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Volume XXI, Number 33 10th Waxing of Kason 1375 ME Sunday, 19 May, 2013

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President U Thein Sein leaves for USNayPyiTaw, 18 MayPresident U Thein Sein ofthe Republic of the Union

of Myanmar left here for the

United States of America by

air at 11.45 pm yesterday to

pay a working visit to the US.

T h e M y a n m a r

delegation led by President

U Thein Sein was seen off

at the Yangon International

Airport by Union Minister

for Transport U Nyan Tun

Aung, Yangon Region Chief

Minister U Myint Swe,

Region ministers, Charge

d Affaires ai Ms Virgina E.Murray from US Embassy in

Myanmar and ofcials.

The delegation members

Union Ministers Lt-Gen Ko

Ko, Lt-Gen Wai Lwin, U

Wunna Maung Lwin, U Soe

Thane and U Than Htay,

Deputy Ministers U Thant

Kyaw, U Ye Htut, Dr Pwint

Hsan, Dr Myo Myint and Dr

Daw Thein Thein Htay and

ofcials accompanied the

President.

MNA

Muse is a border townwhich is on the track to

rapid development. Being

a border town between

Myanmar and China, its

border trade camp is being

kept open, facilitating ow

of commodities from the

two countries via Muse.

Moreover, the town is

situated on Mandalay-

Lashio-Muse road which

is also known as ASEAN

Highway-14.

As a road section of

Asia Highway No (14),

the 453 km long ASEANHighway-14 links with

not only neighbouring

countries but also other

Asian countries.

Mandalay-Lashio-Muse road: A trade route for Thai,

Myanmar, China, IndiaASEAN Highway-14

linking Muse on Myanmar-

C h i n a b o r d e r w i t h

Mandalay includes five

road sections124 km

long Muse-Hsenwi road

section, 52 km long Hsenwi-

Lashio road section, 104

km long Lashio-Kyaukme

road section, 106 km long

Kyaukme-PyinOoLwin and

67 km long PyinOoLwin-

Mandalay road section. So

far construction of these

road sections by national

race companies under BOT

system has been completed.Now, hundreds of

vehicles are running on

all road sections, thereby

co n t r i b u t in g t o ward s

smooth and speedy ow ofcommodities and travelling

of passengers from one place

to another and better socio-

economic status of local

people in the regions along

all road sections.

As Mandalay-Lashio-

Mu se ro ad (ASEAN

Highway-14) is also linked

with ASEAN Highway-1

which is 1665 km long from

Myawady on Myanmar-

Thai border and Tamu on

Myanmar-India border, it is

a trade route for Myanmar

to connect Thailand, Indiaand China for ensuring

development.

Myanma Alinn: 14-5-13

Trs: YM

Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe

Photo:Kyaw Thu Win

Photo shows a part of ASEAN Highway-14 (AH-14) near PyinOoLwin Township.

President U Thein Sein of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar being seen off by ofcials at Yangon

International Airport before departure for United States of America.mna

Vice-President Dr

Sai Mauk Kham

leaves for Thailand

After tough week,

Obama tries to

change the subject

to jobs

Ferguson praises

amazing

Beckhams

longevity

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Toyota opens auto

repair workshop

in Yangon

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Nay Pyi Taw , 18

MayDeputy Minister

for Construction U Soe

Tint on 16 May inspected

progress in implementation

of Waibagi Myothit Single

Housing Const ruct ion

Project in North Okkalapa

Township and Low-cost

Implementation of housingprojects inspected

Housing Const ruct ion

Project in Shwepaukkan

Myothit.

The deputy minister

stressed to build the housing

meeting set standards and

conduct soil test for the

projects.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw , 18

MayThe most amazing

Mawlamyine exhibition

& car show organized by

Creation Strength Co Ltd

kicked off at State Hall in

Mawlamyine on 16 May.

Mo n S t a t e Ch ie f

Minister U Ohn Myint

formally opened the car

show. Taxi. AA Probox,

Taxi. AA Succeed, Taxi.

Mawlamyine car showAA Nissan, AD Van, Taxi.

A Nissan Wingroad 1500

CC automobiles are on sale

at the show. In addition,

Korea-made motor bikes,

concrete brick makers,

electronics, cosmetics, and

tness equipment are also

being sold.

The exhibition will be

held up to 20 May.

MNA

Chauk

41C

NyaungU

40C

Signifcant daytemperatures

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Accident

Photo shows a domino-effect car crash involving four vehicles one

passenger bus of No (182) Parami bus line and three saloons near Bo

Min Yaung trafc light on Theinbyu road in Yangon at about 3.30 pm on 17

May. Kyemon

Tragic death of drowned two-year-old in

Thongwa TownshipThongwa, 18 May A

two-year-old child was found

dead on the edge of a lake in

front of a house in Awbar

Nyunt village on 7 May. He

is believed to have drowned

after falling into the lake

which is 300 feet in length

and 1.5 feet in depth.

As police were informed

of the drowning death by

the village administrator,

they rushed there and made

necessary investigation. They

found Maung Min Hein Ko, 2,

dead with no external injuries.

According to witnesses, he is

assumed to have drowned in

the lake while playing alone

as his parents stuck in house

repair work. The dead body of

the child was sent to Thongwa

hospital where investigating

is ongoing whether or not

there is foul play in his death.

Parents are to be alert to

the possibility of danger while

the drains in front of their

houses are flled with water

in monsoon and they must

place a close watch on their

very young children.

Kyemon

Six hurt in mechanical failurerelated road accident

Speedster crashes into concrete

blocks

Maubin , 18 May

All passengers on board

were fortunate to escape

unhurt in a crash between

a 20-wheeled truck and

an express bus. The crash

occurred at a place between

mile post No (40/4) and

(40/5) on Yangon-Pathein

motorway near Thaungdan

village in Nyaungdon

Township of Maubin

District in Ayeyawady

Region at about 12 noon on

13 May.

The 20-wheeled truck,

Nissan, driven by Nay Zar

Hlaing, 21, of Hlinethaya

Township swerved into the

wrong path and crashed

into the front part of the

Yangon-Pathein passenger

bus driving on the opposite

lane as the driver lost control

while the truck put its rear

part out of joint.

The crash left two bus

conductors Myint Zaw

Oo, 38, and Zeyar, 25

wounded and caused partly

damage to the front part

of the express bus. The

driver and three others

on board the truck were

Yangon, 18 May Asaloon crashed into concrete

blocks laid on Thudhamma

road in the middle near 5th

street bust-stop in North

Okkalapa Township, here,

at about 10 pm on 16 May.

The vehicle driven by

U Kyaw Thurein, 45, from

south to north skidded out ofcontrol and hit the concrete

blocks, turning his car on

the damaged blocks to the

opposition direction. The

crash caused damage to the

vehicle and fve concrete

blocks.

Kyemon

also injured in the crash .

Chaunggyi police station is

investigation into the road

accident. Kyemon

Counterfeit bills found at bank

in InseinYangon, 18 May

Insein Township Police saidthey had received a report

about counterfeit notes at

Myawady Bank (Insein

Branch) on Lanthit street

in Nanthagon ward of the

township on 14 May.

According to Bank

Manager Daw May Myo

Zaw, they found 34 5000-

kyat notes among other

notes from a customer at

about 12.30 pm on 14 May.

The customer was identifed

as U Saw Kyaw Kyaw,

43, owner of Saw Trading

Timber Company at No

(296/E) Kone Myint Tha

street in east Ywama wardof Insein Township, who

deposited it together with

K 140 million into his

account at the bank. U Khin

Aung (casher) and Daw Su

Su Thein (cash in-charge)

discovered the counterfeit

notes. Police confscated the

fake notes and informed CID

of the seizure of fake money.

It is learnt that numbers

and letters of the seized

counterfeit notes are similar

to 5000-kyat bills seized by

Hmawby police station.

Kyemon

Smuggled cattle seized in

Kawa Township

Lightning kills two head of

cattle in Yamethin TownshipYaMeThin, 18 May

Two head of cattle had

got caught in a lightning

strike and were killed while

grazing in a feld near Byeekatvillage, one mile south-east of

Yamethin, at about 2 pm on

11 May.

The two cows were

pronounced dead on the spot

after they were struck by

lightning. Moreover, nearby

four herders collapsed

unconscious as they gotfrightened when they saw

the deaths of two cows by

lightning.

Kyemon

Car plunges into trench on

expressway

Yangon, 18 May A

vehicle, Toyota Wave, came

off the road and plunged

into the roadside trenchon Nay Pyi Taw-Yangon

expressway. The driver was

fortunate to escape with

minor injuries to his arms.

Riders hurt in head-on collision

between two motorbikesThaYeT, 18 May A

head-on collision between

the two motorbikes occurred

on Mindon street in Thayat

Township of Magway

Region on 15 May, leaving

riders on the motorbikes

wounded.

A motorbike driven by

Myint Tun Naing, 37, of

south Minde ward in Thayat

together with Pyae Phyo

The vehicle driven

from Yangon to Nay Pyi

Taw plunged into the trench

while stopping with ascreech of the brakes at mile

post No (165). The accident

caused damage to front part

of the car.Kyemon

Kawa , 18 May

According to a tip-off that

there was a cattle smugglingnear Aung Meiktha village

in Kawa Township of Bago

Region, police members of

Kadat Sein police station

together with witnesses

rushed there to conduct

a check. They seizedownerless there head of

cattle at Lachanthaung near

the village at about 4 pm on

14 May. Kyemon

Maung, 16, collided head-on

with a motorbike driven by

Win Naing, 40, of Zeedaw

village in Thayet Township

at Hsinbyutaung junction on

Thayet-Mindon motorway at

about 8 pm on that day.

