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Volume XVIII, Number 264 6th Waxing of Pyatho 1372 ME Monday, 10 January, 2011

* 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

True patriotism

* It is very important for every-one of the nation regardless ofthe place he lives to havestrong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationali-ties will have to safeguard.

Industry-1 Minister tours KyaukseIndustrial Region

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan—Minister for Industry-1U Aung Thaung made an inspection tour ofIndustrial Region in Kyaukse Township, MandalayRegion, yesterday.

On arrival at the Glass Factory Project(Kyaukse) of the Myanma Ceramic Industries inKyaukse Township, he inspected progress inconstruction of buildings and in installing machinesin the main factory.

Factory Manager U Saw Aung gave anaccount of the project. Managing Director U Soe

Yee gave a supplementary report on arrival andinstallation of machines in the factory.

The minister viewed progress in installingmachines for production of glass and gaveinstructions on the work.

Upon completion, the factory will be able toproduce 117 tons of a wide variety of finishedproducts a day. The project is designed to producequality products with domestic raw materials, tohelp improve the living status of the people, to (See page 8)

Kyee-Ohn Kyee-Wa Multi-Purpose Dam Projectcontributes to greening of Magway Region

Byline and Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

The government has been building a lot ofdams across the nation for agricultural development.At the same time, extension of sown acreage,boosting the production of paddy and other cropsand cultivation of quality crops and double andmix-cropping patterns are being carried out. Inaddition, hydro power projects are beingimplemented in conjunction with construction of

dams.Kyee-Ohn Kyee-Wa Multi-Purpose Dam

Project, which includes both construction of damand hydro power station, is being constructed onMone Creek near Wonlo village, about 15 milesdownstream of Mone dam project about fivemiles upstream of Maezali diversion dam, inPwintbyu Township, Minbu District, Magway

Region.The main purpose of implementing the project

is to generate 74 megawatts of electricity, to supplysufficient water to 96,777 acres of monsoon paddythrough Maezali diversion dam, to supply water tomore farmlands in addition to 74,007 acres ofsummer paddy to be able to launch double-croppingcrops and to green the region.

Construction of the dam's buildings andproduction of electricity are being undertaken byConstruction No. 3 of Irrigation Department.

We, news crew, left Assistant Director office ofIrrigation Department in Minbu Township alongMinbu-An road. After 55 miles drive from Pathein-Monywa road and proceeded to eight miles and half tothe west, we arrived at the project. (See page 8)

Earth work of Kyee-Ohn Kyee-Wa Multi-Purpose Dam Project is being undertaken with theuse of machinery near hydro power station.

Construction of intake structure seen at Kyee-Ohn Kyee-Wa Multi-Purpose Dam Project.

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

People’s Desire

Today, the world faces many challengesof addressing health issues due to many newstrange diseases, which puts pressure on theinternational community to produce medicinesto prevent the diseases from spreadingworldwide. Many related tasks are underwayto address the global health issues.

In Myanmar, the Ministry of Health istrying to improve its public health care in orderthat the people enjoy longevity and surviveillnesses. At the same time, it is stepping up itsgiving health talks, taking disease preventivemeasures, and giving quick treatment even inrural areas.

Now, medical research has become one ofthe priorities in the health field. Medical researchis carried out constantly and on a wider scale.Findings of medical research are compiled intopapers which are then submitted to symposiums.

Findings of research on medical scienceand health care contribute to medical treatment,prescription of medicines and preventivemeasures against diseases. As a result of medicalresearch, sufferers from some diseases cansurvive the diseases longer, and new effectiveapproaches have been sought.

Research needs labour, time and funds.Laboratory-scale research, scale-up productionand mass production or commercial-scaleproduction are to be put at the centre stage stepby step. Research was done increasingly toproduce Hepatitis B vaccine (Purified Hbs Ag).Now, a Hepatitis B vaccine factory has beenestablished, and the vaccine is distributednationwide.

Medical researchers are therefore to workharder than ever to achieve more findings,submit them for discussion, and applysatisfactory results broadly.

Beef up medical research

YANGON, 9 Jan — The concluding ceremonyof Basic Banking Course No (45) of CooperativesBank Limited was held at the limited headquartershere today, with an address by Minister forCooperatives U Tin Htut.

The course was attended by 40 new staff

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan — Chairman of MandalayRegion Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Central Command Brig-Gen YeAung attended the School Family Day ceremonyof Mandalay Region held at Basic EducationHigh School in Chanayethazan Township on 6January.

Central Command Commander attends MandalayRegion’s School Family Day ceremony

Schoolchildren formally opened theceremony. The commander and guests enjoyedperformances of students and viewed boothsdisplayed by them in classrooms.

The commander and an official made speechesat the ceremony and presented prizes to outstandingstudents.—MNA

Basic Banking Course No (45) concludes

from 13 CB bank branches out of 21 opened in 18-year lifetime of the limited, the minister said in hisspeech.

Chairman of the Cooperatives Bank LimitedU Khin Maung Aye explained the purpose ofconducting the course.—MNA

Cooperatives Minister U Tin Htut delivers an address at concluding ceremony of Basic BankingCourse No (45). —MNA

YANGON, 9 Jan—Aceremony to presentASEAN Engineer

MES holds AER certificates-presentingceremony and conference

Register-AER certificatesby MyanmarEngineering Society(MES) was held inconjunction with itsannual conference atMES on Hline UniversityCampus, here, thismorning.

First, certificate-presenting ceremonytook place. Chairman ofMES U Han Zaw andhonorary guest Professor

Dato’ Dr Chuah HeanTeik of the Board ofMember from ASEANFederation of En-gineering Organizations(AFEO) extendedgreetings. The honoraryguest handed over theAER certificates to thewinners.

Afterwards, theannual conferencefollowed. Patron ofMES Deputy Minister

for Industry-2 U KhinMaung Kyaw andthe MES chair-man made openingspeeches.

Submitt ing ofreports and financialstatements of the MEScentral committee andresignation andelect ion of thecentral committeemembers and CECmembers were carriedout. After that, the newchairman extended thegreeting.

MNA

Healthy hair begins with healthy scalpYANGON, 9 Jan—A

ceremony to lunchSilkpro Hair Shampooand Silk Bath ShowerCream was held at

Traders Hotel yesterday.The shampoo and creamare produced as silkcrystal from silk proteinby Bio-Technological

process. The similarceremony took place atSedona Hotel inMandalay on 4January.—MNA

SCHOOL OPENED: To mark 63rd

Anniversary Independence Day, openingceremony of Basic Education Middle School(branch) being held in Kangyi Village, Pale

Township on 29 December.(News reported)—MNA

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Double petrol bomb attackin N Ireland

BELFAST, 9 Jan—Twoattacks in a NorthernIrish town Saturday,which police believemay have been sectarian,sparked calls for tougherpunishments for petrolbombers.

One took placeoutside the home of aCatholic woman,burning out a car, whilethe home of a Protestant-Catholic couple sufferedscorch damage in theother.

No-one was injuredin the attacks inGarvagh, in the north ofthe province.

John Dallat, a locallawmaker in thedevolved NorthernIreland Assembly,called for tougher jailterms for petrol bombers.

Police Forensic officers search the area follwing anexplosion in Belfast in 2010.—INTERNET

“The hate laws aretotally inadequate to dealwith thugs whospecialise in fillingbottles with petrol andthrowing them notknowing if they will burnout a car, burn down ahouse or murdersomeone,” he said.

“The sell-by date for

petrol bombers is longover.”

The Home Officeinterior ministry has setthe threat level forNorthern Ireland-relatedterror at “severe” in theprovince, meaning thata “terrorist attack ishighly likely”.

Internet

US lawmaker gravely injured inshooting; 6 dead

TUCSON, 9 Jan—A USlawmaker was in criticalcondition after beingshot in the head by agunman in Tucson,Arizona, in an attackwhich killed sixincluding a federal judgeand a nine-year-old girl.

President BarackObama called the attackon Democratic Repre-sentative GabrielleGiffords Saturday a“tragedy for our entirecountry,” while policesaid the gunman may nothave acted alone.

The gunman —named by media as JaredLee Loughner, 22 — hada criminal past and wasunstable but not insane,said Sheriff ClarenceDupnik, adding the manwas not talking to police

A medical helicopter evacuates victims from a“Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, Arizona,where US Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)

among others were shot and seriously wounded, in thisstill image taken from video released on 8 Jan, 2011.

INTERNET

officers in custody.“There’s some

reason to believe that hecame to this locationwith another indivi-dual,” he added, sayingthe gunman “has kindof a troubled past, and

we’re not convinced thathe acted alone.”

Initial media reportssuggested that Giffords,40, had died followingthe shooting outside aSafeway grocery store.

Internet

Portuguese journalist killedin New York hotel

NEW YORK, 9 Jan—Prominent Portuguesejournalist Carlos Castro,65, was beaten to deathand mutilated at a luxuryManhattan hotel onFriday and a young manreported to be hiscompanion was beingheld at a psychiatrichospital.

Local media quotedpolice sources as sayingCastro had beencastrated and was leftlying in a pool of blood.The medical examiner’soffice did not confirmthat but said the cause ofdeath was trauma to the

In this 27 Aug2010picture, Carlos Castroposes for the camera in

Lisbon. On Friday night, 7Jan 2011, 65-year-oldCastro, from Portugal,was found dead in his

bloodied Manhattan hotelroom castrated andbeaten.—INTERNET

head and strangulation.A man was being

held as a “person ofinterest” at New York’sBellevue psychiatrichospital, a policespokeswoman said.

A police sourceidentified him as RenatoSeabra.

The New York Timesquoted detectives assaying Seabra, a modelfrom Portugal whorecently appeared on amodeling reality show,had checked into thehotel with Castroabout10 days ago.

Reuters

A man stands next to blood of slain Iraqi Christians atthe scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, 31 Dec,

2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least fourChristian homes with a combination of grenades and

bombs, killing and wounding a few people and sendingfear into the country’s already terrified tiny Christian

community, police said.—INTERNET

French soldierkilled in

AfghanistanPARIS, 9 Jan—A

French soldier was killedon Saturday afternoonduring a military operationin Afghanistan, the ElyseePalace confirmed in theevening.

This brought thenumber of French soldierskilled in the restlesscountry to 53 since 2001,when the Afghan warstarted with US troops’invasion. The Frenchnoncommissioned officerwas killed in an explosionwhen he was in a missionnear an armed vehicle inTagab District ofAfghanistan, the ElyseePalace said in a statement.

According to officialdata, France has some3,750 troops inAfghanistan. Ex-defenceminister Herve Morinannounced last Octoberthat the French troops maystart their withdrawal fromAfghanistan in 2011.

