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Volume XX, Number 26 11th Waning of Kason 1374 ME Wednesday, 16 May, 2012

Our Three MainNational Causes

* Non-disintegration ofthe Union

* Non-disintegration ofNational Solidarity

* Perpetuation ofSovereignty

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—Vice-President of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk Khamreceived a delegation led by Director of East Asia andPacific Regional Office of the UNICEF Mr Daniel Toole atthe Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace here at 4 pmtoday.

At the meeting, they had a cordial discussion onpolitical developments in Myanmar, progress of peaceprocess, more investment in health and education sectorsand its long-term interests, initiating of new projects inMyanmar, more effective utilization of UNICEF funds, accessto technological expertises and extended cooperation withMyanmar in UNICEF activities.

Present at the call together with the Vice-Presidentwere Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Myo Myint,Deputy Minister for National Planning and EconomicDevelopment Dr Kan Zaw, Deputy Minister for Education UAye Kyu, Deputy Minister for Health Dr Win Myint andheads of department.—MNA

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Director ofVice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Director ofEast Asia and Pacific RegionalEast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of UNICEF and partyOffice of UNICEF and party

YANGON, 15 May—Aceremony to donate cash tothe fund for installation of liftat Kyaikthanlan Pagoda ofMawlamyine was held at theoffice of Pagoda Board ofTrustees yesterday.

U Zaw Lin Tun-Daw SanSan Lwin and family donatedK 210,000, U Tun Min Zaw-Daw Than Hla and family K6.5 million, U Teik Kyi-Daw

Cash donated forinstallation of lift at

Kyaikthanlan PagodaThan Than Aye and family K500,000 and U Chit Maung-Daw Saw Kyi and family K650,000.

Donors may dial 057-21334 of the office of PagodaBoard of Trustees, ChairmanU San Myint, Tel: 057-24193,Treasurer U Khin MaungWin, Tel: 09-5322300 andSecretary U Han Lwin, Tel:09-49801057.—MNA

Plant protein discoverycould boost bioeconomy

SCIENCE DAILY, 14 May —Research groups from Iowa StateUniversity and the Salk Institutefor Biological Studies haveuncovered the function of threeplant proteins, a discovery thatcould help plant scientists boostseed oil production in crops,thereby benefitting theproduction of food,biorenewable chemicals andbiofuels.

The analysis of geneactivity (by the Iowa group) anddetermination of proteinstructures (by the Salk group)independently identified in themodel plant thale cress

(Arabidopsis thaliana) threerelated proteins that appear tobe involved in fatty-acidmetabolism. The Iowa and Salkresearchers then joined forcesto test this hypothesis,demonstrating a role of theseproteins in regulating theamounts and types of fatty acidsaccumulated in plants. Theresearchers also showed that theaction of the proteins is verysensitive to temperature and thatthis feature may play animportant role in how plantsmitigate temperature stressusing fatty acids.

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Noteworthy amounts of rainfall(15-5-2012)

Chaungzon (4.13) inchesMawlamyine (1.73) inchesBilin (1.26) inchesKyaikmaraw (0.86) inchHmawby (0.79) inchDawei (0.75) inchTaunggyi (0.70) inchKyauktaw (0.39) inch

Vice-President of the Republic of the Union ofMyanmar Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives a

delegation led by Director of East Asia andPacific Regional Office of UNICEF Mr Daniel

Toole at Credentials Hall of the PresidentialPalace in Nay Pyi Taw.

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Trilateral deal couldbalance agro trade

Workers processing squid for export toJapan in Ganyu county, Jiangsu

province. China will work to strike abalance in its agricultural trade with

Japan and South Korea.

Scholes to play onanother season

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Fruit and veggies can helpprotect against cancer risk

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PERSPECTIVES

An-nyung-ha-se-yo!Wednesday, 16 May, 2012

“An-nyung-ha-se-yo!” This word maybe well familiar with Myanmar people especiallyyoung people who love to watch Korea TV soapoperas many of our channels are airing day andnight like in most of our neighboring countries.Since the Republic of Korea is a developed andan industrialized country many of theseyoungsters may even have a dream of workingin this fourth largest economy of Asia.

As for Myanmar, she can gain muchtechnological and technical expertise andbusiness experiences from the Northeast Asiancountry through mutual cooperation based oncommon interest. Koreans on their part seeMyanmar as a country where they can findnatural resources, cheap labor and investmentopportunities and extend their businesses.

Recently, Korean President Mr. LeeMyung-bak visited our country with the purposeof finding possible areas where the two countriescan work together and promote trade andinvestment sectors and holding a meeting withour President. At the meeting President UThein Sein elaborated on the nation’s reformsfor work facilitation of monetary, financial, tradeand investment sectors saying Koreangovernment and people should share their richexperiences in democratic reforms, economicdevelopment and social improvement withMyanmar and her people.

Mr. Lee suggested that political will,appropriate planning and human resourcesdevelopment are requirements for nationaldevelopment.

And in the first week of last April, NayPyi Taw witnessed an economic cooperationforum in which a large number of Myanmar andKorea entrepreneurs discussed ways forextending business cooperation based on mutualterms.

As Myanmar wishes to share knowledgeand experience with Korea and the NortheastAsian nation wishes to extend businessopportunities in the Southeast Asian nation,there is common ground that serves interest ofboth countries. Besides, Myanmar and Koreaare close friends since the establishment ofdiplomatic ties in 1975. So, let’s say “An-nyung-ha-se-yo” to our Korean friends!

NAY PYI TAW, 15M a y — B a n g k o k - b a s e dUnited Nations HighCommissioner for RefugeesOffice’s Southeast AsianCoordinator Mr James Lynchand party paid a call on UnionMinister for Border Affairsand for Myanma IndustrialDevelopment Lt-Gen TheinHtay at his office here thisafternoon and franklydiscussed promotion ofcooperation betweenMyanmar and UNHCR,increased provision ofhumanitarian aid andresettlement of displacedpersons. Also present at thecall were Deputy Ministerfor Border Affairs Maj-GenZaw Win, directors-generaland personnel concerned.

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UNHCR personnel meet Union Minister for BorderAffairs and for Myanma Industrial Development

YANGON, 15 May—Senior Electrical EngineerMr Gian Yee Tseng ofGeneral Electric Companyand party paid a call onUnion Minister for ElectricPower No (2) U Khin MaungSoe at Yangon CityElectricity Supply Board(Head Office) here this

EP-2 Ministry seeking ways to fully supply powerduring summer days

morning.In the meeting, Mr

Gain Yee Tseng explainedprogress in feasibilitystudies for installation ofaeroderivative gas turbines,gas and space requirementsfor installation of suchturbines and available poweroutcome.

The Union Ministerthen discussed repairing ofgas turbines for full powersupply in summer days whenhydroelectricity is scarce.

The Union Ministerthen received GeneralManager Mr Ringo Chow ofElectric Power Asia Pacificof Caterpillar Asia Pte Ltd

and party at the same venue.The guests explained

specifications of mobilegenerators manufactured bytheir company and the UnionMinister discussed use ofdual fuel emergencygenerators as the short-termsolution to low power supplyin the summer.—MNA

YANGON, 15 May—Chief Minister of Yangon RegionU Myint Swe received Chairman of Japan-MyanmarFriendship Association Mr Hideo Watanabe and party atthe Yangon Region Government Office, here, this afternoon.

They cordially discussed cooperation for

Yangon Region Chief Minister receives Japan-MyanmarFriendship Association Chairman

development of the region.Also present at the call were Region Minister for

Development Affairs Yangon Mayor U Hla Myint, RegionMinister for Forestry and Energy U Kyaw Soe and Secretaryof the region Government U Than Aung.—MNA

TEIN3 to embark on ASEAN tour fromMyanmar

YANGON, 15 May—Vice-President of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry U Aung Lwin, Joint Secretary-General U Aung Khin Myint and CEC members receivedHonorary Chairman Juno Liao of Thailand-and-Vietnam-based The Council of Taiwanese Chambers ofCommerce in Ho Chi Minh City at the UMFCCI officehere on 11 May.

At the call, they held discussions on rules andregulations of trade and investment, special economiczone project, import and export, investment inelectricity used exothermic energy and cooperationopportunities.

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UMFCCI receivesVietnamese, Thai guests

Chief Minister of Yangon Region U Myint Swe receives Chairman of Japan-Myanmar FriendshipAssociation Mr Hideo Watanabe and party.—MNA

Union Minister for Border Affairs and for Myanma IndustrialDevelopment Lt-Gen Thein Htay receives Bangkok-based UNHCR

Office’s Southeast Asian Coordinator Mr James Lynch and party.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15May—University ofComputer Studies (Yangon)hosts Workshop of TransEurasia Information Networkat Parkroyal Hotel in Yangonon 23 May, with high-profilepresence of the UnionMinister for Science andTechnology.

The event is the veryfirst installment of a seriesof TEIN3 workshops in

ASEAN, which are due to beheld in Cambodia and Laoslater this month. Theworkshop aims at supportingefforts to establish anddevelop Research andDevelopment Networks(RENs) and reinforceTEIN3’s connection with

local National Research andDevelopment Networks(NRENs). Scholars ofEuropean Commission andTEIN3 Cooperation Centrewill convince localresearchers and educationalcommunity of ways todevelop an NREN in

Myanmar and benefits ofwider research network.

TEIN programmemanaged by Dante is now inits 3rd phase, so-called TEIN3.The Ministry of Science andTechnology and EuropeanCommission sponsor theworkshop.—NLM

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Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors,hurdles remain

Kansai Electric PowerCo’s Ohi nuclear powerplant (R-L) No 1, No 2.No 3 and No 4 reactorsare seen in Ohi, Fukui

prefecture on 26January, 2012.—REUTERS

Osaka metropolitan area, orimpose rolling blackouts inseveral regions, thedocument also showed.

It will reach a conclusionin about a week.

Mandatory restrictionswere imposed in some regionslast year after the Fukushimacrisis, the worst since the 1986Chernobyl explosion, withthree reactors sufferingmeltdowns after the plant washit by a huge earthquake andtsunami.

Kansai Electric’s serviceregion, which relied onnuclear power for more than40 percent of its generationbefore the Fukushima crisis,may see a 14.9 percentshortage in August, agovernment panel concludedon Saturday.—Reuters

TOKYO, 15 May—Thelocal assembly in a Japanesetown that hosts a nuclear plantagreed on Monday it wasnecessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said,the first such nod since all the

But further discussionlies ahead before reactors No3 and No 4 at Kansai ElectricPower Co’s Ohi plant inwestern Japan can bereconnected to the grid.

With power shortages

looming in the region whendemand peaks this summer,the central government hasbeen trying to win approvalfrom towns and prefecturesthat host reactors. All 50reactors are off-line since thelast one shut down formaintenance on 5 May.

Businesses and con-sumers in Kansai Region,served by Kansai ElectricPower Co, could be asked tocut electricity use by 20percent this summercompared to 2010 levels,according to a governmentdraft document released onMonday.

The government willconsider whether to issue amandatory power cut orderfor corporate users in Kansai,which includes the vast

country’s stations werehalted after the Fukushimacrisis.

Maybe Europe should abandon euro: FlahertyOTTAWA, 15 May—If

European countries are notprepared to bail out felloweuro zone members, maybethey should just abandon thewhole concept of a commoncurrency, Canadian FinanceMinister Jim Flaherty said onMonday in some of his mostdirect remarks on the issue.

“This is a time of crisis inthe euro zone. The wholefuture of the euro zone is upfor grabs, and this is veryimportant for many of the eurozone member countries, giventhe history of Europe in thelast 100 years or so,” Flahertytold CTV television.

“So they have to showcourage. They have to do the

right thing, use some of theirtaxpayers’ money to bail outsome of the weaker membersof the euro zone—or startmoving away from the eurozone and just say this was anexperiment that has notworked.”

Flaherty, who has been aharsh critic of what he callsEuropean incrementalism,also predicted a disorderlyrestructuring of the euro zoneif Greek voters reject theircountry’s recent bailout.

“If the voters of Greecereject the deal that was signedthat involves austerity for theGreek government, whichdoesn’t exist right now, thenthey will demonstrating a

Canada’s FinanceMinister Jim Flaherty

speaks during QuestionPeriod in the House of

Commons on ParliamentHill in Ottawa on 14 May,

2012. —REUTERS

Hollande to be sworn in as new Frenchpresident

PARIS, 15 May—Francois Hollande will besworn in as France’s firstSocialist president in 17 yearsin a hurried ceremony onTuesday before a dash toBerlin to challenge GermanChancellor Angela Merkel’sfocus on austerity policies.

Hollande, whoseelection comes as the eurozone is teetering back intocrisis with fears aboutGreece’s future in the singlecurrency, will give his firstpresidential news conferencein Berlin in the evening,flanked by the centre-rightMerkel. His first words aspresident will be keenlywatched by financial marketseager for reassurance that hispush to tack pro-growthinstruments onto Europe’sbudget discipline treaty willnot sour the start of hisrelationship with Merkel.

Any indications on initialeconomic policy moves willalso be scrutinized bothoutside France and inside,

“Mr Normal” image thatappealed to voters tired of hisshowman predecessor,Hollande has asked for his 10a.m. (0800 GMT) inaugurationceremony to be kept as low-key as possible.

In a break with tradition,he will invite just three dozenor so personal guests to joinsome 350 officials at the eventand neither his nor his partnerValerie Trierweiler’s childrenwill attend.—Reuters

Newly-elected French President Francois Hollande.REUTERS

where frustration overrampant unemployment anda sickly economy were keyfactors behind conservativeNicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

Hollande, who said onthe night of his election thatthe weight of events in Europeforced him to keep hiscelebrations short, said onMonday he knew he wouldbe judged on how he startshis presidency.

