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Volume XVII, Number 84 3rd Waning of Waso 1371 ME Thursday, 9 July, 2009

Article:Win Naing(Kyemon);

Photos: KhinMaung Win

* Development of agriculture as the base andall-round development of other sectors ofthe economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-orientedeconomic system

* Development of the economy inviting par-ticipation in terms of technical know-howand investments from sources inside thecountry and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrityand preservation and safeguarding ofcultural heritage and national charac-ter

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

standards of the entire nation

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

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed na-

tion in accord with the new State Consti-tution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 8 July—Accompanied byChairman of Sagaing Division Peace andDevelopment Council Commander of North-WestCommand Maj-Gen Myint Soe and Chairman ofChin State Peace and Development Council Brig-Gen Hon Ngai, Lt-Gen Tha Aye of the Ministry ofDefence, on 3 July, visited Mountain Resort andPine Wood Villa in Ward 2 of Kanpetlet in ChinState.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye and party attended the tea plantgrowing ceremony at Ward 2 of the township and

Lt-Gen Tha Aye supervises developmenttasks in Mindat District of Chin State

Lt-Gen Tha Aye of Ministry of Defence inspects women’s vocational training school inKanpetlet.—MNA

viewed participation of departmental staff, membersof social organizations and locals in growing teaplants.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye then visited Kanpetlet BasicEducation School and Township People's Hospital.Lt-Gen Tha Aye comforted the patients and presentedcash assistance to the funds of the hospital.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye went to Women's VocationalTraining School of Education and Training Departmentand encouraged the trainees learning basic and advanced

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A boom in agricultural farming in Yesagyo Township

Water is pumped from Chindwin River into the main canal to irrigate farmlands.

Article & photos:Pe Tun Zaw (Yesagyo)

Now, the whole nation witnesses remarkableimprovement in the social, economic, health andeducation infrastructures, especially in the agricultural,as a result of transforming the nation into a modernand developed one.

The government is fulfilling all forms ofrequirements in the agricultural sector for boostingagricultural production. In the drive, it is exclaimingvacant lands into farmlands, and constructing dams,sluice gates, diversion weirs, river water pumpingstations and underground water tapping stationswherever necessary and possible across the nation.

Despite having a vast area of arable lands, the aridregions in the central Myanmar had to place muchreliance on rainwater for the agricultural purpose inolden days. In consequence, the regions' supply ofcrops was well less than its demand. In contrast, they

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 9 July, 2009

Thursday, 9 July, 2009 * Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Build a new nation basedon education

In the world today, advanced scienceand technologies are developing in variousfields with the passage of time. Educatedgenerations are a major driving force for theemergence of a peaceful and prosperoussociety.

The government of Myanmar isworking for advancement of nationaleducation through implementation of the30-year long-term plan. In accordance withthe development of information andcommunication technologies of the 21stcentury, the youth are being trained andnurtured in order that they will becomehighly-qualified human resources.

The short-term and long-term nationaleducation promotion plans are designed insuch a way that every citizen completes basiceducation and qualified intellectuals andintelligentsia constantly emerge. Basiceducation schools and educationalinstitutions are being extended and upgraded.All those living in urban and rural areashave an equal opportunity to learn as thewhole nation is wired.

In this age of rapid development andstrong competitiveness, it is necessary forteachers and students to work more closelyin the teaching-learning process. Moreover,teachers have to train and nurture newgenerations for their all-round developmentand for possessing strong national spirit andsound morale and morality.

It is the bounden duty of teachers tobuild a new nation based on education.Therefore, the teachers are required to trainthe youth so that they become well-educated,able and morally strong. Only then willhighly-qualified new generations constantlyemerge.

YANGON, 8 July—Organized by Union ofMyanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry, scholars hold talks on respective subjectsevery month.

Sponsored by Sinma Furniture CompanyLimited, Professor Dr Aung Tun Thet gave talks on“Leadership based on human’s value” at Mingala Hallof UMFCCI Office Tower on 4 July and replied to thequeries raised by those present.—MNA

Talks on “Leadership basedon human’s value” held

Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen Thein Aung inspects Daungnay extended protected public forestin Magway Division.—FORESTRY

Rector Dr Myo Myint of University ofForeign Languages extends greeting at a

seminar to commemorate 10th anniversaryof Myanmar Academy of Arts and

Science.—EDUCATION

Industry-2 Minister attends tree growing ceremonyNAY PYI TAW, 8 July— Minister for Industry-2

Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, Deputy Minister Lt-ColKhin Maung Kyaw and departmental heads attendedthe fifth monsoon tree growing ceremony 2009 of theministry here this morning.

The minister and the deputy minister viewed thecollective planting of trees of departmental staff.

A total of 11984 saplings were grown at theceremony. The ministry have planted 52937 saplingsfor five times.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8July—Minister forForestry Brig-Gen TheinAung met with servicepersonnel at division,district and townshiplevels at the meeting hallof the office of theDeputy General Managerof Myanma TimberEnterprise in MagwayDivision on 5 July.

Minister inspects tree plantations in Magway Div

Upon arrival atDahatkan village inMagway Township, theminister inspectedgrowing of three teaktrees and 20 eucalyptuseach at 120 houses in thevillage.

Moreover, he lookedinto 300 acres ofeucalyptus plantations inMagway Township and

eight acres of eucalyptusplantations, 300 acres ofeucalyptus plantationsand 350 acres ofeucalptus plantations inYenangyoung Township.

Next, the ministerinspected the scatteringof seeds on 500 acres inYenangyoung Townshipand eucalptus plantationsand the greening tasks of

Shwepontaung in ChaukTownship.

The minister laterinspected one-acre treeplantation, one-acreeucalptus plantation inNyaungU Township andmodel tea plantation ofTin Win Tun Companyin Kyaukpadaung Town-ship.

MNA

Seminar held to mark 10th anniversary of MyanmarAcademy of Arts and Science

YANGON, 8 July—Tomark the 10th anniversaryof Myanmar Academy ofArts and Science, aneducation seminar (2/2009) was held at the hall(Malar Hostel) of NationalCenter for EnglishLanguage. Rector Dr Myo

Myint of University ofForeign Languages,Secretary of MyanmarAcademy of Arts andScience, extendedgreeting. Member ofExecutive Committee UThiha gave talks onLanguage for survival,

sustainability and success,and on English literaturein the Universitycurriculum before now ofretired head Daw PhwarYin of EnglishDepartment of YangonUniversity.

After that, retired

professor Daw Khin LayMyint of EnglishDepartment of YangonUniversity talked aboutprogressive changes in theUniversity Englishlanguage and literaturecurriculum, Pro-Rector DrDaw Lwin Lwin Soe ofYangon Institute ofEducation about trainingteachers for Englishlanguage teaching inMyanmar and professorDaw Naw Ju Phaw ofEnglish Department ofYangon University aboutlanguage teachingmethods; past and present.

Afterwards, thosepresent made suggestionsand U Thiha gave repliesto them.—MNA

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An Afghan victim of a grenade attack receives treatment at a hospital in Khostprovince, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on 7 July , 2009. A hand grenade thrownat a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan exploded in a crowd Tuesday, killingat least one civilian and wounding some 28 others, a day after 10 foreign troops died amid escalating violence across the country.—INTERNET

An injured man

is treated for

wounds after a

parked car bomb

exploded in

Baqouba,

northeast of

Baghdad, Iraq,

Sunday, on 5

July, 2009.

INTERNET

11 NATO troops killed in 2days in Afghanistan

SAVANNAH, 8July—An Army sergeantaccused of slaying hissuperior and another USsoldier in Iraq will face acourt-martial and couldbe sentenced to death ifconvicted, the militarysaid Tuesday.

Army prosecutors saySgt Joseph Bozicevich,39, of Minneapolis shothis squad leader, StaffSgt Darris Dawson, andSgt Wesley Durbin on 14Sept at a joint US-Iraqipatrol base south ofBaghdad. Witnesses havesaid Bozicevich openedfire on the soldiers whenthey tried to counsel himfor poor performance.

Internet

KABUL, 8 July—International troops inAfghanistan enduredanother deadly attack onTuesday, a day after 10NATO-led troops werekilled in that country.

A US coalitionservice member “died as a

result of injuries” onTuesday afternoon in aroadside bombing attackon a convoy in westernAfghanistan, the USmilitary said.

This follows 10NATO-led deaths onMonday, the highest

single-day total inAfghanistan in nearly ayear, according to NATOand US-led coalitionnumbers. SevenAmericans, two Canadiansand one Britain died in fourseparate incidentsMonday. On August 18,2008, 10 French soldierswere killed when about100 insurgents attacked apatrol in Kabul Province,and a British soldier waskilled in southernAfghanistan wheninsurgents attacked apatrol with a roadsidebomb.

A month before that,10 American troops werekilled in two separateincidents on 13 July, 2008.

Internet

Taliban kill 8 police, surroundeast Afghan office

JALALABAD, 8 July– A district in Afghanistan’srestive east was in danger of falling into Taliban handsafter pitched gunbattles with insurgents killed at leasteight police, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The fighting erupted late on Tuesday inAfghanistan’s eastern province of Nuristan borderingPakistan, where authorities are also battling a growingTaliban insurgency.

Violence has flared across Afghanistan after U.S.Marines launched a major new offensive in the southernTaliban stronghold of Helmand last week.

The police were killed when insurgents attackedgovernment buildings in Nuristan’s Barg Matal districtlate on Tuesday.

Another eight police were kidnapped duringgunbattles lasting several hours, Nuristan’s governorJamaluddin Badr said.

“The district headquarters is with the government,but if we do not get reinforcements it will fall to theTaliban,” Badr told a Reuters reporter in easternAfghanistan by telephone.

Officials said 21 Taliban fighters were killed in thebattle.—Internet

Soldier killed in Afghanistan explosionLONDON, 8 July– A

soldier has been killed inan explosion in southernAfghanistan while on the“Panther’s Claw”offensive against Talibanrebels, the Ministry ofDefence here said onWednesday.

“It is with greatsadness that the MoD must

confirm that a soldier fromThe Light Dragoons hasbeen killed in anexplosion,” the ministrysaid in a statement.

