Byline: Tin Mar Win & Mya KayKhaing Soe:

Photos: Aung Than (MingalaTaungnyunt)

Established 1914

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round developmentof 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 inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in thehands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage and national character

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

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

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

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

Volume XVIII, Number 33 12th Waxing of Nayon 1372 ME Monday, 24 May, 2010

Course No. 9 of Nationalities Youth Resource DevelopmentDegree College (Yangon) holds graduation

YANGON, 23 May – In compli-ance with the guidance of the Head ofState, two Nationalities Youth ResourceDevelopment Degree Colleges havebeen opened with the aim of turning outhuman resources required in border re-gions and intellectuals and intelligent-

sia capable of carrying out regional de-velopment tasks. Now, Yangon DegreeCollege has completed the 9th gradua-tion intake, said U Thein Nyunt, Minis-ter for Progress of Border Areas andNational Races and Development Af-fairs, who attended a conclusion cer-

emony of Course No.9 of NationalitiesYouth Resource Development DegreeCollege (Yangon) on behalf of Secre-tary of Central Committee for Progressof Border Areas and NationalRaces Secretary-1 of the State Peace and

(See page 8)

PBANRDA Minister

U Thein Nyunt speak-

ing at 9th graduation

intake of Nationalities

Youth Resource

Development Degree

College (Yangon).

DAD

Teaching Hospital (Magway) doing its bit in promotion of health sector“Health is wealth”, as a saying goes, the

government has been striving for promotion of health,fitness and education standards of the entire nation.

Since 70 per cent of the population of the wholenation is rural folks, the government is providing fieldhealthcare service in rural areas while setting up hospi-tals and clinics one after another. A 200-bed teaching

hospital was established on 18, November, 2007 nearMagway University of Medicine in Central Myanmar.

The health facility being a teaching hospitaland situated near the University of Medicine, physi-cians cure the patients, and thus students can learn a lotfrom the experiences.

(See page 8)

Teaching Hospital (Magway) is doing its bit in uplift of health sector.

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Monday, 24 May, 2010

PERSPECTIVES* 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 Desire

Being power, knowledge is brought to thefore. Reading can expand the horizons of thereaders. So, today man focuses intensiveattention on learning and seeking knowledge.

The government is applying a variety ofmeans for the people of all ages to have easyaccess to education. As part of the drive, it haslaunched many ways for formal education,non-formal education and informal education.The youth of the nation now have easy access tointernational level subjects through advancedcommunications. The adult literate rate is onthe increase owing to the Three R’sprogrammes for over school-age children, andyoung and old illiterates.

As a result, literate population is growing.Now, more and more libraries are being openedfor post literary programmes. So far, thenumber of self-reliant village libraries hastouched 55,755. It is therefore required to makesustained efforts to ensure sustainable progressof those facilities.

Now, the Rural Library Foundation hasbeen formed through the good offices of thegovernment, well-wishers, entrepreneurs andorganizations. On the opening day of thefoundation, well-wishers donated publicationsof various genres plus donations of more than700 million kyats. That suggests theirenthusiasm to the plan to broaden the horizonsof the country people.

The harmonious cooperation of thegovernment, donors and local people will leadthe libraries to sustainable development, andincrease the number of well-furnished librarieswith competent librarians and funds.

Today, the whole nation has seen self-reliantvillage libraries, thus providing newly-literatepeople with easy access to periodicals. Inaddition, rural folks have vast knowledge andhigher reasoning power. The Rural LibraryFoundation is believed to generate sustainabledevelopment of the village libraries.

Rural Library Foundation,a prudent plan

YANGON, 23 May— Chairman of MyanmarOlympic Committee Minister for Sports ThuraU Aye Myint attended the coordination meetingsof officials from the reconstituted MyanmarBill iards and Snooker Federation and thereconstituted Myanmar Boxing Federation atThuwanna Padamya hall of National Stadium 1

Sports Minister attends coordination meetings of MyanmarBilliards and Snooker Federation, Myanmar Boxing Federation

here this evening.The minister instructed them to get and keep

achievements in International Sports and Games,and heard the reports on tasks carried out presentedby Chairman of MBSF U Tin Maung Win, Chairmanof MBF U Yan Win and those present at the meeting.

The minister attended to the needs.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May— The opening of electoralwork course was held at Haka of Chin State on 17May.

It was attended by Chairman of Chin StatePeace and Development Council Brig-Gen HongNgai and party, state/township departmentalofficials, members of state/township/village electionsubcommission.

Chin State PDC Chairman made a speech on theoccasion and so did chairman of the Statesubcommission.

Secretary and members of State subcommissionexplained facts about election laws and rules tomembers of state/township/village electionsubcommission.—MNA

Electoral work course conductedin Haka, Chin State

Minister for Sports Thura U Aye Myint meets responsible persons of Myanmar Billiards andSnooker Federation.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May— The coordinationmeeting between member of the Union ElectionCommission U Win Kyi and members of MagwayDivision/District/Township Subcommissions tookplace at the meeting hall of Magway TownshipSubcommission on 17 May morning.

On the occasion, member of the Union Election

UEC member meets members of Magway Division, District,Township Election Subcommissions

Commission U Win Kyi delivered an opening addressand discussed respective sectors with Chairman ofMagway Division Subcommission U Maung MaungWin and Chairman of Magway DistrictSubcommission and Chairmen of Magway TownshipSubcommissions.

District IPRD

F & R Minister meets staff in Mandalay Div

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May—Departments andEnterprises under Ministry of Finance and Revenuein Mandalay Division met at the Office of the Headof Internal Revenue Department on 22 May.

Division-level departmental personnel at themeeting reported on objectives, duties, target andcompleted tasks of each department in the financialyear and future tasks.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Finance

and Revenue U Hla Tun urged personnel to abide bylaws, regulations, rules and procedures inperdorming duties, and to make use of everdeveloping information and communicationtechnology.

The directors-general of Internal RevenueDepartment and Pension Department presentedreports on works of the departments upon which theminister gave necessary instructions.—MNA

Minister for Finance and Revenue U Hla Tun gives instructions to officials of Ministry ofFinance and Revenue in Mandalay Division.—MNA

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CAM TUYEN, 23May— Her children are21 and 16 years old, butthey still cry through thenight, tossing and turningin pain, sucking theirthumbs for comfort.

Tran Thi Gai, whorarely gets any sleepherself, sings them amournful lullaby. “Canyou feel my love for you?Can you feel my sorrowfor you? Please don’t cry.”

Gai’s children — bothwith twisted limbs andconfined to wheelchairs— were born in a villagethat was drenched withAgent Orange during the

Vietnam, US still in conflict over AgentOrange

In this photo taken on 5 Oct, 2009, Tran Van Luan, right, watches a TVwhile his sister, Tran Thi Luy, sits on her bed inside their family home in the

village of Cam Tuyen, Vietnam. The siblings were born with profoundphysical and mental disabilities that the family, and local officials, say were

caused by his parents’ exposure to the chemical dioxin in the defoliant AgentOrange.—INTERNET

A policeman transfers a trapped child in floods inFenyi County of Xinyu City, east China’s Jiangxi

Province, on 21 May, 2010.XINHUA

CAIRO, 23 May—The Arab League(AL) urged on Saturday the Nile Basincountries to work together to bridgetheir differences over Nile River wateruse. Head of the AL secretary general’soffice Hisham Youssef expressed inpress statements that the body hopedunderstanding could be reached throughdialogue.

Four Nile basin countries, namely,Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda,signed on 14 May the cooperativeframework agreement on the usage ofNile River water in Entebbe, 40 km southof Ugandan capital Kampala, despiteboycotts from Egypt and Sudan. Burundi,the Democratic Republic of Congo and

Arab League urges dialogue on Nile water row

KABUL, 23 May— The Taleban claimedresponsibility on Sunday for a nighttime assault onNATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan.militants firing rockets, mortars and automatic weaponstried to storm Kandahar Air Field — the second suchattack on a major military installation this week.Several coalition troops and civilian employees werewounded in the assault on Saturday night, but therewere no reports of deaths, officials said.

A Canadian Press news agency report fromKandahar said artillery and machine gun firereverberated through the base, about 300 miles (500kilometres) southwest of Kabul, several hours afterthe attack began. Militants unleashed rockets andmortars about 8 pm (15:30 GMT) and then triedunsuccessfully to storm the northern perimeter, officialssaid.

Internet

Militants attack NATO’ssouthern Afghan base

KABUL, 23 May—Three service memberswith the NATO- ledInternational SecurityAss i s t ance Force(ISAF) were killed insouthern Afghanistanon Saturday.

The ISAF in a Pressrelease confirmed thecasualties, noting thatt w o o f t h e f o r e i g ntroops were killed in“an militents and theother in an improvisedexplosive device (IED)attack.”

One c iv i l ianworking wi th theinternational force wasalso killed in the firstincident, said the ISAFPress release.

The Press releasefailed to provide anyfurther information, asthe ISAF policy defersidentification procedu-res for casualties to there levan t na t iona lauthorities.

Xinhua

Three foreigntroops killed

inS Afghanistan

TOKYO, 23 May— A cargo ship ran on rocks early Sunday in waters nearHyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, leaving three of its four crew members dead and theother missing, local media reported, citing the coast guard in Miyazaki.

The three crew members on the Katsu Maru No 8 ship were confirmed deadafter being found by the coast guard and taken to hospital, and the search and rescueoperation is still under way for the missing.

According to the reports, Miyazaki local observatory issued a strong wind andhigh surf warning for waters off Hyuga when the accident occurred.

