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* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

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

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June — Minister forConstruction Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspectedconstruction of bridges in Mandalay Division on 13and 14 June.

The minister went to Latpanhla Bridgeconstruction project on Mandalay-Madaya-Mogok Roadon 13 June and fulfilled the requirements of the project.

Construction Minister inspectsbridges, roads in Mandalay Division

Afterwards, the minister proceeded to KyaukOh baileybridge on the road and called for the maintenance of thebridge. Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspectedMeza Bridge on Mandalay-Shwebo-Myitkyina Roadon 14 June and maintenance of the bridges and roadworksalong the road. He also met with engineers and staff ofPublic Works in Katha. —MNA

University of Computer Studies (Hpa-an) in Kayin State designed for development of human resources.

Kayin State in position to providetertiary education for the youth

Article: Kyaw Zeya Myint; Photos: Htay Aung (Kyemon)

Kayin State is located in the southeasternpart of Myanmar and is adjacent to a number ofplains, mountain ranges and forests.

In successive periods, Kayin State laggedbehind other regions in development due to lack ofpeace and stability. In contrast, the region has nowdeveloped a lot, following the restoration of peaceand stability. Rapid improvement in the highereducation has helped scale up the development ofKayin State.

The government is now working hard toimprove the infrastructures in various sectors, coveringall states and divisions. In particular, it places greateremphasis on progress of border areas, home to diversenational races. With the concept that at the heart ofhuman resource development lies education, thegovernment has been opening a large number of basic

education schools, universities, technologicaluniversities, and universities for computer studiesacross the nation to promote the nation’s education.

As a result of the long-term plan, in KayinState, the number of high, middle and primaryeducation schools has so far increased to 1305, that ofthe students, to more than 200,000, and that of theteachers, to more than 7000. Moreover, the governmenthas opened an arts and science university and aneducation college. So, the number of higher educationstudent has surged over 50 times in the state.

Apart from producing intellectuals, thegovernment is implementing plans to bring about agrowing number of intelligentsia. For instance, itestablished a government technological universityand a government university of computer studies

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Friday, 19 June, 2009 * 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 DesirePERSPECTIVES

Blood and blood products are essentialitems in medical treatment. Blood is the lifeof humans. To donate blood is to save lives.Therefore, giving blood or making all thenecessary contributions for the increase inthe number of blood donors is a noble deed.

The process of blood transfusion inmedical treatment was introduced inMyanmar in 1939 and a blood bank wasestablished at Yangon General Hospital. In1962, it was reconstituted as National BloodBank and in 2003 as National Blood Unitaccording to the Blood and Blood ProductsLaw.

To ensure that donated blood is safe formedical treatment by means of bloodtransfusion, National Blood Unit tests blooddonors for HIV virus and other viruses andmakes sure that syringes and other necessaryutensils are sterilized.

Hospitals in Yangon need about 3,500units per month and eighty-five per cent of itis donated by individual well-wishers andsocial organizations. Monthly and yearlyincrease in the number of blood donorscontributes a lot to treatment by means ofblood transfusion.

It is important that patients who need tobe given blood transfusion receive sufficientamount of safe blood in time. For this, blooddonors must have the required red blood cellcount and be HIV, hepatitis B and C negative.

Due to the efforts of various socialorganizations and government departments,the number of blood donors has been on theincrease. Regular blood donors are importantfor creating a healthy environment. If healthcare is regularly provided to blood donorsand if they also live a healthy lifestyle, theywill be able to save many lives with their pureand healthy blood.

Save lives with pure andhealthy blood

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June— The new schoolbuilding of Duya StationBasic Education HighSchool was opened inHinthada Township,Ayeyawady Division on15 June morning,

Duya Station BEHS gets new buildingattended by Minister forAgriculture and IrrigationMaj-Gen Htay Oo.

Chairman of Hint-hada Township Peace andDevelopment Council UAung Kyaw Naing andTownship Education

Officer Daw Ohn Nwetformally openedNwethaki building.

The minister viewedlearning of school childrenand cordially conversedwith distinction winningstudents at the building

At the openingceremony of the schoolbuilding, the ministergave a speech. DivisionEducation Officer UKhin Maung Yi reportedon efforts made foropening the new schoolbuilding.The SchoolBoard of Trustees handedover documents related tothe building to thetownship educationofficer. The ministerpresented 120 sets oftextbooks to Head-mistress Daw Than ThanHtay.

At Hlelanthit VillageBEPS, the ministerpresented cash for thefunds of the school to anofficial. Then a memberof the School Board ofTrustees spoke words ofthanks.—MNA

YANGON, 18 June —Minister for Livestock andFisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Theincalled for efforts onregional development andlocal food sufficiency inmeeting with depart-mental concerned andlocal people from Pulawand Palauk Townships atShap Pone VillageDhammayon in PulawTownship in TaninthayiDivision on 15 June. Theminister then donatedexercise books and pencilsto basic education schoolsin village-tract.

On 16 June, theminister met withdepartmental officials andtownselders at the hall inMyeik, and donatedexercise books and pencilsto basic education schools.

MNA

Ministertours

TaninthayiDivision

Second round of Baron’s“Commands Respect” Amateur

Golf Challenge 2009 held

YANGON, 18 June—The Baron’s“Commands Respect”Amateur Golf Challenge2009, organized byMyanmar GolfFederation and mainlysponsored by MyanmarBrewery Ltd, kicked offat Yangon Golf Clubyesterday morning.

Managing DirectorPeter Ong of MyanmarBrewery Ltd and MGFExecutive U Ko KoLay teed off thetournament.

A total of 24 golferswho were qualified in thegolf events in Mandalayand Yangon took part inthe first round of thetournament and went toNay Pyi Taw.

This morning, thesecond round of 24qualified golferscontinued at City GolfCourse in Nay Pyi Taw.

In the event, MaungMaung Oo stood first,Tin Lin Ko second, MinThura Aung third, AungKyaw Thu fourth, NaingYe Lin fifth, Lin Thesixth, Aung Sithuseventh, Nanda Wineighth, Than Naing Ooninth, Soe Moe Aung

tenth, Myo Myint Aungeleventh, Myo Zaw Aung12th, Thiha Aung 13th,Maung Me 14th, Soe MinMin Oo 15th, Myo Tun(Shwemantaung) 16th,Khin Maung Aye 17th,Yan Naing Phyo 18th, ZinMin Thu 19th and KyawKyaw 20th.

More golf tourn-aments will take place atPyinOoLwin GolfCourse in PyinOoLwin,Yedagun-taung GolfCourse in Mandalay,Bagan Golf Course inBagan, Thiri KhittayaGolf Course in Pyay andPunhlaing Golf Resort inYangon.

MNA

MinisterMaj-GenHtay Oo

presents textbooks to a

teacher at theopening

ceremony ofnew schoolbuilding forDuya Station

BEHS.MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Maung Maung Theinpresents exercise books and pencils to a

teacher.—MNA

Tobacco Kills

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Killing of US soldier castslight on Mosul police

MOSUL, 18 June — A police investigation of twoof their own in the killing of an American soldier andhis interpreter is seen as a test of Mosul’s police force— the weakest link among Iraqi security forces aboutto take the lead in protecting the country’s most vio-lent city.

This city of 1.6 million people has long distrustedits police — particularly after thousands of officersfled their posts in November 2004, leaving the Ameri-cans and Kurdish fighters to fight Sunni militants whorose up here after being driven out of Fallujah.

Internet

Roadside bombing wounds three Afghantroopers in E Afghanistan

KHOST, 18 June—Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were woundedas their van hit a roadside bomb here in Khost Province of eastern Afghanistanon Wednesday, provincial administration spokesman Kochai Nasiri said. Nasiritold Xinhua that the bombing took place in Nadirshahkot district at around noontime, in which three ANA soldiers’ sustained injuries and their van was dam-aged.

He blamed the enemies of Afghanistan, a term used by Afghan officials againstTaleban militants, for the incident.

Moreover, Taleban’s purported spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in chat with mediaform undisclosed location, claimed his men killed over eight ANA soldiers by aremote control bomb.—Internet

Taleban assassinate oil departmentofficial in N Afghanistan

Iraqi security forces kill twosuicide bombers west of

BaghdadBAGHDAD, 18 June — Iraqi security forces shot

dead two suicide bombers during a raid on militants’hideouts in west of Baghdad, the Iraqi military saidon Wednesday.

Early in the morning, Iraqi security forces sur-rounded the Uwaisat district in Abu Ghraib area, some20 km west of the city, Baghdad operations commandsaid in a statement. During the operation, the troopswere attacked by a suicide bomber who tried to blowup his explosive-belt, but they shot him dead alongwith another militants wearing explosive-belt, thestatement said.—Internet

Iraqi women pass by a destroyed minibus after a bomb exploded in the Shaabneighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 15, 2009.—INTERNET

Deaths of women and children in Iraq

An injuredAfghan

child fromthe BalaBaluk,

district ofAfghani-stan, on abed at thehospital in

FarahProvince of

Afghani-stan.

