-day regular session of first pyidaungsu hluttaw held · 2011-02-26 · the new light of myanmar...

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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

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

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

13th-day regular session of First Pyidaungsu Hluttaw heldApproval sought for appointment of members of Union Election Commission

Regular sessions of Pyithu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw on1st March to form Hluttaw Committees and carry out Hluttaw functions

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Feb—The 13th-day regularsession of the First Pyidaungsu Hluttaw was heldat Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Hall of Hluttaw Building,here, at 11 am today, attended by Speaker ofPyidaungsu Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint,Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann,and representatives of Pyithu Hluttaw andAmyotha Hluttaw.

Director-General U Myint Thein of theHluttaw Office acted as master of ceremonies.

After taking position, Speaker of PyidaungsuHluttaw U Khin Aung Myint announced the validityand start of the session as 655 out of 658 PyidaungsuHluttaw representatives who have right to attendtoday’s session were present, accounting for 99.54per cent.

The Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw announcedthat although an announcement was issued forPyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives to raise objectionwith clear evidences that the nominees do not meetthe qualification prescribed in Sub-section (b) ofSection 398 of the constitution of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar regarding nomination of members of Union Election Commission

(See page 8)

The 13th-day regular session of First Pyidaungsu Hluttaw in progress at Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Hall.—MNA

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

People’s Desire

Create tourism industry tobecome greater business

Tourism is an industry where greaterpotentials lie for economic progress. The Asia-Pacific region including Myanmar is a touristdestination.

In the open season this year, a largernumber of tourists arrive in Myanmar throughmain entrances such as Yangon, Mandalay,Bagan and border areas. Nearly 800,000tourists visited Myanmar in 2010, comparedwith over 600,000 tourists in the past.

Myanmar participates in implementationof the ASEAN Tourism Strategic Plan. Thus,border crossing tourism industry plays moreimportant role in the plan. Myanmar iscooperating with neighbouring countries suchas Thailand and Laos for ensuringdevelopment of tourism industry.

Most of the tourists in Myanmar headfor Bagan with the location of ancient culturalartistic works. They also set sight on naturalscenic beauty and traditional productions ofnational races in Inlay Lake and Pindaya areain Shan State (South).

The sanctuaries and national parks thatconserve rare and endangered wildlife andvarious species of biodiversities and beacheshave greater prospects to extend ecotourismindustry. Coral reefs near the beaches,beautiful isles, mangrove forests and tropicalrainy forests are ideal places for uplifting theecotourism business.

The international community placesemphasis on tourism industry in doing theirbusinesses. Improvement of tourismcontributes much to cementing friendlyrelations among the people of respectiveregions. Based on sound foundations such astourist attractive ancient cultural areas andeco-based tourism camps, Myanmar has toupgrade convenient tour packages with betterservices for gaining greater development oftourism industry in the nation.

YANGON, 25 Feb — Myanmar educationservices provider Future Way Co., Ltd andSingaporean state-run engineering school BCAAcademy will jointly hold free-of-charge entryexam for engineering diploma course in Singaporeat Park Royal Hotel here in May.

Fifty out of applicants will be allowed to sit

Labour Minister receives ExecutiveDirector of ILO mission

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Feb—Minister for Labour UAung Kyi received an ILO mission led by ExecutiveDirector Mr Guy Ryder of the Office of theInternational Labour Organization at the Ministryof Labour on 23 February morning and discussedtasks being carried out jointly by the governmentof the Union of Myanmar and ILO and future tasks.

Also present at the call were Deputy MinisterU Tin Tun Aung, Directors-General U Chit Sheinand U Than Win. The ILO Executive Director wasaccompanied by Deputy Director Ms Karen Curtisof Labour Affairs Standard Department of ILO,Senior Legal Officer Mr Drazen Petrovic and ILO

Liaison Officer Mr Steve Marshall.The members of the ILO affairs work group

led by the Deputy Minister for Labour comprisingrepresentatives of ministries concerned held ameeting on cooperation tasks of Myanmar and ILOand future tasks. In the afternoon, the ILO missionmet the Committee for Prevention againstTrafficking in Persons and members of theCommittee of Human Rights in Myanmar.

The Government of the Union of Myanmarand ILO extended 12 more months for theMemorandum of Understanding Appendix onelimination of forced labour.—MNA

YANGON, 25 Feb — Viewsonic ViewPad computerwas today introduced at the Computer ApplicationExhibition in Mandalay.

ViewPad, with 7 inches and 10 inches sizedmonitors are manufactured. The computer can beconnected with GSM and CDMA telephone systems. Itcan apply Internet of Myanma Posts andTelecommunications.

ViewPad battery’s endurance is six hours. Thecomputer with the size of notebook in size has theweight three times lighter than ordinary computers.

ViewPad computers imported by RoyalAyeyawaddy Co Ltd of Yangon are available at No. 7on 87th Street in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Tel:384850 and 389366.

MNA

Viewsonic ViewPadcomputer

introduced

Education, Living &Health Care Exhibition

commences

Future Way to hold freeentry exam for engineering

course in Singapore

YANGON, 25 Feb — The Education, Living &Health Care Exhibition, organized by Jade CrownOrganizing Group and sponsored by ShineConstruction, kicked off at the TatmadawConvention Hall on U Wisara Road, here, today.

The exhibition being opened from 9 am to 5 pmup to 28 February displays booths of companies andservices, educational services, computer centres,LCCI courses, Vietnam-made construction materials,steel doors, house equipment, cosmetics, hospital andhealth care services, traditional and western medicines,hospital equipment and book stalls, totalling over130.—MNA

for the first-ever free exam in Myanmar, accordingto Future Way Co., Ltd to which the applicationswill be submitted with a deadline of 19 March. Thequalification for exam sitters is not IELTS or TOEFLpoints but high school education or GCE ‘O’ Level(3 subjects).

Future Way Co., Ltd is open to those interestedeveryday from 10 am to 5 pm at No (9), Room No(6-a), Yawmingyi lane (beside Thamada Cinema),Thamada Condo, Dagon Township, Yangon, (Ph:241099 and 254185).

MNA

The openingceremony of newbuilding at Luhtu

Alinpya Library washeld in Htanipu

Village of SalingyiTownship on 9

February.TOWNSHIP IPRD

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Five killed as 40 NATO oil tankersattacked in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, 25 Feb— At least five people were killed as 40 NATO oiltankers were attacked early Friday morning by some unknown militants inPakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar, reported local English TV channelExpress. According to the report, the incident took place at about 2:00 am(local time) Friday when some unknown militants fired at the NATO oiltankers parked by the roadside in the downtown area of Peshawar, capital ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan.

The attack caused a huge fire on the oil tankers. Fire tenders rushed to thesite immediately following the report of the attack. It took hours to bring thefire under control, the report quoted an eyewitness as saying. Four people,believed to be the drivers and cleaners of the containers, died during theattack, said the report, adding that the police have sealed off the site andlaunched an investigation into the case.—Xinhua

A convoy of NATO supply trucks driven byPakistani drivers are seen as they prepare to

cross into Afghanistan near the border town ofChaman.INTERNET

Two US droneattacks kill sixin Pakistanitribal areaISLAMABAD, 25 Feb—

At least six people werekilled Thursday eveningwhen two US dronesfired missiles into thenorthwestern Pakistanitribal area of NorthWaziristan, local sourcessaid. In the first strike,four missiles were firedat a suspected militantshideout at the Data Khelarea near Miranshah, themain town in NorthWaziristan locals said.

Shortly after theattack killed four people,a second pilotless aircraftlanded two missiles atthe same area, targetinga vehicle and killing twopeople near the borderwith Afghanistan.

Since Thursdayafternoon, five USdrones have been flyingover the tribal area ofNorth Waziristan andtribal men were firingwith mortars and heavyguns trying to shoot themdown, local sources toldXinhua.—Xinhua

‘Dark days’ in N Zealandas earthquake kills 113

CHRISTCHURCH, 25 Feb—New Zealand warnedfrantic relatives to brace for the worst Friday ashundreds of toiling rescuers failed to find moresurvivors after a devastating earthquake left at least113 dead.

As rain hampered the painstaking search ofChristchurch’s devastated city centre, ForeignMinister Murray McCully admitted: “The rescuefocus is drawing towards a conclusion.”

“We’re getting to the end of that period inwhich you can still have hope,” McCully said.

No one has been found alive since the last of 70survivors pulled from underneath rubble wasrescued from a collapsed office building two daysago.

Police said 113 bodies were lying in a temporarymorgue, while the latest number of missing was228 after Tuesday’s earthquake laid waste to centralChristchurch and several suburbs in New Zealand’sworst disaster in 80 years.

The city’s iconic cathedral lost its spire, officeblocks folded like packs of cards and entire streetslost their shop frontages in the shallow, 6.3-magnitude tremor, which came just months after amajor 7.0 quake.—Internet

Rubble from the ruined spire of ChristchurchCathedral lies on top of a car in Christchurch.

INTERNET

Fire at Houston daycare centre kills three, injures four

HOUSTON, 25 Feb— Akitchen fire filled a homedaycare centre withsmoke on Thursday,killing three children and

Emergency Personnel respond to the location where afire broke out at a daycare centre operated by Jessica

Tata, killing three children and injuring four others, on24 Feb, 2011, in Houston.—INTERNET

Five dead, three injured in militaryacademy blast in Spain

MADRID, 25 Feb—A powerfulexplosion at a Spanish militaryacademy killed five soldiers andwounded three others on Thursdaywhen a bomb disposal drill went awry,the Defence Ministry said.

Soldiers getting ready to deploy aspeacekeepers with the UN mission insouth Lebanon were carrying out anexercise involving a controlleddetonation of anti-tank mines whenthe ordnance exploded before thesoldiers could move a safe distanceaway, an ministry official. “They werepreparing to deactivate explosives inLebanon. They were preparing to savelives in Lebanon when they lost theirown,” Defence Minister Carme

Key soldier reaches plea deal in Afghan murder caseSEATTLE, 25 Feb—A key suspect in the US Army prosecution of soldiers

accused of terrorizing unarmed Afghan civilians has agreed to plead guilty tomurder charges next week and testify against his co-defendants, his lawyersaid on Thursday. Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock has signed documentsstating his intention to plead guilty to three counts of premeditated murder andseveral other offenses when summoned 3 March for court-martial at JointBase Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington.

The deal with prosecutors, which is subject to the approval of a militaryjudge, calls for Morlock, 22, from Wasilla, Alaska, to serve no more than 24years in prison, as opposed to the life term he faced if convicted of all chargesin a trial.—Reuters

injuring four others.Firefighters ran withbabies and small childrenin their arms to nearbyambulances on thecrowded street, a fire

official said.All seven children in

Jackie’s Child Care weretaken to hospitals, saidRick Flanagan, HoustonFire Department’s exec-utive assistant chief. Theyranged in age from 18months to 3 years old,officials said.

