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Volume XVIII, Number 248 4th Waning of Nadaw 1372 ME Saturday, 25 December, 2010

* 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

Comrades,At this Passing out

of Parade of the No. 12Intake of the Defence Serv-ices Medical Academy, Ihave words of note for

Build on national reconsolidation that has beenachieved, avoid all thoughts and notions that might

lead to disintegration of the UnionProficient physician and victorious soldier need to have full physical and mental

attainments and to win battles on battlefield while at the same time serving as medicalprofessionals who add to prestige of Medical Corps

NAY PYI TAW, 24 Dec—The following is the full text of the address delivered by Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shweat the Passing out of Parade of No. 12 Intake of the Defence Services Medical Academy today.

you to which you shouldpay particular attention.Comrades,

In our country,over 100 ethnic groupshave lived in friendship

and harmony since timeimmemorial. All the na-tional peoples have foundunity in diversity, havingbeen born and living onthe same land. The geo-

graphical features of ourcountry, which includehigh mountain ranges andmajor rivers that flow fromthe north to the south, maketransportation difficult andimpeded interactionsamong the national peo-ples. Moreover, under co-lonialism, they weresubject to many years ofsystematic divide-and-rulepractices. The nationalpeoples become suspi-cious of one another,prompting our leaders tomake strenuous effortsduring the struggle for in-dependence so that the cen-tral Myanmar and themountainous regionscould gain independencetogether.

In the post-inde-pendence period, suspi-cions toward one anotherintensified, giving rise to

multi-coloured insurgen-cies across the country.

So, during thetime when the Tatmadawhas assumed the responsi-bilities of the State, east-west and north-south net-works of motor roads,railroads and airports havebeen built. With improvedtransportation and com-munication, friendshipand harmony among thenational peoples havebeen further consolidatedand progress has beenachieved in the economic,health and education sec-tors of the States.Comrades,

Our national peo-ples have the right to settleanywhere in the country,with the result that in everyarea, many nationalpeoples live harmoni-ously together. In this day

and age, it is impossible toseparate each national peo-ple and the very thoughtsand notions that give riseto such regional bias havebecome anachronistic.This is a sign of progressfor greater nationalreconsolidation. I wouldlike to urge you to build onthe nationalreconsolidation that hasbeen achieved and avoidall thoughts and notionsthat might lead to the disin-tegration of the Union.Comrades,

Due to theimpact of domestic in-surgencies, the nationalpeople living in borderareas have laggedbehind in development.Our soldiers, whoave been to everyorested or mountainous

(See page 8)

Senior General Than Shwe delivers a speech at Passing out of Paradeof No. 12 Intake of the Defence Services Medical Academy.—MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 25 December, 2010

Saturday, 25 December, 2010

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

The majority of Myanmar’s population livein rural areas, whose economy relies onagriculture. So, efforts are being made to supplyadequate irrigation water and drinking water forthose regions. With clusters of dams, sluice gatesand river-water pumping stations already builtthere, the cultivation of various crops has beenboosted.

The work for ensuring smooth transport ispart of the needs being fulfilled to improve theliving conditions of the rural people. Inter-villageroads and rural-to-urban roads are beingconstructed. The upgrading of earth roads intogravel ones has enabled the people to travel in allseasons.

Moreover, new school buildings, stationhospitals, rural health centres and self-reliantvillage libraries are being built in much of thecountry, allowing the rural youth to have moreeducation opportunities. Similarly, the local peopleare now in a position to broaden their scope ofknowledge.

Aungmyintha Model Village near TanpheVillage, Myitkyina, Kachin State was handedover on 21 December. A 16-bed station hospital inthe village and a concrete road and bridges onMyitkyina-Lansone road section were opened aswell on that day.

Thanks to the opening of new stationhospitals, patient wards and dispensaries, morehealth care has been provided for the people ofvillages concerned and their environs. In providinghealth care, educative measures are also beingtaken in rural areas for prevention as well astreatment and personal hygiene.

Nowadays, model villages are growing innumber in rural regions, and they are boastingabout their road transport, education, health andeconomic development. With the assistance incash and manpower from the State, regionalbodies, social organizations and public wellwishers,the rural areas of Myanmar are progressing dayby day.

Model villages indicative ofrural progress

YANGON, 24 Dec— The opening of Diploma inBanking (Part Time) Evening Course No.2,organized by Myanmar Banks Association underthe supervision of the Ministry of Finance andRevenue, was held at the hall of the association herethis morning with an address by Minister for Financeand Revenue U Hla Tun.

It was also attended by Vice-Governor of CentralBank of Myanmar U Maung Maung Win, directors-

Diploma in Banking (Part Time) Course No. 2 opens

general and managing directors of the ministry,chairmen of state-owned and private-owned banks,managing directors, rector of University ofEconomics, the principal of Institute of BankingService (Yangon) and teachers, senior bankingexperts and trainees.

A total of 70 trainees— 27 from state- andprivate-owned banks and 43 others—are attendingthe course which lasts two year.—MNA

YANGON, 24 Dec —United Asia Co Ltd hasoffered AUX air-conditioners at adiscount during the

AUX air-conditioners on sale in X’mas, New YearChristmas and the NewYear period.

The company hasoffered 5 per centdiscount on AUX air-

conditioners and hasgiven safe guard for theair conditioners free tocustomers.

AUX air-conditioners come toMyanmar market with a4-year guarantee. Theyare equipped with a autorestart system, digitaldisplay, 4-way systemair-flow and Japanesebranded compressor andcircuit, giving a

Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun delivers an address at opening of Diploma inBanking (Part Time) Evening Course No. 2.—F&R

guarantee that the airconditioners are longtime quality.

AUX airconditioners areavailable at sales agentsacross the country andat the United Asia CoLtd, the sole agent, atNo. 225, AnawrahtaRoad, between 11 Streetand Hledan Street,Lanmadaw Township,Ph: 01 210834 and Fax:0095-1-228384.

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YANGON, 24 Dec — Hlawga Park inMingaladon Township, Yangon Region is opendaily from 8 am to 5 pm. But on 25 December(Christmas Day), it will be open from 8 am to 6pm for public rest and recreation.—MNA

Hlawga Park extends openinghours on X’mas Day

YANGON, 24 Dec —Chairman of YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee Mayor UAung Thein Lin unveiledthe signboard of the newThiri Mingala Market toopen the market in HlineTownship today.

The newlyconstructed market is

New Thiri Mingala Marketinaugurated

built on 17.75 acres,comprising ninebuildings and over 2000shops and restaurantsand a parking with acapacity of over 400cars. Drinking waterstorage tank and watersupply facilities are alsobuilt for the market.

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YANGON, 24 Dec—Twin Brothers Perfume andCosmetics Trading has been importing Vasmolbrand hair dye from India since 2003 anddistributing it in Myanmar.

Vasmol dye is made of forest products withoutcontent of ammonia peroxide that can causedamage to hair and skin.

Twin Brothers sells black and brown haircreams.

Vasmol brand cosmetics and hair dye areavailable at stores and supermarkets in thecountryside. Those wishing to buy the productsmay dial 01-73037802, 01-73058614, 01-386509,01-200676 and 095112647.—MNA

Vasmol brand cosmetics andhair dye invites sales agents

The best time to plant a tree was

20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

NAY PYI TAW, 24Dec—A 12-wheel Nissandriven by Than Naing Ooplunged into a ravine,about 30 feet from themile post (98/3-4) onHeho-Shwenyaung Roadnear Taunglaylonevillage in KalawTownship, Shan State(South) after having a flattyre at about 6 am on 20December. The accidentkilled two people andinjured three including thedriver.

Similarly, at about1.15 pm on 20 December,

Truck plunged into ravine inKalaw Township

a passenger bus from theBM 189 bus line drivenby Soe Aung ran over agrandmother and hergrandchild crossing theroad near the easternstairways of KyaikkhaukPagoda in ThanlyinTownship, Yangon SouthDistrict. The grandchilddied on the way to hospitaland the grandma brokeher right thigh. Inconnection with theaccident, a lawsuit hasbeen filed against the hit-and-run driver, it islearnt.—MNA

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KABUL, 24 Dec—ANATO helicopteropened fire on a convoyof cars heading to anevent hosted by the headof a local councilThursday, killing apolice officer and thebrother of a lawmaker,Provincial officials innorthern Afghanistansaid.

The chief of police,the governor and the

PESHAWAR, 24 Dec—At least three soldiers and24 militants were killed Friday in gunfights in anorthwestern Pakistani tribal area after militantsattacked paramilitary check points, officials said.

“About 150 Taleban militants attacked fiveFrontier Corps checkposts in Baidnami village nearthe border with Afghanistan,” a senior securityofficial told.

“The attack was repulsed leaving 24 militantsdead, and three of our men (paramilitary soldiers)embraced martyrdom,” the official said.

Local administration officials in Ghalanai, themain town of Mohmand tribal district, and theparamilitary force confirmed the attack andcasualties.

