Volume XXI, Number 206 6th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1375 ME Friday, 8 November, 2013

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East Timor president to visit Japan next week

for talks with PM Abe

Russian rocket takes Sochi Olympic torch

to space

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov—Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received Malaysian Chief of Army General Datuk Raja Mohamed Affandi Bin Raja Mohamed Noor who arrived in Mandalay to attend the 14th ASEAN Chiefs of Army Summit, at the Yangyiaung Yeiktha of the Central Command Headquarters today.

At the meeting, they had a cordial discussion on further cementing friendly ties between the two ar-mies and cooperation in training and medicine.

Also present at the call

C-in-C receives Malaysian Chief of Army were Lt-Gen Myint Soe, Lt-Gen Aung Than Htut, Maj-Gen Mya Tun Oo, Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe, Lt-Gen Yar Pyae of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army), Commander of Central Command Maj-Gen Nyo Saw and senior mili-tary officers.

The Malaysian Gen-eral was accompanied by Malaysian Chief of Staff (Army) Major-General Dato Azizan Bin Md De-lin, senior military officers and Military Attaché from the Malaysian Embassy to Myanmar Colonel Gan-seng Lock.

Myawady

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing poses for documentary photo with Malaysian Chief of Army General Datuk Raja Mohamed Affandi Bin

Raja Mohamed Noor and party.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw,7 Nov—President U Thein Sein clarified programmes for providing assistance to flood victims by the State and agricultural sector transformation processes being undertaken by the State for socioeconomic development of farmers at the meeting with flood victims in Thagara Station of Ottwin Township, Bago region today.

Union Minister U Myint Hlaing reported to the president on providing quality strains and technol-ogy to the farmers.

During the meeting the President handed out seeds, rice, edible oil and clothing to flood victims.

Afterwards, Union Ministers U Myint Hlaing and Dr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin also presented seeds and personal goods to the flood victims.

Then, the President cordially greeted the flood victims.

The President and par-ty flew to Bago via Toun-goo by helicopter.

The President held a meeting with townselders and officials from town-ship development sup-portive committees at

President U Thein Sein meets flood victims in Ottwin Township

Shwe Wah Tun Hotel. The President touched upon government’s po-litical and economic re-forms and undertakings

of agricultural sector development. According to people-centered ap-proach, it needs to carry out township-wise de-

velopment tasks by ad-ministrative bodies and township development supportive committees elected by the people in

cooperation with devel-opment affairs commit-tees in administrative sector, the president said.

The members of TDSC

reported on development of agricultural, livestock breeding and fisheries sec-tors.

MNA

President U Thein Sein cordially greets locals in Thagara Station, Bago Region.—mna

Friday, 8 November, 20132 New Light of MyanmarLOCAL NEWS

National Sports

Accident

Sagaing, 7 Nov—“South East Asian He-roes” music album pro-motion show for hailing SEA Games was staged at the mobile shop in Market Street of Sagaing yesterday as SEA Games awareness campaign. The people who live in Sagaing bought the album on which the movie stars put their signs. The audience who bought CDs

“South East Asian Heroes” music album introduced as SEA Games awareness campaign

cost K 2,000 per copy were served with soft drink and lucky draw coupons.

Myanmar film and vid-eo celebrities Phyo Ngwe Soe, Sithu Maung, Zarni, Khin Yupa, Christina, Soe Pyae Pyae San, etc signed the album and sold them to the audience.

One of the Myanmar celebrities said, “We started our journey from Yangon

through Yangon-Mandalay Highway on 1 November and we came around Hlegu, Toungoo, Nay Pyi Taw, Py-inmana, Lewe and Tatkon. We stopped over for the night at Nay Pyi Taw and then we went to Manda-lay where we slept for two nights.

Today we visited Saga-ing and we will go around Monywa then.”Kyemon-Nandar Min Lwin

Yangon, 7 Nov—A worker slipped over the scaffold and left other worker injured while they were preparing for tem-porary trade show in the compound of Myanmar Convention Centre (MCC) in Manyangon Township on 4 November.

As preparation works for holding trade fair

Two workers injured after scaffold falls

were being carried out at MCC on Mindhamma Road in Ward 4 of Ma-yangon Township, work-er Nay Myo Aung, 22, of Ohyin Village in Ngath-ayauk Township, slipped over the 15 feet high steel scaffold and got in-jured in left thigh (not in critical condition). Myint Ko Ko, 35, of Kyansit-

thar Housing in Ward 6 of Hlinethaya Township, who changed the scaffold also got injured in right leg (not in critical con-dition). They were un-der treatment at Victoria Hospital and transfemed to Academy Hospital in Ahlon Township as in-patients.

Kyemon-037

Midwifery course opened in Myanaung TspMYanaung, 7 Nov—

Midwifery course jointly organized by Myanaung Township General Admin-istration Department and Township Health Depart-ment was opened at the meeting hall of Myanaung Township Health Depart-ment in Hinthada District,

Ayeyawady Region on 1 November.

At the ceremony, My-anaung Township Adminis-trator U Min Min Tun made an opening remark and Head of Township Health Department Dr Win Htain explained the purpose of the course.

The course is meant to decrease mortality rate, and sharing health knowledge to the people.

A total of 32 trainees from wards and village-tracts of Myanaung Town-ship are attending the three-month course.

Kyemon-Win Bo (IPRD)

MYanaung, 7 Nov—For providing emergen-cy medical treatment to the people of Myanaung Township, Inpin Station Hospital was being con-structed under the leader-

Inpin Station Hospital completed by 90 percent

Health Care Services

Yangon, 7 Nov—My-anmar and EU will jointly organize political and eco-nomic forums in second week of November, accord-ing to the press release of EU-Myanmar Task Force.

The EU-Myanmar Task Force will provide peace making process in the political sector and invest-ment in economic sector with technology assistance and necessary equipment.

Business Forum, Dem-

Political, economic forums in mid-November

ship of Hospital Construc-tion Committee Chairman U Kyaw Kyaw Oo.

The hospital was completed by 90 percent and it was donated by a local family and other

Pakokku, 7 Nov—Three people were injured in traffic accident oc-curred at the junction of Myaing Street and detour in Ward-6, here, at 4:30 pm on 2 November.

A light truck driven by Zarni Htwe, 38, of Nyaun-

Three injured in Pakokku traffic accidentgU Township, Mandalay Region, heading from Pa-kokku Industrial Zone to NyaungU collided with a Toyota Crown driven by Nay Myo Thaw who re-turned from Pakokku after attending a funeral service at the junction of Myaing

Street and detour.The two drivers and pas-

senger Daw Khin Mar Nyo sustained injures in the ac-cident. The Pakokku Police Station filed a lawsuit against driver Zarni Htwe.

Kyemon-Aung (Mann Tekkatho)

Movie stars and their audiences at “South East Asian Heroes” music album promotion show for hailing SEA Games in Sagaing.

Photo shows preparation for temporary trade show in the compound of MCC.

Knowledge about security measures sharedMYeik, 7 Nov—The

practical and theoretical works for sharing knowl-edge about landmine was held at the hall of Myeik District Police Force in Taninthayi Region on 2 November morning.

wellwishers. The project is expected to cost K 100 million in total with X-ray room, ward for monks and staff housing being con-structed.—Kyemon-Nay Win Zaw (Myanaung)

Captain San Ko Ko of Battlefield Engineering Battalion gave lectures on local-made mines of de-structionists with the use of projector.

He then demonstrated process of defuse for the

mines. Commander of Dis-trict Police Force Police Lt-Col Shwe Nya Maung gave instructions to the attendees to inform the local athori-ties and Myanmar Police Force of finding the explo-sive devices in their respec-tive townships, wards and villages as quickly as pos-sible.—Kyemon-278

ocratic Civil Society Forum and Development Forum will be held at Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI), here, on 14 No-vember.

On 15 November, My-anmar and EU will sign an MoU at Myanmar Interna-tional Convention Center (MICC) in Nay Pyi Taw.

Ye Khaung Nyunt, Myat Thanda Maung

naY PYi Taw, 7 Nov—Myanmar Golf Federation is trying its best abilities for securing medals in the coming SEA Games to be hosted by Myanmar, and the golfers also trying their best to win the gold medals in individuals, said Gen-eral Manager U Aung Myo Kyaw of Myanmar Golf Federation.

“We will try hard to snatch the medals in the

Myanmar golfers hope gold medals in individualsgames. At least, we can stand one of the positions from first to third in the game. Depending on the host privilege, we may win gold medal,” he continued.

“Our players will take part in both men’s and women’s events. We have chosen four players for the men’s event and one re-served player in the train-ing. Likewise, three play-ers plus one reserved will

be allowed to take part in the women’s event. They all are under training,” he added.

Not only foreign coaches but also two local coaches are providing train-ing to them at Gold Camp. Men’s golfer team com-prises Ye Htet Aung, Myo Win Aung, Maung Maung Oo and Thein Naing Oo. Women’s team consists of Yin May Myo, May Oo

Khaing, Zin Mar Nwe and Aye Aye Aung.

The golf event of the SEA Games will take place at Royal Myanmar Golf Course in Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone from 15 to 18 December. Myanmar golf-ers have a plan to take part in the golf tournament to be held in Chaingmai on 11 November.

MMAL-Maung Shwe Yoe

Friday, 8 November, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

East Timor’s President Taur Matan Ruak

East Timor president to visit Japan next week for

talks with PM AbeTokyo, 7 Nov — East

Timor’s President Taur Matan Ruak will visit Ja-pan next week for talks with Prime Minister Shin-zo Abe, the Foreign Minis-try said on Thursday.

Ruak is also expect-ed to meet with Emperor Akihito and Empress Mi-chiko during his five-day visit through 17 Novem-ber, which the ministry said would be an occasion

to further deepen friendly ties between Japan and the Southeast Asian country.

The former guerilla fighter was sworn in as president of the former Portuguese colony in May 2012 and is currently serv-ing a five-year term. East Timor formally won in-dependence in 2002 after decades of annexation by Indonesia.

Kyodo News

Powers seek ‘first-step’ nuclear deal with Iran in Geneva talks

Geneva, 7 Nov —World powers will seek to hammer out a breakthrough deal with Iran to start re-solving a decade-old dis-pute over its nuclear pro-gramme in two-day talks that begin on Thursday, although both sides say an agreement is far from cer-tain.

The United States and its allies say they are en-couraged by Teheran’s shift to friendlier rhetoric after years of hostility since the

June election of President Hassan Rouhani, who has pledged to repair ties with the West and win sanc-tions relief. But they stress Iran needs to back its words with action and take con-crete steps to scale back its atomic work, which they suspect has covert military aims, a charge Teheran de-nies.

“What we’re looking for is a first phase, a first step, an initial understand-ing that stops Iran’s nuclear programme from moving forward and rolls it back for the first time in decades,” a senior US official told reporters on the eve of the talks.That would help buy time needed for Iran and the six powers — the Unit-ed States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Ger-many—to reach a broader diplomatic settlement in a dispute that could otherwise plunge the Middle East into

a new war.The six nations want

Iran to suspend its most sensitive uranium enrich-ment efforts, reduce its stockpile of such material and diminish its capacity to produce it in the future. In return for any concessions, Iran wants the powers to lift painful economic sanc-tions that have slashed its daily oil sales revenues by 60 percent in the past two years and devalued its rial currency by more than half.

