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New Light of MyanmarNay Pyi Taw , 17

March President U

Thein Sein left Auckland

of New Zealand at 12.45

pm local time today and

arrived in Sydney of

Australia at 2.15 pm

local time. Ofcials of

the Governor Office

of New South Wales,

Prime Minister Office

and Ministry of Foreign

Affairs welcomed the

President at the airport.

Next, the Presidentand party ew to Canberra

from Sydney by the

aircraft of Australian

Armed Forces and arrived

at a military aireld in

Canberra where they were

welcomed by ofcials of

the Prime Minister Ofce

and Ministry of Foreign

Affairs.

Then the President

President U Thein Sein arrives in Australiaand party proceeded toHyatt Hotel in Canberra

in a motorcade.

In the evening, the

President and party met with

the Myanmar ambassa-dor,

families of embassy staff

and Myanmar citizens in

Australia, and presented

gifts to them.

Next, the President

and party attended a dinner

hosted by the Myanmar

Ambassador to Australia.

MNA

yaNgoN, 17 March

To upgrade Muse, a town

located on Myanmar-

China border, a modern

town development project

would be implemented,

said an official of the

Ministry of Commerce.

We are planning to

upgrade Muse with the aim

Muse to be upgraded to a modern town

Photo

shows

Muse

which is on

the track to

moderniza-

tion.

By:Wai Yan Oo

President U Thein Sein

being welcomed by

ofcials of the Governor

Ofce of New South

Wales, Prime Minister

Ofce and Ministry of

Foreign Affairs at the

airport in Canberra.

mna

of boosting border trade

a n d s u p p o r t i n g t h e

regional development,

he added.

Muse is the major

t ow n fo r t he bo rde r

trade between China and

Myanmar as a major

check-point for importing

products by road from

China is located at the

town.

Meanwhile, the check

point also plays a major

role in exporting Myanmar

products to China.

Shan State government

will supervise and take a

leading role in implementing

the project of upgrading

the town.

The project includes

building condos though

there were single buildings

in the town. Besides, to

upgrade the town, ring

roads in the town would

be upgraded, an airport

would be added and high-

rise buildings would be

constructed in the town.Myanma Alinn:

11-3-2013

(Trans: AMS)*****

Belgian Dy PM and party conclude visit yaNgoN, 17 MarchDeputy Prime Minister and

Minister of Foreign Affairs,

Foreign Trade and European

Affairs Mr Didier Reyndersof Belgium and party left here

by air this afternoon.

They were seen off

at Yangon International

Airport by Yangon Region

Minister for Electric and

Industry U Nyan Tun Oo

and ofcials of the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs.MNA

yaNgoN, 17 March

UniNet was launchedthis morning at Yangon

Technological University

in Insein Township here,

attended by Yangon Region

Chief Minister U Myint Swe,

Deputy Minister for Science

and Technology Dr Zaw Min

Aung and Deputy Minister

for Communications and

Information Technology U

Thaung Tin.

Deputy Minister Dr

Zaw Min Aung extended

greetings, followed by the

speech of Chairman of

Technological Universities

UniNet launchedAdministration Committee

U Nyi Hla Nge.N e x t , P r o f e s s o r

Carl V Thompson from

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT) gave talks

on materials for micro and

nano-systems.

Online courses and

video conferencing are

available with the use of

UniNet between Yangon

Technological University

and Yangon University of

Computer Studies (Bahan

Region) through wireless

network.

MNA

Deputy Prime Minister

Mr Didier Reynders of

Belgium being seen off

by ofcials.

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Cambodian pilgrims comein ocks to visit pagodas in

MyanmarMagway, 17 March

Cambodian pilgrimsvisited Myathalun Pagoda inMagway on their way backfrom Shwesettaw PagodaFestival in Minbu Townshipof Magway Region on 13March morning.

A group of 138Cambodian pilgrims led bytwo Myanmar monks andone Cambodian travel agentoffered light, joss-sticks,fruit, ower, water and alms

to the pagoda and maderecitation ofParittas. Thenthey had photos taken in theprecinct of the pagoda.

We started ourpilgrimage from Yangon on6 March. Our journey tookus Kyaithtiyoe, Mandalay,PyinOoLwin, Monywa,Bagan-NyaungU andShwesettaw. We will proceed

to Nay Pyi Taw when ourvisit to Magway MyathalunPagoda concludes. Then wewill return to Yangon. Therewere Cambodian pilgrimswho have been to Myanmarbefore. This time sees themost. There are 138 pilgrimsin the group. We make thepilgrimage on a coach tour.It is a journey of 10 days,says Ashin Uttara of TipitakaMaha Gannnayon monasteryin Kaba-Aye Pagoda who ledthe pilgrimage with anothermonk.

I see more foreignvisitors recent days. We aredoing a brisk trade. I amhappy to see more foreigntourists here. Business isgood, says a vendor in theprecinct of Pagoda.

Kyemon

Installation of water pipeline

in progress

yangon, 17 March Aimed at supplying moredrinking water to dwellersof Dagon Myothit (North)and (East) townships,

installation of waterpipelines is being carriedout under the arrangementof Engineering Department(water and sanitation) of

Yangon City DevelopmentCommittee.

The water pipelineis 40 inches in diameter.Works are underway in the

canal on Bohmu Tun Seinstreet between MingaladonTownship and NorthOkkalapa Township.

Kyemon

Photo shows students who were going to designated exam centres to sitfor matriculation examinations in Pakokku Township on 13 March. A

total of 5911 students1416 school boys and 1766 school girlsaretaking their examinations happily.Kyemon

Photo shows students, who were about to sit fortheir examination, waiting outside before the

school bell rang at Basic Education High SchoolNo (1) exam centre in Yezagyo Township on 13March. A total of 3599 students are taking their

examinations peacefully at designated examcentres in the township. Kyemon

nayPyiTaw, 17 March According to the Ministryof Construction, each road

section of Yangon-MandalayExpressway is beingupgraded paving it withasphalt. Tarmacking of eachroad section is being carriedout mainly at accident-proneroad sections with turns andweak foundation. I t is foundthat car accidents are frequentat the road sections with turnsand weak foundation on theexpressway. Thats whythe expressway is being

upgraded to be equippedwith standard characteristicsof a road with the aim of

winding down road accidentand ensuring road safetyalong the expressway,an offi cial of Yangon-Mandalay Expressway PoliceCommander Ofce said.

The Yangon-MandalayExpressway was put intoservice in March 2009 and anaverage number of vehiclesrunning on the expresswayare 10000 a day.

Kyemon

Upgradation of each road

section on Yangon-Mandalay

Expressway in progress

Young man dies of drowning

after falling into Bago RiverBago , 17 MarchA

young man drowned asfalling into Bago Riverat Htonkalay village ofHmawlon village-tract in

Bago Township at about 5am on 11 March.

Hla Soe, 38, of Kyartatvillage in Kawa Township fellinto the water as his left anklegot hopelessly tangled in theanchor rope while droppinganchor from a motorized boatand died of drowning in the

river. The fatal accidenthappened to the victimwhile he was waiting forhigh tide together with hiscolleagues, Myo Naing

and Kyaw Aung beforetheir departure for Kyartatvillage.

Hi s dead body wastaken out of the water andsent to Bago Hospital forfurther investigation intohis drowning death whetherthere is foul play and othersuspicious. Investigatinginto the case is ongoing byInndakaw police station.

Kyemon

Mandalay, 17 March An outbreak of re ata private fuel shop on 19thStreet between 86th and87th in Mandalay caused apublic panic as a haul of fuelcontainers which are beingkept stored were found at theshop after the ame ickered

and went out.A fi re broke out at

That-tant-yaung fuel shopat about 2.50 pm on 12March. According to theresponsible persons of re

services department, theoutbreak of re was due to

static electricity while lling

fuel from a plastic containerto a metal jar. Although there did not spread to nearby

houses, the it gutted the whole

shop, destroying furniture, 50gallons of petrol and 25 gallonsof diesel. As soon as the re

started, the crowds of localpeople fought the re with the

use of re extinguishers and

they were joined by about 100re ghters accompanied by

11 re trucks. They struggled

to control the re and put out

it at about 3.15 pm. Soon afterthe ame went out, the news

of nding out the fuel storage

came as a shock to localpeople. But the re did not

lick the fuel containers. Twowomen and one re ofcer

were wounded in the re. Shop

assistant Hein Thiha, 24, wascharged with the cause of re

by police.Kyemon

Fuel shop re in Mandalay

Medical staff of Workers

Hospital make eld trip in

Yangonyangon, 17 March

A 30-member medicalteam comprising specialists,surgeons and nurses led byMedical SuperintendentDr Daw Khin Pyu Win ofWorkers Hospital (Yangon)provided staff with healthcare at the assembly Hallof Printing and Publishing

Enterprise on TheinbyuStreet in BotahtaungTownship, here, on 14 Marchmorning.

Next, the medicalsuperintendent gave talkson rights of staff under socialsecurity and activities ofWorkers Hospital (Yangon).

Kyemon

Self-reliantgravel road

emerges inDaikU Township

nay Pyi Taw , 17March Bago RegionChief Minister U Nyan Wintogether with wellwishersformally opened a self-reliant gravel road that linksTaungboh Koelone villageand Wargamani village

Farmmachinery

training course

opened in Waw

Townshipwaw, 17 March The

opening of Farm MachineryTraining Course (1/2013) washeld at mechanized farmingNo (50) of AgricultureMechanization Departmentin Waw Township of BagoRegion on 11 March.

The head of BagoDistrict AgricultureMechanization Departmentspoke on the occasion. Atotal of 30 trainees are takingthe course.

