Volume XXI, Number 203 3rd Waxing of Tazaungmon 1375 ME Tuesday, 5 November, 2013

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Yangon, 4 Nov—A delegation led by Gover-nor of New South Wales of Commonwealth of Australia Ms Marie Ba-shir arrived at Yangon International Airport this morning. They were wel-comed by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the airport.

The Governor attend-ed the signing ceremony of MoU on education co-operation with University of Sydney, Sydney Medi-cal School of Common-wealth of Australia, Uni-versity of Medicine (1) and University of Medi-cine (2) of Myanmar held at the hall of the Univer-sity of Medicine (1).

The rectors from the Universities of Medicine (1 and 2) and Professor Bruce Robinson of University of Sydney, Sydney Medi-cal School signed an MoU

Myanmar, NSW sign MoU on education cooperation

naY PYi Taw, 4 Nov — Myanmar should set its aim of achieving sustain-ability and effective man-agement of utilizing its water resource within ten years by implementing the multi-purpose water uti-lization management sys-tem, said Vice-President U Nyan Tun.

Myanmar to implement water resource management system to achieve sustainability within 10 years

In his address at the meeting 1/2013 of the Na-tional Level Water Re-source Committee at Minis-try of Transport here today, Vice-President U Nyan Tun called for systematic man-agement of water utiliza-tion to ensure improvement of socio economy of the people and greening and

stability in the country. He also stressed the

need for systematic utiliza-tion, finding new resource, balancing the land utiliza-tion and water utilization and considering the water as a main factor for the eco-nomic sector.

The national level committee was formed to implement the multi-pur-pose water management system which guarantees

the equity and transparency of water utilization among the people by managing and conserving the water resource carefully in the country.

The vice-president also stressed the need for trans-parency in writing rules and regulations of the water management system, the national water resource uti-lization policy and frame-work.

In his address, he urged the ministries concerned to formulate the rules and reg-ulations to ensure environ-mental conservation, sus-tainability and equity and safety of water utilization for the future generation in terms of social, environ-ment and economy needs.

For the management of the country’s water re-source, the national level water resource utilization

committee is obliged to closely work together with the international non-gov-ernmental organizations, experts, social organiza-tions and the people, he added.

The participants of the meeting discussed the tasks of the committee, technol-ogy and experiences and is-sues related to development of water resources.

MNA

on promoting teachers’ skills, students exchange programme, making coop-eration with universities in doing researches and ex-change of information and stationery.

The visiting delega-

tion and the rectors from Universities of Medicine (1 and 2) and post graduate students also attended “in-fectious disease control and maternal and child health” workshop.

The professors from the

visiting country and locals took part in the workshop.

The Governor and party visited Shwedagon Pagoda this afternoon and offered flowers, water and lights to the Buddha.

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Vice-President U Nyan Tun delivers address at meeting 1/2013 of the National Level Water Resource Committee at Ministry of Transport.—mna

Governor of New South Wales of Commonwealth of Australia Ms Marie Bashir attends signing ceremony of MoU.—mna

Yangon, 4 Nov—EASi Travel Master Card grand launching event of CB Bank was held at Sedo-na Hotel here this morning, with an address by Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe.

The region chief min-ister said that CB Bank is the first to sell EASi travel master card in Myanmar and it is a pride not only for CB Bank but also for Myanmar banking services. The cooperation between CB Bank and Master Card will strengthen amity, trust, finance and banking indus-try of Myanmar and US

Myanmar, US to strengthen amity, trust, finance and

banking industrygovernments, he said. The launch of Electronic Pay-ment System for Myanmar citizens in a short period of time by CB Bank will enable the travelers who visit foreign countries, he added.

CB Bank Chairman U Khin Maung Aye and In-dochina Country Manager & Chief Representative Mr. Anton Corro of Master Card World Wide extended greetings.

Next, Vice-Chairman of CB Bank U Kyaw Lin explained the salient points related to EASi Travel Master Card.—MNA

Slight quake jolts inside MyanmarnaY PYi Taw, 4 Nov—

A slight earthquake of mag-nitude (3.5) Richter Scale with its epicenter inside Myanmar (about 6 miles southeast of Thabeikkyin) about (60) miles north of

Mandalay seismological observatory was recorded at (10) hrs (00) min (16) sec MST today, announced Meteorology and Hydrol-ogy Department.

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Tuesday, 5 November, 20132 New Light of MyanmarLOCAL NEWS

Health

Bilin, 4 Nov—Shar-ing knowledge about Tuberculosis (TB) and providing free medical treatment jointly organ-ized by Bilin Township Maternal and Child Wel-fare Association and Township Health Depart-ment took place at the office of Bilin Township MCWA in Pauktaw Vil-lage, here on 29 October morning. At the talks, Chairperson Daw Thinza Win of Bilin Township MCWA gave lectures

Health care service, talks given in Bilin

KyauKpadaung, 4 Nov—New Tampawady Market in Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region, will be

Tampawady New Market to be opened soon

inaugurated in the near future, said the Kyauk-padaung Township De-velopment Affairs De-

partment. The work on construction of the market started on 1 August, 2012, and was completed recently.

Members of the Sangha recited parittas on 1 Novem-ber for smooth opening of the market.

Kyemon Ko Nay (Kyaukpadaung)

Arms, raw opium seized in Loikaw

Passengers were thronging at Kyaikto Sta-tion on 20 October to get tickets for the Special Train running between Yangon and Kyaikto until there was no ticket left.

Once the open season sets in, Kyaikto Station is flooded with passengers who make pilgrimage to Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda.

Meanwhile, the num-ber of visitors to the gold-en rock pagoda reached a record high in October two months before the pil-grims peak season.

Passengers are hoping for more cars at the special train and more shuttles as the number of visitors to Kyaikto is increasing day by day.

The AC special train launched its maiden ser-vice on 7 September, running from Yangon to

Kyaikto-Yangon special shuttle rail service achieves success

Kyaikto every Saturday and from Kyaikto to Yan-gon every Sunday, with over 100 passengers on board.

Passengers found it comfortable on the up and down trains.

Over 260 passengers on board of the Yangon-Kyaikto Up-train on 19 October (Saturday) and over 376 passengers on board of the Kyaikto-Yangon Down-train on 20 October (Sunday), accord-

ing to the Head of Kyaikto Railways Station.

Myanma Railways earned K 1,054,200 and USD 20 from the special train service on 20 Octo-ber. It’s glad to hear the achievement of the My-anma Railways. The news that delight the pilgrims is that the Myanma Railways has a plan to operate the special train service daily or to increase the shuttle service.—Kyemon (Kyai-kto Yan Naung Soe)

ngaputaw, 4 Nov — Villagers handed over a part of ivory they found on a street to local authorities in Ngaputaw Township on 29 October. U Aye Ko and U Kyaw Kyaw of Tawgyi Village-tract

Villagers hand over ivory piece to local authorities

MeiKtila, 4 Nov—Two people were injured in a light truck and motorbike head-on-collision on Meik-tila-Taunggyi road, here, at 6:45 pm on 31 October.

A light truck driven by Than Tun Oo, 38, of Taw-ma Village collided with a motorbike with black col-our driven by Tun Tun Min, 28, of Pandawsat Village, at mile post No. 6/1 near De-fence Services Textile Fac-

Two injured in head-on-collision between light truck, motorbike

tory on Meiktila-Taunggyi road.The motorcyclist and Ma Nyein Nyein (a) Ma Phyu Ma of Aungzeyar re-gion from the light truck sustained injures in the ac-cident.

The reckless drivers have been charged under Sections 337/338 of Crimi-nal Law by SIP Zaw Wai Kyaw of Myoma Police Station.

U Tin Hlaing (Meiktila)

nay pyi taw, 4 Nov—As flood caused by Paunglaung River has sub-sided recently, villagers of Gyotan, Inntha, Thayasu and Zephupin villages in Pyinmana Township of Nay Pyi Taw Council Area returned home as of 31 Oc-tober.

Member of Nay Pyi Taw Council Col Myint Aung Than and departmen-

Flood victims return home in Pyinmana Tsp

tal officials visited the vil-lages on 1 November and supervised chlorination at wells and lakes, repair of damaged bridges and roads in Zephupin Village.

They inspected the condition to provide as-sistance for cultivation of substitute-crops on flood-ravaged farmlands and en-couraged the local people.

Kyemon-District IPRD

Photo shows new Tampawady Market in Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region.

Arms and raw opium captured.

Headmistress Daw Mya Mya Thein, teachers

and the students from No. 17 Basic Education

Primary School of Dala take physical exercises

in the morning on 1 November to learn school

subjects effectively.

Min Ye Mann (naY PYi Taw)

Responsible persons ask the passener who are on

board Dala-Pansodan Jetty to ride and take off

the ferry to be safe. A passenger can be seen in a

hurry to get ready to land on the jetty.

Min Ye Mann (naY PYi Taw)

on the important role of the health sector, Bi-lin Township Medical Officer Dr Ei Ei Kyaw knowledge about TB dis-ease and Head of Bilin Township Information and Public Relations De-partment Daw Aye Myo Myo San process of tak-ing census.

The staff of Bilin Township Health Depart-ment provided free medi-cal treatment to 65 patients from Pouktaw Village.

Kyemon-Township IPRD

nay pyi taw, 4 Nov— According to a tip-off, the members of No (25) Anti-Drug Squad (Taunggyi) of Shan State together with witnesses searched the house of Nay Lin Aung (a) Maung Wi (38 years old) in Kontha Village of Kon-tha Village-Tract in Loi-kaw Township on 31 Oc-tober. They found Ma Maw

Ni Ka (a) Mukale (38 years old), wife of Nay Lin Aung in her bedroom and seized one .22 long barrelled gun, one hand-made gun, a long barreled shotgun, one air gun, one grenade, maga-zines, ammunition and 1 kilo of raw opium. Loikaw Myoma police station filed a lawsuit against the two suspects and action is be-ing taken to arrest Nay Lin Aung (a) Maung Wi.

(Police Information)

Anti-Narcotic Drives

in Ngaputaw Township found the ivory piece which is 6.2 feet in length and 4.2 feet in circum-stance weighting 14 viss on the Pathein-Mawtin Road on 28 October.Kyemon (Township IPRD)

Rail Transportation

Accident

Crime

Tuesday, 5 November, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

US President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event for Terry McAuliffe (L) for Governor in

Arlington, Virginia, on 3 Nov, 2013. — ReuteRs

Obama, Democrats seek to make Virginia governor’s race a Tea Party

referendumArlington, ( Virginia),

4 Nov — President Barack Obama and fellow Demo-crats attempted on Sunday to tap into voter anger about a 16-day US government shutdown and turn Virgin-ia’s upcoming governor’s election into a referendum on Tea Party conserva-tives. With Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe leading polls over Repub-lican Ken Cuccinelli before Tuesday’s vote, Obama and Democratic speakers at a rally in the Washington suburb of Arlington pressed party activists to focus on turning out the vote.

Northern Virginia’s

Washington suburbs, where many government employ-ees and contractors live, was hit particularly hard by the government shutdown last month that resulted from a stalemate over the US budget and debt ceiling that Americans for the most part blamed on Republi-cans.

The Tea Party conserv-ative wing within the House of Representatives was a key bloc in Republicans’ failed push to defund Oba-ma’s signature healthcare law in exchange for approv-ing spending bills to reopen the government.”This elec-tion is going to say a lot

about Virginia’s future, and the country’s future,” said Obama.

Addressing a crowd of about 1,600 people in a high school gymnasium, Obama said the Tea Party was “will-ing to hijack their party, the country and the economy and bring progress to an ab-solute halt if they don’t get 100 percent of what they want.”Speakers tried to tie Cuccinelli, a conservative who is the Virginia attorney general and an opponent of abortion, to the Tea Party movement by pointing out he had Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz, a senator from Texas, speak at an event for

him two weeks ago.”He re-fused to speak out and tell Ted Cruz to stop the gov-ernment shutdown, stop hurting Virginia families,” said Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, himself a former governor. “He stood with the Tea Party and not with Virginia families.”

