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Volume XX, Number 262 10th Waning of Nadaw 1374 ME Monday, 7 January, 2013

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New Light of MyanmarPyithu Hluttaw Speaker assists in fullling desires

of local people in MaubinNay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw

and the Union government

have committed to fullling

the needs of the people,

giving priority to the tasks

that should be carried

out rst, said Speaker of

Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U

Shwe Mann at the meeting

with local people at Toe

Shwewah Hall in Maubin

today.

The Speaker of Pyithu

Hluttaw visited the areaalong with Chairmen of

Hluttaw committees U Htay

Oo and U Soe Naing, deputy

ministers and ofcials of the

Foreign Heads of State

send felicitations to

President U Thein SeinNay Pyi Taw, 6 JanThe following are messages of

felicitations from foreign Heads of State/Government sent to

President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein

Sein, on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary Independence

Day of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

From King Abdullah Bin

Abdulaziz Al Saud

King of the Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia

Custodian of the Two Holy

Mosques

His Excellency,

It gives us great pleasure

on the Anniversary of your

countrys Independence

Day, to send to Your

Excellency on behalf of the

people and the Government

of the Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia and our name.

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s a n d

Best Wishes for Health

and Happiness and to

the Friendly People of

Myanmar most Progress

and Prosperity.

Our Best Regards for

Your Excellency.

From Mr Joachim GauckPresident of the Federal

Republic of Germany

Excellency,

On the occasion of

the 65 th anniversary of

Myanmars independence

permit me to offer you and

the people of Myanmar

warmest congratulations on

behalf of myself as well as

my compatriots.

In Germany, too ,

the political, social and

economic reforms that you

have initiated are widely

recognized and appreciated.

In this endeavour we will

continue to support you and

your country in every way

we can. Having intensied

our bilateral relations over

the past year, we now have

a good basis for this, a basis

on which we can build also

in 2013.

From Md Zillur Rahman

President of the Peoples

Republic of Bangladesh

Excellency,

On behalf of the people

of Bangladesh and on my

own behalf, I extend to Your

Excellency and throughyou to the friendly people

of Myanmar, our warmest

greetings and felicitations

on the joyous occasion of

the Independence Day of

the Republic of the Union

of Myanmar.

It is a matter of deep

satisfaction that Bangladesh

and Myanmar maintain

excellent bilateral relations

based on common history,

culture and shared vision

for development. I strongly

believe that the existing bond

of friendly relations between

our two countries will further

be strengthened in depth and

dimension in the coming

years.

I avail of this opportunity

to convey my best wishes for

your good health, long life

and happiness as well as for

the continued peace, progress

and prosperity of the friendly

people of the Republic of the

Union of Myanmar.P l e a s e a c c e p t ,

Excellency, the assurances of

my highest consideration.

Second Embraer arrives in Yangon

Mon State marks 65th

Anniversary Independence DayNay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

The 65th Anniversary

Independence Day was

celebrated on 4 January

at Mawyawady Park in

Mawlamyine of Mon State.

State Hluttaw Speaker U

Kyin Pe, state ministers,

national races representatives

and social organizations

attended the State flag

hoisting ceremony.

State Chief Minister

U Ohn Myint read out

the message sent by the

President on 65thAnniversary

Independence Day.

The chief minister and

yaNgoN, 6 JanThe

second Embraer 190-AF

XY-AGP leased by GE

Capital Aviation Services

(GECAS) to Myanma

Airways under the Ministry

of Transport arrived at

Yangon International Airport

this evening, together with

US pilots and co-pilots Mr

Cornelius Joseph Stanton

and Mr Miner III Harlow

James.

U Than Tun, Managing

Director of Myanma Airways

accepted the plane.MNA

party also attended state-level

prize awarding ceremony

and presented prizes to

winners at essay, poem,

computer-paintings contests,

sport events and performing

arts competitions.

The people from the state

participated in various sport

events in commemoration

of the 65 th Anniversary

Independence Day.MNA

Second Embraer 190-AF XY-AGP for Myanma

Airways arrives at Yangon International

Airport.mna

Hluttaw Ofce to listen to

voices of the people as part

of efforts for assisting in

overcoming obstacles and

challenges of the people.

Spe a k ing on the

occasion, the Speaker also

expressed the role of the

representatives, urging the

Hluttaw representatives to

make eld trips to be able to

listen to voices of the local

people and stressed the need

of the representatives for

cooperating in implemen-ting the development of

agricultural, l ivestock

breeding and other economic

sectors of the farmers in a

bid to alleviate the poverty

in the rural areas.

Th e m ee t in g was

a l so p ar t i c ip a t ed b y

A y e y a w a d y R e g i o n

Chief Minister U Thein

Aung, region ministers,

Speaker of Ayeyawady

Region Hluttaw U Hsan

Hsin t , representat ives

of Ayeyawady Region

Hluttaw and local people.

In h is concluding

remarks, Speaker ThuraU Shwe Mann underscored

the importance of the rule

of law for ourishing the

democratic system in the

country and urged the

local people not to do

any acts that would harm

others and to practice

law and disciplines as the

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and the

Union Government have

committed to promoting

the fundamental rights

of citizens, democracy

and human rights in the

country.MNA

Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann

meeting with departmental personnel and local

people at Toe Shwewah Hall in Maubin.mna


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New Light of Myanmar

Cotton growers generate more

incomes in Tatkon Township

Nay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

Cotton growers in Tatkon

Township of Nay Pyi Taw

Council Area expect to see

a high cotton yield about

six million viss from their

forthcoming harvest of

Ngwechi-6 long staple

cotton. Although growers

fetched K 900 per viss

of cotton last year, the

purchase price of private-owned cotton purchasing

centers for a viss of cotton

at the beginning of harvest

time is only K 850.

Thanks to a coordinated

approach to the price by Nay

Pyi Taw Council in order

to generate more incomes

of cotton growers, mobile

cotton purchasing centers of

the Ministry of Industry and

Tatmadaw textile factories

were being kept open to

buy cottons at reasonable

prices. As a result, the

market price of cotton hasreached K 1100 per viss,

thereby generating more

incomes of cotton growers.

Kyemon

Scouts formed nationwide to boost

morale and morality of schoolchildren

MoNgNawNg , 6

Jan To mark the 65th

Anniversary Independence

Day, sports activities were

held at the playground of

Mongnawng BEHS observes Independence DayMongnaung sub-township

Basic Education High School

on 4 January.

Schoolchildren in the

sub-township participated

in the outdoor games and the

school head presented prizes

to winners of respective

sports events.

Kyemon

Baby show mar ks 65th Anniversary

Independence Day in Sittway

SiTTway, 6 Jan To

mark the 65th

AnniversaryIndependence Day, a Baby

Show was held at the town

hall in Sittway on 3 January.

It was attended by

Chairperson of Rakhine

State Maternal and Child

Welfare Superv isory

Committee Daw Nyo Nyo

Lwin and members, doctorsand nurses of state/township

health departments, ofcials

concerned and mothers and

their children.

Children under two

including 10 twins took

part in the baby show, and

prize-giving ceremony was

held on 4 January.During the show,

Rakhine State Chief Minister

U Hla Maung Tin and wife

Daw Nu Nu Zan, state

ministers and their wives and

ofcials visited there.

Kyemon

New umbrella hoisted atop Kyantaingaung

Sutaungpyae pagoda in KyanginNext, the Chief Minister

attended the opening of

Phyo Sithu fuel station

where Ayeyawady Region

Minister for Electricity and

Industry U Saw Mya Thein

and responsible persons

formally opened the fuel

station.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

According to Chairman of

the Supervisory Committee

for the Scouts U Tin Nyo,

the scouts were formed

nationwide and training arebeing given to the members

of the scouts with the aim

of nurturing talent scouts

and improving their morale

and morality and physical,

mental and spiritual well-

being. Scout course

covers activities that boy

and girl scouts take part to

be able to get knowledge

and experience in helping

others, Dr Khin Maung

Kywe who was very

experienced in scouting in

Canada said.

U Tin Nyo said that now

the scouts were formed with

the membership of 50 each

grade seven school boys and

girls for each region and state

in the country. A total of

18000 scouts far and wide of

the nation would learn about

practical skills and do a lot

of activities during the course

and it is planned to increase

members of the Scouts.

Training for trainer

courses had already beenconducted for 90 teachers

from regions and states and

nine officials from three

basic education departments

totaling 99.

Myanmar saw the rst-

ever girl scouts in 1916.

The various levels of boy

scouts were formed in 1920

and activities of the scouts

terminated in 1963. The

rst-ever Scout Association

was formed in England

in 1908. A total of 190

countries around the word

have formed the scouts withthe membership of 30 million

scouts including 10 million

girl scouts.

Kyemon

Nay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

An umbrella-hoisting

ceremony of Kyantaingaung

Su-taungpyae pagoda

was held at the pagoda

in Zeepinkwin village

of Kyangin Township of

Ayeyawady Region on

2 January, attended by

Region Chief Minister U

Thein Aung.

Th e r eg io n ch i e f

minister and wellwishers

h o i s t e d S e i n b u d a w

(diamond orb), Hnget-

myatnadaw (pennant-shape

vane) and Shwehtidaw

(golden umbrella) atop

the pagoda and enshrined

Buddha relics in the pagoda.

