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Volume XX, Number 136 2nd Waning of Wagaung 1374 ME Monday, 3 September, 2012

True patriotism * It is very important for every one

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

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationalities willhave to safeguard.

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—A discussion on mining sectordevelopment, quality promotion for exportation and marketpenetration was held at Kengtung Town Hall in Shan State

Foreign investment and advancedtechnologies key to mining sector development

(East) yesterday morning, attended by Union Minister forMines U Thein Htaik.

Speaking on the occasion, the Union Minister called

for increased minerals exploitation from small-scaleproduction to industrial scale production with establishmentof refineries. The Union Minister recommended establishmentof public companies as a way to penetrate global market.Only with foreign investment and employment of advancedtechnologies, can Mining sector develop, pointed out theUnion minister.

Present on the occasion were Shan State Chief MinisterU Sao Aung Myat, Lahu and Akah national races affairsministers, Hluttaw representatives, departmental personnel,faculty heads of Kengtung University, 42 miningbusinessmen in Shan State and enthusiasts.

MNA

NYAUNGSHWE, 2 Sept—A ceremony to releasefingerlings into Inlay Lakeand Sankar Lake, by Shan

Fingerlings released into lakes in Shan StateState Fisheries Federation,was held at PhaungdawbyanGuesthouse on 25 Augustmorning.

The local authoritiesand people released 302,700fingerlings to the lakes.

Kyemon

YANGON, 2 Sept—Myanmar Martial ArtsFederation of the Ministryof Sports is arranging toorganize Myanmar NationalSports Committee ChairmanCup Bando Championshipat Gymnasium in AungSan stadium from 22 to 26September with a view toselecting Myanmartraditional bando athletes

Bando Championship for XXVII SEA Gamesand to competing inVietnamese Vovinam sportevent in XXVII SEA Games.

The teams representingregions and states,ministries and MyanmaThaing core clubs areeligible to take part in thisevent. The teams fromregions and states will beprovided with expense byMyanmar Martial Arts

Federation. Those wishingto know in detail maycontact Secretary U AungNaing Oo, Myanmar MartialArts Federation; Ph420076711. The first prizewinner will be awarded K300,000, second K 200,000,third K 100,000 and bestprize and individual prizewill be awarded.

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Noteworthy amounts of rainfall(2-9-2012)

LONDON, 2 Sept—Tottenham Andre Villas-Boas wanted ManchesterUnited midfielder Anderson

Spurs boss AVB wanted ManUtd’s Anderson over Dembele

Pathein (3.70) inchesKyaukpyu (3.58) inchesPyu (3.15) inchesMudon (3.07) inches

Union Minister for Mines U Thein Htaik speaks at discussion on mining sector development,quality promotion for exportation and market penetration.—MNA

MFF official leaves for VietnamYANGON, 2 Sept— U Ko Ko Thein of Myanmar Football

Federation left here by air on 31 August to discharge dutyof match coordinator in the AFF U-19 Championship in HoChi Minh City of Vietnam.

The championship with the participation of host Vietnam,Iran, Australia and Uzbekistan lasts from 2 to 8 September.Referee U Hla Min and assistant referee U Min Min Tun willalso discharge duties in the championship.—NLM

in the summer, it has beenrevealed.

The Sunday Expresssays it’s understood thatVillas-Boas was keen onManchester United

midfielder Anderson but wasinstead pushed in thedirection of Fulham’s MousaDembele.

Some of the summersignings were not driven byVillas-Boas – the Portugueseboss even being overruledon some of his targets.

Reuters

This handout photograph released by the SriLankan Army shows visiting Chinese DefenceMinister Liang Guanglie (R) shaking hands

with Sri Lankan Defence Secretary GotabhayaRajapakse in Colombo.

China says S Asia ties ‘nothreat to third party’

Jupiter mission makesorbit adjustment

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’sJuno spacecraft during a burn of its

main engine.

A team parades during the InternationalMilitary Music Festival at Red Square inMoscow, on 1 Sept, 2012. Military bandsfrom different countries participate in the

annual tattoo.

Open-Federer and Serenamarch on at US Open

Fernando Verdasco of Spaincongratulates Roger Federer (R) ofSwitzerland after their men’s singles

match at the US Open tennistournament in New York on

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Maung Maung Lay

PERSPECTIVES

Wholesome food and healthy lifeMonday, 3 September, 2012

“Eat to live, not live to eat!” It is true thatwe must know what to eat and how to eat, so wecan enjoy healthy and happy life as health isalso wealth.

Fruits and vegetables contain all thenecessary vitamins and minerals needed for ahealthy body. Wholesome fruits and vegetablesare less expensive and much more enjoyablethan vitamin supplements and pills. Generally,carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, peas,onions, garlic, broccoli, yogurt, low-fat dairyproducts are among the wholesome foods weshould choose.

Of course, there are many other nutritiousfoods other than those we feel are wonderful,health-promoting foods, and if there are otherWholesome foods such as fruits, vegetables,nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc that we like, by allmeans we must enjoy them. Among thethousands of different foods our worldprovides, the majority contain at least severalof the nutrients our bodies need. In fact, thehealthiest foods are foods that the majoritypeople can easily find at their local market.

For most of us, moderation or balancemeans eating less than we do now. Morespecifically, it means eating far less of theunhealthy stuff (unrefined sugar, saturatedfat, for example) and more of the healthy (suchas fresh fruit and vegetables). But it doesn’tmean eliminating the foods we love.

During a meal, we must stop eating beforewe feel full. Because it actually takes a fewminutes for our brain to tell our body that ithas had enough food, so we should eat slowly.We must listen to our body, and ascertainwhether we are really hungry or just feelthirsty.

Having healthy breakfast and eating small,healthy meals throughout the day (rather thanthe standard three large meals), avoiding eatingat night, taking time to chew our food andenjoying mealtimes, and eating with otherswhenever possible are also important factorsfor health. So, let’s eat wholesome food andlive a healthy life!

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation UMyint Hlaing paid aninspection tour of themechanized farming plot ofYanaungmyin irrigated watersystem mechanized farming300-acre area inDekkhinathiri Townshiphere this morning.

He left necessary

instructions on ensuringtimely completion ofmonsoon paddy growing andsupporting farmers withequipments to becomfortable in cultivatingpaddy plantations, andprovided the operatorsworking in the farm withfoodstuff and cash assistance.

The Union Ministerinspected arrival of 30 New

Holland branded tractors Hp75, 20 Sonalia brandedtractors Hp 90 and fourexcavators to be used inimplementing 3000-acremechanized farming area.

The Union Minister andDeputy Minister U Ohn Thanviewed Palethwe monsoonpaddy plantations ready tobe harvested.

At the farmer’s educative

farm of Ngalaik irrigated area,the Union Minister urged thetrainers to firmly contributeto farmers the best way togrow quality groundnuts incoming plantation season,after looking into cultivationprocess of high-yield 5-acresoy bean research farm andgroundnut 10-acre farmer’seducative farm with the useof scientific method.—MNA

Union A & I Minister views tractors, excavators to be usedin implementing 3000-acre mechanized farmlands

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—Union Minister forCommunications, Posts andTelegraphs U Thein Tun on31 August addressed theceremony to disburse loansto farmers at Basic Education

Loans disbursed to farmers in Myaing Township

High School (Branch) inAungthukha village inMyaing Township inPakokku District of MagwayRegion.

The Union Minister saidthat the loan was targeted at

purchasing paddy strainsand crops seeds.

The Union Minister andregion Hluttaw represen-tatives, the districtadministrator and MyaingTownship administrator

presented loans to farmers inShwelinzwe and Kani village-tracts.

The Union Minister andparty then viewed loandisbursement to farmers.

MNA

Union Minister for Communications, Posts and Telegraphs U Thein Tun speaks at the ceremony todisburse loans to farmers, held at Basic Education High School (Branch).—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—In-charge of Zeyathiri Townshipin Nay Pyi Taw Council Area Dr Paing Soe on 25 Augusttogether with the medical superintendent of Nay Pyi TawGeneral Hospital (200-bed) and medical officers inspected 17shops of the canteen from Yezin Basic Education High School.

They then met the headmistress, members of the schoolcommittee and teachers.

Later, they inspected Yezin Station Hospital and ThayasuRural Health Branch in Kyunyaung Village-tract.—MNA

School health facilitiesinspected in Nay Pyi Taw

Council Area

YANGON, 2 Sept—Cashand kind was donated to localpeople in Rakhine State whosuffered loss of property andassets in recent unrests atMaykhalar Hall of Fire ServiceDepartment (Head Office) inYangon this morning.

Myanmar FreightHandlers Associationdonated K 2.5 million,Managing Director U AungThu of Aung Gyi Co Ltd K 1.2million, Myanmar Log TrucksAssociation K 0.8 million,Truck Supervisory CommitteeK 0.5 million, Daw Than ThanMyint, Maj Win MaungMaung (Retd) and Daw SweSwe Myint K 0.4 million, DrKyi Oo and wife Dr Khin MarShein K 0.2 million, U KhinMaung Zin and wife Daw

Cash and kind donated toRakhine people

YANGON, 2 Sept—Mingala TaungnyuntTownship CooperativeSyndicate of Yangon Regionheld the Annual GeneralMeeting for 2011-2012 fiscalyear at its office on TheinbyuRoad on 28 August.

Chairman of theSyndicate Dr Sein Mya andStaff Officer U Thet Pyin of

Township CooperativeDepartment explainedmatters related tocooperative tasks.

Director U Win Aungread the report of BODs andHead of TownshipCooperative Department USoe Tint (Audit) submittedthe audit report.

Myanma Alin

Cooperative Syndicate holdsAGM in Mingala Taungnyunt

Myint Myint San K 50,000and one bale of cloth, Dr MoeMoe Tin, K 50,000, MandalayThein Zaw and wife Dr ChoAye Han, eight bales of cloth,Dr Kyaw Khaing Lwin andwife Dr Htar Htar Aye,furnitures, U Okkar, one baleof cloth, U Aung Aung Tinand wife Daw Sanda Win, onebale of cloth, Ko Nay MoeHein, one bale of cloth, andDaw Myint Myint Than, onebale of cloth. FSD Director-General U Tin Moe andofficials accepted donations.

Donations at FSD (HeadOffice) till 1 September isK 339,093,223 and K338,693,223 have beentransferred to the RakhineState government.

MNA

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Iran says reactor at Bushehr nuclear planthas reached full capacity

TEHERAN, 2 Sept —Iran’s sole operationalnuclear power reactor hasreached full capacity, a seniorofficial said on Saturday.

Iran’s deputy nuclearchief, Mohammad Ahmadian,said the reactor at the Bushehrpower plant was brought toits “full capacity of 1,000megawatts” Friday evening.The reactor went intooperation for the first time lastyear at minimum capacity.The Islamic Republic builtthe nuclear power plant inthe southern Iranian port citywith Russian help. Thefacility is a cornerstone of

Iran’s drive to become atechnological leader amongMuslim nations, with effortssuch as an ambitious spaceprogramme and long-rangemissile development. Iranalso runs smaller researchreactors and is buildinganother power reactor.

The United States andsome of its allies believe theBushehr plant is part of anIranian attempt to developnuclear weapons. Iran deniesthe accusation, saying itsnuclear programme is forpeaceful purposes.TheBushehr project dates backto 1974, when Iran’s US-

backed Shah MohammedReza Pahlavi contracted withthe German company Siemensto build the reactor. Thecompany withdrew from theproject after the 1979 IslamicRevolution brought hard-lineclerics to power.

In 1992, Iran signed a $1billion deal with Russia tocomplete the project and workbegan in 1995. Since then, theproject has been beset byproblems linked to constru-ction and supply glitches.Under the contract, Bushehrwas originally scheduled tocome on stream in July 1999but it was repeatedly

In this 15 Feb, 2012 file photo, released by the IranianPresident’s Office, claims to show Iranian President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left being escorted bytechnicians during a tour of Teheran’s research reactor

centre in northern Teheran, Iran.— REUTERS

postponed over technicalglitches and financialdisputes. The reactor finallywent into operation last

summer operating withminimum capacity toundergo tests before fulloperation.— Internet

Mexico lowersalert level for

simmeringvolcano

MEXICO CITY, 2 Sept —Mexico has lowered the alertlevel for the Popocatepetlvolcano near Mexico City fourmonths after the simmeringgiant raised the alarm when itbegan spewing red-hotfragments of rock. TheNational Centre for DisasterPrevention said on Saturdayit had cut the warning level toyellow phase two from yellowphase three after emergencyservices concluded there wasnow no imminent danger forpeople outside the 7.5-mile(12-km) radius of an exclusionzone around Popocatepetl’scrater.

The centre last raised thealert level on 16 April.Thereafter, heightenedactivity by the 17,900-foot(5,450-metre) volcanoprompted nearby schools tobe shut on some days and thebrief closure of the city ofPuebla’s airport.

Lying some 50 miles tothe southeast of Mexico City,Popocatepetl has belchedsmoke and ash sporadicallyover the last few years. A bigeruption in 2000 forced theevacuation of nearly 50,000residents in three statessurrounding the volcano.

Reuters

Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City.—INTERNET

Urumqi ready for China-Eurasia ExpoURUMQI, 2 Sept —

Xinjiang Uygur AutonomousRegion in northwest Chinahas made all necessarypreparations to host a “safeand fruitful” China-EurasiaExpo in its capital Urumqi, alocal official said on Saturday.Zhu Hailun, secretary ofUrumqi’s city committee ofthe Communist Party ofChina, said the city has madeall necessary preparations tomake the week-long event“safe, pragmatic, festive andimpressive.” The secondChina-Eurasia Expo will openon Sunday, attended byChinese Premier Wen Jiabaoand some foreign leaders.

The city has made

complete overhauls of theenvironment by improvingsanitation, increasing greenand reinforcing citymanagement. It has alsostrengthened security byupgrading security-checkequipment and implementingstrict checking rules at thevenues of the expo, Zhu said.The China-Eurasia Expo wasupgraded from a regional tradefair, the 19-year-old ChinaUrumqi Foreign EconomicRelations and Trade Fair, inSeptember 2011 when the firstexpo was held. The expostrives to become an idealcooperation platform forEurasian region by using thegeographic advantage of

Xinjiang.At the invitation of the

expo’s organizing committee,President of KyrgystanAlmazbek Atambayev,President of the MaldivesMohammed WaheedHassan, Prime Minister ofCambodia Hun Sen, PrimeMinister of Kazakhstan KarimMassimov, Prime Minister ofTajikistan Akil Akilov,Second Vice President ofAfghanistan MohammadKhalili and Deputy PrimeMinister of Turkey AliBabacan will attend the expo,according to a press releasefrom the Foreign Ministry onSaturday.

Xinhua

A team parades during the International Military MusicFestival at Red Square in Moscow, on 1 Sept, 2012.

Military bands from different countries participate in theannual tattoo. — XINHUA

Angola’s Dos Santos securesbig election win

LUANDA, 2 Sept — Angola’s long-serving President JoseEduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party scored a landslidewin on Saturday in an election criticized as one-sided and notcredible by opponents and civil society activists, accordingto provisional results.

The results from Friday’s voting announced by theNational Elections Commission showed the governing partywith 74 percent of the vote - far ahead of its nearest rivals withvotes counted from over 70 percent of polling stations. Undera new constitution introduced in 2010, the MPLA win meansDos Santos, who turned 70 this week, is elected for a furtherfive-year term on top of the nearly 33 years he has alreadyserved as leader of Africa’s No 2 oil producer.