McAuliffe asked,

“Could you imagine if Ted Cruz and Ken Cuccinelli and the Tea Party ran the Virginia government?”The Tea Party attacks by the Democrats are only the opening rounds of a battle that will play out over the next year leading up to the November 2014 mid-term congressional elections.

Reuters

Turkey scrambles fighters to intercept Syrian, Russian

warplanesAnkArA, 4 Nov —

Turkey has scrambled F-16 fighter jets to inter-cept the Russian and Syr-ian warplanes that were flying close to the coun-try’s air space, a Turkish military statement said on Sunday.

Two F-16 fighter jets were sent to intercept a Syr-ian SU-24 warplane, which was spotted approach-ing the Yayladagi town of southern province of Hatay near the border, said the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces, adding that the Syrian aircraft retreated 3.8 miles.

The armed forces also said that Turkey scrambled another four F- 16 jets after a Russian IL-20 warplane came close to Turkish air space from the Georgian side and flew parallel of the Black Sea coast. The Rus-sian aircraft largely flew 15 miles away from the Turk-ish air space.

Similar incidents have taken place since Turkish jets shot down a Syrian hel-icopter in September near Hatay as the Syrian chop-per reportedly violated the Turkish airspace, according to local media.

Xinhua

Law enforcement officials talk to reporters at a news conference regarding a shooting incident that occurred the previous day at Los Angeles airport (LAX), in Los

Angeles, California on 2 Nov, 2013.— ReuteRs

Suspected LA airport gunman planned ‘suicide’ mission

los Angeles, 4 Nov — The suspected gunman in last week’s deadly at-tack at Los Angeles Inter-national Airport wrote a note saying he intended to die after killing at least one security officer, the chair-man of a key US security committee said on Sunday.

Twenty-three-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia also discussed weaknesses in airport security in the “suicide” note before Fri-day’s attack, Michael Mc-Caul, the Republican chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security told CNN.

Ciancia is accused of shooting dead a Transpor-tation Security Adminis-tration officer, the first em-ployee from the agency to die in the line of duty since it was created after the September 11 attacks in 2001. Airport police shot and wounded the gunman, ending the rampage.”

It’s clearly one of those notes that reads, ‘I’m going to kill people and I don’t want to kill civil-ians,’ with the idea that he’s going to die at the end of this,” McCaul, who said he had read the note, told CNN. He said the note “talks a lot about killing TSA agents, and he said, ‘If I just kill one, my mis-sion is accomplished.’

In a criminal com-plaint filed on Saturday, in-vestigators said they found a handwritten letter signed by Ciancia in his bag that addressed TSA officials, writing that he wanted to “instill fear in your traitor-ous minds.”It was not im-mediately clear whether McCaul was referring to the same note mentioned in the complaint.

Investigators have de-clined to discuss a possible motive for Ciancia’s re-ported grievance with the TSA.—Reuters

US Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd R) meets with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy (2nd L) in Cairo

on 3 Nov, 2013.— ReuteRs

Kerry sees signs Egypt moving back towards democracy

CAiro, 4 Nov — A day before Egypt’s deposed Is-lamist president goes on trial, US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday ex-pressed guarded optimism about a return to democ-racy in the country during a tour partly aimed at easing tensions with major Arab powers. On his first visit to Egypt since the army re-moved president Mohamed Mursi in July, Kerry called for fair, transparent trials for all citizens.

However, he described Cairo as a vital partner to the United States and the region, as he tried to repair relations hurt by a partial freeze in US aid.

Kerry said the relation-ship between the United States and Egypt should not be defined by aid but by a partnership, and promised to launch talks on a US-Egypt strategic dialogue.Senior State Department officials said Kerry did not raise Mursi’s trial in his meetings with interim Pres-ident Adly Mansour and army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man who deposed Mursi.

Instead, he stressed

that politically motivat-ed and arbitrary arrests should be avoided and were unacceptable to the United States, according to the officials who briefed reporters.”There was defi-nitely no conscious deci-

sion not to raise it,” one of the officials said. Referring to his recent comment that the Egyptian generals were restoring democracy when they deposed Mursi after mass protests against his rule, Kerry said: “Thus far there are indications that this is what they are intend-ing to do.”

Relations between the United States and Egypt have deteriorated since Mursi’s overthrow, which unleashed violence in which hundreds have died, even though the govern-ment has published a “road map” for an eventual return to democracy.

Reuters

UN approves plan to create int’l network to monitor near-Earth objects

WAshington, 4 Nov — The UN General Assem-bly has approved a plan to monitor near-Earth objects through an international net-work and change their pro-jected trajectories to avoid impacts, people familiar with the plan said on Sunday.

It will be the first time that countries have respond-ed to the potential threat of near-Earth objects through UN-led international co-operation. So far, countries have conducted individual studies on how to deal with asteroids, and lunar and Mar-tian meteorites. The General Assembly approved the plan after Yasushi Horikawa, technical counselor of the Japan Aerospace Explora-tion Agency, who serves as chairman of the UN Com-

mittee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space presented it dur-ing a session on 22 October. A meteor that flew over Rus-sia’s Chelyabinsk region in February has increased calls for international collabora-tion to monitor and deal with near-Earth objects more ef-fectively.

Japan is considering how to participate in the plan, which was compiled early this year by the Vi-enna-based COPUOS.The plan involves the creation of an International Asteroid Warning Network, which would link astronomical observatories and radar fa-cilities around the world to ensure the discovery, track-ing and observation of near-Earth objects. In case of a credible impact threat, the

IAWN would ensure that information on such objects is gathered expeditiously, while informing COPUOS and other bodies.

The plan also envis-ages establishing a Space Missions Planning Advisory Group comprising space-faring nations that would consider measures to alter the expected trajectories of near-Earth objects to avoid impacts by using rockets and unmanned space probes. But because countries use radar technology to monitor satel-lites and other objects around the Earth for military as well as scientific purposes, they may find it difficult to reach a consensus on how much information to share with the envisaged network.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYNew Light of Myanmar

An eclipse appears in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on 3 Nov, 2013. — Xinhua

Chinese high-speed trains venture overseasBeijing, 4 Nov — Par-

allel to the development of domestic high-speed rail, the Chinese government and rail enterprises are ac-tively seeking customers overseas. In a meeting with a trade ministers from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) last week, Premier Li Ke-qiang thanked them for traveling by high-speed train from south China to Beijing, calling it a real “roadshow” for Chinese

high-speed trains. Thailand, an ASEAN member, plans a high-speed rail network in the next seven years to sat-isfy its business and tour-ism demands.

On a state visit to Thai-land in early October, Li pushed China’s willingness to participate in the pro-ject, stressing that “railway cooperation can become a new highlight in China-Thailand cooperation”. An exhibition of Chinese high-speed rail also kicked off in

Bangkok during his visit. Not only Thailand, coun-tries including the United States, Russia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil and Tur-key are mooting their own high-speed rail projects. The Australian government has completed a feasibility study into a proposed high-speed rail route along its east coast.

With the world’s long-est operational line for bul-let trains that run at more than 200 km per hour, China wants to take part in projects overseas. “China’s high-speed railway is ad-vanced in technology, safe and reliable, and has a cost advantage,” Premier Li told Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce in a meeting in Beijing in mid-October. Zhou Li, a senior director at China Railway Corporation, said China had learned by absorbing technology from various countries to create its own

technology. By the end of September, China had near-ly 10,000 km of high-speed railway lines in operation and had solved technical challenges on various com-plex geographical prob-lems.

History of high-speed rail in China is not long. The first line, linking Bei-jing and the neighboring port city of Tianjin, was in-augurated in August 2008. On 23 July, 2011, 40 peo-ple died when a high-speed train hit a stationary train near Wenzhou, casting a shadow over high-speed railways and leading to a nationwide safety check and stagnation of construc-tion.

Xinhua

Jetmakers feud over seat width with big orders at stake

Paris, 4 Nov — A row has flared up between leading planemakers over the width of tourist-class seats on long-distance flights, setting the tone for a bitter confrontation at this month’s Dubai Airshow.

The dispute focuses on the width of seats provided on long-haul flights for economy passengers — not always the ones most court-ed by airlines, but whose al-located space holds the key to efficiency claims for the latest jets offered by Airbus and Boeing.

Airbus (EAD.PA) this week called for an industry standard that would provide for a seat at least 18 inches wide in economy cabins, but its US arch-rival Boeing (BA.N) says it should be for airlines to decide.

The dispute comes as planemakers vie to sell ev-er-larger versions of their

twin-engined long-dis-tance aircraft, with poten-tially record orders expect-ed at the 17-21 November event. How the back of the plane is laid out — particu-larly whether seating is 9 or 10 abreast — is central to the economic perfor-mance claims being made for new ‘mini-jumbo’ jet designs.

Boeing says its re-vamped “777X” will hold 406 people based on econ-omy seats over 17 inches wide and set out 10 in each row. Airbus says the com-peting version of its A350 will carry 350 people in 18-inch-wide economy seat laid out 9 abreast. Plane gi-ants often trade blows on technical matters through advertising in the trade press.

Now, Airbus is appeal-ing directly to the public ahead of the Dubai Air-

show, where the 777X is expected to dominate with over 100 orders.

It recently previewed what may be the start of a new ad war by showing fi-nanciers a slide illustrating three people squashed to-gether at a restaurant, titled “Would You Accept This?” “Boeing is proposing long-distance flying in seats nar-rower than regional turbo-props,” said Airbus sales chief John Leahy.

As diets change, people get bigger but plane seating has not radically changed. Between the early 1970s, when the Boeing 747 jumbo defined modern long-haul travel, and the turn of the century, the weight of the average American 40- to 49-year-old male increased by 10 percent, according to US Health Department Data.

Reuters

Emerging economies nearing half of global warming emissions

OslO, 4 Nov — Total greenhouse gas emissions by China and other emerg-ing nations since 1850 will surpass those of rich na-tions this decade, compli-cating UN talks about who is most to blame for global warming, a study showed on Thursday. Develop-ing nations accounted for 48 percent of cumula-tive emissions from 1850 to 2010, according to the study by the PBL Nether-lands Environmental As-sessment Agency, research group Ecofys and the Euro-pean Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

“Somewhere in the

current decade the share of the cumulative histori-cal emissions of developing countries will surpass that of developed countries,” a statement said.

Developing nations’ emissions are rising fast and the report predicted that their share of cumula-tive emissions would reach 51 percent by 2020. Almost 200 governments will meet in Warsaw from 11-22 No-vember to discuss plans for a new, global deal to fight climate change meant to be agreed in 2010 and to enter into force from 2020.

“Discussions at the UN climate negotiations tend to

focus on which countries have contributed most to climate change,” the study said.

The biggest emit-ters since 1850, taken as the start of widespread industrial use of fossil fu-els that emit greenhouse gases when burnt, were the United States, China, the European Union and Rus-sia, it said. China, with 1.3 billion inhabitants, argues that its per capita emis-sions since 1850 are still far below those of devel-oped nations, meaning it has less responsibility to rein in emissions than rich nations.—Reuters

A picture shows the economy

class section of an Airbus A380 passenger plane

of Emirates Airline at the ILA Interna-

tional Air Show in Schoenefeld outside Berlin,

on 8 June, 2010. ReuteRs

City-made lunar rover set for moonBeijing, 4 Nov — A

Shanghai-made lunar rov-er is all set to land on the moon with the Chang’e-3, China’s third lunar probe that is set to be launched next month, local officials said on Friday.

The moon rover has been taken to the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre with the Chang’e lunar probe on the Long March III carrier rocket. Inspec-tions and preparatory work are going on to get the launch ready about a month later.

Equipped with four cameras, the six-wheeled rover will be able to climb onto hills and cross over obstacles on the moon sur-face, said Xiao Jie, a de-signer for the rover with the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.

