new light of myanmar (6 jan 2013)

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Volume XX, Number 261 9th Waning of Nadaw 1374 ME Sunday, 6 January, 2013

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New Light of MyanmarNo problems unsolvable with mutual trust,

understanding and empathy: PresidentNay Pyi Taw, 5 Jan

President U Thein Sein metChairman of Karen NationalUnion (KNU) General Mutu

Sae Phoe and party at themeeting hall of 500-acrefarm in Pobbathiri Township

in Nay Pyi Taw Council Areathis evening.

The meeting was also

attended by Vice-Chairmanof Peace-making Working

Committee Union MinisterU Aung Min, membersof the working committee

Union Ministers U Soe Theinand U Khin Yi, ofcials ofMyanmar Peace Center,

peace negotiators, KNUGeneral Secretary PhadoSaw Kwe Htoo Win, KNU

Secretary-2 Phado SawMahn Mahn, KNU CECmembers Phado Saw Roger

Khin, Phado Mahn NyeinMaung and Phado Saw HlaTun. The President cordially

greeted the KNU chairmanand those present at themeeting. The KNU chairman

presented Kayin national

costume to the President asa New Year gift.

The President expressedhis wish to keep constant

contact with KNU as heopened the second meetingand congratulated the

chairman and membersfor their re-election at 15thcongress of the organization.

He also said he is committedto bringing about lastingpeace during his term,

expressing his condencethat the KNU would sharethe same stance.

He called for cooperationon common ground forgranting equal constitutional

rights to all national racesdespite political differences.

He also stressed the need tograsp the chance to build upthe society where the eternal

peace prevails.The KNU chairman said

he had received the invitation

of the President from UnionMinister U Aung Min. Healso expressed KNUs strong

desire to build peace onceasere and negotiations,

guaranteeing that KNU has

no plan to reverse. Thechairman also said KNU is

considering how it could helpbring peace to conict-proneKachin State.

The KNU secretary-general and four membersdiscussed continuation

future plans. Challengesare unavoidable in realizing

own wishes and they must beovercome with patience andtolerance, said the President.

Nationalist fervor, spirit tosafeguard sovereignty anddesire for peace and stability

are common behaviors ofboth sides, he said. Withsuch common ground, it

would not be difcult toundertake the remaining

works. However, it needs

time.There would also be

diversities, but coordinationis to be made on matters of

to restore peace, he said.Though the country

possesses sound foundationsfor development, it laggedbehind other countries in

development due to over-60-year-old instabilities,he said. The government

does not want to hand downthe unrest to the youngergenerations and wishes to

end it in its time, whichdemands collaborative

efforts of all, the President

said.Negotiations are being

held at different levels toensure joint efforts, he said.

Every national race hasnationalist fervor and aspires

for peace and stability, hesaid. All including the KNUchairman and top leadersare to join hands for further

peace and coordinated effortsmust be made to enable

every citizen to enjoy it, thePresident said.

The President continued

to say that job opportunitiesare a must for developmentof a region for which

foreign investments havebeen invited with FDILaw promulgated. Peace

and stability are requiredto attract FDI as specialeconomic zones have been

implemented. There will bemore jobs upon completionof those special economic

zones. As to resourcesmanagement, importance

must be attached not to harmnational interests, nationalintegrity and sovereignty

and environment as well, hesaid. All depend on peace. Ifthere is only mutual trust and

understanding and empathy,problems could be solvedeasily. He said he hoped

to continued dialogue withthem, he said.

Union Minister U Aung

Min elaborated on futureprogrammes for makingpeace.

The President stressedthe needs and the talkscame to an end. After the

discussion, the Presidentpresented gifts to the KNUChairman and party and

posed for a documentaryphoto together with them.KNUs observed 500-acre

plantation.MNA

of peace talks, ceasefire,

liaison ofces and regionaldevelopment tasks.

The President said thediscussions of the KNUchairman and members

were commensurate with therealities and envisaged the

common interests, settingaside the differences, he said.

T h e g o v e r n m e n t

has been trying to makenegotiations on points whereboth sides agreed, having

entered ceasere agreementwith KIA and would continue

The parliament constitutedwith representatives of allnational races is the bestplace for discussion inthe nal stage of politicalnegotiations, he said.

National races residingin the Union together areindeed members of a largefamily, he said. A peacefuland democratic nation,aspiration of all citizens, canbe achieved only when alljoin hands to nd a solution,he said.

coordination based on thosecommon desires. He hadinstructed the Tatmadaw notto launch attacks other thanself-defence, the Presidentsaid. The government would

like to hand down the peaceto younger generations, hesaid.

Therefore, it woulddiscuss in pursuit of peacefor many times to ensurelasting peace, the Presidentsaid. Approximately, 80 percent of the border regionsare enjoying the fruits of

President U Thein Sein.mna

President

U Thein

Sein and

KNU

General

Mutu

Sae Phoe

pose for

documentary

photo.

mna

President U Thein Sein and KNU General Mutu Sae Phoe at maize

plantation.mna

KNU considering a role to help calm Kachin

confict: General Mutu Sae Phoe


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L o ca L n ew s

New Light of Myanmar

YezagYo, 5 Jan

Hailing and honouring the

65th Anniversary Indepen-

d en ce Day , Py in n y a

Beikman Monastic Primary

Education School organized

indoor and outdoor games

at the compound of Ma-O

MandalaY, 5 JanTo

mark the 65th Anniversary

Independence Day, Cartoon,

paintings and photo show

was organized at Mandalay

District Information and

Car toon, paintings and photo show

held in Mandalay

Public Relations Department

in Pyigyidagun Township,

here, on 2 January.

Works25 cartoons,

273 paintings and 125 photos

of cartoonist, artists and

photographers in Mandalay

were on display at the show

which was being kept open

till yesterday (Independence

Day).

Kyemon

Indoor, outdoor games held in Yezagyomonastery in Yezagyo

Township of Pakokku

District on 3 January.

For school children to

be t, both physically and

mentally, monastic school

head Sayadaw Bhaddanta

Kav id a an d t each er s

c o n d u c t e d M y a n m a r

traditional outdoor games

for physical fitness and

Maths and English contests

as indoor games for brain

development. Next, prizes

were given to outstanding

students.Kyemon

Muse, 5 JanHailing

th e 6 5 th AnniversaryIndependence Day, a new

tarred road that links between

Muse and Saw Mon Hla

NannU Pagoda in Salant

village-tract was held on

2 January. The 5280-foot

New tar red road emerges

in Musetarred road was built with the

contribution of K 51,317,000by the State.

Thanks to emergence of

the new tarred road, pilgrims

to the Pagoda will be able to

go there by car, saving time

and energy. Kyemon

Yangon, 5 Jan Jointly-

organized by Myanmar Anti-

Narcotics Association and

Myanmar Motion Picture

Association and Myanmar

Music Association, an

educative talks on prevention

against narcotic drugs andside effects was held at

Yankin Education College,

here, on 3 January.

Talks on anti-nar cotic dr ugs givenChairman of MANA

(Central) Retied Police

Col U Khin Maung Tun,

e x e c u t i v e s , M M P A

Chairman U Zin Waing,

MANA Ambassadors Dr

Pyu Pyu Kyaw Thein and

Dr Chit Thu Wai gavetalks on dangers of narcotic

drugs. Next, wellwishers

presented cash donations to

the MANA.

Then Project Manager

of Prevention against Danger

of Narcotic Drugs of Health

Department Dr Hla Htay of

Ywathagyi Mental Hospital

and MANA Vice-Chairman

Professor Dr Khin MaungGyi also gave educative talks

on anti-narcotic drugs.

MNA

KYangin , 5 Jan

Hailing the 65th

AnniversaryIndependence Day, the

opening of a new concrete

road was held in Kyangin

Township on 3 January.

The new concrete road

is 1815 feet long, 20 feet

Kyangin Township sees new

concrete road

wide and 8 inches thick.

It was built by KyanginTownship Development

Affairs Committee.

Officials concerned

formally opened the new

concrete road.

Kyemon

House fre in MyawadyMYawadY, 5 Jan A

fire occurred at a house

in Ward-1 of Myawady

Township at about 12 am on

3 January.

The house caught re by

a lit candle. The re swept

through the whole house andspread out other adjoining

three houses.

Fireghters and local

people with the help of

four fire engines, one

administrative vehicle and

20 water bowsers managed

to bring the re under control

at about 1 am. In the incident,

an eight-year-old girl was

pronounced dead. The re left

four households homeless.Myawady Police Station

led a lawsuit against the

suspect for re negligence.

Kyemon

naY PYi Taw, 5 Jan

Hailing the 65th Anniversary

Independence Day that falls

on 4 January 2013, the

opening of Shwechi (1)

new tarred road was held in

New tarr ed road opened to mar k

Independence Day in PyinmanaPyinmana Township of Nay

Pyi Taw Council Area on 26

December.

The member of Nay

Pyi Taw Council the

Pyinmana Township In-

charge, the member of

Nay Pyi Taw Development

Affairs Committee and

the Pyinmana Township

Administrator formally

opened the new road. Like

Shwechi (6) and Shwechi (9)

streets, the new Shwechi (1)

street is also important one

linking Bogyoke Street, Bo

Tauk Htain Street and streets

to Pyinmana Myoma market,

Ahayathukha market, school

and hospital in the township.