XinhuaPakistani boy

Mohammad Kamran whosurvives the suicide

attack in neighboringSpin Boldak,

Afghanistan, rests at alocal hospital in

Pakistani border town ofChaman on 7 Jan, 2011.

INTERNET

Key soldier in Afghan warcrimes case faces court-martial

SEATTLE, 9 Jan—An Army staff sergeant wasordered on Friday to be tried by a military court toface charges that include murdering three unarmedAfghan civilians, keeping body parts as grisly wartrophies and beating a whistle-blower who toldsuperiors about widespread hashish use in his unit.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord CommandingOfficer Major General Curtis Scaparrotti orderedStryker Brigade Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 25, ofBillings, Montana, to stand trial. No date was set.

Gibbs is one of five soldiers from the brigadecharged with murder. Twelve soldiers in all facecharges in the most serious prosecutions of allegedwar atrocities by US military deployed inAfghanistan since the war began in late 2001

The Stryker Brigade cases, with some 4,000photographs sealed from public view includingsome reportedly of soldiers posing with Afghancasualties, have drawn comparisons to theinflammatory Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq in2004.

Reuters

NATO soldiers’ death toll in Afghanistansoars to 10 since beginning of 2011

KABUL, 9 Jan—Taleban-linked activitiesclaimed the life ofanother NATO soldieron Sunday, bringing thealliance fatalities to 10since the beginning of

this year, said astatement released hereby the alliance force.

“An InternationalSecurity AssistanceForce (ISAF) servicemember died followingan improvised explosivedevice attack in southernAfghanistan today,” theISAF statement admittedon Sunday.

This is the secondfatality the militaryalliance suffered overthe past two days.

However, it did not

identify the nationalityof the victim, saying it isISAF policy to defercasualty identificationprocedure to the relevantnational authorities.

By Saturday, accor-ding to iCasualties, awebsite tracking NATO-led forces casualties inwar on terror, ninesoldiers of the allianceincluding six Americans,one Briton and two fromother nations, had beenkilled in Afghanistan.

Xinhua

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Could chemicals in flood waters harmBarrier Reef?

QUEENSLAND, 9 Jan—After heavy raincaused hundreds of thousands of kilometersof flooding, environmentalists are nowconcerned about run-off containingfertilizers, pesticides and sediment thatcould negatively affect the Great BarrierReef off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Queensland, home to large sugar andcoal production industries, borders the 2,600km of coastline where the Great BarrierReef is found. The large agriculturalpresence in the state could be creatingalgal blooms that could cut the amount ofsunlight reaching the coral turning it white,an effect called bleaching.

Rick Smith, executive director ofEnvironmental Defence Canada, toldCanada AM that the potential for anenvironmental disaster is huge.

Bleached corals on coral reef onsouthern Great Barrier Reef in

January 2002.—INTERNET

“These algal blooms from the fertilizerare cutting down on the sunlight deprivingthe coral of nutrients,” said Smith. “Thenwhen you have a huge flood like this theypour into the ocean.”

Environmental Defence Canada is anorganization that hopes to inspire changeby tackling environmental issues that impacteveryday life, championing such causes asthe removal of bisphenol A from plasticbaby bottles and the creation of theGreenbelt in Ontario.

Internet

Michael Hecht, a professor ofchemistry at Princeton University, hasled a team of researchers who have for

the first time constructed artificialproteins that enable the growth of

living cells.—INTERNET

Astronomers flock to Seattle forbig space conference

SEATTLE, 9 Jan—Thousands ofastronomers are headed to chilly, cloudySeattle for their annual winter meetingof all things space and science.

The 217th meeting of the AmericanAstronomical Society runs from Sunday( 9 Jan) through 13 Jan. Approximately2,500 scientists are expected toassemble for the cosmic five-dayconference to discuss more than 1,800of the latest discoveries of black holes,alien planets, near-Earth asteroids and

more. The conference returns to Seattleevery fourth winter for the meeting.

About 80 science journalists arealso expected to attend the meeting,according to AAS press officer RickFienberg.

“There are always lots offascinating discoveries being unveiledat our meetings that’s why we attractso many reporters and so much mediacoverage,” Fienberg told SPACE .comin an email interview.—Internet

PC-free MagicJackcoming soon

WASHINGTON, 9 Jan—The voice-over-IP companythat owns MagicJack — the USB stick that enablesphone calls on a PC — is getting ready to release anew version of the device that doesn’t need the PC.

The MagicJack Plus plugs into a power outletand requires only a network connection — either toa Wi-Fi or 4G adapter, or an Ethernet port on arouter — to enable voice-over-IP phone service.

VocalTec, which merged with MagicJackcreator YMax last summer, demonstrated theMagicJack Plus to journalists at the ConsumerElectronics Show this week. The company says itexpects to ship the device within 90 days at anexpected price of $50, which will include a year offree local and long distance calls. (The origi nalMagicJack costs $40, also including a year of freeservice.) After that, service costs $20 a year.

You can opt to have your own phone number,and you can still choose to power the new version byplugging it into a USB port on a PC, the way theoriginal version works. Either way, you plug astandard phone into the RJ-11 port at the other endof the device to make the actual calls.

Internet

Researchers store data in bacteriaHONG KONG, 9 Jan—The US’ national archives

occupy more than 500 miles (800 kilometres) of shelving;France’s archives stretch for more than 100 miles ofshelves, as do Britain’s.

Yet a group of students at Hong Kong’s ChineseUniversity is making strides towards storing such vastamounts of information in an unexpected home: theE.coli bacterium better known as a potential source ofserious food poisoning.

“This means you will be able to keep large datasetsfor the long term in a box of bacteria in the refrigerator,”said Aldrin Yim, a student instructor on the university’sbiostorage project, a 2010 gold medallist in theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’sprestigious iGEM competition.—Internet

Motorola Xoom tablet crowned best CES gadgetLAS VEGAS, 9 Jan—Motorola Mobility’s Xoom

tablet computer powered by new “Honeycomb”software from Google was crowned the best gadget atthe giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on

Saturday.Along with being declared the top creation at the

dazzling gadget extravaganza, Xoom was also honoredas the best of the scores of tablets introduced here asfresh competitors in a market dominated by AppleiPads.

Motorola also scored a victory with its Atrixsmartphone designed to work with high-speed 4Gwireless networks and which can be used in a dock topower a laptop.

Atrix won the top spot in a smartphone category atthe official Best of CES awards.

“We took big risks and they paid off,” said MotorolaMobility chief software engineer Seang Chau. “Wedidn’t know if people would get it; but obviously theygot it.”—Internet

Motorola Mobility’s Xoom tablet computerpowered by new “Honeycomb” software from

Google was crowned the best gadget at the giantConsumer Electronics Show.

INTERNET

Scientists construct synthetic proteinsthat sustain life

PRINCETON, 9 Jan—In a ground-breaking achievement that could helpscientists “build” new biological systems,Princeton University scientists haveconstructed for the first time artificialproteins that enable the growth of livingcells.

The team of researchers createdgenetic sequences never before seen innature, and the scientists showed thatthey can produce substances that sustainlife in cells almost as readily as proteinsproduced by nature’s own toolkit.

“What we have here are molecularmachines that function quite well withina living organism even though they weredesigned from scratch and expressedfrom artificial genes,” said MichaelHecht, a professor of chemistry atPrinceton, who led the research. “Thistells us that the molecular parts kit forlife need not be limited to parts — genesand proteins — that already exist innature.”

The work, Hecht said, represents asignificant advance in synthetic biology,an emerging area of research in whichscientists work to design and fabricatebiological components and systems thatdo not already exist in the natural world.

Internet

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Health Tip: Help preventCOPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) isa general term for the narrowing of the small bronchi,the smaller airways that carry air to the lungs. The twoprime diseases that make up COPD are chronicbronchitis and emphysema.

The American Lung Association suggests thesesteps to help protect you from COPD:

* Don’t smoke, and quit if you currently smoke.* Stay away from secondhand smoke, and don’t

allow other people to smoke in your home.* Avoid exposure to lung-damaging chemicals.* Take steps to help promote clean air in your

community.* Schedule a visit with your doctor if you suspect

that you may have COPD, particularly if youare 45 or older and have a history of smoking.

InternetIn this photo takenon 13 Dec, 2010,

quadriplegic AdamMartin, left, works

with physical therapistWes Bower at the

Sarasota Health andRehabilitation Centre.It’s no longer unusual

to find a nursinghome resident who isdecades younger thanhis neighbour: Aboutone in seven peoplenow living in such

facilities in the US isunder 65.—INTERNET

Bike-riding ability maydistinguish ‘atypical’

Parkinson’sNEW YORK, 9 Jan —The ability to ride a bicycle can

determine whether a patient has atypical or “regular”Parkinson’s disease, according to researchers in theNetherlands.

Dr Bastiaan R Bloem and colleagues used brainimaging and other tests to assess 45 patients withParkinson’s disease and 66 with atypical Parkinsonism.The patients were also asked if they could still ride abicycle. Only two (4 percent) of those with regularParkinson’s said they could no longer ride, comparedwith 34 (52 percent) of those with atypical Parkinsonism.

The researchers found that asking patients if theycould still ride a bike had better diagnostic value thanthe tests. This suggests that asking about bike-ridingcould save money and reduce the burden for patients,said the researchers at the Parkinson Center Nijmegen.

The research is described in a letter published inthe 7 Jan issue of The Lancet.

“Cycling requires a highly coordinated interplaybetween balance, coordination, and rhythmic pedalingof the legs,” they wrote in a journal news release.

Internet

Nose may be best place toscreen for MRSA infection

WASHINGTON, 9 Jan — A new study finds that peoplewith high levels of methicillin-resistant staphylococcusaureus (MRSA) bacteria in the nose are more likely to haveother areas of the body colonized by MRSA, which cancause potentially fatal infections. Researchers at RhodeIsland Hospital wanted to assess the quantity of MRSA atdifferent locations on the body and the relationship betweenthe quantities of MRSA at different locations.

The investigators found that MRSA was more likely tobe found in the nose than under the arms, the groin, or theperineum (skin between the rectum and genitals). Theyalso found that people with high levels of MRSA in the nosewere more likely to have MRSA in the other threelocations.

“This study shows us that the quantities of MRSA atdifferent body sites are highly correlated. Also, if screeningcultures are to be done for MRSA, it is best to screen thenose and groin to get the highest yield,” lead author DrLeonard Mermel, medical director of the epidemiology andinfection control department, said in a hospital news release.