Anxious not to lose the

IAEA, Iran hold fresh round ofnuclear talks in Vienna

nuclear weapons capabilities,an allegation strongly deniedby Iranian officials who insistthe country’s nuclearprogramme is purely forenergy needs and medicalresearch.

One issue figuredprominently in recent IAEA-Iran talks is the agency’sdemand for access to Iran’sParchin military site southeastof Teheran.

An IAEA report onIranian nuclear issue citedinformation that Iran had builta large containment chamberat Parchin to conduct high-explosives tests suspected ofrelating to nuclear weaponsresearch works.

Xinhua

VIENNA, 15 May—Seniorofficials of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency(IAEA) on Monday called onIran to allow inspectors accessto sites, people anddocuments the agency seeksto address concerns that thecountry might have beenworking on nuclear weapons.

Delegates from Iran andthe IAEA met at Iran’spermanent representativeoffice in Vienna, where thetwo-day talks were reportedto be less about concretequestions regarding Iran’snuclear facilities, and more

about the terms on which theinspectors should be able towork.

IAEA safeguards headHerman Nackaerts saidduring the talks thatinspectors should be allowedto talk with employees ofsuspected sites and collectinformation, according to anAustrian Press Agency (APA)report.

“It is important for Iran togive free access to people,documents, information andlocations,” Nackaerts said.

Western countries havelong suspected Iran of seeking

how that can beaccomplished. It’s certain tobe disorderly. And that’s notgood for markets. It’s not goodfor the banking systemaround the world.”

He said it was not clear tohim that the Spanish andItalian governments would“be able to manage whatneeds to be done given theunwillingness of many votersto go along with that kind ofeconomic reform.”

Canada’s banks, budgetand economy came throughthe 2007-09 financial crisis inbetter shape than those ofmost other major developedcountries, and Flaherty hasoften been blunt in urgingswift and comprehensiveaction by Europe.—Reuters

choice,” he said in a separateinterview with CBC television.“And that choice to me meansthat there would have to besome restructuring of the eurozone. We don’t exactly know

A damaged vehicle is seen atthe blast site in southwestPakistan’s Quetta on 14May, 2012. At least three

people including oneparamilitary soldier werekilled and 28 others wereinjured when a bomb hit a

paramilitary convoy inPakistan’s southwest city of

Quetta on Mondayafternoon, said by police.

XINHUA

This year’s International Day of Families highlightsthe need for work-family balance. The aim is to help workerseverywhere provide for their families financially andemotionally, while also contributing to the socio-economicdevelopment of their societies.

Current trends underscore the growing importance ofwork-family policies. These include greater participationby women in the labour market, and growing urbanizationand mobility in search for jobs. As families become smallerand generations live apart, extended kin are less availableto offer care, and employed parents face rising challenges.

Millions of people around the world lack decentworking conditions and the social support to care for theirfamilies. Affordable quality childcare is rarely available indeveloping countries, where many parents are forced toleave their preschool children home alone. Many youngchildren are also left in the care of older siblings who, inturn, are pulled from school.

A number of countries offer generous leave provisionsfor mothers and fathers. Many more, however, extend fewcomprehensive benefits in line with international standards.Paternity leave provisions are still rare in the majority ofdeveloping countries.

Flexible working arrangements, including staggeredworking hours, compressed work schedules ortelecommuting, are becoming more widely available-butthere is much room for improvement everywhere. I amcommitted to this in our own organization, where we arecurrently looking at our own arrangements, and seeingwhat we can do better.

We need to respond to the ever-changing complexitiesof work and family life. I welcome the establishment offamily-friendly workplaces through parental leaveprovisions, flexible working arrangements and betterchildcare.

Such policies and programmes are critical to enhancingthe work-family balance. These actions can also lead tobetter working conditions, grater employee health andproductivity, and a more concerted focus on gender equality.

Work-family balance policies demonstrate both agovernment’s commitment to the well-being of familiesand the private sector’s commitment to social responsibility.

On this International Day of Families, let us renew ourpledge to promote work-family balance for the benefit offamilies and society at large.—UNIC/Yangon

UNSG’sMessage on the International day

of Families15 May 2012

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Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologyBillions of life bearing planets float in the milky way

LONDON, 15 May—A fewhundred thousand billionfree-floating life-bearingearth-sized planets may existin the space between stars inthe Milky Way, says a study.

The idea is beingpropounded by an inter-national team of astronomersled by Chandra Wickrama-singhe, professor and directorof the Buckingham Centre forAstrobiology at the Universityof Buckingham.

They have proposed thatthese life-bearing planetsoriginated in the earlyuniverse within a few millionyears of the Big Bang, andthat they make up most of theso-called “missing mass” ofgalaxies, the journalAstrophysics and SpaceScience reported.

The scientists calculatethat such a planetary body

would cross the inner solarsystem every 25 million yearson the average and duringeach transit, zodiacal dust,including a component of thesolar system’s living cells,becomes implanted at itssurface.

The free-floating planetswould then have the addedproperty of mixing the

products of local biologicalevolution on a galaxy-widescale, according to a statementof Buckingham University.

Since 1995, when the firstextra solar planet wasreported, interest in searchingfor planets has reached afeverish pitch. The 750 or sodetections of exo-planets areall of planets orbiting stars,

and very few, if any, havebeen deemed potentialcandidates for life.

The possibility of a muchlarger number of planets wasfirst suggested in earlierstudies where the effects ofgravitational lensing ofdistant quasars (most distantobjects) by interveningplanet-sized bodies weremeasured.

Recently several groupsof investigators havesuggested that a few billionsuch objects could exist in thegalaxy.

Wickramasinghe andteam have increased this grandtotal of planets to a fewhundred thousand billion (afew thousand for every MilkyWay star) — each oneharbouring the legacy ofcosmic primordial (beginn-ing) life.—Internet

Colourful birds evolve fasterSYDNEY, 15 May—

Researchers have discoveredthat bird species with multipleplumage evolve into newspecies faster than those withonly one colour form,confirming a 60-year-oldevolution theory.

The link between havingmore than one colour variation

‘Macintosh crashes wereMicrosoft’s fault’, says Apple

co-founder Wozniak

Low cost metallic paper touchpads‘offer high-tech functionality’

SACRAMENTO, 15 May— California lawmakers say they’retaking action against employers demanding access to Facebookaccounts of employees or job applicants.

If a bill in the California Legislature is successful, the statewill become the second, after Maryland, to ban the practice ofemployers asking for access to social media accounts ofworkers or applicants, ZDNet com reported on Sunday.

The bill, which was introduced in late February, passedthe House unanimously and has now moved onto the Senatefloor. Democratic Assembly member Nora Campos of SanJose, the bill’s author, says there must be social media privacylaws to protect employees.

“I am proud to have received this overwhelming show ofsupport for the protection of our privacy rights,” Campos saidin a statement. “I look forward to working with the Senate andthe governor to ensure that this bill is enacted into law.”

Similar measures are being considered in many otherstates and lawmakers in the US House and Senate are workingon legislation that would ban the practice nationally, thereport said.—Internet

Calif bill would protectpassword privacy

WASHINGTON, 15 May—Present day computertouchscreens, which are nearlyubiquitous on laptops, tabletsand smartphones, are oftenmade of glass or plastic that isheavy, inflexible and evenbreakable. But now, resear-chers have devised a way tomake computer touch-screensout of paper, which islightweight, flexible andcheap. Use of papertouchscreens could range fromelectronic devices tonutritional labels and pricetags.

The paper, created by ateam of researchers led byAaron Mazzeo, a mechanical

SYDNEY, 15 May—Techgiant Apple’s co-founderSteve Wozniak has said thatMicrosoft was responsible forMacintosh’s constantprogramme crashes.

Wozniak, who is in

engineer at Harvard, starts witha process already used to makeshiny labels for beer bottles:Paper is coated with a very thinlayer of aluminum, which isthen covered in a thin film oftransparent polymer, Di-scovery News reported.

“We are interested indesigning systems that use lowcost materials to provide high-tech functionality,” saidMazzeo.

Aluminum conductselectrical charges. Putting twosheets of the metallic papernext to each makes a capacitor,a device that stores an electricalcharge. With the help of anexternal circuit, the metallized

material becomes a surface thatcan detect charges. When aperson touches the paper layer,the amount of charge in thepaper goes up - just like it doeson a glass or plastictouchscreen.

To build a keyboard, theresearchers used a laser to etchcuts into the metal-coatedpaper. The paper is fairlycheap, approximately 25 centsper square metre, which impliesthat a nine-digit keypad thesize of those on a calculatorcould be made for a few cents.

The work has beenpublished in the journalAdvanced Materials.

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Australia for a seminar on thecompany’s businessphilosophy and the legacy ofSteve Jobs, said he haddiscovered a flaw in InternetExplorer in 1996 that causedprogrammes in the Macintoshto crash. “Everyone who ranInternet Explorer you wouldhave several crashes, everyday,” News.com.au quotedWozniak, as saying.

“Move something intofolder, it would crash, andyou’d have to restart. Typesomething, crash restart,” hesaid. “Everyone thought it wasthe OS (Apple’s operatingsystem). I guess it kind of wasbecause it was allowing allthis to happen. But in realityit was Microsoft InternetExplorer,” he added.

Wozniak said he foundthat people who ran Netscapeor another programme fromGermany called ICAP, neverexperienced crashes. He,however, acknowledged thefact that once a computer gota bad name, it stayed badforever.—Internet

(colour polymorphism) likethe iconic red, black or yellowheaded Gouldian finches, andthe faster evolution of newspecies was predicted in the1950s by famous scientistJulian Huxley. The globalstudy used information frombirdwatchers and geneticistsaccumulated over decadesand was conducted byUniversity of Melbournescientists Devi Stuart-Fox andAndrew Hugall (now atMelbourne Museum), thejournal Nature reported.

By confirming a majortheory in evolutionarybiology, we are able tounderstand a lot more aboutthe processes that create bio-diversity said Stuart-Fox,zoologist from Melbourne.

“We found that in threefamilies of birds of prey, thehawks and eagles, the owlsand the nightjars, the presenceof multiple colour forms leadsto rapid generation of new

The theory that colourful bird species evolve faster wasproposed in the 1950s by famous scientists such as JulianHuxley, but this is the first study to confirm it.—INTERNET

species,” Stuart-Fox said,according to a universitystatement.

“Well known examplesof colour polymorphicspecies in these familiesinclude the Australian greygoshawk which has a greyand pure white form, the NorthAmerican eastern screech owland the Antillean nighthawk,each with grey and red forms,”said Stuart-Fox.

“We looked at five birdfamilies with a highproportion of colour

polymorphism and comparedtheir rates of evolution withthose with only one colourform,” Stuart-Fox said.

Study co-author AndrewHugall said: “Using manydecades of natural historyinformation and 25 years ofgenetic sequence informationwe were able to generate themassive family trees, such asa tree of more than fourthousand songbirds, neededto model rates of birdevolution in this study.”

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Tech giant Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak.—INTERNET

Bacteria seen as biofuel production keyLIVERMORE, 15 May—Understanding the makeup of a bacterium found in the soil of a tropical

rainforest may lead to more efficient production of biofuels, US researchers say.The production of liquid fuels derived from plant biomass offers a promising technology

for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, but toxic chemicals,especially salty solvents, used in the first steps in the process are often harmful to bacteria thenused to break down the biomass, they said. Now scientists led by researchers at the LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory in California have discovered how certain bacteria can toleratethose man-made toxic chemicals used in making biofuels. “Discovering microbes naturallytolerant to salty liquids and understanding their mechanisms of tolerance should significantlyenhance biofuel production,” Lawrence Livermore’s Michael Thelen said.

Microbes in natural environments such as decomposing forest soils produce highly efficientenzymes to degrade biomass and are often able to adapt to stressful changes in their environment,the researchers found. The researchers focused on enterobacter lignolyticus strain SCF1, abacterium that can degrade biomass, and found SCF1 grows well in the presence of relatively highconcentrations of the salty liquids used in a pretreatment step in biofuel production. “Vigorousefforts to discover and analyze micro-organizms with properties similar to those of SCF1 have thepotential to greatly benefit industrial processes,” Thelen said.—Internet

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & HealthTraders work on the

floor of the New YorkStock Exchange. Stockindex futures pointed toa higher open on Wall

Street on 15 May, 2012,with the futures for theS&P 500 and the Dow

Jones up 0.6 percent andNasdaq 100 futures up0.8 percent at 03:33 am

EDT (0733 GMT).REUTERS

Health Tip:Help

prevent gasin babies Babies often swallow

too much air while eating ordrinking, leading touncomfortable gas.

The University ofMichigan Health System sayscommon causes of gas inbabies also include:

* Swallowing toomuch air whilecrying.

* Giving your babytoo much juice.

* Giving your babycow’s milk beforeage 1, or cerealbefore age 4months.

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Fruit and veggies can help protect againstcancer risk

LONDON, 15 May—Millions of people do not eatenough fruit and vegetablesputting themselves at risk ofcancer, a new survey hasrevealed.

Only one in five peoplein Britain consumes therecommended five portionsa day, according to theresearch carried out for theWorld cancer research Fund.

“A diet based on plantfoods, such as wholegrainsand pulses as well as fruit andvegetables, can reduce cancer

risk as research shows theyprotect against a range ofcancers. Recent research hasconfirmed that foodscontaining fibre reduce therisk of bowel cancer,” theDaily Express quoted KateMendoza of the fund assaying.

The YouGov survey of2,128 adults wascommissioned by the charityto coincide with cancerPrevention Week.

It found that only 22percent of the British adult

New research suggests that there is no convincing evidence that eating more fruit andvegetables can reduce chances of developing cancer.—INTERNET

Dollar trades at upper 79 yen inearly Tokyo deals

TOKYO, 15 May— The US dollar traded in the upper 79yen zone early Tuesday in Tokyo.

