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Volume XIX, Number 142 13th Waxing of Tawthalin 1373 ME Saturday, 10 September, 2011

True patriotism * It is very important for every

one of the nation regardlessof the place he lives to havestrong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationali-ties will have to safeguard.NAY PYI TAW, 9

Sept — The second regu-lar session of the FirstPyithu Hluttaw continuedfor the 15th day at PyithuHluttaw Hall of theHluttaw Building here at10 am today.

Today’s session wasattended by Speaker ofthe Pyithu Hluttaw ThuraU Shwe Mann and 382Pyithu Hluttaw repre-sentatives.

During the session,nine questions wereraised, one proposal wasdiscussed and two newproposals were submitted.

Two representativesasked two questions re-lated to the judiciary af-fairs and Union Chief Jus-tice U Tun Tun Oo repliedto the questions.

U Khin Maung Nyoof Pauk constituencyasked how the SupremeCourt of the Unioncarried out the tasks forissuing writs as the Sec-tion 296, Chapter VI, ofthe Constitution pre-scribed that the SupremeCourt of the Union hadthe power to issue themwrits.

Nine questions raised, one proposaldiscussed, two new proposals submitted

Pyithu Hluttaw regularsession continues for 15th day

In his answer to thequestion, the Union ChiefJustice said as of 22 April

Mandamus, one applica-tion for issuing Writ ofProhibition and Writ of

for issuing Writ ofCertiorari and Writ ofProhibition. The Supreme

2011, so far there had been16 applications—15civilian cases and onecriminal case to issue writs.

Fifteen applications ofcivil cases included 10 ap-plications for issuing Writsof Certiorari, two applica-tions for issuing Writs of

Certiorari, one applicationfor issuing Writ ofMandamus or Writ ofCertiorari and oneapplication for the issuingWrit of Certiorari and Writof Quo Warranto. Oneapplication of the criminalcase was the application

Court of the Unionprocessed the applicationswhich were lodged withthe Supreme Court inaccordance with rules andregulations.

Afterwards, U NyanWin of Hlinethayaconstituency asked

whether authorities con-cerned had a plan toscrutinize more not tofile a criminal case whichwas deserved as a civilcase.

In his answer to thequestion, Union Chief Jus-tice U Tun Tun Oo saidthere were two kinds ofthe criminal charges: thecharges made by institu-tions concerned and thedirect complaint. He con-tinued to say that if therewas no evidence to sup-port the charges duringtrials or if it was found thata case was filed thought itshould be the criminalcase, a court had to decideto discharge theindictment before thecharge was brought to thetrial in accordance withSections 253 (1) or 253(2) of the Code of Criminal

Procedure not to cause adefendant to make clarifi-cation at the courtunnecessarily.

In the direct complaintcases, in accordance withthe Section 200 of Codeof Criminal Procedure, acourt had to hear theplaintiff first, and afterconsidering the factsfound out and hearing,the court had to made de-cision whether the caseshould be accepted as thecriminal one or not, hesaid. The plaintiff mighthide truth when theylodged complain to acourt, they were also ques-tioned in accordance withthe Section 200 of Codeof Criminal Procedure andthey were also investi-gated by the policestations concerned in

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Pyithu Hluttaw representatives attending 15th day second regular session of first Pyithu Hluttaw.—MNA

Pyidaungsu HluttawSpeaker receives US SpecialRepresentative and PolicyCoordinator for Myanmar

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desertification

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Pyithu Hluttaw Speakerreceives US Special

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Saturday, 10 September, 2011

PERSPECTIVESSaturday, 10 September, 2011

Enhance Literacy for AllNowadays, all the humans wish the world

peace and tranquility. They all desire to build amodern and prosperous society.

Millions of people around the globe are stillilliterate. Illiteracy somehow means inability todifferentiate what is wrong and what is right,good or bad, leading to widespread of armedconflicts, famine, hunger and so on.

At present, over 700 millions of adults areilliterates, most of whom were girls and oldwomen. Moreover, over 60 million of childrenbetween five and ten years do not have theopportunity for schooling, and over 70 millionof teenagers are also deprived of the sameopportunity.

The United Nations General Assemblydesignated the decade from 2003 to 2012 as theUN Literacy Decade. Therefore, the plan isbeing implemented effectively for all the peopleto be literates.

Myanmar on its part has been high in literacyin successive eras. The governments in theirtimes launched literacy campaigns as a nationalduty. The activities of conducting 3-Rs coursethat means writing, reading and calculatingachieved remarkable successes in all regionsand states. As relentless efforts are being madefor launching literacy campaign to be all literatecitizens, Myanmar can hit over 95 per cent ofliteracy rate in 2011.

Myanmar with high literacy rate is nowstanding tall among the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region. The education sector is realizingthe basic literacy and continuous learningprogramme through the Formal Education,Non-Formal Primary Education and InclusiveEducation. Therefore, all the people are toactively take part in implementing the Literacyfor All with momentum and raising the readinghabit for all literates.

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—Union Minister for ForeignAffairs of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar UWunna Maung Lwinreceived the United Statesdelegation led by MrDerek Mitchell, SpecialRepresentative and PolicyCoordinator for Myanmarat the Minister’s Office,here, at 10 am today.

During the meeting,the two sides had an openand friendly discussion onmatters relating topromotion of bilateralrelations and mutualinterests.

Also present at themeeting were responsibleofficials from the Ministryof Foreign Affairs. MrDerek Mitchell, SpecialRepresentative and PolicyCoordinator for Myanmar

Union FM receives Special Representative and PolicyCoordinator for Myanmar

In the evening,Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs U MaungMyint hosted a dinner in

Social Welfare Department,INGOs sign MoU

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—Social Welfare Departmentand Save the Children (Myanmar), World Vision(Myanmar) and Help Age International (Myanmar)signed an MoU at Thingaha Hotel, here, this morning.

Deputy Minister for Social Welfare, Relief andResettlement U Phone Swe delivered an address. Heexplained that cooperation programme will beimplemented for conducting proficiency course forstaff and local people, giving talks on Conventionon Rights of Child and CEDAW, opening multipliercourses and prevention against trafficking in persons.

Director-General U Soe Kyi of SWD and CountryDirector Mr Chris Paul Herink of World Vision(Myanmar), Country Director Mr Kell and Stevensonof Save the Children (Myanmar) and CountryProgramme Manager Mr Tapan Kuman Barman ofHelp Age International (Myanmar) signed the MoU.

Country directors and country programmemanager of World Vision (Myanmar), Save theChildren (Myanmar) and Help Age International(Myanmar) spoke words of thanks.

Also present on the occasion were DeputyMinister for Health Dr Win Myint, Deputy Ministerfor Education U Aye Kyu and departmental heads ofthe ministry.—MNA

Union Foreign Affairs Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin receives USSpecial Representative and Policy Coordinator for Myanmar

Mr Derek Mitchell. —MNA

was accompanied byCharge d’ Affaires ai MrMichael E Thurston of theUS Embassy.

honour of the visiting USdelegation at ThingahaHotel in Nay Pyi Taw HotelZone.—MNA

YANGON, 9 Sept—The prize presentation for winnersin the Han Golf Masters Junior Golf Series 2011 KenboJunior Golf Championship, organized by MyanmarGolf Federation, was held at Myanmar Golf Club at 9th-mile in Mingaladon Township yesterday.

Executive of MGF Dr Myint Oo, Captain ofMyanmar Golf Club Col Soe Win (Rtd) and Vice-President of MGF U Tint Oo awarded the winners.

CEO of Han Golf Masters Pte Ltd U Chan Han

Winners awarded in KenboJunior Golf Championship

presented champion prizes to winners in the women’sevent, boys’ 8-12 aged, 13-15 aged, men’s 16-18 agedand 19-21 aged events.

MNA

All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker receives US SpecialRepresentative and Policy Coordinator for Myanmar

Policy Coordinator forMyanmar Mr DerekMitchell and party atAmyotha Hluttaw Hall,here, at 9 am today.

Also present at thecall were DeputySpeaker of PyidaungsuHluttaw Deputy Speakerof Amyotha HluttawChairman of BillCommittee and HluttawRights Committee UMya Nyein, chairmen ofcommittees of AmyothaHluttaw and nationalrace representatives ofAmyotha Hluttaw.

The US SpecialRepresentative andPolicy Coordinator forMyanmar and partywere accompanied byCharge d’ Affaires ai ofthe US Embassy MrMichael E Thurston andofficials.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Sept—Speaker of the

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw UKhin Aung Myint

received US SpecialRepresentative and

Pyidaungsu

Hluttaw

Speaker

U Khin

Aung Myint

receives US

Special

Represen-

tative and

Policy

Coordinator

for

Myanmar

Mr Derek

Mitchell.

MNA

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Eastern floods force130,000 to evacuate

WILKES-BARRE, 9 Sept—Relentless rain causedcatastrophic flooding in the eastern United Stateson Thursday, killing at least five people andforcing the evacuation of more than 130,000more in three states.

Remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, days afterslamming the Gulf Coast, swamped homes andbusinesses from Maryland to New England anddropped up to a foot of rain outside Harrisburg,Pennsylvania, which declared a state of emergency.

Flood warnings were in effect in northernVirginia, Delaware, Maryland and upstate NewYork and flood watches were underway in otherareas from Massachusetts to Washington, DC,according to the National Weather Service.

In Pennsylvania, the rising waters of theSusquehanna River forced the evacuation of 65,000people from Wilkes-Barre and another 35,000 fromsurrounding counties, said Stephen Urban,commissioner of Luzerne County.

Eight feet of water covered normally picturesqueriver towns like Tunkhannock and Shickshinny,and residents who disregarded the evacuation rodeout the flood in their bedrooms and attics. Othersflocked to refuge centres.

Reuters

The swollen Susquehanna River is seen inWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

on 8 September, 2011.—INTERNET

World needs to do more againstdesertification

ALGIERS, 9 Sept—Theworld needs to do moreto combat desertification,which threatens close toa third of the planet’spopulation, Algeria saidThursday at the openingof a conference here.“One of the leadingcauses of global foodinsecurity — namely theloss of natural resources,land degradation anddesertification — ispoorly tackled,” AlgerianAgriculture MinisterRachid Benaissa said.

He was speaking atthe opening ofconference in theAlgerian capital bringingtogether around 100

A view of the Saharan desert in southernAlgeria. The world needs to do more tocombat desertification, which threatensclose to a third of the planet’s population,Algeria has said at the opening of aconference in Algiers less.—INTERNET

KABUL, 9 Sept—The NATO-led foreign militaryforce in Afghanistan admitted Thursday that a USsoldier shot dead an Afghan journalist working forthe BBC in July after mistaking him for a suicidebomber.

Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, 25, was killed in acase of “mistaken identity” shortly after 20 peopledied in a suicide bombing at the office where hewas working in troubled southern Afghanistan.

The US soldier responsible for his death is notfacing any disciplinary action in connection withthe incident, International Security Assistance Force(ISAF) spokesman Lieutenant Colonel JimmieCummings said.

Cummings could not confirm whether the soldierwas still on active duty in Afghanistan.—Internet

US soldier killed BBCreporter in

Afghanistan

Noam Shalit, speaks as he stands infront of a flag with an image of his

captured soldier son Gilad Shalit at theErez Crossing with the Gaza Strip,

Aug, 2011.—INTERNET

JERUSALEM, 9 Sept—Israel remains ready to free 1,000Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit, according to the captivesoldier’s father who demanded Thursday that any UN vote onPalestinian statehood be tied to his release.