Angola’s seaside capital was calm and there were nosigns of any celebration or uproar in the streets, whichindicated the overwhelming MPLA victory in only the thirdelection since independence from Portugal in 1975 was widelyanticipated. Silver-haired Dos Santos is Africa’s secondlongest serving leader after Equatorial Guinea’s PresidentTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

The provisional results gave the MPLA’s closestchallenger, former rebel group UNITA, nearly 18 percent,while the third-placed CASA-CE party was approaching fivepercent in its first election test after being formed by UNITAdissident Abel Chivukuvuku four months ago. Chivukuvukutold reporters his party, which along with UNITA hadcomplained repeatedly of serious irregularities in the votepreparations and the electoral process, was analyzing theresults before deciding whether to accept or reject them.

But another prominent CASA-CE member, candidate forLuanda William Tonet, dismissed the provisional results as“cheating taken to its maximum level”. “This is like a declarationof war by the MPLA ... it indicates to citizens that there canbe no alternative through the electoral route,” he told Reuters.Sources at UNITA said party president Isaias Samakuvawould challenge the announced results.

Reuters

S Korea’s industrial lendinggrowth accelerates in Q2

SEOUL, 2 Sept — SouthKorea’s industrial lendinggrowth accelerated in thesecond quarter on the back ofstrong demand from theservice sector, data by thecentral bank showed onSunday. Outstanding corpor-ate loans by depositorycorporations, includingbanks and non-bankinstitutions, totaled 785.5trillion won (692.68 billion USdollars) as of the end of June,up 9.8 trillion won from threemonths earlier, according tothe Bank of Korea (BOK).

The second-quartergrowth was faster than a 6.5trillion won increase for thefirst quarter. The fasterincrease came amid strongdemand from servicecompanies. Banks lent a totalof 625.8 trillion won to localcompanies as of end-June, up8.6 trillion won from threemonths before. Non- bankdepository corporations,including mutual savingsbanks, credit unions andcommunity credit coopera-tives, extended 159.7 trillionwon in corporate loans.

Loans owed by servicefirms to depositorycorporations grew 5. 8 trillion

EU worried over Hungary, Romaniainstitutions: paper

won in the second quarter, aturnaround from a 3.1 trillionwon contraction for the firstquarter. Loans for manu-facturers increased 4.6trillion won during the April-June period, but the growthwas lower than a 9.9 trillionwon increase for the firstquarter.— Xinhua

PARIS, 2 Sept — A topEuropean Union officialpraised court rulings inHungary and Romania whichrejected widely criticizedattempts to entrench theirruling parties in power, butsaid she remained worriedabout both countries’institutions. Viviane Reding,the European Commission’svice president in charge ofjustice, told Le Mondenewspaper that Hungary wasone of the most worrying casesand cited the government’sbid to lower the retirement agefor judges — thrown out inJuly as unconstitutional.

Hungary’s top court,ruling against the legislation,said it would be a threat to the

independence of the judiciary,echoing criticism by theEuropean Union. Theconservative ruling partyFidesz also used its two-thirdsmajority in parliament to passa new constitution, whichcritics saw as cementing itsgrip on power by takingbudget issues and other areasof law out of the top court’sjurisdiction. “That stateremains one of those whichworry me the most,” Redingwas quoted as saying in theinterview, published onSaturday. “The courts theremust be independent.”

“All the problems haven’tbeen resolved, but the worsthas been avoided thanks, thereas well, to a coalition of

European institutions jointlyvoicing their worry,” she said.Turning to another ex-communist European state,Romania, which recentlyexperienced a political crisis,Reding said the worst had beenavoided there too. In Romania,Prime Minister Victor Ponta’sleftist alliance tried to dismisshis rival, right-wing PresidentTraian Basescu, suspendinghim in July and holding areferendum on whether toimpeach him. TheConstitutional Court ruled thereferendum invalid becauseturnout fell short of the 50percent required. Parliamentaccepted the decision onMonday and agreed toreinstate Basescu.—Reuters

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologyTiny gravity changes show magma’s

underground movementsWASHINGTON, 2 Sept—

The secret movements ofmagma deep inside a volcanocan be detected by trackingthe subtle changes in gravitythey cause. Surprisingreadings from a Hawaiianvolcano have researchershoping to better understandvolcanic activity throughgravity monitoring.

Continuous gravitymeasurements of activevolcanoes are relatively rare,with most results coming fromMount Etna in Italy.

“One problem is the

expense,” researcherMichael Poland, ageophysicist at the USGeological Survey’sHawaiian Volcano Observa-tory, explained. “Gravitymeasurements have alwaysbeen a really expensiveendeavor. The big users areoil and mining companies.”

Now scientists havemonitored the gravity atK?lauea, a popular touristdestination on Hawaii’s BigIsland, and discovered aregular cycle of fluctuationsthat suggest magma is

churning a kilometre (0.6miles) below the surface.

The way magma churnsin underground chambersbelow volcanic vents is keyto understanding howpersistent volcanoes are, andwhether or not they mightcatastrophically erupt in thefuture. However, what goeson deep under the Earth’ssurface is difficult to monitor.

One way to peerunderground is by looking atEarth’s gravity, the resear-chers said. Anything that hasmass has a gravity field that

Tiny gravity changes show magma’s undergroundmovements.—INTERNET

pulls objects toward it. Thestrength of this field dependson the amount of mass. Sincethe Earth’s mass is not spreadout evenly, this means thestrength of the planet’s

gravitational pull is strongerin some places and weaker inothers. As such, the flow ofmagma from one place toanother can be detected fromabove.—Internet

China toartificially breed

rare goldenmonkeys

WUHAN, 2 Sept—Chinais expected to set up thecountry’s first artificialbreeding base for theendangered golden monkeyswithin the year.

The base will be set up inthe Shennongjia NatureReserve in central China’sHubei Province, which ishome to about 1,200 goldenmonkeys, according to thereserve’s managementbureau’s research institute.

Jupiter mission makes orbit adjustmentPASADENA, 2 Sept—

NASA’s Juno mission toJupiter has successfullychanged its orbit inpreparation for a 2016 arrivalat the giant gas planet, thespace agency says.

In performing its firstdeep-space maneuver, thespacecraft initiated the first oftwo planned firings of its mainengine to refine thespacecraft’s trajectory, settingthe stage for a gravity assistfrom a flyby of Earth 9 Oct,

2013, that will send it on itsway for arrival at Jupiter 4July, 2016, NASA JetPropulsion Laboratory inPasadena, Calif, said onThursday.

The engine was fired for29 minutes, 39 seconds,changing the spacecraft’svelocity by about 770 mph,JPL said. “This first andsuccessful main engine burnis the payoff for a lot of hardwork and planning by theoperations team,” JPL Juno

Project Manager RickNybakken said.

The burn occurred whenJuno was more than 300million miles away from Earth.A second one is planned for 4Sept. “We still have the Earthflyby and another 1.4 billionmiles and four years to go toget to Jupiter,” said ScottBolton, Juno’s principalinvestigator at the SouthwestResearch Institute in SanAntonio. Juno was launched5 Aug, 2011.—Internet

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Juno spacecraftduring a burn of its main engine.—INTERNET

Facebook ad targeting to use e-mails, phonenumbers

SAN FRANCISCO, 2 Sept—A new tool for advertisers letsthem target ads to customerswho have already used theirservices.

Facebook plans to rollout a new advertising toolthat will let companies targettheir ads to existing customersbased on their phone numbersand e-mail addresses.

The social network islaunching the new tool nextweek and touts it as a way forbusinesses to reengage withcustomers who have alreadyused their services, accordingto a Facebook spokesperson.

For those who may haveprivacy concerns over thisexchange of personalinformation, the socialnetwork said the process issecure.

What this means isFacebook isn’t giving any ofyour data away, it’s takingexisting numbers andaddresses from businessesand letting those businessesuse the information to targetits ads.

On the flip side, Facebookwon’t be gaining any newdata from businesses. Whenadvertisers give Facebook

your data, it is hashed — asecurity technique thatscrambles your data — beforeit is fed into the advertisingmachine. Once the ads areplaced, Facebook dumps thehashed data, so that if anadvertiser wants to do anotherad, the process starts overagain.

The new method wasavailable briefly in theFacebook Power Editor, avirtual toolbox used byadvertisers to create ads,according to Inside Face-book. Facebook continuesto figure out how to improve

In this photo illustration, a Facebook logo on acomputer screen is seen through a magnifying glass heldby a woman in Bern on 19 May, 2012. Picture taken on

19 May, 2012.—REUTERS

its advertising service amidrevenue reports and forecaststhat have not been up to par.

Of course, it’s not theonly company expanding its

targeted advertising efforts.Twitter launched a featuretoday that puts tweets in thestreams of a broader audiencethan before.—Internet

The base will helpincrease the population of theendangered golden monkeysin Shennongjia by conqueringkey technical problems, saidYang Jingyuan, director withthe institute.

Regarded as China’s“state treasure,” just like giantpandas, golden monkeys areclassified as under top levelprotection. In naturalconditions, the birth rate ofShennongjia golden monkeysis about 4 percent, with thesurvival rate of monkey cubsat only 6 percent.

“It is still an unsolvedscientific question why thegolden monkeys inShennongjia becomepregnant between Augustand October. And the femalemonkeys can only deliver onecub every two years,” Yangsaid. He said that, researcherswill focus on increasing themonkey’s pregnant probabi-lity by human assistancetechniques, artificialfertilization and nutritionalregulation.—Internet

Nokia, Microsoft head for “last chance saloon”NEW YORK, 2 Sept—

Microsoft Corp and NokiaOyj are loading up for theirbest — and possibly last —shot at denting a smartphonemarket dominated by AppleInc’s iPhone and GoogleInc’s Android mobilesoftware.

If the new Lumia phonesdo not appeal to consumerswhen they are unveiled nextWednesday, it could meanthe end for Nokia, and aserious blow to Microsoft’sattempts to regain its footingin the mobile market, analystsand investors said. “This isvery high stakes,” saidCanaccord Genuity analystMichael Walkley. “Nokia bet

everything on Windows, andif this doesn’t succeed thenext step might be having todo what’s best forshareholders, and that mightinclude selling off key assetsor selling the wholecompany.” The Finnishhandset maker has loggedmore than 3 billion euros inoperating losses in the last 18months, forcing it to cut 10,000jobs and pursue asset sales.

Its share of the globalsmartphone market hasplunged to less than 10percent from 50 percentduring its heyday before theiPhone was launched in 2007.

For Microsoft, asuccessful Lumia launch

would convince more handsetmakers and carriers to supportits latest phone software,which is based on the samecode as the upcoming Win-dows 8 computing system,and promises fasterperformance and a customi-zable start screen.

Windows phones haveonly captured 3.7 percent ofthe global smartphone market,according to StrategyAnalytics. Android phoneshave 68 percent, while Applehas 17 percent.

The new Lumia phoneswill hit the market just as theworld of Android reels from apotentially crushing legalblow, and as Research In

Motion Ltd’s BlackBerrycontinues its decline.

A California jury decidedlast week that some ofSamsung Electronics Co Ltd’shot-selling Android smart-phones copied features of theiPhone, which may result inimport bans and drive handsetmakers to put more resourcesinto making Windows-basedphones. The judgment opensa window for Microsoft toexploit — but it first needs tofind favor with consumers.

“Windows Phone reallyis going to have to stand orfall on its own, it’s going tohave to appeal to consumers,”said Jack Gold, anindependent mobile analystwho runs consultancy J GoldAssociates.—Reuters

Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga on 18July, 2012.—INTERNET

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & HealthHow steady job could benefit

diabeticWASHINGTON, 2 Sept—For people who are diabetic or

prone to diabetes, having a steady job appears to be good fortheir health.

And the benefit lies in their adherence to anti-diabeticmedications, and not just because of the insurance coverage,according to a new University of Michigan study.

It found that that jobless working-age people with diabetesare less likely to adhere to their oral anti-diabetic medicationsthan diabetics who are employed.

Further, people of working age with diabetes are morelikely to be unemployed than those who do not have diabetes.

The lack of a clear-cut, cause-and-effect relationshipbetween insurance and medication adherence surprised leadresearcher Rajesh Balkrishnan of the U-M College of Pharmacyand School of Public Health.

“Improved use of medications is more than just a facet ofhaving medical insurance. It is linked to bigger issues such asbeing employed, periods of joblessness or a personal financialstrain,” said Balkrishnan, who believes that a healthier, active

lifestyle and access to medical care resources throughemployers that want employees to remain productive play abig role in adherence.

Other factors that account for lack of medication adherenceinclude lack of financial resources, stress due to unemploymentand lack of access to health care.

Researchers looked at diabetes because it is one of themost commonly present chronic conditions in working-ageadults in the United States, and globally it is the seventh-leading cause of death and the eighth-most costly disease totreat, Balkrishnan said.—Internet

Market value of top 8 cos dipsRs 30k cr; ONGC biggest loser

MUMBAI, 2 Sept—Led by state-owned energy majorONGC, the combined market capitalisation (m-cap) of topeight Sensex companies fell by Rs 30,004 crore last week.

TCS and ITC, however, saw rise in their market value.RIL, ONGC, CIL, HDFC Bank, NTPC, Infosys, SBI and

HUL, on the other hand, witnessed losses in a weak marketduring the week amid damp investor sentiment.

The BSE 30- scrip index, Sensex, fell about 2 percentduring the trading week ended on Friday.

ONGC’s market cap slipped Rs 9,369 crore to Rs 2,36,259crore. The company’s share price declined 3.81 percent duringthe week. Coal India was the next big loser as its m-cap plungedRs 8,938 crore to Rs 2,22,809 crore.

The market value of Infosys fell by Rs 4,140 crore to Rs1,36,279 crore, while SBI lost Rs 3,342 crore to Rs 1,23,807 croreand RIL Rs 3,285 crore to Rs 2,49,829 crore.

NTPC’s value diminished by Rs 577 crore to Rs 1,38,482crore, HDFC Bank lost Rs 224 crore to Rs 1,40,197 crore andHUL’s market worth plunged Rs 129 crore to Rs 1,12,002 crore.

In contrast, TCS added Rs 4,756 crore to its m-cap whichwas Rs 2,63,696 crore, while ITC’s value climbed Rs 1,880 croreto Rs 2,09,573 crore. The top 10 list by m-cap for last week wasled by TCS, followed by RIL, ONGC, CIL, ITC, HDFC Bank,NTPC, Infosys, SBI and HUL. —Internet

Led by state-owned energy major ONGC, the combinedmarket capitalisation (m-cap) of top eight Sensex

companies fell by Rs 30,004 crore last week.—INTERNET

Yoga during pregnancy helpsrelieve pain, increases enduranceHollywood’s newest moms like January Jones, Hilary Duffand Pink.

“Yoga during pregnancy helps a woman increase herstrength and flexibility, even as her body goes through thedramatic changes of pregnancy,” a news channel quotedMary Barnes, director and owner at Yoga for Two in New York,as saying.

The postures yoga offers may also prepare women forchildbirth and help relieve discomforts, such as back pain andswollen ankles. Apart from building strength and relievingpregnancy discomforts, it also helps increase pain tolerance.

As yoga focuses on lengthening the breath, this createsendurance, calms the mind and can increase a woman’s painthreshold during labour. —Internet

WASHINGTON, 2 Sept—Many doctors and healthprofessionals are encouraging pregnant women to do yoga,as it helps increase their strength and relieve pregnancydiscomforts. This form of exercise is favoured by some of

FIIs invest about 11K cr in Aug, highest in 6mths

the US Federal Reserve andthe European Central Bank asglobal economy remainsfragile.