“Militants ran away, leaving behind dead bodies.Twelve soldiers were wounded in the fighting,” theofficial said.—Internet

Afghan policemen and soldiers inspect the site of a suicide bombing inKunduz on 23 December. Three people died in northern AfghanistanThursday as a NATO helicopter opened fire on a car and a suicide

bomber blew himself up at a busy city centre traffic checkpoint, officialssaid.—INTERNET

NATO strike on local convoy kills two,say officials

Iraqi troops search a vehicle in Baghdad.Gunmen using silenced weapons have killed two

motorists in Baghdad, including an Iraqibrigadier general, and wounded a third, the

defence and interior ministries said onThursday.—INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 24 Dec—Gunmen shot dead a seniorIraqi army officer and wounded a police officer intwo attacks in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministrysource said on Thursday.

Brigadier Imad Hashim of the army’s 6th

Division was shot dead and his daughter woundedwhen gunmen carrying silenced weapons openedfire on his car in Baghdad western district ofMansour late on Wednesday, the source told Xinhuaon condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, gunmen opened fire onLieutenant Colonel Majid Hameed of the Iraqipolice and wounded him, while he was driving inBaghdad’s western district of Amriyah onWednesday evening, the source said.—Xinhua

Gunmen kill senior Iraqiofficer in Baghdad

Three soldiers, 24 militantskilled in NW Pakistan

Pakistani security personnel are seen at the siteof a suicide attack in Ghalanai, the main town inthe tribal District of Mohmand, on 6 December.

At least three soldiers and 24 militants were killedFriday in gunfights in a northwestern Pakistanitribal area after militants attacked paramilitary

check points, officials said.—INTERNET

A resident walksthrough debris left byhomes destroyed by alandslide triggered by

heavy rains inGramalote,

northeasternColombia,

Wednesday on 22Dec, 2010.INTERNET

SANTIAGO, 24 Dec—Chilean embassies around the world are taking extrasecurity measures after a mail bomb exploded Thursday at the country’sembassy in Rome. “After something like this, we have to take precautions,particularly in Rome,” Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno told a newsconference, without specifying what kind of measures will be taken.

“The bomb (in Rome) was wrapped in a letter and injured a Chilean, CesarMella, who works at the embassy,” he said.

Mella had serious injuries on both hands and risked losing sight in one ofhis eyes, Moreno added. He said Swiss, Ukrainian and Croatian embassies inRome also received mail bombs on Thursday, and a Swiss embassy employeewas also injured. No one has claimed responsibility and the motives areunknown.—Xinhua

Security reinforced at Chilean embassies aftermail bomb attack

SYDNEY, 24 Dec—Seven more naturaldisaster areas inAustralia’s New SouthWales (NSW) weredeclared on Friday as theworst flooding in yearsshows no signs of lettingup over Christmas.

The newly declaredseven natural disasterzones are in the state’ssouthwest and in thecentral west.

There are now 49natural disaster areas inNSW, each qualifyingfor commonwealth andstate cash.

Heavy rain thatcaused the flooding has

Seven new natural disasterzones declared in Australia’s

New South Wales

head of the Provincialcouncil of FaryabProvince all said thehelicopter strafed one carin the convoy, killing apoliceman and Moha-mmad Aminuddin, thebrother of formerparliament memberSarajuddin Mozafari.

Police chief KhalilAndarabi said twopolicemen and a civilianwere also wounded in

the strike.NATO said it was

investigating “theinadvertent death of twoindividuals and thewounding of two others”in an operation it hadconducted in Faryab inan attempt to interceptsuspected militants. It didnot mention whether theoperation involvedhelicopters.

Internet

cleared from most partsof the state, but thelower reaches of manyinland rivers continueto rise, swamping roadsand isolating com-munities.

The State Emer-gency Service (SES),which has carried out150 rescues since theflooding began in lateNovember, said it is wellplaced to continuehelping communitiesover Christmas.

Xinhua

BOGOTA, 24 Dec—Atleast 20 people werebelieved to have beenburied by a landslide thattook place on a highwayin the northeastern depart-ment of Santander inColombia, local authoritiessaid on Thursday.

A local police sourcetold Xinhua on the phonethat multiple landslideshad occurred over thepast week on the roadconnecting Rio Negroand El Playon, buryingsome houses along theroad.

On Wednesday night,a major landslidedestroyed some houses in

20 people feared buried bylandslide in northeastern

ColombiaLa Ceiba area, where anillegal urban settlement islocated, and more than 20residents there werereported missing.

So far only the bodiesof two women were foundby rescuers from the localemergency agencies, andthe search is still underway.

Speaking on the localCaracol Radio, AlexPerez, a pastor of theneighborhood, said thatauthorities had warnedresidents in the area againstthe landslides andevacuated most of them,but some people still choseto stay.

Xinhua

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Skype was recovering on Thursday froma major outage that left millions of

people unable to use the popular internetcommunication service.—INTERNET

Wal-Mart invests in Chinesee-commerce firm

SHANGHAI, 24 Dec— Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largestretailer, has invested in China’s top online seller of consumerelectronics and communication products, in a push to extend itsreach to more Chinese buyers.

Chinese online business-to-consumer (B2C) company 360buyJingdong Mall secured $500 million in funding from six strategicpartners, including Wal-Mart, a 360buy spokeswoman said onFriday.

Wal-Mart’s investment amount was not disclosed but thecompany has been eager to tap into the pocketbooks of China’sburgeoning middle class, and earlier this year launched in Chinaan e-commerce site for its Sam’s Club warehouse stores.

“It’s a smart move for them (Wal-Mart), because 360buy, inmy opinion, is one of the best B2C online companies in Chinatoday,” said Michael Clendenin, managing director ofRedTechAdvisors, a technology research firm.—Reuters

Viacom said Thursday that it has sold

Harmonix, creator of the “Rock Band”

videogame, to New York-based private

investment firm Columbus Nova.

INTERNET

Online holiday sales up15.4 percent:

SpendingPulseNEW YORK, 24 Dec— US online

shopping rose 15.4 percent to $36.4billion for the holiday shoppingseason, a MasterCard Advisors’SpendingPulse report showed onThursday.

Online sales registered double-digit growth in six out of seven weekssince 31 October, SpendingPulse said.

“Today eCommerce accounts fora much larger share of overall retailsales compared to a few years ago,”SpendingPulse’s Michael McNamarasaid in a statement. Gains were led byapparel, where online shoppingaccounted for 18.8 percent of overallsales in that category, up from 16.9percent in 2009. —Reuters

26 pct in US used cell phones for activismNEW YORK, 24 Dec—If you voted this fall, there’s a

good chance you were texting about it.Twenty-six percent of adult Americans used their cell

phones to encourage others to vote in November’s mid-term elections or to report back on conditions at their localvoting sites, among other political activities, according to asurvey issued Thursday by the Pew Internet & AmericanLife Project.

In particular, 14 percent said they used their phones totell others that they voted, while 12 percent used theirhandsets to receive election updates. Another 1 percentused an election-themed app to keep posted.

If respondents used their phones to take photos and

videos related to the election or contributed money to acampaign, they, too, were counted among the 26 percentwho used their phones for political purposes during theelection season. Pew did not measure how likely cell phoneusers were to share their thoughts over social networkssuch as Facebook and Twitter — favoured tools amongmany of the candidates running for office.

The November survey found that men and womenwere about as likely to use their phones to send politicalmessages. But it reported more use of phones for politicsamong the young, affluent and college-educated. Pew alsosaid its respondents voted equally for Democratic andRepublican candidates.—Internet

Growing hypoxic zones reduce habitatfor billfish and tuna

NEW YORK, 24 Dec—Billfish and tuna,important commercialand recreational fishspecies, may be morevulnerable to fishingpressure because ofshrinking habitat,according to a new studypublished by scientistsfrom NOAA, The BillfishFoundation, andUniversity of MiamiRosenstiel School ofMarine and AtmosphericScience.

An expanding zoneof low oxygen, knownas a hypoxic zone, in theAtlantic Ocean isencroaching upon thesespecies’ preferredo x y g e n - a b u n d a n thabitat, forcing them intoshallower waters wherethey are more likely to becaught.

During the study,published recently in thejournal Fisheries

First high-temp spin-field-effecttransistor created

TEXAS, 24 Dec—An internationalteam of researchers featuring TexasA&M University physicist JairoSinova has announced a breakthroughthat gives a new spin to semiconductornanoelectronics and the world ofinformation technology.

The team has developed anelectrically controllable device whosefunctionality is based on an electron’sspin. Their results, the culmination ofa 20-year scientific quest involvingmany international researchers andgroups, are published in the currentissue of Science.