Noam Shalit indicated that many Palestinian detaineeswere only being held by Israel because of the dispute withHamas over his son, now 25, who was grabbed by gunmenfrom Hamas and two other militant groups on 25 June, 2006.

“Israel is ready to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners inexchange of my son. So Israel is not asking for Gilad for free,”Noam Shalit told reporters at the end of a visit to the UnitedNations to lobby ambassadors.

Israel ready to free1,000 prisoners for

Shalit

The prisoner exchange proposal was made byGerman mediators to Israel and Hamas in February,but Noam Shalit said the Palestinian side rejectedthis. “After a deal will be carried out, hopefully

very soon, Israel will be happy to freemany other Palestinian prisoners thatfrom my point of view are not relevantany more,” the father added in anindication of the importance that Israelhas put on the soldier’s release.—Internet

experts from some 40African countries.

According to theUnited Nations, at least43 percent of arable landin Africa is threatened bydesertification whichimplies that 70 percent ofthe continent’s economicactivity is under threat.

Desertification andensuing famine, foodinsecurity and migrationsalso threaten 40 percentof the Africanpopulation, or 400million people.

Thursday’s Algiersmeeting comes before the10th session of thedecision-making body ofthe UN Convention to

Combat Desertificationwhich opens in SouthKorea next month.“Africa is the mostaffected and mostvulnerable continent...

but it is also the regionwhere victory against thisplague will be the moststriking,” the UNCCD’sexecutive secretary LucGnacadja said.—Internet

SAN DIEGO, 9 Sept—A major outage knockedout power in a region of almost 6 million people inthe Southwest and Mexico on Thursday, bringing

Outage affects six millionin US, Mexico

A San Diego police official directs trafficafter a power outage on 8 Sept, 2011, inSan Diego. A power outage is affectingmillions of people across southernCalifornia, Arizona and Mexico.—INTERNET

San Diego to a near-standstill and leaving people inthe surrounding desert to swelter in searing summerheat.

Two nuclear reactors were offline after losingelectricity, but officials said there was no danger tothe public or workers.

San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout thatstarted shortly before 4 pms PDT (7 pm EDT, 2300GMT), darkening much of the nation’s eighth-largest city was darkened. All outgoing flights fromSan Diego’s Lindbergh Field were grounded andpolice stations were using generators to acceptemergency calls across the area.

The blackout extended east to Yuma, Arizona,where more than 56,000 people were left in thedark; power was restored there about five hourslater. Pockets in California and south of the borderin Baja California. But most of the people in thedarkened swath were expected to spend the nightwithout power.—Internet

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Weight Watchers works intackling obesity

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 9Sept—Adults referred tothe commercial weightloss programme WeightWatchers shed twice asmuch weight as peoplewho received standardcare over a 12-monthperiod, according to anew study.

In clinical trials,researchers led by SusanJebb of the UK MedicalResearch Councilassessed 772 overweightand obese adults inAustralia, Germany, andBritain. About half thepatients received a year’sstandard care, while theother half were given a12-month free mem-bership for a WeightWatchers group neartheir homes.

Sixty-one percent of

emphasised theimportant role of familydoctors and primaryhealth-care providers inproviding advice, and inmaking referrals tocommercial weight-lossprogrammes.

Internet

A customer is seen here at a Weight Watchers meeting location inArlington Heights, Illinois. Adults referred to the commercial weight lossprogramme shed twice as much weight as people who received standard

care over a 12-month period, according to a new study.—INTERNET

Parents who losea baby can die ofa broken heart

A man puts his ear to a pregnant woman’s bellyin the maternity ward of a hospital. Parents who

lose a new baby run a high risk themselves ofdying prematurely, according to a British study

published on Thursday .INTERNET

LONDON, 9 Sept—Parents who lose a new babyrun a high risk themselves of dying prematurely,according to a British study published on Thursday.

Investigators delved into a random sample ofnational death registrations for the years 1971 to2006. They compared deaths among parents whohad been bereaved in the first year of a child’s lifeor whose child had been stillborn, against deathsamong parents whose baby had survived beyondthe first year.

Bereaved parents were between two and fourtimes likelier to die or become widowed in the first10 years of the child’s death compared with non-bereaved counterparts. Mothers in particular were

the participants assignedto the commercialprogramme completedit, while 51 percent ofthe “standard care”group finished theirprogramme.

Overall, individualsin Weight Watchers lostaround twice as muchweight as did those inthe other group, a meanloss of 5.1 kilogrammesversus 2.2. Among thosewho stuck with eitherprogramme to the end,the figures were 6.7against. 3.3 kgrespectively.

Participants rando-mised to WeightWatchers were also morethan three times as likelyto lose at least fivepercent of theirbodyweight.

Weight Watchersoffers weekly weighingand group support. It alsopromotes a balanced,reduced-energy dietalong with increasedphysical activity.

Primary careproviders — sometimesnurses, sometimesdoctors — generallyoffer weight-losstreatment in line withnational guidelines, butvary in the level ofsupervision.

“The similar weightlosses achieved inAustralia, Germany, andthe UK implies that thiscommercial programme,in partnership withprimary care providers,is a robust interventionthat is generalisable toother economicallydeveloped countries,”the researchersconcluded.

The researchers

at threat. Bereaved mothers in England and Waleswere four times likelier to die prematurely, andbereaved mothers in Scotland six times likelier,than women whose child had survived beyond thefirst year of life. The risk for mothers lessenedslightly over time, but was still significant — 50percent higher — after 25 years. After 35 years, itwas 20 percent higher. The reasons for the mortalityare unclear because the data do not give the details.

The research, headed by Mairi Harper of theUniversity of York in northern England, appears inthe specialist journal BMJ Supportive and PalliativeCare.—Internet

Health

BofA discussing aboutBofA discussing about40,000 job cuts

BANGALORE, 9 Sept —Bank of America Corpofficials have discussedslashing roughly 40,000jobs during the first wave ofa restructuring, the WallStreet Journal said, citingpeople familiar with theplans.

The number of job cutsare not final and couldchange. The restructuringaims to reduce the bank’sworkforce of 280,000 overa period of years, theJournal said.

BofA could notimmediately be reached forcomment by Reutersoutside regular USbusiness hours.

The Journal said BofAexecutives met Thursdayat Charlotte, North

Business

A Bank of America sign is pictured outsidea bank branch in Charlotte, North Carolinaon 19 January, 2010.—INTERNET

Carolina, where the bankis headquartered, and willgather again Friday tomake final decisions onthe reductions, putting thefinishing touches on fivemonths of work.

Investors are pressing

BofA to improve itsperformance after it lostmoney in four of the lastsix quarters and its stockhas fallen by half this year.

The Journal said theproposed job cuts mayexceed BofA’s last big

cutback in 2008 when itcalled for 30,000 to 35,000job cuts over three years.That move was triggeredby an economic slowdownand the planned takeoverof securities firm MerrillLynch & Co.

Earlier this month, theCharlotte Observer reportedthat BofA executives werediscussing plans topotentially shed 25,000 to30,000 jobs over the nextseveral years.

BofA had earlierplanned to cut 3,500 jobs,its Chief Executive BrianMoynihan had said in amemo to staff on 18August, as it tries to cometo grips with $1 trillion ofproblem home mortgages.

Reuters

This undated image provided by Nike, the2011 Nike Mag is seen. Nike is going back

to the future. The sneaker maker onThursday, 8 Sept, 2011 said it has createda limited-edition shoe based on a glowing

pair that appeared in the popular 1989movie “Back to the Future II.” The 2011

Nike Mag is designed to be an exactreplica of the fictional sneaker, including

a glowing Nike name on the strap.INTERNET

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Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives USSpecial Representative and Policy

Coordinator for Myanmar

Speakerof PyithuHluttawThura

U ShweMannshakeshands

with USSpecial

Represe-ntative

and PolicyCoordinator

forMyanmarMr DerekMitchell.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Sept—Speaker ofPyithu Hluttaw Thura UShwe Mann received USSpecial Representativeand Policy Coordinatorfor Myanmar Mr DerekMitchell and party atPyithu Hluttaw Hall ofHluttaw Building, here,

at 11 am today.Also present on the

occasion together withPyithu Hluttaw SpeakerThura U Shwe Mannwere Deputy Speaker ofPyithu Hluttaw U NandaKyaw Swa and nationalrace representatives ofPyithu Hluttaw.

The US SpecialRepresentative andPolicy Coordinator forMyanmar and partywere accompanied byCharge d’ Affaires ai ofthe US EmbassyMr Michael E Thurstonand officials.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—Union Minister for BorderAffairs and for Myanma Industrial DevelopmentLt-Gen Thein Htay received Mr Derek Mitchell, USSpecial Representative and Policy Coordinator forMyanmar, at the Ministry of Border Affairs, here, at5.30 pm today.

Union Minister for Border Affairs and forMID receives US Special Representativeand Policy Coordinator for Myanmar

They discussed promotion and cooperation inthe US-Myanmar relations.

Also present at the call were Deputy Ministerfor Border Affairs Maj-Gen Zaw Win and directors-general.

MNA

Blind fish still‘know’ time rhythm‘know’ time rhythm

SAN FRANCISCO, 9 Sept—Researchers say animalsthat have evolved for millions of years undergroundwith no day-night cycle still have a sense of time,a US journal reported.

In a study published in the journal PLoS Biology,researchers looked at a species of cavefish,Phreatichthys andruzzii, which has lived isolatedfor 2 million years beneath the Somali desert and iscompletely blind.

While the cavefish don’t live in a 24-hourcycle, researchers said, they still have a circadianrhythm, one of as much as 47 hours in duration.

Since the normal circadian rhythm ticks alongwith a period that is not precisely 24 hours, it needsto be “re-set” by signals such as light.

“Cavefish give us a unique opportunity tounderstand how profoundly sunlight hasinfluenced our evolution,” researcher CristianoBertolucci said.

While light could reset the rhythm in “normal”fish, it failed to do so in the blind cavefish.

Internet

Seeking a keyboard thatenhances the iPad

This Sept. 6, 2011 photoshows the Belkin Keyboard

Folio for Apple iPad 2 during aproduct review in San

Francisco.—INTERNET

An Associated Press reporterdemonstrates the Targus

Versave Keyboard and Case foriPad 2 during a product review in

San Francisco, on 6 Sept,2011.—INTERNET

SAN FRANCISCO, 9 Sept — The greatthing about using an iPad is that you

can tote around a skinny device insteadof lugging your laptop. The bad thingis that the iPad’s virtual keyboard isn’tgreat for extended typing sessions. It’sfine for dashing off emails, but Iwouldn’t use it to type up this article.

These devices all had several thingsgoing for them. All were easy to connectwith the iPad, either wirelessly viaBluetooth or, in the case of Apple’sphysical keyboard, a dock connector.They all had a row of buttons to do suchthings as control music playback orswitch to the home screen.

Keyboard Folio for iPad 2 ($100):The Keyboard Folio’s material felt

cheap, though it did look as if it mightbe somewhat stain resistant. Theprocess for propping up the iPad orputting it away was complicated. Thecase was bulky when folded up, too.

Of all the ones I tested, theKeyboard Folio had the most optionsfor viewing angles, which I appreciated.But I could only use it in landscapemode, not turned like a skyscraper.

It also took up the most space ofthe four I tested — from about 9 inchesto more than a foot, depending on howI had it angled. This made it difficult touse in a tight space.