Kyemon

in Doedan village-tract ofDaikU Township on 14March morning. The village-to-village gravel road is 7059feet long. Next, the chiefminister attended the cashdonation for constructionof labour room, x-ray roomand brick walls of the stationhospital where he made anaddress. MNA


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Italy parliament electsspeakers as tensions continue

Laura Boldrini from the centre-left claps after the voteelecting her as the new lower house president at theChamber of Deputies in Rome on 16 March, 2013.

ReuteRs

Rome, 17 MarchItalys centre-left alliancescraped a narrow victoryin a vote to appointthe new speakers of

parliament on Saturdaybut the fragile margin ofsuccess underlined howhard it will be to form astable government afterlast months deadlockedelection.

The appointment of thespeakers was parliamentsrst act since the February

election, in which thecentre-left formation ofPier Luigi Bersani wona lower house majoritybut not enough to controlthe Senate and form agovernment.

The result has left

Italy stuck in a political

quagmire, arousing fearsthat bond markets couldtake fright, reignitingthe euro zone crisisand endangering the

governments ability tomanage Italys 2-trillion-euro public debt.

After a tense day inparliament, the centre-leftcandidates Laura Boldriniand Piero Grasso, a formeranti-maa magistrate,

were elected as speakers ofthe lower house and Senateafter other parties ruledout accepting the posts inexchange for supporting aBersani-led government.With no clear majority inthe Senate, DemocraticParty (PD) leader Bersanihad to rely on abstentions

and a handful of votes

from other groups,including Beppe Grillosanti-establishment 5-StarMovement and centristsled by Prime MinisterMario Monti. Grasso stilldid not get an absolutemajority in the upperhouse.Although the centre-

left now has the inuential

speakers chairs, the resulthighlighted Bersanisfailure to secure a wideraccord that might haveallowed him to form agovernment. It did little toquell speculation that Italymay have to return to thepolls within months.

Reuters

US aims to clinch Afghandeal on prisoner transfer

US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel speaks at hisnews conference at the Pentago in Washington

on 15 March, 2013.ReuteRs

Washington, 17 MarchUS Defence SecretaryChuck Hagel and AfghanPresident Hamid Karzaispoke in a call on Saturdayabout efforts to quicklyresolve one of the mostvexing issues in the two

countries relations, thedelayed transfer to Afghancontrol of a key detentioncentre. The Pentagon saidthe two men agreed to usethe next week to conductintensive work with a viewto concluding an agreement,spokesman George Littlesaid in a statement.

The transfer of thedetention centre at Bagramair base is a persistent sourceof tension, with Karzaisofce warning in a statement

on Wednesday that anymore delays could harm thebilateral relations.

US commanders wantto ensure that dangerousprisoners will not be releasedback to the battleeld. But

Karzai has raised alarms by

A woman is helped by ofcials as she votes in a

referendum at a polling station in Harareon 16 March, 2013.ReuteRs

Zimbabwe votes on curbs to presidents powerChitungWiza, (Zim-

babwe), 17 MarchZimbabweans voted onSaturday in a referendumexpected to endorse a newconstitution that wouldtrim presidential powersand pave the way for anelection to decide whetherRobert Mugabe extendshis three-decade rule.

Mugabe, Africasoldest president at 89, has

ruled the former Britishcolony since independencein 1980 and has beenaccused of waging violentcrackdowns on theopposition and weakeningstate institutions like thecabinet and parliament.

The new constitutionwould set a maximum twove-year terms for the

president, starting withthe next election, expected

in the second half of thisyear. But the limit willnot apply retroactively,so Mugabe could rule foranother two terms.

Presidential decreeswill also require majoritybacking in the cabinet, anddeclarations of emergencyrule or dissolutions ofparliament will need theapproval of two-thirds oflawmakers, changes thatwill take effect after the

next election.Mugabes ZANU-PF

and the rival Movementfor Democratic Changeof Prime Minister MorganTsvangirai are backingthe charter, makingSaturdays vote almost arubber stamp exercise.

Voting ended at 1700GMT at the nearly 10,000polling stations acrossthe southern Africannation, with results to beannounced within ve

days, said Rita Makarau,head of the Zimbabwe

Obama pledges cooperationwith new Israeli government

Washington, 17March US PresidentBarack Obama on Saturdaycongratulated IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu on the formationof a new government andpledged cooperation onshared challenges.

President Obama looksforward to working closelywith the prime ministerand the new government toaddress the many challengeswe face and advance ourshared interest in peace andsecurity, the White Housesaid in a statement.

The United Statesplaces a high value on itsdeep and enduring bondswith Israel and the Israelipeople, the statement said.

The president looks forwardto further strengtheningthose bonds when he travelsto Israel next week to meetwith Israeli ofcials and to

speak directly with the Israelipeople.

A new coalitiongovernment was formed inIsrael on Friday, two months

after the Israelis voted in thecountrys on 22 Jan elections,after Netanyahus LikudParty signed agreements withYesh Atid and the JewishHome on Friday. The new

coalition will be inauguratedon Monday.

Obama will leaveWashington on Tuesdaynight for his rst three-day

overseas trip after he tookofce in January for his

second term, which willtake him to Israel, the WestBank and Jordan.

The Israeli-Palestinianpeace process, the two-

year-old conict in Syriaand Irans controversialnuclear programme areexpected to dominate hisagenda.Xinhua

warning that any innocentprisoners being held at thefacility will be released.

Littles statement said anagreement on the detentionfacility would be one thatboth fully recognizesAfghan sovereignty and our

mutual interests in securityof the Afghan people and ourrespective forces.

During Hagels visit toAfghanistan last weekend,Karzai accused the UnitedStates of colluding withthe Taleban and of holdingunilateral negotiations withthe insurgentsallegationsthe United States sharplydenied and which exposeddeep tensions after 11 yearsof war. The United Statesplans to pull out just overhalf of its 66,000 troops fromAfghanistan by early nextyear and leave a relativelysmall force after 2014,focusing on training Afghanforces and conductinglimited counterterrorismoperations.Reuters

Electoral Commission.Turnout at the poll was

generally low across thecountry but both Mugabeand Tsvangirai have beenoptimistic the constitutionwould be approvedbefore presidential andparliamentary electionslater in the year.

We want peace inthe country. Peace, peace,peace. It must begin withRobert Mugabe and go on

to you and everyone else,said Mugabe as he votedin the Higheld township

near downtown Harare,accompanied by his wifeand daughter. After aviolent and disputed votein 2008, Mugabe waspushed into a power-sharing agreement withTsvangirai. Tsvangirai madethe referendum on the newconstitution a condition ofthe power-sharing deal andsaid there would be no pointin holding new electionswithout it.Reuters

OutgoingBulgarian PrimeMinister BoikoBorisov speaks

during a debate atthe parliament inSoa on 21 Feb,

2013.ReuteRs

Bulgarian centre-right hold lead in March, poll showssofia, 17 March

Support for Bulgariascentre-right GERB led byex-Prime Minister BoikoBorisov fell in Marchafter protests about livingstandards but it held a leadover the Socialists ahead ofMay elections, a poll showedon Saturday.

Support for GERB was19.7 percent in March, downfrom 22 percent in February

while backing for theSocialists fell to 18.6 percentfrom 22 percent in theprevious month, according tothe Gallup International poll.

Backing for the far-rightAttack party led jumped to5.0 percent from 1.2 percent

in February, according to the

poll of 1,013 people carriedout between 7 and 12 March.

Tens of thousandsof people have protestedfor more than a monthin the European Unionspoorest country againstrising unemploymentand low living standards.The demonstrations led

to Borisovs governmentresigning last month, andthe Balkan country will holdparliamentary elections on12 May.

Support for the ethnicTurkish MRF party fell to

5.2 percent in March from7.3 percent a month earlier,the poll showed.

Parties need to win at

least four percent of the voteto gain seats in parliament.

Bulgarians live on anaverage monthly wage of400 euros (343.96 pounds)and pensions of less thanhalf that. Unemployment hit12 percent in February, its

highest since April 2005.Leaders of the protests

that felled Borisovsgovernment have so farfailed to unite to form asingle political party tochallenge at Mays election.While no party is likely towin a majority, the lack ofa new grouping will makeit easier to stitch together acoalition, analysts say.

Reuters


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Science & Technology


A working staff looks over a new launched solar-powered recycling compactor at Time Square inNew York, the United States, on 15 March, 2013.A total number of 30 new solar-powered recyclingwaste and recycling stations were launched at Time

Square on Friday, which will encourage public spacerecycling among more than 500,000 daily visitors to

the crossroads of the world. By years end, the City willhave put 1,000 new recycling containers on streets in

all ve boroughs.Xinhua

NewYork, 17 MarchRadio frequency chip makersare set to gain as SamsungElectronics Co Ltd andApple Inc unveil ever moresophisticated smartphonesand tablets to battle for theNo 1 spot in the global mobile

devices market.Investors and analysts

say they like shares ofRF Micro Devices Inc,Skyworks Solutions Incand Avago TechnologiesLtd companies that makethe chips that enable gadgetsto send and receive datawirelessly.

Samsung unveiled itslatest agship phone, the

Galaxy S4, in New Yorkon Thursday. The S4 canstop and start videos when

Radio frequency chip makers tune in to smartphone racesomeone looks at the screen,ip between songs at the

wave of a hand and recordsound to accompany pictures.

As manufacturersimprove and add newfeatures to phones, whichare increasingly used to

stream music, video andgames, they are boosting theRF chip technology used inthe devices.

The RF content inhandsets continues to goup, said Stewart Stecker,a portfol io manager atAlphaOne Capital. Thatsgood from an immediate tolonger-term perspective forthe entire RF supply chain.

The importance of RFchips will increase as networkoperators deploy high-speed

wireless technology knownas 4G LTE (long-termevolution), analysts said.