At 9 am, the dollar bought 79.86-88 yen against 79.80-90 yen in New York and 80.15-16 yen in Tokyo at 5 pm onMonday.

The euro was quoted at 1.2831-2833 dollars and 102.48-50 yen compared with 1.2817-2827 dollars and 102.31-41yen in New York and 1.2884-2885 dollars and 103.27-31 yenlate Monday afternoon.—Xinhua

Fat turns into flab three hours after big mealLONDON, 15 May—An

average person can virtuallyadd two to three teaspoons offat to his or her waistline in amatter of hours after eating.Fat from meals eaten later inthe day is more likely to bestored around the middle.

The finding that it ispossible to ‘become fat’ withinthree hours contradicts thewidely-held belief that weightgain is gradual. It had beenthought that fat from food wastransported from the gut intothe blood, where it could beused by the muscles as needed.

Any excess was thoughtto be slowly removed andstored in the fatty, or adipose,tissue around the waist, hipsand legs. However, theOxford University researchsuggests a more complex -and rapid - process, the Daily

Mail reports.In the experiments,

volunteers ate fat which couldbe traced around the body.This was found to take aroundan hour to be broken down inthe gut and then enter thebloodstream as tiny droplets.

The droplets are thenwhisked around the body —but not for long — beforethey are ‘caught’ and stored.“The process is very fast,”said Fredrik Karpe, professorof metabolic medicine atOxford. “The cells in theadipose tissue around thewaist catch the fat droplets asthe blood carries them andincorporates them into thecells for storage.”

Only a small amount ofthe fat found in breakfasttakes this route. But, bydinner, the amount rises to

half.This is due to hormonal

changes that occur later inthe day which make it easierfor the stores in the waistlineto trap passing fat droplets. Ina dinner with 0 grams of fat,two to three teaspoons willquickly gather around thewaist.

The good news is thestorage system is temporary,with the fat deposited quicklydrawn on, or mobilised, tofeed our muscles. But whenwe overeat, it is a differentstory, Karpe warns.

“If you eat too much,you don’t get into this phaseof starting to mobilise it,” hesaid. ‘There will just beconstant accumulation andyou will start to put onweight,” concluded Karpe.

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This undated handout photo, provided by Save theChildren, shows a new mother as she is given help withher six-day-old baby from Prembati Rana, a Female

Community Health Volunteer in Kanchanpur district inNepal. About 15 million premature babies are born

every year — more than 1 in 10 of the world’s births anda bigger problem than previously believed, according to

the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetricepidemic. The startling toll: 1.1 million of these fragile

newborns die as a result, and even those who survive cansuffer lifelong disabilities.—INTERNET

population consume five ormore portions a day whileonly 17 percent of lowerincome households get theright amount.

Fruit and vegetableconsumption levels werelowest in the north ofEngland, where just 18 percent said that they had five ormore portions daily.

Highest levels ofconsumption were in thesouth where 26 percent saidthey ate at least five portions.

Internet

Vitamin K2 found promising in Parkinson’s treatment

Gold drops 1.5 percentWASHINGTON, 15 May—Gold futures fell on Monday,

losing $24 to settle at $1,560 per troy ounce, down 1.5 percent,on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Silver lost 65 cents, or 2.2 percent, to end at $28.24 anounce. The euro fell to $1.2834 from Friday’s $1.2917.Against the yen, the dollar fell to 79.86 yen from 79.94 yen.

The British pound was $1.6096 from $1.607 Friday. Thedollar was 1.0025 Canadian dollars from 1.0006 Canadian.

The dollar was 7.7663 against the Hong Kong dollar,from 7.7658 on Friday. The Australian dollar was $0.9968 from$1.002.—Internet

BRUSSELS, 15 May—Vitamin K2 has shownpromise in the treatment ofParkinson’s, a conditioncharacterised by lack ofmovement, tremors andmuscle stiffness. Usingvitamin K2, Patrik Verstreken,from the Flanders Institute forBiotechnology (VIB) andcolleagues from NorthernIllinois University, succeededin undoing the effect of one ofthe genetic defects that leadsto Parkinson’s.

“It appears from ourresearch that—ministeringvitamin K2 could possiblyhelp patients with Parkinson’s.However, more work needs tobe done to understand thisbetter,” adds Verstreken, thejournal Science reports.

Mitochondria at the heartof each cell is the source ofenergy for cellular activitiesand their movements. Theygenerate this fuel bytransporting electrons,according to a VIB statement.

In Parkinson’s patients,the activity of mitochondriaand the transport of electronssuffer a disruption, whichslows down the process ofproducing sufficient energyfor the cell. Consequently,certain neurons or brain cellsstart dying off, disrupting

communication betweenthem, which produce typicalParkinson’s symptoms - lackof movement, tremors andmuscle stiffness.

One of the geneticmutations found inParkinson’s patients, includesthe so-called PINK1.Researchers also found it infruitflies. Mitochondria inthese insects were just asdefective as in Parkinson’s

patients, rendering them toopowerless to fly.

But once they wereadministered vitamin K2, theenergy production in theirmitochondria normalised andthey were able to fly. Theenergy production was restoredbecause the vitamin K2 hadimproved electron transportin the mitochondria. This inturn led to improved energyproduction.—Internet

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Nine killed in police, armed robbers gunbattle in southwestern Nigeria

ASABA, 15 May—Atleast nine persons wereconfirmed dead on Mondayafter unknown gunmenattacked a police vehicle inNigeria’s southwestern DeltaState.

State police spokesper-son Charles Muka toldreporters in Asaba, the statecapital, that the divisionalpolice officer for Abraka inDelta, Steve Chigbufue, and

four other policemen wereamong the victims.

The police, however,shot dead five members of thegang, suspected to be armedrobbers in a counter-attack,he added.

Muka told reporters thatthe policemen were killed ontheir way to the state policecommand for a meeting.

According to him, thedeceased ran into the

suspects who were on an anti-robbery operation at Igbodoand were killed on the spotby the gang.

The police spokesper-son said the gang had earlierattacked a commercial bankand that the police had tosend for reinforcement fromAsaba before killing five ofthe suspected armed robbersin a shoot out.

Xinhua

Shoes of missing peopleform the number forty-nine, in memory of the

mutilated victimsdumped by hitmen in

Cadereyta, at theMacroplaza in

Monterrey on 13 May,2012. Suspected drug

gang killers dumped 49headless bodies on a

highway near Mexico’snorthern city of

Monterrey in one of thecountry’s worst

atrocities in recentyears. —REUTERS

Mexico massacre highlightsunknown drug war victims

MONTERREY, 15 May—Even if someone had not choppedthe heads, hands and feet off the victims first, the chances ofinvestigators identifying the 49 bodies dumped on a road innorthern Mexico this weekend would have been far fromcertain. Catching the killers may prove an even harder task.

More than 8,000 corpses left across Mexico since 2006have not been identified, according to the National HumanRights Commission, a government-run body.

At the same time, more than 5,000 people who havedisappeared during the drug violence sweeping the countryhave never been tracked down, according to the commission.

The failure to find and identify victims of massacres andmurders has spurred criticism of the war on drug gangs wagedby President Felipe Calderon since he took office in late 2006.

The thousands of grieving families searching for lostloved-ones are also likely to haunt Calderon’s successor, whowill be chosen in presidential elections on 1 July.

“When you can’t find your family member it completelydestroys you,” said Irma Hidalgo, whose 18-year old son wasdragged from her home in Monterrey in 2011. “We just wantto know if he is alive - or if not, then lay him to rest.”

Hidalgo immediately called the Monterrey morguefollowing the discovery of the pile of dead outside the city onSunday, but police told her not to come in because they saidthe bodies were so badly mutilated they were only identifiablewith DNA. She has already given her DNA samples to stateand federal police and is assured they will be compared withthe victims.—Reuters

Putin ally maneuvering for power inMedvedev government

Russian PresidentVladimir Putin chairs a

meeting on thepreparations for the Sochi

2014 Winter OlympicGames in Sochi on 11May, 2012.—REUTERS

Shuvalov said, adding thatreports suggesting otherwiseamounted to “openhypocrisy”.

Shuvalov was a keyplayer in the outgoinggovernment, coordinatingeconomic policy and leadingRussia’s talks on joining theWorld Trade Organization,which were finally wrappedup at the end of last year.

“We would see it (hisappointment) as rein-forcement of Shuvalov’sposition, placing him in therole of Putin’s representativein the new cabinet,” said AlfaBank chief economist NatalyaOrlova.

Reuters

MOSCOW, 15 May—Aclose ally of President VladimirPutin staked a claim onMonday to stay on as theRussian government’s No 2,signaling continuity oneconomic policy andpotentially weakening PrimeMinister Dmitry Medvedev’sfuture role.

With just a week to gountil expiry of a deadline toform a new governmentfollowing Putin’s swearing infor a third Kremlin term on 7May, the shape of the nextgovernment remains unclear.

First Deputy PrimeMinister Igor Shuvalovstepped into the vacuum bycalling in a high-profilenewspaper interview forprivatization and pro-growthspending policies, whileslamming as “openhypocrisy” reports critical ofhis family’s dealings.

“We need to cut stateproperty in the economy byhalf,” Shuvalov told theVedomosti daily in an

interview that gave him aplatform to expound oneconomic policy and to fieldsoftball questions on a seriesof lucrative investments byhis wife.

Shuvalov, 45, cameunder pressure in March fromreports in the Western Pressthat his wife, Olga, had nettedover $100 million from a seriesof investment deals involvingRussian billionaires.

He has admitted the dealsbut said they were all legaland did not pose any conflictof interests.

“You can be sure that inall my years of governmentservice I have not allowed aconflict of interests to arise,”

Firefighters spray water on a burning fuel tanker whichcaught fire after a bomb planted in it detonated in the city ofJalalabad, Nangarhar Province, on 11 May, 2012.—REUTERS

Blast kills nine in Afghan northKABUL, 15 May— Explosives planted on a bicycle

killed nine people in the relatively peaceful Faryab Provinceof northern Afghanistan on Monday, including a provincialcouncil member, police said, amid an increase in violenceacross the country. The attack came a day after gunmen shotdead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the Capital Kabul,dealing another blow to the country’s attempts to negotiatea deal with the Taleban as a means to ending the war. TheTaleban denied involvement.

Police said the remote-controlled bomb killed eightcivilians and council member Amanullah Shahabzai as theysat in front of a pharmacy in the Ghormach District of Faryab.

Compared with Afghanistan’s restive south, whereTaleban militants hold large sway and enjoy enormouspopular support, the north has seen relatively little violencein the NATO-led war, which just entered its 11th year.

Afghan security officials have said they expect thisyear’s summer fighting season to be particularly bloody as thethird phase of a security handover from NATO to Afghanforces gets underway. NATO combat troops plan to leave byend-2014.—Reuters

Five dead, dozens wounded in Lebanonclashes

An air tanker drops retardant on a fire on 14 May, 2012near Crown King, Ariz. Fire crews spent the weekendfighting several wildfires in Arizona including the 4.5-

square-mile blaze near Crown King.—INTERNET

Northern AZ wildfire grows,prompts evacuations

Arizona, follow a warning from state land managers that hottemperatures and dry vegetation have created a very high firerisk in some areas.

Crown King is a popular destination for all-terrain vehiclesbecause of its numerous hills and gorges. It is located in themountains more than 85 miles north of Phoenix.—Internet

CROWN KING, 15 May—Firefighters continued to battlea wildfire on Monday in northern Arizona that has forcedresidents from their homes in the historic mining town ofCrown King just weeks ahead of the busy tourist season.

The fire began on private land on Sunday and has burnedabout 2 square miles as of Monday afternoon, with zerocontainment. The 1,300-acre, human-caused blaze alreadyhas destroyed two buildings and one trailer, Prescott NationalForest spokeswoman Debbie Maneely said.

The Crown King area remained under a mandatoryevacuation order, though authorities said most of the town’s350 residents had chosen to stay in the community of mostlysummer homes.

Maneely said most residents likely were staying withfamily and friends. An American Red Cross shelter in Mayer,which is about 24 miles north, had several evacuees, but theyhad left. Meanwhile, a fire south of Payson was 5 percentcontained by Monday evening after charring nearly 5 squaremiles in the Tonto National Forest. Authorities have yet todetermine a cause. The fire, and several others burning in

into Lebanon. Buildings inthe area are still riddled withbullet holes from similarclashes earlier in the year.

Islamist groups andofficials were meeting inTripoli on Monday to try tosolve the crisis.

“So far there is noagreement to deploy thearmy. They are afraid ofcreating another conflictbetween the army and thefighters,” said one cleric atthe meeting, who asked notto be named. “I’m worried theproblems here in Tripoli willonly spread until they agreeon doing something.”

Reuters

TRIPOLI, 15 May—Fivepeople were killed and morethan 70 wounded in clashesbetween Alawite supportersof Syrian President Basharal-Assad and Sunni Muslimsin the Lebanese city ofTripoli, medical sources saidon Monday.

Fierce clashes shook thenorthern port city overnightand sporadic fightingcontinued on Monday, asfighters holed up in bullet-scarred buildings firedmachineguns and rocket

propelled grenades.Tension between the

Alawite and Sunnicommunities in Tripoli hasbeen fuelled by the unrest inneighbouring Syria whereAssad seeks to crush a 14-month-old revolt that beganwith largely peaceful protestsbut has become increasinglymilitarized.

Assad is from the Alawitesect, an offshoot of Shi’iteIslam whereas the revolt hasbeen led by the majority SunniMuslims.

A small Alawite minorityis concentrated in Tripoli, aconservative Sunni Citywhere many residents havebeen enraged by the Syriangovernment’s crackdown.

