including the

1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the

Sea (UNCLOS), and the relevant standards and rec-

ommended practices by the international Civil Avia-

tion Organization (ICAD).Partners for Quality of Life

We are committed to promoting human resource de-

velopment and overcoming socio-economic and environ-

mental issues by:

- Promoting cooperation in science, technology and in-

novation, information and communications technol-

ogy and cyber security;

- Strengthening partnership in agriculture, food secu-

rity, energy security, nuclear safety, environmental

protection and water resources management;

- Enhancing cooperation to eradicate poverty and tack-

le challenges arising from climate change, disasters,

urbanization, and aging population;

- Sharing experience and knowledge in improving

healthcare systems toward universal health cover-

age, social safety-net, and in empowering women to

participate in political, economic, and socio-culture

development; and

- Continuing to cooperate for the attainment of the Mil-

lennium Development Goals by 2015 and beyond, as

well as enhancing human security in line with UN

General Assembly Resolution 66/290, in particular to

further improve the well-being and livelihood of the

peoples of ASEAN and Japan.

Heart-to-Heart Partners

We will continue to strengthen mutual trust and

heart-to-heart understanding as well as nurture friend-

ship by:

- Promoting cultural and arts exchanged, and people-

to-people exchanges in tourism, youth, and sports;

- Enhancing cooperation in education, including,

among others, language learning; and- Preserving diverse cultures and traditions;

Adopted in Tokyo, with its Implementation Plan on

the Fourteenth Day of December of the Year Two Thou-

sand Thirteen.

(from page 16)

It was also attended

by Commander-in-Chief

(Navy) Admiral Thura Thet

Swe, the senior military of-

cers from the Command-

er-in-Chief Ofce (Army)

and Commander of Coastal

Region Command Maj-Gen

Khin Maung Htay.

After the meeting, the

Senior General

Min Aung

Hlaing...

Correction

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker holds

talks with Indonesian vice-president

Senior General presented

gifts to the ofcers, ser-

vicemen and their families,

Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, wife of

the Senior General, the cash

assistance to the fund for

station Maternal and Child

Welfare Association and

Adjutant-General Lt-Gen

Khin Zaw Oo, sports gear.

Then, the Senior Gen-

eral and party cordially

greeted those present.

Myawady

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecThura U Shwe Mann,

Speaker of Pyidaungsu

Hluttaw and Pyithu Hlut-

taw, and Indonesian Vice-

President Dr Boediono

held talks in Jakarta today

over strengthening bilateral

friendship and exchanged

views on democratic re-

forms.

Also present at the

meeting were chairmen of

Hluttaw committees Thura

U Aye Myint, U Hla Myint

Oo and U Htay Myint.

During his visit to In-

donesia, Speaker Thura U

Shwe Mann also held talks

with Chairman of Regional

Representatives Council of

Indonesia Mr Irman Gus-

man over parliamentary

works and democratic re-

forms at Indonesian parlia-

ment in Jakarta today.

The Myanmar delega-

tion led by Speaker Thura

U Shwe Mann also visited

the parliamentary meeting

of Indonesia.

Speaker Thura U Shwe

Mann also met with Indo-

nesian Foreign Minister Mr

Marty Natalegawa and held

talks over bilateral friend-

ship and cooperation.

MNA

Please read 27thSEA

Games instead of 29th SEA

Games in 4th line of rst

column in the article un-

der title of Muay athletes

punch and kick their way

to glory and adulation on

page 10 of this daily is-

sued on 18 December. Er-

ror is regretted.NLM

Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann

chats with Indonesian Vice-President Dr Boediono.MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18

DecMyanmar defeated

Indonesia in womens

Sepak Takraw prelimi-

nary event. In mens Sepak

Takraw preliminary event,

Laos lost to Myanmar. My-

anmar mens team will meet

Indonesia tomorrow while

Myanmar womens team

will ght against Thailand.

Myanmar mens is likely to

secure gold medal.

MNA

Myanmar keeps gold at home

in TaekwondoNAY PYI TAW, 18

DecTaekwondo Com-

petitions of the 27th SEA

Games took place at Wun-

na Theikdi Indoor Stadium

(A), here, this afternoon.

Thaw Zin Han swept

gold medal in Mens In-

dividual (poomsae) event,

followed by the Philippines

and Vietnam.

