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Volume XVII, Number 60 8th Waning of Nayon 1371 ME Monday, 15 June, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 14June—At the invitationof Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union ofMyanmar Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing, Hon’blePresident of Sri LankaMr. Mahinda Rajapaksaand Madam ShiranthiRajapaksa arrived in NayPyi Taw by special flightthis morning to pay a StateVisit to the Union ofMyanmar.

The Sri Lankangoodwill delegation ledby Hon’ble President ofSri Lanka Mr. MahindaRajapaksa and MadamShiranthi Rajapaksa werewelcomed at Nay Pyi TawAirport by Chairman ofthe State Peace andDevelopment CouncilSenior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing, Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye andwife Daw Mya Mya San,Member of the StatePeace and Development

Senior General Than Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing welcome Sri Lankan President

Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa and Madam ShiranthiRajapaksa at Nay Pyi Taw Airport

Council General ThuraShwe Mann of theMinistry of Defence andwife Daw Khin Lay Thet,Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein and wife DawKhin Khin Win,Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and Development

Council General ThihaThura Tin Aung Myint Ooand wife Daw Khin SawHnin, ministers and theirwives, Ambassador of theUnion of Myanmar toDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka UOhn Thwin and wife, Sri

Lankan Ambassador tothe Union of Myanmar MrNewton Gunaratna andwife, embassy staff andfamily members.

At 10.25 am,Hon’ble President of SriLanka Mr. MahindaRajapaksa and Madam

Shiranthi Rajapaksa andparty arrived at Nay PyiTaw Airport by specialaircraft. Director-General U Kyaw Kyawof the ProtocolDepartment under theMinistry of ForeignAffairs and Sri Lankan

Ambassador Mr. NewtonGunaratna greetedHon’ble President of SriLanka Mr. MahindaRajapaksa and MadamShiranthi Rajapaksaaboard the specialaircraft.

(See page 8)

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing welcome Hon’ble President of Sri Lanka Mr. MahindaRajapaksa and Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa at Nay Pyi Taw Airport.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and Sri Lankan President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa take salute of the Guard of Honour at Nay Pyi Taw Airport.—MNA

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Monday, 15 June, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

The government is striving in all aspectsto build up a modern, developed nation withbalanced development of all the regions acrossthe Union. In doing so, the Ministry of RailTransportation on its part is building a networkof railroads covering the states and divisions.

Myanma Railways is repairing andupgrading the existing railroads, building morenew railroads and producing passenger carriagesand freight carriages at a low cost for ensuringsmooth transport and regional development aswell as for the convenience of the public passengers.

There were only 1967.35 miles of railroadsbefore 1988, but now the length has reached3238.05 miles. Moreover, there have been 821railway stations all over the nation.

As for new railroad projects, 320-mileKyangin-Pakokku railroad, 95-mile Katha-Bhamo railroad, 95-mile Pyawbwe-Natmauk-Magway railroad, 150-mile Dawei-Myeik railroadand 25-mile Sittway-An-Minbu railroad are underconstruction.

Minbu-An-Sittway railroad project linksMinbu in Magway Division on Kyangin-Pakokkurailway section and Sittway in Rakhine State.This railroad will be about 257 miles long andpass through tunnels, bridges and Hsingaung-Padan-Natyekantaung-An-Minbya-MraukU-Kyauktaw towns.

Upon completion of the project, thenational people of Rakhine State will have easyaccess to different regions of the country, therebycontributing to the improvement of various sectorsincluding the economic and social sectors.

All in all, at a time when the governmentis constructing a network of railroads for thepeople to have easy access to all sates and divisionsacross the Union, the local people are to have astake in maintaining the already-build railroadsfor their durability.

Build a network of railroadsacross the Union

Sakura Auto Auction Centreopened

YANGON, 14 June— A ceremony to open SakuraAuto Auction Centre of Sakura Technical Services CoLtd was held at the Cherry Garden Housing in 14/3 Ward,South Okkalapa Township here this morning. Chairmanof the company U Htay Aung extended greetings andformally opened the auction centre.

Being the first international level auto auctioncentre, its services are based on a computer-bargainwith the use of IT in the marketing of automobiles.The company will auction off about 200 vehicles atweekends fortnightly. Those wishing to auction theirvehicles are to entrust the automobiles in advancebefore Saturday and Sunday.

For further details contact is to be made toCherry Garden Housing in 14/3 Ward, South OkkalapaTownship (Tel:01-569073, 569074, 09 8601779 and09 8601864) or E-mail: Sakura autoauction @gmail.con and URL: WWW. Sakura-auction.com.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14 June—Chairman of RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commander ofWestern Command Maj-Gen Thaung Aye looked intoAn-Sittway road on 3 June and attended the collectiveplantation ceremony of monsoon physic nut.

Next, the commander inspected traffic islandand Basic Education High School in Alezay Ward inMraukU.

On 4 June, he inspected strand road inKyauktaw, Yadana rice mill and 50-ton rice mill on

Commander inspects road/bridge in An Tsp

strand road and construction of Ganantaung baileybridge in Ponnagyun Township and attended thecollective plantation ceremony of monsoon physicnut.

Afterwards, the commander attended thecoordination meeting held at the meeting hall of RakhineState Office in Sittway with state, district and townshiplevel officials and delivered an address. He then lookedinto strand road and Shukhinthar road in Ohtan ward.

MNA

YANGON, 14 June— Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint and DeputyMinister for Immigrationand Population Brig-GenWin Sein visited theessay contests in com-memoration of the WorldPopulation Day 2009organized by YangonDivision Immigrationand National Re-gistration Departmentthis morning.

The commander,the deputy minister andparty looked intoparticipation of the basiceducation students in theessay contest at Basic

World Population Day commemorative essay contests held

Education High SchoolNo. 1 in LanmadawTownship and theuniversity students atYangon Institute of

Education in KamayutTownship.

The commanderand the deputy ministeralso visited the essay

contest for collegestudents at YankinEducation Collage inYankin Township.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14June —World No-Tobacco Day was marketat the City Hall of Loikawon 31 May with an addressby Chairman of Kayah

Kayah State marks World No-Tobacco DayState Peace andDevelopment CouncilBrig-Gen Win Myint.

On 2 June, thechairman attended a treegrowing ceremony in

commemoration of WorldEnvironment Day atKhonetha Village inLoikaw Township. Thechairman and wife andofficials planted trees and

viewed and encourageddepartmental staff,members of socialassociations and the localpeople planting trees.

MNA

Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint views participation of students in essaycontests of Yangon Division to mark World Population Day 2009.—MNA

Chairman U Htay Aung of Sakura Technical Services Co Ltd formally opens Sakura AutoAuction Centre.—MNA

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Hatem Abode,left inspects the

damage to his flatafter a mortar

landed in centralBaghdad, Iraq,

recently. A womanand her threechildren were

woundedin the attack.

INTERNET

The damage caused by a car bomb in the town of Bathaa, which is nearNasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometres) southeast

of Baghdad, Iraq recently.—INTERNET

File photo shows boycarries his belongings

next to the rubble of hishome which wasdestroyed in a US

airstrike in the villiageof Azizabad in the

Shindand district ofHerat Province, Af-

ghanistan.—INTERNET

Feud, falsehoods sparked USAfghan attack

Britain to unveil Iraq inquiry this week

Afghan violence peaks ahead of elections

LONDON, 14 June — A British televi-sion report to be broadcast on Mondaysays American forces who killed scoresof people last August in Azizabad, west-ern Afghanistan, attacked the village onthe basis of false allegations inspired by ablood feud with a neighbouringcommunity. An hour-long, in-depth docu-mentary, previewed by The AssociatedPress and to be broadcast by Channel 4,includes scenes from a Herat provincialcourt trial in which a leader from the rivalvillage was sentenced to death for murderfor having given false information leadingto the deaths of 91 innocent Azizabad ci-vilians.

Despite that court ruling, the US Cen-tral Command maintains its position thatthe Americans killed 22 Taleban fighters,along with only 33 civilians.

The British broadcaster will also re-port that US Special Forces are not coop-erating with local police seeking three men

from Kalask, the rival village, in the tor-ture death of an Azizabad man. The sus-pects are guards at the US base in nearbyShindand.

The report’s producer-director and nar-rator, Tom Roberts, says provincial officialsbelieve US forces have taken sides in theinter-village feud, which apparently stemsfrom competition for Shindand base jobs.

The Azizabad attack badly strained USrelations with its Afghan ally, as has a morerecent US attack, in Farah Province on 4-5May, when Afghan officials say 140 vil-lagers were killed. US officials say no morethan 30 civilians died, along with 60 to 65militants.

After the ground and air assault by USand Afghan forces last 22 Aug on Azizabad,the US military said 30 militants were killedand no civilians. It later acknowledged fivecivilian deaths. Still later, a CentralCommand investigative report raised thecivilian toll to 33.—Internet

LONDON, 14 June —The British governmentwill announce an inquiryinto the war in Iraq thisweek, media reported.

The move is expectedto be confirmed in a state-ment to parliament, theObserver newspaper andPress Association domes-tic news wire said, quot-ing unnamed sources. Itwill probably come asearly as Tuesday, the Ob-server said.

The probe is set to beannounced days afterPrime Minister GordonBrown fended off a crisiswhich threatened his lead-ership prompted by his-torically bad results inEuropean and local elec-tion results on 4 June.

