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Volume XVIII, Number 3 12th Waxing of Kason 1372 ME Saturday, 24 April, 2010

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April—The Union ElectionCommission Meeting 21/2010 was held at the meetinghall of the office of Union Election Commission, here,this morning.

The meeting was attended by Chairman of theUnion Election Commission U Thein Soe and all

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

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

of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectivesUnion Election CommissionMeeting 21/2010 held

members of the commission.First, the chairman made an opening address.

Next, applications for setting up political parties werescrutinized.

The meeting came to an end with concludingremarks by the chairman.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April —A symposium onnational education promotion (2010) of the Minis-try of Education was held at the University ofVeterinary Science in Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana Town-ship this morning.

In giving an opening speech, Minister for Educa-tion Dr Chan Nyein said in accord with the guidancegiven by the Head of State, national education pro-motion programme started in 2001-2002. In thehigher education sector, there have now been 159universities and colleges up from 32 in 1988. Underthe education ministry, there are 64 universities andcolleges up from 27, 11800 faculty members upfrom 5600 and 450,000 students up from 134,000. Inthe basic education sector, there were 33,000 basiceducation schools in 1988 and the number has nowreached more than 40700. In the past, over 173,000million teachers trained about 5.24 million students.But now, over 266,000 million teachers train overeight million students. Under the guidance of the Headof State, the ministry has been implementing sector-wise education promotion programme. There were 79teaching programmes in 1998 at universities and col-leges under the Ministry. So far, there have been 215teaching programmes including master’s degree, MResearch and Ph.D courses. Likewise, more humanresource development centres and diploma courseshave been opened at universities and colleges.

University curriculum development teams are as-sessing the curricula of the higher education ofMyanmar in comparison with world nations and up-grading the teaching methods. Subject-wise research

National education promotion symposium heldand applied research are being carried out under effec-tive supervision in the master’s degree courses anddoctorate courses. The whole nation saw over 98.25percent enrollment rate during the previous year due tothe participation of parents in township-wise enrollmentactivities. Opening of over 6500 post-primary schoolshas led to increase in the number of middle schoolstudents to over 2.21 million. As part of border areasdevelopment programme, the government is openingnew schools in the areas where over 6600 teachers aregiving lectures to over 200,000 students at 1049 schools.In accord with guidance of the Head of State, English

and mathematics proficiency competitions were heldat primary and middle levels beginning 2008-2009academic year. Moreover, over 7000 teachers havecompleted advanced English and mathematics instruc-tor courses.

Afterwards, Minister Dr Chan Nyein, Deputy Minis-ter Brig-Gen Aung Myo Min and guests visited boothsdisplaying development of education in Myanmar.

Minister Dr Chan Nyein attended the symposiumon higher education sector and a paper reading session.

Similarly, Deputy Minister for Education Brig-Gen Aung Myo Min addressed the symposium onnational education promotion for basic educationsector and a paper reading session at University ofAgriculture.—MNA

Minister for Education Dr Chan Nyein visits education development booths at NationalEducation Promotion Symposium 2010.—MNA

Union Election Commission Meeting

21/2010 in progress

in Nay Pyi Taw.—MNA

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Saturday, 24 April, 2010

PERSPECTIVES* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views

* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation

* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State

* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s Desire

Strive for establishment of

modern industrialized nationDevelopment of industrial sector plays

an important role in striving for the

emergence of a modern and developed nation.

The government is constructing sound

foundations to transform the nation into an

industrialized one. While all-out efforts are

being made in establishing the factories and

workshops in industrial regions and

industrial zones, the import-substitute

products are being manufactured.

On his inspection tour on 22 April,

Head of State Senior General Than Shwe

viewed industrial products manufactuerd by

factories of Mandalay Industrial Zone in

Mandalay and gave guidance on the industrial

development. In meeting with industrial

entrepreneurs, Senior General Than Shwe

said that only when the nation becomes a

modern industrialized one, will it be

transformed into a developed one from the

status of a developing nation. Thus, the

industrial entrepreneurs are to strive for

achieving success in their industries, he said.

During the period of 20 years, progress

was made in the establishment of industrial

zones. Still, it is necessary to make relentless

efforts for achieving development of the

industries in both design and capacity.

Nowadays, more and more modern

factories and workshops are being built in

industrial regions and zones across the nation.

The industries are functioning with modern

production technology. Job prospects can be

achieved. Through concerted efforts for

development of industries including

industrial zones a modern industrialized

nation will be established.

MYANMAR GAZETTE

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April— The State Peace

and Development Council has appointed Deputy

Director-General U Kyaw Oo Lwin of Department

of Archaeology, National Museum and Library

(South ) under the Ministry of Culture as Director-

General at the same department on probation from

the date he assumes charge of his duties.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 22 April—Minister for Home

Affairs Maj-Gen Maung Oo visited Indagaw Police

Station in Bago Township yesterday, where he

dealt with safety measures and discipline

enforcement.

The minister also inspected police stations

and staff quarters in DaikU, Pyontaza,

Nyaunglebin, Kyauktaga, Ottwin townships and

Kanyukkwin and gave the same message.—MNA

Discipline enforcement stressed

NAY PYI TAW, 22 April — On his inspection tour

of Loikaw on 18 April, Minister for Forestry Brig-Gen

Thein Aung together with Chairman of Kayah State

Peace and Development Council Brig-Gen Win Myint

inspected stockpiling of logs and teak stumps at Loikaw

raft jetty and heard reports on progress of timber

extraction.

The minister called for successful

implementation of tasks in meeting with service

personnel of Forest Department and Myanma Timber

Forestry Minister inspects timber extraction of Kayah StateEnterprise at the Kayah State Forest Department in

Loikaw the following day.

Next, the minister and the chairman presented

exercise books for the school through responsible

persons at the opening of new school building for

Phayapyu village BEPS in Dimawhso Township.

The new school building was constructed with

the contribution of K 13.4 million by the State and the

people.

MNA

Applications to set up political

parties scrutinized, passedNAY PYI TAW, 23 April— Those wishing to

set up political parties are submitting applications

to the Union Election Commission. Of them, the

Commission has found the following three groups

to be in accord with the Political Parties Registration

Law and Rules and thus the Commission has passed

their applications on 23 April 2010.

(a) PaO National Organization (PNO)

(b) Taaung (Palaung) National Party

(c) Wunthanu NLD (Union of Myanmar)

The said three groups are to submit their

applications for registration as political parties in

accord with the Political Parties Registration rules

7 within 30 days from the date of acceptance. The

Commission is scrutinizing the applications of the

remaining groups and up to date five groups have

already been permitted to form political parties.

MNA

Minister for

Home Affairs

Maj-Gen Maung

Oo visits police

stations in Bago

Division.

MNA

Minister Brig-Gen

Thein Aung looks

into stockpiling of

logs and teak

stumps at Loikaw

raft jetty.

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Special civil appeal cases heardNAY PYI TAW, 23 April— The special Appellate

Bench comprising Deputy Chief Justice of The

Supreme Court (Mandalay) U Khin Maung Latt,

Supreme Court Judges of The Supreme Court

(Mandalay) U San Tint Yi and U Kyaw Win sitting

at Court room No. 1 of The Supreme Court (Nay

Pyi Taw) heard (5) special civil appeal cases under

section (7) of the Judiciary Law, 2000, on 23rd

April.—MNA

Kachin State RCS members

donate blood

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April — The 35th collective

blood donation ceremony of Kachin State Red Cross

Society members took place at the Blood Bank of

Kachin State General Hospital in Myitkyina on 17

April. Blood donors donated 46 bottles of blood as

good deeds for the New Year.—MNA

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Two Belarusian fighter jetscollide, no one hurt

MOSCOW, 23 April —Two MiG-29 fighters ofthe Belarusian 927thfighter airbase collided inmidair on Wednesdaynight, with no one hurt inthe accident,Russia’s Interfax newsagency reported onThursday.

One of the aircraftcrashed and was unableto continue flight, said asource from theBelarusian DefenceMinistry.

“The two planestouched each other whileconducting a com-plicated maneuver duringa planned flight in lowvisibility conditions at08:15 pm (1715 GMT)on 21 April,” said thesource.

Russia concerned about USmissile defence plans

MOSCOW, 23 April —Russia is alarmed by theintentions behind the USmissile defence plan inEastern Europe and itsdeployment of Patriotmissiles in Poland, saidspokesman for theForeign Ministry onThursday.

“We are concernedabout the United States’absolutely unfoundedanti-missile activities inPoland,” AndreiNesterenko told a Pressbriefing.

“It is not clear to uswhy Patriot anti-aircraftand anti- missile systemsare being deployed nearthe Russian border. Norhave we an answer to thequestion about whatthreats will be tackled inthe drill which will beheld very close toRussia’s Kaliningradregion,” said thespokesman as quoted by

the Interfax newsagency.“This sort ofunilateral moves on thepart of the United Statescannot be left withoutattention,” he said.

