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Volume XXI, Number 218 3rd Waning of Tazaungmon 1375 ME Wednesday, 20 November, 2013

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Putin tells Iran’s leader of

‘real chance’ for nuclear deal

Palestinians cast first-ever vote in UN General

Assembly

Gulf Arab carriers purchase 543

planes at Dubai airshow

Mandela remains stable but critical:

South Africa government

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Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov — President U Thein Sein held talks on bilateral co-operation with a Japanese delegation led by Mr. Yuji Kuroiwa, Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan, at Presidential Palace, here, today.

They held discus-sions on cooperation in environmental conserva-tion between Myanmar government and Kanaga-wa prefectural govern-ment, invitation extended to businessmen from Kanagawa prefecture for implementation of Dawei

President U Thein Sein receives Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture and party

President of the Republic of the Union

of Myanmar U Thein Sein shakes hands with Mr. Yuji

Kuroiwa, Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture of

Japan.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—The visiting del-egation led by President of Mongolia Mr Tsakh-iagiin Elbegdorj visited Up-patasanti Pagoda this morn-ing and they fed the white elephants at Royal White Elephant Shed.

In the afternoon, they visited Myanmar Gems Museum. The delegation was seen off at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport by Union Minister U Wun-na Maung Lwin and offi-cials before their departure for Bagan.

Mongolian President and party tour

Nay Pyi Taw, Bagan-NyaungU

In Bagan-NyaungU, they were welcomed by Mandalay Region Chief Minister U Ye Myint and responsible persons. The delegation visited Shwezigon Pagoda, Kyan-sitthar Tunnel and Bagan Archaeological Museum.

In the evening, they went to Sulamani Temple and enjoyed spectacular Bagan sunset.

The delegation enjoyed a dinner hosted by the re-gion chief minister at Ay-eya River View Resort.

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special economic zone and public health matters.

Also present at the call were Union Ministers U Wunna Maung Lwin, U Hla Tun, U Win Myint and U Than Htay and of-ficials.

During his Japan trip in April, 2012, President U Thein Sein visited a coal plant that cannot harm environment in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 20 Nov—Thura U Thet Oo Maung, Ambassador Ex-traordinary and Plenipo-tentiary of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Republic of Turkey,

Thura U Thet Oo Maung presents his Credentials to

Turkish Presidentpresented his Credentials to His Excellency Mr Ab-dullah Gul, President of the Republic of Turkey, on 13 November 2013, in Ankara.

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Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov— The first Round of Economic Dialogue be-tween Myanmar and Swit-zerland was held at the

First Round of Economic Dialogue between Myanmar, Switzerland held

Ministry of National Plan-ning and Economic Devel-opment, here, this morning.

It was attended by Un-ion Minister for National

Planning and Economic Development Dr Kan Zaw and respective Union Min-isters and Secretary of State

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Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—According to the observations at (05:30) hrs MST today, the low pres-sure area of yesterday over Southeast and adjoining

Low area still persistsCentral Bay now lies over Central Bay of Bengal, announced the Meteorol-ogy and Hydrology De-partment.

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Under the Para (4) of Sub-section (b) of Section 308 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Sub-section (d) of Section 82 of the Union Government Law, Section 50 of the Union Judiciary Law and Sub-section (d) of Section 18 of Region/State Government Law, Kyaukpyu District Judge Daw San San Yi has been appointed as Rakhine State High Court Judge.

Sd/Thein Sein President Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Republic of the Union of MyanmarPresident Office

Order No. 49/20132nd Waning of Tazaungmon 1375 ME

(19th November, 2013)

Appointment of Rakhine State High Court Judge

President of Mongolia Mr Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj feeds the white elephants at Royal White Elephant shed.—mna

Wednesday, 20 November, 20132 New Light of MyanmarLOCAL NEWS

(1) Uplift of national prestige and in-tegrity and dynamism of Union spirit

(2) Promotion of national educational standard

(3) Perpetuation of independence and sovereignty

(4) Building of a new modern, devel-oped nation

Objectives of 93rd Anniversary National Day

93rd Anniversary National Day10th Waning of

Tazaungmon, 1375 ME(27-11-2013)