The team, which also includesresearchers from the HitachiCambridge Laboratory and theUniversities of Cambridge andNottingham in the United Kingdomas well as the Academy of Sciencesand Charles University in the CzechRepublic, is the first to combine thespin-helix state and anomalous Halleffect to create a realistic spin-field-effect transistor (FET) operable at hightemperatures, complete with an AND-gate logic device — the first suchrealization in the type of transistorsoriginally proposed by Purdue

Samples of surfaceskin slime are taken

from the Atlanticsailfish to determinegender.—INTERNET

Illustration of the spin-Hallinjection device used as a base for

the spin-field-effect transistor(FET). A gate on top of the electron

channel (not shown) controls theprocession of the spin-helix state(shown in upper right panel) and,

with this, the output signalsmeasured in the Hall bars.

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University’s Supriyo Datta andBiswajit Das in 1989.

“One of the major stumblingblocks was that to manipulate spin,one may also destroy it,” Sinovaexplains. “It has only recently beenrealized that one could manipulate itwithout destroying it by choosing aparticular set-up for the device andmanipulating the material.—Internet

Oceanography, scientiststagged 79 sailfish andblue marlin with satellitetracking devices in thewestern North Atlantic,off south Florida and theCaribbean; and easterntropical Atlantic, off thecoast of West Africa. Thepop off archival satellitetags monitoredhorizontal and verticalmovement patterns.Researchers confirmedthat billfish prefer oxygenrich waters closer to thesurface and will activelyavoid waters low inoxygen.

While these hypoxiczones occur naturally inmany areas of the world’stropical and equatorialoceans, scientists areconcerned because thesezones are expanding andoccurring closer to thesea surface, and areexpected to continue togrow as sea temperatures

rise.“The hypoxic zone

off West Africa, whichcovers virtually all theequatorial waters in theAtlantic Ocean, is roughlythe size of the continentalUnited States, and it’sgrowing,” said Dr Eric DPrince, NOAA’s Fisher-ies Service researchfishery biologist.

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These days, some are asking and someare demanding that the Tatmadaw governmenthold dialogues with opposition parties, politicalforces and remnant armed insurgents for nationalreconsolidation in Myanmar.

There have been such strong requestsand demands throughout successivegovernments in the nation. In response, theAFPFL government and the RevolutionaryCouncil government held talks with anti-government groups.

However, national reconsolidation wasnot achieved as much as it should be. It wasbecause anti-government groups stuck todemands for fulfilling the desires of a certainparty and a national race as a basic principle fornational unity, without taking into considerationthe root causes that broke up national unity.

In the time of the State Peace and Devel-opment Council, 17 major national race armedgroups and many small groups have built unitythrough armistices since they have witnessed thegovernment’s efforts to improve the economic,education, health and transport sectors, and theyhave understood that armed insurrection resultsin nothing more than untold miseries. Androundabout 15 of those groups haveunconditionally surrendered arms for peace.

In reality, political parties and forces,in order to achieve sustainable nationalreconsolidation, have to stay in touch witheconomic conditions of the nation and keep inmind the correct economic and politicalprogrammes (strategies and tactics) for na-tional development tackling economicconditions.

Myanmar’s policy in the post-World WarII was just a combination of feudalism andcapitalism.

Under the circumstances, the drive fornational development called for harmonious co-operation of the entire people to introduce themarket economy and the multiparty democracysystem in the nation.

Yet, Myanmar Communists were underthe influence of views on Socialism becauseleft-wing socialism was in vogue followingestablishment of the Union of Soviet SocialistRepublic in Russia through October Revolution;and Soviet troops’ victory in the Second WorldWar. So, Communists clung on to the wrongconcept that the independence regained throughpeace talks with the British government wasmerely sham independence, and the nationbecame another form of colony as theindependence implied the cooperation betweenthe colonial government and wealthy Bamars.It was Communists that made the wrong choice:to introduce Socialism through all possibleforms of armed insurgency and deposition ofthe AFPFL government, instead of joininghands with the AFPFL government for themarket economy and the multiparty democracy.

What is requirement for national reconsolidation in Myanmar?Kyaw Myint Naing

In consequence, the nation saw multicoloredinsurgency and disintegration of nationalsolidarity.

More than one decade into the armedconflict, conditions of both armed insurgent groupsand the then government were going downhill.The AFPFL government was in no position torestore the State’s sovereignty and ensure non-disintegration of the Union. Armed groups wereunable to grab State power. The RevolutionaryCouncil government was thus formed for ensuringnon-disintegration of the Union and perpetuationof sovereignty. Nevertheless, the RevolutionaryCouncil government could not go against Social-ism, and the Myanmar Socialist Programme wasinevitably introduced.

Twenty-six years after that in 1988, massdemonstration took place, and lack of correctpolitical leadership reduced the nation to anarchicland. That forced the Tatmadaw to form the StateLaw and Order Restoration Council government.

After taking over State responsibilities,the SLORC saved the people from mob rules, andopened door to democracy by revoking theMyanmar Socialist Programme which provedunpopular with the people, and introducing themarket economy and the multiparty democracysystem in compliance with the aspiration of thepeople.

Nonetheless, anti-government politiciansinside and outside the nation regarded the govern-ment’s democratization as suppressing democracymovements and a violent military coup.

With wrong conviction, they deemed theSLORC government, which opened democracydoor, to be barrier to democracy as well as amilitary junta, instead of a democracy ally.

The SLORC government held electionsin 1990, and paved ways for peaceful transitionto democracy by implementing election resultsthrough the constitution. But, NLD stuck tothe concept that democracy could beintroduced in the nation only through thedownfall of the dictatorship. NLD opposed thedrive to formulate a constitution and walkedout of the National Convention. Confrontingwith the SLORC government, organizing thepublic to devolve government orders, andconsidering that mass protests would occuronly when the people suffered adversities, theparty attempted to grab power in absence of aconstitution through international economicsanctions against Myanmar and mass protests.In that case, West Bloc countries and certaingroups under their influence were steadfastlyabetting anti-government groups. As a result,extremists and active NLD members weredetained in accordance with State StabilityLaw. And 1990 election results could not beimplemented in 13 years owing to lack of aconstitution, and the results were null andvoid. Therefore, the Tatmadaw governmenthad to lay down the State’s seven-step Road

Map and held the 2010 elections with the2008 constitution.

In that way, the Tatmadaw governmentis transforming the nation from military rulewithout a constitution into multiparty democ-racy system in which an elected governmentrules the nation in line with the constitution.

Internal and external anti-governmentgroups are not able to understand why theirprogrammes have not come true over a couple ofdecades. Now, they are making comments thatthe 2008 constitution and 2010 elections areparticularly intended to prolong the militaryrule.

Achievement in transforming a nationfrom old to new system is not because of gods orpolitical icons who are held in high esteemowing to wrong concepts, but because ofincreasing productivity with the market economy.Political scientists say that a principle that nogroups can stop in relations between productiveforces and production is that productive relationsgo together with productive forces.

And productive forces still go well withsocial relations. So, any of old social relationscome to an end before productive forces makeprogress. Productive relations depend onconditions of materials.

They also say that without material de-velopment in an old human society, there cannotbe better productive relations (new systems).So, human beings carry out manageable tasksonly. It can be deduced from aforesaid pointsthat progress of productive forces is necessaryfor transforming old to new system.

So, those in favour of true democracyhave to give advice and make suggestionswith a positive attitude, regarding thegovernment elected in 2010 elections as ademocracy ally and participating in thegovernment’s economic, political, social andpublic welfare tasks for improvement of themarket economy and the multiparty system.That is the only way to nationalreconsolidation.

Any ways to achieve nationalreconsolidation through non-violent, violent,indirect and direct approaches designed to controlthe ruling government will never come to fruition.It was evidenced by multicoloured insurgencythat came into existence following regainingindependence in 1948, 1988 mass protests, andwrong acts done for more than 20 years to cometo power without a constitution by NLD and itssupporters.

In conclusion, I would like to make apositive suggestion that anti-government groupsreview wrong concepts of democratization andnational reconsolidation, instead of urging anddemanding the present government for nationalunity.

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NAY PYI TAW, 24Dec—Chairman of theState Peace and Develop-ment Council Com-mander-in-Chief of De-

Senior General Than Shwe inspects progress ofproject for extended construction of stadium at

Youth Training Centre (Thuwunna)

fence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwe, ac-companied by Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment Council

Thiha Thura U Tin AungMyint Oo, Lt-Gen MinAung Hlaing of the Min-istry of Defence and party,arrived at the project for

extended construction ofstadium at Youth TrainingCentre (Thuwunna) inT h i n - g a n g y u nTownship, Yangon

briefing hall, Minister forSports Thura U Aye Myintreported that the YouthTraining Centre(Thuwunna) is located in

be extended with seatsonly. In addition to exten-sion of the stands, plansare under way to constructthe score board, masts, car

Region, at 1 pm today.The Senior General

and party were welcomedthere by Minister forSports Thura U AyeMyint, President ofMyanmar Football Fed-eration U Zaw Zaw,executives and officials.