A new You Gov/Sun-day Times poll gaveBrown’s ruling Labourparty 24 percent supportcompared to 40 percentfor the main opposition

Conservatives led byDavid Cameron.

The inquiry will likelyexamine the circum-stances leading up to Brit-ain’s decision underBrown’s predecessorTony Blair to join the US-led invasion in March2003, and its aftermath.

Internet

US must limit Afghancivilian deaths

KABUL, 14 June —Taleban violence hasreached record highs inAfghanistan, the interna-tional military says, andthere are fears the trendwill continue as militantstarget the August presi-dential elections.

Thousands of mostlyUS troops are moving into secure the polls and toreinforce the turbulentsouth, a Taleban strong-hold, but regional UScommander GeneralDavid Petraeus haswarned of “tough monthsahead.”

Petraeus said onThursday that the pastweek had seen the high-est level of security inci-dents since the 2001ouster of the Taleban in aUS-led invasion, despiteintense international ef-forts to quell the violence.

Insurgent-initiated at-tacks from January toMay this year were about

60 percent higher thanthose for the same periodlast year, Canadian Briga-dier General RichardBlanchette told AFP.

This was part of atrend that had seen attacksclimb over the past twoyears, said Blanchette, thespokesman for the Inter-

national Security Assist-ance Force (ISAF).

“The number of at-tacks varies significantlyacross Afghanistan withHelmand Province in par-ticular experiencing thehighest increase in at-tacks,” he said.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 14 June— The big goals of thenew American generaltaking charge of the warin Afghanistan start withfixing a problem thatbedeviled the man he isreplacing: the repeated,inadvertent killing of ci-vilians.

Stanley McChrystal,the four-star Army generalpicked to provide the freshthinking that Pentagonchief Robert Gates says isneeded to win the war,will have at least one im-

portant new tool at hisdisposal — some 21,000additional US groundtroops.

The expanded pres-ence of American forcesmay reduce the need fordeadly airstrikes that canbe effective in smashingTaleban fighters but alltoo frequently kill ormaim civilians.

McChrystal is due inthe capital, Kabul, thisweekend, replacing GenDavid McKiernan, whomGates fired. McChrystalstopped at NATO head-quarters in Brussels onFriday to join Gates inconsulting with allieddefence ministers aboutNATO’s role in Afghani-stan.—Internet

Afghan, foreign troops kill 19Taleban militants in E Afghanistan

KABUL, 14 June—Afghan security forces backed byUS-led Coalition forces killed 19 Taleban militantsincluding their commander in Paktica Province ofeastern Afghanistan, spokesman for provincialadministration said on Saturday. “The operation, began Friday morning, left 19militants dead so far including their commanderMohibullha,” Hamidullh Zuwak told Xinhua. He added that the operation was launched in an areabetween Gomal and Sarobi districts and no casualtieson joint forces and civilians were reported.—Internet

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Britain eyes green shootsin struggling economyLONDON, 14 June—Britain’s battered economy is

witnessing “green shoots” of recovery after a deeprecession, but they could remain fragile for some timeas the jobless toll continues to rise, analysts warn.

Major economies including Britain, the eurozone,Japan and the United States were dragged intorecession last year as a result of the global financialcrisis and the credit crunch, leaving many peoplefacing a bleak winter.

But as the summer warms up shopkeepers andbusinessmen are reporting signs that customers havemoney in their pockets again, while banks are lendingmore, helping to steer the housing market out of a steepslump. Mexican food chain Chilango has bucked thedownturn, launching its first restaurant in Islington,north London, in 2007 amid the eruption of the globalfinancial crisis. It opened a second outlet on FleetStreet last October.

“My gut feeling is that the recession’s not going toget worse than where we are now — it may stay at thepoint we are at — but it will only get better from thispoint,” Chilango founder Eric Partaker told AFP.

His experience is in line with recent newssuggesting that the British economy could be awakingfrom its slumber. The country’s gross domestic product(GDP) — the total value of goods and servicesproduced in the economy — shrank in the third andfourth quarters of 2008, and contracted a further 1.9percent in the first three months of 2009.—Internet

Higher rates, oil prices threatenUS recovery

Job seekers search for employment opportunitiesat a Graduate Recruitment Fair in London.Britain’s battered economy is witnessing “greenshoots” of recovery after a deep recession, but theycould remain fragile for some time as the joblesstoll continues to rise, analysts warn.—INTERNET

SNC-Lavalin bags 1.1 bln dlrcontract in Algeria

A technician works at a gas treatment plant southof Algiers.—INTERNET

Air France jet sent message on rudder problemIn this photoreleased byBrazil’s Air

Force, debrisfrom the AirFrance flight447 are put

on display atthe Antigua

andBarbuda’smerchant

shipGammagas,on 13 June,

2009.INTERNET

Russian economy shows signsof stability, challenges remain

ALGIERS, 14 June—Algeria’s national oilcompany Sonatrachannounced it had awardeda 79.3-billion-dinar (1.11-billion-dollar, 793-million-euro) contract tothe Canadian engineeringfirm SNC-Lavalin to

build natural gas process-ing facilities.

Under the contractSNC-Lavalin is to buildinfrastructure to collectgas at four southern fieldsas well as a natural gasprocessing facility and afacility to process andreinject carbon dioxideinto gas fields, Sonotrachsaid in a statement.

“These installationswill permit beginningaround 2012 to produceand process 3.5 billioncubic metres of naturalgas per year, quantitieswhich should earn 500million dollars from ex-port,” Engery MinisterChakib Khelil was quoted

as saying by Algeria’sAPS news agency.

The natural gas willflow to the Arzew liquefiednatural gas processingfacility that is being builtnear the Mediterraneancoastal city of Oran, whichshould allow Sonatrach toboost exports from 62billion cubic metres peryear currently to 85 billionfrom 2014, said Khelil.

Under the 39-monthcontract SNC-Lavalin isto build gas collection in-frastructure at RhourdeNouss Central, RhourdeNouss South/East,Rhourde Adra andRhourde Adra Southfields.—Internet

MOSCOW, 14 June —The global financial crisishas hit the Russianeconomy after 10 years ofexpansion averagingalmost 7 percent. Althoughrecent statistics show signsof stability, it is believedthat economic growth isunlikely to resume soon.

Russia’s gross do-mestic product (GDP)contracted by 9.5 percentyear-on-year in the firstquarter of 2009, accordingto the Federal StateStatistics. In the sameperiod, industrial outputtumbled 14.3 percent andthe foreign trade surplusplunged 43.6 percent.

The EconomicDevelopment Ministry has

downgraded its GDPforecast from a 2.2 percentdecline to a 6 percentshrinkage in view of thedeteriorating economicindicators.

The government,meanwhile, has intro-duced a series of measuresto ensure social stabilityand an improvement to theeconomy.

It has spent 1.4 trillionrubles (46.7 billion USdollars) from its oil fundsto carry out the anti-crisismeasures. Taking moneyfrom other sources intoaccount, Russia willspend 3 trillion rubles onits economic stimuluspackage.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 14June—Rising bondyields are taking atoll on home mortgageand corporate lendingrates and togetherwith jumping oil pricesare threatening theexpected US recoveryfrom prolongedrecession.

Just as the USeconomy is on track tobottom out soon, long-term interest rates —reflected by Treasurybonds — and oil priceshave jumped to eight-month highs, neutralizingthe impact of governmentstimulus programmes,analysts say.

While the short-termfederal fund rate — theinterest which bankscharge one another onovernight loans —

remains at virtuallyzero, 10-year bond yieldshave risen above fourpercent and 30-year bondyield to nearly fivepercent last week, thehighest levels sinceOctober.

“The yield curvesteepening could po-tentially crimp whatevernascent strength theremay be in the globalrecovery,” warned

Carl Weinberg, chiefeconomist of HighFrequency Economics.

Bond yields have alsojumped in Germany,Britain, Japan andCanada, fueled by fearsthat aggressive monetarystimulus and governmentborrowing in a bid toavert a deflationary spiralcould fuel an eventualsurge in inflation.

Internet

RIO DE JANEIRO, 14June—A burst ofautomatic messages sentby Air France Flight 447before it crashed includesone about a problem witha rudder safety device butlacks decisive clues as towhat sent the jet plunginginto the Atlantic Ocean twoweeks ago, an aviationexpert said on Saturday.

The industry official,who has knowledge of theAir France investigation,

told The Associated Pressthat a transcript of themessages posted on theWeb site EuroCockpit isauthentic but inconclusive.

One of the 24 automaticmessages sent from theplane minutes before itdisappeared 31 May with228 on board points to aproblem in the “rudderlimiter,” a mechanism thatlimits how far the plane’srudder can move. Theflight was headed from Rio

de Janeiro to Paris throughan area of fierce thunder-storms. The nearly intactvertical stabilizer —which includes the rudder— was fished out of thewater earlier this week byBrazilian searchers.