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov— As the 27th SEA Games is getting nearer, sportsmen have got proper training and comprehen-

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—According to a tip-off, a combined team com-prising police members of Myoma police station in Patheingyi in Manda-lay Region and the ward administrator found Na-ing Win, (34), Taungmy-int Ward in Pyigyidagun Township and two oth-ers along with unlicensed twelve oxen on a road to Pawtawmu Shwemyitta monastery near East Yoma in Patheingyi Township on 11 November. Patheingyi Police Station filed a law-suit against three smugglers under major commodity

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Acting on a tip-off, a Monywa railway police force went to an incident where a motorbike was in collision with a railway engine on 14 November evening. The incident took

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—A member of avia-tion police corps (Bagan-NyaungU) found a blue purse left on the ticket col-lection desk for Bagan An-cient Cultural Heritage Re-gion at the Bagan-NyaungU Airport in Mandalay Region at 8:40 am on 14 November.

The contents of the purse were counted before staff of the Department for Civil Aviation. The con-tents include 12 US $ 100 notes, 10 US $50 notes, 12 $20 notes, one US $ 10 notes, three $ 5 notes, 10 US $ 1 notes, and 116 K 5000 notes, 202 K 1000 notes and two K 500 notes amounting to K 2,692,825.

While seeking owner of

Myanmar ready for 27th SEA Gamessive preparations. On the other hand, sports ground and gymnasiums have been ready for the SEA Games.

The SEA Games will

be held in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Mandalay and Ngwehsaung Beach. Nay Pyi Taw has seen Wunna Theikdhi and Zeyathiri

Sports Complex where most of the Games would be held. Wunna Theikdhi Sports Complex is com-plete with one football ground, one gym with halls A, B and C, centres for Fut-sal, billiards, boxing and archery and one equestrian ground. Zeyathiri Sports Complex has one football ground, one gym with halls A, B and C, a Mount Pleas-ant cycling ground, and a petanque centre. Rowing contest will be held in Nga-like Dam.

At present, Mandalar Thiri Football ground is nearing completion to hold Women’s football match. Besides, Thuwunna Youth Training Centre and Thein-byu Tennis Court in Yan-gon have been upgraded.

Therefore, these sports infrastructures are show-pieces for the 27th SEA Games.

Kyemon-Chit Ko Ko; Photo:Shine Htet Zaw

Purse left at Bagan-NyaungU Airport returned to owner

the purse, the police found the purse owner U Maung Maung Nyein Chan, 35, who is a tourist guide resid-ing in Myenigon of Sangy-oung Township in Yangon

Region. On 15 November, avia-

tion police corps (Bagan-NyaungU) returned the purse to him who claimed that a group of globetrotters

and he arrived at Bagan-NyaungU Airport at 8:30 am on that day and he forgot his purse on the desk while he paid for entrance fees for his guests.—NLM

Illegal cattle seized in Patheingyi, Mansi, Kathaand service law.

Similarly, police mem-bers from Mansi Myoma Police Station in Kachin State together with witness-es arrested Bran Shaung, (40), of PyinOoLwin Ward in Mansi and seized illegal six oxen near Naungdwe Dam in Kaungyar Ward in Mansi on 12 November. Mansi Myoma Police Sta-tion charged him under ma-jor commodity and service law.

Likewise, police mem-bers from Kyaukhtongyi police outpost in Sagaing Region together with the village administrator seized

ownerless cattle at Field No (12) in Yinkhe forest re-serve in Katha Township on 12 November. They report-edly handed over the seized cattle to the Kyaukhtongyi Village-tract supportive committee.—Min Min Latt (Mann Tekkatho)

Nay Pyi Taw,19 Nov—According to a tip off, members of Thazi My-oma Police Station, togeth-er with witnesses searched a white ban driven by Soe Zan (a) Zan Gyi, which was stationary at mile post 15/2-3 of Meiktila-Taunggyi

Fugitive arrested with stimulant tabletsNay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—A Fuso driven by Win Myint Aung, 42, head-ing for Pyinmana from Tatkon plunged into road-side of Yangon-Mandalay Highway due to out of con-

Plunge of bus leaves one dead, 11 injuredtrol near NanAw village of Zeyathiri Township at 3 am today.