As it was upgraded into a

tarred road, people will be

able to use the road as an

all-weather one. MNA

Apartment fre in Kyimyindine

TownshipYangon, 5 JanA re

broke out at an apartment

on the third oor of a six-

storey building on Kathit

street in Thida ward of

Kyimyindine Township at

about 6 pm on 3 January. A

total of ve re engines and

two administrative vehicles

together with 75 re crews

put out the re in cooperation

with local people at about

6.15 pm.

The investigation into

the cause of the fire is

ongoing. Kyemon

Stimulant tab lets seized in Lashio

Yangon , 5 Jan

School Family Day of No(1) Basic Education High

School was held at the

school in Dagon Township,

here, on 3 January.

School Headmaster Dr

Aung Ko Ko, Secretary of

parent-teacher association

Dr Khin Ko Latt and

member the board of

trustees of the school U

Aung Ko Zaw formally

Dagon BEHS (1) celebrates

School Family Dayopened the ceremony.

N e x t , p r i z e -presentation ceremony

f o l l o w e d a t D a g o n

Thiri Hall of the school.

Patron of parent-teacher

association Daw Khin

Than Nwe and responsible

persons presented prizes

to outstanding students.

Students performed songs

and dances at the ceremony.

Kyemon

lashio , 5 JanA

combined force of Lashio

District Police Force andspecial anti-narcotic squad

led by Police Inspector

Maung Maung Oo seized

386 stimulant tablets from

a man in the compound of

Yan Taing Aung pagoda

in ward-1 of Lashio on 27December while conducting

anti-narcotic task according

to a tip-off.

Kyemon


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Sunday, 6 January, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

An exhibition of the works of Zhang Zexun, the fth-generation descendant ofTianjin-based clay sculpture art Clay Figure Zhang, is opened in south Chinas

Macao, on 4 Jan, 2013. The exhibition will be held at the UNESCO Centre ofMacao from 4 to 13 January. Xinhua

EU says Iran not responded to nuclear

talks proposalBrussels, 5 JanThe

European Union has pro-posed a time and place for

further talks on Irans nuclearprogramme, but Iran has yet

to respond, an EU spokes-man said on Friday.

Iran said earlier on Fri-day it had agreed to resume

talks in January with six ma-jor powersrepresented bythe EUbut the EU spokes-

man said Tehran had not yetreplied to proposals made on31 December.

We offered dates and avenue, but we are still wait-ing to hear back from Iran,

said Michael Mann, spokes-man for EU foreign affairs

chief Catherine Ashton, wholeads negotiations on behalfof the United States, Russia,

France, Britain, Germanyand China.

Mann declined to saywhich dates and venue theEU had proposed.

The countries involved

in the talksparticularly inthe Westwant to rein inIrans uranium enrichment

workwhich Teheran saysis for peaceful purposes onlybut which produces material

which, if processed further,can be used to make nuclearbombs.

There was no break-through in three rounds of

talks since April 2012. Butneither side has been will-ing to break off totally,partly because of concerns

this could lead to war ifIsrael attacks Iransome-thing it has threatened to

do if the Islamic Republiclooks close to getting nu-clear weapons.Reuters

Obama to name Hagel as

Defence Secretary

Senator Chuck Hagel

Washington, 5 Jan

US President Barack Obamais expected to name former

senator Chuck Hagel to serveas his next Defence Secre-tary, and the announcementcould come early next week,

US reports said on Friday.Media outlets such as

CNN, Foreign Policy maga-

zine, all quoted governmentsources as saying the an-

nouncement could come onMonday or Tuesday. White

House ofcials would notconrm the reports.

Hagels name has been

oated as a potential Defencenominee last month, but wasmet with resistance frompro-Israel groups. Several

Republican senators havealso voiced their opposition.Hagel has made comments

that the Jewish lobby in-timidated people in Wash-ington, and has expressed

willingness to engage dip-lomatically with Hamas andIran.

Hagel was also facedwith criticism from gayrights groups over comments

he made in 1998 about agay ambassadorial nominee.

Hagel apologized for thosecomments. Obama defendedHagel in an interview last

week, saying there was noth-ing that disqualied Hagelfrom being selected.

Hagel, 66, is a moderateRepublican. He served fortwo terms from 1997 to 2009

as senator for Nebraska, andis now chairperson for Presi-

dents Intelligence AdvisoryBoard. Other contenders forthe Pentagon post were said

to be Michele Flournoy, for-mer defence undersecretaryfor policy, and Ashton Cart-

er, deputy defence secretary,reports have indicated.

Xinhua

Italys Monti unveils alliance, rules out minister role

rome, 5 Jan ItalianPrime Minister Mario Montion Friday unveiled the alli-ance he will lead into Febru-

arys parliamentary electionand said he was unlikely toagree to serve as a minister

in another premiers cabinetafter the vote.

The 69-year-old former

European commissioner,who replaced Silvio Ber-lusconi as prime minister in

November 2011 when Italywas scrambling to avert a -nancial crisis, announced last

week that he would run for asecond term. Monti said onFriday the grouping would

be called With Monti forItaly, whose logo is a circu-lar symbol with the colours

of the Italian ag and his sur-name in the centre.

I hope that (the newalliance) helps improve poli-tics, and that it renews the

interest of those Italians whohad turned their back on poli-tics, involving them actively

again in public affairs,Monti said.

Opinion surveys haveshown that up to 50 percent

of the electorate plan to ab-stain or are undecided in the24-25 February election that

is a three-way battle betweenrightist Berlusconi, Montiand centre-left frontrunner

Pier Luigi Bersani.Focusing the campaign

strongly around Monti could

be a risky tactic, with his pop-ularity dented by the toughtax hikes and spending cuts

he has introduced over thepast 13 months. Roughly 60percent of Italians are against

the idea of him standing for asecond term, polls show.

A poll by the Tecne re-

search institute released onSkyTG24 on Friday showed

that Montis grouping wouldlikely attract slightly morethan 12 percent of the vote.

Monti, who wants toform a broad coalition ofpro-Europe, pro-reform par-

ties after the election, said onFriday that his goal was tocontinue as prime minister,and he was unlikely to ac-

cept a job in someone elsescabinet.

When asked if he would

consider being, for example,the economy minister underanother prime minister, he

told La 7 television channel:

I believe not.I do not think I would

have the motivation to com-mit myself to serve a govern-

ment that did not agree withme on at least 98 percent ofpolicy, he said.

He told La 7 he wouldbe open to a three-way tele-vision debate with Berlusco-

ni and Bersani.Reuters

Outgoing Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti unveilsthe symbol of his party reading Civil choice with

Monty for Italy during a news conference in Rome on4 Jan, 2013.ReuteRs

Chavez swearing-in can be delayedCaraCas, 5 JanPresi-

dent Hugo Chavezs formal

swearing-in for a new six-

year term scheduled for 10January can be postponed

if he is unable to attend dueto his battle to recover fromcancer surgery, Venezuelas

vice president said on Friday.Nicolas Maduros com-

ments were the clearest indi-

cation yet that the Venezue-lan government is preparing

to delay the swearing-inwhile avoiding naming areplacement for Chavez or

calling a new election in theSouth American OPEC na-

tion.

In power since 1999, the58-year-old socialist leader

has not been seen in publicfor more than three weeks.Allies say he is in delicate

condition after a fourth op-eration in two years for anundisclosed form of cancer

in his pelvic area.The political opposi-

tion argues that Chavezspresence on 10 January inCuba where there are ru-

mors he may be dyingistantamount to the presidentsstepping down.

But Maduro, waving a

copy of the constitution dur-ing an interview with state

TV, said there was no prob-lem if Chavez was sworn inat a later date by the nations

top court.Reuters

Venezuelas Vice President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaks

next to Venezuelan National Assembly PresidentDiosdado Cabello (R) and Agriculture Minister Juan

Carlos Loyo, during a visit to Fama de Americas coffee

processing plant in Caracas on 3 Jan, 2013.ReuteRs

Ghanaian Pr esident urges national unity

ahead of new termaCCra, 5 JanGhanas

President John Dramani Ma-hama in a state of the nation

address to parliament hereFriday called on all Ghana-ians to forge ahead in unity.

While appraising thecountrys collective achieve-ments over the past four

years, Mahama, who wonthe 7 December presidential

election on the ticket of theruling National DemocraticCongress (NDC), reminded

Ghanaians of the hard workthat lay ahead of them.

He therefore admon-

ished the citizenry, especiallypoliticians, to work towardsgreater cooperation and col-

laboration, irrespective oftheir political differences.

Keeping the nation

safe, anchoring our constitu-

tional and democratic legacy

on stronger moral and cultur-al values, growing stronger

institutions; delivering oninfrastructural developmentand social services, infra-

structure and amenities to allparts of this nation, as well

as afrming our status as aPan African giant, remain farfrom nished, he said. Pres-

ident Mahama reminded thecountrys Members of Par-liament (MPs) that maintain-

ing that success would onlycome in their shared respon-sibility to work towards the

achievement of these goals.Mahama also recalled

the latest economic achieve-

ments of the nation, particu-larly in prudent scal andmacro-economic manage-

ment. Through hard work

and implementation of pru-

dent scal and monetarypolicies, we were able, over

the last four years, to sta-bilize the macro-economicenvironment. This resulted

in remarkable acceleration ofour growth, said Mahama,against the backdrop of the

distressed economy the NDCgovernment inherited in Jan-

uary 2009.A year after commer-

cial oil production, Ghanas

economic growth in 2011 hit14.4 percent and got toutedby the World Bank as one of

the fastest growing econo-mies in the world, while the

production gures for cocoa,Ghanas largest foreign ex-change earner, reached overone million metric tons.