Internet

UnionMinisterLt-Gen

Thein Htayreceives

Mr DerekMitchell, US

SpecialRepresentativeand Policy

Coordinatorfor

Myanmar.MNA

Dead NASAsatellite willsoon plummetto Earth

WASHINGTON, 9 Sept—A deadNASA satellite will soon fall to Earth,but the space agency says there is verylittle chance that a piece of it will hitsomeone.

NASA says the 20-year-old satellite

will probably fall sometime betweenlate September and October. Pieces of itcould land anywhere in the six inhabitedcontinents in a worldwide swath fromsouth of Juneau, Alaska, to just north ofthe tip of South America.—Internet

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NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—UnionMinister for Border Affairs andMyanma Industrial Development Lt-Gen Thein Htay received MrKristalina Georgieva, EuropeanCommissioner for InternationalCooperation, Humanitarian Aid andCrisis Response, at the Ministry of

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—Speaker of the PyithuHluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann received Chairman ofEnergy Committee of the Senate of Thailand MrSuradet Jiratiticharoen and party at Pyithu HluttawHall of Hluttaw Building, here, at 3 pm today.

Also present at the call were chairmen,secretaries and members of the Resources andEnvironmental Conservation Committee, theEconomic and Trade Development Committee,

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker receives Chairman ofEnergy Committee of Senate of Thailand

and the Investment and Industrial DevelopmentCommittee of Pyithu Hluttaw, and officials of theHluttaw Office.

Chairman of Energy Committee of the Senateof Thailand and party were accompanied by officialsof the Thai Embassy to Myanmar.

They discussed economic and trade promotion,investment and industrial development andenvironmental conservation.—MNA

Myanmar, EU cooperation focusedin meeting with EU Commissioner

Border Affairs here today. Themeeting focused on cooperationbetween Myanmar and the EuropeanUnion.

It was also attended by DeputyMinister for Border Affairs Maj-GenZaw Win and directors-general.

MNA

Union Minister Lt-Gen Thein Htay receives Mr Kristalina Georgieva,European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian

Aid and Crisis Response.—MNA

Speaker of

Pyithu Hluttaw

Thura U Shwe

Mann shakes hands

with Chairman of

Energy Committee of

the Senate of

Thailand Mr Suradet

Jiratiticharoen.

MNA

Union Energy Minister receivesChairman of Energy Committee of

Senate of Thailand

Chief Minister of Yangon Region U Myint Swe andwife being welcomed by DPRK Ambassador to

Myanmar Mr Kim Sok Chol at the reception to mark63rd Anniversary of the Founding of the Democratic

People's Republic of Korea at Chatrium Hotel inYangon on 9 September.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept—UnionMinister for Energy U ThanHtay received Chairman ofEnergy Committee of the Senateof Thailand Mr SuradetJiratiticharoen and party at hisoffice, here, this morning.

They discussed sustainingachievement of offshore andinland oil and gas exploration,drilling and production beingjointly undertaken by the two

countries based on friendlyrelations, more opportunity forinvestment of Thai companiesin Myanmar energy sector andcooperation in basic productionof natural gas.

Also present at the call wereDeputy Minister U Soe Aung, thedirector-general of EnergyPlanning Department, managingdirectors and officials.

MNA

Thai flood death toll rises to 78BANGKOK, 9 Sept—A total of 78 people

were confirmed killed by the flash floods andlandslides in northern and central part ofThailand on Friday, while almost 30 businesseswere seriously suffered by the floods.

The department of Disaster Prevention andMitigation said the province that has the mostdeath reports is Phichit Province where 21people died in floods caused by rains that havepummelled the upper portion of Thailand. Theflash floods and mudslides in northern andcentral provinces of Thailand caused by heavyrainstorms that have hit about 14 provinces formore than three months.

The monsoon also prevails over theAndaman Sea, Thailand and the Gulf ofThailand, according to the department. Thelatest deaths are reported in Uttaratid, wheresix people were killed and another is missing

after landslides occurred on Friday morning,making the death toll of the province rise toseven. The department estimates that about2,300 quare metres of farmland have been hitby floods. Meanwhile, about 6,700employees of 27 businesses have had seriousproblems this week because of the floodingin the provinces, according to LabourMinistry Permanent Secretary SomkiatChayasriwong.

The official said the ministry’s assistancecentres in those provinces along river basinsin the central region have reported on thenumber of workers affected by the floodingfrom Monday to Wednesday this week.

Somkiat said the ministry had alreadyapproved house repair loans for 190 workers,worth a total of 9.5 million baht (about 316,000U.S. dollars). He added that the ministry hadcoordinated the efforts of governmentagencies in providing them assistance,including the distribution of essentialcommodities and loans for house repairs.

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NAY PYI TAW, 9Sept—Union Minister forInformation and for Cul-ture U Kyaw Hsan re-ceived the United Statesdelegation led by MrDerek Mitchell, US Spe-cial Representative and

Union Minister for Information and forCulture receives Special Representativeand Policy Coordinator for Myanmar

Policy Coordinator forMyanmar at the ministry,here, at 2 pm today.

Also present at the callwere heads of depart-ments and enterprisesunder the Ministry ofInformation.

The Special Repre-sentative and Policy Co-ordinator for Myanmarand party were accompa-nied by Charge d’ Affairesai of the US Embassy MrMichael E Thurston.

MNA

1. As U Tun Aung Khaing who stood for same constituency submitted anelectoral objection against Hluttaw Representative U Aung Kyaw Zanwho was elected to Pauktaw Township Pyithu Hluttaw Constituency inRakhine State, the Union Election Commission conducted investigationthrough election tribunal in accord with Section 69 of Pyithu HluttawElection Law and heard Amendment to Note of Election Objection inaccord with Section 75 and made a resolution.

2. Under the resolution on Amendment to Note of Election Objection No (8/2011) dated 9.9.2011, election of U Aung Kyaw Zan as Hluttawrepresentative for Pauktaw Township Pyithu Hluttaw Constituency wasnull and void in accord with the law and U Tun Aung Khaing was decidedin accord with Section 75 of (a) of Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law as Hluttawrepresentative elected to the said constituency in accord with the law.

3. Thus, U Aung Kyaw Zan shall not continue to stand as a Pyithu Hluttawrepresentative from the day the notification was issued and it wasannounced in accord with Section 75 (b) of Pyithu Hluttaw Election Lawthat Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Pauktaw Township Pyithu HluttawConstituency in Rakhine State is U Tun Aung Khaing (11/Pa Ta Na(Naing) 003474).

Sd/ Tin Aye Chairman

Union Election Commission

Reshuffle of Pyithu Hluttaw representativeannounced

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept — The Union Election Commission of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar issued Notification No (48/2011) today.The following is the translation of the notification.

Republic of the Union of MyanmarUnion Election Commission

Nay Pyi TawNotification No. (48/2011)

12th Waxing of Tawthalin 1373 ME(9 September 2011)

Announcement on resolution of Union ElectionCommission in accord with Section 75 (b) of Pyithu

Hluttaw Election Law

Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsanreceives Mr Derek Mitchell, US Special Representative and Policy

Coordinator for Myanmar.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 9Sept—Governor ofCentral Bank ofMyanmar U Than Nyeinof the Ministry of Fi-nance and Revenue met

CBM Governor receives Ambassadorof EU Thailand delegation

Ambassador of Euro-pean Union ThailandDelegation Mr DavidLipman and party at theCBM Governor’s office,here, this afternoon.

They discusseddevelopment of bankingservices and co-operation in monetaryaffairs.

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NAY PYI TAW, 9Sept—Union Ministerfor Electric Power No. 1U Zaw Min receivedChairman of the SenateEnergy Committee ofThailand Mr SuradetJiratiticharoen and party

Myanmar, Thailand to cooperate inhydropower projects

at the ministry here today.They discussed co-operation in hydropowerproject based on mutualbenefits.

Also present at thecall were Deputy Minis-ter for Electric Power No.

1 U Myint Zaw, directors-general, managing direc-tors and officials con-cerned of the ministry, andMinister and Deputy Chiefof Mission Mr KallayanaVipattipumiprates of theThai embassy.—MNA

2 Ill siblings killed by gunshot laid to restWASHINGTON PARK 9 Sept— As their imprisoned

father listened by telephone, a boy and his sister whopolice say were gunned down by their mother were laidto rest in a single white casket Thursday after pastorsurged those grieving to turn to scriptures in the absenceof answers about the killings.

Some four dozen mourners, including the children’s8-year-old brother, gathered for the funeral for 5-year-old Levada Brown III and 4-year-old Yokela Smith.But their mother, Yokeia Smith, 25, remained jailed onmurder charges, accused of carrying out the killingswith close-range shotgun blasts to the children’s headseight days earlier in the family’s East St Louis apartment.

The children’s father, serving time in aWisconsin federal prison for helping rob a southwesternIllinois credit union in 2006, monitored the funeralfrom behind bars through a telephone handset perchedon the House of Prayer to All Nations’ pulpit. He voicedhis anguish in a letter about losing “two angels” that wasread at the funeral.

Internet

This undated file family photo viathe Belleville News-Democratshows 4-year-old Yokela Smith,left, and 5-year-old LeVadaBrown, the children of YokeiaSmith, 25, of East St Louis, Ill.INTERNET

Women spy on partners’online profiles twice as

much as menLONDON, 9 Sept—A new survey has suggested that Britain has

become a ‘nation of snoops’ where one in five women spy on theirpartner’s online accounts.

During the survey by security software firm Norton, womenadmitted that they have accessed their partner’s emails or messageson social networking services such as Facebook without theirknowledge, whereas only one in 10 men admitted doing the same.

While almost 15 percent of British women revealed that someinformation that they had found in their partners’ online profilesprovoked arguments, only seven percent of men encountered thesame situation.

The findings were one of several indications that people’sethical standards may slip online.

“Our research raises some serious questions around privacyand the boundaries people are willing to cross in their own onlinedealings,” the Telegraph quoted Simon Ellson from Norton assaying.—Internet

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(from page 1)accordance with the Section 202 of Code of CriminalProcedure. After listening to the facts found out duringthe questioning by a court and investigation by thepolice in accordance with the Section 202 of Code ofCriminal Procedure, the court had to decide to dis-charge the defendant if it found the complain wasgroundless, he said.

In the cases of direct complaint, it could found thata plaintiff, hiding the truth of case, could lodgecomplains that could support to charge a defendant,he said. The direct complaint could not be accepted asthe criminal cases if the defendant applied the court todischarge the complaint when important facts that

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were hidden by the plaintiff were found out at thecourt, he said. If it was found that the condition was notenough to charge a criminal case, a court had to use thepower vested in the Section 561- A of the Code ofCriminal Procedure to discharge the complaint toprevent the abuse of the judiciary machinery and toprotect the judiciary pillar. The power vested in theSection 561 of Code of Criminal Procedure which hadbeen exercised by the High Court in the past, but todayregion or state courts exercised it, he said.

He continued to say that filing criminal casesbefore they were brought to a court was within therights of the institutions which lodged the cases, andwhen the cases were taken to the court, the handlingthe cases were within the rights of the court. Officialspermissions had been given to investigate the casesduring the filing period and during trial whether casesshould be accepted as the criminal cases or not, headded. In his conclusion, Union Chief Justice U TunTun Oo said the courts had been taking measures inaccordance with the rules and regulations not to file acriminal case which was deserved as a civil case andnot to cause a defendant to make clarification at thecourt unnecessarily.

Afterwards, six representatives asked six ques-tions and Union Construction Minister U Khin MaungMyint answered them.