Russia remainedopposed to otherEuropean countries’participation in anti-missile drills, he added.

Washington andWarsaw signed theStatus of ForcesAgreement lastDecember, laying out theterms for the deploymentof Patriot missiles.

The first batch ofPatriot missiles will bedeployed around 24 Mayat the town of Morag,just 100 kilometers fromthe Polish border withthe Russian westernenclave of Kaliningrad,the Polish DefenceMinistry announced onWednesday.

Internet

An official of the World Health Organizationvaccinates a child against measles in the Klay

district of Liberia in 2003. Almost 200 childrenhave died of measles in 16 African countries in

three months, the UN World Health Organizationand UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said,asking for funds for vaccinations.—INTERNET

South Sudanese children are educated on the useof a long-lasting insecticide-treated net (LLIN)

in Wau, about 520 km northeast of Juba, in2009. A new combination treatment for malariais as effective as the “gold standard” therapy forthe disease, but only needs to be taken once a day

rather than twice, The Lancet reported onFriday.

INTERNET

KHOST, 23 April — A roadside bomb targeted anAfghan army van in Khost province east of Afghanistanexploded on Thursday morning, but no casualtieswere caused in the blast, provincial police chief said.“The blast occurred one km outside Khost city thecapital of Khost province at 10:10 am local timeagainst a convoy of Afghan army but caused no loss oflife and property,” Guldad told Xinhua. Guldad, wholike many Afghans uses one name, also stressed thatthe blast missed the target and the army van was notdamaged.

Xinhua

Roadside bomb targetsAfghan army in Afghanistan

Oil pipeline attacked innorthern Iraq

MOSUL, 23 April — Insurgents on Thursdayblew up an oil pipeline that carries crude oil toTurkey in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, aprovincial police source said.

The attack took place on Thursday morning inthe desert area of al-Hadhar, some 120 km south ofMosul, the capital of Nineveh province, the sourcetold Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The blast caused fire and thick black smokebillowed into the sky above the area, the sourcesaid.

Fire engines rushed to the scene to put out thefire and prevented an escalation of the damage, asIraqi security forces sealed off the area, the sourceadded.—Xinhua

High-tech police equipment is displayed at BeijingExhibition Centre, on 21 April , 2010.

XINHUA

“The pilot managedto divert the plane to thearea of the 210th aviationrange and, making surethat there were nopopulated areas on theground, ejected,” said thesource.

Pilot of the other jetmanaged to land safely atthe home airfield. Theaccident was currentlybeing investigated on.

Last August, twoRussian fighters from therenowned aerobatic teamRussian Knights collidedin mid-air near Moscowduring an air showrehearsal. The team’scommander IgorTkachenko was killed,and two other pilots andfive civilians werewounded in the accident.

Internet

Bombs kill 56 in BaghdadBAGHDAD, 23 April-

Bombs targeting Shi'iteareas killed at least 56people in Baghdad onFriday in a possiblebacklash after Iraqtouted a series of blowsagainst al Qaeda.

Eight people werealso killed by bombs inthe Sunni west of thecountry.

Seven blasts hit dif-ferent areas of the Iraqicapital an interior min-istry source said.Around 112 people werewounded.

Last Sunday, alQaeda's leader in Iraq,

Abu Ayyub al-Masri,and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the purportedhead of its affiliate, theIslamic State of Iraq,were killed in a raid ina rural area northwest ofBaghdad by Iraqi andU.S. forces.

In Friday's attacks,at least 21 people werekilled and more thanthat number werewounded when threebombs exploded inpopulated Sadr Cityslum.

Another bomb killedat least 11 and wounded17 near a Shi'ite mosque

in al-Ameen district insoutheastern Baghdad.An earlier car bombkilled three people neara Shi'ite mosque in thenorthwestern neigh-bourhood of al-Hurriya, police said.

Hours earl ier,seven members of onefamily were killed in aseries of blasts inKhalidiya, a town inIraq's turbulent west-ern province of Anbar83 km (50 miles) westof Baghdad. Onepolice officer died try-ing to defuse a bomb.

Internet

A resident walks past a car destroyed by a bomb blast in Sadr City,northeastern Baghdad on 23 April, 2010.

INTERNET

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Brazilian president defends Iran’sright to nuclear programme

RIO DE JANEIRO, 23 April—BrazilianPresident Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva onThursday reaffirmed his personal andhis administration’s position on Iran’snuclear programme. He said the Islamicstate has the right to develop its nuclearprogramme so long as it is for peacefulpurposes.

He believed the right of all countriesto use nuclear energy for peacefulpurposes must be preserved. He appealedfor a negotiated solution to the Iraniannuclear issue, instead of the sanctionsurged by the United States.

“The controversy is that Iran saysthey will not enrich uranium to make anuclear bomb and some doubt that,” thepresident said, stressing the need to find

a common ground for the negotiation ofthe issue. Lula also defended Brazil’sright and authority to participate in thenegotiations regarding the Iraniannuclear issue

“We have both the moral andpolitical authority to discuss this subjectwith whoever is there. Peace is not aprivilege of one country or another; it isfor all countries that cordially practisepeace,” he added. To help mediate apeaceful solution to the Iranian impasse,Lula sent his Foreign Minister CelsoAmorim to Iran, Turkey and Russia.

The president himself is expected tovisit Tehran in May. “I am convincedthat peace is within our reach,” he said.

Xinhua

Children ride bikes on a main street in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,on 11 April, 2010. An eight-kilometer-long street in Buenos Aires was closed

on Sunday to provide play ground for citizens during an event to mark theWorld Health Day.—XINHUA

G24 ministers urge developed countries toavoid protectionism

WASHINGTON, 23 April—TheIntergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four (G24) on Thursday urged developedcountries to avoid protectionist measuresand other restrictions that jeopardizeglobal growth and stability.

“Ministers urged developed countriesto avoid protectionist measures and otherrestrictions in trade, finance, investment,and labor services so as not to jeopardizeglobal growth and stability,” said theG24 in a communique issued after the83rd ministerial meeting.

“They reiterated the importance ofan early conclusion of the DohaDevelopment Round that addresses theneeds of developing countries, inparticular improved market access andelimination of agricultural subsidies byadvanced countries,” said the

communique.According to the G24, the economic

crisis’ effects would be long-lasting andmany developing countries wouldcontinue facing constraints in externalfinancing, which may be exacerbated bythe increase in public borrowing needs inadvanced countries.

The group urged major developedcountries to fulfill their prior commitmentson assisting the developing countries.

The G24, a charter of the developingcountries’ coalition G77, was establishedin 1971 to coordinate the positions ofdeveloping countries on internationalmonetary and development financeissues and to ensure that their interestswere adequately represented innegotiations on international monetarymatters.—Xinhua

A girl carries acan of water at a

camp forinternally

displaced peopleon the outskirtsof Mogadishu,Somalia, on 22

April, 2010.XINHUA

Mauritania, Syria sign 7 cooperationagreements

NOUAKCHOTT, 23April—Seven agreementswere signed here onWednesday eveningbetween Mauritania andSyria after a meeting ofthe joint Mauritania-Syriacooperation commission,according to officialsources.

The accords, whichwere signed byMauritanian ForeignMinister Naha MintMouknass and SyrianDeputy Foreign MinisterFay-al El Moqdad, cover

LONDON, 23 April—The British budget deficitreached a record high inthe fiscal year of 2009/2010 but was slightlybetter than the governmenthad expected in March,data showed Thursday.

The Office for NationalStatistics (ONS) reportedthat public sector netborrowing totalled a recordhigh of 152.84 billionpounds (236.2 billion USdollars) in the last fiscal yearending in March, up from86.91 billion pounds (134.3billion dollars) in the 2008/2009 fiscal year. The deficitwas equivalent to 10.87percent of the British grossdomestic product(GDP).

The government hadpredicted that the deficitof last fiscal year would

British deficit reaches record high

Passengers queue for tickets outside an airlineagency in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, 22 April,2010. Hundreds of foreign passengers stranded in

Kathmandu are hopeful of flying home afterEuropean governments temporary reopened the

airports. —XINHUA

reach 167 billion pounds(258.1 billion dollars).The report also showedthat government netborrowing in March roseto 23.498 billion pounds(36.3 billion dollars) from20.060 billion pounds (31

billion dollars) in Marchof last year. March istypically a heavy-spending month as civilservants rush to use upfunds before the end ofthe fiscal year.

Xinhua

the areas of culture,information, trade,technical and scientificexchanges, housing,urbanization and regionaldevelopment.

At the end of thesigning ceremony, Nahahailed the documents as agreat step in the bilateralcooperation between thetwo countries. She praised“the important role that isto be played by thebusiness people andprivate investors in thetwo countries in order to

create a solid andsustainable partnership,which will offeremployment opportunitiesand contribute to theimprovement of people’sliving conditions.”