Neighbour MichaelMcAndrews said he saw“smoke billowing out ofthe house and firemen upon the roof, trying tomake a hole.” Aroundfront, firefighters werecarrying children out ofthe smoke-filled house,then performing CPR inthe yard.

Chacon said. The blast occurred at anarmy academy in Hoyo de Manzares,about 30 kilometres (20 miles)northwest of Madrid.

Chacon described the explosionas very powerful and said the victimsincluded some of Spain’s top expertsin bomb disposal and troops who hadjust returned from service inAfghanistan, where Spain also hasforces deployed.

Three of the dead were from theArmy and two were Marines. Spainhas about 1,000 troops stationed insouth Lebanon as part of the UnitedNations peacekeeping missionlaunched in 2006 after a war betweenIsrael and Hezbollah.—Internet

“They were ash-coloured,” McAndrewssaid. “They weren’tcoughing. They weren’tbreathing.” Flanagan saidno information was imm-ediately available on thenames and ages of thosewho died. The four injured“are apparently stillclinging to life. I don’tthink they’re out of thedarkness yet,” Flanagansaid. One was in criticalcondition and one was ingood condition atChildren’s MemorialHermann Hospital inHouston, said hospitalspokeswoman JenniferHart.—Internet

Afghan wounded manrecover inside a local

hospital in Spin BoldakDistrict of Kandahar, southof Kabul, Afghanistan, on24 Feb, 2011. A suicidebomber blew himself up

Thursday in southernAfghanistan, killing one

Afghan intelligence serviceofficer and wounding more

than two dozen other people.INTERNET

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PARIS, 25 Feb—The European Spaceagency says its robotic AutomatedTransfer Vehicle has successfullydocked with the International SpaceStation to deliver supplies.

Eight days after launch, theapproach and docking were achievedautonomously Thursday by the roboticspacecraft’s own computers, closelymonitored by ESA and French spaceagency teams at the ATV ControlCentre in Toulouse, France, as well asby the astronauts aboard the spacestation, an ESA release said.

At close range, the 20-ton,unmanned supply spaceship computedits position through sensors pointed atlaser reflectors on the space station.

The cargo spacecraft was launchedby an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’sSpaceport in Kourou, French Guiana,on 16 Feb.

It will remain docked at the spacestation until June, serving as anadditional research module.

The space station crew will unloadabout 3,800 pounds of dry cargo,including food, clothes and equipment,the ESA said.

The space shuttle Discovery is tohook up with the space stationSaturday.

Internet

Robot supply craftdocks with ISSThe shuttle

Discovery blasted offon its final missioninto orbit, markingthe beginning of the

end for what hasbeen a central part

of the US spaceprogramme for threedecades.—INTERNET

Shuttle Discovery on final flightCAPE CANAVERAL, 25 Feb—

NASA’s space shuttleDiscovery lifted into spaceThursday on its final mission,11 days that will crown abusy and eventful 27 years ofduty, officials said.

Discovery launched at4:53 pm EST from LaunchPad 39A at NASA’s KennedySpace Centre in Florida, thespace agency said.

A last-minute glitch in arange-safety computer almostthreatened to abort the launchbut was fixed just minutesbefore lift-off, SPACE.comreported.

NASA said a recordcrowd, estimated at 40,000,watched to orbiter’s launch.

“For those watching, getready to witness the majestyand the power of the shuttleDiscovery as she lifts off onemore time,” missioncommander Steve Lindseyradioed from the crew cabinminutes before launch.

Crew members includeLindsey, pilot Eric Boe andmission specialists AlvinDrew, Michael Barratt, NicoleStott and Steve Bowen.

Scientists make transgenic fungusto fight malaria

Google cooks recipes intosearch menu

SAN FRANCISCO, 25 Feb—Google has begancooking recipes into its search menu in a way thatlets people easily find instructions for whipping updishes in the kitchen.

A “Recipe View” feature that Google is rollingout in the United States and Japan turns the searchengine into an online cook book of sorts.

“As a math geek and computer engineer, Iprefer to work with concrete numbers andinstructions, including when cooking.”

The feature narrows search results to onlyrecipes along with ratings for each option.

Recipe search terms can range from names ofdishes to favoured foods, such as strawberries, orholidays. Searches can be filtered by calorie count,cooking time, or ingredients.—Internet

Google has began cooking recipes into its searchmenu in a way that lets people easily find

instructions for whipping up dishes in the kitchen. A“Recipe View” feature that Google is rolling out in

the United States and Japan turns the search engineinto an online cook book of sorts.—INTERNET

Mariner upgrades Paperlessdocument management

software WASHINGTON, 25 Feb—Mariner Software has

released Paperless 2.0, the latest upgrade to itscomprehensive digital document managementsoftware for home and business.

Formally known as ReceiptWallet, Paperlesslets you scan or import receipts and other paperwork,using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) andother data entry tools to help recognize and categorizereceipts and documents as PDF files. The softwarealso features built-in search capabilities for findingand organizing receipts and documents intocollections, as well as tools for tracking expenses fortaxes, creating searchable PDF files for owner’smanuals or other documents, and more.

Paperless 2.0 includes various new features,including the ability to create expense reports, piecharts, and contact reports. You can also now createcustom field types, like text, currency andcheckboxes. Data entry has also been made easierwith automatic matching of thousands of popularUS Merchants.

The software also now supports a wider varietyof scanners through Apple’s Image Capture, as wellas expanded use of Fujitsu’s ScanSnap scanners.

Paperless 2.0 requires an Intel Mac running OSX 10.5.8 or higher and costs $50 for new users or$25 for the 2.0 upgrade.—Internet

Apple releases printerupdates for Xerox, HP, Epson

In this 1 Feb, 2011 file photo, Indian cricket captainMahendra Singh Dhoni poses during a promotional

event of Sony’s Bravia TVs in Mumbai, India.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 25 Feb—You don’t have to waituntil Apple’s 2 March press event for product newsto come out of Cupertino. Granted, Wednesday’strio of printer driver releases may lack the “wow”factor of, say, a new iPad, but owners of Xerox, HP,and Epson devices will certainly appreciate therespective downloads.

Xerox Printer Drivers v2.1 promises an updateto Xerox printing software that shipped with MacOS X 10.6. Apple includes a list of the supportedXerox printer models as well.

Likewise, HP Printer Drivers v.2.6 includesSnow Leopard-compatible HP printing and scanningsoftware for a bevy of supported HP devices. Thisupdate targets users running OS X 10.6.1 or later.

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LONDON, 25 Feb—Using genetically modified fungi toinfect mosquitoes that harbour malaria parasites could bean effective way to control the spread of malaria,researchers said on Thursday.

Scientists from Britain and the United States insertedthe genes of human antibodies or scorpion toxins into afungus called Metarhizium anisopliae that infectsmosquitoes. They found that certain combinations ofthem were able to stop the development of malaria-causing parasites in the mosquitoes.

Writing in the journal Science, the researchers said theapproach could become an environmentally friendly wayof fighting malaria, and might also be used to controlother insect- or bug-borne diseases such as dengue feveror Lyme disease.

“Though applied here to combat malaria, ourtransgenic fungal approach is a very flexible one thatallows design and delivery of gene products targeted toalmost any disease-carrying arthropod,” said RaymondSt Leger, a professor of entomology at the University ofMaryland, who led the study.—Reuters

Discovery will delivercritical supplies to theInternational Space Station,including hardware, astorage module and ahumanoid robot assistantcalled Robonaut 2, a first inspace. The shuttle isexpected to dock with thespace station Saturdayafternoon.

Two spacewalks are alsoplanned to perform routinestation maintenance, NASAsaid.

After it returns to Earth,Discovery will take upresidence at the SmithsonianInstitution’s National Airand Space Museum inWashington, The Washing-ton Post said. The museumholds the world’s largestcollection of historic aircraftand spacecraft. For the firsttime on this Discovery flight,NASA let the public choosetwo songs the astronauts willhear when they wake up.NASA said it got more than2.4 million votes and willannounce the top two vote-getters during the mission.

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Study seeks to dispel stressmyth in IVF treatmentLONDON, 25 Feb—Women trying to get pregnant

via IVF or other assisted reproduction techniquesdo not reduce their chances of success if they areemotionally distressed, according to a large scaleanalysis published on Friday.

In a review of data covering more than 3,500women undergoing in vitro fertilization or otherfertility treatments, British researchers found nodifference in pregnancy success rates of womenwho were stressed and those who were not.

“These findings should reassure women thatemotional distress caused by fertility problems orother life events co-occurring with treatment willnot compromise their chance of becomingpregnant,” said Jacky Boivin of Cardiff University’sschool of psychology, who led the study.

Infertility is a worldwide problem that affects 9to 15 percent of the childbearing population, expertssay. More than half of those affected will seekmedical advice in the hope of eventually being ableto become a parent.

IVF involves fertilizing an egg with sperm in alab before implanting the embryo into a woman’swomb, and can cost a patient many thousands ofeuros or dollars.

In research published last month, fertilityspecialists said that in the United States and Britain,IVF is successful in about a third of women under35 years old, but in only five to 10 percent ofwomen over the age of 40.—Reuters

Hot flashes, night sweats tied to heart risksCHICAGO, 25 Feb—Women who have hot flashes and night

sweats at the start of menopause may be less likely to have aheart attack later in life, US researchers said on Thursday.

But women who develop these symptoms later in menopausemay have higher heart disease risks, the team reported in thejournal Menopause.

“Our study provides reassurance that the classic symptomsof early menopause, experienced by the majority of women atmid-life, are not a marker of an increased risk of heart attack orstroke in the future,” Dr JoAnn Manson of Brigham and Women’sHospital, who worked on the study, said in a statement. Thefindings come from a new analysis of the large clinical trialcalled the Women’s Health Initiative in 2002 that showedhormone replacement therapy raised the risk of breast andovarian cancers and strokes in older women, and doctors nowprescribe it sparingly.—Reuters

Indian labourers at work at theEden Gardens Stadium in Kolkataon 27 Jan. India’s Eden Gardensstadium in Kolkata is drawing upplans to offer free medical check-

ups to fans in a bid to fill theground during the World Cup.

INTERNET

Health Tip: Does acne need a doctor’scare?

If your acne is well controlled by gently washing with soapand water, and by using over-the-counter lotions or creams, youmay not have to visit your doctor.

On the other hand, the University of Michigan Health Systemsays you should see your doctor if:

* Your acne keeps getting worse.* You have large, fluid-filled pimples that may feel hard to the

touch. This is called cystic acne.* Your acne keeps you from social activities, such as parties or

dates.* You are depressed or very embarrassed because of acne.* Either or both your parents had severe acne that caused

permanent scars.—Internet

Women smoke in a Times Squarepedestrian island in 2010 in New York

City. New York City Mayor MichaelBloomberg signed a law Tuesday

banning smoking in parks, beachesand busy gathering places like TimesSquare, the health department said.