The Senior Generalinspected conditions ofeastern, southern andnorthern stands includingthe grand stand of the sta-dium of the YTC(Thuwunna), tracks, andlayout of the stadium. MFFPresident U Zaw Zawconducted the SeniorGeneral round the projectsite. At the temporary

Thingangyun Township,six miles from downtownYangon. The YTC(Thuwunna) has 31 acresof area and its stadium, 21acres. The existingstadium was built underthe Myanmar-Japanfriendship programme in1987 to accommodate20,000 spectators, headded.

He further explainedthat at present, the grandstand with roof on thewestern wing of thestadium will be extendedwith seats. Roofs and seatswill be extended on theeastern stand. Southernand northern stands will

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe inspectsYouth Training Centre (Thuwunna).—MNA

A scale model of stadium at Youth Training Centre (Thuwunna) inThingangyun Township.—MNA

SeniorGeneral

Than Shweinspects

land prepa-ration forextendedconstruc-

tion ofstadium at

YouthTrainingCentre

(Thuwunna).MNA

parking, recreation centres,meeting rooms andcanteens. This morning,the stake-driving cer-emony was held for con-struction of extending thestands, he said.

After hearing thereports, the Senior Gen-eral gave guidance on con-struction tasks to be un-dertaken for meeting theinternational standards andpriority to be given to safetyof spectators.

Later, the SeniorGeneral inspected landpreparations for extensionof the stadium and left thevenue.

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NAY PYI TAW, 24 Dec — Chairman of the StatePeace and Development Council Commander-in-Chiefof Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe andwife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attended the graduationdinner of No.12 Intake of Defence Services MedicalAcademy held at the auditorium of the ConvocationHall of DSMA in Yangon at 6 p.m. today.

Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaingattend graduation dinner of DSMA 12

Also present on the occasion were Secretary-1of the State Peace and Development Council ThihaThura U Tin Aung Myint Oo, Lt-Gen Min AungHlaing of the Ministry of Defence, Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Vice-Admiral Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-Gen Myat Hein, senior militaryofficers of the Ministry of Defence, the commander

of Yangon Command, the ministers, the YangonMayor, the deputy ministers, departmental heads,senior military officers of Mingaladon Station, thecommandant of DSMA and advisors, facultymembers, graduate officers and their parents andrelatives.

MNA

Father Land sells condo, flats,decoration materials at discount

YANGON, 24 Dec —Father Land Construction& Decoration Co Ltd hasoffered from 5 to 20 percent discount oncondominium, flats andhome decoration materialsat Yangon Expo-2010 heldat the TatmadawConvention Hall here from23 to 26 December.

Besides, the company

has offered a gift of five-million worth mobile lineand a handset to customerswho make a K10 million-worth home decorationcontract with it and buyone flat from the company.

The company will alsoparticipate in the exhibitionon housing, living andfurniture at theTatmadaw Convention

Hall in Yangon from 1 to4 January.

Father LandConstruction &Decoration Co Ltd islocated at No. 219/221,Bo Myat Tun Road,Botahtaung Township, andcan be reached by 09-49298877, 09-5131071,09-5067474, 397649,296401.— MNA

Senior General Than Shwe attends...(from page 16)

Ministry of Defence,Defence ServicesInspection and Auditor-General (Army, Navyand Air) Maj-Gen KyawPhyo, Commander ofYangon Command Brig-Gen Tun Than, MinistersU Htay Oo, U Thaung,U Khin Maung Myint, UThein Swe, U Thein Zaw,U Lun Thi, Dr KyawMyint and Dr ChanNyein, Vice-Chief ofArmed Forces TrainingMaj-Gen Zaw Win,Directors Maj-Gen MyaWin, Maj-Gen HlaMyint, Maj-Gen KyawNyunt, Maj-Gen ThanSoe, Maj-Gen MaungMaung Ohn, Brig-GenHla Myint, Maj-GenThan Aung, Maj-GenThan Htay, Maj-GenSein Lin, Maj-Gen AyeMyint and senior military

officers, Yangon MayorU Aung Thein Lin,Commandant of DSMABrig-Gen Ko Ko Naing,senior military officersof the station, parentsand relatives of graduateofficers and guests.

At the parade,Commander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwetook the salute of thecadet companies.

The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Servicesinspected the graduationcadet companies. Thecadet companiesmarched past theCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services.

C o m m a n d e r - i n -Chief of DefenceServices Senior GeneralThan Shwe presented theBest Cadet Award toCadet Kyaw Lin,

Excellence in TrainingAward to Cadet Thet HtutHlaing and Excellencein Studies Award toCadet Thant Zin Oo.

Afterwards, Com-mander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwedelivered an address.

C o m m a n d e r - i n -Chief of DefenceServices Senior GeneralThan Shwe left theparade ground aftertaking salute of the cadetcompanies.

After completion ofthe parade, Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Senior GeneralThan Shwe met threeoutstanding cadets andtheir parents at the mainlecture hall of the DSMAand gave words ofencouragement tothem.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attend graduation dinner of No. 12 Intake of DSMA.—MNA

Visitors at booth of Father Land Co., Ltd.—MNA

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Build onnationalreconsolidationthat has been…

(from page 1)regions, realize these cir-cumstances and feelsympathy and compas-sion toward them. Thus,when the Tatmadawassumed the responsi-bilities of the State, theplan for the progress ofborder areas andnational races waslaunched. Later, the Min-istry for Progress of Bor-der Areas and NationalRaces and DevelopmentAffairs was establishedto work with dedicationfor the development ofhealth, education andeconomy of the nationalpeoples, devoting sub-stantial financial re-sources. Even now, theseefforts are continuing.And the national peo-ples can now enjoy thefruits of development. Iwould like to express mybelief and hope that thesuccessive governmentsthat will come to powerwill put forth ever greaterefforts and continuebuilding on these goodfoundations.Comrades,

You need bothphysical and mental at-tainments in order to safe-guard Our Three MainNational Causes: Non-Disintegration of the Un-ion, Non-Disintegrationof National Unity and

Perpetuation of Sover-eignty. Physical and men-tal attainments reinforceeach other. In the ArmedForces, physical attain-ments refer to combat ca-pability. Mental attain-ments refer to loyalty,unity, discipline and no-ble-mindedness. Youcomrades, who are boththe proficient physicianand victorious soldier atthe same time, need tohave the full physical andmental attainments. Youhave to be soldiers thatwin battles on the battle-field while at the sametime serving as medicalprofessionals who add to

the prestige of the Medi-cal Corps.Comrades,

The most funda-mental requisites for thedevelopment of any so-ciety is health. So theTatmadaw governmenthas placed an emphasison the fostering of medi-cal professionals with ad-vanced knowledge intheir fields and the ex-pansion of hospitals andclinics. More than 24 spe-cial regions have beendesignated and healthcare provision, up-graded.

The DefenceServices Medical

Academy wasestablished with the aimof producing goodmedical officers with fullphysical and mental at-tainments for theAmyotha Tatmadawwho will safeguard OurThree Main NationalCauses in addition totraining medical profes-sionals for the nation.

(See page 9)

Dignitaries seen atParade of No. 12

Intake of theDefence Services

Medical Academy.MNA

Senior General Than Shwe takes salute of the cadet companies of No. 12 Intake of the Defence Services MedicalAcademy.—MNA

Dignitaries seen at the Passing out Parade of No. 12 Intake of theDefence Services Medical Academy.— MNA

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(from page 8)Comrades,

The mission of the Medical Corps is “MAKEFIT TO FIGHT”. To achieve this aim, the motto“Goodwill, Compassion and Safety” should beadopted in carrying out health care duties.

For battlefield health care, you comradesshould research and document diseases that arecommon to various localities. In addition, youshould study how to provide protection againstthe threat of new weapons in warfare and theinjuries they may cause. It is necessary to continuestudying military affairs and medicine together.Comrades,

On the battlefield, you can expect all-round hardships. So, advance preparation isimportant. You should guard against any reduction

Build on nationalreconsolidation…

Dignitaries seen at Parade of

No. 12 Intake of the Defence Services Medical Academy.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe presents theexcellence in training award toCadet Thet Htut Hlaing.—MNA

Dignitaries seen at Parade of No. 12

Intake of the Defence Services Medical

Academy. — MNA

Senior General Than Shwe presents the bestcadet award to Cadet Kyaw Lin.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe presents theexcellence in studies award toCadet Thant Zin Oo.—MNA

in combat forces due to sickness throughprevention of disease under any circumstances,utilizing every means available. Health and hygieneregulations for battlefield need to be issued inconsultation with respective commanders.Supervision must then be provided to ensure strictadherence by all ranks. Moreover, an army is anorganization consisting of many people, so pre-cautions must be taken against the spread ofinfectious diseases. In health care, awareness andeducation as well as prevention are vital.Comrades,

You are the junior leaders in medicalmatters. Leadership is personality trait. Youyourselves have to be models of hard work andwin the respect and the admiration of yoursubordinates. In the same way,

(See page 10)

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Achievement already in place can beattributed to strengths in the nation,

patriotism, Union Spirit, determination anddevotion of the people

Senior General Than Shwe speaks words of encouragement to three outstandingcadets and their parents.(News on page 16)—MNA

Education Minister Dr Chan Nyein presents

award to Daw Su Su Khaing of Yebyu

Township BEPS (Talineyar).—MNA

(from page 9)as medical professionals, you have to win the trustand confidence of patients. Only then will youcomrades be successful as proficient physiciansand victorious soldiers.Comrades,

In conclusion, I would like to urge you tomake sure that every action you undertake

amounts to the safeguarding of Our ThreeMain National Causes;

- contribute to the building of a strong, capableand patriotic modern Tatmadaw through yourknowledge of military affairs and medicine;

- make an effort to be a successful militaryleader and a medical professional; and

- provide health care not only to the membersof the Armed Forces and their families butalso to the people living in the local areaswhere you are currently serving.With this I conclude.— MNA

Build on national…

YANGON, 24 Dec—The Special RefresherCourse No. 73 for basiceducation teachersconcluded with aceremony at theYadanatheinga Hall ofCentral Institute of CivilService (Phaunggyi) inHlegu Township,Yangon Region, thismorning. On behalf ofChairman of MyanmarEducation CommitteeSecretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Thiha Thura UTin Aung Myint Oo,

Minister for Education DrChan Nyein made anaddress.