Shwedagon Pagoda sees more than

300,000 tour ists in 2012yaNgoN , 6 Jan

According to the gures

that show the number

of tourists who visited

Shwedagon Pagoda in

2012, there has been anannual increase in arrival

of tourists at Shwedagon

Pagoda throughout four

successive years since

2008.

T h e n u m b e r o f

globetrotters thronging to

Shwedagon Pagoda has

reached 78323 in 2008,

113529 in 2009, 175054 in

2010, 225381 in 2011 and

345333 in 2012.

U Win Kyaing of

the board of trustees ofShwedagon Pagoda said

that it is expected that the

number of foreign visitors

will be the same that of

local pilgrims soon. Among

tourists, arrival of British,

French, and Russian visitors

has dramatically increased

with the number of 11771,

15386 and 6801 respectively

in 2012 compared to the

last year when 3201 British,

13478 French and 3735

Russian visitors visited there.During the last year,

more than 300,000 foreign

visitors from 57 countries

arrived there and the board

received 1,415,139 US

dollars and 83136 FECs as

cash donation.

Kyemon

Over tur ned Hilux pick-up hur ts

nine passengersBago, 6 Jan A

passenger Hilux pick-up of

No (6) Kyaikto-Yangon bus

line skidded and overturned

near a bridge on Yangon-Mandalay Highway in

Zainganai (North) ward in

Bago yesterday.

The Hilux pick-up driven

by Babu from downtown

Bago to Yangon skidded and

overturned at a place between

mile post Nos (49/7) and

(49/8) on Yangon-Mandalay

Highway, leaving nine

passengers wounded. Theinjured were taken to Bago

Peoples Hospital where

they are being given medical

treatment as inpatients and

outpatients.

Kyemon

Car crash

kills dr iver in

Taungdwingyi

TauNgdwiNgyi, 6 Jan

An accident happened

to a Nissan truck drivenby Thein Htaik (30 years)

in Shwe Kyar Inn ward of

Taungdwingyi Township,

Magway Region on 3

January. The road accident

occurred while the truck

went into a skid and crashed

into the lamp-post after its

break failed. The accident

caused a loss of life of the

driver.

Taungdwingyi Myoma

Police Station led a lawsuit

against the case.

Kyemon


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Monday, 7 January, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

Venezuela lawmakers elect Chavez ally as

Assembly chief

Venezuelan V ice President Nicolas Maduro (L) listens

to National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello speak

during the assembly inauguration in Caracas on 5 Jan,

2013.ReuteRs

CaraCas, 6 JanVenezuelan lawmakersre-elected a staunch ally of

Hugo Chavez to head theNational Assembly on Sat-urday, putting him in line to

be caretaker president if thesocialist leader does not re-cover from cancer surgery.

By choosing the incum-bent, Diosdado Cabello, the

Chavista-dominated legis-lature cemented the combat-ive ex-soldiers position as

the third most powerful g-ure in the government, afterChavez and Vice President

Nicolas Maduro.As a patriot ... I swear

to be supremely loyal in eve-

rything I do, to defend the fa-therland, its institutions, andthis beautiful revolution led

by our Comandante Hugo

Chavez, Cabello said as hetook the oath, his hand on theconstitution.

He had earlier warnedopposition politicians againstattempting to use the Nation-

al Assembly to conspireagainst the people, sayingthey would be destroyed if

they tried.Thousands of the presi-

dents red-clad supportersgathered outside parlia-ment hours before the vote,

many chanting: We are allChavez! Our comandantewill be well! He will return!

If Chavez had to stepdown, or died, Cabellowould take over the running

of the country as Assemblypresident and a new electionwould be organized within

30 days. Chavezs heir ap-

parent, Maduro, would bethe ruling Socialist Partycandidate.

Chavez, who was diag-nosed with an undisclosedform of cancer in his pelvic

area in mid-2011, has notbeen seen in public nor heardfrom in more than three

weeks.Ofcials say the

58-year-old is in delicatecondition and has sufferedmultiple complications since

the 11 December surgery, in-cluding unexpected bleedingand severe respiratory prob-

lems.Late on Friday, Maduro

gave the clearest indication

yet that the government waspreparing to delay Chavezsinauguration for a new six-

year term, which is sched-

uled for Thursday.Brandishing a copy of

the constitution after his winin the Assembly, Cabelloslammed opposition leaders

for writing a letter to foreignembassies in which they ac-

cused the government of em-ploying a twisted reading

of the charter.

Get this into yourheads: Hugo Chavez was

elected president and he willcontinue to be president be-yond 10 January. No one

should have any doubt ... thisis the constitutional route,

he said as fellow SocialistParty lawmakers cheered.

Reuters

Lebanese

president

postpones

national

dialogue

Beirut, 6 Jan Leb-anese President MichelSuleiman postponed onSaturday a national dia-

logue session originallyset to take place at theBaabda Palace next Mon-

day.According to a state-

ment issued by the presi-

dential palace, Suleimaninformed all participantsof the postponement with-

out setting a new date.The decision came

following Suleimans

meeting with Prime Min-

ister Najib Miqati andProgressive Socialist Par-

ty chief Walid Jumblat onFriday night.

The opposition 14

March camp has an-nounced its boycott to thedialogue, stressing that

they would not partici-pate unless Prime Minister

Miqati resigns.The president has been

carrying out consultations

with political forces topush for national dialoguesince the assassination of

Chief of Information De-partment of Lebanons

Internal Security ForcesWissam el-Hassan on 19October.Xinhua

Travelers arrive at Narita Airport near Tokyoon 5 Jan, 2013, after spending the year-end and

New Y ear holidays abroad.KyodoNews

Chinese media groups urged to enter wor ld

stage

Beijing, 6 JanChi-

nas media and publishinggroups have been urgedto compete globally by re-

forming their operationsand promoting their pro-ducts overseas.

At a meeting on Satur-day, Jiang Jianguo, DeputyDirector of the General Ad-

ministration of Press andPublication said, Whilesecuring their places in the

domestic market, news me-dia and publishing groups

should positively partici-

pate in global competi-tion by setting up branchesand publications overseas

through share-buying andother methods.

According to Jiang, the

administration will help thecountrys leading publish-ing groups enter the global

market while supportingkey publications from re-nowned writers and groups

in a bid to expand the inu-ence of Chinese culture.

Jiang urged media and

publishing companies to at-tract readership by targetingspecic groups with differ-

ent publications.Jiang stressed reform-

ing operations, highlighting

transformation of publicly-funded organizations, suchas state-owned performing

arts troupes and publishinghouses, into enterprises thatassume sole responsibility

for their prots or losses.Xinhua

Connecticut gun show goes on

despite Newtown tragedystamford, 6 JanAn

antique gun show went ahead

as planned on Saturday 40miles from the site of the14 December mass shooting

at Sandy Hook ElementarySchool, even as other gunshows gave in to pressure to

cancel after the tragedy.The two-day East Coast

Fine Arms show at a Stam-ford hotel, the rst in Con-necticut since a gunmankilled 20 children and six

adults at the school, drewseveral hundred people,some of whom were disap-

pointed that more modernweaponry was not available.

Its neat, its differentbut its not what I expected,said Sue McCrery of South-

ington, a town that bordersNewtown. I mean the badguys can have them (modern

weapons) and I think its ourright to be able to own them

too.Other gun showscanceled, include one thisweekend in Danbury, about

12 miles from Newtown, pro-moter Big Als Silver Bullet

Productions announced onits website. Two shows in

New York state23-24 Feb-ruary in Poughkeepsie and2-3 March in Suffernwere

also canceled, the websitesite. In nearby Waterbury,Police Superintendent Mi-

chael Gugliotto imposed amoratorium on gun shows

the day after the Sandy Hookkillings, saying a gun used ina future mass shooting couldbe traced to a purchase made

at a gun show in his city.Westchester Collectors

Inc had planned a rearmand knife show for Water-bury on 12 and 13 January.

Show organizer Newman

Chitenden said canceling theshow would not improve se-

curity.Stamfords Republi-

can mayor, Michael Pavia,

had asked organizers of theStamford show to reconsiderhaving the event in light of

the recent tragic events inNewtown.

As a community, weare sensitive to the emotionsand feelings of all of thosewho have suffered losses and

are still grieving. Holdingsuch an eventat this time,and in such close proximity

to the Newtown, seems un-timely and insensitive, Pa-

via said.Reuters

A man looks at a sh otgun

during the East Coast Fine

Arms Show in Stamford,

Connecticut, on 5 Jan,

2013. The show is being

held despite the mayors

plea that the even t notbe held so soon after last

months massacre at an

elementary school in n earby

Newtown.ReuteRs

dera ismail Khan, 6

JanA US drone strikekilled at least 10 people sus-

pected to be Taleban ghtersin Pakistans northern tribal

Syr ias Assad rejects dialogue with puppet

oppositionBeirut, 6 JanSyrian

President Bashar al-Assadannounced what he describedas a peace plan on Sunday,

calling for a reconciliationconference with those whohave not betrayed Syria, to

be followed by the formationof a new government and anamnesty.

The rst stage of a po-litical solution would requirethat regional powers stop

funding and arming (the op-

Drone attack in Pakistan kills at least 10

Syrias President Bashar al-

Assad speaks at the Opera

House in Damascus in this

still image taken from video

on 6 Jan, 2013.ReuteRs

position), an end to terrorist

operations and controlling

the borders, he said in a

speech in central Damascus,his rst public comments inmonths.