Three riders on the two

motorbikes suffered cuts and

bruises in the collision. Thayat

police station is investigating

into the crash. Kyemon

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US President Barack Obama answers a question in therain during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime

Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White HouseRose Garden in Washington, on 16 May, 2013.

ReuteRs

After tough week, Obama tries to change

the subject to jobs

Washington, 18 May

President Barack Obama onFriday will seek to turn thespotlight from controver-sies threatening to swamphis agenda to the economyby announcing he will cutin half the time it takes toget federal approval forlarge job-creating projects.

Obama travels to Bal-timore, where he is due tosay that he has signed apresidential memorandumstreamlining the review and

permitting of federal infra-

structure projects.In making the an-

nouncement while posingin front of heavy dredg-ing equipment at EllicottDredges, Obama will havea chance to remind the pub-lic that he wants to spend$50 billion on repairing thenations aging roads, bridg-es and ports.

Even as Obama insistshe wants to cut red tape, thevisit may draw attention to

a pipeline project that hasstalled in a protracted fed-eral approval process since2008 the Keystone XLcrude oil pipeline from theCanadian oil sands.

The pipeline has beenchampioned by Republi-cans, who blame Obama forthe delay, and pilloried byenvironmental groups whoargue Obamas credibilityon his vow to address cli-mate change hinges on re-jecting the project.

Peter Bowe, the presi-dent of Ellicott Dredgestestied on Thursday at a

House of Representativessmall business committeehearing about how the de-lay has hurt his company,which provides equipment

and labor in the oil sands.For us, its all about

jobs, Bowe said, urgingspeedy approval of thepipeline, which Obamadelayed last year, sayingit needed further review.The State Department iscontinuing to study theproject, and the adminis-tration is unlikely to makea decision until late thisyear or even early 2014.

Reuters

Japan likely to miss most of July TPP

trade talksKuala lumpur, 18

MayJapan is likely tomiss most of the next roundof Trans-Pacic Partner-ship free trade negotia-tions in July as it is beingarranged to start before thecountry becomes the 12thmember of the talks, a sen-ior Malaysian governmentofcial said on Friday.

The 18th round is set tobe held on 15 to 24 July inKuala Lumpur, while Japanwaits for the United Statesto complete its 90-day no-tice to Congress around 24July to ofcially admit it as

a new member of multilat-eral talks for creating one ofthe largest free trade zonesin the world.

While Tokyo has asked

the existing 11 TPP mem-bers to extend the roundof talks, the latest schedulerevealed indicates it will beable to attend only a fewdays at the most.

The Malaysian ofcial

said the members could stilldecide to extend the periodof the meeting for two orthree days, but they cannotpostpone the entire meetingat a time when they are aim-ing to reach a basic agree-

ment in October. Separate-ly, Malaysias InternationalTrade and Industry Minis-ter Mustapa Mohamed toldreporters that any changeto the schedule has to beagreed on by other TPPmembers.

The feedback I gotwas there is no consensusyet on this request by Ja-pan, Mustapa said. Topnegotiators of the countriescould hold talks on whetherto allow for the extensionof the next round later Fri-day at the earliest as theyhave gathered for their 17thround of talks in the Peru-vian capital Lima.

In Tokyo, Japans eco-nomic revitalization min-ister Akira Amari told re-

porters the July meeting isnot formally decided yet,and indicated he hopes theupcoming round will beextended. Saying membersof the TPP negotiationshave promised Japan theywill make utmost effortsto realize meaningful par-ticipation of Japan at themeeting, Amari said hehopes the efforts will bearfruit and allow Japan to joinsubstantive discussions.

As Japan is unable toattend the ongoing Limaround of talks either, itis gathering informationthere to prepare for the nextround of talks in hopes tosecure national interest inkey elds such as agricul-ture, automobiles and in-surance.

Cabinet members in-volved in TPP issues agreedat their meeting on Fridayto appoint negotiators forall 21 elds on the table

next month and manageinformation obtained fromother countries to preventleaks.

Japanese Prime Min-ister Shinzo Abe formallyannounced the countrysintent to join the TPP talks

in mid-March and the exist-ing 11 TPP members havegiven the green light forJapan to join on 20 April.The United States notiedCongress of its intent tostart TPP talks with Japanfour days later. TPP mem-bers are Australia, Brunei,Canada, Chile, Malaysia,Mexico, New Zealand,Peru, Singapore, the UnitedStates, Vietnam and Japan.

Kyodo News

Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Andrey Avetisyanspeaks during an interview in Kabul on 16 Feb, 2012.

ReuteRs

Fearing Afghan instability, Russia mulls border troopsKabul, 18 May

Russia, predicting insta-bility once NATO-ledtroops withdraw from Af-ghanistan by the end ofnext year, is consideringdeploying border guardson the Tajik-Afghan bor-der, Moscows envoy toKabul told Reuters in aninterview. Moscow, stillsore from its disastrous,decade-long war in Af-ghanistan in the 1980s, isincreasingly concerned bywhat it describes as thecombined threat of narcot-ics and terrorism reaching

Russia through former So-viet Central Asian coun-tries.

We prefer to tacklethis problem on the Af-ghan border to stop thesethreats, Andrey Avetisyan

said late on Thursday in the

Russian Embassy in Kabul.Its sprawling grounds

host a Soviet-built teal Vol-ga car recovered in Afghan-istan by embassy staff anda memorial to the 15,000Soviet lives lost in the waragainst mujahideen ght-ers.

We used to have aserious presence on theAfghan-Tajik border and,at that time, the situationthere was much better, so itwould be in the interest ofboth Russia and Tajikistanand even Afghanistan if

Russia is present there, hesaid. Avetisyan said such apresence would involveRussian border troops, butdeclined to give a number.

Russian border guardsused to patrol the Tajik

frontier with Afghanistanbut left in 2005, ending aSoviet-era legacy and hand-ing all power over to localauthorities. Ex-Soviet Uz-bekistan and Turkmenistanalso border Afghanistan to

its north.Avetisyan said any

agreement on border troopdeployment would ofcourse have to be agreedupon with Tajikistan.

Reuters

Colombias President Juan Manuel Santos speaksduring the inauguration of the 26th International Book

Fair in Bogota on 17 April, 2013.

ReuteRs

Colombias Santos hints

he will run for re-electionin 2014

bogota, 18 MayColombian President JuanManuel Santos hinted onFriday that he would seekre-election next year toensure continuity of hispolicies, though he did notexplicitly announce hiscandidacy.

Santos told report-ers that he would make aformal announcement bythe November deadline. Iwant clearly and rmly to

see that the governmentspolicies continue after 7Aug, 2014, said Santos,referring to the date a new

administration would takeofce.

I want the peace pol-icy re-elected, I want thehousing policy re-elected,those that have reducedpoverty re-elected.

Santos also announcedthat Housing Minister Ger-man Vargas Lleras, wholed a programme to give100,000 free homes to thepoor, has resigned fromthe Cabinet and will runa foundation that helpedSantos win the 2010 presi-dential election.

Reuters

Pro-Assad hackers attack Financial Timeslondon, 18 May

The website and Twitterfeed of British newspaperthe Financial Times werehacked on Friday, appar-ently by the Syrian Elec-tronic Army, a group ofonline activists who say

they support Syrian Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad. Thegroup posted links on thenewspapers Twitter feedto a YouTube video, up-

loaded on Wednesday,which purports to showmembers of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front Syr-ian rebel group executingblindfolded and kneelingmembers of the Syrianarmy.

The video could notbe independently veried.

Hacking attacks on veri-ed Twitter accounts of

media organizations have

triggered urgent calls forthe micro-blogging websiteto increase account secu-rity, particularly for newsoutlets. Various FT blogsand social media accountshave been compromised byhackers and we are work-

ing to resolve the issueas quickly as possible, astatement from the FT pressofce said.

The paper is owned by

Pearson Plc Twitter wasnot immediately availablefor comment.

Stories on the FTswebsite had their headlinesreplaced by Hacked BySyrian Electronic Armyand messages on its Twitter

feed read: Do you want toknow the reality of the Syr-ian Rebels?, followed bya link to the video.

Reuters


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Science & Technology


People walk past furniture made of recycled wood at

the 2013 creativity fair in Taiyuan University ofTechnology in Taiyuan, capital of north Chinas

Shanxi Province, on 17 May, 2013.Xinhua

Vaslui, (Romania), 18MayValentin Boanta, sit-ting in his jail cell, proudlyexplains the device he hasinvented which, he says,could make the worlds

ATMs impregnable evento tech-savvy criminals likehimself. Boanta, 33, is sixmonths into a ve-year sen-tence for supplying gadgetsan organized crime gangused to conceal ATM skim-mers, which can copy datafrom an unsuspecting ATMusers card so a clone canbe created. He said he hadstarted to make the devicesfor the sheer excitement ofit and denies ever planningto use them himself, sayinghe only sold them to others.

Boanta says his arrest

in 2009 and trial broughtcontrition, as he realizedthe impact of his actionsand felt an urge to makeamends. It also brought theformer industrial designstudent a ash of technical

Penitent Romanian hacker aims to protect

worlds ATMs

Valentin Boanta works

in a craftsmen section

of the Vaslui

penitentiary, 340 km

(211 miles) northeast of

Bucharest on 15 May,

2013.ReuteRs

inspiration. When I gotcaught I became happy.This liberation opened theway to working for thegood side, Boanta said.Crime was like a drug for

me. After I was caught, Iwas happy I escaped fromthis adrenaline addiction,he said. So that the otherpart, in which I started todevelop security solutions,started to emerge. It wasduring his trial that he gotdown to work.