Also present on theoccasion were Minister forLabour U Aung Kyi,Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor U Aung Thein Lin,Deputy Minister forFinance and Revenue UHla Thein Swe, DeputyMinister for Health DrMya Oo, members of CivilService Selection andTraining Board,departmental heads, therector of CICS

(Phaunggyi), the pro-rector, heads ofdepartments, officials andtrainees.

In his address,Minister for Education DrChan Nyein said that thegovernment is buildingthe nation into a peacefulmodern developeddiscipline-flourishingdemocratic nation whilestriving for the nation tokeep abreast of theinternational community.

In that regard, ithas been able tosuccessfully realize theseven-step Road Mapwith the activeparticipation of the people,and as a result, the newmodern nation aspired bythe people will soonemerge.

Today is the timewhen the entire nationalpeople are makingconcerted efforts withUnion Spirit forperpetuation of the Union,the legacy of ancestors fordevelopment of their ownnation, own regions andown villages.

At such a time, thenational brethren shouldbe well aware of the factthat there can be attemptsthat undermine thenational unity and lead todisintegration of theUnion. It is incumbentupon the teachers to makeknown to the public everyevil attempt of internal and

external destructiveelements based on racism,ism and sectarianism.

The government,since its assumption ofthe State responsibilities,has been makingrelentless efforts in allaspects for the Union tokeep pace with the globalnations as an independentand sovereign nation,laying down politicalobjectives, economicobjectives and socialobjectives. And at presentit is making headway inevery sector.

With the infrastru-ctural development, it issafe to say that remarkableprogress will be achievedif education andknowledge ofoutstanding youths soonto emerge and thecountry’s rich naturalresources are combined.

Head of State SeniorGeneral Than Shwe hadgiven guidance that everyavailable resource in thenation had been appliedfor realization of national

goal; and that theachievement already inplace can be attributed tothe strengths in the nation,patriotism, Union Spirit,determination anddevotion of the people.In line with the guidance,all the teachers are to trainthe students to becomeoutstanding and reliableones fully equipped withUnion Spirit and to trytheir utmost to turnthemselves into rolemodels.

In conclusion, theminister called on theteachers to strive for thenation to keep abreast ofthe global nations, to trainthe students to becomeoutstanding ones withfirm determination anddevotion, and to do theirbest in serving thenational duties with UnionSpirit.

On behalf ofChairman of MyanmarEducation CommitteeSecretary-1 of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Thiha Thura U

Tin Aung Myint Oo,Minister for Education Dr.Chan Nyein presented theoutstanding traineeawards to U Nay ThuriyaPhyo of the BasicEducation PrimarySchool (Kyaukhtayan) inMali Island in PulawTownship and Daw SuSu Khaing of the BEPS(Talineyar) in YebyuTownship, theperseverance awards toU Than Aung,Headmaster of the BEPS(Khaymawadi) inNyaungdon Townshipand Daw San San Le ofNo.5 Basic EducationMiddle School in SouthOkkalapa Township andDaw Khin San Aye ofNo. 22 Post-PrimarySchool in HlinethayaTownship, and modelhostel awards to theHostel-1 of men’scompany (5) and theHostel-7 of women’scompany (5) andcompletion certificates totrainees through leadersof the companies.— MNA

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The tricky art of knowing what will happen nextLONDON, 24 Dec —A 1972 book which predicts

what life would be like in 2010 has been reprintedafter attracting a cult following, but how hard is itto tell the future? Geoffrey Hoyle is often askedwhy he predicted everybody would be wearingjumpsuits by 2010. He envisioned a world whereeverybody worked a three-day week and had theirelectric cars delivered in tubes of liquid.

These colourful ideas from his 1972 children’sbook, 2010: Living in the Future, helped prompta Facebook campaign to track him down. Hiswork has now been reprinted with the year in thetitle amended to 2011.

“I’ve been criticised because I said people[would] wear jumpsuits,” explains Hoyle, the sonof noted astronomer and science fiction authorFred Hoyle. “We don’t wear jumpsuits but to acertain extent the idea of the jumpsuit is therestriction of liberties.”

Hoyle’s book is a product of its time. Themove towards a planned society with an emphasison communal living colour it. “Most of it is basedon the evolution of a political system,” Hoyle

Cheap air travel was among the predictionsillustrated in Hoyle’s book.— INTERNET

World’s smallestChristmas card

LONDON, 24 Dec —Nanotechnology expertshave unveiled aChristmas card so smallthat more than 8,000 ofthem could fit on a first-class stamp. The cardproduced by theUniversity of Glasgow,said to be the smallest inthe world, is invisible tothe naked eye. Theuniversity’s school ofengineering drew up thedesign to highlight its“world-leading” nanote-chnology expertise. Atotal of 8,276 of the cardscould be placed on anarea the size of a stamp.

Professor David

The Christmas card is sosmall that more than

8,000 of them could fit ona first-class stamp.

INTERNET

Ballet artist Qiu Sitingperforms on stage “Chopin

on Point”, a symphonyballet to commemorate the

200th anniversary ofbirthday of Polish

composer and pianistFryderyk Chopin, in

Beijing, capital of China,on 22 Dec, 2010.—XINHUA

Driver was on phone tobrother when he crashed

and diedDUBLIN, 24 Dec —The risks taken when driving

while using a mobile phone were highlighted at aninquest into the death of a man whose car went outof control and hit a tree. Paul Gerard Monks (33),died of multiple injuries on 19 July this year afterhis Mitsubishi Pajero careered off the road into aditch on Lyons Road, Co Dublin.

His brother Dwayne Monks was having a briefchat with Paul when he heard him say, “Oh Jesus,Dwayne”. “I knew something was wrong. I couldhear the fear in his voice,” Dwayne Monks told aninquest on Wednesday. The phone conversationbetween the brothers lasted just 44 seconds, DublinCounty Coroner’s Court heard. Mr Monks was notusing a hands-free kit.

He was not wearing a seatbelt and the driver’sairbag did not deploy. Scenes of collisioninvestigator, Garda Tony Kelly, found that:“significant contributory factor was driver errorprobably caused by driver inattention or distraction.”

Internet

Cumming and Dr QinChen etched theChristmas tree image onto a minute piece ofglass. Prof Cummingsaid “Ournanotechnology isamong the best in theworld but sometimesexplaining to the publicwhat the technology iscapable of can be a bittricky. We decided thatproducing this Christmascard was a simple way toshow just how accurateour technology is.

Internet

Three arrested in UK for stealing Stradivarius violinAn undated image

released by theBritish Transport

Police on Thursdayon 23 Dec, 2010, of a

1697 Stradivariusviolin. Three people

were arrested forstealing a 1.2

million-pound ($1.85million) antique

violin from amusician while shestopped for a snack

at a Londonsandwich bar, British

police saidThursday.— INTERNET

LONDON, 24 Dec—Three people werearrested for stealing a 1.2million-pound ($1.85million) antique violinfrom an internationally

acclaimed musician whileshe stopped for a snack ata London sandwich bar,British police saidThursday.

South Korean

violinist Min-Jin Kymwas eating inside thesandwich shop outsideEuston station on 29 Novwhen she noticed that herblack violin case —which contained the 300-year-old Stradivarius aswell as two expensivebows — was missing,police said.

The violin, made in1696, is one of only around400 in the world. It wasstolen with a Peccatte bow,valued at 62,000 pounds,and another bow worthmore than 5,000 pounds.

Police arrested andcharged John Maughan,26, and two teenagers onWednesday for theft. Theteens, aged 16 and 14years old, cannot be

named for legal reasons.Maughan is in custodyand the two teenagers arefree on bail.

Police are appealingfor information about thewhereabouts of the rareinstrument. An insurancecompany has offered a15,000 pound reward forinformation that couldlead to the violin’srecovery.