“The incident tookplace whilst on OperationPanchai Palang (Panther’sClaw) near Gereshk,Helmand Province, on theevening of 7 July.”

The death brings to176 the total number ofBritish service personnelkilled in Afghanistan sinceoperations began in 2001,when US-led forcesousted the Taliban in thewake of the September 11attacks in New York andWashington.

Internet

Soldier could facedeath penalty

over Iraq slaying

BAGHDAD, 8 July—A news story on the Internet says that it has been a longtime since the US-led invasion of Iraq.

A large number of Iraqi people are killed and injured daily owing to theinvasion by the US and its allies.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleUp to 7 July, the death toll of Iraqi people as a result of hostilities of US

and its allies reached 697,803, and the casualty toll, 1,256,259.

Civilian casualties due toUS-led invasion of Iraq

Sr No. Subject Quantity

1. Death toll of Iraqi people 6978032. Total number of seriously injured

Iraqi people 1256259

Internet

KABUL, 8 July—A news story on the Internet says that it has been a longtime since the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops led by the US.

A large number of Afghan people are killed and injured daily owing toUS-led invasion.

Casualties of Afghan peopleUp to 7 July, the death toll of Afghan people as a result of hostilities of

US and its allies reached 8119, and the casualty toll, 16,695.

Sr No. Subject Quantity

1. Death toll of Afghan people 81192. Total number of seriously injured

Afghan people 16695

Internet

Civilian casualties due toUS-led invasion of

Afghanistan

Firemenrespond to the

scene of aparked car

bomb attack inBaqouba,

northeast ofBaghdad, Iraq,Sunday, 5 July,

2009.INTERNET

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L’AQULA, 8 July—Britain and the UnitedStates may see room formore stimulus. Germanyis worried that it has donetoo much already.

The leaders of theGroup of Eight nations— united in their desireto work together to com-bat the worst economiccrisis since the Depres-sion, but still divided onhow much longer theyneed to keep the stimu-lus going — will discusson Wednesday ways tocoordinate their exit

A technician pictured at a bauxite factory in Kamsar, a town north ofGuinea’s capital Conakry, October 2008. African Development Bank chief

Donald Kaberuka on Tuesday said he was “confident” that if China’seconomy were to return to double-digit growth, it would lift African growth

to pre-crisis levels.—INTERNET

Two epidemic prevention workers sterilize the city after the flood receded inLiuzhou City of southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on7 July, 2009. The flood passing through Liujiang River receded on 6 July andlocal people began to clean the city and restore the basic facilities.—XINHUA

Yemeni women shop for food in Sanaa’s Suq Al-Melh (Salt Market) in 2007. The World Food Pro-

gramme issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for 23million dollars in financial support from interna-tional donors for food aid to Yemen specifically

targeted at women and children.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 8 July—Soaring US unemploy-ment and a shrinkingeconomy drove delin-quencies on credit carddebt and home equityloans to all-time highs inthe first quarter as a recordnumber of cash-strappedconsumers fell behind ontheir bills.

Delinquencies on thevalue of all card debtsoared to a record 6.60percent from 5.52 percent

MEXICO CITY, 8 July— Mexico’s economy is nowbeginning a process of recovery, aided by rising inter-national prices for raw materials, said Finance Minis-ter Agustin Carstens on Tuesday.

“We have reached a floor and we are moving to-wards a more favourable economic reality in a fewmonths,” said Carstens at the annual councilors meet-ing of financial group BBVA Bancomer.

“We are seeing some green shoots that signal re-covery and this has been reflected in a rebound of rawmaterial prices,” he said.

Mexico’s economy shrank eight percent during thefirst quarter, as the recession in the United States hitMexican export demand. The close linkage of Mexi-can banking system to crisis-hit US banking systemhelped intensify the decline, by hitting credit and inturn domestic demand.—Internet

CHICAGO, 8 July —Boeing is purchasing a fa-cility of Vought AircraftIndustries in South Caro-lina State where someparts for its 787Dreamliner are manufac-tured, the Chicago PublicRadio reported on Tues-day.

Boeing would increaseits productivity to developlarge structures andVought would continue itsrelationship with Boeing,the report said.

Vought Aircraft Indus-tries, Inc is one of theworld’s largest independ-ent suppliers of aero-structures. It has about6,600 employees in nineUS locations. Vought’spresident Elmer Doty wasquoted as saying that hiscompany made the deci-sion mostly for financialreasons.—Internet

BRUSSELS, 8 July—The European Union (EU) onTuesday decided to impose anti-dumping duties andcountervailing duties on imports of biodiesel origi-nating in the United States.

The decision was made by EU finance ministerswho met in Brussels on Tuesday.

The punitive measures were adopted after a Euro-pean Commission investigation concluded thatbiodiesel from the United States had been sold in theEU below the normal value price and had benefitedfrom state subsidies.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 8 July—The US Food and Drug Ad-ministration announced the recall of about 104,500meal kit packets of non-fat dry milk because of possi-ble contamination.

The FDA said Traditions Meal Solutions of Pearl,Miss, initiated the recall because the items might becontaminated with salmonella, an organism which cancause serious and sometimes fatal infections in youngchildren, frail or elderly people and others with weak-ened immune systems.

The non-fat dry milk packets are components ofTraditions Meal Solutions shelf stable meal kits dis-tributed to food distributors and regional nutritionservice providers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michi-gan, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Penn-sylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vir-ginia.

G-8 leaders look for signalsof economic recovery

strategies once theireconomies are stableenough.

But the data is stillgrim—from rising unem-ployment to slowinggrowth—and most eco-nomists think the crisishas yet to reach its nadir.

The leaders of the G-8—Britain, Canada, France,Germany, Italy, Japan,

Russia and the UnitedStates — will discuss atwhat point to begin theshift from the current em-phasis on fiscal stimulus,but they also are likely toremain cautious in theirassessment of recovery sofar when they issue astatement later Wednes-day.

Internet

Mexico moves towardseconomic recovery

EU imposes anti-dumpingduties on biodiesel from US

US consumers fall behind onloans at record pace

in the fourth quarter asmore cardholders reliedon plastic to meet day-to-day expenses, the Ameri-can Bankers Associationsaid. Late payments onhome equity loans rose to3.52 percent from 3.03percent, and on home eq-uity lines of creditclimbed to 1.89 percentfrom 1.46 percent.

A broader gaugeshowing late paymentson eight categories ofloans rose for a fourthstraight quarter to a newrecord, edging up to 3.23percent from 3.22 per-cent. That rate actuallyunderstates consumerpain because it excludescredit cards. The ABAtracks loan payments thatare at least 30 days late.

Internet

Boeing topurchase SouthCarolina plant

Meal kit packets of non-fatmilk recalled

Internet

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CPA Australia predicts China’sgrowth near 8% by year end

Gartner predicts 6-percent dropin global IT spending in 2009 HK foreign currency

reserves up $1.9 b in JuneHONG KONG, 8 July—Hong Kong’s

official foreign currency reserve assetsrose to 207 billion US dollars in June, up1.9 billion on May, the MonetaryAuthority of Hong Kong said Tuesday.

Including unsettled forward contracts,foreign currency reserve assets stood at208.2 billion US dollars, up 3.1 billionon May, said the authority.

Hong Kong is the world’s seventh larg-est holder of foreign currency reservesbased on the latest published figures, af-ter the Chinese mainland, Japan, Russia,India and South Korea. The total foreigncurrency reserve assets of 207 billion USdollars represent over eight times the cur-rency in circulation, or 47 percent of HongKong dollar M3.—Xinhua

Kenyan leader lauds cooperation with ChinaNAIROBI, 8 July—Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday hailed the exist-

ing cooperation with China and expressed optimism that the cordial ties will befurther enhanced. When he received credentials from the incoming Chinese am-bassador to Kenya, Deng Hongbo, President Kibaki noted that China has estab-lished a special relationship with Kenya.

The president appreciated the development assistance the east African nationgets from China and expressed optimism that the cordial relations between thetwo countries will be enhanced for the benefit of the two countries.

“We want to develop genuine mutual cooperation for the benefit of the peopleof our two countries,” President Kibaki said, according to a statement issued byhis office.—Xinhua

Japanese foundationcontributes funds to boost

Malacca Straits’ safetyKUALA LUMPUR, 8 July— The Nippon

Foundation has contributed 2.5 millionUS dollars to boost security and marineenvironmental protection in the Straits ofMalacca and Singapore, according to alocal newspaper on Wednesday.

The money, which was a third of thetotal maintenance expenditure of the twostraits this year, was channelled to theAids to Navigation Fund managed byMalaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

This was the second contribution fromthe Japanese-based foundation after itspent 1.35 million US dollars to launchthe fund last year, The Star said. Foun-dation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa saidthat his foundation would continue tourge the international shipping commu-nity to cooperate in enhancing the safetyof navigation and environment protectionin the straits, after he witnessed the sign-ing ceremony of the foundation’s contri-bution together with Malaysian TransportMinister Ong Tee Keat.—Xinhua

5.4-earthquake shakesnorth and center

of ChileSANTIAGO, 8 July—An earthquake of

5.4 magnitude on Richter scale shook onTuesday the northerner region ofAtacama and the Metropolitan region inthe centre of Chile, without victims andmaterial damages being reported.

This is the second earthquake in thenorth zone of the country in less than 24hours.

The earthquake occurred at 12:46 pmlocal times and its epicenter waslocated 90 kilometres northeast to LaSerena, some 400 kilometres northto Santiago, according to the Seismo-logic Services from the University ofChile.

According to the National Office ofEmergencies (Onemi), the earthquakewas classified of medium intensity,reaching a maximum of V degrees onMercalli scale in the cities of La Serenaand Ovalle.

Xinhua

CANBERRA, 8 July—Asurvey released by ac-countants CPA Australiaon Wednesday revealedthat three-quarters of re-spondents predicted Chinato grow in a range of 6 to7.9 percent by the end ofthis year despite a difficultglobal environment.

Eighty-six percent ex-pect China to recover bymid-2010.

In its most recent fore-cast by the InternationalMonetary Fund, it put Chi-na’s growth at 6.5 percent

in 2009, rising to 7.5 per-cent in 2010. In 2008 itwas 9 percent.