Two mechanical legs can dig and take earth sam-

ples from the moon. It also has an expand-

able solar power plate to absorb the sun’s energy during the day and retract at night to cover the equip-ment to protect it from tem-peratures of minus 170 de-grees Celsius. “It will move really slowly,” Xiao said.

The rover will plan its route only after observ-ing and detecting the sur-rounding environment, he said. The rover will patrol the surface for at least three months with the 100-kilogram vehicle be-ing controlled by scientists on Earth, said Ye Peijian, chief commander of the Chang’e-2 and Chang’e-3 missions, calling it as “the most difficult part of the mission.”

A Chinese-made nu-clear battery will power the moon rover after it lands on the lunar surface.

The battery, using plutonium-238, will be able to power the vehicle for more than 30 years, ac-cording to Ouyang Ziyuan, the project’s chief scientist. China has launched two lu-nar probes with Chang’e-1 on 24 Oct, 2007, and Chang’e-2 on 1 Oct, 2010.

The country will launch its fifth lunar probe, the Chang’e-5, in 2017 to bring back samples from the surface of the moon in the final step of the its unmanned lunar project, Ouyang said. He said there is still no timetable for put-ting a man on the moon, but China has said it would happen shortly after the completion of the “three-step” unmanned lunar pro-ject, according to a white paper on the development of the country’s space in-dustry.

Xinhua

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

US manufacturers refashion themselves as ‘lifestyle brands’

ChiCago, 4 Nov — Call it concealed-carry chic: With all 50 US states now permitting people to pack pistols in public, it was only a matter of time before some company came to market with an ap-parel line targeting the gun-toting crowd.Remington Arms Co, which has been making firearms for nearly 200 years, has just unveiled a collection of clothing and accessories, including the “Smoothbore Field Coat” ($1,295) and the “Double Derringer Leather Vest”

($300). In drawing a bead on the apparel market, Remington becomes the latest US manufacturer to try reinventing itself as a “lifestyle brand” as a way to bolster its bottom line.

Next up is Winneba-go Industries Inc, the US maker of motorhomes and trailers. In October, the Forest City, Iowa-based motorhome maker an-nounced an agreement with Brandgenuity, a New York-based licensing agency, to put the Winnebago name on a range of outdoor fash-

ions and camping gear.”We stand for quality products and a fun lifestyle,” Randy Potts, the company’s chair-man, chief executive and president, told Reuters. “We think there’s an op-portunity to leverage that beyond RVs.”

As Remington and Winnebago step into the market for soft-good exten-sions of their hard-metal brands, they may have learned from the successes - and the misfires — of oth-ers that have gone before them, including Caterpillar Inc, Deere & Co and Har-ley-Davidson Inc.

History suggests suc-cess can be elusive for such brands, which do not always transfer well onto products cut from cloth. Remington’s line of clothes and accessories — offered by catalog but also avail-able online — includes everything from a five-piece leather luggage set complete with gun sleeve and pistol case ($1,675) to a cotton-twill “shooting shirt” ($150).—Reuters

Models present official Caterpillar licensed apparel and footwear in this undated handout photo provided by

Caterpillar on 2 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

Fed’s Fisher says stimulus tapering will be data dependent

Sydney, 4 Nov — Fed-eral Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher on Monday said any taper-ing in the US central bank’s bond-buying stimulus pro-gram will depend on the strength of economic data.

Speaking at a confer-ence of business econo-mists in Sydney, Fisher also said US corporate balance

Swisscom builds ‘Swiss Cloud’ as spying storm rages

ZuriCh, 4 Nov — Swisscom is building a “Swiss Cloud” that could loosen the grip of US tech-nology giants and attract foreign companies looking for a way to shield sensitive data from the prying eyes of foreign intelligence servic-es. Companies are increas-ingly turning to cloud com-puting — an umbrella term for technology services such as email and business software offered remotely via the Internet instead of on-site — to cut costs and add flexibility to their IT departments.

But revelations that the US National Security Agen-cy (NSA) secretly gathered user data from nine big US tech companies including Google, Apple and Face-book has demonstrated that privacy for users of cloud services can be compro-mised, and some suggest customers could seek out alternatives to the dominant US providers to try and pro-tect sensitive information.Swisscom’s head of IT ser-vices Andreas Koenig told

Reuters the telecom pro-vider’s decision to set up a home cloud was unrelated to the recent NSA revela-tions and driven more by a desire to cut costs and make its systems more dynamic.

Still, as the technol-ogy to protect against il-legal threats progresses, Koenig says it will start to make more sense to store data in locations where strict privacy laws make it harder to retrieve sensitive information.”Data protec-tion and privacy is a long tradition in Switzerland, and that’s why it’s pretty

difficult to get to some-thing,” Koenig said.”But if legal requirements are there and we are asked by the judge to obtain or deliver certain information then we would obviously have to comply with it.” Unlike in the United States, where the 2001 Patriot Act and the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISAA) gives US intelligence agen-cies the power to carry out mass information gathering, Swisscom would have to re-ceive a formal request from a prosecutor before allow-ing access to data.—Reuters

The logo of Swiss telecom company Swisscom AG is seen at an office building in Zurich on 19 July, 2013.

ReuteRs

US aligns beef rules with global mad cow standardsWaShington, 4 Nov —

The United States on Fri-day issued new import rules for cattle and beef that will comply with international standards for the prevention of mad cow disease, saying the step could ultimately boost US beef exports. The European Union said the US move would bring a welcome re-opening of a market closed to its beef since January 1998. Law-makers and industry groups also welcomed the news, saying it would help the

United States regain access to markets that have been closed for decades.

World trade in beef was jolted in the 1980s by the discovery of mad cow disease, a fatal brain-wasting disease in cattle, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopa-thy. Many nations restricted imports, some of which re-main in place, out of fear of a human version of the ill-ness. “Making these chang-es will further demonstrate to our trading partners our

commitment to internation-al standards and sound sci-ence, and we are hopeful it will help open new markets and remove remaining re-strictions on US products,” said USDA chief veterinar-ian John Clifford.

As an example of the new revisions, the US De-partment of Agriculture said boneless beef could be imported because research has shown the meat poses a negligible risk of mad cow disease. Until now, imports were restricted from most

nations that had reported a case of the disease. The USDA said the new revi-sions, which will be pub-lished in coming days and take effect 90 days after-ward, would not weaken US safeguards.”This effort is crucial to breaking down other countries’ unfounded trade barriers, and re-open-ing trade markets that are closed to US beef,” said Debbie Stabenow, chair-woman of the Senate Agri-culture Committee.

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Roche poised for deal to get back into antibioticsgeneva, 4 Nov —

Swiss drugmaker Roche is poised to get back into antibiotics by taking over a candidate drug being developed by privately-owned Polyphor, the NZZ am Sonntag paper said on Sunday, without citing a source for the information. The paper did not give any details of the transaction, but said the contract would be signed this weekend. Roche’s Chief Executive Severin Schwan said last month that the company was interested in “bolt-on acquisitions”.

But a company spokes-man declined to confirm

the report on Sunday, say-ing the firm did not com-ment on rumors.”We have an open and pragmatic ap-proach to R&D and have mentioned in the past that antibiotics is an area where a lot of interesting science is going on,” Roche spokes-man Daniel Grotzky said in an emailed reply to a I en-quiry.

Polyphor, based in Allschwil in Switzerland, said in March it had suc-cessfully completed a phase 1 clinical trial for its POL7080 drug, a Pseu-domonas specific antibiot-ic, which it said had shown outstanding efficacy against

The logo of the Swiss drugmaker Roche is seen on a factory in Burgdorf near Bern, Switzerland in this

17 Nov, 2010 file photo. — ReuteRs

septicaemia, peritonitis and lung and thigh infection. Polyphor says POL7080 is the frontrunner in a novel class of antibiotics that can tackle bacteria that have grown resistant to other drugs.

Drug-resistant “super-bugs” are growing but not yet widespread and pharma-ceutical companies have cut back research into antibiot-ics since they are unlikely to generate blockbuster profits.—Reuters

High cure rates seen with Merck oral hepatitis drugs

neW york, 4 Nov — A combination of two oral hepatitis C treatments de-veloped by Merck & Co led to high cure rates in previ-ously untreated patients, indicating the company is a contender in the race to find new treatments for the liver destroying virus.

The treatments tested with and without the older drug ribavirin led to cure rates of 96 percent to 100 percent, according to in-terim data from a small midstage clinical trial. The results appear to confirm Merck will be competitive in the crowded race to de-velop interferon-free treat-ments for hepatitis C, as-suming they are repeated in larger studies that include

more difficult to treat pa-tient populations, such as those not helped by prior therapy.

The 65-patient, 3-arm study tested MK-5172, a protease inhibitor, com-bined with MK-8742 from a highly promising new class of drugs called NS5A inhibitors for 12 weeks of treatment.

Based on data avail-able at the time the interim results were released, 55 of 56 patients who com-pleted the therapy were considered to be cured of the virus which is transmit-ted through infected blood from sources such as in-fected hypodermic needles or blood transfusions.

Reuters

sheets are stronger than ever. Fisher has long been concerned by the Fed’s “hyper-accommodative” monetary policy, in part due to the danger of market disruptions when it comes time to slim down its mas-sive balance sheet.Fisher is not a voting member this year, but will be in 2014.

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Israel confirms military drone crashing in Gaza Strip

Jerusalem, 4 Nov —Israeli army confirmed on Sunday that an Army drone had crashed in the Gaza strip earlier in the day.The Israel Defence Force (IDF) denied earlier reports by Palestinian media, ac-cording to which Hamas militants took control of the drone as it flew over the Jabalieh refugee camp in northern Gaza.

“The Skylark UAV system crashed earlier to-day in the Gaza strip due to technical malfunction,” an

Israeli army spokesperson told Xinhua, adding that the army “is looking into the matter.” The Skylark is equipped with electro-opti-cal camera and can transmit high resolution pictures of the ground during both day and night time.

The Israeli army used the Skylark also in the 2006 Lebanon War and the Gaza War in 2008. The Israeli army spokesperson would not specify which activity the drone has performed on Sunday.

The incident occurred during a time of increased tension at the Israel-Gaza border.

On Thursday night, the Israeli Army killed four Palestinian militants and wounded several others during an operation against a recently exposed smug-gling tunnel from Gaza to Israel. On Friday night, mil-itants fired a rocket at the Eshkol regional council in southern Israel, with no in-juries or damage reported.

Xinhua

File photo taken on 26 June, 2013 shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd L) holding the Skylark UAV system during an army drill in the Golan Heights. Israeli Army confirmed on Sunday that a Skylark UAV system had crashed in the

Gaza strip earlier on 3 Nov, 2013.—Xinhua

Tour boat sinks off eastern Thailand,

killing sixBangkok, 4 Nov — A

tour boat capsized and sank near Thailand’s popular seaside town Pattaya on Sunday, killing six tourists, including a Chinese.

The double-decker fer-ry left Koh Lan island for a 30-minute trip to Pattaya on Sunday evening. It carried more than 200 Thai and foreign passengers, above its 130-150 capacity, the

Bangkok Post reported.An engine problem oc-

curred shortly after the boat departed. Passengers on the first deck rushed to the sec-ond floor, causing the boat to flip on one side and even-tually sink.

The Chinese embassy in Thailand confirmed that one Chinese died in the ac-cident.

Xinhua

Pakistan Taleban appoints Asmatullah Shaheen as acting chief

IslamaBad, 4 Nov—The Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistan Taleban, has appointed As-matullah Shaheen as their interim leader after differ-ences emerged among vari-ous ranks to replace the for-mer TTP Chief Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a US drone strike on Friday, local media quoted uniden-tified sources as saying on Sunday.

Earlier reports said that Khan Syed alias Khalid Sa-jna had been appointed as the new chief of TTP, but a spokesman from Pakistan Taleban’s South Waziristan

chapter later denied the re-port and said the new chief of TTP will be elected in the next couple of days.

Asmatullah Shaheen, also known as Asmatullah Bhittani, is a leader of TTP in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region of South Wa-ziristan, and he will be in charge of running the daily affairs of TTP, said the re-port.