In Womens Individual

(poomsae) event, Yamin

Kay Khine snatched gold

medal, Singapore, silver

and Cambodia, bronze.

In women U-62 kg

(Light) event, Myanmar

had to be content with sil-

ver.Htin Lin Aung (NLM)

Myanmar

win in Sepak

Takraw

Senior General

Min Aung Hlaing

presents gifts to

Commander of Coastal

Region Command

Maj-Gen Khin Maung

Htay.MYAWADY

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10 New Light of Myanmar

Four objectives of 66thAnniversary

Independence Day

- All the national people to live together in the Union forever

in weal or woe;

- All the national people to strive together for non-disintegra-

tion of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarityand perpetuation of sovereignty;

- All the national people to participate in efforts for ceasing

armed conflicts and gaining genuine peace;

- All the national people to work hard in building a developed

and discipline-flourishing democratic nation

Midwifery refresher course conductedSAGAING, 18 Dec

Sagaing District Maternal

a n d C h i l d W e l f a r e

Supervisory Committee and

District Health Departmentjo int ly con du cted th e

midwifery refresher course

at the hall of Sagaing

Township General Hospital

(200bed) in Sagaing on 16

December morning.

U Myint Wai, Deputy

Commissioner of Sagaing

District made an opening

address.

Chairperson of District

MCWSC Daw Thin Thin

Cho made a speech.Head of District Health

Department Dr Thet Aung

explained purpose of

conducting the training

course.

The ceremony was

attended by towns elders,

nurses of the Health

Department, Commander

of Township Police Force

Police Major Tin Aung

Kyaw, members of District

and Township MCWAsand Womens Affairs

Organization, trainees

from Sagaing, Myinmu and

Myaung townships.

The training course

was opened from 16 to 18

December.

Kyemon-Myo Win

Blankets, offertories donated to 389 aged of

over 70 years in Monywa

MONYWA, 18 DecThe11th ceremony to donate

blankets, clothes and

medicines were donated

to 372 aged of over 70

years at Aung Dhammayon

in Aungchantha Ward of

Monywa on 15 December.

T h e o r g a n i z i n g

committee presented giftsto 17 older persons who

were affortable to attend the

ceremony.

They donated goods

worth K 1.8 million for

the aged. It was attendedby Chairman of Monywa

Township Management

Committee U Nyunt Soe, and

wellwishers.Kyemon-Myo

Win Tun (Monywa)

Thein Htaik San library put

into service

YEZAGYO, 18 DecA

ceremony to open Thein

Htaik San self-reliant library

was held at the library in

Salingon Village of Yezagyo

U Khaing Tun, Head of

Township Information and

Public Relations Daw San

Yu Maw and Patron of the

library U Soe Tint formallyopened the library.

On the occasion, the

Township Administrator

and the Head of Township

IPRD explained durability

of the library.

Next , member of

Township Development

Supportive Committee U

Aung San, National Literary

Award winner U Than Aung

(Than Aung-Anyamyay) and

writer Swe Hlaing Oo (Swe

Hlaing Oo-Yezagyo) gave

talks on reading habit.

The library was 20

feet long, 18 feet wide and

12 feet high. It was built

at a cost of K 3 million

contributed by the local

people.Kyemon-Aung

(Mann Tekkatho)

Ambulance donated to Model Chaungkauk Village of

Sinbaungwe TspSINBAUNGWE, 18 Dec

Wellwisher Sayadaw

Bhaddanta Samvara and

disciples donated oneambulance to Model Village

Hospital in Chaunggauk

Village of the township on

15 December.

Sayadaw Bhaddanta

Samvara and disciples

donated ambulance worth

K 13.5 million to Township

Administrator U Ko Ko

Aung, Township Medical

Officer Dr Kyaw Kyaw

and Dr Su Su Lwin of

Sanpyachaung StationHospital.

M a g w a y R e g i o n

Hluttaw representative U

Myint Ngwe explaied the

purpose of donation.

Township Adminis-

trator U Ko Ko Aung spoke

words of thanks.

It was also attended

by Pyithu Hluttaw U Aye

Naing of the township, the

Township Administrator,

members of Township

Development Supportive

Committee, wellwishers and

local people.

Kyemon-Township IPRD

Talks on population, taking

census process sharedMONGPHYAT, 18 DecA

talk on population and

housings in taking censusprocess was held at the

hall of Township Geneal

Administration Department

in Mongphyat of Shan State

(East) on 13 December.

