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Volume XVIII, Number 271 13th Waxing of Pyatho 1372 ME Monday, 17 January, 2011

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round develop-ment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms of

technical know-how and investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitu-

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Steel truss installed at AyeyawadyBridge (Pakokku)

True patriotism * It is very important for everyone of

the nation regardless of the placehe lives to have strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the true patri-otism all the nationalities will haveto safeguard.

NAY PYI TAW, 16Jan—A ceremony to installthe first steel truss atAyeyawady Bridge(Pakokku) being built bySpecial Project Group (3) ofPublic Works was held atthe pandal on Letpanchepawbank in NyaungUTownship today.

Commander ofCentral Command Brig-Gen Ye Aung and Ministerfor Construction U KhinMaung Myint fixed a goldnut at the steel truss andinstalled the first truss at thebridge.

The commander,the minister and Chairmanof Magway Region Peaceand Development Council

U Phone Maw Shweinspected installation oftrusses at the bridge.

Rail-cum-roadAyeyawady Bridge(Pakokku) is of steel truss

type and it will linkNyaungU Township ofMandalay Region andPakokku Township ofMagway Region. Thebridge will be 11,431 feet

long with 13,537 feet longmotor road and 20,597 feetlong railroad. The two-waymotor road will be 28 feetwide and the railroad,

(See page 8)

Good news for rubber growersArticle & Photos: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)

Technicians demonstrate systematic collection of rubber latex in BagoRegion.

The demand of rub-ber is higher and higher inthe international marketdue to boosting produc-tion of tyres in the Peo-ple’s Republic of Chinaand the Republic of Indiaand rubber requirement

for industrial raw materialsin the ASEAN countries.

It is good news forrubber growers and rub-ber entrepreneurs.

Since 2005, Myanmarhas permitted growing andproduction of rubber

freely. As a result, privaterubber farms have beenestablished one after an-other and sown acreage ofrubber increased. So far,over 1.1 million acres oflands have been put underrubber as setting a record.

In 2009-2010 financialyear, 29,188 tons of rub-ber was exported to fetchUS$ 90.732 million. Ma-laysia was the largest

customer.Early this year, I had anopportunity to visit rubberfarms while travelling Monand Kayin States. During

the visit, I noticed use ofRF 3 G equipment andmethod for boostingproduction of rubber latex.

(See page 8)

Com-mander

Brig-GenYe Aung

and Minis-ter U Khin

MaungMyint lift

first truss ofAyeyawady

Bridge(Pakokku).

MNA

The using Hevea TPD spray

on a rubber plant in progress for development

of stem.

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

People’s Desire

Long ago, boat was only means oftransport in Ayeyawady Region on accountof so many natural barriers in it. But, now theregion has seen networks of roads.

In addition, the government isimproving health care systems in the region.For instance, it has rebuilt and upgradedstorm-ravaged hospitals. Among them,Labutta Hospital has been upgraded to a200-bed; Pyapon Hospital, to 200-bed; andPyinsalu Hospital, to 25-bed facilities.

Mawlamyinegyun Township GeneralHospital (100-bed) in Labutta District andBogale Township General Hospital (100-bed)in Pyapon District were launched on 13January. So, residents can enjoy better healthcare in their own districts and townships.

With the aim of improving the healthstandard of Ayeyawady Region, thegovernment has established five 200-bedhospitals, three 100-bed hospitals, five 50-bed hospitals, 16 25-bed station hospitals,203 rural health care centres, 42 maternaland child health care centres, three ruralhealth care centres, nine school health carecentres, one16-bed traditional hospital, and31 traditional health care centres in the region.

The government has also opened twonurses training schools and one midwiferyschool in Ayeyawady Region to enable localyouths to acquire medical knowledge in theirown region and to throw themselves toregional health care services.

Now, Ayeyawady Region has enjoyedsmooth transport with improving health care.All in all, local people’s socio-economic statusis improving all the more.

Ayeyawady dwellers enjoyhigher socio-economic status

NAY PYI TAW, 16Jan—Minister forIndustry-2 U Soe Theinvisited No. 2 AutomobileMaker (Htonebo) ofMyanma Automobileand Diesel EngineIndustries in PadaungTownship, Bago Regionon 12 January. Theminister inspectedproduction of doublecabs, Myanmar singlecabs and DS 70 enginesand new units of theautomobile maker—press shop, ready for salevehicles shop and frameshop and stressed theneed for quality andbrand image of theproduct and low-costoperation.

The minister thenwent to Machine and

YANGON, 16 Jan—A ceremony to donatemedia equipment, books and publications, andfurniture to village libraries in Kayan Township,Yangon South District, took place at Township

Books and furniture donatedto village libraries in Kayan

Township

Industry-2 Minister visits manufacturing plantsin Bago Region

Machine Parts Plant No.1 (Nyaungchehtauk) ofMyanma Machine Tooland Electrical Industrieswhere he inspected

manufacturing ofmachine tools,transformers, and cablesand called for high-quality, and quality

control of the products.The minister also

fulfilled the requirementsfor welfare of the staff ofthe plant.—MNA

Minister for Industry-2 U Soe Thein at No. 2 Automobile Maker(Htonebo) of Myanma Automobile and Diesel Engine Industries.

MNA

YANGON, 16 Jan—A Myanmar delegationled by Deputy Ministerfor Foreign Affairs U

Myanmar, Belarus to promote cooperation

Maung Myint arrivedback here yesterday afterpaying an official visitto the Republic of

Belarus on 13 and 14January at the invitationof Mr S Aleinik,Belarusian DeputyMinister of ForeignAffairs of the Republicof Belarus.

The first round ofbilateral consultationsbetween the two foreignministries was held at theMinistry of ForeignAffairs of Belarus on 13January. At the meeting,the two leaders cordiallydiscussed promotion of

bilateral relations andcooperation in theinternational forum andstrengthening coopera-tion between the twocountries in the areas ofagriculture, trade,industry and othereconomic activities.

Deputy Minister UMaung Myint andDeputy Minister MrS Aleinik signedMemorandum of Un-derstanding on theEstablishment ofBilateral Consultationsbetween the Ministry ofForeign Affairs ofMyanmar and Belarus.In the evening, DeputyMinister Mr S Aleinikhosted a dinner to theMyanmar delegation.

In the evening of13 January, DeputyMinister U Maung Myintreceived Deputy DirectorMr Alexander Ivanov ofBSVT Company ofBelarus.

MNA

First round of bilateral consultations between Myanmar and BelarusianForeign Ministries in progress.

MNA

YANGON, 16 Jan—Deputy Minister forConstruction U Tint Swe inspected maintenance ofNgamoeyeik Bridge between mile posts No. 11/2and 11/3 on Yangon-Mandalay Highway yesterdaymorning.

The deputy minister urged engineers in-chargeto make preparations for prevention of erosionduring the rainy season.—MNA Peace and Development Council Office on 14

January.At the ceremony, Chairman of Township

PDC U Tin Myint made a speech and Head ofTownship Information and Public RelationsDepartment Daw Ei Zar Hlaing spoke words ofthanks.

The head of Township IPRD acceptedbooks, TV, radios and other facilities worthK 3,905,500.

MNA

Dy Construction Ministerinspects maintenance of

Ngamoeyeik Bridge

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Violence across Afghanistan at its worst since 2001

KABUL, 16 Jan—NATO forces sayinternational and Afghantroops have killed twomilitants during a raid ona compound in easternAfghanistan. NATO saysin a statement that thetroops were searching fora local Taleban leader ineastern Wardak Provincewhen they came underfire Saturday in NerkhDistrict.

They shot back,killing two militants. Thetroops also detained twosuspected militants. Theinternational militarycoalition did not say inSunday’s statement if thetargeted Taleban leaderwas among those killedor captured.—Internet

JAKARTA, 16 Jan— Four moderate earthquakesmeasuring 5.0-5.9 on the Richter scale rockedIndonesia’s Aceh Province on Saturday, with thestrongest one being felt at Sinabang city that liesnear the epicenter, the Meteorology, Climatologyand Geophysics said in a statement.

The earthquakes were centered at 14-265kilometres southwest and west of Sinabang cityand at depth of 14-23 kilometres under seabed.

According to the agency, the earthquakes wereoccurred at 18:23 local time (1123 GMT), 18:36(1136 GMT), 18:45 (1145) and 23:26 ( 1626GMT).

The agency did not release a tsunami warning.Xinhua

COLOMBO, 16 Jan—Unexploded minesplanted during SriLanka’s Tamil separatistwar may have shiftedduring recent floods,officials said Sunday, asresidents started to returnto their badly-damagedhomes and farms.

More than onemillion people wereinitially displaced in theflooding, with the eastof the island worstaffected by a week ofunusually heavymonsoon rains. Thedisaster managementcentre in Colombo saidthat 37 people wereconfirmed dead withanother 12 missing, as

S Lanka mine fears asfloods recede

An ariel photograph shows Sri Lanka’s flood-hiteastern coastal District of Batticaloa on 15 Jan.

INTERNET

TEHERAN, 16 Jan—Iran said Saturday it hasdetermined that two pilotless spy planes it claims tohave shot down were operated by the United States,and offered to put them on public display.

The air force of Iran’s powerful RevolutionaryGuard said earlier this month that it shot down twohighly advanced spy planes that had violated Iranianairspace. It provided no timeframe or proof. TheUS Navy’s 5th Fleet, which is based in the Gulf,said at the time that it had no reports of any aircraftdowned recently.

On Saturday, Iran’s semiofficial Fars newsagency quoted the head of the Guard’s naval force,Gen Ali Fadavi, as saying Teheran will show thetwo small reconnaissance planes publicly.

“These aircraft are now in our possession,”Fadavi was quoted as saying. “We will definitelydisplay them at an appropriate time.” It was notclear when Iran downed the pilotless planes, butIranian officials have hinted that they deliberatelydidn’t make an announcement at the time to avoidtensions with the US.

Internet

Iran says two downed spyplanes were US-operated

A Pakistani cameraman films burning oiltankers after gunmen attacked a terminal in

Dera Murad Jamali southwest Pakistan, on 15Jan, 2011. A government official says gunmen

in Pakistan’s southwest have set ablaze 20tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO troops

in Afghanistan. A driver also was woundedduring the Saturday attack.

INTERNET

A man injured inbombing is brought to

a Kandahar cityhospital, south of

Kabul, Afghanistan, on15 Jan, 2011. A

bicycle bomb targetingpolice vehicles near

the centre of thesouthern city of

Kandahar wounded atleast 10 people, police

said.—INTERNET

Two militantskilled in Afghan

operation

Four moderate earthquakeshit Indonesia’s Aceh

water levels fell in someareas and residentsventured back home tosurvey the devastation.