In announcing Tues-day’s monthly interest ratedecision, Reserve Bank ofAustralia governor GlennStevens was upbeat aboutAustralia’s major tradingpartner.

“Growth in China hasstrengthened considerably,which is having an impacton other economies in theregion, including Aus-tralia,” he said.

Respondents to the CPA

survey expect manufactur-ing, real estate, exports andretailing to lead China’seconomic resurgence with54 percent citing govern-ment spending as the ma-jor driver of future growth.

The “China EconomicRecovery Survey” also re-vealed that 64 percent be-lieved the global economicenvironment would notresult in decreased Chi-nese investment in theAustralian market over thenext 12 months.

Xinhua

The actresses perform on the opening ceremony of the first Taihang Moun-tains Festival in Xingtai, a city of north China’s Hebei Province, on 6 July,

2009. Plenty of cultural and trade promoting activities will be held during thefestival.—XINHUA

The Tokyo tower decorated with lights of whitelamps is seen in Tokyo, capital of Japan, in the

photo taken on 7 July, 2009. —XINHUA

SAN FRANCISCO, 8 July—Worldwide spending on informa-tion technology (IT) is on paceto decline 6 percent in 2009,market research firm Gartnerpredicted on Tuesday.

Gartner said it now expectsglobal IT spending to fall to 3.2trillion US dollars this year from3.4 trillion dollars in 2008.

Gartner, which in March fore-cast that 2009 IT spending will de-cline 3.8 percent, said it loweredthe projections because of the eco-nomic situation and the rise in thevalue of the US dollar againstmost currencies in recent months.“While the global economicdownturn shows signs of easing,this year IT budgets are still be-

ing cut and consumers will need alot more persuading before theycan feel confident enough to loosentheir purse strings,” RichardGordon, head of global forecastingat Gartner, said in a statement.

According to Gordon, the pro-jected decline in spending growthfor the hardware and software seg-ments in 2009 has almost stabi-lized, and only minor downwardrevisions have been made to thelatest forecasts.

“However, the full impact of theglobal recession on the IT servicesand telecommunications sectors isstill emerging, and forecast growthin these areas has been further re-duced significantly,” he noted.

Xinhua

People visit the 8th China Shenyang International Auto Exhibition inShenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, on 7 July, 2009. —XINHUA

All items from Xinhua News Agency

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NEWS ALBUM

Joey Chestnut, left, of San Jose,Calif, defending champion of the

Nathan’s Famous July 4th Hot DogEating Contest, celebrates hisvictory over former championTakeru Kobayashi of Nagano,Japan, on 4 July, 2009, in NewYork. Chestnut logged his third

consecutive win in Coney Island’sannual hot dog eating contest with

a world-record 68 franks.

Tea being served Tea, water andbiscuits are on South Africa’s reces-sion menu to replace lavish meals at

some government meetings as thebelt is tightened on public spending,

a spokesman said.

Joey Chestnut chomped down arecord 68 hot dogs, capturing his thirdstraight July Fourth hot-dog eating con-test at Coney Island, an annual show-case for flamboyant hot dogging con-testants eager to show they really arewhat they eat.

Chestnut of San Jose, Calif, hoistedthe American flag and then stoodproudly like an Olympic athlete as “TheStar-Spangled Banner” played follow-ing his 68 to 64 1/2 dog victory overhis archrival, six-time titleholderTakeru Kobayashi. As soon as he knewhe had won, he shot his right fist intothe air, his mouth still bulging while hechewed the last of his wieners atNathan’s Famous Fourth of July Inter-national Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Chestnut wins NY hot dogeating match, 3rd in row

Tea, water andbiscuits as S AfricanGovt tightens beltsTea, water and biscuits are on South

Africa’s recession menu to replace lav-ish meals at some government meetingsas the belt is tightened on public spend-ing, a spokesman said.

“Budgets that are spent on meals orfood in departments, travelling, are be-ing slashed as we speak,” ThembaMaseko told journalists while outliningplans in tough financial conditions.

In this photo released by theFlorida Keys News Bureau, staffand volunteers from the Florida

Keys-based Turtle Hospitalrelease ‘Obama’ the loggerheadsea turtle, at Higgs Beach in KeyWest, Fla, on 4 July, 2009. The

turtle was found severely ill on 19Jan, 2009, the day before Presi-dent Barack Obama’s inaugura-

tion and nicknamed after the 44thpresident of the United States.

A sea turtle named after PresidentBarack Obama that was rescued justbefore Inauguration Day has been setfree on Independence Day.

Obama the loggerhead sea turtle wasfound ailing off a Key West beach on19 Jan, the eve of the inauguration.

Suffering from an intestinal impac-tion, the 200-pound female was nursedback to health with a diet of squid andmineral oil at the Turtle Hospital inMarathon.

Turtle Hospital administrator RyanButts said the turtle was set free Satur-day on a Key West beach as about 100people watched.

Turtle named for Obamafreed on Independence Day

CHENNAI, 8 July—Indian police were investigatingWednesday a fire in a fireworks factory that killed atleast 17 people in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

At least 21 others were injured when the fire brokeout Tuesday evening in a suburb of Madurai, 500 kilo-metres (310 miles) from the state capital Chennai.

Police said the impact of the resulting explosionscaused the building to collapse.

“The incident occurred while packing the crack-ers,” said Madurai police superintendent MManoharan.

It took four hours for fire officials to control theblaze, and their efforts were hampered by a water short-age.

The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.Internet

CIUDAD JUAREZ, 8 July—An anti-crime activistand a neighbour werekilled in northern Mexicoon Tuesday by gunmen be-lieved linked to a drug car-tel, a local legislator said.

Mexican anti-crimeactivists said the slayingof Benjamin LeBaron, aUS citizen, in Chihuahuastate was the first time oneof their own had beenkilled for denouncingcrime and called it a chill-

STONE TOWN, 8 July—It has been confirmed that10 bodies of the passen-gers of the ill-fatedYemeni airliner have beenfound floating in the wa-ter of the eastern Tanza-nia coast, Xinhua learnedon Tuesday.

The bodies found nearMafia Island of Tanzaniainclude four women, twogirls and four men, whilemost of the bodies are inbad conditions and some

An Indian extinguishes flames from a burning

vehicle after a fire at a fireworks factory in the

western Indian state of Maharashtra in April 2009.

Indian police were investigating Wednesday a fire

in a fireworks factory that killed at least 17 people

in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.—INTERNET

French investigators test their equipment atGalawa beach before a search mission for the

missing Yemenia A310-300 plane, in Mitsamiouli,north of Comores island’s capital Moronoi,

on 6 July, 2009.—INTERNET

Anti-crime activist and neighbour killedin Mexico

Firework factory fire kills17 in India

ing warning.LeBaron led street pro-

tests in May demandingthe release of his 19-year-old brother, Eric, who hadbeen snatched by a kid-napping gang in May. Theteenager was later freed.

Such gangs are fre-quently linked to drug car-tels in Mexico, and therewere signs that one suchcartel may have been in-volved in Tuesday’s kill-ings of LeBaron and

neighbour Luis Widmar,who apparently went toLeBaron’s house to try tohelp him.

“A commando of 15 to20 men came to Benjamin’shouse at 1:30 in the morn-ing, and because theycouldn’t get in through thedoor, they broke out thewindows,” said state legis-lator Victor Quintana, bas-ing his account on conver-sations with LeBaron’sfamily.—Internet

Ten bodies from crashed Yemeni airlinerfound along Tanzania coast

of them have lost part oftheir bodies, according toreport from Mafia parlia-mentarian AbdulkadirShaha Buji, who is cur-rently attending parlia-ment session in Dodoma.

Some remains of theplane were also foundalong with the bodies, andmore bodies are expectedto be recovered from theshore of Mafia island, thereport added.

Security Committee ofMafia island has con-firmed to the recovery ofthe bodies to higher au-thorities and are waiting

for the permission for theburial of the bodies,Shaha Buji was quoted assaying.

He further said policeare undertaking investiga-tion to make sure if theycould find more bodies onthe area as the badweather is making the taskdifficult. Only one pas-senger out of the 153 peo-ple on board has beenconfirmed to survive thecrash after the YemeniAirbus plunged into thesea off the Indian Oceanarchipelago of Comoroson 30 June.—Internet

Japan’s machinery orderhits record low in MayJapan’s core private-sector

machinery orders fell 3.0 per cent in Mayfrom April to 668.2 billion yen (someseven billion US dollars), hitting thelowest level on record, the government’sCabinet Office said Wednesday.

The fall was beyond the marketforecast which stood at about 1.8 per cent,implying Japanese companies still face arocky road to recover.

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Food, shelter and clothing are the three mainfundamental needs for every human being. Amongthese, food is the most important one. We need tohave a balanced diet containing protein, carbohydrateand fat in our everyday meals. Protein-rich fish andmeat as well as vitamin-rich beans, vegetables andfood are essential for health. However, food safetyis now considered and important issue nowadays.WHO has defined Food Safety as “the assurance thatfood will not cause harm to the consumer when it isprepared and/or eaten according to its intended use”.

Every year, food-borne infections cause mil-lions of illness and thousand of deaths. Surveillanceand monitoring by a number of countries has indi-cated that food borne illness is increasing around theworld. Food-borne disease is caused by consumingcontaminated foods or beverages. Most of these dis-eases are infectious, caused by a variety of bacteria,viruses, and parasites that can be carried about infood. Other diseases are poisonings, caused by harm-ful toxins or chemicals that have contaminated thefood.

Food Poisoning is a common, usually mild,but sometimes deadly illness, generally presentingwith typical symptoms like nausea, vomiting, ab-dominal cramping, and diarrhea. It often occurs sud-denly (within 48 hours) after consuming a contami-nated food or drink, and depending on the type andextent of contaminants, fever and chills, bloodystools, dehydration, and nervous system damage mayfollow.Food borne pathogens

Organisms that mostly account for food poisoningincludes bacteria, virus, protozoa, fungi and algae.1. Bacteria

Bacteria can cause food poisoning in two differ-ent ways. Some bacteria infect the intestine, causinginflammation, over-secretion of fluid and electro-lytes, difficulty in absorbing nutrients and water, lead-ing to diarrhea. Other bacteria produce chemicals infood (known as toxins) that are deleterious to thehuman digestive system. Some of the well-knownbacteria causing food-borne illness include:

Vibrio cholerae causes cholera, a mild to mod-erate illness resulting in abrupt onset of crampydiarrhea (fishy smelling, watery motion), headache,nausea, vomiting and may be accompanied by feverwith chills. Without proper treatment, it can even befatal due to severe dehydration. Cholera is mainlytransmitted by infected, undercooked, or raw sea-food and outbreaks strikes mostly in the earlymonsoon, warm and rainy season.