Geojit BNP ParibasResearch Head AlexMatthews said, “FII inflowcontinues, as hopes of policyreform announcements arestill alive. But if there are noreform announcements, theremight be slowdown in inflowor could be a pause as well.”

However, the currentpolitical environment maydashed hopes as themonsoon session ofParliament has been stalledmany times following theCAG’s report on coal blocksanctions.—Internet

NEW DELHI, 2 Sept—Overseas investors pumpedin close to Rs 11,000 crore inthe Indian stock market inAugust—highest in sixmonths—amid hopes ofgovernment initiatives onpolicy reforms and easing ofmonetary policy globally.

Thus, FII investment inthe country’s equity markethas reached Rs 63,070 croreso far this year, and Rs 24,518crore in the debt market duringthe same period.

In August, ForeignInstitutional Investors (FIIs)were gross buyers of sharesworth Rs 48,136 crore, whilethey sold equities amountingto Rs 37,332 crore — net inflow

of Rs 10,803 crore (USD 1.94billion), according to the dataavailable with the marketregulator Sebi.

This was the highest netinvestment by FIIs in stockssince February, when theyhad infused Rs 25,212 crore.In July, they had pumped inRs 10,273 crore.

Market experts said thatdespite slowing economicgrowth and a high interestrate regime, foreign investorscontinued to prefer Indianequities on expectations thatgovernment would take freshpolicy initiatives.

Besides, they said,investors were anticipatingmonetary policy easing by

FIIs invest about 11K cr in Aug, highest in 6 mths.—INTERNET

HSBC may exit Karnataka Bank with sale of4.46% stake

NEW DELHI, 2 Sept—Global banking major HSBCis looking to offload its entire4.46 percent stake in privatesector lender Karnataka Bank,after having exited from threeother Indian lenders — AxisBank, Yes Bank and FederalBank.

HSBC had invested in allthese banks as part of itsinvestment portfolio andbegan selling these sharesabout three months ago.

This was part of a globalexercise to shore up its capitalby liquidating non-strategicholdings.

HSBC has garnered anestimated Rs 2,800 crorethrough sale of its shares inYes Bank, Axis Bank andFederal Bank, while its currentholding of 83.99 lakh shares(4.46 percent stake) inKarnataka Bank is worthabout Rs 70 crore as per currentmarket valuations.

Investment bankingsources said the UK-basedbanking giant would soonlook at selling its KarnatakaBank shares, which is heldthrough one of its investmentarms, HSBC Bank (Mauritius).

The shares are most likelyto be sold through openmarket transaction, similar to

the sale of shares in otherthree Indian banks.

While Axis Bank and YesBank shares were sold on thesame day earlier in June thisyear, HSBC sold its FederalBank shares in late-August.

It had sold its holding ofnearly five percent stake inKerala-based private sectorlender Federal Bank for a littleover Rs 341 crore.

Prior to that, HSBC hadsold its 4.75 percent stake inAxis Bank for about Rs 1,880crore and its 4.76 percentholding in Yes Bank for aboutRs 545 crore.

Meanwhile, it may berecalled that HSBC has comeunder scanner in the recentpast for allegations of

inadequate control measuresin the US against moneylaundering and terroristfinancing related activities.

Certain Indianauthorities, including RBI andFinancial Intelligence, arealso looking into the role ofHSBC and another UK-basedglobal banking majorStandard Chartered foralleged lapses on their part.

While StandardChartered has settled a casewith banking regulator of NewYork, which had charged it ofsecret transactions involvingUSD 250 billion with Iran,HSBC has also set aside USD700 million to cover for anypossible penalties against itin the US.—Internet

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COLOMBO, 2 Sept —Chinese Defence MinisterLiang Guanglie says Beijing’sincreasingly close ties withSouth Asia are aimed atensuring regional “securityand stability” and are notintended to harm any “thirdparty”. Liang, the firstChinese defence minister tovisit Sri Lanka, did not nameIndia — where he heads toSunday — but officials inNew Delhi have expressedconcerns about Beijing’sinfluence in Sri Lanka,Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepaland Pakistan.

India fears it might bepart of a Chinese policy tothrow a “string of pearls” —a circle of influence — aroundregional rival India. But in aspeech released by SriLanka’s military on Saturday,Liang said that China had onlypeaceful intentions in SouthAsia, while stressing that the

This handout photograph released by the Sri LankanArmy shows visiting Chinese Defence Minister LiangGuanglie (R) shaking hands with Sri Lankan Defence

Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse in Colombo.INTERNET

China says S Asia ties‘no threat to third party’

Indian Ocean was animportant supply route for hisfast-developing country.Beijing is seeking“harmonious co-existenceand mutually beneficial andwin-win cooperation” withcountries in the region, hetold a Sri Lankan army staffcollege on Thursday,according to a copy of thespeech.

In New Delhi, the ministerwill be a guest of the defenceministry, an Indiangovernment spokesman said,without giving details of whatwill be discussed. India iswarily eyeing growingChinese clout in what NewDelhi regards as its traditionalsphere of influence. Liangdismissed the “China-threattheory”. “Some people in theinternational communitysuspect that China would takethe road of expansion withforce and have been actively

spreading the ‘China-threattheory’,” he said.

“The People’sLiberation Army (China’sarmed forces) efforts inconducting friendlyexchanges and cooperationwith its counterparts in SouthAsian are intended formaintaining regional securityand stability and not targetedat any third party,” he added.Liang said his trip to Colombo

was aimed at furtherstrengthening close ties withSri Lanka, including militarycooperation.

China is a key supplier ofweapons to the Sri Lankanmilitary, which in 2009crushed the Tamil Tiger rebelsand declared an end to 37years of ethnic conflict thatclaimed up to 100,000 lives onthe island, according to UNestimates.— Internet

Sluggish foreign trade bringswoe to shipping industry

CHANGCHUN, 2 Sept —Industry insiders warned thatChina’s shipping industrywould face a difficult situationwithin the year as a result ofslump in import and exportgrowth. “It would be moredifficult (for the sector) in thesecond half of the year thanin the first half,” said ChangDechuan, chairman of theboard of Qingdao Port(Group) Co, Ltd, on Saturday.

“Port and shippingenterprises need to be wellprepared as the globaleconomic downturn wouldmire the import and export inthe next two to three years,and the situation iscompounded by uncertain-ties in domestic economy,”Chang made the commentswhile attending an enterpriseforum in Changchun, capitalof northeastern province ofJilin. Profit growth for portenterprises has dwindled,judging from the perfor-mance of listed companies,while shipping enterpriseshave suffered great lossesdue to global over-capacity.

Shanghai-listed ChinaOcean Shipping (Group)Company (COSCO) witne-ssed a loss of 4.87 billion yuan(773 million US dollars) in thefirst half of the year, and itprojected a further loss forthe first three quarters, mainlydue to the global economicdownturn and the slowdownin China’s economic growth.

Zhang Yansheng, aforeign trade expert with theNational Development andReform Commission, toldXinhua that downwardpressure on import and exportmight ease in the second halfof the year, but that trend isnot fundamental.

“Neither overseasdemand nor domesticdemand will improvesignificantly, and that trendcould last for several years,”Zhang said. Zhang Liang, ananalyst with GF SecuritiesCo, Ltd, said profits of portenterprises in Q3 might dropfrom a year ago as a result ofdecreasing throughput andrising labour cost.

Xinhua

Navy scansocean for 36missing off

Guinea coastCONAKRY, (Guinea), 2

Sept — The Guinean navy isscouring the coast off ofGuinea’s capital, Conakry,looking for around 36 peoplestill missing after theiroverloaded canoe capsizedin inclement weather.

On Friday, officialsretrieved eight bodies,including six women and twochildren. A forensic doctor atthe municipal morgue let anAssociated Press reporter seethe corpses, and pointed outthat several had traces ofblood coming out of theirnose — a sign, he said, thattheir lungs had burst.

Raphael Bangoura,commander of the port ofBolbinet where the incidenthappened, said on Saturdaythat around 65 people wereaboard the canoe, and that 21have been saved. Countingthe eight dead, he says thatthat means roughly 36 peoplecould still be in the water.

Internet

Arrest after China flight threat: state mediaBEIJING , 2 Sept — Police

in southern China havearrested a man suspected ofthreatening to blow up acommercial jet, following asimilar incident affecting aflight from Beijing, state Presssaid on Sunday.

Police arrested Xiong Yi,29, in Dongguan city onSaturday after tracing ananonymous phone callthreatening a flight from

Suspect Xiong Yi (C) is sent from an airplane underescort in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei

Province, on 2 Sept, 2012. Chinese police have seized asuspect who allegedly sent a threatening message whichcaused a domestic flight to divert on Thursday, sourceswith the police said on Saturday. The 29-year-old man,Xiong Yi, was caught on Saturday afternoon in a hotelin Dongguan city in southern province of Guangdong,

according to the police of central China’s HubeiProvince, where Xiong resides.—XINHUA

Shenzhen airport onThursday, Xinhua newsagency said.

Xiong confessed that hewarned airport officials thatexplosives would bedetonated on a ShenzhenAirlines flight 45 minutes aftertake-off, forcing aircontrollers to divert the flight,the report said. Afterinspecting the groundedplane, police found no

dangerous items on board, itsaid.

The incident happened aday after an Air China planebound for New York wasforced to return to Beijingfollowing a similar unspecifiedthreat.

After police determinedthat no dangerous materialswere on that flight, the AirChina plane flew to New Yorkfollowing a delay of severalhours. Authorities are stillinvestigating the incident,while Beijing airportauthorities warned passen-gers to be prepared forincreased security measures,state media said on Sunday.

In June, six members ofChina’s Uighur minority triedto hijack a Chinese domesticflight departing from a restivecity in the far-western Xinjiangregion, but crew members andpassengers thwarted them,authorities said. The TianjinAirlines plane, bound for theXinjiang capital of Urumqi,returned safely to the airportin Hotan city after a strugglebetween the hijackers and thecrew members and pass-engers.

Internet

British couple discovers MiddleAges well under living roomPLYMOUTH, 2 Sept — A

British couple finally figuredout why their living room floorwasn’t level when they tookup the floorboards anddiscovered a 33-foot deep wellthat historians say dates backto Shakespeare’s day. ColinSteer had long puzzled overwhy a section of the floor nearhis couch seemed to givewhen someone stepped on it,according to the Telegraph.Several years ago, he did someinvestigating and found thebrick shaft filled in with loosedirt.

“I was replacing thejoists in the floor when Inoticed a slight depression –it appeared to be filled in withthe foundations of thehouse,” Steer, of Plymouth,Devon, told the paper. ButSteer initially only dug abouta foot deep into the shaft. “Idug down about one foot butmy wife just wanted to me tocover it back up because wehad three children runningaround at the time,” he said.

“I always wanted to dig

it out to see if I could find a potof gold at the bottom, so whenI retired at the end of last yearthat’s what I started to do.”

Once he retired from hiscivil service job, he finishedthe dig and uncovered theancient well. He also made anexciting discovery - an oldrusted sword. “It was hiddenat a 45-degree angle and sortof just fell out. It looks like anold peasant’s fighting weaponbecause it appears to be madeup of bits of metal all knockedtogether,” he told theTelegraph.

Steer has sinceresearched the well anddiscovered it was part of anaqueduct built in the 16thcentury by Sir Francis Draketo carry water from Dartmoorto Plymouth.

Steer has covered the wellwith a trapdoor and installedlights in it. He admits he enjoysshowing it off. “I love the welland think it’s fascinating,” hesaid. “I’ve got a piece ofPlymouth’s history in my frontroom.”— Xinhua

“I was replacing the joists in the floor when I noticed aslight depression – it appeared to be filled in with thefoundations of the house,” Steer, of Plymouth, Devon,

told the paper. — XINHUA

Brand-building urged amid overcapacity in car sectorTIANJIN, 2 Sept —

Automobile experts onSaturday urged Chinese carcompanies to set their sightson strong brands in a marketthat is predominantly takenup by overseas giants suchas Volkswagen and GeneralMotors.

Currently, China’s carsector still relies heavily uponoverseas technologies, withjoint venture companiesproducing and selling aboutthree quarters of sedans sold

here, said Su Bo, Vice Ministerof Industry and InformationTechnology.

“Joint venturecompanies, meanwhile, stillmainly make products withimported technologies, andChina has not become a majorplayer yet in independentinnovations,” Su said at aninternational car forum heldin Tianjin in north China.Chinese car firms have almostno place in the luxury carmarket, which is dominated

by well-established namessuch as Audi, BMW andMercedez-Benz. In a recentdevelopment, US auto makerFord announced that it willintroduce its luxury Lincolnbrand to China in the secondhalf of 2014.

Su warned that long-term dependence on overseastechnologies and brandsmay further weaken Chinesecompanies’ ability toestablish their own brandsand improve their ability to

innovate. China’s auto salesand output both witnessedan average 20-percent annualgrowth over the past decade,according to the official.However, the world’s largestauto market faces a potentialovercapacity problem afterthat explosive growth over thepast decade, said Chen Bin,director of the IndustrialCoordination Department ofthe National Developmentand Reform Commission,China’s top economicplanner.

Xinhua

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File photo of US army special forces in Afghanistan. Thecommander of US special forces in Afghanistan hassuspended training for all new Afghan recruits until

Afghan soldiers are re-investigated for ties to insurgentsThe Washington Post reported.— INTERNET

US special forces suspend training of Afghans

MANILA, 2 Sept — ThePhilippine government saidon Saturday that the strongearthquake that hit the easternprovinces of central andsouthern parts of the countryon Friday night has justcaused minimal effects.

The National DisasterRisk Reduction andManagement Council(NDRRMC) reported onSaturday noon that only onewoman from southernCagayan de Oro City died ina landslide caused by theearthquake; besides thevictim, there were cracks onsome roads and bridges andother establishments in areaswhere the quake was felt.

WASHINGTON, 2 Sept —The commander of USspecial forces in Afghanistanhas suspended training forall new Afghan recruits untilAfghan soldiers are re-investigated for ties toinsurgents, The WashingtonPost reported. The newspapersaid the re-vetting processwill affect more than 27,000Afghan troops.

The suspension comesin response to the killing of atleast 45 US troops this yearby their Afghan colleagues.“We have a very good vettingprocess,” the paper quotes anunnamed senior specialoperations official as saying.“What we learned is that youjust can’t take it for granted.We probably should have

had a mechanism to followup with recruits from thebeginning.”

According to The Post,numerous military guidelineswere not followed by eitherAfghans or Americansbecause of concerns that theymight slow the growth of theAfghan army and police.NATO has some 130,000troops in Afghanistan fightingthe Taleban’s decade-longinsurgency alongsidegovernment forces.

Most of the NATOtroops are set to withdraw bythe end of 2014 in a US-designed transition processthat will put Afghan securityforces in charge of securityfor their war-batteredcountry. The process is

already under way, withsecurity responsibilities ofabout half of the Afghanpopulation transferred to thelocal security forces. The

Taleban have stepped uptheir attacks in recent monthsas part of efforts by theinsurgency to undermine thetransition process.— Internet

Strong quake, but minimaleffects: Philippine gov’t

“It’s good that thedamage was not severe orhuge,” deputy presidentialspokesperson Abigail Valtesaid on Saturday in aninterview over state-run radiostation.

The Philippine Instituteof Volcanology andSeismology ( Phivolcs)explained that theearthquake created minimaldamage because its centrewas very far from the nearestshore of the country. Theearthquake transpired about112 kilometers off the easternPhilippine city of Guiuan andas of Saturday night, 196aftershocks were recorded.

