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Established 1914

Volume XVI, Number 305 8th Waning of Tabodwe 1370 ME Tuesday, 17 February, 2009

1. To work hard together with the people to

accomplish the State’s seven-step Road

Map in building a peaceful, modern and

developed nation

2. To uphold Our Three Main National

Causes as the national policy at risk to

life

3. To crush, in cooperation with the people,

internal and external subversive elements

that are disrupting stability, peace and

development of the nation

4. To build a strong and patriotic modern

Tatmadaw capable of safeguarding the

sovereignty and territorial integrity of

the nation

Objectives of the64th Anniversary

Armed Forces DayNAY PYI TAW, 16

Feb—Minister for Indus-try-2 Vice-Admiral SoeThein arrived at the site ofindustrial training schoolproject (Pakokku) inMagway Division on 14February .

Officials reported onthe site chosen for con-struction of three work-shops and classrooms andsupply of water and elec-tricity. The minister ful-filled the requirements andvisited the sites.

On 15 February, theminister cordially metfamilies of staff of Ma-chine and Machine ToolsFactory (Myaing) and in-spected machine shop,mould and die makingshop, assembly-1 and 2,

Industrial training schoolto be built in Pakokku

sheet metal and paintingshop, heat treatment shop,foundry shop and pattern

making shop. The minis-ter met service personneland gave instructions on

good workmanship, inno-vations and reviews onproducts.—MNA

YANGON, 16 Feb—The Union of Myanmar Fed-eration of Chambers of Commerce and Industry andThai Industrialists Group are meeting according totheir respective industries at the office of UMFCCI on19 February.

A total of 71 Thai entrepreneurs from 43 compa-nies dealing in consumer product industries such aselectric and electronics, farming equipment, pharma-ceuticals, healthcare products and cosmetics, clean-ing materials, packaging materials, gifts and fancy,stationery, sports equipment, handbags, foot wareand leather products, nylon string and plumbing ma-terials will discuss on trade opportunities with theirsample products. It is also arranged for Myanmarentrepreneurs to be able to introduce their exportitems, if any.

Interested entrepreneurs are to directly contactUMFCCI.

For further information, contact IR Departmentof UMFCCI or dial 214344~9 Ext: 203.

MNA

Myanmar and Thaiindustrialists to meetBONN, 16 Feb — In

our Galaxy, we are used tothe idea that even the near-est stars are light yearsaway from the Sun. But ateam of scientists led byProfessor Pavel Kroupa ofthe University of Bonnthink things were very dif-ferent in the early Uni-verse.

In particular, UltraCompact Dwarf galaxies(UCDs), a recently discov-ered class of object, mayhave had stars packed to-gether a million timesmore closely than in thesolar neighbourhood, ac-cording to calculationsmade by team member andPhD student JoergDabringhausen and pre-

Stars packed together in earlyUniverse a million times more closely

The background image was taken by Dr MichaelHilker of the University of Bonn using the 2.5-

metre Du Pont telescope, part of the LasCampanas Observatory in Chile. The two boxes

show close-ups of two UCD galaxies in the Hilkerimage.—INTERNET

sented in a paper inMonthly Notices of theRoyal Astronomical So-ciety.

UCDs were discov-ered in 1999. Althoughthey are still enormousby everyday standards, atabout 60 light yearsacross, they are less than1/1000th the diameter ofour own Galaxy, theMilky Way. (In more fa-miliar units, a light yearis about 10 million mil-lion km).

Astronomers believethat UCDs were createdwhen more normal gal-axies collided in the earlyUniverse. But oddly,UCDs clearly have moremass than the light fromthe stars they containwould imply.

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Minister for Industry-2 Vice-Admiral Soe Thein looks into Machineand Machine Tools Factory (Myaing).—MNA

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 17 February, 2009

Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

The Livestock Breeding and VeterinaryDepartment under the Ministry of Livestockand Fisheries has issued notifications on poultrydiseases as there was a change in the weather.

The outbreak of poultry diseases includingnewcastle, bronchitis, cholera and avian flu arequite common in winter. And there can becomplications in outbreaks and diagnosticsymptoms and mortality rates among thosediseases.

In the winter, migratory birds often carryvirus that causes such avian diseases and infectchickens, birds and ducks.

There was a complication among choleraand other avian diseases at some poultry farms inNay Pyi Taw Pyinmana Township in the secondweek of December 2008, in Pyay, Amarapuraand Maha Aungmyay Townships in Januaryand February in 2009.

The reason is that those poultry farmsreceived no further vaccines and the potency ofvaccines given ran out. Being a highly contagiousdisease, newcastle disease caused a large numberof poultry deaths. As preventive measures, stepsare to be taken for banning all the affectedpoultry from reaching consumers, culling themand disinfecting the poultry farms.

In the meantime, for bio-security, properpoultry farms are to be built in breeding zoneswhile separating poultry and ducks from otheranimals so that diseases cannot easily spread.Moreover, items used in poultry farm, vehiclesand packaging materials are to be properlydisinfected.

People are to come forward withinformation on unusual death of chickens andbirds to the Livestock Breeding and VeterinaryDepartment and local livestock breedingfederations.

All in all, the entire people are urged tostrictly follow the notifications on poultry diseasesissued by the Livestock Breeding and VeterinaryDepartment, and only then, will the preventionof avian diseases be possible and effective.

Strive together with officialsconcerned for prevention ofavian diseases

MANDALAY, 16 Feb —Chairman of Mandalay CityDevelopment Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Phone ZawHan and party inspected No. 1 Integrated Farm inYedaguntaung in Patheingyi Township on 29 January.

At the Integrated Farm, the mayor and partyvisited fish, chicken, duck, goose, rabbit and turkey

Mandalay Mayor visits Yedaguntaung integrated farm

farms and he fulfilled the requirements of the farm.Next, he visited milch cow farm and called for

seasonal vegetables to be grown in the vacant land.The mayor inspected thriving tapioca and kanyut(asparagus) plantations.

NLM

YANGON, 16 Feb—STIEducation will conducteducational discussions ofUniversity of Wollongong(UOW), University ofWestern Sydney (UWS),TAFE NSW, SingaporeInstitute of MaterialsManagement (SIMM) andHospitality Business SchoolSingapore (HBS) at ParkRoyal and Traders Hotelshere on 21 and 22 February.

The educationaldiscussions will beorganized by AustralianEducation Consultant MsJean Braid, SIMM DirectorMr Roger Lee, HBSDirector Mr Joshua Tan andConsultants of STI.

Degrees in Medicine,

Surgery, Pharmacy,Nursing, Engineering,Aviation, Maritime,Laboratory Technology,Engineering, IT,Commerce, Accountingand Ph.D of UWS andUOW will be discussed.

Students can learndiploma courses onAccounting & Business, IT,Building, Construction,Engineering, Children’sServices, CommercialCookery, Hospitality &Tourism, DentalTechnology, Nursing,Aged Care, Design, FineArts, Fashion, HairDressing Beauty, Maritime,Aviation, Music, Media andother subjects at TAFE.

Singapore Institute ofMaterials ManagementDirector Mr Roger Leeexplained Degree inCommerce, Diploma,Advanced Diploma inSupply Chain / LogisticsManagement of CurtinTechnology University, MrJoshua Tan of HospitalityBusiness School Diplomain Hospitality and TourismManagement,

Those interested cancontact STI Education atMyanmar Info-Tech inHline Township, No. 377on Shwebontha Street(upper) in Pabedan Towshipand dial 507151, 507152,507046, 507048, 250056.700273.—MNA

STI Education to conduct Australia,Singapore ‘educational discussions’

YANGON, 16 Feb — AMyanmar delegationcomprising U Myat ThuWin, Chairman of ShweMin Tha Foundation(Myanmar) and Secretary

Myanmar delegation leaves for ThailandU Ngwe Ya today left herefor Thailand to attend 1st

Asia-Pacific Community-Based Rehabilitation(CBR) to be held inThailand from 18 to 20

February.At the meeting, they will

discuss services for disabledpersons in villages beingcarried out by Shwe MinTha Foundation.—MNA

Mayor Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han looks into fish breeding ponds of No. 1 Integrated Farm inYedaguntaung in Patheingyi Township.—NLM

Myanmar delega-

tion seen at Yangon

International

Airport before

its departure for

Thailand to take

part in 1st Asia-

Pacific Community-

Based Rehabilitation

(CBR).

MNA

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THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 3

Worst attacks by femalesuicide bombers in IraqBAGHDAD, 16 Feb — A look at some of the dead-

liest attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq sincethe 2003 US-led invasion:

• 13 Feb, 2009: A bomber attacks a tent filled withwomen and children resting from a pilgrimage toKarbala, killing 40 people and wounding 60 others.

• 4 Jan, 2009: A suicide bomber dressed inwomen’s clothing and hiding among Iranian pil-grims kills more than three dozen people and woundsat least 72 outside a mosque in Baghdad’s Shiiteneighborhood of Kazimiyah. It remains unclearwhether the bomber was in fact a woman.

• 8 Oct, 2008: A suicide bomber blows herself upnear government offices in Baqouba, northeast ofthe capital, killing 11 people and wounding 19.

• 15 Sept, 2008: A woman blows herself up amonga group of police officers in Balad Ruz, 45 milesnortheast of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people andwounding 33.

• 14 Aug, 2008: A bomber strikes Shiite pilgrimsin Iskandariyah, 20 miles south of the capital, kill-ing at least 18 people and wounding 75.

• 28 July, 2008: Female suicide bombers attack aShiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protestrally in northern Iraq, killing at least 57 people andwounding nearly 300.

• 22 June, 2008: A bomber strikes outside a gov-ernment complex in Baqouba. At least 15 peopleare killed and more than 40 are wounded.

• 1 May, 2008: A bomber imitating pregnancy deto-nates the first bomb in a double suicide attack that killsat least 36 people during a wedding procession in BaladRuz. At least 65 people are wounded.

• 17 March, 2008: A bomber attacks a group ofShiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala, kill-ing at least 49 people and wounding 73.—Internet

Bomb attacks wound fivepeople in N Iraq

Fifteen bodies in twomass graves found in Iraq

US military deathsin Iraq war at 4,245

WASHINGTON, 16 Feb—As of Sunday,15 Feb, 2009, at least 4,245 members ofthe US military had died in the Iraq warsince it began in March 2003.

The figure includes eight military ci-vilians killed in action. At least 3,406military personnel died as a result ofhostile action, according to the military’snumbers.

The British military has reported 178deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland,21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark,seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four;Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia,Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, twoeach; and Australia, Hungary,Kazakhstan and South Korea, one deatheach.

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US soldierdies in Iraq BAGHDAD, 16 Feb—A

US soldier has died as aresult of a non-combat re-lated incident in Iraq, theUS military said on Sun-day. A military state-mentsaid a soldier assigned toMulti National Division -Baghdad (MND-Baghdad) was killed onSaturday without sayinghow or where exactly theincident occurred.

