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Volume XX, Number 17 2nd Waning of Kason 1374 ME Monday, 7 May, 2012

True patriotism * It is very important for every one of the

nation regardless of the place he lives tohave strong Union Spirit.

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

YANGON, 6 May—A Myanmar delegation led byPyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann left here byair for Federal Republic of Germany and Belgium thismorning at the invitation of Brussels-based EuropeanParliament Speaker Mr Martin Shultz under Hann Siedelprogramme to observe and pay goodwill visits toassemblies in Germany and Belgium.

The delegation was seen off by Union ElectionCommission Chairman U Tin Aye, Deputy Pyithu HluttawSpeaker U Nanda Kyaw Swa, Yangon Region ChiefMinister U Myint Swe, chairmen, secretaries and membersof Pyithu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw committees, thespeaker and deputy speaker of Yangon Region Hluttaw,the German ambassador to Myanmar and officials atYangon International Airport.

Chairman of Pyithu Hluttaw Projects andFinancial Development Committee U Soe Tha, Chairmanof International Relations Committee U Hla Myint Oo,Chairman of Economic and Trade DevelopmentCommittee U Maung Maung Thein, Chairman ofInvestment and Industrial Development Committee UHtay Myint, Secretary of National Races Affairs andInternal Peace-making Committee Daw Dwe Bu, Memberof Bill Committee Daw Nan Wah Nu and officialsaccompanied the Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker as delegationmembers.—MNA

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe MannPyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mannleaves for Germany, Belgiumleaves for Germany, Belgium

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—Union Minister forAgriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing yesterdayinspected dredging of Bago River in Bago Township byheavy machinery.

He instructed the staff there to inform the MarineAdministration Department of the Ministry of Transportand the region government of the annual conservation ofBago River although Irrigation Department assumed theresponsibility momentarily.

The Union Minister cordially greeted local farmers

Union A&I Minister inspectsUnionA&IMinisterinspectsdredging of Bago RiverdredgingofBagoRiver

and presented Palethwe rice.He viewed right canal of Khabaung Dam and

tributaries and 95 days old thriving Palethwe paddyplantation in Ottwin Township. He called for disseminatingtechnology to farmers who will put 30000 acres of rain-fedfield in Bago Region under Palethwe paddy, saying thecultivation of Palethwe paddy would bring aboutdevelopment of the region which has over 3 millionfarmlands and dams and reservoirs.

MNA

Silt from Bago River being dredged by machinery for proper flow of the river.—MNA

PyithuHluttawSpeakerThura U

Shwe Mannbeing seen

off atYangon

InternationalAirport by

Chairman ofUnion

ElectionCommissionU Tin Aye,

Deputy-SpeakerU NandaKyaw Swa

and officialsas he departsfor FederalRepublic of

Germanyand Belgium.

MNA

MYA NANDAR ANDMYANMAR THINGYAN

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Scientists use airship to look for meteorites

Peter Jenniskens, right, the NASA scientist in charge of agroup of researchers searching for pieces of a meteorite,walk to the zeppelin, Eureka, at McClellan Air Park in

Sacramento, Calif, on 3 May, 2012.—INTERNET

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Sebastian Coe,chairman of

LOCOG presses thebutton with nine-year-old Niamh

Clarke-Willis (L2F) to officially

open the OlympicStadium duringday two of theBUCS VISA

AthleticsChampionships

2012 LOCOG TestEvent for London

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 7 May, 2012

PERSPECTIVES

Change with climate changeMonday, 7 May, 2012

Embracing change is an importantbehavior as change is inevitable. It seemsobvious that since the climate is changing wehave to change as well.

Scientific evidence of climate change isincreasing. Many private and public initiativeshave made climate change a well-known topicfor action. However, the level of awareness isnot yet high enough, and the need for decisiveaction is not yet thoroughly recognized.

Climate is a common good, crucial to all ofus and to future generation. What we can see sofar is that the interests of nations regardingclimate change are not aligned.

Climate oriented-technologies areimproving the status of private enterprise.Some examples are the automatic industryoffering cars with lighter weight and enginesthat can run on biofuel, plug-in electric carsand even fuel-cell vehicles; the chemical industryreviewing production process to save significantamount of energy; the construction industrypromoting affordable green buildings. And weshould push for energy replacement whereverpossible, intensifying our demands for solar-,wind-, and water-generated power.

One decisive form of action to achievelong-term impact on climate change iseducation. All schools from primary touniversities should teach climate science. Asindividuals we should also constantly learnabout environmental protection, health andsafety impact and new technologies becomingavailable.

Climate change requires action. It offersbusiness opportunities. So, we have to embracethat change without hesitation.

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May— Our Inspiration Academic Center(OIAC-2) Boarding& Private School (Nay Pyi Taw) has beenopened at No. 28 on the corner between 1st and 6th Streets inDekkhinathiri Township here this morning, with an addressof Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism and for Sports UTint Hsan.

At the opening event, members of Nay Pyi Taw CouncilU Than Aung and U Kan Chun, Director-General U Khin

(OIAC-2) Boarding & Private School(Nay Pyi Taw) commissioned into service

Maung Zaw of the Ministry of Electric Power-2, Chairmanof Original Group Wunna Kyaw Htin Si Thu U Tha Htay andPatron of OIAC-2 actor Shar Nyo cut the ribbon and UnionMinister U Tint Hsan pressed the button to put it into service.

Under the guideline of the experienced teachers, thosestudents from six to 11 in their grades can pursue theireducation at the now-opened private school, a two-storeybuilding constructed at the place (7.19 acres).—MNA

Yangon Region government gets two ambulancesYANGON, 6 May— Pine

Forest Co of the Republic ofKorea made a donation ofambulance to Yangon Regiongovernment at the office ofYangon Region governmenthere this afternoon, in thepresence of Yangon RegionChief Minister U Myint Swe,Speaker of Yangon RegionHluttaw, Deputy Speaker andregion ministers, departmentalheads, donors andorganization members.

Administration Directorof Pine Forest Co Mr. ParkChung Ho presented thepurpose of the donation andhanded the related documentsover Region Minister forSocial Affairs Dr Myint Thein.

The Region ChiefMinister expressed words ofthanks and paid a closeattention to the two HyndaiStarex ambulances.—MNA

Pine Forest Co of the Republic of Korea makes donation of ambulance toYangon Region government.— MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—The 66th Anniversary FireBrigade Day was observed atSittway Fire Station inSittway on yesterdaymorning.

Rakhine State ChiefMinister U Hla Maung Tin

Chinese acrobatic troupe shows theirperformances in Mandalay

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—The Chinese acrobatic troupestaged their performance atthe National Theatre inAungmyethazan Townshipin Mandalay at 7:00 pmyesterday.

Among the acrobaticenthusiastic spectators wereMandalay Region ChiefMinister U Ye Myint andwife, Region levelorganization members andtheir wives, Mandalay-basedConsul General Mr. Yu Borenof the People's Republic ofChina, Consul General Dr.Madan Mohan Sethi of theRepublic of India.

The Chinese troupeperformed various kinds oftheir skills in acrobatics.

After their performanceshad been done, the Chineseacrobatic troupe acceptedthe baskets of flowers inhonour of them, given by theChief Minister of MandalayRegion and Chinese ConsulGeneral, and they posted fora documentary photo.

MNA

YANGON, 6 May—BagoRegion Chief Minister UNyan Win on yesterdayafternoon attended the 62nd

ceremony to pour water at

Rakhine State Chief Ministerattends Fire Brigade Day

ceremony

Water pours at Bo tree onFullmoon Day of KasonNAY PYI TAW, 6 May—The water pouring ceremony at Bo

tree was held at Lawka Manaung Hsutaungpyae Pagoda inMyitkyina on yesterday afternoon.

Kachin State Chief Minister U La John Ngan Hsai, thechief justice of Kachin State High Court, the state ministersand those present participated in the water pouring ceremony.

MNA

Bago Region Chief Ministerwaters Bo tree

Bo tree at ShwemawdawPagoda in Bago.

The congregation tookthe Five Precepts fromOvadaçariya of PagodaBoard of Trustees KoetheinMonastery Sayadaw.

Next, the Chief Ministerand party went round thepagoda and poured water atBo tree.—MNA

awarded KyaukpyuTownship Fire Station forsanitation.

State Minister for SocialAffairs Dr Aung Kyaw Minpresented certificates ofhonour to fire brigade memberswho participated in the paradecompany representingMyanmar Fire Brigade.

The State Chief Ministerand party viewed rescueequipment in fighting fire.

At the office of theRakhine State Superintend-ing Engineer, the State ChiefMinister delivered an addressat the coordination meetingon Building, Airport, Roadand Bridge works.—MNA

The Chinese acrobatic troupe provideentertainment at National Theatre in

Aungmyethazan Township in Mandalay.—MNA

UNIFORM GIVEN: A ceremony toprovide uniforms to staff members was

held at the office of GeneralAdministration Department in Hline

Township on 5 May. TownshipAdministrator U Myat Soe hands over

uniforms to staff members.MYANMA ALIN

Myanmardelegation leaves for

CambodiaYANGON, 6 May—A Myanmar

delegation led by Deputy Minister forEducation U Aye Kyu left here by air thismorning to observe progress of educationsector in Cambodia.

They were seen off at YangonInternational Airport by directors-generaland officials of the Ministry of Education.

The Deputy Minister wasaccompanied by Director-General U BoWin of the Education Planning ad TrainingDepartment and party.—MNA

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DAMASCUS, 6 May—Two explosive devicesplanted under a militarypickup truck went off in swiftsuccession in the heart ofSyria’s capital of Damascuson Saturday, leavingproperty damage but nocasualties, reports andwitnesses said. The blasttook place in al-Khujapopular market for leatherbags when a pickup truckrigged with two explosive

DAMASCUS, 6 May —Two bombs detonated on acentral Damascus highwayon Saturday, destroyingnine cars, residents said, in afurther sign that rebelsfighting to topple PresidentBashar al-Assad are shiftingtactics towards homemadeexplosives. There were noimmediate reports ofcasualties from the blastsfrom bombs planted undercars on al-Thawra Street, thelatest blow to last month’scrumbling UN-backed truce.

Fifty out of a plannedtotal of 300 United Nationsobservers are now in Syria tomonitor the ceasefiredeclared on 12 April, buttheir presence has not halted

BAGHDAD, 6 May—Four people were killed andsix others injured in separatebomb and gunfire attacks incentral and northern Iraq, thepolice said on Saturday. InIraq’s northern Province ofKirkuk, a member of thegovernment-backed Awake-ning Council group was killedand another injured when aroadside bomb went off neartheir car in al-Rashad townnear the city of Kirkuk, some250 km north of Baghdad, aprovincial police source toldXinhua on condition ofanonymity. The AwakeningCouncil group, also known asSons of Iraq movement orSahwa, consists of mostlyformer anti-US Sunniinsurgent militant groups, whoturned their rifles to fight al-Qaeda network after Sahwa’sleaders became dismayed byal-Qaeda’s brutality andreligious zealotry in thecountry. In Iraq’s westernProvince of Anbar, a civilianwas killed and anotherwounded when a stickybomb attached to their carexploded in the morning inthe city of Haditha, some 200km west of Baghdad, aprovincial police source said.

In a separate incident,an Iraqi army officer waskilled when a sticky bombattached to his car detonatedlate on Friday night inBaghdad’s western district ofYarmouk, an InteriorMinistry source anony-mously told Xinhua.

Xinhua

The detonated military truck is seen at al-Thawra Streetin Damascus, Syria, on 5 May, 2012. Two explosive

devices planted under a military pickup truck went off inswift succession in the heart of Syria’s capital of

Damascus Saturday, leaving property damage but nocasualties, reports and witnesses said.— XINHUA

Booby-trapped military vehicle goes off inSyria’s capital, no casualties

Two blasts occur in one day, six killed.INTERNET

ADEN, 6 May — Militants of the al-Qaeda terrorist group fired three mortar shellson a base of the Yemeni army forces in thesouthern province of Abyan on Saturday,injuring at least 10 soldiers, a military officialsaid. The rockets landed on a battalion of the201st Armored Brigade on the outskirts ofZinjibar, the provincial capital of Abyan,seriously injuring at least 10 soldiers, the localmilitary official told Xinhua on condition ofanonymity.

“All of the projectiles were fired from thean al-Qaeda-held mountain near the Bajdarneighbourhood in Zinjibar’s suburbs wherearmy troops stationed since two weeks,” theofficial said. “Two high-ranking army officersvisited the military base shortly before therocket attack to inspect the operations againstthe al-Qaeda group in Zinjibar front,” he added.A spokesperson of the al-Qaeda confirmed toXinhua the attack, saying that “we would notstop firing mortar shells and launchingovernight attacks on the positions of thepuppet army.”

Meanwhile, a government official told

Ten Yemeni soldiers injured by al-Qaedamortar shells

ISLAMABAD, 6 May — Pakistani officials said that 16Taleban militants including four commanders on Saturdaysurrendered before the local authorities in a tribal region andrenounced violence. The militants, who were part of theTehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan ( TTP) and had been involved interror activities in Kurram tribal region, gave up their weaponsto the political administration in the presence of mediapersons in the area.

Four commanders Abdullah, Muhammad Rasham, Walidand Rafiqullah were among those surrendered, who alsoconfessed that they had been involved in crimes against localpeople and fought against the security forces, localadministrator, Shahab Ali Shah said. The militants, whosefaces were covered, told correspondents in the town ofParachinar that they belong to local tribes and have nowabandoned armed activities against the security forces andthe pro-government tribal elders.

“We have shun over all past activities and now ready tostand with the people and the security forces,” a militant,seeking anonymity, told reporters. “We also want to start ournew life because we had indulged forcefully when the TTPmilitants started their activities in Kurram Agency. We wereforced to cooperate and work with them but now we haverealized that they are killing own people and not doing Jehadrather it is bloodshed of the innocent people,” the militantsaid.—Xinhua

Four Taleban commandersamong 16 surrender in

Pakistan

Four killed,six injured in

attacks in Iraq

Two bombs explode on Damascus highway

devices blew up, witnessestold Xinhua. A militaryinstitution is near the blastscene, but no damages wereseen at the buildings. Detailsfrom officials investigatingthe incident are stillforthcoming. Severalbombings were heard in theearly hours of Saturday inseveral areas, local mediareported without details.