Xinhua

Oil spilling from Turkish bulk carrier wreckoff Cape Town

CAPE TOWN, 2 Sept — Oilfrom a Turkish bulk carrierthat ran aground three yearsago off the coast of CapeTown, South Africa’s primetourist city, was spilling ontotwo beaches, officials said.

Investigations onSaturday showed the vesselhad disintegrated into threepieces, Cape Town citydisaster managementspokesman WilfredSolomons-Johannes said. “Itis believed the rough seasand high spells that wereexperienced on yesterday

A bulk carrier sits afterrunning aground in 2009in front of the Table Baybeach on the outskirts of

Cape Town, South Africa.Oil from the Turkish bulkcarrier that ran aground

three years ago wasspilling onto two beaches

on Saturday, officials said.INTERNET

(Friday)... resulted in themovement of the vessel andcaused the oil spill from thevessel,” he said.

Aerial investigations“established that a thick layerof bunker oil has washedashore and that largequantities of oil is still in thewater in the vicinity of theSELI 1 vessel that ran agroundon 07 September 2009,” hesaid. “Black oil fingers” ofup to 500 metres radiusoriginating from the vesselwas trickling toward the city’sDolphin Beach, he added.

Efforts to clean the oil weresuspended until Monday dueto rough seas.

The Panamanian-registered, and Turkish-operated ship was carrying30,000 tons of coal and 600tons of heavy fuel when itdeveloped engine problemsin September 2009 while onits way to Gilbraltar It hassince remained there andSouth African authoritiesrequire 40 million rand ($4,7million, 4 million euros) toclear the wreckage.

Internet

Double suicide attack kills 12 in AfghanistanKABUL, 2 Sept — Two

suicide attackers, onedriving a fuel tanker, blewthemselves up near a US basein eastern Afghanistan onSaturday, killing at least 12people, officials said.

The attack around dawnin the town of Sayed Abad inWardak Province, about 70kilometres (40 miles) fromKabul, served as a reminderthat even after a decade offighting, tens of thousandsof US and foreign troops arestill engaged in a war thatshows no signs of slowingdown despite the start of awithdrawal of coalitionforces.

The US-led NATOcoalition said that noAmerican or coalition troopswere killed in the blasts. Itconfirmed that a number oftroops were wounded, butdid not say how many, inaccordance with coalitionpolicy.

Shahidullah Shadid, aspokesman for the Wardakprovincial governor, saidone suicide bomber

detonated a vest riggedwith explosives outside acompound housing thedistrict governor’s office aswell as local police andAfghan army headquarters.

A second bomberdriving a fuel tankerdetonated his bomb on aroad separating thecompound from the base.

Shadid said the deadincluded eight civilians andfour Afghan police. Talebanspokesman ZabiullahMujahid claimed respon-sibility for the attack, whichhe said was targeting the USbase.

Government officialssaid the first attacker blewhimself up to try to eliminatethe Afghan security forceguarding the compound andclear the way for the truck tohit the base down the roadfrom the governor’scomplex.

The second bomber thenblew up the fuel tanker as hewas approaching the base.One of the town’s mainbazaars is also located near

the bomb site.“A small explosion

happened followed by a bigone caused by a truck,” saideyewitness Hamidullah, wholike many Afghans goes byone name.

“In these explosions alot of people were woundedand also a large number ofshops were destroyed. I felldown on the ground andeverything around me wasdestroyed.”

Officials said thesecond blast was far largerthan the first. “It was a verypowerful explosion. It brokewindows all over the area,”said provincial police chiefGen. Abdul Qayum Bakizai.“Most of the injuries are frombroken glass from thewindows of homes andshops. It was so powerful wecouldn’t find much of thetruck.”

The governor’s officesaid in a statement that 59people were wounded — 2NATO troops, 47 civiliansand ten Afghan policeofficers.— Internet

Pilot whales come ashore in Florida,17 dead

MIAMI, 2 Sept — Twenty-twoshort-finned pilot whales beachedthemselves along Florida’s Atlanticcoast on Saturday, and 17 died despitea day-long effort to save them,authorities said. Five calves andjuveniles were rescued and taken to anearby rehabilitation centre,according to Carli Segelson of theFlorida Fish and WildlifeConservation Commission.

She said the others, males andfemales, died of natural causes or wereeuthanized. The creatures, which arethe biggest in the dolphin family afterkiller whales, came ashore near FortPierce, on Florida’s south-centralAtlantic coast. The US National ParkService, Florida Fish and Wildlife andthe National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administrationparticipated in the rescue effort.

Segelson said pilot whales, which

Iraq oil exports highest in more than 30 yearsBAGHDAD, 2 Sept — Iraq’s oil exports reached

their highest level in more than three decades lastmonth as the country’s output has continued toincrease, oil ministry officials said on Saturday.

Overall exports averaged 2.565 million barrelsper day (bpd), bringing in $8.442 billion in revenueson the back of average oil prices of $106 per barrel,Falah al-Amiri, head of the State Oil MarketingOrganization, said. Exports averaged 2.516 millionbpd in July. “The level of exports was the highest inmore than 30 years,” said ministry spokesman Assem

Iraqi workers stand outside thesecond refinery for crude oil inthe Al-Dora refinery complex

during its official openingceremony in Baghdad in

September 2010. Iraq’s oilexports reached their highest

level in more than three decadeslast month as the country’s

output has continued toincrease, oil ministy officials

said. INTERNET

are considered highly intelligent, area species that commonly strandthemselves on beaches around theglobe. Such incidents often have beenblamed on infestations of parasitesthat affect the whales’ brains and theirability to stay on course. They normallystick to deep waters, where they feedon a diet that includes squid andoctopus.

The cause of Saturday’s beachingwas not immediately clear. AllisonGarrett of NOAA said necropsies mighthelp explain what drove the mammalsashore. “These are very social animals,”Garrett said. “If one of them is sick andgoes and strands, the others will staywith it, they won’t leave.” Male pilotwhales, which are normally dark blackand larger than their femalecounterparts, can grow to about 20 feetand tip the scales at as much as threetons.— Reuters

Jihad. Amiri said oil production currently averagedaround 3.2 million bpd.

Iraq has proven reserves of 143.1 billion barrelsof oil and 3.2 trillion cubic metres (111.9 trillioncubic feet) of gas, both of which are among thelargest in the world. Crude exports account for thelion’s share of government income, and Baghdad islooking to dramatically ramp up both productionand sales in the coming years, bringing in much-needed cash to rebuild its conflict-batteredeconomy.— Internet

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 3 September, 2012YANGON, 2 Sept—Film, literature and

music associations are civil society.Members need to set rules and regulationsthemselves and adhere to them in the society.Civil society takes the same form in theinternational context, said Union Ministerfor Information U Aung Kyi as Unionministers and those artistes met at MyanmarMotion Picture Organization on WinkabaStreet in Bahan Township, here this morning.

Union Minister U Aung Kyi said that hewould seek advices from professionals inarts field and cooperate with them, addingthat he would keep on sticking to threeprinciples, faith and sacrifice, truth andhonesty and, cooperation and coordinationwhich he has always upheld.

Patron of Myanmar Motion PictureOrganization Bogale U Tint Aung extendedgreetings and Chairman U Zin Waingexplained about Myanma film and videoindustry.

Union Minister at the President OfficeU Soe Thein promised to give a helping handif he be of help. The wrong should not beremained as it is and must be mended. He

Artistes to serve as coordinator between government and people

promised to work for the best results providedthe time is sufficient.

Union Minister at the President Office UAung Min said film is the pioneer of theyouth, calling on directors and scriptwritersto discourage the youth from indulging inwrongdoings. Artistes have their audience

and can bridge between the government andthe people, said the Union minister, urgingthem to act as coordinator between thegovernment and the people.

Present on the occasion apart from theUnion ministers were Deputy Minister at thePresident Office U Aung Thein, Managing

Director of Myanma Motion Picture EnterpriseU Aung Myo Myint and personnel, patrons,the chairman and executives of MyanmarMotion Picture Organization, the chairpersonand executives of Myanmar VideoOrganization (central), producers and thoseengaged in film and video industry.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—Union Minister forCommerce U Win Myinttogether with the ShanState finance and revenueminister, and personnel ofthe Republic of the Unionof Myanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerce

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—The Ministry of Transportwill listen to the suggestionsof departmental heads,scholars and entrepreneursin implementing economicreforms, Union TransportMinister U Nyan Tun Aungyesterday said at theworkshop for construction

YANGON, 2 Sept— Awork-coordination meetingbetween the scrutinizingcommittees for successfullyholding the 19th MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions for 2012 inYangon Region was held atthe meeting hall of YangonRegion government’s office,here, yesterday morning,with an address by Patron ofthe leading committee forholding MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competi-tions for 2012 Yangon Region

YANGON, 2 Sept—Yangon Region Minister forDevelopment Affairs Yangon Mayor U Hla Myint inspectedpublic activities for prevention against common diseasesand talks on health educative knowledge on Yangyiaungstreet in Ward 5 of Mayangon Township, repaving of LowerMingaladon Road in Insein Township, laying of 32-inchdiameter water pipeline between Khayebin Junction toGyobyu-Hlawga Pipelines in Mingaladon Township, layingof 48-inch diameter water pipeline between KhayebinJunction and Ngamoeyeik water treatment plant in HmawbyTownship, operating of water treatment plant of YangonCity water supply project (Ngamoeyeik) near NyaunghnapinCamp of Hmawby Township, construction of ACH machine,and progress of water supply project for the second phase

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—Deputy Minister for Industry UThein Aung together with Region Hluttaw RepresentativesU Win Thein and U Saw Lay Htaw inspected embarking ofrice bags to be donated to flood victims at Thabaung Jettyin Thabaung Township yesterday.

The deputy minister and party donated 70 bags of ricefor 480 households at Thayettaw Village. Speaking on theoccasion, the deputy minister called for re-cultivation of riceplants in time. They then donated 100 bags of rice for 630households at Kwaytaukwin Village and 30 bags of rice for121 households at Nannanbingon Village.

On 23, 24 August, the deputy minister presented rice,clothes, utensils and notebooks for flood victims inThabaung Township. The Industry Ministry has so fardonated K 7,638,000.—MNA

Transport Ministry seeks suggestions fromentrepreneurs, scholars

of international ports inYangon.

He also said 77 percentof port business is beingoperated by private sectorwith the possibilities ofgreater participation.Yangon port with 18 wharfsand Thilawa port with sixand three container sheds

are handling 85 percent ofexport and import of thecountry.

He said that neitherpolicy nor management isexception in reform processin meeting with staff of InlandWater Transport at Ahlondockyard.

MNA

Work coord meeting focuses on successfullyholding 19th Performing Arts Competitions

Chief Minister U Myint Swe.The Region Chief

Minister said, in his speech,that the 19th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Per-forming Arts Competitionsfor 2012 needs to be held inline with five objectiveslaid down by the State andthat it needs to strictlyselect participants throughRegion level competitionsfor central-level competi-tion is drawing near, to focuson advices from seniorartistes in Yangon Region,to make preparation tasksafter reviewing weakness

of the previous-yearcompetition and to lend ahand to Yangon Regionteam to succeed in thecompetition.

Chairman of the leadingcommittee for holding the 19th

Myanmar Traditional Cul-tural Performing ArtsCompetitions for 2012 YangonRegion Minister for financeand revenue Daw San San Nwe,senior artistes and those presenton the occasion presentedreports on their preparationtasks for holding Region levelcompetition, selecting andtraining.—MNA

Effective information exchange systemneeded to prevent price fluctuation: Union

Commerce Minister

and Industry metchairpersons and membersof brokerages in Lashio on29 August.

The Union Ministerspeaking on the occasion,called on brokerages todesign effective informationexchange system to prevent

price fluctuation underunordinary circumstances.He then invited suggestionsfor economic andcommercial development,urging them to report thebarriers encountered intransaction process.

MNA

Flood victims in ThabaungTsp provided with relief aids

Ngamoeyeik water treatmentplant project completed by 84

per cent

yesterday morning.The first phase of the water treatment plant was

completed in 2005 and it supplies 45 million gallons of waterto the people daily. With the aim of supplying safe water tothe people for the second phase, the project is underimplementation.

At present, the project has completed by 84 per cent.On completion, a total of 45 more million gallons of water canbe supplied to the Yangon city dwellers.—MNA

Union Minister for Information U Aung Kyi meets chairman of Myanmar Motion Picture Organization andexecutives, Myanmar Video Organization (Central) and executives and those of film and movie industries.—MNA

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TRAFFIC RULESTALKED: The traffic rulesrefresher course No. 4/2012

was opened at YangonNorth District All Private

Bus-line ControlCommittee No. 3 branch atMyoma Hall of Hlegu on

25 August. Courseinstructor IP Kya Nyo of

Thiri Myaing PoliceTraining School gives talks

on traffic rules.MYANMA ALIN

MOMAUK, 2 Sept—Underthe supervision of BhamoDistrict FisheriesDepartment of Kachin State,fingerling releasingceremony was held at paddyfield No. 173 in MomaukTownship on 24 August.

At the ceremony,Deputy Commissioner U

KYAUNGGON, 2 Sept—Floods in some townships ofAyeyawady Regiondestroyed farmlands.

The governmentprovided assistance forsubstituted cultivation ofmonsoon paddy andwellwishers, assistance tolocal farmers.

When floods have

Farmers prepare for re-cultivation of paddy inKyaunggon Township

Environmentalconservation

talked in BagoBAGO, 2 Sept—The talks

on eradication of illegal timberextraction and environmentalconservation took place inKali Village of BagoTownship in Bago District ofBago Region at 2 pm on 30August.

In-charge of BagoTownship Forest Depart-ment Senior Forester U TheinShwe gave talks oneradication of illegal timberextraction and environmentalconservation. In-charge offorest block U Than Zaw Tunexplained matters related tothe Forest Law.

Myanma Alin

KYAIKLAT, 2 Sept—Cultivation of crops plays animportant role in ensuringlocal food sufficiency whilethe role of livestockbreeding is also important.

Fish breeding is beingundertaken at farmlands on a

subsided, local farmers aremaking preparations forcultivation of monsoonpaddy.

On 27 August, a talk onre-cultivation of monsoonpaddy and agriculturaltechnique was held at thehall of KyaunggonTownship GeneralAdministration Department.

Deputy Director-General U Aye Tun ofAgriculture Departmentexplained the plans to growthe crops. Head of DistrictAgriculture Department USai Kya Ohn discussedsubstituted cultivation ofcrops and paddy and repliedto queries raised by localfarmers.—Myanma Alin

Kyaiklat Township breedingfish and growing paddy

manageable scale.A ceremony to release

fingerlings to paddy farm ofU Myat Thein was held inHleseik Village of KyaiklatTownship on 25 Augustmorning.

Head of Pyapon DistrictFisheries Department U ThetAye, Township Admini-strator U Aung Naing, Headof Township FisheriesDepartment U Aye Min andstaff, members of thetownship agriculturalcommittee, Hleseik villageadministrator and localpeople released fingerlingsto the paddy farm.

Next, officials dis-tributed 150,000 fingerlingsto 35 farmers to set them free.By breeding fish in thepaddy field, the local peoplecan produce paddy and fish.With out digging the lake,the local people canundertake agricultural andlivestock breeding tasks ona commercial scale. Fish andpaddy integrated farming canearn increased income.

Myanma Alin

PERFORMING ARTSCOMPETITIONSOPENED: The 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions of Pakokku

District was opened atPyithaya Hall of Pakokku

on 30 August. Patron of theOrganizing Committee

Deputy Commissioner UKhin Maung Yi formallyopens the competitions.