The stage for Boantasproduct pitch these days isthe book-lined cell in thenortheastern Romaniantown of Vaslui he shareswith ve pickpockets and

burglars. All ATMs haveageing designs so they are

prone to vulnerability, theyare a very weak side of thebanking industry, he said.Every ATM can be pen-etrated through a skimmingcrime. My security solu-tion, SRS, makes an ATM

unbreachable.Boanta sayshis Secure Revolving Sys-tem-SRS can be installedin any ATM.

It allows the bank cardto be inserted longer siderst and then rotates it to

prevent skimmers beingable to lock on to the mag-

netic data strip. The systemreturns the card to its userwith a reverse rotation.Outwardly it is a trapezoi-dal metallic box around 6inches long with the cardslot in the middle. The

SRS, funded and developedby a technology rm near

Bucharest called MB Tel-ecom, is patented and wonan award this year at the

International Exhibition ofInventions in Geneva. Theinventor and company arenot yet saying how much itwill cost, but insist it will beavailable soon.

Reuters

Beijing, 18 May Sev-en oceanauts with Chinasmanned submersible Jiao-long, which proved capableof diving 7,000-m-plus deep,have each been given the

title of Manned Submers-ible Hero. The honour, be-stowed by the CommunistParty of China (CPC) Cen-tral Committee and the StateCouncil, was announced onFriday at an award ceremonyjointly held by the State Oce-anic Administration and theMinistry of Human Resourc-es and Social Security.

Jiaolong completeda dive of 7,062 metres inthe Pacic Oceans Mari-ana Trench during its trialoperation in June 2012,enabling China to conduct

deep-sea scientic researchand resource exploration in99.8 percent of the worldsoceans. The crew behind

Oceanauts honoured as

heroesJiaolongs record divewere honoured as a HeroicGroup.

Prior to the ceremony,President Xi Jinping metwith representatives of the

honoured units and indi-viduals, expressing con-gratulations and greetingsto all science and techno-logy workers as well asofcials who helped make

the achievement possible.Meanwhile, Xi called forunity and hardwork to pushforward the countrys oceancause toward making newbreakthroughs. Also at theceremony, the administra-tion and the ministry gavethe Advanced Group titleto 22 units behind the re-search and development of

the project, with 19 peopleeach honored as an Ad-vanced Individual.

Xinhua

VancouVer, 18 MayRising global temperaturesare driving sh species to-wards cooler, deeper waters,making warm-water spe-cies increasingly dominantin global sheries catches,

a new Canadian study hasfound.

The study, conductedby researchers from the Uni-versity of British Columbiaand published inNature thisweek, is the rst of its kindto show that ocean warming

has had a global impact onthe composition of speciescaught by shermen over the

past four decades. Previousstudies indicated that some

Climate change alters global fshinglandscape

species are shifting locationin response to temperatureincreases, with sh gradually

moving away from the equa-tor into cooler waters.

However, the newstudy showed that speciesfrom warmer waters havealso been replacing thosetraditionally caught in manysheries worldwide at least

since 1970, according to theresearchers. One way formarine animals to respond toocean warming is by moving

to cooler regions, said thestudy s lead author WilliamCheung. As a result, placeslike New England on thenortheast coast of the US saw

new species typically foundin warmer waters, closer tothe tropics.

These shifts could haveseveral negative effects, in-cluding a large reduction incatch in the tropics, wherewater temperatures couldexceed the preferences ofmany tropical species, theresearchers said.

Additional impactscould include decreases inprots and jobs, conictsover new sheries that

emerge because of distribu-tion shifts, and food secu-rity concerns, particularly indeveloping countries, theysaid.Xinhua

DirecTV

interested in

buying video

website Hulunew York, 18 May

The largest US satellitevideo provider, DirecTV, is

one of the companies consid-ering a bid for online videowebsite Hulu, according to asource familiar with the situ-ation. The person acknowl-edged that other parties wereinvolved, adding that Di-recTV was one of manysuitors. Media reports havepreviously identied TimeWarner Cable Inc as anothercompany weighing a poten-tial stake in the company.

Representatives of DirecTV and Time Warner Ca-ble declined to comment onFriday. Reuters reported inApril that former News Corp

president Peter Chernin hadbid around $500 million forHulu, the service he helpedcreate in 2007. Reuters alsoreported that Guggenheimhad been hired to adviseHulu and was also contem-plating a bid.

DirecTV had circledHulu once before, whenthe video company put it-self on the block in 2011.Other suitors at the time in-cluded Google Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Dish NetworkCorp. Talks collapsed overthe price of that deal.Huluhas more than 3 millionsubscribers paying $7.99 amonth for its premium ser-vice, and generated revenueof around $700 million lastyear.Reuters

Han Bing adjusts his handmade 3D printer in TianjinMunicipality, north China, on 16 May, 2013. Based

on the method released on the internet, the 41-year-old by himself made this machine eventually, which

costing some 2,000 RMB yuan (325 US dollars)

and spending four months. At present, Hans 3Dprinter could only make simple items designed on thecomputer, like teapots and whistles. And he hopes his

creation could function more powerfully bycontinuous improvement.Xinhua

Foxconn says needs more time to further

cut workers overtimeTaipei, 18 MayFox-

conn Technology Groupsaid on Friday it needs moretime to reduce overtimeat its China factories afterlabour monitors appointed

by top client Apple Inc saidcutting workers hours bya 1 July target would be achallenge.

Apple last year com-missioned the Fair LabourAssociation (FLA) to inves-tigate working conditions atthe plants after Foxconn,the holding company forHon Hai Precision Indus-try Co Ltd, came under re

for a series of suicides andaccidents since 2010. In itsthird report, the FLA saidFoxconn had resolved 98

percent of the issued raisedin the initial investigation,including cutting workinghours and overtime, im-proving health and safetyand increasing union partic-

ipation. The company em-ploys more than one millionpeople at its China plants.

Foxconn, however,faced the challenge of fur-ther cutting overtime hoursto the standards set byChinese law by the targetdate, said the report whichwas released on Thursday.The law stipulates a maxi-mum of 40 working hoursplus nine overtime hoursa week. We need moretime with the deadline,Foxconn spokesman Louis

Woo told Reuters. Wecant say when we can meetthat target now. Were try-ing to come up with a real-istic timetable.

Many Foxconn work-

ers, migrants from otherparts of China, oppose areduction in overtime be-cause they want to make asmuch money as possible ina short time. Some workershave said they may leavethe company if overtime iscut. Hon Hai, the worldslargest electronics contractmanufacturer, draws anestimated 60 to 70 percentof its revenue from assem-bling gadgets and otherwork for Apple.

Reuters

Visitors watch

the product dem-onstration at the

exhibition area

of Volvo dur-ing the China

(Shanghai)

InternationalTechnology Fair

in Shanghai,

east China re-cently.Xinhua


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BUSINESS & HEALTH


New York, 18 MayThe long-awaited, con-troversial new edition ofthe bible of psychiatry canbe characterized by manynumbers: its 947 pages, its$199 price tag, its morethan 300 maladies (fromdependent personalitydisorder and voyeuristicdisorder to delayed ejac-ulation, kleptomaniaand intermittent explosivedisorder), each limning thepotential woes of being hu-man. But to the psychiatristwho shepherded the tortu-ous creation of the Diag-nostic and Statistical Man-ual of Mental Disorders,perhaps the single most im-portant number is the 5 inits title: This is the DSM-5,

not the DSM-V.That may seem like a

cosmetic change, but theAmerican Psychiatric As-sociation, which will re-lease the book on Saturdayat its annual meeting, decid-ed to use Arabic instead ofRoman numerals becausewe want it to be a livingdocument, said Dr David

GeNeva, 18 May Abooster dose of yellow fevervaccination every 10 yearsafter the primary vaccina-tion is unnecessary becausea single dose of vaccina-tion is sufcient to providelife-long immunity againstthe disease, World HealthOrganization (WHO) saidon Friday. The StrategicAdvisory Group of Expertson immunization (SAGE)arrived at the conclusionafter having reviewed thelastest evidence, accordingto WHOs Weekly Epide-miological Record releasedon Friday. WHO said sinceyellow fever vaccinationbegan in the 1930s with 600million doses dispensed,only 12 known cases of yel-

low fever post-vaccinationhave been identied. All

these cases have developedthe disease within ve years

of vaccination.Based on currently

available surveillance data,SAGE concluded that vac-cine failures were extreme-ly rare and did not clusteras time increases after im-

Psychiatrists unveil their long-awaited

diagnostic bibleKupfer of the University ofPittsburgh, the chairman ofthe task force that producedthe DSM-5. Rather thanwaiting another generationto revise the manual theDSM-IV was published in1994 psychiatrists willregularly update it with, forexample, ndings from ge-netics and neuroscience, la-beling the revisions DSM-5.1 and DSM-5.2 and so on.

We used 5 becauseV.0 and V.1 just dontlook good, said Kupfer.The fact that the worldsmost powerful psychiatrists(their decisions determinewhat counts as a mentaldisorder, and thus whatinsurers cover and whichchildren receive special ser-

vices in school) are alreadybuilding in ways to changethe manual is commend-able, even its critics say.But it is also emblematic ofthe DSM-5s failures, theyargue, which include turn-ing normal human behaviorand feelings into mental ill-nesses, and expanding thecriteria for disorders until

an astonishing one in fourUS adults has a diagnosablemental illness every yearand even more do over alifetime.