“There is a lot of infor-mation, but not manyclues,” the official said,speaking on condition ofanonymity because he isnot authorized to discussthe matter.—Internet

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All items from Xinhua News Agency

SCO pays much attention to economic,financial cooperation

People visit the 2009Zhejiang (Shanghai)Travel Fair in Shang-hai, east China, on 12June, 2009. The fair

kicked off in Shanghaion Friday, promoting

Shanghai’s neighbour,Zhejiang Province’stourist resorts, espe-cially those related to

the 2010 ShanghaiWorld Expo. —XINHUA

BEIJING, 14 June — Theannual summit of theShanghai Cooperation Or-ganization (SCO) will beheld in Russia’s Ural cityof Yekaterinburg on 15June. Since the establish-ment of the SCO in 2001,its members have madeachievement in coopera-tion in the political, secu-rity, economic and finan-cial fields.

Experts believe that

amidst the current finan-cial crisis, strengtheningeconomic and financialcooperation among SCOmember states helps toenrich cooperation withinthe organization’s frame-work.

The SCO memberstates _ China, Russia,Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan and Uzbekistan_ adopted a programme ofmultilateral trade and eco-

nomic cooperation in2003. Since then, coopera-tion in security and eco-nomic matters has beengradually established, witheconomic cooperationgaining an increasinglyimportant influence.

In October 2005, theSCO banks consortiumwas established, indicatingthe start of financial coop-eration among the memberstates.—Xinhua

India’s economy showsearly signs of recovery

The queen and king ofSamba carnival of

Helsinki perform alonga street in the centre of

Helsinki, capital ofFinland, on 13 June,

2009. The 19th SambaCarnival was held in

Helsinku on Saturday,attracting thousands ofpeople to participate inthis festival.—XINHUA

NEW DELHI, 14 June—India’s economy hasshown a sign of early re-covery from the globaleconomic meltdown asrecent statistics have in-dicated, thanks to thegovernment’s stimulusmeasures.

The Indian govern-ment said on Friday thatthe country’s industrialoutput in April grew 1.4

percent from the samemonth last year. The fig-ure was also a significanthike from March’s 0.75percent.

The sign of recoverycan also be seen in the 5.8percent growth in the firstquarter of 2009. The fig-ure was higher than theprevious forecast of 5.5percent. Meanwhile, theIndian Industrial Productindex stopped decliningin April and resumedclimbing.

Nikhilesh Bhatta-charyya of the Moody’s,an international eco-nomic consultation firm,predicted that in the com-ing months, India’s in-dustrial output is verylikely to maintain a sta-ble growth.

Xinhua

A racing car rolls past abalance bar in the

course of field duringone stage of the 2009National Auto Field

Cross Country Champi-onship in Beijing, on 13June, 2009. —XINHUA

Prospect broad for energy, environmentcooperation between China, Japan

BEIJING, 14 June —China and Japan have abroad prospect for energyand environment coopera-tion, an expert on Japaneseissues told Xinhua in an in-terview on Saturday.

Japan is leading theworld in energy-efficiencyand environment protec-tion technologies, whileChina is currently devotedto developing an environ-mental-friendly and en-ergy-efficient society,”said Zhou Yongsheng, aprofessor with China For-eign Affairs University(CFAU).

Japan last Septemberunveiled its New Eco-nomic Growth Strategy,under which the countrywill concentrate on im-

proving energy efficiencyand developing high value-added products for interna-tional market, said Zhou,who is also a member ofthe Chinese Association forJapanese Studies.

With the strategy, Japanattempts to end the tradi-tional energy consumptionmodel which is heavily re-lied on fossil fuels like oil,coal and natural gas, Zhousaid.—Xinhua

Palestinians call for unity ahead ofHamas Gaza takeover anniversary

Some California Senate employees facefurloughs due to budget crisis

LOS ANGELES, 14June—Some employeesin California’s Senate arebracing for the possibilityof involuntary, unpaidfurloughs four months af-

ter rank-and-file stateworkers were forced tostay home two days eachmonth without pay. According to an e-mailsent by Senate leader

Darrell Steinberg’s chiefof staff to other top Sen-ate aides, Republican andDemocratic senatorsvoted in closed-door cau-cuses this week to fur-lough staff earning morethan 50,000 US dollarsannually, the Los AngelesTimes said on Saturday. California GovernorArnold Schwarzeneggerordered the originalfurloughs but does nothave that authority overthe legislative branch. The goal is to save 5percent of workers’ pay.That equals roughly onefurlough day a month, thee-mail said.

GAZA, 14 June—Hamas security forcesdispersed a rally callingfor an end to the bitterPalestinian schism inGaza city on Saturday, onthe eve of the second an-niversary of Hamastakeover of the Gaza Stripin June 2007. Some 3,000 people at-tended the rally organizedby the left-wing PopularFront to Liberate Pales-tine (PFLP), chanting slo-gans to call on rival Fatahand Hamas groups to endthe two-year political riftbetween Hamas-ruledGaza and the Fatah-domi-nated West Bank. Rabah Muhana, a sen-

ior PFLP Gaza leader,told Xinhua that the po-lice attacked the demon-strators, leaving two peo-ple injured and three de-tained. Witnesses said Hamaspolicemen moved afterthousands of Gazanschanted behind a cheer-leader “We don’t wantAbbas or Haneya, wewant a national unity.” Ismail Haneya is prime

minister of the Hamasunity government, whichwas deposed by PresidentMahmoud Abbas afterHamas took control of thecoastal enclave.—Xinhua

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

Rally reflection : A dog sits under ashelter to protect itself from the rainduring a rally organized by Ukrain-ian Zoo Rights activists in front of

the mayor’s office in Kiev.

Man jailed 153 timesA man from Portsmouth, New

Hampshire was arrested for the 153rdtime, one week after his release from aone-year jail term on a theft charge.

Paul Baldwin, 49, was arrested over theweekend for allegedly punching someonein the face. He told a judge on Monday thathe plans to plead guilty to the assault, alongwith trespassing and alcohol charges. Hesaid he has had a long battle with alcoholand was trying to correct the problemduring his most recent one-year jail term.

“All I need is help with the drinking,your honor,” he told the judge.”

Bail was set at $1,500 cash and Baldwinwas ordered to have no contact with thealleged assault victim. If he is able to postbail, he is also court-ordered to observe a7 pm curfew.

‘Body’ actuallymannequin

Connecticut State Police said adiscovery on the side of a cliff that wasthought to be a human body turned outto be a mannequin.

Lt Paul Vance said the object wasfirst spotted and identified as a bodySaturday night in West Rock State Parkbut a specialized ropes team dispatchedto the scene Sunday morning discoveredthe “body” was actually a mannequin,WTNH-TV, New Haven, Conn,reported Monday.

Vance said the State Police MajorCrimes Squad was on the scene forabout 2 1/2 hours Saturday night andthree hours Sunday morning.

Aurora, a 20-year-old Beluga whalegives birth at the Vancouver Aquariumin Vancouver, British Columbia. Au-rora was in labour for about threehours before delivering the new calf.

Children benefit fromdaytime nap

Taking a nap during the day may helpreduce hyperactivity, anxiety and depres-sion for children aged four to five, a newstudy shows.

In the study, researchers at Pennsyl-vania State University analyzed 62 chil-dren categorized as either napping (77percent) or non-napping (23 percent).

The study found that children whodidn’t take daytime naps had higher lev-els of anxiety, hyperactivity and depres-sion. Children who took naps did so anaverage of 3.4 days a week, according tothe study.

The study findings were presented onMonday at the annual meeting of the As-sociated Professional Sleep Societies inSeattle. The study data were based on theparents’ or caregivers’ reporting of thechildren’s typical weekday and weekendbedtime/wake time and napping patterns.Family demographics and behavioral as-sessments of the children were also in-cluded in the analysis.

“There is a lot of individual variabil-ity in (the age) when children are ready togive up naps. I would encourage parentsto include a quiet ‘rest’ time in their dailyschedule that would allow children to napif necessary,” said lead author BrianCrosby, a postdoctoral fellow ofpsychology.

AL chief meets withSolana for peace

CAIRO, 14 June —There is a positive atmosphere cre-ated by the new US administration, Arab League (AL)chief Amr Moussa said on Saturday at the headquartersof the AL.Moussa told reporters after meeting EuropeanUnion (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana, “the newUS administration led by President Obama pursuesachieving peace in the Middle East.”

Now, there is an open window that we must seize toestablish a Palestinian state and end the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict,” said Moussa.

Moussa stressed that there is a real opportunity toachieve peace in the region and the Arabs should seizethe opportunity.—Internet

South Sudan gunmen attack UN foodaid shipments

This picture released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan showsinternally displaced people of the Murle tribe carrying food rations from the

World Food Programme at a distribution point in the Sudanese town of Piborin March 2009.—INTERNET

JUBA, 14 June —Armedmembers of a South Sudantribe attacked on the week-end barges carrying UNfood aid, a UN officialsaid, amid unconfirmed re-ports that several peoplewere killed.

Gunmen from theJikany Nuer ethnic groupattacked some 27 bargescarrying aid for the UN’sWorld Food Programmeoutside the town of Nassirin Upper Nile state, saidMichelle Iseminger.

The barges were ontheir way to the town of

Akobo when they were at-tacked, said Iseminger, theWFP programme directorfor South Sudan.

Officials said the sup-plies are vital to supportsome 18,000 displacedpeople in Akobo who fledtheir homes in fighting ear-lier this year.Isemingersaid that 16 boats managedto return to Nassir, but thefate of the 11 other bargeswas still unknown. “No-body knows their real con-ditions now,” she said.

