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THEGLOBALNEW LIGHT MYANMAROFVolume XXII, Number 163 8th Waxing of Thadingyut 1376 ME Wednesday, 1 October, 2014

Nay Pyi Taw, 1 Oct—On the occasion of the 65th Anniversa-ry of the Founding Day of the People’s Repub-

President U Thein Sein felicitates Chinese counterpart, Chinese Premier of State Council

lic of China, which falls on 1 October 2014, U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Un-ion of Myanmar, has sent

messages of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of Chi-na and His Excellency

Mr. Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’ Republic of China.

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1. The 2 June 2014 issue of the Weekly Eleven News Journal carried a news story questioned whether the Public Service Media Law favours the State-owned media with the misuse of public revenues in its cover. The news story criticized the Ministry of Information over suspicious prices of tenders for presses, com-plaining that the highest bid for a press was over US$ 1 million, although its actual value stood at around (See page 2)

Press Release(Unofficial Translation)

yaNgoN, 30 Sept— With as many as 18 stalls for Myanmar students plan-ning to pursue their studies in Japan, the Japan Educa-tion Fair 2014 took place in

Myanmar students throng Japan Education Fair 2014 in Yangon

By Ye Myint

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept—A radio message by U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, will be broadcast on radio on 1 and 2 Octo-ber. Myanmar Radio, Mandalay FM, Pyinsawady FM, Shwe FM, Cherry FM, Padamya FM, FM Bagan and Thazin Radio will broadcast the message at 7 am, 11 am, 6 pm and 8 pm.—MNA

President U Thein Sein’s radio message to be broadcast on 1-2 Oct

Yangon on Tuesday with advice-rich seminars pre-sented by officials organiz-ing the Fair and individual consultations conducted by participating institutions.

The Japan Education Fair is organized by the

Embassy of Japan in Myan-mar, Japan Student Servic-es Organizations (JASSO) and Myanmar Association of Japan Alumni (MAJA). The fair, now in its tenth anniversary as Japan edu-cation seminar in Myan-

mar, was the first of its kind to showcase a wide pan-orama of Japanese higher educationto an audience of students who recently passed the matriculation examinations, university (See page 2)

BagaN, 30 Sept—The 12th ASEAN Socio-Cultur-al Community Council

Meeting was opened at the Aureum Palace Hotel in Bagan on Tuesday, with an address by Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham, sourc-es said.

Speaking at the meet-ing, Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham said:

We have witnessed, how ASEAN has endured and overcome the regional issues with resilience, and sustained its “One Vision, One Identity and One Com-munity” since its inception 47 years ago.

For Myanmar’s first ever Chairmanship, after being a member for 17 years, we have chosen the theme: “Moving Forward in Unity to a Peaceful and Prosperous Community,” with the emphasis on fur-ther reinforcing collective actions, to ensure the emer-gence of a united and har-monious ASEAN Commu-nity, by 2015.

ASEAN’s socio-cultural pillar can help minimize the tension of regional issues, promote more

ASEAN identity among member states: Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham

The challenges for ASEAN today, are huge, complex, multifaceted and transnational in nature, which call for a more coor-

dinated socio-cultural pillar, can help minimize the ten-sion of the regional issues, and be able to promote more ASEAN identity among the

member states.The human, natural

and cultural resources of ASEAN, not only provide the means for econom-

ic growth, but also help sustain its development. Conservation of these re-sources, allows the region to prosper now and into the future, enabling people to uplift their socio-economy, thereby reducing poverty and improving their overall standard of living.

ASEAN Member states are to work even harder to help build ASE-AN identity through the promotion of ASEAN awareness, and a sense of community, preservation of ASEAN cultural herit-age, promotion of cultural (See page 3)

Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham with ministers of ASEAN countries who attended the opening ceremony of 12th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council Meeting in Bagan of Mandalay Region.—mna

Wednesday, 1 October, 2014

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Amyotha Hluttaw

Pyithu Hluttaw

Amyotha Hluttaw convene its 12th day

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept — The 11th Amyotha Hlut-taw (Upper House) session has entered its 12th day here on Tuesday.

U Saw Maw Tun, rep-

resentative of No. 1 con-stituency of Bago region, asked if the plan to revive the creek in Wanbeinn vil-lage to its original width of 100-feet. Deputy minister

at the President Office U Kyaw Kyaw Win said that the creek has been narrow due to the sediment, caus-ing the paddy fields along the creek to cover with

dregs and making the farm-lands destroyed.

He also said that the revival of creek could stop flooding over about 900-paddy acres to a cer-tain extent. He add that the estimated cost will be asked from the budget of regional government.

U Thaw Zin Oo, rep-resentative of No.9 constit-uency of Magway region, asked if to construct staff quarters on the empty area of former airport in Pakko-ku township.

Deputy minister U Aung Thein at the President Office said that it is impos-sible to construct staff quar-

ters there as it is owned by Ministry of Transport.

U Steven Thar Bait, representative from No.4 constituency of Chin State, raised a question about the plan to distribute electric-ity from the 66 KV Gan-gaw-Haka power grid to the villages along Gangaw-Ha-ka highway.

U Aung Than Oo, dep-uty minister for electric power, said that out of 15 villages beside the power grid, some of 11 villag-es have electricity supply from solar system, small hydropower plants and diesel-powered generator, while plans are making to

set up solar plates at the re-maining four villages at the end of this fiscal year.

U Sai Kyaw Zaw Than, representative from No.2 constituency of Shan Stat, asked when would electricity be distributed from national power grid to Mongshu township.

U Aung Than Oo, dep-uty minister for electric power, said the contract will be signed to purchase 33-mile-long 66-KV pow-er-line for Mongshu town-ship at the end of March in 2015, and the construction is expected to complete at the end of July 2015.

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Deputy Minister at President Office

U Aung Thein.—mna

Deputy Minister for Electric Power U Aung

Than Oo.—mna

Deputy Minister at President Office U

Kyaw Kyaw Win.—mna

(from page 1)students and young people in My-anmar.

The fair was also significant that it took place on the 60th an-niversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between My-anmar and Japan that falls in 2014.

“Last year, we had only 140 Myanmar students gathered at the education seminar. This year, the target number is more than 700, JASSO Vice President Yonekawa Hideki told The Global New Light of Myanmar, saying that the fair would be successful and seeing as much as students possible.

The fair will be of great ben-efit to Myanmar students with enthusiasm for studying in Japan as they will be provided with the newest information about national and private universities and lan-guage schools in Japan through seminars and stalls offering var-ious courses in humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, agriculture, fisheries, veterinary, medicine, nursing, en-gineering, visual and performing arts, etc.

“I am here to enquire about Japanese language schools”, an 18-year-old final year student at

(from page 1)US$ 800,000. “For example, the prices of a press stood at around US$ 800,000 only but the min-istry purchased it for over US$ 1 million. The actual prices of a particular press range between US$ 400,000 and US$ 500,000. But it cost over US$ 1 million. How corruption was rampant in the ministry”, alleged by Nay Tun Naing, an executive editor of the Daily Eleven.

Myanmar students. . . . University of Distance Education told the GNLM.

“I am now taking a Japanese language course in Yangon. My aim is to do a video editing course in Japan”, she voiced.

According to the Japanese embassy, more than 1,000 Myan-mar students are studying respec-tive courses in Japan and Myan-mar people have gone to Japan on educational trips since 1943. Now, Myanmar ranks 10th in the number of international students in Japan. — NLM

Japan Education Fair 2014 at Sule Shangri-La Hotel on Tuesday is packed with students and their guardians

enquiring about the newest information of Japanese academic institutions for their further studies in Japan.

Photo: Ye mYint

Press Release . . . . 2. Since the above-mentioned news story of the Weekly Eleven News Journal could tarnish the image of the News and Periodicals Enter-prise (NPE) under the Minis-try of Information and beget misunderstanding among the people, those in political and social fields and the Public Service Media Law being forwarded to the Hluttaw, a press conference on the allegation was held on 6-6-2014 and an official clari-fied that the statement of the journal was untrue and the tender process of the News and Periodicals Enterprise (NPE) was carried out trans-parently under the rules and regulations set by the gov-ernment with firm evidence. However, the 7-6-2014 issue of the Daily Eleven stated the wrong facts and figures again with the intention of triggering a widespread mis-understanding. Although the News and Periodicals En-terprise (NPE) negotiated two times for correction of the false statement through the Myanmar Press Coun-cil (Temporary), the Eleven Media Group replied that it will by no means correct

its news story and there is no reason to negotiate with the Myanmar Press Coun-cil (Temporary), adding not to send for it and write to it again as regards the state-ment it had mentioned. The reply of the Eleven Media Group was sent to the min-istry by the Myanmar Press Council (Temporary).

3. The Eleven Media Group did not accept a better solution sought through the Myanmar Press Council (Temporary) and accused the News and Periodicals Enterprise (NPE) of committing the corruption time and again. As the state-ment of the Eleven Media Group has tarnished the im-age of civil services under the ministry as well as offi-cials from the Procurement Committee of the Ministry of Information, the News and Periodicals Enterprise (NPE) has to take legal ac-tion against the media group unavoidably in order to seek justice in the judicial pillar. In that regard, the News and Periodicals Enterprise (NPE) has no intention of harming the freedom of press.

Procurement CommitteeMinistry of Information

Pyithu Hluttaw session held with 12th day meetinghere on Tuesday.

U Win Htain, repre-sentative from Meiktila township constituency, asked whether to design a curriculum of democracy at the civil service insti-tutes in Phaunggyi of lower Myanmar and Zibingyi of upper Myanmar.