MYANMA ALIN

DistrictNews

Fingerlings released into paddy fields inMomauk

Teza Aung of Bhamo DistrictGeneral AdministrationDepartment, MomaukTownship Administrator UNyan Hlaing, Head of DistrictFisheries Department DawNyunt May, Chairperson ofDistrict Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw Aye MyaMya Khaing, Chairperson ofTownship Women’s Affairs

Organization Daw Swe ZinWin, members of socialorganizations anddepartmental officialsreleased fingerlings into thepaddy field.

So far, MomaukTownship has set over200,000 fingerlings free atNammauk Creek.

Myanma Alin

THABAUNG, 2 Sept—Atotal of 314 villages from 63village-tracts and threewards, farmlands, schoolsand departmental officeswere flooded and inundateddue to heavy rains andoverflow of rivers inThabaung Township ofAyeyawady Region inAugust.

In the incident, a totalof 83974 people of 19126households became floodvictims.

As of 4 August, the reliefcamps are kept open for

Motor road repaired for better transport inThabaung after floods

flood victims in thetownship andaccommodated them.

The Government, socialorganizations and wellwisherpeople donate relief aids tothe victims daily. The Uniongovernment providedassistance to needy peoplefor their travel charge to goto school.

Departments concernedrepaired damaged roads forbetter transport.

On 28 August, basiceducation schools werereopened, said an officials ofthe township.

However, the victims arefacing basic needs andstudents difficulties till today,said a local.—Kyemon

NYAUNGSHWE, 2 Sept—Members of TaunggyiSpecial Anti-Drug Squad,Office of District PoliceForce and NyaungshweTownship Police Forcesearched the house of MyoTint (a) Myoi Swe Tint, 40,son of U Thaung of Ward 4in Mongli at 5 pm on 30August. They seized 200WY brand pink stimulanttablets worth K 800,000 andK 450,000 in cash.

The combined teamsearched the house of Mee To

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—The Ottarathiri TownshipAdministrator’s CupMonsoon Football

Township Administrator’s Cup FootballTournament wraps up

Tournament was held atOttarathiri Football Groundon 29 August afternoon.

Member of Nay Pyi Taw

Council U Saw Hla enjoyedthe final match in whichMingon Village-tract playedagainst Maungyan Village-tract.

After that, ActingTownship Administrator UZeya Min presented the firstprize to Mingon Village-tract.The commander ofTownship Police Firce gavethe second prize toMaungyan Village-tract, andthe head of TownshipImmigration and NationalRegistration Departmentawarded the third prize toZalaung Village-tract.

MNA

Stimulant tablets seized inNyaungshwe Township

(a) Khin Myo Lwin, 32,daughter of U Soe Wai ofMongli Ward 5 and seized 10WY brand orange colourstimulant tablets worthK 4000 and K 55000 asproceeds from her bed. Theteam also seized two WYbrand green colour stimulanttablets and one pink stimulanttablet worth K 12000 and 119,000 in cash from thehouse of Aung Cho (a) MaungPyone, 43 of Thalay Villageof Nyaungshwe Township.

Myanma Alin

Crime News

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MAIDUGURI, 2 Sept —Five suspected Boko Harambombers on Saturday diedwhile two soldiers and ateenager were injuredfollowing a bomb explosionin the Nigeria’s northeast cityof Maiduguri. Militarysources told Xinhua that thefive bombers were killed bythe security forces in the citywhen the fuel-propelledexplosion went off.

Spokesperson of theMilitary-led Joint Task Force(JTF) Lt Col Sagir Musa saidin a statement that thebombers attacked a patrolteam of the task force atRuwan Zafi, along Dikwa-Gamboru Road of themetropolis on Friday night.

“Fuel PropelledImprovised ExplosiveDevice was used by theterrorists during the attackwhich resulted to fireoutbreak that burnt someadjoining shops,” Musa said,adding “five of the bomberswere killed” while twosoldiers and a teenager werewounded as a result of theencounter.— Xinhua

Explosionkills five Boko

Haram innorthernNigeria

As Isaac pushes north, Gulf Coast slowly recoversrigs, thousands of evacueescouldn’t return home toflooded low-lying areas ofLouisiana and more than400,000 sweltering electricitycustomers in the stateremained without power.

Meanwhile, the NationalWeather Service said twotornadoes touched down inrural areas of north-centralIllinois and at least two toucheddown in rural southeastMissouri.

There were no reports ofdamage in Illinois, andMissouri officials said somepower lines caught on fire. Bymidday Saturday, the storm haddumped up to 5 inches of rainin parts of Illinois. And the

Angela Serpas cries as she sees her flooded home for thefirst time since Hurricane Isaac pushed a 10-foot stormsurge into Braithwaite, La, on 1 Sept, 2012. —INTERNET

National Weather Service saidit was bringing more rain andsome drought relief to parts ofthe Mississippi and Ohio RiverValleys.

In Louisiana, the numberwithout power was down frommore than 900,000. However,in heavily populatedJefferson Parish near NewOrleans, parish presidentJohn Young said EntergyCorp was too slow in restoringelectricity. “I don’t see bootson the ground,” said Young,who complained that he hasseen repair trucks sitting idlein a staging area and fieldedcalls from residents andbusiness owners complainingabout a lack of progress.

NEW ORLEANS, 2 Sept —As the remnants of HurricaneIsaac pushed their way up theMississippi valley onSaturday, spinning off severethunderstorms and at least fourtornadoes, some on the Gulf

Coast were impatient with thepace of restoring power daysafter the storm draggedthrough the region. WhileNew Orleans streets werebustling again and workerswere returning to offshore oil

“We’ve restored about45 percent of our customersin about a day and a half,Entergy spokesman ChanelLagarde said on Saturday. Headded that crews have comein from 24 states. “In manysituations, crews have drivenall day and have worked their16-hour day and have to restfor the day.” As of Saturdaynight, the company wasreporting about 270,000outages, most in Jefferson andOrleans parishes. NewOrleans Mayor MitchLandrieu said he too waseager to get power back on.“Like everybody else, mypatience is wearing thin,” hesaid.— Internet

Three aboard ill-fated plane found, probablyall dead

TAIPEI, 2 Sept — Taipei’srescuers said on Sunday thatthree people aboard an aerialsurveying plane that wentmissing three days ago ineastern mountain areas werefinally found, but preliminaryexaminations showed theyhad no signs of life. The newswill certainly bringdevastation to excruciatedrelatives who were told justSaturday that the plane wasfound largely intact and thepassengers might havechances of survival.

The fixed-wing plane

took off from Taipei forsoutheastern Taitung City onThursday morning, accordingto Taipei’s aviation authorities.It conducted a survey in easternYilan and Hualien counties andwas expected to land inTaitung. But it went missingafter sending out a distress callin an area between Hualien andTaitung. A rescue team usinganother aerial surveying planespotted the missing aircraft onSaturday morning in an areasome 30 km west of YuliTownship in Hualien County.

The small jet-propeller

plane landed on top of treesand bushes and the aircraftwas largely intact, butrescuers found no signs of thetwo pilots and a surveytechnician who had been onboard.

Dapeng Airlines, whichowned the missing plane, saidon Saturday that a photo ofthe scene appeared to showthat the plane, with no signsof impact, had made anemergency landing, and it washoped that the missingpassengers will be foundalive.— Xinhua

JAKARTA, 2 Sept —Indonesian anti-terrorismforces killed two suspectedmilitants both aged 19 in anarmed raid that also left anofficer dead after a shoot-out,authorities said on Saturday.“Two terror suspects werekilled in Solo, central Java, onFriday night by the anti-terrorpolice unit Detachment 88.One other was arrested,”national police spokesmanBoy Rafli Amar told reporters.

“They were armed and

Sudan says repulses rebelattack in border area

Indonesian forces shoot dead two terror suspects

KHARTOUM, 2 Sept — Sudan’s army repulsed a rebelattack in the oil-producing border state of South Kordofan,state news agency SUNA said on Saturday, in clashes justdays before Sudan and South Sudan are set to resume talkson securing their disputed border. South Sudan split awayfrom Sudan last year under a 2005 peace deal that endeddecades of civil war, but the two have remained at odds overa range of issues and conflict has continued to plague theirborderlands.

One of the most contentious issues has been Khartoum’saccusation that Juba is supporting the rebel Sudan People’sLiberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in South Kordofanand other insurgents. South Sudan denies the charge butdiplomats say the accusations are credible. Sudan’s armysaid rebels had launched an attack against government forcesin the Rashad area in the state’s northeast on Thursday, SUNAsaid. “The army repulsed this limited attack,” army spokesmanAl-Sawarmi Khalid told SUNA, adding that several civilianshad been wounded when a car ran into a mine rebels hadplanted on a road near Rashad on Friday.

The SPLM-N was not immediately available for comment.Its spokesman said on Friday its forces had clashed with thearmy in the Rashad area on Wednesday. Sudan and SouthSudan are expected to resume negotiations over bordersecurity in Addis Ababa next week, talks delayed because ofthe funeral for Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.The two countries are expected to come under pressure frommediators to reach a partial deal on border security so thatthey can resume oil exports vital to both economies.

Landlocked South Sudan shut down its oil output inJanuary in a row with Khartoum over how much it should payto export through Sudan. The two sides reached an interimagreement on fees last month but Sudan says it wants asecurity deal before crude flows resume.—Reuters

one of the police officers wasalso shot dead.” Policereceived a tip-off that the menwere involved in the fatalshooting of an officer onThursday night and wereplanning more attacks, saidnational police chief TimurPradopo. Two weeks earlier,a grenade was also thrown ata Solo police post.

“The men were behindthree shootings beforeFriday’s and they are part ofa new group that has links to

older terror networks in thearea,” Pradopo said. “Boththe men killed were 19 yearsold,” he told reporters in Solo.

National Counter-terrorism Agency chiefAnsyaahd Mbai said in a textmessage the men were part ofJemaah Anshorut Tauhid(JAT), founded in 2008 byIndonesia’s so-called fatherof Islamic militancy, AbuBakar Bashir.

JAT was dubbed aterrorist organization by theUnited States earlier this yearand has been linked to smallernew terror cells on the islandof Java. President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono said theteenagers resisted arrest whenthey were shot outside a shopin Ngruki village, considered ahotbed of militant activity.

They were “not workingalone”, he said.

Detachment 88 has led along and successfulcrackdown on militantgroups over the last decade,claiming the scalps of someof the country’s mostnotorious terrorist suspectsblamed for major attacks.

The unit has facedcriticism, however, for usingexcessive force and targetingseparatists and pro-independence activists.Muslim-majority Indonesiasuffered a series of deadlyattacks over the last decadeby terror network JemaahIslamiyah — blamed for theBali bombings in 2002 thatleft 202 dead — but there hasnot been a major incident inrecent years.— Internet

Indonesian plain clothes police officers inspecting thescene of a terrorist raid in Solo. Indonesian anti-

terrorism forces killed two suspected militants both aged19 in an armed raid that also left an officer dead after a

shoot-out, authorities said on Saturday.— INTERNETEgypt: Top militant arrested in SinaiEL-ARISH, 2 Sept —

Egypt said on Saturday that ithad arrested a high-levelIslamist militant convicted ofkilling troops in the SinaiPeninsula, vowing to keep upmilitary operations to “cleanse”the volatile desert region.Officials said the military wouldsoon issue a detailed report onits operations in the Sinai, nowin their fourth week, that startedafter a brazen attack byextremists on a border outposton on 5 August killed 16soldiers. The announcementsseemed intended to offsetreports that Egypt’s Islamistpresident is using formerjihadists to mediate withradical Islamists in Sinai, tryingto ensure a halt in militantattacks in return for stoppingthe military offensive in the

lawless peninsula. The government has

repeatedly tried to underplaytalks of a tit-for-tat agreement,amid criticism thatnegotiations with radicalsmay give the hard-core

Islamist groups a de factorecognition. “Operationsproceed to cleanse the Sinai.There are geographicalconsiderations among otherthings that determine thecourse of the operation ,” said

Yasser Ali, spokesman forPresident Mohammed Morsi.His comments were carriedby the official state newsagency. Ali said that DefenceMinister Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will soon issue astatement detailing theoperations and investiga-tions into the Rafah borderattack last month. Ali’scomments came following ameeting between Morsi andel-Sissi in which theydiscussed the developmentsin Sinai.

As part of the continuedoperations, authorities said ajoint force of police andmilitary troops arrestedSaturday a militant wantedfor his alleged role inplanning and carrying outdeadly 2011 attacks on apolice station and a bank inthe Sinai.—Internet

Egyptian security forces stand by their ArmouredPersonell Carriers ahead of a military operation in the

northern Sinai peninsula on 8 August. — INTERNET

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15 wounded in grenade blast in S Philippines

DAVAO CITY, 2 Sept — Atleast 15 people were injured ina grenade blast in southernPhilippines late Saturday,military officials said onSunday morning. Major JacobObligado, commander of thearmy’s 10th civil- militaryoperations battalion said theincident happened in Fatimavillage, Paquibato District,Davao City around 9:25 pmlocal time.

Obligado told Xinhua bytext message the grenade wentoff as villagers watched acircus performance duringfestivities there. The scene ofincident is about 30 km from

At least 15 people were injured in a grenade blast insouthern Philippines late Saturday, military officials

said on Sunday morning.— XINHUA

Iran, North Korea agree to cooperate inscience, technology

DUBAI, 2 Sept — Iran andNorth Korea have signed anagreement to cooperate inscience and technology,Iranian media reported onSaturday, and Iran’s supremeleader declared that the twocountries had “commonenemies.” The two countrieswill cooperate in research,student exchanges and jointlaboratories, and in the fieldsof information technology,engineering, biotechnology,renewable energy, theenvironment, sustainabledevelopment of agricultureand food technology, theIranian Labour News Agency(ILNA) reported. ILNA saidthe agreement was signed byIran’s Minister for Science,Research, and TechnologyFarhad Dane-shjoo and NorthKorean Foreign Minister PakUi-chun. North Korea has

Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad,right, shakes hands with

the president of thePresidium of NorthKorea’s Supreme

People’s Assembly KimYong-nam, during an

official welcomingceremony in Teheran,Iran, on 1 Sept, 2012.

REUTERS

had close ties with Iran.Leaked US diplomatic cablesfrom 2010 showed that USofficials believe Iran hasacquired ballistic missile partsfrom North Korea.

Pyongyang’s Commu-nist government and Iran’sIslamic republic share little inthe way of ideology, but bothwere named as part of an “axisof evil” by former US PresidentGeorge W Bush in his 2002State of the Union speech.Iran’s Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei alsomet with North Korea’s KimYong-nam, seen as afigurehead head of state, whowas in Teheran for the Non-Aligned Movement summitheld this week.

“The Islamic Republic ofIran and North Korea havecommon enemies, becausethe arrogant powers do not

accept independent states,”Khamenei was quoted assaying by ILNA on Saturday.There had been rumours thatNorth Korean supreme leaderKim Jong-un would attendthe summit of developingcountries.

The Non-AlignedMovement is one of the fewmultilateral forums in whichthe North takes part.

Iran’s first vice-president, Mohammad Reza

Rahimi, also called onSaturday for greater economicties between his country andNorth Korea, Iranian statetelevision reported.

Reuters

Iran to hold major air defence drill: commanderserious way for modern airthreats, such that theperformance of the systemscompared to the previousprofile has improved,” Esmailiwas quoted as saying onFriday by the Iraniannewspaper Hamshahri.

