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* 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

NAY PYI TAW, 5 April— At the invitation of H.EMr.Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republicof Vietnam, General Thein Sein, Prime Minister of the Union of

Prime Minister General Thein Sein toattend 16th ASEAN Summit in Vietnam

YANGON , 4 April—Prime Minister of the So-cialist Republic of VietnamMr. Nguyen Tan Dung

Vietnam-Myanmar InternationalTrade Fair-2010 opened

Myanmar, will be attending the 16th ASEAN Summit sched-uled to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the near future.

MNA

who is here on a workingvisit at the invitation ofPrime Minister of theUnion of Myanmar

General Thein Seinattended the opening cer-emony of Vietnam-Myanmar International

Trade Fair-2010 at MyanmarConvention Centre on MinDhamma Road here yester-day afternoon. Artistes from

the Ministries of Culture of thetwo countries performed atthe ceremony.

(See page 8)

LOCAL NEWS

INT’L NEWS

TEMPERATURE

WEATHER

Magway (43°C)

Nay Pyi Taw andNeighbouring area

Partly cloudy.Yangon and

Neighbouring areaPartly cloudy.

Mandalay andNeighbouring area

Partly cloudy.

Tachilek on the road to development

Tachilek a townfacing Thailand at theborder is on the path toprogress, with its neatand tidy Bogyoke Roadin downtown area

flanked by rows ofmodern apartmentbuildings and shops.

On its roads werebusy people going fromone place to another on

motorcycles or in carsmaking the border townalways lively andactive.

As we were there tohunt news we first

interviewed U Tin HtooMaung, Chairman ofTachilek Township Peaceand Development Coun-cil. He explained, “Town-ship PDC has been carry-

ing out developmenttasks in harmony.”

Under the close su-pervision of Shan State(East) PDC, officials of (See page 9)

Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Lay Nwe (Mingaladon)

Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung views booths atVietnam-Myanmar International Trade Fair-2010.—MNA

Sub-NationalImmunization

Days-2010observed in

Ayeyawady Div

Chairman ofAyeyawady Division

Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-West Command

Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe andMinister for Health Dr

Kyaw Myint view boothat Sub-National

Immunization Days-2010 ceremony in

Pathein Town Hall.MNA

The site of a car bombattack in Baghdad, Iraq,

Sunday, 4 April, 2010.

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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

Try to improve nationaleconomy making use ofinfrastructures

Now is the time when all-out efforts arebeing made to improve the socio-economy andliving standards of the people. Infrastructuresare also being built for regional development.

We can see signs of significant progresseven in Taninthayi Division in the far south ofthe Union. Dawei and Myeik have emerged asdeveloped regions. Dawei University and MyeikUniversity have been built, and the local youthsare also pursuing higher education atuniversities of computer studies andtechnological universities.

The State has built new roads and bridgesfor better transport that is fundamental toregional development. Dawei-Myeik-Bokpyin-Kawthoung road and Ye-Dawei railroad haveemerged. Along the routes, Kyweku-Kyaukphya bridge, Taninthayi bridge andLayhnya-Mandaing bridge have been built forthe convenience of the travelling people.

Even in Kyunsu that has to rely mainly onthe waterway, the local people can now useinter-town roads and circular roads. OnPahtaw-Pahtat Island in Kyunsu Township,1000-ton cold storage factories are built toconduct fish and prawn breeding, and softcrabs are being sent to markets.

As Taninthayi Division has a great deal ofvacant land, it is establishing oil palm plantationson a commercial scale and have built palm oilfactories. Its rich marine resources haveenabled the division to extend fishery andimprove the economy by sending marineproducts to markets.

The government has built economic,education, health and social foundations in allregions of the Union, including TaninthayiDivision. By enlisting the innovative strengthof the regional people alongside the State-builtinfrastructures, the entire nation will improveits economy for sure.

Sub-National Immunization Days-2010observed in Ayeyawady Div

NAY PYI T AW , 4April—The openingceremony of Sub-National ImmunizationDays-2010 was held atCity Hall in Pathein,Ayeyawady Division,yesterday with anopening speech by

Chairman ofAyeyawady DivisionPeace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of South-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe.

It was also attendedby Minister for Health Dr

Kyaw Myint. The ministerurged the health staffmembers to make effortsfor reaching polio-freeregion as a national duty.The Immunization Daysare being observed withthe aim of preventingagainst polio virus

spreading fromneighboring countries. Thedays were observed heldon 3 and 4 April for the firsttime and on 1 and 2 Mayfor the second timecovering 2.23 million ofunder 5-year-old kids, hecontinued.

“The local people inNargis-ravaged regionof Ayeyawady Divisionare now in good healthdue to efforts of healthmembers and assistanceof WHO, UNICEF, JCV,social organizations,ministries and wellwishers”, he said.

The commander andthe minister then viewedcommemorative boothand gave away gifts tokids undergoinghealthcare.

The Sub-NationalImmunization Days-2010were observed with jointcooperation of HealthMinistry, WHO, UNICEFand JCV.—MNA

Chairman of Ayeyawady Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of South-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe andMinister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint view booth at Sub-National

Immunization Days-2010 ceremony in Pathein Town Hall.—MNA

Minister for Industry-1 U Aung Thaung inspects Pyawbwe TextileFactory.—MNA

NAY P YI TAW , 4April—Minister forIndustry-1 U AungThaung today inspectedconstruction ofYonesingyi StationHospital in TaungthaTownship of MandalayDivision.

The minister alsovisited Pyawbwe TextileFactory of MyanmaTextile Industries.

He inspecteddurability of machines,production processesand products of thefactory and leftnecessary instructions.

In the afternoon, theminister visited SoapFactory (Yamethin) ofMyanma Pharmaceutical

Industry-1 Minister inspects factories inPyawbwe, Yamethin

Industries and Dying andPrinting Factory(Yamethin) of Myanma

Textile Industries. Heinspected productionprocesses of the factories

and left necessaryinstructions.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 April —Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thi attended a meeting on timelycompletion of No.4 Fertilizer Factory(Myaungdaka) and No.5 Fertilizer Factory (Pathein)projects held in Hmawby Township YangonDivision this morning.

First, the minister made a speech and responsiblepersons of Asia World Company, HQCEC andChina-II reported on project tasks. The ministerthen gave necessary instructions.

Later, he looked into installation of at the Co2removal unit absorber, ammonia compressor houseand control room in the project compound of No.4Fertilizer Factory.—MNA

Timely completion of fertilizerfactory projects discussed

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LOS ANGELES, 4 April —Four people were killedand at least two others wounded when a gunmanopened fire at a restaurant in Valley Village nearLos Angeles on Saturday.

The shooting occurred around 4:40 pm at theHot Spot Cafe, a Mediterranean restaurant packedwith customers, according to police.

The gunman in his 30s walked into the restaurantand opened fire, according to police officer RosarioHerrera.

Three people were declared dead at the scene.Several more victims were taken to a hospital,where one later died, Herrera said.

The gunman ran away and remained at large,she said.

It remained unclear whether there was anaccomplice. —Xinhua

KABUL, 4 April — Arocket fired by insurgentsclaimed the life of a childand injured two others inAfghanistan’s northernKunduz province, said apress release of theInterior Ministry issuedhere on Saturday.

“A rocket attack,

Rocket attack kills Afghan child,wounds two

Gunman kills four nearLos Angeles

MEXICO CITY , 4 April—Seven people were killedin a shootout in the Gulfcoast city of Tampico, theTamaulipas stateprosecutors’ office said onSaturday.

Five men and twowomen were killed in theshooting between rivaldrug gangs at a nightclublate Friday, the office ofthe northeastern Mexicanstate said.

The latest violencecame after five gunmenwere killed during a clashwith the Mexican Armynear Monterrey, capital ofNuevo Leon state innorthern Mexico onSunday. —Xinhua

Nightclubshootout kills

seven inMexico

BEJING, 4 April —Hamas in Gaza has condemnedIsraeli air strikes, which hit different targets throughoutthe Gaza Strip. Hamas released a statement on Friday,hours after Israeli warplanes carried out at least sevenmissile attacks on Gaza.

Israel says the military destroyed several Palestinianmunition sites and the air strikes were in response to anearlier rocket attack carried out by Gaza militants.

Xinhua

Hamas condemns Israelistrikes on Gaza

ISLAMABAD , 4 April— At least 21 militantswere killed in clasheswith security forcesSunday in northwestPakistan’s Orakzai tribalarea, according to localTV reports.

Another 61 militantswere injured in theclashes in Orakzai, theonly tribal area which isnot borderingAfghanistan.

The security forcesalso arrested eightmilitants.

21 militants killed inPakistan’s tribal area

Orakzai has seenintensive militaryoperation since lateMarch, in which over300 militants have beenkilled or injured.

A large number oflocal and foreignmilitants fled to this areamonths ago beforePakistani militarylaunched an offensive inSouth Waziristan, astronghold of al-Qaedaand Pakistani Talebaninsurgents.

Xinhua

An Afghan man is searched by a soldier of the AfghanNational Army as a US Marine from Kilo company 3rdBattalion 6th Marines watches near a US Marine base

in Marjah district, Helmand province, on 1 April,2010.—INTERNET

fired by the rebelsyesterday to target theheadquarters of Dasht-e-Archi district in Kunduzprovince hit a residencearea killing an innocentchild and injuring twowomen,” the press releasesaid.

It blamed the enemies

of peace in Afghanistan,a term used againstTaleban insurgents, for theattack.

However, the militantshave yet to makecomments.

Taleban militantswho staged a violentcomeback four years agohave vowed to speed uptheir activities this yearagainst the Afghangovernment and NATO-led forces stationed inpost-Taleban country.