MND-Baghdad is alsoknown as Task ForceBaghdad, whose majorarea of responsibility is thecity of Baghdad. The nameof the deceased is beingwithheld pending notifi-cation of next of kin, thestatement said, adding thatthe incident is under in-vestigation.

MNA/Xinhua

MOSUL, 16 Feb—Five people, includ-ing a Sunni Arab politician, werewounded by bomb attacks in the city ofMosul on Sunday, a local police sourcesaid. Talab Muhsin, a member of al-Hadbaa, a mainly Sunni Arab party, waswounded when an explosive chargeplanted in his car detonated in the after-noon, the source told Xinhua on condi-tion of anonymity.

Muhsin is the second politician fromthe al-Hadbaa list who survived assas-sination attack in this month.

The politician ran in the al-Hadbaalist in last month’s provincial electionsin Nineveh Province. The list won al-most half votes cast.

Earlier in the month, Akram Khalafwas seriously wounded when gunmenopened fire on him at the commercialarea of Sarej Khana in central Mosul.

In a separate incident, three peoplewere wounded when a gunman hurleda hand grenade on a police patrol incentral Mosul, the source said.

Internet

Iraqi civilian killed, eightinjured in Baghdad bombingsBAGHDAD, 16 Feb—A civilian was

killed and eight others injured in twobomb explosions in Baghdad on Sun-day, an Interior Ministry source said.

A roadside bomb, hidden in a busypopular market in Baghdad’s easternneighbourhood of Sadr City, detonatedon Sunday morning, killing one civil-ian and wounding six others, the sourcetold Xinhua on condition of anonym-ity.

The blast damaged a nearby minibus,several shops and stalls, the source said.

In a separate incident, another road-side bomb went off in front of a housein Jamilah neighbourhood, adjacent tothe Shiite sprawling neighborhood ofSadr City, wounding two people andcaused damages to the house, thesource added.

The attacks came a day before theclimax of the ritual of Arbaeen, as hun-dreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrimsare to observe the ceremony in the holycity of Karbala, some 110 km south-west of Baghdad.—Internet

Karim Jabr, 80, liesin a hospital bed

flanked by his sonsafter he was woundedin a road side bombblast in the Shiiteneighbourhood of

Sadr City, inBaghdad, Iraq, on 15,

Feb, 2009.INTERNET

Theinterior ofa damaged

bus in-spectedafter abomb

attack inBaghdad’sSadr city

on 15 Feb,2009.

INTERNET

BAGHDAD, 16 Feb—Iraq discovered two massgraves containing a totalof 15 decomposed bodiesin areas north and north-east of Baghdad, securitysources said on Sunday.

The remains of about 10bodies, believed to dateback about two years ago,were found on Saturday in

the area of Taji, some 30km north of Baghdad,army spokes-man MajorGeneral Mohammed al-Askari said in a statementreleased on Sunday.

Askari blamed al-Qaida militant group forthe killing as the area wasunder the control of thegroup two years ago.

Separately, a policesource in Diyala provincesaid the police forces un-covered five decom-posed bodies of male ci-vilians, apparently ex-ecuted about a year and ahalf ago, near a villagesome 30 km east of theprovincial capital city ofBaquba.—MNA/Xinhua

Roadside bombwounds two Afghan

police, three civiliansKABUL, 16 Feb—Two police officers

and three civilians were wounded as aroadside bomb struck their vehicle inAfghanistan’s southern Kandahar Prov-ince on Sunday, provincial police chiefsaid.

“The incident occurred at 8:30 amlocal time (0400 GMT) in front of po-lice headquarters, as a result five per-sons including two police were injured,”Matiullah Qati told Xinhua.

Earlier, he told reporters that the po-lice arrested three Taleban militants,foiling their conspiracy to storm a gov-ernment building in the city as they didin Kabul last Wednesday which left 20people dead.—Internet

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LONDON, 16 Feb —ABritish and a Frenchsubmarine, both of themnuclear-powered andcarrying nuclear weapons,collided in the AtlanticOcean earlier this month,the Sun newspaperreported on Monday.

The tabloid saidHMS Vanguard andFrance’s Le Triomphantwere both damaged inthe incident, but therewere no reports ofdamage to the nuclearsections of either vessel.

The British sub hasnow been towed toFaslane in Scotland forrepair.

Both vessels —between them carryingabout 250 sailors — werereportedly submerged andon separate missions whenthey crashed on 3 or 4February.

The Ministry ofDefence refuses to com-ment on submarine oper-

File picture shows the French submarine Triomphant which reportedlycollided earlier this month with a British submarine in the Atlantic.—INTERNET

British, French nuclearsubs crash in Atlantic

The crew leaves theUkrainian ship the MV

Faina at the port ofMombasa on 12 Feb,2009. The crew of a

Ukrainian ship capturedby Somali pirates were

welcomed home asheroes on Friday aftertheir 19-week ordeal asRussia’s navy seized 10more men in patrols off

the Horn of Africa.INTERNET

ations but a spokesmansaid: “We can confirm thatthe UK’s deterrentcapability has remainedunaffected at all times andthere has been nocompromise to nuclearsafety.”

HMS Vanguard,launched in 1992, is aVanguard class SSBN(Ship Submersible Ball-istic Nuclear) vessel, oneof four such submarinestasked with maintainingthe country’s independent

nuclear deterrent.The vessel has 16

missile tubes capable offiring the Trident II D5missile. Each missile candeliver up to 12 warheads.

Triomphant, launchedin 1994, is one of fourTriomphant Class sub-marines serving with theFrench Navy.

It carries 16 M51SLBM missiles and formspart of France’s nucleardeterrent force.

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CARACAS, 16 Feb—President Hugo Chavezwon a referendum toeliminate term limitsSunday and vowed toremain in power for atleast another decade tocomplete his socialistrevolution. Opponentsaccepted defeat but saidChavez is becoming adictator.

Fireworks exploded inthe sky and caravans ofsupporters celebrated inthe streets, waving redflags and honking horns.Thousands of peoplegathered outside

Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela

Venezuela’s PresidentHugo Chavez gesturesas he leaves the pollingstation after voting on a

constitutionalamendment referendum

in Caracas, 15 Feb,2009.—INTERNET

Miraflores Palace, wherethe former paratroopcommander appeared ona balcony to sing thenational anthem andaddress the crowd.

“Those who voted‘yes’ today voted forsocialism, for revolution,”Chavez said.

He called the victory— which allows all publicofficials to run for re-election indefinitely — amandate to speed histransformation ofVenezuela into a socialiststate.

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TOKYO, 16 Feb — A US military ship had a minorcollision with a small boat Sunday near the US navalbase in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture of east Japan,local media reported.

The military ship, believed to be the 9,217-tonAegis destroyer Lassen, hit the 14-ton boat, which wasat anchor carrying four men fishing. No one wasinjured in the accident which occurred at 12:25 pm,Kyodo news quoted Coast Guard officials as saying.

None of the four men fell off the boat after thecollision and the US military ship entered the portafterward, the officials said.—MNA/Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 16Feb— A man died onSaturday after being shotby police with a Tasergun, becoming the latestvictim of Taser guns,authorities said onSunday.

Police used a Tasergun in an alleged attemptto subdue the victim, LosAngeles coroner’s inve-stigator Kelly Yagerlenersaid.

The man was declareddead at a hospital, but hisname was not immedi-ately released, Yager-

ABOARD THE USS MAHAN, 16 Feb—Americanwarships off the lawless Somali coast are usingunmanned drones to hunt pirates threatening one of theworld’s most important shipping lanes.

Sailors aboard the USS Mahan told The AssociatedPress they have been using the spy flights daily to spotpotential pirate mother ships.

For years, the US has used drones to track potentialterrorists among Somalia’s warlords, but the Navysaid more and more of the planes are now being usedto fight piracy. The drones can fly more than 3,000 feet(915 meters) above sea level and relay pictures detailedenough to recognize the flags flown on fishing boatsthat Somalis use to avoid detection.—Internet

US military ship collides withJapanese boat near naval base

Man shot dead by LA police with Taser gunlener said.

The victim reportedlywent into cardiac arrestafter being shot late onSaturday, said police, whodescribed the man aspossibly being under theinfluence of PCP (penta-chlorophenol).

Witnesses at the scenesaid the man had beenrunning around a LosAngeles neighbourhoodnaked.

A Taser is anelectroshock weapon thatuses electrical current todisrupt voluntary control

of muscles. Tasers wereintroduced as less-lethalweapons to be used bypolice to subdue fleeing,belligerent, orpotentially dangeroussubjects, often whenwhat they consider to bea more lethal weaponwould have otherwisebeen used. The use ofTasers has becomecontroversial followinginstances of Taser usewhich have resulted inserious injury anddeaths.

MNA/Xinhua

US uses unmanned drones tohunt Somali pirates

The remains of Russian

tanks on the outskirts of

Kabul. Afghanistan has

been ravaged by war

including the 1980s

Soviet occupation.

Russia marked on

Sunday the 20th

anniversary of the

Soviet pullout of the

bloody war.—INTERNET

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Investors still highlyinterested in Cambodia

Hong Kong, APEC sign MoU ontrade facilitation

Seven people killed in restaurantshooting in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 16 Feb—At least seven people werekilled and five others were injured in a restaurantshooting in the western state of Jalisco, authoritiessaid on Sunday.

Director of Public Security of the municipalityof Hostotipaquillo Lucio Rossales said an armedgroup on Saturday broke into a just opened restau-rant and opened fire to the owners and workers ofthe restaurant.

At least 150 high power Ak-47 and AR-15 rifflebullets shells were found on the site.

Five men and two women died. Among the in-jured were three minors of 14, 11 and three yearsold.—Xinhua

Helicopter crash kills 14in Chile

SANTIAGO, 16 Feb—A helicopter carryingfirefighters crashed in southern Chile on Sunday,killing all 14 people on board, local media reported.

The helicopter, which retrieved 12 firefightersfrom a forest fire site, hit a hillside some 165 miles(270 kilometers) south of Santiago. The cause of crash is under investigation.

Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

SIEM REAP, 16 Feb—Investors still remainhighly interested in put-ting their money intoCambodia, despite of theglobal economic down-turn, the Economic Con-ferences here on Mondayquoted financial expertsas saying.

“Although the globalcrisis has undoubtedly hadan impact on direct foreigninvestment, this is ex-pected to be only tem-porary, as regional in-vestors are still showingstrong interest and the en-

try cost and risk is com-paratively less than forother developing mar-kets,” said Im Channy,president and CEO of theACLEDA Bank, a leadingsponsor of the one-dayBusiness Roundtable,which was opened here onMonday by the Eco-nomists Conferences todiscuss ways for the king-dom to secure sustain-ableeconomic develop-ment.“The National Bank (ofCambodia) took robustmeasures in 2008 tosqueeze credit when infla-

tion was running high, buthave been equally quickto relax them this yearwhen the economy startedto slow down,” he added.