“Floods andreceding waters mayunearth mines andexplosive remnants ofwar and carry explosivesfrom contaminated areasinto areas thought to besafe,” the UnitedNations situation reportsaid. It warned that localauthorities had advisedresidents and aidworkers to keep alert forshifted mines, and addedthat mine clearanceagencies were decidingwhether areas needed tobe re-surveyed after theflooding.—Internet

BAGHDAD, 16 Jan— Three American soldiers were killed and one woundedin Iraq on Saturday, raising to five the number of service members from theUnited States killed here since the beginning of the year.

At the Ghazlani Training Centre, south of Mosul, American soldiers weretraining Iraqi forces Saturday morning when a trainee opened fire on his trainers,according to an Iraqi Army officer.

The exercise was meant to be conducted without live fire, said the officer,who was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorizedto speak to the news media, but the Iraqi soldier had stolen live ammunition forhis AK-47 rifle. He killed two American soldiers and wounded one, accordingto Iraqi and American military officials. The Iraqi trainee was killed, the Iraqimilitary officer said. The wounded service member was evacuated to Joint BaseBalad, according to the United States military.—Internet

Three US service members killed in Iraq

PUL-E-KHUMRI, (Afghanistan)16 Jan —A roadside bomb destroyed a car

carrying nine people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing

everyone inside including one child, the provincial governor said.

The previous day, six civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern

Helmand Province and another six died after an airstrike by foreign forces in

mountainous eastern Kunar, local officials said.

Three children were among the dead in the airborne attack on two houses

in the Kodagai area which straddles Kunar's Dangam and Shigal Dstricts, Sultan

Sediqi, a member of the provincial council, told Reuters.

Violence across Afghanistan is at its worst since the 2001 overthrow of

the Taleban government, with the insurgency spreading rapidly in previously peaceful

areas such as the north, and civilian and military casualties at record levels.

internet

-The site of a suicide bombing in Gereshk district of Helmand province in

2009. A roadside bomb ripped through a minibus in southern Afghanistan,

killing six civilians and wounding another three, a local official said

Sunday.—INTERNET

Bomb kills 9 wedding guests in Afghanistan

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Rocks in Canada gives clues to deep EarthREGINA, 16 Jan—Scientists say an

area of exposed rock in northwestSaskatchewan is a window into theformation of the Earth’s crust billions ofyears ago.

The area, dubbed the Athabascagranulite terrane, is exciting geologistswho say they would have to somehowtransport themselves 25 miles below theplanet’s surface to see features they canobserve underfoot while strolling aroundhundreds of acres of rocky outcrop,Postmedia News reported this week.

The formation was created when avast amount of molten rock was thrust upfrom the Earth’s lower crust beforesolidifying at the surface 2 billion yearsago.

While similar features exist aroundthe world, none are as expansive or

varied in the clues they offer into theplanet’s hidden depths, scientists say.

“We do not have the technology todrill anywhere near to the lower crust,”Michael Williams, a geoscientist at theUniversity of Massachusetts, says.

“But in northern Saskatchewan, wecan walk around on lower crust, mappingand sampling. Even if we could drill thatdeep, we would only get a small roundcore of rock to look at. In Saskatchewan,we have acres of exposure.”—Internet

Extra shuttle mission this year in doubtCAPE CANAVERAL, 16 Jan—Delays

in the space shuttle Discovery’s missionfor repairs to its fuel tank raise doubtsabout an extra shuttle mission this year,US officials say.

Two more shuttle trips were plannedbefore the aging three-orbiter fleet wasto be retired when a third, final missionwas approved by Congress last year in aNASA authorization bill signed byPresident Barack Obama, SPACE comreported.

But funding for the measure has notbeen appropriated as the countryoperates under a continuing resolution,freezing NASA at 2010 funding levelsuntil Congress can agree on a formalbudget.

Sen Bill Nelson, D-Fla, said the issueswith Discovery’s fuel tank and its ongoingrepairs don’t bode well for the extramission.

“If worst came to worst and they feltlike this tank was not safe, they wouldstand down and at that point would onlyfly two more shuttle flights instead of thethree that are authorized,” Nelson said.

Internet

Overfishing blamed for ocean reef lossSANTA CRUZ, 16 Jan—Overfishing

of reefs leads to explosions in populationsof sea urchins, which destroy coral algaethat build tropical reef systems, USresearchers say.

An 18-year study of Kenya’s coralreefs by the Wildlife ConservationSociety and the University of Californiaat Santa Cruz has found in contrast, reefsystems closed to fishing have fewersea urchins because predatory fish keepthem under control, with resulting highercoral growth rates and more structure, aWCS release said Friday.

Large numbers of grazing sea urchinsreduced the abundance of crustosecoralline algae, a species of algae thatproduce calcium carbonate, the basic

building material of ocean reefs,researchers found.

“These under-appreciated corallinealgae are known to bind and stabilizereef skeletons and sand as well asenhance the recruitment of small coralsby providing a place for their larvae tosettle,” WCS Senior Conservationist TimMcClanahan says. “This study illustratesthe cascading effects of predator loss ona reef system and the importance ofmaintaining fish populations for coralhealth.”

The study shows improving themanagement of tropical fisheries canhelp reefs to grow and persist in achanging climate, researchers say.

Internet

Researchers create software for designing genetic circuits

Sam McDermott plays a Fable III PC game at theMicrosoft booth during the 2011 International

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,Nevada on 9 January, 2011.—INTERNET

SAN FRANCISCO, 16 Jan—Creating your own geneticcircuits may sound like science fiction, but that’s whatthey said about the sun being the center of the galaxy.Researchers the University of California, San Francisco,along with the company Life Technologies, are workingtogether to create the first software that would letbioengineers (and mad-scientists) design complete

Antec, Asetek Unite for Kühler H20 CPU Coolers

British company using E-Inkto make tanks invisible

LONDON, 16 Jan—E-ink isn’t just for reading anymore.Scientists with BAE Systems are developing technologythat would use electronic ink to camouflage tanks.

According to a report in The Telegraph, high-techsensors would be fixed to the body of the tank that wouldmirror the vehicle’s surroundings, making it essentiallyinvisible.

“Highly sophisticated electronic sensors attachedto the tank’s hull will project images of the surroundingenvironment back onto the outside of the vehicle enablingit to merge into the landscape and evade attack,” wroteSean Rayment, The Telegraph’s defencecorrespondent. “The electronic camouflage will enablethe vehicle to blend into the surrounding countryside inmuch the same way that a squid uses ink to help as adisguise.”

Traditional personal camouflage is limited in itsfunction because it lacks versatility; it can’t just changecolours or forms. But personal camouflage has evolvedsince it was first used in the 19th century.

Internet

Renault’s electric-powered concept

vehicle DeZir is shownduring the first day of

the 89th EuropeanMotorshow in

Brussels, capital ofBelgium, on 15 Jan,2011. The show willpressent commercialvehicles, recreationalvehicles, motorcycles,

motor parts andservices.XINHUA

genetic circuits.Technology Review has a video and the scoop on

the latest in building pathways that cells use to run atask. Basically, genes, proteins and other moleculeswould use these pathways to do things like turn sugarinto fuel or make a certain drug for pharmaceuticals.Voigt and his team say that with their software,designing a microbe for a particular task will be likewriting a new computer programme (DNA++?). Besure to give the full story a read.

That’s great and all, but I think I’ll have to wait acouple more years for the smartphone version.

Internet

Berries. Eating blueberries canguard against high blood pressure.

INTERNET

In this undated photo released byKyoto University via Kyodo News, aspecimen of endangered Japanese

salmon species is on display. Ascience professor says a Japanese

salmon species thought to have goneextinct 70 years ago lives in a lake

near Mount Fuji.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 16 Jan—Component giantAntec is teaming up with Asetek, aleading supplier of OEM liquid-coolingsystems for PCs, to create a new seriesof CPU coolers, the Kühler H20, whichwill be branded under Antec’s name.

Each model in the Kühler H20 seriesuses liquid temperature-controlled fans,as part of Antec’s Quiet Computingtechnology, to reduce the amount ofnoise the cooling system generates. Acopper cold plate is also used to obtainoptimal conduction. All Kühler H20 CPUcoolers will be backed by a three-yearlimited warranty on parts and labor.

The first model to be announced inthe series, the Kühler H20 620, is outfittedwith a low-profile pump for enhancedliquid circulation and easy-bend tubes toallow the user the most flexibility inpositioning the cooler’s radiator. A high-end model, the Kühler H20 920, isexpected to follow soon.

“Antec’s global reach and excellentreputation make them an ideal partner tobring Asetek’s next generation of sealedliquid cooling technology to the DIY andsystem integrator markets,” said SteveBranton, Asetek’s director of marketing.

Internet

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Researchers developingnew malaria vaccine

LONDON, 16 Jan—Avaccine that nearly halvesthe chance of catchingmalaria could savehundreds of thousands oflives annually, scientistsin Britain said.

Research publishedFriday online in TheLancet InfectiousDiseases said the vaccinecuts the risk of infectionby the parasite thatcauses severe malaria by46 percent over 15months, The Daily

Health Tip: Slow downwhen you eat

If you’ve resolved to lose weight, taking the timeto savor your food may be an easy way to help you eatless.

The American Dietetic Association suggests howto eat slower:

* Put down your utensils between each bite. * Use chopsticks instead of Western utensils. * Chew your food completely before

swallowing. * Make meal time a social time. Engage in

conversation to stretch out the meal andinterrupt your eating.—Internet

A smoker holds a cigarette in San Francisco. Thosefirst few puffs on a cigarette can within minutes

cause genetic damage linked to cancer, US scientistssaid in a study released Saturday.—INTERNET

French lungspecialist Irene

Frachon attends apress conference on

15 Jan, 2011 inParis, held byFrench Healthminister Xavier

Bertrand on now-banned diabetesdrug Mediator, a

drug for overweightpeople with diabetesthat was also widelyprescribed to others

as an appetitesuppressant.

INTERNET

Company producing scents to boost salesTORONTO, 16 Jan—A Canadian

company is developing scents aimed atkeeping customers inside businesses longer,giving them more time to spend money,officials said.