The study was released online 5 Jan in advance ofpublication in an upcoming print issue of the Journal ofClinical Microbiology.—Internet

Jeannette Zeltzer, 81 and her newboyfriend Max Rakov, 92, hold handswhile sitting on a couch at the assisted

living facility where they live onSaturday, on 8 March, 2008 in Newton,Mass. Zeltzer recently lost her husband

and now spends time holding hands withRakov who also suffers from

Alzheimer’s.INTERNET

Duke Energy in talks to buy Progress EnergyNEW YORK, 9 Jan—Duke Energy

Corp (DUK.N), the third-largest USpower company, is in talks to acquirerival Progress Energy Inc (PGN.N) in adeal worth more than $13 billion thatcould be announced as soon as Monday,the Financial Times reported onSaturday.

Citing unnamed people familiar withthe situation, the newspaper said thestock-based deal could happen at amodest premium to Progress’ currentmarket value of $13.1 billion.

Duke spokesman Tom Williamsdeclined comment on the report. Progress

did not immediately return a phone callseeking comment.

The companies are hoping toannounce the deal before the openingbell on Wall Street on Monday but somedetails still need to be worked out so thetalks could still be delayed or evenderailed, the paper said.

Both electricity generatingcompanies are based in North Carolinaand serve clients in North and SouthCarolina. Duke serves some markets inthe Midwestern United States andProgress also supplies customers inFlorida.—Internet

A Cebu Pacific plane takes off from Ninoy AquinoInternational Airport in Manila. The entry of otherlow-cost carriers in the Philippines has shown thehuge potential pent-up demand in a country of 95million people, 10 percent of whom work on short-

term jobs abroad.—INTERNET

Germany and France want Portugal toaccept aid

BERLIN, 9 Jan—Germany and Francewant Portugal to accept an internationalbailout as soon as possible in order toprevent its debt crisis spreading to othercountries, German magazine Der Spiegelreported on Saturday.

Without citing its sources, themagazine said government experts fromboth European heavyweights wereconcerned Lisbon will soon not be able tofinance its debt at reasonable rates, afterits borrowing costs rose at the end of lastyear.

A sculpture showingthe euro currency signis seen in front of the

European CentralBank.

INTERNET

TD Ameritrade CEO’s pay grows to $6Min 2010

OMAHA, 9 Jan—TD Ameritrade’spresident and CEO was paid nearly $6million last year, 23 percent more thanin fiscal 2009, as the online brokeragecontinued to perform well inunpredictable economic conditions.

The Omaha-based companydisclosed details of the compensationFred Tomczyk and other top executivesreceived in fiscal 2010 in documentsfiled with the Securities and Exchange

Commission on Friday.Ameritrade’s board said the

company’s managers were rewardedfor continuing to grow new clientaccounts and net new assets last yearin the face of difficult operatingconditions. Ameritrade reported netincome of $592.2 million, or $1 pershare, on $2.56 billion in revenue forfiscal 2010.

Internet

Berlin and Paris also want euro zonecountries to publicly commit to do whateverit takes to protect the bloc’s single currency,including topping up a 750 billion euro($968 billion) rescue fund if necessary.

Portugal is viewed by manyeconomists as the peripheral euro zonecountry that is most likely to follow Irelandand Greece to seek an international bailoutas it grapples to cut its debts and borrowingcosts. It holds its first bond auction of theyear next week.

Reuters

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TEHERAN, 9 Jan — Head of the Atomic EnergyOrganization of Iran (AEOI) and acting ForeignMinister Ali Akbar Salehi announced Saturday thatthe country has so far produced almost 40 kg of 20percent enriched uranium to supply fuel to theTeheran research reactor, local semi-official Farsnews agency reported.

“We have produced about 40 kg of 20 percent(enriched) uranium and we hope to witness theinjection of the first batch of Iran- made 20 percentfuel to the Teheran research reactor soon,” Farsquoted Salehi as saying.

Salehi also said that Teheran is preparing toresume talks with the Vienna Group (the US, Russia,France and the International Atomic EnergyAgency) on the swap of nuclear fuel for the Teheranresearch reactor.

The more they (the Vienna Group) delay inholding a new round of negotiations with Iran, “themore progress we make in fuel production and aftera while the issue of fuel swap will becomemeaningless,” Salehi said.

Xinhua

Iran has produced 40 kg of20% enriched uranium

FORT LAUDERDALE, 9 Jan —Authorities say a plane about to take offfrom a South Florida Airport wasreturned to the gate after a passengerfound a bomb threat scribbled in amagazine. Passengers got off, and theplane was searched as a precaution.

According to the Broward CountySheriff’s Office, the note said there was

Written bomb threat halts takeoffat Fla airport

Small earthquake hitsCalifornia’s San Jose area

People walk by theAudi e-tron Spyder

concept car during the2011 International

Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas, the

United States, on7 Jan, 2011. The 2011

InternationalConsumer ElectronicsShow (CES) runs from

6 to 9 Jan.XINHUA

SAN FRANCISCO, 9 Jan — A small earthquakemeasuring 4.1 hit the Californian city of San Joseand the surrounding area on Friday afternoon,The Los Angeles Times reported.

The epicentre of the quake, which occurred atabout 4:10 pm (0010 GMT Saturday), was locatedabout 13 miles (20 kilometres) southeast ofdowntown San Jose, the report said.

There were no reports of injuries or damage,the paper noted. The reading was based on theopen-ended Moment Magnitude scale, now usedby US seismologists, which measures the area ofthe fault that ruptured and the total energy released.

Internet

HONG KONG, 9 Jan — An earthquake measuring5.0 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia at 0820GMT, Hong Kong Observatory announcedSaturday afternoon.

The epicentre was initially determined to bein Sulawesi, at 1. 1 degrees south latitude and120.1 degrees east longitude, which is about 450km north of Ujung Pandang.—Xinhua

Magnitude-5 earthquake hitsIndonesia

Students practice taking cover during an earthquakedrill in California last October.—INTERNET

COLOMBO, 9 Jan —Floods situation in eastSri Lanka has seen noimprovement as continu-ous rains lashed the areaover the last two weeks,relief officials saidSaturday. “In terms ofnumbers 588,000 peoplehave been affected. Over4, 800 are in reliefcamps. There have beenthree deaths. We maintain18 camps for the floodsdisplaced”, said Pradeep

Nearly 600,000 people marooned byfloods in Sri Lanka

Kodippily, deputydirector of the NationalDisaster ManagementCentre. MeteorologistMerril Mendis said that alow depression situationhas developed in theatmosphere which cancause more rains.

“We expect thecontinuation of the rainyclimate in the north andeast provinces whilesporadic rains can alsobe experienced in other

parts of the island”,Mendis said.

In the central districtof Badulla, the residentssaid no sunshine wasexperienced during thelast 14 days.

The bad weatherforced mud slips andlandslide warnings withsome of the roadscovered in mist making itdifficult for motorists,authorities said.

Xinhua

Photo taken on 8 Jan, 2011 shows the thirdprize ice sculpture of the 25th Harbin

international ice sculpture contest in Harbin,capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang

Province. More than 60 contestants across theworld took part in the 3-day contest that closed

on Saturday. — XINHUA

GAZA, 9 Jan — Palestinian militants on Saturdayfired mortar shells from the Gaza Strip into Israel,wounding two foreign workers, the militants andIsraeli media said.

The website of Israel’s Yediot Ahronotnewspaper reported that one of the mortars landedin Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council in WesternNegev and wounded two foreign workers.

The initial report did not reveal the conditionand the identity of the victims.

Israel’s Radio said the mortar landed close to ahouse.

Xinhua

Mortar wounds two foreignworkers in southern Israel

a bomb aboard the Spirit Airlines flightthat was preparing to take off Saturdaynight from Fort Lauderdale-HollywoodInternational Airport.

The sheriff’s office says a bombsquad was sweeping the plane as aprecaution after authorities received thecall around 10 pm.

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A man looks at the flooded riverside promenade inZell at the Mosel river, 30 km (19 miles) northeast

of Trier, 9 Jan, 2011. —INTERNET

ROME, 9 Jan—A 74-year-old Italianretiree shot dead two neighbors andthen his wife Sunday before turningthe gun on himself, police said.Jealousy appeared to be behind therampage in the northern city of Genoa.

Carlo Trabona, a retired bricklayer,first went to a coffee bar where he shotone of his neighbors. As the other oneran away, Trabona followed him, shothim and then went back home wherehe killed his wife, according to a policereconstruction reported by Italianmedia.

Four dead in shooting spree innorthern Italy

After police surrounded hisbuilding, Trabona shot himself, saidAlfredo Federici of the Genoa police.The two neighbors, who werebrothers, and the shooter died later inhospital, he said.

Federici said an alleged infidelitymay have triggered the shooting spree,as Trabona suspected that his 72-year-old wife had been having an affairwith one of the neighbors, who werealso his longtime friends. Italian newsreports also said the shooter had ahistory of mental problems.—Internet

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Global fears rise over German meat

BERLIN, 9 Jan—Global fears mounted on Saturdayover the safety of German meat due to contaminatedanimal feed, with South Korea banning pork importsand Slovakia suspending poultry sales.

As the European Union insisted there was no

need for a ban, Germany moved to calm the concernsover food safety with test results showing acceptablelevels of dioxin, a potentially cancer-causing chemicalcompound, in poultry and meat.

The European Commission said South Korea hadbecome the first country to suspend imports of Germanpork and accused Seoul of overreacting.

“It is a decision which is out of proportion as towhat is going on in Germany, but we are going to tryto talk with the South Koreans to reassure them,” saidFrederic Vincent, spokesman for European healthcommissioner John Dalli.

Brussels does not consider there are grounds fordeclaring a ban on exports of German meat or otherproducts from Germany “because the farms havebeen closed and farm products which have beendelivered are blocked, awaiting analysis,” Vincentsaid.

Slovakia became the first EU country to imposerestrictions on German meat, after it suspended salesof poultry meat and eggs while it conducted tests toassess dioxin levels.—Internet

Policemen stand on the grounds of the Harles &Jentzsch GmbH animal feed facility in Uetersen

near Pinneberg, northwestern Germanyon 5 Jan.—INTERNET

India and Pakistan foreignsecretaries may meet in

FebruaryNEW DELHI, 9 Jan—Indian foreign secretary

Nirupama Rao is likely to meet her Pakistanicounterpart in Bhutan’s capital next month, India’sforeign office said on Sunday, as the two nuclear-armed neighbours try to take forward a stalledpeace process.

The meeting is likely to take place on the marginsof the South Asian Association for RegionalCooperation (SAARC) standing committee meetingat Thimphu on 6-7 February, the foreign officestatement said.

Last week, Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishnasaid he expects his Pakistani counterpart ShahMahmood Qureshi to visit India by March.

The two countries’ prime ministers, interiorministers and foreign ministers all met last year, butfailed to revive the peace process.—Reuters

Beyond smoking scenes onChina’s TV screens

BEIJING, 9 Jan—Smoking pipes,tobacco threads, cigarettes, and dazzlingsmoking gestures, which are commonlyseen on China’s TV screens, haveemerged as a clear concern for manysupporters of tobacco control.