Brett Sciaroni, seniorpartner of the Sciaroni andAssociates, another lead-ing sponsor of the Busi-ness Roundtable, also saidthat “there is still consid-erable interest in invest-ment in Cambodia, de-spite the economictroubles that are evident inmore advanced eco-nomies.”

Xinhua

Members of the Chinese expedition team work onChina’s Antarctic ice breaker Snow Dragon on

the Antarctica, on 15 Feb, 2009.XINHUA

Jordan calls for“early” int’l actionto revive Palestin-ian-Israeli peace

talksAMMAN, 16 Feb—

Jordan’s King Abdullah IISunday called for an“early” international actionto revive the peace talksbetween the Palestiniansand Israelis, according tothe Royal HashemiteCourt.

The king made the callwhen meeting with a vis-iting British parlia-mentary delegation.

King Abdullah stressedthe urgency of such action,saying that there could beno peace and stability inthe region unless an inde-pendent Palestinian state isestablished on the Palestin-ian soil within the two-state solution and in accor-dance with inter-nationalresolutions and the ArabPeace Initiative, said theroyal court in a state-ment.—Xinhua

AU chief strongly urges Madagascanstakeholders to keep calm

ADDIS ABABA, 16 Feb—Due to possible events that could unfold on Monday inMadagascar, the chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), JeanPing, on Sunday evening strongly urged Madagascan stakeholders to keep calm.

In a statement from the AU headquarters, Ping said he remained concerned bystatements made recently by some stakeholders regarding possible events thatcould unfold on Monday.

On Saturday, Madagascan opposition leader Andry Rajoelina said at a gather-ing that his ministers would take over their responsibilities starting on Monday.

Masimana Manantsoa, internal minister of the transitional government appointedby Rajoelina, said that each of the ministers appointed by Rajoelina would join hisministry starting from Monday.

Xinhua

Guangdong Opera actor Wen Ruqing (R) and actress Li Jiayi perform at the the-ater of the State University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, on 14 Feb, 2009.—XINHUA

SINGAPORE, 16 Feb—China’s Hong Kong andthe Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation (APEC) onMonday signed a Memo-randum of Under-standing(MoU) in bid to boosttrade by cutting businesstransaction costs.

Under the MoU, HongKong will donate 200,000US dollars in funds to theAPEC Secretariat, in orderto develop a methodology

to be used to measure theoutcome of its Trade Fa-cilitation Action Plan,which calls for an addi-tional 5 percent reductionin business transactioncosts by all economies by2010, on top of the 5 per-cent reduction achievedover the period from 2002to 2006.

“In the face of the cur-rent challenges in the glo-bal economy, it is all the

more important to con-tinue to streamline pro-cesses and reduce tradetransaction costs,” saysJoseph Lai, the APEC Se-nior Official of HongKong at the signing cer-emony, “We hope that ourcontribution will supportinitiatives thatlead us closer to theshared vision of freetrade.”

Xinhua

Two red deer are seen on a snow-covered pasture at the foot of TianshanMountain in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,

on 14 Feb, 2009.—XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUM

A group of Hindu devotees, restrainedwith hooks pierced through theirbacks, make their way towards theBatu Caves temple during Thaipusam

in Kuala Lumpur.

A woman play Hula Hoop whileothers pose in different gestures on

the floating bamboo sticks on HuaxiRiver in Guiyang, capital of south-

west China’s Guizhou Province.

George was hailed as a “brilliantlittle dog” by his owner.

NZ dog awarded posthumous honourA dog which died protecting a group

of children from two pitbull terriers inNew Zealand has been given the highesthonour for animals. George, a JackRussell from Manaia, in Taranaki on NewZealand’s North Island, fended off thetwo dogs, allowing the children toescape.But he was badly hurt in the April2007 incident and had to be put down.

His owner, Alan Gay, was presentedwith the PDSA gold medal by NewZealand’s Governor-General AnandSatyanand.Mr Gay paid tribute to hispet.”He was a brilliant little dog, intelli-gent. You couldn’t insult him. I’d call him‘dipstick’ and he wouldn’t have anythingto do with me,” he told TVNZ.

George is the first dog from NewZealand to receive the honour, which isthe equivalent of the Commonwealth’shighest civilian honour, the GeorgeCross.

Cops arrest man whosought help removing

handcuffsA Massachusetts man who walked

into a police station and asked for helpremoving a pair of handcuffs danglingfrom one wrist ended up wearinganother pair instead.

Barnstable, Mass, police Sgt SeanSweeney said 21-year-oldAllahmanamjad (el-ah-MAN’-a-jahd)Barbel showed up Tuesday claiming hecouldn’t get off the cuffs his sisterslipped on him at a child’s birthdayparty.

Police ran Barbel’s name throughthe state warrant system and discoveredhe had outstanding warrants on chargesof driving with a suspended license,leaving the scene of an accident,threatening to commit a crime andmaking annoying phone calls.

Man lets boy drive fora ‘bonding moment’Police arrested a 34-year-old man they

said let his 8-year-old son drive a van justbefore midnight on Sunday. A Bradentonpolice report said the boy hit a two trees andnearly hit two pedestrians in a parking lotwhen his father let him drive.

The father told police that he had takenXanax, used to treat anxiety and panicattacks, and was “feeling woozy and didn’twant to drive.” He said he that he thoughtletting his son drive would be a “bondingmoment.” The boy told police his fathertook “liquid medicine in order to feel better,”pointing to an empty whiskey bottle in thevehicle. The man faces charges of childabuse and permitting an unlicensed driverto drive. He remained in jail on Wednesdayon a $10,120 bond.

The Mimonectes sphaericus, an amphipod crusta-cean living upon jellyfish and their kin in both the

Arctic and Antarctic, is seen in this undatedhandout. The large sword-like antennae only

occur in males. At least 235 types of cold-lovingcreatures thrive in both Arctic and Antarctic seas,puzzling scientists about how they got to both ends

of the earth, a study showed on 15 Feb, 2009.INTERNET

TOKYO, 16 Feb—Japan’s economy contracted at the fastest pace in 35 years inthe fourth quarter as a collapse in export demand drained life from the world’ssecond-biggest economy.Japan’s gross domestic product, or the total value of thenation’s goods and services, dropped at an annual pace of 12.7 percent in theOctober-December period, the government said on Monday.

That’s the steepest drop for Japan since the oil shock of 1974 and far outpacesdeclines of 3.8 percent in the US and 1.2 percent in the euro zone. A survey ofeconomists by Kyodo news agency had projected an 11.6 percent contraction.

Japan now faces “the worst economic crisis in the postwar era,” said EconomyMinister Kaoru Yosano, according to Kyodo.—Internet

KABUL, 16 Feb—Forces with the US-backed coali-tion killed a regional Taleban commander and eightothers in an airstrike in western Afghanistan, the USsaid on Monday.

The Sunday night attack destroyed the buildinghousing Ghulam Dastagir and eight other militants inthe village of Darya-ye-Morghab, near theTurkmenistan border, the US military said in a state-ment.

Dastagir oversaw all of western Badghis Provincefor the Taleban. He was responsible for a surge in vio-lence in the province in recent months, including aNovember attack on an Afghan army convoy that killed13 soldiers, the statement said.—Internet

SINGAPORE, 16 Feb—Oil prices stayed above $37 abarrel on Monday in Asia as OPEC members talkedup more production cuts over the weekend amid weak-ening global demand for crude.

Light, sweet crude for March delivery fell 6 centsto $37.45 a barrel by midday in Singapore on the NewYork Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $3.53on Friday to settle at $37.51.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun-tries has implemented most of the 4.2 million barrelsa day of output reductions announced since Septem-ber, but the cuts have been overwhelmed by a collapsein crude demand amid the global slowdown.

On Sunday, Mohammed Saleh al-Sada, Qatar’sminister of state for energy and industry affairs, saidOPEC is ready to cut output further when it meets nextmonth. Al-Sada said a reasonable price for oil wouldbe $70 a barrel.—Internet

Oil steady amid OPECtalks of more output cuts

Regional Taliban commanderkilled in airstrike

Japan economy shrinks at fastest rate in 35 years

Iran, Russia to boost militarycooperation

TEHERAN, 16 Feb—Iran’s Defence MinisterBrigadier General MostafaMohammad Najjar saidthat Iran and Russia are toboost military cooperation,the semi-official Fars newsagency reported on Sunday.

“Teheran and Moscoware to review ways to en-hance military cooperationduring an upcoming visit toRussia by Iranian defenceminister,” Fars said.

Najjar is scheduled totravel to Moscow on Mon-day to discuss military andtechnical cooperation andreview implementation ofagreements inked by thetwo countries, according toIran’s defence ministry.

He is also slated to pay

a visit to Russian defenceindustries.

In December, DeputyDirector of the RussianFederal Organization forMilitary and Technical Co-operation AlexanderFoumin said that his coun-try intended to expand jointcooperation with Iran,which would have a posi-tive impact on stability inthe Middle Eastregion.Such a cooperationhas raised concerns aboutthe rising military capabili-ties of Iran, as the Westernobservers has elaborated.

However, earlier thismonth, Iranian ambassa-dor to Russia SeyedMahmoud Reza Sajjadiplayed down such con-cerns.

“Probably, there willbe some changes, but gen-erally the scale of this co-operation is not that largeas (the media) allege,”Sajjadi told a news confer-ence in Moscow, addingthat “We think that Iran-Russia military-technicalcooperation is slightly ex-aggerated.” —Internet

Siblings allegedly forge document to skip school A brother and sister who allegedly

forged a court document to get out ofschool now have a court date for real.Woonsocket police officials told TheProvidence Journal the siblingssneaked a genuine Family Courtdocument with a date to appear incourt from a relative, scanned the letterand forged the name of a clinical case

manager.Police said the brother, a 16-year-old

Woonsocket High School student, usedthe forgery to get out of school once inNovember.

His 17-year-old sister, a pupil at theWoonsocket Area Career and TechnicalCenter, allegedly used the letter threetimes in January.

Police arrested the siblingsWednesday, charging the brother withone count of forgery and the sister withthree counts. They're expected in FamilyCourt next week.

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We should not continue to allowdecadent satellite programmes

Kyaw Ye MinI happened to visit a rural village on my way a few

days ago. Today, villages in Myanmar have many finehouses. I was pleased to witness the people's livingconditions improving. I also saw a video lounge by thecentre of the village. I think each rural village shouldhave at least a facility like a video lounge for theirrecreation and relaxation after the all-day work.