The latest revisionbegan in 1999 with highhopes for putting mentalillness on a scientic foot-ing, using neuroscience inparticular to tell the differ-ence between, say, normalsadness and major depres-sion. That reected persis-tent criticism that drawinga line between sickness anddisease is a special problemin psychiatry, said psycho-therapist Gary Greenberg,who participated in theeld trials that tested the

DSM-5s proposed diag-nostic criteria before they

made the nal cut. Wedont have blood tests orother objective criteria todistinguish mental sicknessfrom health. So you have aset of criteria that are verycommon, which means thepotential for many peoplebeing diagnosed as men-tally ill when theyre not.

Reuters

Yellow fever vaccination booster dose

unnecessarymunization. According toconventional guidance,a booster dose is recom-mended every 10 years.However, Dr Helen Rees,chair of SAGE, stated itwas no longer necessary.Looking at really verygood evidence, it was quiteclear to SAGE that in facta single dose of yellow fe-ver vaccine is effective,said Rees in a written state-ment. She pointed out thatthe new recommendationwas important for yellowfever endemic countries forit would allow those coun-tries to reconsider their vac-cine programme.

WHO senior health ad-visor Philippe Duclos told aPress conference that with

this recommendation, thevaccine available can betterbe targeted where it is mostneeded and help increasethe protection of the popu-lation versus revaccinatingsomebody who has alreadybeen protected. Duclos fur-ther claried that the new

recommendation wouldnot change the routine im-

munization or the yellowfever vaccination certicate

required by internationalhealth regulations. He add-ed the issue was about theperiod of validity of thecerticate and that WHOwould soon embark ondiscussing the new recom-mendation with its memberstates.

Yellow fever disease isendemic in tropical areas ofAfrica and the Latin Ameri-cas. Statistics show an es-timated 200,000 cases and30,000 deaths are attribut-able to yellow fever annu-ally, most of them occur-ring in sub-Saharan Africa.Since there is no cure, vac-cination is regarded as theeffective measure against

this disease.The valid international

certicate of yellow fever

vaccination from travellers,including those in transit,arriving from infected ar-eas or from countries withinfected areas are requiredunder international healthregulations.

Xinhua

After Google, Amazon to be

grilled on UK tax presenceLoNdoN, 18 MayIn-

ternet retailer Amazon.com

Inc. will be called back to theBritish parliament to clarifyhow its activities in the UKjustify its low corporate in-come tax bill, two lawmakerstold Reuters. Amazon willfollow search giant Google,which attended another grill-ing by parliaments PublicAffairs Committee (PAC)over its tax affairs on Thurs-day.

AReuters report earlierthis month raised questionsover Googles earlier asser-tions that its UK-based staffdont sell to customers. Overthe past six years, Amazon

has paid around $9 million inincome tax on over $23 bil-

lion of sales to British clients,because it says it operates a

single European businessout of Luxembourg, ratherthan a multinational structureof independent subsidiariesin different countries, andshould therefore pay tax inLuxembourg.

However, Reuters hasuncovered evidence from thecompanys own statements,job advertisements, state-ments from three suppliersand ve former employees,as well as the proles of over

140 staff on networking web-site LinkedIn, which sug-gests the UK unit has a highdegree of autonomy, with

local managers deciding onmany aspects of its business.

A worker collects orders at Amazons fullment centre in

Rugeley, central England on 11 Dec, 2012. ReuteRs

The information, collectedduring a three-month inves-tigation, suggests that whileAmazon depicts itself as avirtual business, its struc-ture may not be so differentfrom its bricks-and-mortarrivals. The basic businessmodel wasnt very differ-ent to a mail order companyin the 1970s or 80s, said

Mark Riley, a Business De-velopment Manager at Am-

azon.co.uk between 2005and 2008.

Bryan Roberts, RetailInsights Director for con-sultants Kantar Retail, saidapart from the fact buyersseal deals over the Internet,Amazons UK unit Ama-zon.co.uk Ltd, which isbased in an ofce block in

Slough, near London, was

essentially a UK retailer.Reuters

Rivals get longer to comment

on Google EU antitrust offerBrusseLs, 18 MayEU

antitrust regulators have giv-

en some of Googles rivalsmore time to study its pro-posals to settle anti-competi-tive complaints, which couldprovide more leverage to pryfurther concessions from theInternet search giant. TheEuropean Commission lastmonth told interested par-ties they had until 26 Mayto say if they are satisedwith the offer by the worldsmost popular search engineto mark out its services fromrival products in Internetsearch results.

The EU antitrust author-ity has given some rivals

until 27 June to completetheir technical analysis ofGoogles proposals, said oneperson familiar with the mat-ter. The regulator is able togrant extensions if there arestrong grounds for doing so.A Commission competitionspokesman, Antoine Colom-bani, declined to commenton the Google case. Sev-

eral Google competitors andcomplainants about the com-

panys practices have beencritical of the proposed set-tlement, which includes pro-viding links to at least threecompeting search engines,and allowing rivals to stopGoogle from using specic

information.According to British

price comparison site Foun-dem, Googles offer wouldonly reinforce its dominance.Google has more than 80percent share of the marketin Europe, according to re-search rm comScore. Oth-er critics said the proposalwould force rivals to com-

pete among themselves, rais-ing their costs and increasingmerchants dependency onGoogle. If Google clinchesa deal with the Commission,it would avoid a nding of

infringement of competitionrules and a possible ne that

could be as much as $5 bil-lion or 10 percent of its glob-al revenue.Reuters

Surfboardslean against

a wall atthe Google

ofce in

Santa

Monica,California,

on 11Oct, 2010.

ReuteRs

May consumer sentiment rises to highest in nearly six years

A shopper walks down an aisle in a newly opened

Walmart Neighbourhood Market in Chicago in thison 21 Sept, 2011 le photo.ReuteRs

New York, 18 MayConsumer sentiment re-bounded in early May to thehighest level in nearly sixyears as Americans felt bet-

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michiganspreliminary reading on theoverall index on consumersentiment rose to 83.7 from76.4 in April, topping econ-omists expectations for 78.It was the highest level sinceJuly 2007. The barometerof current economic condi-tions jumped to 97.5 from89.9, the highest since Oc-tober 2007, while the gauge

of consumer expectationsgained to 74.8 from 67.8.More consumers gave

a favourable view of theirpersonal nances than inanytime since 2007, with

ter about their nancial and

economic prospects, par-ticularly among upper-in-come households, a surveyreleased on Friday showed.

the largest gains amonghouseholds in the upperthird of income levels. Morerespondents also thought theeconomy would continue toimprove in the year ahead.

Shopping plans weresimilarly encouraging, withthe gauge of buying atti-tudes for durable goods ris-ing to 148 from 137. Thesurveys one-year inationexpectation was unchanged

at 3.1 percent, while thesurveys ve-to-10-year in-ation outlook edged downto 2.8 percent from 2.9 per-cent.

Reuters


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6 New Light of Myanmar

Fighters from Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra taketheir positions on the front line during a clash with Syr-

ian forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad in Aleppoin this 24 Dec, 2012 fle photo. ReuteRs

Syrias Nusra Front eclipsed

by Iraq-based al-QaedaBeirut, 18 MayThe

most feared and effec-tive rebel group battlingPresident Bashar al-Assad,the Nusra Front, is being

eclipsed by a more radicaljihadi force whose aimsgo far beyond overthrow-ing the Syrian leader. Al-Qaedas Iraq-based wing,which nurtured Nusra in theearly stages of the rebellionagainst Assad, has movedin and sidelined the organi-zation, Nusra sources andother rebels say.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq in-cludes thousands of foreignghters whose ultimate

goal is not toppling Assadbut the anti-Western jihadof al-Qaeda leader Aymanal-Zawahria shift which

could extend Syrias con-ict well beyond any politi-

cal accord between Assadand his foes.

The ghting has al-ready cost 90,000 lives.The break-up of an impor-

tant part of Syrias opposi-tion, already splintered intohundreds of armed groups,worsens the dilemma facedby the West as it debateswhether intervention tosupport the rebels will re-sult in arms being placedin the hands of hostile Is-lamist militants. And the ifthe West were to intervene,it may now be under pres-sure to attack al-Qaeda op-position forces rather thanAssad. Nusra is now twoNusras. One that is pursu-ing al-Qaedas agenda of agreater Islamic nation, and

another that is Syrian witha national agenda to help us

ght Assad, said a senior

rebel commander in Syriawho has close ties to theNusra Front.

It is disintegrating fromwithin. Others said that Nus-ras Syrian contingent has al-ready effectively collapsed,with its leader Abu Moham-

mad al-Golani keeping a lowprole and his ghters drift-

ing off to join other rebelgroups. Nusra ghters have

claimed responsibility for thedeadliest bombings of thetwo-year-old Syrian conict

and their brigades have ledsome of the most successfulrebel offensives against As-sads forces. The group was

formally designated a terror-ist organization by the Unit-ed States six months ago, astep which Washington saidwas vindicated by a declara-tion in April that Nusra wasmerging with al -Qaedas Is-lamic State of Iraq.

Reuters

Japan to offer

energy-saving

infrastructure

for developing

nationstokyo, 18 May Ja-

pan will offer developingcountries in the Asia-Pa-cic region an environ-mentally friendly urbaninfrastructure plan thattaps into Japans energy-saving technologies, En-vironment Minister Nob-uteru Ishihara said onFriday.

Ishihara told a newsconference he will makehis proposal at a forumon Saturday gathering 18countries to discuss part-

nerships for low-carbongrowth in East Asia.Japan will present a

comprehensive packagethat includes a diversi-ed energy scheme utiliz-ing solar, wind and othersources of power, efcientpublic transportation, andwater and sewerage sys-tems, Ishihara said.