Xinhua

Japanese cargo ship stranded in waters nearMiyazaki, three dead

Photo taken on 21 May, 2010 shows bombdisposal personnel searching for more planted

bomb in east Pakistan’s Lahore. At least five smallblasts took place near a police station in Lahore

Friday night and three people were injured.XINHUA

Relatives of victims in aplane crash wait outside

a hospital foridentification of the

victims in the southernIndian city of

Mangalore, on 22 May,2010. A total of 158people of all 166 on

board the plane of AirIndia Express were

confirmed dead in thecrash when it was

landing at an airport inMangalore early

Saturday.XINHUA

Vietnam War. Shebelieves their healthproblems were caused bydioxin, a highly toxicchemical in the herbicide,which US troops used tostrip communist forces ofground cover and food.

Thirty-five years afterthe end of the Vietnam War,its most contentiousremaining legacy is AgentOrange. Eighty-twopercent of Vietnamesesurveyed in a recentAssociated Press-GfK Pollsaid the United Statesshould be doing more tohelp people suffering fromillnesses associated with the

herbicide, includingchildren born with birthdefects.

After PresidentGeorge W Bush pledgedto work on the issue on aHanoi visit in 2006, theUS Congress hasapproved $9 millionmostly to addressenvironmental cleanup ofAgent Orange. But whilethe US has providedassistance to Vietnamesewith disabilities —regardless of their cause— it maintains that thereis no clear link betweenAgent Orange and healthproblems.—Internet

Kenya promised to sign the agreementlater, saying the riparian countries shouldhave equal rights to use the Nile water.

Kenya joined the signatories onWednesday and became the fifth upstreamnation to have agreed with the pact. “Is thesigning of the agreement (by the fivecountries) the end of the way? ... there areother steps to develop understanding insome way,” Youssef said.

Meanwhile, AL Secretary GeneralAmr Moussa said on Saturday the pan-Arab body is ready to play whatever rolein contributing to solving the Nile waterdispute within the framework of African-Arab relations.

Xinhua

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Astronauts Michael Good and Garrett Reisman(behind) work outside the International Space

Station during the space shuttle Atlantis’ third andfinal spacewalk of the STS-132 mission

on 21 May, 2010.—INTERNET

Jupiter’s disappearing cloud stripe mystifiesscientists

NEW YORK, 23M a y — T h edisappearance of a giantcloud belt around thesouthern half of Jupiterhas transformed theappearance of our solarsystem’s largest planetand left scientistsscratching their headsover what caused thehuge brown stripe tovanish.

Photos taken 9 Mayby Australian amateurastronomer AnthonyWesley revealed that thehuge rusty-hued band ofclouds, known as theSouth Equatorial Belt(SEB), has faded fromview. The trick for

scientists now isexplaining how ithappened.

“This is a big event,”said Glenn Orton, aplanetary scientist atNASA’s Jet PropulsionLaboratory, in astatement. “We’remonitoring the situationclosely and do not yet fullyunderstand what’s goingon.”

Jupiter is wrapped incloudy yellow, brownand white stripes, createdby winds that blow atvarious latitudes and indifferent directions. Thecolours of the cloudbands reflect slightdifferences in chemical

composition. Propelledby strong wind, theseclouds can whip aroundthe planet at hundreds ofmiles per hour.

H i g h - e l e v a t i o nclouds can be found in the“belt” regions of Jupiter’satmosphere. Belt cloudsare darker than those inthe relatively low-elevation “zone” regions.The winds in belts andzones flow in oppositedirections.

Jupiter’s trademarkGreat Red Spot, a massivestorm that could fit twoEarths inside, is typicallyfound along the edges ofthe planet’s SEB.

Internet

Shuttle and space stationphotographed crossing

the sunWASHINGTON, 23 May—An eye-popping new

snapshot taken by a Florida photographer has caughtthe International Space Station and shuttle Atlantis insilhouette as both spaceships crossed in front of thesun.

Photographer Thierry Legault took the stunningphoto on 16 May from Madrid, Spain at 13:28 GMT(9:28 am EDT) shortly before Atlantis docked at thespace station.

In the photo, the shuttle and space station canclearly be seen as two separate spacecraft.

They appear as dark silhouettes in the upper rightregion of an otherwise bright yellow sun. Even thewings of Atlantis can be discerned along with thestation’s expansive solar arrays as both flew 200 miles(354 km) above earth.

When Legault took the photo, Atlantis was flyingbelow the space station and about to perform an orbitalback flip so astronauts inside the station could snaphigh-resolution photos of the thousands of heat-resistanttiles lining the shuttle’s belly.

Catching the scene is can be extremely tricky,Legault said.—Internet

Day ofdiscovery forUK wildlife

LONDON, 23 May—A range of activities aretaking place across theUK to mark InternationalDay for BiologicalDiversity.

Activities rangingfrom “walking withwolves” to dragonflyspotting will help peopleto join the worldwideaction on a local level,say organizers.

The event is part of acampaign to highlight theloss of species andecosystems due to humanactivity.

It marks the highlightof a collection of eventsthis year, the UNInternational Year ofBiodiversity.

Five race-against-the-clock events, or“BioBlitzes”, invitepeople all over Britain tofind and identify as manygrasses, mammals,insects, trees and birds asthey can in 24 hours.

Internet

Activities plannedinclude pond-dipping,

bug-hunting andwildlife trails.

INTERNET

Flight hardware for theinaugural launch of the

Falcon 9 rocketundergoes final

integration in thehangar at SpaceX’s

Cape Canaveral launchsite in Florida.

Components include:Dragon spacecraft

qualification unit (left),second stage with

Merlin Vacuum engine(centre), first stage withnine Merlin 1C engines

(right).INTERNET

Science

Solar power manufacturing makes goodbusiness sense for governments, study

finds

KINGSTON, 23 May—Canadian andprovincial governments could spend$2.4 billion to build a large scale solarphotovoltaic manufacturing plant andthen give it away for free and still earn aprofit in the long run, according to a

Joshua Pearce’s feel governmentsshould be aggressively supporting

large-scale solar powermanufacturing plants.—INTERNET

financial analysis conducted by theQueen’s University AppliedSustainability Research Group inKingston, Canada.

Queen’s University MechanicalEngineering Professor Joshua Pearceconducted the study — to be publishedin the August edition of the academicjournal Energy Policy — to find out ifit makes economic sense forgovernments to support solar cellmanufacturing in Canada. He wassurprised to discover the answer is anoverwhelming yes even in extremesituations and feels governmentsshould be aggressively supporting thisindustry to take advantage of thefinancial opportunity.

“This study uses hard financialnumbers. Everything we did istransparent and all our equations are inthe study,” says Professor Pearce.

Internet

Danger in the internet cafe? Newcomputer security threat for wireless

networks

John Aycock (left) andstudent Daniel

Medeiros Nunes deCastro have predicted anew computer security

threat: Typhoid adware.INTERNET

NEW YORK, 23 May— There’s a potentialthreat lurking in yourin ternet café , sayUniversity of Calgarycomputer sc ienceresearchers. It’s calledTyphoid adware andworks in similar fashionto Typhoid Mary, thefirst identified healthycarrier of typhoid feverwho spread the diseaseto dozens of people inthe New York area inthe early 1900s.

“Our resea rchdescribes a potentialcompute r secur i tythreat and offers someso lu t ions ,” saysassoc ia te p ro fessorJohn Aycock, who co-

authored a paper withassistant professor MeaWang and s tuden t sDaniel Medeiros Nunesde Castro and Eric Lin.“We’re looking at ad i f ferent var iant ofadware — Typhoid

adware -which wehaven’t seen out thereyet , but we bel ievecould be a threat soon.”

Adware is softwaretha t sneaks on tocomputers often whenusers download things,for example fancy toolbars or f ree screensavers, and it typicallypops up lots and lots ofads. Typhoid adwareneeds a wi re lessinternet café or otherarea where users sharea non-encryp tedwireless connection.

Internet

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Summer sounds can lead to hearingloss

INDIANAPOLIS, 23 May—Some of the mostcommon sounds ofsummer can exposelisteners to permanenthearing loss, oneresearcher warns.

The cautionary notewas sounded by DavidCoffin, director of BallState University’saudiology clinic in Indiana.

Risky noise, he says,can come in the form of thepop of fireworks, the snarlsof traffic, the buzz of lawnmowers, or the percussivetones of marching bands.

Such sounds aretypically within the rangeof 90 decibels to 140

decibels, said Coffin, butany noise above 80 decibelscan cause long-termhearing damage.

“We are living in asociety that gets louderevery year,” Coffin said ina news release from BallState. “Now that theweather is warmer, we areexposed to all sorts ofsounds that can lead topermanent hearing loss.The average person willwear a helmet when ridinga bike, or a seat belt in avehicle, but doesn’t eventhink about ear protectionwhen going to watch a rockband, a fireworks display,or even an auto race.”

According to the

National Centre for HealthStatistics, almost 15percent of Americansbelow the age of 19 sufferfrom some measure ofhearing loss.

Signs of hearing lossdue to unsafe soundexposure include not beingable to comprehendsomebody talking from twofeet away; hearing muffledspeech; experiencing painor ringing in the earsfollowing exposure; andneeding others to speaklouder in conversation.

Internet

Molecular model for the ring-shaped oligomer ofthe Mx protein. In an infected cell, components of

the influenza virus are clamped by this ringleading to inhibition of virus replication.

INTERNET

Treatment withrituxan may

reducerecurrence of

follicularlymphoma

PARIS , 23 May — Thefinal phase of a drug studyfinds that two years oftreatment with rituximab(Rituxan) cuts in half therisk that follicularlymphoma patients whorespond to chemotherapywill suffer a recurrence ofthe disease.