Xinhua

Photo taken on 21April, 2010 showsPavilion of Futurein the Puxi zone ofWorld Expo Park in

east China’sShanghai

Municipality.XINHUA

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Global gas demand to rise at2% per year

PARIS, 23 April—Global gas demandwill witness continuous rise at an increasingpace of 2 percent a year over the next 20years, a senior executive of Royal DutchShell said Thursday at an oil conferencehere.Malcom Brinded illustrated theprojection of gas demand at the conference,saying it set to grow “by at least 2 percenta year over some decades,” which will bedriven by higher demand from China,several South and Middle Asian countriesand the Europe.

Conclusively, by 2030, the worldleading gas exploiters “look at gas demandhitting 4.5 trillion cubic metres of gas peryear ... That’s 50 percent up from today’slevel,” Brinded said.Global demand ofliquefied natural gas is expected to double

this decade, he said, predicting China’sdemand to double or treble by 2020.

Based on data from the InternationalEnergy Agency that available gas reservesallow 250 years of production, Brindedconsidered the market was very promisingand encouraged more investment andtechnology to devote for the sector.Firstheld in 1999, the International Oil Summitis organized each year in Paris to facilitateparticipants in energy sectors, especiallythe oil market, to exchange ideas andshare assessment of current internationalsituation and future market.The 11th one-day summit, hosted by French PetroleumInstitute, was under the theme of “NewChallenges for the Petroleum-GasSector.”—Internet

Photo taken on 18 April, 2010 shows a carriage being driven along the StLouis pier in St Louis, the host city of the World’s Fair 1904. The pier played

an important part on the traffic and material handling of the World Fair1904.—XINHUA

Asian market holds big potential formobile technology products

JAKARTA, 23 April—Asian market holds bigpotentials in mobiletechnology products as theregion has grown to be thenumber one in demand foradvanced mobile valueadded service, data andinformation, an officialtold Xinhua in an interviewon Thursday.“There are somany potentials aroundmobile market, not just inIndonesia but also in thePhilippines and othermarkets in Asia,” saidElodie Journet, the

ASEAN Team Leader ofInformatics andCommunication Techno-logy (ICT) in theAustralian TradeCommission. She said thatAustralia and Indonesiacould work together, notjust products that are notonly applicable in bothcountries but also in othercountries in Asia.She saidthat it is important to findpartners to work with, notdepending on market orculture.Journet also saidthat Indonesia’s big

potential is due to highpenetration rate of mobiledevice.“Demand for moreadvanced capacity inmobile products has beengrowing in Indonesia,” shesaid, adding that thecountry has 160 million ofmobile gadget users.

Previously, PatrickKearins, the TradeCommissioner forIndonesia in the AustralianTrade Commission, saidthat Indonesia hold a hugemarket for technologyproducts.—Xinhua

Gorgeous musicfountain is performedduring trial operation

on the HuangpuRiver between the two

parts of the ExpoPark in Shanghai,east China, on 22

April, 2010.XINHUA

Kuwait’s oil output capacity reaches3 mln bpd

KUWAIT CITY, 23 April—Kuwait’s Oil MinisterSheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said Thursday thecountry’s crude outputcapacity stands at 3 millionbarrels per day.

“Good news on newoil discoveries would beannounced at the propertime,” the minister said,when attending theinauguration of a new oil

gathering centre in steps tofuel the country’s crudeproduction.

Kuwait is the fourth-largest exporter of theOrganization of PetroleumExporting Countries(OPEC) and boasts around10 percent of the world’sproven oil reserves.Theemirate currently pumpsout 2.3 million barrels perday under OPEC’s quotaand has the ambition to lift

its production to fourmillion barrels per day by2020.

The official KUNAnews agency quoted thecountry’s deputy primeminister for economicaffairs Sheikh AhmadFahad Al-Sabah asreporting Thursday the oilstock in the Great Burganoil field in Kuwait is muchhigher than previouslyestimated.—Internet

Air China swunginto profit in 2009

on the back ofimproving domestic

demand and reducedfuel costs, the

nation’s flag-carriersaid on Friday.

INTERNET

SAS reports losses of 90 mln dollarsduring flight ban

STOCKHOLM, 23April—Scandinavianairline SAS lost 630 millionkronor (about 90 millionUS dollars) because of airtraffic disruptions causedby the volcanic eruption inIceland, local mediareported Thursday.

A report in theSwedish Daily SvenskaDagbladet said the lossesmade the company’srecord loss in the firstquarter even worse, but stillslightly better than duringthe same period lastyear.SAS reported a loss

of 972 million kronor(about 135 millionUSdollars) for the firstquarter of 2010, comparedwith 979 million kronor(about 136 million USdollars) in the same periodin 2009.

SAS CEO MatsJansson said in a statementthat the fallout from thevolcanic ash disruptionwas likely to have a seriousimpact on the entire airlinesector this year.“With theexception of the recentevents, there is indicationof an increase in demand

in SAS markets, but thereremains significantuncertainty over yielddevelopments,” Janssonsaid.SAS, which is mostlyowned by Sweden,Denmark and Norway,reported that it hasimplemented two-thirds ofits planned savingsprogramme, known asCore SAS, with an earningeffect of 750 millionkronor (about 107 millionUSdollars) in the firstquarter, a relativelysatisfactory result.

Internet

Jointly withShanghai TongjiUniversity, BMWGroup began to

work on theprogramme to

develop the“ECHO” electriccar since 2008,

which marked thefirst ever Sino-

German project ondeveloping pureelectric vehicle.

INTERNET

SAN FRANCISCO, 23 April—Microsoft Corp onThursday reported that its revenue in the most recentquarter rose about 6 percent year-on-year as demandfor the software giant’s Windows 7 operating systemremained strong.

For the quarter ended on 31 March, Microsoftposted a revenue of 14.5 billion US dollars, comparedwith 13.64 billion dollars in the same period a yearearlier.

Profit jumped to 4.01 billion dollars or 45 cents ashare, representing increases of 35 percent and 36percent respectively from the year-ago quarter.

According to Microsoft, its Windows businessrevenue was up 28 percent in the quarter, driven bycontinuing strong demand for Windows 7, which wasreleased in October in 2009.—Xinhua

Microsoft revenue up6 percent on strong Windows

7 demand

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Experts at Israel’snational museum havecompleted the resto-ration of a 15th-centuryHebrew manuscriptwith exquisite illust-rations made by masterItalian artisans,officials said onThursday.

The Renaissancemaster-piece is a copyof the Mishneh Torah,an important work ofJewish law written threecenturies earlier by themedieval philosopherand rabbi Maimonides.

Israeli museum unveils rareRenaissance manuscript

The manuscript,written on animal skin,discusses laws gover-ning property, ritualpurity and agriculture. Itincludes Hebrew wordsin gold leaf and miniaturefigures in colorful dressagainst brilliant skies ofa blue shade made fromlapis lazuli stones.It tooka year for a team at theIsrael Museum inJerusalem to repair themanuscript and prepare itfor display, curator AnnaNizza said.

An Egyptian archae-ological missiondiscovered 383 bronzecoins dating back to theera of King Ptolemy IIIEuergetes who ruledEgypt in the 3rd centuryBC, Egypt’s officialMENA news agencyreported on Wedn-esday.Egyptian Ministerof Culture Farouq Hosni

Egypt discovers store of2,000-year-old bronze coins

This undated photo released by the EgyptianSupreme Council of Antiquities on Thursday, 22

April, 2010, shows some of 383 recently-unearthed bronze coins.

said the newly-discovered bronzecoins are in goodcondition, adding theywere unearthed by amission of theEgyptian SupremeCouncil for Antiquitiesworking in northernQaroun lake inFayoum, 80 kilometerssouthwest of Cairo.

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KIEV, 23 April —Ukraine offers toupgrade its gas transitsystem (GTS) as analternative to theconstruction of the SouthStream pipeline,President ViktorYanukovych said here onThursday.

“Ukraine would nottake any decision to giveaway its gas transport

PYONGYANG, 23April— A 2010-2012plan for cultural andscientific exchangebetween thegovernments of theDemocratic People’sRepublic of Korea(DPRK) and Iran wassigned here onThursday, the officialnews agency KCNAreported.

According to theKCNA, the plan wasinked by Jon Yong Jin,

Ukraine offers gas transit system’s upgrade asalternative to South Stream

system,” the Interfax-Ukraine news agencyquoted Yanuk-ovych assaying at a Pressconference.

“It’s clear that thereis a need to modernizethe gas transport systemto increase gas pumpingvolumes,” he added.

“We offer this as analternative to theconstruction of South

DPRK, Iran sign agreement oncultural, scientific exchange

vice-chairman of theKorean Committee forCultural Relations withForeign Countries, andMohammad AliFathollahi, vice-minister of the IranianForeign Ministry. Nospecific content of theagreement wasdisclosed.

The delegation ofthe Iranian ForeignMinistry arrived inPyongyang on 21April.—Xinhua

Stream, because it’salready impossible tostop (the constructionof) Nord Stream. It’salready under con-struction,” Yanuk-ovychsaid.