The village has about over 80 houses. Goingaround the village, I noticed that it had not only manylarge houses but also about 10 satellite receivers. Thevideo lounge was found equipped with a satellitereceiver. That was a sign of the village's economicgrowth. Now, the people can well afford a satellitereceiver.

Then, a though struck my head regarding satellitereceivers.

Our country has issued laws and regulations onradio, TV, video and satellite dishes. Radio, TV, videoand satellite dishes have mushroomed throughout thenation, but not every owner pays annual fees. I am surethe majority of the owners fail to honour the law byhaving their electronics without licences.

Such a small village has about 10 satellite receivers,so, no wonder satellite receivers are abundant in urbanareas. So, the number of TV and satellite receivers of thewhole country must be very great. Today, a satellitereceiver is well affordable, so the people watch satelliteprogrammes without taking anything serious. Satelliteprogrammes are said to be all designed forentertainment, but I do not think many of theprogrammes are suitable to the people.

It is the public knowledge in our country that theMyanma Radio and TV airs broadcasts with threeobjectives: to educate, to inform and to entertain thepublic, and so does Myawady Broadcasting Station. Inthe process, they have to censor the programmes andget rid of the scenes that may hurt the public's moraleand morality. However, the programmes that aredirectly received through the satellite receivers containnews stories that are against the government's policyas well as the scenes that may hurt national culture,customs; and traditions, and characters of the people.If the government disregards and ignores that point, Iwould say those who will face evil consequences ofthat are the nation and the people.

As far as I am concerned, only a low number ofcountries bestow their people with the freedom ofsatellite programmes. Almost all the countries enforcerestrictions like media control in that regard. Thereasons to take media control are various, but thepurposes of the governments are the same: toprotect the interests of the people and the nationconcerned. Every country has to censor the scenesthat are detrimental to their national interests. ThePeople's Republic of China, for instance, prohibitsits ordinary people from watching satellite

programmes, in general. It takes media control bydesignating Cable TV, Pay TV, and Free to Air forpublic entertainment. Here, diplomatic corps,international level hotels, and the residential areasfor foreigners are privileged, and they have to payfees for specific channels and kinds under the law.

Similarly, Singapore exercises a policy on media torestrict the people to watch satellite programmes. In thecountry, the people have access to only Cable TV, PayTV and Air Channel, and it grants licence to diplomatcorps, international level hotels, and foreign languageschools and universities to use satellite receivers. Inaddition, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, India and theRepublic of Korea take media control measures withtheir own ways. Surely, they do not allow their people touse eight-foot satellite dishes, but Myanmar citizens canuse them freely.

In some countries, the government and privatecompanies jointly control their media. Furthermore, manycountries not only restrict the rights to watch satelliteprogrammes but also control import and distribution ofsatellite receivers and accessories under the law.

In Myanmar, many people have illegallyimported, traded, distributed and used satellitereceivers and accessories for more than a decade.Taking good advantage of the circumstances in whichthe government does not enforce the laws strictly forthe convenience of the people, such people have doneso for a long time. So, the nation must have lost manytaxes, licence fees, and annual fees to some extent. Ithink necessary laws should have been enforced onregistration of satellite receivers and license fees.

The people, hotels and motels can use satellitereceivers with licence, but a disheartening point is that thegovernment has not been able to designate respectivechannels yet, so the people can watch all the satelliteprogrammes indiscriminately. That means the peoplespend much money on improper, fabricated and decadentprogrammes. Superficially, that case does not seem serious,but that is like an open sore that may grow to the mallow.Therefore, such a terrible sore is to be cured duly.

Anyhow, no one can deny that both eight-foot andtwo-foot satellite receivers are common in our country.An eight-foot satellite receiver holds over 170 channels.Many of those channels can demoralize the people,hurt the nationalistic spirit and patriotic spirit, andarouse emotional feelings. From the national interestpoint of view, I would say that should have beenremedied.

Now, many countries are planning to launch PayTV and Free to Air Channel for public entertainment inorder to restrict access to satellite receivers. Manycountries including the United States have Cable TV,Pay TV and Free to Air. Thailand, Malaysia, India, Laosand Indonesia also have such programmes. In some ofthose countries, Direct to Home (DTH) is practised to

restrict use of satellite receivers, and satelliteprogrammers are censored for the public entertainment.For example, such companies as UBC of Thailand,ASTRO of Malaysia and ABS-CBN of the Philippinesprovide services through DTH system.

Myanmar has seen MRTV-4, a Pay TV. MRTVand MWD, Free to Air types, educate, entertain andinform the people proportionately. MRTV-4 is designedto present a variety of programmes on education,business, culture, entertainment and international newsstories that do not demoralize the people. It is importantthat they some way contribute towards development ofhuman resources.

So far, MRTV-4 use DVB-T system to airbroadcasts, and 24 townships of states and divisionshave got stations to receive its programes. They areYangon, Sagaing, Monywa, PyinOoLwin, Nay PyiTaw Pyinmana, Meiktila, Bago, Toungoo, Nyaunglebin,Pyay, Minhla, Kyaunggon, Pathein, Minbu, Dawei,Kengtung, Taunggyi, Lashio, Mawlamyine, Myawady,Sittway, Loikaw, Myitkyina and Haka. Six othertownships: Thandwe, An, Pakokku, Myeik, Hpa-anand Muse will get similar stations by the last week ofFebruary 2009. And it is on target that nine othertownships—Kalay, Labutta, Bogale, Kawthoung,Tachilek, Kyaukme, Bhamo, Namma and Pha-kantwill get stations by May 2009. So, it is apparent thatMRTV-4 is working hard to cover the whole country.

That is part of its drive to provide the public withmoral programmes. It is also trying to get the peoplepay taxes fully to the government. MRTV-4 is expectedto cover whole country in the near future. It broadcastsover 20 channels. So, I would say now MRTV-4 isready for those who are claiming that they will notbe able to stay in touch with what is going on in theworld if they do not have access to satelliteprogrammes.

In reality, satellite programmes are particularlydesigned to wield influence, making use of mediaand arts. Today, certain countries are brazenlyinterfering in the internal affairs of their targetedcountries by inciting political problems, instigatingmass demonstrations, and demoralizing thecharacters and undermining nationalistic sense ofthe people through decadent programmes.Accordingly, many countries are taking action toprohibit and control such broadcasts with thebounden duty to protect the national interests.

Literacy, arts, culture, nationalistic fervour andnational character of every nation and people have hadtheir specific values for long. Surely, those values of acountry are not identical to that of any other country. Ibelieve that those values of our country are better thanthat of any other country. Therefore, I would like toremind with national sense and national awareness thatit is time the people protected our country's literacy,arts, culture, nationalistic spirit and national characterfrom dangers posed by alien media.

The people should not be too naive to encouragesuch decadent media. I do not think it is wise if they donot take that point seriously but continue to encouragesuch decadent programmes. Therefore, I would say theentire people should quit such a bad habit, regardingdecadent satellite programmes as they really are.

Translation: MS

Certain countries are brazenly interfering in the internalaffairs of their targeted countries by inciting politicalproblems, instigating mass demonstrations, anddemoralizing the characters and undermining nationalisticsense of the people through decadent programmes.

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NAY PYI TAW, 16 Feb — Chairman of RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commander ofWestern Command Maj-Gen Thaung Aye, Ministerfor Industry-1 U Aung Thaung and Minister forTransport Maj-Gen Thein Swe met village peoplefrom three villages in Minbya Township on 8 February.

Minister U Aung Thaung presented K 500,000 for

Commander, ministers meet village people in Minbyarenovation of rural dispensary and 538 dozens ofexercise books for students, Minister Maj-Gen TheinSwe medicines and clothing and newspapers, journalsand magazines for rural libraries and the commanderexercise books.

The following day, Minister U Aung Thaung inspectedWin Thuza warehouse and shop in Sittway.—MNA

57th National ChampionshipInter-ministry Track and Field held

YANGON, 16 Feb — Myanmar OlympicCommittee Chairman’s Trophy the 57th NationalChampionship Inter-ministry Track and Field washeld at Youth Training Centre in Thuwunna yesterday.

Sport teams of the ministries took place and theMinistry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Defencehanded over the championship shields to officials.

General Secretary of MOC Director-General ofSports and Physical Education Department U ThaungHtaik spoke on the occasion and formally opened thecompetition.

The events will continue to 17 February.—MNA

7th AGM of KyaukseAssociation (Yangon) 21 Feb

YANGON, 16 Feb—Kyaukse Association(Yangon) will hold its 7th annual general meeting at itsDhamayon at the corner of West Shwegondiang Streetand New Yedashe Street in Bahan Township at 9 a.m.on 21 February.

Invitation cards attached with annual reportshave already been sent, and members are to attend themeeting without fail. Those who are not members butborn in Kyaukse District may attend the meeting.

Dial 01 552736 for further detail.—MNA

SAINT PAUL, 16 Feb—Medical scientists inMinnesota are focusing their expertise on a pest thatdestroys soybeans. The goal of the MinnesotaPartnership team is to develop an insecticide that issafe for humans but will kill the soybean aphid, a bugthat’s been ravaging Minnesota crops. Their findingsappear in the journal Public Library of Science --PLoS One.

“We’ve shown in the laboratory that we’re 99percent effective in inhibiting a key enzyme in twoaphids, one that damages soybeans,” says StephenBrimijoin, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher on theteam. “This means we should be able to stop the insectwithout harming other animals or humans becausethe target we’re hitting is selective to the aphid.”

Dr. Brimijoin collected soybean aphids from

Early Riser-

Game

Commission

Biologist Greg

Turner checks

dead bats

outside an

abandoned

mine near

Carbondale.

Soybean aphids (Aphis glycines).

Medical students target aphids withinsecticide safe for humans

demonstration plots at the University of MinnesotaExtension facility in Rochester and isolated the keyenzyme in the aphids, while Yuan-Ping Pang, Ph.D.,Mayo Clinic co-investigator, characterized themolecular structures of the target area.

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White-nose kills hundreds of batsSCIENCEDAILY, 16 Feb — Several hundred little

brown bats are dead from White-Nose Syndrome(WNS) in Lackawanna County, and the PennsylvaniaGame Commission is looking to residents for helpuncovering other sites where this deadly disorder mayhave surfaced. Game Commission biologists had beenuncovering signs of what appeared to be an impendingWNS outbreak in Pennsylvania since last spring. Overthe past two years, the disorder has killed more than 90

percent of some wintering bat colonies where it firstsurfaced in New York and spread through New England.Its confirmation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey camein the past two weeks, but Pennsylvania had asurprisingly unique distinction among the states whereWNS has been documented; Pennsylvania bats werenot leaving their wintering quarters – caves and mines– and weren’t dying. Unfortunately, that no longer canbe said.