U Kyaw Thu, chair-man of the Union Civil Services Board, said that although a curriculum on democracy has not been designed for the institutes of Civil Service, manage-

ment courses for the senior government officials have been conducted since 2013 in line with the guidelines of the Head of State.

He also said that teach-ers from institutes of civil service could attend the lectures and seminars on management courses of lo-cal and foreign experts.

The chairman said that discussions are underway with the United Nations Development Programme to design democracy course at the institutes of

civil service. The Speaker of Pyithu

Hluttaw then urged the ob-serving commission to sub-mit at least seven ways for public and parliamentary members not later than 21 October 2014 to develop an appropriate electoral sys-tem in Myanmar.

Daw Nan Wah Nu, representative from Kun-hing township constituency of Shan State, discussed that the rule of law and stability are concerned not only with the Committee of

Rule of Law and Stability, but also with all the partici-pants in the three estates of legislative, executive and jurisdictional sectors, as well as media and public.

Judge of the Supreme Court of the Union U Soe Nyunt said that there is no monitoring group for courts in well-developed democracies as this prac-tice could tarnish the dig-nity of courts, causing the mistrust of potential for-eign investors.

He pointed out that the

People Jurisdiction Com-mittee was formed in 1973 during the preliminary age of public-centred jurisdic-tional system in the coun-try, but the committee tried to influence and control the judicial sector before it was revoked.

It would be contrary to the State Constitution if the independent groups and organizations which have no authority of jurisdic-tion assigned by law were formed to monitor the court proceedings.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept — The 12th day meeting of 11th Pyithu Hluttaw (Low-er House) session was held

UCSB Chairman U Kyaw Thu.—mna


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Vice Presidents Dr Sai Mauk Kham, U Nyan Tun felicitate Chinese counterpart

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept—On the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the Founding Day of the People’s Republic of China, which falls on 1 October 2014, Dr Sai Mauk Kham and U Nyan Tun, Vice Presidents of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, have sent messages to His Excellency Mr Li Yuanchao, Vice President of the People’s Republic of China.—MNA

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Kokang cultural

delegationNay Pyi Taw, 30

Sept — Speaker of the Py-idaungsu Hluttaw and Py-ithu Hlutta (Lower House) Thura U Shwe Mann re-ceived a Kokang delega-tion led by U Chein Kaung Shin, Adviser to the Myan-mar Kokang Cultural Or-ganization who observed the 12th-day 11th session of the first Pyithu Hluttaw, at the hall of the Pyithu Hlut-taw building in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday.

It was attended by Chairman of the Pyithu Hluttaw Economic and Trade Development Com-mittee U Maung Maung Thein, Chairman of the Pyithu Hluttaw Social De-velopment Committee U Maung Maung Swe and Hluttaw representatives of U Haw Shauk Chan, U Kyaw Ni Naing and U Sai Myint Aye and officials of the Pyithu Hluttaw Of-fice.—MNA

World Tourism Day 2014 observed in Nay Pyi Taw

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept — The World Tourism Day 2014 was observed at the Myanmar Internation-al Convention Centre-2 in Nay Pyi Taw on 30 Sep-tember.

Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Htay Aung delivered an address. UNDP Resident Coordi-nator Mr Edin Elgsaether read the message sent by the UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon. A video clip on message of UNW-

TO Secretary-General Dr Taleb Rifai was presented at the ceremony.

Union Ministers U Nyan Tun Aung, U Win Tun, U Khin Yi and U Than Htay presented priz-es to winners in the photo and essay contests, hotel service facility and tourism services.

The union ministers and party viewed round the prize winning essays and photos.

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(from page 1)creativity and industry and engagement with the com-munity.

It is accepted as our collective personality, norms, values and beliefs, as well as aspirations, as one ASEAN Community.

The commitment we made in 2013 in BSW Dec-laration, calls for moving forwards a people-cen-tered Community and peo-ple connectivity. The Nay Pyi Taw Declaration, an-nounced at the 24th ASE-AN Summit, highlights most socio-cultural issues under ASCC, and urged

ASEAN’s socio-cultural pillar. . .

constructive and meaning-ful engagement, with all relevant stakeholders, in-cluding the private sector, the academia, parliamen-tarians, youth and civil so-ciety groups, with the hope of forging and becoming a people-centered ASEAN.

Myanmar, the Chair of ASEAN, has proposed a number of priorities, in the ASCC Pillar’s tasks. These include to undertake the work in progress, on the ASEAN Agreement for Protection of Rights of Mi-grant Workers, to reconsol-idate collective efforts, on climate change and disaster

management, to redouble the efforts, no poverty re-duction, to strengthen so-cial safety nets, and forge a common identity, to build a caring, sharing, and harmo-nious society, to promote inclusiveness in sharing the region’s wealth, and to enhance the role of women and children.

We must continue to build ASEAN capacity, to advance regional peace, stability, prosperity and social harmony. For Post-2015 Vision therefore, all Working Groups under each Pillar, should come up with a comprehensive Framework too.

During this Meeting, with collaboration and

coordination from each country, we will be able to undertake a meaningful de-liberation and fruitful dis-cussion, providing inputs to the ASEAN Community, for this year, and for many years to come.

As Chairman of the ASEAN Socio-Culture Council, Union Minister for Culture extended greetings.

After the opening cer-emony, Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham received a courtesy call by ministers scheduled to attend the 12th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council Meet-ing and the deputy secre-tary-general of ASEAN in Bagan on Tuesday morn-ing.—MNA

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing inspects the Guard of Honour by car in the Republic of Korea.Myawady

The ceremony of World Tourism Day 2014 in progress in Nay Pyi Taw.—Mna

General Hla Htay Win receives Norwegian delegation

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept — Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Hla Htay Win received Special Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs Brig-Gen (Ret) Jan Erik Wilhelmsen and party of Norway at the Bayint-naung Yeiktha in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday morning.

They discussed send-

ing of servicemen to the training courses of UN peace-keeping troops.

After the meeting, they had documentary photo taken.—Myawady

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing tours Demilitarized Zone, War Memorial, Namsan Tower in South Korea

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept— Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received a military salute by the Guard of Honour of South Korea’s defence ser-vice personnel at the Min-istry of Defence in South Korea on Tuesday, sources said. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was welcomed by Admiral Choi Yoon-hee, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, and high-ranking offi-cials.

In meeting with Admi-ral Choi Yoon-hee, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing

said that Myanmar approves of South Korea’s measures to bring stability and peace to the Korean Peninsula, pledging further coopera-tion and friendly relations between the two countries through the exchange of goodwill visits.

Admiral Choi Yoon-hee said that military re-lations play a vital role in strengthening the diplomat-ic relations between the two countries, vowing to seek ways to promote military relations and offer collab-oration in conducting mili-tary exercises.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received a courtesy call by South Ko-rea’s Defence Minister Mr Han Min-koo at the latter’s office. At the call, they ex-changed views on bilateral cooperation.

Accompanied by Es-cort General of the South Korea’s army Maj-Gen Kim Yong-woo, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), where Battalion Command-er Lt-Col Woo Seok-Je and officials gave briefings at the Joint Security Area, fol-lowed by a tour of Pannum-

jeon Village there.Senior General Min

Aung Hlaing went to the War Memorial, the Defense Acquisition Program Ad-ministration (DAPA) and the Namsan Tower.

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Mandalay

Yangon

Today’s MyanMar news siTes

Mandalay, 30 Sept—An educative talk about prevention of smallpox was held at the hall of Sports and Physical Education Institute

Health knowledge shared to trainees of SPEI (Mandalay)

(Mandalay) on 27 Septem-ber.

Health Officer U Tin Aung Myint of Chanmyath-azi Township gave talks on

personal hygiene for preven-tion of smallpox, washing of hands after holding any-thing and receiving medical treatments at clinics.

The talk was attended by Principal U Myo Myint Aung, officials and trainees totalling 633.—Tin Maung (Mandalay)

Mandalay, 30 Sept—The Mandalay Region Chief Minister’s Trophy Inter-Township Chess Tournament and Agewise Youth Chess Tournament kicked off at the hall D21 of Mandalar Thiri Stadium in Mandalay on Monday, with participation of about 100 chess players.

Vice Chairmen of

Youths participate in chess tournaments

in MandalayPyaPon, 30 Sept—

Pyapon Township of Ay-eyawady Region sends over 80,000 bags of rice to

Pyapon Township possesses large share of rice market

Yangon by ship, accord-ing to the Township Rice Merchants Association and Township Freight-handling

Board. On 29 September, Chairman of Township Rice Merchants Association said that Pyapon Township

has 172 small-scale rice mills that can mill 25,800 bags of rice daily. A total of 16 rice mills operate milling of 11,000 bags of rice daily.

The small rice mill can mill 20 baskets of paddy per day. The rice mills pro-duce quality rice to be sent to Yangon and other major cities.

Secretary of Township Rice Millers Association U Thiha Aung explained about 1,700 workers are working at 172 small rice mills and 16 rice mills. As Pyapon Township has plenty of natural resources including marine products and pad-dy, local people hope for uplifting living standards.

Aung Win (Pyapon)

Mandalay Region Chess Subcommittee Dr Maung Maung, Dr Thit Lwin and U Thaung Aye (Advocate) launched the tournaments of the Myanmar traditional chess event, the interna-tional chess event and the youth chess event.

The competitions will last up to 3 October.

Tin Maung (Mandalay)

yesagyo, 30 Sept—Palethwe hybrid paddy plantations are thriving in irrigated areas of Yesagyo Township of Magway Re-gion.