Yanukovych alsosaid that Ukraine wasseeking opportunities topreserve the amount ofgas it transported, orabout 125 billion cubicmeters.South Stream is ajoint venture of Russia’senergy comp-anyGazprom and Italy’senergy company Eni.

Xinhua

Rescuers search for the missing persons on the Qingjiang River in BadongCounty, central China’s Hubei Province, on 22 April, 2010. At least four

people died and 10 are still missing after a ship capsized on the QingjiangRiver in central China’s Hubei Province on Wednesday.

XINHUA

An Oregon mansuffering from terminalcancer says he is sellingad space on the urnsdesignated to hold hisashes as a means ofpaying for his cremation.

Aaron Jamison ofSpringfield, who wasdiagnosed with anaggressive form of coloncancer, said he is sellingadvertising space on thetwo urns that will holdhis ashes to help his wife,Kristin, with the cost ofhis cremation and theprice of the urns, KVAL-TV, Eugene, Ore.,

Man selling ad spaceon own urns

reported on Wedn-esday.

“I’m on differentchemo now,” saidJamison, whose goal is$800 in ad revenue. “Ifit works, I’ve got aboutnine months. If it doesn’twork, I’ve got three. SoI’m trying to get on theball with the adsales.”Dustin Rem-ington, owner ofrestaurant Terese’sPlace and a longtimefriend of Jamison, wasthe first to hand over a$100 check and sign acontract for an urn ad.

Alleged top drug dealercaught near Mexico City

ISLAMABAD, 23 April— Suspected Talibanmilitants killed fourpersons accused of beingUS spies in NorthWaziristan tribal region,northwest of Pakistan,officials said on Friday.

Four dead bodieswere recovered from

Four alleged US spies shotdead in NW Pakistan

MEXICO CITY, 23April – Troops battled asuspected drug gang in awealthy neigh-borhoodon the outskirts ofMexico City andcaptured an allegedmajor trafficker with a$2 million US bounty onhis head, officials

tehsil Mirali in NorthWaziristan, no one hasclaimed responsibility forthe killings.A writtenmessage had also beenplaced with dead bodieswarning those who willspy for US will have thesame fate, official sourcessaid.—Xinhua

announced onThursday.Authorities saidAlvarez Vazquez, 45, wasarrested along with 14other suspected drugtraffickers during aWednesday nightshootout in Huixq-uilucan, just west of thecapital.—Internet

An ancient Hebrew manuscript with illuminationsmade by master Italian artists from the late 1400sis presented to the media after its restoration at a

paper laboratory at the Israel Museum inJerusalem.

This WWF Malaysia photo shows a long-tailedslug, Ibycus rachelae, that uses “love darts” made

of calcium carbonate to pierce and inject ahormone into a mate to increase the chances of

reproduction, in an unknown location in the“Heart of Borneo”, in a remote area of dense,

tropical rainforest that borders Malaysia,Indonesia and Brunei.

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Icelandic volcano no threatto climate

REYKJAVIK, 23 April—The erupting volcano inIceland won’t have a lastingeffect on the climate,experts say.

“You mess withIceland? We shut down allyour airports,” goes a newjoke being told in the tinycountry.

Yet, while the eruptingEyjafjallajoekull volcanomanaged to ground mostof Europe’s airplanes fornearly a week, the giantcloud of ash, as impressiveas it may look, won’t affectthe weather, much less theclimate.

Experts have said thevolcano is emitting

150,000-300,000 tons ofcarbon dioxide emissionsper day. While this puts itin the league of a small-to-medium Europeaneconomy, it’s tinycompared with overallman-made emissions.

BBC News reportsthat this is “only about11,000th of that producedby the sum total ofhumanity’s fossil fuelburning, deforestation,agri-culture andeverything else.” The factthat most of Europe’sairplanes couldn’t emit fornearly a week might evenoffset the CO2 producedby the volcano.

And forget the coolingeffect linked to aerosolsblocking the sun from theatmosphere after a volcanoeruption — the Icelandicone is simply not strongenough, experts say. “Sothis is not the big climatechanging eruption thatsome people seem to thinkit is,” Mike Burton fromItaly’s National Institute ofGeophysics andVulcanology told BBCNews. Climate skepticsargue that humans producemuch less CO2 emissionsthan the world’s volcanoes,a myth long debunked.

Internet

Member of Brazil’s

circus group ‘La

Minima’ stretches

before performing

during an international

circus festival in Lima,

on Wednesday, 21

April, 2010.

INTERNET

Breast density linked to cancer riskWASHINGTON, 23 April—Women who

had a decrease in breast density over severalyears were linked to a decreased risk ofbreast cancer, US researchers said. CelineVachon, an associate professor ofepidemiology at the Mayo Clinic inRochester, Minn, said the study involved19,924 women who were free of breastcancer and were screened formammograms from 2003 to 2006.

From this group, the researchersselected study participants who had at leastone additional screening mammogram priorto enrollment. The researchers found in the

women whose breasts decreased in density— the proportion of fibroglandular tissuedepicted on the mammogram image — hada 28 percent reduced risk of developingbreast cancer. “Replication of these findingsin other studies will be important,” Vachonsaid in a statement. “Also, improved andstandardized measurements of breastdensity are needed for the assessment ofchanges in density.” The findings werepresented at the American Association forCancer Research 101st annual meeting 2010in Washington.

Internet

Dry, cold weather linkto prostate cancer

POCATELLO, 23 April—US researchers have linkedcold, dry weather to increased incidence of prostatecancer.

Researchers at Idaho State University, Pocatello,led by Sophie St-Hilaire, say their county-levelexamination of prostate cancer incidence and weatherpatterns across the United States indicates colderweather and low rainfall strongly correlate with prostatecancer.

“Although we can’t say exactly why thiscorrelation exists,” St-Hilaire says in a statement, “thetrends are consistent with what we would expect giventhe effects of climate on the deposition, absorptionand degradation of persistent organic pollutantsincluding pesticides.”

St-Hilaire notes cold weather slows the degradationof these pollutants — endocrine disruptors alreadyassociated with prostate cancer.

The study, published in the International Journalof Health Geographics, suggests weather as anadditional hypothesis for the greater incidence ofprostate cancer in northern latitudes that is beinglinked to low levels of Vitamin D.

“Our study suggests that in addition to vitamin Ddeficiency associated with exposure to ultravioletradiation, other meteorological conditions may alsosignificantly affect the incidence of prostate cancer,”St-Hilaire says.

Internet

Bone-eating worm borehole fossils foundKIEL, 23 April— A

German-led team ofscientists says it hasidentified the first fossilboreholes of the wormOsedax, which consumeswhale bones on the deep-sea floor.The researchers

Mercury is higher insome tuna species

NEW YORK, 23 April— Mercury levels arehigher in some species of tuna than others, USresearchers found. Researchers combined DNAbarcoding used at the American Museum ofNatural History with analysis of mercury contentat Rutgers University and found tuna sushipurchased in supermarkets — yellowfin tuna —might be healthier than that from restaurants.

Sushi samples were taken from 54 restaurantsand 15 supermarkets in New York, New Jerseyand Colorado, and all of were identified withDNA barcoding as either bigeye tuna, yellowfintuna or bluefin tuna species.

The samples were all tested for relativemercury content. “We found that mercury levelsare linked to specific species,” Jacob Lowenstein,a graduate student affiliated with the museum,said in a statement.

“So far, the (United States) does not requirerestaurants and merchants to clarify what speciesthey are selling or trading, but species names andclearer labeling would allow consumers toexercise greater control over the level of mercurythey imbibe.”

The findings are published online in BiologyLetters.

Internet

A woman rides an‘Ecobici’ bicycle

in Mexico City, on21 April, 2010.This spring thecity government

launched‘Ecobici’, a bikesharing program,installing 1,100

bikes at 85stations

throughout thedowntown area.

INTERNET

In this April 30, 2009 file photo, Kevin Solis playswith his mother Abdi Santoyo, both wearingprotective face masks as a precaution against

swine flu contagion in Cancun, Mexico. On 23April, 2010 marks a year since this city awoke toconfusing news of a new virus, sending the worldon a wild six-month roller-coaster ride of fear and

frantic action.—INTERNET

led by University of Kielpaleontologist Steffen Kielsay their finding suggests“boneworms” are at least30 million years old.

It’s only been six yearssince Osedax was firstdescribed based onspecimens living on awhale carcass at about adepth of 9,500 feet in thePacific, off California, thescientists said. Since thenpaleontologists have beensearching for fossilevidence to determine theworms’ geologic age.

Now the researchershave matched holes andexcavations in 30 million-year-old whale bones toliving Osedax in size andshape. “The age of our

fossils coincides with thetime when whales beganto inhabit the open ocean,”Kiel said, noting onlyopen ocean dead whalescould sink to the deep-seafloor where they servedas food for theboneworms.