According to local re-ports, several people were

killed or wounded duringthe attack.“There are manywounded in the hospitalincluding soldiers, andmany killed, there are doz-ens dead,” said one resi-dent of Nassir town, ask-ing not to be named.

UN officials were un-able to confirm the reports.

The attacks followclashes in May betweenfactions of the Lou Nuerand Jikany ethnic groups,in which at least 66 peo-ple were killed accordingto local officials.

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Hamas welcomes Iran’selection results

Hospitals oppose Obama’sMedicare, Medicaid cutsWASHINGTON, 14 June—President Barack Obama said

Saturday he wants to help pay for his health care over-haul by slowing Medicare and Medicaid spending, buthospitals, medical technicians and others areresisting.The high-stakes struggle over medical care isheating up as Obama declares the status quo unaccept-able.

The president suggests trimming federal paymentsto hospitals by about $200 billion over the next 10 years,saying greater efficiencies and broader insurance cov-erage will justify the change. Hospitals, especially thosewith many poor patients, say the proposed cuts are un-fair and will harm the sick and elderly.—Internet

GAZA, 14 June—Pal-estinian Islamic Hamasmovement on Saturdaysaid Iran’s election resultsshowed support for thecountry’s defiant policy.

The results show awide public commenda-tion for Iran’s policy ofchallenge,” said FawziBarhoum, a spokesmanfor Hamas which controlsthe Gaza Strip, in a state-

ment sent to the press.Iran’s incumbent

President MahmoudAhmadinejad has won alandslide victory in the10th presidential election,securing a second term ofpresidency in the nextfour years, Iran’s InteriorMinister Sadeq Mahsoulisaid on Saturdayafternoon.

Internet

British boy finds seven-leaf cloverA British 9-year-old said he

discovered a seven-leaf clover whilehunting for the four-leaf variety with hisfather in a nature reserve.

Alastair Barnes said he was walkingin the Coombe Bassett nature reserve,near Salisbury, England, when he cameupon the seven-leaf clover, a varietyexperts said are even more rare than thetraditionally lucky four-leaf clovers, theDaily Mail reported on Monday.

“I was really hoping to find a four-leafclover when I spotted one with sevenleaves,” the young boy said. “I wasamazed and I immediately shouted to mydad: ‘Daddy daddy, I’ve found a seven-leaf clover.’” “He didn’t believe me atfirst but then he came over and had a lookfor himself,” Alastair said. “I picked itand took it home. It was amazing to findsomething so rare — I was so happy.”

Toy poodles are seen dressed up with pairof sunglasses at a dog fiesta in Tokyo.

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Kawthoung inKawthoung District,Taninthayi Division, isan entrance to the borderin the southern part ofMyanmar.

The key to rapiddevelopment of thewhole coastal region ofTaninthayi Division isthat Kawthoung is easilyaccessible by land, by seaand by air from the citiesin upper Myanmar.People can travel by carat any times fromKawthoung toKamaukkyi, Karathuri,Bokpyin, Taninthayi,Myeik, Pulaw, Palauk,Thayetchaung, Dawei,Yebyu, Kalein-aung, Ye,Lamaing, Mudon,T h a n b y u z a y a t ,Mawlamyine, Paung,Thaton, Bilin, Kyaikto,Waw, Bago and Yangon,as well as by sea to Myeikand Yangon.

It takes about sixhours to travel byspeedboat to Dawei,about 300 knots fromKawthoung. And it takesabout 55 minutes totravel by air fromYangon to Dawei, 1 hourand 10 minutes to Myeik,and 1 hour and 55minutes to Kawthoung.Smooth transport is thedriving force behind thesignificant progress ofthe whole KawthoungDistrict. Junior Officerof the Township GeneralA d m i n i s t r a t i o nDepartment U Min Lwinsaid, “Kamaukkyi has

Flourishing oil palm farming in Taninthayi DivisionArticle, photos; June Maung Maung

Khamaukkyi 38th Mile Yuzana Palm Oil Mill in Kawthoung District, Taninthayi Division.

Daw Tin Moe Hlaing(Shwepaukkan)

(Chief Accountant).

Daw Moe Thandar(Yangon) (Chief

Treasurer).

Daw Ei Ei Paing(Taunggyi)

(Accountant).

developed a lot. Due to itseconomic growth, theliving standard of localpeople is getting high.Their businesses such asoil palm farming, rubberfarming, deep sea andoffshore fishing,shipbuilding andindustrial zones arethriving. They havegenerated a large numberof jobs not only for localpeople but for manypeople from around thenation.”

U An Ban, in-chargeof Taninthayi Division OilPalm Project, said that

since 1999, Yuzana CoLtd had been farming oilpalm in Kawthoung,Kamaukkyi, Karathuri,Bokpyin and Taninthayiin Kawthoung District,reclaiming virgin andfallow lands with theassistance rendered by thegovernment.

Chief Engineer U ZawLwin said, “This year, wehave planted 850,000 oilpalm saplings and built

812.44 miles of earth roadsand 235.22 miles of gravelroads, totalling 1047.66miles. And we haveopened a basic educationhigh school (Kamaukkyi)and an affiliated primaryschool with 12 teachersfor the education of thechildren of the farm

workers. We have 250housing units for staff, 320rows of houses for workersand 100 houses forofficials, an assembly hall.We provide free healthcare with a hospital, eightdispensaries, a Red Crossambulance, three doctors,five nurses and 19 healthassistants. We provide thestaff and workers withwelfare service with acinema hall, threelibraries, a supermarket,two department stores, amarket, a restaurant andfree power supply.”

Chief Accountant ofYuzana Palm Oil MillDaw Tin Moe Hlaing(Shwepaukkan) said, “Ifeel fulfilling the basicneeds of the workers is

somehow doingmeritorious deeds.”

Chief Treasurer DawMoe Thandar (Yangon)said that she was satisfiedwith her performance foreconomic development ofher palm oil Mill,representing the femaleworkforce.

Accountant Daw EiEi Paing (Taunggyi) said

that she was far awayfrom her home, but shewas happy to work thereand she regarded all herworkmates as her sistersand brothers.

The mill of YuzanaCo Ltd can mill 60 tons ofpalm oil fruits per hour.

It also purchases oilpalm fruits from theState-owned oil palm,Dagon Timber Co, andPokaung Co, anddistributes its crude palmoil to Thakayta palm oilmill. Now, TaninthayiDivision has becomeanother edible oil bowlof the nation.

*****Translation: MS

Myanma Alin:8-6-2009

Red wine demonstratessignificant health benefits

Low tomoderate

drinking —especially ofred wine —appears toreduce allcauses ofmortality.

BRISBANE, 14June — The benefits ofalcohol are all aboutmoderation. Low tomoderate drinking –especially of red wine –appears to reduce all

causes of mortality, whiletoo much drinking causesmultiple organ damage. Amini-review of recentfindings on red wine’spolyphenols, particularlyone called resveratrol, will

be published in theSeptember issue ofAlcoholism: Clinical &Experimental Research;the review is also availableat Early View.

“Reports on thebenefits of red wine arealmost two centuries old,”said Lindsay Brown,associate professor in theSchool of BiomedicalSciences at The Universityof Queensland andcorresponding author forthe study. “The mediadeveloped the more recentstory of the Frenchparadox in the early1990s.—Internet

What really prompts dog’s‘guilty look’

Boxer mix.

NEW YORK, 14June — What dog ownerhas not come home to abroken vase or othervaluable items and aguilty-looking dogslouching around thehouse? By ingeniouslysetting up conditionswhere the owner wasmisinformed as to whethertheir dog had reallycommitted an offense,Alexandra Horowitz,Assistant Professor fromBarnard College in New

York, uncovered theorigins of the “guilty look”in dogs in the recentlypublished “CanineBehaviour and Cognition”Special Issue of Elsevier’sBehavioural Processes.

Horowitz wasable to show that thehuman tendency toattribute a “guilty look” toa dog was not due towhether the dog wasindeed guilty. Instead,people see ‘guilt’ in adog’s body language when

they believe the dog hasdone something itshouldn’t have – even ifthe dog is in factcompletely innocent ofany offense.—Internet

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Senior General ThanShwe, wife Daw KyaingKyaing and partywelcomed the Sri LankanPresident and wife.

Next, the SeniorGeneral and the Sri LankanPresident took the salute ofthe Guard of Honour fromthe dais of the airport. TheState Band played theNational Anthems of theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka andthe Union of Myanmar.

The Sri LankanPresident and the SeniorGeneral inspected theGuard of Honour.

The Sri LankanPresident presented hisentourage to the SeniorGeneral. Hon’ble Presidentof Sri Lanka Mr. MahindaRajapaksa and MadamShiranthi Rajapaksa

Senior General Than Shwe and wife…cordially greeted those whoaccompanied the SeniorGeneral and wife.

The SeniorGeneral, wife and partygreeted the goodwilldelegation led by the SriLankan President and wifewho left for Nay Pyi TawHotel Zone where they willbe accommodated.

The Sri LankanPresident and wife wereaccompanied by Ministerof Foreign Affairs Mr.Rohitha Bogollagama,ministers and seniorofficials.