INTERNET

Volvo to invest $11 bln in next fiveyears

BEIJING, 25 Feb—Swedish carmaker Volvo hopes to become aglobal luxury brand and turn Chinainto a major manufacturing base byinvesting $10-$11 billion over thenext five years, a report said on Friday.

Volvo, which was bought byChinese group Geely last year, plansto build a new assembly plant in thesouthwestern City of Chengdu as itexpands its China operations, chiefexecutive Stefan Jacoby told the WallStreet Journal.

The company wants to boostannual sales to 800,000 cars globallyby 2020 — more than double the373,000 sold last year — with half of

A vehicle manufactured by Chinesecar firm Geely is seen at the

company’s headquarters in easternChina’s Zhejiang Province.—INTERNET

that growth coming from China, theworld’s biggest auto market, Jacobysaid in an interview.

“We’re in the middle of a bigtransition — a big transformation. Weare redefining the brand,” Jacoby saidahead of a news conference in Beijinglater Friday at which Volvo and Geelywill officially announce the strategicplan.

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Japan’s CPI drops 0.2% in JanuaryTOKYO, 25 Feb— Japan’s core

consumer price index dropped 0.2 percentfrom a year earlier in January, markingthe 23rd straight month of decline, theMinistry of Internal Affairs andCommunications said in a preliminaryreport on Friday.

The CPI reading in the recordingperiod, which excludes volatile fresh foodprices, was less than median economists’forecasts for a 0.3 percent retraction, butthe government report noted that the paceof the decline had slowed from a 0.4percent drop logged in December last

US home loan giants Fannie, Freddie post lossesin Q4

WASHINGTON, 25 Feb— Two US housing finance giants Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac Thursday announced huge losses in the fourth quarter of lastyear, fresh evidence of the still struggling US property market.

Fannie Mae registered a net loss of 2.1 billion US dollars in the fourthquarter last year, and requested an additional 2.6 billion dollars in federal aid,the Washington-based company said Thursday in a statement.

Freddie Mac posted a net loss of more than 1.7 billion dollars in the sameperiod, and asked for an additional 500 million dollars in federal aid,according to a statement released by the company on Thursday.

The Obama administration earlier this month unveiled a report to Congresson reforming the US housing finance market, aiming to wind down the twogovernment-sponsored enterprises, while giving the private sector a biggersay on the multi-trillion-dollar market.

The two companies played a major role in the run-up to the severefinancial crisis.—Xinhua

year. The government said the decline inJanuary was predominantly attributed tolower prices for durable goods such asconsumer electronics on sale in the post-holiday period and ongoing drops in highschool tuition fees after state subsidieskicked-in last April. The ministry alsohighlighted rising energy costs in Japan,which increased 0.7 percentage point inJanuary over a month earlier to 4.7 percent.

In the Tokyo Metropolitan areaspecifically, energy costs jumped 1.4percent in February, although the pacehad slowed from the 2.8 percent on yearleap logged in January, the ministrysaid.—Xinhua

A candy seller walks past a suburbantrain at a railway station in Mumbai on25 Feb, 2011. India’s railways ministerMamata Banerjee vowed to support the“common people” as she unveiled her

third annual budget on Friday thatpromised to invest 576.3 billion rupees($12.68 billion) in the network in the

financial year 2011-12.INTERNET

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The debris of a house is seen in Concepcion,about 500km south of Santiago, capital of Chile,on 24 Feb, 2011. Concepcion, among the areas

hit by a major earthquake and tsunami on 27Feb, 2010, marks the first anniversary of the 8.8

magnitude earthquake.—XINHUA

Fighting cyber-attacks is matter ofnational security

organization producing computerhardware and software is obliged “bylaw” to leave open backdoors toworld’s major intelligence agencies,affecting Cuba’s national sovereigntyand security and thus underlining theimportance of developing its nationalsoftware to prevent the extraction ofimportant data.

Moreno added the protection ofCuba’s network is aimed to preventattacks by hackers not only from theUnited States “as many people mightthink,” but from anywhere else in theworld.—Xinhua

HAVANA, 25 Feb—Cuba is wagingefforts to prevent cyber-attacks bydeveloping national software andmigrating all Cuban State institutionsto a national open source codeprogramme, Cuban Informatics andCommunications Vice Minister BorisMoreno told Xinhua Thursday.

He said Cuba is a poor embargoedcountry with a “historical enemy”,referring to the United States, and thedevelopment of national software andcomputers to replace the imported onesis a “matter of national security.”

He said every transnational

14 Filipinosmissing in

NewZealandquake

MANILA, 25 Feb—The number of Filipinosmissing in New Zealandafter Tuesday’s magnitu-de 6.3 quake in Christc-hurch has climbed to 14,the Department ofForeign Affairs said onThursday.

New Zealand offi-cials announced thatthey have started to shiftfrom rescue to retrievaloperations as hopes dimin finding more survi-vors, three days after thedisaster.

But Foreign Affairsspokesman EduardoMalaya said Philippineofficials in Christchurchhave appealed to theNew Zealand govern-ment to resume rescueoperations since there isan indication that themost of the 14 missingFilipinos are still alive.

“They have beenreceiving text messagesfrom these missingindividuals and they arenot presumed dead,”Malaya said.

Xinhua

12 pregnant women die in Indian hospitalNEW DELHI, 25 Feb—Twelve

pregnant women have died in 10 daysin an Indian government hospital, withcontaminated fluids administeredduring child birth suspected to be thecause, reports said Friday.

Another five women are in a

A nurse adjusts an IV drip in a hospitalward. Twelve pregnant women have died

in 10 days in an Indian governmenthospital, with contaminated fluids

administered during child birthsuspected to be the cause, reports said on

Friday.—INTERNET

serious condition, according to doctorsat the Umaid Hospital in the city ofJodhpur, in a case that highlights theoften poor standards of care in state-run health facilities in India.

The first death occurred on 13February and a meeting of leadingdoctors was held three days later whichfailed to identify the cause, The IndianExpress newspaper reported, citingdoctors and officials at the hospital.

“All the women died after severehaemorrhaging and for now we believethe cause might be an infection afterthey were administered tainted IVfluids,” Umaid Hospital SuperintendentNG Chaggani told the newspaper.

Police have lodged a case againstthe local company that supplied thefluids and the Indian manufacturer.

“We have begun our investigationand are checking the suspected stock,”Jodhpur police commissionerBhupendra Kumar Dak told the Timesof India newspaper.

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Australian passengersaffected by smoke on

Virgin Blue flightCANBERRA, 25 Feb—Australian police launched

an investigation on board a Virgin Blue plane thatlanded at the Melbourne Airport on Friday morningwith smoke in the cabin. Virgin Blue flight 302 fromBrisbane to Melbourne, carrying 160 passengers,landed without incident after passengers and crewsmelled smoke coming from the galley area.

The airline denied there was any smoke, just anodour, and said a faulty oven was removed.“It (the smoke) was coming from the oven in thegalley of the plane and the oven has been removedfrom the plane and it is being investigated,” VirginBlue media spokeswoman Fiona Sugden told theAustralia Associated Press on Friday.

Victorian Police are conducting a routineinvestigation of the incident. “We’re trying to get tothe bottom of as to what the cause of the smoke was,”Victoria Police spokesman told The Australiannewspaper. “We’ve set up a crime scene to preservethe area.” Paramedics treated six people on boardthe flight, including cabin crew, for distress but theydid not require hospital treatment.—Xinhua

Swiss tourist killed by elephant in Thailand People look into abullet-riddled car at

a crime scene inCiudad Juarez on

24 Feb, 2011.Three hitmen were

shot dead whiledriving in their car

and severalbystanders were

injured during theattack, according

to local media.INTERNET

BANGKOK, 25 Feb—An elderly Swiss womanwas trampled to death andfour other tourists wereinjured when elephantsthey were riding foughtwith each other insouthern Thailand, policesaid Thursday.

The 63-year-old wo-man was thrown to theground and fatally injuredduring an elephant trek

with friends in the southof the country onTuesday, Bangkok Postonline reported.

“It happened becausethe elephants quarrelledwith each other. Onereared up on its feet sothe tourists fell to theground, and it trampledon her,” Bangkok Postonline quoted Pol Lt-ColApidej Chuaykuar, whois the officer in charge ofthe case, as saying.

He said a total of fivetourists, who were stayingin the nearby resort ofPhuket, were riding twomale elephants when thecreatures becameaggressive.

The woman waspronounced dead at ahospital in nearbysouthern province of

Surat Thani Province thatevening.

She was travellingwith two other Swissnationals who wereinjured, according to anofficial source, who saidsome members of thegroup were forced tojump from one of theanimals when it beganrunning through theforest.

Two more tourists,whose nationalities werenot immediately clear,were also believed tohave been injured.

The Swiss embassyin Bangkok confirmed itwas aware of the situationand was providingassistance to the victimsand their families.

Xinhua

A blindfolded

girl hits a pot of

goodies during

a pot hitting

contest at a

religious town

festivity in

Malabon, Metro

Manila on 25

Feb, 2011.

INTERNET

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, 25 Feb—Gunmen opened fireon six children playing in the yard of a home in theborder city of Ciudad Juarez, killing three girlsaged 12, 14 and 15, prosecutors said Thursday.

Three other children in the yard were not hit bythe bullets in the Wednesday attack. Some were asyoung as 8.

Ciudad Juarez, in northern Chihuahua Stateacross the border from El Paso, Texas, has been thescene of bloody drug cartel turf battles that havekilled more than 6,000 people the past two years. Inseveral instances, youths have been killed justbecause they were in the same home as thegunmen’s intended targets.

The Chihuahua state prosecutors’ office said ina statement that the gunmen in the Wednesdayattack were apparently targeting the father of two ofthe dead girls in a dispute that may have involvedlow-level drug dealing.

Two of the dead girls were sisters, and the thirdvictim was their friend.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 25 Feb—Just like their humanmasters, a majority ofAmerican pets have aweight problem, a studyreleased Thursday says.

In its fourth yearlystudy of how fatAmericans’ four-leggedfurry friends are, theAssociation for PetObesity Prevention(APOP) found that 53percent of cats and morethan 55 percent of dogswere overweight or obese.

That means there arearound 50 million fat catsand 43 million pudgydogs in the United States.

The study looked at133 adult cats and 383

Earliest human remains in US Arcticreported

WASHINGTON, 25 Feb —Some 11,500years ago one of America’s earliest familieslaid the remains of a 3-year-old child torest in their home in what is now Alaska.The discovery of that burial is shedding

This undated handout photoprovided by the journal Scienceshows a trench connecting both

areas of the site in Alaska.INTERNET

new light on the life and times of the earlysettlers who crossed from Asia to theNew World, researchers report in Friday’sedition of the journal Science.