“Food is extremelyrare on the vast deep-seafloor and the concurrentappearance of these whalesand Osedax shows thateven hard whale boneswere quickly utilized asfood source,” he saidexplaining the relevanceof the discovery.

The research appearsin the Proceedings of theNational Academy ofSciences.—Internet

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YANGON, 23 April—The Yangon DivisionSupervisory Committee for Ensuring Secure and SmoothTransport held the coordination meeting at the hall ofYangon Command Headquarters, here, this afternoon,with an address by Chairman of Yangon Division Peaceand Development Council Commander of YangonCommand Maj-Gen Win Myint.

Officials discussed matters related to traffic rules.Later, the commander fulfilled the requirements.

MNA

Secure and smooth transportdiscussed in Yangon

Myanmar finance delegation arrives back

from Spain

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April— A Myanmar

delegation led by Deputy Minister for

Finance and Revenue Col Hla Thein Swe

arrived back here on 21 April after

participating in the Ninth Ministers of

Finance Meeting of the Asia-Europe

Meeting (9th ASEM-FMM) in Madrid,

Spain, on April 17 and 18.

During the first day of the meeting,

participants of the meeting discussed

drafted the report to the meeting, released

reports and Multilateral Organization and

European Institution openly discussed

financial situation and reforms.

The global economy, challenges

following the global economic crisis,

financial strategies for overcoming the

challenges and exchanged experiences of

Europe and Asia in hope of overcoming

the challenges for development of the

global economy.

Vice-Governor of the Central Bank

of Myanmar U Nay Aye also arrived back

on the same flight.—MNA

Formation of politicalparty, continued existenceas political party applied

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April—Those wishing toform political parties are submitting theirapplications to the Union Election Commission.The groups that submitted their applications for theformation of political parties to the UEC today areas follows:

(a) Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party(b) Northern Shan State Progressive Party(c) Chin Progressive PartyThe number of groups that submitted their

applications to the UEC has so far reached 19. Ofthem, the Commission has passed the applicationsof five groups and is scrutinizing the applicationsof the remaining groups.

Moreover, Lahu National Development Partythat falls within the competence of Political PartiesRegistration Law Article-25 applied to the UEC forits continued existence as a political party today.The number of the political parties that applied fortheir continued existence as political parties is fourin total up to date.—MNA

YANGON, 23 April — AKP International Hotel

& Tourism Centre has been launching courses such as

food and drink serving course, cookery course,

reception course, housekeeping course and hotel

business course for those wishing to serve in

international hotels and luxury cruise ships.

Of the courses, the cookery course helps youths

get job prospects more than others. So those interested

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April — Under the leadership

of Myanmar Veterinarians Association, a medical

team from the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary

Department gave vaccination shots against anthrax in

Myaynelay village in NyaungU Township on 18 April

to mark World Animal Health Day which falls on 24

April.

Starting from the first week of April, 3450 heads

Responsible personnel formally open

inter-village road in Shwedaung Township,

Pyay District, on 31 March, 2010, as part of

effort for development of rural areas for

2009-2010 fiscal year.—TOWNSHIP IPRD

Hotel Serving Courses to be launchedmay attend Food Safety, Personal Hygiene &

Grooming, Safety at work, International Cooking

Techniques, European Cuisine, Asian Cuisine and

International Cuisine courses to be opened by AKP

International Hotel & Tourism Centre on 3 May 2010.

Hotel entrepreneurs may dial 254541 or 250489

for their vacancies.

MNA

Vaccination shots against anthrax given to mark

World Animal Health Dayof cattle, 425 heads of sheep and 1500 goats have been

vaccinated against anthrax. Paper reading session and

photo contest will be held on 23 April, animal health

clinics will be opened and avian vaccination shots given

at Insein Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department

on 24 April and insecticide will be sprayed at poultry

markets in Mingala Taungnyunt, Hlinethaya and

Kyimyindine townships on 25 April.— MNA

Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Win Myint discusses

secure and smooth transport in the division.—MNA

Deputy Minister for Finance andRevenue Col Hla Thein Sweattends Ninth Ministers of

Finance and Revenue Meeting ofAsia-Europe Meeting (9th ASEM-

FMM) in Madrid, Spain.—MNA

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(from page 16)Although there

are 41 inches of rainfallin the region on averageyearly, it is still a dryarea. Therefore, the lo-cal people had to rely onThaphanseik Dam.While strolling alongthe embankment of thedam, we saw the cleanwater at ThaphanseikDam. We learned that aplan is under way tocomplete Theinyin Damby 2009-2010.

Theinyin Dam benefits6000 acres in KanbaluTownship

Heavy machinery working at construction site of Theinyin DamProject.

NAY PYI TAW, 23 April—A ceremony tooffer certificates to the monks who passed the 62ndTipitakadhara Tipitakakovida SelectionExamination, organized by Ministry of ReligiousAffairs, will be held at Maha Pasana Cave on KabaAye Hill, in Yangon, at 8 am on 8 May.

The monks who passed the examination areinvited to Uttarakuru Hostel on Kaba Aye Hill, notlater than 3 pm on 7 May.

The ceremony will be attended by 258members of the Sangha including members of theState Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee,Tipitakadhara Ovadacariya Sayadaws,Tipitakadhara Dhammabhandagarika Sayadaws,

Ceremony to honour monks who passedTipitakadhara Examination on 8 May

At present, thecompleted Linpan DamProject is irrigating 500acres of summer paddy.On completion, TheinyinDam will supply water to6000 acres of farmlands.Moreover, Linpan Damwill supply water to 2000acres of farmlands. Thedistance betweenTheinyin and Linpandams is about 1.5 miles.That is why the regionnear the two irrigationfacilities will get adequate

water not only for theagriculture purpose butalso for human consump-tion. In fact, TheinyinDam is a drive forgreening the dry regionand for development ofsocio-economic sector.

*****Translation: TTAKyemon: 20-4-2010

MMA Golf Tourney to be heldYANGON, 23 April—Myanmar Medical Asso-

ciation will hold golf tourney at Tawwin MingalaGolf Course at 6 a.m. on 25 April (Sunday). Membersare invited to take part in the tourney.—MNA

Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Sayadaws andmembers of the Sangha, one TipitakadharaTipitakakovida Sayadaw, one MulaAbhidhammakovida Sayadaw, one MulaAbhidhammika Sayadaw, two DighanikayakovidaSayadaws, five Dighabhanaka Sayadaws, threeVinayakovida Sayadaws, 24 Vinayadhara Sayadaws,seven Ubhatovibhangakovida Sayadaws and 47Ubhatovibhangadhara Sayadaws, totalling 91.

Those wishing to make donations may sendalms to Director U Khin Maung Win of ReligiousAffairs Department, Tel: 651572, ExaminationSection, Tel: 652794, 664578 and 663325.

MNA

YA N G O N , 23Apri l—Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry will holdthe 19th Annual GeneralMeeting at the City Hallin Nay Pyi Taw on 30April.

Advisers , CECmembers, executivesand members ofUMFCCI andexecut ives andmembers of brotherassocia t ions are toat tend the meet ingwithout fail.

Specia l buseshave been arranged tot ransport thepar t ic ipants of themeeting from Yangon toNay Pyi Taw on a daytrip.

The buses will

AGM of UMFCCI

on 30 Aprilleave the federationoff ice on MinyeKyawswa Road inLanmadaw Townshipat 6 am on 30 April.Those wishing to jointhe special buses enlistat UMFCCI, not later12 noon on 28 April.

For furtherinformation, contact214344~49 and217213~16.

MNA

LIBRARY OPENED: Officials including

Director U Than Tun of Information and

Public Relations Department and District

Staff Officer U Aye Pe cut the ribbon to

open Shwe Nanndaw self-reliant library at

Nannaw Village in Nay Pyi Taw Zeyathiri

Township of Nay Pyi Taw District

on 4 April.

DISTRICT IPRD

Take Fire PreventiveMeasures

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HANOI, 23 April—The Vietnamese ForeignMinistry SpokeswomanNguyen Phuong Nga saidhere on Thursday thatVietnam brought a lawsuitto the World TradeOrganization (WTO)against the US imposition

India foodinflation stands at

17.65%NEW DELHI, 23

April—Food inflationrose to 17.65 percent forthe week which ended on10 April from 17.22percent in the previousweek in India, reportedthe Press Trust of India.

Higher prices of fruitsand vegetables were thereason for the highinflation as they rose by 3percent over the pastweek, while that of seafish rose by 2 percent andpulses such as arhar andmoong by 1 percent, saidthe report.

The overall inflationhad gone up to 9.9 percentin March, higher than thecentral bank’s projectionof 8.5 percent, said thereport.

Compared with thesame time last year, pricesof pulses rose by 28.77percent, milk by 22.21percent, fruits by 18.81percent and wheat by11.18 percent.—Xinhua

LOS ANGELES, 23April—A moderateaftershock from themagnitude 7.2 Mexicanearthquake occurred at 7:22am (0222 GMT) onThursday near the bordertown of Seeley in ImperialCounty, California, the LosAngeles Times reported.