“These findingsprovide hope for the waywe manage this disease.Rituximab maintenancetherapy is likely to becomea new standard of care forthese patients,” studyauthor Dr Gilles Salles, aprofessor of medicine atthe University of Lyon inFrance, said in a newsrelease. Typically, henoted, patients oftenrelapse within a few yearsof their initial treatment.

Internet

Under�the magic hands of Robert Buelteman, theinteraction of plants, films and electricity creates

amazing images.—INTERNET

Breast surgeon Julie Margenthaler, MD, looks ata mammogram. Margenthaler was one of the

lead investigators in a nationwide trial that testedhow estrogen-lowering drugs before breastcancer surgery affected surgical outcomes.

INTERNET

Scientists sport real ‘smoking gun’ in prostate cancerNEW YORK, 23 May—

The primary cause ofprostate cancer could bethe fusion of two genesand the subsequentabnormal prostate cellgrowth that results whenreceptors for the hormoneandrogen get blocked, anew study reveals.

The implication is thatstandard efforts to treatthe disease by targetingthe androgen receptorsmight be missing the real“smoking gun,” aUniversity of MichiganComprehensive CancerCentre team suggests.

“We need to begin tothink about targetingprostate cancer bytargeting the gene fusion,and not confining ourapproaches to androgenreceptors,” study author

Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan,director of the MichiganCentre for TranslationalPathology, said in a newsrelease. “If we’re going tofind a more durabletherapy, we need to get atthe gene fusion.”

Chinnaiyan and hiscolleagues report their

findings in the 18 Mayissue of Cancer Cell.

The authors note thattypical prostate cancertreatments focus on drugsthat attempt to slowproduction of androgen,the male hormone thatregulates healthy prostategrowth. However, such

efforts usually becomeless effective over time ascancer cell resistancemounts, making recurrentcancer much lessamenable to similartreatments.—Internet

Sea sponge-derived drug treats several cancersWASHINGTON, 23 May

—An experimental newbreast cancer drug madefrom sea sponges helpedin a range of cancers, frombreast cancer to sarcoma,researchers report.

Three studies show thedrug, Eisai’s eribulin, waseffective and tolerated inpatients with breast cancer,colon cancer and urinarycancer, according to briefdata released on Thursdayby the American Societyof Clinical Oncology.Sarcomas are cancers that

grow from muscle or bone.A fourth study of

patients with advancedbreast cancer will bedetailed in a “late-breaker”session at ASCO’s annualmeeting in June.

The drug is not yetapproved, but Eisai hasfiled with relevantagencies in Japan, theUnited States and Europe.

The drug works on thesame principle, but with aslightly differentmechanism as older cancerdrugs such as the taxanesand is infusedintravenously.

Only a few details areavailable in the abstractsof the research publishedahead of the meeting.

Internet

Health Twenty-two percent of 932 source-water samples from

public wells contained one or more chemical

contaminants at concentrations greater than Maximum

Contaminant Levels or Health-Based Screening

Levels.—INTERNET

Checklist cuts death rate for urgent surgeryNEW YORK, 23 May—

A simple checklist helpssurgical teams avoidmistakes and cuts deathsby more than half duringurgent surgery, a newstudy shows.

The checklist testedin the new study wasintroduced in 2008 by theWorld HealthOrganization as part ofits Safe Surgery SavesLives program.

It had already beenshown to cutcomplications across alltypes of surgery, but therehad been concern thatwhen time is of theessence, running througha checklist might wastelife-saving minutes.

But that wasn’t thecase, said Dr. Atul A.Gawande, a surgeon atBrigham and Women’sHospital in Boston,Massachusetts, whoworked on the study.Gawande has alsowritten about checklistsfor The New Yorkermagazine, where he is astaff writer, and in his2009 book The ChecklistManifesto: How to GetThings Right.

“It has a kind ofcounterintuitive feel toit,” he said. But in fact,“the teams did betterwhen they took those twominutes to run throughthe checks.”

Gawande and

colleagues tested eightdifferent hospitals aroundthe world before and afterthey introduced the WHOchecklist. Of the morethan 1700 patients whohad urgent surgery — forinstance, for openfractures — the numberof deaths dropped byalmost two-thirds, from3.7 percent to 1.4, theyreport in the Annals ofSurgery.—Internet

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Foreign tourists toCambodia increase by

10.55 pct in first 4 monthsPHNOM PENH, 23

May— Foreign touriststo Cambodia increasedby 10.55 percent to884,657 in the first fourmonths of this yearcompared to 800,243 atthe same period lastyear.

According to thestatistics released by theMinistry of Tourism onSunday, Vietnam andSouth Korea listed No 1and No 2 foreign touristarrivals in the January-April period of this year,increased by 38.39percent to 138,945 and31.81 percent to 106,347respectively, comparedwith correspondingperiod of 2009.

Chinese tourists toCambodia increased by30.25 percent to 63, 396in the four-month period,ranking the third amongthe top ten marketarrivals, compared to thesame period of last yearthat had only 48,672.

For the month ofApril alone, Chinesetourists to Cambodiarose by 41.66 percent to14,455 from 10,204 inApril last year, whiletourists from Vietnamand South Koreaincreased by 65.05percent to 46,340 and33.09 percent to 22,285respectively in themonth.

Xinhua

A student performs tea art at the 9th ChineseBridge competition, a Chinese language

competition, in Braga, northern Portugal, on 22May, 2010.—XINHUA

South Korea, China,Japan trade chiefs meet

SEOUL, 23 May—South Korea – Trade ministersfrom China, Japan and South Korea met on Sunday todiscuss issues including a possible three-way freetrade agreement, amid worries over the world economysparked by Europe’s debt crisis.

South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon,Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming andJapanese Economy, Trade and Industry MinisterMasayuki Naoshima began one day of talks at a Seoulhotel with handshakes.

The three countries, which represent 18.6 percentof the global economy as measured by gross domesticproduct, have been holding regular trilateral meetingsat the trade minister level since 2002, according toSouth Korea.

Japan is Asia’s largest economy with China closebehind. South Korea ranks No 4 behind India.

The ministers were expected to discuss generalissues, including an ongoing joint study for a possiblethree-way free trade agreement as well as stalledefforts to reach a new global trade deal within theWorld Trade Organization, Kim Sung-soo, an officialat South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs andTrade, said Saturday.—Internet

Ignacio Nino Perez (R), supervisor of the Madridhall of the Spain Pavilion during the World Expo2010, takes the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) in

Madrid, on 22 May, 2010. Over 300 peopleattended Saturday’s HSK exam in Madrid. Moreand more Spanish people came to learn Chineselanguage in recent years, making the number of

people to take the HSK exam grow fast.XINHUA

Nokia Siemens seesquarterly profit

FRANKFURT, 23M a y — T e l e c o mequipment venture NokiaSiemens Networks(NSN.UL) aims for anoperating profit marginof up to 3 percent onrevenue of between 3.1-3.4 billion euros ($3.88-$4.25 billion) in thecurrent quarter,according to a Sundaynewspaper.

“The development innew orders and revenuehere (in Western Europe)in the current quarter haveso far been better thanexpected,” said NSNmanager Hermann Rodlerin an interview with theEuro am Sonntag.

The company madea surprise operatingprofit of 15 millioneuros in the previousquarter.

In Southern Euro-pe , Rodler sa id heexpected cancellations

or delays in some ordersfollowing the austerityprogrammes in place toreduce burgeoningfiscal deficits.

Customers whichare partly owned by

indeb ted euro zonegovernments wi l l

likely have difficulty

re f inanc ing the i rprojects due to a knock

on e f fec t s to the i r

credi tworthiness , asdeb t r a t ings o f

countries like Greeceor reg ions such as

Navarre and Basque in

Spain deteriorate.NSN competes with

r iva l s l ike Alca te l -

Lucent (ALUA.PA),Ericsson (ERICb.ST)

and low-cost Chinesevendor Huawei

(HWT.UL).InternetAir Arabia Egypt flights

to begin in JuneDUBAI, 23 May—

UAE-based low costairline Air Arabia(AIRA.DU) will beginflights on its new Egypt-based carrier in Juneafter i t received anoperating certificatefrom Egyptianauthorities, the companysaid on Saturday.

Air Arabia, the Arabworld’s largest listedairline, said thatcommercial flights on AirArabia Egypt wouldcommence from theEgyptian Mediterraneancoastal city of Alexandriato Khartoum and Kuwait.

“Air Arabia iscontinuously expandingto offer a wider segmentof customers the bestvalue for money choicefor air travel,” SheikhAbdullah BinMohammad Al Thani,Chairman of Air ArabiaGroup said in astatement.“We areconfident that Air Arabia‘Egypt’ will pursue thesuccess path that ourhubs in the UAE andMorocco have followed,by complementing ourever growing network ofdestinations.”

Internet

Performers re-create the scene of the Kievan Rusbattle in the 13th century in the suburbs of Kiev,

capital of Ukraine, on 22 May, 2010.XINHUA

US Abbott buys Indianpharma unit for $3.7 bln

MUMBAI, 23 May—US healthcare groupAbbott Laboratorieshas announced a 3.7billion-dollar buyout ofthe generic drugs unitof India’s Pi ramalHealthcare, as it movesto boost its presence inemerging markets.

Abbot t , whichannounced the acqu-isition in a statementlate Friday, said thedeal would make it theleading pharma comp-any in India with amarket share of sevenpercent. The US firmhas agreed to pay 2.1bil l ion dollars as adown payment, withthe remainder to bepaid in annualinstal lments of 400million dollars over the

A scientist works at a laboratory at the researchcentre of Piramal Healthcare in Mumbai.

INTERNET

next four years.Abbott said the deal

would accelerate itsgrowth in emergingmarkets “giving it thenumber one position inthe Indian pharma-ceutical market”.