The bones represent the earliesthuman remains discovered in the Arcticof North America, a “pretty significantfind,” said Ben A Potter of the Universityof Alaska Fairbanks.

While ancient Alaskan residents wereknown to hunt large game, the newlydiscovered site shows they also foragedfor fish, birds and small mammals, heexplained. “Here we know there wereyoung children and females. So, this is awhole piece of the settlement system thatwe had virtually no record of.”

The site of the discovery, Upper SunRiver, is in the forest of the Tananalowlands in central Alaska, Potter and hiscolleagues report.—Internet

A woman walks herdog following a

blizzard in Manhattan’sGreenwich Villageneighbourhood in

2010. Just like theirhuman masters, a

majority of Americanpets have a weightproblem, a study

released on Thursdaysays.—INTERNET

Taking after master: US pets obese,too, study finds

dogs.Nearly a third of the

cats were classified bytheir veterinarians asoverweight and nearly 22percent were deemed tobe clinically obese, thestudy found. Among thecanines observed, 35percent were found tobe overweight and 20.6percent were obese.“Were seeing a greater

Three young girls killed inMexico border attack

BRASILIA, 25 Feb—The murder rate among Brazil’s youths has soared toepidemic levels, almost doubling between 1998 and 2008, the Justice Ministrysaid Thursday.

In its “Map of Violence” report, the ministry said the number of Braziliansaged 15 to 24 murdered rose from 30 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1998 to 52.9a decade later. It did not say why the murder rate increased.

The report said that among the population as a whole, the murder rate in2008 was 20.5 per 100,000. Sociologist Julio Jacobo Weiselfisz, who preparedthe report, said that “if the overall rate is very high, the murder rate among youthshas reached epidemic proportions.”

The report said that, according to the latest figures available, Brazil’s murderrate ranks sixth among 100 countries, both in terms of the population as a wholeand among youths.—Internet

Murder rate among youths soars in Brazil

FDA grants meeting onAvastin for breast cancer

WASHINGTON, 25 Feb —The Food and DrugAdministration has granted Swiss drugmaker Roche afirst-of-a-kind public hearing to defend the effectivenessof its drug Avastin for treating breast cancer, justmonths after the agency ruled that the drug is ineffectivefor that use. Roche said Thursday it will make its caseat the two-day hearing in June for keeping the drugapproved for treating recurring breast cancer.

Avastin is the world’s best-selling cancer drug andis also approved for several types of colon, lung,kidney and brain cancer. Those uses have not beenquestioned by the FDA. In December, the FDA ruledthat recent studies failed to show that Avastinsignificantly extended or improved breast cancerpatients’ lives. The agency began proceedings torevoke the drug’s approval for treating breast cancer,but Roche took the rare step of challenging the decision.

Drug companies almost always follow FDArequests, and the meeting starting 28 June over the fateof Avastin will be the first of its kind.

“We believe Avastin is an important option forwomen with this disease and should remain an FDA-approved choice,” said Roche Chief Medical OfficerHal Barron, in a statement. A spokeswoman for thenon-profit Breast Cancer Action group said the meetingcould be productive if it leads to reforms in how theFDA reviews and approves cancer drugs. “But if thisis just going to be about Roche buying their way intothe FDA and putting profits before patients, then I thinkthis meeting is going to be highly questionable,” saidAngela Wall, communications manager for the SanFrancisco-based advocacy group.—Internet

Test launch of Russia’s Bulavamissile postponed

MOSCOW, 25 Feb— The next test launch ofRussia’s Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM) will be carried out in late spring, head ofRussia’s General Staff Gen Nikolai Makarov saidon Friday. The 15th test launch of the Bulava fromthe Yury Dolgoruky nuclear submarine was slatedfor 17 Dec, but had been postponed due to the iceconditions in the Barents Sea.

“The test launch is most likely to be carried outlate spring or in early summer, as ice situation in theBarents Sea permits,” Makarov said.

Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry said itplanned to put the Bulava ICBM into service by theend of 2011. According to the missile’s chiefdesigner Yuri Solomonov, Russian strategic forceswanted to conduct five more test launches of thesea-based missile.—Xinhua

Sotheby’s Asia Deputy Chairman Nicolas Chow poseswith the cover of “Famille rose peach box and cover”at a preview by auction house Sotheby’s in Hong Kong

on 25 Feb, 2011. The box and cover are expected tofetch around $5.1 million to 7.7 million in the 7 Aprilauction of “The Meiyintang Collection”.—INTERNET

percentage of obese petsthan ever before,” saidDr Ernie Ward, founderof APOP.

In 2007, roughly 19percent of cats and a mere10 percent of dogs werefound in the APOP studyto be obese — defined forthe family pet as having abody weight that is 30percent greater thannormal.—Internet

Thai customs officials prepare to display seizedelephant tusks smuggled into Thailand from

Nigeria before a news conference in Bangkok25 Feb, 2011. A total of 118 elephant tusks,

worth about $1.7 million, hidden in cases, wereseized at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.

INTERNET

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13th-day regular session ofFirst Pyidaungsu Hluttawheld…(from page 1)made by the electedPresident, there were noobjections to thenominees. Accordingly,Pyidaungsu Hluttawapproved the nominee.

Afterwards, the

Pyidaungsu HluttawSpeaker explainedprocedures that Hluttawrepresentatives are toabide by in submittingquestions, proposals andbills to Hluttaw.

Next , the

Pyidaungsu HluttawSpeaker announcedthat the 13th-dayregular session of theFirs t PyidaungsuHluttaw session ended;that the regular sessionof the PyidaungsuHluttaw session wouldbe adjourned in orderthat Pyithu Hluttaw

Commit tee andAmyotha Hlut tawCommittee could be

formed and functionsof Hluttaw be carriedout ; and that the

regular sessions ofPyithu Hluttaw andAmyotha Hlut tawwould be held at 11am on 1st March. Thesession came to an endat 11.20 am.—MNA

A&I Minister meets foreign guestsNAY PYI TAW, 25 Feb

— Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationU Htay Oo received ChiefOperating Officer Mr. NgChee Joong of PrestigePlatform Sdn. Bhd andparty from Malaysia at

his office here this noon.They discussed

matters related toinvestments in palm oilcultivation in agriculturesector. The minister alsomet with Director Mr.Aral Hitoshi of

Panasonic ElectronicWorks Co., Ltd andparty at 1 pm and helddiscussions on growingof high yielding kenafjute and its foreignmarket share.

MNA

Industry-2 Minister receivesChinese guests

NAY PYI TAW, 25Feb—Minister forIndustry-2 U Soe Theinreceived President MrLiu Jian Ye and party of

Shandong PuliConstruction Engi-neering Co Ltd of thePeople’s Republic ofChina at the Ministry of

Industry-2, here,yesterday evening.

Their discussionsfocused on sending oftrainees for imple-mentation of 2200-2700HP Diesel Engine and6200-7000 HP DieselEngine productionprojects in ThagaraIndustrial Region ofBago Region,manufacturing of spareparts, rapid importingof materials and timelyimplementation of theprojects.

MNA

MBA of University of Walesavailable at STI Education

YANGON, 25 Feb— Any educates withtwo-year workexperience and fairqualification in Englishlanguage can haveaccess to MBA course ofUniversity of Wales inEngland at STIEducation.

Subjects theyhave to take for thecourse during two or fouryears through online arePersonal Skills

Development, FinancialManagement, , Mar-keting Management,Operations Manage-ment, Managing theHuman Resource,Managing Change inOrganizations, StrategicManagement andResearch Methods.Those who failed to meetthe requirements inEnglish Language haveto take an Englishprogramme. There are

four intakes—Jan, April,July and Oct. Those whowant to take the Aprilintake may register inFebruary and earlyMarch. For furtherinformation, contact STIEducation at No (377) onupper Shwebontha Streetin Pabedan Township andRoom (7), Building (4) inMyanmar Info-Tech inHline Township (Ph:700273 and 507048).

MNA

AUX air conditioner with a four-year warranty on sale

YANGON, 25 Feb— AUX airconditioners with afour-year warranty areon sale at five percentdiscount.

For fur therinformation, contactUnited Asia Co., Ltd atNo (225) onAnawrahta Streetbetween 11 th and

Hledan St ree ts inLanmadaw township,Yangon (Ph: 01210834, 218021 andFax: 0095-1-228384).

MNA

A&I Minister U Htay

Oo receives Chief

Operating Officer Mr

Ng Chee Joong of

Prestige Platform Sdn.

Bhd and party from

Malaysia.

MNA

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives signingthe attendance book.

MNA

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker U Khin Aung Myint explainsprocedures that Hluttaw representatives are to abide by in

submitting questions, proposals and bills to Hluttaw. —MNA

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Pyawbwe Township covered with various thriving cropsByline & Photos: Myint Lwin Thein (Pyawbwe)

As various kinds ofcrops were successfullygrown on a commercialscale in MoenangonVillage, southern partof Pyawbwe Township,local farmers were busyin harvest, winnowing,plucking andpackaging works.

On arrival at thevillage, we witnessed

colour grape can be soldat K 1600 per viss, greencolour one at K 1200and oval-shaped one atK 1000.”

Grape is cultivatedin Moenangon,Kyeeyoe, Ohnbin,Yonlaygon, Shwedahand Ywadan village-tracts on a commercialscale.

Photo shows a thriving sunflower plantation.

Cluster of brown colour grape highlighted in the photo.

Pea plants seen as mixed cropping in long staple cotton plantation.

“Cultivation ofgrape was introduced inPyawbwe Township in1970. U Pay Thee,U Than Gyaung, U PoYi of Ohnbin Villageand I participated ingrowing of grape atfirst,” U Pyu Kyawexplained the history on

cultivation of grapethere.

Ko Ma Gyit (a) KoZaw Lwin, a grape farmowner, said, “Grape is tobe grown with the use offresh water. Grape plantcan thrive from seven totwenty years in its lifespan. I have establishedmy grape farm for sevenyears.”

He furtherexplained, “Grape istransported to Yangon,Mandalay, Taunggyi,Mawlamyine, Pyay andMuse at the border areaof China by car or bytrain.”

Local farmers of theAnya (dry region of

Myanmar) are engagedin various traditionallivelihoods such asagriculture task,production of knife andironware at blacksmithindustry, making ofmats, baskets, small

containers and sievesmade up of bamboo.

The Anya land iscovered with thickfoliage of tamarindplants, rain trees andHtanaung (Acacialeucophloea) plants. At

a time when cotton,sesame, gram, chilliand onion areharvested, the localfarmers fetch theincreased incomes.