Mood Media, a Canadian companylisted on the London Stock Exchange, hasalready developed scents called “LotusFlower” and “Enchanted Apple” and isworking with over 20,000 shops in Britain to

UK economy faces 20% risk of slipping backinto a recession, CEBR Says

LONDON, 16 Jan—The UKeconomy faces a 20 percent chance ofslipping into another recession as risingunemployment and faster inflation weighon growth, the Centre for Economicsand Business Research said.

The UK economy will grow 1.1percent this year, the London-basedresearch group said in an e-mailedstatement today, revising an Octoberforecast for expansion of 1.3 percent.The lower pace of growth raises therisk of a second slump from an earlierassessment of 10 percent, it said.

The revision is due to “persistentlyweak labour-market indicators and large

This photo taken on 3 Dec, 2010 shows an overviewfrom ‘The Peak’ of highrise buildings on Hong Kong

island. Hong Kong remained the world’s freest place todo business for the 17th year in a row, while the UnitedStates lost ground in an annual report published on 12

Jan, 2011.—INTERNET

rises in consumer prices,” said ScottCorfe, an economist at the CEBR. “It isdifficult to see where significant growthwill come from given that domesticdemand is likely to be weak.”

The CEBR said the Bank of Englandwill probably have to expand bondpurchases, though doing so will dependon a drop in the inflation rate, which at 3.3percent in November was above thegovernment’s upper limit. The centralbank yesterday held its bond plan at 200billion pounds ($317 billion) and itsbenchmark interest rate at a record lowof 0.5 percent.—Internet

China shouldbe cautious of

inflation,excess liquidity

BEIJING, 16 Jan—China should be cautiousof inflation and preventthe effects of excessliquidity, Fan Gang, aformer advisor to thecountry’s central bank,said Saturday.

The loose credit policyof the United States ispumping money into themarket and increasingexpectations for thedepreciation of the USdollar and the appreciationof other currencies,including the Chinese yuan,Fan told the annual meetingof China’s economy(2010-2011) in Beijing.

The policy isreasonable for its owneconomy but will causeserious problems for theworld, he said.—Xinhua

boost their sales, The Daily Telegraphreported. Mood Media has created scentsfor Habitat, the furniture shop, Timberland,the outdoor clothing retailer and Guess, afashion chain. “If a shop smells bad, acustomer will walk out. It’s as simple asthat. The longer you can get a customer tostay in the store, the more likely they are tobuy,” said Mood Media’s chief executive,Lorne Abony. —Internet

Telegraph reported.The vaccine attacks

the parasite that causesmalaria when it firstenters the bloodstream orliver cells, and eventhough it doesn’t offercomplete protection, itcould save countless lives,the report said.

The vaccine “showspromise as a potentialpublic health interventionagainst childhood malariain malaria endemiccountries,” said Dr Ally

Olotu of the KenyaMedical ResearchInstitute-Wellcome TrustResearch Programme,which led the study.

Malaria is passed tohumans by infectedmosquitoes and is one ofthe biggest killers ofchildren in Africa.

Of the nearly 1 millionpeople killed by thedisease across Africaeach year, the majorityare children under 5.

Internet

Visitors view a yacht during the 81st annualChicago Boat, RV & Outdoors Show in

Chicago, the United States, 13 Jan, 2011. Thefive-day show kicked off here on Wednesday.

XINHUA

Smoking causes genedamage in minutes

WASHINGTON, 16 Jan—Those first few puffs on acigarette can withinminutes cause geneticdamage linked to cancer,US scientists said in a studyreleased Saturday.

In fact, researcherssaid the “effect is so fastthat it’s equivalent toinjecting the substancedirectly into the bloodstr-eam,” in findings describedas a “stark warning” tothose who smoke.

The study is the firston humans to track howsubstances in tobaccocause DNA damage, andappears in the peer-reviewed journal Chem-ical Research in Toxico-logy, issued by the Ameri-can Chemical Society.

Using 12 volunteersmokers, scientists trackedpollutants called PAHs, orpolycyclic aromatichydrocarbons, that arecarried in tobacco smoke

and can also be found incoal-burning plants and incharred barbecue food.

They followed onepar t icular type —phenanthrene, which isfound in cigarette smoke— through the blood andsaw it form a toxicsubstance that is knownto “trash DNA, causingmutat ions tha t cancause cancer ,” thestudy said.

Internet

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Doctors face big post-mortem procedureafter stampede in southern India

VANDIPERIYAR, 16Jan—The doctors atvarious hospitals ofVandiperiyar area of theIdukki District, Kerala statein southern India, where astampede took place killing110 persons and injuringaround 80 Friday, werefaced with big post-

People wait outside a health centre to claim thebodies of the victims in the stampede in Kerala’s

Idukki District, southern India, 15 Jan, 2011.XINHUA

mortem proceduresSaturday.

The Kumily govern-ment hospital, around 15km from the accident sitein the Idukki District,deployed a team of 60doctors to conduct postmortem only.

“As many as 20

autopsies are beingconducted at a time,” thehospital sources informed.

“Around 71 bodieshave so far reached theVandiperiyar hospital,where all the bodies arebeing brought, after whichtheir autopsy is beingconducted at Kumily,”Idukki Congress Memberof Parliament (MP) PTThomas told Xinhua.

Additionally, 86doctors and 305 otherhealth staff from varioushospitals in Alappuzha,Idukki, Pathanamthitta,Ernakulam and KottayamDistricts are attending tostampede victims. Thirty-three ambulances weredeployed to bring the deadand injured ones from thespot and send them to theirnative places.—Xinhua

Green schools combat bad dietsin Philippines

MANILA, 16 Jan—The Philippines istransforming primaryschool yards into vege-table gardens in a bid tofight US-inspired junkfood addictions that arecausing an explosion ofhealth problemsthroughout society.

At one of theshowcase schools inManila for the burgeoninghealth food project,teachers and students arejoined by parents intending lush plots thathave an assortment ofvegetables.

Every available spaceis used to grow nutritiousgreens that are harvestedin cycles as free food forthe school’s mostly poorstudents or sold as part ofa livelihood project for

Teachers and students inspect a hydrophonicgarden for vegetable plants at the Paranaque

Central Elementary School.—INTERNET

their families.Where there is no soil,

portable hydroponicgardening is promotedusing discarded plasticbottles as waterreceptacles for plants thathang symmetrically inrows.

“It’s amazing what

many things you can dowith a little innovation,and a little bit ofimagination,” ParanaqueCentral ElementarySchool principal EditaBaggayan, 65, told AFPwhile inspecting sometomatoes in a mini-greenhouse.—Internet

DHAKA, 16 Jan—An official says 10 policemenhave been killed when their jeep collided head-onwith a truck in eastern Bangladesh.

Local police official Bijoy Basak says thepolicemen were on their way Saturday to a meetingto discuss law and order in Narsingdi district, about40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Dhaka.

He says one policeman in the group survivedwith minor injuries.

Fatal road accidents, often blamed on poordriving and faulty vehicles, claim more than 10,000lives in Bangladesh every year.

Internet

10 Bangladesh policemenkilled in road accident

Firefighters walk at the site of a forest fire in the townof Quillota city, about 75 miles (121 km) northwest ofSantiago, 15 Jan, 2011. More than 200 hectares (495acres) of land have been burned due to multiple firesnear Vina del Mar city, with no report of deaths or

injuries, local authorities said.—INTERNET

Five fishermen missing, sixsaved after fishing boat sinks

off south China coastGUANGZHOU, 16 Jan—Six fishermen have been

rescued while five remain missing after their boatsank in high waves off the south China coast nearGuangdong Province Saturday morning, reportedrescuers.

The South China Sea Rescue Bureau of theMinistry of Transport received a report at 6:23 amthat a fishing boat with 11 people aboard sank nearWanshan island. The bureau sent a rescue boat anda helicopter to the scene, according to the bureauspokesman.

Six fishermen on a life raft were picked up bythe helicopter at 1:15 pm, said the spokesman.

Further, one body was spotted by the crew onthe rescue boat, but they failed to retrieve it due togusting winds and strong waves. It is unknownwhether the body was one of the missing fishermen,said the spokesman.

Xinhua

Brazil slide survivors left to fend on ownTERESOPOLIS, 16 Jan—

Pointing at the cliff ofcrumbling red clay, RenatoMotta de Lima described alandscape that now existedonly in memory: here, hisgrandmother’s house;there, the church; below, abanana grove and thehome of an aunt, uncleand the shy teenager whowas his cousin.

After walls of

muddy water

claimed at least 610

lives in was reported

to be the Brazil’s

worst ever flood

disaster, forecasts

showed more rain

was likely to drench

the suffering region.

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The shadowof a rescue

teammember ofthe Tokyo

MetropolitanPolice

Departmentis cast on abuilding ashe climbs

ropes duringa rescue

operationdrill inTokyo

16 Jan,2011.

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They and scores ofneighbours from Cascatado Imbui lay buriedunderneath mud anddebris at the bottom of theonce-lush hillside, victimsof massive mudslides thatkilled at least 610 peoplethis week. Body parts werevisible in the muckSaturday, with one handjutting out from under a

massive tree trunk as ifreaching for help. Officialsfear the death toll couldclimb once they can fullyaccess remote villages likethis one.

No help — food,water, medication — hadreached the survivors hereby Saturday other thanwhat little residents in flip-flops could haul in by footfrom the centre ofTeresopolis, slung overtheir shoulders insupermarket bags. Twoavalanches wiped out theroad leading to the Cascatado Imbui neighbourhood,leaving in places only acracked ribbon of asphaltperched over an abyss.“This was a beautiful place.It was a happy place,”Motta de Lima said.

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Toyota may shift to foreignproduction

TOKYO, 16 Jan—Toyota Motor willconsider shifting factories overseas ifthe yen stays high and puts pressure onits profits, the company president said.

“We do not wish to relocateproduction sites because of currenciesand foreign exchange alone,” AkioToyoda said in a Japanese-languageonline message dated Friday.

However, he added, “if profitscannot be generated” despite effortstowards efficient, good-qualitymanufacturing and training, “we haveno choice but to consider relocation ofproduction sites as a real possibility.”

The company plans to release afresh medium-term business plan inApril, he added.

Japanese exporters, led byautomakers and electronics producers,have come under pressure from therising yen in recent months.

A strong yen makes Japaneseexports relatively more expensive inforeign markets, while shrinking thevalue of Japanese firms’ overseasearnings when repatriated.

Meanwhile, Japanese automakershave been shifting more of theirproduction and sales overseas —particularly to growing Asian markets— as younger Japanese motorists avoidcar purchases due to the high costs offuel, maintenance and tax.