Iranian Foreign Minis-ter Mohammad Javad Zarif told French daily Le Monde a deal was “not that far off,” although it might not be struck at the talks in Thurs-day and Friday in Geneva. “We can conclude (a deal) this week in Geneva, and if that’s not the case, it’s not a disaster, as long as things are moving forward,” he was quoted as saying.

Reuters

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani takes questions from journalists during a news conference in New York

on 27 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

UK spy chiefs to be quizzed in public for first time, on Snowden

London, 7 Nov — Brit-ain’s intelligence chiefs will give their first ever pub-lic testimony on Thursday when they are cross-exam-ined together in parliament about the case of former US spy agency contrac-tor Edward Snowden. The evidence-gathering ses-

A Union Jack flag flutters on the roof of the British Embassy next to a German national flag in Berlin

on 5 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

able than they have been in many years. This is a step forward in terms of transparency.”People fa-miliar with the agenda said the officials would be asked whether mass surveillance programs were a violation of privacy, and what impact the Snowden leaks had had on their work.

They will not, howev-er, be asked to discuss op-erational matters —again, for security reasons—or to elaborate on the func-tioning of the surveillance programmes. Civil liber-ties groups, parts of the media and lawmakers from all parties have argued that Snowden’s disclosures about the scale of GCHQ’s monitoring activities show that it has become too pow-erful and needs to be reined in.—Reuters

sion comes amid calls for the government to step up oversight of its three main intelligence agencies after documents that Snowden leaked to the press exposed Britain’s role in secret mass surveillance programmes.

Those disclosures de-tailed Britain’s close coop-

eration with the US Nation-al Security Agency (NSA), embarrassing Prime Minis-ter David Cameron and an-gering lawmakers in his rul-ing Conservative party who said they harmed national security. The director of Britain’s electronic eaves-dropping agency GCHQ, the head of the domestic se-curity service MI5, and the chief of the foreign Secret Intelligence Service, oth-erwise known as MI6, will all attend Thursday’s hear-ing, which will be televised, albeit with a short delay for security reasons.

In the past, such hear-ings have been behind closed doors.” (The intel-ligence chiefs) have tradi-tionally operated behind a veil,” a government spokesman said. “But they are more publicly avail-

IAEA experts observe Japan’s marine radiation monitoring

activitiesTokyo, 7 Nov — Two

International Atomic En-ergy Agency experts on Thursday began observing Japan’s marine radiation monitoring activities off the coast of Fukushima Prefec-ture, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. According to the IAEA, the experts came to lay the groundwork for an-other IAEA mission planned later this month to review the process toward decom-missioning four severely damaged reactor units at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Fukushima plant.

As countries neigh-bouring Japan remain con-cerned about the impact of radiation leaks from the

Photo shows spent nuclear fuel in the cooling pool at the No 4 reactor build-ing of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear

power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on 6 Nov,

2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co invited journalists to the site ahead of the removal of nuclear fuel

from the pool, expected to start later in the month.

Kyodo News

crippled plant, the involve-ment of the UN nuclear watchdog in monitoring is expected to boost the cred-ibility of the data Japan is releasing. Hundreds of tanks have been set up at the plant to store the mas-sive amounts of radioactive water produced as a result of continuing water injec-tions into the three damaged reactors. But leaks have oc-curred frequently.

Some of the groundwa-ter, which is flowing through the plant’s premises toward the ocean, is also believed to be contaminated.Da-vid Osborn, director of the IAEA Environment Labora-tories in Monaco, and Hart-mut Nies, head of the IAEA

Radiometrics Laboratory, left Onahama port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima, at around 5:40 am Thursday aboard TEPCO’s ship used for water sampling.

The ship is expected to take water samples at more than 10 points within 15 kil-ometers of the Fukushima plant. After observing the sea water sampling activity on Thursday, the experts will visit a building at the Fukushima plant where wa-ter is analyzed on Friday. They will also hold talks with officials of Japan’s Nu-clear Regulation Authority during their weeklong visit through Tuesday, according to Japanese officials.

Kyodo News

At least two dead, seven wounded in Detroit shootingdeTroiT, 7 Nov — At least two people

were shot dead and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire on Wednesday evening at a busy intersection outside a barbershop in Detroit, police said.

The barbershop where the shooting happened has a reputation for gambling, but it was too early to tell whether that played a role in the shooting, Detroit Police Chief James Craig told reporters.Police had said previously that three people were killed in the shooting, but later said they could only confirm two fatalities. Craig said police were looking for at least one gunman and possibly a second.

The suspects are believed to have fled in two vehicles, Craig said.John Zakar, 26, said he was working at the Riviera Party Shoppe when he heard about 20 shots ring out about a block away and three wounded people ran into his store and hid.”I locked the door behind them and applied pressure to the wounds,” Zakar said in a telephone interview. “We didn’t let the people shoot-ing come in and shoot.”—Reuters

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYNew Light of Myanmar

Russian rocket takes Sochi Olympic torch to space

Baikonur, (Kazakh-stan), 7 Nov — Russia

sent the Olympic torch into space with a three-man

crew that blasted off to the International Space Station on Thursday, three months before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. The torch, unlit for safety reasons, was part of the payload of a Soyuz spacecraft that lifted off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan.

Crew members Mikhail Tyurin of Russia, Rick Mastracchio of the United States and Koichi Wakata of Japan are to ar-rive after a six-hour flight at the orbiting outpost 250 miles above Earth.Two Russian cosmonauts are to take the torch out on a space walk on Saturday—the first

time an Olympic torch is to be carried into open space. Olympic torches were brought along on US space shuttle voyages before the 1996 and 2000 Games.

Decorated with a Sochi 2014 logo and a colorful snowflake de-sign, the rocket lifted off on schedule at 10:14 local time (0414 GMT) from the Russian-leased facility in Kazakhstan. The torch is to be returned to Earth on Monday to continue a 65,000-km (40,000-mile) relay culminating with the start of the Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi on 7 February .

Reuters

International Space Station (ISS) crew members, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata (top) and Russian

cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, board the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft with the torch of the 2014 Sochi Winter

Olympic Games at the Baikonur cosmodrome on 7 Nov, 2013. — ReuteRs

US joins anti-mercury pollution Minamata

ConventionWashington, 7 Nov —

The United States signed an anti-mercury pollution convention on Wednesday named after a Japanese city where industrial emis-sions of the toxic substance caused a poisoning disease affecting thousands of peo-ple.

“The Minamata Con-vention represents a global step forward to reduce ex-posure to mercury, a toxic chemical with significant health effects on the brain and nervous system,” the State Department said in a statement. The convention was adopted at a UN En-vironment Programme-led conference on 10 October in the Japanese city of Ku-

mamoto, Kumamoto Pre-fecture.

A total of 87 countries and territories signed the convention the same day but the US government did not send a delegation due to the partial government shutdown that lasted until 16 October. The conven-tion will take effect with ratification by 50 signatory countries. The convention seeks to decrease the dis-charge of mercury into the air, water and land, to pro-mote proper storage and disposal of mercury, and re-duce the use and discharge of mercury in the process of gold mining in developing countries.

Kyodo News

A staff member presents a Samsung 4G mobile phone at Xizhimen business hall of China Mobile in Bei-

jing, on 6 Nov, 2013. The Beijing company of China Mobile officially released its 4G mobile phones on

Wednesday. — Xinhua

Japan to boost green tech transfers to earn emissions creditstokyo, 7 Nov — The

Japanese government aims to boost its transfer of en-ergy-saving technologies to developing countries to earn emissions credits in return under a bilateral scheme, government sourc-es said on Wednesday. To-kyo will announce its goal of doubling the number of countries participating in the programme, dubbed Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism, over the next three years at a 12-day UN climate conference starting on Monday in Poland, the sources said.Japan will also offer financial aid to devel-oping countries to help curb their carbon dioxide and

other greenhouse gas emis-sions.

The government is making final arrangements on the amount and other details of the assistance, they added. The envisioned climate strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government will be a step-ping stone to achieving the target of halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as proposed by Abe when he last served as premier in 2007.Japan will demonstrate its commit-ment to developing inno-vative environmental tech-nologies by pledging total investment of 11 trillion yen over a five-year period

from both the public and private sectors for research and development on pro-jects such as fuel cell de-velopment and raising the efficiency of thermal power generation.

The country will also express its readiness to host an annual international meeting on the develop-ment of innovative green technologies.

The first such confer-ence, to be modeled after the World Economic Forum annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland, will be held in Tokyo in October next year.Japan’s bilateral offset mechanism is similar to the Clean Development Mech-

anism under the 1997 Kyo-to Protocol, which provides emissions rights to coun-tries that implement emis-sions reduction projects in developing countries.So far, eight countries includ-ing Mongolia and Ethiopia have signed accords with Japan to participate in the bilateral scheme.

Tokyo has decided not to join an eight-year second commitment period from 2013 for the Kyoto Proto-col, saying the framework lacks effectiveness as major gas-emitting countries such as the United States and China are not part of the re-duction efforts.

Kyodo News

Brain-machine interface lets monkeys move two virtual arms with minds

Washington, 7 Nov — US researchers said on Wednesday that monkeys in a lab have learned to control the movement of both arms on an avatar us-ing just their brain activity.

The findings, pub-lished in the US journal Science Translational Medicine, advanced ef-forts to develop bilateral movement in brain-con-trolled prosthetic devices for severely paralyzed pa-tients, said researchers at

Duke University, based in Durham, the state of North Carolina. To enable the monkeys to control two virtual arms, the research-ers recorded nearly 500 neurons from multiple ar-eas in both cerebral hemi-spheres of the animals’ brains, the largest number of neurons recorded and reported to date.

Millions of people worldwide suffer from sensory and motor deficits caused by spinal cord inju-

ries. Researchers are work-ing to develop tools to help restore their mobility and sense of touch by connect-ing their brains with assis-tive devices.

The brain-machine interface approach holds promise for reaching this goal. However, until now brain-machine interfaces could only control a single prosthetic limb.

“Bimanual move-ments in our daily activi-ties — from typing on a keyboard to opening a can — are critically impor-tant,” senior author Miguel Nicolelis, professor of neu-robiology at Duke Univer-sity School of Medicine said in a statement. “Future brain- machine interfaces aimed at restoring mobil-ity in humans will have to incorporate multiple limbs to greatly benefit severely paralyzed patients.”

Xinhua

Colorado an energy battleground as towns ban fracking

Denver, 7 Nov — Three Colorado cities have rejected oil and gas produc-tion work that relies on so-called fracking, unofficial election returns showed on Wednesday in a setback for an industry that won other battles this year in Demo-cratic strongholds like Cali-fornia. Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins passed measures with solid mar-gins to suspend or ban the

technique formally known as hydraulic fracturing. But a fourth community, Broomfield, about 12 miles east of Boulder, narrowly rejected a fracking morato-rium.

In Fort Collins, near the growing Niobrara field, 56 percent of voters ap-proved a five-year ban on fracking, despite a resolu-tion its city council passed urging voters to reject it. A

dozen states including Cali-fornia have clear rules for fracking, but the practice is banned in New York and some think Colorado could be a battleground in the US energy boom. There is “possibility of a state-wide ban finding its way onto the 2014 Colorado ballot,” said Paul Enockson, a law-yer with BakerHostetler in Denver who has represent-ed oil firms.