“We are trying to share good agricultural patterns to the local farmers with the aim of doubling their income and improving their living standards. GAP can be applied for cultiva-tion of crops in the irrigat-ed areas. The farmers can enjoy fruits of systematic cultivation crops through GAP. At present, Palethwe paddy plantations of farm-er U Htay Win can be seen with full of ears of paddy,” said Staff Officer U Sein Maung of Agriculture De-

Farmers hope for boosting production of Palethwe paddypartment.

Local people have grown Palethwe, Manaw Thukha, Hsinthukha, Ya-

danatoe, Pakhan Shwewah and Shwepyiaye paddy strains on 30,773 acres of farmlands with the use of

irrigation facilities in Yes-agyo Township in 2014-15 cultivation season.

Pe Tun Zaw (Yesagyo)

Pyapon

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Mandalay, 30 Sept—A ceremony to honour the best athlete of the month was held at the badminton hall of Sports and Physical Education

Outstanding trainees honoured at SPEI (Mandalay)

Institute (Mandalay) on 28 September.

Principal U Myo Myint Aung urged the trainees to try hard in im-provement of respective

sports events, take care of health condition and set aim for serving the interest of the State with victory in the sports com-petitions.

The principal and offi-cials presented medals and sports suits to outstanding trainees.

Tin Maung (Mandalay)

Mandalay, 30 Sept—A ceremony to in-troduce heat pumps was held at Hotel Mandalay on 78th street in Mahaaungmye Township of Mandalay on Monday.

Chairman of Manda-lay Hoteliers Association U Myint Aung explained arrival of globetrotters in Mandalay, extension of hotels in Mandalay and up-grading of hotels and facil-ities for meeting the ASE-

Heat pumps introduced to reduce

global warmingAN standards.

U Than Win Aung of SCZ Trading Co Ltd ex-plained modern facilities for upgrading the hotels and the market manager, use of heat pump for re-ducing the global warming applying the renewable en-ergy.

The products are made in Thailand applying Ger-man technology.

Thiha Ko Ko (Mandalay)

Mandalay, 30 Sept—The opening ceremony of Swee Lee Music & JBL Audio shop was held at Thiri Housing on 35th

Music & JBL Audio shop opens in Mandalaystreet between 70th and 71st

streets in Chanayethazan Township of Mandalay, attended by Mandalay Re-gion Minister for Devel-

opment Affairs Mayor U Aung Moung.

Chairman of Manda-lay Music Association Dr Hla Khaing spoke words

of honour for opening the music instrumens shop in Mandalay.

The mayor, the chair-man of the association and vocalist Zaw Win Htut for-mally opened the shop.

Maung Pyi Thu (Mandalay)

Htilin, 30 Sept—Township officials are making arrangements for choosing a land plot for of a 66/11 KV sub-pow-

Htilin to erect over 1,000 lamp-posts for electrification

er station and designating the sites for erecting the lamp-posts for electrifica-tion for the local people in Htilin of Magway Region

in 2015.At present, over 400

lamp-posts have arrived in the township. According to the officials, the Town-ship Electricity Supply Enterprise plans to erect over 1,000 lamp-posts.

Kyaw Than Swe

PyinOOlwin, 30 Sept—Thanks to the good weather various species of crops are thriving in Py-inOoLwin Township of Mandalay Region. As a re-sult, the growers fetch good prices in sales of crops in

Farmers get good price in sales of bean

the market.Local growers culti-

vate beans on the farmland that cannot grow paddy, in Nawngkhamgyi Village of the township.

The bean can be sold at K2,0000 per viss.

The growers buy qual-ity bean at K12,00 per viss for cultivation.

The bean plantation can produce 500 viss of bean per acre.

Nay Lin (PyinOoLwin)

Staff Officer U Myint Zaw of

Ottarathiri Township Immigration and

National Registration Department and staff

issue citizenship scrutiny cards to 87 local people in

Moeswe Village on 26 September.

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, during his

visit to the United States on 29 Sept, 2014. Xinhua

Obama, Modi vow to boost strategic ties, create model for world

Washington, 30 Sept—President Barack Obama and new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed on Monday to expand and deepen their countries’ strategic part-nership and make it a mod-el for the rest of the world.

In a joint “vision state-ment” issued after their first meeting at a White House dinner, the two leaders said they would work together “not just for the benefit of both our nations, but for the benefit of the world.”

They said their coun-tries would cooperate on security and to fight ter-rorism and would back a “rules based” global order in which India as-sumes greater multilateral responsibility, including a reformed UN Security Council.

They also vowed to

work together against the threat posed by climate change and to cooperate to address the consequences of unchecked pollution.

“We have a vision that the United States and India will have a transforma-tive relationship as trusted

partners in the 21st centu-ry. Our partnership will be a model for the rest of the world,” they said in their statement said.

The two leaders also said their countries would work to ensure that eco-nomic growth brought

better livelihoods for all people and stressed the im-portance of open markets and fair and transparent practices to allow trade to flourish.

Washington has been keen to expand business and security ties with In-dia, which it sees as a key counterbalance to an in-creasingly assertive China in Asia. Obama has backed New Delhi’s bid to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

However, the relation-ship has failed to live up to his declaration in 2010 that it would become “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st Century.”

Modi, who came to power in May, has received a warm welcome in the United States, even though he was denied a visa in 2005 over rioting in his

Japaneases visa

requirement for three SE Asia nations

tokyo, 30 Sept—Ja-pan said on Tuesday it has significantly relaxed its visa requirements for visitors from Indonesia, the Philip-pines and Vietnam.

The measure is part of the government’s drive to increase the number of for-eign tourists to 20 million a year by 2020 after hitting the 10 million mark in 2013.

Japan exempts appli-cants from the three coun-tries from submitting docu-ments showing their savings on condition that they have visited Japan in the past and also that they have made several trips to any of the Group of Seven industri-alized nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States — other than Japan, according to a Foreign Min-istry official.

The validity of multi-ple-entry visas for nationals of the three Southeast Asian countries has been extend-ed to up to five years from three years, the official said.

Japan will also waive visas for tourists from In-donesia from 1 December if they register in advance with their IC passports at Japanese diplomatic estab-lishments abroad.

Kyodo News

S Korea sends

condolence message

over Doi’s death

seoul, 30 Sept—South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se on Tuesday sent a condolence message to the family of Takako Doi, a former speaker of Japan’s House of Repre-sentatives and former chief of the Social Democratic Party, who died of pneu-monia on 20 September, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Doi, who served as lower house member for 12 terms from 1969 to 2005, led the predecessor of the SDP from 1986 to 1991 as the first female leader of a major political party in Japan. She again took the helm at the renewed SDP from 1996 to 2003.

In the July 1989 upper house election, Doi played a key role in the ruling Lib-eral Democratic Party’s loss of its majority in the House of Councillors with her tough, straight-talking ways that appealed to vot-ers, especially women.

Doi was the first wom-an to become speaker of the lower house, a position she held from 1993 to 1996.

Kyodo News

ten wealth” amassed by Marcos, to seize the paint-ings.

Among the artworks in the possession of Marcos’ family include “Madonna and Child” by Michelan-gelo Bounarroti, “Femme Couchee VI” (Reclining Woman VI) by Pablo Pi-casso, and “Portrait of the Marqueza de Sta Cruz” by Francisco de Goya.

Other artworks or-

Philippine antigraft court orders Marcoses to return paintings

Indonesia’s leader races to save direct elections and his legacyJakarta, 30 Sept—In-

donesia’s outgoing presi-dent returned home early on Tuesday, cutting short an overseas farewell tour to try and overturn legislation ending direct elections for local leaders.

Widely praised for fos-tering a thriving democracy in his 10 years in office, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s legacy, al-ready tainted by a series of graft scandals, has taken a further hit after his ruling party failed to prevent the bill from passing in parlia-ment.

Stocks have come under pressure and the ru-piah has tumbled to a sev-en-month low following parliament’s action, which president-elect Joko Wido-do criticized as a major step backwards for democracy.

Yudhoyono will hand over power on 20 October.

“We will strive to save direct regional elections and there is a plan B that we will finalize later today. Our interest is only that our democracy remains for our people,” Yudhoyono told reporters after landing back in Jakarta from a near two-week long trip to Portugal, the United States and Japan. Indonesia introduced direct elections for regional lead-ers in 2005, allowing the emergence of a new breed of politician free of links to the political elite, with Widodo being the best-known example.

But direct elections in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s third largest democ-racy, have also proven to be costly, and in many cases, corrupt.

Before leaving for his trip, Yudhoyono spoke out in favour of retaining direct

elections and the bill looked destined to be rejected.

But the legislation was able to be passed after his ruling party decided not to vote and instead walked out of the session to protest not being able to add amend-ments to the bill.

Yudhoyono said he was informed by the head of the

Constitutional Court that he did not have the authority to block the legislation, which will become law in 30 to 60 days with or without presi-dent’s approval.

Yudhoyono’s Dem-ocratic Party, along with non-government groups, are expected to launch legal challenges to the bill.

“The president will go through other ways within the constitutional frame-work to be able to find the best solution,” presidential spokesman Julian Pasha told reporters.

The mishandling of the situation has sparked only a few street protests in Jakarta and other ma-jor cities, with most of the criticism taking place on social media. Hashtags us-ing Yudhoyono’s initials #ShameOnYouSBY and #ShamedByYouAgainSBY feature at the top of Twit-ter’s global trending lists.