Last week, bats were found dead outside of anabandoned mine near Carbondale by a citizen wholater reported the findings to the agency. GameCommission Wildlife Conservation Officer ChrisSkipper visited the site immediately and confirmedthe findings. Bats were dead on the ground; flyingfrom the mine; dropping from the sky. Then onGroundhog Day, agency biologist Greg Turner foundbats flying from another Lackawanna County minenear Throop. They shouldn’t have been emerging foranother six weeks.

“Roughly 50 percent of the bats in the mine nearCarbondale displayed the characteristic white fungus,”said Kevin Wenner, an agency biologist stationed atthe agency’s Northeast Region office in Dallas. “Batshave been and are staging close to the entrance of themine; some dying in the mine while others wereflying around and dying outside on top of the snow.

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Workshop on understandingof projects for development of

human resourcesNAY PYI TAW, 16 Feb – A workshop co-sponsored

by Jakarta-based ASEAN Foundation and the Ministryof Foreign Affairs was held at Royal Kumudra Hotel inNay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone this morning.

Director-General U Than Tun of ASEAN AffairsDepartment spoke on the occasion.

Ms Renelle Ivy Adan and Mr Ade Cadyadi ofASEAN Foundation and Director-General U Than Tundiscussed understanding of projects for development ofhuman resources, proposal of the projects and provisionof assistance to the those projects. Officials replied to thequeries of the participants.—MNA

A workshop co-sponsored by Jakarta-based ASEAN Foundation and the Ministry of ForeignAffairs in progress at Royal Kumudra Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone.—MNA

U Aye Lwin, U Aye Tun and U Aung Kyi Soe,CEC members of Myanmar IndustrialistsAssociation leave for Thailand to attendWorkshop on Special Economic Zone

Development for CLMV Countries in Bangkokfrom 16 to 20 February.—NLM

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Feb— Minister forIndustry-1 U AungThaung met with peopleof Kyepinte, Nagavo,Taunglulin, Khozin,Kywetalin, Enginetha andTaungUzalote Villages atKywetalin village-tractand inspected Kyauktalonsupporting dam inTaungtha Township

Minister inspects regional developmenttasks in Taungtha Township

yesterday.Afterwards, the

minister also met with thepeople of Thabutpinte,Yonetaw, Ohtaung,Kywetut, Myinchangon,Thepingon, Thangon andSonlon villages atThabutpinte village-tractand inspected completionof hydro power station,generation of hydro

electric power andirrigation.

The minister lookedinto completion of theconstruction of TeyarBasic Education Pre-Primary School andnatural waste storages togenerate power with theuse of natural waste bio-gas and engine rooms atKyaukka Villagel.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Feb— Minister for HomeAffairs Maj-Gen MaungOo inspected constructionof annex of basiceducation middle schoolin Nyaunglunt Village inNay Pyi Taw TatkonTownship on 15 February. The annex is underconstruction with thecontribution of the

Annex of BEMS under construction inNay Pyi Taw Tatkon Township

Ministry of Home Affairs.The minister met with theheadmaster and teachers. The minister inspectedrepair of Larban Bridge inTelmyint Village Tractand donated 200 sacks ofcement. He met with villagepeople from seven villagesand asked them about theireconomic, social,

education and healthmatters. The minister went to theintegrated farm of U ChoTe of Khitaye Village andinspected cultivation ofsummer paddy,mushroom, raising ofcattle and production ofbiogas from the waste ofanimals.

MNA

MANDALAY, 12 Feb — The 8th

respect-paying ceremony to oldteachers of No.19 Basic Education HighSchool (Pwegon) was held at YanpyayThatshay Dhammayon of ChanthakyiPagoda at the corner of 91 street and 25street, Mandalay on 12 February. Theold students paid respects to 22 oldteachers and presented K 60,000 eachand medicines. On behalf of all older

Homage paid to old teachers inMandalay

teachers, Sayagyi U Yar Paing (YanMyo Lon) and Sayamagyi Daw Thi ThiSwe gave counsel.

Next, treasurer U Ko Ko Naing(Swan-ar Saw Mill) reported on financialstatement and the old student U MyintWin, an assistant education officer ofAungmyethazan Township, spoke wordsof thanks.

NLM

YANGON, 16 Feb—SHINE UniversalServices Co. Ltd is aneducation services centre,contributing as a gatewayfor Myanmar students tobe convenient in theirpursuit of education inSingapore.

It is also providingconsultantancy servicesfor Myanmar students inseeking knowledge intheir interested fields.

It has elapsed over 20years since SAA wasfounded by Institute ofCertified Public

Education Services of SHINE UniversalServices Co. Ltd

Accountants of Singapore(ICPAS) in Singaporesince1985. SAA isrecognized as SingaporeQuality Class (SQC)presented by PrivateEducation Organization(PEOs) and Case Trustfor Education Ac-creditation by TheConsumer Association ofSingapore.

SHINE UniversalServices will provideYangon-Singapore airticket and medical check-up for students whoregister in February for

CAT program to beopened in March. On 1March, Daw Cho Cho Winof Nanyang Institute ofManagement will givetalks on subjects availablein NIM in an educationseminar at SHINEUniversal Services.

Those interested mayenroll now as the seminarhas limited seats and forfurther information,contact SHINE UniversalServices Co Ltd No.38,40 Bo Yar Nyunt StreetDagon Township—Ph:393041. — MNA

Minister for Home Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo inspects the constructionof the new school building in Nyaunglunt village BEMS.—MNA

The 8th respect-paying ceremony to old teachers of No.19 BEHS(Pwegon) in progress.—NLM

YANGON, 16 Feb—CEO Magazine of TodayPublishing Houseorganized workshop“Creative Responses tothe Global EconomicCrisis” of the MyanmarExecutive Forum at thePark Royal Yangon Hotel

Workshop on “Creative Responses to theGlobal Economic Crisis” held

on 11 February.Dr. Aung Thet Tun

played the leading role inthe discussions.

Present on theoccasion were CEOs andexecutives from Myanmareconomic enterprises.

The workshop was

sponsored by CitymartSupermarket. Theworkshop, the firstmovement of MyanmarExecutive Forum, wasdesigned to help Myanmarentrepreneurs work outpresent economic crisis.

MNA

Federico Krause pointsto one of the tubeworms

that he believes isactually an escapehatch for methane.

Ancient geologic escape hatchesmistaken for tube worms

years and the fossil recordis rich with theirdistinctive imprints. But adiscovery made by U of Cscientists found that whatprevious researchers hadlabeled as tubeworms in aformation near Denver,Colorado, are actually 70million-year-old escapehatches for methane.

Tubeworms, orsiboglinids, look like longlipstick tubes and havebeen observed in warmand cold environments onthe ocean floor, as well asin whale carcasses anddecomposing organic-richcargoes in sunken ships.

Ecosystems teeming withtubeworm colonies werediscovered athydrothermal vents in theGalapagos Ridge in 1977and at cold seeps at thebase of the FloridaEscarpment in 1984. As aresult of these modernsightings, a number offossil examples oftubeworms weresubsequently identified inthe rock record. One ofthese localities, foundsouth of Denver,Colorado, was recently re-examined by U of Cscientists.

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CALGARY, 16 Feb —Tubeworms have beenaround for millions of

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Sittway Airport runway project to be completed by 30 May 2009Article, photos: Singu Soe Win

(from page 16)The Directorate of Military Engineers began the

installation of light units on 2 February 2008, and nowit has completed cent per cent: 58 runway edgeslights, 36 runway threshold identification lights, 24precision approach path indicator lights, 33 pairs oftaxiway lights, a pair of beacon lights, five wingindicator lights, 24 approach lights and four flashlights.

Junior Engineer (2) U Thant Zaw Oo said thatChairman of Rakhine State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of Western Command Maj-GenThaung Aye, Minister for Transport Maj-Gen TheinSwe, and officials of the Civil Aviation Departmenthad made an inspection tour of the project.

I noticed a modern tar mixer, seven trucks androad rollers were operating at full capacity, and tar,gneiss stones, and construction materials were stock-piled in an organized way. The project is due to becompleted by 30 May 2009. After the project iscompleted, Fokker 27 and F 28 aircraft can use itsafely. And after the runway is extended into a 2500feet long one, the airport can cope with B 737-200 andA-300 aircraft. So, the project will make a remarkablecontribution towards the development of RakhineState.

Translation: MS

The tar mixer in operation.Workers resurfacingthe runway.

The tarring of the runway in progress.

expensive, and can beadopted in any lab,” saidproject leader ScottNapper. “Scientists cancustomize it to look atwhatever cell functionthey want to analyze.”

The new tool—calleda species-specific peptidearray—involves the use ofa glass slide with segmentsof protein molecules af-fixed to it.

It will help scientistsanalyze kinases, keyregulatory molecules incells. While only a smallpercentage of humangenes code for proteinkinases, mutations inmany of these genes areat the root of many hu-man diseases.

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Ryan Arsenault andScott Napper.

New cancer research toolREGINA, 16 Feb —

University of Saskatch-ewan scientists have de-veloped a new tool thatenables scientists toanalyze the function of acrucial set of proteins in

animals—a finding thatcould lead to a host ofbetter drugs for and deeperinsights into the workingsof cancer.

Developed by a teamat the Vaccine and Infec-tious Disease Organiza-tion (VIDO), the tool isdescribed in a Jan. 20tharticle in the prestigiousjournal ScienceSignaling. The technol-ogy is expected to be rap-idly adopted by scientistsin a wide range of disci-plines and will likely re-place the “mouse model”for some types of re-search.

“This technology isvery simple, relatively in-

Violent computer games have role in fire safety

Image from the video game.

LONDON, 16 Feb —The software code under-lying violent computergames can be used to trainpeople in fire safety, newacademic research hasfound.

Commercial gamessuch as Doom 3 and HalfLife 2 can be used to buildvirtual worlds to train peo-ple in fire evacuation pro-cedures by applying thegames' underlying soft-ware code, according tothe Durham University re-searchers.

A 3D model of a realworld building and threefire evacuation scenarioswere programmed in threeweeks by a single devel-

oper complete with smokeand fire. The Durham ex-perts say this is signifi-cantly quicker and morecost-effective than usingtraditional virtual realitytoolkits or writing the codefrom scratch.

The use of virtual real-

ity toolkits often requiresmore advanced program-ming skills and integra-tion of different compo-nents to build a 3D modelmaking it a lengthier andmore expensive process,say the scientists.

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Artists perform during the rehearsal for ‘Varekai’, the latest touringproduction of Cirque du Soleil, in Berlin on 4 June, 2008. The show runs

from 5 June to 13 July in the German capital.—INTERNET

Two Indians selected as amongworld top billionaires

NEW DELHI, 16 Feb—The US moneymagazine Forbes has selected Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal andReliance Industries Chairman MukeshAmbani as being among the 20 mostpowerful billionaires in the world, saidthe semi-official Press Trust of India onSunday.