Reports of minorexplosions, kidnappings

and killings have grabbedthe headlines of the Syrianmedia lately. Policemenhave been repeatedly tippedoff by residents in differentparts of Damascus aboutdiscovering explosivedevices attachedunderneath their cars. Syriahas witnessed a nearly 13-month-old unrest, which thegovernment blames onforeign conspiracy andarmed groups.— Xinhua

Xinhua anonymously that fighters jets of theair forces have been waging intensified airstrikes on Saturday against the al-Qaeda groupin Abyan. “Up to eight terrorists were killedin Saturday’s air raids near the Lauder town,”the official said, adding that “air bombing onthe al-Qaeda militants will continue duringthe upcoming hours. “ During a graduationceremony for military officers on Saturday,Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadipledged to continue the fight against al-Qaedaterrorists and unify the divided army.

Taking advantage of the one-year-longpolitical conflicts in Yemen, the resurgent al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),locally known as Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans ofIslamic Law), has taken control of severalcities and swathes across the country’s restivesouthern provinces. The AQAP, mainlyentrenching itself in Yemen’s southernprovinces of Abyan and Shabwa, is on theterrorist list of the United States, whichconsiders it as an increasing threat to itsnational security.

Xinhua

the violence in a 14-month-old revolt that began withpeaceful pro-democracyprotests. Deadly blasts haveshaken major cities asinsurgents seek to even theodds between theiroutgunned forces and thetanks, artillery andhelicopters in Assad’smilitary arsenal. On 30 April,explosions blew the frontsoff buildings in the northerntown of Idlib, where state TVreported nine people killedand 100 wounded,including securitypersonnel.

Three days earlier, asuicide bomber killed nine,including security men, at aDamascus mosque, the

Interior Ministry said. AnIslamist group calling itselfthe Support Front for thePeople of the Levantclaimed responsibility forthat bombing and for an 24April attack on the Iraniancultural consulate inDamascus. Iran is one ofSyria’s closest allies. Assadhas long argued that he iscombating foreign-backed“armed terrorist groups”rather than a popularuprising. Syrian officials sayrebels have killed more than2,600 soldiers and police.The United Nationsestimates that the securityforces have killed more than9,000 people since therebellion began.— Reuters

File photo shows the MapTa Phut industrial estate in

Rayong in 2010.INTERNET

BANGKOK, 6 May—Atleast 13 people were killed byexplosions and fire Saturdayafternoon in an industrial parkof east Thailand’s RayongProvince, Thai media reported.About 95 people were injuredand sent to hospital, Englishnewspaper The Nationreported in messages sent tosubscribers.

13 killed in Thai factoryexplosions, fire

SEOUL, 6 May—Nine people were killed and 25 othersinjured in a fire at a singing room in South Korea’s southernport city of Busan, local authorities said Sunday.

The fire took place at around 8:55 pm local time Saturday.According to local police, the fire broke out in a singing roomlocated in the third floor of a six-story building in downtowncity, and the heavy smoke immediately spread to the wholefloor. Dozens of people fled outside or to the top of thebuilding when the fire started and were rescued later. However,9 people failed to escape and were killed in the fire.

Among the dead there are three Sri Lankans. Most of thevictims are young people in their 20s or 30s, who died ofinhaling toxic gases.

Authorities suspect a gas explosion may have caused thefire, but are making an further investigation to determine thecause of the fire.—MNA/Xinhua

The blaze started ataround 3:30 pm after explo-sions hit a factory in MapTaphut Industrial Estate,according to earlier reports.Rayong Governor SeneeJittakasem ordered evacua-tions of people and workersnearby. The factory is farfrom living quarters.

MNA/Xinhua

Singing room fire kills nine,injures 25 in S Korea

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologyScientists use airship to look for meteoritesSACRAMENTO, (Calif), 6

May—A group of scientiststook to the skies in a slow-moving airship on Thursdayin search of meteorites thatrained over California’s goldcountry last month.

It’s the latest hunt forextraterrestrial fragments fromthe 22 April explosion thatwas witnessed over a swathof Northern California and

weighing in at 19 grams, or theweight of one AA battery.

Researchers from NASAand the nonprofit SETIInstitute in Mountain View,Calif, were on the lookout forlarger fragments. After a briefweather delay, they took offfrom a Sacramento airfieldaboard an airship outfittedwith sensors and cameras.

From the air, scientists

plan to follow up with a searchparty.

“Only small pieces havebeen found. There has to bebig pieces out there,” SETIInstitute meteor astronomerPeter Jenniskens said beforethe trip. “We’re just hopingto collect more meteorites forresearch.”

Days after theapproximately 154,300-poundmeteor plunged throughEarth’s atmosphere with aloud sonic boom that washeard from Sacramento to LasVegas, Jenniskens organizeda team and found a 4-grammeteorite in the parking lot ofa park.

NASA estimated theminivan-sized meteorreleased energy equal to one-third the explosive power ofthe atomic bomb dropped onHiroshima during World WarII. An event this size occursonce a year usually overunpopulated areas.

Initial inspection of rockfragments indicates this typeof meteorite is among theoldest, dating to the solarsystem’s birth 4 billion to 5billion years ago.—Internet

Peter Jenniskens, right, the NASA scientist in charge of agroup of researchers searching for pieces of a meteorite,walk to the zeppelin, Eureka, at McClellan Air Park in

Sacramento, Calif, on 3 May, 2012.—INTERNET

The host star is runningout of hydrogen in thecore, swells up, and its

surface becomes cooler. Itis also losing mass, which

causes the planets tomove further out. The

perturbation of the orbitsmay lead to collisions

that will generate largeamounts of rocky debris.

INTERNET

Were distant destroyed worlds Earth-like?WARWICK, (England), 6

May—Dust from destroyedplanets that once orbiteddwarf stars suggests theshattered worlds were similarin composition to Earth, Britishastrophysicists say.

University of Warwickscientists using the HubbleSpace Telescope to study thechemical composition of theatmospheres of white dwarfstars found the mostfrequently occurring elementsin the dust around four whitedwarfs observed wereoxygen, magnesium, iron andsilicon — the four elementsthat make up roughly 93percent of the Earth.

“What we are seeing

today in these white dwarfsseveral hundred light yearsaway could well be a snapshotof the very distant future ofthe Earth,” Warwickastrophysicist Boris Gansickesaid in a university releaseThursday.

“As stars like our sunreach the end of their life, theyexpand to become red giantswhen the nuclear fuel in theircores is depleted,” he said.

The orbits of the planetscould become destabilized bythis, he said, causingcollisions that could shatterentire worlds, leaving

fragments and dust aroundthe star with chemicalcomposition mirroring that ofthe destroyed planets.

One of the white dwarfstars studied stood out fromthe rest owing to the relativeoverabundance of theelements iron, nickel andsulphur in the dust surroundingit, researchers said.

“It is entirely feasible thatin [white dwarf star]PG0843+516 we see theaccretion of such fragmentsmade from the core material ofwhat was once a terrestrialexoplanet.”—Internet

Nevada.Treasure hunters have

swarmed the Sierra Nevadafoothills over the past twoweeks, snatching up piecesof meteorites. Most of therecovered space rocks havebeen tiny, with the largest

scoured the terrain for placeswhere sizable meteorites mighthave scattered. The surveytook them over the area whereJames W Marshall firstdiscovered gold in Californiain 1848. Once they pinpointpossible impact sites, they

Mars rover sees evidence ofancient water

STONY BROOK, 6 May—NASA’s Mars rover Opportunityhas found evidence of water flows at an ancient impact craterthat could have been conducive to life, US researchers say.

The latest discovery by the surprisingly long-livedOpportunity was made at the rim of the Endeavour Crater, alarge ancient impact crater on Mars measuring 14 miles indiameter, researchers said.

“The rover discovered evidence for low temperatureliquid water and environments that would be conducive forlife,” said Scott M McLennan, a geochemistry professor atStony Brook University in New York and a member of the teamthat published a paper on the findings on Friday.

Opportunity, one of two exploration rovers that landedon Mars eight years ago for what was planned as a three-month mission, reached Endeavour Crater last August afterdriving for three years from another Martian crater, Victoria.

Opportunity found elevated levels of zinc in some of therocks at the rim of the crater, suggesting a hydrothermalsystem — warm water — had been running through the rocks

A Martian dust twister is shown tearing across the planetin this photo by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

on 16 February, 2012, just released. The twister rises upmore than a half mile high in the Amazonis Planitia

region of northern Mars. The dust devil is 100 feet wide.Dust devils occur on both Earth and Mars.—INTERNET

at one time. “If we found this on Earth there would be noquestion that you could find evidence of life,” McLennan saidin a university release.—Internet

Iceman mummy yields oldestblood seen

BOLZANO, (Italy), 6May—Researchers studyinga 5,300-year-old body foundfrozen in the Italian Alps in1991 say they found red bloodcells around his wounds, theoldest ever seen.

Hikers discovered “Oetzithe Iceman” with an arrowburied in his back, andresearchers had alreadydetermined he died from hiswounds.

The frozen body isremarkably preserved, andscientists writing in theJournal of the Royal Societysay that preservation extendsto the bleeding that occurredbefore his death, the BBCreported on Wednesday.

Blood cells degrade

quickly, and earliersearches for blood withinthe frozen body showed nosigns of blood cells,researchers said.

Albert Zink andcolleagues at the EuracInstitute for Mummies andthe Iceman in Bolzano, Italy,have now used a techniqueknown as atomic forcemicroscopy to examine thinslices of tissue taken froman area around the arrowwound and discoveredstructures with the tell-tale“doughnut” shape of redblood cells.

They are by far the oldestred blood cells ever observed,researchers said.

Internet

Boeing spacecraft parachute test a successALAMO, (Nev), 6 May—Boeing completed a parachute test in Nevada

for its new spacecraft, which would transport crews to and from theInternational Space Station, NASA said.

A helicopter lifted the Crew Space Transportation spacecraft onWednesday about 10,000 feet above the Delamar Dry Lake Bed nearAlamo, Nev, and dropped the capsule. A two-parachute sequencedeployed, and the capsule dropped smoothly to the ground, cushionedby six inflated air bags, a release from NASA said on Thursday.

“Boeing’s parachute demonstrations are a clear sign NASA ismoving in the right direction of enabling the American aerospacetransportation industry to flourish under this partnership,” NASA’sCommercial Crew Program Manager Ed Mango said. “The investmentswe’re making now are enabling this new path forward of getting our crewsto (low-Earth orbit) and potentially the space station as soon as possible.”

The capsule is designed to work with a variety of expendable rockets,Boeing said in a release on Thursday.

“This second parachute drop test validates Boeing’s innovativesystem architecture and deployment plan,” said John Mulholland, vicepresident and program manager, Boeing Commercial Programmes.“Boeing’s completion of this milestone reaffirms our commitment toprovide safe, reliable and affordable crewed access to space.”—Internet

Ancient fleas plagued ancient dinosaurs

This ancient “flea-like” insect, Pseudopulex jurassicus,lived 165 million years ago. It used a long proboscis tofeed on the blood of dinosaurs, with a bite that would

have been unusually painful.—INTERNET

CORVALLIS, 6 May—No creature is safe from fleas,not even dinosaurs that had to endure the bites of giantflea-like insects 165 million years ago, a US zoologist says.

George Poinar Jr, a zoology professor at OregonState University who wrote a commentary on the find offossils of the giant insects by Chinese scientists, saidthey were probably 10 times the size of a flea you mightfind on the family dog. “These were insects much largerthan modern fleas and from the size of their proboscis wecan tell they would have been mean,” he said.

Poinar’s commentary appeared in the same issueof Current Biology that reported the Chinese discovery.

“You wouldn’t talk much about the good old daysif you got bit by this insect,” Poinar said in an OSUrelease on Tuesday. “It would have felt about like ahypodermic needle going in — a flea shot, if not a flushot. We can be thankful our modern fleas are notnearly this big.” The soft-bodied, flea-like insectsfound in fossil form in Inner Mongolia may be theevolutionary ancestors of modern fleas but are morelikely a separate and now extinct lineage, he said.

“These are really well-preserved fossils that giveus another glimpse of life into the really distant past, theCretaceous and Jurassic,” Poinar said.—Internet

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & Health

Canton fair closes with drop in exporttransactions

Android, Samsung hold offApple in US mobile space

WASHINGTON, 6 May—Google’s Android system hasgrabbed more than 50 percent of the US smartphone market,while Samsung cemented its leadership as the top devicemaker, a survey showed on Tuesday. Even though Apple’shot iPhone is surging, it has not dented the lead of the Androidsystem and the South Korean manufacturer, according to aquarterly survey from research firm comScore.

The Android system snagged 51 percent of the operatingsystem market in the three months ending in March, up from47.3 percent in the prior quarter, comScore said.

Apple’s operating system had 30.7 percent of the market,up from 29.6 percent. The biggest loser was BlackBerry, whichsaw its platform share fall to 12.3 percent from 16 percent.

Microsoft’s share also slipped to 3.9 percent from 4.7percent and Symbian held steady at 1.4 percent.

The survey found more than 106 million people in the USowned smartphones during the three months ending in March,up nine percent from December. Samsung remained the topmaker of mobile devices including smartphones, with 26percent of the US market, from 25.3 percent three monthsearlier. Second was fellow Korean LG with 19.3 percent, down0.7 points, and Apple was third with 14.6 percent, up from 12.4percent and overtaking Motorola.

A separate report earlier this year concluded worldwide

The Galaxy Nexus smarthphone is displayed at theSamsung booth at the 2012 International Consumer

Electronics Show in Las Vegas.—INTERNET

shipments of smartphones soared 54.7 percent in the final threemonths of 2011 from the same period a year earlier, with Appleleading the space. An IDC report found smartphone makersshipped 157.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Apple had a 23.5 percent share of the global smartphonemarket, followed by Samsung and Nokia with 22.8 percent and12.4 percent respectively. Android and iPhone smartphonesaccounted for slightly more than 90 percent of US smartphonesales in the fourth quarter of 2011, industry-tracker NPDGroup reported earlier this year.—Internet

Costa Crociere gets new ship,new rules

GUANGZHOU, 6 May—The spring session of thebiannual Canton Fair, or the111th China Import and ExportFair, closed on Saturday, withexport transactionsdecreased for the first timesince 2009. The value ofexport deals dropped by 2.3percent year-on-year to 36.03billion US dollars, or down 4.8percent than the figure at theautumn session of the fair,said Liu Jianjun, spokesmanwith the fair.

This is the first volumedecrease since the spring of2009 as economic crisis hitthe world from 2008,according to Liu.

Debt crisis from

European Union countriesand tough job market in theUnited States were among thefactors that have caused thedecrease, he said.

“Although we have seensharp export deal increase innew markets, such as in Brazil,Russia, India, South Africa

VENICE, (Italy), 6 May—Costa Crociere christened anew flagship in Italy Saturdayas officials of the luxury cruisecompany announcedchanges in procedures meantto improve safety.