Driver Win Myint Aung died on the spot. Among 40 passengers, 11 injured passengers are un-

der medical treatment at Nay Pyi Taw General Hos-pital (1000-bed).

Township Administra-tor U Myat Thein Tun and Commander of Township Police Force Police Major

Than Win supe rv i s ed carrying of the damaged vehicle with the use of crane. Tat-kon Myoma Police Sta-tion filed a lawsuit over the traffic ac-cident.

Ko Ko Nay (Pyinmana)

Highway.They found Soe Zan (a)

Zan Gyi, 34, of Kyimyin-dine Township of Yangon Region and 884 stimulant tablets worth K 4420,000 and a handset and K 29,600.

Soe Zan (a) Zan Gyi is charged under the Section

Collision between motorbike and railway engine leaving one dead

place at mile post no. 461/4-5, between Monywa and Ahlon railway stations of Monywa Township in Sa-gaing Region. The motor-bike driven by Myint Aung, 25, in Myawady Quarter of Monywa was in collision

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov — Anti-drug police ar-rested a 37-year-old man together with heroin and stimulant tablets in Nam-hkam of Shan State on 14 November.

Police seized 12 grams of heroin worth K 0.24 million and 400 stimulant tablets worth K 0.8 million

Seizure of heroin, stimulant tablets in Namtkham

while searching Lauk Si (a) Si Lwal Chan, 37, of ward-14 in Namhkam near a cemetery at about 7.30 am. Police said the narcotics were found in his waist bag.

Namhkam Myoma po-lice station charged the sus-pect with the possession of narcotic drugs, it is learnt

Ko Ko Yupa

with Bodhitahtaung-Ahlon railway engine while cross-ing the railroad. The motor-bike driver died on the spot with multiple injuries.

Monywa Police Sta-tion filed a lawsuit against him.—NLM

15/19(a) 20 (a) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by Thazi Myoma Police Station.

Further investigation disclosed that Soe Zan (a) Zan Gyi is a wanted fugitive from PyinOoLwin Myoma Police Station.—NLM-003

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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd L) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani (L)

during a meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek,

on 13 Sept, 2013. — ReuteRs

Putin tells Iran’s leader of ‘real chance’ for nuclear deal

Moscow, 19 Nov — Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iran’s Hassan Rouhani on Monday there was a “real chance” for a nuclear deal, two days be-fore Teheran resumes talks with world powers, hoping to end a decade-long stand-off over its atomic pro-gramme.

Russia is one of six world powers negotiat-ing a proposal that would ease sanctions on Teheran if it suspends some parts

of a programme that many countries, particularly in the West, fear is aimed at developing nuclear weap-ons capability.

“Vladimir Putin under-lined that at the moment a real chance has appeared to find a solution to this long-running problem,” the Kremlin said after Putin tel-ephoned Rouhani, elected president in June vowing to mend Iran’s international relations.

Israel opposes any deal

to lift sanctions and France, one of the world powers at the talks, has said it would not back any such deal un-less it were certain Iran has renounced any nuclear weapons programme.

Iran denies it is seeking weapons.

But its refusal so far to curb its programme and lack of full openness with UN inspectors have drawn several rounds of UN sanc-tions and much harsher measures from the United

States and Europe.Two of the steps West-

ern powers want Iran to take in the initial phase of any deal are to stop produc-ing uranium enriched to a fissile concentration of 20 percent — a relatively short step from weapons-grade material — and to produce less 3.5 percent enriched uranium.

Russian Foreign Min-ister Sergei Lavrov sug-gested Iran was prepared to do both.—Reuters

Ambassador Riyad Mansour (R), the chief Palestinian UN observer, fills out a ballot for the election of a judge for the International Tribunal for the Former Yugosla-

via at the United Nation’s headquarters in New York in this on 18 Nov, 2013 handout photo by the United

Nations. — ReuteRs

Palestinians cast first-ever vote in UN General Assembly

New York, 19 Nov — A routine UN General As-sembly vote held special significance for the Pales-tinian delegation on Mon-day as it cast a ballot for the first time, an act the Pales-tinian envoy said brought his nation a step closer to full UN membership.