South Korea-bornKym began playing theviolin aged six. She madeher international debutwith the Berlin SymphonyOrchestra when she was13. Since then, she hasperformed with some ofthe world’s leadingorchestras.—Internet

notes. The author also predicted widespread useof “vision phones” and doing your groceryshopping online. He is one of a long line ofscience fiction authors to have tried their hand atfuturology, the discipline of mapping out thefuture.

Internet

High winds continue to batterNew Zealand Capital

WELLINGTON, 24Dec— While severeweather was easing inmost of New Zealand,gale-force winds are stillbattering the capitalWellington on Friday.

MetService issuedsevere weather warningsfor South Island’s WestCoast, Canterbury andSouthern parts of theNorth Island on Friday,with high winds fellingtrees, blocking roads andbringing down powerlines in Christchurch.Most of those warningshave been scaled downbut there is still a warningof heavy winds in

Wellington andWairarapa. Gales of 140km an hour have broughtdown power lines andstarted a small grass firein Wellington, cuttingpower to about 120households.

Wind gusts of up to140 km an hour buffetingWairarapa have blownbranches on to powerlines, causing blackoutsand starting fires. In theHutt Valley, felled powerlines and a small grassfire caused problems inthe Whiteman’s Valleyarea, with about 120households losingelectricity.—Xinhua

Jobvacancieshit 4-year

high inSingapore

SINGAPORE, 24 Dec — The number of job vacancies in Singapore hit a four-yearhigh of 50,200 this September, a 36 percent rise over the 36,900 openings in theprevious September, when Singapore was recovering from a recession.

Figures by the Ministry of Manpower show the vast majority, or 76 percent, ofthe vacancies are in the services sector, which economists attributed to the sectorbeing the top creator of jobs this year, local daily The Straits Times reported onFriday. In contrast, job openings in manufacturing totaled 8,300 (17 percent) andin construction 3,300 (7 percent).

The need for workers is especially acute in the hotel, retail and financial servicesindustries, analysts noted. The services sector is bulging with openings, employershave found it hard to fill them as a result of government measures restricting the flowof foreign workers.—Xinhua

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ORIENTAL DESIRE VOY NO (010)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV ORIENTALDESIRE VOY NO (010) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 25.12.2010 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.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITYAGENT FOR: SONG WON PCS

CO, LTDPhone No: 256924/256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG DA VOY NO (1050)Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG DA

VOY NO (1050) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 25.12.2010 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

Filipino gunmen free twoMalaysians after 10 months

MANILA, 24 Dec — Filipino gunmen withties to al-Qaeda-linked militants, under pres-sure from pursuing police commandos, havefreed two Malaysian laborers from 10 monthsof jungle captivity, police said on Wednes-day.

The hostages were seized on 8 Feb froma seaweed farm in Malaysia’s Sabah stateand whisked away in a speedboat to nearbyPhilippine waters in a pattern similar to pastkidnappings-for-ransom blamed on the no-torious terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.—Internet

UK offers troops, EU seeks answers for snow chaos

Passengers sit in a tent as they waitto check-in their luggage for their

flights outside Terminal 3 ofHeathrow Airport in London, on 21

Dec, 2010. —INTERNET

LONDON, 24 Dec — The snow wasmelting off London’s streets, butHeathrow Airport told infuriated pas-sengers it won’t restore full service untilThursday — five days after a five-inchsnowfall turned hundreds of thousandsof holiday plans into a nightmare ofcanceled flights and painful nightssleeping on terminal floors.

Travellers’ anger boiled over intopolitics as Britain’s prime minister of-fered to put troops on snow-clearingduty and Europe’s top transport officialthreatened tougher regulation of airportsunable to cope with wintry weather.

“It’s pathetic — you would think thisis a Third World country,” said 29-year-old Janice Phillips, who was trying to getback to Minneapolis. She sat next to her

sleeping boyfriend, his head proppedagainst a backpack, his mouth ajar. “Allthey’ve been talking about was this snowforecast. You would think the govern-ment could do a better job.”—Internet

A police officer shows the wayto Malaysian national LaiWong Chun, centre, and ChenYui Chung as they step out ofan ambulance at the police hos-pital on 22 Dec, 2010 in subur-ban Quezon City, north of Ma-nila, Philippines.—INTERNET

Pharmacists match thetraditional acupuncturepoints applications at ahospital in Linyi, east

China’s ShandongProvince, on 22 Dec,2010. Having herbal

medicine and receivingacupuncture points

applications are popularamong Chinese people asthe coldest weather of the

year comes. —XINHUA

WELLINGTON, 24 Dec—The 20 survivors from thesinking of the SouthKorean fishing boat InsungNo 1 in the Southern Oceanarrived in New ZealandSouth Island’s southernport of Bluff on Thursdaynight.

The Insung No 7, thesister ship of the doomedInsung No 1, arrived inBluff, carrying also thebodies of five seamen,including two SouthKoreans, two Indonesiansand one Vietnamese onThursday night.

The Chinese Em-bassy to New Zealandconfirmed on Friday thatamong the 20 survivorsare four Chinese seamen.

Xinhua

Survivors ofsinking fish

boat arrive inNew Zealand’s

Bluff port

MEXICO CITY, 24 Dec—The supposed kidnappersof 50 Central American migrants who disappearedin southern Mexico last week called a family in theUnited States demanding a ransom, a RomanCatholic priest who first reported the abductionssaid Thursday.

But they contacted relatives of a migrant whohad escaped after the 16 Dec assault, said the RevAlejandro Solalinde, who runs a migrant shelter inthe southern state of Oaxaca.

The abductors probably thought he was still inthe group, Solalinde told The Associated Press in atelephone interview, adding that he reported thecall to Central American and Mexican authorities.

“We’re calling the governments of CentralAmerica in case they know of any other calls forransom,” he said.

It was another apparent confirmation of themassive abduction, which Mexican authoritiesinitially denied when they were contacted by theforeign ministry of El Salvador on Tuesday withthe complaint.

Witnesses said the majority of those kidnappedare Salvadorans, and Salvadoran Foreign MinisterHugo Martinez continued his criticism of Mexicofor initially ignoring the abduction, calling thegovernment’s response “hasty and unfortunate.”

“We believe you can’t deal with these problemsby ignoring them,” he told a news conferenceWednesday night. “Rather, they should berecognized and thoroughly investigated.”

Internet

Kidnappers of 50 Mexicanmigrants make ransom call

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Officials at theDetroit Zoo said they areseeking a primatesanctuary as a new homefor a pet monkey seizedby suburban police.

Scott Cartre, chieflife sciences officer at theDetroit Zoo, said he islooking at sanctuaries aspossible new homes forPearl, a marmoset nativeto South America that hadbeen living with a

MUMBAI, 24 Dec—India’s animators are hopingthat a film starring two of Bollywood’s biggeststars will revive the sector’s fortunes, after earlierefforts to popularise the cartoon genre fell flat.

Ajay Devgn and his wife Kajol appear in“Toonpur Ka Superrhero” (eds: correct) (ToontownSuperhero), whose combination of real-life actorsand cartoon characters recalls the Oscar-winningfilm “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” from 1988.

Box office success for the film, which isreleased on Friday, Christmas Eve, could spurmore studios to finance home-grown animationprojects, analysts say.—Internet

Spain’s “El Gordo”, one of the world’s biggest lotteries, gave out 2.3billion euros (1.9 billion British pounds) in Christmas prizes on Wednesdaywith Spaniards spending almost the same as last year on tickets.

The top prize this year was 3 million euros, going to the series of ticketswith the number 79,250. Because the tickets are sold in a series of 10, onlythose who paid 200 euros for the whole strip get the full prize.

Newspaper photos showed one winner, a bar owner in Barcelona,spraying champagne in the street after winning a fraction of El Gordo, whichhe said he would share among his customers.

No austerity for Spain’s $3 billion“El Gordo” winners

A man celebratesafter winning a

portion the main prizeof Spain’s Christmas

lottery with thenumber 79250 in

Palleja, Spain,Wednesday, on 22

Dec, 2010.

Zoo seeks sanctuary home forseized monkey

The morning sun rises on the Auckland City skylineand a cluster of boats moored in the inner harbour

of Auckland in 2003. The New Zealand militaryreleased hundreds of previously classified reports

Wednesday detailing claims of unidentified flyingobject (UFO) sightings and alien encounters.

The New Zealand mi-litary released hundredsof previously classifiedreports Wednesdaydetailing claims ofunidentified flying object(UFO) sightings and alienencounters.

The reports, datingfrom 1954 to 2009, werereleased under freedomof information laws afterthe New ZealandDefence Force removednames and otheridentifying material.

New Zealand military releases UFO files

Indian boys play cricket nearAgartala in 2008. A 13-year-old

Indian cricketer has smashed 498runs off 490 balls in a match inMumbai to claim the national

record for the highest score by aschool boy.