Salmonellae: Salmonellae are bacteria that cancause food poisoning through transmission byundercooked foods such as eggs, poultry, dairy prod-ucts, and seafood. The illness itself is often referredto as Salmonella or Salmonella infection.Salmonellae cause a moderate illness with nausea,vomiting, crampy diarrhea, and headache, which maycome back a few weeks later as arthritis (joint pain).In people with impaired immune systems (such askidney disease, HIV/AIDS, or receiving chemo-therapy for cancer), Salmonellae can cause a life-threatening illness.

Sheigella (traveler’s diarrhea) causes mod-erate to severe illness with fever, diarrhea contain-

ing blood or mucus or both, with a constant urge topass motion. It is mainly transmitted in water pollutedwith human wastes.

Esherichia coli (E.coli) causes moderate to se-vere illness that begins as passing large amounts ofwatery diarrhea, which later turns into bloody diarrhea.There are many different types of E.coli. The worststrain can cause kidney failure and death (about 3%-5% of all cases). It is transmitted through eating rawor undercooked food like hamburger; un-pasteurizedmilk or juice, or contaminated well water. Outbreaksof food poisoning due to E.coli can also occur.

Clostridium botulinum (botulism) causes severeillness affecting the nervous system. Symptoms usu-ally start with blurring of vision, which then developsinto problems of overall weakness even to undertakenormal tasks like talking and walking. Symptoms thenprogress to breathing difficulty and the inability tomove arms or legs. Infants and young children areparticularly at risk. It is transmitted in foods such ashome-packed canned foods, honey, sausages, and sea-food. As botulism can be released into the air, it isconsidered a potential biological weapon for terror-ists.2. Viruses

Noroviruses are a group of viruses that cause amild illness with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea abdomi-nal pain, headache, and low-grade fever, which usu-ally resolve in two to three days without sequalae. Itis mainly transmitted through water, shellfish and veg-etables contaminated by feces, and also from personto person contact. It is one of the common viral infec-tion to cause adult food poisoning and outbreaks arecommon in densely populated areas such as nursinghomes, schools and cruise ships.

Rotaviruses causes moderate to severe illnesswith vomiting followed by water diarrhea and fever.It is the most common cause of food poisoning in in-fants and children and is transmitted from person toperson by fecal contamination of food and shared playareas.

Hepatitis A causes mild illness with sudden on-set of fever, loss of appetite and feeling of tirednessfollowed by jaundice, which is seen as yellowish col-oration of the eyes and skin. It is transmitted fromperson to person by fecal contamination of food.How does food become contaminated?

As we live in a microbial world, there are manyopportunities for food to become contaminated dur-ing production and in preparation. Many food-bornemicrobes are present in healthy animals (usually intheir intestines) raised for food. Meat and poultry car-casses can become contaminated during slaughter bycoming into contact with intestinal contents. Similarly,fresh fruits and vegetables can be contaminated if theyare washed or irrigated with water that is contaminatedwith animal manure or human sewage. Later, duringfood processing, food-borne microbes can be intro-duced from infected humans handling the food, orthrough cross-contamination from other raw agricul-tural products. For example, Shigella bacteria, Hepa-titis A virus and Norwalk virus can be introduced bythe unwashed hands of food handlers who are them-selves infected. In the kitchen, microbes can be trans-ferred from one food to another from using the sameknife, cutting board or other utensils used to prepare

both without thorough washing in between use. A foodthat is fully cooked can also become recontaminatedif it touches other raw foods or drippings from foodsthat contain pathogens. Many bacterial microbes needto multiply in the food, to a number large enough, tocause disease. Presence of warm moist environmentand ample supply of nutrients, one bacterium can re-produce, by dividing itself every 20 minutes, to reachup to 17 million progeny within 12 hours. As a result,lightly contaminated food left out overnight can be-come highly infectious on the next day. Therefore,food should be refrigerated promptly, to prevent bac-teria from multiplying as; in general, refrigeration orfreezing prevents virtually all bacteria from growing.What foods are most associated with food-borneillness?

Raw foods of animal origin are most likely tobe contaminated; that is, raw meat and poultry, raweggs, un-pasteurized milk, and raw shellfish.Foodsmingled with products of many animals, such as bulkraw milk, pooled raw eggs, or ground beef, are par-ticularly hazardous because a pathogen present inany one of the animals many contaminate the wholebatch. Fruits and vegetables consumed raw are of aparticular concern. Washing can decrease, but doesnot eliminate contamination, so the consumes cando little to protect themselves. Using unclean watercan contaminate many boxes of different products.Fresh manure used as fertilizers for vegetables canbe contaminated by left-over residues. Alfalfasprouts and other raw sprouts pose a particular chal-lenge, as the conditions under which they aresprouted are ideal for growing microbes, and alsobecause they are often eaten without further cook-ing. Un-pasteurized fruit juice can also be contami-nated if there are pathogens in or on the fruit fromwhich it was made. The danger of pesticides andfertilizers should be considered in consuming veg-etables and fruits. Nowadays, pesticides and ferti-lizers have been using widely in agriculture. Theirresidues last for a few days even after washing withwater and cooking. They can disappear gradually ac-cording to their half-lives. Thus, it would be safer toleave a period of 3 to 7 days after buying of fruits andvegetables before consumption.Prevention

Without proper handling or cooking, all food havethe potential to cause food poisoning. The followingsteps can help prevent this from happening.

1. Hand washing2. Separate raw and cooked food3. Cook food thoroughly4. Keep food at safe temperature5. Use safe water and raw materials for cooking

and preparing food6. Make food and utensils used in cooking or serv-

ing inaccessible to insects pests.1. Hand washing

Wash hands before handling food and often duringfood preparation.Wash hands after going to the toilet.Wash and sanitize all surfaces and equipment usedfor food preparation.Protect kitchen areas and food from insects, pestsand other animals.

(See page 8)

Safer Food for Better HealthProfessor Dr. Paing Soe

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8 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 9 July, 2009

(from page 1)tailoring courses and presented gifts to instructors.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye later visited Training School forDevelopment of National Youths in Border Areas andmet with the principal, staff and trainees. Lt-Gen ThaAye and party inspected condition of Saw- Kanpetletroad, Saw-Mindat road and progress of Mindat in amotorcade.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye and party attended tea plantsgrowing ceremony at Bawkui farm of MyanmaAgriculture Service and encouraged departmental staff,members of social organizations and locals growingtea plants.

Lt-Gen Tha Aye and party then inspectedcondition of Mindat-Matupi road and arrived atMatupi.

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Lt-Gen Tha Aye supervisesdevelopment…

(from page 7)2. Separate raw and cooked

Separate raw meat, poultry and seafood from otherfoods.Use separate equipment and utensils such as knivesand cutting boards for handling raw foods.Store food in containers to avoid contact betweenraw and prepared foods.

3. Cook food thoroughlyCook food especially meat, poultry, eggs and sea-food thoroughly.Bring foods like soups and stews to boiling to makesure that they have reached 70°C.Reheat cooked food thoroughly.

4. Keep food at safe temperaturesDo not leave cooked food at room temperature formore than 2 hours.Refrigerate promptly all cooked and perishable food(preferably below 5°C).Keep cooked food hot (more than 60°C) prior toserving.Do not store food too long even in the refrigerator.Do not thaw frozen food at room temperature.

5. Use safe water and raw materialsUse safe water or treat it to make it safe.Select fresh and wholesome foods.Choose foods processed for safety, such as pasteur-ized milk.Wash fruits and vegetables, especially if eaten raw.Do not use food beyond its expiry date.

6. Make food and utensils used in cooking or serv- ing inaccessible to insects and pests.

Food and utensils used in cooking and servingshould be kept away from insects like flies, cock-roaches, pests like rats and other pets. Many resultshave found out the evidences of transmitting diseasesby these insects and pests. For example, leptospiro-

Safer Food for Better… sis, a disease that causes hepatitis and muscle pains inhuman can occur in people who have eaten food anddrinks contaminated with the urine of infected rat.Caution* Shop safely. Bag raw meat, poultry, and fish sepa-

rately from other food items. Drive home immedi-ately after finishing your shopping so you can storeall foods pormptly.

* Prepare food safely. Wash hands before and af-ter handling food. Also wash them after using thebathrom or changing diapers. Wash fresh fruits andvegetables, rinsing well with running water. Aftercutting raw meat, poultry, or fish, wash the cuttingboard with hot, soapy water and disinfect it with ableach solution. Use 1 teaspoon of bleach per 1 quart[32 fl.oz] of water, or according to the directions.You can also disinfect your knives and cutting boardsin the dishwasher.

* Store foods safely. Cook, refrigerate, or freeze meat,poultry, eggs, fish, and ready-to-eat foods within 2hours. Make sure your refrigerator is set at 4°C orcolder.

* Cook, foods safely. Use a clean meat thermometerto detemine whether foods are cooked to a safe tem-perature. Reheat leftovers to at least 70°C. Do noteat undercooked hamburgers, and be aware of therisk of food poisoning from raw fish (including su-shi), clams and oysters.

* Serve foods safely. Keep cooked hot foods hot, at60°C or above and cold foods at 4°C or below.

* Follow labels on food packaging. Food packaginglabels provide information about when to use thefood and how to store it.

* When in doubt, throw it out. If you are not surewhether a food is safe, don’t eat it. Reheating foodthat is contaminated will not make it safe. Don’t tastesuspicious food. It may smell and look fine but stillmay not be safe to eat.