In a report datelined from New York,the news agency quoted Forbes as sayingthat as “they possess not only the richesbut also economic dominance as well aspolitical clout”. “(They) havetremendous sway over the world’smarkets, workers —and, in some cases,armies,” Forbes was quoted as saying.

Bor Lakshmi Mittal controls theworld’s largest steel firm, ArcelorMittal.He has been ranked third on the Forbesmost powerful rich guys’ list “despitehis fortune falling 24.5 billion US dollarsbetween March and November 2008”,said the report. Ambani, head of RelianceIndustries, India’s largest company bymarket cap, was ranked seventh on thelist, said the report.

“(The company) produces oil, gas,petrochemicals and textiles. Personallyfunding construction of a 27-storey homein Mumbai that could cost two billionUS dollars,” Forbes was quoted assaying.—MNA/Xinhua

SANTIAGO, 16 Feb—Thirteen people, including a dozen firefighters, werekilled on Sunday when their helicopter crashed in a region of south-central Chilethat is grappling with a rash of forest fires, regional authorities said.

The helicopter, which belongs to forestry company Celco, a unit of conglomerateCopec, crashed in the Maule region around 185 miles (300 kilometres) south of thecapital, Santiago.

“They are 12 firefighters and the pilot,” Angelica Saez, Governor of theprovince of Cauquenes, told local television, revising the death toll down from the14 she reported earlier. “They belong to the company Celco Constitucion.”

She said the firefighters were aged 18 to 30. “They are youths who work duringthe season to try and pull together money to study. These are difficult times,” sheadded. A fireman who went to the scene said he and his team found two corpsesaround 50 yards (metres) away from the wreckage. Parts of the helicopter were stillburning.

Chile’s National Forestry Corp. (CONAF) said the ill-fated team had beenheading to put out a fire at a eucalyptus plantation when the helicopter crashed.

A regional national emergency official said there was a dense mist in the areaand a light rain at the time of the crash.—MNA/Reuters

Powerful quake joltsnorthern Japan

TOKYO, 16 Feb—A powerfulearthquake of 6.0 magnitude hit northernJapan on Sunday evening, the JapanMeteorological Agency said.

The quake happened at 6:24 pmlocal time, with the epicentre about 40kilometres under the sea off IwatePrefecture, at 40.3 degrees north Latitudeand 142.5 degrees east Longitude. Notsunami warning has been issued andthere was no immediate report of deathsor injuries.

The agency said the quake was moststrongly felt in the southeastern part ofAomori Prefecture, where intensity 4 onthe Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7was registered.

The quake was also felt in Iwate’sneighbouring prefectures of Miyagi,Tochigi and Yamagata.—MNA/Xinhua

The picture represents the BeijingXinhua Bookstore, but to be morespecific it’s a structure outside China’sbookstore which contains one of thebiggest collection of books.—INTERNET

Helicopter crash in Chile forestfire region, kills 13

Nine killed in road accident inthe N-E Mexico

MEXICO CITY, 16 Feb—At least nine people diedand other 24 were injured on Sunday when a passengerbus collided against a trailer truck in the northeasternstate of Baja California. The Federal Police ofHighways and Bridges said the accident occurred at05:30 local time (1130 GMT) on Sunday near theEjido Cuernavaca. The crash happened when thedriver of the passenger bus, tried to surpass a trailertruck loaded with vegetables at a road cross. Accordingto police authorities, the bus was speeding beforecolliding with the truck entering the left side of theroad cross. The injured were taken to hospitals in thecity of Mexicali, capital of the state of BajaCalifornia.—MNA/Xinhua

First carbon-free polarstation opens in Antarctica

PRINCESS ELISABETH BASE (Antarctica), 16 Feb—The world’s first zero-emission polar research stationopened in Antarctica on Sunday and was welcomed byscientists as proof that alternative energy is viableeven in the coldest regions.

Pioneers of Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth stationin East Antarctica said if a station could rely on windand solar power in Antarctica — mostly a vast, icyemptiness — it would undercut arguments by scepticsthat green power is not reliable.

“If we can build such a station in Antarctica we cando that elsewhere in our society. We have the capacity,the technology, the knowledge to change our world,”Alain Hubert, the station’s project director, told Reutersat the inauguration ceremony.

Global warming, spurred by greenhouse gasemissions, has prompted governments to look foralternative energy sources. And renewable energiesare gaining a foothold in Antarctica, despite problemsin designing installations to survive bone-chilling coldand winter darkness.

Wind and even solar power are catching on— solarpanels on the Antarctic Peninsula can collect as muchenergy in a year as many places in Europe. ThomasLeysen, chairman of Belgium’s Umicore, a leadingmanufacturer of catalysts for cars who attended theceremony, said it made good business sense for companiesto help protect the environment.—MNA/Reuters

DPRK warns US to drophostile policy

PYONGYANG, 16 Feb—The United States was toblame for the tension on the Korean Peninsula andwould provoke punishing action from the DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the official KoreanCentral News Agency (KCNA) cited an governmentspokesman as saying Sunday.

US moves to set up a “combined air-force command”with South Korea and refresh its military operation planagainst the DPRK “fully represent the scheme of USwar hawks to stifle the DPRK militarily and permanentlyoccupy South Korea”, a spokesman for the KoreanNational Peace Committee said.—MNA/Xinhua

The floats of King and Queen Carnival paradeduring the 125th edition of the carnival in Nice on

15 Feb, 2009.—INTERNET

Chinese job hunters fill in application forms at ajob fair for university graduates in rural Beijing

on 16 Feb, 2009.—INTERNET

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INVITATION TO TENDERTENDER NO (1) (ES) A.M.D (2009-2010)

1. Sealed Tenders are invited by Agricultural Mechanization Department, Ministryof Agriculture and Irrigation, for the supply of the following store (in Myanmar Kyats.)

Sr.No Description (1) Tyre & Tube Sets (1)Lots, (5)Items (2) Assorted Taper Roller & Ball Bearing (1)Lots, (55)Items (3) Implement Disc, 12-V Battery & Paints (3)Lots, (8)Items (4) Plunger & Barrel, Delivery Value and Nozzle Tips (1)Lots, (7)Items (5) Tractor Spares (Zwe, 5911, 6711, 7011, 7045 (2)Lots, (124)Items

John Deere-2300) (6) Tractor Spares (SH-50, SH-654, TN-800) (3)Lots, (80)Items (7) Tractor Spares (8011, Massey Ferguson 275, (3)Lots, (137)Items

John Deere-2800)2. Tender Closing Date 31st March 2009, 12:00 hrs3. Tender documents are available at Equipment & Stores Branch of AgriculturalMechanization Department (Head Office), AMD Bayintnaung Road, Insein Township,Yangon, during office hours from (18-3-2009). Only Tenders purchased from AMD willbe accepted.4. For more details, Contact; 01-682209, 01-682593

Director GeneralAgricultural Mechanization Department

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV XIANG DA VOY NO (9006)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV XIANG DAVOY NO (9006) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 16.2.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 amto 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm up to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the vessel.

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S CHINASHIPPING(MALAYSIA) AGENCY SDN BHD

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

TRADE MARKCAUTION NOTICE

Dunhill Tobacco of Lon-don Limited, a companyorganized under the lawsof England and Wales, car-rying on business throughits licensees and affiliates,as Tobacco Manufacturersand Merchants, having itsprincipal office at 1ASt.James’s Street, London,SW1A 1EF, United King-dom is the owner and soleproprietor of the follow-ing Trademark:-

Reg. No. 4/4720/2008Used in respect of :-Cigarettes, tobacco, to-bacco products, smokers’articles, lighters, matches.Any unauthorized use,imitation, infringementsor fraudulent intentions ofthe above mark will bedealt with according tolaw.

Tin Ohnmar TunB.A (LAW) LL.B, LL.M (U.K)

P.O.Box. 109,Ph: 723043

(For. British AmericanTobacco Ltd, U.K.)

Dated. 17 February, 2009.

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BUNGA MAS-11 VOY NO (808)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV BUNGA MAS-11 VOY NO (808) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 15.2.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.P where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S MAXICON CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV OEL EXCELLENCE VOY NO (246N)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV OEL EXCEL-LENCE VOY NO (246N) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 16.2.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: M/S BLPL LOGISTICS PTE LTDPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

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Cambodia’s ATM networksgrow despite crisis

PHNOM PENH, 17 Feb—Despite concerns over theimpact of the global credit crunch on local financialinstitutions, Cambodian banks are expanding theirnetwork of ATMs to provide customers with easieraccess to their money, national media reported Mon-day.

In Channy, president and chief executive ofACLEDA Bank, told the Phnom Penh Post that thegrowth of ATMs has boomed in the last few years asliving conditions improve and greater progress is madein modernizing the kingdom’s bank sector.

“In 2007, (we) had 20 ATMs. Now, we have 60ATMs with plans to reach 100 by the end of this year,”In Channy said.

“Our ATMs have been installed in all parts of Cam-bodia,” he said.—Internet

Amid nurse shortage, hospi-tals focus on retention

MIAMI, 16 Feb—Newly minted nurse Katie O’Bryanwas determined to stay at her first job at least a year,even if she did leave the hospital every day wanting toquit.

She lasted nine months. The stress of trying to keepher patients from getting much worse as they waited,sometimes for 12 hours, in an overwhelmed Dallasemergency room was just too much. The breakingpoint came after paramedics brought in a child who’dhad seizures. She was told he was stable and to checkhim in a few minutes, but O’Bryan decided not to wait.She found he had stopped breathing and was turningblue.—Internet

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Gaza population“rising rapidly”

China’s Harbin starts car control policyto ease traffic for Winter Universiade

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduces theWindows 7 operating system at CES. The software

giant is planning to open its own retail stores.INTERNET

Microsoft to open own retail stores

SEATTLE, 16 Feb—Microsoft plans to openits own stores despite theeconomic downturn thathas left many retailersstruggling.

The company hiredDavid Porter, a 25-yearveteran of Wal-MartStores, as its corporate

vice president of retailstores. Porter was head ofworldwide product distri-bution at DreamWorksAnimation SKG since2007.Porter, who is set tostart work this week, ischarged with improvingthe PC-buying experi-ence. The company said

his first task will be to setthe timing, locations anddesign of Microsoft-branded retail stores,which will sell computersinstalled with Microsoftsoftware as well as othercompany products.

Microsoft has beenworking to revive the im-age of its ubiquitous Win-dows operating system,starting with a US$300million advertising cam-paign that began last year.