The idea is to help de-veloping countries upgradetheir city environments byoffering funding and train-ing. In exchange, Japanwill make use of a bilateraloffset credit mechanism

under which it will obtaingreenhouse gas emissionrights from developingcountries, ofcials said.

Kyodo News

Employment rate of college

graduates at 93.9%tokyo, 18 MayThe

employment rate for thosewho graduated from col-leges in March rose forthe second straight yearto stand at 93.9 percent asof 1 April, the start of thebusiness year, up 0.3 pointfrom a year earlier, the gov-ernment said on Friday.The employment situationfor college graduates hasbeen recovering since thecollapse of US investmentbank Lehman BrothersHoldings Inc, a labor min-istry ofcial said.

Companies are re-suming job offers, whilejoint efforts by colleges andHello Work job-placementofces to help students nd

jobs have had positive ef-

fects, the ofcial said.The rate, however, is

3.0 points below its peakin 2008 and around 24,000graduates are believed toremain without job offers.

Given this situation,the Health, Labour andWelfare Ministry and theEducation, Culture, Sports,Science and TechnologyMinistry are thus focusingon supporting job huntingby college graduates for athree-month period throughJune.

The employment g-ures exclude those whowent on to graduate schoolsor stayed on in college foranother year because theycould not nd jobs. Among

overall graduates, the ratefor landing jobs came to66.0 percent, according tothe two ministries.

The employmentrate for female graduatescame to 94.7 percent, up2.1 points, exceeding thatof male graduates, whichstood at 93.2 percent, down1.3 points.

The government sur-vey also showed 93.4 per-cent of graduates of hu-manities courses and 96.2percent of those of sciencecourses found jobs.

The employment rateof two-year junior collegegraduates rose 5.2 pointsto 94.7 percent, the high-est since the survey startedin April 1997. The rate forjob-seeking high schoolgraduates as of the end ofMarch increased for thethird straight year, rising1.0 point to 95.8 percent96.9 percent for malesand 94.2 percent for fe-males, according to thesurvey.

Kyodo News

South Korean soldiers take part in a US and South

Korean joint toxic gas drill in Yeoncheon, GyeonggiProvince, northern South Korea, on 16 May, 2013.

Kyodo News

Clash between Russian oil chiefs could

undercut Putin ally

An attendant holds a gas pump at a Rosneft petrolstation in St Petersburg on 23 Oct, 2012.ReuteRs

Moscow, 18 MayArare public clash betweentwo leading gures in Rus-sias state-dominated oilindustry hints at a split inPresident Vladimir Putinsinner circle and could beintended to rein in one ofhis closest advisers. IgorSechin, who has built oilcompany Rosneft into the

worlds largest with Putinshelp, has pushed for an ex-pansion of a pipeline spur

to take more oil to China, aprotable alternative mar-ket to Europe where de-

mand is falling.But on Thursday, the

head of Russias pipe-line monopoly Transneft,Nikolai Tokarev, attackedthe plans by asking wheth-er he was becoming justa service company to

Rosneft unusually out-spoken comments for amember of Russias silo-

viki, otherwise known asthe men of power aroundPutin. A year into his thirdterm, splits are emergingin Putins ruling team afterstreet protests which have

unsettled the president.Three ministers, most re-cently his former politicalstrategist Vladislav Surkov,have been ousted.

Who will pay to ex-pand the pipeline spur toChina? Transneft isntjust a service company forRosneft, Tokarev said on

Thursday evening after

a meeting of Transneftsexpert council on innova-tion. Rosneft declined to

comment. Sechin, 52, hasbeen close to Putin for twodecades but, since complet-ing the $55 billion takeo-ver of Anglo-Russian oilrm TNK-BP in March,

his ambitions have becomeincreasingly curtailed andRosnefts share price has

weakened.Putin recently up-

braided Sechin for promot-ing a $15 billion offshoreliqueed natural gas ven-

ture with ExxonMobil thatcould breach the exportmonopoly of Gazprom a company used by Putinto project Russias energy

power abroad. Reuters

35 killed, 45 injured in blastsin eastern Iraqs DiyalaBaghdad, 18 MayAt

least 35 people were killedand 45 others injured in twoblasts, which hit almost si-multaneously on Friday inBaquba, capital of easternIraqs Diyala Province, af-ter the Friday prayer, an of-cial said.

The two roadsidebombs exploded near theSaroya mosque in Baquba,65 km northeast of Iraqscapital of Baghdad, andhit the Sunni worshipersas they were leaving themosque after prayer, the

citys mayor AbdullahHayali told Xinhua. Initialreports said 30 were killedand some 40 were wound-ed.

A day ago, at least 12people were killed and 25others injured as a suicidebomber blew himself up ata Shiite mosque in northernIraqs Kirkuk. Violence is

still common in Iraq de-spite the dramatic decreasesince its peak in 2006 and2007 when the country wasengulfed in sectarian kill-ings.Xinhua

Nigerian forces bombard militant camps from

the airMaiduguri, 18 May

Nigerian forces usedjets and attack helicoptersto bombard militant campsin the northeast on Friday,in their biggest military of-fensive since Boko Haramlaunched an uprising in

2009.A number of insur-

gents have been killed,

the defence headquartersspokesman said, includ-

ing at the Sambisa gamereserve in Borno state, theepicenter of the insurgency.

It is not just Sambisa,every camp is under attack.But we have not done themopping up operations onthe ground to determine the

numbers killed, Brigadier-General Chris Olukoladesaid by telephone. A mili-tary source, who declinedto be named, said at least 30

insurgents had been killed.Nigerian forces are

trying to regain territorycontrolled by increasinglywell-armed Boko Haraminsurgents in their north-eastern stronghold statesof Borno, Yobe and Ad-

amawa, put under a stateof emergency by PresidentGoodluck Jonathan onWednesday.

Reuters


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7Sunday, 19 May, 2013New Light of MyanmarNatioNal

Yangon, 18 May

Japanese automobile maker

Toyota Motors Corporation

is looking for operating

a manufacturing plant in

Myanmar, according to the

companys executive con-

sultant Takemoto.He made the comment

at the opening ceremony of

Toyotas auto repair work-

shop in Shwe Than Lwin In-

dustrial Zone in Hlinethaya

Township.

Toyotas workshop is

the first step for setting a

manufacturing factory.

Yangon, 18 May

Two famous artists and

sculptors in Myanmar will

work on potrait and statue

of former United Nations

Secretary-General U Thant,

a Myanmar national who

led the world most inuen-

tial institution.

The French Embassy

will host the event on 3

July.

U Thant is an indi-

vidual for we Myanmars

Myanmar artists remember ex-UNSG

Thongwa, 18 MayA

township level multiplier

course on child-centered

approach was opened in

Thongwa Township in

Yangon South District on

12 May. The opening cer-

emony was held at the hall

of Basic Education High

School No. 1.

Assistant Director

U Maung Kyei of No. 3Basic Education Depart-

ment, Township Education

Ofcer Daw Htway Yin,

her deputies, headmasters

Toyota opens auto repair workshop in Yangon

Thongwa Tsp opens multiplier course on

child-centered approachof high schools, middle

schools and primary schools

in the township were pres-

ent.

The course is being

attended by 559 primary

school teachers, and 27

teachers from four monastic

Yangon, Akita universities

seek to cooperate in miningNay Pyi Taw , 18

MayUnion Minister for

Education Dr Mya Ayeand International Exchange

Promotion Coordinator of

Akita University of Japan

Mr Yoshiyuki Takahashi

and party discussed signingagreement of academic

cooperation in mining

Ministry of Education

School Enrolment Week

From (27) to (31) May

People to participate in

enrolment of all school-going

age childrenToyota workshop will

provide aftersale services to

products of the Toyota group

in Myanmar.

Toyota sees great poten-

tial in Myanmar which has

a huge market of 60 million

population.

Car body workshops in

downtown Yangon generate

a lot of noises and are even

harmful to health of nearby

residents. The opening of

the workshop separate from

populous areas.

The workshop is being

run by joint venture between

local rm TTAS Company

and Toyota Corporation of

Japan.

Myanma Alinnsubject between Yangon

University and Akita

University, at the EducationMinistry, here yesterday

morning.MNA

education schools.

Thirty seven trainers

are providing the trainining.

The course instructors dem-

ostrated the child-centered

approach with 240 basic

education primary school

students. Myanma Alinn

to be proud of, Ko Kyaw

Kyaw Min, a participatant

sculptor, said.

Artist Shwe Myint will

draw potrait of the ex-UN-

SG, well-known for his

peace efforts in his reign at

the United Nations till his

last breath.

U Thant Museum has

been opened in his former

residence in Yangon.

The event is aimed at

filling empty wall in the

museum.

Both potraits and stat-

ue will be donated to the U

Thant Museum.

Myanma Alinn

HRD

Loikaw, 18 MayA

business consultation was

held between Myanmars

Kayah state and a Thai prov-

ince at Kayah state govern-

ment ofce here on 14 May.

It was attended by

Union Minister for Com-

merce U Win Myint, Kayah

State Chief Minister U Khin

Maung Oo, Kayah state

ministers, Vice-President of

Myanmar-Thailand business consultation in Loikaw in progress.

the Republic of the Union

of Myanmar Federation of

Chambers of Commerce

and Industry U Tun Aung,

departmental personnel

and Nice-Governor of the

Thai province Sut tha

Saiwanich.

