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Volume XX, Number 152 4th Waxing of Tawthalin 1374 ME Wednesday, 19 September, 2012

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept—President of the Republic ofthe Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein left here by air at7 am today to attend the 9th ASEAN-China Expo to beheld in Nanning of the People’s Republic of China.

The Myanmar delegation led by President U TheinSein was seen off at Nay Pyi Taw Airport by Vice-Presidents Dr Sai Mauk Kham and U Nyan Tun, DeputyCommander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) General Soe Win, Union Minister forHome Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko, Union Minister forInformation U Aung Kyi, Union Ministers at the PresidentOffice U Thein Nyunt and U Hla Tun, Union Minister forMines Dr Myint Aung, Union Minister for ConstructionU Kyaw Lwin, Union Minister for Rail Transportation UZeyar Aung, Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism UHtay Aung, Commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command Maj-Gen Maung Maung Aye, departmental heads and Charged’Affaires ai of the Chinese Embassy Mr Lu Zhi.

President U Thein Sein was accompanied by UnionMinister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin,Union Minister at the President Office U Soe Thein,Union Minister for Religious Affairs Thura U MyintMaung, Union Minister for Transport U Nyan Tun Aung,Union Minister for Finance and Revenue U Win Shein,Union Minister for National Planning and EconomicDevelopment Dr Kan Zaw, Lt-Gen Aung Than Htut ofthe Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army), DeputyMinister for Rail Transportation Thura U Thaung Lwin,Deputy Minister for Health Dr Win Myint anddepartmental heads.

Member of the delegation Union Minister forCommerce U Win Myint left for Nanning in advance.

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President U Thein Sein leaves for China to attend9th ASEAN-China Expo

President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein being seen off at Nay Pyi TawAirport by Charge d’ Affaires ai of Chinese Embassy before departure for China to attend

9th ASEAN-China Expo.—MNA

EnvironmentalConservation and NationalTechnological Requirement

discussed PAGE 9

Microsoft warns on InternetExplorer security flaw PAGE 4

China’s Lenovo to buy Brazilianelectronics company CCEPAGE 4

Spirax Sarco establishes Myanmar office

YANGON, 18 Sept—Central Bank of Myanmarand United Overseas Bank (UOB) branch ofSingapore held the Seminar on Small & MediumEnterprise Banking at Park Royal Hotel, here, thismorning, with speeches of Vice-Governor of CBMU Maung Maung Win and UOB Managing DirectorMr Cheo Chai Hong.

Deputy Director U Win Htein Min of CBM readthe paper on the role of SMEs in Myanmar, ExecutiveDirector Mr Choo Kee Siong of UOB on Overviewof UOB and Commercial Banking for MediumEnterprise, Executive Director Mr Daniel Yeo ofUOB on Business Banking for Small Enterprisesand Executive Director Mr Frankie Phua of UOB onCredit Risk Assessment for SME Lending.

They then replied to queries raised by thosepresent.

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Seminar on Small & Medium Enterprise Banking heldVice-

Governorof CBM

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&Medium

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NAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept—Leading British steamengineering services provider Spirax Sarco Engineering(UK) has set its foothold in Myanmar, opening a branchoffice in the Southeast Asia’s emerging economy.

The acclaimed steam services and solutions providerdelivers more than 5000 ISO standard high-quality productsfor boiler control & systems, flow metering, condensatepumps and energy recovery, and steam traps and so on tooil and gas, soft drink, brewery, pharmaceutical, garmentand food manufacturing industries worldwide.

It has 1300 engineering services branches providingcustomer services and 38 world-class engineering schoolsin each and every corner of the world. The engineering

schools with full teaching aids have equipped about 12million engineers from various parts of the world withconsiderable engineering expertise.

Spirax Sarco is a major steam services provider forNestle, Glaxo Smith Kline’s, Johnson & Johnson, MitchelinTyres, Guiness Stout, Daniel Thwaites Brewery, Petrobras,COAGAP Oil & Gas, Samsung Electronics and many othermanufacturing. The company’s environmental-friendlyservices are proven to be fit for cost cutting exercises of thefactories with steam systems in operation.

Spirax Sarco’s Myanmar partner Ray MyanmarCompany may be reached for further details at 09 73049008.—NLM

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Dhamma Yaungchi Dhamma Dhana Service will holdthe 13th blood donation ceremony at National BloodCentre of Yangon General Hospital at 9 am on 22 September.Those wishing to donate blood may contact 382935 of theservice, 371800 (extension 364) and 0950-79674.

Staff quarter handed overNews in Brief

Myanmar Maker Home Co handed over 12-apartmentstaff quarter to Myitkyina University on 14 September.Kachin State Minister for Social Affairs Daw Bauk Ja andRector-in-charge Dr Aye Ko formally opened the staffquarter.

MRCS central council meetingMyanmar Red Cross Society will hold the 70th Central

Council Meeting at its assembly hall of MRCSHeadquarters in Nay Pyi Taw on 20 and 21 September. Themeeting will be attended by officials of the Ministry ofHealth, members of Central Council of MRCS and guests.

Hlawga water pipeline supplieswater in full swing

The 66-inch water pipeline from Hlawga to Yangonhas been repaired with the use of man and machinerypower ahead of schedule. At 9 am on 16 September, thewater pipeline supplies water in full swing.

Health development of Mon Statediscussed

A coordination meeting on scheming policy andplan for development of Mon State health sector was heldat the hall of Mon State General Hospital in Mawlamyineon 15 September morning. Participants discussed drawingthe procedure for the tasks.

Tour guide refresher courseconducted

Tour guide refresher course for those whose licenceswere cancalled by Directorate of Hotels and Tourism intheir failure to extend licence period was held at PandaHotel on Wadan Street on 17 September. Altogether 120trainees attended the course.

Collective blood donation 22 Sept

Members of press organizations meet to formMyanmar Press Council (Temporary)

YANGON, 18 Sept—It is a common stance that there requiresa strong press council which has credibility in Myanmar,adding although the Myanmar Press Council (Temporary) wasformed as a co-regulatory body in line with the internationalnorms, only ten persons who are leaders of organizations ofvarious strata were nominated and equipped with morality,integrity and wisdom, accounting for one third of the councilmembers; the remaining two third are nominees from therespective press organizations; that just viewing the names of29 members who had been chosen unanimously it is safe tosay that they would surely be able to promote the dignity,capacity and harmony of the council, said Union Minister forInformation U Aung Kyi at the meeting of members of variouspress organizations to form a temporary press council held atChatrium Hotel in Tamway Township 10 am yesterday.

The Union Minister continued to say that when askedwhat should a person value most in life, all would answerunanimously “integrity”; that the importance of everyorganization is its dignity; that the statement in the book oncodes of conduct of SPJ that profession integrity in thecornerstone of a journalist credibility proves to be sound and

rational. He stressed the need to strive for promoting theintegrity of each and all press organizations, and expressed hisbelief that those with a sense of freedom, concern (a) bias,responsibility and accountability would be able to strive forthe MPC (Temporary) to become an association of highdignity.

U Khin Maung Aye (Retd Supreme Court Judge) waselected as chairman of the Myanmar Press Council (Temporary)unanimously, and the meeting chairman Union ministerhanded over his responsibilities to the chairman of MPC.

Also present on the occasion were doyen literati, thosefrom Myanmar Writers Association, Myanmar JournalistAssociation, Myanmar Printing and Publishing EntrepreneursAssociation, Myanmar Publishers Association, Myanmar PressUnion, Myanmar Journalists Network and those media world.

The meeting elected U Soe Thein (Maung Wuntha,Writer/Journalist) as vice-chairman, U Kyaw Min Swe (ChiefEditor of The Voice Weekly Journal) as secretary, Daw NanKalyar Win (CEO of Asian Fame Media Group) as jointsecretary, and those present discussed duties andresponsibilities of MPC.—MNA

Dyna without break control hitsguard rail of bridge

District News

YANGON, 18 Sept—A Dyna carrying broken bricksdriven by U Tin Shein hit the rails of opposite way on MahaBandoola Bridge linking Botahtaung and Dawbontownships at about 3 pm on 15 September due to out ofbreak control.

The rail of the bridge was broken. Fortunately, noone was injured in the accident.—Myanma Alin

Fourth regular session of first Kachin State Hluttaw startsNAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept—

The Fourth regular sessionof first Kachin State Hluttawstarted this morning,attended by Kachin StateChief Minister U La JohnNgan Hsai, State HluttawSpeaker U Rawam Jone and50 state Hluttawrepresentatives.

Defence ServicesPersonnel Hluttawrepresentative Maj AungZin took affirmation. Thestate chief minister deliveredaddress which was put onrecord. Six Hluttawrepresentatives asked 10questions which wereanswered by respective state

level organizations.legislation committee’sannual report and nationalraces affairs committee’sannual report weresubmitted and put on record.

The Kachin Stategovernment submittedbudget and bills to theHluttaw which invited

representatives to discuss thebills. The approval wassought from the stateHluttaw to discuss KachinState Community FirewoodPlantation Bill submitted byU Chan Tin Khin of NagmonTownship Constituency (1).Today’s session concludedat 4 pm.—MNA

As commemorative of 67th birthday for DawKhin Kyi residing in 28 ward, Pyidaungsu

street, Dagon Myothit donated K 400,000 toHninzigon Home for the Aged through Joint

Treasurer U Chit Myaing recently.—NLM

Two-digit illegal lottery gambler arrestedYESAGYO, 16 Sept—IP Htay Aung and party of Yesagyo

Police Station of Magway Region together with witnessessearch the house of Ma Kyu Kyu Soe in Ward 3 on 14September.

They seized materials used in betting two-digit illegallottery and K 31650.

The police station concerned opened a file of lawsuitagainst her.—Myanma Alin

Manchester United seesrevenue growth after

barren seasonLONDON, 18 Sept—

Manchester United arecounting on an improvedperformance on the pitch toboost revenues after theEnglish Premier League clubpaid the price for a rare barrenseason in 2011-12.

United, owned by theAmerican Glazer family,floated on the stock marketin New York last month at$14 per share, valuing the19-times English championsat $2.3 billion.

The shares have driftedlower since then and weretrading at $12.65 at 1444 (10a.m EDT), down 2.4 percenton the day.

United failed to win atrophy last season for the firsttime since 2005 and made anearly exit from the lucrativeEuropean ChampionsLeague, meaning a reductionin income from sales ofmatchday tickets and lowerbroadcast revenues. The costof those failures was apparentas the club made a loss fromcontinuing operations of 14.9million pounds ($24.2million) in the three monthsto end-June 2012.Underlining its commercialstrength, United forecast abrighter 2012-13, based onthe club reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions

League and domestic cupcompetitions.

It said underlyingearnings (EBITDA) shouldrise by 17-20 percent to 107-110 million pounds.

Revenue was likely to bebetween 350-360 millionpounds, up from 320 millionlast year.

It has just signed a record$559 million shirt sponsorshipdeal to have the Chevroletbrand on its red shirts for sevenyears from 2014. The 20-teamPremier League has alsoagreed a new 1 billion poundannual domestic TV deal from2013, up 70 percent.

“We also expect asubstantial increase in thevalue of the Premier League’sinternational televisioncontracts scheduled to beannounced later this year,”Executive Vice Chairman EdWoodward said in astatement.—Reuters

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US’s Panetta to meet Xi Jinping on extendedtrip to China

ABOARD A US MILITARYAIRCRAFT, 18 Sept—USDefence Secretary LeonPanetta’s trip to China hasbeen extended by a day andwill include meetings withVice President Xi Jinping, USDefence officials said onMonday.

Panetta is making thethree-day trip to China at theinvitation of Defence MinisterLiang Guanglie, who visitedthe Pentagon earlier this yearas well as military installationsin other parts of the country.

The visit is part of US andChinese efforts to promote

USSecretaryof Defence

LeonPanetta iswelcomedby militaryleaders atBeijing

InternationalAirport, on

17September,

2012.REUTERS

closer military relations andgreater transparency betweenthe two sides.

As part of that effort,Panetta will become the firstUS Defence secretary to visitthe home of the Chinesenavy’s North Sea fleet atQingdao where he will tourwarships and meet with cadetsand the commander of thefleet, Vice Admiral TianZhong.

Xi is due to take over aspresident in March next year.He has a military role as vicechairman of the CentralMilitary Commission and met

with Panetta at the Pentagonearlier this year. Panetta willmeet Xi on Wednesday.

Panetta said in Tokyo onMonday the United Stateswould stand by its securitytreaty obligations to Japanbut not take sides in aprotracted row with China overdisputed islands and urgedcalm and restraint on bothsides.

“It is in everybody’sinterest ... for Japan and Chinato maintain good relations andto find a way to avoid furtherescalation,” he told reporters.

Reuters

Photo released by the Pakistan’sInter Services Public Relations(ISPR) on 17 Sept, 2012, Hatf-

VII Babur nuclear-capablecruise missile launching from

an undisclosed location inPakistan. Pakistan Monday

conducted a successful test fireof an indigenously developed

multi-tube cruise missile, with arange of 700 km, and capable ofcarrying nuclear warheads, the

military said.—XINHUA

An Afghan security officer investigates at the site of asuicide attack in Kabul on 18 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

EU foreign policy chief to meet Iran nuclearnegotiator

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton addresses theEuropean Parliament in Strasbourg during a debate onthe situation in Syria and the political use of justice in

Russia, on 11 Sept, 2012. —REUTERS

BRUSSELS/VIENNA, 18Sept—EU foreign policychief Catherine Ashton willmeet Iran’s chief nuclearnegotiator on Tuesday,Ashton’s office said onMonday, as GermanChancellor Angela Merkelsaid a political solution wasstill possible in the stand-offover Teheran’s atomicprogramme.

The head of the UNatomic watchdog, YukiyaAmano, also said on Mondaythat his agency would holdmore talks with the Islamicstate aimed at allayingWestern concerns that Iran isattempting to developnuclear weapons, a chargeTeheran denies.