Xinhua reporters, while monitoringseven Chinese television channels, spotted49 screen shots of smoking from four TVseries being aired from 8 pm to 10 pm on4 Jan.

Of those smoking scenes, some lastless than one second while others went onfor as long as five seconds. However,these findings were only a small part of thepicture.

The China Association on Tobacco

Control (CATC), a non-profit organization,issued a report in August 2010 aftermonitoring 40 domestic Chinese moviesand 30 local TV series.

The results indicated that smokingscenes appeared in 31 movies, with anaverage of 15 screen shots, while smokingscenes were found in 28 TV series, withan average of 85 such screen shots.

Yang Gonghuan, director of theNational Office for Tobacco Control, saidthough smoking scenes on TV could notbe fully counted as tobaccoadvertisements, they could easily misleadadolescents and leave them without acorrect understanding as to what harmtobacco is responsible for.—Xinhua

Fears over readiness of IndiaWorld Cup venues

NEW DELHI, 9 Jan—Just six weeks before thecricket World Cup, severalvenues including India’smost famous stadium arechaotic scenes of cranesand rubble, raising fearsthey will not be ready intime.

The tournament, beingheld in India, Sri Lankaand Bangladesh from 19February, will attract hugecrowds and worldwidetelevision audiencesdrawn by the bestinternational players

This picture taken on 5 Jan shows Indianconstruction workers removing debris at the EdenGardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata.—INTERNET

competing in 49 matches.But it threatens to be

a replay of New Delhi’srecent CommonwealthGames, which instead ofmarking the arrival of anew, modern India on theworld stage became anational embarrassment ofdelays, shoddy works, andalleged corruption.

As the cricket clockticks down, anxiety isgrowing over the prepare-dness of organizers, with

a ten-million-dollarupgrade to the 80,000-seater Eden Gardensstadium in Kolkata causingthe biggest headache.

Amid the diggers, dustand bare concrete,hundreds of labourerswearing virtually no safetyequipment are toiling dayand night to finish off twonew blocks of stands whichare still covered inscaffolding.

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Japanese troupe named Honiya Dance Group,performs at Katara in Doha, Qatar, on 8 Jan, 2011.The show was organised by the Asian Football Cup

(AFC) and Japanese embassy as part of theJapanese embassy’s support to the ongoing AFC

tournament.—XINHUA

A man cleans mudfrom a recently

flooded glass andaluminium business

in the centre offlood-hit

Bundaberg. Atropical cyclone-

created inundationleft entire towns

under water and cutoff many more overan area the size of

France andGermany combined.

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China’s homemade jet ARJ21-700starts cold-weather trial

XI’AN, 9 Jan—Thecountry’s first homeg-rown regional jet ARJ21-700 is being tested to seehow well it performs inthe extreme cold of InnerMongolia AutonomousRegion, China’s flighttesting establishment saidSunday.

The 78- to 90-seataircraft completed a 3-

hour flight from Xi’an inShaanxi Province toManzhouli City, InnerMongolia, Thursday,according to the jet’smanufacturer — theCommercial AircraftCorporation of China(Comac).

A spokesman with thecompany confirmed thejet’s cold-weather trialwould continue for a weekto test the performance ofits hydraulics and otherfunctions in Manzhouli,where the daily averagetemperature is 30 belowzero.

The jet has amaximum flight range of3,700 kilometers andmaximum altitude of11,900 meters.

So far, ARJ21-700has completed more than

900 hours of tests during400 trial flights sinceNovember 2008, when theplane made its first trialflight in Shanghai.

Comac is working toget US Federal AviationAdministration (FAA)certification. If achieved,the ARJ21 will be the firstChinese commercialaircraft to receive USapproval.

China’s AVICInternational HoldingCorporation signed a dealwith Comac to sell 100ARJ21-700 baselinemodels overseas at an airshow held last Novemberin Zhuhai, GuangdongProvince, which broughtthe number of the jetorders to 340 in total.

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Industry-1 Ministertours Kyaukse… (from page 1)improve advanced glassproduction methodsdomestically, to expendforeign exchange wiselyand carefully through

tasks for maintenance andfull-capacity operation ofthe main factory at theTextile Plant Myitthaunder the Myanma TextileIndustries, calling for hittingtargets of products. Heobserved the cloths andfabric patterns.

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Power house and earth work being carried out with heavy machinery.

Industry-1 Minister U Aung Thaung looks into glass factory project (Kyaukse).— INDUSTRY- 1

Kyee-Ohn Kyee-Wa Multi-Purpose… (from page 1)

We met with

Deputy Director U

Myint, Staff Officers UThein Myint and U

Thaung Myint of

Construction No. 3. Wemade a field trip to the

site. Its catchment area

is 1959 square miles,annual average inflow

water, 4600,000 acre

feet, full tank area,463,000 acre feet, dead

storage area, 35,350

acre feet, water surface

area 10,860 acres. It is ofzone dam type. With the

installation of two 37

megawatt machines, itcan generate 370 million

kw hours of electricity a

year. The project is dueto be completed in 2011

and has completed by 80

percent. Construction ofmain dam started on 17

January 2005. Earth

work for the spillway hascompleted by 91.35

percent and concrete

work, by 51.08 percent.

The dam is nearingcompletion. The dam

contributes to the

increase of sownacreages in western

regions of Magway

Region, generatingmore electricity and

greening the region.

*****Translation: MT

Myanma Alin

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YANGON, 9 Jan—Minister for SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement U MaungMaung Swe, togetherwith Director-General ofFire Service DepartmentU Tin Moe, inspectedconstruction of new firestation buildings andstaff quarters in SouthOkkalapa Township andDagon Myothit

Minister inspects constructionof fire station buildings

(Seikkan) Township.Dagon Myothit

(Seikkan) TownshipIndustrial ZoneChairman U Aye Lwinreported to the ministeron fire safety measuresin the zone. Then, theminister inspected firepreventive measuresbeing taken at MTIfinished wood factory.

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reduction of importedgoods, to give impetus tonational developmentand to create jobs in theregion.

Next, He inspected

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan—A ceremony to mark the63rd AnniversaryIndependence Day tookplace at Kengtung Sportsground on 4 January.

Among the attendeeswere Chairman of ShanState (East) Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of TriangleRegion Command Brig-Gen Than Tun Oo, senior

63rd Anniversary Independence Daymessage read out

military officers,commanding officers oflocal regiments and units,officers and other ranksand their families.

The commander andattendees saluted theState Flag.

The commander readthe message sent byChairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander-in-

Chief of DefenceServices Senior GeneralThan Shwe on theoccasion of 63rd

Anniversary Indepen-dence Day.

The commander andofficials watched thesports games incommemoration of theIndependence Day andpresented prizes to thewinners.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan—Minister for Education DrChan Nyein, accom-panied by Director-General Dr Soe Win ofthe Higher EducationDepartment (UpperMyanmar), Director-General (Duty) U YeLwin Aung of No.2 BasicEducation Department,visited University ofMeiktila, MeiktilaEducation College andMeiktila Institute of

Education Minister visits universities,colleges in Mandalay Region

Economics yesterdaymorning. During thevisits, the minister metwith the rectors, pro-rectors, principals andprofessors, fulfilled theneeds for academic andmanagement matters andresearch work andleft necessaryinstructions.

Next, the ministervisited University ofKyaukse and Universityof Yatanarpon and

discussed academic andadministrative mattersand research work. Then,he attended the paperreading session ofstudents for their master’sdegree.

The minister andparty today visitedUniversity of Mandalay,Mandalay University ofDistance Education andMandalay University ofForeign Languages.

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YANGON, 9 Jan—Symposium onNephrology took place at the MedicalResearch Department (lower Myanmar)on Ziwaka Road, Dagon Township,here, with an address of Deputy Ministerfor Health Dr Paing Soe.

Kidney specialists from AdelaideUniversity and Royal Adelaide Hospital

Symposium on Nephrology heldin Australia, kidney specialists fromMalaysia, Thailand and Indiapresented renal therapies, treatmentmethods and their expreiences.

It was also attended by specialistsfrom general hospitals, DefenceServices general hospitals andmedicine universities.—MNA

YANGON, 9 Jan—The19th plenary meeting ofPrinting and PublishingEntrepreneurs Associationwas held at theheadquarters of Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry on MinyeKyawswar Street,Lanmadaw Townshiphere this morning.

It was attended bydepartmental officialsfrom Ministry ofInformation, publishers,members of Central

Printing and PublishingEntrepreneurs Association meets

Supervisory Committeefor Registration andSecuritization, CECmembers of MyanmarWriters and JournalistsAssociation, president ofthe UMFCCI and CECmembers, chairman ofPPEA and executives,chairmen of brotherassociations, personnelfrom private media, andguests.

First, Chairman of themeeting PPEA ChairmanDr Tin Tun Oo extendedgreetings and UMFCCI

President U Win Myintdelivered an address.

Secretary U Tin KoKo read out report andannual financial statementof the executive board,Information Officer UMyo Aung record of theassociation andamendment of Article 30(a) and (b) for approval.

Next, wellwishersmade donations to theassociation and themeeting ended with anconcluding of thechairman.—MNA

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Highly-recommended …(from page 16)

Pyawbwe andMeiktila.

“The bean curd wemake does not go badfor at least five days.We make it with purechick pea. To makebean curd, we soakchick pea the wholenight. In the morning,we grind it. Then, westir the mixture of waterand grinded chick peawith a propelling stick.We pour away the

Daw Khin Htar,bean curd

shopkeeper.

Kayin State Chairman inspectsYayboke Dam Project

NA Y PY I T A W, 9Jan—Chairman ofKayin State Peace andDevelopment CouncilBrig-Gen Zaw Min inhis inspection tour ofYayboke Dam Projectheld a meeting withfarmers on 15December 2010.

H e i n s p e c t e dconstruction work ofH t i l o n - T a b a u n g -P a t a - N a b u - A u k b o t eroad.

He par took in

December mass walkact iv i ty on 18December and tookphysical exercise withlocal people.

On 20 December,he addressed theopening of thedomest ic sc iencecourse , advancedtailoring course andthe wickerwork courseat the Vocat ionalTraining Centre forWomen in Hpa-an. Hepresented food stuff to

the centre.On 27 December,

he inspected Hton-aiRiver Water PumpingSta t ion Projec t . Anoff ic ia l gave anaccount of ongoingtasks. The chairmanattended to the needsand inspected watersupply tasks.

He viewed thenurturing of summerpaddy plants in Hton-ai Village.

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Dy Energy Minister on inspection tour ofYedagun oilfield platform

NAY PYI TAW, 9Jan— Deputy Ministerfor Energy U ThanHtay yesterdayinspected Yedagunoilfield platform inMottama OffshoreOilfield of PetronasCarigali Myanmar(Hong Kong) Limited(PCML).