Representatives from

two states exchanged views

on tourism, culture, sports

and border trade.

The delegates from Mae

Haungsaung had rst visited

Myanmar in April, 2012,

and Myanmar delegates

including Kayah state gov-

ernment ministers visited

the Thai side vice versa three

months later.

They sought ways for

cooperation between the two

territories in their tours.

Myanma Alinn

Loikaw hosts Myanmar-Thai businessconsultation

Thaz i , 1 8 May

To wn sh ip Mu l t i p l i e r

Course of Child-Centered

Approach was opened in

Thazi Township in Meik-

tila District of Mandalay

Region on 12 May.

The opening ceremony

Opening ceremony of Multiplier Course on Child-Centered Approach in Thazi

Township in progress.

at Basic Education High

School No. 1 was attended

by Pyithu Hluttaw Rep-

resentative U Than Soe,

Region Hluttaw representa-

tives and officials of No.

2 Basic Education Depart-

ment and Region Education

Department, and township

level departmental person-

nels. The course is being

attended by headmasters

and teachers of primary

schools. The first batch

course will run through 23

MayMyanma Alinn

Multiplier course on child-centered

approach conducted in Thazi Tsp

MandaLaY, 18 May

Citizenship scrutiny cards

were issued by Immigrationand National Registration

Department at Wakhingon

pagoda in Kankauk ward in

Chanayethazan Township

Immigration

issues CSCsto citizens in

Mandalay

in Mandalay Region on 14

May.

Head of MandalayRegion Immigration and

National Registration De-

partment U Thaung Zaw,

Mandalay Region Hluttaw

Representative Dr Kyaw

Hla and ofcials attended

the ceremony to issue thecitizenship scrutiny cards to

eligible citizens.

A total of 665 cards

have been issued in the fth

phase of the project.

The department is mak-

ing eld trips in east AungNan Yeik Tha ward and

surrounding neighbourings

to issue CSCs.

Myanma Alinn

M

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Sunday, 19 May, 20138 New Light of MyanmarNA T I ONA L


Road slaughterWith a car boom in Yangon and hordes of

motorcyclists in Mandalay and other towns,

Myanmar has suffered road accident fatalitiesduring recent years than ever before on record.

In April alone, 389 road users were killed in 1346

traffic incidents. According to facts and stats of

Myanmar Police Force, Yangon and Mandalay

stood in order in the list of road deaths and

injuries. So, it can be said that the two big cit-

ies have worst and maximum traffic violators.

Of vehicles running on the roads across the

country, 80 per cent are motorcycles. Nay Pyi

Taw and Mandalay with a high number of reg-

istered and unregistered motorbikes are prone

to fatal motorbike accidents. Two-third of road

deaths across the country involves motorcyclists.

Low use of helmet, use of unqualified helmets,

speeding and drunkenness are contributing tothis slaughter on downtown roads and highways

as main factors.

There has been blanket coverage of in-

creased road fatalities which have become a

hot topic in conversation, calling for concrete

road safety plans to decrease future carnage. A

unified stance of all departments concerned is

needed to lead to a substantial solution before

the grisly road accidents become mundane.

We should not blame the traffic enforcement

agency alone as incompetent to tackle. Risk

accidents can be attributed to mechanical fail-

ures, environmental conditions and errors of

human judgment triggered by excessive speed

and drunken driving.A good starting point to avert mechanical

failure-led tragedies is to crack down on illegal

imports of motorbikes that failed to come under

scrutiny and shipping of defective vehicles into

the country. Construction of roads, bridges and

highways meeting set standards and increased

presence of traffic officers in accident hot spots

are workable measures to reduce environmental

conditions-related road casualties, but weather

situations are unpreventable and unpredictable.

Driving license should not be a license to kill.

Further restrictions should be placed on driv-

ing tests to turn out safe and secure drivers.

Moreover, all road users are to be alerted to

punitive actions against traffic rule violations.

Yangon, 18 MayA Myanmar

delegation led by Vice-President Dr Sai

Mauk Kham left here for Chiang Mai of

Thailand by Myanma Airways special

ight this afternoon to attend the Second

Asia-Pacic Water Summit in Chiang

Mai and the 10th Celebrations for the

United Nations Day of Vesak (BuddhasBirthday) in Bangkok.

The Vice-President and party were

seen off at Yangon International Airport

by Yangon Region Chief Minister U

Myint Swe, and Region Ministers, staff

from Thai Embassy in Myanmar and

departments.

The Vice-President was accompa-

nied by Deputy Ministers U Khin Zaw and

Dr Daw Thet Thet Zin and departmental

heads.MNA

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham

who will attend Second Asia-

Pacic Water Summit in Chiang

Mai and 10th Celebrations for UN

Day of Vesak (Buddhas Birthday)

being seen off by Yangon Region

Chief Minister U Myint Swe and

party at Yangon International

Airport.mna

Defence Ministry (Youth) playing against Triangle

Region Command in National Hockey League2013 jointly organized by Sports Ministry and

Myanmar Hockey Federation on 18 May. The

former beat the latter 6-1.

nlm

Yangon, 18 May

Mainly sponsored by Elite

Tech Group of Companies

and organized by Myanmar

Golf Federa t ion and

Myanmar PGA, the final

round of Elite Tech Open

Golf Championship 2013

took place at Yangon Golf

Club (Danyingon) in Insein

Township yesterday alongwith prize presentation.

It was attended by MGF

Patron Maj-Gen Win Hlaing

(Retd), MGF President U

Elite Tech Open Golf

Championship 2013 concludes

Tayza, personnel and fans.

Myo Win Aung stood rst

in amateur level with 289

strokes and Thein Zaw Myint

of KM Golf Center won rst

prize in professional level.

The winners were

presented with cash and

gifts. Air Bagan, Asian

Wings Airways, AGD Bank,

Kandawgyi Palace Hotel,CEPSR, tiger Golf, Myanmar

Solar Power (MSP) co-

sponsored the event.

NLM

Banks Supervisory Committee meets

Yangon, 18 May

The executive boards of

Banks Supervisory Com-

mittee under the Ministry

of Finance and Revenue

and Myanmar Banks Asso-

ciation met at the meeting

hall of Myanmar Banks As-

sociation in Yankin Town-

ship here this afternoon.

Patron of Myanmar

Banks Association Union

Minister for Finance and

Revenue U Win Shein

delivered an address at the

147th meeting. Chairman of

Banks Supervisory Com-

mittee Deputy Minister

Dr Maung Maung Thein,

the governor of the Cen-

tral Bank of Myanmar,

the Secretary of Banks

Supervisory Committee

and the Chairman of My-anmar Banks Association

discussed banking mat-

ters in relation to laws,

regulations, procedures of

private banks and foreign

investment.MNA

Union Minister U Win Shein gives speech at

executive boards meeting of Banks Supervisory

Committee.mna

Union Minister visits CVTtraining school

naY PYi Taw , 18

MayUnion Minister

for Labour, Employment

and Social Security U

Maung Myint this morning

visited Center of Vocational

Training CVT Myanmar

at the building of Myanmar

Red Cross Society on

Strand Road in Botahtaung

Township.

The courses conducted

by the school are business

course, electrical prociency

course, furniture makingcourse, hotel and hospitality

course and mines production

course and the course

duration is three years. The

trainees attending the CVT

course are Myanmar youths

who engaged in their works.

A total of 600 trainees are

being given lectures with

the aim of enhancing junior

professional level. New

courses are opened in the rst

week of May yearly.

Jointly organized by

the Ministry and CVT

Myanmar and with the

assistance of Swiss Agency

for Development and

Cooperation (SDC), plansare underway to establish a

new training school to turn

out skilled workers.

MNA

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Sanitation carried out in SagaingSagaing , 18 May

Members of Sagaing

Township Police Force

carried out sanitation tasks

across the township to ensure

proper flow of drainage

under the close supervision

of district managementcommittee starting from

15 May.

The head of Sagaing

Township Police Force said,

We are clearing the drains

on both sides of roads as

preparation before arrival

of the cyclonic storm which

could trigger heavy rain. And

departments concerned are

also undertaking sanitation

tasks at their designated

places.

Fortunately, the storm

changed its direction and

did not enter into Myanmar.

Kyemon

Birthday party for hip conjoined twins at

Mandalay Childrens Hospital

Mobile library in operation in Yaksawk

TownshipYakSawk, 18 May

To help push forward

intellectual improvement of

the public as part of people-

centered public service,

head of Yaksawk Township

Information and Public

Relations Department Daw

Mu Mya Saw and staff

supervised works on mobile

library, wall magazines

and photo shows. The head

elaborated on the objectives

of mobile library, raising

reading habits and benets

of reading and donated 100

books to local people.

Kyemon

Farming work permits presented in Kalay

kal aY , 18 May

Farming work permits were

presented to the farmers at

the Administrators ofce

of Sakhangyi village-tractin Kalay Township, Sagaing

Region on 15 May and

Chairman of Kalay District

Farmland Management

Committee Administrator

U Nyi Nyi Htway gave a

speech.

Then, Secretary of

Kalay District Farmland

Management Committee

and Head of District

Set t lement and LandRecords Department U Thein

Lwin explained rights and

disciplines of farmers.

Chairman of Kalay

T o w n s h i p F a r m l a n d

Management Committee

Township Administrator

Ma n d a l a Y,18 May

A birthday party for

two-year-old hip conjoined

twins, Aung Khant Kyaw

and Aung Myat Kyaw,

who have been successfully

separated at 550-bed

Man d a lay Ch i ld ren s

Hospital, was held at the

hospital on 16 May.