Hydraulic fracturing, done after horizontal drill-ing, pumps pressurized water, sand and chemicals underground to crack shale rock to release oil or gas.Environmental groups say fracking can contaminate water supplies, but the in-dustry says it is safe and that boosting gas output will create jobs and help states replace dirty coal-burning power plants with ones fueled by cleaner gas.

Reuters

An oil derrick is seen at a fracking site for extracting oil outside of Williston, North Dakota on 11 March , 2013.

ReuteRs

Study says brain-machine interface lets monkeys move two virtual arms with minds.—Xinhua

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

More evidence e-cigs may help in quitting tobacco

New York, 7 Nov —Electronic cigarette users followed over a year re-duced or quit using tobac-co cigarettes in large num-bers and were less prone to resume smoking, at least in the short term.

Experts continue to debate whether or not “e-cigs” are smoking-cessa-tion tools or just leisure products. The electronic vaporizers use cartridges of liquid nicotine to deliver a flavoured nicotine-laced vapor without the bypro-ducts of burning tobacco in traditional cigarettes.

“Our results may not be generalizable to all va-pers,” Jean-Francois Etter said, using the slang for vaporizer users. “We had a majority of ex-smokers at baseline whereas in the general population, most vapers are current smokers,” he told Reuters

Health. Etter led the study at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. The results were published in Addictive Behaviours. A few small studies have found that e-cigarettes seemed to help smokers quit using tobacco or at least to smoke fewer traditional cigarettes. But there have been no long-term studies of how people actually use e-cigarettes, so experts are still unsure.

The researchers posted a questionnaire on a French stop-smoking website and asked sites selling e-cigs to link to the questionnaire. Most “vapers” buy their e-cigs online. The e-cig users recruited answered a base-line questionnaire, another one a month later and a third one year later. Ques-tions covered e-cigarette use, tobacco use and the

date of quitting tobacco, if one applied. Of more than 1000 original recruits, 367 responded to all three sur-veys. For those who had quit smoking already and were using e-cigarettes in-stead, six percent had re-lapsed to tobacco after one month. That number was stable after one year.

Of those who were smoking and using e-cig-arettes when the study be-gan, 22 percent had quit smoking tobacco after a month and 46 percent had quit after a year. That group averaged 11.3 to-bacco cigarettes daily at the beginning of the study and six cigarettes per day after one month. This was just an exploratory study and will need confirmation from follow-up studies, Et-ter said. “This suggests that e-cigs may help them quit, but our results need to be

interpreted with caution, because of the dropout rate at follow-up and the fact that our sample is not repre-sentative of all vapers,” he said. In the short-term, e-cigs appear not to carry any health risks of their own, he said. But researchers still don’t know the long-term health effects of inhaling the common solvent glycol

and food flavouring over many years.

E-cigarettes don’t need to be 100 percent safe, he said, they only need to be significantly safer than to-bacco cigarettes because they are primarily used by cigarette smokers. Of the three studies that have investigated e-cig users, none of the daily vapers

were non-smokers. Even though the evidence is still thin, Etter believes smok-ers should use e-cigarettes as quit-smoking aids, and doctors should recommend them. But the products should not be treated as medical devices or drugs, even though they may have therapeutic benefit for pa-tients, he said.—Reuters

A window display with different colour models electronic cigarettes is seen in a shop in Paris on 8 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

TokYo, 7 Nov—Sales of new imported vehicles in Japan, including those made abroad by Japanese automakers, grew 2.4 per-cent in October from the previous year to 24,172 units, an industry body said on Thursday.

Sales of foreign-brand cars climbed 28.2 percent to 20,013 units, while those of Japanese-brand vehicles fell 47.9 percent to 4,159 units, according to the Ja-pan Automobile Importers

Japan’s imported vehicle sales grow 2.4% in

October

Asian economies faced with key challenges in next decade: Australian economist

A Senior Australian economist says Asian economies faced with key challenges in next decade. — Xinhua

CaNberra, 7 Nov —Asian economies are con-fronted with challenges in four key areas if they want to maintain growth in the next decade, a senior economist from the Aus-

tralian Treasury warned on Wednesday. David Gruen, executive director of the Treasury’s Macroeconomic Group, made the remark at an economic forum entitled “Asia’s Economic Chal-

lenges and Policy Choices” held by the Australian Na-tional University (ANU)’s East Asian Bureau of Eco-nomic Research.

Gruen said in the past decade, Asia has accounted for over half of the world’s economic growth. Even if excluding the advanced economies of Asia, the con-tribution of emerging Asia was almost a half. Austral-ian Treasury predicted that Asia will continue to con-tribute half of the world’s economic growth at least in the coming decade and possibly beyond. But the growth will finally slow down to reflect the fac-tors of slowing population

growth and the maturing of technological catch-up, Gruen said. To achieve the Phase 1 scenario, Asian economies have to over-come a number of substan-tial challenges. “The first is ensuing trade remains in-clusive and open,” he said.

The export-led growth model has served Asia’s development well because, among others, technologi-cal transfer coming from trade helps drive produc-tivity growth. “In econo-mies of scale, exports can help growth. The import of world-class institutions and ideas from integrating with the rest of the world is cru-cial,” he said.—Reuters

Mitsubishi Motors to raise up to 210 billion yen in

public offeringTokYo, 7 Nov — Mit-

subishi Motors Corp. said on Wednesday it will raise up to 210 billion yen in a public offering as part of efforts to revitalize its busi-ness, which deteriorated following revelations of its concealment of vehicle de-fects in 2000.

The automaker will use the funds to buy back pre-ferred shares worth some 381 billion yen held by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and other Mitsubishi group companies.

Mitsubishi Motors is expecting to post a record group operating profit in the current business year, marking a turnaround from a business slump in the past decade, and it is planning to resume dividend payment for the current business year, after skipping it for 15 years.

The company raised a total of roughly 630 billion yen by issuing preferred shares with the relatively high dividends from 2004 to 2005 to a total of 14 companies. It took the au-tomaker nearly 10 years to rebuild its finance after a sales slump.

“I wish we had been able (to turn business around) much earlier,” President Osamu Masuko said at a Press conference in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Motors

Osamu Masuko, president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp, speaks at a press conference in

Tokyo on 6 Nov, 2013, at which he announced the company will raise up to 210 billion yen in a public offering as part of efforts to revitalize its business.—Kyodo news

also announced its medium-term business plan through fiscal 2016. It will aim to post a consolidated operat-ing profit of 135 billion yen in fiscal 2016, compared with 100 billion yen pro-jected for the current busi-ness year, and sales of 2.6 trillion yen, compared with 2.13 trillion yen, by focus-ing its resources in the fast-growing Asian emerging markets.

For fiscal 2016 through March 2017, it has set a group vehicle sales target of 1.43 million units, up around 30 percent from a projected sales volume in fiscal 2013.—Kyodo News

Association.By brand, Volkswa-

gen reclaimed the top rank by selling 4,671 units for a 19.32 percent market share, after being overtaken the previous month by Mer-cedes-Benz, whose latest monthly sales grew 66.1 percent to place second at 3,922 units.

Mitsubishi logged the largest fall among major brands reporting an 81.3 percent decrease to 573 units.—Kyodo Nvews

beijiNg, 7 Nov — Peo-ple rarely associate eating disorders with male teen-agers. However, a recent study in the US may chal-lenge the belief.17.9 per-cent of adolescent boys were extremely concerned about their weight and phy-sique, according to Boston Children’s Hospital re-searchers. These boys may engage in risky behaviors, including drug use and binge drinking.

According to the sur-

Study: eating disorders 17.9 percent among US

male teenagersvey tracking 5,527 male teenagers from 1999 to 2011, about 9 percent re-ported a high level of concern with their body’s muscularity, and about 2 percent had used supple-ment to enhance, including hormone derivative or ana-bolic steroid.Researchers warn that eating disorders with males may not be no-ticed as their desires are dif-ferent than females in terms of physiques.

Xinhua

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Former Pakistani president Musharraf released

Islamabad, 7 Nov — Pakistan’s former presi-dent Pervez Musharraf was freed on late Wednes-day two days after a court granted him bail in the murder case of the deputy chief of Islamabad’s Red Mosque, who was killed in a military raid in 2007, his lawyer said. Musharraf had already got bails in three cases including the 2007 as-sassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Additional Session Judge in Islamabad, Wajid Ali, earli-er issued written orders for Musharraf’s release after

Supporters of former Pakistan’s President

Pervez Musharraf gather near the residence of

former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, capital of

Pakistan on 6 Nov, 2013.Xinhua

his defence lawyers depos-ited two surety bonds, each of one hundred thousand rupees.

Musharraf, 70, was for-mally arrested in the mur-der case of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the senior cleric of the Red Mosque, on 10 Oc-tober, weeks after Ghazi’s son Haroon Rasheed reg-istered the murder charge against him with police in Islamabad. Police was re-moved from the Islamabad farmhouse of Musharraf, where he had been detained since April, as the written release order was delivered

to the jail officials deployed there. The farmhouse was declared as a sub-jail over security concerns. Mushar-raf’s lawyer, Ahmed Reza Kasuri, confirmed to the media that the former Presi-dent has been set free.

Talking to reporters outside Musharraf’s home, Kasuri denied any deal for the release of Musharraf and said he has been freed through legal process. He said Pervez Musharraf is likely to speak at a news conference on Thursday to chalk out his future strat-egy.—Xinhua

Palestinian leader Arafat was murdered with

poloniumParIs, 7 Nov — Pales-

tinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polo-nium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiv-ing the results of Swiss fo-rensic tests on her husband’s corpse. “We are revealing a real crime, a political assas-sination,” she told Reuters in Paris. A team of experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital’s Insti-tute of Radiation Physics, opened Arafat’s grave in the West Bank city of Ra-mallah last November, and took samples from his body to seek evidence of alleged poisoning.

“This has confirmed all our doubts,” said Suha Ara-fat after the Swiss forensic team handed over its report to her lawyers and Palestin-ian officials in Geneva on Tuesday. “It is scientifically proved that he didn’t die a

natural death and we have scientific proof that this man was killed.” She did not accuse any country or person, and acknowledged that the historic leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization had many en-emies, although she noted that Israel had branded him an obstacle to peace.

She told Reuters the polonium must have been administered by someone “in his close circle” because experts had told her the poi-son would have been put in his coffee, tea or water. “I’m so angry at what happened and I feel that I’m mourning him all over again. This was an act by cowards.” Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo inter-im peace accords with Israel and led a subsequent upris-ing after the failure of talks in 2000 on a comprehensive agreement.

Reuters

Suha Arafat, wife of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, speaks with Reuters in Doha on 6 Nov, 2013.

ReuteRs

This picture taken near Fujinomiya in Shizuoka prefecture on 1 Nov, 2013 and released on 7 Nov, 2013 shows Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, or “Jetman”,

flying near Mount Fuji. Swiss aviator Yves “Jetman” Rossy, whose jet-engine powered wings have taken him over some of the world’s most awe-inspiring

places, has added another — Japan’s Mount Fuji. Rossy, with a 60-kilogram (132-pound) kit strapped on his back, circled the country’s highest and most

revered mountain nine times over one week.Xinhua

Tajikistan holds presidential vote, Rahmon set to

win 4th termdushanbe, 7 Nov—

The Central Asian country of Tajikistan on Wednesday held a presidential election, with President Emomali Rahmon all but certain to win a fourth seven-year term due to an opposition boy-cott. There are five relatively unknown candidates run-ning against Rahmon, but they have avoided criticiz-ing the incumbent and have even praised his policies. Preliminary election results are reportedly expected on Thursday.