“The army air defencecommand’s mission, with thedevelopment of the nationaldefence mission andcoordination between thearmed forces, is to undertakeappropriate operationsagainst the threats of theenemies,” he said, withoutmentioning any country byname. Iran announced lastmonth that it had tested ashort-range missile with a newguidance system capable ofstriking land and seatargets.— Reuters

Saturday, one of a number ofmilitary simulations it hascarried out this year. The airdefence drill will includefighter jets and simulate

the army and the IslamicRevolutionary Guard Corps,Esmaili said, and follows aseries of large-scale militarysimulations such as the“Great Prophet 7” missileexercises in July. Israelileaders’ warnings that time isrunning out to halt Iran’scontroversial nuclearprogramme have raisedconcern they may order anattack on Iranian nuclear sites,though Israel has come undergrowing internationalpressure not to act alone.

Israel and major Westernpowers suspect Iran issecretly trying to acquire theability to produce nuclearbombs, but Teheran says itsprogramme is for purelypeaceful purposes. “Todayour systems are prepared in a

Iran’s Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khameneispeaks during the 16th

summit of the Non-Aligned Movement inTeheran, on 30 Aug,

2012.— REUTERS

DUBAI, 2 Sept — Iran willhold a large-scale military drillinvolving all its air defencesystems next month, anIranian commander wasquoted as saying on

emergency situations, saidFarzad Esmaili, commander ofthe Iranian army’s air defenseforce, according to Iran’sEnglish-language Press TV.

The drill will include both

AMISOM forces kill 36Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia

NAIROBI, 2 Sept — The Africa Union Mission in Somalia(AMISOM) killed at least 36 Al-Shabaab militia late Fridayas the troops took over Miido town in a fierce exchange offire that last several hours in southern Somalia. KenyaDefence Forces (KDF) spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchirsaid on Saturday that five KDF soldiers are missing in actionwhile three sustained injuries and have been flown toDhobley to receive treatment.

“AMISOM forces together with the Transitional FederalGovernment of Somalia soldiers in Sector 2 captured Miidotown and neutralized at least 36 Al-Shabaab militants,” Chirchirsaid in his official Twitter account. Chirchir said that duringthe battle with the insurgents, AMISOM forces comprisingof Kenyan and Somali soldiers also managed to destroy sevenAl-Shabaab technical vehicles and logistic supplies whileother assorted weapons and ammunitions were recovered.

The development came as the military has stepped upsecurity along Kenya’s common border with Somalia followingan outbreak of fighting between AMISOM forces and the Al-Shabaab militia. The Kenyan forces currently under thecommand of AMISOM are dealing with specific targetsagainst the Al-Shabaab, but security had been reinforced onthe Kenyan side of the border. Sources said that during thebattle, the Kenyan fighter jets and helicopter gunships firedbombs at the militants inflicting heavy injuries on the militants.

The sources said hundreds of the insurgents blamed forbomb and grenade attacks on the Kenyan soil includingabduction of foreigners had left the strategic port city ofKismayo to prevent Kenyan and Somalia forces from derivingthem from their last stronghold. The AMISOM forces havebeen very active this week after killing more than 40 militantsearlier in the week as they stepped up their onslaught to ridoff the Horn of Africa from Al-Shabaab.

Al-Shabaab has vowed reprisal attacks in Kenya, mainlytargeting security forces in border towns of northern Kenyawhere dozens of people have been killed in landmine andgrenade attacks blamed on the militant group. Al-Shabaabhas said it views the presence of Kenyan troops in southernSomalia as an act of war.

The group which has teamed up with global terrornetwork al Qaeda is now vowing an all-out war in Kenya, inprotest against the military incursion “against our brothers inSomalia.” Kenya has seen several hit-and-run grenade attacksin recent months in the capital, Nairobi, and in northern Kenyaand in the port city of Mombasa. The Kenyan authoritiesoften blame such attacks on al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaabrebels from neighbouring Somalia.— Xinhua

Gunmen kill seven Shiite in Pakistan’s sectarian attacksISLAMABAD, 2 Sept—

Unidentified gunmen shotdead seven Shiite insouthwestern Pakistan onSaturday in two separatesectarian-motivated attacks,police and eye witnesses said.In the first incident, fourgunmen riding twomotorcycles stopped apassenger bus and forcedsome people out of the vehicleand then they shot them dead,witnesses said.

Police said that all thosekilled were Shia and they weresingled out among the

passengers. The gunmensprayed bullets on thosepeople and fled, witnessessaid. The slain men were goingto work when came underattack at Hazar Ganji area inQuetta, capital of Balochistan,relatives of the victims said.

In another incident,gunmen shot dead two moreShiite Muslims only twohours after the first attack.The gunmen fled after theattack. No group claimedresponsibility for the attacks.Banned extremist groupLashkar-e-Jhangvi always

claim responsibility for suchattacks. Shia groupsprotested against the latest

Doctors examine a bodyat a hospital in

southwest Pakistan’sQuetta on 1 Sept,2012.— XINHUA

Iraq’s monthly death toll sharply decreases in August

failure to stop the sectariankillings.

Xinhua

BAGHDAD, 2 Sept — The death toll among Iraqis fromviolence in August sharply decreased compared to theprevious month, according to figures released on Saturday.A total of 164 Iraqis, 90 civilians, 35 policemen and 39 soldiers,died in attacks last month, data compiled by the health, interiorand defence ministries showed.

The latest toll showed that the number of people killed inattacks across the country is nearly half of that in July when theauthorities put the toll at 325 killed, including 241 civilians, 40policemen and 44 soldiers. Another 260 Iraqis were wounded

target attacks and blamed thepolice and other lawenforcement agencies for their

in August, including 120 civilians, 80 policemen and 60 soldiers,the figures showed. However, the government figures showedthat July saw 697 Iraqis wounded by attacks during the month,much higher than the number in August. On 22 July, Abu Bakral-Baghdadi, the top leader of the self- styled Islamic State ofIraq, an al-Qaeda front in the country, announced a plannamed “Breaking the walls” aimed at releasing Qaeda prisonersand targeting the country’s judges and investigators, as wellas returning to the previous al-Qaeda strongholds that hadbeen evacuated.— Xinhua

the city proper and is closestto nearby Panabo City, Davaodel Norte Province to thenorth.

“Soldiers providingsecurity in the area reported15 civilians were wounded andrushed to Rivera Hospital inPanabo,” the militaryspokesperson said, addingpolice authorities were stillinvestigating the possiblesuspects and motive of theincident.

One of the far-flungdistricts in regional capitalDavao City, Paquibato is aknown lair of the leftist NewPeople’s Army.— Xinhua

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California legislature approves pension reformSACRAMENTO, 2 Sept —

California’s legislature easilypassed a pension reformmeasure on Friday that cutssome of the most generouspublic employee retirementbenefits in the United States,but even many supporters ofthe plan called it only a firststep in fixing a pension deficitthat has been decades in themaking. The pension bill,unveiled by Governor JerryBrown on Tuesday aftermonths of talks with fellowDemocrats, will raise theretirement age and reducebenefits for new employees.

California’s legislature easily passed a pension reformmeasure on Friday .— REUTERS

At least threedead in US

store shooting

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Sept— Malaysia registered 2.4percent increase in touristarrivals with more than 11.6million tourists visited thecountry in the first six monthsof 2012, local media reportedon Friday. Ng Yen Yen,Malaysia’s tourism minister,attributed the growth to thesupport from trade partnersand increased air connectivityfrom Malaysia to keydestinations such as Beijing,Hong Kong and Kansai inJapan.

BEIJING, 2 Sept — Atleast three people have diedin a multiple shooting at asupermarket in the US stateof New Jersey.

According to localauthorities, the shootingoccurred inside a Pathmarksupermarket in Old Bridge, asuburb about 40 km from thecity of New York. Among thedead was an 18-year-oldwoman.

While another, a 23-year-old man, was believedto be the gunman. Themotive behind the shootingand how the shooter waskilled was not immediatelyclear.

But local media reportedthat the suspect was a formerMarine who worked at thesupermarket.

He returned there inthe early morning and killedtwo people with an AK-47rifle and an automatichandgun. He then shothimself when confrontedby police.

Xinhua

It will also boost employeecontributions and eliminatesome practices that have ledto exorbitant pensions for arelatively small number ofworkers.

The ability of a stategovernment controlled byDemocrats to defuse an issuethat Republicans have seizedon in Wisconsin and otherstates could have broaderrepercussions in the nationaldebate over governmentfiscal policies. Passed on thefinal day of the legislativesession before the fallelections, the pension bill is a

key component of the statefiscal overhaul that Brownpromised when he waselected to a third term asgovernor in 2010 — decadesafter his previous terms inoffice.

Brown hopes the pensionmeasure will help persuadevoters to support another pillarof his programme: a taxincrease on the Novemberballot. The pension billgarnered strong bipartisansupport in both chambers,passing 48-8 in the Assemblyand 38-1 in the Senate,although supporters from both

sides of the aisle said morewas needed. “This is notsomething we’re going to doovernight. We’re going to

have to work on this over thenext several years,” saidDemocratic Assembly memberJim Beall Jr.— Reuters

Over 11 million tourists visit Malaysia in 1st halfKey international-level

tourism events such as theFormula 1 Petronas MalaysiaGrand Prix have alsocontributed to the continuedgrowth, Ng said.

More than 5.8 millionSingaporeans visited theirneighbour from January toJune this year. Indonesia andChina ranked as the secondand third largest tourist sourcefor Malaysia, with 1.1 millionand 758 thousand visitorsrespectively.

Meanwhile, the

Philippines recorded thehighest growth of 45.3 percentyear-on-year followed byChina (34.2 percent), Japan(32.5 percent), Indonesia (20percent), India (6.9 percent)and United Kingdom (5.9percent), according to the datafrom the authorities. Foreigntourists are also spendingmore money in Malaysia,generating 26.8 billion ringgit(8.6 billion US dollars) inrevenue, a 4 percent increasecompared with the same periodlast year. — Xinhua

The AIA building is seen in Shanghai on 22 Oct, 2010.REUTERS

Banks pin hopes on $7.6 billionAIA selldown to buffer poor year

HONG KONG, 2 Sept —As American InternationalGroup becomes free next weekto sell a $7.6 billion stake informer unit AIA , deal-starvedbankers in Hong Kong arejostling for a role in what maybe Asia-Pacific’s biggest stockmarket event of the year. Alock-up agreement preventingthe US insurer from selling thestake expires on 4 September.

If AIG does decide to sellthe entire 18.6 percent stake,the deal would be Asia’sbiggest-ever block offering,ahead of Vodafone plc’s $6.6billion sale in China Mobiletwo years ago.

A role in the AIA GroupLtd selldown could offer amajor financial boost to thebanks, in the form of asubstantial fee for a day’swork, and a significantincrease to their deal rankingsheading into the final quarterof what has been a dismalyear. AIG CEO Robert

CDC says 10,000 at risk of hantavirus inYosemite outbreak

LOS ANGELES/SANFRANCISCO, 2 Sept — Some10,000 people who stayed intent cabins at YosemiteNational Park this summer maybe at risk for the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus, the USCentres for Disease Controland Prevention said on Friday.The CDC urged lab testing ofpatients who exhibitsymptoms consistent with thelung disease, hantaviruspulmonary syndrome, after astay at the California park

A visitor takes in the view of UpperYosemite Falls in Yosemite

National Park, California on 17May, 2009.— REUTERS

between June and August andrecommended that doctorsnotify state healthdepartments when it is found.

Two men have died fromhantavirus linked to theYosemite outbreak and fourothers were sickened butsurvived, while the CDC saidadditional suspected caseswere being investigated from“multiple health jurisdic-tions.” Most of the victimswere believed to have beeninfected while staying in one

of 91 “Signature” tent-stylecabins in Yosemite’s popularCurry Village camping area.

“An estimated 10,000persons stayed in the‘Signature Tent Cabins’ from10 June through 24 August,2012,” the CDC said. “Peoplewho stayed in the tents between10 June and 24 August may beat risk of developing HPS in thenext six weeks.” Yosemiteofficials earlier this week shutdown all 91 of the insulated tentcabins after finding deer mice,which carry the disease andcan burrow through holes thesize of pencil erasers, nestingbetween the double walls.

Park authorities said onFriday that they hadcontacted approximately3,000 parties of visitors whostayed in the tent cabins sincemid-June, advising them toseek immediate medicalattention if they havesymptoms of hantavirus.Nearly 4 million people visitYosemite, one of the nation’smost popular national parks,each year, attracted to the itsdramatic scenery and hikingtrails. Roughly 70 percent ofthose visitors congregate inYosemite Valley, where CurryVillage is located.

Reuters

In this undated handout from the Centres for DiseaseControl image library, this transmission electron

micrograph (TEM) reveals the ultrastructural appearanceof a number of virus particles, or “virions”, of a hantavirus

known as the Sin Nombre virus (SNV). — REUTERS

Benmosche has hintedpreviously that the stake willbe sold after the lockup dateexpires, though he has notspecified how much or when.An AIG spokesman in NewYork declined to comment forthis story.

AIG could decide not tosell anything or it could selloff a small chunk. But sourceswith knowledge of the mattersay the investment bankingindustry is preparing for theUS insurer to unload the entirelot. “Everyone is runningaround to be a part of it. Mostpeople expect AIG to cleanout its position,” one financialinstitutions group bankersaid. Bailed-out AIG spun offtwo-thirds of AIA in 2010,raising $20.5 billion in theworld’s third-largest IPO everat the time. AIG agreed tocertain restrictions on itsremaining stake and sold achunk in March, raising $6billion.— Reuters

Super volcano discovered inHong Kong

BEIJING, 2 Sept — Some 140 million years after it eruptedand then toppled into the sea, an ancient super volcano inHong Kong is making headlines.

Hong Kong government scientists on Thursdayannounced that it had located the super volcano—the firstdiscovery of its kind in southeastern China — while surveyingthe area in southeastern Hong Kong. The volcano is nowextinct and poses no threat to Hong Kong.

The newly-discovered High Island Super volcano spurtedout 1,300 cubic kilometres of ash about 140 million years ago,enough to blanket all of Hong Kong. The super volcaniceruption on the southeastern China seaboard would haveproduced a global environmental impact and could be relatedto the extinction of dinosaurs, according to a handout fromHong Kong’s Geotechnical Engineering Office that conductedthe research.— Xinhua

Britain’swheatquality

seenhurt by

poorweather

LONDON, 2 Sept — Rainy weather and disease have reduced the quality of wheat crops harvestedto date in Britain, the Home-Grown Cereals Authority said on Friday, issuing provisional results of itscereal quality survey.

“Average wheat specific weights have been hit the hardest to date, at 8 percent below the three-year average, while Hagberg Falling Number and protein content are seen at more typical levels,” HGCAsenior analyst Charlotte Garbutt said.

Specific weights in early samples averaged 71.9 kilogram’s per hectolitre, well below the three-yearaverage of 77.5. Hagberg Falling Numbers, a key measure of milling quality, were in line with three-yearaverage at 267 seconds, while protein content was slightly higher than normal at 12.7 percent versus11.8 percent.

Britain’s wheat harvest is about 40 percent complete and is running about 10 days behind normal.The HGCA said the provisional figures were based on 8,603 wheat samples. Updated tables will bereleased at the end of September and in October when more samples have been collected and analysed.The survey typically has about 60,000 wheat samples.— Reuters

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Stowaway cat from China says ‘ni hao’to new home

A stowaway kitten whosurvived a three-week oceanvoyage from China toCalifornia trapped in a storagecontainer without food orwater has found a new home.