In welcoming theSri Lankan goodwilldelegation led by the SriLankan President and wife,the photographs of Headsof both countries and thebanner bearing “Warmlywelcome Hon’ble PresidentMr. Mahinda Rajapaksa ofthe Democratic Socialist

Republic of Sri Lanka andMadam ShiranthiRajapaksa” in Myanmarand English were put up atNay Pyi Taw Airport, NayPyi Taw Hotel Zone,Pinlaung Junction andRazahtani Road. State Flagsof the Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka andthe Union of Myanmar werehoisted around Nay PyiTaw Airport, theRoundabout at the exit ofthe airport, ThabyegonRoundabout, RazathingahaRoundabout and LotusRoundabout.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 14 June —Jointly-organized by the Ministry ofImmigration and Population andUNFPA, World Population Day -2009commemorative basic education highand middle school level essay contestswere held at Nay Pyi Taw No 3 BasicEducation High School (Ywataw) anduniversity and college level at NayPyi Taw Yezin University ofAgriculture today from 9 am to 11am.

Chairman of the committeefor celebrating World Population Day-2009 Director-General of thePopulation Department U Maung

World Population Day commemorative essay contests heldMyint and members and officials visitedthe schools and viewed the studentsparticipating in the contests.

The essay was titled ‘Protectingmarginalized populations from the globaleconomic crisis’. Altogether 268 studentstook part in the contests.

The commemorative essaycontests were also held at designated placesof the states and divisions.—MNA

Senior GeneralThan Shwe and

wife Daw KyaingKyaing cordiallygreet President of

Sri Lanka Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa

and MadamShiranthi

Rajapaksa at NayPyi Taw Airport.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and President of Sri Lanka Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa inspect the Guard of Honourat Nay Pyi Taw Airport.—MNA

Director-General U Maung Myintof Population Department viewsparticipation of students at basic

education high and middle schoollevel essay contests.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 14June— A meeting betweena delegation led by PrimeMinister of the Union ofMyanmar General TheinSein and a delegation ledby Hon’ble President of theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa took

Myanmar delegation led by Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein and Sri Lankan delegation led by Hon’ble

President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa meet

place at the meeting hall ofthe Government Office hereat 3.30 pm today.

Also present onthe occasion together withPrime Minister GeneralThein Sein were Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Soe Tha,Minister for Hotels andTourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing, Minister forCommerce Brig-Gen TinNaing Thein, Minister forTransport Maj-Gen TheinSwe, Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura AyeMyint, Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-GenThura Myint Maung,Myanmar Ambassador tothe Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka UOhn Thwin, Director-General Col Thant Shin of

the Government Office,Director-General U KyawKyaw of ProtocolDepartment, Director-General U Kyaw Tint ofPolitical Department andofficials. The Sri LankanPresident was accompaniedby Minister of ForeignAffairs Mr RohithaBogollagama, Minister ofTransport Mr Hon. DallasAlahapperuma, DeputyMinister of Labour Mr Hon.Marvin de Silva, MP MrHon .Wimal Weerawansaof the Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka, SriLankan Ambassador to theUnion of Myanmar MrNewton Gunaratna andhigh-ranking officials.

On arrival at themeeting hall, the Sri Lankandelegation was warmlywelcomed by PrimeMinister General TheinSein.

The meetingstarted with the greetings ofPrime Minister GeneralThein Sein.

Next, the SriLankan President made aspeech.

Afterwards, PrimeMinister General Thein Seinand President Mr. MahindaRajapaksa discussedmatters on further

promotion of cooperationin such sectors as religion,trade, economy, education,agriculture, forest, hotelsand tourism, transport, etc.as well as in regional andinternational arenas.

A ceremony tosign agreements betweenthe Union of Myanmar andthe Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka washeld at the same venue at4.50 pm.

First, MyanmarMinister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win andSri Lankan Minister ofForeign Affairs Mr.Rohitha Bogollagamasigned an agreement onvisa exemption for holdersof diplomatic and official/service passports of thetwo countries, andexchanged the documents.

Next, MyanmarMinister for Hotels andTourism Maj-Gen SoeNaing and Sri LankanMinister of ForeignAffairs Mr. RohithaBogollagama signed anMoU on tourismcooperation between theUnion of Myanmar andthe Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka,and exchanged thedocuments.—MNA

Minister for Hotelsand Tourism Maj -Gen Soe Naing andSri Lankan Ministerof Foreign Affairs

Mr. RohithaBogollagama sign an

MoU on tourismcooperation.

MNA

A meeting between adelegation led byPrime Minister of theUnion of MyanmarGeneral Thein Seinand a delegation ledby Hon’ble Presidentof the DemocraticSocialist Republic ofSri Lanka Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksatakes place at themeeting hall ofGovernment Office in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win and Sri Lankan Minister ofForeign Affairs Mr. Rohitha Bogollagma sign an agreement on visaexemption for holders of diplomatic and official/service passports of

the two countries.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 14June—Minister for For-estry Brig-Gen TheinAung, accompanied byChairman of Kayah StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Brig-Gen WinMyint, looked into plan-tation of eucalyptus forbuilding of house atWarsaung and Kontharvillages in Loikaw Town-ship on 10 June.

On 11 June, the minis-ter and chairman of KayahState PDC attended theopening ceremony ofKhawukhu No. 2 new tarredroad and the ministeropened the new tarred road.

The new tarred road—1,175 feet long and 12 feetwide—costs K 7 millionand constructed by SPDC.

Next, they also at-tended the opening cer-emony of Basic EducationMiddle School (Branch)at Konthar village inLoikaw Township anddelivered an address.Chairman of Kayah StatePDC presented exercisebooks and the organizingcommittee documents re-lated to the new schoolbuilding to TownshipEducation Officer. Amember of school boardof trustee spoke words ofthanks and officialsopened the new school

Forestry Minister inspectsdevelopment tasks

building.The 120 feet long and

30 feet wide new schoolbuilding costs K 16.5 mil-lion.

After that, the minis-ter and the chairman ofKayah State PDC arrivedat Home for the Aged anddonated cash and medi-cine.

At the ambulance pre-senting ceremony inPrusho Township Hospi-tal, the minister delivereda speech and well-wisherU Tun Kyaw presenteddocuments related to theambulance to Head ofTownship Health Depart-ment Dr Daw Khine HayMar Myint.

Afterwards, U KyiSein from Wood Worldpresented Oxygen ma-chine and Head of Town-ship Health Departmentspoke words of thanks.And then the minister andthe chairman of KayahState PDC viewed theambulance and encour-aged the patients and pro-vided cash and nutrients.

They then met withlocal people at Basic Edu-cation Middle School inHtipauso village in PrushoTownship and the minis-ter provided exercisebooks and cash to them.

MNA

Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa visits Gems Museum, Nay Pyi TawWater Fountain Garden, Nay Pyi Taw Myoma market

NAY PYI TAW, 14June— Madam ShiranthiRajapaksa, wife ofHon’ble President ofSri Lanka Mr MahindaRajapaksa and party,accompanied by wifeof the Minister forSports and wife of theMyanmar Ambassadorto the DemocraticSocialist Republic of SriLanka, arrived at GemsMuseum and were wel-comed by the ManagingDirector of MyanmaGems Enterprise and of-ficials.

First, the curator ofGems Museum explainedthe facts about gems landwhere gem, jade and min-erals were exploited, toMadam ShiranthiRajapaksa and party.

Next, theyviewed gems in GemsMuseum. MadamShiranthi Rajapaksa

signed in the visitors’book. And then the man-aging director presentedgifts.

Afterwards, MadamShiranthi Rajapaksa andparty visited shops of

Myanma Gems Enter-prise, Myanmar VesJoint Venture Co Ltd,Aye Aye Khine GemsCompany, RomanticGems-studded paintingand Shwekanote Gems

enterprise at the GemsMuseum.

They then visitedNay Pyi Taw WaterFountain Garden andNay Pyi Taw Myomamarket by car.—MNA

YANGON, 14 June—Apress briefing on futureprogrammes of OkktharUnited FC took place atInya Lake Hotel here thisafternoon.

Press briefing on future programmes ofOkkthar United FC

At the briefing, Man-aging Director of Interna-tional Beverages TradingCo Ltd and Patron ofOkkthar United FC UAung Moe Kyaw clarified

the future programmes ofthe football club, and re-plied to queries raised bythe mediamen.

The football club wasestablished with the aim

of striving for the devel-opment of Myanmarfootball as a nationalconcern, of participatingin the MNL based on anew system of profes-sionalism, of turning outoutstanding footballersby nurturing and train-ing new generation foot-ballers and of facilitat-ing Myanmar football tobe able to regain achieve-ments in the interna-tional meets. And thefootball club will try itsbest to meet its objec-tives.—MNA

The besttime to

plant a treewas 20

years ago.

The secondbest time is

now. Melting water from a glacier in Greenland runsinto the ocean.

Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expectedFAIRBANKS, 14 June

— The Greenland icesheet is melting fasterthan expected, accordingto a new study led by aUniversity of AlaskaFairbanks researcher andpublished in the journalHydrological Processes.

Study results indi-cate that the ice sheetmay be responsible fornearly 25 percent of glo-bal sea rise in the past 13

years. The study alsoshows that seas now arerising by more than 3millimeters a year—morethan 50 percent faster thanthe average for the 20thcentury.

UAF researcher Se-bastian H. Mernild andcolleagues from the UnitedStates, United Kingdomand Denmark discoveredthat from 1995 to 2007,overall precipitation on the

ice sheet decreased whilesurface ablation—thecombination of evapora-tion, melting and calvingof the ice sheet—in-creased. According toMernild’s new data, since1995 the ice sheet lost anaverage of 265 cubic kilo-metres per year, which hascontributed to about 0.7millimetres per year inglobal sea level rise.