The only genuine op-position candidate, Oinihol Bobonazarova, represent-ing a coalition of Tajik op-position groups, was forced to drop out of the race last

month after failing to collect the required number of sig-natures. Bobonazarova, who would have been the first woman to run for president in the country’s history, has accused the authorities of in-terfering with her campaign, such as by threatening peo-ple who had signed petitions in favor of her candidacy.

According to interna-tional rights body Human Rights Watch, Tajik au-thorities have over the last year widened a crackdown on the political opposition and activists, imprisoning or intimidating several opposi-tion party leaders and step-ping up efforts to extradite political opponents from abroad.—Kyodo News

Japan, US, S Korea repeat call on N Korea to scrap nuke programmes

WashIngton, 7 Nov —Chief nuclear envoys from Japan, the United States and South Korea repeated their call on North Korea on Wednesday to abandon all nuclear weapons and related programmes, a US State Department said. The officials, each of whom will represent their respective country if the deadlocked six-nation talks resume, met in Washington to dis-cuss how to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue and a possible resumption of the multilateral talks on them.

The trilateral meeting was held after the Chinese chairman of the six-nation talks visited Pyongyang earlier this week in an ap-parent bid to break the im-

Germany to examine ways to question Snowden in Russia

berlIn, 7 Nov — The German government will look for ways to question whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia on US spying that included alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said on Wednesday. The minis-ter said after a meeting of the parliamentary commit-tee overseeing the secret

services that Berlin will examine how and under what conditions it would be possible in Moscow to hear from Snowden and obtain information from him on the spying.

Friedrich also reit-erated the German gov-ernment’s position that Snowden has no right to asylum in Germany be-cause he is not politically persecuted, though German

passe. Glyn Davies, special US representative for North Korea policy, plans to meet with his Chinese counter-part Wu Dawei in Beijing later this month to discuss on Wednesday’s proceed-ings as well as Wu’s trip to North Korea. Davies met with Junichi Ihara, who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oce-anian Affairs Bureau, and Cho Tae Yong, South Ko-rean special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs.

The officials from the three countries “reiterated their call on North Korea to abandon all nuclear weap-ons and existing nuclear programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner,” the department

said in a statement. The tri-lateral meeting took place as key players in the multi-lateral talks are divided over whether to reconvene, with North Korea calling for an unconditional resumption and the United States re-maining reluctant over the idea. The United States has urged North Korea to take action and convince the other five countries of its commitment to abandoning its nuclear programmes in a 2005 agreement reached in the six-party framework. Russia is the sixth member.China has proposed restart-ing the multilateral talks soon and Wu last month in Washington discussed with Davies the possibility of the six countries reconvening.

Kyodo News

China’s largest

freshwater lake, Poyang

Lake, has seen decreasing

water level in recent days.

Xinhua

opposition has been call-ing for granting asylum to Snowden so that the former US spy agency contractor could travel to Germany to testify. Snowden has said he is willing to help the German government in its probe into US spying after his meeting with opposi-tion Green party lawmaker Christian Stroebele who met the whistleblower last week in Moscow.—Xinhua

7Friday, 8 November, 2013New Light of MyanmarL O C A L N E W S

Moe Thauk Kyei rice and paddy trading launched in Indaw Township

In d a w, 7 Nov—A ceremony to launch Moe Thauk Kyei r ice and paddy trading was held at the western wing of Development Market in

Indaw Township of Sagaing Region on 6 November.

It was attended by rice mill owners, rice merchants and guests.

On the occas ion , Managing Director U Sonny of the trading invited farmers, merchants and brokers to the trading for selling and buying. The trading buys

rice and paddy at fair price, he said. The trading plans to sell quality paddy seeds, fertilizer, water pumps, power-tillers and combine harvester to the farmers through installment, he added. Various kinds of rice are available at the trading, he explained.

Kyemon-Ko Min (Indaw)

Thongwa quality seed farm staff demonstrate use of combine harvester

Thongwa, 7 Nov—A demonstration on removal of different paddy strains from the qualify strain plantation was held at the qualify paddy seed p r o d u c t i o n f a r m o f Agriculture Department (Seed Branch) in Thongwa Townsh ip o f Yangon Region for 2013-2014 fiscal year, on 5 November.

Head of Yangon Region Agriculture Department U Win Myint explained use

of quality paddy strains for boosting production of paddy per acre, systematic production and distribution of paddy seeds, use of quality paddy seeds suitable for the region, operating of agricultural machinery in harvesting, threshing and winnowing paddy in time, use of paddy dryers , cul t ivat ion of cold season crops after harvesting monsoon paddy and growing of crops on

the dykes to earn increased income.

In-charge of the seeds farm Daw Cho Mar Thet explained cultivation of quality paddy strains such as Ayeya Min, Yadana Toe, Hsin Thukha, Yezin and Lonthwe paddy strains at the farm.

Officials replied to queries raised by local farmers.

Kyemon-Kyi Soe Lwin (Thongwa)

A worker demonstrates use of combine harvester at a paddy farmland in Thongwa.

Agriculture

Fire preventive measures taken at Mandalar Thiri Sports Complex

Mandalay, 7 Nov—Director-General U Tin Moe of Fire Services Department inspected fire preventive measures and preparations for rescue works at Mandalar Thiri Sports Complex already b u i l t i n W a r d 1 o f Chanmyathazi Township of Mandalay on 31 October.

At the hall, Head of Mandalay Region Fire Services Department U Kyi Toe reported on fire preventive measures being taken at the stadium and rescue works preparation

in retail.The director-general

and party inspected lifts, generator rooms, ordinary class stands and grand stands at the stadium.

The stadium is of three-storey RC building with grand stand. The facility has two emergency exists with 20 feet wide and four gates for fire trucks.

While holding the sports meets, six fire engines and four ambulances will be ready to be used at the stadium. About 400 members of Fire Brigade

will discharge duty of fire prevention, rescue and security and flag hoisting ceremony.

The stadium and its surrounding areas are facilitated with 12 water taps, 54 reels of fire hoses, 21 counters for hydrants, 160 fire extinguishers, 32 fire alarms, 28 heat detectors, 52 smoke alarms and 26 CCTVs.

At present,members of fire brigade are taking practices in groups for fire preventive measures at the stadium.—MMAL-040

A half number of horse carriages decline in PyinOoLwin

PyInoolwIn, 7 Nov—PyinOoLwin is located at an altitude of 3538 feet. The town, a pleasant hill station, is situated on Muse-Lashio-Mandalay highway.

Five names of Maymyo,

PyinOoLwin, Taung-hlaykha City, Snow City and Flower City are famous among the people. Not only the local people but the foreigners love the hill station.

Marry-makers and

picnickers take relaxation at various beautiful sites such as Pwekauk waterfall and Kandawgyi Lake in PyinOoLwin.

Those wishing to obseve the colonial era’s buildings must visit PyinOoLwin. They may take coaches for visiting the town conveniently.

Those who had visited the town will remember PyinOoLwin together with clock tower and coaches.

Over 100 coaches run along the roads of PyinOoLwin in the past. Now, the number of horse carriages in the town declined to a half.

“Coach is a symbol of PyinOoLwin. Now the town has only 70 coaches compared

with 153 in the past. Tuk-tuk and motorcycle taxies take places of transportation in the town. Township authorities do not give priority to coaches. They allow three coaches in front of the market. So, the coaches take stands at the market, clock tower, Dagon photo house and small market traffic light. In cold season and summer, they can earn K 8000-K 10000 daily. But, they have to cost K 3000 for feedstuff of horses,” said a coach owner.

Larger number of motorcycle taxies is one of the points to decline number of coaches, said a local.

MMAL-Maung Maung Soe (Myitnge); Photo: Sein

Myint

Swiss citizen Mr Tony built a 200 feet long steel cable suspension bridge linking Nampok and

Pinyehla villages in Mohnyin Township. Mr Tony donated 30 steel cable suspension bridges

across the nation including two in Mohnyin and one in Mogaung townships.

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Rural bridge repaired in Singu TownshipS I n g u , 7 Nov—A

rural bridge on Gyopin-Ywathitgyi Road in Singu Township was destroyed by the erosion of creek in torrent while there was heavy rains

recently.Head of Township

Rural Region Development Department U Tun Min Lwin and officials inspected damaged bridge on 31

October.They manage repairing

of the bridge as quickly as possible.—MMAL-433

Fire fighters at fire drill at Mandalar Thiri Sports Complex in Chanmyathazi Township.

Fire Preventive Measures

Construction

Photo shows a horse carriages, the symbol of PyinOoLwin.

Tradition

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Friday, 8 November, 2013

Grow short life-span paddy strains in flood-hit regions

Good harvest of a region ensures the food security. It can enable local people to purchase crops and vegetables at affordable prices. Droughts and floods can damage crops and plantations. It needs to make efforts for ensur-ing the food sufficiency of the region.

Due to incessant rains in September and October, farmlands in some regions were hit by floods. The water level of Sittoung River had remained above its danger level. Farmlands in Toungoo, Yedashe, Ottwin and Htantabin Townships were under water.

The downpours also flooded some regions in Taninthayi Region three times. Floods de-stroyed about 1000 acres of farmlands in Mag-way Region. At the same time, other regions and states might suffer the same state. Now, the regions have returned to normal as the flood water receded.

Timely growing of paddy in the flood-hit farmlands can ensure the food security of the region. It cannot be solved by the farmers alone but can be achieved through cooperation of lo-cal authorities. Paddy strains are being distrib-uted to the farmers in flood-affected regions at a rate of two baskets per acre.

Short life-span quality paddy strain is best suitable for timely growing of paddy in the flood-ravaged regions. Theehtetyin, Kyunsh-wewah, Hmawbihsan and other short life-span quality paddy strains should be grown in these regions. The farmers and local authorities are to make cooperation in distribution of paddy strains in order to secure the food security of the regions.

Over the last 80 years the diagnostic technologies available for clinical use have shown such a rapid and impressive development to change quite substantially a situation that seemed firmly established.

Traditional radiology, based on the differential ab-sorption of X-rays by body tissues of varying densities and by contrast media in-troduced in the body, was revolutionized by the digital recording of such images and their subsequent computer elaboration. This allowed visualization of numerous details that would have es-caped detection before.

X-rays, formerly the only available means for looking inside the human body, is now only one of many diagnostic methods, and probably not the most promising one. Hence it is more appropriate to use the phrase diagnostic imaging rather than radiology to indi-cate the whole range of avail-able techniques.

To have the better health care and the development of medical radiation technology

World Radiography Daymany countries established the society for radiographers and radiological technolo-gists.

There is an international body which is known as In-ternational Society of Radi-ographers and Radiological Technologists. The idea of an International Society was proposed at a meeting during the 1959 International Radi-

ISRRT urged the radi-ographers all over the world to celebrate the commemora-tive day of the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. The dis-covery of x-ray was unthink-able phenomenon. On the 8th

of November 1895, Roent-gen unexpectedly discovered x-rays while working with

Day celebration is: Radiog-raphers Optimize Radiation Dose.