We will not have dia-logue with a puppet made bythe West, he said.

Reuters

areas on Sunday, intelligence

sources said, days after an-other drone strike killed a topmilitant leader in the area.

Between 10 and 12 peo-ple were killed in the attackon three compounds in Babar

Pehari, South Waziristan,six intelligence sources said.

More militants were believedto be in the compounds whenthey were hit, ofcials said,

meaning the death toll mayrise.

The compounds were

believed to house ghters be-longing to the Punjabi Tale-

ban, a group with close links

to al-Qaeda, intelligence of-cials said.

The Pakistan Taleban

has established sanctuar-ies in the mountainous Ba-bar area, 140 km (87 miles)

northeast of Wana, the head-quarters of South Waziristan,

they added.South Waziristan is

controlled by the Pakistani

army, which operates underan uneasy truce with mili-tants from the local Wazir

tribe.Reuters


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Sci ence & Technol ogy


Clearwire investor seeks to block sale to SprintWashington, 6 JanA

large Clearwire Corp share-holder on Friday steppedup its campaign against theplanned sale of the wirelessservice provider to its ma-jority owner, Sprint NextelCorp, saying it plans to askthe US telecoms regulatorto block the deal.

Crest Financials gen-eral counsel also said ona call with reporters thatit will ask the US FederalCommunications Commis-sion to block Sprints planto sell 70 percent of itself toSoftbank Corp of Japan for$20 billion.

Going to the FCC is anew line of attack on theSprint deal by Crest, whichhas also led a class action

lawsuit on behalf of Clear-wire investors. Dave Schu-

macher, Crests generalcounsel, said the fund saidother minority investorstold Crest they did not sup-port the Sprint deal, but hedid not provide details.

The investment fund,which owns around 8 per-cent of Clearwire, has saidSprints offer of $2.97 sharefor the roughly 50 percentof Clearwire it does not cur-rently own, grossly under-values Clearwire. Sprintsoffer is worth about $2.2billion, but Schumachersaid Crest had not done itsown valuation and was bas-ing its criticism of the price

on estimates by analysts.In going to the FCC,

Crest will argue that theClearwire deal articially

undervalues the companysspectrum holdings, Schu-macher said. That in turnpotentially devalues futurerevenue for the US govern-ment when it auctions offspectrum licenses.

The merger is there-fore a bad deal all aroundfor Clearwire shareholdersand also for the public atlarge, said Schumacher.

Sprint spokesman ScottSloat said the deal with

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

on 17 Dec, 2012.ReuteRsClearwire was the right onefor Sprint, Clearwire andAmerican consumers. Hesaid the class action lawsuitwas baseless.

A spokesman forClearwire, Mike DiGioia,declined to comment onCrests intention to go to

the FCC. He said a special

committee of the boardconducted a rigorous evalu-ation of the companys op-tions before agreeing to theSprint deal.

Clearwires chief exec-utive, Erik Prusch, has saidthe company does not haveattractive alternatives as itseeks funding to continueto upgrade its own networkand could risk bankruptcyif the Sprint deal does notsucceed.

Crest has sued Clear-wire in the Court of Chan-cery in Delaware, where thecompany is incorporated, to

SAP CEO says China to

become as important as USFrankFurt, 6 Jan

German business softwaremaker SAP sees potentialfor one million new cus-tomers in China, ve times

the number it currently has

world-wide, German week-ly paper Frankfurter Allge-meine Sonntagszeitung

said. C h i n a

will be as im-portant for usas the UnitedStates, SAPsco-ChiefE x e c u -tive Jim

Hagemann Snabe told thepaper, according to an ad-vance extract.

Snabe said SAP wantsto open the Chinese mar-ket by securing a deal with

authorities to allow cloudcomputing services.

We want to nd a

solution with Chinese au-thorities this year if pos-sible, Snabe told thepaper. As part of SAPsgrowth strategy, it plans

to invest around $2billion in China

by 2015.Reuters

CEO of German software group SAP Jim H agemann

Snabe attends the companys balance sheet news

conference in Frank furt on 25 Janu ary, 2012.

ReuteRs

Worlds largest radio telescope in Chile

tokyo, 6 JanTheworlds largest radio tele-scope is about to begin full-scale space observationsthis month.

The Alma radio tele-scope observatory in Chilehas a total of 43 antennadishes, about twice thenumber than before. It is

located in the AtacamaDesert, 5,000 meters abovesea level.

The multi-nationalproject involving Japan, the

United States and Europeannations began with 16 an-tennas in 2011.

With the new antennas,the telescope will be 2.5times stronger than before,and will be able to capturethe birth of planets.

Scientists also hope theenhanced telescope will beable to detect organic com-pounds such as amino acidsin outer space.

The telescope willeventually have 66 antennadishes. Ofcials from Ja-pans National Astronomi-cal Observatory say theyexpect to obtain new infor-mation within 4 to 5 yearswhich could overturn pastknowledge of the universe.

NHK

Photo shows the Alma radio telescope observatory in Chile, which will begin

fu ll-scale space observations in this month.NHK

Car s, homes smar ten up at

Vegas tech extravaganzasan Francisco/

neWyork, 6 JanAt theworlds largest technologyconference that kicks offon Monday, the most in-triguing innovations show-cased may be gadgets andtechnology that turn every-day items into connected,smarter machines.

This years Consumer

Electronics Show in LasVegas promises a new gen-eration of smart gadgets,some controlled by voiceand gestures, and technol-ogy advancements in cars,some of which already letyou dictate emails or checkreal-time gas prices.

Pundits have long pre-dicted that home applianceslike refrigerators and stoveswill be networked, creat-ing an Internet of things.With advancements inchips and the ubiquity ofsmartphones and tablets,

its now happening.Weve been talkingabout this convergence ofconsumer electronics andcomputers and content for

20 years. It will actually besomewhat of a reality here,in that your phone, yourtablet, your PC, your TV,your car, have a capabilityto all be connected, saidPatrick Moorhead, princi-pal analyst at Moor Insights& Strategy.

Despite the absence oftech heavyweights Apple

Inc and Microsoft Corp,CES still draws thousandsof exhibitors, from giantslike Intel Corp and Sam-sung Electronics Co Ltd tostartups hungry for funding.

Wireless chip makerQualcomm Incs CEO, PaulJacobs, opens the festivitieswith a keynote speech onMonday, taking a spot tra-ditionally reserved for Mi-crosoft, which decided lastyear to sever ties with theshow.

Jacobs said in a recentinterview on PBS that he

will show how wirelesstechnology will be pushedway beyond smartphonesinto homes, cars and health-care.Reuters

Dave Mills (L) an d Richard H alfpenn y prepare an Au di

booth in the automotive electronics area of the Interna-

tional CES show at the L as Vegas Convention Center in

Las Vegas, N evada on 4 Jan , 2013. ReuteRs

permanently block the deal.The Delaware court

will hear arguments nextweek on Crests request toexpedite the case and Schu-macher said Crest hopes tomove to a trial in April.

The deal needs ap-proval by a majority of

Clearwires minority share-

holders and Sprint has saidit has the support of threelarge Clearwire investorsComcast Corp, Intel Corpand Bright House NetworksLLCwhich hold 13 per-cent of Clearwire stock.Schumacher said the fundwould try to prevent thethree from voting becauseof their afliation withSprint.

As Clearwires ght

with its shareholders heatsup, Sprint has its own share-holders to contend with.

A Kansas court on Fri-day declined Sprints re-quest for an early dismissalof a lawsuit by a union pen-sion fund that holds Sprintstock.

The lawsuit allegedthat Sprints chief execu-tive, Daniel Hesse, rushed

merger talks with Softbankand did not get a fair price.

The ruling by ThomasSutherland, the judge forthe District Court of John-son County, Kansas, willallow the pension fund tobegin to demand documentsand witnesses as it tries toprove its case.

Sloat, the Sprintspokesman, said the rulingonly addressed the techni-cal adequacy of the pensionfunds pleading and did notaddress the merits of thecase. He said Sprint contin-ued to believe the case waswithout merit.Reuters

New fault found on seabed near Kanto regiontokyo, 6 JanJapa-

nese researchers have dis-covered a new fault on theseabed off Japans eastcoast. They say the faultmay have formed fairly re-cently during an earthquakethat hit the Kanto regionthat includes Tokyo.

A group led by Profes-sor Emeritus Takashi Naka-

ta of Hiroshima Universitylocated the fault in Novem-ber, 20 kilometres off Miu-ra Peninsula in KanagawaPrefecture.

They used sonar to sur-vey the shape of the seabed1,200-metres deep.

The fault consists of a5 to 8-metre cliff. The sonaridentied bulges on the cliff

that are believed to havebeen shaped by the move-ment of the seabed.

The fault is situatedalong a trough where anoceanic plate is sliding be-low a continental plate.

The trough is believedto have been the cause ofmassive earthquakes in theregion.

The researchers saythe fault could have beenformed as recently as 1923when the Great KantoEarthquake killed tens ofthousands of people.

Professor Emeritus Na-kata says the discovery willhelp in the study of massiveearthquakes in the region.

NHK


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Portugal does not need debt

restructuring: IMFs LagardeLisbon, 6 JanAny

restructuring of Portugalsdebt is out of the questionand the countrys bailoutprogramme is progressing

well, the head of theInternational MonetaryFund said on Saturday.