LTE requires a muchhigher number of frequencybands, which increases thenumber of RF chips in aphone.

The global LTE marketis expected to almost doublethis year, surpassing the

said Northland Securitiesanalyst Tom Sepenzis.

A Verizon customer, forexample, using a SamsungGalaxy S4 while travellingthe world, would need to beable to use the LTE networkin the United States and other

countries, said Sepenzis.That requires more

complex amplifiers that

SamsungElectronics Cos

latest GalaxyS4 phone isseen duringits launch at

the Radio CityMusic Hall in

New York on 14March, 2013.ReuteRs

can handle multiple

frequencies, requires betterantenna solutions, switchingcapability to handle all thedifferent frequencies. Thatobviously favours the RFcomponent manufacturers,he said.Reuters

$10 billion mark, according

to a 13 March report fromtelecom market research rm

Infonetics Research.As you add LT E

thats a whole otherfrequencyyou need moreradio, more RF equipment,

Space trio lands in Kazakhstan after bad weather delayAlmAtY, 17 MarchA

RussianSoyuzcapsule madea bulls eye landing inthe steppes of Kazakhstanon Saturday, deliveringa Russian-American triofrom the InternationalSpace Station, a day afterits originally scheduledtouchdown was delayed byfoul weather.

NASAs Kevin Fordand Russian cosmonautsOleg Novitskiy and EvgenyTarelkin, who had mannedthe $100 billion orbitaloutpost since October as

Expedition 34, landed incloudy weather at 7:06 amMoscow time (0306 GMT)northeast of the town ofArkalyk.

They had spent 144 daysaboard the multinational ISSon their space journey ofalmost 61 million miles (98million km). The landingwas energetic and exciting,Russian TV showed Novitskiyas saying. NASA television

Brussels, 17 MarchMutual funds regulatorsare suffering from Twitteroverload.

Many funds companies,which are required to le

advertising and promotionalmaterials for regulatoryreview, have also beensending over all of their postson Facebook, Twitter andother social media networks.But on Friday, the Securitiesand Exchange Commissionmoved to end the deluge,issuing guidelines thatalmost all social mediaposts did not need to beled with Financial Industry

Regulatory Authority, whichconducts the reviews.

Only posts specically

making claims about fundperformance or pitching afunds investment merits

SEC says funds need not report all social media postings

International Space Station (I SS) crew membersRussian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin (L) and Oleg

Novitskiy (C) and US astronaut Kevin Ford sit togetherat Kustanay Airport after they landed near the town

of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, on 16 March, 2013, in thishandout photo courtesy of NASA.ReuteRs

said the deorbit burn and otherevents during the descent hadgone awlessly. It said the

capsule had landed upright,almost hitting its bulls eyetarget in thick fog. OlegNovitskiy reported to searchand recovery teams that thecrew is feeling good, NASAtelevision said. Everything

seems to be in order. Due tohampered visibility, it took afew minutes before helicopterswith Russian search andrecovery teams could locatethe Soyuz capsule after itslanding.

The rst images shown

by Russias Vesti-24television featured rescue

workers standing in a snow-covered steppe opening thehatch of the capsule.

The three smil ingastronauts were seated onsemi-reclined chairs andcovered with blue thermalblankets. They were thencarried to a nearby inatable

medical tent. On Friday,fog and freezing rain at thelanding site in Kazakhstanprevented helicopters fromsetting up for the crewsreturn to Earth. In preparationfor their departure, Canadianastronaut Chris Hadeld took

the helm of the space stationon Wednesday, becomingthe rst Canadian to take

command of the outpost. Itis only the second time in the12-year history of the station,a project of 15 nations thathas been permanently staffedsince November 2000, thatcommand has been turnedover to someone who is notAmerican or Russian.

Reuters

NewYork, 17 MarchPrivate equity rm Silver

Lake Partners bid as low as$11.22 per share for DellInc in mid 2012, when it

Silver Lakes bid for Dellstarted at $11.22 per share

said repeatedly that the bidcomes only after extensivereview and negotiations,and has deemed it fair toshareholders and that view

will likely be emphasizedagain in an upcoming proxyling with the SEC.

But some analysts sayMichael Dell and Silver Lakemay eventually raise their bidto try to appease investors inDell like Southeastern whocomplain it undervalues thecompany.

Michael Dell is tryingto complete his companystransition from a low-marginPC maker into a provider ofcomputing services.

The makeover hasbecome more urgent as the

PC market shrinks. Analystssay it might best be carriedout if the company weretaken private, away frompublic shareholder pressureand scrutiny.Reuters

rst discussed a buyout withfounder and CEO MichaelDell, according to a personfamiliar with the situation.

Since then, on 5February this year, SilverLake and Michael Dell raisedtheir bid to take the worldsNo 3 personal computermaker private to $13.65 ashare.

At $24.4 billion, itwould be the largest privateequity-led buyout since the2008 nancial crisis.

When the bid wasrst announced, the price

represented a 25 per centpremium over the stock pricebefore news of the bid, butDells share price closed at$14.31 on Friday.

The computer maker has

A company logo of Dell is seen on the cover of its laptopat a Dell outlet in Hong Kongon 21 Oct, 2009.ReuteRs

should be led for review, the

agency said. For example, atweet simply announcing thata new fund was launched,marking a portfolio managerchange or making other

factual statements need notbe led, the SEC said.

However, a tweet whichsaid fund performance re-bounded strongly duringthe third quarter of 2012

or Looking for dividends?Think global and considerour new Global EquityFund, were the types ofcommunications that shouldbe led for review.Reuters

A Facebook page is displayedon a computer screen in

Brussels on 21 April, 2010.ReuteRs


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BUSINESS & HEALTH


China demands Volkswagen to recall defective cars

Beijing, 17 MarchThe Japanese automakerToyota will recall some4,400 units of FJ Cruiser carsin China over seat belt aws,

Chinas consumer qualitywatchdog said on Saturday.The General Administrationof Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine

(AQSIQ) said on its websitethat Toyota China will recallthese imported cars producedbetween December 2007 andMarch 2013. Toyota is busyworking on the solution tothe aw and will releaseimprovement methodsbefore 15 April, accordingto the administration.

This marks Toyotassecond recalling this yearafter the auto giant announcedin J anuary that it would recall22,869 units of Lexus IS cars

Toyota FJCruiser car

Toyota to recall defectivecars in China

in China due to wiper armproblem.

Chinas private autoownership reached 93.09million units by the end of2012, up 18.3 percent yearon year. Along with thefast expanding auto market,Chinese drivers grow moreconcerned about the quality

of their cars.Also on Saturday, the

AQSIQ urged Germanautomaker Volkswagen torecall defective cars afterChina Central Television(CCTV) exposed Volks-wagens gearbox defect onFriday. To better protectthe interests of Chineseconsumers, the AQSIQannounced late last year thatit would formulate a guidelineto regulate a recall system forfaulty cars.Xinhua

London, 17 MarchDonated human liver couldbe kept alive outsidea human being with anewly invented device,andthen successfully transplantinto patients,the British

researchers reported onFriday.The Oxford University

researchers, together withsurgeons at Kings CollegeHospital, announced here,that the procedure hadbeen performed on twopatients and both are makingexcellent recoveries.Currently transplantationdepends on preservingdonor organs by puttingthem on ice-cooling themto slow their metabolism.But this often leads to organsbecoming damaged.

New device keeps human liver alive outside body

The Kings College Hospital, Oxford University andOrganOx team pose for a photograph following thesuccessful connection of the rst human liver for

transplant onto the OrganOx Metra device, in thisundated picture provided by the University of Oxford in

southern England on 15 March, 2013.ReuteRs

The technol ogy,developed at OxfordUniversity and now beingtrialled at the liver transplantcentre at Kings College

Hospital, could preserve afunctioning liver outsidethe body for 24 hours bystimulating the naturalenvironment-providing body

temperature and oxygenatedred blood cells,etc. Once onthe machine, a liver functionsnormally, regaining its colourand producing bile.

The results from the rst

two transplants, carried out at

Kings College Hospital lastmonth, suggest that the devicecould be useful for all patientsneeding liver transplants.

The device is the veryrst completely automated

liver perfusion device ofits kind, said ProfessorConstantin Coussiosof Oxford UniversitysDepartment of EngineeringScience, one of the machinesinventors, what was evenmore amazing was to see thesame liver transplanted into apatient who is now walkingaround.Xinhua

Britain to close offshore payroll tax loopholeLondon, 17 March

Britain will close a loopholethat has allowed someemployers to avoid payingpayroll taxes by routingwages through overseasintermediaries, the Treasurysaid on Saturday.

It said over 100,000people working for British

rms were employed through

payroll agents based inoffshore tax havens suchas Jersey, costing thegovernment almost 100million pounds ($150 million)a year in lost revenue.

In many cases theworkersmainly temporaryagency staff such as teachers,

nurses, and oil and gas crewswere unaware the taxeswere not being paid or that asa result they could lose theirentitlement to state sicknessor maternity benets.

Treasury ministerDanny Alexander saidmeasures to end the practicewould be introduced inthe governments budgetstatement on 20 March.

British rms employing

British workers must payBritish taxes. This is just onepart of a bigger package wewill introduce at the budgetnext week, he said. The newmeasures would come intoforce from April 2014, theTreasury said.

Payment of taxes hasbecome a hot political issuein Britain as the governmentsqueezes spending to reduceits budget decit.