The chief Palestinian UN observer, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, participat-ed in the 193-nation assem-bly’s election of a judge for the International Tribunal for the Former Yugosla-via. Koffi Kumelio Afande of Togo was elected to the court. It was the first time the Palestinians cast a vote

since their UN status was upgraded a year ago this month to “non-member state” from “entity,” like the Vatican. The vote has been perceived as a de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood.

“This is a very, very special moment in the his-tory of the struggle of the Palestinian people at the United Nations,” Mansour told a small group of re-porters.

“It’s a symbolic (step),” he said. “But it is an important one because it reflects that the internation-al community, particularly the General Assembly, is

hungry and waiting for the state of Palestine to become a full member of the United Nations.”

The upgrade of the Palestinians’ status last year came after an attempt

to secure full UN member-ship failed because of US resistance in the Security Council, where Washington made clear it would use its veto power to block the Pal-estinian bid.—Reuters

Japan ready to send three more defence personnel

as inspectors in SyriaTokYo, 19 Nov — The

Japanese government said on Tuesday it is prepared to supply three additional defence force members to an international chemical weapons watchdog as in-spectors, following calls for cooperation in the mis-sion to eliminate a stockpile of chemical weapons from Syria.

In conjunction with the personnel dispatch, the government plans to help finance the dismantlement efforts, according to gov-ernment officials.

Foreign Minister Fu-mio Kishida said he was “aware of expectations for

cooperation from Japan” in assisting the international mission.

“Given that interna-tional efforts are currently under way to dismantle chemical weapons in Syria, our country will do whatev-er it can to assist,” Kishida told reporters.

Noting that the three Ground Self-Defence Force members have pre-viously been assigned to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as inspectors, he said he hopes they will again be employed by the organization.

Kyodo News

Soldiers, policemen and medical personnel gather at the site of explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut on

19 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

Two blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut, kill 18

BeiruT, 19 Nov — Two explosions targeting the Ira-nian embassy hit the Leba-nese capital Beirut on Tues-day killing 18 people and damaging buildings around the embassy compound, medical sources and wit-nesses said. It was not imme-diately clear whether the am-bassador or any diplomatic staff were among the victims of the explosions, which took place within minutes of each other. Embassy of-ficials would not comment to Reuters when reached by phone.

Lebanese television sta-tions said at 100 people were wounded, but they quoted Iranian diplomatic sources saying none of their staff in-side the embassy was hurt. “At one entrance of the Ira-nian embassy I counted six bodies outside. I saw body parts around and thrown two streets away,” Reuters television cameraman Is-

sam Abdullah said from the scene. “There is huge dam-age, it looks like it is a car bomb. One car is twisted there. There were two Mer-cedes cars badly damaged,” he added. The explosions were the latest in a string of bomb attacks in Leba-non, which has fallen prey to Shi’ite-Sunni sectarian

violence linked to the two-and-half-year conflict in Syria. Sunni rebel groups linked to al-Qaeda have re-peatedly condemned the military involvement of Iran and its Lebanese Shi’ite par-amilitary ally Hezbollah in the Syrian war, which turned the tide in favor of President Bashar al-Assad.—Reuters

Thousands of Afghan elders to decide if US troops stay or go

kaBul, 19 Nov —Thousands of Afghan tribal and political leaders will gather in the Afghan capital this week to decide whether to allow US troops to stay after the 2014 draw-down of foreign forces.

The fate of a US-Afghan security deal that will determine whether US forces stay or not is in the hands of 2,500 tribal chief-tains and notables who will meet in a giant tent on Thursday for five days of deliberations.

Without an accord on the Bilateral Security

Agreement, the United States says it could pull out all of its troops at the end of 2014, leaving Afghani-stan’s fledgling security forces on their own to fight the Taleban-led insurgen-cy. Security was tight in Kabul ahead of the Loya Jirga, a traditional Afghan grand assembly convened to debate matters of na-tional importance, follow-ing a suicide bomb attack outside the tent over the weekend.”The Loya Jirga is crucial for the future of our country,” said Farhad Sediqqi, a member of

parliament who will attend the assembly.”Afghanistan needs to have a partnership and a pact with the United States.”