The launching of theCosta Fascinosa in Venicecame less than four monthsafter the deadly founderingof the US-British company’sCosta Concordia off an Italianisland. The 13 Jan maritimemishap left 32 passengers andcrew members dead ormissing, and the captainremains under house arrestwhile awaiting trial.

“The delivery of theCosta Fascinosa is animportant stepping stone onour company’s road torecovery ...,” Costa Chairman

Pier Luigi Foschii said withoutmentioning the Concordia byname.

Foschii said “after therecent incident” and despitethe downturn in the economy,“Costa has bounced back andbooking volumes are back tothe same levels recorded thistime last year,” The MiamiHerald reported.

Seven safety measureswere announced for Costa’s15-ship fleet, including a morecollaborative decision-making process to encourageall staff on the bridge to “thinkout loud” as navigationaldecisions are made, thenewspaper said.

Costa Crociere is part ofthe Carnival Corp. & PLCcruise network.

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and other African countries,it cannot make up for the hugeshortfall from European andAmerican markets,” said Liu.

The purchasersattending the fair reached210,000, setting a new recordsince the fair’s debut in1957.—Xinhua

Garlic beats antibiotics in quellingfood-borne illness

Singapore, Brazil to boost economic tiesSINGAPORE, 6 May—

Singapore’s Minister forTrade and Industry (MTI) LimHng Kiang, who will visitBrazil 7-10 May, said that he isconfident that Brazil’seconomy will continue to offervast opportunities thatSingapore businesses shouldseize.

“Today, there are alreadymore than 50 Singaporecompanies operating in Braziland I would like to encouragemore to actively pursue theopportunities in all sectors,especially oil andgas, infrastructure ande-government.

Conversely, Braziliancompanies that are looking totake advantage of Asia’sgrowth could use Singaporeas a gateway to the regionalmarket,” the Press release byMTI quoted Lim as saying onSaturday.

He said: “I am therefore

WASHINGTON, 6 May—Researchers have isolated acompound in garlic that is a100 times more potent thanpopular antibiotics incombating Campylobacterbacteria, one of thecommonest causes ofintestinal illness.

Some 2.4 millionAmericans alone are affectedby Campylobacter every year,according to the Centres forDisease Control andPrevention, with symptomsincluding diarrhoea, cramping,abdominal pain and fever.

“This work is very

Washington statement.The researchers found

that diallyl sulphide was asmuch as 100 times effectivethan much of the antibioticserythromycin andciprofloxacin and would oftenwork in a fraction of the time.

“This is the first step indeveloping or thinking aboutnew intervention strategies.Campylobacter is simply themost common bacterial causeof food-borne illness in theUnited States and probablythe world,” says MichaelKonkel, study co-author whohas been researchingCampylobacter jejuni for 25years.

Previously, Lu andcolleagues found that diallylsulphide effectively killsimportant foodbornepathogens, such as listeriamonocytogenes andEscherichia coli O157:H7.

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exciting to me because itshows that this compound(diallyl sulphide) has thepotential to reduce disease-causing bacteria in theenvironment and in our foodsupply,” says Xiaonan Lu,postdoctoral researcher at theWashington StateUniversity, who led the study.

Lu and colleagues lookedat the ability of the garliccompound, diallyl sulphide,to kill the bacteria when it isprotected by a slimy biofilmthat makes it 1,000 times moreresistant to antibiotics, theJournal of AntimicrobialChemotherapy reports.

They found thecompound can easilypenetrate the protectivebiofilm and kill bacterial cellsby combining with a sulphur-containing enzyme, changingthe enzyme’s function andeffectively shutting down cellmetabolism, according to a

Low testosterone raises risk of diabetesLONDON, 6 May—Men

with low levels of testosteronecould be at greater risk ofdeveloping diabetes, a studyhas said.

Researchers from theUniversity of Edinburghfound low testosterone levelsare linked to a resistance toinsulin, the hormone thatcontrols blood sugar levels.

Testosterone is presentthroughout the body and lowlevels are associated withincreased obesity, a knownrisk factor for developing type2 diabetes, Daily Mailreported.

But scientists said thestudy provides evidence ofincreased risk “even when

An insulin injection pen sits on a kitchen counter, Friday2 March, 2012.

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body mass is not affected”.Kerry McInnes, from the

university’s endocrinologyunit, said: “We know that menwith low testosterone levelsare more likely to becomeobese and as a result, develop

diabetes.“This study shows that

low testosterone is a riskfactor for diabetes no matterhow much a person weighs.As men age their testosteronelevels lower.”—Internet

happy to note that we arecontinually strengtheningbilateral trade and investmentties between our twocountries.”

During the visit, Lim meetBrazil’s Minister forDevelopment, Industry andForeign Trade FernandoPimentel to advancediscussions on economiccooperation between the twocountries.

The Ministers willdiscuss ways to tap thegrowing businessopportunities in bothcountries.

Emphasising thatSingapore remains highlycommitted to enhancingeconomic collaboration withBrazil, Lim will also be meetingwith other senior officials,including the Governor of Riode Janeiro Srgio Cabral andsenior representatives fromprominent Brazilian

companies.He will also visit

Singapore companies inBrazil, including Keppel FELSBrasil’s BrasFELS shipyardin Angra dos Reis. KeppelFELS Brasil is a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of Keppel Offshoreand Marine.

Brazil is one ofSingapore’s top tradingpartners in Latin America. In2011, bilateral trade amountedto 3.35 billion US dollars, an11 percent increase over theprevious year.

The number ofSingapore-based companieswith interests in Brazil isgrowing, in sectors spanningoil and gas, ports andshipping, freight andlogistics, commodities,aerospace, consumerelectronics and informationand communicationstechnology.

Xinhua

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Fight against terrorism requires further global,regional cooperation: India

UNITED NATIONS, 6 May— Hardeep Singh Puri, thepermanent representative ofIndia to the UN, said here onFriday that to fight thecontinuing threat of terrorism,the “most serious challenge”to world peace and securitytoday, nations must worktogether at regional andinternational levels. Puri’sstatement came as he spoke ata UN Security Council meetingon the “threats to internationalpeace and security caused byterrorist acts.”

At the meeting, Puri saidthat in the view of India, the “visible landscape ofinternational terrorism hasvastly changed” throughoutthe years. He said that in theprocess of globalization,terrorists have found newmethods to spread theirideologies and carry outattacks, including through theuse of cyberspace andconnections with

transnational organizedcrime. He warned that there isalso a “growing risk” thatweapons of mass destructioncould fall into the hands ofterrorists.

“An effective counter-terrorism strategy, therefore,requires greater internationaland regional cooperation thanthe international communityhas so far been able toachieve,” Puri said.“International cooperationand concerted action againstterrorists and their sponsors,including the completedismantling of terrorist safehavens, sanctuaries, traininggrounds and financial andideological supportstructures, are the criticalimperatives to defeat thisscourge.” The governmentof India, Puri said, “fullysupports” all efforts tostrengthen cooperation in thefight against terrorists, andencourages the UN and the

15-member Security Councilto help with suchcollaborations.

“While the SecurityCouncil has remainedsteadfast in its fight againstinternational terrorism, it mustenhance further the level ofinternational cooperation tocounter this threatdecisively,” he said. “Weencourage the subsidiarybodies of the Council withcounter-terrorism mandatesto continue to enhance theirongoing dialogue withmember states, donors andbeneficiaries on thefacilitation of technicalassistance for capacity-building, at the national, sub-regional, and regional levels.”He also noted that Indiawelcomes the initiative of UNSecretary-general Ban Ki-moon for member states toconsider creating the positionof a UN Counter-TerrorismCoordinator.— Xinhua

Localpeople

work at thesuicide

blast sitein

northwestPakistan’s

BajaurAgency on

4 May,2012.

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Hong Kong warns mainlanders overemergency births

HONG KONG, 6 May —Hong Kong warnedexpectant mothers frommainland China againstrushing to emergency wardswithout prior bookings,saying they were putting theirbabies’ lives at risk. TheHospital Authority (HA) saidthere were 116 cases of “non-local mothers” going toemergency departments(AEDs) in the southern city

last month, of which only 39had bookings for maternityservices. The warning comesas the former British colonyof seven million peoplestruggles to cope withdemand for maternityservices from mainlandwomen, tens of thousands ofwhom come to the southerncity every year to give birth.

The government hasimposed quotes andtoughened border controlsamid protests from localwomen about shortages ofbeds and rising costs ofmaternity care. “The HAreiterated and appealed to thenon-local expectant mothersthat it is a high-risk behaviourto rush to AEDs at the lastminute to deliver, posing riskto both the mother and thebaby,” it said in a statement.Emergency wards lackstandard staffing and

facilities as well as antenatalrecords, and were notequipped to deal withcomplicated cases, it said.“Even in public hospitals withobstetric services, theirservice capacity will be filledby previously booked cases,leaving little room for non-booked cases,” it added.

“The HA appeals to non-local expectant mothers tomake proper and appropriatedelivery arrangements for thewell-being of both themselvesand their babies.” HongKong’s next leader, chiefexecutive-elect Leung Chun-ying, has said he will banpregnant mainlanders whosehusbands are not from HongKong from giving birth in localhospitals next year. He hasalso said the children of suchwomen will not be guaranteedresidency rights as they havebeen in the past.— Internet

Dubai plans underwater hotel made of submerged discs, not that it should surprise you

Rest your head 10 meters below the ocean waves.INTERNET

DUBAI, 6 May — To saythat the city of Dubai — locatedin the United Arab Emirates— is a playground for thewealthy would be a grossunderstatement. The urbanwonderland is home to someof the most extravagantdisplays of affluence on Earth,so a new hotel popping upwouldn’t normally makeheadlines. But when the hotel

will send guests to roomslocated 10 meters below thesea, well, that changes things.

Apparently bored withthe blasé above-ground digsavailable all over the city, aDeep Ocean Technology ismaking your submarinedreams a reality with “Discus,”a resort for people who preferlook at some lush ocean lifeover a crowded cityscape.

When construction iscompleted, Discus will featurea large, above-water disc —complete with a helipad, ofcourse — where visitors canenjoy food, drink, and anyother pleasure money can buy.Then, when night falls, guestscan retreat down to themassive underwater portionof the resort where theextravagant suites reside.

Rooms will feature floor-to-ceiling views of underwater

splendor, and the wealthytourists who can afford a roomwill be treated not only toaquatic plants and animals,but also the calming quiet ofbeing 10 meters below thehustle and bustle of oceansidelife. The Discus projectdoesn’t have a firm completiondate yet, but knowing that it’slocated in Dubai is enough totell us that we probably can’tafford it anyway.

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Discus underwater hotel.— INTERNET

144 Armenians injured as balloons explode

A view shows theexplosion of gas-filled

balloons during acampaign rally in the

central Republic Square inYerevan, on 4 May,2012.— INTERNET

YEREVAN, 6 May —Clusters of balloonsexploded on Friday during apolitical rally in the centralsquare of Armenia’s capital,injuring at least 144 people,authorities said.

The EmergenciesMinistry said 104 of themhad to be hospitalized withburns after the explosion inYerevan, which it said wascaused by a smoker who lit acigarette near the balloons.

Health Minister ArtyomPushkian said no one hadlife-threatening injuries. Theballoons were supposed tobe flown at a Republican Partyrally that drew tens of

thousands ahead ofSunday’s parliamentaryvote in the former Sovietrepublic. Despite theaccident, ArmenianPresident Serge Sarkisianaddressed the rally with aspeech.

The Republican Partydominates the parliament ofthis impoverished Caucasusnation that bordersTurkey.— Internet

BEIJING, 6 May — A total of 600 school cafeterias havebeen given administrative penalties during China’s latestinspection tour of such facilities, and more than 20,000 havebeen ordered to eliminate potential food safety hazards,according to a food watchdog statement released on Friday.Although the punishments were not specified, Chineseadministrative penalties usually involve fines and revocationsof licenses.

As of the end of March, 130,000 school cafeterias acrossChina had been overhauled during a joint inspection launchedby the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and theMinistry of Education, according to the SFDA statement.Thetwo organs will conduct a new wave of inspections from Mayto the end of June, in a bid to prevent food poisoning in thewarmer months and examine the implementation of thegovernment order on ensuring food safety.

A series of food poisoning cases have been reported byschools in the past month, raising fears among Chinese studentsand parents. Schools are required to increase students’awareness of food safety, and relevant departments are urgedto strict supervision, the statement said.—Xinhua

590 school cafes punished overunsafe food

NYC 911 system troubled bydelays, errors

NEW YORK, 6 May —New York City administrationreleased on Friday a 911system report, saying thesystem is beset by delays anderrors that could leave callerswithout help for crucialseconds in an emergency.

The 133-page document,prepared by outsideconsultants hired by the city,found that 911 emergency calloperators waste time repeatingquestions and useinconsistent questioningprocedures.

It also found that the 911system sends someresponders to the wrongaddress and slows fire andmedical dispatchers’ effortsto give instructions to callers.“Statistical informationprovided to City Hall

management to demonstratethe success of the (UnifiedCall Taking) project containederrors and does not provide aclear picture of theeffectiveness of UCT relatedbusiness processes,” wrotethe report.

The consultants called onthe city in the report to changeits approach and begin theresponse-time clock earlier. InMarch, the city’s comptrollerissued an audit criticizing thecity for its handling of theentire emergency call systemproject, which includes theongoing creation of a secondback-up centre. Thecomptroller said the projectwas 1 billion US dollars over-budget and seven yearsbehind schedule.

Xinhua

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MYA NANDAR AND MYANMAR THINGYAN By Ba Than

Myanmars by tradition reckon the years, months anddays by the lunar calendar, and Tagu marks the Thingyanfestival which washes out the old year and heralds the newyear the next day after King Saccra’s return to the celestialabode of awaiting four queens, so anxious that the earthlynymphs of Thingyan might not send him back, or that hewished not return. The fitting time for this article was lastweek. It will take the author a full year to await the nextThingyan to see in print. Wishing readers to enjoy MyaNandar the theme song, Myoma Nyein the composer,Myoma music and the Silver Swan, the author with apologyhereby presents the endearing spirit of mirth and hilarity.Traditionally the commencement of Thingyan and theadvent of the New Year was calculated by a team of mostlearned astrologers of the realm, appointed by the Myanmarkings of the royal court, and later after Independence bythe State and publicly notified through the news media.Correspondingly Thingyan falls more or less between 13to 17April by the Gregorian calendar.