Shaheen, who is among 20 most wanted Taleban militants in Pakistan, is also the head of Consultative Body, a decision-making committee of Pakistani Taleban that will choose

the new chieftain, the re-ports said.Local media said that Shaheen was selected for the post for an interim period after differences emerged among various ranks of Pakistan Taleban in selecting the new leader.

Former TTP chief Mehsud, with a 5 million US dollars bounty on his head announced by the United States, was killed along with his aids when a drone targeted his vehicle and house in the militants’ stronghold of North Wa-ziristan.

On Saturday, after the funeral of Mehsud, the Con-

sultative Body of Pakistan Taleban held two separate meetings at undisclosed locations in two different regions, but could not suc-ceed in reaching consensus over one name.

At a meeting held in north western tribal region of North Waziristan, Khalid Sajna was named for the post of new chief.

But, a group of Consul-tative Body that reportedly met at unknown place in Nuristan Province of Af-ghanistan opposed the re-sult and suggested another person.

Xinhua

A burning car is seen at the bombing sites in Benghazi, Libya, on 3

Nov, 2013. A man called Sulaiman Ahmed Al-

Fasi was killed when an explosive device beneath

his vehicle was detonated. His wife and child were

seiously injured. Sulaiman worked for intelligence

buareau during Gaddafi regime, and now in

militery service.—Xinhua

Nine killed, fifteen wounded in violent attacks in Iraq

Baghdad, 4 Nov —At least nine people were killed and 15 others wound-ed in violent attacks in Iraq on Sunday, police said.

Two policemen were killed and six others wounded when a suicide car bomber attacked a police station in the central city of Baquba, 60 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Two other suicide bombers tried to enter the police station after the first blast, but they were stopped by police guards, the source added. Earlier, a suicide car bomb attacked a police checkpoint in Tall Afar, 70 km west of the northern city of Mosul, killing two po-licemen and wounding three others and a civilian, the po-lice source told Xinhua.

Two Iraqi soldiers were

killed as unidentified gun-men traveling in a car fired at an army checkpoint with automatic weapons in east-ern Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad, he added. An army officer was killed and three soldiers were wound-ed when a roadside bomb targeted an army patrol in the area of Yusufiya, just 20 km south of Baghdad, the police source said.

Xinhua

TIkrIT, 4 Nov—At least 21 people were wounded in separate bomb attacks in Salahudin Province in north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, a pro-vincial police source said. One of the attacks occurred in the morning when a car bomb went off while the convoy of Lieutenant Colo-nel Dawood al-Sahan, the chief of the police station, was leaving the gate of the station in eastern Shirqat, some 110 km north of the

At least 21 people wounded in bomb attacks in Iraq

provincial capital city of Tikrit, the source told Xin-hua on condition of ano-nymity.

Minutes later, two sui-cide bombers blew them-selves up at the scene, the source said. Al-Sahan escaped the attacks un-harmed while 11 civilians and three policemen were wounded, the source said. In a separate incident, a car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint outside the po-lice academy in the south-

ern entrance of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, wounding four civilians and three policemen, the source said.

The blast took place about 500 meters away from a recruitment center where dozens of recruits were gathering, the source added. Salahudin province is a Sunni dominated prov-ince, and its capital Tikrit is the hometown of the former president Saddam Hussein.

Xinhua

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Ya n g o n , 4 Nov—Myanmar U-23 (B) team formed with the aim of contributing to Myanmar U-23 team that will take part in the XXVII SEA Games played a tune-up match with Myawady Club of First Division at Padonma Sports Ground,here, on 2 November.

In the match, Myanmar U-23 (B) routed Myawady with a 3-1 result.

In the first tune-up

Myanmar U-23 (B) opens first tune-up match with victorymatch, Myanmar U-23 (B) unveiled its achievement curtain. Despite taking a few days in training, the U-23 (B) showed off its brilliant performance. Soe Min Naing, Ye Aung, Nanda Lin Kyaw Chit and Aung Myint Tun played series of passing and kicks to threaten the net of Myawady.

In the first half, Ye Aung and Soe Min Naing scored winning goals for Myanmar U-23 (B).

In the second half, Ye Wai Yan Soe could score an equalizer for Myawady.

Later, Yan Naing Htwe added one goal as third for Myanmar U-23 (B).

MMAL-Po Thaw Zin; Photo: Soe Nyunt

Toungoo , 4 Nov—Heavy rain hit Toungoo, Y e d a s h e a n d O t t w i n townships of Toungoo District in Bago Region and set the new record of rain fall. Due to heavy rain, local people suffered floods in the region.

On 1 November, a total of 31109 people of 7711 households became flood

victims.During the period

from 28 October to date, 11898 people from 2951 households from six wards and 10 village-tracts in T o u n g o o T o w n s h i p , 17619 people from 4481 households from 15 village-tracts of Yedashe Township and 1592 people from 279 households of one village-

tract in Ottwin Township are being accommodated at 56 relief camps.

B a g o R e g i o n government , Southern Command Headquarters, local authorities, political parties, social organizations and wellwishers donated cash and kind to the flood victims.

Due to raising the water

level at Sittoung River, two people in Yedashe Township and one in Toungoo Township drowned in the flood water. Yangon-Mandalay Highway was covered with three feet deep water. So, vehicles small and large run along the detour.

On 31 October, Ma The The, 20, of Ward 19 in Toungoo who stays at the relief camp in Toungoo Basic Education High School No. 5 gave birth to a baby. The midwife took care of her. Chairperson of Toungoo District Women’s Affairs Organization Daw San Htar Phyu donated K 100,000 and baby utensils to the mother. Then, the baby’s mother was sent to Toungoo General Hospital to give further medical assistance to her.—MMAL-Kyaw Hla (Toungoo)

56 relief camps opened in Toungoo District for flood victims

aY a d a w , 4 Nov—Heavy monsoon hit Ayadaw Township of Sagaing Region recently.

The heavy rain caused overflow of Yoe Creek. In consequence, road section from mile posts 40/4 and 40/3 on Monywa-Ayadaw-Shwebo Road was inundated

Floods destroy road section, but irrigate plantations

Relief Activity

and damaged near Nabahla Village, east of Ayawdaw.

F o r t u n a t e l y , t h e overflow of water filled the farmlands in Myenet Village and Zeebinwaing Village. That is why local people are pleased with irrigating their farmlands.

MMAL-Township IPRD

Yangon, 4 Nov—Vice-President of Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry

U Zaw Win Min, Joint General Secretary U Aye Lwin, U Myo Thant and CEC members, Deputy Director General Mr Han

Shengiian and party of China Development Bureau held a talk at the UMFCCI Office on 30 October afternoon.

T h e y d i s c u s s e d promotion of cooperation in Myanmar and China

Promotion of cooperation in Myanmar, China discussed

Ha k a , 4 Nov—An educative talk on health, traffic rules and human trafficking in persons was held at the hall of Women’s Vocational Training School in Haka of Chin State on 29 October.

I t w a s a t t e n d e d by Secretary of Chin

State Women’s Affairs Organization Daw Kyi Swe, departmental officials, course instructors and trainees.

T h e r e s p o n s i b l e p e r s o n s f r o m H a k a Anti-Human Trafficking Squad gave l ec tu re s on prevention against trafficking in persons, the deputy commander

of Township Police Force crime reduction, officials of Traffic Police Corps enforcement of traffic rules, the assistant surgeon of Haka People’s Hospital health knowledge and the head of Township Traditional Medicine Department facts about Myanmar traditional medicines.

MMAL-District IPRD

Knowledge shared to trainees at women’s vocational school

Sittoung River overflows farmlandskYwepwe, 4 Nov—A

total of 12 village-tracts and farmlands in Ottwin and Htantabin townships of Bago Region along the bank of Sittoung River were flooded in the untimely heavy rains.

The flood was not

caused in the rainy season, but it happened at the harvest time.

Thus, harvesting paddy plantations were damaged in the flood.

Under the leadership of Township Administrator U Kyaw Shwe, departmental

off icials , members of social organizations and wellwishers carried out rescue and relief works and provided packets of food and rice, drinking water and foodstuffs to the flood victims.

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Trade promotion discussed at Tamu border trade camp

businesses and exchange of technology. They signed the MoU on promotion of trade and investment between entrepreneurs of two countries.

MMAL-UMFCCI

Tamu, 4 Nov—The trade promotion meeting No. 7 was held by Commercial and Consumer Affairs Department (Myanmar-India) of Ministry of Commerce at its camp in Tamu on 31 October.

Deputy Director U Min Aung Aye of the Tamu Border Trade Camp explained progress of trade and trade policies and Head of Township Internal Revenue Department U Khin Maung Cho tax relugations for the trade.

Departmental officials from OSS of Tamu Border Trade Camp reported on respective sectors. Vice-Chairman of Tamu-Kalay-Kalewa border chamber of commerce U Win Tin discussed present situation in trading and export and import ent repreneurs , company entrepreneurs and bus-line owners their requirements.

The in -cha rge o f the camp reviewed their discussions.MMAL-Win Naing (Tamu)

Officials of Women’s Affairs

Organization present

assistance to a woman who gave

birth at relief camp.

Photo shows a damaged road section caused by flood.

Myawady goalkeeper

saves the ball attacked

by players of Myanmar

U-23 (B) team in

tune-up match.

Business

National Sports

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Tuesday, 5 November, 2013

People-centred newspapersWe are now in the process of changing our

media landscape in all spheres beginning from its very foundation so that it can have the capac-ity to incorporate into global media mainstream. In so doing, we will surely need assistance from countries at the forefront in economic, media and technical development.

Myanmar a country in democracy transition is extending cordial relations with all the global countries whether they are from the East or the West.

Because of this new international relations policy, even the countries which had icy rela-tions or downgraded their relations with us in the past are willingly re-engaging with our coun-try now.

Thanks to the adoption of market economy and Investment Law that meets the prevailing conditions, companies from global countries are putting more and more investments in our coun-try.

Now we are transforming the media of our country into people-centred industry. We un-derstand that in certain democratic countries, the social responsibility-based media industry is flourishing together with media freedom.

So we need to study the Press policy, the in-terpretation of the media, media development, and the cooperation of the government, organi-zations and people in those countries.

The Fourth Estate of Myanmar is in the mission of amending or substituting media laws that are not in conformity with the provisos of the Constitution. There is only Press freedom in Myanmar and no more pre-publication censor-ship at all.

State-run dailies are introducing public ser-vice media as per the democracy. As the foun-dation of the new system that focuses on major-ity interest is public aspirations, the dailies will become people-centred newspapers.

A self-reliant library named “Helping hands” was opened in Nyanatheikdhi Ward, Zabuthiri Township in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area on 4

November, under the supervision of the Infor-mation and Public Relations Department under Ministry of Information. The library opens from 5:30 pm to 8 pm daily except Monday. Book do-nors may contact Chairman of Library Commit-tee U Win Myat Kyaw (Ph-09-25402744), Secre-tary U Khine Tun (Ph-09-420738958), Librarian

U Tun Tun Naing (Ph-09-31584174) and Nay Pyi Taw reporter U Min Min (09-420737247).

Ko Ko Yupa (NaY pYi Taw)

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—A ceremony to open Work-shop on Executive Training in Government Informa-tion Leadership was held at Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon this morning. Deputy Minister for Infor-mation U Ye Htut and Head of Office Mr. Sandar Umar Alam of UNESCO Myan-mar extended greetings.

Workshop on Executive Training in Government

Information Leadership heldThen, Mr. Tomasz

Janowskl Head of Center for Electronic Governance United Nations Univer-sity- International Institute for Software Technology discussed about overview of the Executive Training Course.

The workshop runs till 8 November.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—A special appellate bench comprising Chief Justice of the Union U Tun Tun Oo

and judges of the Supreme Court of the Union passed verdicts on seven special civil appeal cases at Of-

fice No. (1) of the Supreme Court of the Union this morning.