A 13-year-old In-dian cricketer hassmashed 498 runs off490 balls in a match inMumbai to claim thenational record for thehighest score by a schoolboy.

Armaan Jaffer,nephew of former IndianTest opener Wasim Jaffer,achieved the feat in anunder-14 Giles Shield

Indian schoolboy hammers 498 runsmatch while playing forRizvi Springfield Schoolagainst IES Raja ShivajiVidyalaya.

His marathon two-day innings, whichfinished on We-dnesday,beat the previous leadingindividual score of 461in Indian school cricket,set recently by Nagpur

boy Ali Zorain Khan.“I had decided not

to play any aerialshots,” Armaan told theHindustan Times. “Iknew as long as Ioccupy the crease, theruns will keep flowing.It would have beenbetter if I had got 500,but there is no grudge.”

News Album

In about 2,000 pagesof documents, membersof the public, militarypersonnel and com-mercial pilots outlineclose encounters, mostlyinvolving moving lightsin the sky. Some of theaccounts includedrawings of flyingsaucers, de-scriptions ofaliens wearing “pharaohmasks” and allegedexamples of extrat-errestrial writing.

Southfield family forthe past three years, theDetroit Free Pressreported Thursday.

Police said theprimate was seized fromthe home on 6 Dec andthe owners, who werenot named and are notfacing charges despiteillegally keeping theexotic pet in the city,willingly surrenderedPearl due to possibleplans to move in thenear future.

Bollywood hopes animationis a draw for audiences

ROME, 24 Dec—An exhibition of paintings byMarc Chagall (1887-1985) entitled “The WorldUpside-Down” opened to the public on Wednesdaynext to an ancient Roman altar in the centre of theItalian Capital. The exhibition inside the Ara Paciscomplex brings together around 140 paintings fromNice and Paris, as well as private collections.

The display has been organised by the MarcChagall National Museum in Nice. Chagall, whowas born in Vitebsk in what was then the RussianEmpire and is now Belarus, has become famous forhis gravity-defying paintings that feature flying farmanimals, Jewish folk musicians and weddingscenes.—Internet

Chagall exhibit opens in Romelandmark

Reeve Carney, centre,who plays Spider-man

in the theatricalversion ‘Spider-manTurn off the Dark’ is

seen outside theFoxwoods Theatre in

Times Square withPatrick Page, left, who

plays The GreenGoblin, Wednesday, on

22 Dec, 2010, inNew York.—INTERNET

A visitor looks at a painting “The Song of SongsII “ by Russian born French artist Marc Chagall

as part of the exhibition “Chagall Il mondosottosopra” (Chagall The world upside down) , at

Ara Pacis Museum in Rome.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 24 Dec—Curtain up! Light thelights! Spider-Manreturned to the stageThursday, a day after twoperformances werecanceled due to a scaryfall that left a stuntmanseriously injured.

But the $65 million

Curtain up! Theatergoers see‘Spider-Man’ return

question remained: Willnew precautions allowthe cast of Broadway’scostliest show to hit theheights in nearly 40aerial maneuvers safely,avoiding anotherdangerous accident thatcould permanentlyshutter the show?

Before the showcould resume Thursday,producers had to givefinal confirmation to thestate Department ofLabour that they hadenacted certain safetymeasures aimed atavoiding any furthermishaps. Among them:a requirement that asecond person ensure theharnesses used byperformers during theshow’s high-flyingstunts have been put onproperly at theFoxwoods Theatre atManhattan’s TimesSquare.—Internet

Indian actors Ajay Devgn (L) and Kajol are seenin New Delhi in 2006. India’s animators arehoping that a film starring two of Bollywood’sbiggest stars will revive the sector’s fortunes,after earlier efforts to popularise the cartoon

genre fell flat.—INTERNET

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I am number one not delBosque: Mourinho

McClaren gets vote ofconfidence from board

Wenger calls for Gunnersto step up

Moyes hails ‘youthful’ Cahill

Japan’s Hosogai says dealagreed with Leverkusen

Besiktas-bound Simao in tearful Atletico farewell

Former Englandcoach Steve McClaren

BERLIN, 24 Dec —Former England coachSteve McClaren receivedthe dreaded vote of confi-dence from the board ofstruggling Bundesliga sideVfL Wolfsburg on Thurs-day. The 49-year-old’sposition had become in-creasingly precarious aftera a winless run of sevenBundesliga matches —

which leaves the 2009champions in 13th placejust four points above therelegation zone — andreached its nadir with a 3-1 German Cup home de-feat by Second DivisionCottbus on Wednesday.

However, the boardgave McClaren, who is inhis first season in chargeafter a successful spell atDutch side Twente wherehe guided them to the ti-tle, backing after a heatedtwo hour meeting onThursday. The playershad already beenpunished for their poorrun by having theirChristmas holidaysshortened.—Internet

Arsenal managerArsene Wenger

Jose Mourinho, said hedeserved to be namedcoach of the year andnot Spain’s World Cupwinning coach Vicentedel Bosque.— INTERNET

ROME, 24 Dec — JoseMourinho said on Thurs-day he deserved to benamed coach of the yearand not Spain’s WorldCup winning coachVicente del Bosque.

The ever immodest47-year-old Real Madridcoach told the ‘Gazzetta

dello sport’ that he firmlybelieved he had achievedmore in 2010 when he wasin charge of Inter Milanthan the Spanish handler,who delivered Spaintheir first world title whenthey beat the Netherlands1-0 in July’s final.

“Me, I’ve made mychoice. 11 months work,57 matches played, threetitles including the mostimportant of all, ‘THE’tournament, the Champi-ons League (plus the Ital-ian Cup and the Italianleague title),” saidMourinho, who left Interfor Real in the summer.”Ihave won everything, Icould not do any morethan that, equally so for theplayers.”—Internet

LONDON, 24 Dec —Arsenal manager ArseneWenger has called on hisplayers to end their poorrun of results against thePremier League’s bestteams as they prepare toface Chelsea next week.Wenger’s men have suf-fered five straight defeatsto the Blues in recentgames, leaking 13 goalsin the process.

Fresh doubts aboutArsenal’s ability to mix itwith the best sides wereraised last week after a1-0 loss to ManchesterUnited at Old Trafford.Wenger insisted thatwhile he was not con-

cerned by Arsenal’s formin crunch matches, it wastime for the Gunners tostep up. “Of course wehave a point to provegiven our record againstthe big teams,” Wengersaid Thursday. “You haveto show that you are up tothe level expected fromyou in these games.

Internet

Fergie expecting van der Sar exit

Manchester United bossAlex Ferguson said heexpects Dutch goalkeeper

Edwin van der Sar, toretire at the end of the

season.— INTERNET

MANCHESTER, 24 Dec— Manchester Unitedboss Alex Ferguson saidThursday he expectsDutch goalkeeper Edwinvan der Sar to retire at theend of the season.Ferguson said United

were already planning forlife without van der Saron the pitch, although the40-year-old Holland in-ternational could possiblystay on as a coach at OldTrafford.

“We are planning forthis being his last season,”Ferguson said. Askedabout whether the goal-keeper could stay on tohelp coach his successor,Ferguson said the issuehad not been discussed.“But Edwin is a playerwho would be of interestin terms of his knowledgeand standing in thegame,” he told reporters.

Internet

Everton boss DavidMoyes hailed Austral-

ian talisman TimCahill(L), seen here

with teammate Ameri-can goalkeeper TimHoward celebratingtheir win over Man-

chester City onDecember 20, as aborn-again player.

INTERNET

LIVERPOOL, 24 Dec —Everton boss DavidMoyes hailed Australiantalisman Tim Cahill as aborn-again player onThursday. Cahill grabbedhis ninth goal of the sea-son in Monday’s 2-1 winat Manchester City, top-ping an overall displaywhich prompted goal-keeper Tim Howard todescribe him as aGoodison Park legend.

Moyes was equallyforthcoming in his praisefor a player who willleave for the Asian Cupin Qatar in the first weekof January. “In my timehere we have not had anawful lot to shout aboutbut I think Tim Cahill isone who could stand upand say he has reallyplayed his part in thisperiod,” said Moyes,whose side host Bir-mingham on Sundayand visit West Ham twodays later.

“A few weeks ago I

saw a drop in his energyand I was a bit worriedabout him.

Internet

S P O R T SBarcelona announces preseason trip to US

Japanese internationalHajime Hosogai

Portuguese internationalSimao Sabrosa

BARCELONA, 24 Dec—Barcelona will tour theUnited States as part of itspreseason schedule nextsummer, with gamesplanned against Manches-ter United, AC Milan andMexican team America.The club said on Thursdaythat it will also play inMunich, Germany andSplit, Croatia. The United

match is scheduled for 30July in Landover, Md,with the game againstMilan on 3 Aug in Miami.The tour will conclude inArlington, Texas, on 6Aug with Barcelona takingon America.