Kunduz, a relativitypeaceful province untilearly 2009, has been thescene of Taleban-ledincreasing militancy overthe past several monthsas three soldiers with theNATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) and five Afghantroops were killed onFriday. —Xinhua

A Palestinian protestorprepares to hurl a stone at

Israeli troops duringclashes in the West Bank

village of Iraq Burin, nearNablus, Saturday, 3 April,

2010. Residents of thevillage said they tried toprevent Jewish settlersfrom bathing in a water

cistern Palestiniansdepend on for agriculture.

INTERNET

A woman reacts tothe killing of her

brother by unknowngunmen who stormed

into his house inBaghdad on 3 April,

2010.INTERNET

The site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, 4 April, 2010.Suicide attackers detonated car bombs in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at

least 38 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.—INTERNET

Baghdad suicide blasts targetembassies; 38 dead

BAGHDAD, 4 April—Suicide attackers deto-nated three car bombsnear embassies inBaghdad on Sunday, kill-ing at least 38 people andwounding more than 200in back-to-back bomb-ings.

Authorities said theyfoiled two other attacksaimed at diplomatic tar-gets. The bombings cametwo days after a chillingexecution-style attack bygunmen who raidedhomes south ofBaghdad, killing 24

people, many of them be-lieved to be anti-al-Qaidafighters. The rise in blood-shed after a relative lulldeepened fears that insur-gents are seizing on thepolitical uncertainty afterlast month's close parlia-mentary elections to sowfurther instability.

Sun-day's blasts wentoff within minutes of eachother — one near the Ira-nian Embassy and two oth-ers in an area that housesseveral embassies, includ-ing the Egyptian Consu-late, and the German and

Spanish embassies, saidMaj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, a spokesmanfor the city's operationscommand center.

Sunday's explosionsoccurred shortly before11:30 a.m. after a num-ber of far smaller blastsovernight and early Sun-day. One of those earlierblasts, believed to becaused by a bomb under-neath a parked car, killedone civilian and injurednine others, according topolice.

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President Hu encourages treeplanting for better environmentBEIJING , 3 April—

Chinese President HuJintao Saturday urgedpeople nationwide tokeep planting trees in avoluntary way to helpbuild a more attractivecountry.Hu made theremarks when he wasplanting trees with youngpioneers together withother top leaders of the

country including toplegislator Wu Bangguoand Premier Wen Jiabaoat the Beiwu Park in thenorthern part of thecapital.Saturday markedthe 26th voluntary treeplanting day of Beijing.Some 2 million localresidents had taken partin the activity over thepast few days.Hu said

the voluntary treeplanting activity helpedimprove theenvironment and fightglobal warming.Hucalled on constant effortsto mobilize the wholesociety to join theactivity to create abeautiful and hospitableenvironment.

Xinhua

Photo taken on3 April, 2010shows hot air

balloons duringa 5-day hot airballoon festivalheld in Levin,New Zealand.

The annual hotair balloon

festival startedin Levin onThursday.

XINHUA

Workers set upsculptures in the shapeof “go” pieces, whichcan also be served as

chairs, at the ExpoPark in Shanghai, on 2 April, 2010,

east China. Variousdecorative sculptures

were placed in theExpo Park as the trial

operation of theShanghai World Exposcheduled on 3 April

is drawing near.XINHUA

Dengue fever cases up 72% so far this year in BrazilRIO de JANEIRO , 3

April — The number ofdengue fever cases inBrazil from January toMarch reached 227,109,up 72 percent from thecases registered in the sameperiod last year, thecountry’s Health Ministry

said on Thursday.According to the ministry,184,574 of those cases, or86.5 percent of the total,were registered in the samestates in which mostdengue fever casesoccurred last year:Rondonia and Acre in the

northern region; MatoGrosso, Mato Grosso doSul and Goias in themidwestern region; andMinas Gerais and SaoPaulo in the southeasternregion.

About 35.4 percent ofthe cases are reported in

Carpets made of sawdustsare seen in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras,

on 2 April, 2010. Local residents made 42 sawdusts carpets with traditional

patterns on Friday.XINHUA

Meteoworld, the jointpavilion of the World

MeteorologicalOrganization (WMO)

and ChinaMeteorologicalAdministration,

tests its “respirationskin” at the ExpoPark in Shanghai,

east China,on 3 April, 2010.

XINHUA

7 security guards, one soldierkilled in Algeria bomb attacks

ALGIERS, 3 April—Seven security guardsand a soldier were killedlate Saturday in twobomb attacks in eastAlgeria, local El-Watandaily reported.

The report said theattacks, which were anambush, occurred on atown road in Tifra, nearBejaia, some 250 kmeast of Algiers.

The first bombexploded in the path ofa van carrying nine

security guards, killingseven while twomanaged to flee. Onehour later, the secondbomb, which wasremotely detonated in thesame place, killed asoldier and woundedtwo others. The reportsaid local authoritieshave started a searchoperation immediatelyusing two helicopters,while the whole regionwas sealed by themilitary.—Xinhua

At least one dead in NJ privateplane crash

WE S T MILFORD, 3April — At least oneperson was killed and asecond critically injuredon Saturday in the crashof a private plane in thenorthernmost part of theU.S. state of New Jersey,officials said.There wereunofficial reports from

first responders that twopeople died in the crash.

West Milford, NJ,police said the Cessna172 aircraft carrying twopeople crashed in awooded area near RidgeRoad and Iron Hill Roadabout noon, EDT.

It was notimmediately known if

the aircraft had beenflying into or out ofnearby GreenwoodLake, or even had beenthere recently.

A police statementsaid conditions of thepeople on board werebeing withheld pendingnotifications.

Xinhua

six cities: Campo Grandein Mato Grosso do Sulstate, Goiania andAparecida de Goiania inGoias state, Rio Branco inAcre state, Porto Velho inRondonia state and BeloHorizonte in Minas Geraisstate.—Xinhua

One of eight hijacked Indiancargo ships released

MUMBAI, 3 April—One of the eight hijackedIndia’s cargo shipsseveral days ago werefreed by Somalianpirates due to less fuel tosail, local media reportedon Saturday evening.

The cargo shipKrishna Jyot managedto refuel following being

released off the coast ofSomalia, and is now onits way home withfifteen sailors on board,the news agency PressTrust of India quotedBholim, president ofKutch-based ShipC o m m u n i c a t i o nAssociation of Gujaratas saying.

Bholim said theassociation wasinformed by the sailorsof the Krishna Jyot afterit was released.

The freed ship wasone of the 7 Gujarat-registered cargo shipswith about 100 crewmembers hijacked bySomalian pirates onMarch 28. However,there was still no wordabout the other 6 shipsand one more Gujarat-registered cargo shipwhich was captured bySomalian pirates onMarch 30, according tothe president.

India has asked theSomalian government tohelp the release of theremaining cargo shipsand sailors held bypirates. —Xinhua

All Items from XinhuaNews Agency

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Border police have seized seven millionillegally imported cigarettes from a lorry after

it arrived from France, officials said.INTERNET

A boy jumps with

his bicycle in front

of the European

Central Bank

(ECB) headquarters

in Frankfurt,

Germany on 1

April, 2010.

INTERNET

A child views cherry trees in full bloom at theTidal Basin in Washington on 1 April, 2010.

INTERNET

LAPAZ, 4 April—Leftist Bolivian PresidentEvo Morales signed anagreement on Thursdaythat paves the way for theacquisition of a $300million Chineset e l ecommunica t ionssatellite, the latest sign ofdeepening ties betweenthe resource rich Andeancountry and commodity-hungry China.

The Moralesgovernment announcedearlier this week that

Bolivia, China team up oncommunications satellite

China will provideBolivia with a $67 millionloan to buildinfrastructure in themineral-rich Oruroregion and transportationequipment worth $2.6million to the Bolivianarmed forces.

Other recent dealshave included a $60million loan from Chinalate last year, part ofwhich will be used topurchase natural gasdrilling rigs. Bolivia has

also announced plans tobuy six Chinese lightmilitary aircraft worth$58 million to fightcocaine traffickers.

“Now the President,the Vice President andthe Finance Minister haveto guarantee the funds,so that we can sign acontract and ... in threeyears, as the techniciansare saying, we’ll launchthe Tupac Katarisatellite,” Morales saidafter signing the deal inLa Paz.

The satellite,which will be named afteran Indian who led anuprising against theSpanish conquistadors inthe 18th century, willimprove Internet accessand communications inremote rural areas,Morales said.—Internet

LONDON, 4 April — Border police have seizedseven million illegally imported cigarettes from alorry after it arrived from France, officials said.

The cigarettes were recovered from a freezerunit in the vehicle after it reached Newhaven ferryport from the French port of Dieppe late Wednesday,according to border officials.

Authorities estimated the tobacco would havecost the government 1.3 million pounds in lost taxrevenues had it reached the black market.

Police arrested a 42-year-old Scottish lorrydriver in connection with the seizure.—Internet

Officials seize seven mlncigarettes on lorry from

France

Beware of Fire

Penitents attend theProcession of the

Torches during HolyWeek in Cidade de

Goias, central Brazil1 April, 2010.

Hundreds of Easterprocessions take placeas part of Holy Week

in Brazil, drawingthousands of visitors.

INTERNET

SHANGHAI , 4 April —GM China, the Chinesesubsidiary of US car-maker General Motors,said Friday sales of GMand its Chinese joint

GM China reports recordmonthly sales in March

ventures in March jumped67.9 percent from a yearago to a new monthlyrecord. Sales totaled230,048 units last month,the company said in astatement.

The US company andits joint ventures sold623,546 vehicles in thefirst quarter, up 71.4percent, setting a newrecord of GM sales inChina.