InternetA worker for Japan’s auto giant Toyota Motor is seen assembling a car at

the company’s plant in Miyata City, Fukuoka Prefecture.—INTERNET

GM expands recall of some2011 trucks and SUVs

Lance Armstrong set for ride ‘into the sunset’ADELAIDE, 16 Jan—

International cycling iconLance Armstrong says hewill not be expecting aticker-tape farewell aheadof his competitiveswansong at the TourDown Under this week.

Australia’s premiercycling event has beensteadily gathering in statureand Armstrong’s presencegives the Adelaide-basedrace, which begins with ahectic street criterium onSunday, an extra boost.

After years ofcourting almost as muchcontroversy as he didsuccess on seven goldenyears on the Tour deFrance, it will be theAmerican’s final

international cycling event.Cancer survivor

Armstrong retired in 2005,only to return to cyclingthree-and-a-half yearslater ahead of whatbecame a futile bid for an

eighth yellow jersey.Having finished an

impressive third overall onthe Tour de France in 2009,the 2010 edition proved astep too far for the now39-year-old, who colla-

psed spectacularly on thefirst day in the highmountains.

There is no questionof Armstrong aiming forvictory this week, nevermind success in one of thesix stages that will becoveted by a strong sprintfield. Indeed, organisersmay be wondering howmuch of a starring roleArmstrong will play.

As retirement looms,he remains the subject ofa federal investigation,launched in the wake ofarguably the most seriousdoping allegations —levelled by formerteammate Floyd Landis —to blight his stunningcareer.—Internet

International cycling icon Lance Armstrong sayshe will not be expecting a ticker-tape farewellahead of his competitive swansong at the Tour

Down Under this week.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 16 Jan—General Motors is expandingan earlier recall of some 2011 model-year trucks andSUVs to fix a problem that could cause the vehicles’rear axles to lock.

The recall, originally announced in December,now covers 26,751 Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMCtrucks and SUVs. The models affected are: CadillacEscalade, Escalade ESV, Cadillac EXT, ChevroletAvalanche, Colorado, Silverado, Suburban, Tahoe;and GMC Canyon, Sierra, Yukon and Yukon XL.

GM said rear-axle cross pins, used to hold the axlein place, weren’t properly heat-treated and may not bedurable. They can fracture, interfere with the axle andcause it to lock. The driver could then lose control ofthe vehicle.

One customer has reported a loss of power to theaxle, GM says. But no crashes have been reported.

GM says owners of the vehicles are beingcontacted and urged against driving the trucks until theaxle pin is replaced.

Internet

Japanese women, allwearing traditional

kimonos, prepare to releasearrows during a ceremonyto celebrate their becoming

20 years old this year atSanjusangen-do temple inKyodo, capital of ancientJapan, on 16 Jan, 2011.

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Germany bans 934 more farms in dioxin scareBERLIN, 16 Jan—

Germany’s dioxin-taintedfood scandal widenedSaturday, as authoritiesbanned another 934 farmsfrom selling eggs, poultryand pork after finding outthat one company hadhidden its deliveries ofcontaminated livestockfeed.

Prosecutors in LowerSaxony state have openedan investigation afterfinding out about thetainted feed deliveries tothose farms, AgricultureMinister Ilse Aigner said.

“This is a scandalwithin the scandal,” shesaid.

Lower Saxony’sagriculture ministry saidproducts from those farmshave likely been sold overthe past ten days, “mostly

Theodor Meyer stands between packages of eggson his chicken farm in Emstek, northern

Germany, on 10 January.—INTERNET

eggs.” But it reiterated itsassessment that“consumption of thesegoods does not pose ahealth risk” given the lowcontamination level.

The scandal broke lastweek when investigatorsfound excessive levels ofdioxin in eggs and chickens,leading authorities toslaughter hundreds ofanimals and freeze sales

from more than 5,000farms. Excessive dioxinlevels were also found insome pork.

As of Friday, all but400 farms had been clearedand allowed to resumeselling their products, butSouth Korea and Chinakept their bans on importsof German pork andpoultry.

Internet

More than 80 skiers rescued after Ohio lift stallsCHESTERLAND, 16 Jan—A chairlift

stalled Saturday at a northeast Ohio skiresort, leaving more than 80 people stuckfor several hours until emergency crewsused ropes and a pulley to lower them tosafety, authorities said. No injuries werereported.

The ski lift at Alpine Valley inMunson Township malfunctioned atabout 2:30 pm, leaving the skiers andsnowboarders dangling at least 30 feetfrom the ground, said Chief ScottHildenbrand of the Hambden FireDepartment, one of the agencies that

responded.Crews threw blankets and hand

warmers to the skiers so they would staywarm until they were rescued, whichHildenbrand said took about three hours.Medics checked the skiers after theywere on the ground; none needed to goto the hospital, Hildenbrand said.

“If this is the worst that happens, I’lltake this,” said Rich Gent, a skier whowas among the 85 or so people strandedon the lift. “We weren’t stuck in anavalanche or anything crazy like that.”

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(from page 1) 14 feet wide. The facility will beflunked by three feet and threeinches pedestrian ways on eitherside. The water clearance will be

262 feet wide and 52 feet high. It canwithstand 75-ton loads. On comple-tion, the bridge will be the largestand longest of its kind in Myanmar.

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Repaved roads put backinto service in Bago

NAY PYI TAW, 16Jan—A ceremony to in-augurate asphalt roadswas held in Ward 7 ofOttha Myothit in Bago on7 January, attended byChairman of Bago RegionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouthern Command Brig-Gen Soe Htut.

Officials cut theribbon to open Bo TezaAsphalt Road and Bo LaYaung Asphalt Road.

On 8 January, thecommander, accompa-nied by the Vice-Chair-man of Bago Region PDCand party, looked into ag-riculture and livestockbreeding tasks at the local

battalions in Thayawadyand met servicemen.

In KyakhatyonVillage of Nattalin Town-ship, the commanderviewed nurturing of paddyand cultivation of summerpaddy. He presented cashassistance to female paddytransplanters.

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Energy Minister looks into laying naturalgas pipeline at Pyawbwe-Tatkon section

NAY PYI TAW, 16Jan— Minister for EnergyU Lun Thi on 13 Januaryinspected welding workand laying of natural gaspipelines at Pyawbwe-

Magway Region PDCChairman toursThayet District

Commander Brig-Gen Ye Aung and Minister U Khin Maung Myint fixgold nut at first truss for Ayeyawady Bridge (Pakokku).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 16Jan—Chairman ofMagway Region Peaceand Development Coun-cil U Phone Maw Shweinspected the station hos-pital and the basic edu-cation middle school inMyaukpyin Village,Mindon Township, on 7January.

The followingmorning, he inspectedprogress in buildingThayet District People’sHospital.

Next, he

inspected the harvestingof Ngwechi-6 strainlong staple cotton fieldin Htontaung Village,condition of MindonCreek Bridge on Thayet-Kanma Road Sectionnear Yaynatha Village,Kanma Township,Yaynatha Station Hos-pital, Kanma TownshipPeople’s Hospital,Nyaungbinseik StationHospital in AunglanTownship, and the sta-tion hospital in PyaloeVillage.—MNA

Good news forrubber…

(from page 1)Last year, latest tech-

nology was applied forquality improvement ofraw rubber. With the useof Hevea chemical pow-der, the crumb rubber isnow test-running.

Officials concerneddemonstrated a test oncoagulation of rubber la-tex with the use of somepieces of rubber latexcrystal mixed with wa-ter within a few minutesat rubber farms in Monand Kayin States andBago Region. The test

could attract local rubberentrepreneurs and grow-ers.

Regularly, rubber la-tex is coagulated withacid. Acid caused sideeffects to workers anddamaged soil and naturalenvironments. Some-times, fire broke out atthe workshops in proc-ess of crumb rubber.

Using 100 grams ofHevea chemical powdermixed with one litre ofwater has no side effect.In addition, the latestmethod guarantees the

safety for users, contrib-utes to better quality ofrubber and conserves en-vironments. I have learntthat due to proper eco-nomic potential, local rub-ber growers and entrepre-neurs set sight on use ofHevea chemical power.

Likewise, the dem-onstration on use ofHevea TPD spray is pre-sented to the users. Thespray is used in ASEANcountries by spraying therubber plants that haveno seepage of rubberlatex and the plants thatcannot seep out the latexcent per cent.

The demonstrations

on use of latest methodswill be presented in ShanState (North) and Myeikand Dawei of TaninthayiRegion.

Applying the latesttechnology on produc-tion of rubber will im-prove quality ofMyanma rubber rawmaterials in the future.

As a result, Myanmarubber can directly ex-port to the world marketby fetching currentprices and extend newmarkets in the near fu-ture.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 16-1-2011

Region.Officials reported

on arrival of pipes at theworksite, construction ofalignment and welding thepipelines.

man power for timelycompletion of pipelinelaying task with systematicmeasures.

The ministerinspected welding of pipes.

P y a w b w e -Pyinmana-Yeni 12-inchdiameter natural gaspipeline will be 87 mileslong. It is a branch fromM a g w a y - P y a w b w e -Pinpet 14-inch diameternatural gas pipeline to sup-ply natural gas to factoriesand workshops in Nay PyiTaw. On completion,natural gas can be sup-plied to Soap Factory(Yamethin), and Dyingand Printing Factory(Yamethin) in MandalayRegion, Mingon BrickFactory and Pantin BrickFactory in Nay Pyi Taw,80-ton Packaging PaperMill and 50-ton Pulp Millin Yeni and two 500-tonCement Plants inTaungphila.—MNA

Tatkon section ofPyawbwe-Pyinmana-Yeni 12-inch diameternatural gas pipeline projectof Myanma Oil and GasEnterprise near KywetatVillage in YamethinTownship, Mandalay

The minister gaveinstructions that layingpipelines and supply ofnatural gas will contributemuch to development ofproduction industries. Hestressed the need to effec-tively utilize machine and

An official presents certificate of latest methoddemonstration to a rubber farm worker in

Mon State.

Minister for EnergyU Lun Thi inspectswelding work and

laying of natural gaspipelines at Pyawbwe-Tatkon section.—MNA

Steel truss installed at Ayeyawady Bridge…

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Information Ministerattends award… (from page 16)U Ko Ko (Ko Ko-SethmuTekkatho) and film starNay Toe presentedawards to prize-winningstudents in middle andhigh school level essayand poem recitation con-tests and high schoollevel extempore talkscontest.