INTERNET

London, 18 June—Using theextensive and detailed database of IraqBody Count (IBC), the researchersanalyzed 14,196 events in which 60,481civilians were violently killed duringthe first five years of the conflict in Iraq.

For overall combined causes ofcivilian death from weapons in the data-set — ranging from gunfire, toimprovised explosive devices used inroadside bombs, to precision-guidedmissiles — the average number killedper event was 4. However, theresearchers found that when air-launched bombs or combined air andground attacks caused civilian deaths,the average number killed was 17,similar to the average number in eventswhere civilians were killed by suicidebombers travelling on foot (16 deaths

per event).The researchers were also able to

analyze the demographic characteristicsof noncombatants who fell victim todifferent forms of violence. Executionafter abduction or capture was the singlemost common form of death overall,with by far most of its victims (95%)being male. Nearly a third of executionvictims were described as bearing marksof torture, evidence that they had suffered“a particularly appalling form of violentdeath.”

For Iraqi females, and children,events involving air attacks and mortarfire were the most dangerous. In airattacks causing civilian deaths, 46% ofvictims of known gender were female,and 39% of victims of known age werechildren. —Internet

Three NATOsoldierskilled in

AfghanistanKABUL, 18 June —

Three soldiers of theNATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) were killed in Af-ghanistan, a press release ofthe alliance said onWednesday.

“Three InternationalSecurity Assistance Force(ISAF) service memberswere killed as a result ofImprovised Explosive De-vice (IEC) strike today insouthern Afghanistan,” thepress release added.

However, it did not re-veal the nationality of thevictims and the exact placeof the incident, adding itis ISAF policy not to re-lease the nationality of anycasualty prior to the rel-evant national authoritydoing so.

Internet

KABUL, 18 June — In a recent Taleban attack againstgovernment interest, the director of Oil and Gas Depart-ment of Shir Khan Port in Kunduz Province of northernAfghanistan was assassinated Wednesday morning, said aprovincial administration spokesman.

“The incident took place in Durahi Archi area whileMohammad Najeb Jamil, director of Oil and Gas Depart-ment, was heading to his office from home this morningwhen attackers opened fire at his car killing him and injur-ing two others,” Mahbobullah Sayedi told Xinhua.

He added that the incident is under investigation and noone has been arrested yet.

Moreover, Taleban’s purported spokesman ZabiullahMujahid in talks with media form undisclosed locationclaimed his men killed the director and two others in hiscar.—Internet

Residents transport

an injured person to

hospital in

Mogadishu. At least

26 people have been

killed by fresh

fighting in

Mogadishu, half of

them when a mortar

shell hit a mosque as

worshippers left

after evening

prayers.

INTERNET

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A labourer works at the Zimbabwe National sports stadium in Harare, on 17June, 2009. The 60,000 seater stadium is currently under renovations in

preparation for the soccer World Cup 2010 to be held in neighbouring SouthAfrica in June next year.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 18 June—As the Obama Administra-tion released its proposalto make the most sweep-ing changes in bank regu-lation in 75 years, WallStreet differed on the effectof the overhaul plan.

“We applaud theObama Administration’sproposal to overhaul thefinancial regulatory struc-ture as a critical step to-ward restoring trust incapital markets,” saidDuncan L Niederauer,

A mini-bus station is seen under construction in Soweto. Pretoria and Johan-nesburg are each hosting Confed matches, but the two cities lie 60 kilometres(35 miles) apart and are linked only by a traffic-clogged highway that regu-

larly turns the trip into a drawn-out journey.—INTERNET

Pedestrians pass through central Sydney. Job seekers in Australia face atougher time finding work if they have non-English sounding names, withChinese and Middle Eastern applicants facing the worst discrimination, a

study has found.—INTERNET

Wall Street differs on Obama’s financialregulatory reform plan

chief executive officer ofNYSE Euronext Wednes-day.

The administration’sproposal, which releasedWednesday, comes after ayear of shocks on WallStreet and a credit crunchthat contributed to theworst US recession in halfa century.

“Regulatory reformmust protect investors,close regulatory gaps andenhance market transpar-ency, while at the same

time continuing to en-courage the spirit of inno-vation that has fueled dec-ades of economic growth,produced new productsand services and createdjobs,” said Niederauer.

“Our regulatory sys-tem is vastly outdated,and we are encouraged bythe Administration’s en-thusiasm for reform andwelcome the opportunityto contribute to this trulyimportant initiative,” saidthe CEO.—Internet

TOKYO, 18 June—Japanese governmentconfirmed signs of eco-nomic recovery Wednes-day in a monthly report,echoing the central bank’ssimilar assessment theprevious day.

“While the economy is

BEIJING, 18 June — China Eastern Airlines Corpsigned a deal in Paris Tuesday to buy 20 A320 pas-senger jets from Airbus to meet potential demand in-crease in its domestic market, said the company’s state-ment released on Thursday.

Total cost is around 9.9 billion yuan (1.45 billionUS dollars), and the aircraft would be delivered be-tween 2011 and 2013, according to the statement.

The purchase would be paid in US dollars mainlywith loans from commercial banks.

The deal is expected to increase the company’s air-line capacity by 5.44 percent from last year, and helpoptimize its domestic airline network and sharpen itscompetitiveness in medium- and short-haul passen-ger market, said the statement.—Internet

LE BOURGET, 18 June—Boeing Co finally joined the orders race on the third dayof the Paris Air Show, but its $153 million order Wednesday for two single-aisleplanes paled beside the $6.25 billion already chalked up by European rival Airbus.

Yet even Airbus’ numbers were diminutive compared to sales in past years.Airlines and governments strapped for cash and credit appeared to have come tothe world’s biggest air show as tourists instead of buyers this year, admiring thehigh-tech hardware but hiding their checkbooks.

With commercial orders scarce, American defence contractors elbowed intothe troubled market for European military transport planes at the world’s biggestair show. The salon at Le Bourget has also been haunted by unresolved questionsabout the crash of Air France Flight 447.—Internet

NEW YORK, 18 June—FedEx, the nation’s secondlargest package shipper, lost more money in the lastquarter, as consumers and businesses downsized ship-ments and the company took over $1 billion in one-time charges.

Memphis, Tenn-based FedEx Corp also saidWednesday that it expects a rough ride for some time.

“The operating environment for our first two quar-ters in fiscal 2010 is expected to be extremely diffi-cult,” executive vice president and chief financial of-ficer Alan B Graf Jr said.

In April, the company’s Atlanta-based rival UPSInc said its first-quarter profit plunged 55 percent. Itoffered a disappointing second-quarter outlook.

FedEx lost $876 million, or $2.82 per share in thethree month period ending in May. the company lost$241 million, or 78 cents per share, a year ago. Ex-cluding one-time charges, earnings were 64 cents pershare in the recent quarter.—Internet

PARIS, 18 June—French tire manufacturerMichelin announced onWednesday that it wouldcut 2,800 jobs over thenext three years.

According to a source,Michelin, based inClerment-Ferrand, centralFrance, will cut jobsthrough early retirementand voluntary redundan-cies.

The restructure also in-cludes a more than 100million euros (139 milliondollars) fund which willbe invested at Michelin’sresearch and developmentcentre in Clerment-Ferrand.

Additionally, the com-pany said it will also closeone of its plants inNoyelles-les-Seclin, northFrance.

Internet

Michelin tocut 2,800 jobs

over nextthree years

Japanese Gov’t confirms signs of economic recoveryin a difficult situation,signs of a pickup are seenin some areas,” the Cabi-net Office said in its Junereport.

It said the prospects forthe economy amid theharsh employment situa-tion are “likely to remain

severe for the time be-ing”, but it is likely to pickup due to improvementsin economic conditionsoverseas.

It also said the govern-ment hoped that its stimu-lus measures will help therecovery.

The Bank of Japanalso upgraded its evalua-tion Tuesday for the sec-ond straight month, say-ing in its June report thatthe economy had “begunto stop worsening.”

Internet

China Eastern Airlines to buy20 A320s

FedEx posts bigger loss witha gloomy outlook

Boeing gets first Paris Air Show order, for two jets

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Britain plans to embed itsWorld Expo pavilion with seeds

BEIJING, 18 June— TheUnited Kingdom will em-bed more than 60,000seeds, which can beplanted after the WorldExpo 2010, into the struc-ture of its pavilion to urgepeople to protect naturalspecies from extinction.

The UK Expo team hassigned a contract with theExpo organizer to partici-pate in Expo Online. Thecountry also updated itsExpo pavilion design,which will be an open giftbox “from Britain to theChinese people”.

The seeds will be putinside 60,000 needle-likeprotrusions covering thesurface of the 6,000-square-meter pavilion.The seeds will be well-protected and will notgrow during the 184-dayevent, Carma Elliot, Brit-ish consul general inShanghai, was quoted assaying by Thursday’sShanghai Daily.