“(Yudhoyono) will be known not as a reform-er or a democrat but as someone who let down the people of Indonesia,” said Robert Endi Jaweng, exec-utive director of Regional Autonomy Watch, a local non-governmental organi-zation.—Reuters

home state three years ear-lier that killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. Modi denies any wrongdoing and has been exonerated by an Indian Supreme Court investiga-tion.

He has maintained a frantic schedule since arriving in America on Friday, even though he is fasting in accordance with Hindu custom and drank only warm water at the White House.

As part of an effort to spur foreign investment, he met more than a dozen US corporate leaders early on Monday and told them he was committed to lib-eralizing India’s economy, which has underperformed other emerging markets re-cently after years of break-neck growth.

Reuters

dered seized are “Still Life with Idol” by Paul Gaugin, “La Baignade Au Grand Temps” by Pierre Bonnard and “Vase of Chrysanthe-mums” by Bernard Buffet.

In 1986, the govern-ment estimated that Mar-cos, his family and cronies accumulated more than $10 billion worth of cash, jew-elry, artworks, assets and stocks during his rule from 1965 to 1986.

PCGG spokesman Nick Suarez said at least 168 billion pesos ($3.7 billion) of the estimated amount has been recov-ered.

Marcos’ widow Imel-da, 85, has been charged with civil and criminal crimes. However, she re-mains out of jail and even managed to return to pow-er along with her daughter and son.—Kyodo News

Manila, 30 Sept—An antigraft court on Monday ordered the family of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to return eight paintings by old mas-ters, ruling the valuable art-works were bought using public funds.

The court ordered the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which is mandated to re-cover the so-called “ill-got-

Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at

UN headquarters in New York, on 24 Sept, 2014.ReuteRs


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United Nations Secretary-General’s Message on the International Day of

Older Persons1 October 2014

Older persons are playing an increasingly signif-icant role in society as they grow in number and as healthcare improves in some parts of the world.

The number of older persons is expected to more than double, globally, from 841 million people in 2013 to more than 2 billion in 2050. By that year, nearly 8 in 10 of the world’s older population will live in the less developed regions.

The steady increase in human longevity represents one of the greatest transformations and challenges of our time. However, failure to keep pace with changing demographic trends will make it difficult to achieve a sustainable, secure and fulfilling future for people of all ages.

Older persons make wide-ranging contributions to economic and social development. However, discrim-ination and social exclusion persist. We must overcome this bias in order to ensure a socially and economically active, secure and healthy ageing population.

The post-2015 development agenda offers a histor-ic opportunity for the United Nations and its Member States to strengthen the rights and role of older persons in society as an integral part of our commitment to “leave no one behind”.

On this International Day, I encourage govern-ments and people everywhere to ensure the full partici-pation of older persons in society while protecting their rights and dignity.

UNIC/Yangon

S-400 Triumph

Russia’s new S-400 air defence systems to be supplied to 12 regiments by 2020

Moscow, 30 Sept — New S-400 Triumf air defence systems will be supplied to 12 missile reg-iments of Russia’s Aero-space Defence Forces by 2020, their spokesperson, Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday.

Until the end of this year, four S-400 regiments will be protecting Moscow and the Central Industrial District of Russia, he said.

At present, three regi-ments have S-400 systems and the rest are armed with S-300 systems.

Future plans call for up-grading Moscow’s missile defence to bring air defence and missile defence systems under a single command to repel all possible attacks.

The united command will cover 25 regions and three republics. Radar sta-tions used by air defence units can detect targets as far as 600 kilometres and an altitude of up to 40 kilo-metres.

Another regiment in the Moscow region will

adopt Russia’s newest S-400 air defence systems this autumn.

“The fourth air defence regiment will receive a new set of S-400 systems at the Kapustin Yar training range in September or October, conduct initial live fire training and, after redeploy-ment to the Moscow region, go on combat duty,” Aero-

space Defence Forces Com-mander, Major General Andrei Demin said earlier this month. Three regiments in the Moscow region have already been armed with the S-400 systems. The first S-400 battalion went on combat duty in Elektrostal, Moscow region, in the sum-mer of 2007 and was joined by another one in 2009.

The second regiment armed with S-400 systems went on combat duty in 2011, followed by the third one in 2014.

S-400 Triumf air de-fence systems were put on combat duty in Russia’s Southern Military Dis-trict in late 2012 to replace S-300PM missiles.

Itar-Tass

Prince Akishino (R), the younger son of Emperor Akihito, and his wife Princess Kiko are seen at Narita

airport, near Tokyo, on 30 Sept, 2014, before their departure for Guatemala via the United States. The couple will make an official visit to Guatemala and Mexico before returning to Japan on 10 September.

Kyodo News

Prince Akishino, Princess Kiko start trip to Mexico, Guatemala

Tokyo, 30 Sept — Prince Akishino, the young-er son of Emperor Akihito, and his wife Princess Kiko on Tuesday started an of-ficial trip to Mexico and Guatemala that includes courtesy calls on the presi-dents of both countries.

In Guatemala, they will visit a workshop mak-ing marimba, a traditional musical instrument, and the Tikal archaeological site, the largest and oldest of the ruins from the Maya civili-zation.

In Mexco, the couple is scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the Cervantino International Festival — the biggest arts fair in Latin America — in Guanajuato.

Mexico invited the couple to visit because this year marks the 400th anniversary of the arriv-al in what was then New Spain of a Japanese mis-sion bound for Europe dispatched by a Japanese feudal lord. Guatemala is a goodwill visit destination.

The couple left from Narita International Airport for Guatemala via the Unit-ed States. They are sched-uled to travel on to Mexico on Friday.

Kyodo News

Tokyo, 30 Sept — Researchers in Japan have developed a body vibration machine that could help patients with fatty liver disease significantly improve their conditions by transmitting vertical and horizontal vibrations throughout their bodies, local media reported on Tuesday.

The research, led by Junichi Shoda, professor of gastroenterological medicine at the University of Tsukuba, utilized a whole body vibration machine whose platform vibrates to a height of several mm 25-50 times per second, in addition to horizontally, which forces the muscles to contract and stretch, according to a re-port posted on the website of The Asahi Shimbun.

In the research, 30 men and women were asked to use the machine after their liver conditions did not improve, despite participating in regular exercise or diet therapy.

Japanese researchers develop vibration machine for fatty liver treatment

Afghans prepare to sign deal with US allowing troops to stay

kabul, 30 Sept — Af-ghanistan’s new government led by President Ashraf Ghani was on Tuesday due to sign a long-delayed bi-lateral security agreement with the United States that will allow US troops to stay beyond the end of this year when their combat mission ends. Ghani’s predecessor, Hamid Karzai, had long re-fused to agree to the deal, citing his anger over civilian deaths and his belief that the

war was not fought in the in-terests of his country, sour-ing his ties with the United States.

But all of the main can-didates in a presidential elec-tion this year said they sup-ported the pact, which will also let US forces keep mili-tary bases in Afghanistan.

Ghani was declared winner of the election last week after prolonged wran-gling with his main rival, former foreign minister Ab-

dullah Abdullah. Ghani was inaugurated on Monday and did not refer explicitly to the security pact with the Unit-ed States in a speech after he was sworn in, but he spoke of the need to improve rela-tions with Western allies.

He also called on the Taleban and their militant allies to join peace talks.

“Security is a main de-mand of our people, and we are tired of this war,” Ghani said.—Reuters

The subjects stood on the machine assuming more than 10 positions, includ-ing squatting, for a total of 20 minutes each time, twice a week.

After 12 weeks of the regimen, re-searchers found that their liver fat was reduced to nearly half on average.

“As the graying of society advances further, there will be many patients who cannot be treated with exercise therapy or other means,” Shoda said. “We hope to continue with research that can provide an effective and safe alternative to treat such people.”

Fatty liver is an ailment that creates an excess of fat around the liver, resulting from overeating and a lack of exercise. If left as is, the condition could develop into liver cirrhosis or hardening of the ar-teries. Patients can reduce the fat through regular exercise, such as jogging, but many fail to do so. —Xinhua


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and see the new direction as clearly as they do. It is therefore important to reinforce core messages through regular encouragement in a practical and inspirational way.

Leaders should bear in mind that no change programme is flawless and it goes completely as planned. It is natural that different people react to change in different, sometimes unexpected, ways. That is why the effective management of change demands repetitive assessment of its im-pact. This commitment requires leaders to sound out their people’s willingness and readiness to take on the new phase of reform and make ad-justments necessary to keep momentum and drive results as desired.

Most important of all, people in power them-selves need to be in favour of change and accept responsibility and accountability in making change materialize in all areas. In this respect,

they need to speak with one voice and motivate their people with incentives and rewards for those who embrace change and removal of those who stand in the way of change.

Only zealous reform-minded leaders and like-minded people will be able to see that change is both individual and institutional and that change is a shared destiny.

By Kyaw Thura

Change is not only individual but also institutional

Critical change requires constant commu-nication, especially in a country like My-anmar, at a time when the government

has been determined to bring the country to a new era of ‘good governance and clean govern-ment’.

There is a tendency for people at the top to make the mistake of believing that their subor-dinates understand the importance of change

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept—The following is the excerpt from the speech delivered by Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin in the General Debate at the 69th United Nations General Assembly in New York on 29 September 2014.—Ed

We are gathered here at a time when the world is fac-ing pressing global challenges and security threats that must be addressed collectively with urgency. The number and scale of regional or local conflicts is growing in some parts of the world. A billion people are still trapped in poverty. The world we want its still a far-away dream.