Los Angeles Countyanimal control officials saidthat the cat, which has beennamed Ni Hao (NEE’ how) or“hello” in Chinese, will leavethe animal hospital he’scalled home since turning upin the US last month to startlife next week with a familyin the LA suburb of RedondoBeach.

Photo shows Ni Hao, thestowaway kitten fromShanghai at the Los

Angeles County AnimalCare Control Carson

Shelter in Gardena, Calif.

The family has not beenfurther identified, but officialssay it was chosen from morethan 80 serious candidates whoapplied to adopt the stowaway.

The now 5-month-oldkitten was found 11 July. Itcouldn’t walk, see, or makeany sounds. An officer saidthe kitten had shallowbreathing and was “curled upin a ball with his eyes shut,”said animal control officialAaron Reyes.

“And he actuallyappeared deceased,” he addedsaid.

The cat was rushed to acare centre where veterinarianssay he has thrived.

The only lingering signof trauma is a limp, whichReyes describes as “his ownstrut.” The kitten sufferedconsiderable muscle atrophyon the journey, causing him towalk with a ginger, unusualgait, Reyes said.

Ni Hao is “still a bitwobbly” and “may end upbeing a special needs kitty forlife,” said Reyes, deputydirector of the county’s animalcontrol department.

400-pound gorilla statuereturned to Pa woman

A Pennsylvaniawoman says a 400-poundgorilla statue was stolenfrom her home, used fortarget practice and thenreturned.

Patricia Rudalavage’sbeloved lava-rock statueGreystone was returned toher Scranton-area home .

The statue had bulletholes in its head, stomachand extremities but is stillstanding.

Rudalavage tells TheTimes-Tribune of Scrantonthat two men arrived withthe statue in the back of apickup truck, saying they’dfound him about five milesaway at a makeshiftshooting range on amountain. She says theyrefused the $100 reward forhis return.

Rudalavage says her apedisappeared from outside herhome on Monday.

A bullet-pierced gorillastatue has been returned to

its owner, PatriciaRudalavage.

Bottled message breaks world recordA Scottish ship’s captain

has found the oldest knownmessage in a bottle, set adriftnearly 98 years ago,Guinness World Recordssaid.

The record-keepingorganization said AndrewLeaper, skipper of theLerwick-registered Copious,found the bottled message in

April in his trawler’s netalongside a haul of cod,haddock and monkfish in theNorth Sea. The bottle wasfound to have been set adriftin 97 years and 309 daysprior to being found, TheScotsman reported.

The bottle — as well asthe previous record holder,which was found by Leaper’s

friend, Mark Anderson,aboard the Copious in 2006— was from a batch of 1,890bottles set adrift by theGlasgow School ofNavigation in 1914 as part ofa study to map the currents ofthe seas around Scotland.

The bottle contained apostcard promising a rewardof 6 pence to the finder.

“I knew right away whatI had found,” Leaper said.“And it was an amazingcoincidence that the sameShetland fishing boat thatfound the previous record-breaking bottle six years agoalso found this one.”

Scottish Secretary forRural Affairs andEnvironment RichardLochhead applauded thediscovery.

News Album

(L to R)Arianna

Huffington,Joy Behar,Bill Maher

andgirlfriend

Cara SantaMaria

INTERNET

Behar books Gore, Etheridgefor new show

NEW YORK, 2 Sept—AlGore, Melissa Etheridge,Carrie Fisher and Dee Sniderwill appear on “Joy Behar:Say Anything!” during the

New York talk show’s firstweek, Current TV said.

Gore, former US vicepresident and Current’s co-founder, will appear on

Tuesday’s debut episode towelcome comedian andtelevision personality JoyBehar to the network.

Gore is expected to talkwith Behar on politics andshare his thoughts on theDemocratic and Republicanconventions, the networksaid.

Other guests confirmedfor next week include Susie

Essman and Alan Colmes.Scheduled to appear later

in September are SueSimmons, Cyndi Lauper,Jesse Ventura, MeredithVieira, Tony Danza and HannaRosin.

“Joy Behar: SayAnything” will air on CurrentMonday through Thursdayat 6 pm ET.

Internet

Winkler set for ‘Arrested’return

LOS ANGELES, 2 Sept—Henry Winkler is to reprisehis role of attorney BarryZuckerkorn on the Netflixrevival of “ArrestedDevelopment,” TheHollywood Reporter said.

Netflix ordered a fourthseason of the quirky sitcomsix years after Fox canceled it.The fresh run of episodes isto be released online nextspring, the entertainmentindustry trade newspapersaid.

Created by Winkler’s“Happy Days” co-star RonHoward and Mitch Hurwitz,

“Arrested Development” isabout a wealthy,dysfunctional family. It starsJason Bateman, David Cross,Jeffrey Tambor, Portia deRossi, Will Arnett andMichael Cera.—Internet

Actor, director andproducer Henry Winkler

Tori Spelling gives birth to 4th childLOS ANGELES, 2 Sept—

US reality television star ToriSpelling announced on herWeb site she has given birthto her fourth child, a son.

“Please join us inwelcoming Finn DaveyMcDermott,” Spelling wroteon her Web site, noting thebaby weighed 6 pounds, 6ounces when he was born onThursday.

Spelling, who is knownfor her work on the TV drama“Beverly Hills, 90210,”

Tori Spelling (L) and DeanMcDermott (R)

married Dean McDermott in2006. Together, they built areality TV empire, starring in“Tori & Dean: Inn Love,”“Tori & Dean: Home SweetHollywood” and “Tori &Dean: sTORIbookWeddings.” They are alsothe parents of Liam, 5, Stella,4, and Hattie, 10 months.

InternetHallyday

headed to LAhospital

PARIS, 2 Sept—Frenchrocker Johnny Hallyday hasleft the Martinique hospitalwhere he was treated forbronchitis, Radio FranceInternationale said on Friday.

Hallyday, 69, fell ill lastweekend at a home he ownson the island of Saint-Barthelemy. He left a hospitalin Fort-de-France on earlyFriday and flew by private jetto Los Angeles where he isexpected to check intoanother medical center. RFIsaid it was unclear whether hewill be well enough to go onewith his 2012 tour, the secondleg of which is due to begin inOctober in Montreal.

Internet

Rocker/actor JohnnyHallyday receives a kiss

from his wife LaetitiaAmerican singer,

songwriter and actressMary J Blige

Taylor, Blige to perform at theDNC

CHARLOTTE, 2 Sept—James Taylor, the FooFighters and Mary J Blige

have been booked to performat next week’s DemocraticNational Convention inCharlotte, NC, organizerssaid.

Politico reported Earth,Wind and Fire, Delta Rae,Marc Anthony, BranfordMarsalis and Amber Rileyare also scheduled to takethe stage at the convention.

“This roster ofperformances only adds tothe excitement building inCharlotte for the historicweek ahead of us,” DNCChairman and Los AngelesMayor Antonio Villaraigosasaid in a statement.

“The tens of thousandswho will attend conventionevents in person, and allthose tuning in across thecountry, should be ready forquite a show.”

Internet

‘Hunger’ still No 1 on DVD charts

Actor Josh Hutchersonappears backstage with the

Best Male Performanceaward he won for “The

Hunger Games”.INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 2 Sept—The young-adult survivalpicture “The Hunger Games”is the top-selling DVD andBlu-Ray and No 1 rental in theUnited States for a secondweek, Rentrak said.

Coming in at No 2 on theDVD and Blu-ray sales chartfor the week ending 26 Aug is“Dr Seuss’ The Lorax,”followed by “The Dictator”at No 3, “NCIS: The NinthSeason” at No 4 and “Dexter:The Sixth Season” at No 5.

Rounding out the top tierare “Pocahontas/Pocahontas II: Journey to a

New World” at No 6, “TheRescuers/The Rescuers:Down Under” at No 7, “TheAristocats” at No 8, “House:Season 8” at No 9 and “Glee:The Complete Third Season”at No10. The No 2 rental forthe week ended 25 Aug is“The Dictator.”

“Dr Seuss’ The Lorax” isNo 3, “Bernie” is No 4,“Lockout” is No 5,“Freelancers” is No 6,“American Reunion” is No 7,“Dexter: The Sixth Season”is No 8, “21 Jump Street” isNo 9 and “Silent House” isNo 10.—Internet

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Pazzini hat-trick downs BolognaMILAN, 2 Sept—New

AC Milan recruit GiampaoloPazzini took his stock withthe Rossoneri sky high byscoring a hat-trick in a 3-1 winaway to Bologna on Saturday.

Pazzini was part of theexchange that took ACMilan’s coveted strikerAntonio Cassano the otherway last week — a transferwhich angered many of ACMilan’s fans.

But a week after startinghis new job with a shock homedefeat to Sampdoria, the Italystriker took no time inshowing where his loyaltiesnow lie by scoring a first-half

penalty then producing asuperb second-half brace.

After scoring only fivegoals in a frustrating lastseason at Inter, Pazzini couldnot hide his joy.

“I think this ball willmean a lot to me,” he told SkySport Italia as he prepared totake the match ball home.

“It was a difficult periodfor me recently but now I’mreally happy. Maybe it’s asign, for me and the peoplewho’ve stood behind me.

“The match was hard-fought but we came throughto win. It can’t get any better.”

Despite some lively

transfer action in midweekMilan started with no lessthan 10 Italians on the pitch.

New arrivals Bojan Krkicof Spain and Dutchman NigelDe Jong started on the benchwhile Brazilian defenderRoger de Carvalho wentstright into Bologna’sstarting line-up after signingfrom Genoa.

Bologna started in livelyfashion but Milan’senterprise and disciplinesoon began to tell as theyworked steadily towardsbreaking the deadlock.

German-born GhanaianPrince Boateng was provinga handful for Bologna’sdefence and twice wonfreekicks early on only to seeboth of his low drives gowide of Federico Agliardi’sgoal.

InternetAC Milan forward

Giampaolo Pazzini scoresa penalty against Bolognaduring a Seria A football

match at the Dallarastadium in Bologna.

INTERNET

Open-Federer and Serena march on at US OpenNEW YORK, 2 Sept—

Top-ranked Roger Federercontinued his dynamic USOpen form in near-tropicalconditions on Saturday whilefourth seed Serena Williamsavenged a shock defeat shesuffered in January.

With a possible semi-final showdown with Federerlooming, Britain’s AndyMurray remained in the huntfor his first grand slam crownby defeating Spain’sFeliciano Lopez to reach thefourth round. Women’ssecond seed AgnieszkaRadwanska of Poland set upa fourth-round tussle withItaly’s Roberta Vinci byeasing by former worldnumber one Jelena Jankovic6-3, 7-5 at a steamy ArthurAshe Stadium.

“With the hotconditions you really have tofight yourself more than youropponent,” said Radwanska,a sentiment echoed by severalplayers. Federer cruised pastFernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-4,6-4 in two hours and twominutes, blasting seven aces

and 30 winners against the25th-seeded Spaniard.

The five-times US Openchampion, who has notdropped a set in thetournament, next facesAmerican Mardy Fish orFrenchman Gilles Simon for aplace in the quarter-finals.

Verdasco, 28, had 35unforced errors and 10 doublefaults as he lost to SwissFederer for the fifth time in asmany meetings.

Williams, seeking herfourth US Open title, neededa break of serve in the final

game of the opening set tograb the momentum as sheousted Russian EkaterinaMakarova 6-4, 6-0.

Makarova buckledunder the pressure of her first-set letdown and was blownaway in the second in just 32minutes.

The Russian knockedout Williams in the fourthround of this year’sAustralian Open and theAmerican said she was“motivated” to turn the tablesat the year’s final grand slamtournament.—Reuters

Fernando Verdasco of Spain congratulates RogerFederer (R) of Switzerland after their men’s singles

match at the US Open tennis tournament in New Yorkon 1 September, 2012. —REUTERS

Andy Carroll tomiss EnglandWorld Cupqualifiers

LONDON, 2 Sept—AndyCarroll has withdrawn fromEngland’s World Cupqualifiers against Moldovaand Ukraine next weekbecause of a hamstring injury.

The 23-year-old striker,who joined West Ham in aloan deal from Liverpool onFriday, made an impressivedebut as the Hammers beatFulham 3-0.

Carroll limped out of theaction on 68 minutes at UptonPark. The FootballAssociation will wait untilafter Sunday’s games beforedeciding on how to replaceCarroll.

Following his side’s win,West Ham boss SamAllardyce said it was“unlikely” Carroll would befit. “He’ll probably be on thetreatment bench for a while,”said Allardyce.

“He over-extendedhimself. We won’t know theextent of the injury until thescan and we see how seriousit is.” England’s road to Brazil2014 begins with a qualifierat the Zimbru Stadium inMoldova on 7 September andRoy Hodgson’s side areback in action at Wembleyagainst Ukraine on 11September.

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Roddick to take centre stage once again at USOpen

NEW YORK, 2 Sept—Novak Djokovic attempts hisnext step at defending his USOpen title while AndyRoddick fights to extend hiscareer at the US Open onSunday.

Serbia’s world numbertwo will begin the day sessioninside Arthur Ashe Stadiumagainst France’s 31st seedJulien Benneteau in the thirdround before Roddick followshim onto the main court atFlushing Meadows againstunseeded Italian FabioFognini.

Roddick has announcedhe will retire after the US Open— the scene of the only major

Andy Roddick of the US

title of his career, in 2003. Alsoin action on Sunday will beAustralia’s 2001 US Openchampion Lleyton Hewittagainst fourth-seededSpaniard David Ferrer in LouisArmstrong Stadium andwomen’s defendingchampion Sam Stosur, fromAustralia, against GreatBritain’s Laura Robson.

Robson, 18, is comingoff upset victories over KimClijsters and Li Na.

Roddick announced hisretirement before trouncingAustralian teenager BernardTomic in the second round.

Olympic championAndy Murray said he hopedto cross paths with Roddickin the locker room at FlushingMeadows before theAmerican walked away fromthe tour for good.

“I’d congratulate him if Isaw him,” Murray said. “I’msure he’s obviously going totry to win this event. It wouldobviously be the best wayever to finish.”—Reuters

McIlroy leads with Tiger lurking at DeutscheBank

NORTON, 2 Sept— RoryMcIlroy fired a secondconsecutive six-under 65 totake a one-shot lead after thesecond round of the DeutscheBank Championship onSaturday but Tiger Woodswas lurking just two shotsback.

The world number oneset the pace in the morningwave with an impressiveround consisting of sixbirdies, an eagle and twobogeys to lead by one overformer British Open championLouis Oosthuizen.

South AfricanOosthuizen matchedMcIlroy’s 65 to move to 11-under 131 at the FedEx Cupplayoff event while Woodsand fellow American RyanMoore shared third at 10-under 132.

“I’m very pleased withhow I played today, how Iplayed yesterday as well, andI’m in a great position,”McIlroy said. “I got off to anice start and just kept themomentum going.

“Everything seemed to

work pretty well out there. Ifelt like I drove the ball a bitbetter today and hit morefairways, which gave mesome more opportunities tomake birdies, and I was puttingwell enough to take a few ofthose.”

McIlroy finished nineshots behind Barclays Classicwinner Nick Watney in weekone of the playoffs in his firstappearance after claiming thePGA Championship.

The 23-year-old wasunperturbed, however,suggesting the greens in NewYork were not entirely up toscratch and he just needed toshake a little rust off his putter.