The seeds demonstratethe concept of sustain-ability, the diversity ofnature and urge people toprotect the environment

for future generations,Elliot said.

The idea promotes theMillennium Seed BankProject, an internationalconservation projectlaunched by the country’sRoyalBotanic Gardens in2000. It is designed toprovide an insurancepolicy against the extinc-tion of plants in the wildby storing seeds for fu-ture use. The project aimsto collect seeds from24,000 species of plantsby 2010.

Xinhua

People make preparation for the airborne plantingof tree in Ruyang County, central China’s HenanProvince, on 16 June, 2009. The related depart-

ment has afforested over 890,000 mu of landthrough airborne planting since 1979, and plans to

afforest another over 40,000 mu of land thisyear.—XINHUA

Britishunemploymentrate up to 7.2%in three months

to AprilLONDON, 18 June—The

unemployment rate inBritain increased to 7.2percent in the threemonths to April this year,up by 0.7 percentagepoints from the threemonths to January 2009,the Office for NationalStatistics reported onWednesday.

The jobless rate of 7.2percent in the threemonths to April was also1.9 percentage pointshigher than the joblesslevel in the same period ayear earlier.

The report said the un-employment in Britainwas 2.26 million in thethree months to April2009, up 232,000 from thethree months to January ofthis year and 605,000 fromthe same three months ayear earlier.

The unemployment inthe country will carry onrising long after the reces-sion ends although therewere fresh signs that theBritish economic outlookmay be brightening, TheEconomist said earlierthis month.—Xinhua

Mexico launches tourismcampaign in US, Canada

MEXICO CITY, 18 June—Mexico’s Tourism Ministryon Wednesday launched a campaign to encourageNorth American tourists to the country following aslump in tourist arrivals due to the A/H1N1 flu out-break.

During the first two weeks of the campaign, the slo-gan “Believe It” will be used in 12 US cities and sixCanadian ones to convince tourists scared off by theflu that the emergency is now over.

From week three to week seven, the campaign willfeature the slogan “Welcome Back!” and in the finalweeks it will use the slogan “Mexico, it’s time to go!”

Xinhua

Mexico to propose SanLuis Potosi as UNESCO

World Heritage SiteMEXICO CITY, 18 June—Mexico will propose

that silver mines in San Luis Potosi become aWorld Heritage Site at a UNESCO meetingscheduled for 22-30 June in Spanish citySevilla, a culture official said on Wednesday.

San Luis Potosi, capital of the central stateof the same name, forms part of a cultural routelinked to Almaden and Idria, mining cities inSpain and Slovenia which supplied the mer-cury shipped to the America and used to ex-tract silver in the 15th century.

In an interview with Xinhua, AlejandroAlcaraz Torrez, director of World Culture atthe National Institute of Anthropology andHistory (INAH), said the route was chosen“because of the cultural exchange implied inthe flow of money, trade and knowledge be-tween the three cities.”

The cultural route is a concept that the WorldHeritage Committee, an affiliated agency ofthe United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO), has beenpromoting since the early 1990s, when Spain’sSantiago de Compostela Culture Route be-came the first of its kind named as a WorldHeritage Site.

Over the same period, UNESCO has beentrying to add a great variety of cultural sites tothe World Heritage Site list, seeking moremodern industrial landmarks and culturalroutes from Latin America, Africa and Asia,Alcaraz said.—Xinhua

Russian Su-24 crashes inMurmansk region

MOSCOW, 18 June— A Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircrafthas crashed in Russia’s Murmansk region, while bothpilots ejected and survived, the Interfax news agencyreported on Wednesday.

“The Su-24 fell on the Monchegorsk airfield duringa planned flight at 14:55 pm Moscow time (1055GMT),” said Vladimir Drik, aide to the Russian AirForce commander.

There were no victims or damage on the ground, headded.

He also said that a special commission of representa-tives from Russian Defence Ministry and the AirForce’s command have rushed to the scene. —Xinhua

Vietnamconfirms 139

cases of cholerasince April

HANOI, 18 June— Vietnam’sMinistry of Health on Wednesdaysaid the country confirmed 19 morecases of cholera in the past ten days,raising the total number of cholerapatients to139 so far since April,local newspaper the New Hanoireported Thursday.

The newly-confirmed 19 casesare in the northern province of BacNinh, said the ministry.

Among the 16 municipalitiesand localities having cholera pa-tients, eight has reported no morecases of the disease in the past 14days.

Meanwhile, Deputy Minister ofHealth Trinh Quang Huan said thecountry might have new choleracases in the coming days becausethe current weather conditionswould make it easier for the diseaseto spread. Huan asked authorities of mu-nicipalities and localities to closelymonitor the community, timely seta limit to the area where there arenew patients, and promote activi-ties to raise people’s awareness ofthe disease. —Xinhua

Students of SangpingMiddle School of

Wenchuan County,southwest China’sSichuan Province,wave goodbye to

people seeing themoff at the Guangzhou

Railway Station inGuangzhou, capital

of south China’sGuangdong Pro-

vince, on 17 June,2009. —XINHUA

All items from XinhuaNews Agency

A farmerworks in the

field inUlsan,

southeasternSouth Korea,on 17 June,

2009. Adrought hitUlsan re-cently andaffected itsagriculture.

XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUM

A group of Mexicans are unfurl-ing a pair of pants which is 60.1

metres long on Sunday in aneffort to break the Guinness World

Record for longest pants.

Stamp recovered after40 years is sold

A unique US stamp stolen in 1967 andrecovered almost 40 years later has soldat auction for more than $400,000, theauctioneer said Sunday.

Dr Arthur KM Woo, a prominent col-lector, bought the “Ice House Cover,”Scott Trepel, president of Robert A SiegelAuctions in New York, said in a statement.

The item was auctioned on Saturday.The “Ice House Cover” is an envelope

bearing a 90-cent Abraham Lincolnstamp. It gets its name because it wasmailed in 1873 from a Boston ice com-pany to its ice house in Calcutta.

The envelope was discovered in Indiaby a US collector. In 1967, it was stolenfrom J David Baker, an Indianapolis col-lector, by a team of thieves targeting mem-bers of the American Philatelic Society.

The FBI recovered most of Baker’scollection in 1974, but the “Ice HouseCover” remained missing.

Digital switchover savesman’s life

The switch from analog to digitaltelevision may have saved the life of aWorld War II veteran in Memphis whenlightning knocked down a tree in hisyard.

Robert Monsarrat, 86, told the Mem-phis Commercial Appeal he was watch-ing “Oprah Winfrey” in his kitchen in-stead of his bedroom on Friday becausethe only television that gets a digital sig-nal is in the kitchen. The storm broughta large red oak down on the house.

“I was curled up in the fetal positionunder the rubble when they dug me out,”he said. Monsarrat escaped without se-rious injuries. The story would likelyhave had a very different ending if hehad received the digital converter boxfor the set in his bedroom, which wasdestroyed by the tree.

Honeybees use calciumfor memory storage

French scientists say they’ve deter-mined calcium is involved in long-termmemory formation in honeybees.

Researchers from France’s NationalCenter for Scientific Research, theFrench Calcium Research Network andthe University of Toulouse found cal-cium acts as a switch between the bees’short- and long-term storage of learnedinformation.

“By modulating the intracellular cal-cium concentration in the insects’ brains,we’ve been able to demonstrate that,during olfactory conditioning, (calcium)is both a necessary and a sufficient sig-nal for the formation of protein-depend-ent long-term memory.”

The research is reported in the jour-nal BMC Biology.

Stilt-walkers participate inCirque du Soleil’s attempt at a

Guinness world record for mostpeople simultaneously walking

on stilts in Montreal, on 16 June,2009. The Cirque marked its 25thanniversary by organizing stilt-walking events in various citiesto try to reclaim the Guinnessworld record for most people

simultaneously walking on stilts.

A giant panda plays with an ice

block to cool itself at the Wuhan

Zoo in Wuhan, capital of central

China’s Hubei Province.

In this photo released by Brazil’s Navy, a BrazilianNavy diver stands on a piece of debris of the Air

France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean,on 17 June, 2009.—INTERNET

SAO PAULO, 18 June—Autopsies have revealedfractures in the legs, hipsand arms of Air Francedisaster victims, injuriesthat — along with thelarge pieces of wreckagepulled from the Atlantic— strongly suggest theplane broke up in the air,experts said Wednesday.

With more than 400bits of debris recoveredfrom the ocean’s surface,the top French investiga-tor expressed optimismabout discovering whatbrought down Flight 447,but he also called the con-ditions — far from land in

DREXEL, 18 June—Storms that spread acrossthe central US broughtheavy rains, wind and atleast two tornadoes, re-newing flooding concernsin already soggy areas andleaving thousands of peo-ple without power.