Internet

Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa, wife of Hon’ble President of Sri LankaMr Mahinda Rajapaksa, and party visit Gems Museum.—MNA

Managing Director ofInternational Bever-

ages Trading Co Ltd &Group of Companies

and Patron of OkktharUnited FC U AungMoe Kyaw explains

future programmes ofOkkthar United FC.

MNA

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British soldier killed inAfghanistan

US Returns over 100 Bases to Iraqisahead of troops Pullout

Cooking robot ‘Okonomiyaki Robot’ pours the ingredients for okonomiyaki(Japanese flour cake) over a heated cooking pan during its demonstration at

the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in Tokyo,Japan, on Tuesday, 9 June, 2009.

INTERNET

Latest survey shows Beijinghas 527 kms of Great Wall BEIJING, 14 June — Latest survey by the Beijing

Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage showsthat there are 526.65467 kilometres of the Great Wallin Beijing.

The figures were released on Saturday, the fourth“Cultural Heritage Day”, a domestic holiday that fallson the second Saturday of each June.

Of the nearly 527 kilometres of Great Wall, about388 kilometres have been renovated or rebuilt,according to the survey. Data released by the StateBureau of Surveying and Mapping in April showed thetotal length of the Great Wall is 8858.88 kilometres.

MNA/Xinhua

Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog appears at a news conference during theBonnaroo Arts and Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn, on Saturday, 13

June, 2009. Comedian Robert Smigel manipulates the hand puppet.INTERNET

An aerial view shows Burj al-Arab hotel in theoil-rich Gulf emirate of Dubai. Businesses in the

United Arab Emirates are more confident ofbrighter trade prospects than their peers in

financial hubs Hong Kong and Singapore, worldbanking giant HSBC said in a survey.—INTERNET

British lawmakers criticizeUS missile shield plan

LONDON, 14 June — A planned US missile shieldmay not strengthen Europe’s security and could hurtNATO’s interests if deployed in the face of Russianopposition, British members of Parliament said onSunday.

The United States says the anti-missile system isdesigned to prevent potential attacks from countriessuch as Iran, but the plan has outraged Moscow whichsees it as a threat. Russia has urged Washington to dropits plan to put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and aradar station in the Czech Republic. Both formerSoviet satellites are now NATO members. Parliament’sForeign Affairs Committee, made up of legislatorsfrom the main political parties, voiced reservationsabout the US plan in a report on weapons proliferation.“We are not convinced that, as they are currentlyenvisaged and under current circumstances, the UnitedStates’ planned ballistic missile defence (BMD)deployments in the Czech Republic and Polandrepresent a net gain for European security,” it said.

MNA/Reuters

BAGHDAD, 14 June —The US military said onSaturday that over 100military bases have beenhanded over to Iraqisecurity forces ahead ofthe June 30 deadline forUS combat troops to pullout from Iraqi cities andtown as part of a landmarksecurity pact.

A US military statementsaid a joint US and Iraqicommittee, tasked withmonitoring theimplementation of US-Iraq security agreement,highlighted progressachieved in Iraq during itsthird meeting, including“the return of over 100bases and the safe andorderly release of over3,000 detainees” since theimplementation of thepact.

The committee meetingon Thursday was presidedby Iraqi Minister ofInterior Jawad al-Bulani,US Ambassador Chri-stopher Hill, and top UStroops commander,General Ray Odierno, thestatement said. Mean-while, Iraqi DefenceMinistry spokesman,Major General Moha-mmed al-Askari said onSaturday that Iraq had setup a joint command centrewith the US military tocoordinate operationsafter the June 30 deadline.

“Minister of Defence,Abdul Qader al-Obiediopened today the JointMilitary OperationsCoordination Committeeto coordinate US andIraq’s military operationsafter June 30,” Askari

said, pointing out that thecommittee would beresponsible for givingauthorization to US troopsto intervene even after thepullout of US forces fromurban areas.

“The principle of thecentre is to organize thework and to speed up UStroops’ interventionwithout violating the law,”he said. Iraqi Parliamentoverwhelmingly voted forthe key security agreementwhich keeps the presenceof US military in Iraq foranother three years inNovember. Under theagreement, US troops willwithdraw from Iraqi cities,towns and villages by 30June 2009, and tocompletely pullout fromIraq by 31 December,2011. —MNA/Xinhua

LONDON, 14 June — ABritish soldier has beenkilled in a bomb explosionin southern Afghanistan,

the Ministry of Defencesaid on Saturday.

The soldier, from the2nd Battalion the Rifles,died on Friday nearSangin in HelmandProvince, the southernregion of Afghanistanwhere most British troopsare based and where theTaleban remains strong.

“It is with deep regretthat we report the death ofanother soldier inHelmand Province,” aspokesman for the Britishtask force said in astatement. The deathraises to 168 the numberof British servicepersonnel killed inAfghanistan since Britainjoined the United Statesin invading the country in2001. —MNA/Reuters

SCIENCEDAILY, 14 June — Roughly a billionyears from now, the ever-increasing radiation from thesun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; thecarbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as foodfor plant life will disappear, pulled out by the weatheringof rocks; the oceans will evaporate; and all livingthings will disappear.

Or maybe not quite so soon, say researchersfrom the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),who have come up with a mechanism that doubles thefuture lifespan of the biosphere—while also increasingthe chance that advanced life will be found elsewherein the universe.—Internet

Life may extend planet’s ‘life’

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SANAA, 14 June—Nine foreigners, including seven Germans, two Britons werefound missing in southern Yemen, probably kidnapped by tribe militants, localsecurity officials said Saturday.

The nine-person group, a German engineer and his six family members andtwo British friends, were found missing Friday night.

A report on the ruling party’s official website said they were kidnapped byrebels.—Internet

Nine foreigners missing in northernYemen, probably kidnapped

Archaeologists work at the excavation site of No1 on 13 1 pit of the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses of Emperor Qin Shihuang, in Xi’an, capital of

northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, on 13 June 2009. (INTERNET)

Major rebel arms cache found inSri Lanka

Somalia gets new Navy forceafter years of absenceFRANKFURT,14 June—Germany, having orchestrated

a rescue for automaker Opel, is trying to keep the lidon a Pandora’s box of state aid, even if it means turn-ing away luxury sports carmaker Porsche and retailerArcandor.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said repeatedly thatthe bailout for Opel with the help of a public creditworth 1.5 billion euros (2.1 billion dollars) was an “ex-ceptional case”.

She said “we have very clear criteria (for offeringpublic aid): was the company in good shape in the sum-mer of 2008” before the global economic crisis beganto gather steam?

In remarks to ZDF public television last week, shesaid: “Does it have a future in the economy? What isits outlook? And then we have a commission that de-cides.”—Internet

Opel rescue opens Pandora boxfor German state aid

GILFORD, 14 June—Authorities say the pilotof a single-engine planehas died after crashing onthe grounds of a NewHampshire resort.

Witnesses say theCessna 177 hit two treesat the Margate Resort inGilford, then came downin a parking lot at 4:20 pmSaturday, shortly aftertaking off from nearbyLaconia.

Federal Aviation Ad-ministration spokesmanJim Peters says the pilotwas taken to a local hos-pital and later died of hisinjuries. His name hasn’tbeen released.

The plane was regis-tered to David RichardKerr of Falmouth, Maine,but Peters says Kerrwasn’t flying it at the timeof the crash.

Peters says no one onthe ground was injured.The crash is being inves-tigated by the FAA andNational TransportationSafety Board.—Internet

Pilot of smallplane dies incrash at NH

resort

MANILA, 14 June—An Italian Red Cross worker heldhostage by militants in the southern Philippines is stillalive, the military said, after weekend clashes left sixmembers of the security forces dead.

“Our information is clear, that he is alive,” Marinespokesman Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Arevalo toldDZBB radio in Manila, citing intelligence reports fromthe field.

He said troops were conducting follow-up opera-tions Sunday, a day after five Marines and a police com-mando were killed in an ambush by Abu Sayyaf mili-tants, who have been holding Eugenio Vagni, 62, onsouthern Jolo island since January.

Arevalo said 17 soldiers were also wounded in thefighting, although the Abu Sayyaf was believed to havesuffered heavy casualties as well.—Internet

Italian hostage in Philippinesalive

Malaysia to aid Indonesia ahead of haze season

COLOMBO, 14 June—Sri Lankantroops have unearthed the largest haulof weapons and ammunition discoveredsince the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels lastmonth, the government said.

Hundreds of automatic assault rifles,mortar bombs and land mines werefound during a two-day search in thenorth of the island.

A clearing operation was also underway in the area where Tamil Tiger leaderVelupillai Prabhakaran was killed last

month.“Troops conducting search and clear

operations in the Wanni areas uncoveredsome more LTTE (Liberation Tigers ofTamil Eelam) weapons, ammunitionand explosives,” the defence ministrysaid.

Military officials said the discover-ies made over the weekend formed thelargest haul since the government’s re-cent victory over the Tiger rebels endeddecades of ethnic conflict.—Internet

MOGADISHU, 14 June— Drilling in the openground of the dusty anddilapidated Old Port in thenorth of Mogadishu arenearly five hundred youngmen recruited to serve So-malia’s nascent navyforce, the first in nearlytwo decades.