He leads the field instrokes gained putting andtotal putts after the openingtwo rounds.—Reuters

Rory McIlroy of NorthernIreland tees off at the third

hole during the secondround of the Deutsche

Bank Championship golftournament in Norton,

Massachusetts on 1 Sept,2012.— REUTERS

Sundhage to be new Swedencoach

Pia Sundhage,seen here in

August 2009,, isto take over ascoach of the

Swedishwomen’s

national side,moving over

from the UnitedStates who she

guided toOlympic gold in

London.INTERNET

NEW YORK, 2 Sept—PiaSundhage is to take over ascoach of the Swedishwomen’s national side,moving over from the UnitedStates who she guided toOlympic gold in London.

The 52-year-oldannounced that she wasleaving the US job she hadfilled for five years lateSaturday after her teamtrounced Costa Rica 8-0 in afriendly in Rochester, NewYork state.

Shortly afterwards inStockholm the Swedishfootball federationannounced that she wouldtake over as national coachon 1 December, replacingThomas Dennerby, whostood down from the post lastmonth after the Olympics.

“We are enormouslyhappy to reveal that PiaSundhage will be our new

national coach,” federationpresident Karl-Erik Nilssonsaid.

Sundhage, who won 146caps for her country between1975 and 1996, said: “It is therealisation of a dream for me

to become the national coachof my own country.”

First up for Sundhagewill be next years Europeanchampionships whichSweden is hosting, althughshe is expected to stay withthe US team for at least thenext two matches of theirvictory tour, a pair of friendliesagainst Australia onSeptember 16 in Carson,California, and September 19in Commerce City, Colorado.

The Americans thenhost two matches against two-time women’s World Cupchampions Germany on 20October and 23 October.

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

(3-9-12 09:30 am ~4-9-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV(3-9-2012) (Monday)

Focus Myanmar TV ProgrammeWeather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 3rd September, 2012

* News* Business Matching

Between MyanmarThai Entrepreneurs

* News* Collective Charitable

Deed in SignificantMonth, Waso

* Medicinal Tea Plant* News* Myanmar Job Fair

2012* News* Launching Ceremony

of “The ChiliesJounral”

* News* Genius Fashion* News* Diverse National

Costumes & TheirFashion Trend(Episode-3)

* Unicef & MOH PressConference

* News* Bitter Rain, Meaning

of Attachment* News* Road to 27th SEA

GAMES (Cycling)* Myanmar Movie

‘‘Guilt Over Love’’

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw-Uppatathandi Paritta

7:45 am 2. Nice & Sweet Song8:00 am 3. Cute Little Dancers8:15 am 4. Dance Of National Races8:20 am 5. Selected Songs For 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions (2012)(Oldies & Mono Classical)(Amateur (Second)Division Level) (Women)

8:40 am 6. International News8:45 am 7. Teleplay (Industry)4:10 pm 8. Dance Variety4:20 pm 9. Musical Programme4:55 pm10. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)-First Year (Myanmar)

5:10 pm11. Songs For Upholding

National Spirit5:25 pm12. Myanmar Language6:20 pm13. Sing & Enjoy7:00 pm14. TV Drama Series8:00 pm15. News16. Cartoon Series17. India Drama Series

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow Sr. No. Regions/States

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

2 Kayah 29/84 22/72 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

3 Kayin 29/84 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

4 Chin 24/75 17/63 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

5 Upper Sagaing 31/88 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

6 Lower Sagaing 38/100 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershower (100%)

7 Taninthayi 28/82 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

8 Bago 31/88 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

9 Magway 34/93 27/81 Isolated rain or thundershower (100%)

10 Mandalay 37/99 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershower (100%)

11 Mon 28/82 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) (100%)

12 Yangon 30/86 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

13 Rakhine 30/86 23/73 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers

(IH) (100%)

14 Southern Shan 27/81 19/66 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

15 Northern Shan 32/90 21/70 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

16 Eastern Shan 32/90 22/72 Scattered rain or thundershower (100%)

17 Ayeyawady 30/86 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 33/91 25/77 Isolated rain or thundershower (100%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 30/86 23/73 Some rain or thundershower (100%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 37/99 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershower (80%)

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Mandalay Region, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Lower Sagaing and Magway Regions, scattered in Upper Sagaing Region, Shan and Kayah States, fairly widespread in Chin and Rakhine States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with isolated heavy falls in Bago and Ayeyawady Regions, Rakhine and Mon States. The noteworthy amount of rainfall recorded were Pathein (3.70) inches, Kyaukpyu (3.58) inches, Phyu (3.15) inches and Mudon (3.07) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is moderate to strong in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squalls with moderate to rough sea are likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35) mph.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Moderate monsoon.

Geale tames Sturm to become unified world champ

German boxer Felix Sturm (L) and Australian boxerDaniel Geale face each other during a Press conference

in Essen, western Germany, on 27 August.—INTERNETNeil Taylor faces lengthyabsence after ankle fractureLONDON, 2 Sept—Wales defender Neil Taylor suffered a

fractured ankle in Swansea City’s 2-2 draw with Sunderland onSaturday. “I just talked to the doctor and we are still not 100%but there is a fracture, at least one,” said Swansea managerMichael Laudrup. “We are talking about a long period ofrehabilitation before he returns to the game, I can’t tell youprecisely how long because I don’t know.” Taylor was injuredafter falling awkwardly in the first half. The left-back’s foot wastrapped underneath him as he fell to the ground, taking the fullweight of Sunderland’s Craig Gardner on the way down.

Taylor immediately summoned the Swansea medicalstaff as he held his left ankle in agony early in the first half at

ESSEN, 2 Sept—Australia’s Daniel Geale wascrowned the new unified IBFand WBA middleweightworld champion on Saturdaynight following his splitdecision win over Germany’sFelix Sturm. The 31-year-oldTasmanian took theunification bout when thethree judges scored the fight116-112 to Sturm, then 116-112, 116-112 to Geale, whoclaimed the German’s WBA

middleweight title inOberhausen, west Germany.

“Of course, I expectedhim to be strong, Felix is agood champion, it was atough, very hard fight,” saidGeale who beat Germany’sSebastian Sylvester in May2011 to win the IBF title.

“I have been improvingwith every fight and I am justso happy to have come hereand done this. “Everyone hasgiven me lots of great support,

the Liberty Stadium. “When you have injuries like that it isnormally very violent, but this was not violent,” added Laudrup.“It was even a free-kick against us. “Sometimes these injurieshappen in strange ways, you don’t think anything is wrong andthen there is ligament damage or something like that, it is verysad. “But you see things that are much more violent than that— this was not violent, it was unlucky.” “He was very unluckyto fall in a bad way, you can’t blame the Sunderland player forthat.” As well as missing a significant part of Swansea’s season,Taylor will miss most of Wales’ 2014 World Cup qualifyingcampaign, which starts against Belgium on Friday.

Taylor impressed for Team GB at the 2012 LondonOlympic Games and was expected to play a big part in Walesboss Chris Coleman’s plans. Teenager Ben Davies wasTaylor’s replacement for Swansea, making an assured PremierLeague debut as Laudrup’s side twice hit back to secure adraw. —Internet

1,000 English ants to receive radio tagsLONDON, 2 Sept—About

1,000 northern hairy woodants are expected to have tinyradio tags, about 0.04 inches(1 millimeter) long, attachedto their bodies, allowingresearchers to track theirmovements on a protectedEnglish estate.

The wood ants, whichget their name from the“eyebrows” visible througha microscope, live in colonieshoused within nestsconnected by trails worn intothe ground by years of anttraffic.

The biologist doing thework, Samuel Ellis of theUniversity of York, intendsto examine how the antsinteract with one another.

The results are expected

to help staff at the LongshawEstate in Derbyshire managethe estate — a natural andarchaeological site —withthe ants’ needs in mind.

“I think this is a worldfirst. It has not been done inthe wild before,” said Ellis ina video produced by the UKNational Trust, whichmanages the estate.

Ellis is not certain howlong they will stay attachedto the insects.

“The tags act like a barcode,” he said in the video.“It gives each ant anindividual identity and whatthis means is you can seewhich ants are going whereand how individual antsinteractions work together tomake the colony long

behaviors.”An estimated 50

million hairy wood ants,Formica lugubris, inhabitthe estate. They are thelargest species of ants nativeto the British Isles withworkers reaching up to 0.4inches (10 mm) long. To getfood for their young, theants gently stroke sap-sucking aphids, which then

produce honeydew; inreturn, the ants protect theseaphids.

The ants defendthemselves from predators byspraying smelly, vinegar-like formic acid. Some birds,like Jays and GreenWoodpeckers, use the formicacid spray as a cleansing agentto get rid of parasites,according to the Universityof York.

Internet

A radio tag,the metallicrectangle,has been

attached tothe back of

this ant.INTERNET

Taking the final examTwo college basketball players were taking an

important final exam. If they failed, they would be onacademic probation and not allowed to play in the big gamethe following week. The exam was fill-in-the-blank.

The last question read, “Old MacDonald had a________.”

Bubba was stumped. He had no idea what to answer.But he knew he needed to get this one right to be sure hepassed.

Making sure the professor wasn’t watching, he tappedTiny on the shoulder. “Pssst. Tiny. What’s the answer to thelast question?”

Tiny laughed. He looked around to make sure theprofessor hadn’t noticed then he turned to Bubba. “Bubba,you’re so stupid. Everyone knows Old MacDonald had aFARM.”

“Oh yeah,” said Bubba. “I remember now.”He picked up his No. 2 pencil and started to write the

answer in the blank. He stopped. Tapping Tiny’s shoulderagain, he whispered, “Tiny, how do you spell farm?”

“You are really dumb, Bubba. That’s so easy. Farm isspelled E-I-E-I-O.”

NLM-ner Joke

without these guys I wouldn’tbe here. I hope we can have arematch, that was a great fight.”

This was the 28th win of

Geale’s 29 fight career with a2009 split-decision defeat tocompatriot Anthony Mundinehis only loss.—Internet

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NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept— Union Ministerfor Health Dr Pe Thet Khin met faculty membersfrom Community Health University andUniversity of Medicine (Magway) in MagwayRegion on 31 August noon.

In meeting with the faculty members, theUnion Minister said that the State is givingpriority to undertaking the task for reducingmaternal and infant mortality rate, nurturingdoctors, nurses and midwives fordevelopment of human resources.

Faculty members need to follow rules,regulations and laws in the training of doctorswith a view to enhancing their knowledge,skills and attitude, said the Union Minister.

The Union Minister yesterday morningattended the opening of HsandadawpyaeAyupala Sitagu charity hospital in Myingyanof Mandalay Region and pressed the button

Union Health Minister meets facultymembers of Magway and Mandalay

Universities of Medicineto open the signboard. The Union Ministerthen viewed medical treatment for eye patientsin the hospital.

The Union Minister looked roundMyingyan People’s Hospital and met withRegion Social Affairs Minister Dr Win Hlaing,Head of Region Health Department Dr MoeSwe and health staff at the meeting hall. TheUnion Minister urged the staff to carry out thetasks for reduction of mother and infantmortality rate for fulfilling UN MillenniumDevelopment Goals. Doctors and nurses areneeded to train emergency treatment forpatients; development of health sector will besuccessful by cooperating betweendepartments, local organizations, socialorganizations and people and doctors, nurses’abilities, said the Union minister.

The Union Minister proceeded to

University of Medicine (Mandalay) where hemet region social affairs minister, rectors,professors and medical superintendents atAungpinle meeting hall at 2 pm. The UnionMinister inspected construction site of the

medicine university.The Union Minister then held a meeting

with medical superintendent and health staffat the meeting hall of Children’s Hospital (550-bed).—MNA

Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin meeting with facultymembers of Community University and University of Medicine (Magway)

in Magway.—MNA

YANGON, 2 Sept—Jointly organized byMyanmar FootballFederation and No 1 BasicEducation Department andNo 3 Basic EducationDepartment held the U-12Men’s Football Tournamentat Aung San Stadium on 31August.

Yangon East District A emergeschampion in U-12 Football Tourney

In the final match,Yangon East District Asecured 1-0 victory overYangon West District B. Inthe third place match,Yangon North District Aedged out Yangon NorthDistrict B 5-1.

After the matches,Yangon Region Minister for

Social Affairs Dr MyintThein, Director-General in-charge Dr Myo Thein Gyi ofNo 1 Basic EducationDepartment, Director-General in-charge of No 3Basic Education DepartmentU Aung Chein, GeneralSecretary of MFF U TinAung, Director of No 3 BEDU Myint Soe presented prizesand medals to the respectivewinners.

The tournament startedwith eight teams on 28August. The outstandingplayers will be selected forYangon Region U-12 team.Myanmar FootballFederation will organize theMFF U-12 Digital Cup 2012(Lower Myanmar) from 10 to17 September at Aung SanStadium.—Kyemon

MANDALAY, 2 Sept—The collective tree growingceremony was held at thecorner of 80th street and Tayoestreet in Amarahtani EastWard of AungmyethazanTownship on 19 August.

At the ceremony, ActingTownship AdministratorU Khin Maung Thanexplained the purpose of

Monsoon tree growing ceremonyheld in Aungmyethazan

holding tree growingceremony. The head ofTownship Forest Departmentpresented saplings toresponsible persons of social

organizations and wardadministrator.

Later, the actingtownship administrator andofficials participated in treegrowing ceremony togetherwith local people. They grew340 saplings on the occasion.

NLM

Arsenal pile on misery forstruggling Liverpool

Rodgers represents the worstopening to a league campaignsince 1962-63 for a Liverpoolteam which was not helpedby a mistake by goalkeeperPepe Reina which giftedCazorla his goal.

The manner of the defeat,against an Arsenal teamwhich had failed to score inthe first two matches of thenew season, was particularlydisappointing givenRodgers’ failure to sign a newforward before the transferwindow closed on Friday.

With England centre-forward Andy Carroll havingbeen allowed to join WestHam on loan, Rodgers hadexpected to sign Fulham’sClint Dempsey as hisreplacement.

But Tottenham signedthe American instead and

SHWEBO, 1 Sept— Theopening of Dabinshwehtee tarroad was held at the road inShwebo yesterday morning,attended by Sagaing RegionChief Minister U Tha Aye.The Region chief ministerpressed the button to openthe road and road constructioncommittee member U Ba Thinspoke words of thanks on

Shwebo Township gets a new asphalt roadbehalf of Region RoadTransportation Minister U TinNgwe, Region HluttawRepresentative U Tun Ko Koand wellwishers. The 920 feetlong, 14 feet wide and 6 feetthick a new road is constructedwith the contributions ofShwebo TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee and wellwishers.

The new road is the main onefor going to Shwebo people’shospital and market. Peoplefrom Shwebo are happy withopening of that road.

The Region chief ministerand party inspected ShweboPeople’s Hospital where theyfulfilled requirements andmade cash donation.

Myanma Alin

Arsenal’s Lukas Podolski (L) scores past Liverpool’sPepe Reina (R) and Glen Johnson during their EnglishPremier League soccer match at Anfield in Liverpool,

northern England 2 September, 2012.—REUTERS

that failure, plus theevidence of their openingthree games, suggests thiswill be a trying season forthe Merseyside club.

Arsenal’s first leaguegoal in 211 minutes of thenew campaign came in the31st minute at Anfield andwas a devastating exampleof the art of the counter-attack.

Podolski started themove inside his own half,taking a pass from his backline, and moving the ball onto Cazorla before starting asprint into the Liverpoolarea.

The German forwardtimed his run to perfection,arriving on the end ofCazorla’s angled pass tobeat Reina from 12 yards.

Reuters

LIVERPOOL, 2 Sept—Lukas Podolski and SantiCazorla ended Arsenal’sbarren start to the PremierLeague season in animpressive 2-0 victory at

Liverpool on Sunday thatcondemned the hosts to theirworst start in 50 years.

One point from theopening three games undernew manager Brendan

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