It is important to pay particular attention to food

preparation and storage during warm months whenfood is often served outside. Bacteria grow faster inwarmer weather, so food can spoil more quickly andpossible cause illeness. Do not leave food outdoorsfor more than 1 hour if the temperature is above32°C, and never leave it outdoors for more than 2hours. Food-borne diseases adversely affect not onlyindividual’s health but also family and ultimately,country’s economy. Food-borne diseases are largelypreventable; through there is no simple one-step pre-vention measure like vaccine. Instead, measures areneeded to prevent or limit contamination all the wayfrom farm to table. Recognition that the problem offood-borne disease exists, creation of effective inter-disciplinary co-operation among health care person-nel and collaboration with related ministries likeAgriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will minimizethe challenging food-borne diseases. By keeping per-sonal hygiene and following facts for food safety canmarkedly reduce food-brone diseases in future.Conclusion

1. Hand washing2. Separate raw and cooked food3. Cook food thoroughly4. Reheat cooked food thoroughly.5. Keep food at safe temperature. Do not leave

cooked food at room temperature for more than2 hours (1 hour during warmer months)

6. Use safe water and raw materials for cookingand preparing food

7. Make food and utensils used in cooking or serv-ing inaccessible to insects and pests.

8 When in doubt, throw it out. Don’t taste suspi-cious food.

9. Handling of food can contaminate it. (with rawhands)

10. Plates or bowls should be thoroughly washed andheated before serving.

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 July— Chairman of MandalayCity Development Committee Mayor Brig-Gen PhoneZaw Han inspected operating of Malun water pumpingstation in Chanayethazan Township on 30 July morn-ing.

The mayor looked into cleaning of algae in thewater surface of the motes and gave necessaryinstructions to officials.

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 July—The opening ceremonyof 18th Defence Services Commander-in-Chief 's ShieldKaratedo Championship took place at National IndoorStadium-1 (Thuwunna) in Yangon this morning. Onbehalf of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services,

New Shan Literature and Culture (Lashio) hall openedNAY PYI TAW, 8 July—Chairman of Shan State

(North) State Peace and Development CouncilCommander of North-East Command Maj-Gen AungThan Htut on 28 June attended a ceremony to open theHall of Shan Literature and Culture (Lashio) and grewa plant to mark the opening of the hall.

After that, the commander made a speech on the

occasion and visited the hall and culture booth.On 29 June, the commander delivered an address

at the ceremony held at Town hall to present titles,medals and certificates of honour conferred by theState Peace and Development Council and handedover them to the winners.

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the Commander of Mingaladon Airbase delivered anintroductory speech.

A total of 25 teams of (Army, Navy, Air) aretaking part in the contest.

MNA

Defence Services C-in-C's ShieldKaratedo Championship commences

Operating of Malun waterpumping station inspected

On behalf of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, the Commander of MingaladonAirbase makes a speech at the opening ceremony of 18th Defence Services Commander-in-

Chief's Shield Karatedo Championship.—MNA

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Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swe makes a speech in meetingwith local people in Talinetaung village, Sane village-tract of An

Township.—TRANSPORT

NAY PYI TAW, 8 July — Chairman ofRakhine State Peace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander of WesternCommand Maj-Gen Thaung Aye andMinister for Transport Maj-Gen Thein Swemet with local people at Basic EducationPrimary School in Hmwar village in AnTownship on 5 July.

The commander and the ministerpresented clothes, publications, exercisebooks, CI sheets, bags of cement and cashfor regional development and awardedtwo outstanding students.

At BEPS in Talaingtaung village, thecommander and the minister deliveredaddresses in meeting with local people andpresent clothes for the village, magazinesand journals for village library, exercisebooks and bags of cement for the primaryschool in the village and CI sheets forvillage dispensary to responsible persons.

Then the commander and the ministerattended the opening of Aye Yadana PhyoAlin Pya Library in Daing-gyi village in thetownship and presented publications and aTV set for the library.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 8July—Chairman ofAyeyawady DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofSouth-West CommandMaj-Gen Kyaw Swe, on30 June, inspected the

Construction of road and bridge inAyeyawady Div inspected

construction ofNyaungchaung bridgeand digging of feedercanal in KangyidauntTownship and alsoattended the rainy seasontree-planting ceremonyheld at Phayachaung

village.Afterwards, the

commander met withtrainees of MyaungmyaEducation College andinspected Ngwegababreeding farm inMyaytada village.—MNA

Commander, minister perform regionaldevelopment task in An Township

NAY PYI TAW, 8July—Chairman ofMandalay DivisionPeace and DevelopmentCouncil Commander ofCentral Command Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe, on 30

Tarred road of Central Women’sHospital (Mandalay) opened

June, attended aceremony to open self-reliant tarred road in thecompound of CentralWomen’s Hospital(Mandalay) and lookedinto the road.

After that, thecommander lookedround the blood donationat the Hospital andpresented nutritiousfoods to the donors.

MNA

Health Ministry holds tree-planting ceremonyNAY PYI TAW, 7 July

—Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint planted aGangaw tree at the rainyseason tree planting

ceremony 2009 of theMinistry of Health atperennial crop plantationnear the ministry here thismorning.

Deputy Minister DrPaing Soe anddepartmental headsplanted trees at thedesignated places.

Next, the minister, thedeputy minister and partyviewed the collectivegrowing of tree by stafffamilies.

A total of 977 saplingswere grown at theceremony.— MNA

Minister for HealthDr Kyaw Myint

grows a Gangawsapling at monsoon

tree-plantingceremony of Ministry

of Health.HEALTH

Special programme forvehicle buyers and sellers

YANGON, 8 July— Sakura Auto Auction Centrewill launch a special auction programme on 12 Julyfor those who want to buy and sell cars.

On that day, Sakura Auto Auction Centre willcarry out registration and service free of charge forthis Auction Program. For more information contactTel : 01-569073, 569074, 09-8601864, 09-9601779.—MNA

YANGON, 8 July—Yangon Division TrafficRules EnforcementSupervisory Committeewill organize the ceremonyto mark the 20th

Anniversary of theSupervisory Committee,here, in October 2009.

The open poem, shortstory, article, cartoon,poster and photo contestson traffic rules to mark the20th Anniversary of theSupervisory Committeewill be held.

The sizes of entries for

Poem, short story, article, cartoon, poster and photo conteststo mark Traffic Rules Enforcement Supervisory Committee

cartoon and poster contestsmust be 15 inches by 20inches. The contestants areto put their signatures onthe back of the works. Inaddition to open class, thecartoon and poster contestsfor the students in middleand high schools under No.3 Department of BasicEducation will be heldseparately.

For the photo contest,the entries are to be original.If one secures the prize, thewinner must submit theoriginal file info to the

committee. TheSupervisory Committeewill use the prize winningworks. Prize winningphotos are not allowed totake part in the contest. Thesizes of the entries must be10 inches by 14 inches.

Only high and middleschool students of No. 3BED may participate in theessay contest. One originaland duplicate copy each ofthe entries are to besubmitted. The entries mustbe between 5,000 and10,000 words. Each

contestant may submit oneshort story, one poem andone article each. All thecontestants are to send twopassport-sized photo, name,pen-name, names of parents,Citizenship Card Number,education, occupation,address and brief biographyto the office of YangonDivision Wireless andTraffic Police Force on 51st

Street in PazundaungTownship, Tel: 298651. Thephotos are to be sent toMyanmar PhotographicSociety at 27/29, First Floor,35th Street (Lower Block),Kyauktada Township, Tel:373167.— MNA

YANGON, 8 July—Theconclusion of HACCPBased QualityManagement Courseconducted by the MyanmarFishery Federation underthe Ministry of Livestockand Fisheries and theMyanmar FisheryProducts Processors andExporters Association tookplace at MFF in InseinTownship this morning.

Acting Director-General U Khin Ko Layof Fisheries Departmentdelivered an introductoryspeech.

Chairman U Nyo Minof the associationexplained the purpose of

HACCP Based Quality ManagementCourse concludes

the course. EU TrainingCourse Expert Mrs HuynhLe Tam of Vietnam gave abrief account of courseexperiences.

The acting director-

general presentedcertificates to the 114trainees, who hadcompleted the four-weekcourse.

MNA

Acting Director-General U Khin Ko Lay ofFisheries Department of Ministry of

Livestock and Fisheries presents certificatesof HACCP Based Quality Management

Course.—L&F

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A boom in agricultural farming in Yesagyo TownshipArticle & photos: Pe Tun Zaw (Yesagyo)

A tributary and summer paddy fields.

(from page 1)have been able to boost agricultural productionremarkably with reclaimed lands, resulting from thedams, river water pumping stations and undergroundwater tapping stations the government has constructedthe length and breadth of the country.

For instance, Yesagyo Township in the northernpart of Magway Division in the central Myanmarthat shares border with Sagaing and Mandalaydivisions has an area of 385.73 square miles or246,870 acres and a population of about 345,000and is constituted with eight regions, 81 village-tracts and 245 villages.

The majority of local people live in rural areasand live on agricultural farming. Previously, they hadto rely completely on rainwater to grow crops, so itwas often uncertain as to whether they would getenough rainfalls or not.

Now, Yesagyo Township has seen a good numberof irrigation facilities that guarantee adequate waterfor agricultural purpose whether its annual rainfall isnormal or less than normal. The dams and river waterpumping stations the Tatmadaw government hasconstructed from 1988 onwards increase the sownacreages of Yesagyo Township. The irrigationfacilities are Hsinchaung Dam (1000 acres) inHsinchaung Village-tract, Myekhedaung Dam (500

acres) in Kaingmagyi Village-tract, Gwaycho Dam(400 acres) in Sitha Village-tract, Hsinkyot Dam (165acres) in Kyu Village-tract, Khinmon Dam, ChitthuRiver Water Pumping Station (2531 acres) inPakhannge Village-tract, Thintthe River WaterPumping Station (1071 acres) in Pakhannge Village-tract, Thamantabo River Water Pumping Station (1398acres) in Thamantabo Village-tract, Mau River WaterPumping Station (150 acres) in in Mau port (lower),Minywa River Water Pumping Station (3000 acres) inKanbyu Village-tract, Wayar-thasit River WaterPumping Station (3000 acres), and Shwechaung RiverWater Pumping Station (500 acres) in NyaungsaukVillage-tract.