Ch a i rm an o f t h e

Township Census Committee

Township Administrator UAung Mying Kyaw made

a speech on population and

census taking process. Head

of District Immigration and

Public Relations Department

U Set Shwe explained

process of taking census

and scrutiny works.

Head of Township

INRD U Saw Maung

Hla explained the law of

census and Head of District

Information and Public

Relations Department U

Solomon population and

housing matters.

It was also attended by

members of the township,

ward and village census

committees, members of

the development supportive

commttee and census

committee members of

regiments and units.Head of District INRD

U Set Shwe replied to queries

raised by those present.

Kyemon-Wai Yan Lin (IPRD)

Township on 14 December

morning.

It was opened by

Township Administrator

First textile diploma course

openedA M A R A P U R A , 1 8

DecSaungda Weaving

and Vocational Institute

of Small-scale Industries

Department under the

Ministry of Coopertives

opened the textile diplomacourse was held at the

institgute on 16 December.

D i r e c t o r - G e n e r a l

U Kyaw Ngwe of the

department made a speech.

Principal Daw Tint Tint

explained the disciplines of

the school and plans to give

lectures to the trainees.

The institute K 18000

each to trainees.A total of 34 trainees

are attending the one year

course.Kyemon-Kyaw Zin

Moe (Region IPRD)

Opening

ceremony

of self-

reliant

Thein

Htaik San

library in

progress

in Yezagyo

Township.

Charity Affairs

HRD

Money exchange counter, mobile banking

services available in Nay Pyi Taw during

SEA GamesNAYPYITAW, 18 Dec

Nay Pyi Taw Bank Branch

of Myanmar Economic

Bank is providing the public

including participants to theSEA Games and local and

foreign sports fans with

mobile banking services

in downtown Nay Pyi Taw,

apart from opening a money

exchange counter at Social

Zone in Sports Village,

here, as of 1 December.

The counter being

kept open at Social Zone

is conducting remittance

service and foreign currencyin exchange for local

currency based on daily

exchange rate of the Central

Bank of Myanmar, making

change and exchanging old

banknotes for new ones.

Moreover , mobi le

banking services cars

parked at Nay Pyi Taw

Wunna Theikdi sports

complex from 9 am to 1

pm and at Nay Pyi TawMyoma Market, Thabyegon

Market, Junction Shopping

Mall and Capital Shopping

Mall from 2 pm to 6 pm are

providing banking services

to customers except local

remittance service.MNA

Health Care Activities

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets with representativesattending an awarding ceremony of outstanding civil

servants and groups, in Beijing, capital of China, on17 Dec, 2013. Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing

Committee of the Political Bureau of the CommunistParty of China (CPC) Central Committee, also attended

the ceremony. XINHUA

Li urges

adminstrators to build

clean governmentBEIJING, 18 Dec

Premier Li Keqiang on

Tuesday urged civil serv-ants at all levels to take the

lead with the eight-pointguidelines to ban extrava-gance and formalism.

Li made the remarksat an award ceremony forindividuals and collectives

of civil servants, notingthat they should not only beparticipants in reform, but

promoters. Civil servantsshould shoulder the burdenof reform including stream-

lining government anddelegating power to lower

levels, said Li. Li reiterat-ed the importance of serve

the people and urged solu-

tion of the peoples prob-

lems and realization ofpeoples expectations. Civil

servants at all levels shouldincrease their legal aware-ness, abide by the law and

perform in accordance withprofessional ethics, to builda law-based government.

A total of 99 individu-als and 80 collectives werehonoured at the ceremony,

and an overwhelming ma-jority are from grassrootspositions and work in re-

mote areas under harsh con-ditions but have achieved

unusual success in ordinarypositions.

Li called on Party com-

mittees and government atall levels to care more aboutgrassroots civil servants,

and to fully implement the

spirit of the recent reformagendas.

Xinhua

Fukushima residents to

vacate last evacuation

centre by year-endFUKUSHIMA, (Japan), 18

Dec The occupants of

the last evacuation centrehousing people displacedby the March 2011 earth-quake, tsunami and nuclear

crisis will leave it by theend of this year, the mayor

of an evacuated town inFukushima Prefecture saidon Wednesday.