P h a r m a c e u t i c a lsector analysts calledthe deal a “benchmark”,which could see moreIndian firms selling outbusinesses to multi-nationals who are keento expand in one of theworld’s fastest-growingmarkets. India’s pharmasector is growing atbetween 12 to 15percent each year ,

compared to about three

percent for Western

countries.

Internet

Business

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Daw Khin Myint Myint Social Outstanding Library for bookworms of DaikUYANGON, 23 May—

With the a im ofbroaden ing thehorizons of the people,a ceremony to openDaw Khin Myint MyintSoc ia l Outs tand ingLibrary took place onMin Street in Ward 5of Da ikU, BagoDistrict, this morning,attended by Ministerfo r In fo rmat ion UKyaw Hsan.

Staff Officer DawTin Tin Oo of BagoDistr ict Informationand Public RelationsDepartment, Chairmanof DaikU TownshipPeace and

Managing DirectorU Soe Win of News andPeriodicals Enterprisereported on the purposeof establishing the rurallibraries.

Secretary of BagoDivision PDC U KyawSan expla ined thees tabl ishment oflibraries in the division.

Wellwisher U MyatThin Aung reported onthe purpose of donatingthe library.

T h e w e l l w i s h e rh a n d e d o v e rdocuments related tot h e l i b r a r y t o t h eminister . The donorand other wellwishers

a l so dona t ed K 15mill ion to the trustfunds of the library.

Minister U KyawHsan presented DTHTV receiver for MRTVand MRTV-4programmes and booksto Deputy Commanderof Southern CommandBrig-Gen Win Myint.

Director-General UKhin Maung Htay ofMyanma Radio andTelevis ion donatedbooks, Chairman ofLibrary Committee UZaw Myo Aung

Wellwisher U MyatThin Aung handsover documents

related to Daw KhinMyint Myint Social

Outstanding Libraryto Minister forInformation

U Kyaw Hsan.MNA

Development CouncilU Tun Tun Win andwel lwisher U MyatThin Aung formallyopened the library.

The minister andparty viewed keeping offurniture, books andper iodica ls and e-library equipment at thelibrary and visited thepeople reading. Theminis ter gaveinstructions on effortsto be made fordurabi l i ty anddevelopment of thelibrary.

(Kanpwint Rice Mill)and family, TV andaccessor ies andwellwishers books tothe deputy commander.

A loca l spokewords of thanks.

Daw Khin MyintMyint Socia lOutstanding Library is

Opening ceremony of Daw Khin MyintMyint Social Outstanding Library in

progress in DaikU.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23May—With a view toenabling people to knowaims and objectives andactivities of the MyanmarWomen AffairsFederation, MWAF hasmade an arrangement tohold article and photocontests to markMyanmar Women’s Daywhich falls on 3 July.

Any interested may

Entries invited to articles and photos contestcompete in the contests.In article contest,Manuscripts that have notbeen published before,must rang between 3,000and 5,000 and be owncreations. Participants areto send two manuscriptstogether with two photosand C.V.

In photo contest, only10 inches x14 inches sizephoto is allowed, but

numbers have not beenrestricted. They can useany kinds of cameras, andthe photos must be theirown creation.

Departments whichhold contests are to allowuse of those photos inpublic show, books andpublications, websites,pamphlets, lectures andvideo records.Competitors are to send

two passport size photosand C.V along withadmissions that did notget prizes at home andabroad.

They are to sendarticles by 18 June andphotos by 19 June tosecretary of OrganizingCommittee U Aye Kywe,director (production),Information and PublicRelations Department,No. 228, Theinbyu Road,Botahtaung Townshiphere.—MNA

Minister for Information U Kyaw Hsan and Deputy Commander of Southern Command Brig-GenWin Myint views local readers at Daw Khin Myint Myint Social Outstanding Library.—MNA

68 feet long and 38 feetwide and it is of RCbui ld ing. Thewellwisher spent K 70million on constructionof the l ibrary plusfurniture, 710 books,5200 magazines and e-library equipment.

MNA

Myanmar Post incirculation

YANGON, 23 May –Myanmar Post journalVol-2, No.19 has beenpublished by UnitedMedia Group.

It features local andforeign news in variousgenres such as political,economic andentertainment news. Italso features MoUs onpromotion of trade

cooperation betweenKorea and Myanmar andpromotion of bordertrade cooperationbetween India andMyanmar, and port andwaterway transportprogrammes of Kaladanmulti-purpose transportproject to beimplemented by anIndian company. – MNA

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 24 May, 2010

Course No. 9 of Nationalities YouthResource Development…

Teaching Hospital (Magway) doing its bit in pro-motion of health sector

(from page 1)Development CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo at the col-lege in Dagon Myothit(Seikkan) Township herethis afternoon.

From 1989 to date,the State has spent K314530 million on bor-der region developmentwork. The two degree col-leges were opened in 2000in Yangon and Manda-

lay. Up to 2009, therewere 866 arts and sciencedegree holders and 361engineering diplomaholders, who are nowserving as service person-nel in various states anddivisions. Out of them,20 have completed MA,37 MSc, four ME, 94 BEand 147 B.Tech. As forgraduated service person-nel, there are four whoare compiling doctoral

thesis, 11 who are attend-ing M Research courses,84 who are attending MAand MSc courses, 55 whoare attending MA andMSc qualificationcourses, 25 who are at-tending ME courses, 23who are attending BEcourses and 107 who areattending B.Tech courses,added the minister. Then,he called on the traineesto try to become qualifiedservice personnel inbuilding a developed anddiscipline-flourishingdemocratic nation. Later,

the minister awarded out-standing students.

Nationalities YouthResource Development

Degree College (Yangon)produced 21 BA degreeholders, 87 BSc degreeholders and 41 AGTI de-

Khami nationalMaung Bo Than Htayof Ponnagyun.—DAD

Kayan nationalMaung Aung Chit of

Phekhon.—DAD

Shan nationalMaung Aung Kyaw

Zin of Loikaw.—DAD

Minister forTransport

U Thein Sweinspects Mawtin

Jetty.MNA

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(from page 1)The teaching

hospital, being well-equipped with modernfacilities and medi-

cines, stands as a solu-tion provider for healthproblems of surroundingvillages, thereby con-tr ibuting much to

healthcare service andteaching.Translation:TKK

23-5-2010*****

NAY PYI TAW, 23May—Minister forTransport U Thein Sweon 23 May visitedMyanmar Port Authorityand heard reports onconditions of ports,depots and pontoonbridges.

Transport Minister visits MPAThe minister

inspected conditions ofeach port betweenBotatung Pagoda Portand Sinohdan Port. Healso inspected InlandWater Transportation-owned vessels.

The minister also

visited branch office(Delta) of IWT and heardreports on sixtransportation divisions.The minister gaveinstructions on safetymeasures and punctualityof vessels.

MNA

YANGON, 23 May —PS Business School willconduct internationally-recognized businessmanagement courses inMay. New classes willstart in mid-May andbasic English coursesare also included. Thecourse duration is sixmonths and there arefour levels such ascertif icate, diploma,advanced diploma andpost graduate diploma.Exams wil l besupervised by the BritishCouncil in June andDecember, and those

PS business courses availablewho have beencompleted the coursescan join universities inBritain, Australia andSingapore that havelinks with theAssociation of BusinessExecutives (ABE).

Those in teres ted

may contact PSBusiness School ofRoom-D, third floor,Myaynigon Plaza ,Bagaya Road,Sangyoung Township,Yangon (Ph: 500533,524482, 09-5069731).—MNA

Vice-Mayor inspects tax-free marketsYANGON, 23 May—Vice-Chairman of Yangon City

Development Committee Vice-MayorU Maung Pa inspected sales of edible oil, rice, meat andfish at tax-free markets in Dagon Myothit (South), (North),Shukhintha of Thakayta and Tamway townships thismorning.

After conversing with the local people, he instructedofficials to supervise the markets by the prescribeddisciplines for the tax-free markets.—MNA

YANGON, 23 May—Singapore ManufacturersFederation (SMa) is afederation comprisingmore than 2600manufacturing com-panies in Singapore,which is formed withSiemans, Singapore PressHoldings, Motorola,Microsoft and PhilipsElectronic companies,etc.

RV! Centre Yangon

RV! Centre Yangon to conduct DBA andMBA coursesis an education Centre inpartnership with SMaSchool of HigherLearning. The Centreconducts Certificate inFoundation Studies andDiploma in BusinessAdministration (DBA)courses.

Students can savecosts by learning sixmonths cert i f icatecourse and 15 monthsDiploma course at RV!

Centre Yangon.Learning in Myanmarcan reduce half of thecost as well as livingcosts if compare withcosts in Singapore.

After ending degreecourse, students can getdegree from MurdochUniversity of Australia.

Learning degree(Business Admi-nistrat ion) hasopportunities to attend

Master of BusinessAdministration (MBA).Those who passedGrade-11 are eligable toattend Certificate courseat RV! Centre and whogot degree with IELTS-5.5, Diploma course. Inaddition, RV! CentreYangon also offersservices for thosewishing to study at SMain Singapore. For moreinformation, contactNo.12G, Po Sein Road,Tamway Township,(Ph-541886 and551697).

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May—Under the supervision ofNational Committee for Environmental Conservationunder Ministry of Forestry, International Year ofBiodiversity 2010 was observed at the ministry herethis morning, with an address by Minister for ForestryU Thein Aung.

Resident Representative Mr Shin Imai of WFAread out the message sent by Executive Secretary DrAhmed Djojhalf of Biodiversity Convention andvideo clips on conservation of biodiversity werepresented.

It was followed by paper reading session onconservation of biodiversity.—MNA

International Year ofBiodiversity 2010 observed

gree holders totaling 149for 2009-2010 academicyear.