Myanmar Thingyan usually lasts for three to four daysfollowed by ‘Day One’ of the New Year. It is the mostendearing custom here to wash away the old year with coolrefreshing water, so one emerges clean as the New Year isushered in, to bring good fortune love, peace and joy toone and all. As I have said, Myanmar Thingyan is the mosthilarious, boisterous and enjoyable festival in which allcan freely participate, and there is no bar to colour, race orcreed, subject of course to good conduct, etiquette morality,patience and forgiveness, thus paying tribute to the uniqueand memorable occasion.

Verily Thingyan is a festival with socio-religiousovertones. For the elders it is time to introspect, and takestock of events of the outgoing year. The three or four daysof Thingyan are meritoriously spent by visiting themonasteries, by giving charity and by practisingmeditation. The courteous and respectable act, in goodtradition is to sprinkle Thanakha scented water, put in asilver bowl with Eugenia leaves, harbinger ofauspiciousness. But for the young and vivacious it is adifferent story. It is virtually a three-day carnival ofunbridled spree: dancing, singing, joking, water-throwing(many times sadistically) and matchmaking as theThingyan bug takes hold. Every year pandals are built fordancing, singing, and water throwing. Motorised floatsare created with conceivable ingenuity, for the revellers tomove from pandal to pandal. Every pandal or float ismanned by a bevy of comely damsels and boisterousyouths, who sing and dance to the lively Thingyan songsto the accompanying music, both modern and classical.

Oh my sprightly smiling sisterMay I say that you are bornFrom the same mother as Myoma.Smoothing your bouffant locksHow chic you lookIf I may truly say soColourful is your dressColourful is your dressComparable to the rising new moon;Or to a single blossoming flower.By your simple grace and glamourMyoma is enraptured.When the sun’s rays cast shadows overSerene Mya Nandar Lake;Let us seek refuge, my youthful lassUnder the shade of Mandalay Hill.How magnificent is the scenery;In this auspicious Thingyan eve‘Tis indeed a good omen’Slim, shapely, lithe and lovelyGlowing like flowers in full bloomHow beautiful you are, The one and only that I adoreYour Myoma float is now here,So welcome us with open arms,We all love you as own sisters.Are you hale and hearty, my dear ones?Oh, well and good.Come drench us with cool water,Hi.. we will also shower you too.The new year is now coming/Will you come with us, dear ones?You will never be idle or bored,But be merry all the more.Ye winsome damsels, withThe silver swan floating gracefullyWe, your brothers, here we come!Cho: Mya Nandar .......omen!

Nowhere is this Thingyan carnival more significant andheart-warming than in Mandalay, the capital city of theMyanmar kings, and now centre of Myanmar art and culture.Such intrinsic legacies of literature, fine arts, social mores,custom and traditions are still preserved and sustained tothis day, Mandalay Thingyan therefore manifests itself ashaving a distinct Anyar identity and style. When a decoratedfloat stops at the pandal, the whole troupe of sprightlydamsels come down from the pandal and dance around thefloat to the jaunty beat of music both from the float and fromthe pandal. When the singing and dancing are over, therecomes the throwing of water mingled with verbalinterchange. Then the float moves on to another pandal andthe scenario is repeated on and on for the three joyous days.The revelry is continued at night. The pandals are brightlylit. The girls present themselves in their best attire, and thedances and songs echo till the wee hours of the night. Thereis no water throwing at night and so the revellers as well asthe spectators can enjoy the spirit of Thingyan with all itsfinery, and ecstasy.

Most prominent among the floats is the Silver Swan, theinsignia of the Myoma musical troupe. It was founded bythe then prominent youths of Mandalay (Dahdan U Thant,U Aye Maung among many others), who were intent toinject fresh winds with emphasis on wind instruments andtraditional drums into slow moving classical renditions. Itwas a resounding success, so much so that mention ofMandalay, and Myoma troupe will not be complete withoutMyoma Nyein, the famous composer, himself a musician.He had created beautiful Thingyan songs,and many ofthem became eternal hits. A born genius, the words hegarlanded are simply ecstatic, tunes vibrant and scintillating,choreography mesmerizing.

One of his compositions: ‘Mya Nandar’ has now becomea Thingyan theme song. The scenario centres on the Myomatroupe and its Silver Swan float, the lovely Thingyan girls,the enchanting Mya Nandar lake and the Mandalay Hill,all beautifully interacting to create a hypnotizing effect. Sopopular is Mya Nandar that it has stretched its musicalwings not only to the four corners of Myanmar, but alsobeyond its borders. It will not be an overstatement if I saythat where there is a Myanmar anywhere in the world, youwill hear the melodic strains of Mya Nandar especially atThingyan. In fact the true title is ‘Mann Taung Yeik Kho’meaning ‘seeking refuge in the shade of Mandalay Hill’,but it is more commonly known by the shorter and easilymemorisable ‘Mya Nandar’. Myoma Nyein, when alivewould scarce have imagined that his song would receivesuch global acclaim. He would be very pleased indeed.

Allow me, as complement the propitious Thingyan 2012,to present ‘Mya Nandar’ in the original Myanmar languageand a free translation in English to enable our esteemedfriends to join in the chorus, here in Myanmar or in theMyanmar communities around the globe.

Myanmar Writers Association OrganizingCommittee meets for third time

YANGON, 6 May—Thethird coordination meetingof Organizing Committee forMyanmar WritersAssociation took place at thehall of Writers and JournalistsAssociation on MerchantStreet in Yangon on 25 April.

Present at thecoordination meeting wereby Patron of the OrganizingCommittee U Tin Hlaing(Ledwinthar Saw Chit),Chairman U Khin MaungTun (Khin Maung Tun-Lanmadaw) and memberwriters.

They discussedorganizing the MyanmarWriters AssociationConference, formation of

Township WritersAssociation and suggestionsfor the organizational rules.

Soe Thiha

Pathein Association holdsAnnual General Meeting

YANGON, 6 May—The91st Annual General Meetingof Pathein TownshipAssociation (Yangon) washeld at Ayeyawady RegionDhammayon at 21/43C onKyardawya Road in MyomaWard of Bahan Township on25 March morning.

Chairman of theassociation U Soe Han Linmade a speech. At the

ceremony, respects werepaid to 94 older persons ofthe association, prizeawarded to 13 outstandingstudents and one winner ofSarpay Beikman ManuscriptAward.

Later, executives andmembers of the associationdonated K 4,948,000 to thefund of the association.

Kyemon

DISTRICTNEWS

Fire breaks out inAungmyethazan

TownshipMANDALAY, 6 May—A

fire broke out at the house ofMa Waing (a) Yin Yin Aung,38 of No 13 block inDawnabwa Brick FactoryWard in AungmyethazanTownship of Mandalay at10.10 pm on 29 April.

The fire started fromcandle light that burnt 15houses.

Over 240 members of firebrigade put out the fire withthe use of 52 fire engines anddied out it at 11.30 pm.

Action was taken againstMa Waing at No 1 PoliceStation under Pa-95/2012 ofSection 285.

Ba Oo

Recruitment of blood donors explainedYESAGYO, 6 May—A ceremony to recruit

blood donors was held at the hall of People’sHospital in Yesagyo Township of PakokkuDistrict on 25 April morning.

At the ceremony, Township AdministratorU Zaw Soe made a speech. Head of TownshipHealth Department Dr Nay Win explained the

donation of blood. Next, leader of PakokkuDistrict HIV/AIDS Control Group of HealthDepartment Dr Maung Htwe explainedimportance of recruiting blood donor withfree from HIV virus and disciplines for blooddonors.

Ei Mon Swe-Yesagyo

MYA NANDAR

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NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—AHtidaw-hoisting ceremonyof TheindawU Pagoda keptin the precint of TheindawU

Htidaw-hoisting ceremony of TheindawUPagoda in Pyawbwe held

Monastery in BheindhakaVillage, Kontha Village-tract,Pyawbwe Township,Mandalay Region, was held

in conjunction with aconsecration ceremonyyesterday. Union Ministerat the President Office U Soe

Maung and wife, district andtownship level officials andlocal people hoisted thegolden umbrella andNgatmyatnadaw atop thepagoda.

Next, the Union Ministerclimbed the upper terrace ofthe pagoda and offered thediamond orb. Then,Sayadaws and members ofthe Sangha consecrated thepagoda.

After the ceremony, theUnion Minister and wife andfamily and donors offeredday’s meal to the membersof the Sangha.

In the afternoon, theUnion Minister attended theKason water-pouringceremony held on the MahaBawdi Platform inShwenayungphu Village,Shwenyaungphu Village-tract and poured water onthe Bo tree. He also attendedthe Kason-water pouringceremony held in TheingonModel Village in YamethinTownship.— MNA

Union Minister at the President Office U Soe Maung hoists Shwe Htidawatop TheindawU Pagoda.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—Union Minister forCooperatives and for Livestock and Fisheries U OhnMyint received Mr Phichet Sivasri (President of MyanmarRegion) of Myanmar CP Livestock Co Ltd at the ministry,here, this morning.

They discussed development of cow breeding,undertaking of development for livestock breeding zonesthrough cooperative system, control of animal diseases,distribution of quality pedigrees and improvement oftechnology.

Also present at the call were Deputy Minister forCooperatives U Than Tun, departmental heads of theMinistry of Livestock and Fisheries and officials.—MNA

Union Cooperatives and L&FMinister receives President of

Myanmar Region of CP Livestock

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May— Sagaing RegionChief Minister U Tha Aye on 2 May morningheld a meeting with locals from Lakyetkyon,Mukhatwan, Nyaunghla villages afterinspecting sitting in Kintat main canal nearSaipyin Village, extension work of earthenembankment on Myayeik-Saipyin Road andprogress of generation of hydropower withself-reliant efforts in Konkyi Village.

After that, the Region Chief Ministerattended the opening of “Pyinnyagonyaung”library in Namya Village, where he pressedthe button to open and donated publicationsand Sky Net receivers and videos.

On 3 May morning, he urged the officialsof Myoma Market in KhinU to keep itsgreening and development. Then, heinspected Myanma Railway concrete sleeperplant there, and roadwork being carried out onYeU-KhinU Road after presenting cash

Sagaing Region Chief Minister viewsregional development tasks

assistance for medical fund at the People’sHospital.

He was present at the openings of “ThutaYaungchi” library, a concrete bridge andarchway of Thayetkon model village andlooked into roads in the village and thevillage administrator’s office and thevillage’s library.

The Region Chief Minister viewedThagaya-Myothit-Kankyikon-Shweyamin-Theintaw-Shwebo-YeU Road in KhinUTownship and progress of laying gravels onShwebo-YeU Road and the construction siteof the concrete bridge No (1/17) near MilepostNo.16.

He greeted the superintendent andfaculty members and locals at the AgriculturalInstitute (Shwebo) in NyaungbinkyisuVillage and locals in Panyan Village inShwebo Township.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May —Taninthayi Region ChiefMinister U Myat Ko attendedthe Htidaw hoisting

Taninthayi Region Chief Ministerattends celebration of Fire Brigade Day

ceremony of ancientShwephonepwint YunPagoda in KanaingdaVillage, Dawei yesterday

morning.He attended a ceremony

to mark the 66th AnniversaryFire Brigade Day, watchedskill demonstration of FireBrigade members andpresented awards tooutstanding Auxiliary FireBrigade members and firestations which won stationbeautifying prizes.

Then, the chief ministerattended the Kason water-pouring ceremony ofLawkamarazein in Dawei,presented offertories toSayadaws and members ofthe Sangha and poured wateron the Bo tree.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—The 66th Anniversary FireBrigade Day was observedat Koethein Sports Groundin Pathein of AyeyawadyRegion yesterday morning,with an address by RegionMinister for Social Affairs USan Maung.

Members of the firebrigade demonstrated theirskills. The region ministerpresented K 500,000 andofficials prizes tooutstanding fire brigademembers.

A similar ceremony was

Fire Brigade Day observedin Pathein

held at the hall of GangawTownship GeneralAdministration Departmentin Magway Regionyesterday morning.

After delivering anaddress, TownshipAdministrator U Hla WinAung presented prizes to twomembers of Auxiliary FireBrigade.

Head of Township FireServices Department U KamDo Lyan demonstrated useof chemical fireextinguisher.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—Atotal of 278 drug-relatedcases were exposed acrossthe nation in April. Theseizures were 171.5777 kilosof opium in 37 cases, 1.0744kilos of heroin in 82 cases,0.5886 kilos of opium oilsolid in five cases, 4.3182kilos of low-grade opium in11 cases, 4.015 kilos ofmarijuana in 10 cases,186,178 tablets of stimulantin 110 cases, 32.2839 kilosof opium speciosa in 12cases, 0.03 litre of opiumliquid in one case, 0.0022

363 culprits arrested in 278drug-related cases

kilo of Ice, 0.0185 kilo ofstimulant powder in twocoses , nine litres of stimulantliquid in one case, five kilosof morphine in one case, 10kilos of Caffeine in one case,860 tablets of diazepam inone case, 0.575 kilos ofchemical powder, 0.655 kiloof chemical liquid, three casesof failure to register and othertwo cases.

Actions were takenagainst 363 persons—294men and 69 women—in 278cases under law.

MNA

Artesian wells turn yellow…

Natural artesian well successfully sunk in Pyawbwe-Phayangahsu region.

(From page 16)and could give 3000gallons of water an hour.Originally, it wasdesignated to irrigate 12-acre farmland. Thanks tothe capacity of wells andenthusiasm of localfarmers, the irrigation areahas apparently widen withper acre yield andcultivation capacityincreased.

The abundance ofunderground water andless dependency on rainhelp the farmers extendtheir cultivation categoryand do farming round theyear. Local farmers areenjoying benefits of highersocio-economic status,reduced land degradationand access to potable

water. Because offavourable geographicalconditions, artesian wellsare success in the region.

As groundwater

recharge and groundwaterdischarge have been putinto curious considerationfor sustainable develop-ment, the project is anenvironmentally sustain-able one.

Thanks to the artesianwells, the once yellowplain in summer have beenturned into greener one.

*****Translation; HKA

Myanma Alin; 2-5-2012

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Plan to realize child-centredacademic system

MANDALAY, 6 May—With the aim of approachingthe students to train them fortheir improvement, theMinistry of Educationplanned to implement thechild-centerd academicsystem.

In the past, theteacher-centred academicsystem declined the owncreativities. That is why, theministry changed theacademic system in line withthe international educationsystem.—Kyemon

Ginger, turmeric from Koekway, Taungkyaregions become export products

Ginger and turmericproduced from Koekway andTaungkya village ofPinlaung Township are highdemand of foreign countries.So, merchants purchaseginger and turmeric fromKoekway and Taungkyavillages in competitiveness,said merchant Daw Than ThanAye (Pyinmana).