March sales ofShanghai GM, GM’sjoint venture withChinese auto giantShanghai AutomotiveIndustry Corporation,surged 88.8 percent to86,967 units.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 4 April—Six people, includingthree children, died Friday in a fire that engulfeda two-story building in Minneapolis, Minnesota,local authorities said.

The bodies of a women, two men and threechildren were recovered from the building whichhoused apartments on the second floor and a pubon the first. Their names were not released.

All victims in the building were believedaccounted for, the Minneapolis Fire Departmentsaid in a news release.

The fire was reported around 6 a.m. local time(1100 GMT) and firefighters took hours to bringit under control.

The cause of the fire was still underinvestigation. —Xinhua

Six die in Minneapolis fire

ALMATY, 4 April— Kazakhstan Ministry ofEmergency Situations revealed on Friday that thefinal number of flood victims was confirmed to 45in Kyzyl-Agash village South Kazakhstan.

The last person on the village’s missing list —villager Toleybay Reiszhan has not been foundyet. According to the ministry Reiszhan wasdeclared dead. However, the Almaty StateEmergency Bureau and local residents are stillsearching for his body alongside the channel ofKyzyl-Agash River.

At present, the Almaty State Prosecutor’sOffice has initiated the investigation on relevantsuspects related to this disastrous accident. Suspectsinclude some local officials and privatecompanies’executives responsible for the dam’smaintenance.—Xinhua

45 killed in flood-ravagedvillage in South Kazakhstan

LIMA, 4 April— A landslide in northern Peruon Thursday killed at least five people and leftthree others missing, the country’s nationalinstitute of civil defense said.

The landslide, occurring near the town ofCancejos in Huanuco province, destroyed 10houses, damaged 43 houses and blocked a sectionof the inter-provincial highway.

Rescuers have already been sent to the disasterarea. Cancejos is 550 km northeast of the capitalcity of Lima.

The institute of civil defense said the landslidewas triggered by downpours which lasted overfive hours in the area.

Another landslide a week earlier killed sevenpeople in the mining province of Puno in easternPeru.

Xinhua

Landslide kills 5 in northern Peru

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NEWS ALBUM

Nineopus. Novop-us. Freak of nature.Whatever you want tocall it, the nine-leggedoctopus probably had aleg up on all the othercreatures in the Gulf ofMexico — until it wascaught and found itsway to Hellas Bakeryand Restaurant inFlorida.

Head ChefEmmanuel Psomassays he was steamingthe octopus Thursdaywhen he discoveredthat it seemed, well,leggier than normal.Psomas says he’scooked octopus for 40years — it’s a Greekdelicacy — and hasnever seen one with anextra leg.

He says he countedthe legs three times in

Fla chef has nine reasons hisFla chef has nine reasons hisoctopus tastes betteroctopus tastes better

disbelief.“I’m like, this can’t

be,” Psomas said. “I’veseen a lot of octopus.”

He’s keeping theoctopus in hisrefrigerator for now, buthe plans to enjoy it soonwith a bit of vinegar,lemon juice, olive oiland herbs. Whileunusual, marine expertssay the extra leg on theoctopus is likely due togenetic mutation.

LOS ANGELES, 4 April — NASAon Friday announced it will checkwhether the Phoenix Mars Landerhas come back to l i fe af terexperiencing a Mart ian arct icwinter.

The NASA Jet PropulsionLaboratory (JPL) said the MarsOdyssey orbiter will conduct thecheck by “listening” to the landerfor a third time.

The listening period will lastfrom 5 April through 9 April theJPL said in a news release.

While Odyssey l is tens toPhoenix during 60 fly-overs next

Prosecutors say an Ohio inmate’s letter to hismother included detailed instructions on how tosneak drugs to him — but lacked the correct ZIP code.

Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton says the letterwas returned to the Port Clinton jail where correctionsofficers read it along with the other incoming mail.

Donald Dudrow III of Toledo was indictedThursday on charges of attempted drug traffickingand trying to get drugs into a correctional facility.

He already was in jail on a probation violation.Jail officials didn’t know whether Dudrow has an

attorney.

A toddler inOshkosh is OK aftertaking his mother’s car

Ohio inmate’s letter to wrongaddress nets charges

3-year-old boy drives away with mom’s car

Passengers rideKings DominionPark’s new roller

coaster, theIntimidator 305,

during a sneak peakat the new ride,

featuring a 300-footdrop at an 85-

degree angle, andspeeds of up to

94mph, in Doswell,Va. outside of

Richmond.

Sidney Nolan’s “First-class Marksman”(1946) is seen in this undated handout photo.

out for short spin downthe block. Police said themother of the 3-year-old

boy told officers her sonwas asleep in the 1985Buick sedan when sheleft it running and raninto the house for amoment Wednesdaymorning.

When she returned,the car was gone. Policesay the boy knelt on theseat, pulled down onthe gear shift lever andstarted to roll down theblock.

The car hadtraveled nearly twoblocks before an officerwas able to stop thevehicle.

This photo, shows

the 9-legged octopus

found in a seafood

shipment by Hellas

Bakery and

Restaurant head chef

Emmanuel Psomas.

He says it’s the first

9-legged octopus he’s

seen in his 40 years

as a chef.

An aerial view taken of the Gyzeh pyramids near Cairo. The desert ismaking a comeback in the Middle East, with fertile lands turning into

barren wastes that could further destabilise the region, experts said at awater conference on Thursday. —INTERNET

NASA to conduct 3rd listeningcheck on Mars lander

week, the Phoenix site will be inaround-the-clock sunshine.

The Mars Odyssey orbiterreceived no signal from the solar-powered Phoenix Mars Lander inthe previous two listening check-ups conducted earlier this year.

The lander showed no sign ofcoming back to life in Februarywhen it had supposedly reviveditself after the northern Mars winter.

The solar-powered PhoenixMars Lander operated two monthslonger than its planned three-monthmission in the Martian arctic in2008.—Xinhua

SOFIA, 4 April —A dead bird found near Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Varnahas tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus, officials said on Thursday.

The Agriculture Ministry said the tests on a common buzzard wereconducted at the national veterinary. No other cases of the highly pathogenicH5N1 strain of avian influenza were detected in Bulgaria, but farmers werealerted to the risks of transmission by migratory and wild birds. Two weeks ago,a bird flu outbreak was found at a backyard poultry farm in a village inneighboring Romania, and all its birds were killed.

The European Commission called it the first detection of bird flu in theEuropean Union in a year, following a confirmed case in March 2009involving a wild duck in Germany. Gregory Hartl, a World Health Organizationspokesman in Geneva, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he heardabout the bird flu cases in Bulgaria and Romania, but that WHO doesn’tconfirm or record bird flu cases unless they involve humans. Bird flu haskilled 291 people around the world since it began ravaging poultry stocks in2003, Hartl said, with Indonesia being the worst hit country. — Internet

Bird with H5N1 virus found in Bulgaria

MOSCOW, 4 April—China has agreed to buy alarge number of S-300anti-aircraft missilesystems from Russia,Interfax news agencyreported on Friday, citingthe director of the Russianplant that makes theweapons.

The truck-mounted S-300, known in the West as

China to buy air defence systemsfrom Russia

the SA-20, can shoot downcruise missiles and aircraft.

Interfax quoted IgorAshurbeili, director generalof Almaz Antei whichmakes the missiles, thatChina would receive a totalof 15 batteries of S-300s.He did not give the valueof the deal.In Russia’sarmed forces, a S-300battery normally consists

of four truck-mountedinstallati-ons, eachconsisting of four missilesheld in metal tubes.

Moscow has said itplans to fulfill a contract tosupply the S-300, nickn-amed “the favorite” inRussia, to Iran, unnerv-ing Israel and its close allythe United States.

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A single grain of sesame is not enough toextract edible oil from it, but we can get enough edibleoil if we collect a huge number of grains of sesame.Now, the nation is in its transition to democracy, thuscalling for concerted efforts, broader views, thoughts,advice and knowledge from the entire people. I amglad to learn that now journals are featuring cartoons,articles, news stories and photos of historic events,processes and views about political affairs.

National brethren at the age of around 60across the nation passed that period. I don't thinkthere is much difference between characters,ways of thinking, diets, and parental managementof a person and that of another. They adhered tothe advice of their parents, and practised thrift intheir married life. At that time, the price of 10duck eggs was just one kyat, but on average, aportion of dish for a family member was just halfof a boiled duck egg.

No one can deny that the living standardof their children was better than theirs. In likemanner, their grandchildren enjoy better livingconditions and socio-economic status, with fineeducational institutions, clothes and utensils.Myanmar has seen a lot of positive changesduring the period.

However, under various circumstances andreasons, a small number of people migrate from ruralareas to towns, then to districts and then to capital NayPyi Taw and Yangon, and then to foreign countries insearch of greener pasture. In that regard, some ofthem are getting on with their businesses, whereassome are not. The former should not forget wherethey came from, and the latter should not consider thatto be a Myanmar citizen is to be shameful anddisappointing. They have to accept good results andevil consequences of their past deeds in line with theTeachings of the Buddha. They should not put blameon others, with a negative attitude to life. The morehardships they face the more intention they should

Share duties for better future of motherlandMi Pyi Chit

Observing theobjective conditions ofthe nation, all reliableyounger generationsshould have correctconcepts and convictionsto be able to chart aprosperous future of thenation.

Needless to say anyalien does not loveMyanmar more thanMyanmar people do. So,it is fair to say that anyaliens cannot bringprospects to the nation.Therefore, those who areunder a duty to create aprosperous future of thenation are no one otherthan Myanmar people.

turn to the Teachings of the Buddha and the more theyshould practise meditation.