MNA

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Wundwin to enjoy fruits ofwater …

Police Code ofConduct held

YANGON, 23 May—With a view to upliftingthe efficiency of policemen, Yangon DivisionPolice Force held the writing test of DivisionalLevel Police Code of Conduct at the hall of YangonDivision Police Force Commander’s Office yes-terday morning.

Likewise, the model police test took place atthe same venue.

Commander of Yangon Division Police ForcePolice Col Aung Daing and officials supervised thetests.—MNA

Member of UEC meets ChinState election subcommissions

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May—Member of UnionElection Commission Dr Ba Maung this morning metmembers of Chin State election subcommission anddistrict, and township election subcommissions atthe office of the Chin State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil in Hakha. Dr Ba Maung spoke on the occa-sion and members of Chin State, district and town-ship election subcommissions reported on prepara-tions in respective sectors.

Dr Ba Maung made concluding remarks re-garding the works.—MNA

Charity for the disabledYANGON, 23 May—Free Computer Course No. 4/

2009-2010, 5/2009-2010 and Hardware Course No.1/2009-2010 for the disabled organized by ShweminthaFoundation (Myanmar) will conclude on 29 May at Cen-tral Hotel here along with a ceremony to grant allowancefor education to the disabled who are whishing to study.

Those whishing to attend computer course, receivegrant for education and prosthetic limbs and donate cashmay contact Shwemintha Foundation (Myanmar), No.797, Room 104/B, Myanma Ahla Tower (2) at the cornerof Bogyoke Aung San Street and Wadan Street, Ph: 01-222923, 229087, 215939, 09-5034404 and 09-6818639.

MNA

Water pipelines being laid onto Thein Hill.

Water supply tank on Thein Hill in Wundwin.

A transformer to operate water pump forsupplying water.

(from page 16)efforts of the Township Development Affairs Com-mittee.

There were many tube-wells in Wundwin. Manylakes were dug with the collaborative efforts of Town-ship Peace and Development Council and TownshipDevelopment Affairs Committee. However, the wa-ter levels of the lakes and wells fell due to dailyconsumption and high temperature. With regard tothe efforts for supply of potable water, ExecutiveEngineer U Myo Min Thant of Township DAC con-ducted us around the water supply facilities.

In Sethmu Ward of Wundwin, we saw a 300feet deep and 8-inch diameter tube-well.

Photo shows water supply tank on Thein Hill. Water pumping station in Wundwin.

“This tube-well was sunk recently. Before do-ing it, we conducted feasibility study for availabilityof potable water meeting set standard in all places ofthe town. We will sink five more tube-wells aroundthis place,” explained U Myo Min Thant.

We witnessed a transformer, 20,000-gallon ra-dial collector well and water pumping station near thetube-well. Although the tube-well is located 1.5 milesfrom the hub of the town, it is a facility to supply thebest quality water for the dwellers.

A water supply tank was built in Thein Hill,south of Wundwin. We had bird’s eye view of the townfrom 80 feet high Thein Hill where the water supplytank, 30 feet long, 20 feet wide and six feet high, islocated.

“The water tank can store 20,000 gallons ofwater. The water from the tube-well of Sethmu Wardwill be pumped to the water tank on the hill. After that,the water tank will supply potable water to the wholetown,” explained U Myo Min Thant.

While in Wundwin, we saw laying of waterpipelines for providing drinking water to the residentsthrough the water taps. On completion of repairing

public water tanks and water pipelines, over 100,000gallons of potable water can be supplied to the localpeople daily. That is why the residents of Wundwinwill overcome the difficulty of water shortage soon.

Near Wundwin lies over 80 feet high Thein Hillas a natural gift. The hill can be used as a natural watersupply base for the whole town. On completion of theproject, all the local people will enjoy the fruits ofwater supply through the taps.

Wundwin is making greater efforts in imple-menting drinking water supply project. The localauthorities and staff of Township DAC are exertingtheir utmost efforts to supply potable water to theresidents.

*****Translation: TTA

Myanma Alin: 22-5-2010

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 24 May, 2010

Indian education fair held in NepalKATHMANDU, 23

May—The two-day IndianEducation Fair ended hereon Saturday, attractingvarious Nepali studentsthrough the variouseducation programmes andoffers.

The education fair wasparticipated by more than3000 students on the firstday on Friday. The event’sorganizer AffairsExhibition and Media Pvt

Ltd is working just topromote the Indianeducation round the globe.

Talking to Xinhua onSaturday, Director(Marketing and Projects)Vivek Shukla of theorganization said that theirinitiative is to providetremendous amount ofinformation to the peopleabout Indian education.

“This kind ofexhibition can be very

much helpful because ofthe direct interaction withthe university and collegerepresentatives, which ishelpful to get the accurateand authentic information”,he said.

He also said that in theexhibition there is widerange of career exposed andsome new courses, apartfrom the conventional ones,are also exposed.

Xinhua

Girls line up before alesson at a modelling

school in Caracas on 27August, 2009. Miss

Venezuela was crownedMiss Universe lastSunday giving her

country its sixth title inthe international beauty

pageant. It was thesecond consecutive yearthat a contestant from

the oil-producing SouthAmerican country, whichis famous for its beauty

queens.—XINHUA

An Ariane 5 rocketblasts off from itslaunch pad at the

Guiana Space Centre,in Kourou French

Guiana, on thenortheast coast of

South America, on 21May, 2010. An Arianerocket has orbited twotelecommunications

satellites after a launchfrom French Guiana onFriday, space officials

said.—XINHUA

Four kidnapped Lebanese released inNigeria

LAGOS, 23 May—Fourkidnapped Lebaneseworkers of a constructioncompany in southernNigeria have been releasedby their abductors, a localpolice spokesperson toldXinhua on Saturday.

The Lebanese werekidnapped by gunmen

dressed like soldiers on 14May in the oil-rich Deltaregion.

The southeast AkwaIbom State policespokesman Gabriel Ngbansaid the expatriates were ina stable condition whenthey were released. “Yes,they have been released,

Cyclists competeduring the 1st

Hungary’sunderground mountainbike race in Budapest,capital of Hungary, on

22 May, 2010. Theprofessional cyclists

must ride severalhundred metres

through a cellar alongwith more common

terrain like forest andasphalt roads.

XINHUA

Spanish mountaineer wishes to summitMt Qomolangma without oxygen

KATHMANDU, 23May—Spanish mountai-neer Edurne Pasabanwishes to continue hermountaineering career inNepal, climbing mountainsand making new records.

The 36-year-oldPasabana, who is the thirdSpanish woman to conquerMt Qomolangma and alsorecently conquered all the14 mountains above 8,000metres in the world,

expressed her willingnessto spend her future days inNepal. “The best thingNepal has is their peopleand then mountains and Ilove both,” said Pasabana,who scaled the world’shighest peak in 2001 withoxygen. Pasabana onSaturday expressed herdesire to foot on moremountains and spend moretime in Nepal, before shewas commended by Nepali

Minister for Tourism andCivil Aviation for her featof conquering all the 14highest mountains.

Pasaban came toNepal in 1998 to climb MtDhaulagiri when she wasonly 23 years old, but shecould not make it due toheavy snowfall. However,brave and courageousPasabana did not give upand came back to climbMt. Qomolangma in 2001.

Pasabana, who is anengineer, wife and mother,is so keen on adventuresthat she is ready to give upher professional career inengineering and start newwork such as conferenceon motivation, skilldevelopment andmountaineering.

Xinhua

Truck-bus collision kills 32in China

BEIJING, 23 May—A head-on collision between atruck and bus in northeastern China killed 32 peopleand another 21 injured early on Sunday.

The accident happened along a section of highwayundergoing road maintenance in Fuxin City inLiaoning province, the official Xinhua News Agencysaid.

The truck was traveling on the wrong side of theroad when it plowed head-on into the bus, burstinginto flames on impact, said an official from theLiaoning Provincial transport department who gavehis surname as Wang.

All three people aboard the truck diedimmediately, and the bus driver and 27 of thepassengers died. The remaining 21 injured passengerswere hospitalized.—Xinhua

we are putting our reporttogether,” he added.Ngban said he did notknow if any ransom waspaid. The state commissi-oner for police WalterRugbere also confirmedthe release to Xinhua onphone.

Xinhua

An exhibitor from Illinois spins with organic wool at the fourth annualGreen Festival in Chicago, the United States, on 22 May, 2010. The two-dayGreen Festival opened here on Saturday with sustainable solutions and eco-

conscious options.XINHUA

Canadian minister says to boost trade linkswith China

VANCOUVER, 23May— Canada isconfident of attractingChinese investments asthe two countries arestrengthening their tradelinks, a Canadian ministersaid on Friday.

Stockwell Day,Canadian minister for theAsia-Pacific Gateway,has ended his eight-daytrip to China and returnedhome. During his visit,he discussed trade linksbetween the twocountries with seniorChinese officials,

including the benefits ofquickly passing Chineseproducts throughVancouver ports intoNorth America’sheartland and thus shopfloors.

Canada has investedmore than 2.3 billionCanadian dollars (2.16billion US dollars) in thepast two and a half yearsto increase the ports’efficiency and improvesupporting infrastructuresuch as road and rail lines,he said.

The major challenge

of improving tradebetween the twocountries was “justcontinuing to get the storyout about what Canadahas to offer,” he added.

“It’s somethingChina is more and moreaware of,” Day said.

He pointed out thatthe countries representedin the Shanghai Expowere sending a messagethat they expected toattract Chineseinvestments byparticipating in the Expo.

MNA/Reuters

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A Nepalese Sherpaclimbed Mount Everestfor the 20th time earlyTuesday, beating hisown world record, anofficial said.