U Aung Kyaw Soe of Natmauk constituencyasked the Union Minister whether the ministry hada plan to construct concrete culverts across theThatkekyin Creek and the Taguntaing Creek on theNatmauk-Magway Road Section and the WahkhotCreek and the Kywemakya Creek on the Natmauk-Pyawbwe as the creeks had sandbanks even in thesummer causing hindrance to vehicles.

Union Minister for Construction U Khin MaungMyint said the ministry had already upgraded thePyawbwe-Ywamon-Natmauk-Magway Road linkingMagway and Mandalay regions in the 2010-2011fiscal year. While the road was being upgraded, two

conduits and six concrete culverts had already beenconstructed on the road. Over 53 per cent of theconstruction of the iron-reinforced concrete bridgeacross Kyarhtoo Creek had been completed and 60per cent of the 553 ft long culvert across the WahkhotCreek on the Natmauk-Pyawbwe Section in the 2011-12 fiscal year. The Ministry had a plan to constructconcrete culverts on remaining the Thatkekyin Creek,the Taguntaing Creek and Kyawemakya Creek in the2012-13 fiscal year.

U Kyaw Naing Htay of Indaw constituencyasked the Union Minister where the ministry had aplan to construct bridges across the Sawmaw Creek,the Narakhaung Creek, the Natmahot Creek, theKhuntan Creek, the Nantthe Creek, the KunchaungCreek and the Aikma Creek on the Shwebo-Myitkyina Union Highway.

The Union minister replied that the ministry had

plan to construct bridges over the 200 ft long KhuntanCreek, the 500 ft long Natmahotkyi Creek and the 120ft long Hlweseik Creek and to construct culverts overthe 150 ft long Aikma Creek, the 300 ft long KwinCreek, the 200 ft long Nantthe Creek, the 350 ft longNarakhaung Creek and the 300 ft long SawmawCreek on priorities depending on the budget.

There are 815 conduits and bridges on the 168mile long Shwebo-Myitkyina Union Highway and 65bridges need to be repaird and 12 bridges need to beupgraded, the minister said in his answer.

U Tin Myint of Taze constituency asked theUnion Minister whether the ministry had a plan toupgrade the damaged 105 miles and 4 furlongs longYeU-Taze-Kalewa Road to an all-weathered road.

The Union minister replied that the ministry had torepair the road section between the Taze and Thakekyinin every opening season as the road section was totallydamaged due to the trucks loaded with logs.

During the meeting of the Sagaing Region Gov-ernment and Myanma Timber Enterprise on 8, July,2011, the ministry suggested not to use the roads of theMinistry of Construction for transportation of logs andto use the Chindwin River and the rail transportation.Only then, could the ministry carry out roadwork, theminister said. The Ministry had a plan to seek budgetin the 2012-13 fiscal year for the roadwork on theYeU-Taze-Kalewa Road and would carry out theroadwork.

Afterwards, U Aung Kyaw Oo of YeU constitu-ency asked the ministry where it had a plan topractice the clear system for collecting tax at tollgates as the businessmen who collected tax for roadand bridge use permitted the trucks which wereloaded with extra tons of loads after collecting moretax than fixed fee, damaging roads and bridges.

The Union minister replied that the Ministry ofConstruction had permitted businessmen to run 261tool gates under the tender system for the 2011-12 fiscalyear under the supervision of the regional and state

governments concerned. They were permitted to collecttax only after they paid the tender fee to and signedcontracts with the Public Works of the Ministry ofConstruction.

The Union Minister continued that fixed rates of tolland actions against overcharging are enshrined in road/bridge auction agreements and that on 12-5-2011, theMinistry of Construction met bidders for 2011-2012fiscal year and explained that they will be warned forovercharging for the first time, for the second time, theministry will close auctioned toll gates for one monthperiod during which the ministry will collect the tollsand hands over the toll gates to bidders after that periodand that bidders will be cancelled for the particular fiscalyear if they commit such act for the third time.

However, he said that some toll gates charge morethan fixed amount and that 12 toll gates were closed forone month; that to ensure less damages to roads andbridges, actions are taken against overloaded vehiclesunder the arrangements of Region/State chief ministersand roads and bridges security and discipline enforce-ment teams of the Ministry of Construction who also giveeducative talks to drivers to load vehicles in accordancewith ASEAN standard and fixed amount of loads (vehi-cle &loads) based on axles of vehicles.

The Union Minister said that tolls for using roadswere fixed since July, 1997 and were not changed for14 years till 2010; that bridges were divided two kinds,one normal and the other project bridges, and twokinds of tolls collected for two kinds of bridges werefixed since May 2004 and were not changed till 2011for seven years; that current tolls for private vehicles isfixed at K 2 per mile basically and K 50 per bridge andK 100 per project bridge according to kinds of vehicles;that new charging system is based on number of axlesand allowance of loads; the new toll-collecting system atauctioned toll bridges and roads have been confirmed atthe meeting of the Union Government; the new systemis simpler than the previous one and toll-collection forusing roads and bridges will come into effect soon.

In doing so, the Union Minister added that overloadedvehicles will be fined and vehicles which are temporarilyallowed by the Ministry of Construction to carry additionalloads for public interests will be charged three times morethan normal charges for a mile depending on number ofaxles and kinds of vehicles; and that vehicles that carrymore than permitted additional loads will be charged tentime more than normal charges.

He continued that tarred roads which are con-structed to have a lifespan of 10 years are damagedwithin 10 months due to overloaded vehicles, causingheavy losses to the nation; that people should abide bytraffic rules so that roads constructed by the State canbe used for a long time, said the Union Ministerpromised that his ministry would strive for provisionof smooth public transportation.

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(from page 8)In response to the question raised by Daw Mi

Myint Than of Ye Constituency about “whetherthere is a plan to repair the road from Thanbyuzayatto Ye and where tolls are used in instead of repair-ing the damaged roads as there are about five tollgates in Ye Township alone which are alwayscharging vehicles for passing through them”, theUnion Minister said that Thanbyuzayat-Ye roadsection in Mon State is of asphalt facility with 56miles and two furlongs in length; that the ministry hashired Aye Ko Family Construction Co Ltd to maintainand upgrade 112 miles and six furlongs longMawlamyine-Ye-Mahlwetaung road section underBOT system since 16-3-2010; that currently thesection between Thanbyuzayat and Ye is in morecritical condition and the ministry has instructed thestate superintending engineer to closely supervisethe company in reconstructing and upgrading of thesection.

The Union Minister added that Thanbyuzayat-Ye section is 12 feet wide and only 20 feet wideincluding the shoulders; that the road will be widenedfurther 12 feet to a 24-ft tarred facility which canwithstand 60 tons load; that the width of the roadsection including the borders will be widened to 40ft on the plain and to 34 ft on the hilly areas; thatmeasures will be taken for smooth transportation onthe old road while the new one is under construction;that the road section was severely damaged becausethe Construction Ministry had complete loads ofconstruction works within 1 year and six months inaddition to heavy rainfall and weakness of the foun-dation; the ministry has done minor repairs on thesection on 2-9-2011 and now vehicles can runsmoothly on it.

The Union Minister continued that majorrepairs will be carried out in open season and theasphalt has been stockpiled and gravels are beingproduced at Mahlwetaung quarry; that there are onlytwo toll gates auctioned by the Ministry of Construc-tion, one for the road and the other for the bridge onThanbyuzayat-Ye road section; that the ministry hashanded over the cash received from auction and thatthe ministry is not concerned with charges of othergates and that he himself and the State chief ministerhad met with personnel of Aye Ko Co which isoperating Mawlamyine-Thanbyuzayat-Ye sectionunder BOT system and are supervising the companyin repairing and upgrading the road section.

In response to question of U Myint Soefrom Pyawbwe Constituency about “whether thereis a plan to connect Yangon-Mandalay Highwayin the west of Pyawbwe in Mandalay Region andPyawbwe-Natmauk-Magway at the junction ofthe two roads like in other towns for publicconvenience as Pyawbwe-Natmauk-Magwayroad is blocked at the junction.”, the Union Ministersaid that the junction lies where mile post No. 262/2 on Yangon-Mandalay Highway and mile postNo. 17/5 on Pyawbwe-Ywamon-Natmauk roadmeet; that plans have been drawn to construct theroads linking the highway and Pyawbwe-Ywamon-Natmauk road at the junction in 2011-2012 fiscalyear; that road linking Yangon-Mandalay Highwaywith Pyawbwe will be constructed as 50-ft wide and935-ft long concrete facility and road to Natmaukwill be constructed as 50-ft wide and 900-ft longfacility.

Those road will have to be constructed stepby step starting open season to be set standard ones;

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that works can be started beginning of November,2011 and will be finished at the end of 2012 fiscalyear.

U Kyaw Soe Lay of Mohnyin Constituencyasked Union Minister for Rail Transportation UAung Min “whether there is plan to upgradeMandalay-Myitkyina railroad section and coachesas rail tracks are in bad condition and coaches arepoor in quality, making the coaches jumping andswaying roughly from side to side, left out fromforwarding coaches and derail while running inspite of increased number of trains on Mandalay-Myitkyina rail road section. The Union Ministeranswered that Mandalay-Myitkyina railroad is up-graded yearly depending upon the funds; that for2011-2012 fiscal year, the ministry has received afund of K 350 million and is repairing and upgradingrailroads according to list of priorities; that Meza-

through democratic system for the first time in 50years coincides with the farms needing fertilizers andthus he seconded the proposal. U Saw Thein Aungfrom Hlaingbwe Constituency said that access tofertilizer is a life-and-death matter for farmers.

U Tha Sein of Kyauktaw constituency askedfor more supply of fertilizers in Rakhine State whenfertilizers are distributed at low-price and alsoseconded the proposal. U Kyaw Myint of NawnghkioConstituency said that he supported the proposal asindustrial production of fertilizer at home anddistribution at reasonable price may contribute muchto the State and farmers.

Union Minister for Agriculture and IrrigationU Myint Hlaing said that amount of fertilizer used foragricultural sector is very low in comparison withtotal sown acreage; that in 2010-2011, only 0.28 bagof fertilizer is used for an acre in comparison with

Bonchaung railroad section of Mandalay-Myitkyinarailroad section has been upgraded as priority and isbeing reinforced with concrete sleepers and gravels;that as deep slopes, and number of S-turns feature thesection, the ministry has planned to search out a newalignment to construct a new one in coming openseason to keep the railroad in service for all season;that according to train drivers, Mandalay-Myitkyinarailroad section has become better than previousyears; that major weak point of the section is woodenwhich are easy to decay and thus plans are under wayto use concrete sleepers in place of wooden ones.

The Union Minister continued that of thecurrent passenger coaches running on Mandalay-Myitkyina railroad section, 45 per cent are over 30years old and thus the ministry will run 60 newpassenger coaches on the railroad as it is preparing topurchase 217 new coaches; that before the arrival ofnew ones, Myanmar Railways will repair and up-grade the ones in use.

Then, eight Hluttaw representatives discussedproposal of Thura U Aung Ko of Kanpetlet Constitu-ency about “distribution of fertilizers at a reasonableprice within the reach of farmers.”

U Htay Myint from Myeik Constituencyseconded the proposal saying that it is high time toutilize water, human and natural resources on ourown. U Khin Maung Htay of Htilin Constituencysaid that access to quality strains is crucial inagriculture and either is fertilizer as an input.