For the wardlibraries and school

libraries in ThakaytaTownship, well-wishersdonated various kinds ofbooks, journals and ma-gazines, includingpublications worth K2624700 by Chief EditorDr Tin Tun Oo of MCMMedia Group,publications worth K2602680 by Daw NanKalyar Win of PopularJournal, publications

worth K 1800000 byEditor Daw Khine Sabeiof Beauty Magazine,publications worth K1482500 by writer ThiriSan, publications worthK 550000 by U MaungMyo (KyaungHnekaung Sarpay),publications worth K540000 by Chief EditorU Kyaw Ye Bo of FutureJournal, publicationsworth K 537800 byExecutive Editor DawNyein Nyein Naing of 7

Day Media Group,publications worth K500000 by Chief EditorU Myat Khaing of SnapShot Journal,publications worth K500000 by Editor In-charge Mawkyun MyintSoe of Myanmar PostJournal, publicationsworth K 450000 byChief Editor Dr TinAung Khaing ofAryudiga Journal,publications worth K250000 by Chief EditorU Kyi Soe of MandalayIcon Magazine,publications worth K225000 by PublisherDaw Kyi Kyi Sein ofPutet Journal, publica-tions worth K 162400by In-charge Editor UMaung Maung Gyi of

Com-puter UserMagazine, publicationsworth K 125000 byLeading Editor Ko Thet(Toungoo) of IT WeeklyJournal, Editor U KhineSoe of Love Journal andChief Editor U Wai PhyoThan of Dewi Journal,publications worth K120000 byAdministrator U KyawWin of The Goal andWorld Champion SportsJournals, publicationsworth K 107000 byChief Editor U HanNyunt of MandalayAryone Oo Journal,publications worth K100000 by Chief EditorU Thein Aye of EnvoyJournal and MorningNews Journal andpublications worth K

Minister U Kyaw Hsan awards Ma YoonWadi Swe who stood first in primary school

level poem recitation contest.—MNA

Chairman of Rural Library FoundationU Maung Maung awards a prize winning

student.—MNA

Photo shows harvest-ing monsoon paddy

on model plot of 2.15acres in Ywathaya

west field inKanthagyi Village-tract of PwintbyuTownship on 28

December.TOWNSHIP IPRD

4242690 by a well-wisher on behalf of 60donors. No.3 BasicEducation DepartmentDirector-General U AyeKyu accepted thedonations.

Then, Rural LibraryFoundation Chairman UMaung Maung donatedperiodicals worth K1020000.

After the cere-mony,

the minister viewed theprize atct winning worksand documentaries onfunctions of self-reliantlibraries in ThakaytaTownship.

At today’s ceremony,well-wishers donatedpublications worth K18798590 and they willbe distributed to the wardand school libraries in thetownship. —MNA

Minister forInformation

U Kyaw Hsanaddresses

prizepresentationfor school

librarydevelopmentand reading

habitdevelopingfestival inThakaytaTownship.

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China, Senegal agree to further bilateral relationsDAKAR, 16 Jan—

Chinese Vice Premier HuiLiangyu and SenegalesePrime Minister SouleymaneNdene Ndiaye have agreedthat the two countries shouldfurther strengthen bilateralrelations and two-wayexchanges in various fields.

During their meetinghere on Friday, Hui saidsince the resumption ofdiplomatic ties between bothcountries five years ago,bilateral ties have beendeveloping fast in an all-round way.

Over the past five years,both countries havemaintained close high-levelcontacts, deepened mutualunderstanding, consolidatedmutual political trust,

Visiting ChineseVice PremierHui Liangyu

(R) meets withSenegalese

Prime MinisterSouleymane

Ndene Ndiayein Dakar,capital of

Senegal, on 14Jan, 2011.

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maintained close coordin-ation and cooperation ininternational affairs andextended each other supporton issues that concern theirmajor interests, Hui added.

China is very delightedto see that both countrieshave made remarkableachievements in economic

and trade cooperation, aswell as in their win-wincooperation in agriculture,fishery, telecommunica-tions and infrastructure.

China is willing tocontinue working withSenegal to tap potential forbilateral cooperation tobenefit the people of bothcountries, Hui said.

For his part, Ndiaye saidover the past five years, theSenegal-China relationshave been advancing withbig strides and the twocountries have implementeda series of cooperationprojects, becoming one ofthe important examples ofChina-Africa cooperation.

Internet

China gets first overseas orderfor LNG ships

Floods hit Australia tourism

BEIJING, 16 Jan—China State ShipbuildingCorporation (CSSC) signed a contract with ExxonMobil and Mitsui & Co, Ltd on Saturday to build fourLNG ships (liquefied natural gas), the nation’s firstoverseas order for such an advanced carrier.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co, Ltd, asubsidiary of CSSC, will build the ships for Mitsui, aJapanese shipping giant.

The ships are scheduled for delivery between 2015and 2016. The fleet will be used for shipping China’simports of liquefied natural gas from Australia andPapua New Guinea.

In 2009, Exxon Mobil contracted with China’smajor oil and gas producer PetroChina and refinerSinopec to transport exports about 425 tonnes ofliquefied natural gas per year.

A liquefied natural gas carrier is a tanker shipdesigned for transporting liquefied gas at a temperatureof minus 163 degrees Celsius, and marks an importantpart in the LNG supply chain.

Only a handful of nations, such as the UnitedStates, Japan and the Republic of Korea, have theability to build such ships.—Xinhua

An illumination show is held during a ceremonycelebrating Turku as European Capital of Culture

in Turku, Finland, on 15 Jan, 2011.—XINHUA

BRISBANE, 16 Jan—Brisbane is a travel hub fortourists and the gateway tothe pristine beaches,rugged outback, tropicalrainforests and GreatBarrier Reef of Australia’sfamed ‘Sunshine State’.

But the floodwatersthat surged through the citylast week, depositingtonnes of putrid mud anddebris, have shut downBrisbane’s arts precinct,closed cafes, damagedhotels and scarred theimage of tourist friendlyQueensland.

“We depend onbackpackers, yes, they arescared, they don’t want togo to Fraser Island or theWhitsundays, or the GoldCoast, they are afraid ofbeing stuck on the road,”explains Lindsey Frazer ofbackpacker specialistWicked Travel.

At the Cloud 9 hotel,which caters to backpa-ckres, guest numbers aredown.

Residents clean up debris following heavyflooding in Brisbane. The floodwaters whichsurged through the city last week, deposited

tonnes of putrid mud and debris, shut down thearts precinct, closed cafes and damaged hotels

scarring the image of tourist friendlyQueensland.—INTERNET

“We were pretty muchfull at the start of theflooding,” says receptionistAndrew Josey. “But peoplehave been scared of thelack of electricity.”

In Brisbane’s TransitCentre, shops and travelcounters are closed, andtourists scramble for thelatest information on roadsand transport.

Hungarian tourist

Balazs Czimmermann saysthe waters have altered hisplans.

“We’ve been here inAustralia for three weeks,but since Monday, we’vehad to stay at friend’s(place) here because wecouldn’t go anywhere,” hesaid adding that a road tripto scenic Fraser Island hadto be cancelled.

Internet

US automakers draw big crowds atDetroit auto show

DETROIT, 16 Jan—Sharp designs with pizazz,power and elegance helpedpull in crowds during thepublic opening Saturday ofthe North AmericanInternational Auto Show,with US automakers doingtheir best to impressconsumers looking forsigns of the industry’srecovery.

Thousands of peoplefrom around the world filedfrom exhibit to exhibit insidethe sprawling Cobo Centrein Detroit. They perusedthe newest models fromGeneral Motors, FordMotor Co and Chrysler, aswell as top competitionfrom Europe and Asia.

“The last two years,people would come andlook. But now, they aresitting in the vehicles andasking questions,” said 43-year-old Sherry Fedewa, amanager in an auto partscompany. “People can

actually afford to buysomething.”

New car and trucksales came in last year at11.6 million, up 11 percentfrom 2009. Decembersales rose to 1.14 million,an 11 percent leap from ayear earlier.

The annual auto showoften gives consumers andcar enthusiasts their firstclose look at the new

In this photo released by Ford Motor Co, morethan 1,000 people watched Ford technicians tear

down an F-150 EcoBoost engine on 15 Jan,2011, at the North American International Auto

Show, in Detroit.—INTERNET

vehicles, engine upgradesand gadgets coming off theassembly line each year.

Amid renewedoptimism in the Americanauto industry, organizersexpect higher attendancethan last year’s 714,000visitors — and autocompanies worked toconvince them that theindustry and region wererecovering.—Intenret

How to combat test anxietyCHICAGO, 16 Jan—A US expert on “choking under

pressure” advises anxious test-takers to write abouttheir worries before taking an exam.

Senior author Sian Beilock of the University ofChicago says students prone to test anxiety who wroteout what caused their fears ahead of a “high-stakestest” improved scores by nearly one grade point.

“We reasoned that if worries lead to poor testperformance and writing helps regulate these worries,then giving students the opportunity to express theirthoughts and feelings about an impending examinationwould enhance test performance,” Beilock says in astatement.

The study published in the journal Science foundexam-takers known to choke under pressure showeda 12 percent accuracy drop from pre-stress testing topost-stress choking under pressure testing.

However, students under the same stress butallowed to write about their anxieties experiencedimproved test scores.

“Despite the fact that people are often motivatedto perform their best, the pressure-filled situations inwhich important tests, presentations and matches occurcan cause people to perform below their ability levelinstead,” Beilock says.

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Students make final preparations before theNational Entrance Examination for

Postgraduate (NEEP) in Tianjin Municipality,north China, on 15 Jan, 2011.—XINHUA

BEIJING, 16 Jan—Some 1.5 million Chinesebegan sitting this year’sgraduate school entranceexaminat-ion Saturday, a7 percent increase overlast year.

The number of testtakers was the highestsince 2001, Ministry ofEducation statisticsshow.

Chinese collegestudents and collegegraduates have to take awritten examination toenter graduate school.

Since landing a jobafter graduation has been

1.5 mln sit China’s graduateschool entrance exam

Dancers perform during a joint performanceshow held by performance companies both fromChina and South Korea in Seoul, South Korea,

on 14 Jan, 2011. The show was held to mark theforthcoming Spring Festival. —XINHUA

Nepalese students dance during the inauguration ceremony of the “NepalTourism Year 2011” in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, on 14 Jan, 2011.The Nepalese government inaugurated the “Nepal Tourism Year 2011”with the theme “Together for Tourism” on Friday, aiming to bring more

than 1 million tourists to Nepal in 2011.—XINHUA

Photo taken on 14 Jan, 2011 shows part of iceaffected Laizhou Bay in Laizhou, east China’sShandong Province. The area of iced sea hasamounted to 3,000 square kilometers due tocontinuous cold waves while most offshoreactivities were forced to be halted.—XINHUA

A woman and a dog walk in heavy snowfall inDharmsala, India, on 15 Jan, 2011. Police say

near-freezing temperatures and Himalayan windskilled at least 13 homeless people in northern India,raising the death toll from a severe cold spell to 129

on Wednesday.—INTERNET

difficult in recent years,the number of collegegraduates applying forgraduate studies hasincreased.