Multinationals suchas Starbucks, Amazon andGoogle have come under re

for using legal maneuvers tocut their tax bills, althoughthere was no suggestionthey were using the payrollloophole.Reuters

Beijing, 17 MarchChinas consumer qualitywatchdog on Saturdayurged German car makerVolkswagen to recalldefective cars after ChinaCentral Television (CCTV)exposed the defect in aFriday report. The GeneralAdministration of QualitySupervision, Inspection andQuarantine (AQSIQ) said ina statement on its website thatits research has conrmed

that some of the companysdirect shift gearbox (DSG)transmissions have defectsthat may cause engine power

failures. AQSIQ spokesmanZhang Yuanping said that ifVolkswagen refuses to fulll

its legal obligations, AQSIQwill force it to recall the

Britains ChiefSecretary to the

Treasury DannyAlexander leavesafter attending a

Cabinet meeting atNumber 10 Downing

Street in Londonon 12 March,

2013.ReuteRs

defective cars.On Friday, a CCTVprogramme on consumerrights stated that malfunctionsin the DSG transmissionscould cause a sudden loss orgain in engine power, whichcan pose safety hazards.

Volkswagen Chinawrote on its ofcial microblog

late Friday that it has takenthe report seriously andwill contact consumers assoon as possible to resolvethe problem. According toZhang, AQSIQ has beeninvestigating the companysDSG transmissions since last

March. In May, Volkswagenextended its DSG qualityguarantee period in Chinato ten years under pressurefrom the administration,

Zhang said.Volkswagen is not theonly foreign company beingaccused of improper practicesby CCTV. Electronics GiantApple Inc has been accusedof adopting differentiatingrepair and return policiesin China.

The company offersshorter warranty periods inChina compared with othercountries and uses refurbishedparts when repairing brokendevices, according to CCTV.CCTVs 3.15 investigatoryjournali sm programmehas been on the air for 23

years, during which timeit has revealed scandals atmultiple companies, such asMcDonalds and Carrefour.

Xinhua

North Dakota Senate approvesheartbeat abortion ban

Bismarck, 17 MarchThe North Dakota Senateapproved what would bethe most restrictive abortionlaw in the United States onFriday, a measure banning

the procedure in most casesonce a fetal heartbeat canbe detected, as early as sixweeks.

Senators also approveda second bill on Friday thatbans abortions based solelyon genetic abnormalities,the rst state ban of its kind

if signed into law. The billwould also ban abortionsbased on the gender of thefetus, which would makeNorth Dakota the fourth stateto ban sex-selection basedabortions.

The bil ls, whichpassed the state House ofRepresentatives last month,now head to RepublicanGovernor Jack Dalrymple,who has not indicatedwhether he would sign them

into law. He is expected toreceive the bills on Monday.

The heartbeat billprovides exceptions if anabortion would preventthe death or irreversible

impairment of a pregnantwoman but no exceptionsfor rape. It sets up a directchallenge to the SupremeCourts decision in Roe v.Wade that legalized abortionin 1973.

Several states ban mostabortions after 20 weeksof pregnancy. Arkansaslawmakers earlier in Marchapproved a ban on mostabortions after 12 weeksof pregnancy that couldtake effect in August if itsurvives expected legalchallenges.

Republican stateSenator Spencer Berry, abill sponsor, said 40 yearsof medical advancementsshould not be ignored.

The images and

heartbeat from the wombprovide strong andoverwhelming evidence ofat the very leastpotentiallife, Berry said. And wehave been instructed by the

Supreme Court to protect thatvery potential.

At six weeks, the banwould take effect beforemany women would knowthey were pregnant, saidthe Centre for ReproductiveRights, which representsNorth Dakotas only clinicthat provides abortions, theRed River Womens Clinicin Fargo.

Statehouses across thenation approved a record92 restrictions on abortionin 2011 and another 43in 2012, which was thesecond-highest gure on

record, according to theGuttmacher I nstitute, aresearch group that supportsabortion rights.

Reuters


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6 New Light of Myanmar

Yemeni police troops inspect vehicles at a checkpoint inSanaa, Yemen, on 16 March, 2013. More than 60,000

soldiers are to be deployed in Sanaa to secure thelong-awaited national dialogue slated for Monday, the

Yemeni government said on Saturday.Xinhua

Denver, 17 MarchEvacuation orders werelifted on Saturday for hun-dreds of Colorado residentsforced to ee their homes

due to a wind-driven wild-re in a canyon northwestof Denver, as reghtersmade progress in contain-ing the blaze, ofcials said.

Calmer winds, higherhumidity levels and cooler

temperatures allowed re-ghters to cut containmentlines around 45 percent of

the so-called Galena Fire,said Nick Christensen,spokesman for the Larimer

County Sheriffs Ofce.The blaze signaled

an early start to the wild-re season in the drought-

stricken state, which lastyear had its worst re yearon record.

In 2012, forest andbrush res scorched

384,803 acres in the state,destroyed 650 homes and

killed six people, accord-ing to the Colorado Divi-sion of Fire Prevention andControl. The latest wildreerupted on Friday about 75

Evacuation orders lifted as

Colorado wildre eases

Khartoum, 17 MarchSudanese rebels said on Sat-urday they had killed more

than 200 soldiers in SouthDarfur, but the government

said its troops had sufferedonly a number of casual-

ties and repulsed an ambush.War broke out in the westernregion of Darfur over a dec-ade ago and has raged ever

since despite two peace ac-cords and the pre-sence ofthe worlds largest peace-keeping mission.

The main insurgentgroups, who accuse the govern-ment of marginalising theregions ethnic minorities,

have refused to join a Qatar-backed peace process that ledto a deal between Khartoum

and an umbrella of smallerrebel factions in 2011. Whileviolence is down from its

peak in 2003 and 2004, newghting has forced more than130,000 people to ee their

homes since the start of theyear, according to the United

Rebels ght Sudanese

government troops in

south Darfur

anKara, 17 MarchOne person was killed andve others injured on Sat-urday evening when a fueltank exploded in southeast-

ern Turkey, private Dogannews agencyreported.

The explosion tookplace in the electrical sec-tion of the fuel tank in agarden in Sanliurfa, leavingone person killed and ve

One killed, ve injured in fuel

tank blast in SE Turkeymiles northwest of Denver

near the city of Fort Collinsand Lory State Park and has

charred between 750 and1,000 acres. But no injuries

were reported and no struc-tures were lost, Christensensaid.

He added that all eva-cuees would be permittedto return to their homes bySaturday evening. Hun-dreds of residents were or-dered out of their homes on

Friday afternoon after errat-ic winds quickly spread theames near populated ar-eas. Poudre Valley Fire Au-thority chief Tom DeMinttold reporters investigatorshad pinpointed the origin of

the re and determined thatit was human-caused, but

he gave no further details.DeMint said residents

allowed back in their

homes should be prepared

for further evacuations ifthe high winds forecast

for Sunday materializeand cause a are-up. Ifwe have another ignition

source, its game on, hesaid.Reuters

French oppose pension

changes, diesel tax

Paris, 17 March

Most French people opposeending ination-linked rises

for private-sector pensions,a poll showed on Saturday,highlighting the challenge

facing the government as itprepares broader changes tothe pension system.

Some 75 percent of re-spondents reject a deal on

Wednesday in which un-ions and employers agreedon adjusting private sec-tor pensions by less thanthe rate of ination, theIfop poll for the Journaldu Dimanche newspapershowed. The agreement

was seen as a test of thegovernments chances ofmaking similar changes tothe broader system when

it unveils a reform in July

to rein in an overall annualpension decit set to hit 20billion euros (17.3 billionpounds) by 2020.

The poll, carried out

among 1005 people on

14-15 March, also showedthat nearly three quarters ofrespondents would opposeincreasing taxes on diesel,

another possible step forplugging scal shortfallsproposed by the govern-ments auditor.

Any tax rise would bea controversial move in a

country where diesel ac-counts for 80 percent of

road fuel consumption, andministers have insisted thatit will not happen this year.

Reuters

A customer flls-up his car with diesel at a gas station in

Nice on 4 March, 2013.ReuteRs

Kinshasa, 17 MarchHundreds of Congolese re-bels loyal to warlord Bosco

Ntaganda have ed intoneighbouring Rwanda or

surrendered to United Na-tions peacekeepers after be-ing routed by a rival faction,

rebel and UN sources saidon Saturday.

Ntagandas apparent

defeat comes after weeksof inghting within the

Congolese rebels surrender, ee after defeat by rivals

Congolese government soldiers prepare to drive from amilitary outpost between Kachiru village and Mbuzi hill,in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,

on 25 May, 2012.ReuteRs

M23 insurgency and couldopen the way for rival rebelleader Sultani Makenga to

sign a peace deal with Kin-shasa, bringing an end to a

year-long rebellion in east-ern Democratic Republic ofCongo. Rebel spokesman

Vianney Kazarama saidMakenga seized controlof the town of Kibumba,

30 km (19 miles) north ofGoma, capital of mineral-

rich North Kivu Province,early on Saturday. Nta-ganda and an estimated 200

ghters ed into the for-est while hundreds of oth-ers crossed the border intoRwanda, Kazarama said. Atleast seven were killed.

Were sweeping thearea and placing our sol-diers at strategic points,

Kazarama said. It is nis-hed.

Ntaganda is wanted by

the International CriminalCourt on charges of kill-ing civilians during a pre-vious rebellion. His linksto M23 have been a stum-bling block to peace talks

with Kinshasa, which saysit wants him brought to jus-tice. Were following the

situation very closely. Theonly thing we want is forNtaganda to be arrested,

government spokesmanLambert Mende said.

Ntagandas wherea-bouts could not be con-

rmed independently andmembers of his factionwere not reachable by tel-ephone.

About 300 uniformed

M23 rebels loyal to Ntagan-da sat in a clearing litteredwith empty beer bottles in

a small village in RwandasRubavu District near the

frontier, as locals in tatteredclothes looked on.