For the township, those irrigation facilities serveas a driving force for boosting production of monsoonand summer paddy, edible oil crops, beans and pulses,and crops for industrial raw materials. During theperiod between 1987-1988 and 2008-2009, the thetownship increased its sown acreage of monsoon

paddy from 6313 to 35,007; summer paddy from 204to 5241; cotton from nil to 5507; beans and pulses,from 32,563 to 70,368; edible oil crops, from 34,639to 83,196; kitchen crops from 4232 to 8522; corn,from 1175 to 7706; vegetables, from 392 to 4323;toddy palm, and from 2365 to 6393; and the numberof cattle, from 106 to 9245 heads.

Owing to the irrigation facilities, local farmersrun more acres of farms and exercise mixed andmultiple cropping patterns on a wider scale. So, theyare enjoying higher living standard with fine houses,and TV sets. Some of them have satellite disc antennas,motorized trailers, tractors and combine-harvesters.Those fruits are, indeed, some of the tangible resultsdue to the efforts the Tatmadaw government has beenmaking with heart and soul for development in theagricultural sector.

Translation: MSKyemon: 8-7-2009

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Gusto to conduct AppliedProgramming Course on 26 July

A thriving summer paddy field irrigated byChitthu River Water Pumping Station.

YANGON, 8 July —Gusto ComputerTechnology TrainingSchool will conductapplied programmingcourse “Software Solutionwith JAVA” for those whoare studying computertechnology and those whowant to pursue furtherstudies abroad.

The three-month

Traffic Rules EnforcementCommittee to issue magazine

Cash assistance foreducation presented

YANGON, 8 July—Yangon Division PoliceForce held a ceremony topresent cash assistance foreducation for 2009-2010academic year at themeeting hall of the officeof Yangon Division PoliceForce this afternoon.

First, Commander ofYangon Division PoliceForce Police Col WinNaing and wife presentedcash assistance K5,263,000 and 2000

dozens of execise booksworth K 2,910,000 for 104students at universitylevel, 149 at high schoollevel, 176 at middle schoollevel and 191 at primarylevel.

Next, wellwishersdonated cash and exercisebooks for YangonDivision Police Force andthen Police Col Win Naingaccepted the donationsand gave certificates ofhonour to them.—MNA

course will start on 26July. The trainees are toattend the course at theweekend. Only 20trainees are allowed totake the course. Thosewishing to take the coursemay enroll not later than20 July. Under the specialprogramme, the first 10trainees who enlist in thecourse will be given a 10%

YANGON, 8 July—Traffic Rules En-forcement Committeewill circulate a magazineto mark the 20th

Anniversary of the

committee soon. Cover,manuscripts anddocumentary photos maybe sent to office ofYangon DivisionWireless and TrafficPolice Corp on 51st Streetin Pazundaung Townshipnot later than 31 August.Manuscripts and photosthat are not selected willnot be sent back to thecontestants and selectedwinners will be presentedhandsome prizes.

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discount.For further infor-

mation contact GustoComputer TechnologyTraining School at No(11), ShwetaungdanRoad, LanmadawTownship, Yangon (Ph:222052). —MNA

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(from page 16)N o w a d a y s ,

Magway Division hasbeen equipped withADSL (broadband)Internet communica-tion system, nine mo-bile phone exchanges,13,232 telephonelines, 104 Satell i teTerminal Exchangesof Myanma Posts andTelecommunicationsand 416 lines.

M o r e o v e r ,

Communication network being established in Magway DivisionArticle: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)

Communication station in Magway.

An auto-exchange built within two months in Mindon.

CDMA-450 system fa-cilitates the local peopleto connect with thewestern regions ofAyeyawady River andthe townships of ChinState sharing borderwith Magway Divisionat any time.

CDMA-450 sta-tions installed with 4200phone l ines wereopened on Shinma Hill,Tantkyi Hill and Minbuin 2008.

As a gesture ofhonouring the 62nd An-niversary Armed ForcesDay, the CDMA-450station was opened inMindat of Chin State on22 March 2009. There-fore, the local peoplecan apply the CDMA-450 system to communi-cate with their friendsand relatives in the re-gions on the west bankof Ayeyawady Rivernamely Minbu, Minhla,

Ngaphe, Salin,Pwintbyu, Seikpyu,Pakokku, Myaing,Yesagyo, Pauk,Kyaukhtu, Saw, Htilinand Gangaw.

With regard to auto-exchange facility, a total of17 auto-exchanges wereopened in the region in2007-2008. Likewise,eight new auto-exchangeswere opened in Pauk,Kanman, Myitchay,Seikpyu, Yenangyoung In-dustrial Zone, Magway(new), Sagu and Minhla in2008-2009. Moreover, theauto-exchange in Myaingwas extended with 500lines.

Furthermore, themagneto exchange inMindon of Thayet Dis-trict was upgraded to theauto-exchange on 17May 2009 two monthsahead of schedule.

The plans are un-der way to carry out in-stallation of 2500 tel-ephone lines at Magway(Extension) DMS-10Exchange, 500 lines atChauk (Extension) Ex-change, 1500 lines atAunglan (Exchange),

500 lines at Thayet (Ex-change), 1100 lines atPakokku (Exchange),500 lines at Yesagyo(Exchange), 300 lines inHsinpaungwe, 300 linesat Kanma (Thayet), 400lines at Kyaukhtu, 400lines at Saw, 300 linesat Myothit, 300 lines atSedoktara and 300 lines

at Ngaphe exchange.As such, the communi-cation network beingestablished in MagwayDivision will contrib-ute to uplift of the so-cial-economic statusof the local people.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 7-7-2009

NAY PYI TAW, 8 July—The thirdmonsoon tree-planting ceremony ofAttorney-General's Office took place atthat office, here, this morning. Attorney-General U Aye Maung, DeputyAttorneys-General Dr Tun Shin and UTun Tun Oo planted ironwood saplings

Rainy season tree-growingceremony of Attorney-

General’s Office

H & T Ministry holds monsoontree-growing ceremony

NAY PYI TAW, 8July—Third weekmonsoon tree-plantingceremony 2009 of Minis-try of Hotels and Tourismwas held in Thazin 1,staff quarters building 9

Bawga Theikdi Ward,here this morning. DeputyMinister of Hotels andTourism Brig-Gen AyeMyint Kyu planted Cassiafistula sapling and depart-mental heads and staff

collectively planted per-ennial and windbreakersaplings.

A total of 455 sap-lings were grown at theceremony.

MNA

Attorney-General U Aye Maung grows an ironwood sapling at thirdmonsoon tree-planting ceremony of Attorney-General’s Office.

MNA

The best time to plant a tree was20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

at designated places.The attorney-general and the

deputy attorneys-general viewed saplingsbeing grown by deputy directors-general,directors and service personnel.

A total of 700 saplings were grownat the ceremony.—MNA

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV BANGKACHAI VOY NO (83)Consignees of cargo carried on MV

BANGKACHAI VOY NO (83) are hereby notifiedthat the vessel due to arrive on 9.7.2009 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S WONGSAMUT OCEANSHIPPING CO., LTD

Phone No: 256919/256916/256912

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PIRAN VOY NO (005)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV PIRAN VOYNO (005) are hereby notified that the vessel will bearriving on 9.7.2009 and cargo will be discharged intothe premises of S.P.W where it will lie at the consignee’srisk and expenses and subject to the byelaws and condi-tions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: STX PAN OCEAN, KOREAPhone No: 256924/256914

The Antares DLR-H2 flies its madden voyage overthe northern German city of Hamburg. The

airplane powered by fuel cells was commissionedby the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) with the

goal of developing fuel cells for a reliable on-board power supply for wide-body airliners.

INTERNET

World’s first fuel cell aircrafttakes off in Germany

HAMBURG, 8 July— The world’s first piloted aircraftcapable of taking to the air using only power fromfuel cells took off in Germany on Tuesday, producingzero carbon dioxide emissions, its makers said.

“We have improved the performance capabilitiesand efficiency of the fuel cell to such an extent that apiloted aircraft is now able to take off using it,” saidJohann-Dietrich Woerner from the German AerospaceCenter (DLR).

“This enables us to demonstrate the true potentialof this technology, also and perhaps specifically forapplications in the aerospace sector,” he said.

Developed by the DLR, Lange Aviation, BASF FuelCells and Denmark’s Serenergy, the Antares DLR-H2motor glider has a range of 750 kilometres (465 miles)and can fly for five hours.

The system uses hydrogen as its fuel, and this isconverted into electrical energy in a direct,electrochemical reaction with oxygen in the ambientair, without any combustion occurring.—Internet

Plane returns to Md airportafter bird strike

LINTHICUM, 8 July—Southwest Airlines officials say aflight headed to Providence, RI, has returned safely toBaltimore’s airport after at least one bird hit an engine.

It happened about 5:20 pm Tuesday near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger saysFlight 69, a 737, was carrying 137 passengers. Air-port spokesman Jonathan Dean says one or more birdshit the engine while the plane was taking off.

Eichinger says the plane landed safely back at BWIand there were no injuries. She said mechanics werechecking the aircraft.

Planes hit birds every day in the US. A bird strikewas responsible for the landing of a jetliner in theHudson River in New York last winter. Everyone sur-vived.—Internet

Exhibition promotesnature conservation

BEIJING, 8 July—An exhibition depicting theachievements of nature conservation around the worldhas opened at the new National Animal Museum inBeijing. From remote mountains to forests, there aremany examples of people protecting nature around theworld. The exhibition showcases a collection of 90 ofthese efforts from over the last 30 years.

Animal experts say thanks to the efforts of grass-roots conservationists, the number of endangered spe-cies in China, such as the giant panda and Tibetan an-telope, have increased over the past two decades. Buta large number of species remain in danger of extinc-tion. Xie Yan, China Program Director of Wildlife Con-servation Society, said, “Our aim is to let the publicand relevant government departments know moreabout these valuable experiences in nature protection.Through this, we hope the idea of conservation canreach deeper into people’s hearts.”