China has expandedgraduate studies forprofessional degrees,asking graduate schoolsto shift students out ofr e s e a r c h - o r i e n t e ddegrees into profession-orientated ones. Of the1.5 million test takers,around 20 percent, or305,000, hope to enterprofessional degreeprogrammes.

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Europe meets under pressureto boost crisis fund

BRUSSELS, 16 Jan—Eurozone finance ministershead into a meeting Monday under pressure toramp up the firepower of a debt rescue fund evenafter markets backed off pressure on vulnerablenations.

Europeans are divided over how quickly theyneed to act and how much added muscle theyshould give to the financial safety net that wascreated last year to provide cover to weak countries,following a huge bailout of Greece.

European Commission president, Jose ManuelBarroso, who heads the European Union’s executivearm, urged leaders to take a decision by their nextsummit on 4 February to appease markets nervousabout the fate of Portugal and Spain.

The EU’s rescue mechanism was used to pullIreland from the abyss last November after abanking disaster, but analysts have repeatedlywarned it would be too small to rescue Spain if itever needs a bailout.

Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynderscalled this week for the safety net to be doubled to1.5 trillion euros ($2 trillion) and said he hoped toraise the issue at the eurozone ministers’ monthlymeeting in Brussels.

“I think that doubling the resources would be areasonable objective,” Reynders told AFP in atelephone interview.

But German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble,whose country has the biggest committment in theEuropean Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), themain component in the rescue mechanism, said adebate on increasing the size of the pot was “notrealistic.”—Internet

JOHANNESBURG, 16Jan—Police say 20 peopledied when a burst tire senta passenger bus out ofcontrol in central SouthAfrica and caused it toveer into a muddy stream.

Police said Saturdaythe dead included a childof about eight months andthe driver. Another 18passengers were injured.Transport MinisterSibusiso Ndebele sentexperts to investigate andoffered condolences to thevictims. Reckless driving— sometimes fueled byalcohol — and poormaintenance of masstransportation vehicles areoften cited in deadlyaccidents. The transportminister launched acrackdown in October,stepping up spot checksof vehicles and drivers andurging South Africans tobe cautious on the roads.

Internet

Bus veers intostream, killing

20 in SouthAfrica

Doctors open breathing hole in Giffords’ throatTUSCON, 16 Jan—

Doctors performed atracheotomy on Congress-woman Gabrielle Giffordson Saturday, inserting abreathing tube through ahole in her neck andremoving her from aventilator, hospital officialssaid.

It was the first timeGiffords was removedfrom the ventilator sincelast Saturday, when she

arrived at UniversityMedical Centre after agunman shot her throughthe head.

Giffords, 40, remainsthe only patient in criticalcondition from theshooting that wounded 12others. Six more victimswere killed in the rampage.

One patient wasdischarged on Saturday,and two remainhospitalized in good

condition. In thetracheotomy performedon Saturday, doctorsreplaced a breathing tuberunning down Giffords’throat with the tubeinserted through a hole inher neck, the hospital saidin a written statement.

A feeding tube alsowas inserted into Giffords,a practice not uncommonfor patients in intensivecare with brain injuries,the hospital said.

Internet

Somali pirates hijack Norwegianowned chemical tanker

NAIROBI, 16 Jan—Somali pirates have hijackeda Norwegian owned chemical tanker in the pirate-infested waters off the coast of the Horn of Africanation, a regional maritime official confirmed onSaturday.

Andrew Mwangura, East Africa Coordinator ofthe Seafarers Assistance programme said the SouthKorean operated, Malta-flagged Samho Jewelrywas hijacked on Saturday with 21 crew membersonboard. “The ship was 10,000-dwt chemical tanker,Samho Jewelry with 21 crew members ” Mwanguratold Xinhua by telephone from Mombasa.

He said the vessel was on her way from theUnited Arab Emirates to Sri Lanka.

The pirates have intensified their action in theIndian Ocean and Gulf of Aden and most ofhijackings end without casualties when a ransomhas been paid, but often after several months ofnegotiations.

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LANN PYI MARINE CO., LTD.(Container Feeder Service)

ARRIVAL AND CLAIMS DAY NOTICE

Consignees of cargoes carried by M.V. DELPHINIALPHA are hereby notified that the estimated arrival time of thevessels from Port Kelang are as follows:-

Voy-79 PKG 12-01-2011 YGN 16-01-2011Voy-81 PKG 22-01-2011 YGN 26-01-2011Voy-83 PKG 01-02-2011 YGN 05-02-2011

Cargoes will be discharged into the premises of A.W.P.Twhere it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the bye-law and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargoes will be surveyed daily from 8:00 am to11:30 am and 12:00 Noon to 4:00 pm and Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from theVessel.

No Claims against these vessels will be admitted after theClaims Day.

AGENCY DEPARTMENTNo.55/61, Strand Road, Yangon, Myanmar.Phone No: 01-201787, 201790 (Ext: 108,109)

A girl selects festival decorations at a market inShiyan, central China’s Hubei Province, on 15Jan, 2011. People across the country started to

buy foods and decorations at markets as theSpring Festival draws near.— XINHUA

Tucson gunshow attracts

big crowdTUCSON, 16 Jan—An

area gun show Saturdayattracted thousands ofpeople one week after aTucson shooting spree leftsix dead and US RepGabrielle Giffords among13 wounded.

The “Crossroads of theWest” gun show at thePima County Fairgroundswas held about 10 milesfrom the Tucson shoppingcenter parking lot where ayoung man suspected ofbeing mentally unbal-anced, Jared Loughner, isaccused of going on arampage with a semiauto-matic Glock 19, causingwidespread anguish andstirring up the nationaldebate on gun laws. BobTempleton, president ofCrossroads, called the tim-ing “unfortunate.”

Internet

Video showssubway rat onsleeping man

NEW YORK, 16 Jan — Avideo posted to YouTubedepicts a man sleeping ona New York subway trainwhile a rat climbs his bodyand brushes past his face.The video, posted onWednesday, shows thebrown rat running down aSubway aisle and duckingbeneath a rider’s feet be-fore scaling the body of thesleeping man, the New YorkDaily News reported onFriday.

The rodent is seenclimbing the man’s leg andmaking its way to hisshoulder before beingbrushed away from theman’s face by his hand.The rat then runs down theseat and across the aisle.

Internet

Brain scan can predict videogame aptitude

URBANA, 16 Jan—US researchers say they canpredict video game aptitude using brain scans.Researchers at the University of Illinois at Ur-bana-Champaign led by Art Kramer report theycan predict performance of a complex learningtask – such as learning how to play a difficultvideo game — with “unprecedented accuracy”by analyzing activity in a specific brain region.

Internet

Wedding CeremonyMa Theint Thinzar Aung

B.E (Electrical Power)B.B.A (Management Development Institute of Singapore)

Eldest daughter of U Myo Myint Aung & Daw Kyi Hlaing

to

Maung Aung Zaw HtooBachelor of Business

International Business and Marketing (Auckland)Eldest son of U Thu Ta & Dr. Khin Pyone Swe

On Sunday, 16th January 2011 at Traders Hotel(Myanmar Ballroom)

in the presence of parents and elders of both sides.

2011 ‘year of rockets’ for Europe

The new Vega launcher will be thesmallest of the three rockets.

INTERNET

PARIS, 16 Jan—Twenty-eleven will bethe “year of launchers”, says EuropeanSpace Agency director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain. Europe expects to havethree different rockets operating from its

French Guiana spaceport in the comingmonths. The workhorse Ariane 5 will bejoined by the Russian Soyuz vehicle anda new small launcher called Vega. At hisannual Paris press conference to previewthe year ahead, Mr Dordain said this rep-resented a major change in the way Esaconducted its space activities.

And he told the BBC everyone mightbe surprised at how complex an under-taking this would be. “For 30 years wehave exploited one launcher, the bestlauncher in the world, Ariane — but it wasone launcher,” he explained.”From thisyear, we will exploit three launchers inparallel — Ariane, Soyuz and Vega. It willintroduce some constraints because thetraffic will be much heavier from [thespaceport], and I’m not so sure we’ve yettotally understood the constraints whichare linked to the exploitation of threelaunchers instead of one.” —Internet

One in five cancer survivorshave pain

ANN ARBOR, 16 Jan —Twenty percent of can-cer survivors may be ex-periencing cancer-re-lated chronic pain twoyears after diagnosis, USresearchers said. Thesurvey of nearly 200cancer survivors, con-ducted by researchers atthe University of Michi-gan Health System inAnn Arbor, alsoindicated the pain expe-rience was worse forblacks and for women.

The most significantsource of pain was can-cer surgery in whites andcancer treatment inblacks. The survey, spon-sored by the LanceArmstrong Foundation,indicated blacks with painhad higher pain severity,more concern aboutharmful pain treatmentside effects and greaterpain-related disability.

Women had morepain flares than men,more disability due topain and were more de-pressed because of pain.The study, published

online ahead of print inCancer, suggested patientand physician knowledge/attitudes may lead to poorpain management.

For example, worriesabout painkiller side ef-fects may lead patientsand their doctors to mini-mize pain complaints.

Internet

JAKARTA, 16 Jan— Itssymbol is Garuda, thewinged steed of Vishnuin Hindu mythology, butGaruda Indonesia’sfortunes more closelyresemble the Phoenix,which rose from theflames to fly again.

This, at least, will bethe story Indonesia’snational carrier takes topotential investors thisweek as it touts its initialpublic offering (IPO)around Hong Kong,London and New York.

Its scheduled listingon 11 February mayraise up to 10.3 trillionrupiah ($1.1 billion)through the sale of 9.32billion shares, or 36percent of its capital, atbetween 750 and 1,100rupiah each.