Rwandan soldiers, whowalked around nearby, had

collected heaps of the re-bels weaponsAK-47 ri-es, 60 mm mortar rounds

and grenades and laidthem out in the front yardof a house.

They were ghting

us on all sides so we wereforced to come to Rwanda.

We know we have inter-national rights here, saidPrince Andema Makamo,

who told Reuters he wasa member of the M23 fac-tions political unit.

Reuters

others injured, includingtwo children, according tothe report.

Reasons behind theblast remained unknown.

The wounded were taken toa private hospital for medi-cal treatment, said the re-port, adding that an investi-gation into this incident wasunderway.

Xinhua

Nations. On Saturday, re-bels of the Sudan Liberation

Army faction loyal to veteranghter Minni Minnawi saidthey attacked a government

convoy near Nyala, the capi-tal of South Darfur state.

Nothing of note sur-vived of the convoy, theysaid in a statement. They saidthey killed 260 government

troops and militia ghtersan unusually high number toclaim. The army contradicted

this account, saying it had re-pulsed the ambush and had

killed and wounded around100 rebels. The armed forcesonly suffered a numberof casualties, the armys

spokesman said in a reportby state news agency SUNA.

Both sides frequently

give conicting reports ofghting, each claiming vic-tory over the other. Events

in Darfur are hard to inde-pendently verify because of

restrictions on media accessto the region.Reuters

Syrian general, 20

soldiers defectBeirut, 17 MarchA

brigadier general and about

20 soldiers defected from theSyrian army in two separate

incidents on Saturday, ac-tivists said, in another signthat the strength of PresidentBashar al-Assads armed

forces is diminishing.

Brigadier General Mo-hammed Khalouf appeared

dressed in a camouagemilitary uniform in a video

onAl Arabiya news channeland said he had planned hisescape with the oppositionmovement for some time.

It is not possible foranyone to accept any of the

ideas of this regime unlessthey have achieved specialinterests, he said in the vid-eo. There was no commentabout the defection on Syrianstate news outlets.

Defection of high-rank-ing military and politicalgures has slowed in past

months.But a study by the Inter-

national Institute for Strate-gic Studies (IISS) published

this week estimated that As-sads forces, thought to be

more than 300,000-strongat the start of the uprisingtwo years ago, were now

at a much lower effectivestrength and were likely todiminish further.

The IISS said that per-

haps 50,000 of the Syrianarmys elite troops could be

depended on for loyalty.Most of them were likelyto be from Assads minor-ity Alawite sect, which hasdominated the country formore than four decades.

Many deserters report

that their units were heldinside bases to prevent theirescape.

Syrias civil war began

as a popular street move-ment but has evolved intoan increasingly sectarian

conict. The opposition hasbeen mostly led by the SunniMuslim population, with

Alawites and other minori-ties mostly throwing theirweight behind Assad.

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Afghan Army Commando take part in their trainingduring a military rehearsal in Kabul, Afghanistaon 16 March, 2013. Several hundreds of Afghan

National Army (ANA) commandos on Saturday wereinvolved in a one-day military exercise in southern edgeof capital city of Kabul, as the ANA is taking the lead ofnearly 80 percent of operations in providing security for

the war-hit country. Xinhua

Jordan to select technology for rst

nuclear reactor in MayAmmAn, 17 March

Jordan said on Saturday itwill select the technologyfor its rst planned nu-clear reactor in mid-May,

the state-run Petra newsagency reported.

Khaled Toukan, chair-man of the Jordan AtomicEnergy Commission, saidthere is a strong compe-tition between two offersthat Jordan has preselect-ed recently to provide thetechnology for the reactor.

Russias Atomstroy-export and a consortium

of Frances Areva andJapans Mitsubishi were

prequalied, Toukan said,

adding that the winningoffer will be announced inmid-May.

Regarding the locationof the reactor, Toukan saidstudies will be completed

by the end of this monthon three possible sites, and

the nal site will be jointly

determined by the cabinet,

the Lower House and thelocal communities. Also

in May, Jordan wil l selectthe strategic partner of the

project, Toukan said, add-

ing that the nal agreementto build the nuclear reactorwill be signed in the secondhalf of 2013. Jordan, whichimports about 96 percent

of its energy needs annu-ally, plans to build severalnuclear reactors for power

generation.

Xinhua

3rd Chinese-Lebanese

seminar beginsin BeirutBeirut, 17 March

Experts from China and

Lebanon met here on Satur-day for the third Chinese-Lebanese academic seminar,exchanging views on issuesof politics, economy and cul-ture.

Yang Fuchang, formerChinese vice foreign minis-ter, said at the seminar thatboth China and the Arabworld face various kinds of

opportunities and challenges,

adding that the relations be-tween the two sides have notchanged despite the ongoingdevelopments in the Arab

region. Yang underlined theclose cooperation between

China and Lebanon in theelds of culture, academyand tourism among others.

For his part, Massoud

Daher, president of the

Chinese-Lebanese friend-ship and cooperation com-mittee, expressed hope thatthe Lebanese University and

Chinese institutions of highereducation, such as the PekingUniversity, would further

strengthen exchanges andcooperation.Xinhua

People gather by the wrecked vehicles on a highway tothe Dead Sea, about 25 km southwest of Amman,

capital of J ordan, on 16 March, 2013. A bus carryingPalestinian pilgrims overturned after colliding with acar and a trailer on the Dead Sea highway. About 16people were killed, 42 others injured, and some in

critical conditions.Xinhua

IMF chief welcomes jointloan programme for Cyprus

WAshington, 17 MarchChristine Lagarde, Man-aging Director of the Wash-ington-based InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF), onSaturday said she welcomedthe joint loan programme

with the eurozone for Cyprusto help the nation tackle itseconomic challenges.

After about 10 hours ofnegotiations, the eurozoneand the IMF early Saturdaymorning agreed on a 10-bil-lion-euro (about 13 billionUS dollar) bailout package

for Cyprus.

The IMF has alwayssaid that we would support

a solution that is sustainable,that is fully nanced, and that

appropriately allocates theburden sharing. I believe that

the agreed package meetsthese three objectives, La-garde said in a statement.

On this basis, I intend tomake a recommendation toour Executive Board for the

IMF to contribute to the -nancing of the package, shenoted.

The deal was announcedby Eurogroup head JeroenDijsselbloem after a meeting

of eurozone nance minis-ters, which is also attendedby Lagarde.Xinhua

Khartoum, Jubas joint political, securitycommittee to resume meetings on SundayKhArtoum, 17 March

The joint political and

security committee be-

tween Sudan and SouthSudan is to resume itsmeetings on Sunday inthe Ethiopian capital Ad-dis Ababa, Khartoums AlRay Al Amdaily reportedon Saturday.

The preparatory panel

of the joint committee has

started arrangements forresuming the committeesmeetings with the partici-pation of the two coun-tries defence ministers,the paper said.

It added that the two

sides would discuss top-ics related to the securityarrangements and get ac-

quainted with progress inthe withdrawal of the twocountries armies fromthe demilitarized zone to-gether with the issue ofbreaking the link betweenSouth Sudans army andthe Sudan Peoples Liber-ation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector.

Last week Khartoumand Juba signed in Ad-dis Ababa a matrix dealof modality to implement

the security arrangementdeal as well as the coop-

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton holds a newsconference at the end of a European Union foreign

ministers meeting in Brussels on 23 J an, 2012.ReuteRs

EUs Ashton urges caution on lifting arms banfor Syria rebels

Brussels, 17 MarchThe European Unionsforeign policy chief urged

caution on Saturday abouta Franco-British drive to

lift an EU arms embargoto help rebels in Syria,questioning the impactsuch a step might have on

attempts to reach a politi-cal settlement there.

Other EU govern-ments rebuffed efforts byParis and London at an EUsummit on Friday to liftthe Syrian arms embargoto help opponents of Pre-sident Bashar al-Assad,

although they asked for-eign ministers to discuss itagain next week.

EU foreign policy

chief Catherine Ashtonsaid the EU needed tothink very carefullyabout French and British

arguments that lifting theembargo would encourageAssad to negotiate.

The EU should alsoconsult UN mediator

Lakhdar Brahimi and andMoaz al-Khatib, head ofthe opposition Syrian Na-tional Coalition, aboutwhat impact lifting the

embargo might have on

their efforts to start talksto end the Syria crisis, shesaid. What weve got to

make sure of is anythingwe do does not make that(work) harder, she said,speaking at a conference

organized by the GermanMarshall Fund of the Unit-ed States, a group commit-ted to strengthening trans-atlantic cooperation.

Germany led opposi-tion to the Franco-British

move to lift the embargoto help the rebels after twoyears of civil war that have

killed 70,000 people, ac-cording to UN estimates.

Opponents argue that

arming the rebels couldencourage Assads back-ers, Russia and Iran, tostep up weapons deliveriesto the government, fuel-ling an arms race, and theyalso fear that weapons

could fall into the wronghands, such as militants inthe rebel ranks.

Ashton said she hadtold EU leaders at Fridayssummit that they mustthink through very care-fully the implications of

lifting the arms embargo.Would putting weap-

ons into the eld make it

more or less likely thatothers will do the same?What would be the re-sponse of Assad based on

what we know about hisresponse so far? Would it

stop people being killed orwould it kill people fast-er? she said.

Although Ashton didnot mention it, Westerngovernments are con-cerned about chemicalweapons the Syrian govern-ment is believed to hold.

US President Barack

Obama has warned Assadhe would be held account-able if such weapons wereused. EU diplomats think

it is unlikely France andBritain will be able to per-suade its EU partners to

back lifting the arms em-bargo to help the rebels,

a decision that needs una-nimity. But a compromise

allowing some increasedaid to Assads opponentsmight be possible before

current sanctions expireon 1 June.