The club hopes the six-date tour, which includesthree matches in Europebefore the team departs for

the US, will net Barcelona$8.1 million. Matches arebeing arranged inconjunction with MajorLeague Soccer’s SoccerUnited Marketing and theCreative Artists Agency.Contracts for venues andopponents have not beenfinalized. Barcelonatoured the US as part itspreseason preparations in2008 and 2009.

The Blaugrana arelikely to be missing starforward Lionel Messi,right back Daniel Alvesand midfielder JavierMascherano because ofthe Copa America in Ar-gentina, which ends 24July.—Internet

European championsInter Milan sacked

coach Rafael Benitez,just a few days after he

guided them to theWorld Club Cup titleand looks set to be

replaced by former ACMilan coach BrazilianLeonardo.— INTERNET

Inter sack Benitez, Leonardolined up as successor

ROME, 24 Dec — Eu-ropean champions InterMilan sacked coachRafael Benitez on Thurs-day just a few days afterhe guided them to theWorld Club Cup title andlooks set to be replaced byformer AC Milan coachBrazilian Leonardo.

The two partiesreached a mutual agree-ment over terminating theSpaniard’s contract end-ing days of speculationabout the former Liver-pool manager’s future af-ter he had used the WorldClub Cup win to launch abizarre outburst againstthe club’s board and theirlack of support in thetransfer market as well as

an attack on the players.Inter, who turned to

Benitez when JoseMourinho left for RealMadrid in the summer, is-sued a curt statement con-firming that the Spaniard’sshort reign had beenbrought to a prematureand inglorious end afterholding talks with hisagent.

Internet

TOKYO, 24 Dec – Japa-nese international HajimeHosogai Thursday saidhe has agreed to move toleading German sideBayer Leverkusen andhopes his game will im-prove by playing in theBundesliga.

The midfielder was of-fered a four-and-a-halfyear contract, but will beimmediately loaned to FCAugsburg in the Germansecond division, he wroteon his blog. “I received avery pleasing assessment

from Leverkusen, whichis competing for the sea-son title in Bundesliga,”he said.

“But since there is lit-tle possibility that I wouldbe able to play forLeverkusen this season, Ireceived an opportunity toplay for FC Augsburg,”he said.—Internet

MADRID, 24 Dec—Portuguese internationalSimao Sabrosa bid a tearful farewell to AtleticoMadrid on Thursday after signing a two-yeardeal with Turkey’s Besiktas. “It’s difficult forme to talk right now. I want to thank the clubfor having faith in me and paying so much toBenfica to sign me,” said Simao, who joinedAtletico in 2007 from Portuguese side Benficafor 20 million euros.—Internet

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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.

7:00 am 1. Paritta By

Venerable Min GunSayadawUppatathandiParitta

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

Saturday,25 December

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain have been scatteredin Taninthayi Region and weather has been partly cloudyin Kachin, Rakhine, Kayin and Mon States, YangonRegion and generally fair in the remaining States andRegions. Night temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C) belowDecember average temperatures in Kachin, Shan, Chin andKayah States, Mandalay, Magway and Bago Regions,(4°C) above December average temperature in TaninthayiRegion, (5°C) above December average temperature inMon State and about December average temperatures inthe remaining States and Regions. The significant nighttemperatures were Namhsam (-2°C), Pinlaung, Heho andHaka (0°C) each and Lashio (3°C). The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Myeik (1.73) inches andKawthaung (0.12) inch.

Nay Pyi TawMaximum temperature on 23-12-2010 was 90°F.

Minimum temperature on 24-12-2010 was 55°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 24-12-2010 was (73%).Rainfall on 24-12-2010 was (Nil) .

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 23-12-2010 was 92°F.

Minimum temperature on 24-12-2010 was 65°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 24-12-2010 was (68%).Total sunshine hours on 23-12-2010 was (10) hours.

WEATHERFriday, 24th December, 2010

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Rainfall on 24-12-2010 was at (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was (83.19) inches at Mingaladon, (97.64) inches atKaba-Aye and (109.29) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mphfrom Northeast at (09:30) hours MST on 23-12-2010.

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

Forecast valid until evening of the 25th December2010: Light rain are likely to be isolated in TaninthayiRegion, weather will be partly cloudy in Kayin and MonStates, Bago, Yangon and Ayeyawady Regions andgenerally fair in the remaining States and Regions. Degreeof certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of light rain in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 25-12-2010: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 25-12-2010: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 25-12-2010: Generally fair weather.

Weather Outlook For Fourth Weekend OfDecember 2010: During the coming weekend, weatherwill be generally fair in Nay Pyi Taw and MandalayRegion and partly cloudy in Yangon Region.

8:10 am 7. Poem Garden8:25 am 8. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural PerformingArts Competition

8:40 am 9. International News8:45 am10. 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 TV LocalNews

12:50 pm 5. Yan Can Cook1:10 pm 6. TV Drama Series2:00 pm 7. Mahowthada

2:30 pm 8. Song Programme2:45 pm 9. Dance Of National

Races2:55 pm10. International News4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2.Musical Programme4:20 pm 3. Music Heritage4:30 pm 4. Cultural Dances4:40 pm 5. University Of

Distance Education(TV Lectures)-Second Year(Zoology)

5:00 pm 6. Songs For

UpholdingNational Spirit

5:05 pm 7. Musical Programme

5:20 pm 8. International

Science News5:30 pm 9. Documentary6:00 pm10. Evening News6:15 pm11. Weather Report6:20 pm12. Ahlashamae

Hlagabawai6:35 pm13. Yindagomae7:00 pm14. TV Drama Series8:00 pm15. News16. International News17. Weather Report18. Cartoon Series19. TV Drama Series20. Gitadagale

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Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am) MSTOversea Transmission - (25-12-10 09:30 am ~

26-12-10 09:30 am) MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* The glory of Maha-Muni Buddha Image,

at dawn* Yesteryears Bridal Hairstyle* News* Stream of Songs ‘‘Naw Lizar’’* News* Extraordinary Taunggyi Tazaungdaing* News* Artist Hla Tun Aung’s MilestoneOversea Transmission* Opening* News* The glory of Maha-Muni Buddha Image,

at dawn* Yesteryears Bridal Hairstyle* News* Stream of Songs ‘‘Naw Lizar’’* News* Extraordinary Taunggyi Tazaungdaing* News* Myanma Traditional Silverware* Artist Hla Tun Aung’s Milestone* News* Current Affairs ‘‘City Mart’’* ICT Exhibition 2010* News* Secret Places for Yummy Foods

‘‘Pyay Daw Oo (Rice Salad)’’* Music Gallery* News* The Richly Blessed Gem Land* News* Myanmar Teak in Higher Demand* Myanmar Movies ‘‘I miss you painfully’’

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule (25-12-2010)(Saturday)

Parents, two children found dead in Mississippi home

MERIDIAN, 24 Dec — A father apparently fatallyshot his two young children and their mother to deathbefore killing himself at the small Mississippi homethey shared, a county coroner said Thursday night.

Clayton Cobler, the Lauderdale County coroner,said the suspected murder-suicide took place between7 and 7:30 am on Thursday. Cobler said it appears thatthe man shot the woman in the living room, and thenshot one boy in a hallway and another boy and himselfin a bedroom. The handgun was found near the man’sbody. The couple was not married.

“It looked like it was thought-out,” Cobler toldThe Associated Press in a phone interview Thursdayevening. Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie saidthe boys were 4 and 5 years old. He said the man andwoman were 26 and 25, respectively.—Internet

A woman shops for onions at a local vegetablemarket in Kolkata on 23 December. India’sfood price inflation has returned to double-

digits, fuelled by surging onion prices, officialdata has shown, adding to pressure on the

scandal-hit Congress government.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

4th Waning of Nadaw 1372 ME Saturday, 25 December, 2010

NAY PYI TAW, 24Dec—Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services

Senior General Than Shwe attendsPassing out of Parade of DSMA 12

Senior General ThanShwe delivered anaddress at the Passing out

of Parade of the No. 12Intake of the DefenceServices Medical

Academy which was heldat the parade ground ofthe DSMA in Yangon at 7

am today.Also present on the

occasion were Secretary-

1 of the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilThiha Thura U Tin AungMyint Oo, Lt-Gen MinAung Hlaing of theMinistry of Defence,Commander-in-Chief(Navy) Vice-AdmiralNyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-GenMyat Hein, Maj-Gen HlaMin, Maj-Gen Thet NaingWin and Maj-Gen TinNgwe of the Ministry ofDefence, Adjutant-General Maj-Gen KhinZaw Oo, Quartermaster-General Maj-Gen WaiLwin, Defence ServicesInspector-General Maj-Gen Thaung Aye, MilitaryAppointment-GeneralMaj-Gen Win Myint,Judge Advocate-GeneralMaj-Gen Yar Pyae, Maj-Gen Sein Win and Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe of theMinistry of Defence, Chiefof Armed Forces TrainingLt-Gen Hla Htay Win, Maj-Gen Thein Htay of the

(See page 7)Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe inspects cadet companies at Passing out of Parade

of DSMA 12.—MNA

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