Reuters


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Sci ence & Technol ogy


Armstrongs moon speech not

so impr ovised, brother tells

BBCCape Canaveral, 5

JanAstronaut Neil Arm-strong may not have beenspeaking entirely off the

cuff when he delivered themost iconic quote in the his-tory of manned space ight.Armstrong wrote out the sen-tence, Thats one small stepfor a man, one giant leap formankind, before blastingoff from Cape Canaveral,Florida, with Apollo Astro-nauts Buzz Aldrin and Mi-chael Collins in July 1969,his brother now says, ac-cording to the transcripts ofa documentary recently airedon BBC Two.

Because of a radio com-munications glitch, millions

of people watching on televi-sion as Armstrong becamethe rst human being to steponto the surface of the moonnever heard him utter the

word a before man. Arm-strong, who died in Augustat the age of 82, had alwaysmaintained he composed the

words after touching downon the moon on 20 July,1969, while he waited toleave the Eagle lunar lander.

But Armstrongsyounger brother Dean,speaking in an interviewfor the documentary, NeilArmstrong First Man onthe Moon aired on Sunday,said that was not entirelyaccurate.Dean told me thatNeil shared the words withhim shortly before he left forthe Cape, so maybe a coupleweeks before the mission,producer Chris Riley told

Reuters. An Armstrong fam-ily spokesman did not replyto a request fromReuters forcomment. I nd the timingof Dean Armstrongs revela-

tion to be curious, said Rob-ert Pearlman, owner and cu-rator of CollectSpace.com, aspace history website. Whywait until after his brotherdied? He was interviewed for

Neils authorized biographyin 2002 and apparently nevermentioned this story, despiteNeil giving permission to hisfamily and friends to speak

openly, Pearlman said. An-drew Chaikin, author of AMan on the Moon, whichserved as a template for anHBO miniseries produced byTom Hanks, said Armstrong

was asked many times overthe years when he came upwith the quote and alwaysreplied that it was spokenspontaneously.Reuters

Apollo 11 crews portrait session shows astron auts Neil

A Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin in this

Ju ly 1969 handout ph oto courtesy of N ASA.ReuteRs

EU says its Google case not

affected by US rulingBrussels, 5 Jan -- A

decision by US regulatorsto end a probe into whetherGoogle Inc hurt rivals by ma-nipulating internet searches

will not affect the EuropeanUnions examination of thecompany.

We have taken noteof the FTC (Federal TradeCommission) decision, butwe dont see that it has anydirect implications for ourinvestigation, for our discus-sions with Google, which areongoing, said Michael Jen-nings, a spokesman for theEuropean Commission, theEU executive.

US regulators on Thurs-day ended their investigationinto the giant Internet com-pany, which runs the worlds

most popular search engine.Other Internet com-

panies, such as MicrosoftCorp, had complained about

Google tweaking its searchresults to give prominenceto its own products. Butthe FTC said there was notenough evidence to pursue a

big search-bias case.The European Com-mission has for the past twoyears been investigatingcomplaints against Google,including claims that it un-fairly favoured its own ser-vices in its search results.

Google presented in-formal settlement proposalsto the Commission in July.On 18 December the Com-mission gave the companya month to come up withdetailed proposals to resolvethe investigation.

If it fails to address thecomplaints and is found

guilty, Google could eventu-ally be ned up to 10 percentof its revenue a ne of upto $4 billion.Reuters

People walk past a logo next to the main entrance of the

Google building in Zurich on 9 March, 2011.ReuteRs

Novells board must face investor suit over Attachmate saleWilmington, (Dela-

ware), 5 Jan Novell Incdirectors who approvedthe information technol-ogy companys 2010 salefor $2.2 billion must defenda lawsuit that alleges theyunfairly favored AttachmateCorp over other bidders. Theshareholders brought a rea-

sonably conceivable claimthat the directors acted in badfaith based on their unex-plained, extremely favorabletreatment of Attachmate,Delaware Court of ChanceryJudge John Noble wrote in a50-page opinion. His rulingon Wednesday will allow thecase to proceed.

Novells board agreedin November 2010 to sellthe company to Seattle-based software rm Attach-mate for $6.10 per share. Aspart of the deal, Novell alsoagreed to sell a collectionof patents to a group led byMicrosoft Corp for $450million. Novell sharehold-

ers, led by pension funds forOklahoma reghters andLouisiana police, sued andalleged that the board didnot allow another potentialbuyer, which initially hadthe higher bid, to partnerwith others as Attachmatedid. Attachmate was alsotold of the simultaneous

patent sale, while the otherbidder was not.

Bret Fitzgerald, aspokesman for Novell, whichis based in Waltham, Mas-sachusetts, did not imme-diately respond to a requestfor comment. Judge Noblerefused the directors requestfor an early dismissal, and

the case will now proceedto trial where the defendantscan present evidence and tes-timony to counter the plain-tiffs claims. Many investorlawsuits settle after survivinga motion to dismiss.

However, Noble diddismiss claims against At-tachmate and Elliott Asso-

ciates. The hedge fund hadbeen accused of gaming thesale of Novell to get whatplaintiffs said was nearly$10 per share for its 7 per-cent stake in the company.Elliotts unsolicited bid forNovell jump-started thesale process and the hedgefund helped nance the deal

with Attachmate.Reuters

Samsung expected to widen smar tphone lead

over Apple this year

People walk at a Samsu ng Electronics store in the

Gangnam area in Seoul on 22 Oct, 2012.ReuteRs

seoul, 5 Jan SamsungElectronics Co Ltd is ex-pected to widen its lead overApple Inc in global smart-phone sales this year with 35percent growth, helped by a

broad product lineup, marketresearcher Strategy Analyt-ics told Reuters on Friday.Apple, returning the offen-sive, could roll out a smaller,

cheaper iPhone Mini nextyear to grab market share bytargeting demand from usersof lower-end smartphones,Strategy Analytics said.

We expect Sam-

sung to slightly extend itslead over Apple this yearbecause of its larger mul-titier product portfolio,Neil Mawston, Executive

Director at Strategy Analyt-ics, said in an e-mail inter-view with Reuters. Global

smartphone shipments willjump 27 percent to 875 mil-lion this year, slowing fromlast years torrid 41 percentpace as growth is easing inmany key markets such asNorth America, China, thedeveloped economies ofAsia, and Western Europe,Mawston said.

South Koreas Sam-sung Electronics is forecastto sell 290 million smart-phones this year, up froma projected 215 millionin 2012, the research rmsaid. Apples smartphonesales are projected to reach

180 million this year, up33 percent from last year,slightly trailing Samsungs35 percent increase.

Reuters

Lenovo seeks top smartphone spotBeijing, 5 JanLenovo

Group aims to challengeSamsung Electronics Co Ltdto become the No 1 smart-phone vendor in the Chinesemarket this year, accordingto the companys chief ex-ecutive ofcer. Innovation,strong distribution channelsand effective operations havebeen the key factors that helpLenovo smartphones standout, said Yang Yuanqing,chairman and chief execu-

tive ofcer, in an interviewin Beijing on Friday.Founded in Beijings

Zhongguancun technologyhub in 1984, Lenovo hasbecome a personal com-puter giant, competing withrivals including Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc,and extending its reach tothe smartphone market. Le-novo was Chinas second-largest smartphone vendorby shipment in the third

quarter last year, behindonly Samsung, while Ap-ple Inc fell two places tosixth in the same period, ac-cording to reports from theInternational Data Corpora-tion. Specic market sharegures from local researchrm Analysys Internationalshowed Lenovos sharerose to 14.2 percent in thethird quarter, from 4.8 per-cent a year ago.

Lenovo does not want

to be the second player ... wewant to be the best, Yangtold China Daily, addingthat he hopes the companywill gain the top position inChinas smartphone marketthis year. Lenovo has thecondence to outperformSamsung and Apple, at leastin the Chinese market, hesaid. Yang said Lenovo haslong been dedicated to themobile phone business. Asearly as 2002, it started re-

search and developmentwork on mobiles. It was therst company to offer smart-phones and tablet comput-ers in the Chinese mainlandmarket, launching Le-Phone,a smartphone model, veyears ago.

IDC analysts said Le-novos rise is largely dueto aggressive ramping-upand improvements in chan-nel partnerships. Comparedwith Apple, which launches

one smartphone model an-nually on average, Lenovointroduced 46 smartphonemodels, covering all priceranges, to the Chinese marketin 2012. It also invested 5 bil-lion yuan ($793.5 million) inWuhan, the capital of HubeiProvince, to build a manu-facturing base with a produc-tion capacity of 30 millionto 40 million smartphones ayear. Yang said such facto-ries will help the companymaintain low stocks but withsteady supplies.

Wang Ying, an analystat Analysys International,

said: Lenovo possesses anobvious advantage over ri-vals in terms of sales chan-nels.