Translation: TTAKyemon: 25-2-2011

clusters of grape atbunches at the grapefarms. Greening grapeswere seen in groups ofplants. We saw betelfarms beside the grapefarm.

In an interview,farmer U Maw Si said,“At present, brown

Kyunhla on right track…Photo shows Tatkon Creek Bridge at the entrance to Kyunhla.

Bogyoke Road decorated with shade trees in a row.

(from page 16)niger and 5767 metrictons of edible oil. As thetown needs 821 tons ofedible oil, a total of 4946metric tons of surpluswas transported toShwebo, Monywa,Mandalay, Kawlin,Mogaung and

Mohnyin.”He further explained,

“In the education sector,the township hasfacilitated with one BasicEducation High School,six BEMSs and 83 BEPSswhere a total of 363teachers are training13980 students. In

addition, village librarieshave been opened in 112villages for broadeninghorizons of the localpeople.”

He said thatThaphanseik Dam is thesignificant one in thetownship. Coal can beproduced from Thitchoand Nyaungbinyoevillages. Under the

permission of the State,Honda-Myanmar Co ofMandalay and ThanMyan Thu Co ofMandalay are producingcrude oil in Mawkei,Naungkauk, Yayshin andHekin region, he said.

Kyunhla Townshiphas one town hall of theTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committee,Thityamyaing Market andPadaukmyaing Market,one guest house, a sportsground and a gymnasium

and Kyunhla railwaystation. A sub-powerstation is contributing tosupply of electricity to thetown round the clock. Inaddition, the township hasbeen equipped with oneauto-telephone exchangeinstalled with 545telephones. Moreover, thelocal people can useCDMA telephones. Aspart of efforts to developthe town, seven main roadsof the town have beenrepaved with asphalt, 12

roads with gravel and 55roads as the earth one. Atotal of 74 roads arestretching 47.4 mileslong. The town has beenfacilitated with tenconcrete bridges andeight wooden bridges.

After visitingdowntown area ofKyunhla, we the newscrew of Kyemon Dailyleft for ThaphanseikDam.

Translation: TTAKyemon: 24-2-2011

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WASHINGTON, 25 Feb—USaerospace giant Boeing has won amassive contract to supply aerialrefueling tankers to the US Air Force,defeating European rival EADS in along and tortuous contest.

Announcing the first part of acontract worth more than $30 billion,the Pentagon said: “Boeing was a clearwinner.”

The US firm is now tasked withdelivering 18 aircraft by 2017, but thecontract is expected to grow to 179tankers.

The planes, effectively flyinggasoline stations, give the air forceglobal reach and allow the UnitedStates to project military power wellbeyond its borders.

The decision capped a nearly 10-

NEW YORK, 25 Feb—A New York man settled alawsuit by agreeing to pay $2,000 to his neighboursif he is caught smoking a cigar inside his apartmentin the future.

The $2 million lawsuit, filed in city SupremeCourt by Russell and Amanda Poses, claimed nextdoor neighbour Harry Lysons was stinking up theirapartment by smoking cigars inside his domicile, theNew York Post reported Thursday.

Lysons settled the lawsuit by agreeing to pay a$2,000 fine for each future incident involving indoorcigar smoking.

The Poses family said the smoke was causinghealth problems for their children, ages 3 and 6.

“Each party hereto shall afford the other partyaccess to their apartment, upon reasonable notice forthe purpose of verifying that the plaintiffs’ apartmentsmells from cigar smoke which emanated fromdefendants’ smoking cigars in the prohibited areas,”the settlement states.

“They could have put in a million-dollar fine andit would have been fine with us, because my clientwon’t be smoking any cigars in the apartment,” saidJeffery Marcus, Lysons’ lawyer.—Internet

MANILA, 25 Feb—A person died when a passengerboat capsized in south Philippines, police said Friday.

MV Dominique was carrying five passengers and 10crew members when it sank at about 10 miles ofBurungcaan, Bulalacao in Oriental Mindoro on Thursdaydue to strong wind and big waves, police spokesmanSenior Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr said.

One person was confirmed dead while the crewmembers and other passengers were brought to theSemirara Rural Health Clinic for medical treatment.

XinhuaTOKYO, 25 Feb—Japan’s population has grown at theslowest pace since 1920 as the rapidly aging countrygrapples with extremely low birthrates, a census reportshowed Friday.

Japan, the world’s 10th most populated country, saidits population stood at 128.05 million as of October 2010,up 0.2 percent from the previous census in 2005.

The figure marked the slowest population growthsince Japan began a census in 1920, said Keiko Nozaki,an official at the internal affairs ministry, which releasedthe once-in-five-years census data.

“The weak population growth was mainly due toJapan’s very low birthrates,” Nozaki said.

While the census showed marginal population growth,Japan’s population has continued to decline since 2007,the ministry said.

Like in other advanced countries, young Japanesepeople are waiting to get married and choosing to havefewer children because of careers and lifestyle choices.

Japan’s fertility rate — the average number of childrenborn to a woman over her lifetime — stood at 1.37 in 2008,one of the lowest in the world, the government said.

Japan’s population is also aging faster than anywhereelse.—Internet

SEOUL, 25 Feb—A high-speed KTX train boundfor Seoul from the southern port city of Busanstopped Friday morning but resumed its operation inless than one hour, local media reported.

The train stopped around 8:24 am after leavinga tunnel in the city of Hwaseong, 40 kilometressouth of Seoul, and resumed its operation around9:07 am, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The state-run Korea Railroad said the train driverstopped the train for safety reasons after a heatdetection sensor was turned on, according to Yonhap.

A Korea Railroad official said the suspension ofthe service was not related to engine problems.

The Korea Railroad is looking into what disruptedthe train operation.

Another KTX train heading to Seoul from Busanon 11 Feb was derailed by a small nut and bolt in aswitching box that hadn’t been tightened by arepairman.—Xinhua

Suspect in ICE agent slaying evadedearlier charge

MEXI CITY, 25 Feb—A Mexican judge said Thursdaythat he revoked bail for an alleged drug cartel memberjust weeks before the man allegedly shot a USimmigration agent to death and wounded another.

The judge said he had originally granted thesuspect a form of bail in another case because the mostserious charges against him did not hold up.

Suspect Julian Zapata Espinoza was detainedWednesday by the Mexican army. The army said heconfessed to killing US Immigration and CustomsEnforcement agent Jaime Zapata on a highway nearthe northern city of San Luis Potosi on 15 Feb, in whathe claimed was a case of mistaken identity.

Zapata Espinoza had been arrested in 2009 oncharges of illegal weapons possession, organized crimeand possession of counterfeit police insignia and usinga stolen car. He was released and later jumped bail.

District court judge Juan de Dios Monreal explainedthe bail ruling Thursday, saying he had to dismiss theonly two charges under which he could have deniedbail for Zapata Espinoza because of a lack of evidence.

Internet

In this 11 Dec, 2009 photoobtained by the Associated

Press on 23 Feb, 2011,Julian Zapata Espinoza aka

“El Piolín” shown to thepress along with other

suspects after their detentionat the 12th Military Zone inthe city of San Luis Potosi,

Mexico.—INTERNET

A policeman rescues stranded vehicles on theNo 217 national highway in Altay, northwest

China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on24 Feb, 2011.—XINHUA

An emergency service vehicle is seen at the Manhattan exit of the LincolnTunnel in New York, on 24 Feb, 2011. A traffic accident involving three

buses and one motorcycle left 29 people injured in Lincoln Tunnel onThursday.—XINHUA

Japan sees slowestpopulation growth since 1920

Boeing beats EADS in US tanker battle

One passenger killed as boatsinks in S Philippines

High-speed trainsuspended near Seoul

$2,000 fine for each cigarsmoked in apt

year attempt by the air force to begin toreplace an aging Boeing-built fleet of400 tankers dating back to the 1950s.

But it was an upset, with mostexperts predicting the EuropeanAeronautic Defence and SpaceCompany would land the contract.

Air Force Secretary MichaelDonley said both firms met 372mandatory requirements, but becauseBoeing’s bid was more than one percentlower, extra requirements were nottaken into account.

The lower-priced Boeing proposalwill offer taxpayer savings, he added.

But facing the prospect that thedecision may be contested, Donleyemphasized that the process wascareful and thorough.

Internet

Colombian policeseizes 5.6 tons of

marijuanaBOGOTA, 25 Feb—

Colombian policeThursday seized over 5tons of marijuana, with ablack market value of some718,000 US dollars, in adistrict of Medellin City innorthwest Colombia.

The 5.6 tons ofmarijuana belonged toorganized crime gangs inMedellin, the second largestcity of Colombia, policecommander in the area,Colonel Juan PabloGuerrero said.

The drugs were foundinside a cargo truck whosefinal destination was Cali,southwestern Colombia,Guerrero told the media.

Xinhua

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Handcraft works are

displayed at the

Berlin exhibition hall

in Berlin, Germany,

on 24 Feb, 2011.

Handwork fans meet

in Berlin from 24 to

26 Feb to share their

handcrafts.

XINHUA

RIO DE JANEIRO, 25 Feb— Brazil’sunemployment rate fell to 6.1 percentyear on year in January, the lowest forthe month since 2003, the nationalstatistics office IBGE said onThursday. The figure was slightlyhigher than the 5.3 percent forDecember. Cimar Azeredo, whocoordinates the IBGE’s employmentsurvey, explained that the small rise isa natural consequence of the end of

Brazil’s unemployment rate drops to 6.1 percent in January

Toyota recalls more than two millionvehicles

WASHINGTON, 25 Feb —Japanese automakerToyota has recalledanother 2.3 millionvehicles to fix floor matand carpet defects thatcould jam the accelerator,the latest in a spate of recallsto hit the firm.

Pressed by USauthorities, Toyotaannounced the recall of2.17 million vehicles inthe United States to fixflaws in its Lexus GS, RXand LX models and

A row of Toyota vehicles are seen on display at acar dealership in Oakland, California.—INTERNET

Toyota’s Highlander,4Runner and RAV4SUVs. It also called in147,000 vehicles inCanada, bringing totalworldwide recalls to morethan 12 million vehiclesworldwide since late2009, which havebattered the firm’spreviously stellarreputation for safety.

Like those earlierrecalls, Thursday’s

announcements werelinked to “sticking” inaccelerator pedals causedby jammed floor mats orcarpets. The US NationalHighway Traffic SafetyAdmini-stration (NHTSA)said it had asked Toyota tocarry out the move, after a10 month probe whichruled out problems withthe vehicles’ electroniccontrol systems.

Internet

Mortgage co official admits $1.9bn fraudscheme

WASHINGTON, 25 Feb—The treasurer of a once-leading US private home lenderpleaded guilty Thursday in a $1.9 billion scheme to sell worthless loans thatsparked the country’s largest bank failure in 2009, the justice department said.