There, the deputyminister left necessaryinstructions on reportspresented by YedagunPlatform manager andofficials concerned on

progress of dailyproduction of oil andgas and taking plans toprevent naturallydecrease of productionof oil and gas.

Next, the deputyminister greetedMyanmar workers on theplatform and presentedthem a basket of fruitsbefore he proceeded toFloating Storage andOffloading (FSO).

In the evening, atPipeline OperatingCentre (POC) of PCML

Co Ltd in Kanbaukvillage-tract, YebyuTownship, POCmanager reported himon progress of offshoregas piped abroad, andSocial EconomicDevelopment in-charge regionaldevelopmental tasksbeing carried out.

The deputyminister and partyviewed socialeconomic developmentof the region.

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liquid and boil the pasteonly. We make aboutthree viss of bean curdfrom one viss of chickpea. We sell a viss ofbean curd for around1000 kyats.”

If you are on a visitto Tatkon Township,Nay Pyi Taw District,you should not wastethe opportunity to trydelicious bean curdmade in InnzinVillage.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin:

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ground floor, MACTower (1), MerchantStreet, KyauktadaTownship, from 9 am to6 pm and the Mandalay

Secretary of Sagaing Region PDC U Zaw Moe Aye makes speech at talkon traffic rule enforcement.—District IPRD (News on page 16)

?Staff officer Daw Khin Mar Aye ofTownship Cooperatives Department, U

Than Swe Oo, Staff officer of TownshipInformation and Public Relations

Department Daw Aye Aye Khine andChairman of Library U Aung Thein opened

“Lanpyakyae” cooperatives Library inKyutawkan village-tract in Paungde

Township, Pyay District, on 26 December.(Caption News)

Commander reads 63rd AnniversaryIndependence Day message

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan—Chairman ofShan State (North) Peace andDevelopment Council Commander ofNorth-East Command Brig-Gen AungKyaw Zaw attended the ceremony tomark the 63rd AnniversaryIndependence Day at the paradeground on 4 January morning.

The commander and attendeessaluted the State Flag.

The commander read the 63rd

Anniversary Independence Daycommemorative message sent byChairman of the State Peace andDevelopment Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior

General Than Shwe.He enjoyed commemorative

sports activities and awarded thewinners of the sports games.

On 5 January, the commanderaddressed the ceremony to honourNorth-East Command shooting teamthat had won the championship shieldin the Defence Services Commander-in-Chief’s Shield Tatmadaw (Army,Navy and Air) Shooting Contest andto present the championship shield.

An officer handed over thechampionship shields to thecommander.

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Myanmar Book Centre to launchBook-Buffet, Clearance Sale

YANGON, 9 Jan—Myanmar BookCentre will organizethe Book-Buffet andClearance Sale for thethird time from 10 to16 January.

The proceeds fromthe sale will be used inbuying necessaryMyanmar books to bedonated to villagelibraries, and monasticeducation schools.

Sales of books willbe Book-buffetprogramme-1 andprogramme-2. In theclearance sale, bookswill be sold atdiscounts.

Book-Buffet andClearance Sale will belaunched at Outlet-1 ofMyanmar Book Centreat 55 at the corner ofBaho and Ahlon Roads,Ahlon Township,Yangon; and Outlet-1 at561-567, Room-3,

branch at Room-429 atlevel 4, 78 ShoppingCentre Mandalay, from9 am to 9 pm.

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COTABATO, 9 Jan—Gunmenkidnapped a wealthy Chinese-Filipino trader outside a busy hotel inthe southern Philippines, the latest ina rash of abductions in the area inrecent months, police said Sunday.

The hotel’s security camerashowed the men forcibly takingYuloyu Lim Yu, 56, to a waitinggetaway vehicle in Cotabato city lateSaturday, regional police spokesmanChief Inspector Alexander Yap said.

“The security guard initiallyengaged with the kidnappers but theysped off,” Yap said.

He said the kidnappers’ vehiclewas later recovered by authorities,but the whereabouts of the victimwas unknown.

Nobody has claimedresponsibility for the abduction, butseveral armed groups, includingMuslim separatist rebels, are knownto operate in the city and in nearby

Wealthy trader kidnapped in southernPhilippines

CARACAS, 9 Jan— A 10-year-old girl has surviveda plane crash in western Venezuela that killed thefive other people on board, apparently her familymembers.

Amilcar Mendes, the civil protection director inwestern Cojedes state, says the small, PN68 planecrashed on the edge of a farm in the municipality ofLima Blanco.

Mendes says two men and three women onboard died, while the girl survived without injuries.The six were apparently from the same family.

The plane apparently took off from theCaribbean island of Margarita en route to an airportin Valles de Tuy, about 20 miles (30 kilometres)southeast of Caracas. The cause of the accident hasstill not been determined.—Internet

10-year-old girl survivesVenezuela plane crash

ISLAMABAD, 9 Jan—Fog stopped a plane of theGerman foreign minister from landing in Islamabadon Saturday and diverted it to the eastern city ofLahore, officials said.

Guido Westerwelle was scheduled to arrive inthe Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Saturdaymorning on a two-day visit for talks on bilateral andregional issues, the Foreign Ministry said.

A joint press stakeout by Pakistani ForeignMinister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and the Germanforeign minister was scheduled to be held at theForeign Office on Saturday at 2 pm local time, butit may be delayed for several hours, officials said.

The German foreign minister will wait in Lahoreunless the fog is reduced or he may travel on road,official sources said.

The German FM is also to meet Prime MinisterSyed Yousuf Raza Gilani, sources said.

Dozens of flights have been delayed since theonset of seasonal fog this year which reducedvisibility to zero in several areas, making take-offand landing virtually impossible at the Islamabadinternational airport.

Winter fog has gripped many Pakistani citiesincluding the capital, which has also disruptedtraffic on motorways and main highways, officialssaid.

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Fog in Pakistan divertsvisiting German FM plane

A couple walk amid the snow in Toronto,

Canada, on 8 Jan, 2011. The first snowfall in

2011 hit Toronto on Saturday. —XINHUA

The WheeMe robot from DreamBots Incmassages the back of an attendee at the 2011International Consumer Electronics Show on

6 Jan in Las Vegas, Nevada.INTERNET

Gunmen kidnapped a wealthy Chinese-Filipino trader outside a busy hotel inthe southern Philippines, the latest in arash of abductions in the area in recentmonths, police said Sunday.—INTERNET

areas.In October, gunmen seized

Conchita Atienza Tan, 73, the wifeof another wealthy trader in Cotabato.

A family driver and a bodyguardwere killed when they traded firewith the suspects before they spedaway. Tan however wassubsequently freed after her familypaid ransom.—Internet

Young dancers fromRussia take part in a

joint performancewith Chinese youngstudents in Heihe,northeast China’s

HeilongjiangProvince, 8 Jan,

2011. A total of 200young dancers from

Russia’s Khabarovsk,Blagoveshchensk and

China’s No 5Primary School of

Heihe joined togetherat the performance to

enhance theunderstanding andfriendship among

each other.—XINHUA

Four Loko tobecomeethanol

RICHMOND, 9 Jan—AVirginia company said itis recycling the alcoholfrom leftover stores ofbanned beverage FourLoko to make ethanol.

MXI Enterprises ofRichmond said the FourLoko, which was made byPhusion Projects ofChicago and was recentlybanned in several statesbecause of its combinationof high alcohol andcaffeine levels, would berecycled, KSWB-TV, SanDiego, reported Friday.

Mike Lewis, owner ofPearson Fuels in SanDiego, said it is not unusualfor beverages to berecycled into ethanol.

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Robots massage, clean, and amuse at CESCES robotics zone with creations ranging fromtherapeutic mechanical seals to playful lifelikebaby dinosaurs.

“It gives you a nice tickling feeling,” KarenSlutzky of DreamBots said as a WheeMemaneuvered independently on the back of a womanlaying on a massage table at CES, which endsSunday.

“It is a gentle skin massage; very relaxing.And, it doesn’t fall off.”

Curvy, car-shaped WheeMe units have wheelsdesigned with “fingerlettes” and the robots vibrate.

Invented by Slutzky’s husband, EyalAvramovich, the robots use feedback from sensorsto not ride off backs or stomachs and to stop atwaistlines.

“It doesn’t know where it has been, but itknows where not to go,” Slutzky said. “We areworking on making it smarter so it can go up ontothe bum and down onto the leg.”

The couple was showing prototypes at CESand looking for a partner to bring models to the USmarket late this year.

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LAS VEGAS, 9 Jan—The world’s first massagerobot was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)in Las Vegas to soothe those sore from dashingabout the gargantuan gadget extravaganza.

Palm-sized WheeMe massagers made by Israel-based startup DreamBots were in a newly established

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A man unloads bags ofsugar from state-run

food company EMAPAto sell to the public in La

Paz on 7 Jan, 2011.Local media reportedthat Bolivia is facing asugar shortage due toinsufficient sugarcane

crops and the smugglingof sugar to nearby

countries.—INTERNET

A train travels on the newly-launched Guangzhou-Zhuhai

intercity railway in south China’sGuangdong Province, on 7 Jan,2011. The intercity rail line, with

speeds of up to 250 kilometres perhour, was put in operation Friday.

It will shorten the travel timebetween Guangzhou and Zhuhai

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Tourism New Zealandtargets “you”

WELLINGTON, 9 Jan—Tourism New Zealand waspersonalizing its message with a new campaign, “100Percent Pure You”.

Tourism New Zealand Chief Executive KevinBowler said on Sunday the campaign was the next stepfrom the highly successful “100 Percent Pure NewZealand” after research indicated New Zealand couldincrease its appeal by focusing on more than stunninglandscapes.

“We have identified people around the worldalready considering travelling to New Zealand whohave the financial means to make the trip, Bowler said.

“The addition of ‘You’ to the successful “100Percent Pure New Zealand” advertising message is alogical next step that will benefit New Zealand’stourism industry by highlighting the many individualexperiences on offer,” he added.

The campaign, starts in Australia on Sunday,includes television commercials, online banner ads anda new ‘100% Pure You ‘ tagline that, over time, will beused for all Tourism New Zealand advertising globally.It will be rolled out in New Zealand

,s major North

American, European and Asian markets by the end ofFebruary.

100% Pure New Zealand has been used to promoteNew Zealand as a tourism destination since 1999. InNovember last year, New Zealand was ranked thethird strongest country brand in the world, up one placefrom the previous year and ahead of the United States,by FutureBrand’s Country Brand Index.—Xinhua

14 decapitated bodies found in Mexico resort cityACAPULCO, 9 Jan—The bodies of 15 men, all but one

of them headless, were found on a street outside ashopping centre in Acapulco on Saturday as policereported 27 people slain in the Pacific resort in less thana day.