That is supported by the Six SupremeQualities of the Dhamma, one of which says thatone can enjoy good returns practically if onefollows the Dhamma; and the next of which saysone doesn't have to wait to enjoy the fruits ofhonouring the Dhamma.

In Buddhism, there are the Three Refuges,the Five Infinite Venerables, Supreme Attributesof the Buddha, Supreme Attributes of theDhamma, and Supreme Attributes of the Sangha,parittas, gathas, ways of counting beads, andmethods of meditation.

All phenomena such as wealth, povertyand bad health are in connection with the Natureof Cause and Effect. In particular, one's innatenature can turn one's living status on its head. Onlywhen one acts with good volition can one enjoyfruitful results.

History reveals that there are many countriessuffering from one or two or all of the Three Catastrophesnamely famine, war and epidemics. As for Myanmarcitizens, Myanmar is the most suitable land to live in. Toput it another way, for them, there is no country likeMyanmar.

I wish those citizens who are now abroaddue to various reasons would take nationalinterest into consideration, viewing the objectiveconditions of the nation as they really are. AndI wish they would recognize the value of adorabletraditions, humanitarian spirit of the people,fresh air, waters and land, green vegetable fields,and beautiful natural sceneries of the nation.

So, each and every citizen is duty-boundto do their bit in the tasks for generating a betterfuture of the motherland. Sometimes, I have anostalgic look back at the past periods in whichour ancestors worked very hard and harmoniouslyto rise from the miseries. The people of us alsohave to do all what should be done in the interestof our younger generations.

Needless to say any alien does not loveMyanmar more than Myanmar people do. So, it isfair to say that any aliens cannot bring prospects tothe nation. Therefore, those who are under a dutyto create a prosperous future of the nation are noone other than Myanmar people. The entire peoplehave to play their roles in nation-building tasks.The people also have to work in collaboration forperpetual existence of the nation that is blessedwith favourable conditions for greaterdevelopment.

Every citizen should not think highly ofalien lifestyles, but should try to be able to lead aprosperous, peaceful and secure life.

In my opinion, the entire people have towork with a sense of duty in the interest of thenation in order that our posterities will be able toinherit fine legacy of stability, peace and prosperitythat have been achieved due to the efforts of ourforefathers.

(2) Observing the objective conditions ofthe nation, all reliable younger generations shouldhave correct concepts and convictions to be able tochart a prosperous future of the nation. In theprocess, they should imitate how Japan, Korea,China and Vietnam have worked for theirdevelopment. The people should lead a peacefullife, while serving the interest of the mother country,a land of impressive geographical features, finetraditions, cardinal virtues, and the Dhamma.

Each and every citizen is duty-bound,and the sectors in which they have to shouldertheir duties have been designated. Workinghard to accomplish the assigned duties is inspiredby a sense of patriotic spirit, and the spirit ofadoring and valuing the motherland.

If every citizen of a nation is educatedwith high reasoning power and a strong sense ofpatriotism, such a nation will be able to stand tallwith a prosperous future in the internationalcommunity as long as the world lasts.

I wish the mother country would seefurther flourishing of the sublime states of mind,and the entire people share joys and sorrows inrepulsing internal and external dangers and inbuilding a stable, peaceful, modern anddeveloped democratic nation.

- May the entire people show mutualrespect to one another and live throughthick and thin,

- May the cardinal virtues flourish!- May the entire people take care in doing

bodily, verbal and mental actions!- May the people work hard for a

prosperous future!- May the people work with physical and

mental well-beings to serve the interestof themselves, their society, the nationand the people!

- May the people become highly-educatedand good-hearted citizens with goodmorality and vast knowledge!In conclusion, the people are urged to

share duties with a sense of duty to chart abrighter future of the motherland.

Translation: MS

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Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung and party, Commander Maj-Gen Win Myint, Minister Brig-Gen TinNaing Thein, Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, Deputy Minister Col Thurein Zaw and Myanmar Ambassador U Khin

Maung Soe open Vietnam-Myanmar International Trade Fair-2010.—MNA

(from page 1)The Vietnamese

Deputy Minister of In-dustry and Commerceextended greetings.

Minister for Com-merce Brig-Gen Tin NaingThein delivered anaddress.

The VietnamesePrime Minister andparty, Commander Maj-Gen Win Myint, MinisterBrig-Gen Tin NaingThein, Mayor Brig-GenAung Thein Lin, DeputyMinister Col ThureinZaw and Myanmar Am-

Vietnam-MyanmarInterna-tional…

bassador to Vietnam UKhin Maung Soe for-mally opened the fair.

The delegationmembers led by the Viet-

namese Prime Minister andparty, the commander, theminister, the mayor, deputyministers, departmentalheads, entrepreneurs of

both courtiers, and guestsviewed booths staged atthe fair.

The fair runs atMCC between 9 am and 5

pm from 3 to 6 April.Products of

Myanmar and Vietnamwill be displayed andmeetings for boosting

investment and trade be-tween the entrepreneursof both countries will beheld at the trade fair.

MNA

YANGON, 4 April—Thevisiting delegation led byPrime Minister of theSocialist Republic ofVietnam Mr. Nguyen TanDung left here by a specialflight at 10.45 am today.

Chairman of Yangon

Vietnamese Prime Minister concludes visit

Division Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen WinMyint presentedMyanmar traditionalpainting and video anddocumentary photo disc

of the visit to the visitingPrime Minister before hisdeparture.

The delegation was seenoff by the commander,Chairman of Yangon CityDevelopment CommitteeMayor Brig-Gen Aung

VietnamesePrime

Minister Mr.Nguyen

Tan Dungaccepts

Myanmartraditionalpainting

fromYangon

CommandCommander

Maj-GenWin Myint.

MNA

Thein Lin, Deputy Ministerfor Finance and RevenueCol Hla Thein Swe, DeputyMinister for Transport ColNyan Tun Aung, DeputyMinister for Religious AffairsBrig-Gen Thura Aung Ko,departmental heads of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs,Myanmar Ambassador tothe Socialist Republic ofVietnam U Khin MaungSoe, VietnameseAmbassador to the Unionof Myanmar H.E. Mr. ChuCong Phung and familiesof the embassy at YangonInternational Airport. Earlierin the morning, theVietnamese Prime Ministerand party visitedShwedagon Pagoda.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 4 April—Minister for HealthDr Kyaw Myint on 2 April visited Farmers’ Hospitalin Samalauk village of Nyaungdon Township inAyeyawady Division and inspected health careservices.

The minister instructed to carry out staffwelfare tasks with the profits from fish pond in thecompound of the hospital and comforted the patients.

He later visited Pantanaw Township People’sHosptial and met with officials.

He also met with township health committeemembers and staff at People’s Hospital ofKyaunggon Township.

The minister inspected wards and laboratoryof People’s Hospital of Kangyidaunt Township andmet officials.

He inspected wards and laboratories inPathein General Hospital and met with the medicalsuperintendent, specialists, doctors, nurses and staff.He left necessary instructions.—MNA

Health Ministerinspects hospitals inAyeyawady Division

YANGON , 4April—The concludingceremony of hospitalitycourses of the trainingschool of StarResources Hospitality

Concluding ceremony of hospitalitycourses heldManagement Academywas held at 10 am on 2April at Traders Hotelon Sule Pagoda Roadhere.

M a n a g i n g

Managing Director Daw Nay Yi Aung presents certificate to atrainee at the course conclusion of Star Resources Hospitality

Management Academy. —MNA

Director Daw Nay YiAung of the academyextended greetings.Lecturers presentedcertificates on 150trainees.— MNA

Take Fire PreventiveMeasures

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YANGON , 4 April—The opening ofrepresentative office ofBank for Investment andDevelopment ofVietnam (BIDV) in

Vietnamese Prime Minister attends opening ofrepresentative office of BIDV

Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung and party, Minister Brig-Gen Tin NaingThein, Yangon Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin, deputy ministers Col Hla Thein Swe and Col

Nyan Tun Aung, and Myanmar ambassador open representative office of BIDV.—MNA

Yangon, was held atRuby Land Plaza onPyay Road, here,yesterday, attended byPrime Minister of theSocialist Republic of

Vietnam Mr. NguyenTan Dung.

It was also attendedby Vietnamesedelegation, Minister forCommerce Brig-Gen

Tachilek on the road to development

National Planning andEconomic DevelopmentCol Thurein Zaw,Deputy Minister forFinance and RevenueCol Hla Thein Swe,Deputy Minister forTransport Col Nyan TunAung, departmentalheads, MyanmarAmbassador to VietnamU Khin Maung Soe,V i e t n a m e s eAmbassador toMyanmar Mr Chu CongPhung and embassymembers, andbusinessmen of the twocountries.

V i e t n a m e s echildren performedVietnamese traditionaldances and songs toattendees.

Vice GeneralDirector of BIDV Mr LeDao Nguyen made anopening speech.

Deputy Minister forFinance and RevenueCol Hla Thein Swepresented BIDV ViceGeneral Director Mr Le

Dao Nguyen bankingservice license andexplained bankingservices.

After that, theVietnamese PrimeMinister and BIDV’srepresentative officeChairman Mr Tran BacHa made speechesrespectively.

The VietnamesePrime Minister andparty, Myanmarminister, the mayor,deputy ministers , andMyanmar Ambassadorformally opened therepresentative office.

The VietnamesePrime Minister and partylooked around the officeand the former signedvisitors’ book.

The Vietnamese PrimeMinister and party in theevening attended a dinnerat Traders Hotel herehosted by responsiblepersons of BIDV andVietnamese airline whichis flying Hanoi-Yangon-Hanoi route.—MNA

Tin Naing Thein,Chairman of YangonCity DevelopmentCommittee Mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin,Deputy Minister for

Tachilek in Shan State (East) enjoying remarkable development with magnificent buildings.