Zhaxi Sanger has been involved in bird protectionin Tibet. So far the Tibetan monk has drawn picturesand recorded details about more than 400 birds on theTibetan plateau. Zhaxi hopes his knowledge and ex-perience can be shared.—Internet

Bootleg alcohol kills 24 in IndiaNEW DELHI, 8 July—At least 24 people have died af-

ter drinking toxic, homebrewed alcohol in the westernIndian state of Gujarat. Fifteen others were admitted tohospital in the state’s largest city Ahmedabad after fall-ing ill from consuming the contaminated liquor at a partyearlier in the week, the Press Trust of India reported onWednesday. Police used teargas to disperse angry resi-dents who took to the streets to protest against the fail-ure to close down illegal distilleries. Authorities are in-vestigating the deaths. Deaths from cheap alcohol arefrequent in India and most victims are poor.—Internet

A patient, complainingof poor vision after

consuming illicit liquor,is brought to a hospital

in Ahmedabadon 7 July.INTERNET

Scientists identifycholesterol-regulating genes

WASHINGTON, 8 July—Scientists at the EuropeanMolecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Uni-versity of Heidelberg, Germany, have come a stepcloser to understanding how cholesterol levels areregulated. In a study published on Tuesday in US jour-nal Cell Metabolism, the researchers identified 20genes that are involved in this process. Besides givingscientists a better idea of where to look to uncover themechanisms that ensure cholesterol balance is main-tained, the discovery could lead to new treatments forcholesterol-related diseases.—Internet

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UK scientists create firsthuman sperm from stem cells

Climate found mostimportant in wildfires

A firefighter faces off one of more then 100homes destroyed is engulfed in flames, after a

wildfire burned through in the Montecito area ofSanta Barbara County, California on 14 Novem-

ber, 2008.—INTERNET

High protein diet linkedto liver cancer

SEATTLE, 8 July—USscientists say they’ve de-termined climate — nothigh temperatures orlonger fire seasons — isthe most significant fac-tor in wildfires.

Scientists at the USForest Service’s PacificNorthwest Research Sta-tion and from the Univer-sity of Washington saidthe recent increase inarea burned by wildfiresin the Western UnitedStates is a product of acomplex relationship be-tween climate and fuelsthat varies among differ-ent ecosystems.

“We found that whatmatters most in account-ing for large wildfires inthe Western United

States is how climate in-fluences the build up —or production — and dry-ing of fuels,” study leaderJeremy Littell of the uni-versity’s Climate ImpactsGroup said.

“Climate affects fuelsin different ecosystemsdifferently, meaning thatfuture wildfire size and,likely, severity dependson interactions betweenclimate and fuel avail-ability and production.”

The researchers alsosaid their findings sug-gest that, as the climatecontinues to warm,greater areas can be ex-pected to burn, at least innorthern portions of theWest.

Internet

SEATTLE, 8 July—US re-searchers linked diets highin protein and cholesterolwith a higher risk of liverdisease.

The study, published inthe journal Hepatology,also found a high carbohy-drate diet associated with alower risk of cirrhosis — adisease where liver tissueis replaced by fibrous scartissue. Study leader GeorgeIoannou of Veterans AffairsPuget Sound Health CareSystem in Seattle used datafrom 9,221 participants inthe National Health Exami-nation Survey. The studyparticipants did not sufferfrom cirrhosis or liver can-cer at the start of the studyand completed a 24-hourdietary recall question-

naire.During the follow-up

period — an average of13.3 years — 118 partici-pants received a new diag-nosis of cirrhosis and fivepeople a diagnosis of livercancer. These individualswere more likely to bemale, diabetic, non-white,older, more obese withmore central fat distribu-tion and had higher alco-hol consumption.

Subgroup analyses, theresearchers said, showedthe significant associationsof protein and cholesterolintake with cirrhosis orliver cancer described inthe entire study populationwere limited to overweightor obese persons.

Internet

Revellers hold up traditional red scarves during the start of the San Ferminfestival in Pamplona on 6 July, 2009. San Fermin festival, best known for itsdaily running of the bulls, kicked off with the traditional “Chupinazo” rocket

launch and will run until 14 July .—INTERNET

New Zealand reports 4thdeath of influenza A/H1N1

WELLINGTON, 8 July — New Zealand on Wednes-day confirmed the fourth death related to influenza A/H1N1. A 46-year-old man, from the South Island cityof Blenheim, died at home a week ago and was foundby a relative.

Chief Coroner, Judge Neil MacLean, said theman had pre-existing health problems, including obes-ity, and had not seen a doctor for some time.—Internet

Sixth death of A/H1N1 flu reportedin US state of Florida

HOUSTON, 8 July— Florida health officials said on Tuesday that a 19-year-oldwoman had died of the A/H1N1 flu in Orange County as the sixth victim of thevirus in the state. “We continue to emphasize the risk of A/H1N1 flu to the com-munity,” said Dr Kevin Sherin, director of the Orange County Health Depart-ment. “We will, unfortunately, continue to expect more swine flu (A/H1N1 flu) inour communities in Central Florida and more deaths from the disease,” he said.

The young woman was visiting the Orlando area from Pennsylvania, accordingto local health officials. She was hospitalized in Orlando prior to her death.

The officials also said the woman had an undisclosed pre-existing medical con-dition.—Internet

BEIJING, 8 July —Re-searchers at NewcastleUniversity in England re-ported Wednesday thatthey have created the firsthuman sperm cells fromembryonic stem cells.

The research led byProfessor Karim Nayerniaat Newcastle Universityand the NorthEast Eng-land Stem Cell Institute(NESCI) developed a newtechnique that allows thecreation of human spermin the laboratory.

The creation was aproof of concept that stemcells can generate any cellin the body — not only thedozens of tissues thatmake up the human body,but also those egg andsperm cells that may giverise to new bodies alto-gether.

“Other cell types don’tgenerate the next genera-tion,” says Nayernia,“This makes a very bigdifference between ourstudy and the study of

other cell types from em-bryonic stem cells.”

The research teamstressed that the spermwould not be used for fer-tility treatment, as this isprohibited by British lawand in any case is not theirmain interest.

The research, publishedin the journal Stem Cellsand Development, couldalso lead to a better under-standing of how geneticdiseases are passed on.

Internet

Two more californiansdied of A/H1N1 flu virus

HOUSTON, 8 July—Lo-cal health officials reportedon Tuesday that two morecalifornians had died of theA/H1N1 flu virus, bring-ing the death toll to 25 inthe west coast state.

San Diego County pub-

lic health officer WilmaWooten announced that a50-year-old woman in-fected with A/H1N1 flu haddied on 29 June.

“This is an unfortunateincident. Our thoughts arewith the friends and familyof this individual,” saidWooten, urging individualswith underlying medicalconditions to see their pri-mary care physicians ifthey have flu symptoms.

County Health and Hu-man Services Agencyspokesman Jose Alvarezsaid the woman had an un-derlying medical conditionand the flu created extramedical stress on herbody.—Internet

New flu virus detected in pigfarm workers in Canada

OTTAWA, 7 July—Anew type of flu virus hasbeen confirmed in two hogfarm workers in westernCanada’s Saskatchewanprovince, health officialssaid Tuesday.The viruswas found when the work-ers was undergoing testsfor A/H1N1 flu virus afterthey showed mild flu-likesymptoms about twoweeks ago, according toMoira McKinnon, theprovince’s chief medicalhealth officer.

Lab results revealedsomething different andunusual. Further examina-tion determined that a newstrain of flu had emerged,he said.

McKinnon stressed

that the virus was consid-ered not pandemic and hasbeen named “non-pan-demic influenza A virus.”The virus may have beena “one-off” event, he said,noting that laboratorieshave not come across anyother examples of thestrain detected.

“These events do hap-pen, and they do happenoccasionally,” McKinnontold reporters at a newsconference in provincialcapital Regina. “In the cur-rent heightened scenario,we’ve picked this one up.It will probably not trans-mit. It will probably go nofurther than it’s gone al-ready.”

Internet

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S P O R T S Yao may feed aid to toothlessSharks team

BEIJING, 8 July—With his career threatened by afoot injury, basketball superstar Yao Ming may be look-ing to open a new chapter in his life - as one of theowners of his old team, the Shanghai Sharks.

Sharks coach Li Qiuping reportedly said yester-day that the local native is in talks with the ShanghaiSports Bureau to invest 20 million yuan (US$2.9million) to save his former team from a financial cri-sis that could force it out of the Chinese Basketball

Houston Rockets’ YaoMing, of China, looks upagainst the Los AngelesLakers during the secondhalf of an NBA basket-ball game in Los Ange-

les, California, on 3April, 2009.—INTERNET

Foster inks new Man Utd dealLONDON, 8 July—Manchester United goalkeeper

Ben Foster has signed a deal extending his contractuntil 2013, the club said Tuesday.

United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said: “We aredelighted that Ben has signed a new four-year deal.

“Ben is seen as one of the best young goalkeepersin England and we genuinely see him as a successorto Edwin Van der Sar”

Foster, 26, has endured various injury problems andmissed the end of the season after having an operationon a ruptured thumb ligament.

He played in the team which won the League Cupfinal, beating Tottenham on penalties last March.

Foster has won two England caps to date.—Internet

ManchesterUnited’s goalkeeper

Ben Foster savesa penalty from

Tottenham’s JamieO’Hara during the2009 Carling Cupfinal at Wembley

stadium in London,March 2009.

INTERNET

Inter call off deals forCarvalho and Deco

ROME, 8 July—Inter Milan claimed on Tuesday thatthey have ended their interest in Portugal pair RicardoCarvalho and Deco because Chelsea’s asking price istoo high.

Transfer consultant Lele Oriali told Italy’s Sky TVthat any deal was now closed.

Inter sign Brazilianmidfielder Kerlon

ROME, 8 July—Inter Milan on Tuesday wrapped upa permanent deal for Brazilian attacking midfielderKerlon.

Inter Milan on Tuesdaywrapped up a perma-

nent deal for Brazilianattacking midfielderKerlon, seen here in

2005.—INTERNET

Ronaldo facing voraciousSpanish press

MADRID, 8 July—After his triumphant unveiling atReal Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo now faces the chal-lenge of dealing with Spain’s voracious press despitehis stated desire to lead a “quiet” life in Spain andfocus on winning titles.