Xinhua


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BUSI NESS & HEALTH


The logo forChina-based networkingand telecommun ications

company Huawei is picturedat the ITU Telecom World inGeneva in this 24 Oct, 2011le photo. Chinas Huawei

Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL, the worlds No 2 telecom

equipment maker, expects its2012 revenues to exceed $35billion, up 10 percent from ayear earlier, its acting CEO

Guo Ping said.ReuteRs

Chinas Huawei expects prot jump after

repor ting drop in 2011Hong Kong, 5 Jan

Chinas HuaweiTechnologies Co Ltd,the worlds No 2 telecomequipment maker, expectsa 2012 prot gain after

reporting a sharp drop a yearago, thanks to new projects

and increased sales in high-end mobile phone marketssuch as Japan. Net prot is

expected to be around $2.4billion, rotating and actingChief Executive Ofcer

Guo Ping said in a NewYear message to employeeson Friday. That would bea rise of 29 percent from

11.6 billion yuan ($1.86billion) in 2011, based on

his forecast.Revenue is expected

to exceed $35 billion, Guosaid. In 2011, sales rose11.7 percent to 203.9 billion

yuan, or about $32 billion.Privately held Huawei andits crosstown rival ZTE

Corp have been expandingtheir footprint in the global

telecom equipment andmobile phone sectorsover the past few years.

While Huawei has boostedsales and gained marketshare in Europe, Africaand Asia, it ran into a few

obstacles last year in othermarkets such as the UnitedStates and Australia due to

national security and cyberespionage concerns.

Slower telecom spendingstemming from a weak

global economy andstiff competition in the

increasingly crowdedmobile phone sector have

also weighed on the outlookof equipment providers andhandset manufacturers.

We should devote ourlimited energy to specicbusiness objectives, and

avoid the impulse to expand

business blindly, Guo said.Managers who expandbusiness blindly must beheld accountable.

Reuters

Indias Infosys denies report of ring 5,000

staffMuMbai, 5 Jan

Indias Infosys Ltd said on

Friday a newspaper reportit was planning to re upto 5,000 poorly performing

workers was wrong,although it encourageschronic underperformers

to leave as part of its routinestaff management. The

Economic Times newspaperhad earlier said Bangalore-based Infosys, Indiassecond-largest software

services exporter and an

icon in the countrys $100billion outsourcing sector,was sacking up to 5,000workers to trim costs.

Infosys, which has

more than 150,000 staff,

said there was no masslay-off planned at the

company and the numberof underperformers that

could potentially leave wassignicantly lower than

the 5,000 mentioned in thepaper. We have a robustperformance management

system that includesstructured appraisals andperformance feedback, it

said in a statement. This isdone regularly and is not a

one-time event.Infosys, for years

an investor favourite for

exceeding its earningstargets, has struggledrecently as its big customerscut costs, missing its ownrevenue guidance in three

of the past four quarters.The software exporter maycut its revenue forecast for

the year to March whenit reports its Decemberquarter earnings on 11January, as US businessclients put off spending and

balk at signing big deals.With about 60 percent

of its business in theUnited States, Infosys is

particularly vulnerable to

swings in US corporatesentiment and has beenhit hard by spendingdeferrals by the companies

in the worlds largesteconomy.However, Infosysexecutive co-chairman

S Gopalakrishnan wasquoted by other mediareports on Friday as saying2013 would be betterthan last year for Indiasexport-driven information

technology industry.Reuters

A general view shows workers at a cafeteria inside abuilding at the Infosys campus at the Electronic City

area in Bangalore on 4 Sept, 2012. ReuteRs

Racial gaps in access to robotic prostate surgerynew YorK, 5 Jan

Minority and Medicaidcancer patients are less

likely to have their prostatesremoved at hospitals that

use robot-assisted surgery,according to a new study thatstops short of suggesting the

robotic technique representsbetter care. People who arepoor - frequently Hispanic,African American or black,

and Medicaid patients -- tendto get what is consideredto be less high-quality carethan those who are middleclass and wealthy, said DrOtis Brawley, chief medicaland scientic ofcer of the

American Cancer Society.

But Brawley, who

wasnt involved in the new

study, also said there is noevidence that removing a

prostate with a robot is betterthan the old-fashioned way,

with open surgery thatrequires an incision acrossa mans stomach. Thoseare two of several treatmentoptions available for prostate

cancer, including radiation aswell as active surveillance,also known as watchful

waiting. The American

Cancer Society estimatesapproximately 250,000 menwere diagnosed with prostatecancer in 2012, and about28,000 died from it.

Despite a lack ofevidence showing its

superiority, robot-assistedprostate removal has become

the predominant method

since being approved bythe US Food and DrugAdministration in 2000,

according to the researchers,led by Dr Simon Kim at theMayo Clinic in Rochester,Minnesota.

Robotic surgical toolsallow doctors to operatethrough small incisionswith the aid of a tiny video

camera, an approach thatis considered less invasive

but also tends to be moreexpensive. Kim and his

colleagues write in TheJournal of Urology thatevidence does exist to

show that black patients arealready less likely to getradiation or to have their

prostates removed, but thereis less data on whether theyand other minorities have

equal access to robot-assistedprostate removal.

For the study, Kimsgroup used two nationaldatabases to compare thedifferences between the

approximately 20,500cancer patients who hadtheir prostates removed athospitals offering robotic

surgery, and the 9,500 who

had their surgery at hospitalswithout robots between 2006and 2008.

Reuters

Competition affects who gets

a liver tr ansplantnew YorK, 5 Jan

More competition betweenmedical centres that performliver transplants may mean

sicker patients get lower-quality donor organs, a newanalysis suggests.

When more than onecentre has patients on thesame donor list, the centreshave an incentive to get

organs for as many of their

own patients as possible,researchers explained.

So doctors are morelikely to take the rstavailable organ when their

patient is at the top of the

transplant list whether or

not that pairing has the bestchance to succeed ratherthan risk the organ will go toanother centre.

There is the questionwhether competitiondecreases the ability of a

centre to better match donorand recipient characteristics,Dr John Paul Roberts from

the University of California,

San Francisco and hiscolleagues wrote.

They analyzed dataon more than 38,000liver recipients who hadtransplants from non-living

donors between 2003 and2009.The transplants were

done at 112 medical centresin 47 so-called distributionareas some that were

covered by only one centre

and some that fed organs tomultiple transplant centres.Roberts and his

colleagues found clinicallyimportant differences

showing patients whoreceived organs were initiallyworse off, with a higher risk

of dying or having theirtransplant fail, in areas that

had more medical centresin competition for the same

organs.For example, 10 percent

of patients who received

organs at centres with nocompetition had the worstscores for liver disease

severity pre-transplant,compared to more than 28percent of those in the high-

competition distributionareas.

Areas with high

competition also transplantedmore organs that wereconsidered at higher riskof failing, according to the

new ndings published

in the journal LiverTransplantation.

lthough that might not bethe best way of distributing

organs on a society-widescale, it could be considered

a plus for the people whootherwise wouldnt get anorgan or for livers that would

otherwise be considered toolow quality and be discarded.

Reuters

India tablet computer sales to

double in 2013new DelHi, 5 Jan

Sales of tablet computers in

India are expected to at leastdouble this year to 6 million,the markets third year ofgrowth, as new devices

attract business users andlow costs draw consumers,research rm CyberMedia

forecast. Sales are likelyto have reached 3 millionin 2012, up from about 0.5

million in 2011, the rm

estimated on Friday, citingdata for the quarter to end-

September, when companiesled by Samsung Electronics

Co Ltd sold 1.1 million

tablets.With the launch of

low-cost devices runningon Google Incs Android

platform by local rms, salesof tablets and smartphoneshave grown rapidly in the

last two years. A slew ofglobal makers of tablets have

also entered the market. In2013, new tablets based onMicrosoft Corps Windows

8 platform and companiesadoption of tablets for

business applicationswill change the marketsignicantly again, Faisal

Kawoosa, lead analyst at

An Apple logo is reected in the screen of a new Apple

iPad at an electronics store in Mumbai on 27 April,2012. ReuteRs

CyberMedias telecomspractice, said in a statement.

India is the worlds secondbiggest telecommunicationsmarket with about 900 million

mobile phone accounts. Butcomputer penetration is low,and only about a tenth of its

1.2 billion people have access

to Internet. Samsung had a23.9 percent share of tablet

computers sold in India in theJuly-September quarter lastyear, CyberMedia Researchsaid.

Reuters


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6 New Light of Myanmar

Rescue vehicles wait on the re accident site in LankaoCounty, central Chinas Henan Province, on 4 Jan, 2013.A re broke out in a residential building in Chengguan

Township of Lankao County at about 8:30 a.m. on Fridayand was extinguished about two hours later.Xinhua

22 civil society actors to take par t in Central Afr ican

Republics peace talksYaounde, 5 Jan The

Central African Republicscivil society groups will takepart in the peace negotiations

over the ongoing conict

between the governmentand the Seleka coalition of

rebels, scheduled to takeplace in Libreville from 8

January under the guidanceof the Economic Communityof Central African States

(CEEAC), Xinhua heard onThursday.

There will be 22 civil

society actors who will

represent youths, women,

trade unions, the privatesector, development NGOsas well as human rights

NGOs during the Libreville

talks, said Modeste Gonda,the chairman of the Central

Africas Network of NGOs.This is one of the

recommendations that weremade on the same day inBangui by colonel Ben

Agourou who is the deputyhead of the CEEACs PeaceConsolidation Mission in the

Central African Republic,

who had been sent from

Libreville to prepare for theprocess to nd a solutionto the crisis that began on

10 December when the

rebels took up arms withan objective of removing

President Francois Bozizefrom power.

Wh i l e c i t i n g t h estatement by Agourou,Gonda said that although 8

January has been chosen asthe date for the beginningof talks in Libreville, the

government and the rebels

have not yet conrmed ifthey are comfortable withthe date.