U Saw Ba Thein of Thaton Constituency saidthat he deeply agreed with the proposal as it contrib-utes to poverty alleviation campaigns in rural regionsconducted by the State. U Paik Htwe of KamaConstituency also seconded the proposal pointingout the need to boost production of rice, major cropfor domestic consumption and beans and pulses,exported crops for foreign currency.

U Win Than of Thabaung Constituency saidthat the first term of Hluttaw which has emerged

total sown acreage of 58.36; that poor amount offertilizer input contributes to low yield of paddy; thatit is a case of inadequate input leading to decreasingoutput, that as the Ministry of Agricultural andIrrigation is rendering help for farmers to be able touse quality strains and apply scientific cultivationmethods, farmers need to effectively use fertilizers toboost production; that in spite of shift to qualitystrains, without fertile soil, there is hardly a chance toboost production of crops; that urgent need of ferti-lizer is being fulfilled by exporting from abroad andurea fertilizer plants will be established throughutilization of natural gas, natural resource of thenation for promotion of agricultural sector.

The Union Minister added that such doingwill increase production of crops as well as theincomes of the farmers; that it will also contributes toachievement of different crop production targets setby the State and thus surplus can be exported to earnmore foreign currency. He then said that he secondedthe proposal to construct modern fertilizer plants aspriority either under the arrangements of the State orwith the investment of the private sector for produc-tion of quality and reasonably-priced fertilizer.

The Hluttaw confirmed the proposal of ThuraU Aung Ko. He then submitted proposal for “povertyalleviation in Chin State”, U Kyi Tha of GwaConstituency for “formation of rural regions powersupply committees and introduction of rural re-gion power supply act.”

Those proposals will be discussed on 13Septembers and those wishing to participate in thediscussion may register in the evening.

U Lun Thi’s proposal about enactment of alaw to limit sown acreage (monsoon paddy, summerpaddy) will be discussed 12 September.

The 15th-day second regular session of FirstPyithu Hluttaw came to an end at 2.30 pm and the16th-day second regular session continues at 10 amon12 September.—MNA

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Union Minister for EducationDr Mya Aye replies to queries.

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U Phone Myint Aung of YangonRegion Constituency No.3 raising

question.—MNA

U Saw Maw Tun of Bago RegionConstituency No.1 participates in

discussion.—MNA

(from page 16)should be included in the exam questionsare same, exam questions cannot beleaked out as they are different. If a singleexam question is issued, time will beneeded to change the exam question inthe entire nation.

Regarding the question raised by DrTin Shwe of Yangon Region ConstituencyNo.6 who asked how measures are beingtaken for promotion of morality andcode of ethics of new generation youths,the Union minister replied that moralityand public ethics subject is being taughttwice a week in the general subject ofGrade I, Grade II and Grade III and in thesocial subject of Grade IV and Grade Vas a compulsory one for turning outgood and able citizens.

Similarly, arrangements have beenmade to stipulate etiquette subject, andlectures on Union spirit and human rightsin middle and high school level asaffiliated courses, setting one lecturingtime a week.

The said subjects and courses havebeen handed out to teachers ashandbooks. In order to inculcate youthgenerations with lofty aims and highmorality, arrangements will be made tomodify current syllabuses in conformitywith genuine and disciplined multipartydemocracy system practiced by the State,and to help teachers show enthusiasticefforts in giving lecture to students.

Union Minister for Electric PowerNo. 1 U Zaw Min replied the questions ofthree Hluttaw representatives.

Daw Nan Ni Ni Aye of Kayin StateConstituency No. 6 in her question saidthat “whether there is a plant toimplement Hatkyi hydropower projectin Thanlwin Basin in Kayin State. Ifthere is, when the construction willstart and end, asking if the electricityhas been earmarked for Papon of PaponDistrict and Kamamaung Sub-township.” In response, the UnionMinister said that the previous ElectricPower Ministry and Ministry of Energyof Thailand signed MoU on 30-5-2005so as to conduct observation survey onHatkyi hydropower project. Toimplement the project, Ministry of ElectricPower No. 1, EGAT International Co Ltdof Thailand and Sinohydro Corporationon 24-4-2010 inked the MoA throughforeign direct investment (FDI) and JointVenture Build, Operate, Transfer (J.V/BOT).

The project-implementingcompanies have submitted feasibilitystudy report-FSR on 10-1-2008. Topresent Environmental ImpactAssessment-EIA and Social ImpactAssessment-SIA reports are under way.When the companies present the reports,the ministry in cooperation with localand foreign organizations will continueto conduct feasibility study of the project

that if the project will become reality,and if the project will activate impact onwaterway, environment and socio life.Joint Venture Agreement-JVA willfollow if there is acceptable situationbased on mutual benefits after detailedand thorough assessment. The ministryand the companies will schedule periodto implement the project when the greenlight is given to implementation ofproject.

Currently, Hatkyi hydropowerproject is under observation.Construction of the project is due to takeseven years at least or ten years at mostas it is large-scale hydropower project.

As it is a project to be implementedthrough Foreign Direct Investment-FDI,

Joint Venture/BOT system, the State canget royalty energy and if necessary,electricity can be bought for the nation.On completion of the project, electricitywill be supplied into the national powergrid and to nearby townships and townsunder the arrangements of the Ministryof Electric Power No. 2.

U Maung Saw Phyu of RakhineState Constituency No. 4 said he haslearnt that Datang (Yunnan) UnitedHydropower Developing Co Ltd willimplement the Laymyo RiverHydropower Project together withHydropower Planning Departmentunder the Ministry of Electric PowerNo. 1. He said he would like to knowimplementation of the hydropowerproject, target date to complete theproject, expected benefits for Unionlevel and Rakhine State and capabilitiesto supply electricity to nearby townsand villages of the project. In responseto the question, Hydropower PlanningDepartment under the Ministry of ElectricPower No. 1 signed an MoU togetherwith Datang (Yunnan) UnitedHydropower Developing Co Ltd of Chinaon 7-1-2010 for implementation of theproject on Laymyo River in RakhineState.

According to the project feasibility,Hydropower Planning Department underthe Ministry of Electric Power No. 1signed Memorandum of Agreement-MOA with China Datang OverseasInvestment Co Ltd (CDOI) and Shwe

implementation of the projects that canlast five years.

On completion, the projects willgenerate 4115 million kilowatt hoursyearly. As a result, the Union includingRakhine State can enjoy fruits of thehydropower projects that will supplyelectricity to towns and villages near theprojects.

U Nyo Tun of Rakhine StateConstituency No. 11 asked how willmanage supply of electricity to An andits villages on completion of KokanttanVillage Hydropower Project beingimplemented upstream of An inRakhine State and extend duration ofpower supply to wards of An. Inresponse to the question, the An CreekHydropower Project is beingimplemented by the Ministry of ElectricPower No. 1 on An Creek, 3.5 milesnortheast to An of Kyaukpyu District inRakhine State. The project can generate44 million kilowatt hours yearly.

The ministry launched the project in2006-2007 fiscal year and so far, theproject has completed by 15.28 per centby July 2011. Depending on the allottedfunds, the project will be implementedon scheduled.

A 250 kva generator provided byWestern Command Headquarters forregional development supplies electricityto 638 consumers in An.

Ministry of Electric Power No. 2provides 675 gallons of diesel monthlyto use it for operating the generator 2.5

hours a day. The power supply durationextension committee was formed withparticipation of local people and thecommittee buys diesel for operating thegenerator three hours a day from 7 pm to10 pm daily. The committee collects K300 per electricity unit and pays K 35 perunit to the department and keeps theremaining cash amount to the fund. TheMinistry of Electric Power No. 2 providesdiesel for supply of electricity totownships of Rakhine State two hours aday. The regional power supply durationextension committees and the electricitysupply committees manage extension ofpower supply duration. On completion,An project will generate electricity forAn round the clock.

With regard to the proposal submittedyesterday by Dr Khin Shwe of YangonRegion Constituency No. 9 urging theUnion government to initially establisha Stock Exchange in Myanmar likeother ASEAN member countries, UNyunt Tin of Yangon RegionConstituency No. 2 said that the StockExchange benefits all walks of life andcontributes to the process of ruraldevelopment and poverty alleviation beingundertaken by the State. The poor andretired may buy shares. The process of theexchange can contribute combating thebetting and create the job opportunities.After completion of the financial reform,it is necessary to realize the stock exchangeas quickly as possible in realization of themarket-oriented economic system.

U Tun Kyaw of Shan StateConstituency No 10 raised a questionthat 10 ASEAN member nations are tointegrate in economic sector in 2015 inline with the AFTA agreement. NineASEAN member countries haveestablished market economy and stockexchanges. It is necessary to set up thestock exchange to trade stocks and sharesof public companies. At a time when thestock exchange has emerged, the numberof businesses who commit tax evasionmay decline. As such, the stock exchangeis to be established for development ofthe State, he seconded.

U Ye Myint of Bago RegionConstituency No. 4 supported theproposal that the people needs to

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Taung Hydropower Co Ltd on 18January 2011 to implement the Laymyo600-megawatt Project and Laymyo (2)90-megawatt Project.

At present, the companies areconducting feasibility study for Laymyoand Laymyo (2) hydropower projects.At a time when the companies submitthe reports on their studies, the ministrywill perform the environmental impactassessment-EIA and social impactassessment-SIA and whether projectscan achieve success really and thencalculate the cause effectiveness of theprojects in detail together with internaland international organizations. If theyare acceptable, the joint ventureagreements will be signed for

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(from page 10)understand process of the stockexchange. The market can contribute todevelopment of the State and livingstandard of the people. The status of thestock exchange can reflect the economictrend of the globe countries andMyanmar.

In response to the proposal, UnionMinister for Finance and Revenue U HlaTun said that monetary institutions arelinking as medium organizationsbetween well-off persons and those needinvestment for their businesses.Gathering of surplus money anddistribution of financial resources canbenefit money savers and investors so asto generate new jobs, develop humanresources and uplift living standards foreconomic development of the State. Atpresent, although short-term cashinvestment can be taken from themonetary market (especially bank loans),the long-term cash investment has notbeen taken from the monetary marketyet.

For the bank loans, it is necessary toapply for a mortgage and pay back theloans in the limited time. The majority ofbanks are commercial banks that candisburse loans for one year term. If publiccompanies and corporations sell shares,the buyers would be free from submissionof granted property and paying back theloans in limited period, and the stockholders can manage development oftheir works depending on availability oflong-term investments. The investmentis larger due to participation of stockexchange and bonds.

Improvement of investment market,stock buyers can be free from relianceon bank interest and loss of investmentin illegal monetary market. Those whoneed investment can be free fromreliance on short-term loans from thebanks. The State can enjoy benefits byeasily gathering long-term investmentfrom the investment market for the Stateand the businesses, reducing budgetburden and money fluctuation. Theinvestors can safely put investments inthe businesses through correct andaccurate information from the market,directly invest in the businesses andparticipate in the management sector ofthe firms. The businesses can easilygather necessary money through theinvestment market and create theeffective management system, join theStock Exchange and uplift their prestigein the economic sector. After practisingmarket economy in 1990, Central Bankof Myanmar of Planning and FinanceMinistry and International MonetaryFund jointly conducted investmentmarket development surveys. NationalPlanning and Economic DevelopmentMinistry and Finance and RevenueMinistry were tasked with investment

U Than Swe of Taninthayi RegionConstituency No. 2 raising

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U Mahn Kan Nyunt of KayinState Constituency No. 2

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market development in 1993. With theassistance of Daiwa Institute of Researchin 1994-1995, seminars were organizedand Myanma Economic Bank andDaiwa Institute of Research establishedthe half-and-half joint venture MyanmarSecurities Exchange Centre CompanyLimited (MSEC) with the permission of

Myanmar Investment Commission on7 June, 1996.