The 4.2 magnitudetemblor was felt in the area,according to the USGeological Survey. Therewere no reports of damageor injuries, the Times

Portugal cancels 1,900-plusflights due to volcanic ashLISBON, 23 April—The Airports of Portugal

(ANA) reported on Thursday that more than 1,900flights have been canceled and 242,000 passengersstranded since 15 April due to the ash cloud resultingin the eruption of a volcano in Iceland.

In a statement, the ANA said the cancellation ofthe 1,900-plus flights has cost the airlines some 2.5million euros (about 3.35 million US dollars) inlosses. The ANA decided to cancel all flights nextday after the ash cloud entered the Portugueseairspace on 13 April .

The most affected airport in the country was theLisbon airport where 821 flights, including 416departures and 405 arrivals, have been canceled.

Xinhua

Most Swedish airportsremain closed

STOCKHOLM, 23 April— Malmo Airport insouthern Sweden opened on Thursday morning alongwith three airports, but most other airports in thecountry remained closed due to the volcanic ashcloud from Iceland’s eruption.

Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Angelholm,Jonkoping, Ostersund, Sundsvall and Umea allremained closed even though most of the airportsoutside Sweden had reached normal air traffic level,a report from the Swedish Daily SVD said.

Bjorn Stenberg with the Civil Aviation Authority,LFV was quoted by the SVD as saying that thesituation unexpectedly took a quick turn for theworse at Wednesday night.

The winds have pushed the volcanic ash cloud tosouthern and western Sweden.

Swedavia, the firm which operates 14 Swedishairports, estimated that around half of scheduledflights could run. Arlanda Airport near the capitalcity Stockholm has been reopen again sinceWednesday. —Xinhua

A Venezuelan national guard inspects the site of acocaine laboratory, located along the border with

Colombia, in the state of Zulia April 22, 2010.Venezuelan authorities raided eight drug

laboratories near the Colombian border onThursday, seizing 4.5 tonnes of cocaine in one of

the largest hauls in recent times, the interiorminister said.—INTERNET

Japan’s big bad boy of sumo and just-retiredgrand champion Asashoryu (pictured in 2008),after an often controversial carrier of wrestlingdown rival man-mountains, has found a new

passion: flowers and gardening. Weeks after theMongolian-born sumo fighter left Japan’s ancient

sport, the 29-year-old reportedly is headed forBritain’s biggest flower show to be held in London

next month.—INTERNET

Residents clear ash in Yrti Skogar on 22 April,

2010. Iceland’svolcanic eruption was

spewing far less ash onThursday and the

plume of smoke waslow, but a change ofwind direction meant

the north Atlanticisland’s main airportswere now set to close

for the first time.INTERNET

Nokia headquarterspictured in Espoo. The

world’s top mobile phonemaker Nokia reported asofter than expected risein first-quarter profit on

Thursday and cut its full-year forecast, causingshares to plunge more

than 15 percent.INTERNET

Vietnam sues US for imposinganti-dumping taxes

of anti-dumping tax on thecountry’s frozen shrimp.

The announcementwas made at a pressconference held here byVietnam’s Ministry ofForeign Affairs. This isthe first time Vietnamtakes such an action sinceit joined the WTO inJanuary 2007.

Nga said the USdecision to apply anti-dumping tax onVietnamese frozen shrimpis irrational and unfair.Vietnamese enterprises donot dump this product inthe US market.

At the meeting ofWTO’s DisputeSettlement Body (DSB)on 20 April, Vietnamrequested the DSB toestablish a panel oninquiring the US anti-dumping measures onfrozen shrimp fromVietnam, said Nga.

Nga also said at thepress conference thatVietnam launching thislawsuit against the UnitedStates follows the WTOprovisions in settling thetrade disputes among thecountries.

In November 2004,the US Department ofCommerce said Vietnamwas dumping frozenshrimp in the US market.The anti-dumping taxrates for Vietnameseshrimp exporters werefixed at 4.13 to 25.76percent.

Internet

Another aftershock hitsUS-Mexico border area

reported. Thousands ofaftershocks from the 4April strong quake, whichwas the largest in the BajaCalifornia SouthernCalifo-rnia region in morethan a decade, have takenplace so far. More than adozen of them were greaterthan magnitude 5.0.

The tremor has causedat least 91 million USdollars in damage on theCalifornia side of theborder, according toGovernor Arnold Schwar-

zenegger. According to aletter the state sent to thefederal governmentseeking aid, the quakedamage in Imperial Countyincludes structural damageto numerous buildingsincluding homes, schoolsand a hospital; major cracksto the All-American Canal,which provides water forlocal agriculture, anddamage to wastewater andwater storage tanks, theNewspaper said.

Internet

US Southwest Airlines reportsslim first-quarter profit

HOUSTON, 23 April—US carrier SouthwestAirlines on Thursdayreported a first-quarter netincome of 11 million USdollars, a result helped byhigher unit revenues.

The Dallas-baseddiscount carrier’s revenuerose to 2.63 billion in thefirst quarter, slightlyhigher than analysts’forecast of 2.62 billion.

It’s the second quarterin a row for Southwest topost profit. The companylost 91 million in the year-ago period, when theaviation industry sufferedthe economic slump.

The company’s profitis in contrast to othermajor US carriers’ largefirst-quarter losses.

Continental Airlines

Inc. said on Thursday itlost 146 million in the firstquarter. AMR Corp,parent of AmericanAirlines, said it lost 505million in the quarter,while Delta Air Lines Inc.reported a 256 million netloss.

Southwest has tried toseparate itself from thepack by letting passengerscheck two bags free, asother large US carrierscharge bag fees. Thecompany saw increasedtraffic in the first quartercompared with last year.

Internet

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Robot battles to stem Deepwater Horizonoil spill 5,000ft under sea

NEW YORK, 23April—A team ofengineers using anunderwater robot wasstruggling last night tocontrol one of theworld’s mostchallenging oil spillsafter an explosionripped apart and sank arig leased by BP in theGulf of Mexico.

As fears grew forthe safety of 11 workersstill missing, BP and USofficials were tacklingwhat could be a majorpollution incident usingbooms and dispersantchemicals.

An aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico shows the burning oilrigDeepwater Horizon, which collapsed and sank after an explosion caused by an

oil ‘blowout’.—INTERNET

The spill is being fedby an estimated 13,000gallons of oil and gasthat were pumping everyhour from a pipe runningup from an oil reservoirmore than 2 miles (3km)beneath the seabed.

Deepwater Horizonrig, which had beendrilling for oil at the timeof the explosion onTuesday night,collapsed and sankyesterday after beingengulfed by a fire thathad blazed for more than36 hours.

Guy Cantwell, aspokesman fo r

Transocean, the Swisscompany that ownedthe r ig , sa id tha tengineers were tryingto cu t o f f theuncontrolled flow of oilusing a subsea robot.He said that the robot,equipped with camerasand remote-controlledarms, was being usedto t ry to act ivate adevice on the seafloor,5,000ft (1,500m) belowthe sur face , tha t i sdesigned automaticallyto clamp shut over thebase of a pipe thatconnects the rig withthe seabed.—Internet

Non-smokers put on less weight,study suggests

SCIENCEDAILY, 23April— A new studylinks nicotine poisoningwith weight gain, andconcludes that activesmokers, not only thosewho stop, put on moreweight than non-smokers. After fouryears of analysis in theUniversity of Navarra,those who put on leastweight were those whohad never smoked.

From now on we willhave to question the myththat smoking makes youslimmer. Researchersfrom the Department ofPreventative Medicine atthe University of Navarra(UNAV) have evaluatedthe link between the twocardiovascular riskfactors: the ‘nicotine

habit’ and the increase inweight when smokersstop the habit and whenthey continue smoking.

The results, nowpublished in the RevistaEspañola de Cardio-logía, “are crucial forconsidering preventionprogrammes,” Fran-cisco Javier Basterra-Gortari, main author ofthe study and researcherat UNAV, said.

The data, resultingfrom an analysis of 7565people over 50 months,is based on age, sex,initial body mass indexand lifestyles(sedentarism, changes inphysical activity,energy/fibre intake,snacks between mealsand consumption of

fizzy drinks, fast food andalcohol

Weight gain inpeople who stoppedsmoking during the studywas higher the morecigarettes they smoked aday when theinvestigation began.Those who continuedsmoking also gainedmore weight during thisperiod than the non-smokers.

The authors confirmthat nicotine addiction isnot an effective way ofpreventing obesity. “Infact the increase isdemonstrated, espec-iallyin ex-smokers and insmokers who continue,”highlights Basterra-Gortari.