Moreover, they heard

one special criminal appeal case and five special civil appeal cases.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann re-ceived a delegation led by Mr Lu Hao, Chairman of the Environment Protection and Resources Conserva-tion Committee of the Na-tional People’s Congress of China at Zabuthiri Hall of Hluttaw Complex, here, this afternoon.

Present at the call to-gether with the Speaker

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives Chairman of

Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of NPC of PRC

of Pyithu Hluttaw were Chairman of Pyithu Hlut-taw Resources and Envi-ronmental Conservation Committee U Lun Thi, Secretaries of Pyithu Hlut-taw U Thein Lwin, U Ko Ko Tun, Member of Legal Affairs and Special Cases Assessment Commission Daw Aye Aye Mu and of-ficials from the Hluttaw Office.

MNA

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann shakes hands with EPRCC Chairman Mr Lu Hao

of NPC of China.—mNa

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—Work Coordination Meet-ing on Implementation of 2/2013 Meeting’s Resolu-tions for Development of SMEs Work Committee was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Industry, here, this morning, with an address by Committee Sec-

SMEs promotion to be in added momentum

retary Union Minister U Maung Myint.

The Union minister said that the meeting aimed at promoting SMEs with added momentum. Ar-rangements are being made to submit SME Law to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and suggestions are invited to

establish SME Agency as an independent agency, he said. The work committee members will make field trips to the industrial zones in December in order to fulfill the requirements and review land issues in the zones, he added. The pro-progress reports are to be submitted in the first week of December and the groups are to implement duties assigned and responsibilities to be

able to achieve dynamic re-sult, the Union minister said.

The work committee members, group leaders and officials reported on group-wise functions, un-dertakings and future plans.

Afterwards, the Union minister attended the final day of Rural Electrification Equipment and Industrial Product Exhibition (2013) at Myanmar International Convention Center.—MNA

Work Coordination Meeting on implementation of 2/2013 Meeting’s Resolutions for Development of SMEs Work Committee in progress.—mNa

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—Deputy Minister for Sports U Thaung Htaik delivered an address at the coordina-tion meeting of Myanmar Sports Federations to grasp the chance of success in XXVII SEA Games held at the Ministry, here, this morning.

The deputy minister said each Myanmar Sports Federation should be ready to participate in the SEA Games as it is only 36 days to the sport activities. The Ministry of Sports and all

Myanmar Sports Federations meet to achieve success in

SEA GamesMyanmar Sports Federa-tions should cooperate with each other to fulfill the re-quirements of all technical delegates and jury/coaches from abroad, he added.

The presidents and secretaries of the respective Sports Federations made clarifications on finishing the selection of players for each game, expenses of technical delegates and jury/ coaches who will serve their duties in the SEA Games and provision of sports gear.—MNA

Special civil appeal cases heard

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Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—Chairman of the committee for preparations for opening and closing ceremonies of the 27th SEA Games Union Minister for Culture U Aye

Preparations for 27th SEA Games

Union Peace-making Work Committee meets ...

(from page 16)Vice-Chairman of the

work committee Pyithu Hluttaw National Races Affairs and Internal Peace making Committee U Thein Zaw said the work committee was authorized by the President who in his message expressed his be-lief that the resolutions and future programmes adopted by Laiza peace conference would contribute to re-building peace in the coun-try. Chairman of the work committee Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham has also conveyed his greetings to all ethnic leaders and repre-sentatives, he added.

The Speaker of Py-idaungsu Hluttaw said now is a time peace efforts are being made to bring about genuine peace, rule of law and tranquility, the fun-damental elements for re-form process of the coun-try. International countries, United Nations and interna-tional organizings are will-ingly offering assistance to

Pyithu Hluttaw approves... (from page 16)

issue related to illegal mi-grants in accordance with the law, he added.

During the today’s session, U Myo Thant of Yedashe Constituency submitted an emergency proposal urging the govern-ment to provide assistance to farmers in Nay Pyi Taw Zeyathiri Township, Py-inmana Township, Lewe Township, Yedashe, Ot-twin and Htantabin town-ships in Bago Region as their crops were damaged by the flood in the last week of October, and to urgently release the rules and regula-tions related to the Farmers Rights and Protection and Raising Interest Law.

Pyithu Hluttaw has put the proposal on record.

U Min Swe of DaikU Constituency has asked Pyithu Hluttaw which measures would be taken to grant land ownership certificates to farmers and if there any plan to supply equipments for land survey work and to assign staff for

the work.Deputy Minister for

Agriculture and Irrigation U Ohn Than replied that the work on granting land own-ership certificates to farm-ers launched on 1 Jaunary, 2013 and the work has been completed by 86.91 per-cent so far.

Ten sets of RTK-GPS (1Base+1Rover set) and 25 sets of Total Station have been bought and supplied to region/state land survey departments, he added.

According to the depu-ty minister, the ministry has planned to buy 260 sets of RTK-GPS and 100 sets of Total Station through the tender system in the 2013-14 FY.

So far, 1600 staff have been assigned at the Land Survey-5 positions as from 1 March, 2013 and 3775 have been hired as daily waged labourers as from 1 August for three months, the deputy minister said.

The meeting will re-sume on 6th November.

MNA

Myanmar with its peace ef-forts. In addition, the parlia-ments also formed national races affairs and internal peace committees and tak-ing part in internal peace process since their conven-ing.

Moreover, Fundamen-tal Rights, Democracy and Human Rights Commit-tee has been in operation. Measures are under way to enact ethnic nationali-ties protection law that can facilitate the internal peace process. Parliamentary con-stitutional review commit-tee is also reviewing the constitution to resurrect na-tional unity and reconcilia-tion.

Member of the central committee Union Minister Lt-Gen Thet Naing Win explained the president’s peace speeches and the views of the commander-in-chief of Defence Servic-es on peace-building.

Lt-Gen Myint Soe from Commander-in-Chief Office (Army) said he was glad to see ethnic armed groups sitting around the

negotiation table and the army is committed to take part in peace process and so are the president and the commander-in-chief of Defence Services. He said no one should doubt that the army would undertake whatever duty assigned to it. He said the military represents the State, peo-ple, sovereignty and terri-tory. Now, the ceasefire has achieved certain progress. He said he believed that the negotiation would lead to further stage toward cease-fire and peace, aspired by people and national breth-ren.

General Saw Mutu Sae Poe said that he was glad to meet with armed ethnic groups and respon-sible persons from Union Peace-making Work Com-mittee. KNU had accepted the government’s peace-making process, many lives and households were destroyed by over 60-year long conflicts. Thus, he said, they had realized that the conflicts cannot be solved on battle ground at the 15th KNU Conference but through political means at negotiation table. He said KNU leadership has made

clear their positions in meeting with the President and the Commander-in-Chief and was completely honest in peace process. He said that KNU wanted to make further discussions to achieve internal peace.

After that, the state chief minister and leaders of the armed ethnic groups discussed matters relating to ceasefire and peacemak-ing processes.

At the conference, members of the work com-mittee of the armed ethnic groups U Naing Han Tha of New Mon State Party (NMSP), U Kun Okkar of United Nationalities Fed-eral Council (UNFC) and Major Gun Maw discussed the agreements of the Laiza conference and Vice-Chairman U Aung Min and Lt-Gen Myint Soe ex-plained and discussed over the proposals.

Political analysts said that conference is an im-portant step toward nation-wide ceasefire and the last-ing internal peace, which are the wishes of entire national people, the gov-ernment and ethnic armed groups.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—Deputy Minister for En-vironmental Conservation and Forestry U Aye Myint Maung received a delega-tion led by Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Chairman Mr. Lu Hao of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of

Myint Kyu looked round progress of preparations for light, audio system, cere-monial setting, LED stage, floor and projection system for the 27th SEA Games.

After that, the Union Minister left instructions on works to officials con-cerned.

MNA

yaNgoN, 4 Nov— Dep-uty Minister for Home Af-fairs Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint attended the open-ing ceremony of support to reform of Myanmar Police Force in the areas of crowd management and communi-ty policing at Yangon Drug Eliminating Museum on Kyuntaw Road, here, today.

The deputy minister said that this course is the fruitful result of meeting between the President and EU's officials during the President's visit to Europe-an countries. EU conducts the course aiming at build-

Support to reform of MPF in crowd management and community policing kicks off

ing capacity of Myanmar Police Force. He thanked EU for their supports of body armour to Myanmar and for lecturing police of-ficers and other ranks of MPF.

He urged those pre-sent to concentrate on their learning to be able to en-gage in crowd management internationally and carry out police duties for pre-vailing law and order.

Afterwards, EU Am-bassador Mr. Roland Kobia explained the purpose of EU's supports to Myanmar.

General Manager of

International Management Group Mr. Dino Bicciato said that IMG continues cooperation with MPF, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the President Office, the lo-cal administrative body, the Hluttaw legal affairs com-mittee, social organizations and the news agencies for the interests of Myanmar people.

Next, IMG leader Mr. Friedrich Schwindt gave an account of role of police in a country. A total of 200 po-lice officers and other ranks would take the course to be held at Pyinmabin No. (8) Police Battalion in Min-galadon Township from 5 to 20 November.

EU would provide 10 million euro for the 18-month project of support to reform of Myanmar Police Force in the areas of crowd management and community policing. —MNA

Myanmar, China focus on environment, wildlife

conservationChina, at his office, here, this afternoon.

At the meeting, they had a cordial discussion on conservation of environ-ment and forest resources, and cooperation in protec-tion of wildlife and natu-ral lands between the two countries.

MNA

Union Minister for Culture U Aye Myint Kyu inspects progress of preparations for XXVII SEA Games.—mna

Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Brig-Gen

Kyaw Zan Myint and participants of training course pose for docu-mentary photo.—mna

Tuesday, 5 November, 2013

L O C A L N E W S10 New Light of Myanmar

Foreigners enjoy Bagan Temple Marathon in Bagan ancient cultural regionNyauNgu, 4 Nov—

The Bagan Temple Mara-thon, jointly organized by Denmark-based Albatros Company and Myanmar Voyages International Tour-ism Company of Myanmar, took place at the ground as starting point in front of Htilo Minlo Pagoda in Bagan ancient cultural re-gion, NyaungU Township, Mandalay Region on 2 November.

Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Htay Aung launched the marathon at 7 am.

In the men’s mini mar-athon, Htwe Shwe (My-anmar) stood first with 1:24:11 hrs, Mr Frederick Zalokar (Australia) second with 1:24:40 hrs and Htay Ko (Myanmar) second with 1:29:50 hrs.

In the women’s mini marathon, The The Khaing (Myanmar) secured the first prize with 1:24:53 hrs, Nway Nadi Soe (Myanmar) second with 1:24:59 hrs and Miss

Amanda Hayes (Australia) third with 1:56:34 hrs.

In men’s marathon, Wai

Lin Tun (Myanmar) won the first prize with 2:53:34 hrs, Hsan Naing (Myanmar)

second with 3:04:01 hrs and Khin Maung Thein (Myan-mar) third with 3:11;24 hrs.

In women’s marathon, Thida Cho (Myanmar) stood first with 3:27:20 hrs, Yin

Yin Htwe (Myanmar) sec-ond with 3:57:03 hrs and Miss Audrey Mcilvride (UAE) third with 4:02:39 hrs.

A total of 167 players from 27 countries includ-ing Denmark, the US and Myanamr participated in the marathon.

Two of 27 Myanmar runners will have the op-portunity to take part in the China Great Wall Marathon to be held in the People’s Republic of China in May 2014. The Union Minister chose the runners of My-anmar for the Great Wall Marathon through lucky draw. Naing Lin Tun, No 340 and Thida Cho, No 134, won the lucky draws for taking part in the China marathon.