Investment Market StudyCommittee led by Vice-Governor ofCentral Bank of Myanmar with thepermission of the Ministry of Financeand Revenue in 2006 with the aims towidely create opportunities forinvestment to ensure businessorganizations and companies inMyanmar receive sustainableinvestment, and to fill government’sbudget deficit with the tax collectedfrom the public.

To assist Myanmar’s economicdevelopment by investment market,Investment Market DevelopmentCommittee on 1 July, 2008, with thePermission 187/228/AhPhaYa (2008) ofPrime Minister’s Office dated 23-4-2008,to participate within Timeframe ofASEAN Investment Market Forum afterMyanmar became ASEAN member.

To support the said committee, sixsub-committees — Internal Bond MarketDevelopment Sub-committee, LimitedCompanies Development Sub-committee, Securities Exchange Law,Rules and Regulations Drafting Sub-committee, Securities ExchangeOrganizations Formation Sub-committee,Training and Information Sub-committeeand Auditing and Accounting StandardsSub-committee — are formed on 19September, 2008.

Three-step roadmap forestablishment of investment market inthe light of situations of the world andASEAN and related players incomparison with Myanmar’s reality ofinvestment market and it is beingimplemented within timeframe ofASEAN Investment Market Forum.

As a first step, two-year Treasurybill was issued in addition to existingthree-year and five-year Treasury billsand K 10-million Treasury, in addition

to K 10000, K 100000, and K 1 millionTreasury bills since 1 January, 2010.Those treasury bills were not sold outdirectly by the Central Bank of Governorto public. Myanma Economic Bankand Myanma Securities ExchangeCentre Company Limited were assignedas underwriters.

Nanda Aye discussed that Myanamrsarwas first scripted in Bagan era in AD 11;it has developed over time; MyanmarsarSpelling Reference Book was prescribedin 1986; and the spelling and speakinggrammar should be correct.

U Win Maung of MandalayConstituency (2) discussed that there isMyanmarsar Board under the Ministryof Education; the Myanmarsar SpellingReference Book should be referred inwriting Myanmarsar; some are makingspelling mistakes in careless ways; even“from” and “by”, “to” and “directobject”, and “or” and “also” are usedmistakenly; so, the proposal wasseconded.

U Mahn Kan Nyunt of Kayin StateConstituency (2) discussed that “the wrongspelling” becomes the correct ones overtime; not only spelling but also speakinggrammar is needed to take care of; and so,the proposal was seconded.

Dr Myat Nyana Soe of YangonRegion Constituency (4) discussed that itwas heartening to see the Defence ServicesHluttaw representative submitting theproposal about Myanmarsar spelling onMyanmar Literacy Day; the mistakes arefound in translation as well; spellingmistakes are everywhere; activities forimproving the use of correct spellingshould be organized; and it should bediscussed whether disciplinary finesshould be set for wrong after a warningperiod.

U Than Swe of Taninthayi RegionConstituency (2) discussed that it is neededto read and write correct Myanmarsar;most desktop publishers are computerliterates, not Myanmarsar; mostly, journalsare grounds for wrong spellings; thereshould be a centre to supervise publishingbooks, and airing television and radioprogrammes for spelling.

The Hluttaw approved the proposalas “the Union government is urged tosupervise Myanmarsar spelling asnational activity” as this is the concernnot only of the Education Ministry and thegovernment but the entire nation.

Eight Hluttaw representativesdiscussed the ways to tackle socio-economic issues of the education staffwhile discussing about the proposal “theUnion government is urged to improveliving standard of education staff”submitted by Dr Khin Shwe of YangonRegion Constituency (9) yesterday.

In the light of the discussions ofHluttaw representatives, the Hluttawdecided to “record the proposal as asuggestion and urge Dr Khin Shwe toraise an Education Foundation”.

The 15th-day second regular sessionof first Amyotha Hluttaw concluded at4.30 pm and the session continues for 16th

day at 10 am on 12 September, 2011(Monday).

At today’s session, seven questionswere raised and answered; among threeproposals submitted yesterday, one wasapproved, one was amended andapproved and another one was put intorecord as suggestion.—MNA

As the second step, SecuritiesExchange Law (draft), which was draftedby officials of the Central Bank ofMyanmar, scholors at home and abroad,and officials at Attorney-General’s Officeunder the supervision of the Ministry ofFinance and Revenue, was sent to UnionAttorney-General’s Office on 13 May,2011.

Tasked by ASEAN Secretary-General’s Office to provide technical helpfor Myanmar’s bond market developmentunder Asian Bond Market Initiative(ABMI), Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd(DIR) held discussions with officials forMyanmar’s investment marketdevelopment in June and July in 2011.

After Securities Law, which is the firstpriority of the second step of the road-map, have been prescribed and State-level Securities and Exchange Committeehave been formed, Stock Exchanges willbe continued to be established as set in thethird step.

The Hluttaw approved the proposal.Hluttaw representatives discussed the

proposal “the Union government is urgedto supervise Myanmarsar spelling”submitted by Defence Services HluttawReprsentative Major (Officiating) Soe HeinNaung yesterday. U Saw Maw Tun ofBago Region Constituency (1) discussedthat Myanmarsar is the one and onlyofficial language in Myanmar; it is neededto stick to correct spelling; VoharahtaPakasani Treatise, Voharalinatta DipaniTreatise, Verses of Palaik governor,Pasingavisawdani Spelling Treatise,Kavimadani Spelling Treatise, UniversityMyanmar Dictionary, Myanmar SpellingReference Book compiled by Myanmarliterati are reliable for Myanmarsar spelling;the Myanmarsar Spelling Reference Bookaccepted by the government should beused as the only reference.

Defence Services HluttawRepresentative Major (Officiating)

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV OXL LOTUS VOY NO (11/619)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV OXL LOTUSVOY NO (11/619) are hereby notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 11.9.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.P where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S FLAMAR OPERATIONSPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KOTA TAMPAN VOY NO (405)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV KOTATAMPAN VOY NO (405) are hereby notified that thevessel will be arriving on 10.9.2011 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject tothe byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S ADVANCE CONTAINERLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

ENGAGEMENTHnin Phyu Phyu Aye @ Veronica Aye

B.Comm. (University of Western Sydney);CPA (CPA Australia) Group Accountant

(QBE Insurance, Sydney)daughter of

U Tun Aye & Daw Thidato

Than Naing @ Javid KhanB.A (Eco.), Certified in MCTSManager (Sales & Marketing)

Happy Myanmar Mfg Co., Ltd.son of

U Than Shwe & Daw BabyOn 9th September, 2011, in the presence of both

parents and elders.Both parents &

Than Naing- Hnin Phyu Phyu Aye

Dolphins speak like humans

Photo taken on 6 Sept, 2011 shows the bronzesculptures by Chinese artist Xu Hongfei during a

Press conference of the Fine Art Aisa 2011 inHong Kong, south China. The Fine Art Asia 2011

will be held in Hong Kong from 3 to 7 October,which is expected to attract more than 100

dealers from Asia, Europe and the United States.More than 5,000 works of art will be exhibited,with a total value of over 2 billion HK dollars(about 256.7 million US dolllars).—XINHUA

A dolphin takes part in an aquatic foot-ball match at the Hefei Aquarium inHefei, capital of east China's Anhui Prov-ince, on 8 July, 2010. Eight dolphins ofthe aquarium were named after famous

footballers and trained to performaquatic football for tourists during the

2010 FIFA World Cup.—XINHUA

Photo takenby Lunar

Reconnais-sance

Orbiter andreleased byNASA on 7Sept, 2011shows thenorth pole

of themoon.XINHUA

Dogs eatowner afterstarving fortwo weeks

BEIJING, 9 Sept —AnIndonesian man was sus-pected of being eaten byhis seven starving dogsafter he returned homefrom a two-week holiday,according to Reuters re-ports on Wednesday.

The dismemberedparts of the man's bodywas discovered by a guardin the neighbourhoodMonday, days after theman, Andre Lumboga, gothome. Then he reportedto the police.

Local police said, "Hisskull was found in thekitchen, and his body wasfound in the front of hishouse." Police suspectedthat Lumboga's dogs atehim after starving for twoweeks. "We suspect thatthe dogs were hungry, sothey attacked Andre, be-cause they had not beenfed for 14 days," said thepolice.

"The dogs were neverlet out," Dio, a neighbourof Lumboga, said, "Be-cause they were confinedto the house, they couldn'tfind food."

Xinhua

Brain stent cannot prevent strokeBEIJING, 9 Sept —A de-

vice inserted into the brainto prevent fatal strokeslikely does more harm forhigh-risk patients, accord-ing to a new study.

Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death anda leading cause of disabil-ity in the United States.Researchers involved inthe study carried in theNew England Journal ofMedicine tracked 451 pa-tients in 50 medical centerswho had recently suffereda stroke or stroke-likesymptoms caused by nar-rowing of a major brainartery.

As a result, 14.7 per-

cent of patients in thestenting group had a strokeor died within the first 30days, whereas 5.8 percentof patients in the group thatreceived only drugs andunderwent lifestylechanges. The Wingspandevice, which expands amajor artery in the brain tohelp improve blood flow,is the only system approvedby the US Food and DrugAdministration for certainhigh-risk stroke patients.

"Although technologi-cal advances have broughtintracranial stenting intopractice, we have nowlearned that, when tested ina large group, this particu-

lar device did not lead to abetter health outcome," saidDr Walter Koroshetz,deputy director of NINDS,part of the government'sNational Institutes ofHealth.—Xinhua

BEIJING, 9 Sept—Dolphins do not whistleas previously thought. Instead, they "talk"like humans, according to a new study.Dolphins use their noses to produce adifferent kind of tonal sound, just likehumans do when speaking, said PeterMadsen, the lead author of the studypublished in Royal Society BiologyLetters.Madsen studied how dolphins com-municate by digitizing recordings made in1977 of a 12-year-old male dolphin, whichwas made to breathe a mixture of heliumand oxygen called heliox.

Scientists said humans breathing in aheliox sound like Donald Duck. Accord-ing to Livescience.com, the heliox wasmeant to mimic conditions during a deepdive since it causes a shift up in frequency.When breathing in heliox , the dolphin,however, continued to make the samesounds with the same frequency."Thatmeans that dolphins do not actuallywhistle, but make sound by making

connective tissue in the nose vibrate at thefrequency they wish to produce byadjusting the muscular tension and airflow over the tissue," Madsen said, "Thisis the same way that we humans makesound with our vocal cords to speak."

Xinhua

BEIJING, 9 Sept—Local governments acrossChina started building or renovating 8.68 milliongovernment-subsidized housing units in theJanuary-August period, roughly 1.3 million unitsshort of what the central government ordered forthe year.

About 14 percent of the central government’sdesignated number of subsidized housingconstruction tasks will have to be built, accordingto a statement by the Ministry of Housing andUrban-Rural Development (MOHURD).—Xinhua

Ministry says 8.68 mlnsubsidized housing units

under construction

A model presents dress and decorations fromYao ethnic group during a show of traditional

costumes in Guiyang, southwest China’sGuizhou Province, 9 Sept, 2011.—XINHUA

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LONDON, 9 Sept—More than 700 itemsbelonging to legendaryactor ‘The Duke’ JohnWayne’s estate are all setto be put up for auction.