Clashes began late onSaturday and three peoplewere killed at the weekend inthe city’s Alawite enclave andsurrounding Sunni Muslimneighbourhoods.

The fighting in Tripoli,70 km (43 miles) from Beirut,highlights how sectariantensions in Syria can spill

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 16 May, 2012 7

In this world nothing is eternal butchange. Everything changes at one pointor another, except for one thing, and thatis change itself. So changes never change.Change actually is to alter or to makedifferent or to cause to pass from one stateto another. Here, the truth is we cannotmake change without inconvenience. So,it is natural we sometimes hate changealthough it is the only thing that has beenthe source of development for mankind.Impermanence

As we are intelligent beings we canknow that things are impermanent, but theproblem here is we don’t see things thatway. Generally, the impermanence(anicca) in the minds of many of us is anunpleasant fact we would like to ignore.We wrongly assume most of the thingsaround us durable and fixed. So, we havea tendency of staying in places we feelcomfortable and safe, and we don’t wantany change to them. But we must knowevery change paves the way for thecommencement of more changes.

In reality, our world itself is a place ofconstant changes since its formationaround 4.54 billion years ago. Thanks toour ever changing planet, organismscontinuously evolve, followed by theemergence and extinction of life forms ofvarious species from time to time and ageto age. It is the evolution that has beencreating living things from prokaryotes,complex creatures and plants to mammals,birds and modern-day humans.Continental drift goes on every second

Changes never change

Changesneverchange Tin Maung Than

till now driven by the force of plate tectonicsshaping the natural features of landmassesand oceans as well as the life they areharbouring. In addition, the biosphere hashad a major impact on the atmosphere andother biotic conditions on the planet,helping form the ozone layer and soil, andproliferate oxygen in every part of the world.Likewise, countries of the world are alsochanging in one way or another as changeis the only means of survival in this highlycompetitive global trend.

One of the universal truths Lord Buddhataught mankind is that there are continuouschanges due to the law of cause and effect.This is the same law of cause and effectscience has already discovered. So we cansay, science and Buddhism have similarities.From the Buddhism point of view, all are ina state of flux, ever changing, ever moving,and permanence being simply a sheerillusion.

This illusion, according the Buddha,causes all sorts of problems for us humans.Buddhism has evolved in response tochanging circumstances.Life’s like river

According to the teachings of theBuddha, life is like a river, which is a momentpreceding step by step, a series of differentmoments in a row, joining together as onecontinuous flow.

The river of yesterday is not the same asthe river of today. Moment by moment, it ischanging. So does life. It changescontinuously, becomes something or theother from moment to moment.

In our world, everything flows andnothing remains unchanged; everythingmoves over to make room for others andnothing is permanent.

The red hot molten lava comes out frombeneath the earth and becomes cold andsolid on the surface. Ice melts because of thewarmth of sunlight, and water evaporatesinto vapor. Vapor also becomes water againand freezing temperatures can turn waterinto ice. Truthfully, everything ischangeable and everything appears and thendisappears.

Naturally, we humans have to passthrough different stages in life fromchildhood to adulthood, middle age andold age which in fact are not the same at any

specified time. The child is not the samewhen he grows up and becomes a youngman, nor when the latter turns into an oldman. Although a tree grows from a seed, thetwo are totally different from one another.Likewise, the fruit is not the tree albeit it isa product of the tree itself.

Essentially, change is nature’s way orthe inescapable universal constant. It willbe easier for us to make changes in our ownlives only if we understand and accept thatchange in fact is a law of nature whileembracing it in a correct way. In fact, thereis no perfect peace, but only theimpermanence (anicca) and the changesthat never change until we pass beyond theagony of life and death.

Vehicles without licence to beseized in Mandalay

MANDALAY, 15 May—Mandalay City is bustlingwith vehicles and becomespopulous due todevelopment of economy.

According to theDirectorate of RoadTransport, 56792 vehiclesand 352122 motorcycleshave been registered inMandalay Region.

Mandalay CityDevelopment Committee,Mandalay Region PoliceForce, Directorate of Road

Administration and Bus-lineControl Committee arejoining hands in supervisingvehicles and givingeducative talks to vehicleworkers with momentum.

Mandalay RegionTraffic Rules EnforcementCommittee announced thatit will supervise trading ofvehicles and motorcycleswithout licences and use ofthem under the existing laws.

Thiha Ko Ko(Mandalay)

RESPECTS PAID: Dagon Myothit (South) TownshipMaternal and Child Welfare Association and TownshipWomen’s Affairs Federation jointly held the ceremony to

pay respects to older persons at the Dhammayon ofWard 19 on 30 April. Chairperson of the TownshipMCWA Daw Nweni Khaing and party donate cash

assistance and snacks to older persons.—MYANMA ALIN

Myanmar, Bangladesh to holdborder trade meeting

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—Bangladesh gave offer to holdthe monthly meeting ofMyanmar and Bangladeshborder trade officers inSittway in the third week ofMay, according to thoseengaged in border trade.

The coming meetingwill be the sixth time. Theauthorities concerned areholding coordination so asto organize the meeting, saidan official of MaungtawBorder Trade Camp.

Although the meetingswere held between Myanmarand Bangladesh officersregularly, the good resultsdid not come out. Thus, themeeting was suspended. Dueto offer of Bangladesh,arrangements are being madefor holding the meeting.

At present, companiessubmit applications forlicence to export and importcommodities at MaungtawBorder Trade Camp.

Kyemon

Talk on Rise of China, Implicationsfor Neighbouring Countries 18 MayYANGON, 15 May—At the

Basic InternationalCommercial Course beingconducted by the Ministry ofCommerce at 228/240 onStrand Road of PabedanTownship, a talk entitled

Rise of China, Implicationsfor Neighbouring Countrieswill be given at 9 am on 18May.

Interested persons maydial 01-250871 and 09-47309514.—Kyemon

Greater production of tomatoesreduces price in Inlay region

NYAUNGSHWE, 15 May—Nyaungshwe of Shan State(South) is a gateway of InlayLake and it is a brokerage oftomatoes produced fromInlay region.

Inlay region producestomatoes the whole year. Asof the last week of April, thelocal farmers grow bestquality of tomatoes suitablefor summer. As ten eastvillages of Inlay and westvillages are producing a largenumber of tomatoes, pricesof tomatoes are cold.

Last year, tomatoes couldnot be cultivated in the landdue to bad weather of Inlay

Energy forum on 23-24 MayYANGON, 15 May—The

Renewable Energy, EnergyEfficiency Business &Finance Forum (REBF-2012)will be held at Traders Hotelon Sule Pagoda Road, here,on 23 and 24 May with the

aim of effectively usingrenewable energy andapplying energy efficiencytechnology.

The paper-readingsession on clean & green tech,booths, products,

Lake.But, the plants could be

grown on the floatingislands. Thus, price oftomatoes was as high as K900 per viss. This season,favourable weather and

larger acres of growingtomatoes reduce the price offruits at K 100 per viss.Whatever it may be, theconsumers are convenient incheaper price of tomatoes.

Myanma Alin

technological sharingseminars and meetings willbe held at the forum.

Those wishing to attendthe forum may dial571284.—Myanma Alin

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YANGON, 15 May—Agoodwill delegation led byPresident of the Republic ofKorea Mr Lee Myung-bakarrived at Yangon from NayPyi Taw by air this morning.They were welcomed byYangon Region ChiefMinister U Myint Swe andthe responsible personnel ofthe Ministry of ForeignAffairs at the YangonInternational Airport.

Next ROK President MrLee Myung-bak metChairperson Daw Aung SanSuu Kyi of National Leaguefor Democracy at SedonaHotel at 10.30 am today.

Afterwards, the ROKPresident and party laid awreath for fallen formerministers from the Republicof Korea at Azarnimausoleum at 11.40 pmtoday.

Moreover, thedelegation led by ROK

Korean President and party conclude visit

President held discussionswith persons of theOrganizations of the

Republic of Korea andMyanmar entrepreneurs.

The ROK President and

President of the Republic of Korea Mr Lee Myung-bak lays a wreath topay tribute to fallen ministers of ROK at Azarni Mausoleum.—MNA

party left Yangon at 2.40 pmby special flight.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—Union Minister for Finance andRevenue U Hla Tun received Director Mr Daniel Toole ofEast Asia Pacific Regional Office of UNICEF based inBangkok, Thailand yesterday morning.

At the meeting, they had a discussion on using morefunds in education and health sectors in reform process ofthe government, cooperation of the UNICEF in developmentof children’s education and health in Myanmar, and futurecooperation between the UNICEF and government.

Also present on the occasion were Deputy Minister UWin Than and officials.—MNA

UNICEF to continue tocooperate in children’seducation and health in

Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—Brig-Gen Thit Lin Ohn fromMingaladon Station and senior military officers, US MilitaryAttaché to Myanmar Colonel Brey R Sloan and officials sawoff goodwill delegation comprised of Deputy CommandantMr Richard Norland and trainees of United States NationalWar College, who had paid goodwill visit to Myanmar, atYangon International Airport at 8 pm yesterday.—MNA

US National War Collegedelegation heads home

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—ABSDF’s Than Ko Oo (a)Min Zaw, 26, bomber ofMyanaung and Hinthadablasts in Ayeyawady Regionwas seized on 11 May in MaeSot of Thailand.

He blew up MyanaungUnion Solidarity andDevelopment Party Office on20 November, 2011, andHinthada GeneralAdministration DepartmentOffice on 6 March, 2012.Combined team of MyanmarPolice Force, MyawaddyDistrict Police, ImmigrationDepartment of Mae Sot ofThailand and Mae Sot Policearrested him.

According toinvestigations, Than Ko Oo,a native of Petpye Village inMawlamyinegyun Town-ship, dropped out of AffiliatedBasic Education High Schoolof the village while in eightstandard. After the demise ofhis father and mother in 2008,he lived on odd jobs inYangon a year later.

He was a teacher at theschool of Save The Children

ABSDF’s Myanaung, Hinthada bomber seizedin Hlaingbon Village in2010. He then went to MaeSot of Thailand duringAugust of the same year andworked on a fishing boat fora month. Then, he fled toBangkok and arrived atMaetaw Clinic. Afterestablishing connection withABSDF, he completed smallweapon and explosioncourses. He arrived atDaungmin camp, a base ofABSDF, in October, 2011,and traveled on Theinzayat-Hpa-an-Yangon-Myanaungroute from 28 to 30 Octoberto observe the route forexplosion under instructionsof Lieutenant Khin Kyaw ofABSDF who instructed himto blow up governmentbuildings in Ayeyawady on6 November, providing himwith nine grenades, sixwalkie-talkies, six greypackages for installation ofgrenades and communica-tion equipments and K 0.1million.

On 18 November, hearrived at Myanaung viaYangon as he traveled along

T h e i n z a y a t - H p a - a n -Myanaung from Daungminstation. On 19 November, heapproached USDP Office andleft the activated mine withthe walkie-talkie and the timernear its fence. He thenexploded the mine on 20November with remotesystem. He then hid fourremaining mine packages indump at the back ofNgarmyethnar Monastery inHinthada to where he rushedby train and left for Mae Sot.

While he was in Mae SotABSDF Office, a man calledSonny visited him and senthim back to Hinthada withBaht 4000 to blast othergovernment offices as he wasnot satisfied with no-casualtyexplosion in Myanaung. Heleft Mae Sot on 3 March forYangon and then proceededto Hinthada. He took mineshidden in the monastery andplanted three activated minesnear Hinthada GAD Office.He blasted a mine in front ofthe office at 10 am on 6 Marchand did nothing with twoothers. He then returned toMae Sot and lived there atABSDF Office.

Acting on Than Ko Oo’sadmissions on 12 May that amine hidden between thewater closet and septic tankin the backyard of DhammaBeikman Dhammayon ofPhayagyi Monastery ofPhayagyi ward in Hinthada, agrenade, a sheet of low-gradegunpowder, a walkie-talkie, adetonator and relatedmaterials were seized.

The bomber is still underinvestigation and measuresare being taken to arrestrelated culprits.—MNA

YANGON, 15 May—The33rd Asia Pacific Junior GolfChampionship 2012, hostedby Myanmar and organizedby Myanmar Golf Federation,kicked off at Pun Hlaing GolfClub in Hlinethaya Township,here, yesterday afternoon.

Patron of Myanmar GolfFederation Maj-Gen WinHlaing (Rtd), officials andyouth golf teams and guestsattended the openingceremony.

On behalf of the

33rd Asia Pacific Junior Golf Championship2012 kicks offPresident of MFG, Vice-President U Min Thein madean opening speech andopened the championship.

On the first round,Abhishek Kuhar (India) ledthe men’s (aged 15-17) eventof Group A with four-under-par 68, followed by S Sharma(India) with three-under-par69 and Danthai Boonma(Thailand) two under-par 70.

In the men’s aged 13-14event of Group B, VirajMadappa (India) stood first

with two-under-par 70;Phachara Khongwatmai(Thailand) and Prakhar Asawa(India) tied at the secondpositions with 72 each; andPiyush Sangwan (India) shot73 in the third position.

In the inter-club event,India took a leading role with210 strokes, followed byThailand with 216 andMalaysia 225.

Co-sponsors of thechampionship are Pun HlaingGolf Club, Higer Bus(Myanmar), Elite Express,Srixon, Alpine (PurifiedDrinking Water) under themanagement of Han GolfMasters Pte Ltd.

The second round of thechampionship will continuetomorrow morning. The fourthand final round will be held atthe same venue in conjunctionwith the prize presentationceremony.—MNA

Photo shows saboteur Than Ko Oo (a) MinZaw, 26, of ABSDF.—MNA

Officials

see off

Deputy

Commandant

Mr Richard

Norland

and

trainees of

National

War

College of

the US at

Yangon

International

Airport.