At that scale it islikely to be the biggest

Indonesia carrier Garudatalks up IPO

Two Garudaaircraft

sporting theairline’s old

(rear) and new(foreground)tail logos in

South SumatraProvince.INTERNET

Japan’s Shohei Tochimoto soars through the airduring a practice session before the individual

large hill event at the FIS World Cup SkiJumping competition in Sapporo, northern

Japan, on 16 Jan, 2011.—INTERNET

listing on the Indonesianshare market — whichsoared 46 percent lastyear — in 2011 and oneof the largest in what isexpected to be a busyyear for underwritersacross Asia.—Internet

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Australian officials have had to hire a snakecatcher to keep slithering intruders away fromNew Zealand flood rescuers spooked by theirneighbours’ deadly wildlife, according to a localmayor.

And Australian emergency workers are takingspecial delight in teasing their Kiwi colleagueswho are helping in the mammoth effort to rescuevictims of floods plaguing eastern Queenslandstate, said Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown.

“We’ve had to hire a local snake catcher to goaround with them and keep the snakes away fromthem, because the Kiwis don’t like them verymuch,” he said.

“There are no snakes in New Zealand, so thesepoor blokes are pretty spooked by it all and theAussies are taking every opportunity to tell themas many scary snake stories as they can,” he said,chuckling at the antipodean rivalry.

N Zealand flood rescuers getAussie snake catcher

A venomous brown snake is carried by flood watersafter the Fitzroy River broke its banks and

inundated much of Rockhampton on 4 January.Efforts to help flood victims are being complicatedby deadly brown snakes and other reptiles trying to

take shelter near humans in dry areas.

Three bottles ofwhisky abandoned inAntarctica by Britishexplorer Sir ErnestShackleton more than acentury ago will be sentto Scotland forscientific analysis,reports said Friday.

The bottles ofMackinlay’s whiskywere part of a cacherecovered last yearfrom beneathShackleton’s Antarctichut, built in 1908 aspart of his failed attemptto reach the South Pole,national news agencyNZPA reported.

It said the whiskywould be sent to the

This NASA satelliteimage shows

icebergs along thecoast of Antarctica.

Three bottles ofwhisky abandoned

on the frozencontinent by Britishexplorer Sir ErnestShackleton more

than a century agowill be sent toScotland for

scientific analysis.

Scotland to sampleShackleton’s Antarctic whisky

Whyte & Mackaydistillery in Scotland,which now owns theMackinlay’s brand,where it would beanalysed in an attemptto recreate the originalrecipe.

The wooden cratecontaining the whisky,marked BritishAntarctic Expedition1907, was frozen solidin the minus 30 degreesCelsius (minus 22degrees Fahrenheit)temperatu-res but thewhisky in the bottleswas still liquid.

News Album

LAS VEGAS, 16 Jan—A 17-year-old aspiringpolitician from Nebraska captured the Miss Americacrown on Saturday after beating 52 other youngwomen from across the United States. TeresaScanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlongrun with the crown at the competition at the PlanetHollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas, giving theCornhusker State its first-ever win at the pageant.

Pageant officials said she was the youngestMiss America since the pageant’s first competitionin 1921, when Margaret Gorman of the District ofColumbia won at age 15. But the organization’swebsite listed at least two other young women whowere younger than Scanlan when they won: MarianBergeron of Connecticut, who was 15 1/2 when shewon in 1933, and California’s Rosemary LaPlanche,who was 16 in 1940 and later found to be ineligiblebecause of age limits implemented two years before.

Internet

Miss Nebraska wins 2011 MissAmerica pageant

Teresa Scanlan, MissNebraska waves to theaudience after being

crowned Miss America2011 during the MissAmerica pageant, on

15 Jan, 2011 inLas Vegas.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 16 Jan—Facebook film “The Social Network” became a bigfriend of broadcast critics on Friday when it won several top Critics’ ChoiceAwards, including best film, in the race toward Hollywood’s Oscars.

The movie, which traces the history of the popular website from its foundingin a college dormitory to its first million users, also earned a best director trophyfor David Fincher and adapted screenplay for writer Aaron Sorkin, amongothers. Fincher was not on hand to accept his award, but in claiming his trophy,

Broadcast critics click on “Social Network”

Producer KevinSpacey (R) stands withactors Jesse Eisenberg

(C) and AndrewGarfield (L) after their

film ‘The SocialNetwork’ was namedbest picture at the 16th

Annual Critics’ ChoiceMovie Awards in

Hollywood, Californiaon 14 January, 2011.

INTERNET

LONDON, 16 Jan—British actress Susannah York, one of the most memorablefilm faces of the 1960s, has died from cancer aged 72, British media reportedlate on Saturday. York was best known for her role opposite Jane Fonda in the1969 film “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” for which she was nominated foran Oscar.

“She was an absolutely fantastic mother, who was very down to earth,” herson, actor Orlando Wells, told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. “She lovednothing more than cooking a good Sunday roast and sitting around a fire ofa winter’s evening. In some sense, she was quite a home girl.”

A quintessential English rose with her blonde hair, blue eyes and fresh-faced complexion, along with Julie Christie and Sarah Miles, she was one ofthe most recognizable actresses from films in the 1960s, winning a swathe ofmale admirers.—Reuters

Actress Susannah York dies aged 72

British actress SusannahYork is pictured during a

rehearsal for aTennessee Williams’ playat the New End Theatre

in north London in2009.—INTERNET

Sorkin made a point of mentioning Facebook founderMark Zuckerberg, who had not cooperated with themaking of the fictional film.

On stage, Sorkin called Zuckerberg “anextraordinary leader” and “altruistic” and said, “weall owe you a debt of gratitude” for creating thewebsite that has become ingrained in much of society.Colin Firth was named best actor for his role asstammering King George VI who must prove to theUnited Kingdom that he can be a leader in the darkdays ahead of the World War Two in “The King’sSpeech,” which also claimed best originalscreenplay.—Reuters

Thieves make BMWhottest car at auto show

When carmakers like BMW say they hopepeople find their next car at auto shows like theone in Detroit this week, this wasn’t exactly whatthey meant.

Two thieves drove away in a brand new$94,000 BMW 750i xDrive Sedan on Wednesdaynight that was left idling outside the Westin BookCadillac, one of Detroit’s major hotels.

The car was one of more than a dozen BMWsedans used to ferry executives and guests aroundtown during the show.

On Thursday morning, police said they werestill looking for the gray four-door BMW.

Police said the car was dropped off by a valetto be loaded onto a transport truck to take it backto BMW’s North American headquarters in NewJersey when two men jumped into the car anddrove away.

Lego-lover builds replica ofOhio State stadium

A Columbus-area man has created a Legoreplica of Ohio State’s horseshoe-shaped footballstadium, complete with a decorated archway andscoreboard made of the small blocks.

Paul Janssen used about a million Lego piecesto build the 8-foot-by-6-foot model, which hasroom for 6,000 Lego people.

The 42-year-old Ohio State researcher tellsThe Columbus Dispatch it was a challenge tocreate the rounded model out of the mostlyrectangular blocks that fill his basement in stackedcontainers.

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Answers to yesterday’sCrosswords Puzzle

Inter reignite title chargeas Napoli stumble

Inter Milan’s forwardSamuel Eto’o (C)

celebrates with teamatesafter scoring against FC

Bologna.—INTERNET

African stars Gervinho, Sow keep Lille flying

Lille’s forward Gervinho (L) kicksthe ball past Nice’s goalkeeperDavid Ospina (R).—INTERNET

Dortmund dominate asBayern held at Wolfsburg

Dortmund’s defenderNeven Subotic (L) andLeverkusen’s Swissstriker Eren Derdiyokfight for the ball duringtheir German first divi-sion Bundesliga footballmatch in the westernGerman city ofLeverkusen on 14 Janu-ary. Dortmund won thematch 3-1.—INTERNET

Grant defiant over Hammers future

Asian Cup - Group DIran 1 - 0 Korea DPRU.A.E. 0 - 1 Iraq

England - Premier LeagueChelsea 2 - 0 Blackburn R.Manchester C. 4 - 3 Wolverhampton W.Stoke C. 2 - 0 Bolton W.West Bromwich A.3 - 2 BlackpoolWigan Athletic 1 - 1 FulhamWest Ham U. 0 - 3 Arsenal

Italy - Serie ANapoli 0 - 0 FiorentinaInter Milan 4 - 1 Bologna

Spain - Primera DivisionGetafe 0 - 4 Real SociedadSporting Gijon 2 - 0 HerculesVillarreal 4 - 2 OsasunaZaragoza 1 - 0 LevanteAthletic Bilbao 2 - 1 Racing SantanderSevilla 1 - 2 Espanyol

Germany - Bundesliga I.Nurnberg 0 - 1 MonchengladbachSt. Pauli 2 - 2 FreiburgStuttgart 1 - 0 MainzWerder Bremen 2 - 1 HoffenheimWolfsburg 1 - 1 Bayern MunichSchalke 0 - 1 Hamburger SV

Arsenal’s Robin vanPersie celebrates scoringthe opening goal of theirEnglish Premier League

match.—INTERNET

Simon downs Troicki to winSydney tennis title

Gilles Simon of Franceholds up the winners

trophy after defeatingViktor Troicki of Serbiain the Sydney Interna-

tional.—INTERNET

Maruyama, Appleby sharelead at Sony Open

HONOLULU, 16 Jan—For the second straight day,Stuart Appleby plodded along the soft fairways ofWaialae until he closed strong with improbableshots for eagle or a string of birdies.

That recipe could really come in handy Sunday.Appleby, who holed out with a 5-iron for eagle

on the 16th hole in the opening round, chipped infrom 90 feet across the green on the par-3 seventhSaturday. That was part of a birdie-birdie-birdiefinish for a 4-under 66 and a share of the lead withShigeki Maruyama.

But the tournament is only half over.Because of rain that washed out play Thursday,

the Sony Open will try to finish Sunday with a 36-hole finale.—Internet

StuartAppleby, of

Australia, teesoff on the 10thhole during thesecond round

of the SonyOpen golf.INTERNET

Mancini hails Tevez magicafter City thriller

Manchester City’s man-ager Roberto Mancini

S P O R T S

PARIS, 16 Jan—Lille kept up theirunlikely charge for a first French title inover half a century on Saturday when

African strike pair Moussa Sow andGervinho scored in a 2-0 win at Nice.

Lille, whose last league triumph camein 1954, stay a point clear of Paris SaintGermain who defeated Sochaux 2-1.

On a day when all of the top four won,Rennes stayed third thanks to a 4-0 vic-tory at home to rock-bottom Arles whileLyon are just behind on goal differenceafter a comfortable 3-0 victory againstLorient.

Ivory Coast international Gervinhogave Lille a 44th-minute lead for hiseighth league goal of the season beforeSenegal star Sow hit the second, fiveminutes after the interval.