The scheme, which continued straight through the 2008-2009 collapse of theUS housing market, fed billions in home loans that either did not exist or that hadalready been sold to banks and investors, to raise cash for its business.

The duped customers included Colonial Bank, which collapsed spectacularlyin August 2009; government-backed home loan guarantor Freddie Mac; andOcala Funding, a Florida entity backed by Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas.

They also tried to push worthless assets on the government’s Troubled AssetRelief Programme, ironically designed to salvage the scandal-ridden home-loanindustry, the department said.—Internet

MADRID, 25 Feb— Twenty years ago if youasked someone to name three Spanish wines theywould almost certainly have replied “Sherry, Cavaand Rioja.” While those three are still probably themost popular Spanish wines backed up bygenerations of expertise and tradition, there arenow plenty of reasons to look at the new excitingwines that are being produced in the country.

Spain has a tradition of wine production datingback 3,000 years to the arrival of the Phoenicians.Techniques improved with the arrival of the Romansin the country.

Today Spain has more land dedicated to grapecultivation than any other country in Europe. Its1,200,000 hectares of vines means 35 percentmore land is dedicated to wine production than ineither Italy or France.

Yet the amount of wine being produced is noguarantee of quality; indeed some would argue it isthe opposite.

Xinhua

Big change in perceptionsof Spanish wine

Chinese rescue teammembers carry reliefmaterials upon their

arrival at an airport inAuckland, New

Zealand, on 25 Feb,2011. The 10-memberChinese rescue team,including experts andrescuers, arrived inAuckland on Friday

and head for the quakearea in Christchurch byNew Zealand’s military

aircraft. —XINHUA

Uruguay,Argentina tobuild joint

regasificationplant

MONTEVIDEO, 25Feb— Uruguay hasreached an agreementwith Argentina to jointlybuild a regasificationplant, UruguayanPresident Jose Mujicasaid Thursday.

“We are about toenhance cooperation innatural gas productionvia state organizations ofboth countries,” Mujicatold a radio programmeon Thursday, one daybefore his meeting withhis Argentine counterpartCristina Fernandez.

According to the 15-year contract, natural gaswould be supplied byArgentina and processedin Uruguay.

The plant is expectedto change Uruguay’senergy matrix and reducethe cost of energygeneration in somethermal power plants,Mujica said.

Xinhua

Customers wait outside a re-opened Best Buy Store ineast China’s Shanghai, on 24 Feb, 2011. US consumer

electronics retailer Best Buy Co Inc re-opened fouroutlets in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou for one

month after it closed nine outlets in China on Tuesday,to deal with related issues.—INTERNET

temporary Christmas contracts.“That always happens, it is a

seasonal effect and is expected,” hesaid. According to him, it is importantto compare January’s figures with thesame period last year, when the ratewas at 7.2 percent. The employed po-pulation in Brazil totaled 22 million inJanuary, down 1.6 percent fromDecember and up 2.2 percent fromthe same period last year. —Xinhua

Indonesia’s Bali to hold heritagefestival

JAKARTA, 25 Feb —Indonesia’s mostprominent resort island,Bali, is scheduled to holda festival presentingBalinese traditionalheritage that combinesyoga, music and dancefrom 23 to 27 March, tobe participated byinternational performers,local media reported onFriday.

The Bali SpiritFestival 2011 willassemble the island’slargest and most diversecollection of yogamasters, musical talentand dance genres fromaround the world.

“This event brings toBali a wealth of talentedand respected creativemasters from around theworld, merging theindigenous and richcultures of Indonesia in

the spirit of learning,collaboration andcelebration of ourcreative and spiritualdiversity,” the event’smedia coordinator KeziaWinny said in a Pressstatement.

Combining over 95inspiring kinds of yoga,music and dance, thefive-day event will havemore than 100workshops, masterclasses and nightly worldmusic performances.

Growing in size andrecognition every yearsince 2008, the much-admired festivalshowcases Indonesia’srich indigenous culturesand attempts to mergeEast and West.

Proceeds fromfestival ticket sales willsupport AYO! KitaBicara HIV/AIDS (Let’sTalk about HIV/AIDS),an HIV/AIDS preventionand education initiative.

Xinhua

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Antarctic boat missing in stormOSLO, 25 Feb — Rescuers say a Norwegian sailing

boat with three people on board, including oneBriton, has gone missing in a storm off Antarctica.Oeyvind Aadde of the Norwegian Maritime RescueService says there were two Norwegians and oneBritish national on the Berserk, which signalled anemergency earlier this week.

He said two other crew members who had goneashore on an expedition to reach the South Pole hadcalled the rescue service, saying they had lost con-tact with the boat. Rescuers in New Zealand say thevessel sent out a distress signal on Tuesday when itwas about 20 miles north of the Scott Base researchfacility in Antarctica. They say they searched an areaof 1,500 square miles after the storm calmed downon Thursday but did not find the boat.— Internet

A sail boatwith two

Norwegiansand oneBritish

national onboard has

gonemissing offAntarctica.

INTERNET

A 14-year-old boy was left hangingfrom a chairlift during a school ski

trip to the Alps.— INTERNET

Boy’s ski lift horror sparks probe

Most patients ‘happy’ with dentistsLONDON, 25 Feb — Almost nine in 10 patients in Northern

Ireland are satisfied with their dentist, a survey has found. De-spite this, many felt some sections of the community likemigrants and rural dwellers were disadvantaged by the currentsystem, with some having to travel a considerable distance forNHS treatment, the Patient and Client Council study added.

Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has recently made an ad-ditional investment of £17 million for general dental services toease problems of access, the full impact of which has yet to berealized. —Internet

Malaysian experiment releases3 orangutans in wild

Wedding AnnouncementSan Thidar Htwe B.Sc (Chemistry)

Daughter of (Bo Thein) and Tin Tin ofYangon, Myanmar

AndNay Myo Aung B.E (Electronics)Son of Mya Aye (a) Mying Shinn and Khin

Aye Thin (a) Lim Bee Thin ofYangon, Myanmar

have the Pleasure of announcing theirmarriage which took place on 25th Feb, 2011

at Western Park Royal.

Alps, police have said. The 14-year-oldfound himself suspended by his ownclothing after he failed to free himselffrom a metal seat on Wednesday after-noon in the Portes du Soleil.

He was later cut free and resuscitatedby a rescue team as holidaymakerslooked on in horror from the slopesbelow.The youngster, who has not beennamed, was skiing with classmates inthe popular resort of Chatel, when hetook the Echo des Montagnes chairliftat about 1pm. Local police said he wasunable to get off his seat and remainedon the lift as it went back down themountain. Moments later he fell towardsthe piste.—Internet

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG XIU VOY NO (1118)Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG XIU

VOY NO (1118) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 26.2.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge ofcargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINA SHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GATI PRESTIGE VOY NO (31111)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GATI PRES-TIGE VOY NO (31111) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 25.2.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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


AGENT FOR: M/S GATI COAST TO COASTPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV GUAN HE KOU VOY NO (243)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV GUAN HEKOU VOY NO (243) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 25.2.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final discharge ofcargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.


AGENT FOR: M/S COSCO SHIPPINGCO LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

New X-ray machines that highlightinternal cavities will be trialled at

airports.— INTERNET

No place left to hide drugs with new X-raytechnology for airports

PORTES DU SOLEIL, 25 Feb — A Brit-ish teenager is in a critical condition inFrance after he was left hanging from achairlift during a school ski trip to the

Missing pizza order leads to rescue

KUALA LUMPUR, 25Feb—Malaysian re-searchers are testingwhether three youngorangutans reared in cap-tivity can adapt to life inthe wild outside Borneo,while activists insisted onWednesday the experi-ment was a flawed wayof trying to help the en-dangered primates.

The project is spear-

headed by a private foun-dation that runsOrangutan Island, a re-search centre and touristattraction in northern pe-ninsular Malaysia. The fa-cility has bred orangutansin captivity over the pastdecade despite criticismby animal rights groupsthat conservation pro-grammes should focus in-stead on protecting exist-ing orangutans in the jun-gles of Borneo andSumatra.

D Sabapathy, the cen-tre’s senior manager, saidresearchers released threecaptive orangutans on aneighbouring island lastweek. They are expectedto remain there for up tosix years before officialsdetermine whether theycan be let loose, either inpeninsular Malaysia orBorneo.—Internet

A Domino’s deliverydriver may have saved thelife of one of her regularcustomers.— INTERNET

MEMPHIS, 25 Feb —Authorities say a pizzadelivery driver who wasconcerned about a regu-lar customer in Memphis,Tennessee, may havesaved the elderly wom-an’s life. Domino’s deliv-ery driver Susan Guy toldWMC-TV that JeanWilson has ordered pizzaevery day for the pastthree years. On Monday,Guy said her boss toldher Wilson had not calledin three days. Guy in-sisted on going to checkon the woman.

When no one came tothe door, Guy asked aneighbour whether hehad seen her and thencalled police. Police

broke the door down andfound Ms Wilson on thefloor. She had fallen onSaturday and could notget to a phone to call forhelp. —Internet

SYDNEY, 25 Feb — New X-ray tech-nology that can reveal drug smugglers’internal cavities will be trialled at air-ports under a plan to fast-track secu-rity searches. Legislation beforeFederal Parliament would enablecustoms officers to use new bodyscanners instead of sending suspectsto hospital for internal X-rays ordered

by a doctor, reported the Herald Sun.Federal police wasted more than

4600 hours in hospital waiting roomslast year because of drug smugglerswaiting for scans. More than 200 peoplewere taken to hospital for internalsearches, with almost 50 found to havedrugs in their bodies. —Internet

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In this 14 Sept, 2010 filephoto, broadcaster Larry

King is shown in LosAngeles. King who retiredlast year after 25 years atCNN will be taking the

stage in sevencommunities to dish abouthis storied career in a one-

man show. ‘Larry King:Stand Up’ kicks off 14

April, 2011 in Torrington,Conn.—INTERNET

has helped her gain the rightfeeling for her character inthe fantasy thriller, “AChinese Fairy Tale” (“QianNv You Hun”).

In her new film, LiuYifei plays a leopard catthat takes a human form.“The director thinks animalsrespond to things byinstinct, and I was advisedto observe Ellie’s instinctivefeatures,” Liu said 23 Feb,2011 in Beijing.

“A Chinese Fairy Tale”is director Wilson Yip’s takeon a short story by 17th-century writer Pu Songling,about the love between ahuman and a non-humanspirit. The fairytale hasspawned films and TVdramas, with a 1987 film

This undated handout, a computer-generated imageprovided by Chinese scientist Liu Jianni shows the

probable appearance of the remarkable 520 millionyear old fossil Diania cactiformis in life discovered in

southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The legs arepartially jointed and the front of the animal, with theprojecting proboscis, is to the left. The research was

published on Nature Magazine on 24 Feb.