Ashton will meet Irannegotiator Saeed Jalili inIstanbul as “part of continuingefforts to engage with Iran,”after talks between worldpowers and Iran in Moscow inJune failed to secure abreakthrough in the dispute.“While it is not a formalnegotiating round, themeeting will be anopportunity to stress onceagain to Iran the need for anurgent and meaningfulconfidence-building step,”

and to show more flexibilitywith proposals put forward byworld powers in earlier talks,Ashton’s spokes-woman said.

Several weeks after thefailed Moscow talks, USSecretary of State HillaryClinton said, “The proposalswe have seen from Iran thus farwithin the P5+1 negotiationsare ‘nonstarters.’”

US State Departmentspokeswoman Victoria

Nuland said the purpose ofthe Ashton-Jalili meeting wasto gauge whether the Iranianswere willing to offer any newproposals.

“That’s the question thatwe have. We made clear thatwhat they had put on thetable was a nonstarter. Arethey prepared to bring

anything new?” Nuland toldreporters in Washington.

She added that the majorpowers—the five permanentmembers of the UN SecurityCouncil plus Germany—were expected to meet in NewYork later this month on thesidelines of the UN.GeneralAssembly to discuss Iran.

As diplomatic efforts tosolve the dispute have stalled,Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu has gonepublic with a demand that theUnited States set “red lines”that Iran not cross or riskmilitary action. The UnitedStates has refused to set suchtriggers, though both it andIsrael have said they reservethe right to take military actionif necessary.—Reuters

Eight foreigners among 12 killed in Kabul carbombing

KABUL, 18 Sept—At least12 people, including eightforeigners, were killed onTuesday morning in a suicidecar bombing in Afghancapital Kabul, the police said.

“A suicide bomberrammed his explosive-ladenvehicle into a minibuscarrying foreign staffs of alocal company at around6:45 local time (0215 GMT)on Tuesday, killing eightforeigners and a local drivernamed Ahmad Zia on thespot,” head of criminalinvestigation department ofKabul police, GenMohammad Zahir, toldXinhua. The nationalities ofthe victims were not clear atthe moment. A foreignwoman was among the killedas seen by a Xinhua reporter.

Pakistan tests nuclear-capableCruise missile

ISLAMABAD, 18 Sept—Pakistan Monday conducteda successful test fire of anindigenously developedmulti-tube cruise missile, witha range of 700 km, and capableof carrying nuclear warheads,the military said.

Babur Crusie MissileHatf-VII is a low flying, terrainhugging missile, which canstrike targets both at land andsea with pin- point accuracy,an army statement said.

“It carries stealthyfeatures. Equipped withmodern cruise missiletechnology of TerrainContour Matching(TERCOM) and Digital

Scene Matching and AreaCo-relation (DSMAC), it cancarry both nuclear andconventional warheads,”thestatement said.

The missile was launchedfrom a state of art Multi TubeMissile Launch Vehicle(MLV), which significantlyenhances the targeting anddeployment options of BaburWeapon system.—Xinhua

“The killed foreignerswere looking like westernpeople. I saw them when policeforces were transporting thedead by vehicles andambulances,” a witness toldXinhua, adding that as the busarrived in the main road from alane another vehicle hit it anda big bang was heard.

Meantime, Zhair said thatthree passers-by were alsokilled and two security officialswere injured by the bombingthat took place along the mainroad, leading to airport inKabul’s sub-district 15. He saidmore details will be released tothe media after theinvestigation is concluded.The blast caused a plume ofgrey smoke to rise above thescene. Several buildings andwedding halls near the site

were also damaged by the blast.The government troopsimmediately cordoned off thearea shortly after the blast.

Meantime, Hezb-e-Islami of Afghanistan, thesecond largest insurgentgroup, in the country claimedthe responsibility for theattack. A spokesman with the

Hezb-e-Islami, withGulbuddin Hakmatyar as itsleader, told local media viaphone that a woman suicidebomber of the group targetedand killed nine foreigners inretaliation for an anti-Islamfilm produced by an Americanentity recently in the UnitedStates.—Xinhua

More than 130 escape fromMexican prison on US border

MEXICO CITY, 18 Sept—More than 130 inmatesescaped through a tunnel froma Mexican prison on the borderwith the United States in one ofthe worst jailbreaks thecountry’s beleaguered penalsystem has suffered in recentyears.

Homero Ramos, attorneygeneral of the northern stateof Coahuila, said 132 inmatesof the prison in the city ofPiedras Negras had got outthrough the tunnel in an oldcarpentry workshop, then cutthe wire surrounding thecomplex.

Corrupt prison officialsmay have helped the inmatesescape, said Jorge LuisMoran, chief of publicsecurity in Coahuila, addingthat US authorities had beenalerted to help capture thefugitives if they try to crossthe border.

The jailbreak is areminder of the challenges thatawait Enrique Pena Nieto, theincoming president, who haspledged to reduce crime in thecountry after six years ofincreased gang-relatedviolence under President

Felipe Calderon. Many ofMexico’s prisons areovercrowded and struggle tocounter the influence ofcriminal gangs that can usetheir financial muscle tocorrupt those in charge.

Ramos said that the stategovernment of Coahuila wasoffering a reward of 200,000pesos ($15,700) forinformation leading to thecapture of each fugitive.

The Piedras Negrascomplex housed a total of 734inmates, and the tunnelthrough which the prisonersescaped was about 1.2 metres(four feet) wide, 2.9 metres (9-1/2 feet) deep and seven meters(23 feet) long, Ramos said.

There have beennumerous mass breakouts inthe last few years fromMexico’s penal system, andprison officials are frequentlyaccused of complicity withdrug cartels.

At the end of 2010, morethan 140 inmates escaped aprison in the border city ofNuevo Laredo.—Reuters

Afghanistan

Mexico

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY4 Wednesday, 19 September, 2012

Microsoft warns on Internet Explorersecurity flaw

BOSTON, 18 Sept—Microsoft Corp warned anewly discovered bug in itsInternet Explorer web browsermakes PCs vulnerable to attackby hackers and urgedcustomers to download apiece of security software tomitigate the risk of infection.

The security flaw affectshundreds of millions ofInternet Explorer browserusers. Microsoft saidattackers can exploit the bugto infect the PC of somebodywho visits a malicious websiteand then take control of thevictim’s computer. Thesoftware maker advisedcustomers on its website lateon Monday to install thesecurity software as an interimmeasure, buying it time to fixthe bug and release a new,more secure version ofInternet Explorer. Thecompany did not say howlong that will take, but severalsecurity researchers said theyexpect the update within aweek.

The free security tool,which is known as theEnhanced MitigationExperience Toolkit, or EMET,is available through anadvisory on Microsoft’swebsite: blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/

The EMET software mustbe downloaded, installed andthen manually configured toprotect computers from thenewly discovered threat,according to the posting fromMicrosoft. The company alsoadvised customers to adjustseveral Windows security

Microsoft Corp Vice President of Internet Explorer DeanHachamovitch unveils Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

Beta version during a demonstration in San Francisco,California on 15 Sept, 2010.—REUTERS

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settings to thwart potentialattackers, but cautioned thatdoing so might impact the PC’susability.

Some security expertssaid it would be toocumbersome for many PCusers to implement themeasures suggested byMicrosoft. Instead theyadvised Windows users totemporarily switch fromInternet Explorer to rivalbrowsers such as GoogleInc’s Chrome, Mozilla’sFirefox or Opera SoftwareASA’s Opera.

“For consumers it mightbe easier to simply click onChrome,” said Dave Marcus,director of advanced researchand threat intelligence withIntel Corp’s McAfee securitydivision.

Marc Maiffret, chieftechnology officer of thesecurity firm BeyondTrust,said it may not be feasible forsome businesses to install

Microsoft’s EMET tool ontheir PCs.

He said the securitysoftware has in some casesproven to be incompatible withexisting programs alreadyrunning on networks.

Tod Beardsley, anengineering manager with thesecurity firm Rapid7, said thatat first blush it appeared thatthe EMET may not beparticularly effective inthwarting potential attacks.

Microsoft officialsdeclined to comment on theskepticism that those securityexperts expressed about theeffectiveness of the EMETsoftware.

POISON IVYEric Romang, a researcher

in Luxembourg, discoveredthe flaw in Internet Explorer onFriday, when his PC wasinfected by a piece of malicioussoftware known as Poison Ivythat hackers use to steal dataor take remote control of PCs.

When he analyzed theinfection, he learned thatPoison Ivy had gotten on tohis system by exploiting apreviously unknown bug, or“zero-day” vulnerability, inInternet Explorer.

“Any time you see a zero-day like this, it is concerning,”said Liam O Murchu, a researchmanager with anti-virussoftware maker SymantecCorp. “There are no patchesavailable. It is very difficult forpeople to protect themselves.”

Zero-day vulnerabilitiesare rare, mostly because theyare hard to identify —requiringhighly skilled softwareengineers or hackers with lotsof time to scrutinize code forholes that can be exploited tolaunch attacks. Securityexperts only discloseddiscovery of eight major zero-day vulnerabilities in all of2011, according to Symantec.

Symantec and other majoranti-virus software makershave already updated theirproducts to protect customersagainst the newly discoveredbug in Internet Explorer. Yet, OMurchu said that may not besufficient to ward offadversaries.

“The danger with thesetypes of attacks is that theywill mutate and the attackerswill find a way to evade thedefences we have in place,” hesaid. Internet Explorer was theworld’s second-most widelyused browser last month, withabout 33 percent market share,according to StatCounter. Itwas close behind Chrome,which had 34 percent of themarket.—Reuters

China’s Lenovo to buyBrazilian electronics company

CCESAOPAULO, 18 Sept—China’s Lenovo Group Ltd agreed

on Wednesday to buy Brazilian electronics maker CCE, as theworld’s No 2 PC maker by sales bets that Brazil’s promisingconsumer market can help revive its slowing profit growth.

The deal, announced in a securities filing, is valued at abase price of 300 million reais, subject to adjustments. Payment,in a mix of stock and cash, could include an additional 400million reais, depending on performance-based indicatorsover the four years ending in December 2016.

“Brazil has a positive growth rate (for PCs) even in thecurrent relatively volatile environment,” Lenovo chief financialofficer Waiming Wong told Reuters in an interview. “If wereally go for the high growth market, the big market, Brazil isobviously the candidate.”

Lenovo’s purchase of CCE, Brazil’s largest domesticmanufacturer of electronics such as PCs, DVD players andstereos, will allow the Chinese company to nearly double itsshare of the PC market in the world’s sixth-largest economy.

A salesperson waits for customers at a Lenovo shop inShanghai on 17 February, 2011.—REUTERS

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The deal will also add mobile phones and televisions toLenovo’s product line in Brazil, where it recently announcedplans to build a $30 million factory, helping it expand beyondits current focus on the corporate sector.

“In order to win in Brazil long term you have to have localmanufacturing,” Wong said, adding that the acquisitionwould boost Lenovo into third place in Brazil’s PC market from7th place currently. “When CCE came along, it definitely wasa good fit.” The deal highlights the growing, yet uneven tradeties between Brazil and China, two large emerging economies.

Reuters

NEW YORK, 18 Sept—USmobile provider AT&T said itset a sales record with Apple’siPhone 5 over the weekend,making it the fastest-sellingiPhone the company has everoffered.

Customers ordered moreiPhones from AT&T than anyprevious model both on its

first day of preorders and overthe weekend, the companysaid on Monday.

AT&T did not providethe number of iPhones sold.

The company saidiPhone 5 was still available forpreorder and would go on salefrom 21 September in AT&Tretail stores.—Reuters

The iPhone 5 on

display after its

introduction during

Apple Inc’s iPhone

media event in San

Francisco, California

on 12 Sept, 2012.

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AT&T says set sales record foriPhone 5

Weather delays last flight of space shuttle Endeavourto museum

MIAMI, 18 Sept—Thedeparture of the space shuttleEndeavour on its final flightto a Los Angeles museum hasbeen delayed untilWednesday by bad weather,NASA said.

Space

shuttle

Endeavour

lands at

the

Kennedy

Space

Centre in

Cape

Canaveral,

Florida

on 1 June,

2011.

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Endeavour, which wasretired last year, wasscheduled to travelpiggyback on top of aspecially modified 747 jet, butstorms along the plannedflight path have pushed back

its departure from theKennedy Space Centre untilWednesday.

It was the second delaycaused by weather intransporting the shuttle,which was originally intended

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to depart on Monday.NASA said Endeavour

is now expected to arrive onFriday in Los Angeles, whereit will go on display at theCalifornia Science Center on30 October.

On its trip, Endeavour isexpected make a low pass overthe beachside communitiessurrounding the KennedySpace Centre before headingwest. It will make additionalflyovers near NASA facilitiesin Mississippi, Louisiana andTexas.

Endeavour was built asa replacement for the shuttleChallenger, which wasdestroyed in an accident thatkilled seven astronauts in1986.

Endeavour’s lifespanwas relatively short by shuttlestandards —25 missions over20 years, totaling 299 days inspace.—Reuters

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Tata Motors global sales up 13pct in August, JLR growth

slowsMUMBAI, 18 Sept—Tata

Motors Ltd’s (TAMO NS)global vehicle sales rose 13percent in August from a yearearlier, the company said,with sales at its key JaguarLand Rover subsidiary rising13 percent, less than in recentmonths.

Sales at the luxuryBritish brand, a key driver ofthe company’s recent profitgrowth, rose 41 percent inJuly, 39 percent in June and

Jaguar Land Rover Freelander 2 vehicles are displayedon the production line for the media at their newly-

inaugurated production plant in Pune, 190km south ofMumbai, on 27 May, 2011.—REUTERS

35 percent in May.Tata Motors, part of the

salt-to-steel Tata Groupconglomerate, sold a total of97,225 vehicles in August.Overall passenger cars salesstood at 47,141 vehicles, arise of 23 percent from a yearearlier.

Tata sold 24,060 JaguarLand Rover vehicles in themonth. Commercial vehiclesales rose 4 percent to50,084.—Reuters

Merkel urges dialogue to solveEU-China solar dispute

BERLIN, 18 Sept—German Chancellor AngelaMerkel reaffirmed Mondaythat her position after theEuropean Commissionlaunched an anti-dumpinginvestigation against Chinasolar companies that the issueshould be settled throughpolitical dialogue.