The decapitated victims, all of whom appeared to bein their 20s, were discovered in an area not frequentedby tourists.

Handwritten signs left with the bodies were signedby “El Chapo’s People” — a reference to the Sinaloacartel, headed by drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman— said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of investigativepolice for Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.

The narco-messages indicated the Sinaloa cartelkilled them for trying to intrude on the gang’s turf andextort residents. Authorities said there were at leastthree minors among the dead.

Mexico’s drug cartels have increasingly taken tobeheading their victims in a grisly show of force, butSaturday’s discovery was the largest single group ofdecapitation victims found in recent years.

Professor Antonio VazquezAlba “Brujo Mayor”, alsoknown as Mexico’s GrandWarlock, holds up a tarot

card during a newsconference where he made

predictions for 2011 inMexico City on 4 Jan, 2011.

He predicted on politics,sports, drug trafficking and

also that Sinaloa Cartelhead Joaquin Guzman Loera

would not be arrested thisyear.—INTERNET

Alaska pipeline shut down afterleak discovered

ANCHORAGE, 9 Jan—The Trans Alaska Pipelineshut down on Saturdayafter an oil leak wasdiscovered at the intakepump station at PrudhoeBay, the system’s operatorsaid. Alyeska Pipeline

Service Co, the operator ofthe 800-mile (1,280kilometre) line, said the leakwas discovered Saturdaymorning and oil producershave been instructed to cutoutput to 5 percent ofnormal rates.

Alyeska is owned byoil companies with interestson the North Slope. Majorowners are BP, Conoco-Phillips and Exxon MobilCorp. BP, which operatesthe Prudhoe Bay field, hasstarted the process ofreducing production, saidcompany spokesmanSteve Rinehart.

“I can’t give you anestimate of how long it willtake to get down to 5percent, but we areworking quickly and safelyto do that,” he said. Tasksinclude freeze-protectinglines and facilities, he said.

The leak appears tobe from a second pipelineencased in concreteadjacent to the pump stationbuilding and a responsecrew has been sent to thesite to assess ways tocontain the oil leak andstart cleanup and repairs,Alyeska said.

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Brazil government says100K displaced by floods

RIO DE JANEIRO, 9Jan—Brazilian authoritiessay the number of peopleleft homeless by floodinghas risen to about 100,000in four southeasternstates.

Reports from regionalcivil defence authoritiesshow Minas Gerais statehas been hit the hardest,with 16 dead there as ofFriday. More than 4,000homes have been

damaged by rising waterand landslides, and about170 destroyed.

Eleven more aredead in Sao Paulo state,where 57 cities are in astate of emergency,including the capital.

Main thoroughfaresin Sao Paulo city wereswamped Saturday, andsome smaller towns wereentirely submerged.

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In 2008, a group of 12 decapitated bodies were piledoutside the Yucatan state capital of Merida. The sameyear, nine headless men were discovered in the Guerrerostate capital of Chilpancingo.

Acapulco has been the site of fierce battles betweendrug gangs, and this weekend got off to a bloody startwith 27 people killed there from Friday evening to earlySaturday, Leyva said.—Internet

‘Dramatic’ rain warning forflood-soaked Australia

Mud-caked debris is piledin front of a house at

Condamine, Australia,after floodwater washed

away or ruinedhousehold items from

hundreds of homes, on 7Jan, 2011. Some victims

of Australia’s worstfloods in decades

returned to their homesto find them caked in

sludge as othersnervously watched the

skies for more rain andwaited for swollen rivers

to recede.—INTERNET

SYDNEY, 9 Jan—Heavyrains falling on Australia’sflooded north-east couldhave a “dramatic” impact,officials warned Sunday,stretching already swollenrivers and creeks to theirlimit across the devastatedregion.

Queensland policecommissioner AlistairDawson said that severeweather lashing thealready sodden northea-stern state could bring flashflooding to currently dryareas with little warning.

“Waters will risequickly — you may not beaware of that rise,”Dawson told reporters.“Those places which havegone under before,especially on the roadsystem, could well flood

again within an hour.”Emergency chief

Warren Bridson said theunprecedented deluge —which has hit an area largerthan France and Germanycombined, paralysing thekey agricultural and coal-mining region — meantthe rain’s impact wasunpredictable.

“The ground is sowaterlogged, the catchme

-nts so primed, the riversso full, the creeks are allflooding, and it will meansomething more dramaticthan it has in the past,”Bridson said.

“That 200 millimetres(eight inches) of raincould mean the differencebetween a minor floodand a major flood,” headded.

Internet

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Verizon Wireless to unveil iPhone Tuesday

A sign of Verizon Wireless.—INTERNET

WikiLeaks subpoenas spill outinto public realm

WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange

World Bank chief set to laudIndia for growth effort

World Bank PresidentRobert Zoellick

NEW YORK, 9 Jan—Verizon Wireless,the top US mobile provider, plans onTuesday to unveil a version of the Ap-ple Inc iPhone for its service and willkick off sales of the device a few weeks

later, a source told Reuters.Verizon Wireless will offer the

iPhone to its customers under its existingwireless service price plans, said thesource, who asked not to be named asthe plan has not yet been announced.

Apple and Verizon Wireless declinedcomment on Saturday.

Verizon Wireless, a venture ofVerizon Communications andVodafone Group Plc, will announce pric-ing for the device at an event to be heldin New York on Tuesday.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 9 Jan—World Bank PresidentRobert Zoellick opens afour-day visit to India onSunday where he was ex-pected to laud the effortsby the big emerging coun-try on its growing role inthe global economy.

“India’s return to highlevels of growth is help-ing the global economyrecover from the crisis,”

said Zoellick in a statementfrom Washington Satur-day.

“India is a player on theglobal stage. The coun-try’s status as a rising eco-nomic power is closelyconnected with how itmanages this next phaseof growth, balancing rapiddevelo-pment with the en-vironment and mostimpor-tantly, the need toensure all people haveoppor-tunity.”

He said the WorldBank supported India’s“strategy of boostinggrowth while helping themost vulnerable people beable to seize the opportu-nities afforded by an ex-panding economy.”

Internet

WASHINGTON, 9 Jan—Investigative documentsin the WikiLeaks probespilled out into the pub-lic domain Saturday forthe first time, pointing tothe Obama administra-tion’s determination toassemble a criminal caseno matter how long ittakes and how far afieldauthorities have to go.

Backed by a magis-trate judge’s court orderfrom 14 Dec, the newlydisclosed documentssent to Twitter Inc bythe US attorney’s officein Alexandria, Va,demand details aboutthe accounts ofWikiLeaks founder

Julian Assange and PfcBradley Manning, theArmy intelligence ana-lyst who’s in custodyand suspected ofsupplying WikiLeakswith classified infor-mation.—Internet

The new Renault electric utility vehicle KangooExpress ZE. A boss of French automaker

Renault said on Saturday.—INTERNET

PARIS, 9 Jan—Two French hostages kidnappedin the Niger capital were killed by their captors despitea rescue attempt by French forces, President NicolasSarkozy said in a statement on Saturday.

The hostages were found dead at the Niger-Maliborder after French troops there clashed with the kid-nappers, killing several of them, a statement fromDefence Minister Alain Juppe said. President NicolasSarkozy condemned the killings as a “cowardly andbarbaric act.”

The two French victims, who have not been iden-tified, were kidnapped by four armed men whiledining at a restaurant on Friday night in the Nigercapital, Niamey.—Internet

Renault says target of international spy ring

France says 2 Frenchmenkidnapped in Niger killed

PARIS, 9 Jan—Aboss of French auto-maker Renault said Sat-urday the company hadbeen targeted by aninternational spy ringbut claimed it had lost nomajor secrets in theaffair which has seentop managers sus-pended.

The French govern-ment meanwhile re-fused to confirm reportsthat the three managerswere supplying detailsof the company’selectric cars to China.

Renault number two

Patrick Pelata told Satur-day’s Le Monde dailythat the inquiry that ledto the suspensions hadconcluded that thecarmaker was faced with

“an organised system ofcollecting economic,technological andstrategic information toserve foreign interests”.

Internet

US biologists find ways to save penguinsBEIJING, 9 Jan —

Researchers across NorthAmerica are in a raceagainst time to save theSouth African penguinfrom extinction.

Biologists are focu-sing on keeping a gen-etically diverse populationin captivity. They hopethat one day, commercialfishing and climatechange can be controlledenough for the birds tosurvive in the wild.

They may be livingthe good life here incaptivity but, in the wild,the South African penguin

Airtel advertismentsline a street in

Nairobi, on 7 Jan,2011. Millions of

mobile phonesubscribers in Africasaw the icon on theirphone screens change

from Zain to Airtellast fall. The change

means little to theaverage customer, butfor the continent, it’s

another sign thatIndia is moving in.The expansion by

Bharti Airtel into 16African countries

underscores the rise ofIndia in Africa, at atime when much ofthe focus on foreigninvestment here has

been on China.INTERNET

is in trouble. It is the onlypenguin species thatbreeds in Africa and it’snumbers are plummeting.

In 2010, the penguinwas added to the USEndangered Species list.In a little over a century,their numbers havedropped from more than amillion to fewer than80,000 and if currenttrends continue - expertssay none will be left in thewild in a few short decades.Biologists at the CaliforniaAcademy of Sciences,along with zoos acrossNorth America are

working to ensure that thepenguins have a fightingchance. Brooke Weinsteinis a biologist at theAcademy.

Brooke Weinstein,Biologists at the CaliforniaAcademy of Sciences,said, “We are part of whatis called the speciessurvival plan. We worktogether with numerousother zoos and aquariumin North America just tomake sure that we aremaintaining a geneticallyviable population of thesebirds in captivity.

Xinhua

Vancouver wedding fair helpsbrides do “I do” right

VANCOUVER, 9 Jan — As would-be brides are in a flutter overapproaching wedding dates and themany ways to say “I do,” thisweekend’s wedding fair inVancouver is making “I do” easy todo right.

Over 150 exhibitors came todisplay their wares at the VancouverWedding Fair this Saturday andSunday.

Launched 32 years ago with only22 exhibitors, the wedding fair hasgrown more popular in recent years,in spite of soaring online businesses.

This Saturday, over 4,000 would-be brides, grooms, their friends and

families attended the fair to learnabout how to create the most magicalmoment of their lives. “They havethe opportunity to see all theseexhibitors under one roof over just aday or two days,” said Gary Meister,former tuxedo businessman whostarted the fair.

The exhibition also includes fourfashion shows per day, displayingthe latest in wedding fashion, as wellas entry draws for a total of 250,000Canadian dollars in prizes, includingthe grand prize that one lucky bridewill take home at the end of theweekend: a 100,000-dollar dreamwedding.—Xinhua

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Drunk burglar calls 911for help

A man who broke into a house in Delawarespent three days there drinking and then had to call911 because he was locked in, police said.