We will step forwardto rebuild their lives, ShiroIzawa, mayor of Futaba,

which hosts the crippledFukushima Daiichi nuclearcomplex, told reporters

after a town assembly meet-ing. As of Tuesday, sevenevacuees from Futaba were

living at the center in Kazo,Saitama Prefecture, whichwas once used as a high

school building, and allof them, aged 60 or older,

have found new accom-modation, according to the

municipal government.Izawa said, We willcontinue providing admin-

istrative services to theevacuees so they will notfeel inconvenienced.

The entire populationof Futaba was evacuatedin the wake of the nuclear

crisis at the FukushimaDaiichi plant on March 11,2011, and the headquarters

of the municipal govern-ment was transferred tothe former school building

before being removed toIwaki, Fukushima, in Junethis year.

The evacuation centerwill ofcially shut downearly next year following

maintenance work, Izawasaid. Kyodo News

Kunihiro Takagi (R), leader of a sufferers group, andMitsui Mining & Smelting Co President Sadao Senda

shake hands, holding documents of agreement, in

Toyama, Japan, on 17 Dec, 2013. The compensationissue over one of Japans four major pollution-caused

disease cases reached a complete settlement, as

sufferers of cadmium poisoning, known as Itai-ItaiDisease, and the company responsible signed an

agreement on it.KYODONEWS

India, Japan navies to hold 4-day exercise

from Thursday NEW DELHI, 18 Dec

The navies of India andJapan will hold a four-dayexercise in waters off the

Indian coast from Thurs-day, the Indian governmentsaid on Tuesday.

A government state-ment said the exercise inthe Bay of Bengal will be

participated in by the In-

dian Navys stealth frigateSatpura, guided missile

destroyer Ranvijay and

missile corvette Kuthar,while the Japanese MaritimeSelf-Defence Force will

send two guided missiledestroyers, Ariake and

Setogiri.

The two sides willhold practice boarding,searching and seizing of

target vessels to enhance

interoperability in antip-iracy operations, while also

carrying out cross-deck hel-

icopter landing practice andoperations in anti-surface,anti-submarine and anti-air

threat scenarios.The exercise will be

the second of its kind since

the two sides agreed to holdthem in November 2011during Indian Defence

Minister AK Antonys

visit to Japan. The rst wasconducted in waters off

Japan in January 2012, at

which time India sent fournaval ships.

It covered humanitar-

ian aid and disaster reliefoperations, search andrescue, and antipiracy

operations.The Indian Navy and

Japans MSDF have been

collaborating to combat

piracy off the Gulf of Aden.Kyodo News

Photo taken on 7 Nov, 2013 shows Kenji Miura, head

chef at the Beaux Sejours French restaurant at GrandPrince Hotel Kyoto, cooking steaks at the restaurant in

Kyotos Sakyo Ward. KYODONEWS

Floods kill four, displace

over 4,000 in IndonesiaJAKARTA, 18 Dec Floods hitting East JavaProvince of Indonesia since

last weekend have left fourpeople dead and forced

more than 4,000 othersto take shelters, a disaster

agency ofcial said here onTuesday.

The Solo and Lamongrivers bloated by days of

torrential rains burst theirbanks and submerged sev-eral areas in the Districts of

Bojonegoro, Gresik, Tubanand Lamongan, said SutopoPurwo Nugroho, spokes-

man for the National Disas-ter Management and Miti-gation agency.

In Mojokerto twopeople were dead and in

Gresik two others ( have)been killed, they were sweptaway by the currents, he

toldXinhuaby phone.The ofcial said that

the waters are likely to oodin other high lands in theprovince, while the evacu-

ees have been taking shel-ters in buildings and tentsat the higher grounds as

about 15, 000 houses havebeen inundated. The oodsalso submerged about 2,000

hectares of rice elds, headded. Seasonal downpours

often incur oods each yearin Indonesia, a chain of17,500 islands where overmillions of people live in

ood-prone plains that areclose to rivers. Xinhua

Singapore to deport 53 foreign workers

following riotSINGAPORE, 18 Dec

Singapore will deport 53foreign workers over their

suspected involvement inrioting earlier this month,in which a mob attacked

police ofcers and policecars after a fatal bus acci-dent that killed an Indian

worker, according to a gov-

ernment website.They will be repatri-

ated to their home countriesand banned from return-

ing to Singapore, said astatement on the Ministryof Home Affairs website,

based on comments bySingapore Deputy PrimeMinister Teo Chee Hean at

a press conference on Tues-day. Local media reportedthat 52 Indian nationals and

one Bangladeshi will be de-

ported.Rioting is rare in the

wealthy city-state whichhas not seen such occur-

rences on its streets sinceracial riots in 1969.