Kyemon-Ye Thura Aung (NyaungU)

NationalSports

Child Rights Governance Program of the Save the Children held a workshop on Child Rights and Child Law Workshop at Po Kyar Elephant Camp in Yedashe Township from 31 October to 2 November with the aim of efficiently fulfilling

the requirements and rights of the child and enabling child rights officials to respond to one

another.Kyemon

Myanmar-India-Thailand highway bus line to ply Imphal- Tamu-Mandalay-Yangon-Myawady-Mae Sot-Bangkok route

yaNgoN, 4 Nov—The Yangon Airbus-Taxi line who runs its route crossing Zwegabin mountain ranges, southeast of Myanmar, will ply Bangkok-Mae Sot-Myawady-Hpa-an-Yangon-Mandalay-Kalay-Tamu-Im-phal route on alternate days.

The bus line operates 20 mini buses that can give 36 seats to the passengers for the route as of 28 November 2013.

Thanks to the border crossing highway buses, peoples of neighbouring countries can promote

friendly relations and forge peaceful co-existence. In addition, the runs of the highway bus line hail My-anmar’s efforts for hosting XXVII SEA Games and

taking Chairmanship of ASEAN, said Chairman of the bus line U Tar Naing (Zun Maung Maung).—Kyemon-Lay Thayegaung (Meiktila)

Mandalay Region Chambers of Commerce and Industry holds talks for development of private trade sector

MaNdalay, 4 Nov—Executive of Mandalay Re-gion Chambers of Comem-rce and Industry and sister associations held a meeting at its office in Chanayeth-

azan Township on 2 No-vember.

Deputy Minister for Commerce Dr Pwint Hsan explained tasks of Private Trade Section Development Subcommittee.

Chairman of the Cham-bers U Aung Win Khaing reported on implementation of Myotha Industrial Park, Hsimeekhon Port and trade development zone.

Secretary of Mandalay Industrial Zone Manage-ment Committee U Maung Maung Oo explained inflow of cheaper machinery and

Transport

Monument of Sayagyi Shwe Myeik Maung to be posted in Myeik

Myeik, 4 Nov—The monument to honour wellknown encyclopae-dia compiler, reporter, writer, poet, photogra-pher Sayagyi Shwe Myeik Maung (U Tun Kyaing) will be erected in the compound of Myeik Yay-myitkyi Shanphaya Ordi-nation Hall Monastery near Kyweku-Kyaukpha Bridge in Myeik of Taninthayi Region.

O r g a n i z e d b y U Tar Naing (Zun Maung Maung) , Chairman of Alinthit Speed Boat Line (Yangon), the monument

wil l be posted on 21 December 2014 in com-memoration of the 45th anniversary of the demose of the Sayagyi.

The biography of the Sayadaw will be described with Thai, Japanese, Chi-nese, English and Myanmar languages. Excerptions of works of the Sayagyi will be presented there for public observation.

More monuments will be marked for Dhamma Yaunggyi library well-wisher U Pu (Goldsmith), researcher Major Tin Ohn (Rtd), artist Myeik Win

parts from neighbouring countries, higher cost of labour and production charge as root cause for suspensionof 25 per cent of SMEs and prospects of assistance for them.

The deputy minister

Htein, writer-cum-lawyer U Thaung Sein , Say-amagyi Daw Yin Yin Nu, U Soe Myint (Seikkan) and U Soe Myint (Soe-Sarpay) in the precinct of the mon-as te ry .—Kyemon-Lay-thayegaung (Meiktila)

and the directors-general of Trade Promotion De-partment and Commercial and Consumer Affairs Department reviewed the discussions.

Kyemon-Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)

Business

PyinOoLwin prepares for hot-air baloon festival

PyiNoolwiN, 4 Nov—The hot-air baloon festival at Maha Arnthtoo Kantha Pagoda will be held for the ninth time this year.

The festival will run from 14 to 18 November.

Domes t i c p roduc t shops, companies, en-tertainments and hot-air baloon festival will be included in Buddha Pujani-ya.—Kyemon-Thet Naing (PyinOoLwin)

Responsible persons of Mandalay Region CCI hold talks.

Foreigners joyfully participate in Bagan Temple Marathon in Bagan ancient cultural region.

Tuesday, 5 November, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarREGIONAL

Photo taken on 8 Oct , 2013 shows Kunie Kudo holding a sea urchin boxed lunch at the Sanriku Rias-Tei

restaurant on the premises of Sanriku Railway Kuji Station in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. Kudo is said to be one of the models for Natsu Amano, the charismatic

grandmother of the main character Aki Amano in the NHK drama titled “Amachan.” — Kyodo News

Woman selling sea urchin lunches for 30 yrs model for

“Amachan” grandmaMorioka, (Japan), 4

Nov — Kunie Kudo, who has been selling sea urchin boxed lunches to railway passengers in northeast Japan for 30 years, is said to be one of the models for the charismatic grandmother of the main character Aki Amano in NHK’s hit drama “Amachan.”

Business has been booming for the 74-year-old Kudo ever since the morning drama began in April, with about 10 times as many customers as before flocking to buy her lunches at Kuji Station in Iwate Prefecture. They’ve remained just as popular even after the drama ended in late September.

“Thanks to Amachan, I get to know a lot of people,” Kudo said in a recent interview. “It is the greatest honour of my life.” In the TV drama, the much-loved “Natsubappa” (Grandma Natsu) sells sea

urchin lunches while also working as an “ama,” one of Japan’s all-female fishing divers. Kudo, herself, however, only makes and sells boxed lunches. Her lunches, heaped with fresh sea urchin, are so popular that they often sell out within 30 minutes of her Sanriku Rias-Tei restaurant at Sanriku Railway’s Kuji Station opening in the morning. Their quick disappearance from the shelves has earned them the sobriquet of the “phantom lunch.”

“We used to sell salmon roe boxed lunches and stuffed squid with rice as well, but only the popular sea urchin boxed lunches survived in the end,” she said. Kudo was born to a poor family in the Iwate prefectural capital of Morioka as the oldest daughter among six children. She supported the family by repairing

shoes among other jobs. She started selling boxed lunches on trains in 1985. She used to wake up at 3 am, shouldering about 100

boxes every day. “Many customers pushed their way through the crowds to buy my lunches,” she said.

Kyodo News

Photo shows an

illuminated ice skate

link at Huis Ten Bosch,

a Dutch-themed park in Sasebo, Nagasaki

Prefecture, on 2 Nov,

2013. Kyodo News

Philippine NGO marks 10th anniversary helping

Filipino-JapaneseManila, 4 Nov — A

nongovernmental group set up to help Filipinos born to Filipino-Japanese parents acquire Japanese citizenship marked the 10th anniversary of its founding on Sunday with a pledge to Press on with its mission.

Hiroyuki Kawai, a Japanese lawyer who founded the Philippine Nikkeijin Legal Support Center in Manila 10 years ago, told the gathering that he is determined to carry on with his work and help members of the Filipino-Japanese community improve their livelihoods.

Kawai, the center’s chairman, was born in China in 1944 and, before coming to the Philippines, devoted 25 years of his life to helping Japanese nationals displaced in China around the end of World War II to regain their Japanese citizenship.

Some 150 people, most of them Filipinos of Japanese descent, attended the anniversary celebration.

According to the center, there are an estimated 3,000 Filipinos born of Japanese men who married local Filipinos after they came to the Philippines before or during World War II. Only 101 of them have managed to secure Japanese citizenship.

Apart from an aging second-generation of Filipinos of Japanese descent, popularly known as “nikkeijin,” some third-generation nikkeijin in the Philippines are also seeking Japanese government re-cognition as Japanese na-tionals.

Among them is Juseven Austero, 44, a third-generation Filipino-Japanese who serves as the center’s president.

In a speech, Austero said he is glad that Kawai and the organization have started to help the Japanese-Filipino community with its economic development programme.”

Kyodo News

Shanghai subway seeks input on design

This is a rendering of a castle at the Shanghai

Disney Resort in Shanghai, east China.

Intended to open at the end of 2015, the

resort will initially be comprised of Shanghai Disneyland, a Magic-Kingdom-style park as

well as two themed hotels, a large retail, dining and

entertainment venue, recreational facilities, a lake and transportation

hubs. Covering an area of 1.16 square km, the theme park inside the 3.9-square-

km Shanghai Disney Resort will be the world’s sixth Disney amusement park and the first on the

Chinese mainland.XiNhua

Beijing, 4 Nov — Shanghai’s subway operator invited residents to vote for the decoration design plan for the Disneyland metro station, which will run to Shanghai Disney Resort. Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co Ltd released its six proposals for the decoration of the Disneyland station over the weekend and asked residents to select the most aesthetically pleasing plan.

The most popular plan will become an important

reference when the station is decorated, the company said.

Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co Ltd and Shanghai Disney Resort said that domestic and overseas design teams submitted 10 design plans in the past two months.

The decoration plan is required to integrate Chinese elements, Shan-ghai culture and The Walt Disney Co features. Under those conditions, six of the proposals qualified for

public voting. Residents can visit the company’s website, shemtro.com, or its micro blog to get more information on the six design plans. Voting will end on 17 November, and the results will be announced at the end of the month. The Disneyland Line, an extension of Metro Line 11, is expected to open at the same time as Shanghai Disney Resort, which is expected to open in Pudong New District in 2015. —Xinhua

Beijing plans to ratchet up promotion of visa-free stays

Beijing, 4 Nov —Beijing will produce more incentives and work harder to promote its 72-hour visa waiver to attract more transit passengers. Authorities in the Chinese capital said they are considering offering discounts at hotels and shopping areas for tourists, as well as working more with airlines to publicize the policy more. Beijing Capital International Airport’s planning and development department said visitors might get exclusive discounts on dining and free accommodation if they spend a certain amount at the airport.

The Beijing General

Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection also said it will cooperate more with airlines, flight associations home and abroad, and tourism bureaus to make sure more travelers are informed of the visa exemption. The station promised to simplify the transit application process. Ji Lixia, the general station’s assistant director, said the process has become easier than it was earlier this year, when applying for the visa exemption took a lot of time and effort, and that it now takes tourists only two minutes after they land.

“Our staff members are fluent in English and 18 other languages to ensure

the language barrier does not stand in the way of transit tourists,” she said. “The number of daily applicants has soared to 60. That’s impressive compared with the handful of tourists in January.” A Russian visitor who arrived in Beijing on Friday said it was the first time he had tried the 72-hour visa waiver, and found it convenient. “I found information about the visa exemption on the Internet,” said Sergey, who declined to give his last name. “I will go on a business trip to Japan and it’s very convenient to check out China before that, and it’s without a visa.”

Xinhua

Tuesday, 5 November, 201312

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E-commerce Platforms Competing for Double 11 DayBeijing, 4 Nov —

Ahead of so-called Singles’ Day on the 11th of this month, online sales have al-ready begun peaking. CRI’s Liu Min has more. The leading e-retail platform, tmall.com, has promoted its fifty-percent-off discount to lure consumers. They are also trying to attract buy-ers through social media. Vice President of tmall.com Wang Yulei says more than 20 thousand online stores have joined the Sin-

gle’s Day campaign.”The number of stores going to join the Double 11 Day promotion has doubled. We haven’t got a final number of how many products go-ing to be on sale yet. But so far, we’ve seen many more products planned to be put on shelves with discounts.”

During last year’s Single’s Day, tmall.com, together with taobao.com, reached a record high of 19.1 billion yuan in sales volume, which considered

a hallmark in the e-com-merce history of China.Sin-gles Day was first started by Chinese college students in the 1990s as an antithesis to Valentine’s Day, a cel-ebration for people without romantic partners. The tim-ing was based on the date: 11 November—or double 11—for singles. Unat-tached young people would treat each other to dinner or give gifts to woo that spe-cial someone and end their single status. But now, the

Singles Day has been pro-moted as a kind of grand craze just for the shopping season kicks off, thanks to thousands of discounted products being promoted online. Taobao.com was the first big e-retail plat-form which used the double 11 idea to promote sales. Taobao.com reached one million yuan worth of sales volume on that day in 2009, when they first promoted the Singles Day idea.