“There are very cleardeadlines in the process ofsuch (anti-dumping) cases.The deadline of opening thecase has now come,” Merkelsaid when answering aquestion from Xinhua,adding that the EUinvestigation is the need oflegal procedures.

“But whether it willfollow with provisionalmeasures, yes or no, will bedecided several monthslater,” she said. “That time isavailable to us for what Idiscussed with (Chinese)Premier Wen Jiabao, namely,a dialogue.”

In July, Germany’sSolarWorld and otherEuropean solar panel makersfiled a complaint seekingimport tariffs on Chinese-made solar products, claiming

that their Chinesecompetitors have receivedlow-interest loans from thegovernment.

The Europeancommission decided to starta formal investigation on 6Sept, which activated thelargest trade disputeinvolving China in terms oftrade volume.

China’s solar productexports were valued at 35.8billion dollars in 2011. The

Germanchancellor

Angela Merkelspeaks during a

pressconference in

Berlin,Germany, on 17

Sept, 2012.XINHUA

anti-dumping proceedings.“We want to solve this

dispute politically, throughdialogue, and we should usethe time when investigatingthe case. There are manymonths to go and we shouldget started soon,” thechancellor said.

“This is not only thehope of Germany, but also ofthe European Commission,”she said, adding that sheheard some German

Meridian’sdiagnostic

test gets FDAnod

OHIO, 18 Sept—Meridian Bioscience Inc saidits test to detect a commonbacterial throat infectionreceived marketing approvalin the United States.

Meridian said itsmolecular test can detectGroup A Streptococcus, abacteria found in the throator on skin.

Acute pharyngitis, orstrep throat, accounts for anestimated 15 million visitsper year to pediatricians andother primary care physiciansin the United States, Meridiansaid.

The life sciences com-pany said its test takes lessthan one hour and requires noexpensive capital equipment.

Shares of Cincinnati,Ohio-based Meridian closedat $18.29 on the Nasdaq onMonday.

Reuters

Middle-school girls use mobile phones as they chat in arestaurant in Seoul. One out of every seven Los Angeles

high schoolers with a cell phone has sent a sexually-explicit text message or photo, according to results of a

2011 survey that also found “sexters” more likely toengage in risky sex behaviors.—REUTERS

LG unveils Optimus G phone withvoice-activated power camera

SEOUL, 18 Sept—LGElectronics Inc unveiled itslatest high-end smartphonepacked with powerfulhardware upgrades onTuesday, as the strugglingSouth Korean firm tries towin market share from AppleInc and Samsung ElectronicsCo Ltd in the crucial holidayquarter.

LG’s handset business,which was slow to move intosmartphones and has largely

An employeeof LG

ElectronicsInc poses with

LG’s new‘’Optimus G’’smartphonein Seoul on

18 Sept, 2012.REUTERS

million won, and later inJapan and the United States.

The Optimus G boasts a13 megapixel camera whicha user can instruct to takesnaps by talking to it, plus a4.7-inch screen with a sharperpicture quality than both theiPhone and Samsung’sGalaxy S III.

Powered byQualcomm’s (QCOM O)quad-core Snapdragonprocessor, the Optimus G willwork on superfast mobilenetworks and be able to carryout several functions at once,such as showing a televisionbroadcast andsimultaneously sending textmessages or searching the

CHICAGO, 18 Sept—Cancer has replaced heartdisease as the leading causeof death among US Hispanics,likely reflecting the largenumber of young, working-age Hispanics in America,according to a report by theAmerican Cancer Societyreleased on Monday.

The shift mirrors a largernational trend as death ratesfrom cancer and heart diseasestart to converge, BeckySiegel, an epidemiologist forthe organization, said in atelephone interview.

Siegel said death ratesfor heart disease have beendeclining more rapidly thanfor cancer, helped by bettertreatments for heart problems

failed to win consumers fromsector leaders Apple andSamsung, hopes the new‘Optimus G’ will also help itcompete against Google’s(GOOG O) Motorola,Taiwan’s HTC Corp(2498.TW) and China’s ZTE000063.SZ and Huawei HWTUL.

LG’s Optimus G, whichuses Google’s Androidplatform, will go on sale nextweek in South Korea for 1

web. Among its rivals are theDroid Razr models unveiledby Google’s Motorola earlierthis month, and Lumia 920, aflagship handset made byNokia (NOK1V HE) andMicrosoft Corp (MSFT O)which uses the latestWindows Phone operatingsoftware.

Apple unveiled itsiPhone 5 last week, and saidon Monday it had bookedorders for over two millioniPhone 5 models in the first24 hours it was on sale,evidence of stronger thanexpected demand for the newmodel ahead of the October-December holiday quarter.

Reuters

NEW YORK, 18 Spet— After surgically removing a large gelball blocking the intestines of a baby girl, Texas doctors arewarning parents about a new kind of water-absorbing ballsoften sold as playthings.

The coloured balls, marketed under the brand name WaterBalz by Ohio-based DuneCraft Inc, are small to begin with, butcan grow to the size of a racquetball when placed in water.

For orally fixated toddlers, that can be a problem, said DrOluyinka Olutoye, a pediatric surgeon at Texas Children’sHospital in Houston. “It goes in small and grows on the insideand may not come out,” he told Reuters Health.

That was the case for an eight-month-old girl, who wasbrought to Texas Children’s with stomach problems. Herparents suspected she had eaten one of her sister’s Water Balz,and their concerns grew when they read on the label that theballs expand up to 400 times if placed in water.

Olutoye and his colleagues could see on x-rays that partof the child’s small intestine was distended, as if something wasblocking it, but they couldn’t see the culprit. Over the next 48

Gel balls new threat to toddlers, doctors sayhours, the girl’s belly grew bigger and bigger and her symptomsdidn’t go away. “The blockage allows fluid and gas toaccumulate, it is just like you step on a hose,” said Olutoye,whose report appeared on Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Finally, the doctors took the baby to the operating room.They cut her intestine open and drew from it a bright-greenWater Balz nearly an inch and a half across.

She recovered and is doing fine, according to Olutoye.The surgeon said that as this type of product becomes

more common, parents and doctors alike need to be aware ofthe danger it poses if swallowed. He explained that if theintestine is blocked long enough, the building pressure mayeventually cause it to rupture.

“If this is not taken care of really quickly, there canactually be a perforation… and you can die from it,” saidOlutoye. DuneCraft’s CEO Grant Cleveland said he was sorryto learn of the incident. He noted that the Water Balz productalready carries warnings on the label and is recommended forkids over 3.—Reuters Cancer leading cause of death

for US Hispanics, study says

Business

Health

Health

Healthsuch as cholesterol-loweringstatin drugs.

In the United States,Hispanics tend to be younger,working-age adults, andsince heart disease typicallyafflicts older adults, thestudy’s results are notsurprising. “In the US overall,cancer is the leading cause ofdeath among people youngerthan 85,” Siegel said.

Hispanics are the fastest-growing demographic groupin the United States,accounting for 16.3 percentof the US population, or 50.5million of the 310 millionAmericans.

Reuters

EU receives a share of morethan 60 percent, or 20.4billion US dollars.

During her visit toChina, Merkel told PremierWen that she hoped theEuropean Commission andChina could solve the issuethrough communication,rather than by resorting to

companies are now open tostart a negotiation.

Merkel believed that noone in the EU nations wouldwant to block such a dialogue,and the two sides should putall facts and questions on thetable and discuss themthoroughly andsubstantially.—Xinhua

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The two parts of a road-rail bridge are seen joined together over the Yangtze River inHuanggang, central China’s Hubei Province, on 16 Sept, 2012. The joining work of

the Huanggang Yangtze River bridge, the 6th road-rail bridge over the river, isfinished on Sunday in Huanggang, Hubei Province. — XINHUA

HONG KONG, 18 Sept —Boosted by burgeoningdemand during the summerholiday period, Hong KongInternational Airportsustained the upward

China struggles to cure the violent ills ofhealth system

GUANGZHOU/BEIJING , 18Sept — Beijing is struggling todeal with an increasinglyviolent flashpoint of socialunrest in its healthcare system,as its latest bid to cut costs isfailing to ease tensions amongmillions of people who cannotafford basic treatment. Violentattacks directed at hospitaldoctors and other healthcareworkers in the form of beatings,threats, kidnappings, verbalabuse and even killings soaredin recent years to 17,243 casesin 2010, alarming centralpolicymakers who regardChina’s overhaul of itslumbering public healthcaresystem a top national priority.

Critics say China’s effortsto cut treatment costs in publichospitals and defuse tensions

do not go far enough and showlittle sign of reversing theviolence of angry sufferers.“The government is veryworried about violence againstdoctors, especially when a fewdoctors and healthcareworkers were attacked earlierthis year. Some hospitals nowhave guards guarding them,”said a health official in southernGuangdong Province,speaking on condition ofanonymity because of thesensitivity of the issue.

“It’s a top priority to stopthese things from happening,”said the source, who works inhospital administration. In July,the ruling Communist Partysought to make treatment moreaffordable by looking to banan age-old practice among

public hospitals of marking updrugs prices by 15 percent, apractice the government

Dancers of the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe give performance inWuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on 16 Sept, 2012. — XINHUA

144 passengers safe after ship’s engine troubleoff C Philippines

MANILA, 18 Sept —About 144 passengers werereportedly safe after the shipcarrying them encounteredengine trouble off centralPhilippine province ofSouthern Leyte on Sundaymorning, the Philippine CoastGuard (PCG) said.

Reports reaching the

A nurse (L) adjustsintravenous drips for

patients at a hospital inSuining, Sichuan Province,

in this on 9 March, 2011file picture. — Reuters

allowed to flourish after itwound back subsidies forpublic hospitals from the 1950s.The ban applies to 300 countyhospitals under a pilot project.But a patients’ group and

senior Chinese health officialssay the measure, even ifimplemented nationwide, doesnot make medicinessubstantially more affordable.

Reuters

Coast Guard Action Centre inManila revealed that theshipping vessel experiencedproblem on one of its auxiliaryengine at around 12:35 pm.The said the vessel came fromCebu City and was supposedlyon its way to Bato, SouthernLeyte, when the incidenthappened. The Philippine

Coast Guard immediatelydeployed its vessel andpersonnel to assist the shipand the passengers.Theship’s electrical power waslater successfully restored tonormal operation, the PCGsaid, adding that the vesselagain sailed to its next port ofcall at Bato.— Xinhua

ACCIDENT

Hong Kong Airport passenger number reachesnew high in August HONG KONG

momentum in passengernumbers to reach a new highof 5.2 million in August andreported a year-on-yeargrowth of 3.9 percent, theAirport Authority announcedon Sunday.

Flight movements hit arecord of 30,470 as well, up 5.2percent compared to the sameperiod last year, said theauthority. Cargo volume alsogrew by 3 percent to 328,000tonnes as the airportapproaches the busier monthsbefore the end of this year.

The authority said thegrowth in passenger traffic inAugust was primarily drivenby a 7-percent increase invisitors over the year before.Passenger numbers to andfrom South East Asia and

Japan performed particularlywell. Airport Authority ChiefExecutive Officer Stanley Huisaid it is very encouraging tosee both passenger traffic andflight movements reach newheights at the airport.

“We anticipate a steadygrowth trend in comingmonths as travel usuallypeaks at the end of the year,and in particular, during majorfestivals or holidays such asthe Mid-Autumn Festival andthe National Day GoldenWeek.” For the first eightmonths of the year, theauthority handled 37.9 millionpassengers and processed 2.6million tonnes of cargo,representing a growth of 5.6percent and 0.2 percent froma year earlier.— Xinhua

CHINA

Hamas to decide on new“politburo chief” next week:

sourcesGAZA, 18 Sept — Hamas

authority in the Gaza Strip islikely to choose the newhead of its politburo duringa meeting in Egypt nextweek, sources said onSunday. The selection willbe based on the results ofthe secretive elections thatthe Palestinian movementheld among its members inthe Palestinian territories,Israeli prisons and Diasporathis year.

The current politburochief, Khaled Mashaal, andPrime Minister of Hamasauthority, Ismail Haneya, arethe key candidates for theposition, according to thesources, which are close toHamas.

The new members of the

politburo will meet in Caironext week to settle theargument over the head ofthe political bureau, thesecond highest institutionof Hamas after the ShuraCouncil.

On Monday, a Hamasdelegation headed byMashaal will arrive in Cairoto meet Egyptian PresidentMohamed Morsi, andHaneya left for Cairo fromthe Gaza Strip on Sundayand will meet EgyptianPrime Minister HeshamQandil. Hamas is anoffshoot of the MuslimBrotherhood, to whichMorsi belongs, and wastreated with hostility byformer Egyptian PresidentHosni Mubarak.—Xinhua

Series of real estate scams speckle Dubai’s property market recovery

Series of real estate scams speckle Dubai’s propertymarket recovery.— XINHUA

DUBAI, 18 Sept — After aseries of “good news” in theDubai real estate sector thisyear, a number of multi-milliondollars fraud cases rock theGulf Arab sheikhdom.According to local mediareports, a number of brokeragefirms disappeared with themoney they should have hadtransferred from tenants tohome owners. Gulf Newsreported earlier this month thattwo broker firms, MFRE andFHS, were owned by a 38-yearold Emirati national, althoughthe Real Estate RegulatoryAuthority or RERA allows one

become fully visible. Thescandal comes at a time whenthings looked to improve atDubai’s real estate market thisyear. Rental prices increasedslightly in the first half of this,the first advance after threeyears ago when the globalfinancial crisis triggered a realestate crash in the emirate.Most developers return toprofits and the highestresidential building, the 414meters high Princess Tower,was inaugurated on 12 Sept.

Xinhua

person to obtain onebrokerage license.