(from page 1)district and townshipPDCs have been mak-ing efforts for the emer-gence of developedTachilek, joininghands with localpeople.

Tachilek wasfounded as a longstretch of dwellings onboth sides of theBogyoke Road, whichis composed of sixwards with severalnational races. Theytrade regional goodsand grow seasonal

crops by profession.Aung Myat hall in

the town is standing mag-nificently to serve as thevenue for holding meet-ings and ceremonies aswell as guesthouse forvisitors.

Friendship Bridge(1) and (2) betweenMyanmar and Thailandsymbolize friendship be-tween the two countries.Friendship Bridge (1)aims to facilitate travelsfor the peoples of thetwo countries andFriendship Bridge (2)

for trading. We sawpeople going for a strollacross the FriendshipBridge (1) with peace ofmind.

Bayintnaung statuenear the office ofProgress of Border Areasand National Races andDevelopment Affairs isencouraging all visitorsto foster Union Spirit.

We proceeded toTachilek Hospital wherewe witnessed that thehospital was providingfull healthcare service tolocals. In addition,

Tachilek BasicEducation High Schoolis standing grandly fornurturing well-qualifiedyouths.

F u r t h e r m o r e ,Golden Triangle Para-dise Hotel, Shan Yomaand Golden Palace de-partmental stores inPonhton Ward reflecteconomic growth ofTachilek.

Tali-Mongkoe, Tali-Mongphone, Tali-Honglaik and Tali-Maelan bus lines are ply-ing daily in downtownarea for public conven-

ience. Short and longroute bus lines withmodern coaches arealso running.

In communicationsector, two GSM sta-tions, and auto tel-ephone lines arebringing to-and-froclear voices all over thecountry.

Now, Tachilek is onthe road to all-round de-velopment as a result ofsound infrastructuresand prevailing peaceand tranquility.

Translation: ZZS(Myanma Alin: 29-3-2010)

Colourful flowers in full bloom on traffic islands on the road to TachilekAirport.

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The lighting system of the World Expo axis is tested in Shanghai, eastChina, on 31 March, 2010. The Shanghai World Expo will start trial

operation on 20 April with the participation of about 70 percent of thepavilions, the organizer said on 31 March, Tuesday.—XINHUA

Members of theExeter, RI, fire

department standwatch over a washedout section of Rhode

Island State Route 102in Exeter, Wednesday,

on 31 March, 2010.INTERNET

Students learns Chinese at the ConfuciusInstitute of McMaster University in Hamilton,

Ontario, Canada, on 31 March, 2010. Thenumber of Confucius faculties increased in

recent years as many people choose to learnabout Chinese economy, culture and history.

INTERNET

CHANGSHA, 4 April— Four peoplewere killed in a building fire inChangsha, capital of central China’sHunan Province Wednesday night,local authorities said Thursday.

No one was injured in the accidentwhich occurred at about 10:00 pm inan old five-story building in KaifuDistrict, said a spokesman with thedistrict government.

Police were questioning thelandlord and four other people who

Four die in central China building fire

LAGOS, 4 April—A man crashed his car throughsecurity gates and into a parked commercial aircraftat a Nigerian airport Wednesday, marking the latestairport security breach in a country where theattempted Christmas Day airline bomber apparentlymanaged to get by screening.

The man slammed an aging Audi sedan throughtwo sets of gates guarded by the Nigerian Air Forceat Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, acity near the country’s eastern border with Cameroon,federal aviation spokesman Akin Olukunle said.

The car then rammed into a Boeing 737 operatedby Arik Air, Nigeria’s top commercial airline.

The aircraft was empty at the time of the collisionand no one was injured, Olukunle said. A photographof the car published online by the Nigerian newspaperNEXT showed it wedged underneath the belly of theaircraft, its front bumper hanging off.

Olukunle said he had no information about theman, who was immediately arrested and is in AirForce custody. A local police bomb squad found notraces of explosives in the car, he said.—Xinhua

Car crashes into 737aircraft

KINSHASA, 4 April —The UN mission in theDemocratic Republic ofCongo (MONUC) willsend helicopters tofacilitate the transportationof orphaned gorillas to anew sanctuary in a naturalreserve of Tanya in NorthKivu province.

UN mission in DR Congo to supportrelocation of orphaned gorillas

LONDON, 4 April —Scientists saidWednesday they hadidentified a newtreatment for thepotentially fatal diseaseknown as Africansleeping sickness, whichinfects tens of thousandsof Africans each year.

The findings,published in the Britishjournal “Nature,” pavethe way for thedevelopment of effective,orally administered, low

Breakthrough reported in fightagainst sleeping sickness

toxicity drugs to treat thedisease.

“This is one of themost significant findingsmade in recent years interms of drug discoveryand development forneglected diseases,” saidProfessor Paul Wyatt,director of the DrugDiscovery for TropicalDiseases program at theUniversity of Dundee,Scotland.

The World HealthOrganization estimates

between 50,000 and70,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa areinfected with sleepingsickness, or HumanAfrican Trypano-somiasis, which is spreadby the bite of the tsetsefly.

The disease is causedby a single-celledparasite calledtrypanosome that caninfect the brain anddisrupt the sleep cycle.

Xinhua

MONUC said onWednesday the decisionwas taken by therepresentative of the UNsecretary general in theDR Congo, Alan Doss,during a ceremony toaward the prize ofAlexander Abraham forNature Conservation in

Kinshasa, posthumouslyto eight conservationistsof the Congolese Institutefor Nature Conservation(ICCN).

The decision is withinthe MONUC programsaimed at protecting theenvironment.

MONUC has alsobanned all its militarycontingents in the provincefrom using wood charcoal.They are supposed to seekalternative fuels for thesake of environmentalconservation.—Xinhua

managed the building, he said. Theywere in police custody.

The landlord allegedly had illegallyseparated the rooms into smallercompartments using flammable buildingmaterials. Liquid gas had acceleratedthe fire spreading, the spokesman added.

The victims were two couplesoriginally from Hunan’s NingxiangCounty and Yiyang City.

Police were further investigating thecause of the fire, he said. —Xinhua

SCIENCEDAILY, 4 April — Scientists have solved one of thegreat mysteries of our geological past: Why Earth’s surface wasnot one big lump of ice four billion years ago when Sunradiation was much weaker than today. Scientists have presumedthat Earth’s atmosphere back then consisted of 30 percent CO2

trapping heat like a greenhouse. However, new research showsthat the reason for Earth not going into a deep freeze at the time

Why Earth wasn’t one big ball of ice fourbillion years ago when sun’s radiation was

weaker

Scientists havesolved one of thegreat mysteries of

our geological past:Why the Earth'ssurface was not

one big lump of icefour billion years

ago when sunradiation was muchweaker than today.

INTERNET

was quite different.In 1972, the late, world famous astronomer Carl Sagan andhis colleague George Mullen formulated “The faint early Sun paradox. “ Theparadox consisted in that Earth’s climate has been fairly constant duringalmost four of the four and a half billion years that the planet has been inexistence, and this despite the fact that radiation from the Sun has increasedby 25-30 percent.—Internet

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Staff members escapea shopping center

during a drilling inBeijing, 2 April, 2010.The police bureau inBeijing carried out adrilling Friday to testthe reaction of shop-

ping centres andpolicemen under

emergent situations.XINHUA

Mercedes FormulaOne driver MichaelSchumacher of Ger-many is seen throughheat haze during thethird practice session

at the Sepang F1circuit outside Kuala

Lumpur 3 April, 2010.The Malaysian F1

Grand Prix will takeplace on Sunday.

INTERNET

Asian wheat could strengthen US wheat

A rescuer looks at a pit of Wangjialing Coal Mine innorth China’s Shanxi Province, on 2 April, 2010.Rescuers on Friday heard the sound of knocking onpipes at the flooded north China coal mine where153 miners have been trapped for nearly six days.About 3,000 rescuers are struggling to pump water and reach the trapped miners. — XINHUA

Photo shows the model of the 2012 Olympic tower.The 19.1 million pound cost tower will stand in the

southern part of the Olympic Park between theStadium and Aquatics Centre and will open in time

for the 2012 Games.—INTERNET

Expert decodes Arcticconflict

BERLIN, 4 April — Few would have predictedsome years ago that the Arctic would become a boomregion — but that’s exactly what has happened.

Climate change is causing Arctic ice sheets to melt,with the oceans in the region possibly ice-free duringthe summer months. This is opening a new Atlantic-Pacific shipping channel and makes the natural re-sources lying under the seabed more accessible.

Nations have laid conflicting claims to theseabeds. Russia and Norway are disagreeing over apart in the Barents Sea that is poised to hold major oiland gas reserves. The United States and Canada arerowing over a swath of the Beaufort Sea and overthe Northwest Passage, which in 2007 for the firsttime in modern history was free of ice.

Stefan Nicola, United Press International’s Corre-spondent in Berlin, talked to Michael Byers, a politicsand law professor at the University of British Colum-bia in Vancouver and a senior expert on the Arctic,about a region that some observers say has become apotential hot spot for future conflicts.—Internet

Crew members on attacked DPRK vesselhospitalized in Kenya

Hyundai bundles iPad withEquus

NEW YORK, 4 April — The head of Hyundai MotorAmerica said in New York that consumers buying thenew Equus luxury car will receive owner’s manuals inan iPad rather than book form.

Hyundai Motor America Chief Executive Officer JohnKrafcik said the free iPad included with a purchase of theEquus, due out during the summer, will serve as an “in-teractive” owner’s manual as well as all of the standardfeatures of the iPad tablet computer, USA Today reportedFriday. William Matthies of automotive electronics re-search firm Coyote Insight said he believes the iPad willadd to the car’s “gotta-have” factor.