No serious injurieswere reported from thetwo storm systems that hitthe central part of the USon Monday and earlyTuesday.

BEIJING, 18 June—Beijing’s meteorological stationreleased two alarms Tuesday on a heavy rain at noon.

The sky turned dark when a drizzle became down-pours accompanied by thunder and lightning at about11 am.

The Municipal Meteorological Station raised thethunder and lightning alarm to the level of rainstormat noon, when average rainfall in the downtown areareached 11 millimetres, said Guo Hu, head of the sta-tion.

The average precipitation in the city was 7 mm asof noon.

Street lights turned on and vehicles were crawlingamid heavy rainfalls with their headlights on.

The thunderstorm abated at about 2 pm but show-ers are expected at night in the downtown area andmore rains are possible in the next couple of days, ac-cording to weather forecast.—Internet

Beijing raises two alarmsfor thunderstorm

Autopsies suggest Air France jet brokeup in sky

very deep waters — “oneof the worst situationsever known in an accidentinvestigation.”

French investigatorsare beginning to form “animage that is progres-sively less fuzzy,” Paul-Louis Arslanian, who runsthe French air accidentinvestigation agencyBEA, told a news confer-ence outside Paris.

“We are in a situationthat is a bit more favorablethan the first days,”Arslanian said. “We cansay there is a little lessuncertainty, so there is alittle more optimism. ...

(but) it is premature forthe time being to say whathappened.”

A spokesman for Bra-zilian medical examinerstold The Associated Presson Wednesday that frac-tures were found in autop-sies on an undisclosednumber of the 50 bodiesrecovered so far. The offi-cial spoke on condition henot be named due to de-partment rules.—Internet

Lightning strikes behind a windmill on a farm nearBaldwin City, Kan, on 15 June, 2009.—INTERNET

Midwest storms cause flooding, spawn tornadoesIn Minnesota, an ap-

parent tornado struck thetown of Austin, uprootingtrees, knocking downpower lines and at leastone person was reportedwith minor injuries. TheNational Weather Servicesaid the storm sent debris

flying, flipped cars ontheir sides and sent treesthrough roofs.

Power was out in muchof the city, including atKAAL-TV, which broad-cast from a dark newsroomwhile anchors were handedpapers to read.—Internet

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Kayin State in position to provide tertiary education for the youthArticle: Kyaw Zeya Myint; Photos: Htay Aung (Kyemon)

Technological University (Hpa-an) in Kayin State.

(from page 1)equipped with more than 100 faculty members inHpa-an, the capital of Kayin State. Up to now, the twoeducational institutions have produced 2,409graduates and are nurturing 904 youths.

The two universities were at college levelpreviously, and the government upgraded them touniversities on 20 January 2007.

Thanks to the goodwill the government showsfor Kayin State, the region is seeing a growing number

of intellectuals and intelligentsia and is in a positionto make impressive contribution to the building of amodern nation.

Translation: MSKyemon: 17-6-2009

Talks on Current Perspectivesin Liver Transplantation on

21 JuneYANGON, 18 June —Liver Transplant Surgeon

Dr. A.S Soni of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi,India will visit Myanmar on 20 and 21 June in order toexchange technicalities with the liver specialists andsurgeons.

Dr A.S. Soni will give talks on CurrentPerspectives in Liver Transplantation at Traders Hotelon 21 June. Those who want to attend the Talks maycontact U Yakut (Ph: 0920 34951) and Daw Shwe ZinTun (Ph: 0951 02472) to enlist.

Dr A.S. Soni is a leading surgeon of LiverTransplant Department set up in Sir Ganga Ram. He issaving the lives of the patients who are being threateneddeath with liver complaints caused by various reasonswith the use of liver transplant therapy.

Dr A.S. Soni had performed 200 liver transplantsurgeries. A total of 20 Myanmar patients have beenprovided with liver transplant surgeries so far.—MNA

Police Captain Myint Aung giving talks on traffic rules to faculty members and students atYangon Cooperative Degree College in Thanlyin Township on 17, June.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18June—Chairman of BagoDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of SouthernCommand Brig-Gen HlaMin on 10 June inspectedBasic Education HighSchool in HsinmyeesweVillage of ThegonTownship.

Commander looks into academicmatters of Hsinmyeeswe Village BEHS

Officials reported onacademic matters andtasks for uplift ofeducation standard.

The commanderviewed collectiveharvesting of summerpaddy in KanhnahsintVillage-tract, harvestingof summer paddy andcultivation of monsoon

paddy in Paungde andKyudawkan Village-tract.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18June—The inaugurationof Basic EducationPrimary School inChaungtha Village,Pathein Township, took

Chaungtha Village gets primary education schoolplace at the school on 11June. Chairman ofAyeyawady DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-West CommandMaj-Gen Kyaw Sweformally opened the stoneplaque of the school andinspected it.

The well-wisherexplained the purpose ofhis donation, following thespeech of the commander.

The commander andofficials concernedpresented cash donationsto the district educationofficer. The commandervisited Chaungtha Village

BEHS, the rubber farmnear Pathein-ChaungthaRoad, and ShawpyaVillage BEMS.

On 12 June, heattended the ploughing ofthe fields and scatteringof fertilizer to growmonsoon paddy atShweyaungpya Village,and Takaw Village BEMS(branch).

The commanderpresented cash donationsto Shwe Ein YadanaHome for the Aged atAnaukkon Village, andvisited Yaythoe VillageBEMS and NyaungwaingVillage BEMS.—MNA

Magway computeruniversity grows trees

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June—Chairman of MagwayDivision Peace and Development Council Col PhoneMaw Shwe attended the tree-planting ceremony on thecampus of Magway University of Computer Studieson 12 June.

He planted a sapling and viewed the growing ofshade trees by those present.

He inspected Daungnaychaung Bridge Project,progress in repairing Pinchaung Bridge, andYenangyoung Microwave Station.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 18June—A ceremony toopen the grand stand ofWethali FootballGround was held inconjunction with theopening ceremony ofWestern CommandCommander’s ShieldFootball Tournament atthe sports ground on 6June afternoon.

Chairman ofRakhine State Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of Western

Commander attends opening ofCommander’s Shield Football Tourney

Command Maj-GenThaung Aye formallyopened the grand stand.Next, the commander,wife and party watchedthe football match.

On 8 June, thecommander attended thecollective ploughingceremony for growingmonsoon paddy inKyamathauk Village ofSittway Township.

At No. 4 BasicEducation High School,the commander viewed

the works in thepainting, cartoon andposter competitions tomark the InternationalDay against Drug Abuseand Illicit Trafficking.

The commanderinspected proper flow ofwater at the drains atMyoma DevelopmentMarket , a long theStrand Road and themain outlet at No. 1Jetty and left necessaryinstructions.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June—Chairman of Sagaing Division Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of North-West Command Maj-Gen MyintSoe viewed the World Population Day commemorative poster and essaycontests at No. (3) Basic Education High School in Monywa on 14 June.

He inspected tasks to keep the town clean, the digging of a sewagedrainage ditch, and progress in constructing the sluice gate.

Next, he inspected the nursery of Bodhi Tahtaung Forest Reserve,Bodhi Tahtaung-Kyaukka Shweguni shortcut, inter-village road from KyaukkaShweguni Thazi Hsedawmyin Pagoda, and Thazi Dam.—MNA

World Population Daycommemorative contests held YANGON, 18

June—Ministry of SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement held aceremony to appointYangon Division socialwelfare officers inconjunction with dutyassignment at Universityof Nursing, here, thisafternoon.

Social welfare officers appointedSecretary of

Yangon Division Peaceand DevelopmentCouncil Chairman ofYangon Division ChildRight Committee U KhinMaung Tun and directorof Social WelfareDepartment U Sein Wingave addresses at theceremony.

The secretarypresented appointment ofletters to 71 socialwelfare officers throughgroup leaders fromYangon East District,Yangon West District,Yangon South Districtand Yangon NorthDistrict.

MNA

YANGON, 18 June—Dr Kyaw Yin Hlaingwill give a talk “Gov-ernment-Business Rela-tions in South East Asia”under the joint arrange-ments by the MyanmarFishery Federation andthe Myanmar Prawns

Government-BusinessRelations in South East

Asia talk on 20 JuneEntrepreneurs Associa-tion and sponsorship ofTOYO Battery at MFFon Bayintnaung Road inInsein Township here at2 pm on 20 June.

Anyone interestedmay attend the talk.

MNA

YANGON, 18 June—International BeveragesTrading Co Ltd introducedits new products at TradersHotel, here, this evening.

Managing Director UAung Moe Kyaw of IBTC& Group of Companiesspoke on the occasion.

IBTC introducesnew products

The productionprocess of the new productwas explained, and thosepresent were served withdinner. The lucky drawprogramme followed.