ISRRT also pledged its support to the ‘Image Gently’ campaign. The goal of this campaign is ‘to change prac-tice by increasing awareness of the opportunities to lower radiation dose in the imaging of children’.

The Myanmar Soci-ety of Medical Radiation Technologists is going to celebrate the 2013 World Radiography Day in col-laboration with the 2nd. Myanmar Medical Radia-tion Technologists Meet-ing, which will be held at Chatrium Hotel, Yangon, on November 10, 2013. The goal of this meeting is to share the latest innovative advances and to implement advanced and safe protocols in radiological practices in Myanmar. Over two hundred medical radiation technolo-gists from all over the coun-try will participate in this meeting. Prominent speak-ers and colleagues are from many countries around the world.

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Khin Maung Tin (Radiation Health)

ology Congress held in Mu-nich, Germany. Twenty four countries were represented. The objectives of forming the international body were to assist radiographers and to support the development of medical radiation imaging technology. At the moment more than 80 member na-tional societies are registered in the ISRRT.

The Society’s work and achievements in close co-operation with World Organization such as United Nations and World Health Organization, ISRRT was officially granted and recog-nized as a Non-Governmen-tal Organization.

cathode rays using evacuated glass bulbs. His discovery contributed many benefit to the health care.

ISRRT chosen 8th No-vember as the World Radi-ography Day and this day is to mark the anniversary of x-ray discovery. The pur-pose of this day is to raise awareness of radiographic imaging and therapy, which play a crucial role in the di-agnosis and treatment of pa-tients and, most importantly, ensuring radiation is kept to the minimum required, hence improving the quality of pa-tient care.

ISRRT adopted a theme for 2013 World Radiography

Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Pyidaungsu HluttawConstitutional Review Joint

CommitteePress Release (2/2013)

(5th Waxing of Tazaungmon, 1375 ME)(7th November, 2013)

Date for sending of suggestions on the 2008 Constitution

changed1. The Joint Committee for Reviewing the Consti-

tution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar held its meeting (3/2013) on 31-10-2013.

2. It is hereby announced that the Constitutional Review Joint Committee has changed the date for sending of suggestions on the 2008 Consti-tution which was issued with its announcement No.1/2013 “by 31 December, 2013” in place of “by 15 November”, taking into consideration of people’s wishes and comprehensive reviews of the Constitution.

Constitutional Review Joint Committee

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov—President U Thein Sein to-gether with the chairman of Union Election Commission, the chief minister of Bago Region, deputy ministers and officials met with flood victims from five town-ships in Toungoo District at Khabaung Hall in Toungoo of Bago Region this morning and gave words of encour-agement to them.

Region Chief Minister U Nyan Win reported on in-undated conditions in Toun-goo District, undertaking of rescue and relief works in flood-hit areas, assistance for flood victims and preventive measures against flood, Un-ion Minister U Myint Hla-ing data collection on dam-aged farmlands, undertaking of farmland transformation across the nation and distri-bution of quality strains in Bago Region.

Union Ministers Dr Pe Thet Khin, Dr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin, U Win Myint and Acting Union Minister Dr Myo Myint who accompanied the President reported on sector-wise as-sistance programmes.

President U Thein Sein said that Drought hit the

President meets flood victims in Toungoo District

central Myanmar and floods hit Kayin and Mon states recently due to the climate change and the government had carried out rescue and rehabilitation in those areas, the president said.

He also stressed the im-portance of preparedness to decrease the damages caused by disaster, emergency res-cue efforts and taking lessons from the efforts made in the past.

The president also urged the farmers to harvest their paddies as soon as possi-ble as the floods receded and to grow winter crops in the place of paddies which were totally destroyed by the

floods.He pledged that the gov-

ernment would provide the flood-hit farmers with seeds and would suspend the loans the farmers received from the government to grow rice.

President U Thein Sein also clarified the reforms in the agricultural sector to improve the socio economic life of farmers while the gov-ernment has been carrying out political and economic reforms to bring peace, rule of law and development to the country. He also urged the people to work together with the government to achieve peace and develop-ment while the country has

laid good foundations. The President presented

K 10 million and seeds of quality strains to farmers from five flood-hit townships in Toungoo District.

After that, Union Minis-ter Dr Pe Thet Khin donated emergency medicines to be used in case of natural disas-ter and one box of bleaching powder, Union Minister Dr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin K 5 million for carrying out rehabilitation tasks in five flood-hit townships and CB Bank and Dr Ko Ko Gyi K 100 million each.

The President then cor-dially greeted the flood vic-tims.—MNA

President

U Thein Sein

gives words of

encouragement

to flood victims

at Khabaung

Hall in

Toungoo of

Bago Region.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov — President U Thein Sein has pledged that the Union gov-ernment would provide qual-ity seeds to flood-hit farmers in Toungoo District, urging Bago Region Government to help the farmers to be able to grow crops timely for winter harvest. The president also called on the Bago Region Government yesterday at the meeting in Toungoo to assist the farmers in harvest-ing the submerged paddy plantations, pledging that the Union Government would spend its specific budget on urgent measures for flood victims.

He continued to say that measures for mainte-nance of the water course of Sittoung River would be taken and embankments dams and sluice gates would be built along the river year by year.

Though the new gov-ernment had taken pre-ventive measures against floods in Bago Region as from 2012, still the Bago Region was not out of the food yet, the President said.

He has urged local authorities and ministries concerned to maintain wa-ter courses of the rivers that flow into the Sittoung

Union Government to assist flood hit farmers in urgent rice harvest, in growing winter crops

(from page 16)The Joint Committee

for Reviewing the Consti-tution’s meeting (3/2013) resolutions were also ap-proved at today's Hluttaw session. Pyidaungsu Hlut-taw Speaker explained The Myanmar Special Econom-ic Zone Bill which was sub-mitted by the Ministry of National Planning and Eco-nomic Development. Four MPs discussed Joint Pub-lic Accounts Committee’s report (7/2013) on Union Auditor-General Office's findings and actions taken for the first six months of 2012-2013 FY.

Deputy Minister for Information U Pike Htway said that plans are under way to take action against three persons who got involved in malpractice case of Myanma Alinn Daily (Yangon) which occurred in the last financial year. The ministry is closely supervising the divisions and departments under it to avert similar cases in the future. The proposal on con-dolence for demise of Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Kyi Myint of Latha Constit-uency was put on record.

The meeting came to an end in the evening.

MNA

Getting ADB’s soft loan …

of paddy field were sub-merged in the recent floods in Toungoo District.

For the convenience of farmers, Bago Region Gov-ernment is making arrange-ments for helping them to grow crops for winter har-vest and to be able to give backs agriculutal loans to the government, Bago Region Chief Minister U Nyan Win said in his report

to the President. Meanwhile, Ministry

of Agriculture and Irriga-tion has planned to sell quality seeds of maize, mung bean and sunflower and to grant the loands for the winter crops, Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hla-ing said.

The Union minister also reported to the Presi-

dent on conditions of em-bankments, river main-tenance works and sluice gates and prospects for repairing and maintaining the Bago-Sittoung Canal in cooperation with interna-tional organizations.

To prevent floods in Bago Region, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irriga-tion has completed 38 in-frastructures out of 228 in 23 townships in the 2013-2014 FY and 27 are under implementation.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov—The visiting Australian del-egation led by Mrs Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and her spouse Mr. Michael Bryce were welcomed by Chief Min-ster U Ye Myint and wife Daw Mya Ngwe and of-ficials this morning. The Australian delegation visited U Bein Bridge in Amarapura Township.

At No. 21 Post-Prima-ry School in Pyigyidagun Township, the Austral-ian Governor-General and spouse were welcomed by the students. Student Maung Sai Naung Lin extended greetings in English.

The Governor-General enquired the academic mat-ters of students, and an of-ficial replied to them. Af-terwards, primary students and the Governor-General

Australian Governor-General, husband visit Mandalay

enjoyed the recitation of po-ems and tales. The Gover-nor-General presented books of tales to the students and posed for a documentary photo together with them.

At Aungzabu school building, they were wel-comed by the students wav-ing miniature flags of the two countries. Then, the Governor-General visited

the Grade-2 classroom and greeted the students.

The Australian delega-tion visited Shwekyaunggyi Monastery in Aungmyethaz-an Township. Later, they ar-rived back in Yangon by air in the evening.—MNA

River, giving a nod for im-plementing the Bago-Myit-makha project.

The President also stressed the need for main-taining the Bago-Sittoung Canal in cooperation with international organizations to be able to prevent floods of the Bago and Sittoung rivers and to supply irriga-tion water to farmlands.

Over 150,000 acres

yaNgoN, 7 Nov—Gov-ernor of New South Wales of Commonwealth of Aus-tralia Ms. Marie Bashir and party visited Yangon Gen-eral Hospital where they

Governor of NSW observes health care services in Yangon

viewed and gave words of encouragement to the pa-tients at emergency ward this afternoon. They then went to Marie Stopes Inter-national Myanmar in Thin-

gangyun Township where they were conducted round by Country Director Dr Sit Naing around activities on reproductive health care.

The MSIM was estab-

lished in 1998 in Myanmar with 25 centers across the country including 4 cent-ers in Yangon. It is engaged in reproductive health care services with the help of Australia.—MNA

President U Thein Sein hears reports by Bago Region Chief Minister U Nyan Win on conditions of flood in Toungoo District.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov— Progress of Border Areas and National Races Depart-ment under the Ministry of Border Affairs signed Re-cord of Discussions with the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) on “implementation of multi-purpose develop-ment projects for national races in the southeast of Myanmar” at the ministry here this afternoon.

Union Minister Lt-Gen Thet Naing Win called for systematic implementa-tion of the project. It was signed by Director-General

US$ 6 m for resettlement of IDPs in Kayin, Mon States

U Htway Hla of Progress of Border Region and National Races Development Depart-ment and Chief representa-tive Mr Masahiko Tanaka from JICA Office (Myan-mar).

The department and JICA will jointly implement the project with a fund of USD six million during three years and seven months pe-riod from 2013 to 2017. The multi-purposed development project includes resettle-ment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kayin and Mon States and regional de-velopment.—MNA

Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia visits No (21) BEPS in Mandalay.—mna

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Sand painting from Bagan Region on high demand of globetrotters

Bhamo, 7 Nov—Relief and Resettlement De-part-ment under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement donated eigh relief items worth K 2,209,340, Bhamo District General Administration De-partment K 790,000, Kachin State Red Cross Brigade of Myanmar Red Cross Society five relief items for students

Cash assistance provided to IDPs

worth K 20,667,500, totally amounting to K 23,666,840 to 547 internally displaced persons of 140 families from Mondeinpa Village of Mansi Township at the St Patrick, Htwehsan and Phankhagon Camps of Bhamo and Bap-tist Church in Mansi on 4 November.

Kyemon-District IPRD

Mobile Team checks vessels in Myeik

First-aid course concludes in Zabuthri Tsp

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov—The basic first-aid course No 2/2013, organized by Zabuthiri Township Red Cross Brigade, concluded at the Dhammayon in Mingala Theikdhi Ward of Zabuthiri Township on 6 November.

Secretary of Nay Pyi Taw Council Red Cross Brigade Dr Pe Aung made a speech.