“Many will respond positively to the inclusion of aniPad, not because they needed or planned to buy one butsimply because it is topical and cool,” Matthies told USAToday. —Internet

Russia to apply electronicticket system to road

transport system

MANHATTAN, 4 April —Wheat species from Asiacould aid in the US fightagainst a blight that causeswheat to shrivel and turnchalky white, scientists inKansas said.

Fusarium graminearumfungi infects wheat heads,producing mycotoxins thatreduce the kernels’ valueand quality.

Wheat collected fromJapan, China and SouthKorea contain anti-fungalgenes that could increaseresistance in US wheat va-rieties, said Guihua Bai,a molecular plant biologistat the Hard Winter WheatGenetics Research Unit inManhattan, Kan.

The Asian wheat sam-ples include 87 “landrace”populations — domesti-cated species that havechanged little since the ad-

vent of modern plantbreeding.

In testing so far, 26of the landrace linesshowed high resistanceto the blight, Bai wrotein the April issue of Ag-ricultural Research

Magazine.The blight cost the US

wheat industry an esti-mated $2.7 billion when itswept through the GreatPlains states from 1998 to2000.

Internet

MOSCOW, 4 April —Russia will use an elec-tronic ticket system withits transportaion system inan effort to strengthen se-curity, Transport MinisterIgor Levitin said Thurs-day.

The Transport Minis-try will install the e-ticketsystem to public transpor-tation. The e-ticket wouldcontain each passenger’sinformation, includingidentity and destination,Levitin said at a meetingwith Russian transportenterprises.

He also ordered allroad transport companiesto carry out specific op-eration schedules forlong-distance buses nextyear.The ministry willmake an inspection of allbus stations and terminalsaround the nation, andclose the unsafe ones, he

added.President Dmitry

Medvedev on Wednesdayordered the governmentto strengthen transporta-tion security in responseto recent terrorist attacks.

He also ordered newprogrammes that wouldequip key transport hubswith tighter security bythe end of next March,and establish a complextransport security systemnationwide by 2014.

Xinhua

MOMBASA, 4 April —Three crewmembers of a Democratic People’s Re-public of Korea (DPRK) vessel attackedoff Somalia waters were on Fridayrushed to a Kenyan hospital in Mom-basa after docking at the port of Mom-basa.

The vessel, named Chol San BongChong Nyon Ho, was attacked by pirateson its way to Somalia from Brazil witha sugar cargo on Wednesday.

Port police chief Ayub Gitonga saidthe vessel had a 40 crew member onboard at the time of attack where eightof them were injured.

He said the vessel docked at the portof Mombasa to take the injured to hos-pital for further treatment. “The crewhad documents, we could not deny thementry for treatment,” said Gitonga add-ing that they had been cleared by immi-gration officers.

He said were it not for good fire-fighting equipment the vessel wouldhave caught fire under the pirates’ at-tack.

The vessel had a large mark suspectedto have been caused by a rocket propelledgrenade launcher during that daring at-tack.

A crew member on board the vesselsuspected to have been injured was seenlimping with a bandage on one of hislegs.

Despite a heavy presence of wellequipped international naval forces pa-trolling the high seas of the Indian Ocean,Somali pirates have continued to launchattacks on ships passing through the cor-ridor.

Almost three weeks ago, eight pirateswere sentenced to 20 years imprisonmentafter the court found them guilty of at-tempting to hijack a ship. —Xinhua

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Invitation to Tender Sr. No Description Qty Issuing Date Closing Date

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Tender forms and documents are available at the Procurement Department,Myanma Ceramic Enterprise, Ministry of Industry (1), Office No. 41, Nay Pyi Taw,during office hours. Tender will be accepted only from Bidder who purchased TenderDocuments officially. (For further details, contact telephone number. 067.408298)

Myanma Ceramic Industry

Even toddlers noticegood intentions

Stone Age Scandinavianslactose intolerant

A grizzly bear at the San Diego Zoo. Canadianenvironmentalists are calling for strict conserva-tion measures as the controversial grizzly bear

hunt begins over the Easter weekend in Canada’swesternmost province.—INTERNET

Celtic’s Glenn Loovens (left) vies with Rangers’

Kris Boyd during a Scottish Premier League

match at Celtic Park in Glasgow in January 2010.

Rangers manager Walter Smith expects Scotland

striker Boyd to put his future on hold until the end

of the season.—INTERNET

Referee Tony Weeks (C) gets hit by a punch fromBernard Hopkins (L) of the US after Hopkins andcompatriot Roy Jones Jr, continue to fight after the

end of the sixth round of their light heavyweightfight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las

Vegas, Nevada on 3 April, 2010.INTERNET

Worm gene could offer cluesto human aging

BIRMINGHAM, 4 April—A gene greatly involved in determining the life span ofa laboratory worm could offer clues to aging in people, researchers in Britain said.

The gene DAF-16 helps determine the rate of aging and the average life spanof Caenorhabditis elegans and its close evolutionary cousins, researchers at theUniversity of Birmingham said. The gene is found in many other animals, includ-ing humans, said researcher Robin May, who led the study.

May’s team compared longevity, stress resistance and immunity in four relatedspecies of worms. In general, high levels of DAF-16 activity correlated with longerlife, increased stress resistance and greater immunity against some infections.

Future studies will examine how DAF-16 coordinates a complex network ofgenes to balance the differing needs of an individual’s immune system over time,May said in Thursday’s edition of PLoS ONE.—Internet

Drug may prevent Alzheimer’s,slow aging

People who smoke tendto have lower IQ

SAN ANTONIO, 4April—A drug already ap-proved by the US Food &Drug Administration toprevent organ rejectionmay help prevent Alzhe-imer’s disease, research-ers said.

Several weeks after re-searchers at the Univer-sity of Texas Health Sci-ence Center at SanAntonio said the drug

rapamycin helped miceengineered to developAlzheimer’s to retainmemory, the same re-searchers said the drughelped an entirely differ-ent mouse model engi-neered to have earlyAlzheimer’s disease to re-member how to swim amaze.

“Rapamycin treat-ment lowered levels ofamyloid-beta-42, a majortoxic species of mol-ecules in Alzheimer’sdisease,” VeronicaGalvan, an assistant pro-fessor from the BarshopInstitute and the depart-ment of physiology at the

University of TexasHealth Science Center,said in a statement.

“These molecules,which stick to each other,are suspected to play akey role in the earlymemory failure of Alzhe-imer’s.”

The drug is producedby a bacterial product iso-lated from soil of EasterIsland and last year thesame researchers and col-leagues found rapamycinwas shown to extend lifein mice.

The current findingsare published in the jour-nal PLoS ONE.

Internet

TEL AVIV, 4 April—Astudy of 20,000 men ages18-21 in the Israeli armyfound those who smokedtended to have a lower IQ,Tel Aviv University re-searchers found.

Mark Weiser of theuniversity’s department ofpsychiatry and the ShebaMedical Center at TelHashomer Hospital foundyoung male smokers aremore likely to have lowerIQs than their non-smok-ing peers.

The study, published inthe journal Addiction, alsofound that in the casewhere one twin smoked,

the non-smoking twintested at a higher intelli-gence level.

“In the health profes-sion, we’ve generallythought that smokers aremost likely the kind ofpeople to have grown upin difficult neighbour-hoods, or who’ve beengiven less education atgood schools,” Weiser saidin a statement.

“But because our studyincluded subjects with di-verse socioeconomicbackgrounds, we’ve beenable to rule out socioeco-nomics as a major factor.”

Internet

STOCKHOLM, 4 April—Stone Age hunter-gather-ers who lived along thesouthern coast of Scandi-navia 4,000 years agowere unable to digestmilk, researchers said.

The findings support awidely held theory thatmodern Scandinaviansdescended from peoplewho arrived in the areaafter the Stone Age popu-lation.

Unlike modern

Scandinavians, the DNAof the hunter-gathersshows they were lactoseintolerant, said research-ers at Stockholm Univer-sity and Uppsala Univer-sity.

The ability to digestmilk is closely associatedwith the transitionfrom hunter-gathererpopulations to agricul-tural societies, said re-searcher AndersGotherstrom.

Gotherstrom is the co-ordinator of a EuropeanUnion-funded project fo-cusing on the signifi-cance of milk in Euro-pean prehistory.

“The findings areindicative of what wecall ‘gene flow,’ in otherwords, migration to theregion at some latertime of some newgroup of people, withwhom we are geneticallysimilar,” Gotherstromsaid.

KINGSTON, 4 April—Canadian researchersfound even toddlers no-tice and could rewardgood intentions.

Kristen Dunfield andValerie Kuhlmeier ofQueen’s University inKingston found childrenas young as 21 monthsold selectively helped theperson who had showngood intent.

“Some of the charac-teristics of the rich recip-rocal relationships ob-served in adults are inplace in infancy,”Dunfield and Kuhlmeiersaid in a statement.

The study, publishedin the journal Psycho-logical Science, reporteda toddler was more likely

to help someone showinggood intentions — evenif the person did not ac-complish a desired out-come.

In one experiment,Dunfield and Kuhlmeierintroduced toddlers totwo actresses — one whooffered a toy, put it on aslanted surface andshowed surprise whenthe toy rolled away. Theother actress showed thechild the toy, but thentook it away.

When the toddler wasput in the position of be-ing able to “return” a toy,it was most likely givento the actress showinggood intentions, the re-searchers said.

Internet

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Nomads of Kazak ethnic group from the lowerreaches of the Kiran River migrate with livestocksto avoid floods prompted by melting snow, in Altay,

northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur AutonomousRegion, on 2 April, 2010.—XINHUA

Grenadian minister calls on developed nationsto take biggest climate change responsibilities

PANAMA, 4 April— Asenior small island politi-cian has demanded indus-trialized nations face up totheir responsibility in lead-ing a global solution to theglobal threat of climatechange.