Reuters

Newly-wed couples are seen in a traditional weddingof Yugur ethnic group in Lanzhou, northwest ChinasGansu Province, on 16 March, 2013. Many of Yugur

ethnic group, living primarily in Sunan Yugur Autono-mous County in Gansu Province, still prepfer to follow

their traditional wedding form in modern days.Xinhua

eration agreement signedbetween them in Ethiopia

in September last year.

Two days later, the twosides started withdrawingtheir forces from the jointborder prior to establish

a safe demilitarized zoneas a practical step towardthe implementation of thesigned agreements.

The two sides furtheragreed to resume SouthSudans oil exportation

through Sudans pipeline intwo weeks time.

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Democracy culture


Fine traditions in successive erasMy son Kyaw Thura,

I drop you a line. Ialways pray for mental andphysical wellbeing of youand your friends soldiers

in Kachin mountain rangesas well as for people inKachin State. I deeply wishKachin State sees olivebranch soon.

My son, it has turned25 years your fatherSergeant Ba Hein had fallenin the Mongyan battlewith insurgent BurmaCommunist Party. Onthat day, I offered alms toSanghas and shared meritsgained for your father andall fallen soldiers. My son,you also share these merits.My son Kyaw Thura,

Y ou have joinedTatmadaw since one-decade and got the rank ofthe Company Commander.I myself have allowed youto join Tatmadaw althoughI want you to stay under myeyes. I really take pride foryou as you have becomea good soldier. And yourfather will take pride foryou as you could followin the step of him.My son Kyaw Thura,

Myanmar Tatmadawformed with all national

races is UnionsTatmadaw. I ts primeduty is to safeguard ourmother land. At present,Tatmadaws duty is tosafeguard the country inaddition to safeguardingthe Constitution. A ndTamadaw also has tosafeguard Our three mainnational causes which is abackbone of the country.

Myanmar Tatmadawhas the ne tradition of

safeguarding the countryalong the course of historywhenever the country faces

any hurdle. MyanmarTatmadaw led by ournational hero GeneralAung San joined handswith the people in theindependence struggleand could try to regainindependence.

A nd T atmadawalways safeguards thecountry whenever thecountry is on the verge oflosing independence andsovereignty. For instance,Tatmadaw could savethe country from the

outbreak of the internalmulti -col oured armedinsurgency in 1948 onlywith ten battalions. In1950, Tatmadaw could

ght against the invading

KMT troops with manymilitary operations, riskingmany lives of soldiers.Myanmar sovereignty and

independence could besafeguarded.Tatmadaw took control

of the State, formedcaretaker government. Thatwas to prevent bloodshedfrom government split-up.Tatmadaw could safeguardthe country as the countryfaced the disintegration ofthe Union due to Federalpolicy in 1962. TheTatmadaw was compelledto assume the duties of theState in the 1988 Uprising.Then, Tatmadaw held themultiparty general election

as promised and handedover States duties to thedemocratic government on

willingness to obey theorders of superiors arealso the distinct featuresof Myanmar Tatmadaw.Taking a look at the history

of Myanmar Tatmadaw,it is clear that Tatmadawwith those strengths havethwarted the threats insideand outside the nation.My son Kyaw Thura,

Why do Tatmadawmenget on with tough tasksin remote places, withoutcaring about money? Whatmakes them to choose apath of thorns, leaving theirparents, wives, sons anddaughters and relatives?The answer is much simple.The Tatmadawmen ofMyanmar Tatmadaw are

blood brethren of the nation.Therefore, they choose tosacrice leading a hard life

to protect their motherlandwhich they share.My son Kyaw Thura,

Unavoidably, theTatmadaw have had toengage with ethnic armedgroups. Whenever it did so,it always held the attitudeof brotherhood towardsthem. Except necessarymilitary response, it nevertried to annihilate them withgrudge nor used chemical

weapons against them. Italso welcomed back inwarmness those returned tolegal fold like the parentswelcoming their childrencoming back home. It hadarranged not only for theirlivelihood but also for theirfuture. While the death ofa soldier in an unavoidableconfrontation means a lossof good citizen to the nation,the death of a memberfrom the opposing sides isalso a loss of a member tothe Union. The Tatmadawtruly do not want to ght

with own brothers exceptto protect the motherlandfrom inside and outsidethreats. Moreover, stabilityis essential in building a new,modern, developed nation.So, it is doing its fair sharewith genuine goodwill forbuilding peace at present.The Tatmadaw which havedevoted to national securityat the risk of life and limbwant to see lasting peace anddevelopment of the nationmore. With true Union Spirit,it would join hands with the

government until the internalpeace is established.My son Kyaw Thura,

I felt glad and took pridein when I read the letter you

sent me from somewhere inKachins bluish mountains.In your letter, you said: Iwith my company reacheda small Kachin mountain

village called Mayan lastmonth just to come acrossManaw Festival there. Wetook a rest there and donatedsome of our savings to thevillage head to spend forthe festival. It was a coldwinter night and we joinedthe villagers for Manawdances in happiness. It waswonderful time, but then wesaw blaze from the south ofthe village followed by criesof re.

I rushed to southernpart of the village where there broke out. A traditional

two-storey frame house wasin the roaring re. Im here.

Help me! Help! There wasan old woman aged over 70on the ground oor of the

house. The house caughtre from the fallen oil lamp

of that old lady. No villagerdared to save the old lady inthe raging re. Wasting no

time, I made up my mindto save that helpless lady,gave my equipment andgun to company warrantofcer Shwe Htay and run

into the burning house. I

found the grandma losingconsciousness with burnsand brought her out ofre. I came very close to

escape from re before I

was hit by the fallen woodentruss at the chest and madeunconscious. When Iregained consciousness,I found myself in mycamp with caring eyes ofparamedic Captain Arkarand fellow soldiers and apair of weeping eyes of anold lady with burns. It wasDaw Ma Htu Luan I hadsaved. She said with a local

accent, Y ou have givenme a new lease of life, myson. May god bless you.May you be able to serveour Kachin region moreand more! Thanks to careof the paramedic and thesoldiers, I recovered fromthe burns in a few days.But the burn left my chestright upon my heart a scarfor ever. Though, Im proudof it, mom. I will regardit as a life-long present ofKachin land. For me, I wasalso swollen with pride that

tears welled up in my eyes.It serves as a boost for thedignity of the Tatmadawand an example of

(See page 9)

30 March, 2011. It is thene tradition of Tatmadaw.

My son Kyaw Thura,All Tatmadaw men

equipped with 12 finetraditions join the army tosafeguard the country withtheir own volition. They all

have to follow 60 codes ofconduct and military andcivilian laws. And they aresafeguarding the country,risking their lives andbodies. The fallen soldiersin the battles are said to beincomparable ones.My son Kyaw Thura,

All the world countriesare building modern armieswith the use of sophisticatedtechnologies for theirsovereignty and security.My son, we all need tobuild a modern Tatmadaw.Only when Tatmadaw has

skills and strength, couldthe nation and our threemain national causes besafeguarded. Myanmar hadfallen under British colonialreign due to the lack of amodern Tatmadaw. Andlosing independence is thebest example for Myanmar.My son Kyaw Thura,

Every nation has itsown armed forces. Whatmakes Myanmar Tatmadawdifferent from others is itis a Union Armed Forcesmade of national brethren

who love their mother landwith strong Union spirit.Strict adherence to mil itarydisciplines, the lifebloodof the armed forces, and

Kyaw MinKhaung

In a period of less than two years the

incumbent government has been in ofce it has

been striving to strengthen democracy in everyaspect as aspired by the people. This means not

only ending repression and creating the legal

framework that can guarantee political freedom,

but also enabling the development of civil society

organizations, and nurturing a new democratic

culture. During this transition period, it has

been able to lay a foundation for democratic

institutions such as constitution, governance

system with check and balance, national and

local legislatures, judiciary, political parties

and independent press.

Proper implementation is required to give

these democratic institutions life. Here it is

important to change the mindset of the peopleso that people can take root in the democracy

culture. In solving problems arising from

armed conicts to industrial relations, the most

honourable and valuable achievement is the

start of a culture of solving all problems through

dialogues and discussions.

In fact, recent political progress can be

attributed to four crucial factors: building

condence and mutual understanding among

political forces that were previously hostile and

confrontational to each other; re-embracing

political tolerance; creating mechanism for

peaceful participation of citizens in political

process; and regaining trust and support frominternational community for the reform process.

But we are one of the poorest countries in the

world. So, we still have shortage of the institutions

that are necessary to manage our transition. In

consequence, a lot of challenges and set-backs lie

ahead. But the government has already committed

itself to continuing the path to democracy until

we all can understand, value and embrace

democracy culture. The government in ofce

will do everything in its powers to see Myanmar

become the democratic, prosperous, and peaceful

nation which we all know that the entire country

deeply desires, and deserves.

Yangon, 17 March AnMoU on cooperation in doingresearch for conservationand sustainability of bio-diversity was signedbetween Pathein Universityand National Institute ofTechnology and Evaluationof Japan today.

At the signing ceremonyheld at the Higher EducationDepartment (L owerMyanmar), Director-General of the HED (Lower

Pathein University, NITEof Japan sign MoU onresearch cooperation

Myanmar) U Zaw Htay andDr Itaru Yasui, President ofNITE of J apan signed theMoU.

Dr Nyunt Pe, Rector ofPathein University, and MrJunichi Nakagawa, Director-General of the NITE signedthe agreement for the project.

The MoU has renewedthe 2004-MoU signedbetween the university andNITE.