Vista, the most recentversion of the software,was widely criticised forbeing slow, requiring newand pricier hardware, andnot working with deviceslike printers and scanners.Vista has also been thesubject of a series ofsnarky television ads fromApple.—Internet

BEIJING, 16 Feb—TheChinese northern cityof Harbin started on Sun-day a half-month-longcontrol of vehicle use toensure smoother trafficfor the 24th WinterUniversiade set to openon 18 Feb.

According to a trafficcontrol regulation run-ning from 15 Feb to1 March, vehicles witheven and odd platenumber run on alternatedays in 19 major lanes ofthe city, to improve airquality and ease trafficpressure.

Meanwhile, 47 down-town streets are dedicatedas special lanes for theWinter Universiade andonly open to vehicles

serving the events.However, city buses,

taxis and those vehiclesused for the Games werefree of the rule.

The 24th Winter Uni-versiade, which will beheld from 18-28 Feb,is a high level interna-tional sports event held inChina after the BeijingOlympics. So far, over3,800 athletes from 44countries and regionshave confirmed to attendthe Games.

Harbin’s preparationfor the Winter Uni-

versiade is in full swing.According to Guo

Mingyu, deputy secre-tary-general of the Organ-izing Committee, thebudget for the faci-litiesof upcoming WinterUniversiade is about 2.6billion yuan (US$370 mil-lion).

Ministries of the cen-tral government, relevantdepartments in Heilong-jiang Province and theHarbin municipal govern-ment have co-invested inthe Games.

Internet

Texas debris may befrom crashed satellitesDALLAS,16 Feb—The Federal Aviation Administra-

tion has received numerous reports of falling debrisacross Texas, which could be related to a recent satel-lite collision.

Some of the callers around midmorning on Sundayreported what looked like a fireball in the sky.FAAspokesman Roland Herwig said officials suspect thedebris could be related to the collision, but he saidthat had not been confirmed.The FAA notified pilotson Saturday to be aware of possible debris after a col-lision last Tuesday between US and Russian commu-nication satellites. The chief of Russia's Mission Con-trol says clouds of debris from the collision will circleEarth and threaten numerous satellites.—Internet

Twenty jailed in Internet gambling caseSHANGHAI ,16 Feb —A Chinese court has jailed 20 people in what is thought to be

the country’s biggest online gambling case, state media reported.The Shanghai Putuo District People’s Court sentenced ringleader Qian Baochun,

41, overnight to six years and ordered him to pay a fine of five million yuan ($1.13million) for establishing gambling websites, the Xinhua news agency said.

Nineteen other men were handed prison terms ranging from one to five years andfines of 20,000 yuan to one million yuan ($4430 to $222,000), according to thereport.“This is possibly the country's biggest online gambling case,” court spokes-man Zhang Minxian said.The gang started business during the 2006 World Cup inGermany, Xinhua said.The court heard Qian and two others opened accounts onoverseas gambling websites and began to develop a network of agents and gam-blers, earning 1.6 million yuan ($355,000) from wagers, the report said.—Internet

Decoys drive cancercells to suicide

GAZA CITY,16 Feb—The population of theGaza Strip increased byalmost 40% between1997 and 2007, accordingto the results of a Pales-tinian census.

The survey, taken be-fore Israel's recent offen-sive, showed the territoryhas a population of 1.4million people.

The Palestinian CentralBureau of Statistics esti-mated the annual growthrate at 3.3% and said thepopulation would doublein 21 years at that rate.TheUN estimates the world’scurrent average popula-tion growth at 1.17%. Ina statement, the WestBank-based bureau said:“Assuming a stablegrowth during thecoming years, the GazaStrip population will mul-tiply [double] in 21years.”There were mixedfindings in the census for

the people of Gaza.The overwhelming ma-

jority of people in the ter-ritory (67.9%) continue tobe UN-registered refu-gees. The figure was onlyslightly lower (65.1%) in1997.However, educationand literacy showed signsof improvement.

The rate of people overthe age of 10 unable toread fell from 11.3% in1997 to 5.5% in 2007, asthe proportion of those re-ceiving school educationrose from 62.8% to70.6%.Preliminary resultsfrom the census were re-leased in February 2008.

According to those fig-ures, the combined popu-lation of Gaza and theWest Bank includingeast Jerusalem is 3.8million.The statistics bu-reau has not yet releasedfinal results on the WestBank or east Jerusalem.

Internet

PARIS,16 Feb—Frenchspecialists overnight un-veiled a new weaponagainst cancer — a mo-lecular “decoy” that mim-ics DNA damage andprompts cancerous cellsto kill themselves.

The research, pub-lished in a US journal,Clinical Cancer Research,opens up fresh avenuesfor attacking tumours thatare resistant to conven-tional therapy, theysaid.Chemotherapy andradiotherapy aim at in-flicting sufficient damageto a cancer cell to unleasha process of programmedcell death, also calledapoptosis.

But sometimes the on-slaught does not causeenough damage to acti-vate the apoptosis trigger,and surviving cancercells are able to repair

themselves.A team led byMarie Dutreix of the Cu-rie Institute in Paris, de-veloped tiny fragments ofDNA that mimic the twobroken ends of thedouble-helix geneticcode.

The trick prompts theseholdout cells into believ-ing they are far more dam-aged than they really are,and commit suicide.Thetricksters — appropriatelycalled “Dbaits” — havebeen successfully testedon mice, Ms Dutreix said.

By injecting lab ro-dents with Dbaits a fewhours before radiotherapy,the team were able towipe out 75-100 per centof cancer cells on lab ro-dents, compared with 30-50 per cent using only ra-diotherapy, and there wasno collateral damage tohealthy tissue.—Internet

Killer flu could hit NZthis winter

Remains ofboar-croc found

WELLINGTON, 16 Feb—Imagine meeting a crocodilewith huge tusks like those of a wild boar. PalaeontologistPaul Sereno did meet one, or at least the remains of theancient creature, and he gave a crowd of excited young-sters a first public glimpse yesterday.

Sereno calls it boar-croc for its looks, since he hasn’tyet published an article on it with a scientific name inthe official literature.The University of Chicago re-searcher found the skull in the Sahara Desert, whichmany thousands of years ago was moist and supportedall sorts of animals.Boar-croc doesn’t fit in any knownorder. It has a crocodile-like snout, but adds horns andthree sets of canine teeth like those of a wild pig adaptedfor eating meat.—Internet

WELLINGTON, 16 Feb—Health authorities arewarning New Zealandcould be hit this winterby a virulent “Brisbanestrain” of flu which killedsix children in Australialast year.

Furthermore, NewZealanders could provemore vulnerable to thevirus this year due to lowimmunisation rates andseveral mild fluseasons.Virologist LanceJennings told the NewZealand Doctor maga-zine the country was duefor a serious influenzaseason after a lull lastingseveral years.

The last serious season— in 2005 — saw threechildren die from an in-

fluenza “B” strain. Na-tional Influenza StrategyGroup chair Anne-MarieFrost said this year’svaccine included threestrains.One, dubbed the“Brisbane strain” hadkilled six children inAustralia last winter.

Internet

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S P O R T SMan United and Everton

into FA Cup quartersLONDON, 16 Feb—Manchester United crushed

Derby County 4-1 away while Everton beat Aston Villa3-1 at Goodison Park on Sunday to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

United, winners of the competition a record 11times, will visit either Swansea City or Fulham in thelast eight, while Everton will be at home to West HamUnited or Middlesbrough.Chelsea, the only other teamdefinitely through after beating Watford 3-1 on Satur-day, will visit either Blackburn Rovers or CoventryCity.Four fifth-round games ended in draws on Satur-day while Arsenal and Cardiff play their fourth-roundreplay on Monday night.

Everton are in the quarter-finals for the first time ineight years and the first time in the career of DavidMoyes either as a player or manager: "It's been a longtime coming but you don't get anything for reachingquarter-finals," the Everton boss told Setanta TV."Wewere struggling for players today, I was a bit worried,but they played tremendously well and earned theirrewards.—Internet

Manchester United’s Danny Welbeck (L) scorespast Derby County’s Stephen Bywater during their

FA Cup fifth round soccer match at Pride Parkin Derby, on 15 Feb, 2009.—INTERNET

Man City’s interest in Terrywas rejected

Chelsea’s John Terry

Murray upsets Nadalin Rotterdam final

ROTTERDAM, 16 Feb—Andy Murray upset worldnumber one Rafael Nadal 6-3 4-6 6-0 in a disappoint-ing World Indoor Tournament final marred by inju-ries on Sunday.

Murray was less troubled by his ankle problem thanNadal was by his right knee problem after he had amedical time-out three games into the second set.Bothplayers then dropped serve four times in a row, hand-ing the set to Nadal who could not put any power intohis service but refused to give up.

"Thought the first set was very good, I played welland saw nothing on Nadal's movement" Murray toldreporters."But after his time out he wasn't runninganymore and just hitting the ball hard from thebaseline.""It was disappointing as it wasn't particularentertaining at the end."—Internet

Andy Murray shows the trophy after beating Rafael Nadal(R) of Spain in the final of the World Indoor Tennis Tour-nament in Rotterdam on 15 Feb, 2009.—INTERNET

Hiddink to retire after 2010 World Cup

Raul sets record as Real hammer Sporting 4-0

Celtic stay aheadafter goalless Old

Firm derbyLONDON, 16 Feb—

Celtic and Rangersground out a dull goallessdraw in the Scottish Pre-mier League at Parkheadon Sunday to leave Celticstill two points clear at thetop.

In a game of few clearchances, Celtic's ScottMcDonald missed thebest after 15 minuteswhen he failed to connectwith a cross by debutantWillo Flood from point-blank range.

Internet

Hamburg beat ArminiaBielefeld 2-0 to go third

BERLIN, 16 Feb—Hamburg SV moved up to thirdplace in the Bundesliga on Sunday after beating lowlyArminia Bielefeld 2-0 with a goal in each half.

Bielefeld keeper Dennis Eilhoff completely mis-judged Piotr Trochowski's free kick and palmed theball into his own goal for the 32nd minute opener whilePeruvian Paolo Guerrero bagged the second with awell-struck left-foot effort in the 60th.

Bielefeld squandered a chance to level in the 55thwhen Artur Wichniarek had a penalty saved.HerthaBerlin beat champions Bayern Munich 2-1 on Satur-day to return to the top of the table for the first time inmore than two years.—Internet

Beckham says it would bedifficult to return to Galaxy

David Beckham

Lyon move four points clearwith Le Havre win

MILAN, 16 Feb—DavidBeckham said on Sundayit would be difficult for himto return to Los AngelesGalaxy if his permanentmove to AC Milan does notmaterialise. The Englandmidfielder, on a two-monthloan at Milan, wants to stayin Italy but Galaxy said onFriday that he must go backto Los Angeles after a Ma-jor League Soccer deadlineto complete the transferpassed.