“Any person mayvisit our Koekway andTaungkya hilly village fromPyinmana along 20 miles andthree furlongs long routethrough Kintha junction,south of Tatkon Township.In Koekway Village, localKayin national races areengaged in cultivation ofginger, turmeric and banana.We purchase higher pricesfro goods than that ofprevious year. This year, theproducts are exported, somerchants buy the products

at higher prices. Last year,one viss of turmeric could bepurchased at K 1200 forspecial item. This year, wetturmeric is sold at K 1500 perviss. Despite spending higheramount of money, theproducts cannot get goodprices in Yangon,” she said.

This year, gingerand turmeric from hillyregions east of Nay Pyi Tawbecome export items in

Bangladesh. In Myanmar,local people in Kalaw,Aungpan and Taunggyi areengaged in cultivation ofginger and turmeric as mainbusiness to use them asmaterials in the makingtraditional medicines.Moreover, these products areused as essential spicymaterials in cooking fishmeals.

By Min Min Latt

Self-reliant concrete commissioned into service

MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 6May—A ceremony toinaugurate the self-reliantMya Marlar concrete road was

World Veterinary Dayobserved in Hlegu

YANGON, 6 May—Aneducative talk on resistanceof micro-organism incommemoration of the WorldVeterinary Day 2012 was heldat the office of HleguTownship LivestockBreeding and VeterinaryDepartment on 28 April.

It was attended by wardand village administrators,departmental personnel,veterinary staff, breeders andfeedstuff sellers.

Head of TownshipLivestock Breeding and

Veterinary Department DrMay Win Shwe talked aboutprevention againstresistance of micro-organisms, Deputy Head ofDepartment Dr Saw Tha Tawresistance of anti-bioticvaccines in veterinaryworks, Deputy Head ofDepartment Dr Wah WahOhn resistance of anti-bioticmedicines in poultryfarming.

Later, pamphlets weredistributed to the attendees.

Township LBVD

held in Myoma Ward 10 ofMawlamyinegyun inAyeyawady Region on 20April morning.

On the occasion,Ayeyawady Region Hluttawrepresentative U MyintAung, wellwisher U Ko KoOo-Daw Wah Wah Oo (KyunShwewah Sawmill) andwellwisher U Myo Kyawformally opened the concreteroad.

The newly-openedconcrete road is 668 feet longbuilt at a cost of K 3.2 millioncontributed by wellwishersand local people.

Myanma Alin

Over 260 peoplefall into storm

victims inMaubin

TownshipYANGON, 6 May—In the

strong winds and heavyrains, thirty huts and onesmall rice mill collapsed infive village of NgagyikayatVillage-tract in MaubinTownship of AyeyawadyRegion at 5.45 pm on 30April.

According to thefollow-up news, a total of 62huts from three village-tractscollapsed in the strongwinds on 1 May and it lost K1.86 million. Roofs of onemonastery were damagedand it lost K 30,000.

At present, 269 peoplefrom 62 households fell intostorm victims.

Member of MaubinTownship Fire ServicesDepartment and 30 membersof Auxiliary Fire Brigadeprovided necessaryassistance to the stormvictims. The AyeyawadyRegion government andTownship Red Cross Brigadedonated six pyis of rice eachto storm victim households.Moreover, Township HealthDepartment gave health careservices to them.

Htet Khaing-Sangyoung

Survey experiences of childrenrecounted

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—A ceremony to recount experiencesin survey of children supervised by Ministry of SocialWelfare, Relief and Resettlement and Save the ChildrenMyanmar was held at Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw HotelZone at 9.30 am on 3 May morning.

It was attended by the director of Social WelfareDepartment and officials, Country Director Mr KellandStevenson of Save the Children Myanmar, children of thesurvey team.—Myo Hset Aung

Blazed transformer substituted with newequipment in time in Pazundaung Township

YANGON, 6 May—Transformer from powerstation in PazundaungTownship was blazed, but itwas put out in time. Thedamage parts of transformercould be substituted with newones in time to be able tosupply electricity.

A fire broke out at a 66-

33 KV transformer of Thidasub-power station onNanthaphyu Road in Ward 3of Pazundaung Townshipdue to overheat at tab changerbox at 8.37 pm on 2 May.

Members of fire brigadeput out the fire in time anddied out it at 9.25 pm.

In the incident, 66-33

KV transformer wasdestroyed in the fire. Inconsequence, power cut outin its power feeding areasnamely Kyauktada, Pabedan,Botahtaung,Pazundaung,Mingala Taungnyunt andTamway townships. Thus,officials of Yangon CityElectricity Supply Board and

Thida Sub-power Stationsubstituted the damagedequipment with new ones forsupplying electricityregularly.

According to the reportof the technicians, the rootcauses of outbreak of fire wasbased on 30-year oldtransformer and its overheatshock. In the incident,insulator burst out from thetransformer and it causedspraying of fuel to break outthe fire.—Kyemon

Basic fire fighting course kicksoff in Tatkon

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—The basic fire fighting courseNo 2/2012 was opened at thehall of the Township FireServices Department inTatkon of Nay Pyi TawCouncil Area on 27 Aprilafternoon.

At the ceremony,Township Administrator UAye Lu delivered an address.

Altogether 50 traineesfrom wards and villages inthe township are attendingthe two-week course.

Myanma Alin

Farmland laws, vacant andvirgin lands law clarified

YANGON, 6 May—A ceremonyto make clarification on farmlandlaw and vacant, fallow and virginland management law 2002 washeld at the hall of Settlement andLand Records Department inHmawby Township of YangonRegion on 2 May afternoon.

Head of Yangon RegionSettlement and Land RecordsDepartment U Zaw Min and Headof Yangon North District SLRD UHtay Lwin explained mattersrelated to the laws.—Myanma Alin

Dredging creek in Hsipaw hail FireBrigade Day

HSIPAW, 6 May—Inhonour of the 66th

Anniversary Fire BrigadeDay, the Myole creek wasdredged for proper flow ofwater and for sufficientsupply water in firepreventive measures inHsipaw of Shan State (North)on 28 April morning.

The task wasparticipated by members ofFire Brigade and MyanmarPolice Force, departmentalpersonnel and farmers.

The dredging tasks wassupervised by TownshipAdministrator U Kyaw KyawMaung, Commander ofTownship Police ForcePolice Captain Kyaw NyuntHlaing, Executive Officer ofTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committee U TheinHtaik Oo, Head of TownshipFire Services Department UKo Ko Oo and officials.

They fulfilled therequirements of works.

Myanma Alin

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China, Japan, ROK agree to enhance culturalcooperation

SHANGHAI, 6 May — Thecultural ministers of China,Japan and the Republic ofKorea (ROK) signed a jointaction plan in Shanghai onSaturday to boost culturalcooperation between thethree countries.

According to theShanghai Action Plan (2012-2014), the three parties willstep up cooperation inprotecting cultural heritageand conduct more exchangesbetween their respectivecultural industries. Ministerof Culture Cai Wu said China,Japan and the ROK havealways sought commonground and preserved theirdifferences in cultural matters.

“Culture is exerting greatpower, as the economy innortheast Asia becomes moreintegrated into the worldeconomy,” Cai said, addingthat many problems can bereadily solved through thedeepening of culturalcooperation.

This year marks the 40thanniversary of thenormalization of China-Japandiplomatic relations, as wellas the 20th anniversary of theforging of China-ROKdiplomatic ties. China andJapan, and China and the ROKhave planned a series ofevents to boost their ties.

Hinaro Hirofumi, Japan’sminister of education, culture,

sports, science andtechnology, said theShanghai Action Plan is a“very workable document,”and the three sides havereached consensus on theimportance and value ofculture. Choe Kwang Shik,the ROK’s minister ofculture,sports and tourism,used a quote taken fromConfucius (“a gentleman getsalong with others, but doesnot necessarily agree withthem”) to describe the threecountries’ cultural exchanges.He said the three countrieshave a long way to go inregards to boostingcooperation in their culturalindustries. — Xinhua

Chinese dancers perform in Istanbul of Turkey, on 5 May, 2012. The Shanghai Songand Dance Ensemble and Shanghai Oriental Youth Dancing Group gave performances

as one of the activities held during the Year of Chinese Culture in Turkey. —XINHUA

FBI investigating Arizona Neo-Nazi before shootingPHOENIX, 6 May — The

neo-Nazi founder of an anti-immigrant border militia wasalready the subject of an FBIdomestic terrorism probebefore he went on a shootingrampage and killed fourpeople, officials and newsreports said on Saturday. TheArizona Republic newspapersaid federal agents seizednumerous computers andmunitions from the Phoenixvalley home where whitesupremacist Jason Todd “JT”Ready is believed to havekilled his girlfriend and three

others on Wednesdayfollowing a domestic dispute,before shooting himself.

After the shooting, theFBI contacted local police inGilbert and asked for theiragents to be involved in theinvestigation, James Turgal,special agent in charge of theFBI’s Phoenix office, told thenewspaper.

The FBI’s domestic-terrorism investigation dated

to when Ready was a memberof the neo-Nazi NationalSocialist Movement andcontinued into his activitieswith the US Border Guardborder-vigilante group, thenewspaper reported.

The probe was based ontips of criminal activity thatTurgal declined to specify,but was unrelated to theshooting rampage onWednesday, the newspaper

reported. Manuel Johnson, aspokesman for the FBI’sPhoenix field office, confirmedto Reuters that Ready, wasthe subject of a federaldomestic terrorism investiga-tion prior to his death. But hedeclined to provide furtherdetails “due to the ongoinginvestigation.”

After the shooting,authorities retrieved twohandguns and a shotgun fromthe crime scene, as well as livemilitary grenades that wereremoved by an Air Force bombdisposal team. Ready, 39,founded the US Border Guardgroup, a private-citizen militiain Arizona that advocateddeadly force to stop illegalimmigration over the borderfrom Mexico.

Reuters

Minuteman Projectvolunteer Jason Todd

“JT” Ready usesbinoculars to scan for

potential illegalimmigrants while along

the US/Mexico border westof Douglas, Arizona in this

3 April, 2005 file photo.INTERNET

Cuba to conduct anti-disaster drillHAVANA, 6 May—

Cuban authorities arepreparing to conduct anationwide anti-disaster drillaimed at taking stock ofexisting measures andheightening disasterawareness among thepopulation, officials said onSaturday.

The May 19-20 drill, the26th of its kind and code-named Meteoro 2012, will helpto train people how to

Keep off beaches, Peru warns after masspelican deaths

LIMA, 6 May — Peru’sgovernment declared a healthalert along its northerncoastline on Saturday andurged residents and touristsalike to stay away from longstretches of beach, as itinvestigates the unexplaineddeaths of hundreds ofdolphins and pelicans.

At least 1,200 birds,mostly pelicans, washed updead along a stretch of Peru’snorthern Pacific coastline inrecent weeks, health officialssaid, after an estimated 800dolphins died in the same areain recent months.

The Health Ministryrecommended staying awayfrom beaches, thoughstopped short of a ban, andcalled on health officials touse gloves, masks and other

protective gear whencollecting dead birds.

The peak tourismseason around Lima’sbeaches is over, though manysurfers are still venturing intothe waters near the capital.

The AgricultureMinistry said preliminarytests on some dead pelicanspointed to malnourishment.Oscar Dominguez, head ofthe ministry’s healthdepartment, said experts hadruled out bird flu. “The HealthMinistry ... calls on thepopulation to abstain fromgoing to the beaches until thehealth alert is lifted,” theministry said in a statementposted on its website, alongwith a photograph of a deadpelican. The ministry saidofficials had so far checked 18

beaches in and around Limafor dead birds, but gave nodetails on any findings. Amass pelican death alongPeru’s northern coast in 1997was blamed at the time on ashortage of feeder anchoviesdue to the El Ninophenomenon.— Reuters

Dead pelicans are displayed by conservationists atReventazon beach, close to the Illescas peninsula in

Piura on 27 April, 2012.— INTERNET

respond in case of suchdisasters as hurricanes,earthquakes, drought, forestfires and exotic diseases,officials said.

The exercise aims to raisethe country’s disasterpreparedness and review themeasures set for stateagencies and institutions tocope with natural andindustrial disasters, saidColonel Miguel Angel Puig,chief of the Operations

Department of Cuba’sNational Civil Defence.

Puig said the drill wouldbe focused on reassessingthe measures to protecthuman lives and keyeconomic targets in case ofdifferent kinds of disasters.The maneuvers will alsoinclude assessing theevacuation processes of thepopulation in areassusceptible to quakes ortsunamis, he said.— Xinhua

HANGZHOU, 6 May — A20-member criminal gang thatturned a profit bymanufacturing and selling“gutter oil” has been bustedin east China’s Zhejiangprovince, a localprocuratorate said.

The Wucheng districtprocuratorate in the city ofJinhua said Saturday that ithas ratified the gangmembers’ arrests after policeevidence showed that thegang, led by Li Weijian andhis wife Xu Xiaoqing, hadused kitchen waste anddiscarded animal fat toillegally produce and sellcooking oil since 2005.

20 arrested for making gutteroil widely sold in China

Prosecutors said in 2011alone, the gang pocketed over10 million yuan (1.6 millionU.S. dollars) from the illegalbusiness.

The gang sold the oil tocooking oil wholesalers andfood processing plants inShanghai, Chongqing andJiangsu province.

The Ministry of PublicSecurity said in April that ithas stepped up a crackdownon underground workshopsthat produce gutter oil.

The oil has been deemedunsafe for consumption, as itmay contain carcinogenicsubstances.

Xinhua

MAIDUGURI, 6 May —Two personnel of the NigeriaPrison Service were killed inthe restive northeastern stateof Borno by gunmen believedto be members of the BokoHaram sect, police said onFriday.

The gunmen attacked apolice station and a nearbyprison in Kunshi town, a smallcommunity 120 km away fromMaiduguri, the state capital.

State police spoke-sperson Samuel Tizhe told

Two prison officials killed bygunmen in northern Nigeria

Xinhua that the gunmen firstattacked a police station inBanki town, but were repelledby the police.

“Five hours later, thegunmen went and attacked anearby prison in Kumshitown, killing two prisonwarders and setting free allthe inmates,” he added.

The spokesperson saidthe police arrested 23suspects in connection withthe attacks.

Xinhua

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NAIROBI, 6 May—Death toll fromKenya’s flash floods ravaging several partsof Kenya have so far killed at least 50 peopleand displaced thousands of others in the eastAfrican nation, a humanitarian agency saidon Saturday. The Kenya Red Cross Society(KRCS) spokesperson Nelly Muluka saidfour people were swept away by flood watersnear Rongai on Friday night. The relief agencysaid the number of flash flood fatalities willstill continue to rise due to heavy rains thathave led to flash floods in several parts of thecountry.