IMF chief ChristineLagarde told Portugueseweekly Expresso that shewas also condent Portugal

would not follow Greeceinto a spiral of economicrecession.

The European Unionand IMF gave Portugala 78-billion-euro ($102-billion) bailout in 2011 andthe lenders have praisedthe country for meetingmost of their terms. Theyrelaxed Portugals tough

budget goals last year as the

countrys deepest recessionsince the 1970s eroded taxrevenues.

It is out of thequestion, Lagarde told

the weekly, when asked ifPortugal may be forced torestructure its debt.

The Portugueseauthorities are determinedto do what is necessary tocomplete the programmein order to regain access to(bond) markets, she said.

She added that sheexpected the IMF toapprove the countrys nextloan tranche, after the sixthreview that was carried outin the autumn.

The Portugueseauthorities and thePortuguese have been

extremely courageous and

rm in applying difcult

and painful reforms, shesaid.

Some economistshave said Portugal may beforced to extend the loandeal beyond this year, whenit is scheduled to return tonancing itself in bond

markets in the third quarter.

Lagarde said the

In ternational M onetary Fu nd (IM F) ch ief Christine

Lagarde at a news conference at the F inance M inistry

building in Santiago, on 13 Dec, 2012. ReuteRs

Portuguese should notexpect any changes to theloan agreement. But wehave to adapt the program,review after review, bearingin mind all the implications,she said. Asked if she wasconvinced Portugal wouldnot follow in Greeces path,she said: Yes, I am.

Reuters

Japanese rms putting more

focus on farm businessTokyo, 6 Jan

Japanese companies arestarting to enter the newagriculture business ofgrowing plants indoors

with advanced technology.Major chemicalcompany Showa Denkohas developed a technologyto accelerate growth inplants using red LED light.

The company plans toopen a new lettuce factoryin Kawauchi Village,Fukushima Prefecture, inApril.

Showa Denko sayslettuce can be harvestedaround 20 times a yearat the factory, about 5times more than ordinarygreenhouse cultivation.

Mitsubishi Chemical

has also developed avegetable cultivationsystem using LEDtechnology. The rm has

begun selling the system to

Russia and other countrieswith low temperatures andlimited sunshine hours.

Nisshinbo Holdingshas started indoor hydro-ponic cultivation of stra-wberries as part of itsstrategy to diversify itsbusiness. The companyis considering sellingboth strawberries and itscultivation system. ChibaUniversity ProfessorEiji Goto says the newtechnologies developedby Japanese companiesmay lead to unprecedentedfarming methods.NHK

Women put

greenhouse-

grown

cherries

into packs

in Tendo,

Yamagata

Prefecture,

on 4 Jan,

2013, for

the seasons

frst

shipment.

Kyodo

News

China to improve ruralstudents nutr ition

beijing, 6 JanChinaplans to build enoughschool canteens to providesafe and nutritional mealsfor all primary and juniorhigh school students inimpoverished rural regionsby 2015.

According to acircular, jointly releasedSaturday by the ministriesof education and nance,

local governments shouldsubmit their dining hall

building plans to the twoministries for approval andthe granting of funds beforeconstruction starts.

Chinese students inpoor regions often relyon government-fundedor charitable lunch forsufcient nutrition.

Last year, the FreeLunch for Childrenproject, initiated bysome 500 journalists anddomestic media, receivedmillions of donations. Itallocates three yuan perperson each day to providefree lunch for impoverishedschool children.

The circular said thatsome local governmentsare not fully aware of theimportance of the issue. It

said substandard canteenconstruction plans as wellas insufcient nancial

support have hindered thedrive to improve studentsnutrition.

The circular urgedlocal administrations tofocus on areas such asseating capacity and quake-resistance levels.

Also on Saturday, theGeneral Administrationof Press and Publication

urged local publishinggroups to purchase enoughgovernment-funded dicti-onaries for primary andjunior high school studentsin rural areas.

The move comesafter widespread mediareports that counterfeitdictionaries had seriouslymisled students during theirstudiesespecially those inimpoverished areas wherean ofcial copy was hard toobtain.

According to theadministration, more than30 printing rms across

the country will supply100 million dictionariesfor primary and junior highschool students in ruralregions this year.Xinhua

Bluen tuna sells for record

$1.76 million at Tokyo

auctionTokyo, 6 JanA

bluen tuna was sold foran all-time high of 155.4million yen (about $1.76million), or 700,000 yenper kilogram, on Saturday

at the years rst auction

at Tokyos famous Tsukijish market. The price of the

222-kilogram tuna caughtoff northeastern Japanwas nearly three times theprevious record set at lastyears rst auction at Tsukiji,

the worlds largest sh

market.The buyer was sushi

restaurant chain operatorKiyomura CO, which paidthe previous record of 56.49million yen.Kyodo News

Kiyoshi Kimura, presidentof sushi restaurant chainoperator Kiyomura Co,

shows a 222-kilogrambluefn tuna at the

Metropolitan CentralWholesale Market in

Tokyos Tsuk iji District on 5Jan , 2013.Kyodo News

France wont buy troubled Petroplus renery: HollandeVaL-de-ReuiL, 6 Jan

France - France willnot take over insolventSwiss rener Petroplus

oil renery in Normandy,

but could help the plantnancially once a suitable

buyer is found, PresidentFrancois Hollande said on

Saturday.About 500 jobs at

the 161,000 barrels-a-dayPetit-Couronne renery areat risk, the latest industrialheadache for the Socialistleader who has vowed tostem rising unemploymentby the end of the year.

Its difcult to nda serious buyer. We mustdo everything to nd one,

Hollande told reportersafter meeting union leadersin Val-de-Reuil, a townabout 110 kilometres (70miles) north-west of Paris.

The state will do itsduty, but it cannot take theplant over, and the workersknow that, he said.

He added the statecould at some point provide

nancing.

Petroplus poses amajor test for Hollandesgovernment after it facedcriticism over the tacticsit used in a two-monthbattle over the future ofArcelorMittals (ISPA.AS)Florange steel plant, which

unnerved investors in theeuro zones second largesteconomy and confusedFrances unions. Hisadministration is strugglingto stop a haemorrhage ofindustrial jobs which hashelped push unemploymentto 15-year highs, whilecurbing public spending andraising taxes to help slashdebt in a stagnant economy.

A French court set adeadline of February 5 forinterested parties to submitbids for the Petit-Couronnerenery. Shell RDSA.L,

which had a six-monthoil processing deal withthe troubled plant runningto mid-December, hasnot extended its contract,making the renery less

attractive for buyers due toexpensive restart costs.

So far only NetOil, acompany led by MiddleEastern businessman RogerTamraz, has submitted anoffer while 7 others haveled letters of intent to buyFrances oldest renery.

Net Oils offer includesan oil supply deal with BP

Frances President Francois Hollande (C), anked

by Foreign Minister and local representative Laurent

Fabius (C R ear), Val-de-Reuils Mayor M arc-Antoine

Jamet (L Rear) and French M inister for Industrial

Recovery Arnaud M ontebourg (R Rear), talks with

Swiss Petroplus Petit-Couronne refnery workers inVal-de-Reuil, near Rouen, on 5 J an, 2013.ReuteRs

(BP.L) and an agreementwith Hyundai (005380.KS)to upgrade the plant.

Union spokesmanYvon Scornet told reportersafter the meeting thatHollande had promised todo everything possible topush the project forward,

but had given no guarantees.Reuters


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6 New Light of Myanmar

Sudan, South Sudan agree once again

to set up buffer zoneAddis AbAbA, 6 Jan

The presidents of Sudanand South Sudan agreedon Saturday to set up a de-

militarized zone along their

disputed border, a conditionfor restarting oil exports, an

African Union mediatorsaid on Saturday, withoutgiving a time frame.

Sudans Omar Hassanal-Bashir and South Su-dans Salva Kiir had agreed

in September to withdrawtheir armies from the bor-

der area, a move both sayis necessary to allow oil toow again from landlocked

South Sudan through Su-dan.

After weeks of deadlyclashes early last year the

two came close to all-out

war but agreed a ceaserein April. However, SouthSudan says Sudan has

bombed its side of the bor-

der several times since thenand neither has withdrawn

its army since the deal wasstruck in September.

They also accuse each

other of supporting rebelson each others side of theborder, accusations denied

by both, and part of Suda-nese side is controlled by

Sudan Peoples LiberationMovement-North (SPLM-North) rebels.

The AU called thisweeks summit, two days of

talks in Ethiopia, to defusetensions after months of

often unproductive talks be-

tween two countries whichremain deeply mistrustfulof each other, a legacy of

one of Africas longest civil

wars.Theyve ... agreed that

actions should be taken assoon as possible to imple-ment all the existing agree-

ments unconditionally,AU mediator Thabo Mbekisaid after the summit which

Bashir and Kiir left withoutmaking statements.

The presidents havealso agreed that ... the nec-essary decisions are taken

to create the safe demilita-rized border zone, Mbekitold reporters. The AU

would present a time frame

Sudans President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attends a

meeting with leaders from South Sudan at the National

Palace in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa

on 5 Jan, 2013.ReuteRs

next week, he said.The AU, backed by

Western powers, had threat-ened both with sanctions

should they miss a Septem-ber deadline to resolve thedispute and has since then

granted more time to nego-

tiate.