Both cases are the latestof a series of property scams

that came to light since thestart of September. Mediareports suggest that the entiretruth of the scam has not

UAE

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17 mutilated bodies found in Mexico

Mexican soldiers and members of the Federal Policepatrol the area where 17 bodies were found on a road in

Tizapan, Jalisco, Mexico, on Sept. 16, 2012. The incidentis allegedly linked to revenge killing between powerful

drug gangs.—XINHUA

MEXICO CITY, 18 Sept—A total of 17 mutilated bodieswere found Sunday along theroadside of a highway inMexico’s western state ofJalisco, according to localpolice.

The dismemberedcorpses, naked and piled uptogether with chains aroundtheir necks, were found nearthe highway linkingGuadalajara and Morelia at5:30 am local time (1130 GMT),said the state’s GeneralAttorney Office ProsecutorTomas CoronadoOlmos.Police also foundgunshot wounds on thevictims, which seemed tohave been killed in differentplaces, Coronado said,adding that their identitiesremained unclear.

According to Mexico’sNational Institute of Statisticsand Geography, 95,632homicides occurred in the

country from 2007 to 2011during the government’scampaign against organizedcrimes.—Xinhua

Areva finds UK partner fornuclear decommissioning

LONDON,18 Sept—French nuclear reactor makerAreva and engineeringconsultancy Atkins have setup a joint venture to bid fordecommissioning contracts

in Britain’s nuclear sector, thecompanies said on Tuesday.

A R E V A - A T K I N SPartnership UK will be basedin Warrington, northwestEngland, and seek to securesubcontractor work withcompanies appointed tomanage sites owned byBritain’s NuclearDecommissioning Authority(NDA).

“This will enable us toput our proven technologyto use in meeting thechallenges of UKdecommissioning and

strengthen Areva’s footprintin the country,” saidDominique Mockly, Arevaexecutive senior vicepresident.

The companies

declined to comment on howmuch money they had alreadyinvested in the joint venture.

Areva’s EuropeanPressurised Water Reactor(EPR) is planned to be builtin Britain as part of EDF’sHinkley Point C nuclearstation in Somerset,southwest England.

Atkins has previousexperience in UK nuclearwork, such as thedecommissioning of astorage pond at the formerSellafield nuclear plant.

Reuters

General view of the French nuclear reactor maker ArevaTower (C) at the La Defence business district, near Paris,

on 7 August, 2012.— REUTERS

Britain’s Prince Harrygestures after passingthe Apache helicopter

flight line at CampBastion, AfghanistanSeptember 7, 2012.

REUTERS

Prince Harryunharmed

after Talibanattack in

Afghanistan —NATO

KABUL, 18 Sept— PrinceHarry was on a base insouthern Afghanistan thatendured a deadly Talebanattack on Friday but he wasnever in any danger, a NATOspokesman said.

US officials, speakingearlier on condition ofanonymity, told Reuters thattwo US Marines were killed inthe attack at Camp Bastion.

Reuters

Fire put out in Brussels, no casualties

BUSSELS, Sept. 17 — Thefire broke out on Mondaynight in a building in centralBrussels has been put out.Nobody was injured in theincident.

A number of fire enginesrushed to the scene shortlyafter the fire broke out in thethree-storey building, about1 km south of the EuropeanCommission building.

A fire fighter on the spotsaid there was nobody injuredin the incident, adding onlyan old lady said she feltuncomfortable due to thesmoke.

Investigation into thecause of the incident isunderway.—Xinhua

Firemen extinguish fire in a building in central Brussels,Belgium, on 17 Sept, 2012. The fire broke out on Monday

night was put out, and a lady was sent to hospital formedical treatment. —XINHUA

Two arriving flights searched at Kennedy airportafter threat

NEW YORK, 18 Sept—A telephone threat to two airplanes arriving at John F KennedyInternational Airport in New York on Monday prompted authorities to search the aircraft afterthey landed but nothing was found, officials said.

The planes were taken to an isolated area and searched for explosives and the passengerswere interviewed, said Ron Marsico, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and NewJersey that oversees operations at area airports.“All is clear here,” he said following the search.“Nothing was amiss.” He said the “threatening” call indicated there could have been explosiveson board.The federal Transportation Security Administration confirmed the all-clear for bothplanes, American Airlines Flight 24 from San Francisco and Finnair Flight 5 from Helsinki.“Bothflights have been cleared ... and are headed to the gate at this time,” the TSA said in a statement.

Reuters

Russia expresses concerns overnew US radar deployment in Japan

MOSCOW, 18 Sept —Russia on Mondayexpressed its concerns overthe development of a newUS radar in Japan, calling onthe US to balance efforts andavoid damaging othercountries’ security interests.

Earlier on Monday, USSecretary of Defence LeonPanetta announced theUnited States and Japanhave agreed to locate thesecond US missile defenceradar in Japan to monitorpossible threats from theDemocratic People’sRepublic of Korea (DPRK).

“The potentialdeployment of the second

anti-missile radar on theJapanese territory willconsiderably enhance thecapabilities of the Americanmissile defence system inthe Asia-Pacific region, “ theRussian Foreign Ministrysaid in a statement.

“We are urging ourAmerican partners tobalance their missiledefence efforts against realchallenges and threats, soas not to damage thesecurity interests of othermembers of theinternational community,”the ministry said.

Also on Monday, USAmbassador to Russia

Michael McFaul wrote onhis microblog that the newdeployment of the USmissile defence system inJapan will “pose no threatto Russia’s strategicdeterrent.”

The US deployed itsfirst X-band radar innorthern Japan in2006.Moscow has longopposed the deployment ofUS-led European missiledefence facilities near itsborders and called forlegally binding guaranteesfrom the US and NATO thatthe missile shield is nottargeting Russia.

Xinhua

US

BELGIUM

RUSSIAMEXICO

Berlusconi returns to politics, attacks Montigovernment

ROME, 18 Sept— FormerPrime Minister SilvioBerlusconi has returned tothe political frontline aftermonths in the shadows,vowing to abolish a key tax onhomes in remarks likely tostoke investors’ jitters about

Italy’s former PrimeMinister Silvio Berlusconi(L) waves as he arrives fora meeting of the European

People’s Party (EPP),ahead of a two-day

European Union leaderssummit, in Brussels June

28, 2012.—REUTERS

Italy’s future after an electionnext spring.

But the 75-year-oldmedia magnate is keepingItaly guessing about whetherhe will stand for prime ministerat the head of his centre-rightPeople of Freedom (PDL)party in the election.

Berlusconi, one of thecountry’s richest men,attacked the policies of hissuccessor, unelectedtechnocrat Mario Monti, inhis first interview to Italianmedia since being forced frompower last November, whenItaly tottered on the edge of aGreek-style debt crisis.

Berlusconi said in theinterview with his family’s ilGiornale daily that the PDLwould abolish a deeplyunpopular tax on homesworth 20 billion euros (16.1billion pounds) a year, which

is a major plank in Monti’stough austerity programmeto cut Italy’s huge debt.

The former EuropeanCommissioner has restoredItaly’s credentials since hetook over from the scandal-plagued Berlusconi at a timewhen a loss of confidencehad pushed the country’sborrowing costs to untenablelevels.

Berlusconi, who hasremained out of the limelightfor months, said the tax on theowner of every house in Italymust be repealed in the sameway his governmentabolished a previous levy in2008. Avoiding propertytaxes has been a constanttheme for Berlusconi whodominated Italian politics for17 years until his fall lastNovember.

Reuters

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As the world’s food systems are in crisis,seeking a way for ensuring food security is amatter of strong concern. Food waste is nowthe second largest waste stream which requiresthorough thinking and extreme patience.

It is clear that food waste has serious impacton economy and environment. The scandalousreason that food is discarded is because itdoesn’t meet aesthetic criteria, and evenperfectly formed vegetables and otherperishables often end up in supermarketdumpsters.

The most noteworthy finding is that peoplefrom different regions should take streamlinedsteps in purchasing, preparation and storageof food. Increasing the perceived value of goodsin question is also the best way to reduce foodwaste.

The right to food is a human right derivedfrom the International Covenant on Economicand Cultural Right (ICESCR), recognizing the“right to an adequate standard of living,including adequate food”, as well as the“fundamental right to be free from hunger”.

Drought and flooding have compromisedcrop production across the world. But someoverstocked supermarket shelves continue topropagate the illusion of plenty and the rate offood waste in some regions has more thandoubled.

With the continued explosion of globalpopulation plus the decreased capacity toproduce food, more and more people will gohungry. Therefore, all consumers are urged topractise thrift and alter their own behavioursthat could touch off food waste.

Practise thrift for foodsecurity

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My wife couldturn water into

money!

Really? Howdoes she do? She is a

butcher!

Maung Maung Hnyet

Vice-

President

Dr Sai

Mauk

Kham

visiting

University

of Com-

puter

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(Keng-

tung).

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Shan

State

Chief

Minister

U Sao

Aung

Myat

providing

cash

assistance

for six

flood

victims.

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(from page 16)Myanmar’s educationsystem. A total of 64universities and collegesaround the country areoffering education tooffspring of 60 millionpeople, nurturing humanresources. Education coverstraining, teaching andlearning.

The term of universityhas been increased from threeyears to four years to upliftthe education standards. Bothenthusiasm of students andcompetency of teachers areneeded.

Teachers should learnconstantly to catch up thedevelopments of each subjectand try to improve theircapacity.

Afterwards, wellwisherdonated cash to the universitythrough the rector in-chargeof the university.

Vice-President Dr SaiMauk Kham went to theUniversity of ComputerStudies (Kengtung) andinspected the e-library andlecture rooms at theuniversity.

At the meeting with theacting principal and facultymembers of the university,Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham said that theuniversities of computerstudies have been establishedin regions and states with theaim of benefiting the countryand people.

He urged the facultymembers to do research onthe graduates of theuniversity whether theybecome computerprofessionals or not.

The principal and facultymembers of the university areobliged to teach the studentsso that they can apply the

Participation of the people …computer science and tolearn the advancingcomputer science, he added.He also assured the supportof the government for thefaculty members to do so.

He also urged the facultymembers to be obliged toteach the students to possesquality so that they canovercome challenges in theASEAN Integration in 2015.

He also stressed the needfor improvement of skills ofthe faculty members.

During the meeting,wellwishers donated cash tothe university through theacting principal.

Afterwards, Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Khamand party visited theTechnological University(Kengtung).

After hearing reports atthe university, the Vice-President attended to theneeds of the university.

Speaking on theoccasion, he stressed theimportance of technology asdevelopment of an economyof a country depends on it.

There are two kinds of

economy: one is based on thetechnology and the other isbased on the naturalresources, he added.Myanmar lagged behind thedevelopment as it dependson its natural resources whileother countries such asSingapore which has builttheir economy based on thetechnology has seen rapiddevelopment, he said.

Teaching of the facultymembers, learning of thestudents and teaching aidsplay a key role in bringingthe development oftechnology to the country,he said.

He urged the facultymembers to improve theirskills and to teach thestudents so that they canbecome professionals.

He also assured of theState’s support for the facultymembers to keep on theirlearning.

Afterwards, wellwishersdonated cash to the universitythrough the acting principal.

During his tour ofKengtung, Vice-President DrSai Mauk Kham also met withtownselders at the TriangleRegion Command.

During the meeting,townselder U Haung Khamreported to the Vice-Presidenton hydropower plant project,relocation the cemetry awayfrom the town systematically,maintenance of roads,mushrooming check-pointsalong the Tachilek-Taunggyi Road, expansionof garbage system andtownselder U Sai Lon SaiLan on literature of thenational races.

The Chief Minister ofShan State also reported tothe Vice-President.

Afterwards, the Vice-President assisted in takingthe measures related to thereports of the townselders.

At the meeting, theVice-President presentedcash assistance amounted toK2.5 million to the TriangleRegion Command throughCommander of thecommand Maj-Gen ThanTun Oo.

After the meeting, Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Khamand his entourage left therefor Nay Pyi Taw by theMyanma Airways andarrived back here thisevening.—MNA

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MANDALAY, 18 Sept—Aceremony to donate edibleoil, salt and medicines toabove 50 members of theSangha from monasteries infive townships of Mandalay,Amarapura and Patheingyitownships, organized byThawtapan Association forninth time, was held at theoffice of Shine Hope Co on80th Street between 17th and18th Streets in Aungmye-thazan Township on 15September.

HTIGYAING, 18 Sept—The World BreastfeedingWeek 2012 and theNourishment Weekceremony was held at theoffice of HtigyaingTownship Maternal andChild Welfare Association

Thawtapan edible oil, salt, medicinedonated in Mandalay

It was the donations ofDhammaduta AshinÇhekinda and disciples.They donated 11506 viss ofedible oil, 5184 viss of saltand 204 packets of assortedmedicines to 204monasteries where above 50monks are staying inAungmyethazan, Chan-ayethazan, Mahaaungmye,Chanmyathazi, Pyigyi-dagun, Amarapura andPatheingyi townships.

The merits sharing

ceremony was held at 10 am.Next, meals were offered toOvadaçariya Sayadaws and204 members of the Sangha.

On 20 and 21 September,they will offer one viss eachof edible oil and salt andmedicine to 16383 membersof the Sangha and nuns fromSagaing at the DhammadutaYaunggyi Dhammayon in theprecinct of LaygyunManaung Pagoda inThawtapan Ward ofSagaing.—Kyemon

Environmental Conservation and NationalTechnological Requirement discussed

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept—The Round Table Discussionon Myanmar Environmental Conservation Policy andNational Technological Requirement was held at MyatTaw Win Hotel, here, this morning, with an address byUnion Minister for Environmental Conservation andForestry U Win Tun.

Speaking on the occasion, the Union Minister said thatthe discussion is to focus on climate change, bio-diversity,forest degradation and deforestation, reduction of carbonemission and undertakings in line with the environmentalconservation law.

He noted that Environmental Conservation Law waspromulgated in March 2012. Emphasis is to be placed onsetting norms and standards for environmental quality,preserving the natural resources and cultural heritages.Rules and procedures of the law are being drawn.

Like other countries, he said that Myanmar facesclimate change, depletion of bio-diversity anddeforestation, natural resources degradation and challengeson pollutions.

The Union Minister expressed his believe that thediscussion will adopt the future programmes between theministry of EU.