Apa Sherpa , 50 ,reached the summit ofworld’s highest peak onSaturday morning, aspokesman fo r thetourism ministry said.

“He reached the topof Everes t th i smorning. He is in soundhea l th and i s now

The photo taken on 19 May, 2010, shows apiece of rock engraving in the shape of human

faces in Mount Helan, northwest China’sNingxia Hui Autonomous Region. Another six

pieces of rock engravings were newly discoveredin Mount Helan recently. According to the

statistics, there are 5000 pieces of rockengravings founded in Mount Helan, rich incontent and high in density. Human face is aspecial theme of rock arts, as it reflects the

worship of ancient people towards deities, totemand some other divine beings. Embodied thewisdom of ancient China, rock engravingsrecord various aspects of the history and

lifestyle of ancient people. The Mount Helanrock culture has become a special name card of

Ningxia.

‘Super Sherpa’ climbs Everest a record20th time

A 29-year-old pregnant woman, Xiu’er,was protected by a r ing of sympathetic soulson the morning of 13 May as she gave birthon the sidewalk outside their apartment inChongqing Municipali ty after an ambulancecalled by her husband, Tan Bing, 40, fai ledto arrive after two hours.

They waited from 6 am up to 8 am for theambulance after dial ing repeatedly to thehospital that told them “one was on i ts way.”But at 8 am, Xiu’er could wait no longer andwent into labour beside the road as Tan andhis sister tr ied to help and shield her.

Special roadside delivery

The fish-shapedsubmarine cruises inthe swimming pool ofGuangxi University ofTechnology in LiuzhouCity, southwest China’s

Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region,on 21 May, 2010. A3.8-metre-long fish-shaped submarine

invented by local citizensurnamed ‘Gao’ carriedout a trial operation inwater on Friday, and

made a half success asthe submarine could

only travel with half thebody under water. Gao

once carried out a failedtrial in the Liujiang

River on 29 Dec, 2009.

A unique and traditional Bun Scrambling Competition is held at CheungChau Island of Hong Kong on 22 May, 2010. On the stroke of midnight,twelve participants (nine male and three female) for the Bun ScramblingCompetition raced up the 14-metre tall conical bun tower to grab as many

buns as they can within the three-minute time limit.—XINHUA

Renewed Mogadishufighting leaves 13 dead

DHAKA, 23 May—The Bangladeshigovernment has plannedto build third seaport inthe country to easegrowing cargo-handlingpressure and bolster itsregional economicdevelopment activities, asenior official said onSunday.

“The seaport has beenplanned to be constructedin southern PatuakhaliDistrict, some 204 kmaway of capital Dhaka,aiming to ease pressureon our main Chittagongseaport and hasteneconomic development insouthern region of thecountry,” the ShippingMinistry official toldXinhua on Sunday.

Requesting to beunnamed, he said, “Stepsare underway to appointconsultants soon forcarrying out a feasibilitystudy for building theseaport.”

Xinhua

Bangladeshplans to buildthird seaport

NEW DELHI, 23 May— Nine people, includingthree children, were killed and eight injured when atruck overturned in Nandurbar District in the westernIndian state of Maharashtra early Sunday, reported theIndo-Asian News Service.

Seventeen people were travelling in a truck thatwas going to Surat city in Gujarat from Sakri villageto attend a wedding ceremony. The truck skidded offthe road and the driver lost control, the report quotedpolice as saying. Police officers and villagers went torescue the victims, most of whom were buried undersacks of onions loaded on the truck, according to thereport.—Internet

Nine killed in road accidentin western India

M O G A D I S H U , 23May— At l eas t 13people were killed anda lmos t 30 o the rswounded on Sundayafter heavy fightingerup ted be tweenmil i tants and theSomal i governmentfo rces backed byAfr ican Unionpeacekeepers inMogadishu, witnessesand medical sourcessaid.

Heavy exchangesof she l l ing ensued

N E W DE L H I , 23 May— TheSerbian pilot of the doomed AirI n d i a j e t w h i c h c r a s h e d o nSaturday apparently tried to takeoff the plane again before the finalcrash, said analysts on Sunday.

The throttle of the plane hasbeen found by search workers onthe site of the crash in a gorge bythe s ide of the runway of theMangalore Airport. The throttle ison forward position, meaning the

Pilot of doomed Air India jet tries to take offagain before crash

which hit the districtsof Hodon, Hawlwadagand Wardogley in thesouthern part of theSomal i cap i t a l o fMogadishu. “So far wehave ferried almost 25people to the differenthospital of the city andour s t a f f saw thebodies of three deadc iv i l i ans in thed i s t r i c t s whereshelling occurred,” AliMuse, head of the localambulance service toldXinhua.—Xinhua

pilot was accelerating the planebefore the crash took place, saidanalysts.

A survivor of the crash told localmedia that the pilot tried to take offthe plane again after touchdown.

One of the wheels of the planedid not touch down on the runwaywhen the plane landed, which couldhave led the plane to get out ofc o n t r o l , s a i d c i v i l a v i a t i o nsources.—Xinhua

In this 16, May 2007file photo released by

the Super SherpasLLC, veteran SherpaApa, 46, displays theNepalese flag after

scaling the 29,035-footMount Everest summit.

NewsAlbum

heading back to basecamp after spendingaround half an hour onthe summit,” LaxmanBhattarai said.

Sherpa, who firstscaled Everest in 1990and has been dubbedthe “super Sherpa” forthe apparent ease withwhich he climbs themountain, dedicatedhis latest expedition tothe impact of climatechange on theHimalayas.

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 24 May, 2010

Ministry of Finance and RevenueInternal Revenue DepartmentCommercial Tax Directorate

Reminding to furnish the Annual Return1. Any Individuals, Partnerships, Joint Ventures, Com-panies, other taxable business enterprises, Cooperative soci-eties, State economic enterprises, State-owned mills, facto-ries, trading and service enterprises, who have taxable saleproceed or receipt from services in the financial year 2009-2010 (1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010) are reminded thatthey are according to the law, to fill up, sign and furnish anannual return to the respective Township Revenue Office orCompany Circle Tax Office, by hand or by registered postnot later than 30th of June, 2010.2. If it is production business apart from saltproduction, those whose sale proceed in a financialyear is kyat 240001 and above, or the sale proceedof Trading business during the financial year that iskyat 300001 and above, the receipt from Passengertransportation that is kyat 180001 and above, En-tertainments, Hotel and lodgings, Restaurants,Travel and Tours (including tour guide only), Mo-tor vehicle servicing, Insurance (excluding life in-surance), Hair dressing and beauty saloon, Bodyfitness centres, Printing, Computer desktop anddesign services (excluding photo copying) are re-sponsible to file the Annual sale or service Returnattached with annual accounts, to the respectiveoffices. Those returns will be accepted by openingthe offices up to 18:00 hrs in the evening on thelast date of 30th June 2010 (Wednesday).3. If there is failure to file return without any sufficientcause, a sum not more than 10% of the tax due will be finedby way of penalty according to the Commercial Tax Law,section 21.4. The prescribed Annual Return forms will be pro-vided at the respective Township Revenue Offices or theCompany Circle Tax Office, free of charge. If it is filed byhand, the concerning office will issue the acknowledgementslip instantly.5. Enquiries can be made for further details at theTownship Revenue Offices or the Company Circle TaxOffice concerned.

San Lwin Director

Commercial Tax Directorate

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV DONG MAI VOY NO (004)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV DONG MAIVOY NO (004) are hereby notified that the vessel willbe arriving on 24.5.2010 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 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 TONG JOO SHIPPINGPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

Eruption hits 10,000 day milestoneHAWAII, 23 May—The world’s longest continuously

erupting volcano, which has become a major attrac-tion for scientists and tourists since it became activein 1983, has marked a milestone. It was 10,000 daysago that Kilauea volcano began erupting on Hawaii’sBig Island.

The superintendent of Hawaii Volcanoes NationalPark, Cindy Orlando, calls it “a biological and geo-logical wonder”. The scientist-in-charge of the USGeological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory,Jim Kauahikaua, said it is one of the few eruptionsthat can be studied up close every day. The east riftzone vent began erupting on 3 January, 1983, and asummit vent has been erupting since 19 March,2008.—Internet

Smoke and ash pour from the main crater of Kilaueavolcano in Hawaii’s Big Island.—INTERNET

Psychic used to find missing catLONDON, 23 May—A team of pet detectives is looking for a miss-

ing cat — with the help of an Indian psychic.In a search akin to anAce Ventura film, the four detectives are carrying out a three-daysearch in the hope they can find Oliver, a four-year-old tabby cat.The cat’s owner, 56-year-old nurse Sue Machen, is so desperate fornews that she is paying £1,000 for the investigation, which has seenthe sleuths from Animal Search UK visit some 400 homes.

To help them with their search, the Herefordshire-based teamhave employed a psychic called Sarita Gupta, who is based inBangalore, to help them find the cat who went missing from hishome in the Lincolnshire village of Boothby Graffoe last October.Ms Gupta has told the detectives Oliver has been adopted as a strayby a new family who did not know he already had a home.—Internet

A poster of Oliver, atabby cat who has beenmissing from his home

in the Lincolnshirevillage of BoothbyGraffoe since last

October.—INTERNET

A laughing gull hops on another laughing gull indistress at the Breton National Wildlife Refuge onNorth Breton Island, La, on 20 May, 2010.— INTERNET

Mexican girl died by accidentin bed, prosecutors say

Paulette Gebara Farah,4, whose body was

found in her bed morethan a week after shewas reported missing,died of asphyxiationunder blankets at thefoot of her bed, pros-ecutors in the state of

Mexico say.— INTERNET

Two arrested withmarijuana plants in car

Alaskan girl, 3,mauled by dog

ANCHORAGE, 23 May— Authorities say a sleddog mauled to death a 3-year-old girl in the south-west Alaska village ofNapaskiak.