Climate Change is no longer an issue for scientific argument. Myanmar will continue to work together with the international community for a meaningful, imple-mentable and universal climate agreement in Paris in 2015.

Ebola outbreak in West Africa, with its unprecedent-ed nature and scope, is alarming. All available resources and expertise should be mobilized and deployed before it becomes an economic, social, humanitarian, political and security nightmare. Myanmar welcomes the swift and timely response by the UN Secretary-General in proac-tively establishing the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response-UNMEER.

Terrorism cannot be condoned for any reason or un-der any circumstances. Ruthless killings and atrocities in the name of religion must not be tolerated. Myanmar al-ways opposes terrorism in all its forms and manifesta-tions.

Thanks to the positive challenges in Myanmar, the

cooperation between Myanmar and the United Nations is now better than ever. The United Nations and its agen-cies are showing greater interest in Myanmar. The Gov-ernment, on its part, is facilitating them for the effective implementation of their missions.

I would like to appraise this Assembly that Myan-mar is making domestic preparations with a view to rat-ifying major international disarmament instruments. I am pleased to announce that the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Union Parliament) has just approved the Myanmar’s ac-cession to the Biological Weapons Convention (1972) today.

Winds of change have spread across Myanmar since the past three years. The scope and pace of positive chang-es in Myanmar have earned a remarkable recognition and encouragement by the international community.

Myanmar is advancing well on the path of peaceful democratic transition that began over 3 years ago by set-ting in motion the waves of political and economic re-forms.

The First Wave was the peaceful transformation from the military government to a multi-party democratic sys-tem where all political forces are working together to overcome differences through dialogue at the Hluttaws (Parliaments). An all-inclusive political system has been established, bringing in all stakeholders in the process through national reconciliation. The First Wave of reform has brought about the national reconciliation, granting of a series of amnesties, creation of greater political space, freedom of media, and freedom of expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly.

It was followed by the Second Wave of reform, un-leashing an array of political, economic, administrative and private sector development reforms.

Now, the Third Wave of reform has been launched, aimed at laying down a firm foundation for a new demo-cratic state, and delivering benefit to the people by fulfill-ing their socio-economic needs.

We are determined to keep the reforms on track through ensuring peace, stability and national reconcilia-tion. Since our democracy is still in its infancy, we are facing a multitude of daunting challenges like other coun-tries in transition. The government has a long do-do list with limited capacity. We are determined to overcome these challenges. We need understanding and continued support of the International community in our efforts for economic development and capacity building to lay a sol-id foundation for a democratic society.

One of the issue that attract domestic and internation-al attention if the process of amending the present Consti-tution of Myanmar. In this connection, the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Union Parliamnet) set up the Constitutional Amendment Review Joint Committee in July last year.

After soliciting suggestions and recommendations from the general public and from political parties, the Constitu-tional Amendment Implementation Committee has been formed to address the issue of Constitution amendment based on the suggestions received.

Putting democratic values into practice, we are laying foundations to successfully conduct an independent, free and fair election within a legal framework without com-promising national sovereignty. In this context, Myanmar has recently received the visit of Need Assessment Mis-sion from the Electoral Assistance Division of the Depart-ment of Political Affairs of the United Nations.

All existing political parties are expected to take part in the elections. The final decision will be made by the people on the Election Day.

To reach a nationwide ceasefire agreement. So far we have already reached such on agreement with 14 out of 16 groups. We are now working on a draft framework for political dialogue which will pave the way for bring an end to the six-decade long conflict. The government is se-rious in its commitment for the success of the peace pro-cess. It is open-minded to discus all issues except those that could undermine the unity and sovereignty of the State. We are confident that we are now getting closer to achieving a comprehensive and lasting peace.

There has been steady progress in the promotion and protection of human rights in my country. The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC), which was first established in 2011, has been reconstituted very recently with a view to functioning as an independent en-tity.

In this new era, press and media freedom is one of the most visible outcomes of the reforms, in contribution to the all-inclusive reform process, the media is getting more space now. The abolishment of the decades-old press cen-sorship, the publishing of a multitude of private newspa-pers and journals and the enactment of the new Media Law are among the significant achievements in our media landspace.

We have now reached the middle tier of the human rights ladder. This progress in contributing to the better enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the people of Myanmar. Therefore, we are now fully convinced that Myanmar should no longer remain on the agendas of the Human Rights Council and the Third Com-mittee of UN General Assembly.

The Armed Forces of Myanmar is making important progress in its implementation of the Action Plan for the prevention of recruitment of underage children, there is now new underage recruitment unwittingly or otherwise.

All major concerns related to human rights have been addressed to a larger extent in the new Myanmar.

We are also paying great attention and making efforts to address the issue of the communal violence that had occurred between the two communities in Rakhine State. The history, the diversity and the complexity of the issue must be fully understood before jumping to conclusion.

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Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin delivers an address at the general debate at 69th General Assembly

of the UN.—mna

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Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin and party attend the general debate at 69th General Assembly of the United Nations.—mna

(from page 1)I would like to thank all

international partners in contributing to our efforts in addressing the current needs of the affected people.

Myanmar has made tre-mendous progress over the past three and a half years since it has begun wid-er-ranging reforms in transi-tion to democracy. Myan-mar’s success in peaceful transformation was even lauded as a model in the world today. Despite all these achievements, there remain many challenges and hurdles our path to democra-cy and development. We are

Myanmar always opposes terrorism in all its forms...

resolute and determined to continue our relentless ef-forts for reforms and for

building a democratic state. The continued support and understanding of the inter-

national community would contribute positively to My-anmar’s reform process.

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept— On the oc-casion of the 65th Anniversary of the Founding Day of the People’s Republic of China, which falls on 1 October 2014, U Wunna Maung Lwin, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Wang

Union FM felicitates Chinese, Nigerian

counterpartsNay Pyi Taw, 30

Sept— The second coor-dination meeting on the development of the admin-istrative sector of the gov-ernment was held here on Tuesday at the President Office with attendancesof senior government of-ficials.

Union minister U Hla Tun at the President Of-ficedelivered the openingspeech on the meeting, saying the meeting is in-tended to solve problems and difficulties presentedby the regional and state governments.

He also said that the

Discussions made to promote administrative sectorgovernment is seeking ways to fulfill the funda-mental needs of people after founding a concrete ground to ensure dem-ocratic practices in the country.

The union minister also talked about the im-portance of capacity build-ing in every level of ad-ministrative sector which is reliable for the public.

The deputy ministers and officials concerneddiscussed the reform plans proposed by the gov-ernments of regions and states.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept — Commander-in-Chief (Navy) Admiral Thu-ra Thet Swe held a talk with US Military Attaché (Army) Col William C.

Admiral Thura Thet Swe meets US military attachés

Dickey to Myanmar and Bangkok-based US Mil-itary Attaché Captain Christopher S Chambers at the Ayeyawady Naval Region Command Head-

quarters in Yangon on Tuesday.

After the meeting, they exchanged gifts and posed for documentary photos.—Myawady

Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Peo-ple’s Republic of China. The Union min-ister also felicitated His Excellency Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which falls on 1 October 2014.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 30 Sept—The ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat will be held at Aureum Pal-ace Hotel in Bagan on 18 and 19 November.

Local and foreign correspondents who wish to cover the news can register at the homepage www.asean2014.gov.mmandfillouttheMediaRegistrationForm. The registration must be completed no later than 31 October. The media accreditation cards will be is-sued at the venue of the meeting in Bagan at 12 noon on 17 November.

The foreign correspondents are to apply for visas at the respective Myanmar embassies to cover the meet-ing. Please dial 067-404425 of the Ministry of Defence for further information.

MNA

Media registration for ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Retreat

yaNgoN, 30 Sept—Ar-menian Catholic Bishop His Holiness Karakin II and delegation arrived in Yangon by air on Tuesday evening.

The bishop is visit-ing Myanmar to preserve the Armenian heritage in Myanmar and to promote friendship between the Ar-menian and Myanmar peo-ple.

The land for Armenian Church of St John the Bap-tist at the corner of Mer-chant Street and Bo Aung Kyaw Street was donated by King Mindon. —MNA

Armenian Catholic Bishop

arrives in Yangon

Union Minister at the President Office U Hla Tun highlights development of the administrative sector of the government.

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Admiral Thura Thet Swe receives US military attaches.—myawady


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Airstrikes against Islamic State without

Syria ineffective

Turkish tanks reinforce border as Islamic State shells Syrian town

Turkish army tanks take up position on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa Province on 29 Sept, 2014. — ReuteRs

Mursitpinar, (Turkey) 30 Sept — Turkish tanks and armoured vehicles took up positions on hills over-looking the besieged Syri-an border town of Kobani on Monday as shelling by Islamic State insurgents intensified and stray fire hit Turkish soil, a Reuters cor-respondent said.

At least 30 tanks and armoured vehicles, some with their guns pointed to-wards Syrian territory, were positioned near a Turkish military base just north-west of Kobani. Plumes of smoke rose up as shells hit the eastern and western sides of Kobani and sporad-ic bursts of machinegun fire rang out.

“We have taken the border under full control. We have ramped up our se-curity measures in the Suruc region,” Interior Minister

Efkan Ala told reporters in Istanbul, referring to the area on the Turkish side of the border with Kobani. A local official inside the be-sieged town said Islamic State continued to bombard it from the east, west and south and that the militants were 10 km (6 miles) from the outskirts.

“From the morning there have been bomb shellings into Kobani and not one rocket, but may-be about 20 rockets,” Id-ris Nassan, deputy foreign minister in the Kobani can-ton, said by telephone.

Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the British-based Syrian Observatory for Hu-man Rights which moni-tors Syria’s civil war, said at least 15 mortar rounds had landed on Kobani on Monday, killing at least one person. He said Islamic

State fighters had advanced to within 5 km of the town.

At least two shells hit Turkish territory on Mon-day. The Turkish military said earlier it had fired back on Sunday after two mortar bombs crossed the border. Ambulances shut-tled to and from the bor-der, sirens blazing. Islamic State insurgents launched their assault on Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish town also known as Ayn al-Arab, more than a week ago, besieging it from three sides and sending more than 150,000 Kurds fleeing into Turkey.

“Because of the bombs everyone is running away, we’ve heard people have been killed. The YPG (Kurdish forces) have got small weapons but Islam-ic State has big guns and tanks,” said Xelil, a 39-

year old engineer who fled Kobani on Monday.

“Most people are leav-ing now, it was safe before but now with these bombs, people won’t stay,” he said.

Turkey has so far de-clined to take a frontline role in the US-led coalition

against Islamic State, but President Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkish troops could be used to help set up a safe haven for refugees inside Syria if there is in-ternational agreement.

Ankara’s caution stems in part from its

concern about links be-tween Syrian Kurds and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant group which has waged a three-decade armed cam-paign against the Turkish state for greater Kurdish rights.— Reuters

US, Kurds strike at Islamic State in Syria

Men inspect a damaged plastics factory that was targeted on Sunday by what activists said were US-led air strikes in the Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa on 29 Sept, 2014. —ReuteRs

Beirut/ Mursitpinar, (Turkey ) 30 Sept — US warplanes attacked Islamic State targets in Syria over-night, in raids that a group monitoring the war said killed civilians as well as jihadist fighters.

The British-based Syr-ian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit mills and grain storage ar-eas in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, in an area controlled by Islamic State, killing at least two civilian workers.

Strikes on a building on a road leading out of the town also killed a number of Islamic State fighters, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the observatory, which gathers information from sources in Syria.

The US military said on Monday an American air

strike targeted Islamic State vehicles in a staging area adjacent to a grain storage facility near Manbij, but it had no evidence so far of civilian casualties.

While raids in Iraq and Syria have taken a toll on Is-lamic State equipment and fighters on the ground, there is no sign the tide is turning against the group, which controls large areas of both countries.

A US Air Force general said Islamic State militants were changing their tactics in the face of American air strikes in Iraq and Syria, abandoning large forma-tions such as convoys that had been easier for the US military to target.

“They are a smart ad-versary, and they have seen that that’s not effective for their survival, so they

are now dispersing them-selves,” Air Force Major General Jeffrey Harrigian said at a Pentagon news conference. That “requires us to work harder to locate them, and then develop the situation to appropriately target them”, he said.

In a statement to the United Nations that ap-peared to give approval of US and Arab air strikes in Syria against the militants, Syria’s foreign minister said his country backed the cam-paign against Islamic State.

Syria “stands with any international effort aimed at fighting and combating terrorism”, said Walid al-Moualem, whose govern-ment has long been an in-ternational pariah because of what critics say is its bru-tality in a civil war that has killed 190,000 people.

new York, 30 Sept —Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Monday stressed the need for coordinating with Damascus in an interna-tional fight against Islamic State targets in his country, saying US-led airstrikes against the militant group will be ineffective without President Bashar al-As-sad’s government.

Mekdad said the American-led coalition, which is acting without Syrian approval or partici-pation, would not be most effective without the Syr-ian government’s cooper-ation “because we know on the ground what is hap-pening.” “Any attempt to isolate Syria because of certain agendas will not lead anywhere,” Mekdad told Kyodo News in a one-on-one interview on the sidelines of the yearly de-bate at the United Nations. Continuation of airstrikes without Syrian government cooperation against the militant group also known as ISIS “is a waste of time,” he said.

On the airstrikes them-selves, “hitting and striking at the ISIS does not make us sad,” he added.

At the same time, he criticized the coalition of countries that have been in-volved in carrying out the air attacks since last week, particularly citing Saudi

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.

Kyodo News

Arabia and Qatar for their support of such terrorist groups.

“The only alternative to the Syrian government is ISIS,” he added.

He suggested the Unit-ed States and other western countries “give up their dreams about changing the government of Syria for political purposes.”

“If they want now to combat terrorism the only party that is ready to do it is the Syrian government under President Assad,” he noted.

Earlier on Monday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem reiter-ated his country’s call to “stand with any interna-tional effort” to combat ter-rorism while acknowledg-ing “it is certainly possible through military strike,” but that countries must be stopped from arming, train-ing and funding the mili-tant groups.— Kyodo News

US congressional aides said Congress might not vote until next year on an authorization for President Barack Obama’s air strikes against Islamic State mil-itants in Iraq and Syria, despite some lawmakers’ insistence that approval is already overdue.

Obama has said he does not need approval for the air strikes, despite the constitutional requirement that Congress authorize mil-itary action.

The US-led strikes have so far failed to halt an advance by Islamic State fighters in northern Syria on Kobani, a Kurdish town on the border with Turkey where fighting over the past week caused the fastest ref-ugee flight of Syria’s three-year-old war.

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Body of dead miner recovered from ruins

details about Miletic’s death would be known.

The miner’s body will remain in the pit until that time, but it has been recov-ered from the ruins and relo-cated to a safe spot.

Miletic got cluttered over on 23 September, some time around 8.30 am as he was drilling the coal depos-its and a large heap of coal, stone and soil tumbled down on him. Since the accident, there was no contact with the miner until the recovery of his body.

Miletic worked as a miner for eight years. He was the father of three chil-dren aged ten, nine and three who will remain in the care of the miner’s common-law wife.

Miletic was born in a miner’s family and his fa-ther was a retired miner. His one ear older brother works in the same pit.—Tanjug

Resavica, 30 Sept— Dead miner Zeljko Mi-letic, aged 36, was found by rescuers and miners in the Strmosten mining pit of Rembas Coal Mine late on Sunday, after six days

of search actions, Director General of the Public Com-pany for Underground Coal Mining Resavica Vladan Milosevic told Tanjug and added that the miner’s body was recovered from the ru-

ins and it is now up to the high public prosecutor and inspector to perform the preliminary scene investi-gation. Milosevic expects the prosecutor to perform his duty, after which more

Bangkok, 30 Sept—A 24-year-old Japanese man who has fathered more than a dozen surrogate babies in Thailand has expressed his readiness to travel to Thai-land and claim his children under Thai state protection, Thai police said on Mon-day.

A senior Thai police officer told Kyodo News that the man communi-cated his wishes through his legal representative in Thailand.

Thai police have told the Japanese man to ex-plain about the circum-stances surrounding his act of fathering surrogate babies, warning that legal action will be taken un-less he gives an account personally to Thai police authorities. The Thai po-lice official said the man’s legal representative got in touch with Thai police on 26 September and told police authorities the man will travel to Thailand by early October at the latest.

A parental test con-ducted by Thai authorities through DNA samples provided by the man has shown he is the biological father of the babies.

The man’s lawyer in Thailand has provided a

Univ professor researching “pon gashi” to stress importance of peaceMatsuyaMa, (Japan),

30 Sept — A 51-year-old professor of business his-tory at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefec-ture, is known as an expert on “pon gashi” — literal-ly “popped snacks” made from grain.

Fuelling his research into the old-style snacks is Toshihiro Wada’s keen interest in the efforts of a woman who sought to alle-viate food shortages during World War II and who was motivated by a desire for peace.

During a recent lunch break in a far corner of the national university’s cam-pus, Wada placed some 750 grams of rice into an iron containment vessel, sealed it tight and heated it with gas for about 10 min-utes. After checking that the pressure was right, he hit the vessel’s lid with a wooden hammer and broke the seal. With a tremendous boom, puffed rice poured out, in a volume many times the original amount.

Students gathered around the machine when they heard the sound and ate the pon gashi at Wa-da’s prodding, enjoying the taste and texture of the crispy puffed rice.

Wada was drawn to study puffed grains in 2007 when he saw a television programme about Toshi-ko Yoshimura, 88, who produced them for under-nourished children amid widespread food shortages during the war.

“Due to the war, chil-dren were fed half-cooked millet and so suffered from constant diarrhea,” Yoshi-mura said. “I just wanted to help them eat easily digest-ible food as much as they could.”

Yoshimura, a resident of Osaka at that time, de-signed a machine to pro-duce pon gashi based on advice from a university professor and other ac-quaintances.

She then moved to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Pre-fecture, because of the

availability of steel there, and looked for a produc-er. In 1945, a local plant manufactured a machine to Yoshimura’s specifi-cations, lighter and easi-er-to-carry than existing devices. It came to be widely used.

Wada was moved by Yoshimura’s concern for children’s health and the desire for peace that it in-stilled in her, and purchased

a machine in 2009. While learning from Yoshimura how to use it, he asked her to speak to students about her wartime experiences.

The professor now visits university and local festivals around eight times a year to demonstrate the production of pon gashi as a way to illustrate Yoshi-mura’s experiences.

As a scholar, Wada studied the history of

puffed grains in Ehime, where they are used as a wedding gift. He also visit-ed China and South Korea to analyze differences in production methods.

The expression pon gashi is widely used in Japan to describe puffed grains because it was adopted for promotion of the Yoshimura-designed machine. But different prefectures have different

names for them, and Wada has compiled a list. It in-cludes “don” in Hokkaido, Miyagi and Toyama, “pa-kkan” in Mie and Shiga, “patto raisu” in Tokushima and Ehime, and “hachagu-mi” in Okinawa.