Xinhua

Singapore uses anti-stick paint to fight

illegal adsSingapore, 4 Nov —

Singapore is using an anti-stick paint to tackle the sticky issue of illegal ads at train stations, along the roads and on pillars and lamp posts, local media reported on Monday. The Land Transport Authority has called a tender to apply the solution at 367 locations on the island by 2017 after finding that anti-stick paint is effective in licking the problem, the Straits Times said. The tender also calls for anti-stick clear coating with high transparency that can be applied to glass or plastic panels.

It is illegal to paste the advertisements, which can range in size from Post-It note to A4, on undesig-nated places such as the subway stations, pillars and lamp posts. They also leave unsightly stains after being removed, especially when strong adhesives are used. The Land Transport Authority began a trial of anti-stick paint in 2009 at a sheltered linkway leading to

an MRT station. It proved a success. Since then, the anti-stick paint has been ap-plied at 252 locations. The authority previously said that the move would help it save about 100,000 Sin-gapore dollars (80,000 US dollars) a year.

The latest tender will expand the coverage to most places here where complaints about illegal ads are common. Besides ap-plying anti-stick paint, the authority has, since 2010, introduced 27 notice boards at 21 subway stations with heavy pedestrian traffic to give people a better option. It costs 50 cents a day to put up an A5-size ad. A spokes-man for the Land Transport Authority said there were fewer illegal ads at areas which have notice boards, and anti- stick paint. “These initiatives together with reg-ular enforcement and public education have been effec-tive in preventing the past-ing of illegal advertisements on street infrastructure,” he explained.—Xinhua

Tuesday, 5 November, 2013

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the republic of the union of myanmarministry of energy

myanma oil and gas enterpriseinvitation for open tender

(11/2013) Open tenders are invited for supply of the following respective items in United State Dollar/Myanmar Kyats. Sr.No Tender No Description Qty Remark (1) IFB-083(2013-2014) Spare for CAT-D333C Lighting (11) Items US$ Set Engine (2) IFB-084(2013-2014) Spare for Main Air Compressor, Oxygen (10) Items US$ Generator and Oxygen Compressor (3) IFB-085(2013-2014) Roller Chains and Sprockets (18) Items US$ (4) IFB-086(2013-2014) 2 7/8"x6.5 lb/ft J55 EUE Tubing (5000)Mtr US$ (5) IFB-087(2013-2014) Bearings and Seals for PZ- 7 Rig (6) Items US$ Pume Ex NAT 55/1 Drilling Rig (6) IFB-088(2013-2014) Hydraulic Cathead and Hydraulic Cylinder (5) Items US$ (7) IFB-089(2013-2014) Skid Mounted Single Pump Cementing (1) Unit US$ Unit (With Engine Driven (8) IFB-090(2013-2014) Welding Machine (400AMP) Mobile (3) Units US$ Type Diesel Engine Driven (9) IFB-091(2013-2014) Portable Welding Machine & Accessories (4) Units US$ (200 AMP DC) (10) IFB-092(2013-2014) BOP Control Accumulator Unit (1) Set US$ (11) IFB-093(2013-2014) 6x8 R Mixing Pump (3) Sets US$ (12) IFB-094(2013-2014) Stirred Fluid Loss Cell (Model-7120) (1) Set US$ (13) DMP/L-040 (2013-2014) Hydraulic Oil Light (Hol) (270)Drums Kyat (14) DMP/L-041 (2013-2014) Gear Oil (PGO-140 EP) (Gl-5) (300)Drums Kyat (15) DMP/L-042 (2013-2014) 5 KW Diesel Engine Driven Generating (2) Items Kyat Set (3) Sets & 5HP 3 Phase Inducttion Motor (1) No (16) DMP/L-043 (2013-2014) Telephone Cable (3) Items & Cordless (1) Lot Kyat Telephone -Tender Closing Date & Time - 2-12-2013, 16:30 Hrs. Tender Document shall be available during office hours commencing from 4th November, 2013 at the Finance Department, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, No(44) Complex, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise Ph: +95 67-411097/411206

Invitation to Open Tender for Tender 2013-B-OVS '1. Myanma Posts and Telecommunications(MPT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology invite open tender for DWDM Backbone, Optical Fiber Network, IGW softswitch expansion and service quarter buildings that are described in the below table. MPT will pay in Kyats and foreign currency for concerning item.

Sr Description Qty Remark

l IGW Softswitch Expansion 1 Lot Foreign Currency

2 40G DWDM Equipments 1 Lot Kyats

3 100G DWDM Equipments I Lot Kyats

4 Yangon-Pathein International Backhaul Link UG 1 Lot Kyats Fiber Cable Deployment

5 Equipments for Satellite Gateway I Lot Kyats

6 Service Quarter (2 unit) 1 No Kyats

2. Bidder should submit the open tender (Technical and requirement Proposal) on November 29, 2013 during 09:30 to 16:30 at Head Office Building of Overseas Department, Myanma Posts and Telecommunications, Near 8 mile junction, KaBaAye Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar and MPT will deny the tender that is submitted over the assigned period as above. Tender documents are available from Head Office Building of Overseas Department and detail can be asked to telephone number + 95 1 650118 and +95 9 450000142 during office hours.

3. Bidder should submit the price proposal when we call you the day of price bar-gaining.

Tender Evaluation & Selection Committee

YouTube hopes to boost music profile with new awards show

New York, 4 Oct— Does the world really need another music video awards show? The answer is yes - at least according to You-Tube.

The online video-shar-ing site is rolling out its first YouTube Music Awards on Sunday, with a show that pairs established industry stars such as Lady Gaga and Arcade Fire along with performers from the Goog-le-owned (GOOG.O) video site.

The show will boost YouTube’s profile just weeks before the site is expected to announce a subscription service that

Visitors stand in front of

a logo of YouTube at the

YouTube Space Tokyo,

operated by Google, in

Tokyo on 14 Feb, 2013.

ReuteRs

will compete in an already crowded music market-place.

“On a practical level (YouTube has) put people on the map and it’s gen-erated revenue or other resources like support or recognition from people that normally would not get the exposure,” said Reggie Watts, a performance artist who, along with actor Jason Schwartzman, will host the event.

The awards catego-ries are limited but clearly meant to differentiate the YouTube awards from the Grammys or the MTV Mu-sic Video Awards, which

grabbed attention this year after a raunchy performance by former Disney star Mi-ley Cyrus as she transitions into a more adult career.

YouTube will also name a video of the year and an artist of the year, with a slate of nominees including Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Eminem, Katy Perry and other top-40 mainstays. But the catego-ries also range more broad-ly. “Response of the Year” will pick the best fan remix, parody or response. Other categories include You-Tube phenomenon, break-through and innovation of the year.—Reuters

An Ebay logo is displayed on a monitor in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California, on 16 April, 2013.

ReuteRs

Holocaust memorabilia

found on eBay - UK newspaper

reportLoNdoN, 4 Nov—

EBay has removed from its listings around 30 items of memorabilia from the Nazi Holocaust, including clothes worn by concen-tration camp victims, after a newspaper investigation discovered they were on sale on the e-commerce website, Britain’s Mail on Sunday said.

The newspaper said its reporters found a range of items on the site over the past week, including what was presented by the vendor as a complete Aus-chwitz uniform worn by a Polish baker who perished in the Nazi death camp.

The Mail on Sunday said it had alerted eBay (EBAY.O) and that the online auctioneer had re-moved 30 items from sale and offered to make a dona-tion of 25,000 pounds to a suitable charity.—Retuers

Tuesday, 5 November, 2013

SPORTS14 New Light of Myanmar

Van Persie, Rooney hit form before Sociedad clash

Madrid, 4 Nov — Manchester United’s hopes of silverware this season will likely rest on

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney (C) collides with referee Lee Probert (L) as he is challenged by Fulham’s Bryan Ruiz during their English Premier League soccer

match at Craven Cottage in London on 2 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

the shoulders of Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney and manager David Moyes believes the attacking pair

are starting to move into top gear.

The Dutchman and the Englishman scored in Sat-

urday’s 3-1 victory at Ful-ham as the champions put a slow start to their domestic campaign behind them and gave themselves a lift be-fore Tuesday’s Champions League Group A clash at Real Sociedad.

It was the fourth time that they have netted in the same game under Moyes, who is in his first season in charge after taking over from decorated Scottish compatriot Alex Ferguson, and Van Persie now has six for the season in the Pre-mier League, with Rooney on five.

“I thought there were real signs of great combi-nation between them and they made the goals for each other,” Moyes said at a news conference.

“There was good link-up play and I just started to see really good signs from

the two of them,” added the 50-year-old.

“It was great they both got on the scoresheet be-cause that is what forwards do and I have always said you need these boys to get a hat-load of goals if you are to be successful.

“They are both incredi-bly talented and understand each other and the talents they both bring with them.”

United captain Neman-ja Vidic also praised the two forwards.

“I was really pleased with Robin and Wayne,” the Serbian center back told United’s televi-sion channel MUTV. “In the first 30 minutes they played terrific football and we need them to keep do-ing that.

“Their movement was terrific; they got a goal each and set up the other for An-

tonio (Valencia). It was a good sign for us and for the team.”

Victory for United at Sociedad’s Anoeta sta-dium in San Sebastian will put them within touching distance of a place in the last 16 and end the Basque club’s first foray into the Europe’s elite club com-petition in a decade.

The Liga side’s 1-0 defeat at United last month left them without a point after three of six matches and their exit will be confirmed even with a draw on Tuesday if Bayer Leverkusen beat Shakhtar Donetsk in the group’s other game in Ukraine.

United are top on seven points, Bundesliga side Leverkusen have six in second and Shakhtar are third on four.

Reuters

Djokovic grinds down Ferrer to take Paris title

Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts as he plays David Fer-rer of Spain in the men’s singles final match at the Paris Masters men’s singles tennis tournament at the Palais

Omnisports of Bercy in Paris, on 3 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

Paris, 4 Nov — Novak Djokovic beat defending champion David Ferrer of Spain 7-5 7-5 to win the Paris Masters on Sunday and keep alive his hopes of reclaiming the world num-ber one spot by the end of the year.

The Serb recovered from a break down in both sets to snatch his third con-secutive title, and the 40th

of his career, following victories in Beijing and at the Shanghai Masters last month.

“I knew that coming into the match I was go-ing to have to work for my points,” Djokovic told a news conference.

“He was not going to give me too many free points. He was going to run for every ball. He’s a great

competitor, one of the most respected guys on tour be-cause he works hard and he’s very humble and he’s a very nice person.”

It is the first time Djokovic, the 2009 Paris Masters champion, has won back-to-back Masters Se-ries events since his succes-sive triumphs in Rome, Ma-drid and Montreal in 2011.

“Summer was up and down, and now again I’m playing at a very high level and have lots of confidence in myself, in my game,” said Djokovic, who had not won a title since the Monte Carlo Masters in April prior to his success in Beijing.

He could still over-throw world number one Rafa Nadal if he wins next week’s ATP World Tour Finals in London and the Davis Cup final with Ser-bia, who host Czech Re-public in Belgrade later this month.

Reuters

Mutai, Jeptoo win NY Marathon in Kenyan sweep

Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya holds up the Kenyan flag after winning the men’s division of the New York City

Marathon in New York, on 3 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

New York, 4 Nov — Defending champi-on Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s rac-es at the New York City Marathon on Sunday for a Kenyan sweep in chilly, windy conditions through the city’s five boroughs.

After last year’s race was cancelled due to dam-age inflicted on the city by Superstorm Sandy, the

race marked a triumphant return as a record 50,740 runners started from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that connects Staten Island to Brooklyn.

Jeptoo overtook front-running Ethiopian Bu-zunesh Deba with about two miles to go to win go-ing away in two hours, 25 minutes and seven seconds and claim a huge payday in a race that began in 46

degrees F (8 Centigrade) with winds of 17 mph (27 kph). London Mara-thon winner Jeptoo trailed 2011 New York runner-up Deba, who lives and trains in the Big Apple, by nearly four minutes before shift-ing into catch-up mode from the 16-mile mark to reel in her rival, who suffered from stomach cramping during the race.