Items, includingcowboy hats, saddlesand other film props, willbe put up for sale in LosAngeles next month.One of the most wantedpieces of memorabiliawill include a GoldenGlobe award he won for‘True Grit’, which isvalued at least 50,000

Mary Tyler Moore toMary Tyler Moore toMary Tyler Moore toreceive SAG achievementaward

NEW YORK, 9 Sept—Mary Tyler Moorewill be honoured withthe Screen Actors Guildlife achievement award.

SAG announcedMoore as this year’srecipient Thursday. Theguild says Moore“created a newparadigm for femaleleads in television.”

The actress rose tostardom in “TheDick Van Dyke Show”

In this 11 July, 2009file photo, actressMary Tyler Mooreattends BroadwayBarks 11 in NewYork.—INTERNET

and later starred in thelandmark “The MaryTyler Moore Show.” Herfilm credits include“Ordinary People” andher Broadway product-ions included “WhoseLife Is It, Anyway?”

T h e 7 4 - y e a r - o l dMoore has wonseven Emmys, a Tonyaward and beennominated for anAcademy Award. The18th annual SAGAwards will be held 29Jan in Los Angeles.

Internet

LOS ANGELES, 9 Sept—More than half of the firstpanel of prospective jurors for the manslaughtertrial of Michael Jackson’s doctor were dismissedbecause of hardship claims Thursday, signaling along search ahead for those who will serve in thefive-week trial.

And it is yet unclear how many prospects willbe excused for disclosing strong opinions aboutJackson, defendant Dr Conrad Murray and the highprofile case with which all potential panelists arefamiliar.

Authorities contend Murray gave Jackson alethal dose of the anesthetic propofol in the bedroomof the pop superstar’s rented mansion in June 2009,but attorneys for the physician deny he administeredanything that should have been fatal. They willcontend that Jackson swallowed an overdose ofpropofol when Murray wasn’t watching.

Internet

In this 5 March, 2009 filephoto, Michael Jackson is

shown at a Pressconference in London.

The doctor, ConradMurray, charged in

Michael Jackson’s deathreturned to court on 8

Sept, 2011 to meet the firstbatch of potential jurors

who may eventuallydecide whether to convict

him of involuntarymanslaughter.

INTERNET

Dozens of potentialDozens of potentialJackson case jurors

dismissed

Depp’s ‘Rango’ to receiveHollywood Animation Award

Actor ‘The Duke’ JohnWayne

700 memorabilia fromJohn Wayne’s estate setfor auction next month

Actor Johnny Depp

LONDON, 9 Sept— Actor Johnny Depp’s movie “Rango” will receiveHollywood Animation Award at an event 24 Oct.

“Rango” will receive the honour at the 15thedition of Hollywood Film Festival and HollywoodFilm Awards in Beverly Hills. Depp voiced thetitular lizard character in the film, which wasdirected by Gore Verbinski. “It is a great pleasureto recognise ‘Rango’ as the recipient of ouranimation award.

This piece of cinematic treasure borders onsurrealism and ‘Rango’ will be a classic for

generations to come,” femalefirst.co.uk quotedCarlos de Abreu, the founder and executive director of the Hollywood FilmFestival, as saying.—Internet

dollars. Among otheritems, an eye patch hewore during the 1969 filmwill also go on sale alongwith hundreds of othercostumes, scripts, andpersonal documents.

Wayne’s son Ethansaid that he wanted toshare some of his father’smemorabilia with fans.

“People have beencalling for 32 years. Hisfilms affected people andthey have a personalrelationship with the guyand they want that

connection. I rememberhow important the fanswere to my father,” theTelegraph quoted Ethanas telling the Los AngelesTimes.

Internet

A California mansaid a bear broke into hisparked car and damagedthe gear box, sending thevehicle and its occupanton a short joyride.

Brian McCarthy, 61,of Pleasanton, wasvacationing with hisfamily at their west LakeTahoe cabin when they

Bear breaks into car,Bear breaks into car,

crashes itcrashes it

A bear broke into afamily’s ToyotaPrius and took itfor a ride.

Tom Noddy

performs bubble

tricks during a

Press

conference in

Taipei on 8

Sept, 2011. Tom

Noddy, an

entertainer from

the United

States, will give

his bubble

performance in

Xinbei City on 10

and 11 Sept.

were awakened at about3:30 am 28 Aug bysounds coming from thedriveway, the ContraCosta Times, WalnutCreek, reportedThursday. “Our son wasthe first one who wokeup, and he was watchingthe bear through thewindow,” McCarthy

said.“We were looking

out of our bedroomwindow and from ourview, you could lookdown and see the bearin the car, and its armswere just flailing all overthe place, through thewindows and every-thing.”

Police in Missouri said a motorist who was ordered todrive by an armed man who jumped on the hood of her cardrove the vehicle to police headquarters. Kansas City Policesaid the woman was driving Tuesday on Bruce R WatkinsDrive near 29th Street when a man jumped on her hood,pointed a gun at her and ordered her to drive, the Kansas CityStar reported Wednesday. Investigators said the woman droveto Kansas City Police Headquarters on Locust Street andrammed through a garage door.

Woman drives carjacker topolice HQ

Several streets in the Mission District of San Francisco wereclosed when what looked like a cannon ball was found at theSalvation Army. The streets were reopened Wednesday after policegot the object and detonated it, Bay City News reported. Onebuilding was evacuated as a precautionary measure, Albie Esparza,a police spokesman, said. The San Francisco Examiner describedthe object as an old piece of military ordnance that was donated tothe Salvation Army. Esperanza said old artillery shells and similarsouvenirs turn up frequently.

Cannon ball’ found atSalvation Army

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Roddick's court unplayable; final moved to Monday

Avenger Fed sets upDjokovic semi

Lewis eyes hometown successat LPGA event

Evans fears United exit Meireles denies forcing a moveCabaye loving life at Newcastle

Jonny Evans knows heneeds to carry on his

current good form

LONDON, 9 Sept —Jonny Evans knows hemust improve at Man-chester United this seasonor face the probability ofit being his last.

The Northern Irelandinternational has certainlystarted well enough, re-taining his place for therecord win over Arsenalafter stepping in for theinjured Rio Ferdinand inthe previous week's winagainst TottenhamHotspur.

Together with PhilJones, Evans has forgeda youthful partnershipthat has also done ChrisSmalling a favour givenit was Sir Alex Ferguson'sfaith in the pair that al-

lowed him to move theformer Fulham man toright-back, from wherehe has jumped into theEngland team.

But Evans knows hemust maintain his currentform in order to avoid arepeat of last season's dis-appointments.

Internet

Yohan Cabaye hasfallen in love with the

Premier League

LONDON, 9 Sept — New-castle United's YohanCabaye is already grow-ing to love the intensity ofthe Barclays PremierLeague. The Frenchmidfielder has admitted itwas difficult to adjust toEnglish football but he isthrilled by the atmosphereat the matches. Cabayemoved to St James' Parkover the summer aftermaking his name inFrance, where he helpedLille to the Ligue 1 titlelast season and gained in-ternational recognition.

He concedes that play-ing for the Magpies is acompletely different chal-lenge, as the style of playrequires a different set of

skills and every match istough. However, the 25-year-old maintains that heis enjoying life at New-castle and believes he cantake his game to a higherlevel."It was difficult toadjust to English footballat first. I have had to adaptbut the only way you canget more experience of itis by playing. —Internet

No easing up for O'Shea

The midfielder said hehad not been looking

to leave Liverpool

LIVERPOOL, 9 Sept —Raul Meireles jumped atthe chance to join Chelseawhen it became clear hewould be sold by Liver-pool.

The Portuguesemidfielder insisted henever wanted to leaveAnfield but could not re-sist the switch to StamfordBridge.

Meireles completed areported £12m move min-utes before the transferwindow slammed shut on31st August, reuniting himwith former Porto bossAndre Villas-Boas.

There were similaritieswith Fernando Torres'January transfer betweenthe clubs, with Liverpool

having reported in bothcases that a transfer re-quest had been submitted.

That is normally readas a sign that a player istrying to force a move butMeireles, who insisted atthe weekend that he wasno "Judas", has suggestedthat all was not quite whatit seemed.

Internet

Andy Roddick of USA points to a wetspot on the court to an official as oppo-nent David Ferrer of Spain, far left,looks on prior to their match on LouisArmstrong Stadium in the fourth roundat the US Open tennis tournament inNew York, on Thursday .— INTERNET

NEW YORK, 9 Sept — At one point,Andy Roddick looked up and saw a fanscaling a chain-link fence behind tinyCourt 13, hoping to catch a peek of the2003 US Open champion's victory onThursday. At another point, a baby'sloud cries provided a distraction at the584-seat venue. "At least," Roddickdeadpanned later, "there wasn't a babycrying on the fence." It was that sort ofday at this most unusual US Open.

Rain finally gave way to sun in themorning, but chaos still managed toreign. A crack near a baseline in thetournament's second-biggest stadium letwater seep through, halting Roddick'salready twice-delayed match againstDavid Ferrer until they were moved to acourt often used by juniors.And becauseof showers earlier this week, the USTennisAssociation extended the tournament,delaying the men's final by 24 hours toMonday at 4 pm EDT. —Internet

LONDON, 9 Sept — Sunderland de-fender John O'Shea has no intentions ofwinding down his career after a trophy-laden spell at Manchester United.

The 30-year-old Republic of Irelandinternational ended a 13-year stay atOld Trafford when he agreed tobecome part of Steve Bruce's missionto bring success to Wearside.However,

like former United team-mate WesBrown, who made the same journeythis summer, he remains hugelyambitious despite the five BarclaysPremier League titles, FA Cupwinners' medal, three League Cupsuccesses and the Champions Leaguetriumph he brought with him.

O'Shea said: "That's definitely notgoing to be the case from my point ofview, going on Easy Street after beingso successful through my career.

"Something like that wouldn't evenenter my mind."The club wants to buildwith slow, steady progress, and if wecan do that improving on the finish inthe league last season and hopefullygetting further in the cups, that will bethe case and we will keep on improv-ing." —Internet

Wozniacki sets up semifinal againstSerena, Zvonareva falls out

John O'Shea has no intention ofeasing up with Sunderland

AnastasiaPavlyuchenkova of

Russia returns the ballduring the quarterfinal

of women's singlesagainst Serena

Williams of the UnitedStates at the US Opentennis championships

in New York.— XINHUA

NEW YORK, 9 Sept —World No 1 CarolineWozniacki and three-timechampion SerenaWilliams both cruised intothe semifinals of US Openon Thursday and had toface off for a final slot.Last year's runner-up VeraZvonareva, No 2 seed,succumbed to AussieSamantha Stosur in

straight sets of 6-3, 6-3 ina quarterfinal. The 2009US Open runner-upWozniacki got past 10th-seeded German AndreaPetkovic 6-1, 7-6 (5) in 1hour and 40 minutes inanother quarterfinal, in-cluding a hard-fought 73-minute second set.

The 21-year-oldWozniacki will challengeWilliams for a third time,all on hardcourts, seekinga first ever win. The twostars haven't met since the2009 season.—Internet

NEW YORK, 9 Sept —Roger Federer avengedhis surprise loss to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at thisyear's Wimbledon bybeating the Frenchman6-4 6-3 6-3 to reach thesemi-finals of the USOpen. Playing his firstgrand slam tournamentas a 30-year-old, the five-times US Open championwas lethal with his serve,whipped angled winnerswith swashbuckling

aplomb and was razor-sharp at the net. The third-seeded Federer advancedto a scintillating show-down in the last fouragainst top seed NovakDjokovic for his eighthstraight US Open semi-finals appearance.