It was attended by

Medical Superintendent

Dr Sein Han, Specialist

Professor Dr. Aung Mra,

Pediatrician Professor

Dr Aung Aung Oo and

specialists, nurses, parents

and relatives of the twins.

The hip conjoined

twins Aung Khant Kyaw

and Aung Myat Kyawborn in Sagaing Township

received successful surgical

operation performed by

specialists in Yangon and

Mandalay at the hospital

in May 2012.

Kyemon

U Aye Naing presented

171, Head of Township

Settlement and Land Records

Department U Aung Kyaw

Soe, 267 certicates to thefarmers of Nansoungpu

Village.

A plan is underway

to present 40087 farming

work permits to 32751

farmers.

Kyemon

Falam gets more water

H a k a , 1 8 May

Falam Township of Chin

State gets more water

after the water from Zaryi

Spring, seven miles four

furlongs from Falam is

piped to the township.

The tasks also in-cluded replacement of old

pipelines with 2-inch PVC

ones and construction of

a 10000 gallon-storage-

capacity tank and a 30000

gallon-storage-capacity

tank. The township de-

velopment affairs carried

out the works at the cost

of 73.8 million kyats, con-

tributed by Rural Develop-

ment Department under the

Ministry of Border Affairs.

The spring produces

30000 gallons of water a

day, benefitting 2345 peo-

ple from 278 ouseholds inKyinhmawl and Darhtauk

wards in the township.

Chin State Chief Min-

ister U Hong Ngai, state

minis ters , depar tmen-

tal personnel formally

opened the facilities on

16 May.

Kyemon

Digging of drinking water

lake in Padaung Township

Padaung, 18 May

Villagers form Yaytwinhla

village, participated in col-

lective digging of drinking

water lake at the village of

Talokepin village-tract in

Padaung Township of Pyay

District, Bago Region on

16 May.

The village has to rely

only on the lakes even

though the tube wells do-

nated by the government

and wellwishers run short.

The village has to face

danger of re in summer.

At the request of village

administrators, Bago Re-

gion Constituency No.2

Pyithu Hluttaw repre-

sentative U Than Zaw has

pledged that coordination

will be made with respec-

tive administrative bodies

for funds allotments out

of regional development

funds by Region Govern-

ment for digging of lake

and construction of bridge.

Kyemon

Three old grenades found in

Mohnyin

MoHnYin, 18 May

Three grenades were found

near Guest House of Union

Solidarity and Development

Party in Mohnyin on 14May morning by mushroom

seekers.

Daily wage earners

Maung Thingyan and

Maung Kyaw Soe from

Township Development

Affairs Committee found

three grenades under

jack frui t tr ee be tween

development affairs staff

quarters and USDP guest

house while searching

mushroom at 7:30 am on

14 May.

Head of Mohnyin Police

Station Police Captain HlaHtwe and members, local

artillery commander Lt-Col

Nay Min Oo and members

and Aung Thabye Ward

Administrator U Naw Lar

rushed to the scene to

inspect the ordnances. It is

learnt that it was Chinese

made 91 form old grenades

and it cannot be harmful or

explosive.NLM-001

Nation-building endeavours

Powered trailer fre burns

three houses

Loan disbursed to cooperative societies in Yaksawk

TownshipYakSawk, 18 May

As part of rural develop-

ment and poverty allevia-

tion tasks and development

of cooperatives works,

east cooperative society

of Shan State (south) dis-

bursed micro finance loan

Head-on motor bike collision

leaves three injuredTHaYeT, 18 May

Three injured in head-on

motor bike collision in

Thayet, Thayet District,

Magway Region on 15 May.

The accident happened

near Sinphyutaw Junction

on Thayet-Mindon motor

road around 8 pm on 15

May. The three got minor

injuries. Thayet Police

Station is investigating into

the case.

Kyemon

kY a i k M a r a w

, 1 8MayA powered trailer

fire burnt down three

houses in Tayana Village,

Kyaikmaraw Township,

Mon State on 15 May.

While the petrol barrels

were being loading off from

powered trailer in front of oil

lling station of U Tun Sein

in Tayana Village on 15 May

evening, the battery wire

shock of the powered trailer

ignited the petrol barrels,

resulting in the nearby houses

caught the re.

A total of 14 re engines,

18 core firefighters and

50 auxiliary firefighters

from Kyaikmaraw and

Mawlamyine townships

and surrounding villages and

locals put off the re which

was extinguished an hour

later after its start.

Th ree two -s to rey

houses, the power trailer were

damaged in the re which

also consumed 75 gallons

of petrol. The Kyaikmaraw

Township police have led

a lawsuit against U Tun

Sein.Kyemon

to cooperative societies.

A total of more than K 47

million of loans was given

to eight cooperative socie-

ties in Yaksawk on 15 May.

It was attended by

the Chairman of Shan

State Cooperative Socie-

ties Development Commit-

tee, Shan State Planning

and Economy Minister

U Aung Kyaw Nyunt,

Hluttaw representatives,

depart-mental officials and

members.

Kyemon

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Greeces Prime Minister Antonis Samaras addresses theaudience during the 12th Facility for Euro-Mediterra-nean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP) conference

on Mediterranean blue economy:enhancing marineand maritime cooperation in Athens on 8 April, 2013.

ReuteRs

Greek PM hails Greekovery replacing

Grexit

Athens, 18 MayGreek Prime Minister An-tonis Samaras has hailed

kinder words from lendersand revived interest in thecountrys deeply-discount-

ed bonds and stocks as aGreekovery to replacelast years Grexit catch-

phrase. Although there islittle sign of economic re-

covery, Greece is nallyattracting some of thecheap funds that are beingpumped out by major cen-

tral banks and feeding aninvestment boom on stockand bond markets.

Greek bond yields are

at a three-year-low andits stock market has hit atwo-year high, helped by

praise from foreign lend-ers for government effortsin getting its bailout pro-

gram back on track. Un-til recently, many analystsbelieved that Greece was a

lost case.We proved them

wrong, Samaras said in a

speech in Beijing duringa trip to China on Friday.Most of them now witness

not a Grexitan exitfrom the euro zonebut aGreekoverya recovery

of the Greek economy.

The economy, however, re-mains mired in sixth year ofrecession with unemploy-

ment at a record 27 percentand living standards have

sunk due to wage and pen-sion cuts.

Samarass successstory insults the countrys

youth, of whom 70 percentare unemployed, GeorgeVaremenos, a lawmaker

from the main oppositionSyriza party, told Skai TV.Investor interest in Greece

revived this week after theFitch agency upgraded the

countrys sovereign creditrating to B-minusstillhighly speculativefrom

CCC on Tuesday. SteadilyGreece convinces more andmore that it is on the course

of becoming a true successstory, said Samaras, whois on a trip to China and

Azerbaijan to win businessinvestment and reverse a20 percent fall in output

since the debt crisis beganin 2009. Chinese shippinggroup Cosco has already

made a major investmentin Greeces largest port atPiraeus (OLP), which is 74

percent state-owned and ison the governments pri-vatizations agenda.

Reuters

At least 20 killed when mine collapses in

eastern CongoKinshAsA, 18 May

At least 20 people werekilled when a mine col-

lapsed in mineral-rich butconict-plagued eastern

Democratic Republic ofCongo following heavyrains, the government saidon Friday.

The accident occurredon Thursday at the minenear the village of Rubaye

in the countrys North KivuProvince. Local ofcialswere attempting to recover

bodies still believed buried

on Friday.Were still digging

at the site, so the death tollcould rise. The provincial

government is handlingthe rescue, governmentspokesman Lambert Mendetold Reuters. Congos east-

ern borderlands have someof the worlds largest de-posits of tin ore and coltan,

which is used in electronicdevices like mobile phonesand video game consoles.

But the region is a

patchwork of rebel andmilitia efdoms left over

from a 1998-2003 civil warthat killed millions, and

the insecurity has discour-aged large-scale industrialmining. Rampant povertyhas pushed hundreds of

thousands of Congolese towork in unregulated small-er mines, often controlled

by armed groups, where fa-tal accidents are common-place. Reuters

New conscripts for Russian Army and their friends and relatives attend a seeing off

event at a recruiting station in Moscow, Russia, on 17 May, 2013. Russia aims torecruit 153,200 new conscripts this spring.Xinhua

Chad seeks arrest of exiled presidents alliesnDjAmenA, 18 May

Chad has charged four al-lies of the countrys formerpresident with human rights

abuses and issued warrantsfor their arrest, a senior

government source said onFriday. The source, who

asked not to be identied,said they were wanted inconnection with atrocities

carried out during the rule

of the countrys last leaderHissene Habre.

Habre ed to Senegalafter he was ousted in acoup by current President

Idriss Deby in 1990. Therewere no details of the spe-

cic accusations against hisformer ofcials. But Sene-gal, under pressure from the

International Court of Jus-

tice and campaign groups,has set up a special court tolook into allegations 40,000

people were killed or tor-tured during Habres rule.

Rights campaignershave accused Habre, 70, ofusing his political police to

target political opponentsand rival ethnic groups after

seizing power in an earlier

military coup in the land-locked oil-producing cen-tral African state in 1982.

Those sought includeMahamat Nouri, Bandoum

Bandjim, Bichara IdrissHaggar and Abakar Torbo,

the senior government of-

cial at the justice ministrytold Reuters.Reuters

Free Syrian Army fghters adjust a rocket to belaunched towards forces loyal to Syrias President

Bashar al-Assad in Deir al-Zor on 15 May , 2013.ReuteRs

Hold Syrian peace talks soon,

says UN chiefsochi, (Russia), 18

MayA proposed inter-national conference to tryto stop Syrias civil warshould be held as soon as

possible, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saidon Friday, but no date has

yet been agreed for a meet-ing that appears to facegrowing obstacles.