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Nay Pyi Taw , 17MarchSome recom-mendations made atSystematic Managementand Conservation of AncientHeritage Workshop held atMinistry of Culture on31-11-2012 as regardstourism suggested thatdinner should be allowed atthe request of package tours

Dinner parties allowed in Bagan at places separated fromprecincts of ancient buildings

without affecting pagodaprecincts and pagodas andstupas.

Taking in considerationof such recommendations,hoteliers and tour operatorsin Bagan on condition thatthey take full responsibilitywill be allowed to organizedinner parties in such placesseparated from the precinct

of the ancient buildings inBagan Ancient CulturalRegion as the farmlandin northwest of Dhamma-yangyi Pagoda, Mt. Ohhteinand the southern part ofShwenan Yintaw Pagoda.

It is required to informand seek approval fromArchaeology, NationalMuseum and Library

Department in Bagan. Norent and service chargeswill be taken for holdingparty but sanitation mustbe carried out within thenext day.

The M inistry ofCulture says the service isjust intended for touristssatisfaction.

MNA

yedashe, 17 MarchRelief aid was distributedto re victims of the Village

of Tatsoe in Dauk-inn-gonvillage-tract in Y edasheTownship in ToungooDistrict on 11 March.

It started from the forestre that destroyed 19 houses,

leaving 76 people from19

households homeless on 10

March.Households were

provided with K 30,000each, 57 bags of rice, 38 vissof edible oil, instant noodles,

Relief aid reached out toYedashe re victims

clothes and foodstuff worthat K 1.95 million donated by

departments in the township,ofcials, local people and

NGOs.Region Hluttaw

Representative U MaungMaung Thet, Head ofYedashe Township GeneralAdministration DepartmentU Htay Kyaw, Commander

of Yedashe Township PoliceForce Police Major NyanWin and ofcials concerned

handed over the relief aids tothe victims.NLM

Belgian Dy PM meets MNHKC ChairmanNay Pyi Taw, 17

MarchDeputy PrimeMinister and Minister ofForeign Affairs, ForeignTrade and European AffairsMr Didier Reynders ofBelgium and party met

with Chairman of MyanmarNational Human RightsCommission U Win Mya atthe ofce of the commission

at 61/2-mile on Pyay Road,here, at 2.30 pm yesterday.

T hey di scussedprogress of human rightsin Myanmar.

Also present at themeeting were Secretaryof the Commission U SitMyaing and members UHla Myint, Dr Daw ThanNwe, Daw Saw Khin Gyi,U Zaw Gun, U Khin MaungLay and U Tin Nyo.MNA

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European

Affairs of Belgium Mr Didier Reynders and party meet with Chairman of Myanmar

National Human Rights Commission U Win Mya and

memberrs.mna

Job opportunities created for dwellers in SagaingsagaiNg, 17 March

Sagaing Industrial ZoneManagement Committeeheld the press conferenceon tasks of the zone at itsofce in Padamya Ward on

9 March.

Chairman of thesupervisory committee UKo Ko Myint explainedestablishment of theindustrial zone and progressof production and conductedthe media persons round thefactories and workshops.

Sagaing Industrial Zone

is located on 888.52 acresof land with 194 plots in

Padamya Ward and NilarWard, west of Minwun Hilland north of Sagaing. A totalof 43 workshops and factories

are going into operation onthe industrial zone. Eighteen

personal goods factories,five foodstuff factories,nine foundry plants andtwo automobile assemblingfactores are manufacturingtheir respective products.

The 10 MVA power

station fromMonywa IndustrialZone Branch (Sagaing) issupplying electricity to SagaingIndustrial Zone. The factoriesand workshops are also installed

with twenty-seven 500 KVAtransformers and eighteen 315KVA transformers.

Social Security Board isproviding health care services

of workers from the industrialzone.

Workers families arefacilitated with day carecentre, clinic and purifiedwater tanks in addition to there station.

Sagaing Industrial Zonebranch of Sagaing-MonywaIndustrial Zone is beingupgraded to a full fledgeindustrial zone.

At present, the newly-emerged industrial zone iscreating job opportunities forthe local people.

Myanma Alinn

Illegal commodities conscatedN a w N g k h i o , 17

MarchThe mobile teambased near the toll gateon Mandalay-L ashioRoad, east of Nawngkhio,discharges duties ofchecking commodities.

The team recently

exposed 72 cases andconscated various kinds

of commodities worthK 342.1 million without

custom duties so as to

control import of illegalcommodities.

A t present, thesmugglers transport theirillegal commodites by van,express bus and Hilus.

Therefore, passengersfaced delay of their trips due

to the fact that the authoritiesof the mobile teams checkunscrupulous persons illegalgoods onboard the vehicles.

Myanma Alinn

Objectives of the 68thAnniversary

Armed Forces Day 20131. To uphold the national policy namely

non-disintegration of the Union, non-

disintegration of national solidarity, and

perpetuation of sovereignty

2. To play the leading role in the national

politics by the Tatmadaw joining hands

with all national races with Union Spirit

and the true patriotism in line with the

Constitution

3. To crush all destructive elements at home

and abroad through the strength of State,

People and Tatmadaw

4. To build up a strong, competent, modern,

patriotic Tatmadaw to safeguard the

security and sovereignty of the nation

(frompage 8)Tatmadaws goodwilltowards the nationalbrethren. Y ou strictlyfollowed one of 10 codesof conduct towardsthe public that goes,Safeguard life andproperty of the people.Your late dad SergeantBa Hein will surely takepride of you as well, son.The land of Kachin hasrich natural resources andscenic natural beauties.

It is also the origin ofA yeyawady Ri verfrom Maykha-Malikhaconuence. I would like

to urge you to continue

Fine traditions in successive...obeying the codes ofconduct, learn and respectthe religious and culturalcustoms of ethnic Kachinpeople and even sacrice

your life while dischargingduties in Kachin State.

I hereby saluteTatmadawmen whosacrificed their lives

for the State along thecourse of the history on68th anniversary Armed

Forces Day.May you and your

fellow soldiers be healthyand happy.Yours lovingly,

MomTrs: MT+TKK+HKA


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Budget deadlock squeezesmilitary members seeking

education

United States Marines salute from the stands duringthe American National Anthem prior to the start of theSan Diego Padres vs the New York Mets baseball Major

League Baseball game in San Diego, Californiaon 9 Aug, 2009.ReuteRs

San antonio, 17MarchFor Airman FirstClass Stephen Sinatra, thebudget cuts prompted by

deadlock in Washingtonhave turned his plans up-side down.

Sinatra, who is in theUS Air Force stationed inWashington, DC, is tak-ing online college classesthanks to a tuition assis-tance programme for mem-bers of the military that hasbeen halted as a money-saving move. I dont makemuch money, Sinatra said.To be able to utilize thismoney to go to school andbetter myself, it helps a lot.Thats almost what keepsme to be motivated to keepgoing in the military.

The tuition assistanceprogramme, which pro-vides up to $4,500 per yearper student, is one victimof across-the-board cutsknown as sequestrationthat are forcing government

agencies to reduce spend-ing. The $85 billion in cutsbegan on 1 March after agridlocked US Congress

was unable to resolve scalghts and nd a solution to

replace the sequestration.Comments left on mili-

tary message boards andFacebook show a wide-spread disappointment withthe sudden termination ofthe tuition assistance pro-gramme, which is not a partof the military contract, likethe GI Bill for veterans ben-ets, but is considered an

incentive to enlist.I have seen a lot of peo-

ple who have lost their mo-tivation to be in the militarywhen they take away the oneperk that people seem to en-joy, Sinatra said.

Several colleges havemoved to defer tuitioncharges for the coming termto help military memberswho are already enrolled,and two senators, one Dem-

ocrat, one Republican, haveintroduced legislation tobring back the tuition as-sistance.

Students who have al-ready enrolled in classesusing the tuition assistanceprogramme will be allowedto complete those classes,according to a memo fromthe Army announcing thecancellation of the pro-gramme.

This suspension isnecessary given the sig-nicant budget execution

challenges caused by the

combined effects of a pos-sible year-long continuingresolution and sequestra-tion, the Army memosaid. The Army under-stands the impacts of thisaction and will re-evaluateshould the budgetary situ-ation improve. The Ma-rines, Air Force and CoastGuard have also suspendedtheir tuition assistance pro-grammes.Reuters

Bus crash kills two in Pennsylvania, US

Ghana, Lebanon presidents meet over Middle Eastaccra, 17 March

Ghanaian President J ohnDramani Mahama met withvisiting Lebanese PresidentMichel Suleiman here onSaturday to discuss peaceand security in the Middle

East, according to local me-dia reports.

During the meeting, theGhanaian president pledgedefforts to help create a newinitiative to resolve the is-

sues between Palestine andIsrael.

Mahama stressed theimportance of a peacefulMiddle East to the rest ofthe world, saying that waswhy Ghanaian troops had

been working under theUnited Nations peacekeep-ing mission in southernLebanon for over 30 years.

The Lebanese presi-dent said his country was

Three killed, nine woundedin attacks in Iraq

Baghdad, 17 MarchTwo soldiers and a civilianwere killed, and nine peo-ple wounded in separatebombings and shootings inIraq on Saturday, the policesaid.

Two soldiers werekilled and another wound-ed when gunmen attackedtheir checkpoint in northernthe city of Mosul, some 400km north of the Iraqi capitalof Baghdad, a local policesource toldXinhua on con-dition of anonymity.

One of the attackerswas also wounded by theexchange of re between

the soldiers and the gun-men, the source said.