“I’m going to watch TV at home, quiet, with myfeet on the table”, he told a news conference late onMonday where he faced repeated questions over hiscapacity to deal with the temptations of Madrid’s livelynightlife.

“I worked hard to get here, I am not going to gosleep under a banana tree now,” the 24-year-old Por-tuguese striker added after being presented before arecord-setting crowd of 80,000 fans at the SantiagoBernabeu stadium.

Internet

Real Madrid’s new player Portuguese CristianoRonaldo arrives for his official presentation at theSantiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. —INTERNET

Bayern put 80m euro pricetag on Ribery

El Hadary gets temporaryreprieve from FIFA ban

Egyptian goalkeeperEssam al Hadary

celebrates after the FifaConfederations Cup

football match versusItaly in June 2009in Johannesburg.

INTERNET

Sheffield Utd keeper suspendedfor doping

SHEFFIELD, 8 July—Sheffield United have suspendedgoalkeeper Paddy Kenny after he tested positive for

US defender Onyewu joinsAC Milan

MILAN, 8 July—United States defender OguchiOnyewu joined AC Milan on Tuesday, becoming oneof the few Americans to play in Italy’s top league.

Milan said Tuesday it had agreed to a three-year con-tract with the 27-year-old, whose contract with Stand-ard Liege had expired.

Onyewu, long a star in the Belgian league, gainedincreased notice with superb performances in the USrun to the Confederations Cup final. Playing in centraldefense, he helped the Americans end the 15-game win-ning streak of European champion Spain with a 2-0 win.

That upset put the United States in the final againstBrazil, where the Americans led by two goals at halftimebefore falling 3-2.—Internet

Sheffield United’sRepublic of Ireland

goalkeeper Paddy Kennypictured in September

2008.—INTERNET

Ricardo Carvalho

“Having had the good fortuneto talk directly with Chelsea weknow that they are ready to sellthese two players but their ask-ing price is too high,” he said.

“It’s not a deal as simple as itseems. Under these conditionsit’s not possible for us.

“For now the deal is closedand I don’t know if it will be un-blocked later on.”—Internet

BERLIN, 8 July—Bayern Munich haveset a price tag of 80 mil-lion euros on Frenchmidfielder Franck Ribery,tabloid daily Bild reportedon Tuesday.

The German giantshave been insisting allsummer they intend tohang onto Ribery, whoinsists he wants to joinReal Madrid.

According to Bild,Bayern have given theSpaniards an ultimatum ofon 16 July, the day whenthe squad begin pre-sea-

Franck Ribery

son training, to decide ifthey are ready to stump upthe cash or not.

The paper did notdivulge their source.

Internet

The 21-year-old spentlast season at Chievo hav-ing come over to Italyfrom Cruzeiro but hasnow signed a three-yeardeal with the Italianchampions.

He is known for hisdribbling ability but he isalso injury prone andmade only four appear-ances for Chievo.

He made his name atthe 2005 South Americanunder-20 championshipsin Venezuela where hefinished top scorer.

Internet

Association. Li toldSohu.com, a major Chi-nese Web portal, thatTeam Yao, the group thatmanages the NBA star’scareer, is now in negotia-tions over the purchase ofthe local team.

The Sharks are ownedby Shanghai MediaGroup, Hongqiao Airportand Shanghai TechnicalSports Institute, which isunder the control of thesports bureau.

Internet

GENEVA, 8 July—Egyp-tian goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary will be able toplay over the comingmonths after world sport’stop court granted him atemporary stay of execu-tion on a suspension im-posed by FIFA.

The Court of Arbitra-tion of Sport froze thesanction first meted out onEl-Hadary and Swiss clubSion in April while it ex-amines the dispute overhis controversial transferto the Swiss side last yearfrom Egyptian clubAl-Ahly.—Internet

the banned drug ephe-drine, the club confirmedTuesday. Kenny, 31, facesa ban after the urine sam-ple he provided afterMay’s play-off semi-finalagainst Preston was foundto contain traces of thestimulant.

“We can confirm thatPaddy Kenny has beensuspended by the club.This is an ongoing, confi-dential matter and as suchwe are unable to commentfurther,” a SheffieldUnited spokesman said.

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hrMST: During the past 24 hours, weather have beenpartly cloudy in Kayah State and lower SagaingDivision, rain have been isolated in Chin and KayinStates, Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scattered inKachin State and upper Sagaing Division, fairlywidespread in Shan State and Taninthayi Division andwidespread in the remaining areas. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Coco Island (2.40)inches, Thandwe (2.12) inches, Sittwe (2.05) inches,Gwa (1.46) inches, Ye (1.34) inches and Minbu (0.08)inch.

Maximum temperature on 7-7-2009 was 82°F.Minimum temperature on 8-7-2009 was 67°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 8-7-2009 was 88%.Total sun shine hours on 7-7-2009 was (0.6) hourApprox.

Rainfall on 8-7-2009 was (0.24) inch at Mingaladon,(0.20) inch at Kaba-Aye and (0.11) inch at CentralYangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (44.41) inchesat Mingaladon, (48.62) inches at Kaba-Aye and (51.65)inches at Central Yangon. Maximum wind speed atYangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph from Southeast at(15:30) hours MST on 7-7-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate in theAndaman Sea and South Bay and strong elsewhere inthe Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 9th July 2009:Rain will be isolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing,Mandalay and Magway Divisions, scattered in Chin,Shan States and upper Sagaing Division, fairlywidespread in Kachin, Kayin States and Bago Divisionand widespread in the remaining States and Divisionswith likelihood of isolated heavyfalls in Rakhine andMon States. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to roughseas are likely at times Deltaic, Gulf of Mottama, offand Rakhine Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls mayreach (35) to (40)mph. Seas will be moderate elsewherein Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Moderatemonsoon.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring areafor 9-7-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 9-7-2009: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is(80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring areafor 9-7-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

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14 killed in US drone attackin Pakistani tribal area

ISLAMABAD, 8 July—A suspected US droneTuesday launched an attack on a suspected hideout ofTaleban militants in a Pakistani tribal region and killedat least 14 people, local TV channels reported.

Two missiles were fired in Ladha in SouthWaziristan, the area controlled by Pakistan Talebanchief Baitullah Mahsud, according to locals.

The private Geo television reported that the dronehit a hideout of Taleban militants at a time when thePakistani forces have also continued operation againstBaitullah Mahsud.

The attack is the third in South Waziristan in lessthan a month. Up to 60 people were killed when thedrone fired missiles at a funeral procession of a Talebancommander in some two weeks ago, accoding toprevious report.

MNA/Xinhua

This 9 Jan, 2007 file photo shows the facade of theNew York Stock Exchange. The powerful attack thatoverwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Koreangovernment agencies for days was even broader thaninitially realized, also targeting the White House, thePentagon and the New York Stock Exchange. Somegovernment Web sites—such as the TreasuryDepartment, Federal Trade Commission and SecretService—were still reporting problems days after theattack started during the 4 July,2009, holiday.

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NAY PYI TAW, 8 July— A ceremony to presentprizes to the winners in the Defence Services Com-mander-in-Chief’s Shield Tatmadaw (Army, Navyand Air) Tennis Competition was held at the hall ofSouthern Command Headquarters in Toungoo on30 June morning.

Chairman of Bago Division Peace and De-velopment Council Commander of Southern Com-mand Maj-Gen Hla Min awarded the winners.

In the afternoon, the commander attended theprize presentation ceremony of the Commander’sShield Football Tournament at Ketumati SportsGround. The commander and officials presentedprizes to the winning teams.— MNA

Winners awarded in Tatmadaw(Army, Navy and Air) Tennis

Competition

YANGON, 8 July—Literary talks to be organizedby Writer-Cum-Doctor Society of Myanmar MedicalAssociation (MMA), will be held at Auditorium-A ofMMA at 1 pm on 11 July. Interested persons mayattend the talks that will be given by writers Pe Myintand Mya Hnaung Nyo.—MNA

Writer-Cum-Doctor Societyto give talks on 11 July

NAY PYI TAW, 8 July — A 13-year-old girlvisited Singapore together with her family on 21June and arrived back in Yangon on 26 June at 1.30pm. Although she was found to have no fever whileshe was screened by health staff at the airport, shehad to be hospitalized at 9 pm on 26 June after herteacher had noticed her having a persistent coughduring the private tuition. She was kept in a privateroom of Yangon General Hospital. After giving hera check-up, the National Health Laboratory on 27June confirmed that she was infected with newinfluenza A (H1N1).

She became the first human case in Myanmar.As the medical superintendent and specialists gaveher a systematic medical treatment, she fully recov-ered form her illness and was discharged from thehospital this evening. The Ministry of Health kept

A (H1N1) infected girl discharged fromhospital after recovering from illness

Surveillance measures against those whocame into contact with girl and others halt

under surveillance all the persons who had comeinto contact with her; her family members, herclassmates, the teacher and her family members inorder to prevent possible disease spread and out-breaks. Moreover, officials of the Health Ministrytook surveillance measures against all the 91passengers who were on board the plane with herand the staff members (Foreign Arrival) of YangonInternational Airport in cooperation with officialsof Yangon Division, District and Township Peaceand Development Councils. And now those sur-veillance measures were stopped on 6 July as the10-day period of possible disease spread hadpassed.

Authorities concerned have urged the pub-lic to participate in the preventive measures againstthe global human flu pandemic. —MNA

Communication network being established in Magway Division

Article: Maung Maung Htwe (MNA)

Photo shows GSM tower station in Chauk providing communication facilities to local people.

While visit ingvarious regions ofMagway Division re-cently, we witnesseddevelopment of com-munication sector.

On our way backfrom Pwintbyu, we hadan interview withMagway Division Man-ager U Zaw Oo Han ofMyanma Posts and Tel-ecommunications andlearned the efforts be-ing made for improve-ment of communicationnetwork in the division.

Before 1988,Magway Division hadthree auto-exchangesand 2200 telephonelines. At present, the di-vision has been facili-tated with 26 auto-ex-changes and 18,435 tel-ephone lines.

Likewise, the di-vision had 20 magnetoexchanges and 1250telephone lines before1988. Now, a total of57 exchanges and 4990telephone lines are inuse.

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