“At least 50 people have lost their livesas a result of the flooding since March. Fourpeople were swept away by flood waters nearRongai on the night of 4 May. Their bodieswere found on top of the Rimpa bridge inRongai on Saturday morning,” Muluka said.According to Muluka, on another case on the

ISLAMABAD, 6 May—Pakistan has condemned in thestrongest terms the US droneattacks in North Waziristan onSaturday morning, which killedat least 10 people, the ForeignMinistry said.”Pakistan hasconsistently maintained thatthese illegal attacks are aviolation of its sovereignty andterritorial integrity, and are incontravention of internationallaw,” a Foreign Ministrystatement said.”It is ourconsidered view that the

MAIDUGURI, 6 May — Three civilians were killed whiletwo other people wounded following a gun battle betweensoldiers and members of the dreaded militants in the Nigeriannortheast city of Maiduguri, military authority said onSaturday. The three civilians were shot when the militarytroops deployed to the area by the Nigerian FederalGovernment engaged the Boko Haram Islamic sect at a weddingceremony in the metropolis.

Spokesman of the military-led Joint Task Force (JTF) ColSagir Musa told Xinhua in Maiduguri that the task forcereceived credible information that two Boko Haram membersin the wanted list of the Task Force sneaked into Maidugurito attend a wedding of one of their own in Sabon Layi, Gwangewithin the metropolis. Consequently, at about 8:35, the TaskForce mounted surveillance about 200 meters away from thewedding venue. The militants opened fire sporadically on thesurveillance team, he said.

The spokesman said the development led to death of threecivilians, with two wounded persons from the fire of themilitants, adding that a total of eight of the Boko Haramsuspects including one of the wanted kingpins of the sect werearrested at the area few hours after the face off. Arms recovered,according to JTF, include one AK 47 rifle and 20 rounds ofammunition and a vehicle used by the sect.—Xinhua

Death toll from Kenya flash floodsrises to 50

Sebastian Coe (R2 F),chairman of LOCOG

presses the button withnine-year-old Niamh

Clarke-Willis (L2 F) toofficially open the OlympicStadium during day two ofthe BUCS VISA Athletics

Championships 2012LOCOG Test Event for

London 2012 at theOlympic Stadium on 5May, 2012 in London.

Around 40,000 members ofthe public witnessed theopening and a laser light

show.— XINHUA

Pakistan condemns US droneattack

Three killed in gun battle innortheast Nigerian city

MOSCOW, 6 May —Police have identified theperpetrators of two deadlyblasts in Russia’s restive NorthCaucasus republic ofDagestan that killed at least13 people and injured morethan 100, Dagestani PresidentMagomedsalam Magome-dov said on Saturday. “Thesuicide bombers have beenpreliminarily identified as abrother and a sister surnamedAliyev,” Magomedov said.Detailed reports about theterrorists and theiraccomplices would bereleased soon, he said. TheRussian Emergency Situati-ons Ministry said Saturdaythat all the victims in the blastshave been identified. The firstexplosion took place onThursday near a police post inMakhachkala, capital ofDagestan. And the second onehappened about half an hourlater, when rescuers, policeofficers and firefighters werecarrying out relief work at thescene.—Xinhua

Russia identifiessuspects of twinblasts in North

Caucasus

SANAA, 6 May — TwoBelgians were arrested inYemen for links to al-Qaedawhen they were about to leavethe Arab country last month,a Yemeni human rightswatchdog said on Saturday.The two Belgian nationals,Ibrahim Bali and EzaldainTahiry, were arrested on 13April by Yemeni intelligenceservice at Sanaa InternationalAirport when they were aboutto leave Yemen, the NationalOrganization for DefendingRights and Freedom said in astatement. “The weeks-long

Two Belgians arrested inYemen for links to al-Qaeda

JACKSON, 6 May — Two bodies have been found inMississippi during the search for a missing Tennessee womanand her three children, but the identities are not known,authorities said on Saturday. The bodies were found on lateFriday night or early Saturday morning in a residenceassociated with the man charged with abducting Jo Ann Bainand her children, FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said. Thespokesman said authorities on the scene were not able topositively identify the bodies. He would not say if the bodieswere children. The missing girls are 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain,12-year-old Alexandria and 14-year-old Adrienne. Theywere last seen 27 April in Hardeman County, Tenn. Thewoman’s husband reported her missing and her car was foundabandoned. Adam Mayes, 35, is charged in Tennessee withabducting all four, but authorities are still trying to determineif Jo Ann Bain went with Mayes willingly. He was last seenTuesday in Guntown, Miss. He’s been described as a familyfriend.

The FBI and US Marshals Service are offering a rewardof up to $50,000 for information that leads to the location ofthe missing victims and the arrest of Mayes. Siskovic said thebodies were found in a residence, but it wasn’t clear if it wasa house, mobile home or apartment. He also wasn’t sure if theresidence belonged to Mayes or an acquaintance of his.Siskovic said the bodies were found in Guntown, north ofTupelo. Lee County coroner Carolyn Green said the bodieswere found outside Guntown in Union County.—Internet

Two bodies found in MSduring search for mom, girls

same night, one man drowned in Acacia Riverand two others in River Kwekwe in Kiserian,about 40 kilometers south of Nairobi. “Thelatter were in a car and their retrieval isunderway. In Ruai, a family has beenmarooned since last night following heavyrains that caused floods near Clayworks nextto Mebri, Thika,” she said.

The relief agency said efforts to rescuethem have been hampered by rising waterlevels of up to about 1.5 metres. In the samearea, 10 households were affected with waterup to the knee level flowing into their housesand destroying property. “The main challengeto rescue efforts is accessibility and highwater levels. Meanwhile major flooding hasbeen reported in Athi River at Kwanzomo andMangeli informal settlements and propertyworth lots of money destroyed,” she said.

Xinhua

strategic disadvantages ofsuch attacks far outweigh theirtactical advantages, and aretherefore, totally counter-productive,” the PakistaniForeign Ministry said.

The Foreign Ministrysays that the issue ofAmerican drone strikes willbe taken up with the USauthorities throughdiplomatic channels both inIslamabad and Washington.Security officials said the USspy aircraft fired two missiles

on a house at the Darai Nashtararea in North Waziristan earlySaturday morning. The areais just three kilometres fromAfghanistan.The house wascompletely destroyed in thestrike. Locals said that fourUS drones were seen flyingover the area before and afterthe attack, which was the thirdstrike in the same region innearly two months.

Rescue work wasdelayed due to fear of furtherstrikes by the US drones,residents said. Securitysources said that suspectedmilitants had been using thehouse for several months.They said those killedbelonged to the local Talebangroup. They also said thatseveral foreign militants werealso staying in the compoundat the time of thestrike.Saturday’s US dronestrike was 12th this year. Datashows that nearly 93 peoplehave been killed in USstrikesin 2012.

Internet

Two contestants present on the catwalk during a show ofthe Shanghai competition zone of the 62nd Miss World

China Pageant in Jingdezhen, east China’s JiangxiProvince,on 5 May, 2012. Twenty-five contestants tookpart in the catwalk show here on Saturday. — XINHUA

This combo image made of undated photos provided bythe Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows,

clockwise from top left, Jo Ann Bain and her daughters,Adrienne, 14, Kyliyah 8, and Alexandria,12.

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arrest of the two Belgians isagainst the Yemeni law andwe call the Yemeni publicprosecution to interfere intothe case and allow thedefendants to face a fair trial,or release them if there wereapproved not guilty,” it said.Like many other foreigners,the Belgians were in Yemento study the Arabic language,according to the statement.The Yemeni interior ministrydeclined to comment and theintelligence agency could notimmediately be reached forcomment.—Xinhua

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DAVAO CITY, 6 May —Philippine police said Fridayit had captured a top leftistrebel leader allegedlyinvolved in the failed attackagainst a police station insouthern Philippines.

Teddy DumandanBager, 47, propaganda unitteam leader of the NewPeople’s Army’s North-eastern Mindanao RegionalCommittee, was arrested bysoldiers and policemeninside his alleged hideout inDiatagon village, Lianga

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L) and Minister of National Defence PeterMacKay (R) arrive for the unveiling ceremony of the Royal Canadian Navy Monumentin Ottawa, on 3 May, 2012. The monument pays homage to the hundreds of thousands

of Canadian sailors who served during the Navy’s first 100 years. — XINHUA

Fox renames movie in wake of Trayvon Martindeath

LOS ANGELES, 6 May —Movie studio 20th Century Foxon Friday changed the title ofupcoming summer comedy“Neighbourhood Watch”starring Ben Stiller to distancethe film from the racially-charged shooting death ofunarmed black teenagerTrayvon Martin.

Fox said the title waschanged to “The Watch,” andthe studio also launched anew promotional trailer for the

(L – R) Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Richard Ayoade andVince Vaughn in a scene from “Neighborhood

Watch”.— REUTERS

BELGRADE, 6 April —Serbia and neighbouringBosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)on Friday in Belgrade signedan agreement to regulateinternational river navigationon the Sava and Drina Rivers.Bosnian Minister ofCommunications andTransport, Damir Hadzic, andSerbian Minister forInfrastrucure and Energy,Milutin Mrkojnic, signed atechnical agreement whichprovides for rehabilitation andmodernization of navigationon international inlandwaters.

The River Sava flows

Switzerland to send unarmedmilitary observers to SyriaGENEVA, 6 May — The

Federal Council of Switzerlandhas decided to send up toeight unarmed militaryobservers to participate in theUnited Nations mission tomonitor the ceasefire and thepeace plan in Syria, thegovernment said on Friday.

On the basis of theMilitary Act and of a newresolution by the UN SecurityCouncil and an enquiry fromthe UN, the Federal Councilhas now decided to participate

in the United NationsSupervision Mission in Syria(UNSMIS), said a statementfrom the Swiss FederalDepartment of Foreign Affairs.

Swiss Federal Councildecided on 18 April that thecountry would participate inthis operation in the form of aninitial detachment. The militaryobserver who is currently partof the initial detachment willbe transferred to the UNSMIS,according to the statement.

Xinhua

2,500 students perform to markYouth Day

BEIJING, 6 May — About2,500 college students frommore than 100 universitiesperformed in an evening galaon Friday to mark China’sYouth Day. Li Changchun, amember of the StandingCommittee of the PoliticalBureau of the CommunistParty of China CentralCommittee, watched theperformance with students inBeijing.

The urged young peopleto study the keynote speech

given by President Hu Jintaoat the ceremony to mark the90th founding anniversary ofthe Communist Youth Leagueof China. He expressed hopethey would cherish the chancesprovided by the country’sdevelopment and devotethemselves to the country’sdrive of reform, opening-upand modernization. The galaincluded music, dance anddramas developed andperformed by collegestudents.—Xinhua

Photo taken on 21 April , 2012 shows the tulips inKeukenhof, Lisse, the Netherlands. Keukenhof is theinternational showcase of Dutch horticulture with an

emphasis on bulb flowers. — XINHUA

film about suburban dadshunting beings from anotherworld.

“As the subject matter ofthis alien invasion comedybears no relation whatsoeverto the recent tragic events inFlorida, the studio altered thetitle to avoid any accidental orunintended impression that itmight,” the movie studio saidin a statement. Fox in Marchremoved from theaters postersshowing a shadowy figure and

a teaser trailer for“Neighbourhood Watch”following the national uproarover Martin’s death in Floridaat the hands ofneighbourhood watchvolunteer George Zimmerman.

Zimmerman was notinitially charged because of aFlorida law that allows peopleto use deadly force if they feeltheir life is in danger.

However, he wassubsequently arrested andcharged with second-degreemurder and is now awaitingtrial. Along with Stiller, “TheWatch” stars Vince Vaughnand Jonah Hill and will bereleased in US movie theaterson 27July.—Reuters

Serbia, Bosnia agreeto regulate international

river navigationfrom west to east, largelydefining the border betweenCroatia and BiH, beforereaching the Danube inBelgrade.

The River Drina flowssouth to north along theborder between Serbia andBiH. The European Union hasapproved 5.5 million euros (7.2milllion US dollars) fordemining and environmentalstudies for the stretch of theRiver Sava from Belgrade toBrcko, BiH. The repair andmaintenance of navigation onthe Sava River requires thecooperation of Croatia, Serbiaand BiH.— Xinhua

Leftist rebel leader tagged in foiledattack in S Philippines captured

Royal Navy helicopters carrier HMS Ocean docks at Greenwich, the Thames River inLondon, Britain, as part of London 2012 Olympic preparation security exercise,

on 4 May, 2012. —XINHUA

town, Surigao del Sur at around3 am on Wednesday,according to SuperintendentMartin Gamba, spokespersonof the Caraga police regionaloffice.

According to Gamba,Bager has a pending casebefore a regional trial court inSurigao del Sur for the foiledattempt by a band of NPArebels whom he led to stormand overrun the police stationin nearby Lianga town on 28April, 2011.

That attack was repulsed

by policemen and soldiers. Recovered from the

suspect were a fragmentationgrenade, several electronicdevices, cellular phones andmore than 9, 700 pesos (225USdollars).

Gamba said the rebelleader was detained at theLianga police station. The4,000-strong NPA, armedwing of the Communist Partyof the Philippines, is fightinga 43-year leftist insurgencyin 60 Philippine provinces.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 6 May — Britain’s largest warship has sailed upthe Thames River, as part of security pre-parations for the2012 London Olympic Games. The 38-metre wide HMS Ocean,berthed at Greenwich in east London ahead of the majorsecurity exercise dubbed Olympic Guardian.

UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond visited thewarship and addressed some of the crew members on-board.He said he hoped foreign visitors would be reassured by thesignificant military presence. The sailing of HMS Oceanmarks the final phase of Olympic Guardian, which startedearlier this week in Weymouth and in the airspace over thecapital. The ship will focus on air security over the weekend,with river operations taking place between Tuesday andThursday next week.— Xinhua

UK’s largest warship sailsup Thames River

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LOS ANGELES, 6 May—Singer Justin Timberlakeadmits he looked like amoron during his days withpop group N Sync, especiallywith their attire.

“There were manymoments in my teenage yearswhere I succumbed to, um,the weirdness of the group Iwas in,” showbizspy.comquoted Timberlake as saying.

“And in trying toconform — we’re marionettes— I ended up looking like amoron,” he added.

The-31-year-old feelsmany modern men are overreliant on grooming

Singer Justin Timberlake

LOS ANGELES, 6 May—Singer Justin Bieber wantsto make this Mother’s Dayspecial for his mom PattiMallette. So he has penneda song for her and plans torelease it on the occasionon 13 May.