Sudan has rejectedcalls by Western powersand the AU to start peace

talks with the SPLM-North,which complains of mar-ginalization and wants to

topple Bashir.Reuters

Georgia pledges continued contribution toAfghan mission

Pollution

cuts off water

supply in N

China cityshijiAzhuAng, 6 Jan

Contamination in a northChinese river has led to thewater supply in Handan, a

city with more than 1 millionpeople in Hebei Province,being cut off since Saturday

afternoon.A statement by the city

government said the cut-off

was caused by an accidentin the neighbouring ShanxiProvince where industrial

pollutants poured into the up-per reaches of the ZhangheRiver.

A statement from theShanxi provincial govern-

ment said a exible tube

rupture at a chemical plant inChangzhi City caused aniline

to leak into the ZhuozhangRiver, the upper reaches ofthe Zhanghe River, on 31

December.The statement did not

tell the amount of the leak-

age. Aniline is a toxic chemi-cal widely used as precursorsin the manufacture of pig-

ments, herbicides and otherchemicals.

Authorities in Shanxi

said they received the re-port on Saturday, and thatan emergency response had

been initiated to stop the leakand clean up the pollutants.

A statement from the

Changzhi City said the ac-cident had not caused casu-alties so far, and that water

quality in the ZhuozhangRiver was improving.

They said cities along

the river, including Handanand Anyang City in Henan

Province, have been warnedto be on alert.

The city of Handan has

cut off its water supply fromYuecheng Reservoir locatedon the river and switched to

another underground water

source.Authorities in Handan

did not say how many house-holds were affected by thecut-off. Residents in several

parts of Handan toldXinhuareporters that the water sup-ply had not resumed on Sat-

urday evening.Xinhua

Tbilisi, 6 JanGeor-gian Prime Minister Bidzi-

na Ivanishvili on Saturdaypledged continued contri-bution to the NATO-led

International Security As-sistance Force (ISAF) inAfghanistan.

Ivanishvili made thepledge after attending thefuneral for a Georgian sol-

dier who had been founddead after missing for 10days in Afghanistan in De-

cember last year.

Describing the par-ticipation as a source of

pride for our country, hestressed that we shouldfurther strengthen our role

in this process in the future,because it is important forour countrys international

image.Meanwhile, the prime

minister said his govern-

ment should spare no ef-forts to minimize casualties.

Georgia is now the

largest non-NATO troop

contributor to ISAF, with atotal of 1,560 Georgian ser-

vicepersons in Afghanistan,mostly deployed in the Hel-mand Province.

The South Caucasuscountry so far has lost 19soldiers in Afghanistan.

The US-led war in Af-ghanistan, which has nowturned into a NATO-led

ISAF operation, has be-come the longest military

conict in US history.

Reuters

Police ofcers transport a climber (R) recovered ina rescue operation by helicopter from a moun tain

in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, on 5 Jan, 2013. The

climber, a 50-year-old man, was later conrmed dead

due to exposure.Kyodo News

11 killed, 33 injur ed in bus accident in

central ColombiabogoTA, 6 JanAt

least 11 people were killedand 33 others injured early

Saturday in a bus accidenton a highway in central Co-lombias Caldas Province.

The bus from the cityof Quibdo was heading to

the Colombian capital Bo-gota when the accident hap-pened. The bus lost control

on a dangerous curve and

crashed into a hill, accord-ing to the commander of the

Highway Police, GeneralFrancisco Patino.

The authorities are in-

vestigating if excess speedis the main reason to have

caused the accident.It is regrettable that 11

people were killed in thisincident, said the ofcer,offering his condolences tothe families of the victims.

Nine people were killedon the spot and their bod-

ies were taken to the city ofFresno, which is nearest tothe accident site. Two more

passengers died in the hospi-

tal of Manizales city, capitalof Caldas Province.

According to initial re-ports, the bus conductor hasdriven 12 hours at the time

of the accident.We are investigat-

ing about the journey andwhether driver had takenrests (...) whether licenses

and vehicle documents areup to date, Patino said.

Most of the 33 in-

jured are hospitalized inManizales care centres,

including the bus conduc-tor and his assistant. Somebus passengers told local

media that the automobile

was stranded three timesbefore the accident. This is

the most serious accidentrecorded in Colombian na-tional roads since the start

of the holiday season.

Xinhua

Russia, Sweden to conduct

joint submar ine rescue dr ills

Mosocwo, 6 JanRus-sian and Sweden navy troopswill conduct a joint subma-

rine rescue exercise this year,a Russian military spokes-man said on Saturday.

Russian Baltic Fleetssearch and rescue troops,together with experts from

the Swedish Navy, wouldhold a search and rescue

operation later this year,the Russian eets spokes-person Vladimir Matveyev

said. The exercise will in-clude searching operationfor a submarine in dis-

tress on the seabed, theexploration of its hull withthe use of remote controlled

submersible and the rescue

of its crew members, RIANovosti news agency quot-ed Matveyev as saying.

The navy drills willbe held under preliminaryagreements reached be-

tween Baltic Sea chief ViceAdmiral Viktor Kravchukand Swedish Navy com-

mander Rear Admiral JanThomqvist last October in

Russia, according to thespokesman.

Russian Defence Min-

istry said earlier this weekthat warships from its

Northern, Baltic, Black Seaand Pacic Fleets will holddrills in the Mediterranean

and Black Seas late thismonth.Xinhua

Tourists en-

joy sunbath

at a beach

in Sanya, a

popular win-

ter tourism

destination

in south Chi-nas Hainan

Province, on5 Jan, 2013.

XiNhua

beijing, 6 JanThe

countrys model rural doc-tors have been praised byChinese Vice Premier Li

Keqiang, who called onhealth institutions to pro-vide the practioners with

more health care.

While meeting themodel doctors on Saturday,Li said, You fully dem-onstrate benevolence as

all doctors should. Youvedone good deeds and made

Vice pr emier meets model rur al doctorsunimaginable sacrices forother people.

The practioners weredubbed the most beautiful

rural doctors after the me-dia reported their devotionto treating people despite

their own health problems,

poverty and, in some cases,disabilities. During a sym-posium with Li, the doc-tors voiced their concerns

including medical risks,lack of study opportunities,

outdated equipment, low

incomes and the absence ofretirement insurance.

Li promised to investi-

gate these issues and calledon rural doctors to protectthemselves during their

work. Three of the doctors

also attended a meetingheld by the State Councilsleading group for medicaland health care reform to

provide their opinions onpolicies.Xinhua


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Visitors view the exhibition Werner Berg: from

Expressionism to Pop Art in Beijing, capital of

China, on 5 J an, 2013. The exhibition, which

was opened at the National Art Museum of China

(NAMOC) on Saturday, displays more than 70 oil

paintings and 16 woodcuts created by Austrian

painter Wern er Berg (1904-1981).Xinhua

A man views sh-like lanterns during HwacheonSancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon, Gangwon-doProvince of South Korea, on 5 Jan, 2013. The annu al

Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival held here from 5to 27 January attracts over one million people every

year.Xinhua

Russias Caspian Flotilla to get

new assault shipsMoscow, 6 JanThe

Russian Caspian Flotillawill get new missile ships

and assault ships this year,

a military spokesman saidon Saturday.

The otillas naval in-fantry will get two small-sized missile ships by sum-

mer and three amphibiousassault ships by spring, said

the spokesperson with thesouth military district.

Russian PM calls for full implementation

of Sochi constructionsMoscow, 6 JanRus-

sian Prime Minister Dmitry

Medvedev on Saturdaycalled for full implementa-tion of sports constructions

for the Sochi games.Of course, this issue

cannot be discussed: the

2013 schedule should beimplemented in full, Med-vedev said during a meeting

about Sochi Olympics testevents.

In 2012, 44 sportsfacilities were put intooperation. However, the

construction of several fa-

as saying.According to the prime

minister, the InternationalOlympics Committee gavepositive assessment of the

sports facilities which havebeen put into service. Thesports venues should go

through more serious testsin 2013, he added.

Under the motto of

Hot. Cool. Yours, theSochi Games which fea-

tures 98 medal events willopen on 7 February, 2014and run until 23 February.

Xinhua

Ir an plans to double natur al gas production

from southern eldsTeheran, 6 JanIrans

President Mahmoud Ah-

madinejad said on Saturdaythat the country plans todouble natural gas produc-

tion from the South Parseld, Press TV reported.

Iran plans to double

natural gas extraction fromthe South Pars gas eld inthe next six months, Ah-

madinejad was quoted assaying during a ceremonyto inaugurate Irans biggest

natural gas storage facility.

According to the re-port, Iran is currently pro-

ducing 300 million cubicmetres of natural gas per

day from South Pars eld.The South Pars/North

Dome eld is a natural gascondensate eld located inthe Persian Gulf. It is the

worlds largest gas eld,shared between Iran andQatar. According to the In-

ternational Energy Agency(IEA), the eld holds an es-timated 1, 800 trillion cubic

feet (51 trillion cubic me-ters) of in-situ natural gasand some 50 billion barrels

(7.9 billion cubic metres) of

natural gas condensates.In December, Iranian

Oil Minister Rostam Qa-semi said that his ministry

would soon strike gas dealswith different countries.

We are nalizing(agreements for) gas ex-ports to different coun-

tries, he said.Xinhua

cilities still lagged behindthe schedule, he said.

The success of theOlympics and Russiasprestige depended on the

construction of Sochi facili-ties, Medvedev said, add-ing much preparation work

should be done ahead of thegames.