Internet

BERLIN, 16 Jan—Borussia Dortmund were13 points clear at the topof the Bundesliga on Sat-urday after second-placedMainz lost at Stuttgart andchampions Bayern Mu-nich drew 1-1 atWolfsburg in a gamewhere both sides missedpenalties.

Borussia had blitzedLeverkusen with threegoals in six minutes onFriday as Jurgen Klopp’syoung side showed nosign of releasing their gripat the top.

Goals by Dortmund’s

Germany squad membersMario Goetze and KevinGrosskreutz sealed thewin as Michael Ballackspent the game on thebench as the Germanycaptain looks to returnfrom a leg injury.

After ex-Englandcoach Steve McClarensold striker Edin Dzeko toManchester City over theGerman league’s winterbreak, Wolfsburg lackedfirepower up front againstBayern, but showeddogged dominationagainst the champions.

Internet

ROME, 16 Jan—InterMilan continued their100 percent record underLeonardo, beating Bolo-gna 4-1 at the San Siroon Saturday as title rivalsNapoli slipped up in a0-0 draw at home toFiorentina.

After a difficult firsthalf to the season, Interwere looking like theirold selves again as theycruised to victory againsttheir troubled opponents,leaving them perilouslyclose to the drop zone.

Dejan Stankovic, Di-ego Milito and a SamuelEto’o brace — taking his

tally to 23 goals in 26games this season —moved Inter up to fourth,for a day at least, and justeight points behind lead-ers Milan having playeda game less.—Internet

LONDON, 16 Jan—Avram Grant stubbornlyrefused to confirmwhether he expects WestHam’s 3-0 defeat to Arse-nal at Upton Park to be hislast game in charge.

The former Chelseaand Portsmouth managerhas spent virtually all of theseason with his positionthe subject of intensespeculation, the result ofWest Ham’s lengthy resi-dence in the relegationplaces.

And the Israeli beganthe day knowing that a

number of media sourcesand bookmakers were re-porting that he was to besacked and that MartinO’Neill, the former AstonVilla manager, had agreedto take over.—Internet

MANCHESTER, 16 Jan—Manchester City managerRoberto Mancini hailedunsettled captain Carlos

Tevez after his bracehelped City move to thetop of the Premier League.

In an entertaining en-counter at Eastlands,Tevez’s brilliant double,and goals from brothersKolo and Yaya Toure, en-sured Mancini’s mencame from behind againstWolves to eventually win4-3.—Internet

SYDNEY, 16 Jan—Gilles Simon claimed hiseighth career ATP titlewith a solid straight setsvictory over Serbia’sViktor Troicki in the finalof the Sydney Interna-

tional on Saturday.The steady Frenchman

drove the excitable Troickito sheer frustration with hisconsistency to carve out a7-5, 7-6 (7/4) victory in1hr 59min.

Simon became the firstFrenchman since Guy For-get 20 years ago to win theSydney title when it wasplayed at White City.

Fourth seed Troicki’sanxiety turned to angerwhen he hurled his rac-quet into the court andkicked out at the net asSimon won his fifthstraight match against theSerb.

Internet

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R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar.

Monday,17 January

View on today

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, light rain has beenisolated in Kachin State and Upper Sagaing Region,weather has been partly cloudy in Yangon and TaninthayiRegions and generally fair in the remaining States andRegions. Night temperatures were (3°C) below Januaryaverage temperature in Upper Sagaing Regions and (3°C)to (4°C) above January average temperature in Kachin,Eastern Shan and Mon States and about Janauray averagetemperatures in the remaining States and Regions. Thesignificant night temperatures were Pinlaung (1°C), Haka(2°C), Namhsan and Heho (4°C) each. The Noteworthyamount of rainfall was Machanbaw (0.04) inch.

Nay Pyi Taw Maximum temperature on 15-1-2011 was 88°F.

Minimum temperature on 16-1-2011 was 59°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 16-1-2011 was (73%).Rainfall on 16-1-2011 was (Nil) .

Yangon (Kaba-Aye)Maximum temperature on 15-1-2011 was 88°F.

Minimum temperature on 16-1-2011 was 64°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 16-1-2011 was (60%).Total sunshine hours on 15-1-2011 was (7.9)

WEATHERSunday, 16th January, 2011

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas hours(Approx).Rainfall on 16-1-2011 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-

Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2011 was(1.97) inches at Mingaladon, (1.42) inches at Kaba-Ayeand (2.95) inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speedat Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from North West at(12:30) hours MST on 15-1-2011.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and generally fair elsewherein the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 17th January2011: Lihgt rain are likely to be isolated in Kachin State,Upper Sagaing and Taninthayi Regions and weather willbe partly cloudy in Shan, Chin, Rakhine and Mon States,Magway, Yangon and Ayeyawady Regions and generallyfair in the remaining States and Regions. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likihood ofcontinuation of isolated light rain in the extreme NorthernMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 17-1-2011: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 17-1-2011: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 17-1-2011: Generally fair weather.

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am MSTOversea Transmission - (17-1-11 09:30 am ~

18-1-11 09:30 am MST

Local Transmission* Opening* News* Travelogue in Popa* The Origin of Htainmathein* News* Topic On Journal “The Art of Bronze

Casting”* Working & Living In Myanmar (Tourism)* News* Live Concert* News* Youth and Language “What is she talking

about?”Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* Travelogue in Popa* The Origin of Htainmathein* News* Topic On Journal “The Art of Bronze

Casting”* Working & Living In Myanmar (Tourism)* News* Live Concert* News* Youth and Language “What is she talking

about?”* News* Ananda Guphaya* News* Festive Events of Twantay* Musical Gallery* News* Myanmar Movies Impact* News* Monastery Shwe In-Pin Kyaung* Myanmar Movies “Love Be Win”* News

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(17-1-2011) (Monday)

7:00 am

1. Paritta By Hilly

Region Missionary

Sayadaw

7:25 am

2. To Be Healthy

Exercise

7:30 am

3. Morning News

7:40 am

4. Dhamma Puja Song

7:50 am

5. Nice & Sweet Song

8:00 am 6. Soung Of National

Races

8:05 am 7. Cute Little Dancers

8:20 am 8. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing

Arts Competition

8:35 am

9. Teleplay (Health)

8:40 am

10. International News

8:45 am

11. Musical Programme

4:00 pm 1. Martial Song

4:10 pm 2. Dance Variety

4:25 pm

3. Musical Programme

4:40 pm

4. University Of

Distance Education

(TV Lectures)

-First Year

(Physics)

4:55 pm

5. Songs For

Upholding

National Spirit

5:05 pm

6. Musical Programme

(The Radio Myanmar

Modern Music

Troupe)

5:20 pm

7. Myanmar

Language

5:35 pm

8. Myanmr Idol

6:00 pm

9. Evening News

6:15 pm

10. Weather Report

6:20 pm

11. Sing & Enjoy

7:00 pm

12. TV Drama Series

8:00 pm

13. News

14. International News

15. Weather Report

16. World’s Stars

(Part-6)

17. TV Drama Series

London Olympics tickets togo on sale this March

LONDON, 16 Jan—Tickets for the London 2012Olympic Games will go on sale on 15 March, 2011and Paralympic Games tickets will go on sale on 9September, 2011, confirmed The LondonOrganising Committee of the Olympic Games andParalympic Games (LOCOG) on Saturday.

The process for Olympic Games tickets willopen for six weeks. Applications will close on April26 and all oversubscribed sessions will be allocatedvia a ballot process.

Applications can be made at any point duringthe six week application period - it is not a firstcome, first served process.

LOCOG will announce full details of thepurchasing process and the finaliced schedule forall 650 sport sessions in February. The two millionpeople who have already signed up to the London2012 ticketing database.—Xinhua

Austria’s Benjamin Raich clears a gate duringa men’s ski World Cup slalom race in Wengen,

Switzerland, on 16 Jan, 2011.—INTERNET

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

13th Waxing of Pyatho 1372 ME Monday, 17 January, 2011

Information Minister attends award ceremony of school librarydevelopment and reading habit developing festival in Thakayta Township

YANGON, 16 Jan —Thakayta Township ofYangon Region held aprize-presentation cere-mony for school librarydevelopment and readinghabit developing festivalthis morning in the princintof the Zina ManaungPagoda. Patron of RuralLibrary FoundationMinister for InformationU Kyaw Hsan addressedthe ceremony andawarded prize-winningstudents in essay, poemrecitation and extemporetalks contests.

After the ceremonyhad been opened, MinisterU Kyaw Hsan made aspeech. Next, he presentedprizes to Maung Tin Tun

Lin who stood first in thehigh school levelextempore talks contest,Ma Cherry Win who stoodfirst in the high schoollevel essay contest, MaZun Mu Paing Oo whostood first in middle schoollevel essay contest andMa Yoon Wadi Swe whostood first in the primaryschool level poemrecitation contest.

Then, the ministerdonated publicationsworth K 1,016,500 for 19ward libraries, K 1 millioneach for two ward librariesin Thakayta Townshipand a Sky Net DTH forThakayta TownshipLibrary.

The Minister also

accepted K 1 million forBawalanhnyun Library byU Zay Myo Oo and DawSwe Swe Win of AungMyintmo Printing Housein Thakayta Townshipand K 500,000 for theschool library by MajorPhyu Win (Retd) and DawAye Aye Soe.

Afterwards, Myan-mar Writers and JournalistsAssociation Chairman UTin Hlaing(Ledwintha Saw Chit),Rural Library FoundationChairman U MaungMaung, Vice-Chairman UNyunt Swe, MWJA Vice-Chairman U Khin MaungTun (Khin Maung Tun-Lanmadaw), Secretary

(See page 9)

Significant night temperatures(16-1-2011)

Pinlaung (1°C)Haka (2°C)

Namhsan (4°C)

Heho (4°C)

YANGON, 16 Jan—With the aim of ensuring rightproduction of monsoon paddy, a model monsoonpaddy plot was harvested on field No. 66/B/4 inAungthitsa Ward of Kalay Township, Kalay District,on 23 December.

The model plot of farmer U Maung San was putunder Shwebo (1) paddy strain.

Members of District and Township AgriculturalCoordination Committes, district and township leveldepartmental officials and staff participated in thepaddy harvesting work.

The 3.15 acres of model plot produced 108.26baskets of dried paddy per acre.

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Model monsoon paddy plot harvested in Kalay Township

Minister

for

Information

U Kyaw

Hsan

hands over

cash

donated by

the State to

funds of

two

libraries in

Thakayta

Township

through

officials.

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