Ms Veronique Lorenzo, Chief of Operation for EuropeanUnion, kept a promise to cooperate with the government bysharing technology for environmental conservation.

The discussion lasts till 19 September.—MNA

Workshop on National Level monetary servicedevelopment and investment opportunities held

NAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept— The Ministry of Finance andRevenue is implementing monetary reforms fordevelopment of monetary sector which plays a pivotal rolein economic growth of the State, said Union Minister forFinance and Revenue U Win Shein at the Workshop onNational Level Monetary Service Development andInvestment Opportunities held at Thingaha Hotel here thismorning.

The Union Minister pointed out that the ministry haspermitted to open new private banks and extend banks, hasgranted issued money changer license and authorize dealerlicense and has carried out deposit insurance, specialdrawing rights, managed floating exchange rate regime,foreign exchange auction, two way foreign exchangeauction, with private banks which have got license for

foreign currency exchange.The Microfinance Law was promulgated on 30-11-

2011 and the Foreign Exchange Management Law on 10-8-2012. Plans are underway to implement banking networkfor promotion of payment system and Myanmar paymentunion card (MPU-Debit Card). Central Bank of Myanmarhas signed MoUs with Tokyo Stock Exchange of DaiwaResearch Institute and Policy Research Institute (PRI) ofJapanese Finance and Revenue Ministry for capital marketdevelopment.

The purpose of the workshop is to take advices fromscholars, institutions and entrepreneurs in implementationmonetary sector development for public convenience, headded. Policy and plan will be carried out based on theresults from the workshop by seeking successful

implementation tasks and investment opportunities, heexplained.

Then resource persons including Deputy Minister forFinance and Revenue Dr Maung Maung Thein read outtheir papers and those attendees participated in discussions.

Present at the workshop were Union Minister at thePresident Office U Hla Tun, Union Minister for TransportU Nyan Tun Aung, Union Minister for National Planningand Economic Development Dr Kan Zaw, Deputy Financeand Revenue Ministers Dr Lin Aung and Dr Maung MaungThein, Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar U ThanNyein, representatives of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and AmyothaHluttaw, managing directors and directors-general fromFinance and Revenue Ministry, deputy directors-generaland directors of Central Bank of Myanmar, scholars,entrepreneurs and media persons totalling 195.—MNA

Women entrepreneurs leave for BangkokYANGON, 18 Sept—A

four-member delegation ledby Secretary Daw Hnin Waiof Myanmar Women Entre-preneurs’ Association lefthere by air yesterday

morning to attend the 18th

ASEAN Youth Award and7th Tayo ASEAN Ward to beheld in Bangkok of Thailandfrom 17 to 21 September2012.

They were seen off atYangon InternationalAirport by Joint-SecretaryDaw Khin Lay, executivesand officials of theassociation.—Myanma Alin

World Breastfeeding Week launchedat 10 am on 28 August.

Acting Head ofTownship HealthDepartment Dr Bo Seingave talks on systematicbreastfeeding to childrenand good cookery fornourishment foods.

Chairperson of TownshipMaternal and ChildWelfare Association DawKhin Aye Myint andmembers gave medicines,vitamin and iodized salt tochildren.

Myanma Alin

Development of fisheryindustry discussed

TAIKKYI, 18 Sept—Together with staff, Head of

Taikkyi Township FisheriesDepartment U Tint Aung on

13 September morning metvillage administrators andfisher-men and gave talkson prevention against illegalfishery works andconservation of environ-ment.

Later, the Theyet-chaung Village-tract’s Envi-ronment and Water ResourcesConservation Group wasorganized with 11fishermen.—Myanma Alin

District

News

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U Win

Tun

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at Round

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Discussion.

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Giant Panda cub born in Washington’sNational Zoo

WASHINGTON, 18 Sept— US NationalZoo on Monday announced Giant Panda MeiXiang has given birth to a cub.

The zoo’s chief veterinarian SuzanMurray said the cub was born at about 10:46pm on 16 Sept. She said “Mei Xiang isbehaving exactly the same way she did whenTai Shan was born. She is cradling her cubclosely, and she looks so tired, but every timeshe tries to lay down, the cub squawks andshe sits right up and cradles the cub moreclosely. She is the poster child for a perfect

Male Giant Panda TianTian is seen at the panda

habitat of the US NationalZoo in Washington DC,

capital of the UnitedStates, on 17 Sept, 2012.

US National Zoo onMonday announced Giant

Panda Mei Xiang hasgiven birth to a cub. The

National Zoo now housesMei Xiang and Tian Tian,a pair of giant pandas on

loan from China.—XINHUA

panda mom.” The zoo said in a statement thatexperts believe there is only one cub. For now,the only way animal care staff can monitor thecub is using the web cams installed in thepanda’s habitat, and their intent is for MeiXiang to raise this cub naturally.

Mei Xiang gave birth to her first cub, TaiShan, in 2005. Tai Shan now lives in China.The National Zoo now houses Mei Xiang andTian Tian, a pair of giant pandas on loan fromChina.

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Cuba says it proposed talks on jailedAmerican, no US response

HAVANA, 18 Sept—Cubahas proposed talks with theUnited States about resolvingthe case of jailed Americancontractor Alan Gross, buthas received no response,indicating a lack of interest by

Judy Gross, wife of US aidcontractor Alan Gross who

is jailed in Cuba, speaksduring an interview for

Reuters with Reuters at herapartment in Washington

on 23 October, 2010.REUTERS

Washington, a top Cubandiplomat said on Monday.

Foreign Ministry officialJosefina Vidal said at a Pressconference that Cuba hadproposed discussions “as afirst step for the developmentof a process ... toward findinga solution to the case of MrAlan Gross.”

Gross, 63, has been jailedsince December 2009 and isserving a 15-year sentencefor illegally setting up Internetnetworks in Cuba under a USprogramme that promotespolitical change on thecommunist island.

The Cuban governmentviews the programme assubversive.

Gross’ imprisonment putthe brakes on efforts by

President Barack Obama toimprove long-hostile relationsbetween the two countriesjust 90 miles apart. Gross’ wifesaid last week she feared forher husband’s life becausehis health is deteriorating.Cuba denied that.

Cuban officials have saidbefore that they would beopen to talks about Gross,but this was the first timeknown that they have saidthey had proposed them.

“I want to ratify todaythat up to this moment wehave not received a responsefrom the government of theUnited States,” said Vidal,who is the Cuban ForeignMinistry’s director of NorthAmerican relations.

Reuters

A man looks at the derailed train’s compartments atthe accident site near southern Pakistani port city ofKarachi, on 17 Sept, 2012. At least two people were

killed and over 100 others injured when two passengertrains collided near Karachi in southern Pakistan early

Monday morning, reported local media.—XINHUA

Students return to Louisiana State Universityafter bomb scare

Two-state solution less viablein Israel-Palestine conflict:

UNUNITED NATIONS, 18

Sept— The UN SpecialCoordinator for the PeaceProcess in the Middle EastRobert Serry on Monday saida two-state solution to theongoing Israel-Palestineconflict is at risk.

“The lack of progressbetween Israelis andPalestinians on the politicaltrack and the continuingconflict and occupation put atrisk the viability of the two-state solution,” said Serry in abriefing to the Security Councilon the situation in the MiddleEast. According to him, thestakes for a resolution are highwith the Palestinian Authority(PA) facing a difficulteconomic climate, includingdecreased foreign aid and aslowing economy.

“There is no moresobering a manifestation ofsuch a risk than the financial

NEW ORLEANS, 18 Sept—Students at Louisiana StateUniversity were allowed toreturn to their dorms late onMonday after police sweptresidential halls on the campusfollowing a bomb threat.

Dining and recreationalfacilities also were reopened,LSU said in a statement.

“LSU and lawenforcement personnelcontinue to methodicallysearch the campus and havebeen returning buildings tonormal operationsthroughout the evening,” thestatement said.

“There are fewer than 20buildings left to search and

Putin urgesRussia to

increase defensecapability amid“growing use of

force”MOSCOW, 18 Sept—

Russian President VladimirPutin on Monday urgedRussia to increase its defencecapability amid the “ growinguse of force in internationalaffairs.”

The president made theremarks while overseeing theCaucasus- 2012 strategic drillsat the Rayevsky range,southern Russia. Theexercise, which takes placefrom 17 to 23 September, is thelargest war game in Russiathis year.

“You can see what ishappening in the world, youcan see that, unfortunately,there is growing use of forcein international affairs. All thismeans that we must keep ourpowder dry, and we mustincrease the defencecapability of Russia,” Putinsaid in his address to the drills.

According to thepresident, the only objectiveof the drills was todemonstrate that the Russianarmed forces were ready todefend the national interestsand were able to respond toany security challenges andthreats. Led by Russian Chiefof General Staff NikolaiMakarov, up to 8, 000servicemen along with over200 military vehicles, some100 artillery pieces and about10 warships are taking part inthe drills.—Xinhua

Firefrighters putout fire during afire fighting drill

in the GreaterKhingan Range,

north China’sInner MongoliaProvince, on 17Sept, 2012. A

joint large-scaledrill was held

here on Monday.XINHUA

and economic crisis currentlyafflicting the PalestinianAuthority,” said Serry.

While there has beensome “positive quietdialogue,” he said, noeffective progress had beenmade on core issues andrecent attacks on Palestiniansin the occupied territory arealso exacerbating tensions.

Serry expressed his hopethat UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, in cooperationwith the Quartet (composedof the UN, Russia, theEuropean Union and theUnited States), “will chart acredible, political way forwardin the coming months.”

In a press briefing here,UN Spokesperson MartinNesirky said, “The Road Mapdevised by the Quartet iscredible” and has “beenagreed to by all parties.”

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LSU will continue to updatethe campus community asinformation becomesavailable,” it said.

The university wasevacuated following atelephoned threat to the EastBaton Rouge Parishemergency centre at 10:32 am(1532 GMT) and the centrerelayed the information tocampus police, said universityspokesman Ernie Ballard.

University ChancellorWilliam Jenkins made thedecision to evacuate thecampus, and LSU alertedstudents, faculty and staff viatext message at about 11:30am (1630 GMT), Ballard said.

Ballard could not say howmany of LSU’s 29,000students and 4,700 faculty andstaff were on campus at thetime of the threat.

As word of the threatspread, public school officialsplaced three nearbyelementary schools and onehigh school on lockdown,meaning no one was allowedto enter or leave, according tothe East Baton Rouge ParishSchool System. Publicschools spokeswoman SonyaGordon said students wouldbe allowed to leave at theirregular times, unless there wasconfirmation that a threatexists.—Reuters

Explosives used to slow nuclear programme,Iran says

VIENNA, 18 Sept — Explosives were used to damage the electricity power lines to Iran’sFordow underground enrichment plant last month to sabotage Teheran’s atomic advances,Iran’s nuclear chief Fereidoun Abbasi Davani said on Monday.

It was the first time Iran mentioned the incident, which Abbasi-Davani said took placeon 17 Aug.

He added “the same act” had been carried out on power lines to Iran’s main enrichmentplant near the central town of Natanz.

Abbasi-Davani made clear his view that the explosives failed to slow Iran’s nuclearprogramme, which he said has made great progress in uranium enrichment.

The West suspects Iran of attempting to produce a nuclear warhead under cover of itsnuclear programme, while Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.—Xinhua

USRussia

Cuba

Iran

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REGIONAL Wednesday, 19 September, 2012 11

China launches WTO challenge to USanti-subsidy tariffs

GENEVA, 18 Sept— Chinafiled a complaint at the WorldTrade Organization onMonday to challenge a newUS law on “countervailingduties”, or tariffs intended tocombat export-promotingsubsidies.

The complaint, filedhours after the United Statessaid it would launch a wide-ranging trade complaintagainst China’s support forcar exports, potentially affectsclose to 30 products that havepreviously been targeted byUS duties, a trade officialfamiliar with the case said.

He said the complaint wasaimed at a US law passed inMarch which allowed theUnited States to applycountervailing measures toChinese exports

Three killed, two missing as monsoon rains continue to hit PakistanSeveral houses at the outskirtsof Rawalpindi also reportedlycollapsed in the rains.

Water level at Nullah Lai,a natural stream flowingthrough the city, rose sharplyto 12 feet, four feet higherthan the alarming level. Localgovernment has issued awarning to the residentsliving along the stream asseveral low-lying areas havealready been inundated.

Officials predicted therains in Rawalpindi andIslamabad will continue until

A Pakistani man carrieshis child on his shouldersas he crosses flooded waterin central Pakistan’s DeraGhazi Khan, on 15 Sept,2012.—XINHUA

Wu Bangguo (L),chairman of the

StandingCommittee of

China’s NationalPeople’s Congress(NPC), meets with

ChamalRajapaksa,

speaker of theParliament of Sri

Lanka, inColombo, Sri

Lanka, on 17 Sept,2012.—XINHUA

retrospectively.Commerce Ministry

spokesman Shen Danyangsaid China hoped the UnitedStates could “correct itsmistaken policy andappropriately resolve China’sconcerns”.

“China has, under variouscircumstances, repeatedlyreiterated that it resolutelyopposes the abuse of traderemedy regulations, opposestrade protectionism, and willstaunchly exercise its WTO-member rights to protect thelegal rights of its domesticindustry,” Shen said.

In a brief statement on theinitial filing by China, the WTOsaid the products includedsteel, tyres, magnets,chemicals, kitchen appliances,wood flooring and wind towers.

China will file a full complaintwith more details in the nextfew days.

Under WTO rules,China’s filing of the complainthas set the clock ticking on a60-day period during whichthe United States can try tosettle the dispute in bilateraltalks. After that, China couldask the WTO to adjudicate.

Reuters

ISLAMABAD, 18 Sept—At least three people werekilled, two went missing and15 kids got injured asmonsoon rains continued tohit Pakistan in its northern,eastern and southern areason Monday, said officials andlocal media.

Two children werereportedly washed away onMonday by flood watertriggered by heavy rains inRawalpindi, a sister city of thecapital Islamabad in thecountry’s northern area.