That is why the com-

missioning of sportivefacilities and the infra-

structure, as well as thetest events is our strategicpriority, Itar-Tass news

agency quoted Medvedev

Rescuers work at the blast site in southern Pakistani

port city of Karachi on 5 Jan , 2013. Three ex plosionsstruck central locations in the city including a gre-

nade attack on a police van and a remote controlledbomb blast outside the ofce of a political party leader

on Saturday, local media reported.Xinhua

Eight militants killed in military operation in

NW PakistanIslaMabad, 6 JanAt

least eight militants were

killed and three hideoutsdestroyed in an operation

launched by the Pakistaniarmy in the countrysnorthwest tribal area of

Orakzai Agency on Sun-

Mongolian

government

to regulate

Internet

comments

Ulan baTor, 6 JanThe Mongolian govern-

ment said it has decided toset up a system to regulateInternet commenting.

The InformationTechnology, Postal, Tele-communication Authority

has been instructed to in-troduce relevant softwareand technical solutions,

according to a government

Press release about Satur-days cabinet meeting.

In addition, the Tele-communication Regula-tory Authority is tasked

with developing require-ments for news websites

and the issuance of do-main names.

The new measures,

according to the Pressrelease, will allow au-thorities to investigate any

comment of criminal na-ture at the request of rele-vant parties and conduct

law enforcement activi-ties.

The database of theNational Registration Au-thority and that of cellphone users will be used to

verify information aboutInternet users, but secrecyand privacy regulations

will also be applied.Xinhua

The Caspian Flotillawill also get two serviceships later this year, the

spokesman said in a state-

ment.Currently, Russias

navy is composed of the Pa-cic Fleet, Northern Fleet,Baltic Fleet, Black Sea

Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.Stationed in the Caspian

Sea, the Caspian Flotilla isthe oldest Russian military

otilla.The navy will receive

more than 50 new war-

ships by 2016, including

18 surface warships, 30special-purpose and coun-

ter-subversion vessels, andsix multi-purpose strategicsubmarines, according to a

statement made earlier thisweek by the Defence Min-

istry.Xinhua

day, reported local mediaGeo.

According to the re-port, the operation was

conducted in the Mamozaiarea of the northern part ofOrakzai, or called Upper

Orakzai, on Sunday with

the backup of air force.Jet ghters pounded

the militant hideouts in theafore-said area, leaving

three of them destroyed andeight militants killed.

On Saturday, at least

20 militants were killed,

14 others injured andfive militant hideouts de-

stroyed during an armyoperation launched in

Khyber Agency whichlies next to OrakzaiAgency.

Xinhua

Chinese drivers question new trafc rulebeIjIng, 6 JanChi-

nese drivers are complain-ing about a new regulationthat increases penalties for

running yellow lights, withsome doubting the new

rules legality.Netizens have claimed

that the rule runs contrary tothe laws of physics, as driv-ers who are operating theirvehicles at normal speeds

cannot bring their vehiclesto a full stop within secondsof seeing a yellow light.

Vehicles must cometo a complete stop at yel-low lights unless part of the

vehicles body has already

crossed the line, accord-

ing to a revised regulationfrom the Ministry of PublicSecurity that took effect on

New Years Day.In an online poll hosted

by Sina Weibo, a major mi-croblogging site, opponents

of the regulation outnum-bered supporters by almost5 to 1, with over 40,000people responding to the

poll.The three lights serve

their purposes respectively

in accordance with the law.Treating a yellow light thesame as a red one is un-

reasonable and could be

legally contradictory, said

Li Wei, chief lawyer at theBeijing Fada Law Ofce.

Yellow lights in China

ash for just a few secondsbefore turning red, making

it difcult to bring vehiclesto a full stop in time. In ad-

dition, few intersectionshave visible countdowntimers, making it even moredifcult for drivers to gure

out how much time theyhave to stop.

There are so many in-

tersections that do not havecountdown screens to helpdrivers time their stop,

said Wang Cheng, a law

professor at Peking Univer-

sity.Other experts have

centered their opposition

on the origin and legality ofthe revision.

Wu Bihu, another pro-fessor at Peking Univer-

sity, has led a request forthe details surrounding therevision at the Ministry ofPublic Security.

Sun Xiaoxia, a law pro-fessor at Fudan University,said the revision seemed to

have come out of thin air,as there was no prior noticegiven to the public.

Xinhua


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Vultures are only birdsRecently, six vultures took a r est at the Gr eat

Pagoda Shwedagon in Yangon, the commercial

hub an d the most populous city of Myanmar .

People had contrasting views on their visit.Some took it as a bad omen, while others view

it as a good sign.

In fact, these big birds would be in their

seasonal jour ney south just tr ying to escape the

harsh northern winter. Many bird species do

wintering, migra ting in groups, some in very

large groups, to warm er r egions of the south.

So these vultures made a short stay at our

awe-inspiring pagoda while in kittle on their

way towards wintering grounds in temperate

regions.

Many Myanmar people see vultures as

ungraceful and inauspicious, and some even

regar d them evil or ominous just for dining on

dead or decaying animals.In r eality they like hyenas ar e scavengers

Mother Nature has created as public workers

that clean all dead an imals by feeding on car rion.

If Mother Natur e has not created scavengers,

forests and natural grasslands everywhere

ar ound the world will be contaminated with a

large number of decaying car casses as predator s

mostly hunt and feed only on living prey.

Vultures or condors as they ar e called can

y high in the sky for long hours in search of

food. They can endur e and sur vive the har sh

environs an d weather conditions, as many of

the species live in semi-desert r egions. Even th e

Japanese-made car Nissan Condor is named

after th ese big birds in honour of their strengthand endur ance.

In point of fact, vultures ar e just like other

wintering bir ds. They do not br ing or r epresent

any bad omen or good sign for any par ticular

place or p erson. The six vultures were visitors

taking a short r efuge at our sacr osanct pagoda

as the fast growing city has less trees and mor e

high-rise concrete buildings. There should not

be any illogical fear because vultures ar e only

birds.

I read

books in myleisure time!

Thats why your

eld yields

more crops than

others thanks

to your scientic

approach and well-

informed measures.

Maung Maung

San Lwin (GAD)

Nay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

KIA blasted trucks, abducted

local women, sabotaged

railroad and bridges and

planted mines in urban area

in Kachin State on 2 and 3

January.

A KIA group stopped

three trucks carrying cement

and iron rod/sheet at the Mile

Post No. 91 on Myitkyina-

Sumprabum Road and

blasted the three trucks and

16 tons of cement and eighttons of iron rod/sheet worth

K 9.8 million. The drivers of

the trucks were released later.

A K I A g r o u p

compris ing about ten

members abducted Ma

La Ngan Khaung Naw,

32, Ma La Nay Daung

Nywe, 34, and Ma La Ton

Yein Hmyaw, 28, of Nant

Wah Village, Waimaw

Township, around 12.15

pm on 3 January.

Around 7.30 pm on

that day, KIA red heavy

artilleries to troops who

are providing security to

rail transportation at MilePost No. 620-8/9 between

Kardu and Mawhan villages

in Mohnyin Township.

There was no causalities

nor damages to the rails in

the attack. However, the

Express Up-train No.40

en-route from Mandalay

to Myitkyina had to stop

at Mawhan Station and it

could proceed to Mohnyin

around 9.30 pm.

Similarly, a KIA group

blew up an iron-reinforced

bailey bridge which is 280

ft long and 12 ft wide on

across the Manyut Creek

on Bhamo-Mansi Road,collapsing about 20 ft of

the bridge and leading to a

halt in trafc.

B e s i d e s , a m i n e

exploded near the Mile

Post No. 378/3 and 378/4 on

the Bhamo-Myitkyina Road

around 11 pm and another

mine about 100 yards west

of the rst blast site on 3

January.

T h e r e w a s n o

causalities due to the blasts,

but the blasts damaged

some concrete and iron

structures.

According to local

authority, KIA set off themines in attempts to attack

convoys on the assumption

that convoys would pass

that area.MNA

KIA blasts trucks, abducts local women, sabotages rails, bridge

Nay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

A stake-driving ceremony

of Hline River crossing

Stake-dr iving ceremony of Hline River crossing

Bayintnaung Bridge-2

Bayintnaung Bridge-2 was

held at the pavilion near the

bridge this morning.

Union Minister for

Construction U Kyaw Lwin

and Yangon Region Chief

Minister U Myint Swe

drove the bored pile by

vibrohammer.

S p e c i a l P r o j e c t

Group-5 of Public Works

will build the bridge

that links Mayangon and

Hlinethaya Townships of

Yangon Region.

The main structure of

the Hline river crossing

bridge made of steel trusses

is 1624.1 feet long.

Each approach bridge

on both sides is 2644.48

feet long. The bridge with

two-lane motorway can

withstand 75-ton loads.

Upon complet ion ,

Yangon Region will be

able to see smooth and

speedy transport, thereby

co n t r i b u t in g t o ward sregional development of

Yangon and Ayeyawady

Regions.

MNA

MohNyiN, 6 Jan

Villagers of Nanma Village-

tract in Kachin State have

led complaints about the

newly elected administrator

of the village-tract to

the Mohnyin Township

Administration Ofce as he

is not eligible for a village

administrator.