Their actions and

conduct had threatenedpublic order, thus makingtheir continued presence in

Singapore undesirable, thestatement said.

In addition, 28 people

all Indian nationals

have been charged in courtfor direct involvement in

the riot, such as violentacts and damaging govern-ment property. According

to Singapores penal code,any person guilty of riot-

ing could be jailed and evencaned.

The government has

appointed a four-membercommittee chaired by aretired judge to look into the

factors that led to the riotand to make recommenda-tions to prevent recurrenc-

es of such incidents in thefuture.

The government re-acted swiftly to the riot byimposing several measuresto restore peace in the Lit-

tle India area, including a

temporary ban on the saleand consumption of alcoholduring weekends, a period

when thousands of foreignworkers throng the area ontheir days off.

But the measure hasled to complaints of asharp plunge in business

for shops in the area, so

the government is expectedto announce some revised

steps soon.The vast majority of

foreign workers in Singa-

pore are law abiding. Theycome here to earn a living

and support their families intheir home countries. In theprocess they contribute to

Singapore by supplement-ing our need for workers,the statement said.

But it added, We havetaken strong and decisiveaction to charge and to re-

patriate those who took partin the riot to send a strong

signal that we will not tol-erate actions by anyonewhich threaten law and or-der in Singapore.

Kyodo News

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THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR

MINISTRY OF ENERGY

MYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISE

(INVITATION FOR OPEN TENDER)

(16/2013)

Open tenders are invited for supply of the following respective items in United States Dollars and Myanmar Kyats.

Sr.No Tender No Description Qty Remark

(1) IF'B-134(2013-2014) Spares forAB 100 Well Servicing (2) Items US$

Truck

(2) IFB-135(2013-2014) Spares for Blow Out Preventer (5) Items US$

Ex ZJ 70 L Drilling Rigs

(3) IFB-136(2013-2014) Universal Fuel Pump Test Stand (1) No US$

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(10) IFB-143(2013-2014) Spares for CAT D379 & CAT D399 (5) Items US$

Engines

(11) IFB-144(2013-2014) Drawworks Main DrumBrake Shoe (9) Items US$ Lining

(12) IFB-145(2013-2014) Portable Welding Machine with (4) Units US$ Complete Accessories (300 AMP, Diesel Engine Driven)

(13) IFB-146(2013-2014) Heat Shrinkable Sleeve (1200 Rolls) (4) Items US$

Closure Patches (25000 Nos)

(14) DMP/L-044(2013-2014) Spares for F 1000 Rig Pump (12) Items Ks

Ex D3T2 SRI & II

(15) DMP/L-045(2013-2014) Rotor Seal for ZJ 70 L SRI & II (10) Items Ks

(16) DMP/L-046(2013-2014) Electrical Spares for Caterpillar Gas (4) Items Ks

Engine Lighting Set

- Tender Closing Date & Time - 13-1-2014,16:30 Hrs

Tender Document shall be available during ofce hours commencing from 16'hDecember, 2013 at the Finance

Department, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, No(44) Complex, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise

Ph . +95 67 - 411097 / 411206

CLAIMS DAY NOTICE

MV KOTA RESTU VOY NO (357)Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTA RESTU

VOY NO (357) are ereby noed a e veel ll

be arrvng on 19.12.2013 and cargo ll be dcarged

into the premises of h.p.t ere ll le a e con-

gnee rk and exene and ubjec o e byela

and condon of e por of Yangon.

Daaged cargo ll be urveyed daly fro 8 ao 11:20 a and 12 noon o 4 o Cla Day no

declared a e rd day afer nal dcarge of cargo

fro e Veel.

No cla agan veel ll be aded afer

e Cla Day.

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MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINER

LINES

pone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICE

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VOY NO (04/13) are ereby noed a e veel

ll be arrvng on 19.12.2013 and cargo ll be d-charged into the premises of s.p.w(1) ere ll

le a e congnee rk and exene and ubjec

o e byela and condon of e por of Yangon.