Ban spoke as UN of-cials announced that the

number of refugees ee-ing the ghting in Syria, a

conict that has claimedthe lives of 80,000 peopleover the past two years,had exceeded 1.5 million as

conditions there deterioraterapidly.

Western leaders have

been cautious about theprospects of the talks

achieving any break-

through, and Russias de-sire that Iran should attendcould complicate mattersbecause of potential oppo-

sition from the West.The main Syrian op-

position, expected to decide

its stance next week, haspreviously demanded Presi-dent Bashar al-Assads

exit before any talks.A ris-ing death toll, new reports

of atrocities by both sides,suspicion that chemicalarms may have been used

and the absence of pros-pects for a military solutionhave all pushed Washing-

ton and Moscow to agree toconvene the conference.

We should not lose

the momentum, Ban saidof the proposal to bring

the Syrian government and

opposition representativesto the conference table.There is a high expectation

that this meeting should be

held as soon as possible,he said after talks with Rus-sian Foreign Minister Ser-gei Lavrov.

Lavrov agreed: The

sooner the better, he told a

joint news conference withBan, who was due to meetPresident Vladimir Putin

later on Friday.

Iran is a US foe and themain regional ally of As-sads government, whichhas also received support

from Russia.Reuters

UN relief chief to visitSudan

UniteD nAtions, 18May The UN relief

chief will visit Sudan onMonday and is expected todiscuss with government

ofcials and aid organiza-tions there about the hu-manitarian crisis that has

uprooted more than onemillion people and forcedover 200,000 to leave the

country, a UN spokesmansaid on Friday.

The four-day visit will

take Valerie Amos, the UNUnder-secretary-generalfor Humanitarian Affairs

and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, to the Sudanesecapital Khartoum, and

also to Darfur, said MartinNesirky, spokesperson forUN Secretary-general Ban

Ki- moon, at a daily brief-ing here.

While in the country,Valerie Amos will meet

with government ofcialsand representatives of aidorganizations to discusshow to improve humani-

tarian access to people

affected by conict anddisplacement, particularly

in South Kordofan, BlueNile and Darfur, Nesirkynoted.

The humanitariancommunity continues to

work with the Sudanesegovernment to addressdeteriorating living con-

ditions in camps and tond lasting solutions forthose who have been up-

rooted for many years, thespokesperson added.

Fighting between the

Sudanese armed forcesand the rebel Sudan Peo-ples Liberation Move-

ment-North (SPLM-N)broke out after neighbor-ing South Sudan seceded

under the 2005 Compre-hensive Peace Agreementthat ended a decades-long

civil war.South Kordofan has

been witnessing growing

armed clashes betweenthe Sudanese army and the

SPLM-N. In Blue Nile,the ghting displaced andthen isolated tens of thou-

sands of people. Violencehas subsided from its peakin 2003 and 2004, but

heavy ghting has been

reported since early thisyear between the rebel al-

liance and the Sudanesearmy supported by militiasin Darfur.Xinhua


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Sunday, 19 May, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarRegional

Tokyo, 18 MayTheFinance Ministry said Fri-day it will basically notmint 1-yen, 5-yen and 50-

yen coins for general usein scal 2013 as the grow-ing use of electronic money

has crimped demand for thecoins.

Japan Mint, an arm of

the ministry, has refrainedfrom producing 5-yen and50-yen coins for general

use since 2010 and of 1-yencoins since 2011.

The ministry said it

will mint 1 million units of

each of the three coins forcollector sets. It will also is-

sue 700,000 units of 1,000yen coins to commemoratethe 60th anniversary of the

enforcement of the nationsLocal Autonomy Act, thelaw governing matters re-

lating to local government.The ministry said it

would mint 1-yen coins andcoins of other denomina-tions in scal 2013 if de-

mand arises in connectionwith the governments planto hike the sales tax rate

from 5 percent to 8 percenton on 1 April, 2014.

Kyodo News

Islamabad, 18 May Japan is ready to help Paki-stan overcome the countrys

chronic power shortages,

but at the same time it seekscomprehensive power sec-

tor reforms, a senior ofcialfrom the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency said on

Friday.In an interview with

Kyodo News, JICAs chiefrepresentative in Pakistan,Mitsuyoshi Kawasaki, said

the agency has already sin-gled out four 400-megawattpower turbines at Mangla

Hydro electric power stationin Pakistan-administeredportion of divided Kash-

mir and a coal-red pow-er plant in Thar in SindhProvince for replacement

with Japanese assistance.Development of hy-

droelectric and coal-based

power plants is central to Pa-kistans plans to overcomepower shortages. Pakistan

has been faced with power

Govt not to

mint 1-yen,

5-yen,

50-yen coins

in FY2013

Japan ready to help

Pakistan overcome power

shortagesoutages across the coun-try, with some parts havingexperienced blackouts for

up to 18 hours. Overcom-

ing the power crisis in twoyears was one of the elec-

tion promises by the Paki-stan Muslim League Nawaz,which has emerged as the

biggest force in last weeksgeneral election.

It is also top priority ofImran Khans Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which is plan-

ning to set up a provincialgovernment in Khyber Pa-khtunkhwa, a province with

large hydropower potential.Both parties have declareddevelopment of coal-based

power plants and hydropow-er plants as a top priority toliterally steer the country

out of darkness. Pakistanboasts to have one of thelargest coal reserves in the

world, enough to generatetens of thousands of mega-

watts of electricity for 200-300 years.Kyodo News

Chinese top leaders Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Gaoli meet

with representatives of the honoured units and individuals of Chinas mannedsubmersible mission in Beijing, capital of China, on 17 May , 2013.Xinhua

Singapores rst H1N1 u vaccine startsclinical test

sIngapore, 18 MaySingapores Agency forScience, Technology and

Research (A*STAR) an-nounced on Friday that the

rst healthy volunteer hadbeen given a dose of theH1N1 inuenza vaccinejointly developed by the

agency and the Switzerland-based Cytos BiotechnologyAG in a clinical trial.

The agency said thevaccine may open the door

to accelerated production of

inuenza vaccines in Sin-gapore, aiming at provid-ing the city-state an effec-

tive means of combattinginuenza epidemics and

pandemics.In this rstPhase 1 clinical trial, thesafety and immunogenic-ity of this novel vaccine

candidate and its potentialto protect against H1N1

inuenza infection will beevaluated, the agency saidin a statement.

This is the rst timeSingapore is attempting tomake its own u vaccine.

In the wake of the recentH7N9 bird u outbreak,it is timely that A*STAR

is bringing Singaporesrst H1N1 u vaccine into

Phase 1 clinical trial. Thisdifferent approach of mak-

ing u vaccines will betterrespond to the needs of a uoutbreak, Lim Chuan Poh,chairman of the agency

said.It is said that if the

Cytos new virus-like par-

ticle technology in produc-ing this inuenza vaccineproved to be effective and

successful, it could acceler-ate the production of vac-

cines against new emerg-ing strains of u. This willgreatly aid Singapores pre-

paredness to produce vac-cines quickly, safely andeconomically in the event

of a u epidemic, a profes-sor said.Xinhuaphnom penh, 18 May

Cambodia and Thailand

agreed on Friday to enhancecooperation to ght againstall forms of illegal cross-

border activities, a jointstatement said. The agree-ment was made between

Cambodian defence min-ister Tea Banh and his Thai

counterpart Gen. SukumpolSuwanatat at the 9th GeneralBorder Committee, whichwas held in Rayong Prov-

ince, Thailand on Friday.Both sides agreed to

strengthen cooperation to

prevent and crack down onillegal activities along the

border such as drug trafck-ing, illegal logging, and il-legal border crossing, said

a joint statement released byCambodian defence minis-try. The two ministers also

agreed to enhance maritimesecurity. They also agreedto cooperate to improve

livelihoods for peoples liv-ing along the border throughthe development of tourism,

education and public health,it said.

Cambodia, Thailand to

enhance cooperation in

ghting cross border crimesIn addition, both sides

commended the two coun-

tries Joint Working Groupfor fruitful discussions to-wards landmine clearance

in the World Court-denedProvisional DemilitarizedZone (PDZ) surrounding

Cambodias Preah VihearTemple. Moreover, the

two ministers vowed to re-lease only accurate and posi-tive information in regardto border issues in order to

strengthen mutual trust andrespect, the statement said.

Cambodia and Thailand

have had sporadic borderconicts over the territo-

rial dispute near CambodiasPreah Vihear Temple sincethe UNESCO listed the tem-

ple as a World Heritage Siteon 7 July, 2008. Thailandclaims the ownership of 4.6

square kilometers of scrubnext to the temple.

Deadly clashes between

the both sides troops hap-pened in February and April

2011 during the rule of for-

mer Thai Prime Minister Ab-hisit Vejjajiva.Xinhua

Akiko Yamanaka, owner of cafe Koguma, stands in

front of the restaurant refurbished from a vacatedantiques shop in a house built in the 1920s in Tokyos

Sumida Ward on 15 April, 2013.Kyodo news

phnom penh, 18 MayGarment ManufacturersAssociation of Cambodia

(GMAC) on Friday urgedall factories in Cambodiato focus on safety standards

in order to avoid any inci-

dent of building collapse inthe future. The appeal wasmade after a partial col-lapse of a concrete ceiling

in Wing Star Shoes, a Chi-nas Taipei-owned factory,in Kampon

new light of myanmar (19 may 2013)

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