E x p e r i e n c e dtechnicians produce thenew quality product

meeting set standards withthe use of imported rawmaterials. The reasonableprice of product was fixedsystematically. Thecompany distributes threesizes of product to themarket.

MNA

Chairman of Shan State (North) Peace and Development CouncilCommander of North-East Command Maj-Gen Aung Than Htut

delivers a speech at the coordination meeting of Shan State (North)Police Force on 12 June.

MNA

Secretary of Yangon Division Peace andDevelopment Council Chairman of Yangon

Division Child Right Committee U KhinMaung Tun presents appointment of letters to

an official.—MNA

Managing Director U Aung Moe Kyaw of IBTC & Group of Companies delivering anaddress at new products introducing ceremony of International Beverages Trading Co Ltd.

MNA

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Commander Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe viewing tree growing of servicemenand their families.—MNA

Executive Vice President & Managing Director Dr Su-Yeong Yangfrom Daewoo International Corporation (Myanmar E & P) presents

related documents of new building of Specialist Hospital(Mingaladon) to Director-General Dr Win Myint.

MNA

Yangon Command Commander Brig-Gen Win Myint delivers address in meeting withathletes.—MNA

Rainy season tree growing ceremonyheld in Mandalay

NAY PYI TAW, 18June— Chairman ofMandalay Division Peaceand DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofCentral Command Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe and wifeattended the rainy season

tree growing ceremony ofthe Central Commandheld in the compound ofthe Central Command on6 June. The commander,wife, and officialsconcerned grew the treesand viewed the tree

growing of service menand their families. It wasalso attended by staffofficers, commandants ofregiment and units,servicemen and theirfamilies.

MNA

Myanmar Human Rights Groupissues statement

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June— Myanmar Human Rights Group issued astatement today.

The statement is as follows:-1. Myanmar authorities have beenputting American citizen Mr. JohnWilliam Yettaw, Daw Aung San SuuKyi and her two aides on trial for theiroffences in accordance withinternational standards and domesticlaws.2. While doing as such, it is regretfulto learn that five UN human rightsSpecial Rapporteurs issued a statementmisleadingly on 16 June 2009.3. Court proceedings regarding thetrial for American citizen Mr. JohnWilliam Yettaw, Daw Aung San SuuKyi and her two aides are beingconducted only in accordance with legalrules and procedures, and the accusedhave been permitted to hire lawyers oftheir choice and to call relevantwitnesses in order for them to enjoy the

right to defend themselves.4. Even though their cases havebeen handled by the Special Courtfor security reason, reporting in thenewspapers on court proceedings,permitting United States Consul anda locally recruited staff to observecourt proceedings and observers,diplomats and reporters to observeevery major court proceedingstestify to the prevalence oftransparency of the administrationof justice.5. The politicization under thepretext of human rights of the actionbeing taken against those offenders inaccordance with the existing laws ofthe State is unacceptable, and thestatement by those SpecialRapporteurs is hereby rejected.

Myanmar Human Rights Group

YANGON, 18 June—SHWE Consortiumhanded over a newbuilding to SpecialistHospital (Mingaladon) ofthe Department of Healthunder the Ministry ofHealth and donatedmedicines at the hospitalthis morning.

Executive VicePresident & Managing

New building handed over to SpecialistHospital (Mingaladon)

Director of DaewooInternational Corporation(Myanmar E & P) ofSHWE Consortium Dr Su-Yeong Yang explained thepurpose of the donation.

Director-General ofDOH Dr Win Myintexpressed thanks, andaccepted the documentsfrom Dr Su-Yeong Yang.

The handing over of a

new ward donated byAZG (Medicine SansFrontiers Holland) washeld at Aung San TBHospital later in themorning.

Head of Mission ofAZG (MSF) Mr. LukeArenol presented thedocuments to the director-general.

MNA

Commander meetsathletes of Yangon

Command sports teams

YANGON, 18 June—Chairman of YangonDivision Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of YangonCommand Brig-Gen WinMyint met with tabletennis (men’s andwomen’s), Judo,gymnastics and karate-doathletes representing

Yangon Command whowill take part in theDefence ServicesCommander-in-Chief’sShield Tatmadaw (Army,Navy and Air) SportsCompetitions 2009 at thehall of Yangon CommandHeadquarters thismorning.

MNA

The best time to plant a tree was 20years ago.

The second best time is now.

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 19 June, 2009

Loilem, a lovely township amongst lush,green mountain ranges

Article: Win Kyaw; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

A natural beauty of the road to Loilem in Shan State (South).An operation room of Loilem General Hospital (200-bed).

Local people can visit Myakantha Lake for recreation and relaxation.

Digital auto exchange of the Myanma Posts and Telecommunications inLoilem Township.

U Soe Myint Win,Chairman of LoilemTownship Peace and

DevelopmentCouncil.

(from page 16)

He added that

the township had

Panglong University,

Technological Univer-

sity (Panglong), Uni-

versity of Computer

Studies (Panglong),

four basic education

high schools, two ba-

sic education middle

schools, 86 basic edu-

cat ion pr imary

schools, along with af-

filiated high and mid-

dle education schools,

post-primary and af-

f i l ia ted pr imary

schools.

Loilem Town-

ship had a 200-bed gen-

eral hospital, a 16-bed hos-

pital, a rural health care

centre, six rural health care

centres, and one TB,

malaria and leprosy con-

trol centre, he said.

We also visited

the 200-bed general hos-

pital in Loilem Town-

ship. The hospital has a

sufficient number of spe-

cialists, doctors and

nurses. It provides health

care to local people. It is

equipped with modern

laboratory apparatuses

and X-ray room. Medi-

cal Superintendent Dr

Myo Aung, specialists,

doctors and nurses occa-

sionally make field trips

to nearby villages to give

health care to local peo-

ple. The medical facility

was inaugurated on 11

February 2003.

Despite having

only a few plains, but a

large number of moun-

tains and ravines,

Loilem Township

manages to utilize its

geographical features

to improve the agricul-

ture, education, health

care and economy of

local people.

*****

Translation: MS

Myanma Alin:

17-6-2009

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GUATEMALA CITY, 18June—Guatemala openedits first DNA testing labon Wednesday hoping thatgenetic fingerprinting willhelp solve decades-oldcivil war crimes as well asmore recent murders.

Guatemala’s ForensicAnthropology Foundationopened the 1.5 millionUS dollars laboratoryfunded by internationaldonations to identifyvictims excavated fromhundreds of mass gravesfrom the 1960-1996 civilwar. More than a quartermillion people — mostly

An partially submerged abandoned boat is seen in Miami Bay, Florida 9June,2009. According to a report from the Florida Fish & WildlifeConservation Commission published in local media, there were 750

abandoned boats in the state in 2005 and that number has now increased toabout 1500 as a result of the bad economy and hurricanes.—INTERNET

Guatemala turns to DNA tohelp solve war crimes

Mayan villagers — werekilled or disappearedduring the civil war thatpitted successive right-wing governments againstleftist guerillas.

A UN-backed truthCommission found thatGuatemalan securityforces committed morethan 90 per cent of thekillings but only a fewofficials have been triedfor war crimes.

“This work will allowthe families of the victimsto answer the questionswe have: what happenedin Guatemala, who was

responsible, and how canwe bring them to justice?”said Julio Solorzano,desperate to find out whathappened to his motherwho disappeared inDecember 1980 afterbeing picked up bymilitary police.

Solorzano gave hisown DNA sample with anoral swab which will gointo a database of victims’family members to bematched with samplesfrom thousands of bodiesexhumed byanthropologists.

MNA/Reuters

ROME, 18 June—Theagriculture sector isshowing more resilience tothe global economic crisisthan other industries asfood is a basic necessity,but the risks of a sharp risein food price still remains,according to a new reportby the OECD and FAOreleased on Wednesday.

The OECD-FAOreport, titled AgriculturalOutlook 2009-2018, saysthat falls in agriculturalprices and in the productionand consumption of farmgoods are likely to bemoderate as long as theeconomic recovery beginswithin two to three years.

China,Russia shouldfurther promote strategic

partnership of coopMoscow, 18 June—Visiting Chinese President Hu

Jintao said here on Wednesday the China-Russia stratcgicpartnership of cooperation is bound to have a better future solong as the two sides seize the opportunity and join hands indeepening it.

Hu made the remarks during talks with his Russiancounterpart Dmitry Medvedev. Hu recalled the developmentof Sino-Russian relations in the past 60 years, especially theachievements made since the two countries set up theirstrategic partnership of cooperation in 1996.

“The China-Russia strategic partnership of cooperationhas becomme a model for relationships between big countriesand neighbours.’’ Hu said made a four-point summarizationof the experiences gained in the past 60 years of the bilateraldiplomatic ties. First, only with inutual trust and sinceretreatment can bilateral political relations be continuouslypromoted.