John Finch, 44, was taken to a hospital to soberup after police found him Wednesday, The NewsJournal of Wilmington reported. He faces chargesof breaking into the same house in Bellefonte twicein less than a year.

Officer Michael Bingnear, who responded toFinch’s 911 call, said the house had deadbolt locksthat required keys to open. He said Finch, who saidhe had consumed three bottles of gin and twobottles of whisky during his three-day stay, wasapparently too drunk to deal with the locks or toclimb out of the window he broke to get in.

Finch told police he hid in a closet at one pointwhen the owner stopped by the house. The womantold the News Journal she has not lived in thehouse since it was damaged in a storm.

Bus walked through Icelandic whiteoutA group of Icelandic

aluminum smelteremployees got to workin a whiteout blizzardafter two men walkedahead of their bus to guidethe driver, a worker said.

The bus takesworkers from the townsof Neskaupstadur andEskifjordur on Iceland’seast coast to the smelter

Orangealligator mustbe a dye job,

Fla officials sayAn orange alligator

photographed in SouthFlorida is raising questionsabout its bizarre pigment.Sylvia Mythen snapped thephoto of the gator sunningbeside a neighbourhoodcanal in Venice.

The picture ran on TVafter she shot it Wednesdayand caused a buzz.

Experts with theFlorida Fish and WildlifeConservation Commis-sion have scrutinized thephoto and say the colour isnot genetic. They believethe gator was somehowcovered in paint or anorange substance.

Homeless man finds success with“golden voice”

radio announcer who becamehomeless after battling drugs andalcohol, attracted millions of YouTubehits after The Columbus Dispatchnewspaper posted a video on Mondayof Williams begging on the side of aroad in Columbus, Ohio, using hisradio emcee imitations.

By Thursday, Williams appearedon morning news programmesincluding “The Today Show” to talkabout new voice-over job offers withthe Cleveland Cavaliers basketball teamand foodmaker Kraft and his stunninginstant rise from begging on the streets.

“I feel like Susan Boyle,”Williams, 53, said in The ColumbusDispatch, “Or Justin Bieber.”

Homeless man Ted Williams appears onNBC’s “Today” show in New York 6 Jan,

2011.

He’s not quite Susan Boyle.But one of America’s first viral

videos of 2011 has propelled a homelessman, who was filmed begging formoney with a baritone-rich radio voice,to national attention and job offers.

Ted Williams, a 53 year-old former

in Reydarfjordur, IcelandReview said.

The 45-minute triptook 3 hours Thursday,the Reykjavik newspaperMorgunbladid reported.The 5-mile stretchbetween Eskifjordur andthe plant, usually a matterof 5 or 10 minutes, took 2hours.

Sigurdur Sveinsson

said the weather was goodwhen the bus leftNeskaupstadur. But thebus hit a storm so thick onthe approach toEskifjordur the driver hadto pull over. “It was sostormy and there was somuch snowblindness thatwe couldn’t see a thing infront of us anymore,” hesaid.

Children stand on a 3Dpainting on a street in

southwest China’sChongqing

Municipality, 8 Jan,2011. According to the

designer, it took 26days to finish the 3D

painting which coversan area of nearly 90

square metres.

News Album

Fans, rescued minercelebrate Elvis’ 76th birthday

MEMPHIS, 9 Jan—Hundreds of Elvis Presleyfans, including Chilean miner Edison Pena, gatheredSaturday at Graceland to sing “Happy Birthday”on the late rock n’ roll icon’s 76th birthday.

Pena, the guest of honour at Elvis’ birthdayparty, cut into a 4-foot high cake fashioned to looklike stacked television sets as fans cheered both thesinger and the miner outside Elvis’ longtimeMemphis home. An avid Elvis fan, Pena has beenon a whirlwind tour of Memphis, getting a privatetour of Graceland, attending a Memphis GrizzliesNBA game and leading the walking of the ducks atthe Peabody Hotel. Pena and 32 other miners spent69 days trapped underground after a mine collapsein Chile. Pena sang Elvis songs to lift the morale ofhis friends before their rescue in October. Hespeaks little English except for the words of Elvistunes and has been using a translator.

Internet

Edison Pena tours the display of gold records atGraceland, Elvis Presley’s home, on 7 Jan, 2011, inMemphis, Tenn. Pena is one of 33 miners who were

trapped for 69 days in a collapsed mine in Chile. Pena,an Elvis fan who led other miners in Elvis songs to helppass the time while waiting to be rescued, was invited to

tour Graceland by Elvis Presley Enterprises.INTERNET

Thousands flock to Nintendo 3DSpremiere in Japan

CHIBA, 9 Jan—Thousands ofJapanese game fans flocked to anexhibition hall near Tokyo asNintendo let the general public try its3D-enabled DS console for the firsttime. The new-generation DSmachine — which allows users toplay 3D games without wearingspecial glasses — missed theChristmas season but will be releasedon 26 February in Japan and inMarch in the United States, Europeand Australia.—Internet

Game fans try Nintendo 3DS duringan admission-free, three-day eventfor the 3DS at an exhibition hall inChiba, suburban Tokyo.—INTERNET

UltraViolet lights way tolifetime movie watching rights

LAS VEGAS, 9 Jan—Giants from Hollywood,technology and retail are out to rev up digital filmsales by letting people buy lifetime rights to watchmovies on whichever devices suit their fancies.

A Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem(DECE) alliance that includes Warner Brothers,Microsoft, NBC Universal, Sony, and Fox isworking to break down walls between gadgets andservices to catalyze demand for films.

The new stream of revenue expected with thearrival of digital distribution of movies years agodidn’t arrive. Instead, DVD sales shrank withoutdigital an offsetting increase on the digital side.

The DECE alliance has set up an UltraVioletplatform for film lovers to create free accounts inthe Internet “cloud” where versions of movies theybuy in DVD or digital formats are stored in online“lockers.”—Internet

Producers already pitch Kennedyproject elsewhere

PASADENA, 9 Jan—After the History channelsaid it would not air acontroversial miniseries onthe Kennedy family,producers were alreadyseeking another televisionhome. The Showtime paycable network has beenapproached to air the eight-part series, a spokesmansaid on Saturday. Eightyears ago, Showtime aired

a movie about PresidentReagan that CBS hadmade but decided not tobroadcast when it facedpressure from some of thatformer president’s family.

Showtime won’t makea decision about theKennedy miniseries untilits executives have achance to see it,spokesman Richard Licatasaid—Internet

Documentary filmmakerRobert Greenwald reacts

during a news conference,in this on 12 July, 2004file photo taken in New

York.—INTERNET

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Messi, Iniesta help sendBarcelona five clear

Arsenal’s midfielder Cesc Fabregas (L) scorefrom the penalty spot with a last-gasp equalizerin the FA Cup third round match against Leeds

United at the Emirates Staduim.—INTERNET

Dalglish honouredby Liverpool return

Asian Cup - Group B9 January

Japan 1 - 1 JordanSaudi Arabia 1 - 2 Syria

Spain - Laliga Division8 January

Malaga 1 - 1 Athletic BilbaoReal Sociedad 2 - 3 SevillaDeportivo La Coruna 0 - 4 Barcelona

S P O R T S

Liverpool legend KennyDalglish, the last

manager to bring theEnglish league title.

INTERNET

Stricker, Byrd, Garrigusin the lead at Kapalua

Ben Crane reacts aftermissing a birdie putt onthe ninth green duringthe third round of theHyundai.—INTERNET

Robben back in groove with BayernMUNICH, 9 Jan—Dutch winger Arjen Robben made his long-

awaited return after 231 days on the sidelines with hamstringproblems as Bayern Munich thrashed local side Al-Wakrah 4-0in a friendly in Doha on Saturday.

Robben played the first half before withdrawing as he remainssome way away from match fitness, having last appeared for theBavarians in the Champions League final loss to Inter Milan lastMay. He also featured for Holland in their World Cup final lossto Spain.—Internet

Bayern Munich’s Arjen Robben attendsa training session in the Qatari capital

Doha on 3 January.—INTERNET

LIVERPOOL, 9 Jan—Liv-erpool legend KennyDalglish, the last managerto bring the English leaguetitle to Anfield in 1990,admitted on Saturday itwas “a great honour” to beback in charge.

Dalglish was named asthe man to bring back theglory days to the formerEuropean champions af-

ter the unhappy six-monthreign of Roy Hodgsonwas brought to an end.

Liverpool’s ownersNew England Sports Ven-tures (NESV) had sug-gested after last week’shome defeat to Wolvesthey were looking for al-ternatives, and Dalglish’sfirst task will be to engi-neer a win in Sunday’s FACup third round tie atManchester United.

“It’s a great honour tobe asked to come back,it’s unfortunate circum-stances because a verygood man with great dig-nity and integrity has losthis job,” Dalglish told SkySports News after cuttingshort his holiday in Dubai.

Internet

KAPALUA, 9 Jan—Robert Garrigus made an-other strong recovery, hol-ing a 50-foot eagle putt onthe final hole to get backatop the leaderboard at theTournament of Champi-ons. Steve Stricker made itlook easy in the toughestconditions of the week foran 8-under 65. JonathanByrd joined him in the leaddespite a poor pitch on thefinal hole that made himsettle for par and a 67.

Then came Garrigus,who opened with a doublebogey and a bogey to fallout of the lead. He lingered

the rest of the sunny dayuntil the end, when his 50-foot putt banged into theback of the cup and fell foreagle. That gave him a69.—Internet

MADRID, 9 Jan—Ballond’Or finalists Lionel Messiand Andres Iniesta scoreda goal apiece as champi-ons Barcelona continuedtheir flawless away recordwith a 4-0 win at DeportivoLa Coruna on Saturday tomove five points clear ofReal Madrid. Messi curledin a terrific left-footed free-kick early in the secondhalf for his 18th leaguegoal of the season whileSpanish World Cup winnerIniesta scored a sensa-tional, late individual goalas Barcelona made it aperfect nine wins on theroad.

Spanish internationalsDavid Villa and PedroRodriguez were also ontarget as Barcelona re-corded a 12th consecutiveleague victory to put pres-sure on rivals Real Madridto defeat Villarreal at theSantiago Bernabeu onSunday.

Barcelona have allthree finalists for the 2010Ballon d’Or award, withthe winner to be an-nounced on Monday.

“We don’t know whois going to win the Ballond’Or but it will be a tri-umph for Barcelona,” saidVilla.—Internet

Man Utd 1 - 0 Liverpool

Ryan Giggs and Lucas do battle at Old Trafford.