MNA

YANGON, 15 May—The Basic Remote Sensing SystemCourse will be conducted at e-Learning Center of MyanmarInfo-Tech in Hline Township from 9 am to 4 pm on 26 and 27May and 2 and 3 June. For further information, dial 652285and 652286. A total of 20 trainees will be admitted at thecourse, and those wishing to attend the course may registerat the centre, not later than 25 May.

MNA

Basic Remote Sensing Course26-27 May, 2-3 June

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NAY PYI TAW, 15May— Regional Director forEast Asia and the Pacific MrDaniel Toole of UnitedNations Children’s Fund(UNICEF) called on UnionMinister for NationalPlanning and EconomicDevelopment U Tin NaingThein at the latter’s officethis morning and explainedcurrent tasks of UNICEF and

Promotion of cooperation withUNICEF discussed

promotion of cooperation.The Union

Minister discussedinternational aids to regionsand states to contribute todevelopment plans of theState and effectively usingthese aids in ruraldevelopment and povertyalleviation and humanresources development andapplication of Monitoring

and Evaluation Systemamong ministries, region andstate governments andinternational organizations.

Also present at thecall were the Director-Generalof Planning Department, theDeputy Director-General ofForeign Economic RelationsDepartment and responsiblepersonnel.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15May—Deputy Minister forEducation U Aye Kyureceived newly-appointedDirector Mr Daniel Tooleand party of Bangkok-basedEast Asia and PacificRegional UNICEF Office ofThailand at his office at 11am today.

At the call, the

Dy Education Minister receives Directorfrom UNICEF

deputy minister explainedgiving English language tostudents of basic educationlevel for uplift of Englishproficiency, imple-menta-tion of compulsory primaryeducation, and arrangementsfor providing scholarshipand stipend to the students.

They discussed all-round development of

children, availability ofgreater learning op-portunities, training ofvocational education, earlychildhood development,enrolment of all school-going age children, tasks ofnon-formal primary educa-tion and cooperation withUNICEF.

MNA

YANGON, 15 May—The visiting Chinesedelegation led by Member ofCentral Politburo of theCommunist Party of China andVice-chairman of NationalCommittee of People’sPolitical ConsultativeConference Mr Wang Gangpresented 100 units of

Chinese delegation donates computers tobasic education schools

primary education schools inThingangyun Townshipthrough responsible personsat No.4 Basic Education HighSchool Thingangyun here thismorning as a manner of China-Myanmar friendship with aview to enabling students tolearn advanced subjects.

The Chinese

Junction in MayangonTownship where they viewedpatients suffering cataractreceiving treatment. Then,Patron of AlinyaungFoundation of Myanmar UAung Thein Lin and SecretaryGeneral Mr Xu Zhensui ofChina Foundation for Peaceand Development signed

delegation, Secretary-General of Union Solidarityand Development Party UHtay Oo, ChineseAmbassador to Myanmar MrLi Junhua, personnel ofChinese Embassy and schoolheads and students werepresent at the donationceremony. Mr Wang Gang andpersonnel opened thecomputer room and viewedstudents learning computerlessons. Mr Wang Gang andthe USDP Secretary-Generalplanted a tree in front of theschool in commemoration ofM y a n m a r - C h i n acooperation.The Chinesedelegation then proceeded toMyodaw Clinic at Thamine

agreement on jointconstruction of first Myanmar-China eye treatment centre,followed by speeches of UHtay Oo and Mr Wang Gang.The Chinese delegationcalled on Yangon RegionChief Minister U Myint Sweat Yangon RegionGovernment Office thismorning and discussedmatters of mutual cooperation.

The region chiefminister then hosted aluncheon to the Chinesedelegation at KandawgyiPalace Hotel. The Chinesedelegation paid homage toShwedagon Pagoda in theevening and donated cash tothe pagoda.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 15May—The government issteadfastly and effectivelycombating narcotic drugsthat pose a threat to themankind as a national duty.

As the Tatmadaw,Myanmar Police Force andlocal people joined hands inexposing information onnarcotic drugs and keepingTachilek region away fromdanger of narcotic drugs, thecombined team engaged withdrug fugitive Sai Naw KhamGroup three times fromJanuary to April 2012. Smallsplinter groups fled Sai NawKham Group. From 23 to 30April, a 30-member group ledby Aik Tun, Law Hsan andTun Shwe from drug fugitiveSai Naw Kham returned tothe legal fold bringing alongwith 15 assorted arms.

At 5.45 pmyesterday, a 15-member

Armed groups realizing benevolence of Stateand Tatmadaw return to legal fold

group led by Ya Ei bringingalong with seven arms, 378rounds of ammunition, 12magazines, four mines and13 grenades returned to thelegal fold at the local militarycolumn in NawtawngVillage. A four-membergroup led by Ah Htubringing along with fivearms, 118 rounds ofammunition, fourmagazines, four mines and17 grenades returned to thelegal fold at the local militarycolumn in LawsanshiVillage at 6 pm and a six-member group led by YawHan with six arms, 80 roundsof ammunition, eightmagazines and two mines atthe military camp inTachilek region at 6.30 pm,totalling 25 members, 18assorted arms, 576 rounds ofammunition, 24 magazines,10 mines and 30 grenades.

Tatmadaw anddepartmental officialspresented rehabilitation aidsto the groups who havealready returned to legal foldat the hall of local stationthis morning. The localmilitary columns aresystematically safeguardingthe region to be able toprevent infiltration ofterrorist insurgents andprocess of narcotic drugtrafficking.

MNA

computer and 10 sets of printerto five basic education highschools, four basic educationmiddle schools and two post-

Union I&C Minister U Kyaw Hsan presents prize to Daw Po Po Kyi,Director (Retd) from Attorney-General’s Office on behalf of members of

Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Award Scrutiny Board, Motion PictureCensor Board and Video Censor Borad. (News on page 16).—MNA

An armed group ledby Aik Tun, Law

Hsan and Tun Shwefrom drug fugitive

Sai Naw KhamGroup return to

legal fold realizingbenevolence of Stateand Tatmadaw with

15 arms.—MNA

Patron of Alinyaung Foundation of Myanmar U Aung Thein Lin andSecretary General Mr Xu Zhensui of China Foundation For Peace andDevelopment sign Agreement of Establishment of First Myanmar-China

Eye Treatment Centre.—MNA

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Educative talks on collection ofincome tax given

KALAY, 15 May—Aclarification on income taxfor salary was made byInternal RevenueDepartment in KalayTownship of Kalay Districtin Sagaing Region on 27April.

At the ceremony, Headof Township InternalRevenue Department UMyint Wai explainedcollection of income tax fromsalary. He then replied toquestions raised by thosepresent.—District IPRD

Basic fire fighting course concludes in ZabuthiriTownship

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—The basic fire fighting course1/2012 concluded at the hallof General AdministrationDepartment in ZabuthiriTownship of Nay Pyi TawCouncil Area on 7 Maymornig.

Director U Than KyawKyaw of Nay Pyi Taw FireServices Department made aconcluding remark.

The ceremony wasattended by ZabuthiriTownship Administrator U

Win Maw, Head of TownshipFire Services Department UMoe Thiha Zaw,departmental personnel,ward and village

administrators, members ofsocial organizations and 50trainees.

The course lasted twoweeks.—Kyemon

Per acre yield of summer paddy declines due topest in Yedashe

YEDASHE, 15 May—Over20000 acres of farmlandslocated in irrigated area ofSwa Dam were harvested inYedashe Township of BagoRegion in the last week of

MCDC setsrules forvendors

MANDALAY, 15 May—Mandalay City DevelopmentCommittee announced thatvendors are not allowed tosell shops on roads, streets,pavements and junctions inthe city, and sell fuels, dieseland petroleum withoutpermission.

Moreover, betel shopsare to be moved with carts,according to the RevenueDepartment of MandalayCity DevelopmentCommittee. If anyone doesnot follow the rules, actionwill be taken against themunder existing laws.

Ko Ko Gyi (Mandalay)

April and the first week ofMay.

Farmers who grewsummer paddy could produce70-80 baskets ofShwethweyin and

Manawthukha paddy per acreon average.

At present, pestsdestroyed the paddy inIngyingon, Gyopinhtaik,Pyisok, Swaminlan, Hmansiand Kyain villages of KongyiVillage-tract.

The farmers spentsurplus expenses forprevention against pest byharvesting the pest-affectedpaddy plantationimmediately and spraying thepaddy fields.

Although price of paddydeclines at present, charge oflabour raises. Therefore,paddy cultivation is not becost effectiveness.

Kyemon

SANITATIONCARRIED OUT: In

commemoration of theWorld Red Cross Day,

the sanitation wascarried out along both

sides of Mandalay-Lashio Union Highway

and around HsipawTownship People’s

Hospital of Shan State(North) on 8 May. Photoshows participation ofmembers of Red CrossBrigade in sanitation

tasks in front of HsipawPeople’s Hospital.

KYEMON

Rare bird species of Mottamato be protected

KYAUKTAN, 15 May—Officials concerned gavetalks on protection ofendangered Mongolianplovers to the local people inMottama Gulf and its relatedcoastal regions.

The numbers of birdsare now about 500 throughout the world.

They gave birth tooffspring in Russia in therainy season and thenarrive in coastal regions ofMyanmar to keep

themselves away from coldseason as migratory birds.They focus on the MottamaGulf for taking shelter inthe cold season. About 50per cent of the Mongliaplovers across the world aretaking shelter in the winter.

Law has beenpromulgated not to catch andsell water birds.

Local people are to takepride of their regions byconserving theenvironment.—Aung Swe

DISTRICT NEWS

Entrance fees for YadanabonZoological Gardens rose

MANDALAY, 15 May—Entrance fee for Yadanabon

Zoological Gardens inMandalay rose to K 1000 perman from K 500, K 500 perchild from K 250 and K 200per monk from K 100 as of 1April.

Htoo Co got the long-term contract for managementof the Zoo from Ministry ofEnvironmental Conser-vation and Forestry startingfrom April 2011.

Except Saturday andSunday and governmentholidays, people fromvarious regions of the countryand visitors to Nanmyo andMandalay Hill visit the zoo.

Due to raising theentrance fee, the number ofvisitors will decline, said thelocal people of Mandalay.

Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)

Hsipaw plans to grow saplings forenvironmental conservation

HSIPAW, 15 May—According to the ruraldevelopment and povertyalleviation programme,Hsipaw Township ForestDepartment nurtures 29700saplings of teak, 3000 teak,Eucalyptus and 5400 othersaplings for cultivation oflocal people and 2400 teakplants, 500 Eucalyptus, 400cherry and 300 Mezali plantsfor Namhsam Township soas to contribute toconservation of forestresources andenvironmental protection.

Moreover, about 7600saplings of mango, jack fruitand other plants are beingnurtured under the

instruction of the Shan StateChief Minister.

This year, HsipawTownship will grow 43,300

teaks and other saplings tobe distributed to the localpeople free of charge.

Kyemon

Photo shows various saplings at nursery of Hsipaw

Township Forest Department.

DonateBlood

Price of Bangladesh products risesat Maungtaw border market

NAY PYI TAW, 15 May—As price of Kata currencyrises at Maungtaw bordermarket as of the last week ofApril, price of commoditiesimported from Bangladeshincreases slightly,according to the shops thatsell products of Bangladesh.

In the exchange rate ofcurrency betweenM y a n m a r - B a n g l a d e s hborder, price of Kata 100declined to below K 1000 ofMyanmar currencybeginning last two years.

“Due to rising exchange

rate of Kata currency ofBangladesh, price ofproducts imported fromBangladesh go up slightly.But it is not high. The priceexceeds K 300 than that ofold price,” said a fuel shopowner.

At present, 100 Kata ofBangladesh rises to K 980 toK 990 in the market. If thevalue of Kata currencyincreases, exportentrepreneurs will have costeffectiveness in their works,according to the bordertrader.—Kyemon

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Women of the Miao ethnic group pick tea at a teaplantation in Huishui County, southwest China’s

Guizhou Province, on 15 May, 2012. Huishui County hasentered the tea picking season.— XINHUA

Indonesian airlines Sky Aviation delays itsSukhoi plane order

JAKARTA, 15 May—Following the SukhoiSuperjet 100 airliner’s crash,an official from the Indonesiancarrier PT Sky Aviationaffirmed on Tuesday that thecompany will re-evaluate itscontract with Sukhoi CivilAircraft over the purchase of12 airplanes, local mediareported.

Sky Aviation’s safetymanager, Sukamto, said onTuesday that the accidenthad triggered the companyto delay the delivery of theordered aircraft.

“We will wait for theresults of the ongoinginvestigation into the causeof the accident before we takethe next step,” he said asquoted by the Kompas.com.

According to Sukamto,officials from the NationalTransportation SafetyCommittee (KNKT) haveconfirmed that the air crashinvestigation would take oneyear to complete.

Earlier, an officialstatement from the RussianEmbassy in Jakarta confirmedthat the contract was signed

during the InternationalAviation and Space SalonMAKS-2011 in Zhukovsky,Russia, on 16 Aug, 2011. Thecontract was valued 380.4million U S dollars.

Last week, an executiveat Indonesian domestic carrierPT Kartika Airlines said thatthe delivery of 30 RussianSukhoi Superjet 100 aircraftthat his company had orderedwould also likely be delayedfollowing the plane crash.

Another Indonesiancarrier, Queen Air, which hasordered six Sukhoi Superjet

100 aircraft, has yet to confirmwhether they will cancel theirorder.

A Sukhoi Superjet 100jetliner crashed during apromotion flight in the slopeof Mt Salak, West Java, on 9May, to demonstrate itsairworthiness to potentialIndonesian customers,killing all the 45 people onboard. It is the first deadlyaccident since theintroduction of the Russianiconic passenger plane intothe southeast Asian country.