Member of Nay Pyi Taw Council U Myo Nyunt pre-sented prizes to outstanding trainees.

Officials gave com-pletion certificates to 42 trainees.

It was also attended by Project Coordinator U Zaw Htoo Oo of MRCS and local authorities.

Kyemon-Than Naing

myeik, 7 Nov—The Mobile Team of Border Trade Camp (Myeik) from Commercial and Consumer Affairs Department checked importation and exportation works of vessels at the jetties of Asaungkaung Company in Myeik on 5 November for taking action against those who offended rules and

regulations of exportation, protecting consumers, pro-moting trade and minimizing illegal trade.

Officials of the mobile team checked commidities of vessels namely Khaing Lin Soe (54), Sein Zinyaw Aung, Pyi Phyo Tun (1), Aung Pyae Phyo (1).

Kyemon-Zaw Myo Naing

Mobile Team controls illegal trade

yaNgoN, 7 Nov—The Mobile Team carried out tasks of consumer protection, trade promotion and preven-tion against illegal trade at Kaingdan 1 jetty in the port area of Seikkan Township in Yangon Region on 6 No-vember morning.

The officials of the team check Myeik-Yangon ship Shwe Phyo Aung.

The ship carries 440 crude palm oil and other do-mestic products on board.—Kyemon-Kyaw Myint Aye (IPRD)

NyauNgu, 7 Nov—As globetrotters visit Bagan ancient cultural region, shops of souvenirs and domestic products have booming businesses. Sand painting is one of the favorite souvenirs for visitors and globetrotters.

As the sand paintings are on high demand in the market, sand painters, traders and shops of sand paintings can enjoy the fruits of such business.

Generally, the artists

create sand paintings with the works like mural paintings of Bagan era. They depict works of Buddhology at sand paintings to attract the tourists.

Since early months of this year, the sand painters have been creating and sell-ing the works on scenes of Bagan pagodas and temples, portraits of famour persons of the world, modern arts and funny works in the market.

Moreover, the sand paint-ers create sand painting works with 3D shape.

The painting works are made with the sand from Ay-eyawady River. They make the works with glue systemat-ically. At present, the tourists are probihited to take photo of mural paintings in Bagan for long-term durability of ancient cultural works. So, the foreign tourists buy the sand paintings as souvenirs when they arrive in Bagan.

Department of Archae-ology, National Museum and Library is preserving the ancient works such as mural paintings at Gubyauk-gyi, Wineedo pagodas, three pagodas in Minnanthu Vil-lage and other temple pagodas in Bagan ancient cultural region for their durability.

Kyemon-Ye Thura Aung (NyaungU)

Bank of Zawgyi River maintained

Culture

kyaukse, 7 Nov—Thebank of Zawgyi River collapsed in Sugon ward of Kyaukse on 19 October due to heavy rains. Now, the river bank is being repaired with the remaining walls.

“We saw repairing of retaining walls along the collapsed area caused by the

heavy rain. It should carry out better repairing works for prevention of similar happenings,” said a local.

Officials supervise re-construction of the grav-ell-filled retaining walls in three parts of the river bank.

Kyemon-Tun Tun Naing (Kyaukse)

Photo shows reconstruction of retaining walls with gravels along the collapsed bank of

Zawgyi River.

Construction

Anti-Illegal Trade Drives

Kathina robe offering ceremony held in Kalay

kalay, 7 Nov—A total of 35 monasteries and 10 monasteries for student months are located in Kalay, at the foot of Chin hill.

There are 150 monas-teries, over 200 churches, two Hindu temples and one mosque across the township. Various national races have been residing in the township

in unity and amity for many years.

“I think there may be over 1000 members of the Sangha in Kalay Township. We held a Kathina robe offer-ing ceremony to donate eight prerequisites for the monks such as meals, medicines and robes.

The ceremony was held at Kyaungpan Monastery where we donated Kathina robes and alms worth K 2.5 million to members of the Sangha,” said in-charge of Shan Taung Tan bus terminal U Nyo Win.

The ceremony was the second time of bus line. The officials of terminal collect cash donations from bus drivers and owners daily when they launch the buses and saves it. Then, they donate Kathina robes to the monastery yearly, said bus workers.

Kyemon-Lin Let Kyei Sinn

An artist concentrates creation of sand painting with many works of sand paintings in his background at the gallery.

Friday, 8 November, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarREGIONAL

Xi stresses military talent, technology innovation

Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military

Commission, talks with scientific research staff members during his inspection tour at the National University of Defence Technology in Changsha, capital of central

China’s Hunan Province, on 5 Nov, 2013.—Xinhua

Changsha, 7 Nov — Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged a key

university to make more ef-forts in fostering high-qual-ity military talent and de-

veloping innovative science and technology projects. Xi made the remarks on

Tuesday during an inspec-tion at the National Univer-sity of Defence Technology (NUDT), which is based in the city of Changsha in central China’s Hunan Pro-vince. The NUDT, which evolved from the Military Engineering Institute of the Chinese People’s Libera-tion Army (PLA) founded in 1953, has played a key role in providing high-ca-liber military technicians and developing advanced weapons and equipment for the country.

While visiting an ex-hibition of various science and technology projects by the NUDT, Xi praised the university for its fruitful innovation drive, urging the university’s techno- logy innovation personnel to continue its hard work and strive for more achieve-ment. In June, the NUDT announced that it had again built the world’s fastest su-

percomputer, the Tianhe-2, capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second and surpassing the US Titan supercomputer.The computer’s predeces-sor, the Tianhe-1A, was the world’s fastest super-computer from November 2010 to June 2011, when it was surpassed by Japan’s K computer.

Stressing ideological and political work as a ma-jor supporting force in real-izing the goal of strength-ening the army, Xi said that the goal should be embed-ded in all stages and aspects of the university’s opera-tion. Xi called for a strong sense of politics among officers and soldiers, urg-ing them to “unwaveringly uphold the basic principle and system of the army un-der the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC).” Xi stressed that the army should keep

pace with the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission and resolutely listen to their command.

Meanwhile, Xi told the university to research the characteristics and patterns of modern military educa-tion and boost educational quality so as to foster more military talent to shoulder the heavy task of reinforc-ing the army.

According to Xi, the NUDT should coordinate its scientific research ca-pacity and resources while ensuring that science and technology innovation are closely linked with real combat and army service. In addition, Xi urged the university to uphold a sound campus spirit in order to promote the comprehensive development of its officers and soldiers in morals, wis-dom, physical fitness and aesthetics. —Xinhua

Taipei, 7 Nov—Tai-pei and Singapore signed an economic partnership agreement on Thursday to boost bilateral trade and economic cooperation, the culmination of nearly three years of negotiations, the two sides announced.

They said the pact, of-ficially called the Agree-ment between Singapore and the Separate Customs Territory of Taipei, Pen-ghu, Kinmen and Matsu on Economic Partnership, or ASTEP, was signed in Singapore by Hsieh Fadah, Taipei’s representative to

Taipei, Singapore ink economic cooperation agreement

Singapore, and Calvin Eu, Singapore’s representative to Taipei.

Negotiations on ASTEP were completed in May. “ASTEP is a comprehen-sive and high quality agree-ment covering areas such as trade in goods, trade in ser-vices, investment, dispute settlement, e-commerce, government procurement and customs procedures, the two sides said in a joint announcement. “It is ex-pected that ASTEP will enhance economic coop-eration between Singapore and Chinese Taipei and will

bring about significant mu-tual benefits for the peoples of both sides,” it said, refer-ring to Taipei by the name it goes by in the World Trade Organization, of which both are members.

Taipei signed an eco-nomic cooperation agree-ment with New Zealand in early July, its first trade pact with a non-allied coun-try except China, as part of its push to liberalize its trade environment and join regional trade blocs such as the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Kyodo News

Tokyo, 7 Nov — Ja-pan’s continued support for economic integration among the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is vital and paves the way for greater business potential for Japa-nese companies in the re-gion, ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh said on Wednesday.

Minh said at a press conference that boost-ing connectivity among ASEAN members presents “greater opportunities in the interest of Japanese businesses in ASEAN.” He said ASEAN economic in-tegration will not only bol-ster exchanges between the

Integration offers business potential for Japanese firms:

ASEAN chief

S Korean students take all-important college

entrance examseoul, 7 Nov — The

annual college entrance exam was held on Thurs-day in education-obsessed South Korea, with the morning rush hour be-ing rescheduled and ear-ly-morning planes being grounded. All was to en-sure that test-takers have the best possible chance to do well on the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) given once a year.

This year, a total of 650,747 high school stu-dents and graduates headed to 1,257 test sites nation-wide to take the exam be-lieved to determine their course of life and future

professions. The score a student earns on the exam is a key decider of college en-trance. In South Korean so-ciety, attendance at a pres-tigious school is crucial in obtaining a successful job.

Under government or-ders, many businesses and the stock market opened one hour later than usual to alleviate the traffic for students on their way to the test site.

Buses and subway trains extended their rush hour services to help all exam-takers arrive on time. Airplanes were banned to land or take off at local airports during the listen-

This year, a total of 650,747 high school students and graduates headed to 1,257 test sites nationwide to take the exam believed to determine their course of life and

future professions.— Xinhua

Bangkok, 7 Nov —Several civic groups, academics, students and opposition party support-ers continued protests on Wednesday against an am-nesty bill that has cleared the lower house of parlia-ment. The protesters gath-ered in main business areas, at some universities and at the Democracy Monument in western Bangkok even as the ruling Phue Thai party said it will withdraw remaining amnesty drafts from the lower house and accept a Senate decision to convene a meeting on the

Thai demos against amnesty bill continue despite gov’t retreat

bill next Monday.Coalition whip Am-

nuay Klungpa said at a Press conference the party will withdraw the remain-ing five drafts of the am-nesty and reconciliation bills from parliament to respond to public antibill movements and maintain political order in the coun-try. Amnuay also said the ruling party will not bring the bill back to the lower house again if it is rejected by the Senate. On Tuesday, the Senate president vowed to reject the bill, saying it will be the “only way” to

prevent political violence.The Senate announce-

ment was made after a statement earlier Tuesday by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in which she said the government will let the senators decide the fate of the amnesty bill. Yin-gluck urged people opposed to the bill, which passed the House of Representatives last Friday after opposition Democrat Party legislators walked out of the session in protest, to “let the senators to use their full discretion” in considering it.

Kyodo News

ing portions of the test as part of the noise control measures, and traffic was restricted within 200 metres of each of the test centres.The exam consists of five sections, including Korean language, mathematics,

English, social and natu-ral sciences and a second foreign language. The test, which started at 8:40 am, will go through 5 pm, in-cluding lunch and break times.

Xinhua

10 member countries and Japan but also broaden ties with the grouping’s other dialogue partners and the whole of East Asia.

The group wants to cre-ate an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015.With that in mind, the leaders of ASEAN and Japan will is-sue a vision statement de-signed to “further enhance our partnership” when they meet in Tokyo next month at a special summit to mark 40 years of diplomatic ties, Minh said.

Minh is on a four-day visit to Japan from Tuesday to prepare for the 13-15 De-cember summit.

Kyodo News

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Toronto mayor troubled by crack scandal, policy advisor resigns

ToronTo, 7 Nov —Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is another man short in his camp after his long-time policy advisor resigned Wednesday, a day after Ford’s stunning confession to using crack cocaine.