Wednesday morning.Meanwhile, in Faislabad,

a city in Pakistan’s easternprovince of Punjab, at leastthree people including twochildren were killed andseveral others injured as ahouse roof collapsed in thewake of downpours in thecity. In the southern provinceof Sindh, 15 kids werereportedly injured as a primaryschool classroom collapsedin the heavy rains.—Xinhua

New Zealand to implement internationaltrademark rules by yearend

WELLINGTON, 18 Sept—New Zealand is to fullyimplement the MadridProtocol on internationaltrademark protection by the

People gather near the site of a train fire in Bikaner,India, on 17 Sept, 2012. A goods train was set on fire by

mob after it rammed into a truck at an unmannedrailway crossing on the Jaisalmer-Bikaner line, killing

eight and injuring several others.—XINHUA

Local farmers pick upcotton in Korla City ofBayingolin MongolianAutonomous Prefecture,

northwest China’sXinjiang Uygur

Autonomous Region, on17 Sept, 2012. More than

500,000 immigrantworkers swarm intoXinjiang to rake in

revenues by picking upcotton during this havest

season. —XINHUA

ASEM expected to solve global problems, bringpeosperity: Indonesian minister

Singapore Airlines’ Augustpassenger traffic up 6.5 pct

year-on-yearSINGAPORE, 18 Sept—

The Singapore Airlines, oneof the top carriers in the world,carried 1.5 million passengersin August, up 6.5 percent year-on-year, the company said onMonday.

Its passenger load factorincreased by 1.7 percentagepoints from the same monthlast year to 78.3 percent inAugust this year.

Passenger load factorsimproved across mostregions, due to strongsummer demand and earlierholiday travel for the HariRaya holiday, the companysaid. However, passengerload factors for the East Asia

and South West Pacificroute regions declined asgrowth in demand wasoutstripped by increases incapacity.

The company said itexpected promotionalactivities to keep placingdownward pressure onpassenger yields.

The overall cargo trafficslumped by 4.3 percent year-on-year, while cargo capacitydeclined by 1.6 percent. Cargotraffic in East Asia was flat,and could not keep pace withthe increase in capacityarising from cargo capacityon passenger flights.

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YOGYAKARTA, 18 Sept—Indonesia’s Education andCulture Minister MuhammadNoeh said on Tuesday thatcultural diplomacy is aneffective way to solve globalproblem.

“By adopting culturediversity approach, notuniformity, it will be easier tosolve misunderstanding thatmay incite conflicts in theworld,” the minister toldculture ministers fromparticipant countries anddelegates attending the fifthAsia- Europe Meeting(ASEM) held here.

The minister said thatthe meeting is the correctforum to discuss ways toaddress that aim. “The forummust be able to establish

convergence amongcivilizations so as to createpeace and order in the world,”he added.

Asian and Europeancountries whose populationaccounts for 60 percent ofthe whole world and home tothe origin of civilization andfaiths, has a great chance topromote cultural diplomacy,the minister said.

He also expected thatthe forum highlighting Asianand European heritage citiescooperation would promoteand establish applicablecooperations that wouldeventually bring prosperityto countries in the regions.

The fifth of biennialASEM culture ministriesmeeting entitled “Managing

Heritage Cities for aSustainable Future” isscheduled to conclude onWednesday.

Some 120 delegates from37 Asian and Europeancountries took part in themeeting.

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end of the year, thegovernment announced onTuesday.

Commerce MinisterCraig Foss said regulationsfor the Madrid Protocolwould be drafted, making itmuch easier for New Zealandbusiness owners to registertheir trade marks in multiplecountries.

“It will give New Zealandentrepreneurs the opportunityto protect their brands in nearlyall of our major export marketswith just one international

trade mark application,” Fosssaid in a statement.

The Intellectual PropertyOffice of New Zealand(IPONZ) had introduced aworld-leading online trademark system this year, whichwould simplify the processfurther, he said.

“As a result, NewZealand will be one of the firstOECD ( Organization forEconomic Co-operation andDevelopment) countries inthe world not to charge a feefor certifying and transmitting

international trade markapplications.”

The regulations wouldassist in meeting obligationsunder two other treaties: theNice Agreement onclassification of goods andservices in trademarkregistration and theSingapore Treaty on theharmonization of trademarkregistration procedures.

They would also alignNew Zealand’s trade markregime with Australia, as partof the government’s SingleEconomic Market program,mandate the use of online trademark filings and introducesmall fee adjustments.

Xinhua

Four people injured in crashes involving 16 cars in Osaka

OSAKA, 18 Sept—Atleast four people were hurt onTuesday morning in severaltraffic accidents involving 16vehicles in the westernJapanese prefecture of Osaka,local press reported. The first

CHINA

SINGAPORE

DISASTER

NEW ZEALAND

accident happened at around6:30 am local time whenpassenger cars, which wouldavoid another vehicle whichwas already stopping due toits single-car crash, collidedinto each other on thesouthbound side of a regionalmotorway in Sakai City of the

prefecture according to thecountry’s public broadcasterNippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK).

The report added thatthe accident further caused achain reaction of more carscolliding into one another onthe same traffic lane.

Xinhua

ACCIDENT

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BUSINESS & ADVERTISEMENT12 Wednesday, 19 September, 2012

Dubai has world’s highest rental, foodprices: study

DUBAI, 18 Sept — Dubai is the most expensive city in the Middle East, while in somecategories the Gulf Arab metropolis is even the world’s costliest place to live, according toa study on the cost of living abroad published on Sunday by Swiss bank UBS.

In relation to rentals, Dubai shares the pole position as a city with the world’s highesthousing prices like New York and Zurich. Average monthly rental prices in the three citiesare up to 100 percent above the global average, UBS said.

The Swiss largest lender added in the study that together with Norway’s Oslo andSwitzerland’s Geneva, Dubai also has the priciest food in the world. A three-course menu ina stylish restaurant in the aforementioned three cities costs around 95 US dollars.

Dubai, officially free of income taxes, became the Middle East’ s most expensive cityalso due to its growing bureaucracy and a number of “hidden taxes.” In the past two years,thousands of once- for-free parking spaces were transformed into paid parking zones. Inaddition, bachelors are not allowed to share apartments in order to reduce rental costs.Transport costs and traffic fines were also massively increased by the government.

Regarding the combined costs of living, Dubai ranks globally the 22nd, according tothe UBS study, while Oslo is the priciest place to live for foreigner.—Xinhua

A citizen poses for a photo next to a sculpture at the 13thChina Changchun International Sculpture Exhibition inChangchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province,on 16 Sept, 2012. Some 400 sculptors from 102 countriesand regions were involved in the event and 45 pieces ofthe 1,560 submissions were selected to show off in the

exhibition on Sunday. —XINHUA

Fiji highlightsimportance of

China toplegislator’s

upcoming visit

SUVA, 18 Sept — TheFijian government here onSunday stressed theimportance of the upcomingvisit by China’s toplegislator Wu Bangguo,saying Wu’s visitsymbolizes the growingrelations between Fiji andChina since diplomaticrelations were forged in1975.

Relations between thetwo countries havesignificantly grownspecially in the last 10 years,which has seen leaders fromboth sides expressingoptimism towardsstrengthening relations,Fiji’s Ministry ofInformation said in a mediarelease.

It is expected that thisvisit by Wu, chairman of theStanding Committee ofChina’s National People’sCongress (NPC), and otherhigh level exchanges willresult in closer cooperationin international and regionalaffairs and provide a platformfor more investment andtrade, said the release. TheFijian government is makingall preparations to host Wuas he visits the country laterthis month, during which Wuwill meet with Fiji’sPresident Ratu EpeliNailatikau and PrimeMinister VoreqeBainimarama, the releasesaid.—Xinhua

Singapore decorates streets with recordnumber of lanterns for Mid-Autumn Festival

SINGAPORE, 18 Sept—Singapore residentsdecorated the streets in itsChinatown and nearbydistricts with as many as16,800 lanterns over theweekend to kick off thecelebrations for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Chinatown, a heritagedistrict, communityorganizations held the officiallight-up and openingceremony on a stage on themain street to kick off themonth-long celebrations, withPresident Tony Tan and theambassadors from severalcountries among the guests.

The president lit up allthe 16,800 lanterns that wereput on threads above the mainstreet and some of the smallerstreets. Lawmaker Lily Neosaid this is a Singapore recordas it is the largest number oflanterns put up at once. TheMid-Autumn Festival, or the

Photo taken on 14 Sept, 2012 shows the China-constructed Nadarivatu Hydroelectric Scheme in

Nadarivatu, Fiji. The China-constructed NadarivatuHydroelectric Scheme was officially commissioned inFiji on Friday. A ceremony was held at the dam sitesurrounding by mountains in Nadarivatu, which was

attended by Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimaramaand high-ranking government officials as well as

Chinese Ambassador to Fiji Huang Yong, together withhundreds of joyful local people and Chinese workers.

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Photo taken on 14 Sept,2012 shows a scene of

sand dunes in BaoTrang, also known as

White Lake, inVietnam’s southern Binh

Thuan Province.Covering an area of

about 70 hectares, BaoTrang is famous for itsnatural fresh water and

sand dunes which attractmany tourists. —XINHUA

FIJI

middle of the eighth month ofthe lunar year, falls on 30 Sept.this year. It is the second mostimportant traditional festivalin Chinese culture. During themonth of celebrations inChinatown between 16September and 14 October,performances will be held onmany of the evenings. “Duringthis one-month festival, wehave this light-up today ...many many activities toinvolve the young childrenand the youths so that theylearn about our own culturalheritage,” Neo said.

Neo said there will bebazaars with hundreds of stallsas well as lantern displays atthe street corners. Some of thelantern were from South Koreaas part of a cultural exchangeprogram. The lanterns will besent to South Korea later fordisplay, too. The Mid-Autumn Festival inChinatown, which has been

celebrated over the past years,is now a major celebrationsthat involves not only theChinese community, but alsothe Malays, Indians andothers. The openingceremony performance onSunday evening gathereddancers and performers fromChina.

A Malay musicianplayed a traditional Chineseinstrument, while an Indianfemale singer and a white mensang the Chinese pop tuneThe Moon Stands for MyLove for You.

Other celebrations havealso started over the weekend.On Saturday evening, theannual Mid-Autumn Festivalby the River returned with alarger scale to the downtownsegment of the SingaporeRiver and the nearbyshopping malls and publicplaces.

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Int’l small business congresskicks off in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, 18 Sept— The International SmallBusiness Congress (ISBC)was opened here on Sundayby South African Minister ofTrade and Industry RobDavies who challengedglobal economies toprioritize the developmentof small enterprises as part ofthe solution to the world’seconomic slowing down.

The four-day congresswas attended by governmentrepresentatives, policymakers, advocates for smallbusinesses, academics andbusiness owners from all overthe world. ISBC was formedin 1974 to provide aninternational forum fordiscussion of public policyand practices to promotesmall businessesdomestically and in a globalcontext.

“Small enterprises do not

only provide economicopportunities for the runnersand operators of those smalland medium enterprises, butalso many of the new jobsthat are created in expandingeconomies come from smallenterprises,” Rob Davies said.

He lauded the ISBC forholding the congress inAfrica, saying they have madethe right choice. “New forcesof dynamism have emergedin the world economy andthe center of gravity is shiftingfrom the North and the Westto the South and the East,” hesaid, adding “the importantgood news is that the Africancontinent is very much partof the dynamic processeswhich are emerging in theworld economy.” Theminister said there is a generalconsensus that Africa is thenext growth frontier afterAsia.—Xinhua

Five killed in Missouri crash of private airplaneKANSAS CITY, (Missouri), 18 Sept — The owner of an insulation company, three of his

children and the owner of an environmental consulting company were killed early onSaturday when a small airplane crashed in a southwestern Missouri field, authorities said.John Lambert, 44, president and owner of Missouri Insulation & Supply Inc, his childrenJoshua Lambert, 10, McKinley Lambert, 15, and Grayson Lambert, 16, all died in the crash,the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

Robin Melton, 46, president and owner of Environmental Works Inc, also was killedin the crash, authorities said. Lambert was piloting the single-engine airplane, which tookoff from a suburban Kansas City airport on Friday night headed southeast to Springfield,Missouri, the highway patrol said. The airplane crashed just north of Willard, Missouri, ina field surrounded by woods, authorities said. Willard is about a dozen miles northwest ofSpringfield, but only a few miles from the Springfield-Branson airport.

Light rain was falling at the time of the crash, but it was not known if weather was a factor,said Bob Larimer, a patrol communications officer. Krista Guy said she was awakened by thesound of the airplane, which crashed about a quarter mile from her home.—Reuters

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Usher, Shakira shake up judgingpanel on “The Voice”

LOS ANGELES, 18 Sept—R&Bstar Usher and Colombian singerShakira will replace ChristinaAguilera and Cee Lo Green for thefourth season next year of NBC’s hitsinging contest “The Voice,” thenetwork said on Monday.

The changes in the celebrityjudge line-up will allow Aguileraand Green to work on new projects.Aguilera is releasing a new album inNovember and going on tour, whileGreen is developing a scriptedcomedy series for NBC based on hislife, NBC entertainment chairmanRobert Greenblatt said in astatement.

Judge-mentors Adam Levine,frontman of pop group Maroon 5,and country singer Blake Sheltonwill stay in place for season four,which starts in the spring of 2013.

Colombian singer Shakiraspeaks at the CEO Summitthat is part of the AmericasSummit in Cartagena on13 April, 2012.—REUTERS“Doing two back-to-back

cycles of this show requires atremendous amount of time, and weare happy to accommodate thecommitments made by Christinaand Cee Lo,” Greenblatt said.

“The participants on our showbenefit from our coaches’ expertiseand their continued success in themusic business allows forsignificant new contributions to thecontestants when they return,” headded. The line-up change for “TheVoice” follows the announcementon Sunday that rapper Nicki Minajand country star Keith Urban willjoin rival Fox TV singing contest“American Idol” when it returns inJanuary 2013. Mariah Carey hasalso signed up for “Idol.”

Usher, best known for his 2004album “Confessions,” is one of the

world’s best-selling artists withglobal sales of 65 million record andseven Grammy awards.