The song will be a partof his next album“Believe”.

“I wrote a song for mymom. But I’m going to put it

LONDON, 6 May—Actress Angelina Jolie, whois set to tie the knot thissummer with her partner ofseven years, Brad Pitt,reportedly wants to gain 10pounds before her D-day.

The slim and svelteactress wants some curves tofill out her dress, reportsdailystar.co.uk.

The couple hasreportedly asked British chefJamie Oliver to give herrecipes for hearty yet healthymeals. “Angelina hasdecided she would like amore shapely figure whenshe weds Brad and is hopingto gain 10 pounds. Brad andAngelina have asked Jamieto suggest some recipe ideasfor them,” said a source.

Pitt is also keen that Jolieputs on some pounds as heprefers her curvier figure.“Brad would love her tohave curves like she didwhen they met on 2004movie ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’.

Jamie has been to Bradand Angelina’s homenumerous times. They havea similar sense of humourand are all down to earth,”the source said.

Internet

Actress Angelina Jolie

LOS ANGELES, 6 May—Actress Scarlett Johanssonhad just two days to get a gripon Russian language for herrole in “The Avengers”, andsays a translator came to herrescue.

“I had two days, so I hadto learn it phonetically. Iknew what I was saying but Ihad to be able to pronounceit and breathe some life intothe lines so that it didn’tsound like I was repeatingsome Berlitz (languagelearning) tape,”dailystar.co.uk quoted her assaying.

“We hired this greatRussian translator, and sheworked with the dialoguecoach.

LONDON, 6 May —Actress Helena Bonham Carter saysshe and director Tim Burton have never married because theyare too lazy but this does not mean they are not serious.

The couple has been together for 11 years and havechildren eight-year-old Billy and four-year-old Nell.

They live in adjoining houses because they need spacefrom one another, though the actress insists this does notmean their relationship was not serious.

“We are not married, actually. Not through any kind of.Through laziness, really. Our houses are married. It is verygood to have. You definitely need your space,”femalefirst.co.uk quoted her as saying.—Internet

LOS ANGELES, 6 May—Late singer Michael Jackson’simage will be used to front a new advertising campaign forPepsi. The soft drinks firm has agreed a deal with the singer’sestate to use his image in a new global marketing push.

Consumers in the US and China will be the first to seethe campaign. It will be pushed out in varying forms toaround 25 countries throughout the year, reportsaceshowbiz.com.

The initial push, supplemented by a TV advertisementwill see the company release collectable blue cans bearingan image of the late King of Pop.

Customers will be able to scan codes on the cans withtheir phones to download remixed tracks from Jakcson’salbum “Bad”, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

Internet

LONDON, 6 May—ActorJude Law is a wise shopper,who likes to invest in classicitems that last long and caneven be passed on to his kids.

“I love the idea ofdurability, that you can buy aclassic, beautifully-made suitor leather bag that will last foryears,” contactmusic.comquoted the 39-year-old Lawas saying.

“I like to keep things thatI know I can pass on to mychildren. I’ve still got thetuxedo I wore to my first everOscars ceremony so I can give

I looked likemoron: JustinTimberlake

Justin Bieber’s musical tribute to mother

Singer Justin Bieber

out on Mother’s Day,”aceshowbiz.com quotedBieber as saying.

“It’s about thestruggles, I say in the song.She had me at like the age Iam now. It’s about just thestruggles she went throughand how brave she was, andI think the world needed toknow that,” he added.

Internet

AngelinaJolie to gainweight forwedding

Helena Bonham Carter lazyto wed

Scarlett Johansson masteredRussian in two days

Actress ScarlettJohansson

She was reallyexpressive, which helped, somy mouth found the wordsin a way that didn’t justsound like I was a parrot,”she said.

Internet

Actress Helena BonhamCarter

Jude Law prefers buying classic items

it to my son,” he added. Lawsays he underwent a completewardrobe makeover and evengrew a moustache for his rolein the “Sherlock Holmes”

Officials in a Japanese town have banned children froma local stream after three piranhas recently were pulled froma nearby river.

Piranhas found in Japan river

A piranha

Administrators in Atsugi, Kanagawa prefecture, saidtwo of the meat-eating fish were pulled Saturday from theZenmyo River and a third was caught Monday, Kyodo newsreported. The officials said each of the fish was about 4 incheslong.

A 6-year-old California girl who rescued a classmatewho was choking on a piece of apple said she learned theHeimlich maneuver from watching television.

Elspeth Mar, a student at Caroline Wenzel ElementarySchool in Sacramento, performed the Heimlich on friendAniyah Rigmaiden in the cafeteria of the school and the girlsdid not inform teachers until they had finished their lunch, TheSacramento Bee reported.

Mar and Anthony Roy Jr, a classmate who first noticedRigmaiden choking, were honored in a school ceremonydeclaring them “Heroes of the Day.”

Principal Judy Montgomery said she was impressedwith Mar’s actions.

“It was so matter-of-fact,” she said. “She got up, got theapple out of the little girl’s throat and then just sat back down.That is how it should be.

“But I was blown away at how a first-grader could handlesomething like that so seamlessly. Usually, I would expectthem to yell, ‘Hey, help! Someone’s choking,’” Montgomerysaid.

Mar said she learned how to perform the Heimlich fromDisney channel series “ANT Farm.”

Girl, 6, saves chokingclassmate

A North Carolina historian said US towns with unusualnames, such as Grubville, Mo, and Battiest, Okla, are slowlydisappearing.

Mike Hill of the North Carolina Office of Archives andHistory said the unusual town names, which were often givenby settlers as a jok, are being replaced with morecommonplace names dreamed up by developers to drum upinterest in real estate, USA Today reported.

“For the most part,” Hill said, “we stopped making goodnew place names a long time ago.”

USA Today said the US Postal Service is seeking to closepost offices in small towns, many of which bear unusualnames such as Beetown, Wis, and Dwarf, Ky, as theirpopulations dropped between the Census counts of 2000 and2010, while the overall US population increased 10 percent.

Unusual town names onthe decline

N e w s A l b u m

products. “I don’t like when Isee guys do too much hairgel. I don’t mean Pauly D,because that’s basicallyperformance art. But whenyou use enough hair gel thatyour hair becomes a sculpture— and you wanted it to lookthat way? It’s just weird,” hesaid.—Internet

Late singer MichaelJackson’

Actor Jude Law

movies. He sported facial hairfor his role as Dr John Watsonin the movie, and admits hisdifferent look did not suit hisregular wardrobe. So, he triedout several different outfits.

“My style changes withroles. Having a moustache andsideburns as Watson in the‘Sherlock Holmes’ filmsforced me to try new clothes.Jeans and a leather jacketdidn’t look so good anymore,so I bought a corduroy jacketand big snuggly jumpers.Suddenly, they looked cool,”he said.—Internet

MJ’s picture on Pepsicampaign

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PSG eye Ligue 1 top spot as tension hitsMontpellier

PARIS, 6 May — In aFrench title race full of twistsand turns Paris Saint-Germainwill go back to the top of thetable if they can beatValenciennes on Sundaybefore current leadersMontpellier play on Monday.Just days ago, PSG looked tohave kissed their hopes of afirst Ligue 1 crown since 1994

goodbye after slipping fivepoints behind Montpellier inthe wake of a 2-1 defeat atLille.

But then Montpellierwere held to a 2-2 home drawby Evian-Thonon-Gaillard onTuesday after missing astoppage-time penalty beforePSG beat Saint-Etienne 2-0 toclose the gap back to three

points. Carlo Ancelotti’s sidenow go to Valencienneslooking to record back-to-backleague wins for the first timein two months, although thenorthern side have provendifficult to beat at their Stadedu Hainaut home this seasonand will not make life easy forthe men from the capital asthey chase the win that willseal their survival.

PSG’s goal difference isinferior to that of Montpellierby one, but they have scoredthree more goals and willtherefore go back to thesummit, for 24 hours at least,with a win. Paris’ Italianinternational goalkeeperSalvatore Sirigu admits he hasbeen through all the emotionsthis week but now has hissights set on top spot again.“After the defeat at Lille I wassad and down but I never saidthe title was lost,” he said.

Internet

Paris Saint-Germain’s Javier Pastore (R) speaks withreferee during their French Ligue 1 match against Saint-

Etienne, on 2 May, at the Parc des Princes stadium inParis. PSG will go back to the top of the table if they can

beat Valenciennes on Sunday before current leadersMontpellier play on Monday,— INTERNET

Huck draws with Afolabi to keep WBO beltERFURT, 6 May —

German cruiserweight MarcoHuck retained his WBO titleagainst British challenger OlaAfolabi by the narrowest ofmargins, a draw by majoritydecision on Saturday. In arematch of Huck’s firstdefence of the title he wonfrom Victor Emilio Ramirez in2009, Afolabi had the betterof the opening rounds. “I wastired early on, but I’m a fighterand I fought,” Huck said.“Thankfully it was justenough in the end.”

He was left with a bloodynose at the end of the third,when his trainer urged him to“do something” if he wantedto defend his belt.Thedefending champ recoveredand delivered a flurry ofpunches from both sides toleave Afolabi in real troublejust before the end of theninth.”I give Marco a a lot ofcredit,” Afolabi said. “Ithought he was tired aroundround six, but he just kept

coming until round 12.”Both fighters gave

everything in the final round,when exhaustion preventedeither from delivering thetelling blow with Afolabi, inparticular, wobbling but doingjust enough to hangon.Judges Paul Thomas ofBritain and Ingo Barrabas ofGermany scored it 114-114,

while Nelson Vazquez ofPuerto Rico awarded it 115-113 in favour of the defendingchampion. Huck was back atcruiserweight after losing toAlexander Povetkin for theWBA heavyweight belt inFebruary. His record was 34-2-1 (25 KOs), while the LosAngeles-based Afolabi was19-2-4 (9 KOs).— Internet

Marco Huck of Germany, right, lands a punch toBritain’s Ola Afolabi, left, during the WBO Cruiserweight

Championship title bout in Erfurt, Germany, on 5 May,2012. Huck retained his title.— INTERNET

Simpson emerges with lead at Quail Hollow

CHARLOTTE, 6 May — Forsomeone playing so close tohis house, Webb Simpson hasbeen on edge all week. Thehome crowd. Two rounds withTiger Woods. His name atopthe leaderboard at QuailHollow alongside RoryMcIlroy and so many otherslate Saturday afternoon. It hascaused him to try extra hard toblock everything out exceptthe shot in front of him.

So far, it has workedbetter than he imagin-ed.Simpson broke out of a five-way tie for the lead with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17thhole, and a 3-under 69 gavehim a one-shot lead over RyanMoore and DA. Points goinginto the final round of the WellsFargo Championship.

“It seems like when guyson this level do get nervous, itseems like every time they focusa little better, they just tightenup their thoughts a lot better,”International Sports

Webb Simpson reacts aftermaking a birdie putt on thethird hole during the thirdround of the Wells Fargo

Championship golftournament at Quail

Hollow Club in Charlotte,NC, on 5 May, 2012.

INTERNET

Bolt speeds to year’s fastest 100 metresThe 100 and 200 metres

world record holder clockeda dazzling 9.82 seconds inhis first individual race of2012, exploding from theblocks to take control at 40metres. “It’s a good start, Iwould say,” said Bolt, whoerased the previous season-leading time of 9.90 by histraining partner and worldchampion Yohan Blake threeweeks ago.

“I feel better than lastyear, so I’m definitely happywith myself,” Bolt added. “Idon’t think my execution wasperfect, but I think for my firstrace it was good.”

Michael Frater, a memberof Jamaica’s world record

4x100 metres relay team,finished a distant second inexactly 10 seconds. Bolt wasdisqualified from last year’s100 final at the worldchampionships because of afalse start, but was notperturbed by the delays.

“A couple of false startswill throw you off, but I stayedfocused and went out thereand executed as best aspossible, so I’m just happywith myself,” he said.Although pleased with thelast 50 meters of the race, thelanky sprinter, who ownsworld records of 9.58 secondsin the 100 and 19.19 in the 200,said he must continue to workon the first phase of theshorter race.

Reuters

Messi scores four to sendGuardiola off with victoryBARCELONA, 6 May —

Lionel Messi scored fourtimes to take his season tallyto an unprecedented 72 goalsand give Barcelona coach PepGuardiola a 4-0 win overcrosstown rival Espanyol inhis last home game at CampNou on Saturday. Messi’sscoring display was a fittingfarewell for the coach whohelped the Argentina forwardbecome the world’s bestplayer and forged Barcelonainto one of the best teams tohave played soccer.

After scoring his Spanishleague-record 50th goal,Messi went to the sideline toembrace Guardiola, who isleaving after 13 titles in fourseasons. The only otherplayer to have scored 70 goalsin a first-division season wasArchie Stark of BethlehemSteel in the American SoccerLeague in 1924-25. RealMadrid, which clinched theleague title in the last round,won 2-1 at Granada thanks toCristiano Ronaldo’s 45thleague goal and David Cortes’own goal in stoppage time.

“Life has given me thisgift during the past five years

FC Barcelon’s coach PepGuardiola, left, embraces

Lionel Messi, fromArgentina, after scores

during a Spanish La Ligasoccer match at the CampNou stadium in Barcelona,

Spain, on 5 May, 2012.INTERNET

of being able to live with theseplayers and enjoy thisspectacle,” Guardiola told thepacked stands following his97th win in 118 home games.“I have been the privilegedone, to feel so loved andadmired during all these years.Many thanks to all, above allto those who I have workedwith every day.” Guardiolawill coach Barcelona’s lastleague game at Real Betisbefore having a chance at a14th piece of silverware in theCopa del Rey final againstAthletic Bilbao. Guardiola’sassistant Tito Vilanova willthen take over.— Internet

Simpson said. “Seems like whenI’m more nervous, for the mostpart, I play better. It’s not agood thing when we getcomfortable out there becauseyou start getting lazy and losingfocus on your target.” This isno time to relax.—Internet

Alvarez defends title with decision over Mosley

Canelo Alvarez, left, landsa punch against Shane

Mosley in the first roundduring a WBC super

welterweight title fight, on5 May, 2012, in LasVegas.— INTERNET

LAS VEGAS, 6 May —Rising Mexican star CaneloAlvarez landed the heavierpunches and more of them onSaturday night, defending his154-pound title with a lopsideddecision win over an agingShane Mosley. Alvarez shookoff a cut over his left eye froma head butt in the third roundand dominated the fight,landing big punches to thebody and occasionaluppercuts to the head. He wonall rounds but one on twoscorecards, and all but two onthe third. It was the fourthdefence for Alvarez of his 154-pound title, and Mosley gaveit his best.