"I've said I want to stayhere and if I do go backthen it will be a bit difficult

but we'll have to wait andsee what happens,"Beckham told reporters af-ter his side's 2-1 defeat byInter Milan.

Milan have said they stillhope to sign the 33-year-old full-time irrespective ofthe MLS deadline.

Internet

LONDON, 16 Feb—Russia andChelsea coach Guus Hiddink has saidhe plans to retire from football after the2010 World Cup.The 62-year-oldDutchman will manage Premier LeagueChelsea until the end of the season af-ter taking over last week from thesacked Luiz Felipe Scolari.

"I think I will quit in the summer of2010 after the World Cup," Hiddink toldthe Sunday Mirror."From then on I amjust going to ride around on my Harley-Davidson and I will be more of an am-

bassador for Nike.""And I'll take care, privately, of my

own project for the poor in Tanzania,"he added.—Internet

LONDON, 16 Feb—Chelsea said on Sun-day that Man-chesterCity had made an en-quiry about buyingJohn Terry last yearbut the Lon-donersmade it clear that theircaptain was not leav-ing Stamford Bridge.

"We made it veryclear that John was not for sale. We did not entertainany further conversation on the subject and nor willwe in the future," chief executive Peter Kenyon toldwww.chelseafc.com in a statement released in the wakeof media speculation over a possible move for the de-fender.

"John is our captain and the captain of England. Heis part of the heart and soul of Chelsea."

Terry said: "Chelsea told me what had happenedwith the enquiry as a courtesy. I was very happy withtheir reaction as mine would have been the same.

"I have always said that I want to end my career atthe club which I love and we all see no reason whythat cannot happen."—Internet

PARIS, 16 Feb—Olympique Lyon tigh-tened their grip at the topof Ligue 1 with a 3-1home victory over bottomclub Le Havre on Sunday.

Seven-times cham-

pions Lyon are on 49points after 24 matchesand lead second-placedParis St Germain by fourpoints after the capital sidebeat St Etienne 2-1 on Sat-urday.

Lyon got off to a slug-gish start at Gerland sta-dium but Brazilianmidfielder Ederson brokethe deadlock when heflicked the ball past LeHavre keeper ChristopheRevault in the 34th minute.

Ivory Coast strikerAbdul Kader Keita madeit two with a cool finish aminutes before halftimeand despite having de-fender John Mensah sentoff in the 70th for a sec-ond bookable offence,Juninho made it three 16minutes from the end witha 35-metre free kick.

Internet

MADRID, 16 Feb—Striker Raul set aclub scoring record as Real Madrid sweptaside Sporting Gijon 4-0 away on Sundayto cut Barcelona's lead at the top of thePrimera Liga to 10 points.

The leaders were held 2-2 away to Real

Betis on Saturday, and the champions tookfull advantage as Raul scored twice andKlaas Jan Huntelaar and Marcelo addedone apiece to make short work of theirhosts. Raul's goals made him Real's all-timetop scorer, surpassing Alfredo di Stefano'stally by two to move on to 309 goals forthe nine-times European champions. Real'seighth consecutive victory put them on 50points from 23 matches.

"We are closer (to Barcelona) becausewe have hauled back two points but it isstill very difficult. It is out of our handsand we have to wait and see what happens,"Real coach Juande Ramos said.—Internet

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WEATHER

Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather has been partlycloudy in Kachin, Kayin and Mon States, upper Sagaingand Taninthayi Divisions and generally fair in the re-maining areas. Night temperatures were (3˚C) to (4˚C)below February average temperatures in Chin State, Bagoand Taninthayi Divisions, (3˚C) above February averagetemperatures in upper Sagaing Division and about Feb-ruary average temperatures in the remaining areas. Thesignificant night temperatures were Loilem (1˚C), Haka(2˚C) and Namhsam (4˚C).

Maximum temperature on 15-2-2009 was 95˚F.Minimum temperature on 16-2-2009 was 63˚F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 16-2-2009 was 83%.Total sunshine hours on 15-2-2009 was (8.1) hrs approx.

Rainfall on 16-2-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and CentralYangon. Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye)was (4) mph from South at (18:30) hours MST on 15-2-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in theAndaman Sea and Southeast Bay and generally fair else-where in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 17th February 2009:Weather will be partly cloudy in Kachin, Kayin and MonStates, Taninthayi Division and generally fair in the re-maining States and Divisions.

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihood ofslight decrease of night temperatures in the EasternMyanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 17-2-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 17-2-2009: Generally fair weather.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 17-2-2009: Generally fair weather.

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Europe/ North America Transmission

Signature TuneSong of Myanma Beauty and Scenic SightsHundred Fruits from a Common Stem, our Union(Mangway Division)Lucky BambooRope paintingMyanmar Traditional Marionette Theatre(Part-III)Kambozathadi: Palace of ConquerorsNational Herbal Park (Part-I)Wood Finishing IndustryMyanmar Modern SongHundred Fruits from a Common Stem, our Union(Mandalay Division)Arrogant MosaicThe Fascinating Oceanography of MyanmarSights to see in Pyin-Oo-LwinCopies that will never lose (Sand Painting)National Herbal Park (Part-II)Song of Myanma Beauty and Scenic Sights

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British economy to shrinkby 3.3% in 2009

LONDON, 16 Feb—Britain will fall into a deepereconomic recession than previously thought, theConfederation of British Industry said on Monday, astight credit conditions and a global downturn weighdown on companies.

And the weak pound will provide little impetusbecause the serverity of the downturn in Britain’soverseas markets will depress demand even as goodsbecome cheaper to import. The CBI reckons the UKeconomy will shrink by 3.3 per cent this year, almosttwice as bad as its last estimate in November for acontraction of 1.7 per cent. It estimates the economywill not grow at all in 2010.

The lobby group says a lack of credit has madeconditions worse for companies and it called on thegovernment to speed up measures aimed at gettingcredit flowing again. “How the forecast really pans outdepends critically on how credit flows to the corporatesector can be resolved,” said CBI chief economicadviser Ian McCafferty. “This is an essential pre-condition to a recovery.”

The global financial crisis has caused wholesalemoney markets to freeze up, forcing banks to clampdown on lending to businesses and consumers.

MNA/Reuters

Tibetan artists in traditional costumes stageTibetan dance during a rehearsal for the grand

party scheduled to open on 24 Feb to celebrate theupcoming Tibetan New Year, the year of Ox, in

Lhasa, capital of sotuhwest China’s TibetAutonomous Region, on 14 Feb, 2009.—INTERNET

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8th Waning of Tabodwe 1370 ME Tuesday, 17 February, 2009

Recently, I made a trip to Sittway in Rakhine Stateto cover news about the First Floriculture Contest, thephoto contest, and the opening ceremony of the exhi-bition to mark the 62nd Anniversary Union Day.

While the airplane was about to touch the ground,I had a good view over the airport, and noticed thathalf part of the runway along it was black and theother half part, white with heavy machinery andtrucks at work. For the time being, the Sittway Air-port is serviceable only three days a week as itsrunway is being upgraded.

The following day, I studied the project site underthe arrangements of Deputy Director of Rakhine State

Sittway Airport runway project to be completed by 30 May 2009Article, photos: Singu Soe Win

General Administration Department U Kyaw Myint.Senior Engineer U Tin Maung Thein and Junior Engi-neer (2) U Thant Zaw Oo conducted me round the site.

In the World War II, Sittway Airport used to be amilitary airfield. The International Aeradio Limited(I.A.L) Co handed over the transport facility to theCivil Aviation Department on 24 July 1947. In 1960,the runway was upgraded to a 6000' x 150' tarred one.

The airport building was upgraded from a 120 longand 60 feet wide one to a 220 feet long and 60 feet wideone with a lounge and a special lounge for VIPs, andwas launched on 22 March 2002.

Sittway Airport has a 6000' x 150' runway, a 600'

x 300' apron and a 525' x 75' taxiway. The runway canwithstand 7300 pounds and cope with F-28 Fokkerairplane.

The surfaces of the runway, apron and taxiwaydeteriorated due to wear and tear. So, the CivilAviation Department under the Ministry of Trans-port launched the project for upgrading the airportfacilities on 1 December 2006, and skilled workersare working hard day in, day out under the closesupervision of the engineers of the department tocomplete the project on schedule. So far, the projecthas been completed by 85 per cent.

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YANGON, 16 Feb—The 58th

Myanmar Calender Meeting was held atthe National Theatre on Myoma KyaungStreet here today.

Chairman Sayadaw BhaddantaSaddiyaca of Myanmar Calender Advi-sory Board addressed and Director-Gen-

Myanmar Calender Meeting helderal U Yan Naing Oo of Myanmar FineArts Department made a speech. Next,experts discussed their respective sec-tors.

The meeting continues until 27 Feb-ruary.

MNA

MILAN, 16 Feb — In-ter Milan striker Adrianois convinced refereeRoberto Rosetti was rightto allow his opening goalin the 2-1 derby win overAC Milan on Sundaynight.

The Brazilian headedMaicon's inviting 29th-minute cross into the netvia a deflection off his armwith the Rossoneri appeal-ing in vain for handball.

Adriano insisted thecontact with his arm wasunintentional althoughthat view was not sharedby opposition boss CarloAncelotti.

"It was involuntary,"said Adriano.

Andrew takes hispower chair for a spin.

Infant power mobility on displayNEWARK, 16 Feb —

Children with mobility is-sues, like cerebral palsyand spina bifida, can’texplore the world likeother babies, becausethey can’t crawl or walk.Infant development

emerges from the thou-sands of daily discoveriesexperienced by babies asthey move and exploretheir worlds.

Mobility-deprivedkids start exploring whenthey can operate a tradi-tional power wheelchair,typically at age 3 or oftenolder.

Research done byUniversity of Delawareresearchers is turning thaton its head and could po-tentially change the waythese children’s brainsdevelop.

Physical therapy pro-fessor Cole Galloway andmechanical engineeringprofessor Sunil Agrawal

have developed tinypower chairs babies asyoung as 6 months canoperate using a joystick.

Now, they’ve pairedwith Permobil, a nationalproducer of power chairs,and outfitted a chair fortoddlers.

Galloway will beshowcasing this researchFebruary 10 in Las Vegasat the American PhysicalTherapy Association’sCombined Sections Meet-ing.

A 17-month-old boy,Andrew, who’s been driv-ing the robots for morethan a year, will be onhand to demonstrate thetechnology. —Internet

Adriano backs referee"I didn't want to touch

the ball with my arm. Iwanted to nod the ball inand my hand remained ina normal position.

"I think everyone hasseen that this was the

case."The burly South

American praised Intercoach Jose Mourinho af-ter the game, even thoughthe pair have had astrained relationship thisseason.—Internet

Adriano - scored the opener.

Road rollers at work to resurface the apron.

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