The modern process for making puffed grains is thought to have originated from a confectionery pro-duction process invented by an American botanist, according to Wada. It is be-lieved to have been intro-duced at the World’s Fair in St Louis in 1904.

Japan began to im-port machines for making puffed grains after World War I.

Next year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the debut of the machine that Yoshimura designed. Influ-enced by all he has learned from her, Wada said, “I would like to publish a booklet about pon gashi and help people understand the importance of peace,” Wada said.—Kyodo News

Japanese man promises to visit Thailand to claim

surrogate childrenwritten statement to police explaining why his cli-ent fathered the children through surrogacy.

According to Thai law, a father who wants to obtain parental rights needs to testify before a family court. Thai police have said they want to hear the man’s explanations in person.

The man had also pre-viously promised to visit Thailand to undertake the legal procedures of parent-hood.

According to Thai po-lice, the man has fathered 16 children in Thailand. The man’s lawyer has said he also fathered two surro-gate children in India.

Thai police said last month the man left Thai-land with four newborn ba-bies bound for Cambodia so far this year, taking with him one baby at a time.

The man, travelling with a Cambodian passport visited, Cambodia more than 10 times, according to Thai police. Thai found out more surrogate babies fa-thered by the Japanese man in an apartment in Bangkok together with their nannies. The babies’ birth certifi-cates named the Japanese man as their father.

Kyodo News

Toshihiro Wada, professor of

business history at Ehime University,

makes “pon-gashi” (literally “popped snack”) from rice grains using a portable high-pressure

cauldron at the university campus

in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture,

western Japan, as seen in this

file photo of July 2014.

Kyodo News

All aboard rescued after ferry runs aground off S Korea

seoul, 30 Sept—A passenger ferry ran aground in waters off southwestern South Korea on Tuesday but all 109 passengers and crew aboard the vessel

were rescued, the country’s West Sea Coast Guard said.

The ferry Vacance was carrying 104 passengers and five crew members when it struck a rock in

waters not far from Hong-do Island, South Jeolla Province, at around 9 am, it said.

In April, a ferry sank off the country’s south-

western coast, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students who were on a school excur-sion.

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Tokyo, 30 Sept —The government said on Mon-day a man in Shizuoka prefecture has been found infected with a dengue vi-rus that has a different ge-netic sequence from that of the virus detected in other people in Japan since Au-

Tokyo, 30 Sept—The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Mon-day its trouble-plagued ra-dioactive water treatment system at the complex has been partially suspended again.

one of three treatment lines of the multinuclide removal facility was halted last week after Tokyo elec-tric power Co, the operator of the plant, found water passing through it was get-

The man in his 20s was identified 18 September as having developed a dengue symptom on 10 September.

But the site of his in-fection has not been fixed as he said he visited Tokyo in early September and was bitten by a mosquito 9 or

ting cloudy.The line was hit by

similar trouble in March due to filter gasket corro-sion. TepCo later changed the filters and resumed its test run in May.

The company said it does not know whether the latest problem has again been caused by the filters, and has yet to investigate.

on Monday, TepCo also said the Nuclear Reg-ulation Authority approved the utility’s plan to build

New-type dengue virus found in Japan

Water treatment facility at Fukushima plant suspended againTokyo, 30 Sept —

Japan’s average household spending in August fell an inflation-adjusted 4.7 percent from a year earlier to 282,124 yen (some $2,600) for the fifth consecutive month of decline following the April consumption tax hike, government data showed Tuesday.

The fall was smaller than July’s minus 5.9 per-cent but the result, released by the Ministry of internal Affairs and Communica-tions, showed spending by wage-earning households remains weak after the gov-ernment raised the tax rate

Tax hike impact keeps depressing Japan’s household spending in August

to 8 percent from 5 percent on 1 April. on a month-on-month basis, average house-hold spending only fell a seasonally adjusted 0.3 per-cent from July, with the min-istry sticking to its earlier basic assessment that private consumption in Japan “con-tinues to pick up.”

The figures could affect a decision later this year by prime Minister Shinzo Abe on whether to raise the tax again in october 2015 as stipulated by a law to im-prove the country’s fiscal health, the worst among ma-jor developed nations. The latest numbers were largely

affected by heavy rain in part of Japan, the ministry said. Many consumers refrained from going outdoors, spend-ing less on travel, dining out and playing golf. Sales of air conditioners also shrank, given cooler weather. Mean-while, decline in demand for some food products, such as rice, slowed noticeably. De-mand had risen sharply on last-minute buying ahead of the consumption tax increase before dropping off. The de-cline in household spending triggered by the tax rise “has become more moderate,” the official said at a Press brief-ing.—Kyodo News

Globefish auction starts in Shimonoseki. The first auction of the globefish season begins at the Haedomari Market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in western Japan, on 25 Sept, 2014.

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another radioactive wa-ter treatment system with higher performance, which is expected to be capable of processing 500 tons of tox-ic water per day.

The company aims to finish processing around 400,000 tons of toxic water at the Fukushima complex by the end of March next year, but whether it can achieve that goal is unclear as the existing facility has continued to face problems.

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gust. The finding indicates that the new-type virus has arrived in Japan via some-one other than the person carrying the virus that in-fected many other people through mosquitoes, main-ly at Yoyogi park in central Tokyo.

10 September in the eastern part of the prefecture. The health ministry Monday reported that three more people have been identified as infected with the dengue virus, bringing the total of those infected in Japan to 150. No infection in Ja-pan had been found since 1945.—Kyodo News


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Rihannato do cameo in next ‘James Bond’ film?

Katie Holmes

New York, 30 Sept — Hollywood actress Katie Holmes has compared filming her upcoming movie ‘Days and Nights’ to camp-ing.

‘Days and Nights’, an American independent drama film, has been directed and written by Christian Camargo. The film is inspired by ‘The Seagull’ by Anton Chekhov, reported New York Post.

“It was a lot like camp,” the 35-year-old actress said of filming ‘Days and Nights’. “We were in Kent, Connnecticut. There was this tiny little town with one chocolate store and a little tiny bookshop,” she added. Camargo said, “We went swimming, we went canoeing, we had cookouts. It wasn’t the sort of studio environment where everyone goes home, we were there the whole time.”—PTI

compares filming ‘Days and Nights’ to camping

karachi, 30 Sept — Queen of Pop Madonna’s school in Karachi has opened its gates to students. The 56-year-old ‘Material Girl’ singer took to Twitter to announce that the Dream Model Street

School has so far admit-ted 1200 kids.

“The revolution of love continues in Pakistan! The Dream School is finally fin-

ished. 1200 kids attend-ing. Knowledge…” Madon-

na posted alongside a picture of the school building in Kara-

chi. Madonna announced last

year that she was raising mon-ey to expand a school located in the outskirts of Karachi.

The pop star also shared a photograph of girls studying in the

classroom equipped with laptops. “Girls learning at the Dream School,”

she captioned the picture.—PTI

Courtney Lovelikes acting routine

LoNdoN, 30 Sept — Courtney Love, who is playing a kindergar-ten teacher on the final season of ‘Sons of Anarchy’, believes acting helps her stay in control of her life because the regular routine suits her.

The 50-year-old rocker said her life is a lot calmer these days and she has no plans to get back into the recording studio at present, reported Contactmusic. “I’ll never outgrow it (music), but acting of-fers a better lifestyle at my age. I have to show up early, act respon-sible and can’t be a brat,” she said.

Love is also currently working on her upcoming autobiogra-phy, but admits she has to make a lot of edits, as some of the contents are too shocking to publish. “Fixing it now to make it less salacious. It was too rock n’ roll,” she added.

PTI

Vancouver Film School opens new facility in

ShanghaiShaNghai, 30 Sept — The Shanghai Vancouver Film School opened on Monday as the joint-venture school seeks to breed international talent for the world’s second largest film market. The SH-VFS, a partnership between the Vancouver Film School and Shanghai University, will offer four one-year-long programmes in film production, sound design for visual media, animation and visual effects, and makeup design for film and television. The pro-grammes are vocational without a diploma.

Shanghai, the cradle of the Chinese film industry, is trying to develop the kind of skills need-ed for a film industry so they can grab a larger share of the domes-tic market. China’s domestic film

The 32nd Hundred Flowers Award unveiled on 27 Sept,

2014 in Lanzhou, capital city of China’s Gansu

Province. Photo shows that Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi

attends the ceremony. Zhang awarded Best Actress of

the 32nd Hundred Flowers Award.—Xinhua

box office is divided almost equal-ly between movies made in China and international films, mainly American blockbusters. Its total box office was near 22 billion yuan (3.6 billion US dollars) in 2013 and expected to reach 28 billion yuan this year.—Xinhua

LoNdoN, 30 Sept — Singer Rihanna is reportedly set to make a special appearance in the 24th ‘James Bond’ film. The 26-year-

old ‘We Found Love’ hitmaker has been approached by the film’s producers

and is really excited to appear on the big screen, reported the Daily

Mirror. “Rihanna is a big fan of

the Bond films and has always loved the idea of appearing in one. She didn’t even need to think about it, she knows she wants to do it. She’s re-ally excited, a source said.

Filming for the new Bond film, which is code-named ‘Bond 24, is expect-ed to start later this year with director Sam Mendes at the helm. The film is due for release in November 2015.

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Nishikori receives hero’s welcome, advances in doubles

Tokyo, 30 Sept — Kei Nishikori made a triumphant return on Tuesday as the US Open finalist and new Malaysian Open champi-on teamed with Yasutaka Uchiyama in a first-round doubles victory at the Ja-pan Open before a raucous center court crowd.