Grenada EnvironmentMinister Michael Church,whose country chairs theAlliance of Small IslandStates (AOSIS) said thosedeveloped countries whopolluted in the biggest wayover the history of indus-trialization must make the

biggest sacrifices now.“We believe the his-

torical responsibility be-comes an extremely im-portant and critical ele-ment in what we do nowand in the future,” Churchtold Xinhua in a recent in-terview.

“In other words, weshould not, not withstand-ing our smallness, weshould not sit back and al-

low countries to get awayby not taking their respon-sibilities. It has nothing todo with ideologies. It haseverything to do with thesurvival of man on thisplanet.”

Small island nationsface the direct threat of cli-mate change. For the 42member nations ofAOSIS, survival is non-negotiable.— Xinhua

Rescuers transfer Moldavskiy Leonid, a sailorwho suffered an attack of hypertension suddenly

on a Russian cargo ship, to the ambulance inQingdao, a coastal city in east China’s Shandong

Province, on 2 April, 2010.—XINHUA

Broadbandused in ocean

imagesFALMOUTH, 4 April —

Two advanced broadbandacoustic systems will helpoceanographers pinpointtiny zooplankton even inrough seas, scientists inMassachusetts said.

In terms of acoustics,the systems are equivalentto changing from black-and-white television tohigh-definition color televi-sion, researchers at WoodsHole Oceanographic Insti-tution said in a releaseThursday.

The systems showedhighly promising resultswhen tested recently off theUS East Coast, researchersTim Stanton and AndoneLavery recently wrote inthe Journal of Marine Sci-ence. The new systemsmeasure sound scatteringover a continuous range offrequencies, rather than justa few frequencies.

The advanced broad-band ability will aid ocea-nographers in classifyingfish and zooplankton, nomatter the turbulence of thewater, Stanton and Laverysaid. Previously, it was im-possible to know whethersound waves were beingscattered by high turbu-lence or by the objectsbeing studied.—Internet

Cambodia shrugs off US haltingshipments of military trucks

PHNOM PENH, 4April— Cambodiashrugged off US sus-pended shipments of 200military trucks over retali-ation of Cambodia’s de-portation of Chinese asy-lum seekers last year.

Koy Kong, spokesmanfor Cambodian Ministryof Foreign Affairs and In-

ternational Cooperation,said that Cambodia hasher full sovereignty toimplement its policy indeporting the illegal 20Chinese Uighur asylumseekers back to China inDecember last year.

“It is the rights of USgovernment to either do-nate or suspend such as-

sistance. Cambodia isimplementing its ownpolicy and laws withinthe frameworks of fullsovereignty,” Koy Kongtold Xinhua.

“That means US canimplement their policyand we can implementours.”

Xinhua

Visitors watch exhibits of computerised lingeriesewing machines at the 5th Shenzhen Interna-

tional Lingerie Fair in Shenzhen, south China’sGuangdong Province on 2 April, 2010. —XINHUA

Soldiers of a corps of engineers of the ChinesePeople’s Liberation Army (PLA) sent by the

Beijing Military Area Command transfer equip-ment after arriving in Kunming, capital of south-west China’s Yunnan Province, on 2 April, 2010.The PLA engineers were sent to the drought-hitYunnan province on Friday with a mission of

water seeking and well drilling. —XINHUA

Tom Zirbel of the USA competes in the AMGEN Tourof California in 2009. Zirbel has been suspended fortwo years after testing positive for testosterone at the US Pro Road Championships last August, the US Anti-Doping Agency said on Friday.—INTERNET

Hormone may aid gastric cancer patients

Coffee beans may become insecticidesCAMPINAS, 4 April—Brazilian scientists say they’ve found unroasted coffee

beans contain proteins that can kill insects — a finding that may lead to new foodcrop insecticides.

University of Campinas Professor Paulo Mazzafera said peas, beans and otherplant seeds contain proteins called globulins, which ward off insects and coffeebeans contain large amounts of globulins.

Although the high heat involved in roasting coffee beans destroys the globu-lins, Mazzafera said he and his team wondered whether the coffee proteins mightalso have an insecticidal effect.—Internet

OSAKA, 4 April—Japanese medical re-searchers say they iden-tified a protein that mighthelp reduce theincidence of malnutritionin gastric cancer pa-tients.

Scientists from OsakaUniversity’s School ofMedicine said gastric can-cer patients who have un-dergone surgery to removeall or part of their stomachoften suffer post-operativeweight loss. But the re-

searchers said they foundthe hormone ghrelinmight improve appetiteand provide otherbeneficial affects.

“Our study providesconvincing data for thebeneficial effects of ghrelin— the only gastrointestinalhormone known to stimulateappetite — on body weightand dietary activity after gas-trectomy,” said Dr. ShujiTakiguchi, the study’s leadauthor. “Although there aresome issues to be resolvedbefore clinical use, surgeonsdealing with gastric cancersand other gastroesophagealdiseases should be encour-aged by the availability ofghrelin.”

The research is reportedin the journal Gastroenter-ology.—Internet

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S P O R T SClijsters steamrolls Williams

for Miami triumph

Kim Clijsters of Belgiumcelebrates after defeatingVenus Williams of theUnited States in straightsets during the women’sfinal of the 2010 SonyEricsson Open atCrandon Park TennisCenter in Key Biscayne,

Florida.—INTERNET

Inter Milan’s forwardMario Balotelli eyes theball during their Serie Afootball match againstBologna at San SiroStadium in Milan.

INTERNET

Rebel Balotelli keeps Inter aheadas top three in Serie A win

Barcelona brush aside Bilbaoto go top

Barcelona’s forwardLionel Messi (L) fights forthe ball with Bilbao’s de-fender Carlos Gurpegui(R) during a SpanishLeague football match atthe Camp Nou Stadium inBarcelona.—INTERNET

Man United count thecost of Rooney injury

MANCHESTER, 4 April—Sir AlexFerguson’s angry tirade at the officialswho handled Manchester United’s 2-1defeat by Chelsea may have temporarilyblurred the picture.

But once his temper had subsided, theUnited boss will have been acutely awareof the reality that his squad’s seasoncould effectively be over by Wednesdayevening, when Bayern Munich will visitOld Trafford with a 2-1 first leg lead todefend in their Champions League quar-ter-final tie.

After watching his side outclassed bysharper, fresher opponents for much ofSaturday’s encounter, Ferguson did nothide from the fact that his players hadlost control of their own destiny in theirquest for an unprecedented fourth con-secutive English title.—Internet

Chelsea’s Portuguese midfielderDeco (2nd L) breaks through the

Manchester United defence at OldTrafford in Manchester, north-west

England on 3 April, 2010.—INTERNET

Bayern eye Championstitle as Man United

clash nearsBERLIN, 4 April—Bayern Munich

hailed their win over Bundesliga title ri-vals Schalke as a perfect tonic as theyprepare to finish the job and knock Man-chester United out of the ChampionsLeague.

Last week’s come-from-behind 2-1quarter-final first leg win over the Eng-lish giants sent the Bavarians into Sat-urday’s league encounter at a packedVeltins Arena with the wind in their sailsdespite some poor recent domestic form.

And a 2-1 courtesy of goals fromFrenchman Franck Ribery - his fourthof the season - and Thomas Mueller,within a minute of each other, sawBayern deliver a potential hammer toSchalke’s hopes of a first leage crownsince 1958.

Internet

Bayern Munich’s midfielder FranckRibery (R) fights for the ball with

Schalke’s defender BenediktHoewedes (C) during their

Bundesliga football match inGelsenkirchen, westernGerrmany.—INTERNET

Mancini eyes Champions League afterBurnley floored

Sunderland’s strikerDarren Bent celebratesscoring their second goalduring the English Pre-mier League footballmatch against TottenhamHotspur at the Stadium

of Light in Sunder-land.—INTERNET

Redknapp praying on Spurs’walking wounded

Wenger hitsback at

Domenech overGallas injuryLONDON, 4 April—Ar-

senal manager ArseneWenger has stepped uphis war of words withFrance coach RaymondDomenech over the treat-ment of defender WilliamGallas.

Wenger was furious atDomenech’s criticism ofthe decision to play Gallasin last week’s ChampionsLeague quarter-final clashwith Barcelona.

The defender aggra-vated a calf injury that hasruled him out for the restof Arsenal’s season andmade him unsure of fea-turing for his country inthe World Cup in SouthAfrica.

Internet

MADRID, 4 April—Champions Barcelonabushed aside Athletic

Bilbao 4-1 on Saturday toreturn to the top of LaLiga and open a three-point gap on Real Madridwho they face next weekin ‘El Clasico’.

Barcelona have a deci-sive week ahead of themwith the ChampionsLeague quarter-final sec-ond leg at home to Arse-nal on Tuesday and thena trip to Real four dayslater.

They enjoyed the per-fect preparation on Satur-day with three points anda convincing win that putsthe pressure on Real Ma-drid to win at RacingSantander on Sunday.

Internet

MIAMI, 4 April—USOpen champion KimClijsters steamrolled Ve-nus Williams 6-2, 6-1 onSaturday to win her sec-ond Miami hardcourtWTA title.

“I felt from the begin-

ning I was ready to go andreally seeing the ballwell,” said Clijsters, whoclaimed her third titlesince starting a comebacklast year after more thantwo seasons away fromthe WTA.

Clijsters, the 14th seed,also won here in 2005 -two years before she re-tired.