Xinhua

Employment to rise for first time in a year — poll

LONDON, 15 May—Employers plan to increasestaffing for the first time in ayear, a survey showed onMonday, raising hopes thathigher employment mayboost morale and consumerspending.

However, the CharteredInstitute of Personnel andDevelopment (CIPD), whichcommissions the quarterlypoll, warned that a

“zigzagging economicbackdrop” could make ithard to sustain any short-termrecovery in the labour market.

“News of a double-diprecession may cause someemployers to reassess currentstaffing levels, especiallywhile labour costs are risingand productivity is falling,”said Gerwyn Davies, publicpolicy adviser at the CIPD.

“The current economic

situation facing recruiterslooks unusually difficult toread, which may lead toswings in confidence for therest of the year ... compared tothe slow, gradual rise inunemployment recordedduring the past year.”

The survey of more than1,000 employers in private,public and voluntaryorganisations was carried outby YouGov between 28February and 26 March,before official data in Aprilshowed that Britain’seconomy had unexpectedlyslipped into its secondrecession since the financialcrisis began.

The CIPD net employ-ment balance, measuring thedifference between the shareof employers that intend toincrease their workforce andthose that plan to reduce it inthe second quarter, jumpedto +6 from -8 for the previousthree months.—Reuters

People enter a job centre in London on 12 Aug, 2009.REUTERS

Trilateral deal could balance agro tradeBEIJING, 15 May—China

will work to strike a balancein its agricultural trade withJapan and South Korea byproviding reasonably pricedagricultural products as along-discussed free tradeagreement among the threecountries is poised to comeinto existence, according tothe Ministry of Commerce.

“China won’t compre-hensively charge high pricesfor its agricultural productswhen they enter Japanese andSouth Korean marketsfollowing the establishment

of a trilateral free tradeagreement,” said SunYuanjiang, deputy director-general of the internationaldepartment of the ministry.

China, Japan and SouthKorea, East Asia’s threeleading economies, agreedon Sunday at a Beijingsummit to start talking aboutforming a free tradeagreement this year.

Sun, who is also the chiefChinese negotiator for theagreement, said Japan andSouth Korea overprotecttheir own agricultural

industries and that tradedisputes over agriculturegoods have put up a barrier tothe establishment of anagreement.

According to a surveyby the Organization forEconomic Cooperation &Development — an organiza-tion that promotes worldtrade and helps to coordinateits members’ economicpolicies — 63 percent ofSouth Korean farmers’revenues come fromgovernment subsidies. ForJapanese farmers, the numberis 53 percent.

These are the two highestpercentages for any countriesin the world.

“Overprotection hasresulted in the price ofagricultural goods in Japanand South Korea beingunreasonably high,” saidBian Zhenhu, director at theministry’s China Chamber ofCommerce of Foodstuffs &Native Produce. “In contrast,Chinese agricultural goodsare less expensive.”

Xinhua

Workers processing squid for export to Japan in Ganyucounty, Jiangsu province. China will work to strike a

balance in its agricultural trade with Japan and SouthKorea.—INTERNET

EU to lodge suit against Argentina with WTOMADRID, 15 May—The European Union

has agreed to file a trade suit againstArgentina’s import restrictions with theWorld Trade Organization (WTO), a seniorSpanish government source said on Monday.

The suit is not directly linked toArgentine President Cristina Fernandez’sdecision to seize control of its biggest oilcompany, YPF, a subsidiary of Spain’sRepsol.

But the move last month played a role inthe EU’s decision, the source told Reuters.

“The European Union has decided tofile a complaint (with the WTO) which willmean, if the EU wins, very serious tradesanctions for Argentina,” the source said.

“The EU’s decisions follow from all thenon-fulfillments which Argentina has built

up before the WTO. The Repsol problem hasreally just been the straw that broke thecamel’s back.”

The complaint will be lodged with theWTO within the next few days, the sourcesaid. A spokesman for EU trade commissionerKarel de Gucht could not immediately bereached for comment.

The issue prompted a war of wordsbetween the South American country and atleast 14 of its trading partners in recent weeks.

US Ambassador to the WTO MichaelPunke led the criticism at a 30 March meetingof the WTO’s Goods Council, where he saidArgentina had put a blanket restriction ontrade by requiring import licenses on allimported goods from 1 Feb this year.

Reuters

Photo taken on 15 May,2012 shows the newly-builtdeepwater pipelay cranevessel “Hai Yang Shi You

201” in Qingdao, a coastalcity of east China’s

Shandong Province. Thevessel, with a length of

204.65 metres and width of39.2 metres, will sail forthe South China Sea to

conduct pipelay operationin the Liwan 3-1

gasfield.—XINHUA

Watson book calls Murdoch empire a “shadow state”NEW YORK, 15 May—

“Dial M For Murdoch: NewsCorporation and theCorruption of Britain” isamong the moreprovocatively titled booksabout Rupert Murdoch, thecontroversial head of globalnews conglomerate NewsCorp, owner of FOX News,the Wall Street Journal andother media brands.

True to its nod to theAlfred Hitchcock thriller, thebook is a suspenseful tale ofthe ongoing phone hackingscandal in Britain from oneof its key players: TomWatson, a Labour Partymember of Parliament andone the fiercest critics ofMurdoch’s media empire,who co-authored the bookwith The Independent’sMartin Hickman.

As its subtitle suggests,it also offers passionate andaggrieved claims about thepower that Murdoch andNews International, thepublisher of News Corp’sBritish titles, gained in recentyears and about how they

sought to protect that powerwith an all-embracingapparatus of intimidation.

“Incompetence alonecannot explain all of thesefailures,” the authors write,citing the failure of ScotlandYard, most UK media andmany top politicians for failingto prevent or even adequatelyprobe the phone hackingscandal that surfaced in 2009.

“Fear allowed the phonehacking scandal to happen -

fear of public humiliation foran indiscretion, fear of notwinning that glowingendorsement,” the bookstates.

The book comes as thescandal continues to rivet theUK, where on 1 May aparliamentary committee —including Watson - conclud-ed the 81-year old Murdochwas “not a fit person” to leada global media firm.

Reuters

Bus accident in eastern Cubakills five

HAVANA, 15 May—A passenger bus fell off a cliff ineastern Cuba on Monday, killing five people, including alittle girl, and wounding several others, the national policeforce (PNR) said. The accident occurred when the vehicleoverturned on a slope in the town of Rafael Freyre, HolguinProvince, 735 km east of Havana, PNR officer Juan CarlosFonseca told Cuban news media.

A team of experts was trying to determine the cause ofthe accident, he said, adding that the victims died on the spot.

Road accidents are the fifth leading cause of deaths inCuba, which reported 10,553 accidents in 2011, or 1,126more than in 2010. Drunken Driving and general recklessnessamong both drivers and pedestrians are the main causes ofaccidents in Cuba, where legislators are proposing moresevere sanctions against these violations.—Xinhua

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TAMPAN VOY NO (445)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTATAMPAN VOY NO (445) are hereby notified thatthe vessel will be arriving on 16-5-2012 and cargowill be discharged into the premises of A.W.P.Twhere it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expensesand subject to the byelaws and conditions of the Portof Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final dischargeof cargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BILLION VOY NO (133)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BILLIONVOY NO (133) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 16-5-2012 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of S.P.W(4) where itwill lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses andsubject to the byelaws and conditions of the Port ofYangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final dischargeof cargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S PHULSAWAT SHIPPINGCO LTD

Phone No: 256919/256916/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV MERKUR BRIDGE VOY NO (005)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV MERKURBRIDGE VOY NO (005) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 16-5-2012 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Daynow declared as the third day after final dischargeof cargo from the Vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S MOL (S’PORE) PTE LTDPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

TRADE MARKCAUTIONARY NOTICE

Population ServicesInternational/Myanmarof No. 16 West ShweGone Dine 4th Street,Bahan Township, YangonMyanmar is the Owner ofthe following TradeMarks:

Reg. No. 4/3405/2012

The abovementionedtrademark will be used inrespect of:

“Quality identifier forACT (Artemisinin-basedcombination therapy)malaria treatment”.

Reg. No. 4/3406/2012

The abovementionedtrademark will be used inrespect of:

Artemisinin-based combi-nation drug for treatmentof uncomplicated Plasmo-dium falciparum malaria”.Any fraudulent imitationor unauthorized use of thesaid Trade Marks will bedealt with according tolaw.

Population ServicesInternational/MyanmarNo. 16, West Shwe GoneDine 4th Street, BahanTownship, YangonTelephone: 375855-8

Emergency transmitterfound at Indonesia crash site

JAKARTA, 15 May—Search teams on Monday found anemergency transmitter from the Russian jet that slammedinto a dormant volcano in Indonesia but said they are yet tolocate the flight recorders that could explain the deadlycrash. Russian experts and Indonesian searchers combingthe remote area where the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed onWednesday, killing all 45 on board, found the emergencylocator transmitter (ELT) and other instruments in a deepravine on Mount Salak.

The old-model transmitter, which sends out a distresssignal in the event of a crash, would not have been able tocommunicate via satellite but was designed to be picked upby rescuers on the ground, or by airport control towers, rescuechief Daryatmo said.

Officials have said they did not receive a signal after theaccident. Dozens of Russian experts have flown to Indonesiain recent days to join the investigation.

Some are assisting Indonesian teams at the crash site,south of the capital Jakarta, where the tail of the plane was onSunday located in a 500-metre deep ravine.—Internet

In a photo taken on 12 May, an Indonesian soldiersearches through the wreckage at the crash site of theRussian Sukhoi Superjet 100 in Mount Salak. Searchteams have found an emergency transmitter from theRussian jet that slammed into the dormant volcano in

Indonesia.—INTERNET

Fire that killed six children ‘deliberate’

Toxic gas kills four atChina paper mill

WUHAN, 15 May— Four workers were suffocated todeath on Monday while cleaning a waste pulp sink at a papermill in central China’s Hubei Province, local authorities said.

A preliminary investigation indicated they were poisonedby toxic gas, the city government of Xiantao said in a Pressrelease on Tuesday.

It said the accident happened at 9 am at Shengda PaperIndustrial Co Ltd in Zhanggou Township.

Qiao Bencai, a temporary employee, was sent down the2.8-metre deep sink at 8:30 am, but passed out while cleaningthe waste pulp, the document said.

Three colleagues, including a workshop manager, wentdown to his rescue, but fainted in the sink, too.

All four had died when they were pulled out.It said the exact cause of their deaths was still under

investigation.Many paper mills use chlorine gas to bleach pulp for

white paper and dangerous pollution is often created as abyproduct.

Xinhua

LONDON, 15 May—A fire that killed six children in a housein central England appears to have been deliberately set,police said on Monday.

The fire broke out in the early hours of Friday in a familyhouse in Derby. Five siblings aged five to 10 died rapidly fromsmoke inhalation, police said, while their brother DuwaynePhilpott, 13, died from his injuries overnight on Sunday.

The assistant chief constable of Derbyshire Police, SteveCotterill, said: “After further forensic examination we believethe fire was not accidental. “Initial indications are that it wasdeliberately set and as a result six children have been unlawfullykilled.” A local man and woman who were arrested followingthe blaze were released without charge, police said on Saturday.

“The forensic examination is still continuing. A numberof specialists, including fingerprints officers, have beenexamining the scene and this is likely to continue for some

A 13-year-oldboy has died inhospital after ahouse fire that

claimed thelives of five ofhis brothersand sisters,DerbyshirePolice said.

INTERNET

time,” Cotterill said on Monday. He added that police had notyet spoken “in detail” with the children’s parents. “That willhappen sometime this week as understandably the couple aredistraught at the loss of their six children,” he said.—Internet

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Garrett McNamara of Haleiwa, Hawaii, won the BiggestWave title at the 2012 Billabong XXL Big Wave Awardswith this world record 78-foot wave ridden at Praia doNorte, Nazar’, Portugal on 1 November, 2011 shown inthis image released to Reuters on 11 May, 2012. Big-

wave surfer Garrett McNamara has been recognized byGuinness World Records for surfing the largest wave

ever ridden, a towering 78-foot (24 -metre) wall of waterhe says he caught at Nazare, Portugal, in November

while “totally in the moment.”

Man returns stolen plants after 54 yearsA Kentucky man has returned two potted

hydrangeas he stole from a Nashville park togive to his mom for Mother’s Day in 1958.

Bill Teitleff, 72, who now lives in westernKentucky, said he was 18 and unable to afforda Mother’s Day gift when he took the plantsfrom Centennial Park and sent them to hismom in Kentucky, WSMV-TV, Nashville,reported. He said the the plans were the mostbeautiful, perfectly formed hydrangeas hehad ever seen. “They were just perfect in rowsand pots,” Teitleff said of the plants hescooped up from the park.

“I knew it was wrong. I thought all along

Grenadefound in

radio; policeevacuate

Police in Philadelphiasaid a building housing twodistrict headquarters wasevacuated after a man broughtin a grenade he discoveredinside a radio.

Investigators said a manin his 60s arrived at theHarbison Avenue and LevickStreet building, which housesthe 2nd and 15th policedistricts, and handed over aplastic-wrapped grenade hesaid he discovered inside aradio he purchased earlier inthe day at a flea market, thePhiladelphia Daily Newsreported.

“Once they discoveredit was a grenade, safetybecame paramount and wewanted everyone out of thebuilding,” Sgt Leo Costellosaid. Costello said the bombsquad was called to disposeof the grenade, which wasfound to be live, and thescene was cleared in theevening.

that I was borrowing them. But this stayedwith me all this time,” Teitleff said. “Now it’sbeen 54 years, and I’ve got the root and sameflowers that they have accepted back now.This doesn’t clear what I did. That’s betweenme and him (points to the sky). But this isbetween me and the people here at the park,and they’ve accepted wholeheartedly.”