Alaska State Trooperssay Krystal Brink wasplaying outside on Fridaywith other children andwandered into a dog yardwhen she was attacked byone of the dogs — eventhough the owner had theteam tied up.The girl andher family were visitingfrom Kasigluk.—Internet

Hendra virus years away: CSIROVICTORIA, 23 May—A horse put down on Queensland’s

Sunshine Coast became this week the 41st to contract therare virus. Nine people who potentially came into contactwith the horse are awaiting the results of blood tests whichare expected to be negative.CSIRO’s Australian AnimalHealth Laboratory at Geelong in Victoria has successfullytested a Hendra vaccine in ferrets as it prepares for trials inhorses. Lab director Martyn Jeggo says the lab hopes tohave proof of concept within one to two years but it willthen be another four to five years before there’s a market-able product.

Internet

MEXICO CITY, 23May—Paulette GebaraFarah, 4, was found underblankets on her bed morethan a week after she wasreported missing. That iswhere she died, officialssay, in a finding that ex-onerates her parents. Re-porting from Mexico CityPaulette Gebara Farah,the 4-year-old girl whosedisappearance and appar-ent asphyxiation deathriveted Mexico thisspring, died by accident inher bed, prosecutors saidon Friday.

The finding exoner-ates the girl’s parents.They have been at thecentre of a media stormsince Paulette, who suf-fered developmental dis-

abilities, was found deadin her bed on 31 March,more than a week aftershe was reported missing.Investigators said thebody had gone undetectedduring the initial searchfor the girl.

Alberto Bazbaz, attor-ney general for the stateof Mexico, said his inves-tigation concluded thatPaulette died during thenight after she turned her-self around in bed andended up at the foot.

Internet

VACAVILLE, 23 May—Two men were arrestedby Vacaville, Calif, po-lice who discoveredmore than 200 marijuanaplants inside their car,authorities say. Police ar-rested Jaime Cebula, 34,of Fairfield, and Mat-thew Metzger, 27, ofVacaville.

At about 11:45 pm onThursday police stoppedthe two men in a blackHonda Accord in thearea of AmbassadorPlace and Rio GrandeDrive. After smelling a

strong odor of marijuanaand searching thevehicle, they found 225marijuana plants and aplastic bag with psilocy-bin mushrooms, theVacaville Reporter said.

After detectives ob-tained a search warrantfor a nearby residence,they said they found 100immature marijuanaplants, 10 mature plantsand 1.5 pounds of proc-essed marijuana alongwith a loaded shotgunand packaging material.

Internet

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Malaysian children take part in punching pine boards in conjunction withthe martial art festival called as Malaysia International Ip Man Wing Chun

Festival and World Championship in Petaling Jaya, nearKuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 23 May, 2010.—INTERNET

Kenya researchers root forconsumption of indigenous vegetables

NAIROBI, 23 May—Kenyans are fast adoptingWestern lifestyles and inessence replacing theireating habits with Westernfoods. In Nairobi forinstance, the number offast foods restaurants isever on the rise. And aspeople return to theirhomes, they quicklyprepare meals that are easyto cook hence doing awaywith the traditional foodslike cassava, sweetpotatoes and traditional

vegetables.In recent years,

Kenyans have seen anincrease in diet-relatedailments such as heartdisease, diabetes, cancerand anemia.

It is in this regard thatthe United Nationsdeclared the year, 2010 asthe International Year ofBiodiversity to celebratediversity of plants andanimals.

Consequently, Ken-yan researchers are rooting

for horticulturalbiodiversity such asAfrican IndigenousVegetables (AIVs) thatused to form an integralpart of Kenyan dietsshould be part of thiscelebration.

However, with theintroduction of exotictemperate crops likecabbage, indigenousgreens lost popularity inKenya and were regardedas ‘weeds’ and ‘poorman’s food’.—Xinhua

Two held as bomb factory raided inIreland

DUBLIN, 23 May — Asuspected dissidentrepublican bomb-makingfactory has been raided bypolice in Ireland and twomen have been arrested.

Among the itemsdiscovered in the swoop inDundalk, County Louth,were two large modifiedgas cylinders fixed onto atrailer. Police believe theycould have thwarted animminent attack inNorthern Ireland. Thesuspects, one aged in his30s and the other in his 50s,

were taken to DroghedaGarda station forquestioning.

Irish nationalbroadcaster RTE said thetwo six-foot cylindersfound in a trailer had theirtops cut off for use either asimprovised mortars tolaunch an attack at NorthernIrish police or other targetsor to make a large bomb.

Northern Irish policehave increased their streetpresence due to increasedparamilitary attacks.

They are also getting

assistance from police inthe Republic of Ireland,where the militants havemany of their bases andcriminal activities whichprovide their funding.

Internet

Michael Waltrip, right, Denny Hamlin, centre, andFay Knape, left, speak during a news conferenceat Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, NC, on

22 May, 2010. Knape won Toyota’s ‘SponsafyYour Ride’ contest to design a paint scheme for aNASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car.—INTERNET

EU Navalexchangesfire withSomalipirates

NAIROBI, 23 May—Somali pirates fired on anEU naval force warship,prompting the Frenchvessel to return fireoutside Somali capital,Mogadishu’s harbour onThursday, the EU anti-piracy mission announcedon Friday. Naval forcespokesman John Harboursaid the assault against theFS Nivose immediatelystopped and none of thetwo merchant vessels,which she were tasked toescort, were hit.

Harbour said the EUNaval Force warship FSNivose were approachingMogadishu, to start anescort of MS AlphaKirawira and Petra 1, thatjust unloaded supply forthe African Union forcesin Somalia (AMISOM).“Since gunfire was heardfrom the town, thecommanding officer (CO)and the crew on Nivosewas extra cautious thismorning on Friday,”Harbour said.—Xinhua

Turkmenistan snubs Russia in gaspipeline project

ASHGABAT, 23 May—Turkmenistan said onSaturday it would go italone with plans to connectits lucrative gas fields via a1.5 billion-dollar pipelinein a project where Russiahad eyed a major role.

“We will shortly startthe construction of a new,East-West gas trunkpipeline relying on our ownresources,” PresidentGurbanguly Berdymukha-medov was quoted assaying by governmentnewspaper NeutralTurkmenistan.

“The new gas pipelinewill connect the country’seastern region, where thelargest gas reserves areconcentrated, withTurkmenistan’s develo-ping central and Caspianregions.” Berdymukha-medov has signed a decreeordering state energy firmTurkmengaz to carry out

the design and constructionof the pipeline with a gassupply capacity of 30billion cubic metres a year,the newspaper said.

The construction is tostart this June and thepipeline is to come on linein June 2015. Theannouncement appears tobe a snub to a host ofcountries but Russia inparticular, which had longhoped to participate in theproject. Turkmenistan sitsatop the world’s fourth-largest natural gas reservesand Russia, China and theWest are vying to expandtheir presence in theresource-rich but isolatedCentral Asian nation.

In March 2009,Turkmenistan announcedan international tender forthe design and constructionof the domestic pipelineand Turkmengaz has saidthat around 70 companies

from Russia, China andEurope expressed interest.

However, the tender’sresults were never publiclyannounced.

Xinhua

Haiti officials warn heavyrains could hit capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 23 May—Haitian officials arewarning that a heavy rains could trigger floods andlandslides in the quake-addled country.

Disaster prevention officials issued an “orange”alert for Friday and five following days based on aweather system now forming near Cuba.

The alert is their second-highest warning. At-riskareas include Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and othersravaged by the 12 Jan earthquake that displaced anestimated 1.5 million people.

No evacuation plans exist for the hundreds ofthousands still living in makeshift camps prone tofloods, torrents of mud and potential spread of disease.

Authorities say residents should avoid flooded riversand be prepared to move if necessary.—Internet

File picture shows Israeli schoolchildren takingcover under their desks during an emergency drill

on February. —INTERNET

Local residents push

forward a barrow with

sandbags to consolidate

the floodwall in

Wroclaw, southern

western Poland on

22 May, 2010.

XINHUA

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Mourinho to bid Inter arrivederci,plans Madrid talks

Gerrard determined to stay inWorld Cup moment

Top-ranked Shin eliminates Wie

Blackpool hit PremierLeague jackpot

LONDON, 23 May—Blackpool clinched a lucra-tive place in the Premier League with a dramatic 3-2win over Cardiff in the Championship play-off finalat Wembley on Saturday.

Ian Holloway’s unfashionable side fought back frombehind twice before taking a decisive lead through BrettOrmerod at the end of a sensational first half.

Michael Chopra had given Cardiff a dream starbut Charlie Adam equalized for Blackpool soon af-ter and, although Joe Ledley restored Cardiff’s ad-vantage, the Seasiders equalized again through GaryTaylor-Fletcher before veteran striker Ormerodbagged the winner.—Internet

MADRID, 23 May—Jose Mourinho guided In-ter Milan to ChampionsLeague glory and thenconfirmed he will holdtalks with Real Madrid onMonday.

Inter beat Bayern Mu-nich 2-0 at the SantiagoBernabeu in Saturday’sbig European final, butMourinho, having won anhistoric treble with theItalian giants, claimed henow has other coachingchallenges ahead.Havingbecome only the thirdcoach to have won Eu-rope’s premier competi-tion with two differentclubs (he won with Porto

Blackpool fans cheer during game against CardiffCity during the 2010 Championship playoff finalfootball match at Wembley Stadium in London.

Blackpool won promotion to the Premier Leaguewith a 3-2 win over Cardiff.—INTERNET

AUSTRIA, 23 May—The only thing StevenGerrard knows about hisfuture is that it is not go-ing to interfere with hisWorld Cup present.