Despite an 11 am week-day start, a good crowd was on hand to welcome Nishi-kori and see the Japanese pair defeat Poland’s Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Treat Huey of the Philippines 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals.

Roughly 500 fans were lined up at 9:30 am when the gates opened for the second day of action at Ariake Ten-nis Forest Park. One and half

Japanese ace Kei Nishikori signs an autograph for a fan after practice at the Ariake venue in Tokyo on 29 Sept, 2014, prior to the Japan Open. He has reached his highest world ranking of No 7 after his victory at

the Malaysian Open the previous day.Kyodo News

hour later on center court, Nishikori and Uchiyama entered to a huge ovation and responded with a solid victory.

“It was good that we were able to play well from our first match,” said Ni-shikori.

“For me it was my first day and to be able to play before so many fans is an honor. Even though it’s doubles, I’m happy people could come and watch. I will do my best in singles as well.”

N i s h i k o r i , w h o s e world ranking rose to a ca-reer-high No 7 on Monday, will play his first-round singles match as the tour-nament’s fourth seed on

Tuesday against Croatia’s Ivan Dodig.

In Tuesday’s singles, Japan’s Go Soeda lost to American Donald Young 6-4, 6-2, while Germany’s Benjamin Becker defeated Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen. Becker won the first set 7-5 and was 4-1 up when Niem-inen retired.

Sixth seed Roberto Bautista Agut retired to hand France’s Gilles Simon a 4-6, 7-6(7), 2-1 victory.

The Spaniard became the third seeded player to crash out in Tokyo, fol-lowing Monday’s exit of second-seeded countryman David Ferrer and eighth seed Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine.—Kyodo News

Bouchard, Radwanska beaten in China; Sharapova, Halep winBeijing, 30 Sept —

WTA Finals qualifiers Ma-ria Sharapova and Simona Halep recorded straight sets victories at the China Open on Tuesday, but Singapore hopefuls Eugenie Bouchard and Agnieszka Radwanska were dumped out in second round upsets.

Bouchard, who lost in the final of last week’s Wu-han Open, was beaten by unseeded German Sabine Lisicki 6-2, 6-4, while Italian Roberta Vinci knocked out 2011 winner Radwanska 6-4, 6-4.

The defeats left the Pol-ish world number six and seventh ranked Bouchard waiting to book a qualifying spot at next month’s WTA’s season-ending champion-ships in Singapore.

French Open champion

Maria Sharapova of Russia returns a shot to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine during their women’s singles match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing

on 30 Sept, 2014. —ReuteRs

Sharapova and Halep, run-ner up at Roland Garros, are already assured of places in the eight-woman field at the WTA Finals and they added further wins to their strong tallies in 2014 on Tuesday.

Russ ian Sharapo-va produced some bruis-ing groundstrokes as she crushed Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-2, while Ro-manian Halep encountered some issues before over-coming Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin 7-5, 6-4.

World number four Sharapova went for her shots throughout the contest on the Beijing hard courts, smashing some eye-catching winners but also coughing up five double faults among some wild errors.

She sealed victory when Svitolina could only

hit a backhand long to put Sharapova through to a third round meeting with Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro.

“Happy with the way I’ve started the tournament. Hopefully I’ll continue that in the next match,” the Rus-sian said.

World number 167 Zhu followed Sharapova’s ag-gressive tactics as she led 5-4 in the first set against second ranked Halep, only to lose her composure and the match.

The Chinese produced 28 unforced errors as Ha-lep’s counter punching ap-proach helped her claim a win that sets up a third round clash with 15th seed Andrea Petkovic, the German hav-ing little trouble in ousting American Madison Keys 6-2, 6-3.

Former world number one Ana Ivanovic was an-other second round winner

as she beat Swiss Romina Oprandi 6-4, 6-2 on the Moon Court.—Reuters

Li named ambassador for WTA Finals in SingaporeSingapore, 30 Sept—

Recently retired Chinese tennis trailblazer Li Na, Asia’s only grand slam singles winner, has been appointed as an ambassador for next month’s season ending WTA Tour Finals in Singapore.

The 32-year-old was in position to qualify for the lucrative 17-26 Octo-ber tournament before an-nouncing she was quitting a fortnight ago after being worn down by the effects of long-term knee injuries.

This year’s Australian Open winner and the 2011 French Open champion will take on her new role for

the first two editions of the event, which is switching to Singapore next month for the start of a five-year term.

“This will be a great opportunity for the fans from around the world over to get close to a tennis legend who has inspired a nation and done so much for the game in Asia Pacific,” WTA Chairman & CEO Stacey Allaster said in a statement.

“She has inspired a generation of young girls throughout Asia-Pacific with hopes that, they too, can achieve the dream of playing in the WTA Finals.”

Reuters

Atletico out to prove they have teeth in attackMadrid, 30 Sept — At-

letico Madrid’s Champions League game at home to Juventus on Wednesday will be a chance for the Spanish champions to prove they have the firepower to chal-lenge in Europe again this season.

Diego Costa, top scorer for Atletico last term when they reached the final of the continent’s elite club competition, has departed for Chelsea and a lack of recent goals had prompted murmurs that the side will struggle without the Bra-zil-born Spain striker.

Saturday’s thumping 4-0 La Liga win at home to Sevilla appeared to suggest otherwise, although the Juve

Atletico Madrid’s Raul Jimenez (L) celebrates with his teammate Diego Godin after scoring a goal against

Sevilla during their Spanish first division soccer match at Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on 27 Sept,

2014. —ReuteRs

defence, which has yet to concede a goal in five Serie A games this season, will be

a far tougher test than the Andalusians’ more porous back line.—Reuters

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Medals table of the Asian Games30 September, 2014

Wang Zhen of China celebrates after the men’s cross-country competition of cycling at the

17th Asian Games in Incheon,

South Korea, on 30 Sept, 2014.

Wang Zhen won the gold medal with 1 hour 42 minutes and 34

seconds.Xinhua Players of China celebrate during the women’s

semifinal round for 1st to 4th place of volleyball against Thailand at the 17th Asian Games in Ansan,

South Korea, on 30 Sept, 2014. China won 3-1.Xinhua

Jeong Sangeun of South Korea competes during the men’s table tennis team semifinal

match against Chinese Taipei at the 17th Asian

Games in Incheon, South Korea,

on 29 Sept, 2014. South Korea won 3-1 and

advanced to the final. Xinhua

Ding Ning of China competes during the women’s table tennis team semifinal match

against the Democratic People’s Republic of

Korea (DPRK) at the 17th

Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on 29 Sept, 2014. China won 3-0 and

advanced to the final.Xinhua

Chen Ruolin (L) and Liu Huixia of China compete during the women’s synchronised 10m platform

final of diving at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on 30 Sept, 2014. Chen Ruolin and Liu

Huixia won the gold medal with 346.50 points. Xinhua

Incheon, 30 Sept—Ja-pan’s Yoshihito Nishioka cruised to a straight-sets victory over Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan to claim the gold medal in the men’s singles tournament at the 17th Asian Games on Tuesday.

Nishioka, the fifth seed here, beat No. 1 seed Lu 6-2, 6-2 to become the first Jap-anese player in 40 years to win an Asian Games cham-pionship. Toshiro Sakai was the last to accomplish the feat at the 1974 Teheran Asian Games.

“I was aiming for the gold medal and through everyone’s support I could

Asian Games: Nishioka captures men’s tennis singles gold

repay my gratitude,” Nish-ioka said after his victory. “I didn’t know (that it was the first time in 40 years). In Japan, tennis is becoming

more and more popular, and hopefully this will make it even more a topic of conver-sation.”

With Kei Nishikori all the rage back in Japan after reaching the US Open final earlier this month and win-ning the Malaysia Open for his third title of the season on Sunday, it seemed only fitting that another man from the Land of the Rising Sun whose name begins in “Ni-shi” triumph in the regional Olympics for Asia.

“If even a little, I hope I can get closer to the way he plays,” Nishioka said when asked about his idol Nishi-

kori. “I feel like I’ve moved a little closer to him. I’d like to play on the ATP tour more to get higher in rank and closer to where he is,” said Nishioka, whose first order of business is to be reach the top 150 in the ATP rankings.

Nishioka put Lu in a headlock with a break in the first game and only tight-ened his grip as the match progressed at Yeorumul Tennis Courts in Incheon, South Korea. In the first set, Nishioka, who turned 19 on Saturday, had his serve bro-ken at 5-1 and Lu held serve once before the Japanese re-gained command.

With baseline play rem-iniscent of the speedy world No 7 Nishikori, Nishioka battled back from 0-40 for three deuces, facing his sec-ond break in the eighth game of the second set before serv-ing out the match in 1 hour, 11 minutes.

“I knew that he was the higher ranked player but I went out there with the spirit of a challenger,” said Nish-ioka, who is ranked 168th in the world. “I was a little surprised to get off to such a flying start and it helped me relax. I kept focused and took advantage when my opponent made some errors.

I was glad I could win in straight sets,” he said.

Asked his thoughts on being called “Nishikori II,” Nishioka replied, “I am very happy to be compared to him but when he was my age, he was much higher ranked so I really have to fight harder to move up,” he said.

Earlier, China’s Wang Qiang held off Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand 6-3, 7-6 (5) to win the gold in the women’s singles. Japan’s Eri Hozumi and Misa Egu-chi, who lost to Luksika and Qiang, respectively, in the semifinals won bronze med-als.—Kyodo News

Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka

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