Second, only with matual respect, equality and reciprocitycan common prosperity be realized through substantialcooperation. Third, only with mutual understanding andsupport and mutual backing on issues concerning eachother‘s core interests can the fundamental interests of eachother be effectively safeguarded.—MNA/Xinhua

US asks spain to take 4guantanamo inmates

Thailand’s totalnumber of A/H1N1patients rises to 405

BANGKOK, 18June —Thailand on Wed-nesday reported 95 moreA/H1N1 virus cases,bringing the country’stotal number to 405,Doctor Prat Boonyawong-virot Permanent secretaryof the public HealthMinistry announced hereon Wednesday.Of the totalnumber of the new cases,some 88 are students, withfour others are adults, andanother three cases arethose who had justreturned from foreigntrips, said Doctor Prat.

MNA/Xinhua

More must be done to combat the lucrative trade inmalicious software, which threatens sensitive

government networks and personal data, the head of theUS National Cybersecurity Center warned on

Tuesday.—INTERNET

MADRID, 18 June—The United State has askedSpain to take four inmatesfrom the US militaryprison at Guantanamo Bayin Cuba and Madrid willstudy the request case bycase ,Foreign MinisterMiguel Angle Moratinossaid on Wednesday.

‘‘We will study eachcase one by one andrespond once weunderstand the implica-tions of the decision andin what way we can helpthe United States closeGuantanamo,’’ Moratinostold a news conference.‘There may be more casespresented in the future’hesaid . Senior US StateDepartment officialDaniel Fried had beendue to meet spanish

officials in Madrid todiscuss possiblerelocation of detaineesfrom Guantanamo.Spanish and US Embassyofficials said.

Newspaper EL Paisreported that Spain wasprepared to take betweenthree and five inmates butthat Spanish authoritieswant to discuss whowould pay for security forany such detainees.

The men in questionwould prohably be Syrianand Tunisian citizens,would not necessarilyhave any prior links toSpain and would probablyhave freedom ofmovement within thecountry, the newspaperreported .

MNA/Reuters

OECD, FAO report warns of food insecurity As the economic

recovery comes, the reportbelieves that renewed fooddemand growth fromdeveloping countries andthe emerging biofuelmarkets are the key driverssupporting agriculturalcommodity prices andmarkets over the mediumterm. Meanwhile, the reportwarns that an extreme pricesurging similar to the rise in2008 cannot be ruled out incoming years, particularlyas commodity prices havebecome increasingly linkedto oil and energy costs andenvironmental experts warnof more erratic weatherconditions.

Food prices have comedown from the record peaksof early 2008 but theyremain high in many poorcountries. The reportpredicts that over thecoming decade prices forall farm commoditiesexcept beef and pig meatare unlikely to fall back totheir average levels beforethe 2007-08 peaks. In themeantime, althoughagricultural production,consumption and trade areexpected to increase indeveloping countries, foodinsecurity and hunger is agrowing problem for theworld’s poor.

MNA/Xinhua

A 47 million year old primate fossil known as"Ida" is seen at New York's Museum of Natural

History 19 May , 2009, at a news conference wherethe find was unveiled. —INTERNET

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 19 June, 2009

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF MYANMARMINISTRY OF ENERGY

MYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISE

IFB NO. 1 (T) CONST-MOGE/ EXP (2009-2010) CAPFAX NO-067 411125/411178

INVITATION FOR BIDS

1. Sealed Bids are invited by the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterpise, Nay Pyi Taw forthe supply of

(1) 24” LSAW API 5 L GRADE X 65 3 LPE Coated Steel Line Pipe (PSL 2) (61) Miles(2) 24” LSAW API 5 L GRADE X 65 3 LPE and Concrete coated Line Pipe (4,000) Feet(3) 24” LSAW API 5 L GRADE X 65 Line Pipe (Bare) (2,000) Feet(4) 24” Factory Made 6 D Radius induction hot Bends (with bevel ends for butt weld) (182) Nos

2. Commencing from 18th June, 2009 a complete set of bidding documents shallbe available at the FINANCE DEPARTMENT, MYANMA OIL AND GASENTERPRISE, NO. 44, COMPLEX, NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR duringoffice hour by payment to the order of Myanma Foreign Trade Bank attestingremittance of US$ 100.00 in favour of Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (or)FEC 100.00 to the above office for each set of document.

3. Bids shall be accepted only from the Bidders who officially purchased thebidding document.

4. The Bids received shall be opened in the presence of Representatives of biddersat 13:00 hours on 2nd July, 2009 at the office of Ministry of Energy, No.6Complex, NAY PYI TAW, Myanmar.

MANAGING DIRECTORMYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISE

Fallopian tubes offernew stem cell sourceSAO PAULO, 18 June—Brazilian scientists say hu-

man tissues normally discarded after surgical proce-dures could be a rich source of stem cells for regen-erative medicine.

University of Sao Paulo researchers said they havedemonstrated for the first time that human fallopiantubes are abundant in mesenchymal stem cells, whichhave the potential of becoming a variety of cell types.

Researchers Mayana Zatz, who led the study, TatianaJazedje and a team from the university’s Human Ge-nome Research Center isolated and assessed the dif-ferentiation potential of mesenchymal stem cells fromdiscarded human fallopian tubes.

The team found human fallopian tube mesenchy-mal stem cells could be easily isolated and expandedin vitro and are able to differentiate into muscle, fat,cartilage and bone cell lines.

“In addition to providing an additional potentialsource for regenerative medicine, these findings mightcontribute to reproductive science as a whole,” Jazedjesaid. “Moreover, the use of human tissue fragmentsthat are usually discarded in surgical procedures doesnot pose ethical problems.”—Internet

Interpol compiling Somalipiracy suspect database

NAIROBI, 18 June—Interpol is compiling a data-base of fingerprints, photographs and other personalinformation on Somali pirate suspects to help fightpiracy at sea, the agency said Wednesday.

The information can be accessed by any of theagency’s 187 member countries.

“Without systematically collecting photographs,fingerprints and DNA profiles of arrested pirates andcomparing them internationally, it is simply not pos-sible to establish their true identity or to make con-nections which would otherwise be missed,” Inter-pol’s Executive Director of Police Services, Jean-Michel Louboutin, said in a statement releasedWednesday at the agency’s headquarters in Lyon,France.

Despite international patrols, piracy has explodedin the Gulf of Aden and around Somalia’s 1,900-mile(3,060-kilometre) coastline — the longest in Africa.

Pirates are able to operate freely because Somaliahas had no effective central government in nearly 20years. Nearly every public institution has crumbled,and the weak, UN-backed government is fighting anIslamic insurgency.

Internet

Drive withcare

People crowd to get

onto a bus in London,

as a 48 hour tube strike

by London Under-

ground workers causes

widespread travel

disruption in the city.

INTERNET

5.1 magnitude earthquakehits New Zealand’s Rotorua

WELLINGTON, 18 June—An earthquake measuring 5.1on the Richter scale struck New Zealand North Island’sresort city of Rotoua on Thursday, the GNS Sciencessaid.

The quake occurred at 05:57 am New Zealand localtime (17:57 GMT Wednesday), the New Zealand In-stitute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences reported.

The quake’s epicenter was located within 5 km ofRotorua at a depth of 170 km. There were no immedi-ate reports of injury or damage.

Internet

Japan lifts ban on childorgan transplants

TOKYO, 18 June— Japan’s lower house voted toscrap a ban on child organ donations, paving the wayfor patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving trans-plants here for the first time.

Current law bans organ transplants by children, asituation which activists say has claimed thousands oflives and forced many families to send children in needof transplants on costly overseas trips for surgery.

Under Japanese law, transplants have been rare evenfor adults because tough rules require donors to give priorwritten consent to having their organs harvested whenthey are brain dead, while their families must also agree.

The amended bill would scrap the age limit and theneed for prior consent, unless the person explicitlyopposed having their organs used, but it would stillrequire family members of the children to agree.

The bill was approved by 263 to 167 votes and sentto the opposition controlled upper house. If it is re-jected in the upper chamber, a two thirds majority inthe lower house could turn it into law anyway.

The major political parties had told their legislatorsto vote according to their conscience. Only the Japa-nese Communist Party abstained, claiming that delib-erations had not been sufficient. The bill would alsorecognize patients who are brain dead as legally dead,long a controversial topic in Japan where many reli-gious groups say a person is only deceased once theirheart and lungs have stopped.—Internet

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Engineers work on the the Endeavour’s externalfuel tank. NASA was on course to finish repairs tolaunch the shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday afterits scheduled mission to the space station last weekwas postponed because of a gas leak.—INTERNET

A technician puts a bottle of H1N1 flu virus into a transfer cabinet duringpreparations to produce vaccines for the flu virus at a lab in Wuhan, Hubei

province on 17 June, 2009.—INTERNET

A firefighter tries to

extinguish a burning

peat-land on the

outskirt of

Palembang, South

Sumatra province on

15 June, 2009.

INTERNET

Factbox: A/H1N1 flu cases inAsia-Pacific region

HONG KONG, 18 June — The following is the latestconfirmed cases of Influenza A/H1N1 in the Asia-Pacific region on Wednesday:

Japan: 620; Australia: 2,026; South Korea: 70;China: 494 (264 in mainland, 172 in Hong Kong, 58in Taiwan); New Zealand: 127; the Philippines: 311;Thailand: 405; Malaysia 23; India: 35; Singapore:66; Vietnam: 28; French Polynesia: 1; Sri Lanka 1;Samoa: 1.—Internet

Venezuela confirms 7 newcases of A/H1N1 flu

CARACAS, 18 June — Venezuelan healthauthorities reported seven new cases of A/H1N1influenza on Wednesday, raising the total numberof confirmed cases in the country to 52.