Shakira burst onto theinternational pop scene with her2006 single “Hips Don’t Lie.”

“The Voice” has been a brightspot in struggling NBC’s schedule

since its 2011 debut, and moved toa twice a year cycle this month. Itsthird season opener last weeknotably drew more US viewers thanthe revamped version of Fox’s “TheX Factor,” with Britney Spearsmaking her debut as a judge.

Reuters

“GeneralHospital” starJohn Ingle dies

at 84

LOS ANGELES, 18 Sept— JohnIngle, who played the ruthlesspatriarch Edward Quartermaine fortwo decades on daytime soap opera“General Hospital,” has died at age84.

The actor died on Sunday“surrounded by his family inCalifornia... after a courageousbattle with cancer,” according to astatement by television networkABC. He filmed his last episode of“General Hospital” on 24 August.

“With great sadness, I share thenews of John Ingle’s passing. Welove him and will miss him. Johnwill always be a part of the #GHfamily,” the show’s executiveproducer Frank Valentini tweeted

John Ingle

Rihannaperforms

“Cockiness’’with A$APRocky (L)during the2012 MTV

Video MusicAwards in

Los Angeles,on 6

September,2012.

REUTERS

LONDON, 18 Sept— BarbadianR&B singer Rihanna led thenominations for the MTV EuropeMusic Awards on Monday with six,ahead of country songstress TaylorSwift on five and pop stars JustinBieber and Katy Perry on four each.

The music channel saidRihanna had been shortlisted forbest song (“We Found Love”), bestfemale, best pop, best video (“WeFound Love”), biggest fans and inthe new category, best look.

She is up against Swift in the

Rihanna leads MTV Europe MusicAward nominations

female, pop and look sections, whileSwift was also nominated for bestlive and best world stage act.

Lady Gaga dominated lastyear’s awards held in Belfast, comingaway with four prizes and performing“Marry the Night”. This year she isnominated for three awards — bestlive act, video (Marry the Night) and“biggest” fans.

A host of other acts, includingLana Del Rey, Nicki Minaj, Jay-Zand Kanye West also earned threenominations each.

The awards, many of which arevoted for by MTV fans online, areone of the biggest pop eventsoutside the United States, and,despite being based in Europe, aregenerally dominated by Americanartists.

This year they will be held inFrankfurt’s Festhalle on 11November.

Following are the mainnominations:

BEST SONG: Carly Rae Jepsen/Call Me Maybe; Rihanna feat.Calvin Harris/We Found Love;Gotye/Somebody That I Used ToKnow; Pitbull feat. Chris Brown/International Love; fun. feat. JanelleMonáe/We Are Young

BEST NEW: Rita Ora; fun.; OneDirection; Lana Del Rey; Carly RaeJepsen

BEST FEMALE: Rihanna;Katy Perry; P!nk; Taylor Swift; NickiMinaj

BEST MALE: Justin Bieber;

Kanye West; Flo Rida; Pitbull; Jay-ZBEST POP: Justin Bieber; No

Doubt; Katy Perry; Taylor Swift;Rihanna

BEST LIVE: Taylor Swift; LadyGaga; Jay-Z & Kanye West; GreenDay; Muse

BEST HIP HOP: Jay-Z & KanyeWest; Nas; Rick Ross; Drake; NickiMinaj

BEST ROCK: Linkin Park;Green Day; Muse; The Killers;Coldplay

BEST ELECTRONIC: DavidGuetta; Swedish House Mafia;Avicii; Skrillex; Calvin Harris

BEST ALTERNATIVE: JackWhite; The Black Keys; ArcticMonkeys; Florence + The Machine;Lana Del Rey

BEST VIDEO: M.I.A./BadGirls; Lady Gaga/Marry The Night;Katy Perry/Wide Awake; Rihannafeat. Calvin Harris/We Found Love;PSY/Gangnam Style.

Reuters

Designer Vivienne Westwoodrecycles ideas for latest collectionLONDON, 18 Sept—British

fashion designer VivienneWestwood claims she hopes no onewill buy her latest creations —forthe sake of the planet.

“I’m a fashion designer, I havenot given up my job or anything, soof course I try not to waste, and myway of not wasting is to tryconcentrate on quality not quantity.And you know my message, it isbuy less, choose well, make it last,”Westwood told Reuters.

“I wish they wouldn’t buy thisnew collection,” she added. “Don’tbuy any clothes for ages until youreally have to.”

Her latest offerings mayhowever prove hard to resist forfashion lovers. She describes themas recyclings of really good ideasher brand has had in the past.

Held in the grand setting of theForeign and Commonweath Office,her show featured a medley ofbeautifully tailored dresses, jacketsand skirts with graphic floral prints,candy-cane striped shirts andcropped capri pants.

The result was a mixture ofladylike elegance with a quirkytwist. Sleeveless silk dresses inmustard yellow, midnight blue and

Designer Vivienne Westwood delivers a speech during the launch ofher ‘’Tree Shirt,’’ a T-shirt to raise money for European forests, an

initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme, in Brusselson 11 October, 2011.—REUTERS

cherry red were paired with lace andbroderie anglaise buckled boots.

“The Red Label collection hasalways been madam ... it’s a bit I’mthis woman kind of thing,”Westwood told Reuters.

“I think it’s influenced a bit by,well, I won’t say, you’ll have todecide for yourselves.”

Models sported bold car-toonish make-up, painted over theirred, green and yellow faces, andfifties-inspired hairstyles.

A hot pink one-shoulderedfloor-length gown drew sighs fromthe crowd, as did an off-the-shoulderditsy printed piece.

Printed headscarves andembellished belts tightly cinchingin models’ waists also featured,along with wallpaper-inspiredflorals, glossy silk dresses withsequin detailing and ruching.

The designer herself wore asequinned hat, a white t-shirtemblazoned with her eco-slogan“Climate Revolution” and platformshoes. She painted a moustache andcircle around her eye in black duringthe finale of the show, in whichWestwood and two models held upa Climate Revolution banner.

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on Monday.Ingle was born in Tulsa,

Oklahoma, in 1928, and his familymoved throughout the Midwestbefore settling in California whenIngle was a teenager.

He attended OccidentalCollege in Los Angeles and wenton to teach drama at Beverly HillsHigh School and Hollywood HighSchool for a combined 30 years. Hisstudents included RichardDreyfuss, Barbara Hershey, DavidSchwimmer and Nicolas Cage.

Ingle pursued an acting careerafter retiring from teaching in 1985.In addition to his longstanding roleon “General Hospital”, Ingle’stelevision credits include “Cheers,”“The Drew Carey Show,” “BeverlyHills 90210” and “Dallas.”

Ingle married actress and singerGrace-Lynne Martin in 1954, andthey were married for 57 years untilher death earlier this year fromnatural causes. Together they hadfive daughters and ninegrandchildren.

Reuters

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Ba double earns Newcastle draw at EvertonNewcastleUnited’s

Demba Bacelebrateshis second

goal againstEverton

during theirEnglishPremierLeaguesoccer

match atGoodisonPark in

Liverpool,northern

England, on17 Sept,2012.

REUTERS

LONDON, 18 Sept—Newcastle United strikerDemba Ba struck in the lastminute to salvage a 2-2 drawwith Everton in a pulsatingPremier League match atGoodison Park on Monday.

Everton looked to havesealed all three points whenVictor Anichebe turned neatlyto crack a low shot past TimHoward with two minutes leftbut Ba’s clever finish earned apoint for his team.

Everton dominated thefirst half and led thanks to afine goal by England left backLeighton Baines beforeNewcastle equalised just afterthe interval through halftime

substitute Ba.Everton climbed to

seventh in the standings onseven points from four gameswith Newcastle two pointsback in 11th. “I never set upmy team to get a draw and inthe second half we showedwhat we are all about,”Newcastle manager AlanPardew told Sky Sports.

“I was proud of thesecond half because we wereterrific, but the first half welacked belief and I wasshocked at how we played.

“Fortunately we’ve gotgood players and not manyteams would come back andrespond in the way we did so

all credit to the players forthat. At halftime I put somebelief in the team, sometimesthat’s all you need.”

Everton went ahead inthe 15th minute when Bainescombined brilliantly withSteven Pienaar before drillinga firm left-foot cross shot pastgoalkeeper Steve Harper.

Newcastle manager AlanPardew responded by sendingon Ba and the move paidimmediate dividends whenthe striker ran on to abeautifully weighted passfrom Yohan Cabaye and strucka firm angled left-shoot shotpast Tim Howard.

Pienaar was again thecreative spark as Evertonalmost took the lead again butMarouane Fellaini wasadjudged narrowly offsideafter clipping in the SouthAfrican midfielder’s cleverpass. Everton were also denieda goal after 78 minutes whenAnichebe’s close-rangeheader was tipped on to theunderside of the crossbar byHarper and appeared tobounce down over the linebefore being cleared.

Anichebe thencontrolled Pienaar’s pass andlashed a fierce shot into thecorner of the net before Baprodded Shola Ameobi’schested flick-on past Howardin a dramatic end to the game.

Reuters

Chelsea title thirst remains unquenched:Di Matteo

LONDON, 18 Sept—Chelsea begin their quest tobecome the first team to winback-to-back ChampionsLeague titles on Wednesdaywhen they entertain aJuventus side still gettingused to matchdays withouttheir coach.

The Londoners ended along wait to become kings ofEurope for the first time bybeating Bayern Munich onpenalties on a memorablenight in the German club’sAllianz Arena in May butmanager Roberto Di Matteosaid their thirst for trophiesremained unquenched.

“The owner (RomanAbramovich) has never losthis ambition,” Di Matteo saidahead of the Group E openerat Stamford Bridge. “Healways wants to win with thisclub and continue to drive forexcellence. As long as he is atthe helm his ambition to winwill never diminish.”

Chelsea have made agood start to their domesticseason and are riding high atthe top of the Premier Leaguewith three wins and one drawfrom their opening four games.

However, they havefailed to win their last twomatches, suffering anembarrassing 4-1 defeat byAtletico Madrid in the

European Super Cup inMonaco and being held to a0-0 draw at neighboursQueens Park Rangers in a feistyPremier League encounter onSaturday.

‘Handshake-gate’ tookcentre stage at Loftus Road,with QPR defender AntonFerdinand refusing toacknowledge Chelsea pairJohn Terry and Ashley Colebefore kickoff, but it was alsoapparent that the European

Chelsea’ s soccer players Fernando Torres (L), JuanMata (C) and coach Roberto Di Matteo (R) attend a newsconference at Monaco’s Grimaldi Forum in Monte-Carlo

on 30 August, 2012.—REUTERS

champions were some wayshort of their best.

The performance ofFernando Torres was also acause for concern for Chelseafans as he spent most of thematch arguing with the

officials over perceivedrefereeing injustices.

The Spain striker wasreplaced by Daniel Sturridgewith 10 minutes to go andprompted several raisedeyebrows when he ran straightdown the tunnel.

Di Matteo said heunderstood why Torres wasso disappointed.

“Players are generallynot happy to come off,” saidthe Chelsea manager. “He

showed a bit of frustration butit’s not a problem for us.

“He had a chance to scorein the first half and a half-decent chance in the secondhalf as well. He played his partin the game.”—Reuters

Falcons bring Manning back to earth, beatBroncos

ATLANTA, 18 Sept—After his dream return to theNFL last week, PeytonManning was given a rudeawakening by Atlanta onMonday as the Falconsintercepted the Denverquarterback three times in thefirst quarter on the way to a 27-21 win over the Broncos.

Manning missed lastseason due to neck surgery,leading Indianapolis to cutthe four-times league MVP,but on his debut with theBroncos last week the 36-year-old showed he still had plentyto offer, leading the team to a31-19 win over Pittsburgh.

Against Atlanta,however, Manning struggledto find his receivers andwatched the home defensepick off his passes and race toa 20-0 lead.

“Anytime you come onthe road and throw threeinterceptions in the firstquarter you really put yourteam in a hole,” Manning toldreporters after finishing with241 yards passing and onescore to go with the threecostly turnovers.

“Three bad decisions.

We’ll learn from this and getbetter.”

After the dreadful start,Manning composed himselfand threw a touchdown toDemaryius Thomas justbefore the intermission to cutthe deficit to 20-7 at the half.

Atlanta quarterback MattRyan extended their lead to27-7 with a scoring pass toRoddy White in the thirdquarter before Manning ledtwo drives that were bothcapped by short touchdownruns from Willis McGaheethat pulled Denver (1-1) withinsix. However, the Falconswere able to keep possession

and run out the clock to sealthe win.

Ryan threw onetouchdown pass in each halfand had no interceptions.

“That was a good win forour team,” Ryan said. “We’re2-0, it’s a good start to ourseason but that’s it. There’s along way to go.”

White was Ryan’s leadreceiver, catching eightpasses for 102 yards and ascore. The NFL’sreplacement officials, fillingin for the referees during theirlockout, had a tough gameand seemed to lose control attimes.—Reuters

Denver Broncos tightend Jacob Tamme (84),

is upended by theAtlanta Falcons

cornerback AsanteSamuel in the first halfof their NFL football

game in Atlanta,Georgia on 17

September, 2012.REUTERS

Barcelona’scoach Tito

Vilanova speaksto supporters

during apresentation

ceremony of histeam at Nou

Camp stadium inBarcelona on 20

August, 2012.REUTERS

Vilanova striking new beat atBarcelona

MADRID, 18 Sept— Tito Vilanova is quietly stampinghis authority on the Barcelona team and they head into theirChampions League Group G opener at home to SpartakMoscow on Wednesday with La Liga’s only perfect record.

It was a daunting task to step up from assistant to replacePep Guardiola in the Nou Camp hot seat, taking over from afans’ idol who won a record 14 trophies in his four years incharge. Vilanova, who turned 44 on Monday, did notcommand the instant respect that the former Spaininternational Guardiola had accrued, but he has quicklyshown he is not afraid to plough his own furrow.

At Getafe on Saturday, Vilanova rested World Player ofthe Year Lionel Messi and Brazil international Dani Alves fora fixture Barca have often struggled with, and at a venuewhere champions Real Madrid fell 2-1 last month.