“We expect this forceto receive intensive train-ing in four months andthen be armed and startprotecting the Somali

coast against foreign in-trusion and criminal ac-tivities,” Admiral FarahOmar Ahmed, newly ap-pointed Chief SomaliNavy Commander, said atan opening ceremony forthe navy training.

Admiral Ahmed saidthe force were the firstbatch of an expected fivethousand Navy force So-malia will eventuallyhave to protect its territo-rial waters and fight ram-

pant piracy, two decadesafter the force has col-lapsed with the overthrowof the late Somali govern-ment of former SomaliPresident Mohamed SiyadBarre in 1991.

With an ever growinghigh seas piracy off theSomali coast and the Gulfof Aden, the east Africannation’s urgent need for anavy to combat the men-ace is ever more apparent.

Internet

KUALA LUMPER, 14 June—Malaysiahas offered to help Indonesia curb forestfires blamed for the choking haze thatshrouds the region each year, media re-ports said, as air quality fell in thecountry.

In the dry season, Indonesian farmersburn forests to clear land for agriculture,causing a smoky haze that spreads acrossthe region, affecting tourism and increas-ing health problems.

“We have special aeroplanes whichcan be used to carry out water bombing,”the Sunday Star quoted Malaysian PrimeMinister Najib Razak as saying.

“It is up to the Indonesian governmentto accept it,” the premier told the news-paper, as he urged Malaysians to avoid

open burning.Malaysian environment authorities said

air quality and visibility in parts of thecountry over the past week fell from“good” to “moderate.”

On Sunday morning, the environmentdepartment said 22 out of 49 areas it moni-tored were “moderate,” an improvementfrom Friday when three areas includingcapital Kuala Lumpur were “unhealthy.”

The Indonesian government has out-lawed land-clearing by fire but weak en-forcement means the ban is largely ignored.

Environment ministers from Singapore,Malaysia and other regional nations haveurged Indonesia promptly to ratify a re-gional treaty aimed at preventing cross-border haze pollution.—Internet

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Israel finds 17 moreA/H1N1 flu cases

JERUSALEM, 14 June —Seventeen additional A/H1N1 flu cases have been diagnosed in Israel overthe weekend, local news service Ynetstet reported Sat-urday on its website. The latest cases have brought to 94 the total numberof confirmed cases of the global pandemic in the Jew-ish state. Israeli Health Ministry has called on passengers ofEl Al flight 0104 from Toronto and Air France flight2220 to go to the hospital if they developed flu-likesymptoms, said the report.—Internet

Technicians work with eggs in the inoculation area of Sinovac Biotech Ltd, aChinese vaccine making company, during production of a vaccine for the H1N1flu virus in Beijing on 14 June, 2009. Vaccine makers germinate the virus infertilized chicken eggs in a process that can take four to six months.—INTERNET

International child abductions byparents rising

NEWARK, 14 June—Itwas a globe-trotting ro-mance: a handsomeAmerican working as amodel in Italy falls in lovewith a Brazilian beautystudying fashion design inMilan. They marry in1999, settle in the tonyNew Jersey shore town ofRed Bank, and have a son.

Four years later, thecouple’s relationship be-gins to change from an in-ternational love affair intoa diplomatic nightmare.

The woman, BrunaBianchi, took the couple’sson to visit her relatives inBrazil in 2004 but neverreturned. The boy’s father,David Goldman of TintonFalls, NJ, has been bat-tling to get his son backever since.

While the Goldmancase has been prominentin recent news coverage,it isn’t the only dramaticcustody case being foughtacross international bor-ders. The US State De-

partment says such paren-tal abductions involvingAmerican children are ris-ing. There were more than1,000 new cases of Ameri-can children taken by aparent to another countrylast year — a 35 percentincrease over 2007, ac-cording to the department.

The international tug-of-wars get even more dif-ficult to resolve when na-tions disagree on whichparent should keep achild.—Internet

This photograph taken on 19 April, shows the skeletal remains of a ship at ashipbreaking yard in Shitakundo, some 16 kms from Chittagong. A contro-

versial global treaty to clean up the ship recycling industry will mean a boomin business for the Bangladeshi magnates whose workers pull the often toxic

vessels apart, experts say.—INTERNET

Gout cases increasing in United StatesFoot and mouth disease outbreaks insoutheast Nepal

New deal brings boom forBangladesh shipbreakers

Guatemala urges two swine flu-hit towns to shut down GUATEMALA CITY, 14 June —Guatemala’s govern-ment is asking two towns to close down nearly all publicvenues to prevent the spread of swine flu.Health Secre-tary Celso Cerezo said the virus has infected 96 peoplein the Central America country, including 11 in the last24 hours. Most have recovered.On Wednesday, Guate-mala suspended all schools nationwide until at least July1.Cerezo said most of the cases have been reported intwo small southern towns, Palin and Santa Lucia.Thegovernment recommended on Friday that those townsclose restaurants, bars movie, theaters, churches and otherpublic venues until the epidemic subsides.—Internet

KATHMANDU, 14 June—An outbreak of foot andmouth disease has af-fected cattle of five Vil-lage Development Com-mittees (VDCs) in Sirahadistrict of southeasternNepal for the past fewdays. According to Live-stock Sub-Center atBariyarpatti of Siraha,some 150 km southeast

of Nepali capitalKathmandu, more than 50percent buffaloes, cowsand goats are sufferingfrom the infectious dis-ease in Mohanpur,Bidhanpur, Tulsipur,Tunebapatti andBariyarpatti. Doriklal Yadav, chief atthe sub-center, said thehealth institution receives

the flow of around 50cows and buffaloes daily,Nepali national newsagency RSS reported onSunday. He fears that foot andmouth disease could turnendemic since the sub-center is only offering pri-mary treatment and lacksadvance treatment.

Internet

India’s flu A/H1N1 cases rise to 17NEW DELHI, 14 June—The number of A/H1N1 flu

cases in India has increased to 17 on Saturday, accord-ing to the semi-official Press Trust of India.

A boy, 1.5 years old, was tested positive for the newflu virus on Saturday, one day after his six-year-oldsister was confirmed to be infected on Friday in thecentral city of Hyderabad, said the report.

The two children arrived in India with their parentsfrom New York on 10 June.

They are receiving treatment in hospital, accompa-nied by their grandfather, who was put on anti-viraldrugs and has tested negative for the virus.

Internet

SAN DIEGO, 14 June —Pharmaceutical compa-nies are working on newmedications for gout asexperts say up to six mil-lion US residents mayhave the disease.

The New York Timessaid on Saturday that anew gout medication wasapproved by the Food andDrug Administration thisyear for the first time inmore than four decades.

Ardea Bioscienceschief executive BarryQuart, whose San Diegocompany is attempting tocreate similar gout medi-cations, said the extremelypainful affliction has es-sentially become forgottenin the medical world.

“It’s kind of like the for-gotten disease,” he told theTimes.But studies indicatethe number of gout casesnationwide may have dou-

bled during the last 30years. The disease typi-cally strikes older indi-viduals and is up to fourtimes more common inmen than women.

The Times said gout be-gins with occasional pain-ful attacks but the attacksincrease in frequency asthe disease begins to cre-ate crystallized depositscalled tophi that can bedisabling.—Internet

DHAKA, 14 June—Acontroversial global treatyto clean up the ship recy-cling industry will mean aboom in business for theBangladeshi magnateswhose workers pull theoften toxic vessels apart,experts say.

The International Mari-time Organisation (IMO)agreement on ship-break-ing was signed last monthby 65 countries, and busi-ness leaders say the dealfinally legitimises theirwork and should heraldmajor growth for the sec-tor.

But trade unionists andenvironmentalists havecriticised the treaty forfailing to address the seri-ous dangers faced byworkers and the pollutionthat the industry causes.

About 25,000 men areemployed on theSitakundu coastline ofsouth-east Bangladesh,exposed to dire conditionsand the risk of poisoningfrom asbestos, mercuryand other substances.

Ships are driven into the10-kilometre (six-mile)stretch of beaches on hightides and then taken apart,

with their steel recycledfor uses such as construc-tion.

“Around a dozen newcompanies are popping uphere,” Enam Ahmed, tech-nical head of the Bangla-desh Shipbreakers Asso-ciation, told AFP fromSitakundu.

“Yards that have beendormant for years arebouncing back to life.There’s a sense a boomtime is coming with moreships heading our way.The new treaty recognisesthe way we work.”

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Del Bosque warns Spainin prime condition

RUSTENBURG, 14 June—Spain coach Vicente delBosque warned on Saturday his team was in prime

Spanish national footballteam’s coach Vicente delBosque plays with theball during a trainingsession at Rustenburg’sRoyal Bafokeng stadiumon the eve of theirConfederations Cupmatch against NewZealand.—INTERNET

President’s seal of approvalboosts Bafana

JOHANNESBURG, 14 June—A visit by PresidentJacob Zuma to inspect his troops on the eve ofbattle has given Confederations Cup hosts SouthAfrica a huge boost ahead of Sunday’s openeragainst Iraq, captain Aaron Mokoena said.

Bafana Bafana (The Boys) go into the GroupA confrontation with the Asian champions at EllisPark in high spirits with, according to theirBrazilian coach Joel Santana, no injury worriesdespite a lingering question mark over TekoModise’s fitness.