Now the Belgian, whomarried and had a babyduring her break from thetour, will climb to number10 in the world rankingsnext week, the highestranking for the formernumber one since her re-turn.—Internet

SUNDERLAND, 4 April—Tottenham boss HarryRedknapp admitted therace to finish fourth in theEnglish Premier Leaguewas now wide open as hehoped his walkingwounded could limp intoEurope.

The Spurs boss hasseen his side sink to sec-ond place in the four-wayfight to grab the finalChampions League spotand is putting his faith inthe club’s medics to gethis missing stars fit for thefinal six league games.

Spurs are fifth in thetable, a point behindManchester City and

four ahead of Liverpooland Aston Villa.

Internet

RoME, 4 April—Rebelstriker Mario Balotellimade a goalscoring returnfor Inter Milan on Satur-day as the champions beatBologna 3-0 while ASRoma and AC Milan alsowon to keep up the Serie

A title pressure. MirkoVucinic scored the onlygoal of the game as sec-ond-placed AS Roma tri-umphed 1-0 at Bari, tostay one point behind In-ter, while Milan stayedthree points off top with a3-2 success at Cagliari.

Inter came into theirgame in poor league formhaving won only two oftheir previous nine matches,but they dominated despitesuffering from a number ofsuspensions, notably cap-tain Javier Zanetti,Cameroon forward SamuelEto’o and Brazilian defend-ers Maicon and Lucio.

Internet

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BURNLEY, 4 April—Roberto Mancini has hiseyes firmly on playing innext season’s ChampionsLeague after ManchesterCity’s resounding 6-1win over struggling

Burnley in the PremierLeague moved them intofourth place.

City moved into finalChampions League berthwith Saturday’s win,which featured five differ-

ent goalscorers.It was City’s biggest

away win in the PremierLeague and their best re-sult in the top flight sincea 5-0 win at ManchesterUnited in February 1955.

“It’s important to befourth now but it will beimportant to be there atthe end of the season,”Mancini said. “Now weplay six games and theyare six difficult games butif we have concentrationlike the first half today wehave a good chance.”

Internet

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Local Transmission* Opening* News* Current Affairs “Living and Working

Myanmar (Fishery)”* News* Documentary “Bagan: The Land of

Pagoda”* FOC Operations: Auspicious Event in

Sagaing Division* News* Pho Thingyan (Myanmar Classical

Songs) “Kyaye Ywa wada”* Myanmar’s Hardy Raftsmen At Work* News* Poppy Substitute Crop Cultivation in

Northern Shan State

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

Programme Schedule(5-4-2010)(Monday)

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowershave been isolated in Kachin State and TaninthayiDivision, weather has been partly cloudy in Shan, Rakhine,Mon States, upper Sagaing, Mandalay, Ayeyawady, Bagoand Yangon Divisions and generally fair the remainingareas. Day Temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C) above Aprilaverage tempertures in Shan, Kayah, Rakhine, Kayin andMon States, lower Sagaing, Bago and AyeyawadyDivisions, (5°C) to (6°C) above April average temperaturesin Mandalay and Yangon Divisions and about Aprilaverage temperatures in the remaining areas. The significantday temperatures was Magway (43°C) each.The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Putao (0.47) inch andMachanbaw (0.24) inch.

Maximum temperature on 3-4-2010 was 105°F.Minimum temperature on 4-4-2010 was 78°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 4-4-2010 was 69%. Totalsun shine hours on 3-4-2010 was (9.7) hours approx.

Rainfall on 4-4-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was(Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mphfrom Southwest at (20:30) hours MST on 3-4-2010.

Bay inference: Weather is generally fair in the WestCentral Bayand partly cloudy in the Andaman Sea andelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 5th April 2010: Rainor thundershowers are likely to be isolated in Kachin, upperSagaing and Taninthayi Divisions and weather will be partlycloudy in the remaining areas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

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

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood of slightincrease of day temperatures in the lower Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for5-4-2010: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for5-4-2010: Partly cloudy.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for5-4-2010: Partly cloudy.

Sunday, 4thApril, 2010

Transmissions Times

Local - (09:00am ~ 11:00am) MSTOversea Transmission - (5-4-10 09:30 am ~

6-4-10 09:30 am) MST

WEATHER

Oversea Transmission* Opening* News* Current Affairs “Living and Working

Myanmar (Fishery)”* News* Documentary “Bagan: The Land of

Pagoda”* Topic on Journal “Care the olds! Be

Blessed!”* News* Elegant Myanmar Dance* News* Today’s Youths and International

Relations* News* Current Affairs “Living and Working

Myanmar (Fishery)”* News* Documentary “Bagan: The Land of

Pagoda”* Myanmar’s Hardy Raftsmen At Work* News* Sittway, Evergreen Seaside Town* News* Myanma Thanakha* Myanmar Movie “The Search (Up

Stream)”

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.

ASLEEP IN JESUSMr Patrick Watson @ U Soe Myint

Aged (56) yearsBeloved eldest son of Mr H A Watson

(deceased) & Daw Aye Sein, brother of KennethSoe Win (deceased), Kathleen Tin Tin Aye-Joseph Thein Pe (Singapore), Albert Khin MaungThein-Esther, Alick Tin Maung Htwe (deceased),uncle of (4) nieces and nephews and granduncle of (1) grand niece passed away on 1stApril 2010 at No. 155, Rm 13, 45th Street,Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Funeral Massand burial will be held on 5th April 2010(Monday) at 11:30 am at Yeway Christiancemetry. (Buses will leave the residence and StMary’s Cathedral Catholic Church at 10:00 am).

Early Detection of Age-RelatedMemory Deficits in Mice

SCIENCE DAILY, 4April—By studying theaging of memory in themouse, researchers in theLaboratoire Neuro-biologie des ProcessusAdaptatifs (CNRS/Université Pierre et MarieCurie) have developed anexperimental protocol thatcan detect age-relatedmemory deficits at an earlystage. They have shownthat even at 10 months,

which corresponds to a thirdof their life expectancy,some mice present with age-related memory disorders.

Published inNeurobiology of Aging,this work opens newperspectives for anunderstanding of the cellularand molecular mechanismsunder-lying the aging ofmemory and for thediagnosis of Alzheimer’sdiseases.—Internet

Two dead innorth China

chemical blastHOHHOT, 4 April—

Two people were killedand another injured aftera silicon tetrachloridestorage tank exploded innorth China’s InnerMongolia AutonomousRegion Sunday, localauthorities said. The blastoccurred at about 10 a.m.in the Shengsen SiliconTechnology Develop-ment Co,. Ltd., inYuanbaoshan District,Chifeng City, saidofficials with the districtgovernment. Rescuerswere cleaning up the toxicchemicals. Residents nearthe company have beenevacuated. Police andwork safety officials wereinvestigating the cause ofthe accident.

MNA/Xinhua

Russian manned spacecraft docksRussian manned spacecraft docksRussian manned spacecraft dockswith space station

MOSCOW, 4 April—A Russian spaceshipcarrying three astronautsdocked with theInternational SpaceStation (ISS) on Sundaymorning, the MissionControl Centre outsideMoscow said.

The 23rd ISSmission, consisting ofRussian cosmonautsAlexander Skvortsov andMikhail Korniyenko, aswell as US femaleastronaut Tracy CaldwellDyson, will work at thespace station for some 167days.

After two days offlight, the spaceshipdocked with the smallresearch module Poisk ofthe Russian segment in anautomatic mode at 9:24

a.m. Moscow time (0524GMT), said Valery Lyndin,spokesman for the MissionControl.

The three astronautswere scheduled to enter the

space station about threehours later after checkingon airtight conditions andpressures of the sealedcabin.

MNA/Xinhua

Participants look over cars of all sizes to beauctioned off by the US Marshals Service

Thursday, 1 April, 2010, in North Salt Lake City,Utah. The collection, containing hundreds of

automobiles and other vehicles, was seized by thegovernment from Jeffrey Mowen, who is accused

of swindling investors out of millions ofdollars.—INTERNET

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

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ★ VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the people

★ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

★ Do not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

Regional development tasks in Thongwa,Kayan townships in full swing

YANGON, 4 April—Lt-Gen Myint Swe of theMinistry of Defence attended the opening ceremony ofYaungchi-U Library in Thaiktukan model village,Thongwa Township here this morning. At the cer-emony, Lt-Gen Myint Swe, Yangon Division Peace andDevelopment Council Chairman Yangon CommandCommander Maj-Gen Win Myint and Minister forLivestock and Fisheries Brig-Gen Maung Maung Theinpresented cash donations and publications donated byYangon Division PDC to the library.

Lt-Gen Myint Swe next visited Duwin

Nagamauk fruit plantation in Ward-7, Kayan Town-ship and the briefing hall for 30-mile greeningproject on Thanlyin-Bago road and left necessaryinstructions.

Later, Lt-Gen Myint Swe and party went toThongwa sluice gate where they inspected storageof water. An official reported on tasks to be carriedout for 30-mile greening. Lt-Gen Myint Swe gaveinstructions on conducting continuous checks onthe sluice gates for their durability and extension ofsummer paddy cultivation.— MNA

Test battery has inlet and outlet on the sides toprovide a flow of air, providing oxygen for the

battery's operation.

Significant step towardlightweight batteries

SCIENCE DAILY, 4 April — A team of research-ers at MIT has made significant progress on atechnology that could lead to batteries with up to threetimes the energy density of any battery that currentlyexists.

Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT associate professor ofmechanical engineering and materials science and engi-neering, says that many groups have been pursuing workon lithium-air batteries, a technology that has great potentialfor achieving great gains in energy density. But there hasbeen a lack of understanding of what kinds of electrodematerials could promote the electrochemical reactions thattake place in these batteries.—Internet

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Lt-Gen Myint Swe of the Ministry of Defence at Yaungchi-U Library.— MNA

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