Six of the new cases were people who havecontacts with already infected patients, CollectiveHealth Networks Vice Minister Nancy Perez toldstate-owned Bolivarian News Agency.

Venezuela confirmed its first case on May 28, a28-year-old patient who had traveled to Panama.

Among the confirmed cases, 30 percent patientswere directly infected by their sick relatives, whilethe rest are people who had traveled in the UnitedStates, Panama, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil.

Internet

Nicaragua confirms 11new cases of A/H1N1 flu

MANAGUA, 18 June — Nicaraguan healthauthorities confirmed on Wednesday 11 new casesof A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country’s totalinfections to 134.

Nicaraguan Health Minister Guillermo Gonzalezsaid on Wednesday that most of the cases in thecountry were from the western zone of Managua,the national capital, where the country’s first casewas detected.

Gonzalez said that among the 11 new cases, onewas detected in Leon department, in the country’swest.Gonzalez said that most of the 134 patientshave recovered, which means that they are in goodhealth and no longer represent an infection risk forother people.—Internet

Cancer cells separated fromnormal cells

EVANSTON, 18 June—US scientists have createda method that can directand separate cancercells from normal cells,suggesting a new methodof treating metastasis.

Northwestern Univer-sity researchers said thevast majority of cancerdeaths are due tometastasis, the spread ofcancer cells throughout thebody. Scientists are hopingto learn to control themovements of such danger-

ous cells.The Northwestern

University researchershave demonstrated asimple method that candirect and separatecancer cells from normalcells. Based on thatmethod, they haveproposed that cancercells possibly could besequestered permanentlyin a sort of “cancer trap”made of implantable andbiodegradable materials.

“We have demonstrateda principle that offers an

unconventional way tofight metastasis, a verydifferent approach fromother methods, such aschemotherapy,” saidAssociate ProfessorBartosz Grzybowski, thestudy’s senior author. “These are fundamentalstudies so the methodneeds to be optimized, butthe idea has promise for anew approach to cancertherapy.”Details of theresearch appear online inthe journal Nature Physics.

InternetEvidencefound of

lightning onMars

ANN ARBOR, 18 June —US scientists say theyhave detected the firstdirect evidence oflightning occurring onMars.University ofMichigan researchers saidthey found signs ofelectrical dischargesduring dust storms on thered planet. The bolts weredry lightning, ProfessorChris Ruf said.

“What we saw on Marswas a series of hugeand sudden electricaldischarges caused by alarge dust storm,” Rufsaid.

“Clearly, there was norain associated with theelectrical discharges onMars. However, theimplied possibilities areexciting.”Electric activityin Martian dust storms hasimportant implicationsfor Mars science, theresearchers said.

“It affects atmosphericchemistry, habitabilityand preparations forhuman exploration.

Internet

Brain volume may predict Alzheimer’s diseaseSAN DIEGO, 18 June — US scientists

say an automated measure of brainvolume may help predict progression toAlzheimer’s disease.

The procedure — volumetricmagnetic resonance imaging —measures the “memory centers” of thebrain and compares them to expectedsize.The study, published in Alzheimer’sDisease and Associated Disorders,examined the fully automated volumemeasures of 269 patients with mildcognitive impairment over a six-monthinterval.

Dr. Michael Rafii of the University

of California in San Diego says baselinevolume measurements of different partsof the brain — hippocampus, amygdalaand temporal horn — were evaluated aspredictors of cognitive change andpatients with smaller volumes of thehippocampus and amygdala showedmore rapid clinical decline.

“Our goal was to find neuroimagingmeasures of change that reflected morethan merely a person’s advancing age,but instead correlated tightly with howa person’s cognitive status worsens overtime,” Rafii, the study co-author, said ina statement.—Internet

Statins may not lower pneumonia riskSEATTLE, 18 June — A

Seattle researcher refutesthe claim that statin drugsmay lower the risk ofpneumonia. Dr SaschaDublin of the Group HealthCenter for Health Studies inSeattle found thatpneumonia risk was, if

anything, slightly higher —26 percent — in peopleusing a statin than in thosenot using the cholesterol-lowering drugs, such asLipitor.

“As a doctor, I’m a fanof statins for what they’vebeen proven to do —lowering cholesterol andrisk of heart disease andstroke in people who’vehad either disease or are atrisk for them,” Dublin saidin a statement.

Dublin says the dis-crepancy between thisstudy involving more thanof more than 3,000 GroupHealth patients and earlierones may be due to healthy-user bias. “In other words,compared to people whodon’t take statins, thosewho do may be healthierand have healthier habitsthat lower their risks ofunrelated diseases suchas pneumonia,” Dublinsaid.—Internet

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14 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Friday, 19 June, 2009

S P O R T S

General view of Centre Court during the launch ofthe new retractable roof at Wimbledon’s AllEngland Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon,

on 17 May .—INTERNET

LONDON,18 June — First it was Monica, then Maria,now it’s Michelle, the latest big noise in women’s ten-nis who will have Britain’s tabloids dusting off theWimbledon ‘gruntometers’ next week.MichelleLarcher de Brito, just 16, made such a din with heron-court screaming at the French Open that her op-ponent complained to the umpire, condemning thePortuguese girl’s repeated noise-making as “unpleas-ant”.

LONDON, 18 June—Defending champion RafaelNadal will be the top seed in the men’s singles at Wim-bledon this year ahead of French Open championRoger Federer, seeded second, and Queen’s championAndy Murray, who will be the third seed.

BLOEMFONTEIN, 18 June — A rampant Spain remainon track to equal Brazil’s record unbeaten streak afterextending their own unbeaten run to 34 games bybeating Iraq 1-0 at the Confederations Cup.

A goal by Valencia striker David Villa, at the cen-tre of transfer speculation with Manchester United andBarcelona reportedly interested, was enough to breakdown a tough Iraqi defence.It put them into the semi-finals and moved the European champions even closerto equalling the 35-match unbeaten run by Brazil be-tween 1993 and 1996.

It also ensured their place in the record books bymatching the 14 straight victories held by Australia,Brazil and France.In the semis Spain will either playItaly, or Brazil.—Internet

LIVERPOOL , 18 June—Rafa Benitez was left curs-ing the Premier League fixture computer after Liver-pool were handed a Champions League headache bythe schedule for the 2009-10 English season.

UEFA bans Drogba 4 matchesfor referee outburst

NYON,18 June — UEFA has suspended Chelseastriker Didier Drogba for four matches because of hisoutburst toward the referee after his team was elimi-nated in the semifinals of the Champions League.

European soccer’s governing body also suspendeddefender Jose Bosingwa three matches for making of-fensive comments about Norwegian referee TomHenning Ovrebo.

UEFA says on Wednesday that Drogba’s ban wassix matches, with the last two deferred over a proba-tionary period of two years. Bosingwa’s suspensionwas four matches, with one deferred.

Chelsea was ordered to pay $138,400 for the im-proper conduct of its players and fans. The 6Maymatch ended in a 1-1 draw, sending Barcelonainto the final on away goals.—Internet

MANAMA , 18 June—Hosts Bahrain kept their WorldCup dream alive by beating Uzbekistan 1-0 in a livelybut scrappy Group A encounter here on Wednesday.

It left Bahrain to finish third in the group, thus seal-ing a playoff place. Bahrain will now face Saudi Ara-bia, who finished third in Group B.—Internet

Wimbledon bracing for soundand fury

Michelle Larcher de

Brito.

Now the InternationalTennis Federation is be-lieved to be consideringoutlawing such distrac-tions as “noise hindrance”under its code of conduct.Nine-time Wimbledonchampion Martina Nav-ratilova believes thescream queens are gainingan unfair advantage.”Grunting, screeching,shrieking - I call it cheat-ing and it’s got to stop,”she said.—Internet

Bahrain seal World Cup play-offwith Uzbekistan win

Bahrain’s Abdullah Ismail Omar (C) intercepts apass between Uzbekistan’s Sahob Juraev (L) and

his teammate Islom Tuhtahujaev during theirgroup A Asian zone 2010 World Cup qualifying

football match in Manama. —INTERNET

Nadal gets top seeding at Wimbledon

World number oneRafael Nadal.