The two parties have

declared their support for the

talks, even though the armedrebels have demanded a

transition without Bozize whoon his part has promised to

form a government of nationalunity with his adversaries.Other sources within the

diplomatic circles in Banguisaid that the peace negotiationsin Libreville may start on 10

January.Xinhua

Gunmen kidnap oil

mar keter in Niger ia

P o r t H a r c ou r t ,

(Nigeria), 5 Jan Nigeriaspolice in southeast Rivers

State on Friday conrmedthe abduction of a senior staffof the Pipelines, ProductsMarketing Company in the

state.State police spokes-

person Ben Ugwuegbulam

told reporters in PortHarcourt, the oil rich statecapital city, that the victim

was a Deputy manager atthe PPMC.

The manager was

abducted at Ozuoba in theoutskirts of Port Harcourt

on 3 January, he added,noting that the details of theincident are still sketchy.

Pakistani girl shot by Taleban leaves British hospital

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai (C) waves withnurses as she is discharged from The Queen Elizabeth

Hospital in Birmingham in this handout photographreleased on 4 Jan, 2013.ReuteRs

London, 5 Jan APakistani girl shot in the

head by the Taleban foradvocating girls educationhas been discharged from a

British hospital after doctorssaid she was well enough tospend time recovering with

her family.Fifteen-year-old Malala

Yousufzai, who was shot

by the Taleban in October

Brazil registers record-high aircraft accidents in 2012

riode Janeiro, 5 Jan Brazil registered in2012 a record number

of aircraft accidents, the

Centre for Investigationand Prevention of AircraftA c c i d e n t s ( C e n i p a )announced on Friday.

The country witnessed

blaming Correa, a formereconomy minister, for the

countrys 1999 bank crisis.Ex-president Lucio

Gutierrez is also among theeight presidential candidates.

Meanwhile, there are1,381 candidates vyingfor seats in the National

Assembly and 45 for seatsin the Andean Parliament.

Xinhua

Q u i t o , 5 J a n Ecuadorian President Rafael

Correa on Friday vowedto win the 17 Februarypresidential elections as hecurrently enjoys a support

rate of more than 60 percent.Today we begin

to build a path towards

a new victory of ourrevolution, our campaignwill be with happiness,

and brought to Britain fortreatment, was discharged

on Thursday but is dueto be re-admitted in lateJanuary or early February for

reconstructive surgery to herskull, doctors said.

Th e sh o o t in g o f

Yousufzai, in the head atpoint blank range as sheleft school in the Swat

valley, drew widespread

international condemnation.

She has become aninternationally recognized

symbol of resistance tothe Talebans efforts todeny women education andother rights, and more than

250,000 people have signedonline petitions calling forher to be nominated for a

Nobel Peace Prize for heractivism.

Doctors at the Queen

Elizabeth Hospital inB i r m i n g h a m w h e r e

Yousufzai was treated saidthat although the bullethit her left brow, it did

not penetrate her skull butinstead travelled underneath

the skin along the side of herhead and into her neck.She was treated by

d o c t o r s s p e c i a l i z i n g

in neurosurgery, traumaand other disciplines in adepartment of the hospital

which has treated hundredsof soldiers wounded inconflicts in Afghanistan

and Iraq.

Malala is a strong young

woman and has worked hardwith the people caring for her

to make excellent progressin her recovery, saidDave Rosser, the hospitalsmedical director.

Following discussionswith Malala and her medicalteam, we decided that she

would benet from beingat home.

Yousufzai has already

been leaving the hospitalon a regular basis on home

leave in recent weeks tospend time with her parentsand younger brothers, who

have a temporary home incentral England, Rosser said.

During those visitsassessments have been carriedout by her medical team toensure she can continue to

make good progress outsidethe hospital, Rosser said.

Yousufzais father said

in October he was sure shewould rise again to pursueher dreams after medical

treatment.Reuters

Our anti-kidnap unit has

commenced investigationinto the incident.

We will give you

more details as soon aswe get them, he said,adding that no group had

claimed responsibility for theabduction and no ransom hadbeen demanded.

Nigeria is one of theworst countries in the worldfor kidnapping, where it is a

lucrative criminal enterpriseworth millions of dollars ayear. Kidnapping has become

everyones nightmare inNigeria. People are being

abducted as they go abouttheir daily business.

Xinhua

The designer of the small hand lantern shows thelantern featuring a cartoon snake during a news

conference at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, southeastChinas Taiwan, on 4 Jan, 2013. The conference

held on Friday was to issue the shapes of the mainlantern and small hand lantern of 2013 Taipei Lan-tern Festival. The fes tival will k ick off in Taipei on

24 February.

Xinhua

unity and harmony. Letsleave bitterness to the ones

who cant defeat us in theelections, Correa, also headof the ruling PAIS AllianceMovement, told supporters

in Quito on Friday when theofcial election campaignbegan.

The opposition hasaccused the ruling party ofmaking use of government

resources to promoteCorreas reelection. To

avoid affecting his duties,the president has appliedfor a 30-day leave to run hiscampaign.

Another candidate, thecenter-right former bankerGuillermo Lasso, who came

second in the polls with 11percent support, has been atough critic of the president,

Ecuadors highly supported president vows to win

re-election

a total of 168 aircraftaccidents in 2012, up from159 in 2011. 146 of them

involved planes and 22

involved helicopters. Butthe number of deaths inaircraft accidents fell to 71in 2012, down from 90 in

2011, according to Cenipa.

Last year, we startedseveral actions focusing onprevention and improving

aircraft maintenance, in

order to reduce the numberof accidents in the country.2012 was a transitional year,and we believe there will be

a reduction in 2013, head

of Cenipa Luiz Roberto doCarmo Lourenco said.

He also said that Cenipa

is working alongside the

National Civil AviationAgency and the presidencysCivil Aviations Secretariatto boost supervision in the

sector.Xinhua


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Beirut, 5 JanSyriasaid on Friday a car bombat a crowded petrol stationin Damascus was set off byterrorists, a term it uses

for rebels seeking to topplePresident Bashar al-Assad.The blast on Thurs-

day night killed 11 peopleand wounded 40 at a sta-tion packed with Syriansqueuing for fuel, whichhas become scarce in the21-month insurgencyagainst Assad, in the sec-ond petrol station attack inthe capital this week, oppo-sition activists said.

Terrorists ... blew upan explosive device at Qas-sioun Petrol Station nearHamish Hospital in Barzeh,Damascus, martyring sev-

eral civilians, state newsagency SANA said.

The United Nationssays more than 60,000people have been killed inthe civil war, the longest,bloodiest conict born from

uprisings across the Arabworld in the past two years.

Dozens of people wereincinerated in an air strikeas they waited for fuel atanother Damascus pet-

Syr ia blames terr orists for deadly

petrol station blastrol station on Wednesday,according to oppositionsources.

The semi-ofcial al-

Ikhbariya television station

aired its own footage fromBarzeh, indicating the at-tack struck a government-held area. Barzehs resi-dents include members ofthe Sunni Muslim majorityand religious and ethnic mi-norities. The rebels hold acrescent of suburbs on thesouthern and eastern edgesof Damascus, which havecome under bombardmentby government forces. Re-bel forces also seized ter-ritory in Syrias north andeast during advances in thesecond half of 2012.

The war pits rebels,

mainly from the SunniMuslim majority, againsta government supportedby members of AssadsShiite-derived Alawitesect and some members ofother minorities who fearrevenge if he falls. Assadsfamily has ruled for 42years since his father seizedpower in a coup.

US soldiers who willman Patriot anti-missile

batteries to protect Turkeyfrom the spillover of theSyrian conict began ar-riving in the NATO allyon Friday, the US military

said, but the missiles them-selves are due later.Turkey formally asked

NATO for the missiles inNovember to bolster secu-rity along its 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria.

Turkey repeatedly hasscrambled ghter jets along

the frontier and respondedin kind when Syrian shellscame down inside its bor-ders, fanning fears that thecivil war could spread todestabilize the region.

Fighting has forced560,000 Syrians to ee to

neighbouring countries,

according to the UnitedNations, causing a grow-ing humanitarian problemin the region. Lebanon, acountry which has so fartried to distance itself fromthe conict for fear it will

iname sectarian tensions,

approved a plan to start reg-istering 170,000 Syrian ref-ugees and ask internationaldonors for $180 million inaid.Reuters

Candidates queue to en ter examination rooms f or sitting the National Entrance

Examination for Postgraduate (NEEP) at North Ch ina University of Technology in

Beijing, capital of China, on 5 Jan, 2013. Examinees to take the exam on 5 Janu ary

are expected to hit a record high of 1.8 million this year.Xinhua

Man charged with spying for Israel in YemenAden, 5 JanA man

in Yemen has been chargedwith spying for Israel andwill soon face trial in thesouthern port City of Aden,ofcial sources said on Fri-day.

The man was arrestedthree weeks ago in the cityof Taiz after a period of sur-veillance, and was namedas 24-year-old computerengineer Ibrahim al-Dhara-

hi, the defence ministrysofcial newspaper reported

on Friday, citing a judicialsource.

He was brought toAden where, following aninvestigation by the crimi-nal prosecutor, he wascharged with being an agentworking for the Israeli in-telligence agency Mossad,the source said.

His case will be re-

ferred to Adens criminalcourt in the coming days,the source told the 26 Sep-tember newspaper.

Dharahi had travelledto several Arab countries aswell as to Israel, the reportsaid. The man carried twoID cardsone Yemeni, oneIsraeli, a security ofcial

in Aden told Reuters, de-clining to be named.