Teitleff said he was glad when parkofficials accepted the plants and his apology.

“Sometimes it hurts when we go backand ask somebody for forgiveness, but whenwe do, we feel better inside and that personthinks a lot more of us,” Teitleff said.

Student graduates with quadruple majorA student at the College

of St Scholastica inMinnesota has graduatedwith a quadruple major and a4.0 grade point average injust four years.

Brock Erdahl, whograduated from the schoolin Duluth, said carefulplanning allowed him tofinish bachelor’s degrees inhistory, political science,global culture/languagestudies and Catholic studieswith a French minor in onlyfour years with perfectgrades, the Duluth NewsTribune reported.

“I tried to carefullymanage my time from the get-go,” Erdahl said. “I plotted

out what I wanted toaccomplish, what courses Ineeded, and how they wouldlead to a certain degree,instead of taking classes willynilly.”

Erdahl said his originalplan was to graduate in justtwo years with a double majorin history and political science,but his experiences at theschool convinced him to stayfor the quadruple major.

“I enjoyed school sothoroughly, I didn’t want torush and leave prematurely,”he said.

Randall Poole, anassociate professor ofhistory at St Scholastica, saidErdahl was one of the

college’s most remarkablegraduates.

“I’ve not had a betterstudent in my career thanBrock Erdahl,” he said.

Obscene chocolates given to schoolkidsThe Australian school official who handed out chocolates shaped like breasts, penises,

posteriors and copulating couples to children resigned.The parents of students at Woodberry Public School in Woodberry, north of Sydney,

said they were shocked when they spotted the provocatively shaped candies at a Mother’sDay event at the school, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph reported.

“I had to do a double-take,” said Cassandra Lacey, whose two sons attend the school.“Every single chocolate was to do with sex. This was in the school hall, on the school groundsand in school time.” A Department of Education and Communities spokesman said thechocolates were not provided by school officials.

“The school says that the gifts were prepared by parents, for parents, and the school hadno knowledge of them until some of the mothers complained,” he said.

School council President Jenny Gray said the official responsible for the chocolates hasresigned and the Federation of P&C Associations has been called in.

News Album

‘Avengers’ storms the boxoffice again

LOS ANGELES, 15 May—“Avengers” racked upanother $103.2 million at theNorth American box office inits second weekend ofrelease, Exhibitor Relationsreported on Sunday.

The superheroensemble picture passed the$1 billion mark worldwide in19 days, The HollywoodReporter said.

Coming in at No 2 at thedomestic box office is “DarkShadows” with $28.8 million,followed by “Think Like aMan” at No 3 with $6.3 million,“The Hunger Games” at No 4with $4.4 million and “TheLucky One” at No 5 with $4.1million, Exhibitor Relationssaid.

‘Avengers’add

$103.2Mdomesticallyin sprint

to $1billionmark

worldwide.INTERNET

‘Swamp People’ star Mitchell Guist dead at 47NEW ORLEANS, 15 May— “Swamp

People” star Mitchell Guist died on Mondaymorning along Louisiana’s Belle River,authorities said. He was 47. People.com saidno cause of death has been reported, butCPR was attempted and unsuccessful.

TMZ said Guist may have fallen fromhis boat and witnesses said he appeared tosuffer from a seizure. “We are extremelysaddened to report that our friend andbeloved member of the ‘Swamp People’

Brothers Glenn and Mitchell Guist, starsof “Swamp People.” Photo courtesy of

The History Channel.—INTERNET

Demi Lovatoto be ‘X

Factor’ judgeLOS ANGELES, 15 May—

Singer and actress DemiLovato is to serve as thefourth member of the judges’panel on the US version of“The X Factor,” MTV.comsaid.

The 19-year-old formerstar of Disney Channel’s“Sonny with a Chance” is tojoin pop star Britney Spears,Simon Cowell and LA Reidas judges on Season 2 of thesinging competition shownext fall, the report said.

Others considered forthe job were Avril Lavigne,Janet Jackson and MariahCarey, MTV.com said.

Paula Abdul and NicoleScherzinger were fired asjudges after the first seasonof “X Factor” aired andwasn’t a ratings winner. Theirreplacements — Lovato andSpears — are expected to beofficially announced thisweek.—Internet

family, Mitchell Guist, has passed awayearlier today,” The History Channel said ina statement Monday. “Mitchell passed onthe swamp, doing what he loved. Weappreciate your respect for the Guist family’sprivacy and hope you join us in sending ourthoughts and prayers to his brother, Glenn,and the rest of the Guist family.

The network said Mitchell Guist’s birthdate was on 18 May, 1964.

He and his brother, Glenn, “were bornand raised on the bayou and live entirely offthe land,” The History Channel said on itsWeb site in a biography for the brothers.

“These brothers are always up tosomething, whether it’s hunting for theirdinner or making use of everything naturehas to offer. This season, the boys are hopingto repair their homes with cypress wood fromthe swamp and maybe even catch a gator.One thing is for sure: Their adventuresalways lead to interesting places,” thebiography said.—Internet

Rounding out the toptier are “The Pirates! Band ofMisfits” at No 6 with $3.2million, “The Five-YearEngagement” at No 7 with$3.1 million, “The Best ExoticMarigold Hotel” at No 8 with$2.7 million, “Chimpanzee”at No. 9 with $1.6 million and“Girl in Progress” at No 10with $1.4 million.—Internet

Singer Demi Lovato is setto be a judge on the US

version of “The XFactor.”—INTERNET

Sarah Hyland says dad gave her a kidneyLOS ANGELES, 15 May—

US actress Sarah Hyland toldSeventeen magazine shesuffers from kidneydysplasia and last monthunderwent a transplant witha kidney her father donated.

Hyland, 21, stars on the

Kim Spradlin, winner of“Survivor: One World.”Photo courtesy of CBS.

INTERNET

Kim Spradlinwins

‘Survivor’Texan, has been declared thewinner of “Survivor: OneWorld” in Upolu, Samoa.

She took home the $1million top prize on Sundaynight’s 24th “Survivor”season finale.

Sabrina Thompson, 33,from New York was thesurvival competition show’srunner-up, and ChelseaMeissner, 26, fromCharleston, SC, was thesecond runner-up.—Internet

Actress Sarah Hyland of“Modern Family” suffers

from kidney dysplasia.INTERNET

sitcom “Modern Family.”“You know that family is

going to be there for you nomatter what,” the actress toldthe magazine.

“My dad gave me afreakin’ kidney! But it’s alsothe families that you createoutside of your family.

And you really find outwhat kind of people you’refriends with. It was justamazing, and it really openedmy eyes to see who’s therefor me and who’s not. ... Ihave a second chance at life— not a lot of people getthat.”

Internet

LOS ANGELES, 15 May—Kim Spradlin, a 29-year-old

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Pacquiao’s success foiling Filipino hopes

SINGAPORE, 15 May—The success of MannyPacquiao is delivering aknockout blow to Filipinodreams of a first Olympic goldmedal, with young boxers fast-tracking to the professionalranks in a desperate bid to

Lorenzo Villanueva (L) of the Philippines throws apunch at Daud Yordan of Indonesia during theirInternational Boxing Organization (IBO) WorldFeatherweight title bout at the Sands Expo and

Convention Centre at Marina Bay Sands in Singaporeon 5 May, 2012. Despite boasting a population of over100 million and a love of boxing, the Philippines willsend just one fighter to the London Olympics later thisyear - the same amount as the tiny Seychelles - leavinglittle hope of adding to the three bronze and two silverswon by their boxers in previous Games. Picture taken

5 May, 2012. —REUTERS

escape poverty and emulatethe success of their hero.

Manny Pinol, a formergovernor of North Cotabatoand current manager of boxersthrough his BraveheartBoxing stable, says the successof the eight-weight world

champion is hindering theamateur Olympic programmeat home. Despite boasting apopulation of over 100 millionand a love of boxing, thePhilippines will send just onefighter to the London Olympicslater this year - the same numberas the tiny Seychelles - leavinglittle hope of adding to thethree bronze and two silverswon by their boxers in previousGames.

All this while Pacquiao(welterweight), NonitoDonaire (super-bantam-weight), Sonny Boy Jaro(flyweight), and Donnie Nietes(light flyweight) hold worldtitles in the pro ranks.

“Manny Pacquiao’ssuccess is hurting our amateurboxing programme becauseevery young boy now wouldlike to become MannyPacquiao,” Pinol told Reutersin a recent interview inSingapore.

“They don’t want to beamateur because there is simplyno money in it, it is just a dreamof a (Olympic) gold and it isactually more difficult to winthan a world boxing title.” Inthe Philippines, the rags toriches story of Pacquiao, whocame from a poverty strickenbroken home to become thefirst man to win world titles ineight divisions, and then beelected a congressman,inspires a nation.—Reuters

Australia coach slams FIFA over Omanqualifier kick-off

SYDNEY, 15 May—Australia coach HolgerOsieck has slammed globalsoccer governing body FIFAfor scheduling theSocceroos’ away World Cupqualifier against Oman in thelate afternoon, fearing theeffects of extreme heat on hisplayers. FIFA has listed thekickoff for the 8 June qualifierat 5 pm local time (1300 GMT)in Muscat, where day-timetemperatures regularly soarabove 40 degrees Celsius atthat time.

“We are working on itand I think it’s unacceptableto play that time of the year,”German Osieck said in aconference call on Tuesday.

“When some bureau-crats make a decision behindtheir desk in a climatised roomand not considering theactual situation outside, Ithink that is a veryquestionable decision.”

The country’s socceradministration FootballFederation Australia hadpreviously expressed theirconcerns about playing amatch in the heat before thetime was posted, an officialtold Reuters, and would writeto FIFA again in a bid to havethe match moved back into acooler evening slot.

When asked about the

chances of having the matchmoved back, Osieck struck anironic tone. “I’ve been(dealing) with FIFA for quitea while and we know howflexible they are,” he said.

The Socceroos’ original9:30 pm kick-off time in theirlast qualifier against SaudiArabia in Melbourne irked theFIFA, who lobbiedsuccessfully to have thematch played earlier out ofdeference to broadcastersand fans hoping to attend themidweek match.

Osieck also named a 26-man squad for a friendlyagainst Denmark on 2 Juneand the World Cup qualifiersagainst Oman and Japan inBrisbane on 12 June, recall-ing Everton midfielder TimCahill and striker JoshKennedy.

Aston Villa midfielderChris Herd, named in the squadfor the first time, will have hischance to impress selectorsat a training camp in Denmarkin the leadup to the friendly.

Reuters

Australia’s coach Holger Osieck during their 2011Asian Cup semi-final match against Uzbekistan, on 25

January, 2011. —REUTERS

Nadal unconcerned byrankings slip

ROME, 15 May—RafaNadal’s chances of winningan open era record seventhFrench Open title next monthwill not be affected by his fallto number three in the worldrankings, the Spaniard saidon Monday.

His third-round defeatlast week in Madrid meant hewas overtaken by tournamentwinner Roger Federer, withNovak Djokovic still top ofthe pile. “Being number two ornumber three isn’t going tochange my goal,” Nadal told anews conference at the ForoItalico, the long-time home ofthe Rome Masters, whichbegan on Sunday.

“My goal will be thesame, number two, three or

Rafael Nadal of Spainlooks at the ball before

returning a shot during hisDavis Cup World Groupsemi-final against Jo-

Wilfried Tsonga of Franceat the Cordoba bullringon 18 September, 2011.

REUTERS

number 10. To win you have tobeat the best players in theworld. The only change is inthe semi-finals but it doesn’tmake any difference.”

Nadal could regainsecond spot from Federer thisweek but said he was moreconcerned with the way he isplaying. “I will try my best toplay my best and if I am able todo that I will have my chancesto have a good result,” he said.

Reuters

Manchester United’s PaulScholes shoots at goalduring their English

Premier League matchagainst Queens Park

Rangers at Old Trafford,on 8 April, 2012.—REUTERS

Scholes to play on another seasonLONDON, 15 May—

Manchester United midfielderPaul Scholes will play on foranother season, the PremierLeague club’s manager AlexFerguson said on Monday.

The 37-year-old formerEngland international quit atthe end of the 2010-11campaign but came out ofretirement in January andplayed a key role in helpingUnited finish second in thePremier League behindManchester City.

“I am delighted, he knew

he had made a mistake,”Ferguson told MUTV atUnited’s player of the yeardinner. “He now realises if heplays 25 or 30 games nextseason, they will be of realquality.

“I think this will be Paul’slast season. We know him verywell. We have had him sincehe was a kid. We know how touse him.”

With several Unitedmidfielders injured, Scholesmade a shock return to the sideas a substitute in the FA Cupthird-round win at Manchester

City in January and played 21matches before the end of theseason, scoring four goals.Despite playing only half thecampaign, Scholes finishedthird in the vote for England’sFootballer of the Year, behindArsenal striker Robin vanPersie and United team mateWayne Rooney.

There has beenspeculation that he could beincluded in England’sEuropean Championshipsquad which will be named bynew coach Roy Hodgson onWednesday.—ReutersBarton charged with violent conduct

LONDON, 15 May—Queens Park Rangersmidfielder Joey Barton wascharged by the English FA onMonday with two acts ofalleged violent conductduring Sunday’s PremierLeague match againstManchester City. Thecontroversial player was sentoff for elbowing Carlos Tevezand then kicked SergioAguero and tried to head-buttVincent Kompany beforebeing escorted off the pitch.