Villagers object elected village administratorA villager who is one

of the local people who

have lodging complaints

about the newly-elected

administrator said that the

villagers have concrete

evidences of his lack of

three qualications ouf of

11 to serve as a village

admi-nistrator.

Former three admini-

strators were re-elected in

the three wards and two

were elected as the new

administrators in two wards

in the town of Mohnyin.

Mean wh i l e , so m e

objections against the

election of two admini-

strators in two villages were

brought to the township

adminis t rat ion off ice,

complaining about the

ve-member supervisory

committee of the elections,

said an ofcial of the ofce.

Elections will be held

again in the villagers where

complaints arouse, the

ofcial said.NLM-001

A ceremony to launch driving of stak e for construction of Bayin tnaung

Bridge-2 in progress.mna

MaNdalay, 6 Jan

About 200-300 tourists

visit Mingun Region from

Mayanchan jetty on Strand

Road in West Thiri Marlar

Ward of Aungmyethazan

Township in Mandalay

Region daily; and the number

of tourists in December

2012 was higher than that

of the previous year, said

U Thet Tun, Chairman

of Globetrotters Water

Visits of globetrotters

increase at Mingun this yearTransport Association.

The globetrotters

including various kinds

of races across the world

leave Mayanchan Jetty

for Mingun Region. Our

motorboat association

is constituted with 28

motorboats.

These motorboats

leave Mayanchan Jetty at

9 am and Mingun at 1 pm.

The fare of the boat is K

5000 per passenger. The

chartered boat collects

K 25000 for five. This

year, the passengers for

Mandalay-Bhamo and

Mandalay-Bagan routes

are on the increase. The

motorboats are facilitated

with l i fe jackets and

rescue equipment for the

passengers, said U Thet

Tun.Myanma Alinn


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Nay Pyi Taw, 6 Jan

Union Minister for Border

Affairs Lt-Gen Thein Htay

received Indian Ambassador

Dr Villur Sundararajan

Seshadri at the Ministry ofBorder Affairs, here, on 2

January afternoon.

Plans to provide US$ 5 million to Naga Self-

Administered Zone, Chin StateThey discussed road and

bridge construction tasks,

education and health tasks to

be jointly undertaken by the

ministry and India in Naga

Self-Administered Zone andChin State, and construction

of schools in Rakhine State.

India is projected to

provide five million US

dollars yearly in Naga Self-

Administered Zone and Chin

State. In 2012-2013 fiscal

year, a plan is underway tobuild 10 basic education

primary schools, eight rural

health centres, three bridges

of 100 feet long in Naga

Self-Administered Zone and

11 schools, nine rural health

centres and ve bridges of

above 200 feet long bridge inChin State.

MNA

yaNgoN, 6 JanThe

election of ward administrator

was held in Wayonseik

Ward of Kyimyindine

Township on 15 August

under the prescribed rules

and regulations.

O f 2 2 w a r d s i n

Kyimyindine Township,

War d administrator elected in

Kyimyindine Township

Panhlaing Ward held the

similar ceremony on 30

December.

At the ceremony,

Township Administrator U

Kyaw Ye Thway and ofcials

supervised the election of

ward administrators.

Myanma Alinn

KaTha, 6 JanA total

of 21 globetrotters who

arrived in Katha by Pandaw

cruiseliner from Australia

and Britain visited Natpauk

Elephant Camp in Phatsuk

forest reserve, 11 miles

west of Katha on 1 January

morning.

Elephant camp in Katha at tr acts globetrotters

They were welcomed by

Assistant Manager U Thura

Tun of Indaw Region Timber

Extraction Region and staff.

Next, 15 elephants

performed entertainments

to the tourists. The guests

then observed nature of

the elephants by taking

documentary video.

The elephant camp

collects 10 FECs per tourist

for observing elephants, 20

FECs per tourists for riding

elephant, 20 FECs for video

camera and 10 FECs for

camera.

Myanma Alinn

SeiKPyu, 6 JanA

ceremony to launch a two-

inch diameter tube-well was

held in Maungtwinchaung

Village of Shapinaing

Village of Seikpyu Township

in Magway Region on 1

January.

The tube-well was

sunk with the assistanceof UNICEF under the

supervision of Township

Dev e lo p m en t Af fa i r s

Committee for 2012-2013

scal year.

The 250 feet deep tube-

well, the water pump station

and 3400-gallon-capacity

water tank were built for

supplying water to 216 local

people.

All tasks of water supply

to the local people cost K 4

million.Myanma Alinn

Tube-well

supplies water

to local people

yaNgoN , 6 Jan

Cultivation of paddy with

the use of organic matter

is increasing day by day.

In Labutta Township,

the cultivation of organic

paddy reaches 1000 acres of

farmland in 2012.

Pawhsanhmwe paddy

strain produces 40 baskets

per acre through organic

matter use pattern. In the

Cultivation of organic paddy

on increase in Labuttamarket, organic rice is sold

at K 3000 per pyi. Due to

lack of chemicals and other

fertilizers, the organic rice

is suitable for consumption.

Organic rice is sold at

supermarkets and shopping

malls in Yangon.

Myanmar plans to

export 1.5 million tons of

rice in 2012-2013 scal year.

Myanmar will be trying hard

to export about 3 million tons

of rice to the world market in

2017. At present, Myanmarstands 8th position among the

top rice exporting countries

across the world.

Now, Myanmar exports

100,000 tons of rice monthly.

From April to October 2012,

Myanmar fetched 260.315

million US dollars through

export of rice. So, Myanmar

will extend cultivation of

paddy in coming years.

Myanma Alinn

ye

, 6 JanIn honourof the 65 th Anniversary

Independence Day, the

My an m ar t r ad i t i o n a l

boat race was opened at

Tr aditional boat race honours Independence Day in Ye

Myakantha Moat in Ye ofMon State on 2 January.

It was opened by Acting

Township Administrator U

Soe Lin Thein, Amyotha

Hluttaw RepresentativeU Min Thein Han and

Chairman of the boat race

committee U Zaw Min Oo.

Altogether 17 teams

participated in the race. Theprize awarding ceremony

was held on the Independence

Day.

Myanma Alinn

Rector Dr Hla Tint

confers certicate

of BA Myanmar

on graduate Ma

Thuza Khaing at the

convocation hall of

Yangon University for

113th convocation of

Yangon University of

Distance Education on

5 January.Maung

Tin Hlaing (H&T)

LeTPadaN, 6 JanAn

over speed motorcycle hit

the post of roadside on

Yangon-Pyay Highway in

Letpadan of Thayawady

District in Bago Region at

3 pm on 27 December. The

JLM 110 brand black colour

motorcycle driven by Soe

Gyi (a) Soe Win Than, 33

of Phalangon Village of

Kyauktwin Village-tract

of Thayawady Township,

from Yangon to Pyay, with

Myint Oo, 32 of the same

Overspeed motorbike hits

roadside postvillage on the pillion seat

was out of control and hit the

post in front of High Yield

Educative Farm between

mile post 87/4 and 87/5 on

the highway.

In the incident, Myint

Oo on the pillion seat was

rushed to the hospital, but he

died on the way due to critical

condition of his injury. The

respective police station

opened a file of lawsuit

against Soe Gyi under the

laws.Myanma Alinn

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AurorA, 6 JanAgunman who barricadedhimself inside a townhouse

after killing three people inthe home was shot to deathby police on Saturday in

Aurora, Colorado, the sameDenver suburb where 12people were slain in a movie

house massacre last July,police said.

The gunman and his

three victims, as well asa woman who ed safelyfrom the home at the outset

of the violence and alertedauthorities, were all believedto be related to one another,

p o l i ce sp o k eswo m anCassidee Carlson said.

But the motive for the

killings was not immediatelyunderstood. Were trying

to nd out what set this guyoff, she told Reuters.

A hostage-negotiation

team called to the scene hadsought to talk the suspectinto surrendering for about

five hours before policemoved to shoot tear gas intothe home at about 8:00 am

(10:00 am EST/1500 GMT),prompting the gunman to

open re on ofcers frominside, police said. About anhour later, the gunman began

ring at police again from asecond-oor window, andpolice returned re, killingthe suspect, according to a

Members of the chorus of Beijing F uxue Lane Primary

School sing a song at the New Years Concert in

Beijing, capital of China, on 5 Jan , 2013. Xinhua

Major quake hits Alaska, tsunami warning canceled

WAshington, 6 Jan A

7.5-magnitude earthquakestruck off the coast of theUS state of Alaska early

Saturday, triggering atsunami warning that waslater lifted.

The temblor, whosemagnitude was initiallyplaced at 7.7, occurred at

0858 GMT, with its epicentrelocated 106 km west ofCraig, Alaska, at a depth of

9.9 km, according to the US

Geological Survey (USGS).The major earthquake

prompted tsunami observers

to issue a warning for coastalareas near the epicentre,which was eventually

expanded to cover the shoresfrom Cape Fairweather,Alaska, to the northern tip of

Vancouver Island, Canada.B u t t h e f e a r e d

significant widespread

inundation of land did

not come, and the AlaskaTsunami Warning Centrecanceled the warning, saying

just small sea-level changeswere detected in some areas.

A t s u n a m i w a s

generated during this eventbut no longer poses a threat,said the centre.

There were no immediatereports of casualties ordamage. But some voluntary

evacuations were reported in

some of the affected coastalcommunities.