Brooks Barnett is just one of at least nine staff-ers who either quit or were fired since the scandal sur-faced in May when some local media revealed they had seen a clear video of the mayor smoking what looked to be crack from a glass pipe, while muttering racist slurs.

A group of roughly

Beijing to cut new car registration

quota by 37.5 pct

Beijing, 7 Nov — The Beijing municipal govern-ment will slash its new car registration quota by 37.5 percent starting from 2014 and give more stake to new energy vehicles as part of its efforts to curb air pollu-tion.

According to an in-terpretation of a five-year vehicle emission reduc-tion plan (2013-2017), the number of newly registered cars will be cut from cur-rent 240,000 each year to 150,000 by 2017.A five-year clean air action plan (2013-2017), released on Sept. 12, ruled that the to-tal number of vehicles in the city would be restricted to around 6 million by the end of 2017. The city had 5.4 million vehicles at the end of October, according to figures from the Beijing Traffic Management Bu-reau.

Xinhua

100 protesters were outside the City Hall on Wednes-day, calling on the mayor of Canada’s biggest city to step down. An embattled Ford had been dodging the question about drug use for months, denying such a video existed and called the reports about the video “ridiculous.” But after To-ronto police chief Bill Blair confirmed at a press con-ference last Thursday that a tape that is “consistent” with media reports did ex-ist, a media firestorm en-sued, with all eyes on Ford.

The apologetic mayor finally addressed months of

speculation and confessed to reporters in a scrum late Tuesday. “Yes, I did smoke crack cocaine. But I am not an addict,” he said. “Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.” Then again at another press brief-ing on the same day, Ford issued a “sincere” apology, but said he would not be resigning or stepping aside. “For the sake of the tax-payers...we must get back to work immediately...I was elected to do a job and that’s exactly what I’ m go-ing to continue doing,” he said.

Xinhua

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Kristen Stewart’s meeting with Robert Pattinson arranged by her mother

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have met secretly quite a few times

Los AngeLes, 7 Nov—Kristen Stewart’s mother arranged a secret meeting between the actress and her former beau Robert Pattin-son. The former couple, who parted ways in May, has re-portedly been spending time together once again. Friends of the duo have said that it was the actress’ mother, Jules, who helped them get back in touch, reports fe-malefirst.co.uk.

“Jules is like a surrogate mother to Robert in Los An-geles and she reached out to

Tom Cruise sues magazines over Suri headline

Tom Cruise has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Bauer Publishing Co for publishing the headline

‘Suri in Tears: Abandoned by Her Dad’.

Ashton Kutcher set to propose Mila Kunis?

Los AngeLes, 7 Nov—Actor Ashton Kutcher is reportedly planning to pro-pose actress Mila Kunis next week after his divorce from Demi Moore is final-ised.

The 35-year-old is keen to pop the question to the 30-year-old, whom he has been dating for over a year, reports contactmusic.com. Kutcher filed for di-vorce from Moore last year,

but was involved in a bitter legal bat-

tle after the 50-year-old

a c t r e s s reported-ly asked for an e i g h t -

f i g u r e sum in the

se t t l emen t due to Kutch-

er’s involvement in a venture capital fund worth $100 million.

However, Kutcher has

Ashton Kutcher

and Mila Kunis have reportedly been dating for

over a year.

Daniel Radcliffe to play

journalist

London, 7 Nov—Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will essay the role of Jake Adelstein, a journalist, in an upcoming movie called Tokyo Vice.

The 24-year-old has signed in to portray real life journalist Adelstein in the film, which is adapted from the writer’s memoir, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, reports contact-music.com.

The project chronicles the American’s experiences as a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, during which he ex-poses a corruption scandal and help end Yakuza gang boss Goto Tadamasa’s reign of terror.

Tokyo Vice will go on floors next summer.

PTI

Daniel Radcliffe will por-tray the role of a real life journalist Jake Adelstein in the film Tokyo Vice.

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now agreed to hand over a chunk of his multi-million dollar fortune to Moore as well as some shares in his technology business.

“Demi and Ashton’s di-vorce has cast a cloud over his and Mila’s relationship because it’s dragged on for so long. Thankfully Demi’s turned a corner. She’s no longer bitter and she wants the divorce over and done with as soon as possible so she can get on with her life too,” a source told The Sun newspaper.

“She’s agreed to a set-tlement of several million and some shares in Ashton’s various technology start-ups after he persuaded her to attend a tech conference with him to see for herself how much they’ll eventu-ally be worth. They’re all happy and the papers are signed and with the lawyers now, so Ashton’s free to of-ficially propose to Mila,” the source added.—PTI

Los AngeLes, 7 Nov—Actor Tom Cruise has filed a lawsuit against the pub-lishers of Life & Style and In Touch magazines, de-fending his parenting skills, reports tmz.com.

The $50 million defa-

mation lawsuit targets Bauer Publishing Co’s two magazines that published the headlines “Suri in Tears: Abandoned by Her Dad” and “Abandoned By Daddy”.

Cruise, 51, filed a two-page description of his rela-tionship with his daughter on Tuesday (6 Nov, 2011)

in the case. In the docu-ments, Cruise said: “I have in no way cut Suri out of my life—whether physical-ly, emotionally, financially or otherwise. Even during the times when I was work-ing overseas and was not able to see Suri in person, we were (and continue to be) extremely close.”

Despite shooting two movies back-to-back in 2012, the Oblivion actor maintained close ties with his daughter and was in fre-quent touch with her moth-er, actress Katie Holmes.

“As my numerous emails with Suri’s mother during this time period demonstrate, I was a con-stant presence in Suri’s life.

“While I’m sure my daughter misses me when I am not with her (as I miss her), she is a very happy child, and we have a won-derful relationship and cheerful phone calls,” he added.

Cruise’s lawyers are demanding the judge order Bauer to confess they had no source material to sup-port these headlines or his parenting role.

Cruise and Holmes were married for six years before parting ways in 2012.—PTI

him and invited him over to see her with Kristen. They were both very worried about

him,” a source told Grazia magazine. “He’s at a low ebb right now and enjoyed seeing Kristen. One thing led to another and they’ve hooked up quite a few times since in secret. She has been trying to help Robert get his life back on track. She’s still madly in love with him,” the source added.

However, while Stewart is hopeful that these meet-ings could signal the start of a romantic reconciliation, Pattinson is clear about his thoughts. —PTI

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Barca and Atletico sail into last 16

London, 7 Nov—Barcelona and Atletico Madrid led a Spanish Armada into the Champions League last 16 with home wins on Wednesday and in-form Aaron Ramsey steadied Arsenal’s boat with a battling win against rocky Borussia Dortmund.

Barca met seven-times winners AC Milan at the Nou Camp but the stock of the faltering Italians has fallen so much that even an average display from the hosts sealed a 3-1 success in Group H, Lionel Messi scoring a penalty and a cheeky third.

La Liga rivals Atletico put on a better display in their 4-0 cruise past Group G whipping boys Austria Vienna to glide into the knockout stages after four wins from four with two matches to spare.

Miranda grabbed Atletico’s opener after 11 minutes before Raul Garcia rose athletically to head home the second, with Filipe Luis making it three for this term’s potential surprise packages on halftime.

Diego Costa missed a penalty but added a fourth goal on 82 minutes as Diego Simeone’s men made sure of top spot and equalled their big-gest Champions League win in reaching the knockout stages for the first time since 2008/09.

“We knew it was very important to win today because of the result between Zenit and Porto. The team was great today and we deserved to reach the round of 16,” the forward told reporters.

Zenit St Petersburg stayed as favourites to take second place and qualify after Hulk scored the equaliser but also missed a spot kick in a 1-1 home draw with his former side Porto.

Arsenal grabbed swift revenge for last month’s home loss to Dortmund by snatching a 1-0 win at last term’s r u n n e r s -up, Ramsey’s 62nd-minute header the lat- est in his purple patch of goals to leave Juergen Klopp’s third-placed side suddenly fretting.

Wales midfielder Ramsey, castigated by many Arsenal fans last season for a se- ries of toothless displays, netted his 11th goal of the season when he nodded in after good work by Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud.

Arsenal are top of Group F but level on points with Napoli, who overcame Olym-pique Marseille 3-2 at the San Paolo thanks to Gonzalo Higuain’s double.

Added to a cracker from Gokhan Inler, who chested down a clearance on the edge of the area and volleyed home, Higuain’s goals meant the pointless French side are out of last-16 contention.—Reuters

Lionel Messi kicks

Patient Arsenal beat Dortmund to take

group leaddortmund, 7 Nov—An

Aaron Ramsey header gave patient Arsenal an important 1-0 win at last season’s run-ners-up Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Wednesday, allowing them to take control of Group F with two games left to play.

Arsenal, who avenged a 2-1 loss to Dortmund in London last month, bided their time for more than an hour in pouring rain, soak-ing up Dortmund attacks be-fore striking with their first effort on goal.

The visitors scored against the run of play with Wales international Ram-sey sneaking into the box to head home in the 62nd minute.

The result lifts Arse-nal to nine points from four games, ahead on goal dif-ference of Napoli who beat Olympique Marseille 3-2. Dortmund drop to third on six.

“We were mature in our tactics, we made no major mistakes and had patience,” Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger told reporters.

“We had problems cre-

ating chances and we had a brief difficult period early in the second half but then we scored and were not so much under pressure.”

The hosts, who until Wednesday had never lost at home to English opposition in seven contests, wasted half a dozen clear chances but failed to make their dominance count.

“Dortmund fought re-ally well. We were lucky to have scored,” said Wenger. “It was a bit like the first game in London where they had one shot in the second half and scored. This time it was us.”

Both teams brought a solid track record to the game with Arsenal unbeaten for 14 games away from home and Dortmund hav-ing won eight out of eight at home this season, including the German Super Cup.

“I told my team what everyone saw today, that we got nothing for our ef-fort. Losing was not in our plans,” said Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp, back on the bench after a two-game suspension.—Reuters

Borussia Dortmund’s Robert Lewandowski falls as he tries to control the ball in front of Arsenal’s Per Mertesacker (C) during their Champions League Group F soccer

match in Dortmund on 6 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

Australia’s Stosur hires former Murray coach MaclaganmeLbourne, 7 Nov—

Former US Open champi-on Sam Stosur has turned to Andy Murray’s former coach Miles Maclagan to help reverse her slide down the world rankings, Tennis Australia said on

Eto’o pounces twice as Chelsea close on last 16

London, 7 Nov—Sam-uel Eto’o rolled back the years to score two differ-ent types of goal as Chelsea beat Schalke 04 3-0 at Stam-ford Bridge on Wednes-day to virtually guarantee their place in the knockout rounds of the Champions League.

Eto’o, 32, who has won most of the major honours in the game — including the Champions League with current Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho when they were at Inter Milan — gave his best Chelsea performance yet since his summer move from Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala.

He pounced on a mis-take by Schalke goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand to put Chelsea ahead after 31

Chelsea’s Samuel Eto’o celebrates after scoring a goal against FC Schalke 04 during their Champi-ons League soccer match

at Stamford Bridge in London on 6 November,

2013.—ReuteRs

minutes and showed com-posure to add the second in the 54th minute. Demba Ba, who replaced Eto’o after 77 minutes, completed the scoring with a mis-hit vol-ley six minutes later. The result means Chelsea need just one point from their final two Group E matches to reach the last 16. Schalke remain in second place with the knockout rounds still a realistic target. Mourinho, who made six changes from the side that lost 2-0 to Newcastle United in the Premier League on Satur-day, brought in Eto’o be-cause Fernando Torres was injured, and was full of praise for him afterwards.