Organizers apologised to the South African teamfor a technical snag that led to an abrupt end to theirnational anthem before their World Cup match againstWest Indies, the team manager said on Thursday.

“The International Cricket Council has apologisedto the team on behalf of the host union and havestressed that this will not happen again going forward,”team manager Mohamed Moosajee said in a statement.

“We also realized that the anthem was of a poorquality and we will make sure that a better qualityversion is used for all of our matches going forward.”

The incident took place in the pre-match ceremonyat Feroz Shah Kotla even though skipper GraemeSmith and his team mates ignored it to complete theanthem.

The police joked he’dcaught lunch and theautobody repairman will beglad of the business, but aGerman driver was shakenup when a frozen pig’sknuckle collided with his caron the high speed autobahn.

The piece of frozen porkflew from a truck anddamaged the unnamedman’s car in the Ruhr regionof western Germany beforehe could swerve to avoid it,German police said onThursday.

Police in Pennsylvania said two men are facingcharges after a prank involving the placement of acow’s head on the doorstep of some friends.

Ebensburg police Chief Terry Wyland said a couplereturned from a trip Saturday to discover a cardboardbox bearing their name and address on their doorstop,The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat reported.

“They opened it up and it was a cow’s head,”Wyland said. “They’re very upset,” Wyland said. “Itreally caused the victims, especially the wife, stress.”

Wyland said an investigation revealed two suspects,friends of the couple, and the men came into the policestation and confessed Tuesday.

The chief said he will not identify the men until theyare charged with harassment and disorderly conductlater in the week.

Stumped ICC so sorry afterSouth Africa anthem cut short

Philippine environ-mentalists have set a worldrecord for the most treesplanted simultaneously,kickstarting an enormousreforesteration pro-gramme, organizers saidon Thursday.

Nearly 7,000 peoplehelped in the massplanting of saplings indenuded forest andgrassland in the easternProvince of Camrines Suron Wednesday, said Mara

Residents plant seedlings during a tree plantingorganized by the provincial government

conservation project in Pili, Camarines surProvince, south of Manila. The effort beat the

previous Guinness world record of 50,033 treesplanted in India last year.

Tree-planting world record setin Philippines

Joneil Cordova, spokes-woman for El Verde (TheGreen) project. “We had64,096 trees planted in15 minutes. This wascertified by the GuinnessBook of World Recordsthat everything wasaccurate and correct,”Cordova said.

The effort beat theprevious Guinness worldrecord of 50,033 treesplanted in India last year,she said.

When pigs fly.. well theirfrozen knuckles anyway

Men face charges after cowhead prank

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After pulling over hefound a frozen pork knucklehad penetrated the bumperof his car. “We’ve seen manyodd cases but a flying porkknuckle is something new,”a police spokesman in thetown of Hagen said onThursday. The car suffered200 euros (171.11 pounds)of damage, police estimatedand joked that the man,although unlucky, hadcaught himself some lunch.

Elizabeth Taylor said to be recoveringspokesperson, onWednesday.

Cadwell added thatTaylor, 78, will continueto stay in the hospital sothat she can be closelyobserved.

The spokeswomanclarified that the legendaryactress had sufferedneither a heart attack nor a

Elizabeth Taylor (R).INTERNET

BEIJING, 25 Feb—Aspokesperson said thatElizabeth Taylor’s doctoris encouraged by herimproving health,according to the PressAssociation.

“She is in good spiritsand continues to feelstronger every day,” saidJamie Cadwell, the

Anne Hathaway trains for catwoman, prepsfor Oscar

LOS ANGELES, 25 Feb—These days, AnneHathaway is a busywoman. Or make that abusy catwoman.

The 28-year-oldactress is training for thephysical demands of herlead role as catwoman(and its sleek, physique-revealing catsuit) in “TheDark Knight Rises” as sheflexes her comedymuscles alongside JamesFranco as co-hosts ofSunday’s AcademyAwards.

“There’s a lot goingon, but it’s all really super-duper positive,” Hathawaysaid between fittings

Wednesday. “I feel like Ihave a big fight comingup and everyone’s givingme the thumbs-up and the‘you’ll-rock-it’ fist pump.I have unbelievablesupport.”

The Oscar team ishelping Hathaway andFranco find their funniestmaterial, she said, and theproducers “are making itas easy as possible on me.”

“It’s all been kind ofwonderful and jovial,” shesaid. “It turns out it takes avillage to host the Oscars.”

Hathaway’s biggestchallenge this week?Navigating Los Angeles’famous freeways andmaking it to all herappointments on time. Butthe New York Cityresident has that onecovered: “Luckily myassistant is a really gooddriver— Internet

Anne Hathaway.INTERNET

stroke. The Oscar winnerwas admitted to thehospital in Los Angeles

about two weeks agobecause of an ongoing“congestive heart failure.”

The actress had a heartsurgery to get her “leakyvalve” repaired in 2009,and she twitteredafterwards: “It is likehaving a brand new ticker.”

Xinhua

Liu Yifei cites “Up” as her influence for new film

Actress Liu Yifei stands infront of a film poster asshe promotes her new

movie “A Chinese GhostStory” in Beijing, capital

of China, on 23 Feb,2011.—XINHUA

starring Joey Wong andLeslie Cheung being widelyregarded as a classic.

But Liu Yifei wasconfident to outdo previousversions, and said herperformance would berefreshing.

Actor Yu Shaoqunfrom “Forever Enthralled”plays the man who isattracted to Liu’s character.

Other stars in the filminclude Louis Koo, KaraHui, and Lin Peng.

The film is slated forrelease in China on 22 April.Its overseas rights have beensold to 12 countries andregions in Asia, Europe andNorth America, accordingto the film’s productioncom-pany.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 25 Feb—Actress Liu Yifei says thetomboy Ellie in Disney-Pixar’s animated film “Up”

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Fish, del Potro advance toATP Delray Beach last eight

Fabregas out of League Cup final

Liverpool, Rangers edge theirway into Europa last 16

If Neuer signs, I am off, saysBayern’s Kraft

Mourinho says Benzema still needs to improve

Real Madridforward Karim Benzema (left)

MADRID, 25 Feb — French strikerKarim Benzema, who scored withinseconds of coming on in Real Ma-drid’s 1-1 draw against his former clubLyon on Tuesday, still needs to

improve, Real Madrid coach JoseMourinho said on Thursday.

“Everyone knows his potentialwhich is impressive. But everyoneknows, and he himself knows it, be-cause he is an intelligent boy, thatduring matches he still needs toimprove certain aspects,” he said in aninterview published in sports daily AS.

“He is working to improve. He isgoing in the right direction,” the Por-tuguese coach added. Benzema, 23,who left Lyon for the Spanish capitaltwo years ago, made an instant impactin Tuesday’s Champions Leaguematch at his old stomping ground,Stade Gerland.

Internet

Edu advances Rangers toEuropa 3rd round

Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas, right, isconsoled by Theo Walcott as hewalks off the pitch with an injury

that ended the game for him duringthe English Premier League soccermatch between Arsenal and Stoke

City at the Emirates Stadium inLondon, on Wednesday. — INTERNET

LONDON, 25 Feb — Arsenal captainCesc Fabregas will miss on Sunday’sLeague Cup final against Birminghambecause of a hamstring strain, adding tothe Gunners’ injury problems as theyseek their first trophy since 2005. TheSpanish midfielder was hurt in Arsenal’s1-0 win over Stoke in the Premier Leagueon Wednesday, leaving in the 14thminute.

“It is a very small injury but certainlyCesc will be out for Sunday,” Arsenalmanager Arsene Wenger said. “For howlong I don’t know, but definitely for Sun-day. He is disappointed. We all feel sorryand sad for him. The only way we helphim now is to win the cup as he contrib-uted a lot in this competition.”.— Internet

Ibrahimovic says I wouldhave killed for Mourinho

Rangers’ Maurice Edu,from US, left, is congratu-lated by Kyle Bartley andDavid Healy, right, afterscoring their second goalagainst Sporting during

their Europa Leagueround of 32, second leg,

soccer match onThursday at Sporting’s

Alvalade stadium.— INTERNET

ROME, 25 Feb —Zlatan Ibrahimovic hasadmitted that he wouldhave been prepared to killfor former boss JoseMourinho, with whom hespent a season at InterMilan. Both have sincemoved on with the bigSweden forward nowknocking in the goals forInter’s cross city rivals ACMilan and the Portuguesecoach plotting the RealMadrid resurrection.

But in one season to-gether, Ibrahimovic fin-ished top scorer in SerieA as Inter won what wasthen a fourth straight SerieA crown. Mourinhostayed one more year in

Milan but Ibrahimovicmoved on to Barcelona,where he spent only ayear before heading to therossoneri. “Given the mo-tivation and stimulationhe gave me, I would havekilled for Mourinho,” saidthe martial arts black belt,who aimed a dig at Bar-celona for not havingfaith in him.— Internet

Fowler bounces Mickelson outof match play

AC Milan’s Swedishforward Zlatan

Ibrahimovic

Rickie Fowler tees off thefourth hole while playingPhil Mickelson duringthe second round of theMatch Play Champion-ship golf tournament onThursday, in Marana, Ariz.— INTERNET

MARANA, 25 Feb — Ina Match Play Champion-ship with a youthful com-plexion, Rickie Fowlerwas dressed in matchingpink shoes and shirt whenhe walked onto the driv-ing range and past his op-ponent, Phil Mickelson,who looked him up anddown and smiled.“Sophia has some shoeslike that,” Mickelson said,referring to his 9-year-olddaughter. “She wearsthem to her dance class.”

Mickelson has becomesomewhat of a mentor toFowler, so the kid knewwhat was coming. Oncethey got onto the course,Fowler was hotter thanhis choice of color atDove Mountain. Fowlerwas 8-under par when

their match ended on the13th hole, a 6-and-5 winthat sent Mickelson to hisworst loss ever in thisfickle tournament.

Internet

LISBON, 25 Feb — Goalsby American midfielderMaurice Edu and New Jer-sey-born Giuseppe Rossihelped their teams advanceto the third round of theEuropa League on Thurs-day night. Edu scored in thesecond minute of second-half injury time, givingGlasgow Rangers a 2-2 tieat Sporting Lisbon. Edubundled the ball in from 1yard after David Healy slidthe ball across the goalmouth, tying the home-and-home, total-goals se-ries 2-2. Rangers advancedbecause of a 2-1advantage in away goals.