Daaged cargo ll be urveyed daly fro 8 a

o 11:20 a and 12 noon o 4 o Cla Day no

declared a e rd day afer nal dcarge of cargo

fro e Veel.

No cla agan veel ll be aded afer

e Cla Day.

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MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S KRUNG THON NAVA

CO LTDpone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SN HARMONY VOY NO ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SN HARMONY

VOY NO ( ) are ereby noed a e veel ll be

arrvng on 19.12.2013 and cargo ll be dcarged

into the premises of m.i.t.t ere ll le a e

congnee rk and exene and ubjec o e byel-

a and condon of e por of Yangon.

Daaged cargo ll be urveyed daly fro 8 a

o 11:20 a and 12 noon o 4 o Cla Day no

declared a e rd day afer nal dcarge of cargo

fro e Veel.

No cla agan veel ll be aded afer

e Cla Day.

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CO LTDpone No: 256916/256919/256921

At least 21, including women and baby,

killed in Congos eastKINSHASA, 18 DecA

lea 21 eole, ncludng

oen and a baby, ereklled over e eekend n

eastern Democratic Repub-lc of Congo, e UN eace-keeping mission there saidon monday.

The UN mission didno ay o beleved car-

ried out the massacre but alocal eleced ofcal blaedUgandan ila rebel.

mo of oe klled a-eared o ave been acked

to death on Friday and Sat-urday n vllage no far

from Beni, in Congos NorthKvu provnce, accordng oa statement by Martin Kob-ler, ead of e mONUsCO

eacekeeng on.tee aroce ll

no go ununed, e ad.tree grl aear o avebeen raped and then behead-

ed le one of e vca ju on old,

aeen added.te kllng glg-

ed e callenge ll fac-ing Congos army and UNforces attempting to pacifyCongo neral-rc ea,

c a reaned a la-le acork of rebel

rongold and la ef-do for nearly o dec-ade.Reuters

Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler(R) andEuropean Commissioner for Justice Cecilia Malmstrom

shake hands at the signing ceremony of an agreementon EU governments repatriation of illegal immigrants

from Turkey in Ankara, Turkey, on 16 Dec, 2013.

XINHUA

Visa-free travel for Turks

to EU not in sight yetANKARA, 18 Dec

Agreements signed on Mon-day n Ankara beeen tur-key and the European Union(EU) fell or of execa-on a turk ll ge a v-a-free ravel o EU eberae n ecc e frae

in exchange for admittingranon of llegal -

grants back to Turkey forrearaon.

Turkish Foreign Min-er Ae Davuoglu andEU Home Affairs Commis-oner Cecla malro

signed the agreement to

launc negoaon on lf-ng va requreen for

turk ravellng o Euroe.Yet the agreement does

no guaranee a e va-

aver ll aen evenu-ally and ere no deadlnee for a goal. in excange,

Turkey has agreed to signanoer accord called Read-

on Agreeen o alloEU member states to send

llegal gran ranedfro turkey back o turkey.

This agreement does

not see an automatic drop-ng of va requreen forTurkish citizens at the end ofroce, idr Guroy, ol-cal analy and bureau ceffor a eekly ne aga-

zineAksiyon, oldXinhua.

i ay very ell leaveturkey a eavy burdenof acklng bg nuber of l-legal gran droed bye EU n on la, eadded. te ooon alo

crcal of agreeen an ooon Reublcanpeole pary (Chp) deu-y Faruk Logoglu ayng onMonday that the cost may

be g for turkey. tagreeen brng very eavy

oblgaon for turkey.we are n a oon of

burdenng ourelve eavy oblgaon for oe-ng c no ceran,

he said a press conference inarlaen.

turk governen of-cal defended agreeenayng a ey ave aur-

ance a bo deal ll gon arallel.

today a leone n

turkey-EU relaon, adturk pre mner Re-

cep Tayyip Erdogan during agnng cereony eld n eturk caal of Ankara.

Va-free ravel o Eu-

roe ll begn n ree oree-and-a- alf year, e

ad. we can redc olong (va lberalzaon)dalogue ll la. we oe

a bo de ll ake ad-vanage of roce aeadof u, malro ad.

turkey ledge oork on rengenng bor-

der ecury and buldngdeenon cenre for llegalgran for ree year.

te EU a o reevaluaeTurkeys performance be-fore gvng a green lg o

va-free ravel o turkczen.