L a s t O c t o b e r , a

7.7-magnitude earthquakestruck off Canadas QueenCharlotte Islands, not

far from the epicenter ofthe latest one. A tsunamiwarning was issued, but the

resulting tsunami was belowdangerous levels.

Xinhua

Men in Heian era (eighth to 12th centu ries) aristocratic

attire demonstrate kemari (ancient football) in an

event at Shimogamo Sh rine in Kyoto on 4 Jan , 2013.

Kyodonews

Ir anian lawmaker says Tur key implements

Wests policies on Syria

teherAn, 6 Jan AnIranian lawmaker said thatTurkey has turned into a

performer of the Westspolicies on Syria, Press TVreported on Saturday.

Hossein Sobhani-Nia, amember of the Iranian Majlis(parliament) Presiding Board,

said on Friday that the Turkishgovernment is implementingmacro policies drawn up by

the Western countries on the

ongoing crisis in Syria.US personnel and

equipment began arriving at

the southern Turkeys IncirlikAir Base on Friday to supportNATOs Patriot battery

deployment, US Embassy inAnkara said.

The deployment of six

Patriot batteries, includingtwo each from Germany andthe Netherlands, is in response

to Turkeys request to NATO

against possible missile threatfrom Syria. All six batterieswill be under NATOs

command and scheduled tobe operational by the end ofJanuary.

The 21-month protestsagainst Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad has turned

increasingly bloody, withheavy ghting often eruptingalong Syrias border with

Turkey.Xinhua

1 dead, 39

injured in E

China road

accidentnAnchAng, 6 Jan One

people died and 39 others

were injured after a coachoverturned in east Chinas

Jiangxi Province, reghterssaid on Sunday.

The accident occurred

around 2 am on a section ofthe Fuyin expressway, whichlinks the city of Fuzhou in

southeast Chinas FujianProvince with Yinchuan innorthwest Chinas Ningxia

Hui Autonomous Region.Fifty-nine people were

in the vehicle, which has

a designed capacity of 55people, the reghters said.

The injured have been

sent to nearby hospitals,although their condition is

not yet known. Rescuerssaid slippery road conditionsresulting from persistent rain

and snow over the past fewdays may have caused theaccident.Xinhua

Egypts cabinet reshufe on Sunday

to include ten new ministerscAiro, 6 Jan Ten

new ministers are expected

to swear into ofce in acabinet reshufe in Egypt on

Sunday, ofcial news agencyMENA

reported.The new ministers,according toMENA, include

Mohamed Ibrahim asminister of interior, BasemKamal as supplies minister,

Al- Morsi al-Sayed Hegazi asnance minister, Atef Helmi

as communication ministerand Omar Mohamed Salem

as parliamentary affairsminister.

They also include

Hatem Abdel-Latif asminister of transportation,Ahmed Imam as minister

of electricity, MohamedAli Bishr as minister oflocal development, Wael

al-Maaddawi as minister ofcivil aviation and Khaled

Mohamed Fahmi as ministerof environment, Egypts

President Mohamed Morsisaid in a speech late December2012 that he had discussed

with Prime Minister HeshamQandil an imminent cabinetreshuffle to improve the

governments performanceand make it able to cope withthe ongoing political, social

and economic challenges.Xinhua

Sanitationmen clear the snow on the trees in J ian

County, east Chinas Zhejiang Province, on 4 J an,2013. Zhejiang Weather Bu reau on Friday issued the

rst orange alert for road icing after the heavy snowand freezing weather since Th ursday.

Xinhua

Four dead in townhouse

shooting in Aur ora,

Coloradopolice statement followingthe incident. No police werewounded.

Officers entering thetownhouse found the bodiesof the gunman and three

other peopletwo menand a womanwho werepresumed to have been shot

hours earlier before policewere called to the scene.

None of the ofcersheard gunshots until theywere directed at us at about8 oclock, Carlson said.

The woman who escapedthe home also told policethe victims were shot before

she ed. The names of thegunman and his three victimswere being withheld until the

coroner could conrm theiridentities and notify next of

kin, authorities said.The ep isode kept

residents in much of the

surrounding communityawake overnight, as police

notied neighbours of anemergency situation andevacuated several adjacentblocks.

One neighbour, SunilPawar, 59, said he received areverse 911 call advising him

to stay inside and away fromwindows before police latershowed up to ring doorbells

and escort residents of thetownhouse development tosafety. Reuters

Five killed in plane crash in southeastern France

PAris, 6 Jan Fivepeople died on Saturdaywhen their private plane

crashed a few momentsafter taking off from the

Grenoble airport in south-eastern France, local po-

lice said. There were vepassengers. Five peopledied, police told AFP.

The plane crashed afew moments after takingoff from the airport, in the

village of Saint-Pierre-de-Bressieux. It was heading

to Morocco and was dueto make a stop in Spain,police sources said. The

plane was registered inMorocco.Xinhua

Nearly 130 Afghan

pr isoners released from

Bagram prisonKAndAhAr, 6 Jan

Nearly 130 Afghan prison-ers, who were formerly held

by the NATO and US forcesin charges of being involved

in anti-government activities,were released from Bagram

prison, an ofcial said onSaturday.

Up to 129 prisoners,who have been detained and

held in Bagram prison overthe last couple of years butthere were no evidence to

proof their involvement inthe insurgency, were releasedand would join their families

today, General Mohammad

Yar Barakzai, an Afghandefence ministry ofcial incharge of the prisons, told a

ceremony here.The NATO-led coali-

tion forces handed over thecontrol of the Bagram de-tention centre to the Afghan

government in March lastyear. Afghan President Ha-mid Karzai has ordered the

concerned authorities to re-view the cases of more than3,000 prisoners held in the

detention center after the Af-ghan government took con-trol of the prison.

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Rene Diano tries to collect nails and debris from his

wrecked house in New Bataan town in Compostela

Valley province in southeastern M indanao in the

Philippines on 2 Jan, 2013, about a month after typhoon

Bopha devastated the area.

Kyodo News

The S hizuishan segment of the Y ellow River is frozen

due to persisiting cold weather in northwest Chinas

Ningxia Hui Au tonomou s Region, on 5 Jan, 2012. Two

segments of the Y ellow River in Ningxia region have

been frozen up du e to low temperature. XiNhua

Cambodian police ar rest over 70 Chinese nationals for

telephone fraud

Phnom Penh, 6 Jan

The Cambodian police onSaturday arrested more than70 Chinese nationals who

were involved in telephone

fraud in China followinga complaint filed by the

Chinese police, according tothe latest police report.

A number of telephones

and computers used by thesuspects for threatening andextorting money from many

people in China were also

conscated.The raids were made

simultaneously in several

locations in Phnom Penh City

and its immediate suburbsafter the Chinese police

identied those suspects tothe Cambodian authorities,Lt Gen Chhay Sinarith, head

of the Interior Ministrysinternal security department,said on Saturday.

They are charged of

using VoIP (Voice overInternet Protocol, a type ofInternet phone service) from

Cambodia to threaten and

extort money from victimsin China, he told Xinhua

over telephone.It was the fifth time

that the Cambodian police

in cooperation with theirChinese counterpart conductmassive crackdown on

Chinese nationals accused

of operating a Phnom Penh-based international extortionring.

Telephone fraud has

become a major socialsecurity problem in China.

Suspects often use overseasservers to make phone callsfrom overseas, making it

more difcult for the Chinesepolice to trace them.

Xinhua

Tropical storm Sonamu

leaves 1 dead, 500 displaced

in Philippines

man i la , 6 J a n Tropical storm Sonamu(local name Auring)left one person dead and

about a hundred familiesstill in evacuation centrein western and southern

Philippines, the countrysNational Disaster Risk

Reduction and ManagementCouncil (NDRRMC) saidon Saturday. The casualty

was identified as PedroFrancisco, a 35-year-oldman at Iraan village, Rizal

town of western Philippineprovince of Palawan, theagency said.

Francisco died afterhe was hit by an uprootedcoconut tree, it added.

Meanwhile, about ahundred families or some

S Korean president-elects way of democratizing economySeoul, 6 Jan South

Korean president-elect ParkGeun-hye has seemingly

conicting images. Park isthe daughter of the countryslongest-serving dictator

Park Chung-hee, but she

is set to become the rstfemale president in the

countrys history. Parkgarnered over half of all

votes in the presidentialelection for the rst timesince democratic elections

were introduced in 1987, butParks conservative rulingSaenuri party has been by and

large identied with businessconglomerates, or chaebol,and the establishment,

Four killed as tr ain attacked by militants in SW PakistaniSlamabad, 6 Jan

At least four people were

killed and about a dozeninjured when a train wasattacked by unknown militantsin Pakistans southwest

Balochistan Province onSaturday night, reported localmedia Samaa.

The attack took place

500 people were evacuatedin a basketball court inQuezon town, southernPhilippine province of

Bu k id n o n o n F r id ayafternoon as flash floodoccurred in the area due to

continuous rains brought bythe storm, NDRRMC said.

Accord ing to theagency, power interruptionswere also being experienced

in Puerto Princesa City,Aborlan, Brookes Pointand Quezon, all in Western

Ph i l i p p in e i s l an d o f Palawan.

The weather forecasting

agency of the Philippinessaid that the tropical stormhad left the Philippine Area

of Responsibility.Xinhua

representing the smallnumber of population.

During her election

campaigns, Park soughtto recast her pro-business,conservative image by

put

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