An FA statement said:“Following the player’sdismissal in the 54th minuteof the fixture, there followedtwo incidents involving Man-chester City’s Sergio Agueroand Vincent Kompany. “As

Manchester City’s CarlosTevez is challenged byQueens Park Rangers’Joey Barton (L) and

Djibril Cisse (R) duringtheir English Premier

League soccer match atthe Etihad Stadium inManchester, northernEngland, on 13 May,

2012.—REUTERS

RIO DE JANEIRO, 15 May—Forward Neymar andmidfielder Paulo HenriqueGanso will miss Brazil’sfriendly against Denmark afterthe Brazilian FootballConfederation (CBF) agreedto release the Santos pair fora club match.

The CBF said in astatement it had accepted arequest by Santos to allowthem and team mate Rafael toplay in the Libertadores Cupquarter-final second legagainst Argentine side VelezSarsfield on 24 May.

Brazil face Denmark inHamburg two days later.

Neymar of Santoscelebrates his goal against

Sao Paulo, on 29 April,2012.—REUTERS

Barton had already beendismissed, both of theseincidents fell outside of thejurisdiction of the referee.”

Barton has until 1700GMT on Tuesday to respondto the charges.

Playing with 10 men,Rangers took a 2-1 lead onlyfor City to clinch the title withtwo late goals in the mostdramatic of finales to thePremier League.

Barton has apologisedvia his Twitter account,saying: “Can do nothing butapologise to the players andthe fans.—Reuters

Neymar, Ganso to miss Brazilfriendly against Denmark

Ganso is seen as a poten-tial playmaker in Brazil’s 2014World Cup team while 20-year-old Neymar is by far themost exciting forward Brazilhas produced in the last fewyears.

Reuters

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(16-5-12 09:30 am ~17-5-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV

(16-5-2012) (Wednesday)

Focus Myanmar TV Programme

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy

Exercise7:40 am 3. Nice & Sweet Song8:00 am 4. Cultural Dances8:30 am 5. Documentary8:40 am 6. International News4:00 pm 7. Martial Song4:05 pm 8. Dance of National

Races4:15 pm 9. Myanmar Traditional

Cultural PerformingArts Competitions

4:50 pm10. Songs For Upholding

National Spirit5:35 pm11. “ASEAN”

Programmes6:20 pm12. Traditional Boxing7:35 pm13. Alinka Wat Yi Music

Troupe8:00 pm14. News15. Korea NG Award16. TV Drama Series17. Myanmar Video

Feature

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 16th May, 2012

Preparation for naturaldisasters, fire inspected

PYAPON, 15 May—Withregard to undertakingpreparations for rescue andrelief works when naturaldisasters and danger of firehit unexpectedly, Director UThin Htay Shwe of the controlsection of Fire ServicesDepartment met members ofAuxiliary Fire Brigade andRed Cross Brigade at PyaponTownship Fire Station on 9May.

They inspected watertaps, light fire engines andsafety installation of power

* News* What have you

done for theNaturalEnvironment?

* News* Music Gallery* News* Easily Cooked &

Tasty Dishes“Sweet & SourPrawn”

* News* Myanmar

Traditional Identity“Tumbling Doll,Pyit Tine Htaung”

* News* Mars Education

Consultancy* News* Youth & Music

(Part-4)* News* Nay Pyi Taw Hot

Spring* News* The Art of Making

Glaze Ware* Myanmar Movie

“Beyond Love”

lines at Myoma Market ofTownship DevelopmentAffairs Committee.

Staff Officer U ThanNaing of District FireServices Department,Executive Officer U MyintMaung of TownshipDevelopment AffairsCommittee, Deputy Head ofDepartment (Market) UAung Soe and officialsreported on preventivemeasures against naturaldisasters and danger of fire.

Myanma Alin

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

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 38/100 25/77 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

2 Kayah 33/91 22/72 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

3 Kayin 35/95 24/75 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

4 Chin 27/81 17/63 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

5 Upper Sagaing 39/102 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

6 Lower Sagaing 43/109 27/81 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

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

thundershowers (60%)

8 Bago 38/100 28/82 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

9 Magway 44/111 28/82 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

10 Mandalay 42/108 31/88 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

11 Mon 33/91 24/75 Likelihood of fairly widespread rain or

thundershowers (60%)

12 Yangon 38/100 26/79 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

13 Rakhine 34/93 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

14 Southern Shan 30/86 18/64 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

15 Northern Shan 37/99 20/68 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

16 Eastern Shan 37/99 23/73 Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers (60%)

17 Ayeyawady 38/100 27/81 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 42/108 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 38/100 26/79 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 42/108 31/88 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, fairly widespread inYangon Region and Mon State, scattered in Kachin and Kayin States and isolated in Magway Region, Shan and Rakhine States and weather has been partly cloudy in the remaining Regions and States with isolated heavyfall in Mon State. Day temperatures were (3°C) to (4°C) above May average temperatures in Lower Sagaing, Mandalay, Yangon and Ayeyawady Regions, Northern and Eastern Shan, Rakhine and Kayah States, (5°C) above May average temperatures in Upper Sagaing Region, Southern Shan and Chin States and about May average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant day temperatures were Chauk (45°C), NyaungOo and Minbu (44°C) each, Myingyan and Magway (43°C) each. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Chaungsone (4.13) inches, Mawlamyine (1.73) inches, Belin (1.26) inches, Kyeikmayaw (0.86) inch, Hmawbi (0.79) inch, Dawei (0.75)inch, Taunggyi (0.70) inch and Kyauktaw (0.59) inch.

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

Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea

Squalls with moderate to rough sea are likely attimes Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, off and along Mon-

Taninthayi Coasts, Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (30) to (35) mph. Seas will be moderate

elsewhere in Myanmar water.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Continuation of thundery conditions in the Southern Myanmar areas.

Man sets himself on fireoutside Breivik courthouse

OSLO, 15 May—A manhas set himself on fire onTuesday outside an Oslocourthouse where Norwegianmass killer Anders BehringBreivik is on trial for murdering77 people last July, police said.

The man doused himselfwith liquid and set himself onfire before attempting to breachthe security fence around thecourthouse, a policespokesman Kjell Kverme said.The national daily VG posted

a video on its website, vg.no ,showing the man with flameson his hat and sweatshirtrunning toward a securitycheckpoint and being tackledby police. Officers ripped hissweatshirt off and stampedout the flames. Thespokesman said the man, whoappeared to be a Norwegian,had shouted at police beforesetting himself on fire butofficers could not make outwhat he said. The man, whowitnesses said appeared to beCaucasian and in his 50s, wastaken to hospital with seriousinjuries on his torso.

Mr Breivik, 33, has beenon trial since last month for

Norwegian mass killerAnders Behring Breivik

takes his seat in thecourtroom in Oslo on 15

May, 2012.—REUTERS

bombing government officesin an attack that killed eightpeople, then shooting dead 69more, most of them teenagers,at a Labour Party island summercamp.—MNA/Reuters

An unidentified man is stretchered to an ambulance aftersetting fire to himself on 15 May, 2012 outside the Oslo,Norway courthouse where right-wing extremist AndersBehring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre on 22 July, 2011.—INTERNET

Bret Michaels settles case over 2009 Tonys mishapNEW YORK, 15 May— Bret Michaels

and organizers of the Tony Awards havesettled a lawsuit filed by the rocker after a2009 incident in which he was hit in thehead with a set piece and suffered injuriesthat he claimed contributed to a brainhemorrhage that nearly killed him.

The confidential settlement alsocovers Michaels’ claims against CBSBroadcasting, which aired the show andthe mishap. The Poison frontman blamedthe network for airing the moment, whichbecame which a viral video watched bytens of millions of people online, andclaimed Tony Awards producers neverwarned him there would be a set changeafter he and his band performed “Nothin’But a Good Time.”

The whack initially left Michaels witha busted lip and broken nose but alsocaused brain bleeding, the lawsuit claimed.He was hospitalized in April 2010, anddoctors found he had a brain hemorrhageand he later suffered a warning stroke,which the musician says nearly killed him.

Michaels’ attorney Alex Weingartensaid details of the settlement would not bereleased. “Mr. Michaels would like to thank Rock and Roll artist Brett Michaels

his fans for their continued support,” hewrote in a statement.

Michaels sued in March 2011 in LosAngeles, but a judge later moved the caseto New York City. The agreement cameafter a mediation session was held onFriday. Representatives for CBS and theTonys released a joint statement sayingthat “an amicable resolution” had beenreached but no further details would bereleased. The musician and realitytelevision star did not state how muchcompensation he was seeking when hesued but said the injury hurt his ability toperform at later shows.—Internet

Sharapova, Kvitovaadvance in windy

RomeROME, 15 May—Past and

present Wimbledon winners MariaSharapova and Czech Petra Kvitovamade straight-set moves into thethird round of the Rome Masters onTuesday, with the Russian secondseed made to work hard.

Defending Rome championSharapova, who won her Wimbledontitle aged 17 in 2004, needed nearlytwo and a quarter hours to get past36th-ranked American ChristinaMcHale 7-5, 7-5. Kvitova, the fourthseed who claimed the grass honourslast summer, accounted for RussianAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-5, 6-4in sunny, breezy conditions withspring pollen swirling through theair at the Foro Italico.—Internet

Rus-sia’s

MariaShara-pova.

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ROK PresidentMr Lee Myung-bakand party leave for

YangonNAY PYI TAW, 15 May—A goodwill delegation led by

President of the Republic of Korea Mr Lee Myung-bak lefthere by special flight at 8 am today for Yangon to continuethe goodwill visit.

They were seen off at Nay Pyi Taw InternationalAirport by Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Koand Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint, DeputyMinister for Transport U Win Shein, departmental heads ofthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and officials.

National race girls bid farewell with courtesy and theGuard of Honour saluted the President of the ROK andparty. Along the road to the airport, students wavedminiature flags of the two countries at the guests.

MNA

President of the Republic of Korea Mr LeeMyung-bak and members of ROK goodwilldelegation being seen off by officials at Nay

Pyi Taw International Airport.—MNA

YANGON, 15 May—Union Minister for Information andfor Culture U Kyaw Hsan attended a ceremony to honourliterati, artistes, technicians, experts and departmentalpersonnel who have contributed to the functions of theMinistry of Information for 2010-2011 fiscal year, and a dinnerreception held at Karaweik Palace here yesterday evening.

Also present on the occasion were Yangon RegionChief Minister U Myint Swe, region ministers, departmentalheads and officials of the ministry, chairmen and executivecommittee members of Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation, Myanmar Motion Picture Organization,Myanmar Music Asiayon and Myanmar LibrariesFoundation, members of literature scrutiny boards, MyanmarMotion Picture Award Scrutiny Board, Motion PictureCensor Board and Video Censor Board and guests.

Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister U Kyaw Hsansaid today’s ceremony was held to honour those who havelent a helping hand to the functions of the Ministry ofInformation. Such kind of ceremony has been held since 2006and this year is the fifth. But, last year the ministry failed tohold the ceremony due to its tremendous duties. Therefore,this year’s ceremony would be held for the quota of two years.

The Union minister added that the ministry staff alonewill not be able to perform duties and realize the objectivesof the ministry. Moreover, they will not be able to reach alevel of perfection at all. This is why the ministry, in

Information Ministry, in shouldering itsliterary duties, has enlisted strength ofliterati and artistes in successive eras

shouldering its literary duties, has enlisted the strength ofliterati and artistes in successive eras. The ministry owes agreat debt of gratitude to them for their continued cooperationwith relentless efforts. So, a separate ceremony has to beheld to honour them.

Today, 152 persons from literary, film and music fieldswould be honoured. The Ministry would honour them fortheir three noble characteristics – their noble, benevolentattitude towards the nation and people; their decision-

making with truthfulness totally free from irregularities;and concerted efforts for realizing the ministry’s objectives,in other words, national duties despite their age. Althoughtoday’s ceremony was held to present honorary gifts to thedoyen literati and artistes, any of those could not be sovaluable as their gratitude. Likewise, they are requested toaccept the gifts gladly recognizing the goodwill and respectof all the staff members of the ministry.

At the ceremony, members of National Literary AwardScrutiny Board, Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award ScrutinyBoard, Pakokku U Ohn Pe Literary Award Scrutiny Board,Myanma Reference Scrutiny Board, Myanma Motion PictureStandard Promotion Scrutiny Board, Film and Video CensorBoard and Songs and Biographies Scrutiny Board would allbe honoured. He thanked the said literati for their physicaland intellectual contributions in assessing, scrutinizing,selecting and compiling literary works with sacrifice of theirpriceless times in face of aging.

Today’s ceremony was held with mindset rememberingand valuing the gratitude of the doyen literati. He requestedthem to preserve the fine tradition of working closely with theministry in order to help it achieve goals. With cooperation ofthe doyen literati, the ministry vowed to do its best to achievemore successes and serve the country and the people.

The Union Minister then presented awards to PyinmanaMyint Hlaing on behalf of members of songs and biographiesscrutiny board, U Soe Thein (Maung Wun Tha), on behalf ofmembers of literature scrutiny boards, and Daw Po Po Kyi, onbehalf of members of motion picture scrutiny boards.

On behalf of the scholars, Member of National LiteraryAward Scrutiny Committee Sithu U Tin Hlaing (LedwinthaSaw Chit) spoke works of thanks. Then the dinner was served.

The Union Minister then cordially greeted thosepresent.

The cash awards to 52 departmental staff and 100outside scholars who helped the Ministry of Information in2010-2011 fiscal year amounted to K 21,050,000.—MNA

Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan attends ceremony to honourliterati, artistes, technicians, experts and departmental personnel who have contributed to functions of

Ministry of Information for 2010-2011 fiscal year and dinner reception.—MNA

Barton charged with violent conduct

Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez is challenged byQueens Park Rangers’ Joey Barton (L) and Djibril

Cisse (R) during their EPL soccer match at theEtihad Stadium in Manchester, northern England,

on 13 May, 2012.

Sharapova, Kvitovaadvance in windy

Rome

Russia’s Maria Sharapova.

KoreanPresident

andparty

concludevisit

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