MANCHESTER, 9 Jan—Steven Gerrard was sentoff as Ryan Giggs’s second-minute penalty provedenough to send Manchester United into the fourthround of the FA Cup, ruining Kenny Dalglish’semotional return as Liverpool manager.

The tie was barely 30 seconds old when Daniel

Agger was adjudged to have fouled Dimitar Berbatovin the box and Giggs converted the spot-kick with ease.

Liverpool responded well, but their hopes of acomeback were hit hard when Gerrard was shownthe red card for diving in rashly on Michael Carrickjust after the half-hour mark. Despite a spirited effortthat offered encouragement to the 9,000 visitingfans, only a succession of fine saves by Pepe Reinakept the game alive until the end.

Liverpool’s 10 men continued to battle on andwent close when Kuszczak had to dive acrobaticallyto keep out Fabio Aurelio’s free-kick, which washeading for the top corner. Reina made threeexcellent saves in quick succession from Rafael,Berbatov and Patrice Evra, with Giggs having adecent penalty shout turned down in between,while substitute Michael Owen—a former Anfieldstar—also spurned a couple of late opportunities asUnited ended up convincing winners.—Internet

Tottenham 3 - 0 CharltonLONDON, 9 Jan—Debutant winger Andros

Townsend sparked Tottenham’s passage into theFA Cup fourth round as they stylishly saw offLeague One Charlton in the second half.

The Addicks battled in the first period but didnot hurt Spurs’ second-string. Townsend, 19,cracked in a low 20-yard drive after half time assuperb substitute Luka Modric immediately dictatedthe flow of play in midfield. Jermain Defoe thanraced through to slam in a second before dancingpast Charlton defenders to prod in a third.

On his return from suspension, diminutive strikerDefoe—who started his career at Charlton—ensuredthat Spurs put a sluggish opening 45 minutes behindthem as the north London club continue to impressneutrals while fighting on in three differentcompetitions. Left-footed but playing on the rightwing, he quickly made an impression on the gameafter beating two players with step-overs beforeflashing a dangerous low ball across the box in the

second minute. He then won a free-kick in the 14thminute which Niko Kranjcar curled just wide.

Now bristling with confidence, Defoe charged atthe Charlton defence again, winning the ball back afterbeing challenged before firing past Elliot to make it 3-0 after seeing his first effort blocked.—Internet

Chelsea 7-0 Ipswich

Leicester 2-2 Man City

The FA Cup 9-Jan-2011 (Sunday)

Left-footed but playing on the right wing, Townsendscored on his Spurs debut.

Answers to yesterday’sCrosswords Puzzle

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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.

Monday,10 January

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain has been fairlywidespread in Yangon and Ayeyawady Regions,scattered in Shan State, isolated in Chin, Kayah and KayinStates, Upper Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway and BagoRegions and weather has been partly cloudy over theremaining States and Regions. Night temperatures were(4°C) below January average temperature in KachinState, (3°C) to (4°C) above January average temperaturesin Chin State, Yangon and Ayeyawady Regions, (5°C) to(6°C) above January average temperatures in Shan,Rakhine, Kayin and Mon States, Lower Sagaing,Mandalay, Magway and Bago Regions and aboutJanuary average temperatures in the remaining Statesand Regions. The significant night temperatures werePutao (3°C), Machanbaw (4°C) and Haka (5°C). Thenoteworthy amount of rainfall recorded were Nahsam(0.39 ) inch, Cocogyun (0.35) inch, Taunggyi (0.32) inchand Yangon (Kaba-Aye) (0.16) inch.

Nay Pyi Taw Maximum temperature on 8-1-2011 was 82°F.

Minimum temperature on 9-1-2011 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 9-1-2011 was (66%).Rainfall on 9-1-2011 was (Tr) .

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 8-1-2011 was 82°F.

Minimum temperature on 9-1-2011 was 67°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 9-1-2011 was (88%).Total sunshine hours on 8-1-2011 was (Nil).

WEATHERSunday, 9th January, 2011

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Rainfall on 9-1-2011 was (0.04) inch at Mingaladon,(0.16) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.12) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was (0.12) inch at Mingaladon,(0.20) inch at Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph fromNortheast at (12:30) hours MST on 8-1-2011.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy inthe South Bay and partly cloudy in the Andaman Seaand elsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 10th January2011: R ain are likely to be scattered in Bago, Yangonand Ayetawady Regions, isolated in Shan, Chin,Rakhine, Kayah, Kayin and Mon States, upper Sagaing,Mandalay, Magway and Taninthayi Regions andweather will be partly cloudy in the remaining Statesand Regions. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Strong Easterly winds with moderateto rough seas are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf ofMottama, off and along Mon-Taninthayi Coast. Surfacewind speed in strong wind may reach (35) mph. Seaswill be moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofcontinuation of isolated light rain in the LowerMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 10-1-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 10-1-2011: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 10-1-2011: Possibility of isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (40%).

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am MSTOversea Transmission - (10-1-11 09:30 am ~

11-1-11 09:30 am MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Mile of Road...piles of Hope

(Pathein- Monywa Motor Road) (Part-II)* News* A Visit to‘Lwe’ Nationals* VCD Center

‘‘Never Say Goodbye, Because of you’’* News* I Love Myanmar* News* The World’s Largest BookOversea Transmission* Opening* News* Mile of Road...piles of Hope

(Pathein - Monywa Motor Road) (PartII)* News* A Visit to‘Lwe’ Nationals* VCD Center

‘‘Never Say Goodbye, Because of you’’* News* I Love Myanmar* News* The World’s Largest Book* News* Up Againt the Tide* News* Your Shopping to Youth Empowerment* Music Gallery* News* Myanmar Movies Impact ‘‘Parental Love

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* News* Yoke Sone Monastery of Lae Kai Ancient City* The historical sites of Taung Tha Man* Myanmar Movie “Guilt Over Love”

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(10-1-2011) (Monday)

7:00 am

1. Paritta By Venerable

Min Gun Sayadaw

7:15 am

2. Dhamma Puja Song

7:25 am

3. To Be Healthy

Exercise

7:30 am

4. Morning News

7:40 am

5. Nice & Sweet Song

7:50 am 6. Dance Of National

Races

8:00 am 7. Cute Little Dancers

8:10 am 8. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing

Arts Competition

8:25 am 9. Teleplay (Health)

8:40 am10. International News

8:45 am11. Musical Programme

4:00 pm 1. Martial Song

4:10 pm 2. Dance Variety

4:20 pm

3. Musical Programme

4:35 pm

4. University Of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures)

-Third Year

(Economic)

4:50 pm

5. Songs For

Upholding

National Spirit

5:00 pm

6. Musical Programme

(The Radio Myanmar

Modern Music

Troupe)

5:20 pm

7. Myanmar

Language

5:35 pm

8. Myanmr Idol

6:00 pm

9. Evening News

6:15 pm

10. Weather Report

6:20 pm

11. Sing & Enjoy

7:30 pm

12. TV Drama Series

8:00 pm

13. News

14. International News

15. Weather Report

16. World’s Stars

(Part-6)

17. TV Drama Series

China seize opportunityto punish 10-man

Kuwait

Zhang Linpeng (R) scores the opening

goal for China in their 2-0 Asian Cup

victory over Kuwait.

INTERNET

DOHA, 9 Jan—China’s new generation madea winning start to their Asian Cup campaign witha 2-0 victory against 10-man Kuwait in theirGroup A opener at the Al Gharafa Stadium hereon Saturday.

Kuwait went a man down in the first halfwhen Mesad Nada was sent off for an ugly foulon Yang Xu and China made their numericaladvantage count when Zhang Linpeng broke thedeadlock shortly before the hour.

Deng Zhouxiang doubled the lead with a free-kick, to put Gao Hongbo’s team — whose averageage is just 24 — level with Uzbekistan at the top ofthe group. Uzbekistan beat Qatar 2-0 in the firstgroup game on Friday.

“As the head coach, I’m very happy to win thisgame,” said Gao.

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

6th Waxing of Pyatho 1372 ME Monday, 10 January, 2011

Traffic knowledgedisseminated in

Monywa

MONYWA, 9 Jan—Nay Pyi Taw Traffic PoliceForce gave educative talks on traffic rules inMonywa on 27 December last year. The educativetalks were held at the convocation hall of MonywaUniversity and attended by Secretary U Zaw MoeAye of Sagaing Region Peace and DevelopmentCouncil, departmental heads, officials fromuniversities and colleges and undergraduates.

Chief of Nay Pyi Taw Traffic Police ForcePolice Lt-Col Aung Naing gave talks on trafficrules. Next, on behalf of Myanmar Police Force,Chief of Sagaing Region Police Force PoliceColonel Thura Tin Hla and Police Lt-Col AungNaing presented 200 pieces of helmets touniversities and colleges.

Next, Rector U Kyaw Myint Thein of MonywaUniversity spoke words of thanks.

MNA

Significant nighttemperatures

(9-1-2011)

Putao (3°C)

Machanbaw (4°C)

Haka (5°C)

Highly-recommended Innzin Village bean curd

Bean curd, one of the Myanmar traditionalfoods, is consumed as salad, crispy or dish.

For Myanmar people, it is mouthwatering tosee bean curd salad which is made of bean curdsticks, cooked oil with turmeric power, onionand garlic, and cut nannan or lemon leaves. Itcan also be used as a side dish.

Bean curd is also consumed as crisp. Greentea makes an excellent accompaniment to bean

A change of bean curd shops at Myoma Marketin Tatkon Township.

Byline: Myint Maung Soe

curd crisp. In Shan State, bean cured crisp isconsumed as an additional food after si-chetnoodles (boiled noodles with cooked oil addedand garnished with shredded meat), rice noodles,and Shan noodles. In upper Myanmar, it isconsumed as a rich dish.

We sometimes go shopping in MyomaMarket in Tatkon Township, Nay Pyi TawDistrict. Many of the shops in the market arebean curd shops . Bean curd se l lers arehospitable to shoppers. Like sales assistantsof Hto-mont (pudding made of glutinous rice,sugar, coconut and oil) shops in Mandalay,keepers of bean curd shops in the marketpresent shoppers some bean curd to try it,which is to lure shoppers into buying theirproduct.

Bean curd in Myoma Market isrecommended. Being fairly hard, bean curd inthe market does not go bad easily, lasting forseveral days. Some buy and carry it to othertownships for consumption.

Observing bean curd shops in Myoma Marketin Tatkon Township, I became curious about theproduct. When asked about her product, seller DawKhin Htar told the Myanma Alin, “Shopkeepers ofthe bean curd shops in this market are all fromInnzin Village. Innzin Village is in the south ofYamethin. Most of the houses in our village makebean curd for their main business. Here, there areabout 30 bean curd shops. Villagers also run theirbean curd shops in downtown Yamethin, (See page 9)

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