World number oneDinara Safina is top seedin the women’s singlesahead of second seededSerena Williams, thereigning Australian Openchampion.

Nadal hopes to featurewhen Wimbledon getsunder way on Mondaydespite missing Queen’swith knee tendinitis.

Internet

Villa goal sends Spain intoConfed Cup semis

Supporters celebrate Spanish team’s victory aftertheir Fifa Confederations Cup match vs Iraq, on

17 June, at the Free State stadium inBloemfontein.—INTERNET

Benitez rues Liverpool’s Eurofixtures headache

Liverpool’s Spanishmanager Rafael

Benitez, pictured, whohas been left cursing thePremier League fixture

computer after hissquad were handed aChampions League

headache by the sched-ule for the 2009-10.

INTERNET

Benitez’s side face a se-ries of three tough away fix-tures and two testing homematches immediately aftereach of the ChampionsLeague group stagematches, while their Pre-mier League rivals haveseveral more low-keyfixtures.The possibility oftravelling across Europe fora crucial fixture in the con-tinent’s top club competi-tion and then returning toEngland for another daunt-ing domestic game will in-furiate Benitez.—Internet

Two-goal hero Cahill the toastof the Aussies

SYDNEY , 18 June—Australia have sent a statementof intent to the rest to the football world ahead of the2010 World Cup after Tim Cahill’s brace ensured topspot in their group, coach Pim Verbeek said.

The irrepressible Everton midfielder scored twosecond-half goals as Australia came from behind tobeat Japan 2-1 and finish five points clear of their op-ponents.—Internet

Australia’s Tim Cahill (right) shoots for the goalas Japanese defender Uchida Atsuto attempts toblock him during their 2010 World Cup Asian

qualifying football match in Melbourne, on 17 June .—INTERNET

Oliver Kahn launches realityTV show in China

BEIJING,18 June – Leg-endary German footballerOliver Kahn is to launcha reality TV show inChina in a bid to find thenation’s best young goal-keeper, according to statemedia.

Nicknamed “KingKahn” for his presence onthe pitch and voted theworld’s best goalkeeperthree times, Kahn willstart off with a group ofyoung keepers aged be-tween 17 and 24 in his 10-part series, the ChinaDaily reported.

Internet

Oliver Kahn, former

goalkeeper of the

German national

football team, is pic-

tured during an inter-

view in Shanghai,

on 28 May.

INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenisolated in Kayah and Kayin States, Upper Sagaing andMagway Divisions, scattered in Kachin State and LowerSagaing Division, fairly widespread in Mandalay Divisionand widespread in the remaining States and Divisions withlocally heavyfall in Kachin State, isolated heavyfall inlower Sagaing, Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were NayPyiTaw(0.40) inch, Kawthong (5.79) inches, Coco Island (3.23)inches, Machanbaw (3.15) inches, Putao (3.11) inches,Ye(2.60) inches and Shwebo (2.01) inches.

Maximum temperature on 17-6-2009 was 85°F.Minimum temperature on 18-6-2009 was 72°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 18-6-2009 was 85%.Total sun shine hours on 17-6-2009 was (0.4) hour approx.

Rainfall on 18-6-2009 was (0.04) inch at Mingaladon,(0.08) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.71) inch at Central Yangon.Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (29.80) inches atMingaladon, (35.55) inches at Kaba-Aye and (41.46) inchesat Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from Southwest at (11:30) hours MSTon 17-6-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is strong in the AndamanSea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 19th June 2009: Rainor thundershowers will be scattered in Kayah State, LowerSagaing, Magway and Mandalay Division, fairly widespreadin Shan, Chin and Kachin States, Upper Sagaing Divisionand widespred in the remaining States and Divisions withlikelihood of isolated heavyfall in Mon State,Ayeyawady,Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times off and along Myanmar Coast. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35) to (40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Strong monsoon.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area

for 19-6-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for19-6-2009: Some rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for19-6-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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SINGAPORE, 18 June—Singapore’s key non-oildomestic exports (NODX) declined by 12 per cent inMay, following the 19 per cent decrease in the previousmonth, official data showed on Wednesday.

International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore),the country’s trade-promotion agency, said in itsmonthly report that the decline was due to lowerelectronic and non-electronic exports.

On a year-on-year basis, electronic NODXcontracted by 22 per cent in May, after the 26 per centdecline in the previous month. The decrease waslargely due to lower domestic exports of parts ofintegrated circuits, personal computers and disk drives.

Non-electronic NODX decreased by 5.6 per centin May, following the 15 per cent decline in theprevious month. The contraction in non-electronicNODX was led by reduced domestic exports ofpetrochemicals, primary chemicals and specializedmachinery.—MNA/Xinhua

Singapore’s non-oil domesticexports drop 12% in May

A Komodo dragon walks on a beach on Komodoisland, Indonesia. Attacks on humans by Komododragons — said to number at around 2,500 in the

wild — are rare, but seem to have increased inrecent years. Komodo dragons have a fearsome

reputation worldwide because their shark-like teethand poisonous saliva can kill a person within days

of a bite.—INTERNET

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YANGON, 18 June—Myanmar Noni Family Clubwill organize discussions on “revival of noni” at IHBChall on Bo Aung Kyaw Street here at 1 pm on 20 June.

Anyone interested may attend the discussions.MNA

Discussion onrevival of noni

YANGON, 18 June—The Paediatric EducationDepartment of the Myanmar Medical Associationwill give a talk on Paediatric Emergencies: AnIllustrated Guide at Yangon Child Hospital from 9am to noon on 27 June.

Any interested doctors and medical studentsmay attend the talk.

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It was a cold, pleasant morning, and the carwith our team from the Myanma Alin on board wasrunning at high speed along Taunggyi-LoilemRoad. We were on tenterhooks as on the right sideof the road was the steep wall of the mountain andon the left side of the road, a deep ravine. Weenjoyed the natural beauty of forests and mountainranges from the car along the zigzag uphill road.

Standing at an altitude of 4,447 feet,Loilem, 58 miles from Taunggyi, is in LoilemDistrict, Shan State (South). It shares border withKeikha Township in the north, Namsang in the

Loilem, a lovely township amongst lush,green mountain ranges

Article: Win Kyaw; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

east, Maukmai Township in the south, and HopangTownship in the north. It has moist monsoon. Almostof its area of 229.94 square miles is occupied byheights and gorges, and its mountain ranges lie fromnorth to south. It has only a few plains.

When asked about the progress of LoilemTownship, Chairman of Township Peace and Devel-opment Council U Soe Myint Win said, “Our town-ship is constituted with four wards, 11 village-tractsand 135 villages and has a population of 78,553. Inthis season, we grow 4,724 acres of paddy. We alsogrow edibles such as groundnut, sesame, niger and

oil mustard.“As major crops, we grow 1,069 acres of

soya bean, 1,917 acres of tea, 890 acres of corn,and 458 acres of onion and garlic.

“We are pursuing a project for our town-ship to become a tea garden. In that regard, 199farmers from 10 village-tracts have reclaimed 185acres of lands to grow tea. And related depart-ments will grow 63 acres of tea. In addition, wehave assigned duties on Panglong to grow 737more acres of tea.”

(See page 10)

Loilem General Hospital (200-bed) in Shan State (South).

Maya intensively cultivatedmanioc 1,400 years agoSAN SALVADOR, 18 June—A University of

Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancientand previously unknown Maya agricultural system—a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staplecrop that was buried and exquisitely preserved undera blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-dayEl Salvador 1,400 years ago.

Evidence shows the manioc field—at leastone-third the size of a football field—was harvestedjust days before the eruption of the Loma Calderavolcano near San Salvador in roughly A.D. 600, saidCU-Boulder anthropology Professor Payson Sheets,who is directing excavations at the ancient village ofCeren. The cultivated field of manioc was discoveredadjacent to Ceren, which was buried under 17 feet ofash and is considered the best preserved ancient farm-ing village in all of Latin America.

The ancient planting beds of the carbohydrate-rich tuber are the first and only evidence of an inten-sive manioc cultivation system at any New Worldarchaeology site, said Sheets. While two isolatedportions of the manioc field were discovered in 2007following radar work and limited excavation, 18 largetest pits dug in spring 2009— each measuring about10 feet by 10 feet—allowed the archaeologists toestimate the size of the field and assess the relatedagricultural activity that went on there.

Sheets said manioc pollen has been found atarchaeological sites in Belize, Mexico and Panama,but it is not known whether it was cultivated as a majorcrop or was just remnants of a few garden plants. "Thisis the first time we have been able to see how ancientMaya grew and harvested manioc," said Sheets, whodiscovered Ceren in 1978.—Internet

CU-Boulder anthropology Professor PaysonSheets and his team uncovered a manioc field

one-third the size of football field buried under 10feet of ash by the eruption of a volcano about

1,400 years ago that blanketed the Mayan farm-ing village of Ceren in El Salvador.

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