Reuters

Photo taken

on 4 Jan, 2013

shows a year of

snake stamp,

which is to be

formally released

on 5 Jan, at

Handan Post Of-

fce in Handan,north Chinas

Hebei Province.

The lunar year

2013 is the Year

of the Sn ake in

the Chinese zodi-

ac. The stamp of

year of sn akewill be released

by China Post

on S aturday.

Xinhua

Two New York police ofcers shot in leg

in separate encounters

newYork, 5 JanTwoNew York City police ofc-ers were shot in the leg lateThursday in separate inci-dents, including a shootingaboard a subway train, po-lice said. Two plainclothesofcers aboard a subway

train headed toward Man-hattan from Brooklyn atabout 7:30 pm EST (0030GMT) asked a man walk-ing between train cars foridentication, said Police

Commissioner Ray Kelly ina statement.

The man appeared to bereaching for his wallet but in-stead pulled out a 9-mm Tau-rus handgun and opened re.

Ofcer Lukasz Kozicki,

32, was struck once in eachof his upper thighs and oncein the groin, Kelly said.

His partner, ofcer Mi-chael Levay, 27, was shot inthe lower back but protectedby his bulletproof vest. Lev-ay returned re and killed the

gunman, Kelly said.A passenger in the sub-

way car suffered a grazewound in the leg, he said.

Roughly an hour earlier

on Thursday, police ofcer

Juan Pichardo was workingoff duty at his familys cardealership in the Bronx whentwo men attempted an armedrobbery. In a struggle withone of them, Pichardo wasstruck by a bullet in the rightthigh.

The wounded ofcer

held the gunman for arrestingofcers, who took him into

custody and later arrested theother man and another ac-complice, Kelly said.

The ofcers were being

treated at Lutheran Medi-cal Centre in Brooklyn andJacobi Medical Centre in the

Bronx.Reuters

Polish naval

ship to take

command of

NATO mine

counter-

measures

missionwArsAw, 5 JanThe

Polish naval ship Kontra-dmiral Xawery Czernicki

will take command ofNATOs Standing MineCountermeasures Group ina mission beginning later

this month, the Polish Na-vys Press service said onFriday.

According to the Navy,this mission will includevessels from Belgium, theNetherlands, Norway, Ger-many and Poland and willcover the Baltic Sea, theNorth Sea and the Norwe-gian Sea.

In 2002-2003, the Pol-ish ship took part in the En-during Freedom and IraqiFreedom missions in thePersian Gulf.

The Standing NATOMine CountermeasuresGroup is part of NATOsResponse Force, a jointforce geared to react to di-verse threats.

Xinhua

Rescuers transfer an injured man to a hospital in

northwest Pakistans Peshawar on 4 Jan, 2013. At least

two people were killed and one injured in a bomb blast

in Peshawar on Friday night, local media said.

Xinhua

More regions to reform migrant education

systemBeijing, 5 JanMore

Chinese Provinces and mu-nicipalities have announcededucation reforms that wouldallow children of migrantworkers to enter senior highschools and sit college en-trance exams locally.

Educational authoritiesin Ningxia, Shanxi, Hubei,Sichuan, Gansu, Henan,Shaanxi and Jiangsu an-nounced in recent days theirrespective plans to ensurethat children following their

migrant parents to cities canenjoy the same rights in edu-cation as their urban peers.

The announcementscame after 13 other provinc-

es and municipalities, includ-ing Beijing, Shanghai andGuangdong, published simi-lar plans amid nationwidecries for fairer educationalopportunities for children ofmigrant workers.

China currently hasmore than 250 million mi-grant workers living in cities.An estimated 20 million oftheir children have migratedto the cities, while some 10million are left behind intheir rural hometowns.

Chinas household reg-istration system used to con-ne kids to attending schools

in their home provinces. A2003 regulation amended

this by allowing migrantworkers children to receivethe countrys nine-year com-pulsory education in citieswhere their parents work.

However, children ofmigrant workers continuedto face the problem of havingto return to their hometownsfor further schooling whenthey were about to enter sen-ior high schools or at times ofcollege entrance exams.

In early 2012, the Min-istry of Education asked Chi-

nese cities to formulate plansregarding further educationand college entrance examsfor migrant workers chil-dren.Xinhua


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Sunday, 6 January, 20138 New Light of MyanmarN A T I O N A L


The year 2013: A time of

peace and prosperity

We left behind the year 2012 that witnessed aseries of exciting and impr essive reform pr ocesses

producing both the challenges and positive

developments. There were unpleasant events in

the previous year ar ising from misunderstand ing

between the parties concerned who fail to do

something on mature consideration. Whatever

twists and turns and ups and downs we faced in

the last year we hope this New Year will bring

greater peace and pr osperity to Myanmar in all

of its pursuit of genuine democracy.

Although our country has been widely

acknowledged as a mir acle in the tr ansition from

the militar y rule to the par liamentary democracy

among the some nations struggling to reach

democratic goal, internecine strife that inictscasualties on both sides is likely to remain as a

serious obstacle to reaching everlasting peace.

It became apparent to all stakeholders that it

is required to make negotiated political culture

healthy. This culture, in fact, once ourished when

Panglong agreement was reached dur ing the time

of independence struggle.

Now is the time to r evitalize this cultur e for the

success of our dr ive to forge nat ional reconciliation.

Only the negotiation based on mut ual tr ust could

help us atta in our common goal of ensuring peace

and pr osperity. In building trust thr ough it, all

stakeholder s are to desist from employing tactics

in a manner of tit-for-tat to restore balance or

to initially gain advantages before the process.In shaping the promising future through

ongoing reform process, those concerned are to

set aside differences and r espect the aspirat ion for

peace of the popu lation of 60 million. Flexibility of

appr oach, the only way acceptable to all par ties,

is an essential prerequ isite to the countr ys quest

for peace and pr osperity.

The entire people far an d wide the nation, on

their par t, ar e to clearly know what th ey need and

what th ey want. The onus is on all of us wher ever

we live in the Union to show one hundr ed per cent

commitment to suppor ting the peace process for

the sake of our country.

If old

buildings fall

down, well

build new

ones!

We dont need to

worr y about strong

qua kes, Coz weve

strong donors now!

Co

ntrac

tor

Shwe Min Tha

Nay Pyi Taw, 5 Jan

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker

Thura U Shwe Mann,

accompanied by Pyithu

H l u t t a w C o m m i t t e e

Chairmen U Soe Tha and

U Thein Swe, deputy

ministers and ofcials of

the Hluttaw Office, met

local people from eight

townships in Bago District

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets people of Bago distr ict

at Bago Region City Hall

this morning.

The meeting was also

attended by Bago Region

Chief Minister U Nyan Win,

region ministers, region

Hluttaw Speaker U Win Tin

and Hluttaw representatives,

departmental officials,

m e m b e r s o f s o c i a l

organizations, townselders

and local people.

He said the meeting

was aimed at collecting

opinions of the people

in the district, inviting

frank discussions. He called

on the region Hluttaw

representatives to keep in

touch with the people in

their constituencies to serve

the interests of the people

by reecting their views

in the Hluttaw. He urged

the regional authorities to

listen to the people and

attend to their needs and to

report the Hluttaw provided

that the case needs specic

legislation.

The regional authorities

and townselders reported

on issues of the district.

The deputy ministers and

departmental ofcials made

clarications.

In h is concluding

remarks, he stressed theneed to respect the laws and

regulations.

Bago district is formed

with Kyaukdaga, Shwegyin,

Nyaunglebin, DaikU, Waw,

Bago, Kawa and Thanatpin

townships.MNA

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann cordially converses with local people.mna

A departmental ofcial

submits reports on

respective sectors.

mna

MohNyiN, 5 Jan

Despite completed repair

of power grid, power plants

in Kachin State including

Tarpein and Chipwenge

hydropower plants can not

resume operation due to

security concerns, Mohnyin

Township Pyithu Hluttaw

Representative U Kyaw Soe

Kachin power plants still non-

operational due to security concernsLay said in his meeting with

Nanma villagers.

The villagers reported

to their MP on various

issues that range from

mobile communications

to road construction. He

presented 20 barrels of tar

contributed by Myitkyina

Township Pyithu Hluttaw

Representative U Thein Zaw

and K 1 million by himself

for construction of tarred

road in the village.

Galaingchaung small-

scale hydropower plant built

since 1990s is supplying

electricity to Mohnyin,

Hopin and Nanma one hour

in each two-day routine.

NLM-001

Nay Pyi Taw , 5

Jan Managing Director

of Myanma Posts and

Telecommunications UAung Maw was elected as

Chairman of Yatanarpon

Teleport Co., Ltd and

Chairman of A-1 Construc-

Yatanarpon Teleport elects

new chairmention Co., Ltd U Yan Win, as

Vice-Chairman, at the BOD

meeting of the Company held

on 2 January.BOD Chairman Union

Minister for Communi-

cations and Information

Technology, Vice-Chairman

Nay Pyi Taw, 5 Jan

Union Minister for Finance

and Revenue U Win Shein

met Japanese Deputy Prime

Minister and Finance

Minister Mr Taro Aso and

party at his ofce, here, on

5 January.

Myanmar , Japan focus on

nancial, monetary sectorsThey held talks on

clearing of foreign debts

of Myanmar, Japanese

assistance for development

of finance and monetary

sectors in Myanmar and

bilateral cooperation.