World number oneDjokovic, the Australianand Wimbledon cham-pion, reached the semiswhen his Serbian DavisCup team mate JankoTipsarevic retired with aleg injury while trailing7-6 , 6-7 , 6-0 , 3-0. Five-time winner Federer haslost just one set at Flush-ing Meadows on his wayto the semis.

Internet

Federer of Switzerland

Stacey Lewis

ROGERS, 9 Sept —Stacey Lewis still feels likeshe has plenty to prove,even now. Even during aseason in which she's wonher first major champion-ship and has posted eighttop-10 finishes, the formerArkansas golfer isn't con-tent.

Lewis will have thechance to add to her grow-ing resume when theLPGA's P&G NW Arkan-sas Championship tees offFriday. In order to do so,

however, she'll have tobeat out a talented fieldthat includes 13 of the top15 players in the Rolexrankings.

The event at PinnacleCountry Club is a home-coming of sorts for Lewis,who was a four-time All-American 20 minutesaway at Arkansas. Sheknows the course well,having unofficially wonthe rain-shortened eventin 2007 as an amateur.Since then, Lewis hasquickly risen through theLPGA ranks and is cur-rently third on the moneylist with more than $1.1million in earnings in herthird full season on tour.

Internet

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Lourdes Stephen Selvaraj (85) yearsPost & Telecoms Retd.

(Ex-RO, (F.G), BTS, Dip in Th, BTCP (USA) Beloved husband of the late Ranjitham Selvaraj

(C.M.A Retd), beloved father of Clement (W.H.O)-Marina,Charles (C.M.A Retd), Agnes (Co-operative Architects’Associates), Michael-Ma Khin Shwe and belovedgrandfather of Cynthia ( U.C.S.Y) and John psassed awaypeacefully at home at 12:00 noon on 9.9.2011. Funeralservice will be held at St. Francis of Assisi Church 131,Kyaikasan Road. Tamwe on 10th September 2011 at(13:15) hour and thence to yayway Christian Cemetery.

The bereaved family

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

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 32/90 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

2 Kayah 29/84 20/68 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

3 Kayin 30/86 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

4 Chin 21/70 13/55 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

5 Upper Sagaing 29/84 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

6 Lower Sagaing 34/93 25/77 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

7 Taninthayi 30/86 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

8 Bago 33/91 21/70 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

9 Magway 34/93 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

10 Mandalay 35/95 25/77 Scattered rain or thundershowers 80%

11 Mon 30/86 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) 80%

12 Yangon 32/90 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

13 Rakhine 29/84 21/70 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) 80%

14 Southern Shan 25/77 18/64 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

15 Northern Shan 30/86 21/70 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

16 Eastern Shan 28/82 22/72 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers 80%

17 Ayeyawady 28/82 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (IH) 80%

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 33/91 23/73 One or two rain or thundershowers 80%

19 Neighbouring Yangon 32/90 23/73 One or two rain or thundershowers 100%

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 35/95 25/77 Isolated rain or thundershowers 80%

Summary of observations at 09:30 hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, weather have been partly cloudy in Lower Sagaing Region, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Magway Region, scattered in Mandalay Region and Shan State, fairly widespread in Yangon and Bago Regions, Chin and Kayah States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with regionally heavy falls in Mandalay Region and Rakhine State and isolated heavy fall in Kachin and Mon States. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Airport) (1.89) inches, Nay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (1.65) inches, Kyaukpyu (5.86) inches, Maungtaw (5.20) inches, Sittway (4.45) inches, Ye (3.15) inches, Putao and Manaung (3.03) inches each and Homalin (2.95) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is moderate to strong in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squalls with moderate to rough seas are likely at times off and along Myanmar Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (35) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days

Moderate Monsoon.

Captain Thein Oo MyintAged (60)yrs

M V Bright Laker(Lizstar Enterprise Co Ltd)

Captain Thein Oo Myint, husband of DawThet Sandar Father of Ko Zaw Paing Myint, MaZar Phyu Myint and Ko Thet Paing Myint hadsuddenly passed away on 8-9-2011, while servingas Captain of M V Bright Laker berthed atColombia, South America.

The funeral arrangements will beannounced later.

New Zealand All Blacks’ Isaia Toeava breaksthe tackle of Tonga’s Aleki Lutui during their

Rugby World Cup game at Eden Park inAuckland, New Zealand, 9 Sept, 2011.

INTERNET

New Zealand beatsTonga 41-10 to open

World CupAUCKLAND, 9 Sept—The New Zealand

All Blacks took care of business with a41-10 win over Tonga to open the WorldCup on Friday night, beginning yet anotherquest to end the long drought since theirfirst and only title at rugby’s showpieceevent.

After a rousing opening ceremonyand passionate pre-match challenges, theAll Blacks drained all the tension andanticipation by scoring four tries in thefirst 33 minutes, and finding the Tongandefense wanting out wide.—Internet

8:05 am 8. Myanmar

Traditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions

8:15 am 9. Teleplay (Health)8:30 am10. Selected Songs

for 18th MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions(2011) (Oldies &Mono Classical)(Basic Education)(Level Men)

8:40 am11. International News8:45 am12. Musical Programme11:00 am 1. Martial Song11:10 am 2. Musical Programme11:20 am 3. Game for Children11:45 am 4. Round Up of the

Week’s TV LocaNews

1:45 pm 5. Delicious Dishes

1:55 pm 6. TV Drama Series2:45 pm 7. Selected Songs for

18th MyanmarTraditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions (2011)(Oldies & MonoClassical) (BasicEducation)(Level Women)

2:55 pm 8. International News4:00 pm 1. Martial Song4:10 pm 2. Musical Programme4:25 pm 3. Cultural Dances4:35 pm 4. Teleplay (Traffic)5:20 pm 5. University of Distance

Education (TVLectures)-Fourth Year(Law)

5:35 pm 6. Songs for Upholding

National Spirit

5:40 pm 7. Dance Of

National Races5:50 pm 8. Documentary6:00 pm 9. Evening News6:15 pm10. Weather Report6:20 pm11. Ahlashamae

Hlagabawai6:35 pm12. Yindagomae7:00 pm13. TV Drama Series8:00 pm14. News15. International

News16. Weather Report17. 18th Myanmar

Traditional CulturalPerforming ArtsCompetitions (2011)Interview(Mahar gita)

18. Cartoon series18. TV Drama Series20. Gitadagale

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13th Waxing of Tawthalin 1373 ME Saturday, 10 September, 2011

First Amyotha Hluttaw second regular session goes onSeven questions raised and answerSeven questions raised and answerSeven questions raised and answered, one pred, one pred, one proposal approposal approposal approved, oneoved, oneoved, oneotherotherother amended and appramended and appramended and approved, anotheroved, anotheroved, another one rone rone recorded as suggestionecorded as suggestionecorded as suggestion

NAY PYI TAW, 9 Sept— The 15th-day ofsecond regular sessionof First AmyothaHluttaw continued atAmyotha Hluttaw Hallof Hluttaw Building herethis morning, attendedby Speaker of AmyothaHluttaw U Khin AungMyint and 209 AmyothaHluttaw representatives.

Union Minister forEducation Dr Mya Ayeanswered the fourquestions about educationraised by four Hluttawrepresentatives at thesession.

Regarding thequestions raised by U SaiTin Aung of Kachin StateConstituency No-5 whoasked that MohnyinDegree College inMohnyin township ofKachin State was openedin 2003 academic yearand eight major subjectsand four coordinatedsubjects are being taughtby 89 teachers; thedegree college can hold5000 day and distancestudents and now thereare 4291 students at thecollege; and whetherthere is a plan to upgradethe degree college as auniversity, the UnionEducation minister repliedthat the ministry is takingmeasures to upgradedegree colleges andcolleges by laying down36 tasks under 30-yearlong-term plan (highereducation sector) forpromotion of nationaleducation. Mohnyin

Nay Pyi Taw (Airport) 1.89 inchesNay Pyi Taw (Lewe) 1.65 inchesKyaukpyu 5.86 inchesMaungtaw 5.20 inchesSittway 4.45 inchesYe 3.15 inchesPutao 3.03 inchesManaung 3.03 inches

Noteworthy amountsof rainfall(9-9-2011)

Degree College that canhold 5000 day studentswas opened in 2003 fordevelopment of KachinState.

A total of 1923 daystudents and 2368distance students arepursuing education at thedegree college. So, thecollege is still able to takenext over 3000 studentsto be equal to the initialnumber.

With the equal rationof teachers to studentsand teaching aids likeother universities,students fully enjoy theright in pursuing theireducation. It will continueto open as a degreecollege in accord withcurrent number ofstudents, but arran-gements are being madeto upgrade the degreecollege as a universitydepending on deve-lopment of socioe-conomic status of the

State and increase innumber of students.

Regarding thequestion raised by DrMyat Nyana Soe ofYangon Region Consti-tuency No-4 who askedwhether there is a planto be included PoliticalStudy in the curriculumof Universities underthe Ministry ofEducation as it isnecessary to turn outnew generation youthsto be equipped withsound politicalfoundations so as toexercise Hluttawpolitics in accord withgenuine discipline-flourishing multipartydemocracy system, theUnion minister repliedthat the Ministry ofEducation is nurturingthe students to beequipped with goodideas, behaviours andhabits as well as spiritualdevelopment for turning

out new generationyouths who possesscorrect thinking powerand good morality.Aspects of Myanmar withthe two-hour periodseach of lecture andtutorial is being taught infirst year undergraduatecourse of universities anddegree colleges as acompulsory elective.

International Rel-ations major is beingtaught in universities anddegree colleges.

Under InternationalRelations major, PoliticalThought, InternationalRelations, Geography ofSoutheast Asian Country,Understanding HumanInteraction, PoliticalOrganization, Govern-ment of Southeast Asia,Macro Economics,Communicative Skills,International Law,Government ofMyanmar, CurrentProblems in International

Relations, EconomicsDevelopment andInternational Trade,Political Geography,European Community,Myanmar ForeignRelations, Myanmar andNeighbouring Countries,Diplomacy and UnitedNations Peace Activitieswhich are related toPolitical Science are beingtaught and thegovernment will providePolitical Science subjectin undergraduate andpostgraduate courses ifnecessary.

Regarding thequestion raised by UPhone Myint Aung ofYangon Region Con-stituency No-3 whoasked that examquestions for matri-culation examinationsare different in Statesand Regions inMyanmar and whetherthere is a plan to issue asingle exam question for

m a t r i c u l a t i o nexamination, the Unionminister replied thatmatriculation ex-aminations were held byrespective universities ininternational. Thenumber of students hasincreased in Myanmaryearly and there were514962 students who satfor 2011 matriculationexamination. It is difficultto issue exam questionsfrom a single place dueto large number ofexaminees. It takes twoand a half months todistribute examquestions issued by 10universities to townshipsin states and regions andthere is plenty of work tobe done. While 10universities issue examquestions, lessons to beincluded in the questionsare set to be same.Although easy, fair anddifficult lessons that

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Amyotha Hluttaw representatives seen at 15th day second regular session of first Amyotha Hluttaw.—MNA

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Outage affectssix million inUS, Mexico

Israel ready to free1,000 prisoners for

Shalit

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Union Minister for Informationand for Culture receives Special

Representative and PolicyCoordinator for Myanmar

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