In a separate incident,gunmen broke into the

house of Ali Abdullah, a lo-cal leading gure in Prime

Minister Nuri al-Maliki sShiite party of al-Dawa, in avillage located some 15 kmsouth of Mosul, woundingfour of his family membersbefore they ed the scene,

the source added.Abdullah was not at

home when the gunmen at-

tacked his house, he said.Separately, a taxi

driver was wounded whena roadside bomb detonatednear his car in western Mo-sul, he said, adding that theblast apparently missed apolice patrol which had justpast and hit the taxi car in-stead.

Elsewhere, unidenti-ed gunmen using silenced

weapons shot dead a youngman in front of his house incentral the city of Fallujah,some 50 km west of Bagh-dad, a police source in thecity anonymously toldXin-hua.

Meanwhile, a roadsidebomb struck an Iraqi armyvehicle in Tarmiyah area,some 40 km north of Bagh-

dad, damaging the vehicleand wounding two sol-diers aboard, a local policesource said.

Violence is still com-mon in the Iraqi cities de-spite the dramatic decreasesince its peak in 2006 and2007, when the country wasengulfed in sectarian kill-ings.Xinhua

A stamp collector presents the peach blossom stampsat the Beijing Botanical Garden in Beijing, capital of

China, on 16 March, 2013. China Post published a setof peach blossom stamps on Saturday.Xinhua

grateful to Ghana for itstroops deployed in south-ern Lebanon under UN Se-curity Council Resolution1701. Suleiman said hiscountry was seeking coop-eration with Ghana in areas

of industry, banking, cul-ture, tourism and agricul-ture, among others. Sulei-man arrived here Saturdaymorning for a two-day of-cial visit.Xinhua

Syrian troops advance to Damascusrebellious suburb

damaScuS, 17MarchThe Syrian troopshave advanced to the re-bel-held J obar suburb ofthe capital Damascus, thestate- news agency SANAreported on Saturday.

Troops have eliminatednumbers of armed terror-ists and restored stabilityand security to the Barlaman

Roundabout, the CulturalCenter, and the municipalbuilding,SANAsaid.

Jobar is part of thesprawling al-Gouta coun-tryside outlining the east-

ern part of Damascus. Thearea has witnessed intenseghting over the past yearbefore the rebels took holdof large swathes of the areaand other adjacent suburbs.

The rebels in thatarea have unleashed sev-eral mortar attacks recently,causing injuries and proper-ty losses in nearby districts

such as the Christian-dom-inated al-Qassa neighbour-hood.

Opposition activists,meanwhile, reported gov-ernment troops renewed

shelling on the Damascussuburb of al-Qaboun andvillages of the southernProvince of Daraa on Sat-urday. The Syrian crisishas started in March 2011.The crisis has begun withpeaceful protests demand-ing reforms and freedomsand quickly evolved into anarmed insurgency. The UN

says that more than 70,000people have been killed andmillions of others were dis-placed internally and exter-nally during the two-year-old crisis.Xinhua

Russia militaryhelicopter

crash kills threemoScow, 17 March

A military helicoptercrashed Saturday morningin Russias North Caucasusrepublic of Chechnya, kill-ing three of the four peopleon board, local authorities

said. The Mi-8 chopper ofthe Russian Border Servicehit the ground and was burntinto pieces in the Khankalamilitary aireld as it at-tempted to land despitepoor visibility, a spokesper-son at the Southern MilitaryDistrict prosecutors ofce

told reporters.The only survivour was

being treated for injuries inhospital, the spokespersonadded. Investigators wereworking at the scene to de-termine whether the crashwas caused by violations ofight safety rules, accord-ing to the spokesperson.

Xinhua

waShington, 17 MarchTwo people died on Sat-urday after a bus went off a

highway and crashed into atree in the US state of Penn-sylvania, US media said.

The 61-year-old busdriver was dead at the sceneand a pregnant woman died

later from injuries after be-ing own to Penn State

Hershey Medical Centre,

according to local mediareports. The bus was car-rying 23 people, who wereplayers or coaches of SetonHill University womenslacrosse team, when it went

off the Pennsylvania Turn-pike and crashed at around9 am local time in Cumber-

land County, Pennsylvania.All passengers with mi-nor injuries were also sent tohospitals for treatment. It re-mains unknown what causedthe crash.Xinhua

Passengers aboard the cruise ship GTS Millennium watch a lion danceperformance at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in south Chinas Hong Kong,

on 16 March, 2013. GTS Millennium arrived at Hong Kongs Kai Tak CruiseTerminal on Saturday and became the rst cruise ship to berth at the terminal prior

to its ofcial opening in June 2013.Xinhua


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Beijing, 17 MarchNewly-elected ChinesePresident Xi J inping andhis Pakistani counterpartAsif Ali Zardari on Satur-day discussed over phonetopics concerning the de-velopment of bilateral rela-tions and cooperation.

While congratulatingXi on his election to thepresidency, Zardari saidPakistan and China are all-weather friends and thatthe Pakistani people loveChina.

Pakistan would like tomaintain its high-level ex-changes with China and tostrengthen communicationand cooperation between

Chinese, Pakistani presidents discuss relations, cooperationthe two countries in bilater-al and international affairs,Zardari said.

Pakistan will continueto rmly support China

when needed, said the presi-dent. Xi thanked Zardarifor his congratulations, andsaid that China and Paki-stan are all-weather strate-gic cooperation partners.

Since the establish-ment of diplomatic ties 62years ago, the two coun-tries have been respectingand supporting each otherand have carried out com-prehensive cooperation, Xisaid.

The China-Pakistan re-lations have withstood the

test of time and the uctua-tions of international situ-ation, and have achievedhealthy and steady develop-ment over past decades, Xisaid.

He stressed that Chinaattaches great importanceto the China-Pakistan rela-tions, and that it is an estab-lished policy of the Chinesegovernment to develop thefriendly and cooperativerelations between the twocountries.

China will continue tosupport Pakistans effortsto safeguard its nationalsovereignty and independ-ence, and to realize nationalstability and development,

Xi said. He hoped that thetwo countries could coop-erate closely to maintainand develop their sound re-lations so that the tradition-al friendship between thetwo sides could be passedon from generation to gen-eration.

Xi, general secretaryof the Central Committeeof the Communist Party ofChina (CPC), was electedChinese president andchairman of Chinas Cen-tral Military Commissionon Thursday at the plenarymeeting of the rst session

of the 12th National Peo-ples Congress (NPC).

Xinhua

Local shers ar-range shing net

in Huanghua,

north ChinasHebei Province, on

16 March, 2013.

Fishers by ChinasBohai Sea are busy

preparing for anew shing season

which comes

around the cornerin the second

Lunar month.

Xinhua

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks at a Press confer-ence after the closing meeting of the rst session of the

12th National Peoples Congress (NPC) at the Great

Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China,on 17 March, 2013. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and

Vice Premiers Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yangand Ma Kai met the Press and answered questions

here on Sunday.Xinhua

Government to increase carefor most needed

Beijing, 17 MarchChinese Premier Li Ke-qiang said on Sunday thatthe Chinese governmentneeds to increase care forthe most needed to preventthem from challenging the

society.The government has to

ensure the peoples rights toexistence and their humandignity, L i said at a Pressconference.

Xinhua

Chineseresearch

vessel on 4thIndian Ocean

journeyguangzhou, 17 March

The Shiyan 1 scienticresearch vessel has set sailfor its fourth journey to theIndian Ocean, where it willconduct a two-month expe-dition.

The South China SeaResearch Institute under theChinese Academy of Sci-ences said on Saturday that

more than 40 researchersfrom a dozen Chinese re-search institutes will carryout research pertaining tomarine hydrology, oceancurrents, meteorology andbiological studies in theIndian Ocean.The Shiyan1 is Chinas best-equippedscientic research vessel

and went into operation in2010.Xinhua

Bangkok, 17 MarchVietnamese Foreign Minis-ter Pham Binh Minh hasvisited Thailand to workon details of upgrading re-lationship between the twocountries,Thai News Agen-cyreported on Saturday.

Thai Foreign MinisterSurapong Tovichakchaikulsaid the visit by his Viet-namese counterpart on Fri-day came on the heels ofThursdays meeting in theLaotian capital of Vientianebetween Vietnamese Prime

Thailand, Vietnam mull strategic partnershipMinister Nguyen Tan Dungand his Thai counterpartYingluck Shinawatra on theissue.

In an unofcial joint

cabinet meeting in Octoberlast year, the prime minis-ters of both countries agreedin principle to foster bilat-eral relationship to the levelof strategic partners. Theissue was reiterated duringThursdays meeting of thetwo leaders.

Surapong said Thai-land looked forward to

wrapping up the issue be-fore the Vietnamese primeministers visit to Thailandlater this year.

He stressed Thailandsreadiness to host the rst

Joint Commission on Bi-lateral Cooperation (JCBC)meeting between top of-cials of the two countries,which is the major mecha-nism of cooperation be-tween Bangkok and Hanoi.The JCBC meeting shouldbe held in September, hesaid.Xinhua

islamaBad, 17 MarchAt least 24 soldiers werekilled and four others in-jured when a van fell into aravine in Pakistans north-

west Kohistan District onearly Saturday morning,police said.

Akbar Ali, DistrictPolice Ofcer of Kohistan

said that the van carrying29 soldiers fell into a ra-vine while negotiating asharp turn at KarakorumHighway in Kohistan area,an administrative districtin the countrys north-west Khyber PakhtunkhwaProvince.

The soldiers van wason its way to Gilgit Bal-

24 soldiers killed as van fallsinto ravine in Northern

Pakistantistan from northern Raw-alpindi city when it met theaccident, he said.

Rescue workers to-gether with local people

recovered the injured peo-ple and bodies from the ra-vine and shifted them to anearby rural health centerfrom where they would beairlifted to army hospitalRawalpindi via Army heli-copter, said the DPO.

Pakistan is a

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