“To be honest, I didn’tsee anybody waiting for theball but myself, eventhough there were otherswanting to put it in,” Edutold Rangers website.“Luckily, I was in the rightplace at the right time to tapit in.” El Hadji Diouf scoredon a 20th-minute header forRangers, but the hosts tooka 2-1 lead on goals byPedro Mendes in the 42ndand Yannick Djalo in the83rd. Rangers advanced toa third-round matchup withPSV Eindhoven. “Tonightshowed just how much itdoes mean to us,” Edusaid.— Internet

Alejandro Falla ofColombia

DELRAY BEACH, 25 Feb— Colombian qualifierAlejandro Falla upsetFrench eighth seedAdrian Mannarino 6-3,6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the ATP DelrayBeach InternationalChampionships. The119th-ranked SouthAmerican on Thursdayopened with a break andclosed out the match in77 minutes with anotherbreak to win the battle ofthe left-handers and oust61st-ranked Mannarinofrom the $442,500 event.

Falla will try to qualify

Friday for only his secondATP semi-final, his firstsince 2007 in Lyon, whenhe faces US second seedMardy Fish, who neededonly 57 minutes to beatBrazil’s Ricardo Mello6-2, 6-1.

“I felt great,” Fishsaid. “I couldn’t be hap-pier, obviously, with theway it’s gone this week.”Fish is the top-rankedplayer on the Floridacourts this week after topseed Andy Roddickpulled out due to illness.In the night match, JuanMartin del Potro ofArgentina crushedTeymuraz Gabashvili ofRussia 6-1, 6-1.

Internet

S P O R T S

BERLIN, 25 Feb —Bayern Munich goal-keeper Thomas Kraft hassaid he will not stay withthe Bavarian giants if Ger-many star Manuel Neuerjoins the German champi-ons from rivals Schalke 04.Kraft, 22, produced a topperformance to keepBayern in their Champi-ons League, Round of 16

first-leg tie a Inter Milan onWednesday night with astring of saves before Ger-many striker MarioGomez scored to seal a1-0 win.

Top-class saves fromSamuel Eto’o, either sideof half-time, a first-halfshot saved from the bootof Esteban Cambiasso anda late effort to deny ThiagoMotta have earned Kraftplenty of praise here. Hiscontract expires in June,but with rumours rife thatBayern are set to swoopfor Schalke’s Neuer,current shot-stopper Krafthas said he has no desireto sit on the bench ifGermany’s Number Onemoves to Munich.

Internet

Bayern Munich goal-keeper Thomas Kraft

PARIS, 25 Feb — An86th-minute header fromDirk Kuyt earned Liver-pool a narrow 1-0 win overSparta Prague onThursday, on a night whenall three British clubs inaction reached the last 16.

Rangers, beatenfinalists in 2008, neededan equaliser at the deathto prevail at SportingLisbon, while ManchesterCity’s expensivelyassembled squad easedpast Greek representativesAris.

Liverpool enjoyed thelion’s share of possessionagainst the Czech sidebut, as in the first leg, theystruggled to make theirdominance count.

Internet

Liverpool’smatchwinner Dirk Kuyt

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R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar.

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.During the past 24 hours, light rain have been isolatedin Taninthayi Region and weather has been partly cloudly

in Sagaing and Mandalay Regions, Kachin, Chin, Rakhine,Kayin and Mon States and generally fair in the remainingRegions and States. Night temperature were (5°C) belowFebruary average temperature in Chin State,(4°C) belowFebruary average temperature in Kachin State and (3°C)above February average temperature in Mon State andabout February average temperatures in the remainingRegions and States. The significant night temperatures wereHaka (2°C), Pinlaung (4°C), Heho and Mogok (5°C) each.

Nay Pyi Taw Maximum temperature on 24-2-2011 was 97°F.

Minimum temperature on 25-2-2011 was 61°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 25-2-2011 was (66%).Rainfall on 25-2-2011 was (Nil).

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 24-2-2011 was 97°F.

Minimum temperature on 25-2-2011 was 70°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 25-2-2011 was (60%). Totalsunshine hours on 24-2-2011 was (10.0) hours (Approx).

WEATHERFriday, 25th February, 2011

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Rainfall on 25-2-2011 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was (1.97) inches at Mingaladon , (1.89) inches atKaba-Aye and (3.54) inches at Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph fromSouthwest at (21:30) hours MST on 24-2-2011.

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

Forecast valid until evening of the 26thFebruary2011: Light rain are likely to be isolated in TaninthayiRegion, Kachin and Mon States and weather will be partlycloudy in Mandalay, Bago, Yangon and AyeyawadyRegions, Rakhine and Kayin States and generally fairin the remaining Regions and States. Degree of certaintyis (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: likelihood ofisolated light rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for26-2-2011: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for26-2-2011: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for26-2-2011: Partly cloudy.

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am)MSTOversea Transmission - (26-2-11 09:30 am ~

27-2-11 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* PhaungdawU Pagoda Festival* News* Happy Valentine’s Day Live Show Concert* News* Foundation of Toungoo Kingdom (500th)

Anniversary (Episode-5)* News* Music Gallery* Myanmar-Korea ArcheryOversea Transmission* Opening* News* PhaungdawU Pagoda Festival* News* Myanmar Elephants from Myanma Forests* Monastery Bagaya Kyaung* News* Foundation of Toungoo Kingdom (500th)

Anniversary (Episode-5)* News* Music Gallery* Myanmar-Korea Archery* News* Your Home in Pyin-Oo-Lwin* Uniquely.....Artistic Straw Paintings of Myanmar* News* More Income Through Value-Wood Products* Animated Myanmar Cartoon* News* Secret Places for Yummy Foods* The Art of Making Pennant* Singing Mo U for HR Development* News* Let’s Visit Flower City by Coach* Myanmar Movie “Loud Speaker”

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(26-2-2011) (Saturday)

Saturday,26 February

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7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw 7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise 7:30 am 3. Morning News 7:40 am 4. Dhamma Puja Song 7:50 am 5. Nice & Sweet Song 8:00 am 6. Health Programme 8:10 am 7. Poem Garden

8:25 am 8. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural PerformingArts Competitions

8:30 am 9. Teleplay (Health)8:40 am10. International News8:45 am11. Musical Programme11:00 am 1. Martial Song11:10 am 2. Musical Programme11:25 am 3. Game for Children11:50 am 4. Round Up of

The Week’s TVLocal News

12:40 pm 5. Yan Can Cook1:00 pm 6. TV Drama Series1:50 pm 7. Song of National

Races

1:55 pm 8. Mahowthada2:20 pm 9. One Village and

One Product2:30 pm10. Teleplay (Education)4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2. Musical Programme4:20 pm 3. Cultural Dances4:30 pm 4. 2011 University

EntranceExamination(Physics)

4:45 pm 5. Songs for

Upholding NationalSpirit

4:50 pm 6. Health Programme5:20 pm 7. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural PerformingArts Competitions

5:45 pm 8. Musical Programme

6:00 pm 9. Evening News

6:15 pm10. Weather Report

6:20 pm11. Ahlashamae

Hlagabawai

6:35 pm12. Yindagomae

7:00 pm13. TV Drama Series

8:00 pm14. News

15. International News

16. Weather Report

17. Cartoon Series

18. TV Drama Series

19. Gitadagale

Phwintbaohn

20. Metta Bhavana By

Mingun Sayadaw

Bulls charge past Heat with third-quarter surgeCHICAGO, 25 Feb —

The Chicago Bulls stageda big third-quarter rally tohelp seal a 93-89 win overthe Miami Heat on Thurs-day in a tight battle betweentwo of the leading teams inthe Eastern Conference.

The victory enabledthe Bulls (39-17) to snapthe Heat’s three-gamewinning streak and movedthe home team to withintwo games of second placeMiami in the conferencestan-dings.

Miami (42-16) strug-

gled through a disastrousthird quarter to squander a53-44 halftime lead, as theBulls outscored the Heat27-14, led by Luol Dengand Derrick Rose with 12and 10 points respectively.

The teams took turnsdominating in the fourthquarter which was finallydecided by Deng’s three-pointer to break an 89-89tie with just 16 secondsremaining when Roseidentified a double teamas he drove the lane andpassed to his wide openteam mate.—Reuters

Miami Heat guard Dwayne Wade (C) drives to thebasket between Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson (L)and Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer in the first

quarter of their NBA basketball game in Chicago,Illinois on 24 Feb, 2011.—INTERNET

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

8th Waning of Tabodwe 1372 ME Saturday, 26 February, 2011

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Feb—A ceremony to signthe profit-sharing contract on mass production ofcoal and limestone in Taninthayi Township ofTaninthayi Region between No. 3 MiningEnterprise under the Ministry of Mines and YuzanaCement Industries Ltd was held at the Ministry ofMines, here, yesterday evening.

Minister for Mines U Ohn Myint deliveredan address. Managing Director U Win Htein of No.3 Mining Enterprise explained heavy productionof coal and limestone.

Chairman of Yuzana Cement Industries LtdU Htay Myint spoke words of thanks.

The managing director of No. 3 Mining

Profit-sharing contract on massproduction of coal and limestone signed

Enterprise, the chairman of Yuzana CementIndustries Ltd and witnesses signed the contractand exchanged notes.

The minister presented the permit of heavyproduction of mineral to the chairman of YuzanaCement Industries Ltd.

Also present on the occasion were Chairmanof Myanmar Investment Commission Minister forLivestock and Fisheries U Maung Maung Thein,heads of enterprises and departments under theministry, officials of the MIC and the Attorney-General’s Office, members of the BOD of YuzanaCement Industries Ltd and guests.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Feb— Information andPublic Relations Depart-ment opened PyinnyaAlin Library inPeinnetabin village inPaletwa Township on 17February.

Deputy Director(Admin) U Myint Swe ofIPRD (Nay Pyi Taw HeadOffice), Paletwa Town-

IPRD opens Pyinnya AlinLibrary in Paletwa

Township

ship Chairman U KyawSwar Ohn and VillageChairman U Saw Ohn Tinformally opened thelibrary. The deputydirector gave accounts onadvantages of reading.

Assistant Director UWin Myaing of RakhineState IPRD donated cashand publication to thelibrary.—MNA

Kyunhla on right track ofcumulative development

Byline & Photos: Pyu Myint Oo

Recently, I havean opportunity to visitKyunhla of ShweboDistrict for the secondtime. In the first time, Imissed to observe all-round development ofthe town. Therefore, Igrasped the oppor-tunity to makeinterviews with Chair-man of Township

Peace and DevelopmentCouncil U Kyaw Myintand officials on all-round developmenttasks.

Chairman of theTownship PDC U KyawMyint explainedlocation of ThaphanseikDam in the western partof the town andagriculture as main

business of local people.He continued,

“Due to production of1,485,144 baskets ofpaddy, the townshipachieved 115.32 percent of rice sufficiency.Moreover, the townshipproduced 1,392,981baskets of groundnut,sunflower, mustard and (See page 9) Photo shows beauty of landscaping on Bogyoke Road.

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