But at the age of 40 hesimply didn’t have the reflexesor strength to be competitiveagainst the 21-year-oldchampion.Two judges scoredit 119-109, while a third had it118-108. The fight was on theFloyd Mayweather Jr-MiguelCotto undercard. “It was agreat experience,” Alvarez

said. “I felt really good and Iwant to thank Shane for givingme the experience.” Mosleyhasn’t won a fight in threeyears, losing five of his lastseven. Mosley was trying toresurrect his fading career afterlosses to both Mayweatherand Manny Pacquiao, but hecame into the ring a decidedunderdog against Alvarez,who is considered one of thetop young fighters in the sport.

“His defence is very good.He’s really fast, and he can goa long way,” Mosley said.“When the kids start to beatyou up, it might be time to startpromoting.” Mosley, whosepro career dates back to 1993,moved forward the entire fightand tried to keep Alvarez offbalance with flurries.

He took punishmentthroughout and appeared hurtby shots to the body in theeighth round.

But Mosley (46-8-1) neverwent down and was stillfighting hard in the12th round,though by then the fight hadalready been decided. “I didn’texpect him to be that fast orthat good,” Mosley said.Alvarez, who remainedunbeaten in 41 fights, said hetried to knock Mosley downevery round, but was neverable. Mosley has never beenstopped in a fight. —Internet

Usain Bolt (C) of Jamaica sprints to win the men’s 100metres event at the Jamaica International Invitational track

and field meet in Kingston, on 5 May, 2012.—REUTERS

KINGSTON, 6 May —Jamaican Olympic championUsain Bolt held his nerve aftertwo false starts by

competitors and powered tothe year’s fastest 100 metresat the Jamaica InternationalInvitational on Saturday.

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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.

(7-5-12 09:30 am ~8-5-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV

(7-5-2012) (Monday)

Focus Myanmar TV Programme

7:00 am 1. Paritta By

Venerable MingunSayadaw-UppatasantiParitta

7:45 am 2. Nice & Sweet

Song8:10 am 3. Teleplay (Health)8:35 am 4. Song Of National

Races4:00 pm 5. Martial Song4:15 pm 6. Dance Variety4:55 pm 7. Songs For

Upholding NationalSpirit

5:00 pm 8. Myanmar

Language7:00 pm 9. TV Drama Series8:00 pm10. News11. World’s Stars12. TV Drama Series13. India Drama Series

Weather forecast for 7th May, 2012Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

Sr. No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 39/102 23/73 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

2 Kayah 32/90 21/70 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

3 Kayin 35/95 24/75 Likelihood of fairly widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

4 Chin 24/75 10/50 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

5 Upper Sagaing 38/100 22/72 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

6 Lower Sagaing 42/108 27/81 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

7 Taninthayi 30/86 24/75 Likelihood of widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

8 Bago 31/88 24/75 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

9 Magway 40/104 28/82 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

10 Mandalay 37/99 27/81 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

11 Mon 33/91 26/79 Likelihood of widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

12 Yangon 33/91 25/77 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

13 Rakhine 34/93 23/73 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

14 Southern Shan 25/77 19/66 Likelihood of fairly widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

15 Northern Shan 36/97 21/70 Likelihood of fairly widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

16 Eastern Shan 31/88 21/70 Likelihood of fairly widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

17 Ayeyawady 33/91 27/81 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 36/97 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 33/91 25/77 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 37/99 27/81 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, rain or thundershowers have been widespread in Taninthayi Region, Kayah, Kayin and Mon States, fairly widespread in Shan State, scattered in Bago and Yangon Regions, isolated in Mandalay, Magway and Ayeyawady Regions, Chin and Rakhine States and weather has been partly cloudy in the remaining Regions and States with Regionally heavyfalls in Taninthayi Region and Mon State. Day temperatures were (4°C) above May average temperatures in Upper Sagaing Region, Chin State, (5°C) above May average temperatures in Kachin and Northern Shan States and (4°C) below May average temperatures in Taninthayi Region and about May average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant day temperatures were Chauk (44°C), Monywa and Minbu (42°C) each, Myingyan and NyaungOo (41°C) each. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Longlon (4.61) inches, Dawei (3.90) inches, Kyeikkhame (3.31) inches, Yay (3.07) inches, Myawady (2.83) inches, Minesat (1.93) inches and Cocogyun (1.85) inches.

Bay Inference Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the Andaman Sea and Southwest Bay and partly cloudy elsewhere in

the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea

Squalls with moderate to rough seas are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and along Mon-

Taninthayi Coasts. Surface wind spead in squall may reach (30) to (35) mph. Seas will be moderate

elsewhere in Myanmar water.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Continuation of likelihood of rain or thundershowers in the Eastern Myanmar areas.

* News* Beauty of Ngwe

Saung & Lovers'Island

* Better Products fora CleanerEnvironment

* News* Music Programme* News* Yu Suk Dance of

Chin National* News* 12 Sign ascendants

in May 2012* Sketches in the

Dream* News* Sweet Memories in

Pyin Oo Lwin* News* Culture Stage* News* As a White Candle* News* 100% Myanmar* Myanmar Movie

“Twin Brothers InDifferent Lives”

BO TREES WATERED: Damsels from Tayoksu,Zeedaw and Ponna villages pouring water at Bo tree inprecinct of Tayoksu Taikkgaung Pariyatti Monastery in

Singaing in commemoration of the Fullmoon Day ofKason.—MYANMA ALIN

OFFICE OPENED: A ceremony to openadministrative office was held in Thayettabin Village ofMingla Township on 1 May. Township Administrator UTin Yi, Village Administrator U Aung Myint and village

elder U Tin Oo formally open the office.DISTRICT IPRD

Bolton blow chance toboost survival bid

LONDON, 6 May—Bolton Wanderers are in severe dangerof being relegated from the Premier League after blowing atwo-goal lead in a dramatic 2-2 draw against West BromwichAlbion on Sunday.

Owen Coyle’s side looked on course to climb out of thebottom three after Martin Petrov’s penalty was followed bya Billy Jones own goal to leave Wanderers firmly in control atthe Reebok Stadium.

But Chris Brunt reduced the deficit with 15 minutesremaining and James Morrison netted a stoppage-timeequaliser.

To make matters worse for Coyle’s men, news soonfiltered through from west London that relegation rivalsQueens Park Rangers had beaten Stoke City with a late goal.

That agonising combination of results leaves Bolton twopoints adrift of safety with a trip to Stoke to come on the finalweekend of the season next Sunday.

There is still hope for Bolton, however. If they win at theBritannia Stadium, then a QPR loss at Manchester City or two

Martin Petrov gives Bolton the lead.INTERNET

defeats for Wigan Athletic in their remaining fixtures wouldsecure their Premier League status for another season.

While Bolton worry over their future, Albion coach RoyHodgson could take heart from his players’ spirited fightbackin what was his final away game before taking over as Englandmanager.

Internet

Spurs kept outside top three by Villa draw

Aston Villa defender Eric Lichaj(right) vies with Tottenham Hotspurstriker Emmanuel Adebayor duringthe Premier League match at VillaPark in Birmingham.—INTERNET

LONDON, 6 May—Ten-man Tottenham Hotspurspurned the chance to go thirdin the Premier League onSunday after a 1-1 draw atAston Villa, for whom a pointall but assured their top-flightsurvival.

Ciaran Clark gave thehosts the lead at Villa Park viaa deflected first-half openerand their cause was aidedfurther still when Spurs werereduced to 10 men whenDanny Rose was sent off fora challenge on Alan Hutton.

H a r r yRedknapp’s teamsoon responded,though, via Em-manuel Ade-bayor’s penalty,yet they wereunable to force awinner, meaningthey remain a pointadrift of NorthLondon rivalsArsenal in fourthplace going intonext weekend’sfinal round of

fixtures.It leaves their Champions

League prospects hanging inthe balance, with fifth-placedNewcastle still just a pointbehind. Chelsea, meanwhile,could yet snatch the final spotfor Europe’s elite competitionthat would normally go to theteam finishing fourth if theybeat Bayern Munich in thisseason’s final.

Alex McLeish’s Villateam are now three points clearof 18th-placed BoltonWanderers and have a 17-goal advantage over theTrotters, making themvirtually safe.—Internet

In-form Everton held by relegated Wolves

Everton boss David Moyes lets rip.INTERNET

LONDON, 6 May—Evertonextended their unbeaten run to eightleague games on Sunday but had tosettle for a point in a goalless drawaway to already-relegatedWolverhampton Wanderers.

The Toffees had the better of thechances at Molineux and only adubious offside flag prevented NikicaJelavic from registering the opener in

the first half, while Denis Stracqualursihad a goal disallowed after the break.

Everton have not lost a PremierLeague match since their 3-0 defeat toLiverpool in the Merseyside derbyalmost two months ago but this pointkeeps them in seventh place in thetable and leaves them on course tofinish above their neighbours for thefirst time since 2005.—Internet

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Monday, 7 May, 20122nd Waning of Kason 1374 ME

Pyawbwe-Phayangahsu area in Pyawbwe Townshipof Yamethin District in Mandalay Region lies in arid zoneat the core of Myanmar and was under the curse of draughtand scarcity of water recourses for years, disabling thefarmlands of the region in drought periods. The regionranges from Pyawbwe to Phayangahsu village on the roadfrom Pyawbwe to Taunggyi.

Under the directive of the Ministry of Agriculture andIrrigation, Water Resources Utilization Department studiedthe area and set to sink 100 artesian wells as the departmentfound it blessed with underground water resources.

Using five machineries, geologists, engineers andstaff of Underground Water Resources Division sunk 50artesian wells in the first installment in 2009-2010 fiscalyear and the remaining 50 wells in 2010-2011 FY. The23rd July, 2011, is the day the project accomplished itsmission.

The three fourths of the well are natural artesian wells(See Page 8)

Artesian wells turn yellow plain to greener oneArticle: Tin Htway (MNA); Photos: Ko Htway

Photo shows thriving chilli plantation irrigated by artesian wells.

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—A ceremony to open Alin SaytamanLibrary was held in Thithlataw Village of TagundaingVillage-tract in Indaw Township of Katha District on 5 Maymorning.

Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Kyaw Naing Htay andDeputy Head of Township General AdministrationDepartment U Kyaw Soe formally opened the library.—MNA

Alin Saytaman Library openedin Indaw Township

NAY PYI TAW, 6 May—Kason water-pouring ceremonywas held in Theingon Model Village in Yamethin Township,Yamethin District, Mandalay Region, yesterday.

The Kason water-pouring ceremony, which was heldby 1500 people from 13 wards of the village, has beenyearly held as a gesture of preserving the fine tradition.

MNA

Kason water-pouringceremony held in Theingon

Village of Yamethin Tsp

SCIENCE DAILY, 6 May—The atmosphere of Mars is lessthan 1 percent the density of Earth’s. It’s one of the reasonsliquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist onthe Red Planet. As more research points toward the possibilityof water on early Mars, scientists have increased their studieson the density of its atmosphere billions of years ago. It’s notan easy task. In fact, it’s very difficult to even determineEarth’s atmospheric pressure from the same time frame.

Ancient volcanic blast provides moreevidence of water on early Mars

Georgia TechAssistant Professor JosefDufek is attempting tolearn more about the pastatmospheric conditionsby analyzing two unli-kely sources: ancientvolcanic eruptions andsurface observations bythe Mars rover Spirit. Hisnew findings,published by the

journal Geophy-sical Research Letters, provide moreevidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that itsatmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20 times moredense, than it is today.

“Atmospheric pressure has likely played a role indeveloping almost all Mars’ surface features,” said Dufek, aninstructor in the School Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.“The planet’s climate, the physical state of water on itssurface and the potential for life are all influenced byatmospheric conditions.”

Noteworthy amounts of rainfall(6-5-2012)

Pyu (3.50) inchesCocogyun (3.26) inchesZaungtu (2.83) inchesTheinzayat (1.09) inchesMyeik (1.96) inches

Toure brace strengthens Man City’s grip on titleLONDON, 6 May—

Manchester City moved towithin touching distance ofa first English league title in44 years after Yaya Tourescored twice in a 2-0 win atNewcastle on Sunday.

Victory left leaders Citythree points ahead ofManchester United and putthe pressure on the reigningchampions ahead of theirhome match against Swansealater in the day, with just oneround of fixtures left afterSunday’s matches.

It also meant,importantly, they had a goaldifference advantage of plus10 over their cross-townrivals.

Ivory Coast midfielderToure opened the scoring in

the 70th minute when hestruck a curling shot from theedge of the box that had toomuch on it for Newcastlekeeper Tim Krul.

City, last crownedchampions of England in1968, wasted several morechances to put the resultbeyond doubt before Toure,with Newcastle pressing foran equaliser, finished off a

counter-attack a minute fromfull-time.

Roberto Mancini’s menare at home to strugglingQueens Park Rangers a weekon Sunday when Unitedtravel to Sunderland. Defeatleft Newcastle in fifth place— just outside the top fourspot they need to have achance of Champions Leaguequalification.—Internet

Newcastle U. 0 - 2 Manchester C.Aston Villa 1 - 1 Tottenham H.Bolton W. 2 - 2 West Bromwich A.Fulham 2 - 1 SunderlandQPR 1 - 0 Stoke C.Wolve 0 - 0 EvertonMan Utd 2-0 Swansea City

Man City midfielder Tourecelebrates after scoring in hisside’s 2-0 victory over NewcastleUnited at the Sports DirectArena in Newcastle.—INTERNET

Results on Sunday, 6 May, 2012

Piranhas found in Japan river

A piranha PAGE 13

Huckdrawswith

Afolabito keepWBObelt

Marco Huck of Germany, right, lands a punch toBritain’s Ola Afolabi, left, during the WBO

Cruiserweight Championship title bout in Erfurt,Germany, on 5 May, 2012. Huck retained his title.

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Photo taken on 21 April , 2012 shows the tulips inKeukenhof, Lisse, the Netherlands. Keukenhof is theinternational showcase of Dutch horticulture with an

emphasis on bulb flowers. PAGE 12

Dufek’s first research tool was a rock fragmentpropelled into the Martian atmosphere during a volcaniceruption roughly 3.5 billion years ago. The deposit landedin the volcanic sediment, created a divot (or bomb sag),eventually solidified and remains in the same locationtoday. Dufek’s next tool was the Mars rover. In 2007,Spirit landed at that site, known as Home Plate, and tooka closer look at the imbedded fragment. Dufek and hiscollaborators at the University of California-Berkeleyreceived enough data to determine the size, depth andshape of the bomb sag.—Internet

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