Internet

Model Jordan Thibault shows judges a hair

design by Christal Niles of Cloud 9 Salon and Spa

of Massens, NY, during the International Fantasy

Hair & Modeling Competition at the Verizon

Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH, on Thursday,

22 April,2010.

INTERNET

A model poses next to aGM EN-V, or “Electric

Networked-Vehicle”concept car at the BeijingAuto Show, on 23 April,2010. China overtook the

United States as theworld’s biggest automarket in terms of

number of vehicles soldin 2009, helped by

Beijing’s incentives.INTERNET

Explosion nearN Ireland

police stationwounds 3NEW YORK, 23

April— Three peoplewere wounded lateThursday when anexplosion occurredoutside a police station inN e w t o w n h a m i l t o n ,Northern Ireland, thePolice Services ofNorthern Ireland said.

Police were en routeto the site of anabandoned vehicle in thearea — reported to aBelfast hospital — whenthe blast took place at11:25 pm The threewounded people weretaken to hospital but didnot sustain life-threatening injuries,police said.

Internet

Dreams can help withlearning

NEW YORK, 23April— Napping afterlearning something newcould help you commit itto memory - as long asyou dream, scientists say.

They found peoplewho dream about a newtask perform it better onwaking than those whodo not sleep or do notdream.

Volunteers wereasked to learn the layoutof a 3D computer maze sothey could find their waywithin the virtual spaceseveral hours later. Thoseallowed to take a nap andwho also remembereddreaming of the task,found their way to alandmark quicker.

The researchers think

the dreams are a sign thatunconscious parts of thebrain are working hard toprocess information aboutthe task.Dr Robert Stick-gold of Harvard Med-icalSchool, one of the authorsof the paper, said dreamsmay be a marker that thebrain is working on thesame problem at manylevels.—Internet

Zhou Xun, China’s

top-class actress, was

declared Thursday

winner of this year’s

UNEP Champions of the

Earth award

INTERNET

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British whisperer hypnotizes rabbitsBritishwhis-pererCliff

Penrosemakesrabbitsrelax

and fallinto

sleep. INTERNET

BEIJING, 23 April—ABritish whisperer has per-fected a curious ritual thatappears to make rabbitsrelax and fall into a trance.Cliff Penrose, 60, hasbeen taking care of rabbitsfor 30 years.

The moustachioed Cor-nishman from St Austellin Cornwall brings bun-nies with behaviouralproblems under controlbefore they are taken tothe vet.

He is the first rabbitwhisperer — or at leastthe first person to lay

claim to the title. Penrose,a grandfather, starts witha massage that leaves theanimal flat on their backswith their legs in the air.

“You can tell when a rab-bit is under because hisback legs completely re-lax,” he said.

Xinhua

Lifelike robotic ‘patients’ help improvemedical training at Kaiser San Jose

SAN JOSE, 23 April — A delivery room nurse pulls anearby man toward the woman in the final momentsof labour and confidently tells him to hold his wife’shand. Unexpectedly, the room erupts into laughter. Thewoman and infant are eerily lifelike mannequins at anew state-of-the-art simulation centre at the KaiserPermanente San Jose Medical Centre. For Wednes-day’s open house, the staff programmed an epic medi-cal situation for nurses and doctors to handle: A mancoughed and complained of severe chest pain, a gasp-ing newborn turned blue and a toddler got a powerfulcase of the hiccups while lying on a hospital cart nearthe woman in labour.—Internet

Farouz Fahieh and Linda Clark demonstrate thedelivery of a baby using a computerized manne-

quin during the grand opening of a new learninglab at the Centre for the Advancement of Researchand Education at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose

on 21 April, 2010.—INTERNET

Drivewith care

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SAN JIANG KOU VOY NO (237)Consignees of cargo carried on MV SAN JIANG

KOU VOY NO (237) are here by notified that the vesselwill be arriving on 25.4.2010 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lie atthe 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 to Claims Day nowdeclared as the third day after final discharge of cargofrom the Vessel.

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

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

AGENT FOR: M/S COSCO SHIPPING CO. LTDPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV ALLAHUS SAMAD VOY NO (1002)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV ALLAHUSSAMAD VOY NO (1002) are here by notified that thevessel will be arriving on 24.4.2010 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

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

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Scratch ticket misery for Brit bunglerwho threw away more than $150,000

A man threw away a winning$154,000 scratchcard after misunder-standing the game rules.—INTERNET

LONDON, 23 April — A British postalworker has spoken of his agony afterthrowing away a £100,000 ($154,000)scratch ticket because he misunderstoodthe rules of the game. Cemal Celikkanatsaid his life had been wrecked by the as-tonishing bungle, according to Sky News.

The 38-year-old thought the three£100,000 symbols on Camelot’s £100,000Blue game had to be in the same line towin. By the time he realized the symbolscould be anywhere on the card grid he hadthrown it away and couldn’t find it again.

“When I found out I felt dizzy and

dropped to my knees — it was like beinghit over the head. I threw away £100,000,”he told The Sheffield Star.—Internet

AMSTERDAM, 23 April — Burglars have broken intoa prison and stolen inmates’ television sets.

The thieves crept into a minimum-security jail inthe Dutch town of Hoorn, near Amsterdam, when theinmates were away for the weekend, authorities haverevealed.

The facility is used for prisoners who are coming tothe end of their sentences and, because they are soon tobe released, are often allowed out for weekends. Theestablishment is described as “a very modestly protectedenvironment”.—Internet

Burglars

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Dutch jail to

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S P O R T SEx-Olympics head Juan

Antonio Samaranch dies at 89BARCELONA, 23 April —

Shy, reserved andunimposing at first glance,Juan Antonio Samaranchalso was a shrewd andsometimes ruthless opera-tor who built consensus andgot what he wanted duringsome of the most turbulenttimes in Olympic history.Samaranch, who diedWednesday in a Barcelonahospital at 89, was a mas-ter of negotiation, persua-sion and behind-the-scenesdiplomacy during his 21years as president of the In-ternational Olympic Com-mittee.

His was a simple for-mula: Pick the right peoplearound you, use phone callsand one-on-one meetings toline up support, wait for theright moment to proceed,and, more often than not,

come away with a resound-ing victory. A former Span-ish ambassador to Moscow,Samaranch oversaw a land-mark era from 1980-2001— a period that saw politi-cal boycotts, the end ofamateurism and the adventof professionalism, the ex-plosion of commercializa-tion, a boom in the growthand popularity of thegames, the scourge of dop-ing and the Salt Lake Citycorruption scandal.

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Hull chairman Adam Pearsonadmits worries over future

Benitez confident of Anfieldimpact against Atletico

Fulham held Hamburg to a goalless draw

Juan AntonioSamaranch, the former

IOC president.Ex-Olympics head.

Pearson returned toHull after a spell asDerby County chair-

man.—INTERNET

LONDON, 23 April —Hull chairman AdamPearson has reopened arow with his predecessorPaul Duffen and admit-ted his fears for the futureof the financially trou-bled club. The Tigersedged closer to relegationfrom the Premier Leagueafter Wednesday’s 2-0loss to Aston Villa.Pearson accused Duffenof overspending and cre-ating a “doomsday sce-nario”.

“Of course the futureis very tricky, it’s boundto be when you considerthe figures. The club des-perately needs to stay inthis league,” saidPearson. The club andDuffen settled a row over

the club’s finances out ofcourt in February “tobring an end to all dis-putes between the par-ties”. But with Hull fac-ing the prospect of drop-ping out of the top flight,Pearson again attackedDuffen’s record while atthe club in his pro-gramme notes ahead ofthe game againstVilla.—Internet

League semi-final in Germany. Ruudvan Nistelrooy had an early half-chancebefore the superb Zoltan Gera saw a shotdeflected narrowly wide.

Fulham lost Bobby Zamora to injurybut his team-mates coped well and Geralost his balance when through ongoal.Hamburg pushed hard butSchwarzer held firm to leave the tieevenly poised ahead of the second legon 29 April.Roy Hodgson’s men will gointo that match in high spirits follow-ing a resolute display that keeps themin contention for a place in the final atHamburg’s HSH Nordbank Arena on 12May.—Internet

Gera produced a tireless performanceto help the Cottagers earn a fine

draw.—INTERNET

HAMBURG, 23 April — MarkSchwarzer made several vital saves asresilient Fulham held Hamburg to a goal-less draw in the first leg of their Europa

Atletico Madrid’s DiegoForlan kicks the ballduring their UEFAEuropa league semi-fi-nal first leg match vs Liv-erpool at VicenteCalderon stadium in Madrid.—INTERNET

Raul to decide on future atend of season

MADRID, 23 April —Real Madrid captain RaulGonzalez, who hasplayed mainly as a sub-stitute in recent months,said on Thursday hewants to keep playingfootball but would decideon his future at the end ofthe season. “Right nowI’m not going to retire. Iwould like to see out theyear left on my contract.We will see what happensat the end of the season.I, above all, want to keepplaying football,” he toldreporters when askedabout his plans.