And the charismatic South African head ofstate’s seal of approval at a Saturday morningtraining session has only heightened spirits inSantana’s squad.

“President Zuma made our day,” Mokoena tolda press conference.—Internet

South African President JacobZuma juggles with the ballnext to South Africa’s captainAaron Mokoena (L) in Sowetoon the eve on the FIFA Confe-derations Cup.—INTERNET

Cotto retains WBO titlewith win over Clottey

Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico, landsa body shot while fighting JoshuaClottey, of Ghana, during the thirdround of a WBO welterweightchampionship boxing match on 13June, 2009, at Madison SquareGarden in New York.—INTERNET

Djokovic to face Haas in HalleATP final

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returnsthe ball to Belgium’s OlivierRochus during their semi-finalmatch of the ATP tennistournament at the Gerry-Weber-Stadium in the western Germantown of Halle.—INTERNET

Nordqvist leads rain-shortenedLPGA Championship

Anna Nordqvist ofSweden, prepares to teeoff on the fourth holeduring the third round

of the LPGAChampionship golftournament, on 13

June, 2009, in Havre deGrace, Md.—INTERNET

Li hands Sharapova Birmingham defeat

China’s Li Na

Roddick hopeful of winningWimbledon fitness battle

Four-time Queen’sClub champion Andy

Roddick returns a shotto US John Blake

during the semi-finalmatch at the tennis

tournament at Queen’sClub in west London.

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Murray turnson style toreach first

Queen’s finalLONDON, 14 June—

Top seed Andy Murrayswept into his firstQueen’s final with aruthless 6-2, 6-4 winover Juan Carlos Ferreroon Saturday.

Murray is bidding tobecome the first Britonto win the pre-Wimbledon warm-upevent since BunnyAustin in 1938.

Queen’s was thevenue for Murray’sfirst Tour victory in asingles match four yearsago and the 22-year-oldhas once again beenright at home on thegrass courts of westLondon.

Internet

NEW YORK,14 June—Under normalcircumstances,the brutal fightthat MiguelCotto and JoshClottey wagedon the eve of thenational PuertoRican Dayparade mighthave left fansclamoring for arematch. Thenagain, withManny Pac-quiao sitting ringside, economics might prevail.

Overcoming a grisly early cut from an accidentalheadbutt and several ferocious rounds from Clottey,the gutsy Cotto fought to a narrow split decisionSaturday night. He not only retained his WBO titleinside a packed Madison Square Garden, he may haveearned a big-money shot at Pacquiao, the reigningpound-for-pound king.—Internet

condition despite agruelling season and werepumped up to win theConfederations Cup.

The European cham-pions are on a phenomenal32-match unbeaten streakand open their tournamentin this mining town onSunday against NewZealand.

Del Bosque, theformer Real Madridcoach, said he had alreadypicked his starting 11 butwas not prepared to revealnames.—Internet

BIRMINGHAM, 14 June—Maria Sharapova’sWimbledon build-upsuffered a setback onSaturday when she wasknocked out of theBirmingham grasscourtevent 6-4, 6-4 by China’sLi Na.

Sharapova, thechampion here in 2004and 2005, is still feeling

her way back after over 10months out with ashoulder injury and sheshowed signs of a quickrevival by reaching theFrench Open quarter-finals.

But the unseededRussian was plagued byerrors on Saturday,suffering six breaks ofserve in her 90-minutedefeat. “I definitelywasn’t playing with thesame intensity I had in thelast couple of matches.Some days you have it,some days you don’t,”said Sharapova who haddefeated Li at RolandGarros.

Internet

HAVRE DE GRACE, 14June—As a rookieplaying in the thirdround of the LPGAChampionship, AnnaNordqvist probablyfigured the only problemshe might encounter wasa little bit of nervousness.

That wasn’t an issueon Saturday. Neither wasa lengthy rain delay orfading daylight. Nothing,it seems, is too much forthis cool Swede tohandle.

Nordqvist took a one-shot lead over LindseyWright by making a 20-foot birdie putt on No. 15after the horn halted playbecause of darkness. Theplayers were allowed tofinish the hole, and the22-year-old Nordqvisttook advantage bymoving to 10 under.

“Obviously finishingwith the birdie bringsme some good mo-mentum for (Sunday),”Nordqvist said.

Internet

HALLE, 14J u n e — W o r l dnumber fourNovak Djokovicbooked his place inthe final of Halle’sATP grasscourttournament withan error-strewn 7-6 (9/7), 6-4 winover qualifierOlivier Rochus onSaturday.

Having blastedhis way pastAustria’s Jurgen Melzer in Friday’s quarter-final,Djokovic was far from assured in the semi-final againsta player ranked 136th in the world, but finally wonthrough to his second grasscourt final.

“There were a lot of long rallies and I had to workhard at the baseline,” admitted Djokovic who playsGermany’s Tommy Haas in Sunday’s final.—Internet

LONDON, 14 June—Andy Roddick isconfident of winning hisWimbledon fitness battleafter the American wasforced to pull out of hisQueen’s semi-finalagainst James Blake withan ankle injury.

Roddick, a two-timeWimbledon finalist,suffered a twisted anklewhen he slipped off theback of the court whiletrying to play a lob in thethird game of the first seton Saturday.

The world number sixcarried on until the end ofthe seventh game when hecalled an injury time outand had his right ankleand foot heavilybandaged.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudy inkayah State and lower Sagaing Division, rain orthundershowers have been widespread in Kayin , Mon Statesand Taninthayi Division, fairly widespread in Kachin Stateand Upper Sagaing Division, scattered in Mandalay andYangon Divisions and isolated in the remaining areas withisolated heavyfalls in Kayin and Mon States, Mandalay andTaninthayi Divisions. The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Thantaunggyi (5.60) inches, Theinzayat(3.19) inches, Meikhtila and Dawei (3.03) inches each, Hpa-an (1.18) inches and Kawkareik (1.06) inches.

Maximum temperature on 13-6-2009 was 88°F.Minimum temperature on 14-6-2009 was 71°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 14-6-2009 was 85%.Total sunshine hours on 13-6-2009 was (2.0) hours approx.

Rainfall on 14-6-2009 was (0.08) inch at Mingaladon,(Nil) at Kaba-Aye and (0.75) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (28.58) inches atMingaladon, (34.61) inches at Kaba-Aye and (39.49) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southwest at (15:30) hours MSTon 13-6-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 15th June 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be widespread in Kachin, Kayin,Mon States and Taninthayi Division, farily widespread inShan and Rakhine States, upper Sagaing, Ayeyawdy andYangon Divisions, scattered in Chin State, Mandalay andBago Divisions and isolated in the remaining areas. Degreeof certainty is (80%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Weak to moderatemonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 15-6-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for15-6-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for15-6-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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BEIJING, 14 June—A newly-wedded couple, both27 years old, lost their lives in a thunder stroke onSaturday afternoon when climbing a part of the ”WildGreat Wall” in suburban Beijing, the Beijing YouthDaily reported on Sunday.

The man, surnamed Wei, was a staffer of the StateIntellectual Property Office and the woman, surnamedChen, was a Ph.D candidate of the prestigious PekingUniversity, according to the report. Phone calls to thelocal police bureau on Sunday remain unanswered. Awitness surnamed Ji was quoted by the Beijing Timesas saying that the two, together with three other tourists,continued climbing toward the peak of the Jiankou partof the Great Wall despite strong rainfall, thunder andlightning.

The two fell off the 50-metre-high wall, Ji said.They already stopped breathing when rescuers arrivedabout two hours later. The other three tourists, allcolleagues of Wei, were slightly injured and are backin the city of Beijing. This part of the Great Wall,located in the Huairou District, is known for beingabrupt and rugged.— MNA/Xinhua

Lettuce cake : Sydney Aquarium’s Dugong‘Wuru’ eats lettuce from a special lettuce birthday

cake underwater during the Aquarium’s 21stbirthday celebration in on Sydney.

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* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development ofother 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 the coun-try and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the handsof 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

Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 14 June— Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council of the Unionof Myanmar Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior General Than Shwe received theSri Lankan goodwill delegation led by Presidentof the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri LankaMr. Mahinda Rajapaksa and party at BayintnaungYeiktha, here, at 2 pm today.

Also present at the call together withSenior General Than Shwe were Vice-Chairmanof the State Peace and Development CouncilDeputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Serv-ices Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior

Senior General Than Shwe receivesSri Lankan goodwill delegation

General Maung Aye, Member of the SPDC Gen-eral Thura Shwe Mann of the Ministry of Defence,Prime Minister General Thein Sein, Secretary-1of the State Peace and Development Council Gen-eral Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Minister forForeign Affairs U Nyan Win, Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura Aye Myint and Myanmar Am-bassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic ofSri Lanka U Ohn Thwin.

The Sri Lankan goodwill delegation wasaccompanied by Sri Lankan Ambassador to theUnion of Myanmar Mr. Newton Gunaratna andembassy staff.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe cordially

greets President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa

of the Democratic Socialist Republic of

Sri Lanka at Bayintnaung Yeiktha

in Nay Pyi Taw.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe receives

President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa of

the Democratic Socialist Republic of

Sri Lanka and party at Bayintnaung

Yeiktha in Nay Pyi Taw.

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