The side were also shorn of Andres Iniesta, Jordi Albaand Alexis Sanchez, and during the Guardiola era oftenstruggled with the so called ‘FIFA virus’ after breaks forinternationals. It had been a year since Messi was last restedfor a league game and after Barca were held 2-2 at RealSociedad, Guardiola never left him out again. Vilanova’sside, however, came through with 4-1 victory at Getafe,displaying the zip and hunger that had at times been missingtowards the end of Guardiola’s reign.—Reuters

Phelps and Felixwin top US

Olympic athleteawards

London 2012 Olympicsgold medallist runner

Allyson Felix

NEW YORK, 18 Sept—Michael Phelps and AllysonFelix were named as the UnitedStates Olympic Committee’s(USOC) best athletes for 2011-12 on Monday for their gold-medal performances at theLondon Olympics.

Phelps won the maleathlete of the year award for thethird time after the swimmercaptured four gold medals inLondon to finish his careerwith an unprecedented tally of18 golds, twice as many as thenext best from any Olympicsport. Felix won the women’saward after scooping winninggold in the 200 metres sprintand the 4x100m and 4x400mrelays on the running track.

Reuters

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GENERAL Wednesday, 19 September, 2012 15

(19-9-12 09:30 am ~20-9-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV(19-9-2012) (Wednesday)

Focus Myanmar TV ProgrammeWeather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 19th September,

2012

* News* Peace Education

Symposium* Better Days for Farmers* News* Taste of Myanmar (Milk

Noddle)* News* Wathan Film Festival

(Nargis SpecialScreening)

* News* The First General

Assembly of MyanmarSeamen’s Federation

* News* Songs for you* Gourmet Experience

with Park Royal LaBrasserie’s Top ChefGary Lim

* News* Myanmar Handicrafted

Instruments made inLeather

* Completion Ceremonyof 1st Intake GroundSchool of GoldenWings@Jenko Flight

* News* Generous Donation in

the Month of Waso* Myanmar Movie

“Regretful Game”

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Venerable

Mingun Sayadaw7:40 am 2. Nice & Sweet Song8:05 am 3. Cultural Dances8:30 am 4. Selected Songs For 19th

Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions (2012)(Modern Song)(Amateur (Second)Division Level) (LevelMen)

4:00 pm 5. Martial Song4:05 pm 6. Dance Of National Races4:20 pm 7. Teleplay (Health)4:30 pm 8. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)- First Year (law)

5:00 pm 9. Songs For Upholding

National Spirit5:10 pm10. Road to 27th “SEA

GAMES” (Pencak silat)5:35 pm11. ASEAN “Programmes”5:45 pm12. Documentary6:35 pm13. Shwe Yin Chone Than6:35 pm14. Programme in honour of

the Harpist Inlay UMyint Maung (Prat-3)

8:00 pm15. News16. 19th Myanmar

Traditional PerformingArts Competition (2012)Interview (Marrionentt)

17. TV Drama Series18. Dramatic Arts

Competition (Narrationof Religious Stories)

Sr. No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 33/91 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

2 Kayah 28/82 19/66 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

3 Kayin 35/95 23/73 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

4 Chin 22/72 17/63 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

5 Upper Sagaing 30/86 24/75 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

6 Lower Sagaing 36/97 26/79 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

7 Taninthayi 31/88 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

8 Bago 33/91 23/73 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

9 Magway 34/93 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

10 Mandalay 32/90 24/75 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

11 Mon 32/91 25/77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

12 Yangon 33/91 22/73 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

13 Rakhine 33/91 22/72 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

14 Southern Shan 28/82 17/63 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

15 Northern Shan 32/90 20/66 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

16 Eastern Shan 33/91 20/68 Scattered rain or thundershowers (100%)

17 Ayeyawady 34/93 25//77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (100%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 35/95 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 35/91 23/73 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 32/90 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershowers (100%)

Summary of

observations at

09:30 hr MST on

today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Shan and Kayah States, rain of thundershowers have been isolated in Lower Sagaing, Magway and Yangon Regions and Mon State, Scattered in Mandalay Region, Chin and Rakhine and Kayin States, fairly widespread in Upper Sagaing, Bago and Ayeyawady Regions, Kachine State and widespread in the remaining Regions and States. The noteworthy amount of rainfall recorded were Coco Island(1.90) inches, Ngathaichaung (1.57) inches, Hkamti (1.02) inches, Sagaing (0.98) inch and Homalin (0.94) inch.

Bay Inference Monsoon is moderate in the Andaman Sea and South Bay and weak elsewhere in the Sea and

Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Seas will be moderate in Myanmar water. Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Increase of thundery activity in the Northern Myanmar areas.

BUENOS AIRES, 18 Sept—Artin Elmayan is hard to keeppace with as he heads for thelocker rooms at River Plate.

“I’ve got to get myrackets,” he says under theshadow of the Monumental,the giant stadium which ishome to one of the world’sgreat soccer clubs wheremembers enjoy a variety ofsports.

A r m e n i a n - b o r nElmayan’s choice is tennis, asport he took up at the age of39. Now, aged 95, he is theworld’s oldest-ranked player.

The InternationalTennis Federation (ITF)ranks Elmayan 26th amongmen over 85, a list headed byItalian Angelo Sala who willbe 86 in December.

There are only 39 men inthe ITF’s over-85 ranking,three of them Argentines, andElmayan is the only one bornbefore 1920.

The next oldest are

Elmayan still going strong atage 95

Artin Elmayan practises with a tennis ball in BuenosAires 13 September, 2012. Elmayan, who emigrated toArgentina from Europe when it was on the verge of war

in 1938 at the age of 21, said he took up tennis as ahobby and has never looked back. Now, aged 95, he isthe world’s oldest-ranked player. Picture taken on 13

September.—REUTERS

Eugeniusz Czerepaniak ofPoland who is 91 and rankedone place above Elmayan, and90-year-old Australian NevilleHalligan, the number eight.

Elmayan does notcompete internationally so heis likely to meet only fellow-Argentines Guillermo Garciaor Jose Otero, both in their80s, in competitions.

“Eighty-five plus,because there isn’t anyonewho’s 90, much less 95. So Ihave to play against 85-year-olds,” Elmayan told Reutersin an interview.

“I do all right, sometimesI take second place. Last yearI won second place twice. Itdepends on the state of myopponent, and my own. Thereare no enigmas here,” he saidafter a 20-minute knockup withone of the club’s coaches.

The sprightly Elmayanenjoys a routine that keepshim slim and happy, travellingby train into the capital to

River Plate from the suburbsthree times a week.

“If my body and feetallow it, I’m not going to sitstill. As far as stretching, Itake the train and walk fromthe station to here. When Iget here I’ve already loosenedup,” he said.

Elmayan said that if hehad to play three sets, he was

able to cope and recalledhaving recently played andlost against Garcia, sevenyears younger than him, andthen suggesting they go for arun.

“Are you crazy, now youwant to run?” Elmayan,laughing, recalled Garcia assaying.

Reuters

Sydney stick with skipper despite Del Piero arrival

SYDNEY, 18 Sept— Italygreat Alessandro Del Pierowill not captain Sydney FCthis season but will beexpected to play a leadershiprole within the A-League club,manager Ian Crook said onTuesday.

The former Juventus

skipper, welcomed with chantsof “c’e solo un capitano” or“there’s only one captain” atSydney airport at the weekend,took to a sun-bathed SydneyFootball Stadium on Tuesdayfor his first training session.

“It was supposed to be ashort and sharp one but

everybody is trying to impress,I suppose,” Englishman Crooktold reporters at pitchside.

“He’s obviously gotsome great touches. He’s stillstruggling a bit with the jet lagbut in a week to 10 days, he’llbe over that.

“He’s a fantastic fellow.Today, he wasn’t going to doa lot but, as you saw, he stayedto the end of the session.”

The 37-year-old Del Pierohas signed a two-year contractworth A$4 million after beingreleased at the end of his 19thseason with Juventus and isexpected to transform thefortunes of the sport in

Australia.Crook said World Cup

winner Del Piero would beexpected to share theknowledge born of playing atthe top level of football fornearly two decades but thatmidfielder Terry McFlynnwould retain the captaincy.

“The captaincy will staythe same, he’ll come into ourleadership group ... butcertainly things won’t changewith the actual armband,” hesaid.

“We’ll sit down with himtomorrow and explain how wecan work with him, as one ofthe squad.—Reuters

Former Juventussoccer player

Alessandro Del Piero(L) of Italy participates

in his first trainingsession with new clubSydney FC at Sydney

Football StadiumSeptember 18, 2012.

REUTERS

Hamilton holds the key to theF1 carousel

LONDON, 18 Sept—Formula One heads for thebright lights of Singaporethis weekend with the rumourmill sparking as it spins butthe driver merry-go-roundseemingly stalled until LewisHamilton makes his mind upabout his future.

McLaren’s 2008 worldchampion is not alone inholding a key to the carouselbut, out of contract at theend of the season, he standsout as a driver with controlover his destiny and a manwhose talents are bothsought and fought over.

If he decides to leave‘home’ and move toMercedes, the 27-year-oldBriton will trigger a chainreaction around the paddockthat looks sure to coincidewith Michael Schumacher’ssecond retirement.

McLaren Formula One driverLewis Hamilton of Britainreacts as he celebrates on thepodium after winning theItalian F1 Grand Prix at theMonza circuit September 9,2012.—REUTERS

What happens at Ferrari,the other big Formula Oneconundrum of the moment,will be a decision taken bythe Italian team rather thanBrazilian Felipe Massa - whowants to stay alongsidechampionship leaderFernando Alonso but risksbeing ushered to the door.

Yet Ferrari may alsohave to wait for Hamilton,with potential alternatives toMassa maybe wonderingwhether a McLaren drivemight be a better option thanbeing Alonso’s number two.

Hamilton told reportersat the weekend that he wasfocusing solely on winning asecond title with McLarenand would not be distractedby the contract speculationand ‘rubbish’ swirlingaround him.

Reuters

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NAY PYI TAW, 18 Sept—Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham and wife Daw Nan Shwe Hmon, accompanied by theShan State chief minister, deputy ministers and departmentalheads, visited Dhammodaya Monastery in Kengtungyesterday morning.

The Vice-President and wife offered flowers, fruit andlights to ancient Buddha Image at the monastery.

They received the Five Precepts from abbot of themonastery Agga Maha Pandita Agga Maha SaddhammaJotikadhaja Bhaddanta Arjeya.

The Vice-President and wife then donated offertories tothe abbot.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and wife Daw NanShwe Hmon donated K 10 million to the monastery and theShan State chief minister, K 5 million.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and party thenproceeded to Kyainggphaung monastery in Kyainggphaungvillage of Kengtung and met flood victims in KengtungTownship.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham said in meeting withflood victims that he was there to help flood victims re-cultivate farmlands inundated by previous month’s heavyrains.

He said Ayeyawady, Bago and Yangon Regions andKengtung experienced flood and damages. Unruly disposalof waste blocked creeks and drains.

Although the natural disaster could not be stopped,preventive measures could reduce damages. The people shoulddiscard the waste systematically and the respective developmentaffairs committees should organize the people to do so. Theparticipation of the people is needed to prevent floods.

He called for presentation of social needs in educationand health sectors. Letters to Nay Pyi Taw will be answered,he said.

Deputy Minister U Phone Swe, on behalf of the Vice-President, presented K 5 million assistance for 125 acres of

Participation of the people needed for flood prevention

farmlands through a farmer.The Shan State chief minister presented K 970,000 and

K 1,570,000 assistances for damaged monsoon paddyplantations and houses.

Deputy Minister U Phone Swe presented K 1,425,200assistance for destroyed crops and houses.

State Minister for Security and Border Affairs Col AungThu presented K 500,000 assistance for destroyed cropsdonated by Muse Merchants Association and Deputy MinisterBrig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint, K 5 million assistance for floodvictims.

Wellwishers donated K 3,447,000 to flood victims.

Pepsi Distribution Director U Tun Yin of Diamond StateCompany donated US$ 2000 to flood victims.

The Vice-President and party cordially greeted floodvictims.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and party then visitedKengtung Unviersity where they met Rector in-charge DrMary Thein and faculty members.

The in-charge rector reported the Vice-President on theuniversity.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham said in his speech thatthere are basic education and higher education in

(See page 8)

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham cordially greets faculty members from Kengtung University.—MNA

Myanmar is set to benefit once again from a special, advantageous tradearrangement with the EU following recognition by the international communityof the country’s recent efforts to improve the political, social and labourenvironments there. Today the European Commission has adopted a proposal tobring the country back under the so-called ‘Everything But Arms’ preferentialtrade regime which would grant duty-free access and quota-free access to theEuropean market for all products except for arms and ammunitions.

According to EU’s ‘Generalised System of Preferences, Myanmar’s productswould be provided tariff preference on the EU market.

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said: “Since Myanmar started to openup earlier this year I saw the need to underpin such deep and important changes withreal economic support once key improvements for the workforce had been met.Trade is fundamental to supporting political stability and the EU’s trade preferencesmean we will give this reform-minded country priority access to the world’s largestmarket.

Unprecedented developments of Myanmar now mean the time isright to open new chapter

European Commission proposal would grant Myanmar duty-freeaccess and quota-free access to European market for all products

The EU believes the unprecedented developments now mean the time is right forEurope to open a new chapter in Myanmar.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded that significant progresshad been achieved by Myanmar. On this basis, EU law foresees that preferencesshould be reinstated.

Hence the proposal will be submitted simultaneously to the Council and theEuropean Parliament (EP) for agreement. The Commission hopes that a positivedecision can be taken as quickly as possible.

Myanmar exports to the EU totalled euro 169 million in 2011—this isapproximately 3% of the country’s total exports to the world, and 0.01% ofthe EU’s total imports. These limited exports to the EU are concentratedon clothing.

The current GSP scheme will expire on 31 December 2013. The new GSPpreferences are due to enter into force on 1 January 2014, and provide additionalexport opportunities to those most in need, amongst which LDCs feature.

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