Xinhua

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ENTERTAINMENT

13New Light of Myanmar

Filipina

chosen Miss

International

2013TOKYO, 18 Dec Bea

Rose Santiago of the Phil-ippines won the 2013 Miss

International pageant onTuesday in Tokyo, sayingshe hopes to use her title

to help reconstruction ofher country which has beenseverely damaged by Ty-

phoon Haiyan.An earlier Miss Inter-

national crowned Santiago,

23, as the 2012 Miss In-ternational, Ikumi Yoshi-matsu, was absent from the

event despite tradition thatthe previous years win-ner crowns the new title

holder.Yoshimatsu, 26, told a

Press conference on Mon-

day in Tokyo that she wasasked by the organizer torefrain from attending this

years pageant after shehad received threats.

Representatives from67 countries and territoriesattended the Tokyo pag-

eant.Kyodo News

Bea Rose Santiago,

Actor Joaquin Phoenix

nds love in a virtual

world in HerNEW YORK, 18 Dec

Joaquin Phoenix knew he

had to star in Spike Jonzes

latest lm Her, an uncon-ventional romance that ex-

plores ideas about intimacy,isolation, relationships andtechnology, because it wasnt

a typical love story.Phoenixs depressed

writer character nds love in

the lm, set in a futuristic LosAngeles, but the object of hisaffection isnt a co-worker

or the girl next door. Its anintuitive, voice-controlled,

computer operating systemnamed Samantha.

I thought it was really

interesting and unique, thatthere was this great emo-

tional centre you could grabonto, that it wasnt too eso-teric, Phoenix told Reutersahead of the lms opening

in US theaters on Wednes-day.

There are these greatbig ideas and themes to

explore but it felt totally

accessible.Phoenix, a triple Os-

car nominee for his roles inGladiator, The Masterand Walk The Line, which

also earned him a best actorGolden Globe in 2006, playsTheodore Twombly, a writer

for BeautifulHandwritten-Letters.com.

By day he dictates af-

fectionate letters that aretranscribed by a computer

into handwritten notes forclients to their loved ones. Inthe evening he plays a large

video game alone in his high-rise, sparsely furnished apart-

ment.The National Board of

Review named Her bestpicture of 2013, calling it

an outstanding achievementthat is sure to become a new

Cast members Joaquin Phoenix (L) and Scarlett

Johansson (R) arrive for a red carpet event for themovie Her at the Rome Film Festival, in this fle

photo from 10 Nov, 2013.REUTERS

classic, and awarded Jonzeits best director award.

Phoenix, 39, nabbed his

fourth Golden Globe nomi-nation for his role in Her,while the lm won Globe

nominations for best picturein a comedy or musical andbest screenplay.

In a tender about-face

from his fearsome perfor-mance in The Master,

Phoenix here is enchant-ingly open, vulnerable,

sweet-natured and yearningfor emotional completion,

The Hollywood Reporter

said about his performance.The New York Post

praised Jonze, who wrote thescreenplay and is known forpushing cinematic bounda-

ries since his off-the-wall1999 lm Being John Mal-kovich.

Jonze seems to be

heading for a far quirkierending than the one he ac-

tually delivers, but he doestap into the zeitgeist with his

unlikely romantic fable, itsaid.Reuters

Shah Rukh Khan: Could

not bear to see Swades endMUMBAI, 18 Dec

For superstar Shah RukhKhan, the greatest way tocount his years in the lm

industry is by his landmark

movies.The greatest way for

an actor to count his yearsis for each of them to be

dened by a lm. DDLJ(Dilwale Dulhania le Jay-enge) year, Swades year,

KKHH (Kuch Kuch HotaHai) year and so on, ShahRukh posted on Twitter on

Tuesday.His lm Swades com-

pleted nine years on Tues-

day. The superstar said thatsince the making of the lmwas so close to his heart, he

could not bear to see it end

and hence he never saw thelm.

A still from the movie Swades

NEW YORK, 18 DecKing of Pop Michael Jack-sons children have spoken

about their sheltered yet lov-ing childhood with their latefather at his Neverland ranch.

Prince Michael, 16,Paris, 15, and Blanket, 11

have opened up about theirlives with their late famousfather in a new documentaryRemembering Michael, re-

vealing they had little ideaof what went on outside the

Michael Jacksons children

led a secluded life

walls of the high-securityCalifornian ranch, reported

New York daily News.

S