MNA

Deputy Minister and BOD

member Director-General

of the Directorate of

Telecommunications have

decided not to include in

the BOD at BOD meetingon 24 November, 2012

as the company is going

to transform into a public

company soon.MNA


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9New Light of Myanmar

Natmauk, 5 JanA

ceremony to open Natmauk

Tun Shein library was held in

Baw-aing Village of Wapan

Village-tract in Natmauk

Township of Magway

Region on 28 December.

Wellwisher National

Literary Award winner

Natmauk Tun Shein, Head

of Township Information and

Public Relations Department

Daw Ohnma Khin and

Village administrator U

Kyaw Win formally opened

Natmauk Tun Shein Library

opensthe library.

The wellwisher explained

the purpose of donation.

Then, the wellwisher

donated 550 books and 1500

copies of magazines and

journals, Head of Township

IPRD Daw Ohnma Khin

30 books and rural people

K 50,000 to the library.

The building, 20 feet

long, 15 feet wide and 12 feet

high, was constructed at a cost

of K 2.5 million.

Myanma Alinn

Chanayethazanian wr iter s meetmaNdalay , 5 Jan

Chanayethazan Township

W r i t e r s A s s o c i a t i o n

of Mandalay held the

annual general meeting

and the Sarsodaw Day

at the hall of Township

Information and Public

Relations Department on

35 th Street in Mandalay on

30 December.

Writer Maung Than-MA, chai rman of the

township associat ion ,

made a speech. Secretary

Writer Tin Ma Ma Khaing-

Mann Tekkatho read the

message sent by Myanmar

Writers Association.

Staff Ofcer Daw Than

Than Wai of Mandalay

D i s t r i c t I n f o r m a t i o n

and Publ ic Relat ions

Department and Head

of Township IPRD U

Bo Bo Han discussed

establishment of public

book corners.

Bukha-Phone Myint

submitted the annual report.

L a t e r , o f f i c i a l s

presented certificates of

CSC ISSUSED: Staff led by Head of Chin State

Imm igration and National Registration Department

U Soe Paing M yint issue citizenship scrutiny cards to

local people in Haka while implementing Moe Pwint-4

plan recently.mna

mrauku, 5 JanWith a

view to promoting education

standard of local students

in MraukU Township ofRakhine State, a ceremony

to donate cash to the U

Cash donated to education

foundation in MraukUAung Htay Oo Education

Foundation was held at

the hall of MraukU Basic

Education High School No.1 on 31 December.

In commemoration of

the 51st birthday of U Aung

Htay Oo, his family donated

K 5.1 million to Headmistress

Daw Ma Khin Win so as to

set up U Aung Htay Oo

Education Foundation.

Myanma Alinn

Nay Py i taw , 5

JanWhile carrying out

sanitations at Myadazaung

e n c i r c l e d z e d i a n d

Ngwehtihsaung Pagoda in

MraukU of Rakhine State,

the devotees saw 80 Buddha

images each of which is one

inch high near Myadazaung

zedi on 28 December.The encircled pagoda is

located half a mile north of

MraukU Nandawgon. The

pagoda is one of the pagodas

MraukU yields more ancient

Buddha images

built by King Min Saw Mon

in 1430 AD. The Buddha

images were cast in lead with

Bhumipassa Mudra.

The structure of the

pagoda collapsed. To be able

to maintain the collapsed

structure, the devotees found

the Buddha images.

At present, the Buddhaimages are being kept at

MraukU Archaeological

Museum.

MNA

honour to those who donated

books to the Township

Writers Association.

Myanma Alinn

PyiNmaNa, 5 JanUnder

the guidance of Nay Pyi

Taw Council, Nay Pyi Taw

Development Committee

Samples of foodstuff checked at Aharathukha

Market

performed talks on health

knowledge and checked

footstuffs at Aharathukha

Market in Pyinmana on 28

December.

Staff Ofcer U Maung

Maung of the market, UThein Htaik Soe of Health

Department of Nay Pyi Taw

Development Committee,

Assistant Surgeon Dr Kyaw

Myo Naing of Pyinmana

Peoples Hospital (200-bed),

Deputy Head of Pyinmana

T o w n s h i p L i v e s t o c k

Breeding and Veterinary

Department Daw Hla Hla

Nwe and ofcials of Health

Department and Pyinmana

Police Station checked

samples of foodstuffs at

Aharathukha Market.

Myanma Alinn

Nay Pyi taw, 5 Jan

Taunggyi University held

the fresher welcome party

for students from all majors

for 2012-2013 academic year

Taunggyi University welcomes

fresher students

on 31 December.

The rector and the pro-

rector extended greetings to

the students.

MNA

myiNmu, 5 JanThe

water tanks of Myinmu

Township Development

Affairs Committee in Minye

Kyawswa Ward were

damaged in the past and in

consequence, water owed

into Ayeyawady River via the

sewerage water tank.

A person who inspected

the tank said that mud and sand

in addition to sadiments of the

water are seven feet deep in

the 125,500-gallon-capacity

water tank.

Due to concerted efforts

of the workers under the

supervision of Township

Development Affai rs

Water tanks in regular functions after cleaning in MyinmuCommittee, the two water

tanks have been cleaned.

The mud and sand were

removed from the tanks from

23 to 26 December. As of 27

December, the tanks supply

water to the local people

regularly, said plumber U

Zaw Myint.Myanma AlinnkaNbalu, 5 JanHead

of Kanbalu Township

Livestock Breeding and

Veterinary Department

Dr Kyaw Win, Deputy

Heads of Department Dr

Aung Shwe Tun and Dr

Myat Lin and departmental

ofcials supervised Zigon

(a) livestock breeding zone

in Kanbalu Township on 22

Poultry farms fumigated in

Kanbaluand 23 December.

They inspected death

of poultry in the farms

They fumigated the

poultry farms so as to

prevent outbreak of avian

inf luenza d isease and

disseminated knowledge

of raising bio-security to

poultry raisers.

Myanma Alinn

Take Fire PreventiveMeasures

Nay Pyi taw, 5 Jan

Secretary of Myanmar

National Sports Committee

Deputy Minister for Sports

U Thaung Htaik inspected

training of players in Judo,

Karatedo, Taekwondo and

weightlifting events at

Training Centre No. 2 in

Lewe Township of Nay Pyi

Taw Council Area on 31

December morning.

Athletes gear ing up for XXVII

SEA GamesAfter hearing the reports

presented by departmental

ofcials, the deputy minister

fullled the requirements of

the athletes.

At the meeting room

of the training centre, the

deputy minister met those

in-charge and coaches of

the sports events and gave

necessary instructions.

Myanma Alinn


10/16


WORLD

10 New Light of Myanmar

Women Members

of the Democratic

Caucus pose for

a group photo on

Capitol Hill in

Washington, the

United States, on 3

Jan , 2012 to high-

light the historic

diversity of theHouse Democratic

Caucus in the

113th Congress

and celebrate the

increased number

of women joining

the Democratic

Caucus.

Xinhua

Ex-Austrian Airlines employees plan sue for

50 mln eur os in paymentsVienna, 5 JanMore

than 200 former AustrianAirlines (AUA) pilots andight attendants are plan-

ning to take action againsttheir former employer overseverance packages they

believe were calculated in-correctly, Der Standardreported in its Friday edi-

tion.The operations of AUA

were taken over by sub-sidiary Tyrolean Airwayson 1 July, 2012, with 117

pilots and 220 ight attend-ants, including those now

lodging the complaints,

deciding to resign ratherthan continue under thenew management.

AUA spent a total of60 million euros (79.2 mil-lion US dollars) on sever-

ance packages, for someindividuals up to 700,000euros. Lawyer for the ex-

employees Roland Gerlachsaid those involved are

entitled to more, and plansto launch a class-actionlawsuit against the AUA in

February to claim at least50 million euros. Gerlach

Four Fr ench

hostages in

Niger alive

but in poor

conditionsParis, 5 Jan Four

French hostages kidnappedtwo years ago in northernNiger are still alive but in

poor conditions, FrenchForeign Minister LaurentFabius said here on Thurs-

day.Fabius told the families

of the four hostages that

their loved ones were aliveand in good health, even ifthey are obviously being

held in poor conditions,according to a statement re-

leased by the foreign min-istry following his meetingwith the family members.

The four French na-tionals were abducted byAl-Qaeda militants in the

Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)more than two years agowhen they were working

for the French nuclear rmAreva and its subcontrac-tor Satom. French expatri-

ates have been the targetsof Islamist groups in theSahel region in response to

Paris military commitmentin Afghanistan and its con-tinued support of a planned

military operation to oustIslamists insurgents fromthe northern region of Mali.

Three weeks ago,30 gunmen kidnapped a

French national in north-ern Nigeria and killed twopeople after storming a

residence where expatriateworkers were staying.

French President Fran-

cois Hollande rmly con-demned the kidnapping,saying Islamist insurgents

from AQIM were responsi-ble for incident. I can notaccept that there are contin-

ued threats to our citizens.We must be rm whilemaintaining contacts (to

release hostage)... I refusethe trade of hostages, Hol-lande afrmed.Xinhua

said still-active employees

also had a case to make forfurther entitlements, whichcould bring the total sum

to well over 100 millioneuros. The AUA deniesany fault in the matter, with

spokesman Peter Thiertelling Der Standard thecompany was condent

we have acted legally cor-rectly, and that the com-

pany was forced to adoptnew measures in its pensionpayments system to ensure

survival of the company.Xinhua

A little boy car-

ries a shop bag

for h is mother

outside a shop

in downtown

Brussels, capi-

tal of Belgium,

on 3 Jan, 2013.

The big sales

season for new

year began

here on

Thursday.