As he nears 30,Gerrard has been givengreater cause to reflect bythe frustrating club seasonhe has just endured.Acampaign that began withLiverpool expected tomount a sustained chal-lenge for their first Eng-lish title in 20 years endedwith Rafael Benitez’ssquad staggering over thefinish line in seventhplace and serious doubtsover whether Gerrard and

Inter Milan’s coach JoseMourinho celebrates afterwinning the UEFA Cham-pions League final football

match against BayernMunich at the SantiagoBernabeu.—INTERNET

Liverpool’s Englishmidfielder StevenGerrard is pictured on 2May. The only thingGerrard knows about hisfuture is that it is not go-ing to interfere with hisWorld Cup present. INTERNET

in 2004) Mourinho saidhe now wants to go onebetter.—Internet

Alves dismisses Kaka Brazil fears BRAZIL, 23 May—

Barcelona’s Daniel Alvesinsisted on Saturday thatReal Madrid star Kakawill not be an injury bur-den at the World Cup.

Kaka has been carry-ing a left thigh injury fortwo months, a problemwhich has dogged hisprogress in Spain afterarriving from AC Milanlast summer for 65 mil-lion euros.

But Alves has no fearsfor his internationalteammate as Brazil chasea sixth World Cup.

“Nobody here is eventhinking that Kaka willnot be in top form at theWorld Cup,” said Alves,who also said that Brazilare unconcerned aboutonce again being consid-ered as favourites at theWorld Cup which startson 11 June.—Internet

Messi reassures anxiousArgentina over injury

Argentina’s nationalfootball team forwardLionel Messi drives theball during a trainingsession in Ezeiza, Bue- nos Aires.—INTERNET

BUENOS AIRES, 23May—Argentina starLionel Messi shruggedoff concerns over a train-ing ground injury on Sat-urday with teammates in-sisting that the Barcelonasuperstar will be firing onall cylinders at the WorldCup.

Messi was forced tocut short a practice gameon Friday after hurtinghis right knee in a clashwith Liverpool starJavier Mascherano.

Internet

Barcelona’s Daniel Alvesinsisted on Saturday thatReal Madrid star Kaka,pictured on 8 May, willnot be an injury burdenat the World Cup. INTERNET

Jiyai Shin, of South Ko-rea, reacts after sinkinga putt on the 16th holeagainst Michelle Wie. INTERNET

Lakers bring momentum toPhoenix for Game 3

S P O R T S

GLADSTONE, 23 May—Top-ranked Jiyai Shinknocked out Michelle Wiein the Sybase Match PlayChampionship quarterfinalsSaturday, winning 2 and 1on another hot, humid dayat hilly Hamilton Farm.

“I just didn’t play thatwell coming in,” Wie said.“I didn’t play as well as Iwanted. I think I know ex-actly what I need to workon. I’m going to work hardthe next two weeks and tryto win.”—Internet

Niemann sharpin Rays’ 4-2 win

over AstrosHOUSTON, 23 May—

Houston native JeffNiemann struck out five inseven efficient innings,Dioner Navarro had atwo-run double and theTampa Bay Rays got awaywith some sloppy play tobeat the Astros 4-2 on Sat-urday night.

The 27-year-oldNiemann (4-0), a formerfirst-round draft pick outof Rice, allowed four hitsand one walk. He hasn’tgiven up more than threeearned runs in any of hisnine starts.—Internet

Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nashspeaks to reporters afterbasketball practice on 22May, 2010.—INTERNET

Fernando Torres willstay at the club.—Internet

PHOENIX, 23 May—Los Angeles Lakers fanswere chanting “Bring onBoston” before Game 1 ofthe Western Conferencefinals was over, and theypicked up the volume nearthe finish of Game 2.

There are, however, atleast two games to beplayed — both in Phoenix— before what so manysee as a foregone conclu-

sion, a third straight tripto the NBA finals forKobe & Co.

Pau Gasol says histeam, up 2-0 in the series,understands it will be hardto match the pace and en-ergy of the Suns in Game3 on Sunday night, but headds the Lakers just haveplay up to their capabili-ties.—Internet

Sharapova secures Strasbourgwin for timely French Open boost

FRANCE, 23 May—Rus-sian top seed MariaSharapova beat Germany’sKristina Barrois 7-5, 6-1 inthe final of the WTA Stras-bourg claycourt tournamenthere on Saturday to secureher second title of 2010.

The former worldnumber one trailed 3-5 inthe first set to Barrois, who

was contesting her firstever WTA final, but hitback to take it 7-5 and thencruised to victory in thesecond set.”If you askedme before the tournamentif I’d come back again, Iwould’ve said I’d have towin this year,” said theRussian. “I guess that’s asign I need to come back.I had a great week. Obvi-ously you don’t know howthings turn out but I hopeto come back.—Internet

Maria Sharapova returnsthe ball to GermanKristina Barrois duringtheir final match of theWTA international. INTERNET

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours , weather has been partlycloudy in lower Sagaing Division, r ain or thundershowershave been scattered in Shan and kayah States, upperSagaing and Magway Divisions, fairly widespread inKachin State, Mandalay, Bago, Yangon and TaninthayiDivisions and widespread in the remaining States andDivisions with locally heavyfalls in Rakhine State isolatedheavyfalls in Mon State, and Mandalay Division. Daytemperatures were (3 °C) to (5°C) below May averagetemperatures in Shan and Rakhine States, SagaingDivision (3°C) to (5°C) above May average temperaturesin Mon and Kayin States, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawadyand Taninthayi Divisions and about May averagetemperatures in the remaining States and Divisions. Thenoteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Sittway(4.06) inches, Bilin (3.50) inches, Maungdaw (3.15)inches, Launglon (2.95) inches, Kyaukpyu (2.75) inches,Kyaikkhami (2.44) inches,and Kyaukse (2.29) inches,Kyauktaw (2.29) inches and Myitkyina (2.08) inches.

Maximum temperature on 22-5-2010 was 97°F.Minimum temperature o n 23-5-2010 was 79°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 23 -5-2010 was 71%.Total sun shine hours on 22-5-2010 was (5.1) hours.

Rainfall on 23-5-2010 was (Tr) at Mingaladon, at Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was (3.50 ) inches at Mingaladon, (4.21) inches atKaba-Aye and (2.80) inches at Central Yangon. Maximumwind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (8) mph from Westat (15:30) hours MST on 22-5-2010.

Bay Inference: According to the observations at(12:30) hourss M.S.T today ,yesterday’s low pressure areanear Visakhapatnam (India) now lies over South OrissaCoast (India). Systerm is under close watch forregeneration.Weather is cloudy in the Nouth Bay andmonsoon is moderate in the Andaman sea and elsewherein the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of the 24thMay 2010:Rain or thundershowers will be scattered in KayahState, Mandalay, Magway and lower Sagaing Divisions,fairly widespread in Kachin and Shan States, upperSagaing Division and widespread in the remaining areaswith likelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Kayin, Mon andRakhine States, upper Sagaing Division. Degree ofcertainty is ( 80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at time off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Increase of rain inthe Deltaic areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for24-5-2010:One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is ( 80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for24-5-2010: Some rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is ( 80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for24-5-2010: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is ( 80%).

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Table tennis worlds kick off inMoscow

MOSCOW, 23 May — The 50th world team tabletennis championships kicked off on Sunday inMoscow’s Olympiyskiy stadium. The first matchesfeatured the women’s teams from Japan and Belarus,Romania and Slovak, Chinese Taipei and Russia.

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Only with stability and peace will the nation developOnly with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracyRiots beget riots, not democracyDemocracy can be introduced only through constitution

VOA, BBC-sowing hatredamong the peopleRFA, DVB-generating publicoutrageDo not allow ourselves to beswayed by killer broadcastsdesigned to cause troubles

People’s DesireWe favour peace and stabilityWe favour developmentWe oppose unrest and violenceWipe out those inciting unrestand violence

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May—The Department ofMeteorology and Hydrology announced today thataccording to the observation report at 12.30 pmtoday, a low pressure that occurred nearVisakapatnam of India yesterday now lies overSouth Orissa Coast of India. System is under closewatch for regeneration.—MNA

New tarred road in Mogok Township inaugurated

Low pressure lies overSouth Orissa Coast

Minister for Construction U Khin Maung Myint, Col Win Zaw of Central Command and DeputyManaging Director U Win Tin of Public Works formally open new tarred road in Mogok.

CONSTRUCTION

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May— An inauguration cer-emony of a two miles and four furlongs long and 18feet wide new tarred road built by Public Works underMinistry of Construction took place at the archway inMogok on 21 May morning.

It was attended by Minister for Construction UKhin Maung Myint, Col Win Zaw of Central Com-mand, district/township level departmental officials,townselders, members of social organizations, in-vited persons and local people.

Senior Engineer Daw Aye Aye Maw ofPyinOoLwin District presented reports on construc-tion of the tarred road, and a local people spoke wordsof thanks.

The division superintending engineer and thedistrict senior engineer presented commemorativepennants to Minister U Khin Maung Myint, Col WinZaw and Chairman of PyinOoLwin District Peace andDevelopment Council U Aung Myint.

The minister and party formally opened theroad and strolled along it.—MNA

Wundwin to enjoy fruits ofwater supply in near future

Article: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)

Drinking water is a basic need for all. It isessential for all living creatures including humanbeings for their survival and success of economicand agricultural tasks.

On arrival at Wundwin, we, the news crew of

Myanma Alin, looked into the efforts for availabilityof drinking water for the town. In the past, Wundwinwas in need of drinking water. Now, more drinkingwater will be supplied to the dwellers thanks to all-out

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