The 32-year-old Realicon, who is under con-tract with Real until 2011,had been a regular in thefirst team since he madehis debut with the club at17. But coach ManuelPellegrini has left him onthe bench recently in fa-

vour of France’s KarimBenzema, Argentina’sGonzalo Higuain and Por-tugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.Raul has started just eightgames this year andscored four goals in theleague this season. Hesaid he was confident thatReal would win La Ligathis season. The club isone point behind leadersBarcelona with fivematches remaining.

Internet

Man United dotted mostvaluable club by ForbesLONDON, 23 April — Manchester United

has been the most valuable soccer team forthe sixth straight year on a list released byForbes magazine. The 18-time English Pre-miership champion was valuated 1.8 billionUS dollars as a group of investors and fanstry to buy the club which has a heavy debt of1.1 billion dollars.

Man United beats Spain’s Real Madrid,at 1.323 billion dollars, to the second place,according to Forbes’ estimation, whichtakes into account revenue growth, profit-ability and debt levels in the 2008-09 sea-son.—Xinhua

Tsonga defeats Almagro inBarcelona tennis fightback

Bayern hoping Riberyshown leniency by UEFAMUNICH, 23 April — Bayern Munich are hoping

French midfielder Franck Ribery is shown some leni-ency by European football’s governing body UEFAover his red card in the 1-0 Champions League winover Lyon.

Ribery was shown a straight red by referee RobertoRosetti in Wednesday night’s first-leg, semi-final winafter treading on Lyon striker Lisandro Lopez’s ankleon 37 minutes.

The punishment looked harsh, especially as it wasRibery’s first foul of the match and there were loudhowls of protest from the 66,000-strong crowd.

Ribery, and Lyon defender Jeremy Toulalan whowas also sent off, will miss Tuesday’s second leg inLyon.

The final length of Ribery’s suspension, poten-tially covering the final on 22 May in Madrid ifBayern get that far, will not be decided until the UEFAdisciplinary panel committee meets next Wednesday,the day after the semi-final return. And Bayern’sbosses are hoping for leniency.

Internet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Real Madrid captainRaul Gonzalez

MADRID, 23 April —Liverpool coach RafaelBenitez said he was not tooworried at at Thursday’s 1-0 loss at Atletico Madridin the first leg of theEuropa League semi-finaland pointed out that Liv-erpool were capable ofturning it on at Anfield toreach the 12 May final inHa-mburg. A Diego Forlangoal after nine minutessealed victory for Atleticoto give the Spaniards aslight advantage in the tiebut Benitez believes a fullhouse at Anfield in the sec-ond leg on 29 April canprove the difference.

Internet

BARCELONA, 23 April— Jo-Wilfried Tsonganeeded a fast change oftactics to reach the quar-ter-finals of the BarcelonaOpen as he defeated Span-iard Nicolas Almagro 5-7,6-1, 6-4 on Thursday.France’s third seed, play-ing the clay event for thefirst time, finds himself ina surprise Friday show-down with Thiemo deBakker, who upset 2001

winner and seventh seedJuan Carlos Ferrero 7-6(7/2), 3-6, 7-6 (7/4).There were only twobright spots for Spain,with six of eight repre-sentatives from the coun-try losing.

Monte Carlo runner-upFernando Verdasco,seeded fifth, rallied to beatAustrian Jurgen Melzer 3-6, 7-6 (7/1), 6-3. Two-timelosing finalist DavidFerrer won in 44 minuteswhen Simone Bolelli ofItaly quit injured trailing6-0, 3-0. Swedish secondseed Robin Soderlingwent through after he de-feated Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-2. Tsonga said hehad to shift strategy backto the fast-paced game heknows best to get out ofdanger.—Internet

Bohn shoots 65 to takeZurich Classic lead

AVONDALE, 23 April — Jason Bohntook advantage of calm morning con-ditions Thursday in the Zurich Classic,shooting a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke lead over Jason Dufner, JohnSenden, Jeff Overton, Greg Owen and2006 champion Chris Couch.

Bohn had eight birdies and one bo-gey — when he tried to reach the par-518th green in two stokes and ended upin the water — at Pete Dye-designedTPC Louisiana. “I was playing aggres-sively on the last hole,” Bohn said. “IfI had to do it all over again, I’d hit theexact same shot.” —Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, r ain or thundershowershave been widespread in Kachin State and isolated inupper Sagaing Division, weather has been partly cloudyin the remaining areas. Day temperatures were (3°C) to(4°C) above April average temperatures in Rakhine, Kayinand Mon States, Sagaing, Magway and Bago Divisions,(5°C) to (6°C) above April average temperatures in Shan,Chin and Kayah States, Mandalay, Ayeyawady, Yangonand Taninthayi Divisions, (6°C) below April averagetemperatures in Kachin State and about April averagetemperatures in the remaining States and Divisions. Thesignificant day temperatures were Minbu(44.2°C),Myingyan(43.8°C), Magway(43.0°C), Mandalay(42.8 °C)and Chauk(42.6°C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfallrecorded were Putao (0.91) inches, Putao (0.47) inches andMyitkyina (0.20) inch.

Maximum temperature on 22-4-2010 was 102°F.Minimum temperature on 23-4-2010 was 80°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 23-4-2010 was 66%.Total sun shine hours on 22-4-2010 was (10.3) hours.

Rainfall on 23 -4-2010 was (Nil) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2010 was(Tr) at Mingaladon, Kaba-Aye and (Nil) at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mphfrom Northwest at (18:30) hours MST on 22-4-2010.

Bay Inference: Weather is partly cloudy inAndamansea and South Bay and generally fair eleswhere in the Bayof Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 24th April 2010:Light rain or thundershowers are likely to be isolatedin Kachin and Shan State s, upper Sagaing Division,weather will be partly cloudy in Chin, Rakhine, Monand Kayin States, Mandalay and Taninthayi Divisionsand generally fair in the remaining areas. Degree ofcertainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be moderate inMyanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Likelihoodof contionuation of rain or thundershowers in theextreme Northern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouringarea for 24-4-2010: Partly Cloudy .

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring areafor 24-4-2010: Generally fair.

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouringarea for 24-4-2010: Partly Cloudy.

Weather outlook for first weekend of April 2010:During the coming weekend, weather will be partly cloudyin Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay Divisions.

WEATHERFriday, 23rd April, 2010

Indian capital getstallest building

NEW DELHI , 23 April— The Indian capital NewDelhi on Thursday got its tallest building which willhouse the headquarters of the city’s civic body.

The 28-storeyed, 112-meter Dr. Shyama PrasadMukherjee Civic Center of the Municipal Corporationof Delhi (MCD), which looks after nearly 90 percentof the city and was built at a cost of 6.5 billion rupees(130 million US dollars), was inaugurated by IndianHome Minister P. Chidambaram.

“A great capital city like Delhi must have a verygood civic administration. This civic centre has beenlong overdue and we are truly proud of this magnificentbuilding that will be a landmark in many many years tocome,” said Chidambaram.

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A model poses next to an IAT (InternationalApplication Technology) “Zu” electric concept

car, designed by IAT (China) AutomobileTechnology, at the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing

23 April, 2010. China overtook the United Statesas the world’s biggest auto market in terms of

number of vehicles sold in 2009, helped byBeijing’s incentives.—INTERNET

Weather Map of Myanamr and Neighbouring Areas

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

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

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

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

Since May 2006, the government has beenimplementing Theinyin Dam Project located nearYwama Village of Kanbalu Township, ShweboDistrict, Sagaing Division.

The project is aimed at irrigating 6000 acresof arable lands in Kanbalu Township, greening thesurrounding regions, ensuring the sufficiency ofdrinking water at the villages and preventing theoverflow of Theinyin Creek at Shwebo-KanbaluRoad along Kindat left canal.

Accompanied by Assistant Staff Officer U

Theinyin Dam benefits 6000 acres inKanbalu Township

Byline and Photos: Khin Maung Than (Sethmu)

The significantday temperatures

Minbu 44.2° C

Myingyan 43.8° C

Magway 43.0° C

Mandalay 42.8° C

Chauk 42.6° C

(23-4-2010)

Aung Myint Moe of Construction 4 of IrrigationDepartment, we the news crew left Mahananda Lakeof Shwebo along the embankment of the left canal,and we arrived at the construction site of TheinyinDam.

We together with Staff Officer U Win Htaikviewed progress in construction of the dam. TheinyinDam is located north of Ywama Village and southeastof Kanbalu of Shwebo District. The project is beingimplemented to dam Theinyin Creek with the 11030feet long and 62 feet high earthen embankment.

The catchment area of the dam will be 54square miles and with water supply capacity of27000 acre feet. The dam can store 25,260 acre feetof water at the full brim and 43,490 acre feet of stillwater. The water surface of the dam will be 2200acre feet.

The construction 4 of Irrigation Department iscarrying out the concrete works for the main embank-ment and the spillway. In addition, the ground workof main embankment started in December 2009.

(See page 9)

Photo shows spillway of Theinyin Dam under construction in Kanbalu Township of Sagaing Division.

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