Retuers

Thursday.The 29-year-old Aus-

tralian, who has dropped to 18th in the world from fourth in 2011, failed to get beyond the third round at any of the year’s grand slams and split with her

long-time coach David Taylor shortly before this year’s US Open.

Briton Maclagan joined Murray’s camp in 2007 and helped the Scot develop into a grand slam contender before parting

ways in 2010. He recently split with British women’s number Laura Robson after a four-month stint.After the hard-hitting Queens-lander made the semi-finals at Roland Garros in 2009 she broke through for her

maiden grand slam title at Flushing Meadows

when she humbled Ser-

ena Williams in the 2011 final.—Reuters

Sam Stosur

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MYANMAR TVPhilippines braces for super typhoon, the strongest this year

Typhoon Hai-

yan is pictured in this NOAA satellite handout image

taken on 6 Nov, 2013 at 23:13 UTC.

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Manila, 7 Nov—Au-thorities grounded ferryservices and called in fish-ingboatsonThursdayasanapproachingsuper typhoon,themostpowerfultohitthewestern Pacific this year,gainedstrengthonapathsetfor the central Philippines.With centre winds of 215 kph(133mph)andgustsofupto250kph,typhoonHai-yan, rated a category-fivestorm, the most severe, was movingwestnorthwestat30kphinthePacificOcean.Itwasexpectedtomakeland-fallatmid-dayonFridaybe-tween the central islands of Samar and Leyte.

“Ihaveissuedacalltoprepare for theworst,” saidBen Evardone, a memberof Congress representingEastern Samar Province,one of the areas likely to behit.“Wehavemobilizedall LGUs (local govern-

mentunits)andallresourcesfor any contingency. Therewerealreadyforcedandpre-emptiveevacuationsinsomedangerareas,”hesaid.Areasinthepathofthestormwerealready experiencing strongwinds and heavy rains, he said.

The coast guard sus-pended ferry operations,orderedahalttofishingandwarned deep-sea fishingboatstoseekshelterorreturnto port. Schools and someofficeswere shut down andpower and communicationlineswouldbeswitchedoff.Officials used bullhorns totell residents of coastal and upland villages to move tosaferareas,whilesomepeo-ple were tying their houseson stable posts. Trees werebeing trimmed and boatsdraggedontoshore.Thestateweatherbureauraisedstormalerts on coconut-growing

Samar and Leyte. Officialsin a dozen other centralprovincesalsobeganstock-pilingfood,waterandotherreliefsupplies.

In September, typhoonUsagiwith centerwindsof205kphandgustsofup to240 kph, also a category-fivestorm,batteredthePhil-ippines’northernmostislandofBatanesbeforewreakingmore damage in southernChina. An average of 20typhoonshitthePhilippinesevery year.

In 2011, typhoonWashi killed 1,200 people,displaced 300,000 and de-stroyed more than 10,000 homes.Bopha,thestrongeststorm to hit last year, flat-tened three coastal towns on thesouthernislandofMind-anao, killing 1,100 peopleanddestroyingcrops,prop-ertyandinfrastructureworth$1.04billion.— Reuters

Immovable Nadal digs deep to seal No 1 ranking

Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return during his men’s singles tennis match against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2

Arena in London on 6 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

london,7Nov—Theyear dawned with a cloudhangingoverRafaelNadal’scareerbutwillendwithhimon top of the world after awin over Stanislas Waw-rinkaattheATPWorldTourFinals on Wednesday that illustrated why he is in thepantheonoftennisgreats.

Hehascertainlyplayedbetter during a sensationalseason that began in Febru-ary after a seven-month in-jury layoff, but the way hesoaked up everything the

Swisscouldmuster tocom-pletea7-6(5)7-6(6)victoryon Wednesday underlinedNadal’s almost fanatical re-fusaltobebeaten.

Wawrinka walked off the cavernous showcourtwonderinghowhe is yet totake a set off Nadal in 12 meetings, but itwould be aharsh judge who criticisedtheworldNo8forfailingtoconvert the fleeting chancethat came and went in the second-settiebreak.

Hewaswithinawhisker

oftakingahigh-calibreopen-er too,butNadal, ashehasinwinning 74matches in aspectacularseasonofalmosttotal dominance on all sur-faces, proved armour-platedindefenceandruthlesswheninvited to attack.

Nadal arrived in London for the glitzy season-enderneedingtwowinstofendoffNovakDjokovicinhisbidtoend a year as world No 1 for the third time in his career.

After dismantling com-patriotDavidFerreronTues-day, he was stretched to the limitbyWawrinkainhissec-ondGroupAmatch,diggingdeep to notch up anothermilestone.

By winning in straightsets he also assuredhimselfofaplace in thesemi-finalshere, and few would betagainst the 13-times grandslam champion going on toclaimtheonlysignificantti-tlestillmissingfromhisCV.

Nadal also finished2008 and 2010 as world No.1 butthistimehisachievementseemsmoreimpressivecon-sidering where he was inFebruary.

After sitting out thesecondhalfof2012becauseof the knee injury that hasdogged his career, Nadalmissed the start of this sea-son with a virus, and evenwhenhere-surfacedonsouthAmericanclaycourtshewasstillwincingthroughthepainon occasions.

The outlook lookedgloomy,butninemonthsonhe has arrived in London with 10 titles from16 tour-naments, reaching the finalof three more, and while he hasgone togreat lengths toinsistrankingsarenolongerhisgoal,thewayhecelebrat-ed when Wawrinka strucka forehand into the net after twohours,12minutesspokevolumes.—Reuters

Greenhouse gas concentration in air

accelerates: UN reportGeneva,7Nov—The

concentration of green-house gases in the atmos-phere accelerated andreachedanewhighin2012,theUNweatheragencysaidon Wednesday.

The concentration of carbon dioxide reached arecord level of 393.1 partsper million, up 2.2 ppmfrom the previous year,the World MeteorologicalOrganization said in theGreenhouse Gas Bulletin.The2012increaseoutpacedtheaverageannualincreaseoverthepastdecadeof2.02ppm,accordingtothebulle-tin,whichsaidthe400ppm

threshold isexpected tobereached in 2015 or 2016.

InareportreleasedonTuesday, the UN Environ-mentProgrammeurgedtheinternationalcommunity toimmediately craft compre-hensivemeasurestoreducegreenhouse gas emissionstoachievethegoalofkeep-ingglobal temperature risebelow2Cthiscentury.TheWMO bulletin said CO2hasincreasedby41percent,methane by 160 percent,and dinitrogen monoxideby20percentsincethebe-ginningoftheindustrialerain 1750.

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32 days to XXVII SEA Games

Two owl mascots hailing XXVII SEA Games seen at Thabyegon Roundabout on Pyinmana-Taungnyo Road in Zabuthiri Township

on 5 November.—Kyemon-min min Latt (mann teKKatho)

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov—Pyidaungsu Hluttaw agreed President's message on tak-ing the soft loan of 60 mil-lion USD from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the development of

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov — The Union Government will celebrate the 66th Anniver-

66th Anniversary Independence Day to be celebrated on a grand scale

sary Independence Day on a grand scale in accordance with four objectives, said

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham.

Speaking at the coor-

dination meeting held here today for organizing the Independence Day which

falls on 4th January, the vice-president said that this year celebration to mark the 66th

Anniversary Independence Day would include talks and hoisting the State Flag at factories, offices and schools ahead of the Independence Day, organizing ceremo-nies to hoist the State Flag to mark the Independence Day, sports activities and in-dependence day celebrations in states, regions, self-ad-ministrative regions, areas, districts and townships with offices, schools, buildings, independence monuments and parks illuminated.

The four objectives of the 66th Anniversary Inde-pendence Day are : All the national people to live to-gether in the Union forever in weal or woe; All the national people to strive together for non-disintegration of the

Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity and per-petuation of sovereignty; All the national people to par-ticipate in efforts for ceasing armed conflicts and gaining genuine peace; and All the national people to work hard in building a developed and displine-flourishing demo-cratic nation.

To hold the Independ-ence Day for 2014, the cen-tral committee for organiz-ing the Independence Day comprising 49 members and seven sub-committees have been formed.

In his address, the vice-president also stressed the need for boadcasting radio plays and historic songs for the independence day to keep up the nationalistic spirit of the children who will become the future lead-ers of the country.—MNA

Getting ADB’s soft loan of 60 million USD for development of electricity supply agreed in principle

electricity supply network in principle and to seek ap-proval for loan taking at least every four months from the Pyidaungsu Hlut-taw, at its today session.

Upgrade of power sta-

tions and power lines in Yangon, Mandalay and Magway Regions will be carried out.

The project may reduce power losses by four per-cent, down from 18 percent

of average power losses. It is expected that the power loss may be 14 percent only after 2016.

Under the loan agree-ment, the pay-back period is 24 years (2022-2045), including an 8-year grace period and the interest rate is 1 percent in the grace pe-riod, while 1.5 percent in the pay-back period. A to-tal of 60 million USD from the ADB and State's fund of K 13,426 million will be spent on the project, it is reported.

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- All the national people to live together in the Union forever in weal or woe;

- All the national people to strive together for non-disintegration of the Union, non-disintegration of national solidarity and perpetuation of sovereignty;

- All the national people to participate in efforts for ceasing armed conflicts and gaining genuine peace ;

- All the national people to work hard in building a developed and displine-flour-ishing democratic nation.

Four objectives of 66th Anniversary Independence Day

Nay Pyi Taw, 7 Nov—A visiting delegation led by Governor of New South Wales of Commonwealth of Australia Ms Marie Ba-shir and party left here for Mandalay and arrived at the University of Medicine (Mandalay) at 12:50 pm on 6 November.

Rector of the Universi-ty of Medicine (Mandalay) Professor Dr Tin Maung Han, Rector of the Univer-sity of Medicine (Magway) Professor Dr Win Myat Aye and Professor of University of Sydney, Sydney Medi-cal School Bruce Robinson

Myanmar, Australia eye closer cooperation in higher education sector

signed the MoU on educa-tional cooperation between University of Sydney, Syd-ney Medical School and the University of Medicine (Mandalay) and the Univer-sity of Medicine (Magway) at the golden jubilee hall of the University.

The MoU included ca-pacity building of teachers, plans for M.Sc and doctoral course students to pursue further studies, doing more researches in cooperation with universities and ex-change of information pub-lications.

In the afternoon, the

professors participated in discussions about measures for infectious disease con-trol, OG, maternal and child health care and microbiol-ogy at the workshop on in-fectious disease control and maternal and child health.

After that, the goodwill delegation visited Sutaung-pyae Buddha Image on Mandalay Hill and enjoyed the beautiful sunset view.

In the evening, they enjoyed a dinner hosted by the rector of University of Medicine (Mandalay) and the professors.

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Signing

ceremony of

agreements

between Uni-

versities of

Medicine of

Myanmar and

Australian

Universities

in progress.

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Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham delivers an address at coordination meeting on 66th Anniversary Independence Day.—mna