The win brought Jep-too a World Marathon Majors bonus of $500,000 (313,893 pounds) in addi-tion to the New York prize of $100,000.

“This is a great mo-ment for me, and this is a day I will not forget for the rest of my life,” said Jep-too. Deba finished second, 49 seconds back, in a race run under tight security in the aftermath of April’s Boston Marathon bomb-ings with twice NYC win-ner Jelena Prokopcuka, 37, of Latvia third.—Reuters

Halep wants to keep having fun after breakthrough season

Simona Halep of Romania returns a shot to Samantha Stosur of Australia during the WTA Tournament of

Champions final match in Sofia on 3 Nov, 2013.ReuteRs

2-6, 6-2, 6-2 in a thrilling fi-nal to cap a remarkable six months which has lifted her to number 11 in the world rankings.

After a mediocre start to the year, Halep caught fire in June, winning titles at Nurnberg, Den Bosch and Budapest, then add-ing crowns at New Haven and Moscow to become the only player to taste success

on three different surfaces this season. With increasing success comes more expec-tation, but Halep, who came from 3-0 down in the final set against Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic in the semi-finals, said she was not going to make ambitious plans at the expense of enjoying her time on court.

“Next year will be tough because I’ll have to

defend all the points,” Ha-lep, who started the week ranked 14th in the world, told a news conference. “But I don’t want to make any plans. I won a lot of ti-tles this season, I played re-ally well and it’s not going to be easy next season. I just want to enjoy my time on the WTA tour and to feel the pleasure in every moment on the court.”—Reuters

sofia, 4 Nov — Un-heralded Romanian Simona Halep is vowing to keep the fun factor in her game fol-lowing her victory in the Tournament of Champions on Sunday at the end of a breakthrough season on the women’s tour. The 22-year-old won the season-ending event in Sofia on Sunday, beating former US Open champion Samantha Stosur

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Foreign tourists (2nd and 3rd from L), wearing animation costumes, pose with Japanese “cosplayers” during an event at Narita airport near Tokyo on 3 Nov,

2013.—Kyodo News

US serviceman arrested for alleged drunken driving in Okinawa

Naha, (Japan), 4 Nov — A US serviceman was arrested Sunday for alleged drunken driving in Okinawa Prefecture, police said.

Christopher Hardy, a 22-year-old officer at the

US Kadena Air Base in the prefecture, was five times over the alcohol limit, the police said, citing a respira-tory test.

The incident came to light after a car Hardy

Chiba Pref issues PM2.5 air pollution alertChiba, 4 Nov — Chiba

Prefecture just east of To-kyo warned its residents on Monday not to go outside as the toxic air pollutant PM2.5 could exceed the limit set in national provisional guidelines. It was the first such warning issued in the greater Tokyo region under an alert system launched in March. The hourly average

density of PM2.5 between 5 am and 7 am topped 85 micrograms per cubic me-tre, meaning it could exceed the daily average limit of 70 micrograms set under the guidelines, the prefectural government said.

Densities of 88 micro-grams to 127 micrograms were measured at three points in the city of Ichiha-

ra, it said, adding the cause of the rise is unknown.

The hazardous par-ticulate matter, measuring below 2.5 microns, or 2.5 thousandths of a millimetre, is believed to be brought by westerlies from China, where PM2.5 has been causing serious air pollu-tion and health problems.

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was driving traveled in the wrong lane and crashed into a taxi around 8:15 am in the village of Kita-Nakagu-suku.Neither Hardy nor the taxi driver was hurt.

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European roundup — Roma’s record run ends, Bayern roll on

AS Roma’s Miralem Pjanic (R) is challenged by Torino’s Danilo D’Ambrosio during their Italian Serie

A soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Turin on 3 Nov, 2013.— ReuteRs

LoNdoN, 4 Nov —AS Roma’s record-breaking 100 percent run in Serie A came to an end after 10 suc-cessive victories with a 1-1 draw at mid-table Torino on Sunday.

Bayern Munich won in Germany to stretch their unbeaten streak to 36 games and equal Hamburg SV’s 30-year record.

Arsenal extended their lead at the top of the Eng-lish Premier League to five points by beating Liverpool 2-0 and in Spain Barcelona won a tight local derby against Espanyol 1-0 to stay top.

ITALYLeaders AS Roma lost

their 100 percent record when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Torino in their 11th game of the season.

Kevin Strootman gave Roma a halftime lead be-

fore Alessio Cerci scored against his former club just after the hour, only the second goal they have conceded all season. Roma, who have 31 points, stayed three clear of Napoli and Juventus.

Jose Callejon and Marek Hamsik gave Napoli a 2-1 win over lowly Cata-nia and Paul Pogba’s late goal earned Juventus a 1-0 win at Parma.

Inter Milan, 3-0 win-ners at Udinese, and pro-moted Hellas Verona, 2-1 winners over Cagliari, are a further six points behind.

ENGLANDArsenal reinforced

their title credentials by opening up a five-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 home win over Liverpool.

Superb strikes from Santi Cazorla and Aaron

Ramsey capped an im-pressive all-round display from the north London club ahead of a difficult trip to Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.

Second-placed Chel-sea lost ground with a shock 2-0 defeat at New-castle United but Man-chester City thrashed Norwich City 7-0 and champions Manchester United clicked into gear with a 3-1 win at Fulham.

Tottenham Hotspur and Everton missed the opportunity to go second and close the gap to Arse-nal when they drew 0-0 at Goodison Park on Sunday.

SPAINUnbeaten leaders

Barcelona, second-placed Atletico Madrid and their city rivals Real in third recorded contrasting vic-tories ahead of Champions

League games against AC Milan, Austria Vienna and Juventus respectively.

Champions Barca edged a tight Catalan derby at home to Espanyol 1-0 on Friday when Neymar’s brilliant pass set up Alexis Sanchez to score in the 68th minute at the Nou Camp.

The biggest surprise of the night was that World Player of the Year Lionel Messi failed to score for a fourth successive league match in which he played the full 90 minutes, the Ar-gentina forward’s worst run in almost six years.

Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice and record signing Gareth Bale made two assists in Real’s nervy 3-2 win at bottom side Rayo Vallecano on Saturday and David Villa and Diego Costa scored in Atletico’s comfortable 2-0 success at

home to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.

Barca have 34 points after 12 matches, with Atletico on 33, a club re-cord for this stage of the season, and Real on 28.

GERMANYBayern Munich came

from behind to edge past Hoffenheim 2-1 with goals from Thomas Mueller and Mario Mandzukic.

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Pyithu Hluttaw approves Media BillNay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov —

Pyithu Hluttaw approved the Media Bill today after discussing the bill’s para-graphs amended by Amyo-tha Hluttaw.

“There is a need for professional accountability in the on-line media and I hope that it would run in ac-cordance with the rules and regulations in the future. We discussed ‘account-ability and responsibility” many times at Pyithu Hlut-taw today,’ said U Khaing Maung Ye, a representative from Ahlon Constitutency.

Daw Khin Saw Wai of Rathedaung Constituency has urged the Union Gov-

ernment to urgently carry out the combined meas-ures for security, immi-gration and administra-tion which are better than the ones in the past for the sake of the national inter-ests of Rakhine State.

Maj-Gen Maung Maung Ohn, Deputy Min-ister for Border Affairs, replied that the Union Gov-ernment has been imple-menting the short-term and long-term plans for peace and stability in Buthidaung and Maungtaw in Rakhine State.

He also urged Pyithu Hluttaw to put the propos-al on record as the Union

Government would review the proposal to be able to ensure overcoming chal-lenges in the state.

For the peaceful coex-istence of the communities in Rakine State, the govern-ment has worked hard to improve the socio-economy of local people and Maung-taw region has enjoyed community peace, the Dep-uty Minister said.

The government is also seeking ways for timely completion of taking cen-sus in the areas in 2014 and taking measures for grant-ing citizenship to eligible people and for tackling the (See page 9)

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—Deputy Minister for Finance Dr Lin Aung submitted the bill amend-ing the salaries, allowance and insignia law for Union level individuals, the bill amending the salaries, al-lowance and insignia law for region or state level individuals and the bill amending the salaries, al-lowance and insignia law for self-administered divi-sion or zone leading body chairman and CEC mem-

Salaries, allowances, insignia for authorities at different level discussed

at Amyotha Hluttawbers to today’s session of Amyotha Hluttaw.

With regard to the bill amending the allowance, expenditure and insignia law for Union level persons, member of Bill Committee U Saw Maw Tun said that the main amendment of the law is to cancel the provi-sion of tax exemption. In accord with the guidance of the President and agreement of the Union government, those at the Union level, region or state level, chair-man and CEC members of self-administered division or zone leading body, the chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Council and members are enjoying the salaries and allowances that are lower than they really are till to-day. However, the provi-sions of the respective laws have not been amended yet. That is why it is necessary to amend the provisions in legislative, executive and judicial sectors if necessary.Bill Committee member U Sun Doke Ciint discussed matters related to the bill amending the salaries, al-

lowance and insignia law for region or state level per-sons. He said that MPs have understood to pay tax duti-fully and serve the interest of the State. Therefore, it needs to revoke but also to amend necessary laws.

Bill Committee mem-ber U Aung Kyi Nyunt submitted the report on amendments in the bill amending the salaries, al-lowance and insignia law for self-administered divi-sion or zone leading body chairman and CEC mem-bers.

The Hluttaw decided to discuss the bill amend-ing the salaries, allow-ance and insignia law for Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman and members, the bill amending the sal-aries and allowances for MPs of Pyithu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw, Re-gion or State Hluttaw and leading body members of Self-Administered Divi-sion or Zone and the bill amending the Myanmar Mining Law.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 4 Nov—At the invitation of President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin

Australian Governor-General arrives in Nay Pyi Taw

Upon their arrival, they were welcomed by Union Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin and wife Daw Lin Lin Tin, Depu-ty Minister Daw Sandar Khin, Australian Ambas-sador to Myanmar Ms. Bronte Nadine Moules, Myanmar Ambassador to Australia U Min Thein and officials concerned at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport.

Two young girls of the Fine Arts Department under the Ministry of Cul-ture presented bouquets to the Governor-General of Commonwealth of Aus-tralia and her spouse who took salute of the Guard of Honour. National rac-es of the department and students also welcomed them waving miniature flags along both sides of the entrance road to Nay Pyi Taw International Air-port.—MNA

Win, a delegation led by Governor-General of Commonwealth of Aus-tralia Mrs. Quentin Bryce

AC CVO and spouse Mr. Michael Bryce AM AE ar-rived here by air at 3 pm today.

Australian Governor-

General Mrs. Quentin

Bryce AC CVO and

spouse Mr. Michael

Bryce AM AE being

welcomed by Union Minis-ter U Wunna Maung Lwin

at Nay Pyi Taw Interna-tional Airport.

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Participants in dialogue between Union Peace-making work committee and ethnic armed organizations pose for documentary photo.—mna

MyiTkyiNa, 4 Nov—The government in office has political desire to bring about nationwide ceasefire, the constant demand of eth-nic nationalities, said Vice-Chairman of Union Peace-making Work Committee Union Minister U Aung Min as the committee met the leaders and representa-tives of ethnic armed organ-izations at Majwel Hall in Myitkyina of Kachin State this morning. He said the negotiation was the first ever dialogue on armed conflicts between the government and ethnic armed groups at the same time. Both government and ethnic armed groups pre-fer ending the armed conflict through political means, but it is difficult to hold peace talks simultaneously with

Union Peace-making Work Committee meets leaders, reps of ethnic armed Organizations

many armed groups, said U Aung Min.

However, all stake-holders are dedicated to political dialogue, having accepted to find solution through dialogue, he said expressing his hope that the negotiation would bear positive results and fur-ther strengthen the peace process. The government would not single-handedly formulate the framework for political dialogue but allows the participation of ethnic armed groups and other major political forces and will listen to the voices of community-based organ-izations and the political di-alogue must be held based on a framework adopted by common consent.

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