Xinhua

Violence dr ags on in Syria, trilater al

talks expected

Damascus, 5 JanClashes continued between

armed rebels and PresidentBashar al-Assads troopsnear the Syrian capital of

Damascus and elsewheredespite international effortsto defuse the 22-month

crisis. A car bomb torethrough a gas station inDamascus late Thursday,

killing at least nine people,including children, and in-juring 40 others.

All the killed were ci-vilians standing in queues toll their buckets and plastic

containers with heating die-sel at Qasioun gas station

near the Hamish military

hospital, pro-governmental-Ekhbaria TV said.

Blasts have become in-

creasingly common in Syriaat a time when the United

Nations said more than60,000 people had died inthe Syrian conict.

Earlier on Thursday, asuicide car bomb went offnear an army checkpoint in

Syrias northern provinceof Idlib, causing only mate-rial damages.

Clashes between rebelgroups and governmentforces continued unabated

in several areas across thecountry.

The drumbeat of shells

reverberated across sev-eral districts of Damascus,

where insurgents attempted

to take control of militarybases but fared poorly.

The government troops

unleashed a strong repow-er to clear the peripheries

of Damascus from armedrebels. The pro-govern-ment al-Watan daily said

Thursday that the suburbof Daraya, a ashpoint, wasexpected to be declared se-

cure within several hours.Opposition forces said

a day earlier that more than

70 people were killed in anairstrike on the Damascussuburb of Mlaiha.

Gen Abdullah Ayoub,Syrian army chief of staff,stressed on Thursday the

conspiracy against Syriahas fallen and urged the

Syrian troops to continue

their holy tasks in crushingarmed terrorist groups and

their hideouts.Xinhua

Ir an says talks with big powers to be held

in J anuarynew Delhi, 5 Jan

Iran has agreed to holdtalks with six major powersabout its atomic program

in January but the date andvenue has yet to be decided,

the countrys top nuclearnegotiator said on Friday.

The six powers want torein in Irans uranium en-

richment program to ensureit is geared only for civilianenergy, through a mix of di-

plomacy and sanctions. Irandenies Western assertions itis seeking nuclear weap-

ons capability. We have

accepted that these talksshould be held in January,but until now, the details

have not been nalized,Jalili said through a transla-

tor during a trip to India.The six powersthe

United States, Russia,France, Britain, Germany

and Chinahave failed toachieve a breakthrough inthree rounds of talks since

April. But neither side hasbeen willing to break offtotally, partly because of

concern this could lead to

war if Israel attacked itsarch-foe.

The powers last met

Iran for talks in Moscow.That meeting was followed

by low-level technical talksin Istanbul. Jalili is thesecond member of Iransnuclear team to visit India

in the past month. He saidhe welcomed the two coun-tries strong ties but said In-

dia had no particular role inget t ing nuclear talksrestarted.Reuters

Irans Supreme National

Security Council Secre-

tary Saeed Jalili answers

questions during a joint

news conference with

Iraqs National Security

Adviser Faleh Al-Fayad

(not pictured) in Baghdad,on 8 gust, 2012.

ReuteRs

Arrested Italian marines return

to India after Christmasnew Delhi, 5 Jan

The two Italian marineswho were facing murder

charges in India for alleg-edly killing two Indian sh-ermen mistaken as pirates

have returned to India aftercelebrating Christmas withtheir families at home, re-

ported local media on Friday.Massimiliano Latorre

and Salvatore Girone were

allowed to go home for twoweeks by the High Court in

Kerala, south India. They

returned to Kochi on Fridaymorning on a ight fromRome, said Press Trust ofIndia. They will soon leavefor a court to surrender theirpassports and go back to

police custody.The marines were ar-

rested on 19 February last

year for shooting dead twoIndian shermen from themerchant vessel Enrica

Lexie off Indias southerncoast, mistaking the sher-

men as pirates.Xinhua

China stresses support for

urban public transpor t

developmentBeijing, 5 JanThe Chi-

nese government has vowedto introduce more measuresto prioritize the development

of public transport systems

in the countrys increasinglycongested urban areas.

In downtown areas,there should be a bus stopevery 500 meters. The use of

public transport should ac-count for about 60 percent ofmotor vehicle use, according

to a statement by the StateCouncil, Chinas cabinet,

released Saturday on the of-cial website of the Chinesegovernment, www.gov.cn.

Airport shuttle buses, schoolbuses and shuttle buses forspecic institutions can use

public transport lanes, andmore efforts will be made

to improve the taxi book-ing system, according to thestatement.

Authorities will expand

the public transport vehicle

eet and ask bus operators to

increase driving speeds.According to the state-

ment, between 2011 and

2015, public transport vehi-

cles will be exempt from theconsumption tax and they

will enjoy favorable rates invehicle and vessel tax andelectricity charges. They will

also receive subsidies forfuel and diesel use. Roadshave become overcrowded

in many Chinese cities, es-pecially in mega-cities like

Beijing and Shanghai, due tothe explosion in private carconsumption and poor driv-

ing habits.According to a survey

on daily commutes conduct-

ed by IBM in 2011, Beijinghas the second worst traf-

c jams in the world, afterMexico City. Shenzhen, abooming economic hub insouthern China, ranked third

on the list.Xinhua


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11New Light of Myanmar

S Koreas president-elect meets with

Japanese envoysSeoul, 5 JanSouth

Koreas President-electPark Geun-hye on Friday

met with a delegation dis-patched by Japanese Prime

Minister Shinzo Abe.The envoys, led by for-

mer Japanese nance min-ister Fukushiro Nukaga,

gave Park a letter in which

Abe voiced hope for pro-gress in bilateral relations,Parks spokeswoman Cho

Yoon-sun told reporters.The Japanese leader,

who returned to power ingeneral elections last year,said in the letter the twocountries share values of

democracy and market

economy, Cho added.While domestic issues

dominated the presidential

campaign, the president-elect has said the disputed

islets are not subject to ne-gotiations and urged Japanto squarely face the is-sues.

The 63-year-old man,who was taken to a local

hospital, was arrested lastyear for ramming a truckinto the Japanese embassy

in Seoul.Xinhua

South Koreas

President-elect

Park Geun-hye (R)

meets with former

Japanese nance

minister Fuku -

shiro Nukaga, who

leads a delega-

tion dispatched by

Japanese Prim e

Minister Shin zo

Abe, in Seoul,

South Korea, on 4

Jan , 2013.

Xinhua

China kicks off election of

engineering academiciansBeijing, 5 JanThe

Chinese Academy of Engi-

neering (CAE), one of thecountrys top think tanks,

started its biennial electionof academicians on Friday.

According to regula-

tions, the academy will bejoined by no more than 60academicians during the

elections, and in most cas-es nominated candidatesshould be under the age of

70. There are special cir-cumstances where nomi-nees can be above 70.

Punishment will be

Philippine govt condemns N Philippine

shooting rampage

Manila, 5 JanThePhilippine government

on Friday condemned theshooting spree which killedat least nine people and in-

jured 11 others in the north-ern Philippine Province ofCavite.

Deputy presidentialspokesman Abigal Valtesaid in a news brieng that

the tragic incident should

spur the Philippine Nation-al Police (PNP) to boost its

campaign against loose re-arms in the country.

We condemn the

shooting incident, especial-ly since the victims includ-ed children, Valte said.

She said state inves-tigators are already in-vestigating the possibility

that the suspect, who was

identied as Ronald Bae,was under the inuence of

drugs when he committedthe crime.

Bae used a .45-caliber

pistol to shoot his neighborsin Tabon 1 village in Kawittown, Cavite.

The suspect was alsokilled after he engaged re-sponding policemen in a

shootout.Xinhua

Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema (R, Front)

shakes hands with visiting Bangkok Governor

Sukhumbhand Paribatra in Phnom Penh,

Cambodia, on 4 Jan, 2013. Cambodia and Thailandentered into an agreement on Friday to establish

a sister cities relationship between Phnom Penh

and Bangkok in a bid to promote broader relations

and cooperation.

Xinhua

Cambodia to spend 21 mln USD for

July general electionPhnoM Penh, 5 Jan

Cambodia will spendabout 21 million US dol-

lars to cover for the pro-ceedings of the generalelections on 28 July, asenior ofcial at the Na-

tional Election Committee(NEC) said on Friday.

The budget for the

forthcoming elections isabout 21 million US dol-lars, up from about 17 mil-

lion US dollars in the lastelections in 2008, Tep

Nytha, NECs secretary-

general, said in a pressbrieng, saying that the

government covers all ex-penses.

The increase in budgetwas due to the rise in turn-

outs, he said, explainingthat in the 2008 elections,there were only about 8

million eligible voters, butin the forthcoming elec-tions, there are up to 9.67

million voters.Cambodia holds a gen-

eral election once in every

ve years. The last one wasconducted in July 2008.

At that time, the Cam-bodian Peoples Party ofPrime Minister Hun Senwon 90 seats in the Na-

tional Assembly, followedby the Sam Rainsy Partywith 26 seats, the Human

Rights Party 3 seats, theNorodom Ranariddh Party2 seats and the Funcinpec

Party 2 seats.Xinhua

1,000 ships

stuck in E

China sea icejinan, 5 JanA cold

snap has created a layer ofthick sea ice on Laizhou

Bay in east Chinas Shan-dong Province, leaving about1,000 vessels stranded in the

water. Zheng Dong, chiefmeteorologist at the YantaiMarine Environment Moni-

toring Centre und

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