The meeting comes at a critical juncture for Afghanistan ahead of a presidential election next year and growing anxiety about security as foreign troops prepare to leave.With the agreement, a US force of between 10,000 and 15,000 will remain in Afghanistan.

Karzai floated the idea of a grand council in order to muster popular support for a security deal opposed by many Afghan politi-cians and ordinary people.In the city of Jalalabad, hundreds of students ral-lied against the pact on Tuesday chanting “Death to America, death to Kar-zai, long live the Islamic Emirates of the Taleban!”

Reuters

Afghan elders gather

during a meeting in Maidan, Wardak

Province, on 11 March,

2013.ReuteRs

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Science & TechnologyNew Light of Myanmar

A portion of Mount Sharp, on Mars is pictured in this panorama made from a mosaic of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on

20 Sept, 2012 and released as a NASA handout image on 15 March, 2013. ReuteRs

Mars orbiter aims to crack mystery of planet’s lost water

Cape Canaveral, (Florida ), 19 Nov — Sci-entists have no doubts that oceans and rivers once pooled on the surface of Mars, but what happened to all that water is a long-standing mystery. The prime suspect is the sun, which has been peeling away the planet’s atmos-phere, molecule by mol-ecule, for billions of years.Exactly how that happens is the goal of NASA’s new Mars Atmosphere and

Volatile Evolution Mis-sion, or MAVEN, which is scheduled for launch at 1:28 pm EST/1828 GMT on Monday from Cape Ca-naveral Air Force Station in Florida. Upon arrival in September 2014, MA-VEN will put itself into or-bit around Mars and begin scrutinizing the thin layer of gases that remains in its skies.

“MAVEN is go-ing to focus on trying to understand what the his-

tory of the atmosphere has been, how the climate has changed through time and how that has influenced the evolution of the surface and the potential habitability —at least by microbes — of Mars,’ said lead scientist Bruce Jakosky, with the University of Colorado at Boulder. Specifically, MA-VEN will look at how much and what type of radiation is coming from the sun and other cosmic sources and how that impacts gases in

Mars’ upper atmosphere.Scientists have

glimpsed the process from data collected by Europe’s Mars Express orbiter and NASA’s Curiosity rover, but never had the opportuni-ty to profile the atmosphere

and space environment around Mars simultane-ously.” We’ll get a win-dow on what is happening now so we can try and look backward at the evidence locked in the rocks and put the whole story together

The five colours of the new iPhone 5C are seen after Apple Inc’s media event in Cupertino, California


Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $345 million

Jerusalem, 19 Nov —Apple has bought PrimeS-ense, an Israeli maker of chips that enable three-dimensional (3D) machine vision, for $345 million, the Calcalist financial news-paper reported on Sunday without citing sources.PrimeSense has raised $85 million from Israeli and US venture capital funds such as Canaan Partners Global, Gemini Israel and Genesis Partners, Calcalist said.

“We are focused on building a prosperous com-pany while bringing 3D sensing and natural interac-tion to the mass market in a variety of markets such as interactive living room and mobile devices,” a spokes-woman for PrimeSense said.

“We do not comment on what any of our partners, customers or potential cus-tomers are doing and we do not relate to rumors or

recycled rumours.”PrimeSense’s sensing

technology, which gives digital devices the ability to observe a scene in three di-mensions, was used to help power Microsoft’s Xbox

about Martian history and how it came to be such a challenging environment,” said Mars scientist Pan Conrad, with NASA’s God-dard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Reuters

Sony sells 1 million PlayStation 4 units in first 24 hours

new York / san Fran-CisCo, 19 Nov — Sony Corp said on Sunday it had sold 1 million units of its new PlayStation 4 gaming con-sole in the first 24 hours that it was available in the United States and Canada. The console, which Sony is counting on to kick-start a revival of its consumer elec-tronics business, went on sale on 15 November.

Andrew House, the

head of Sony Computer Entertainment, the unit of Sony that oversees PlaySta-tion, said in a statement that “sales remain very strong in North America.” “We ex-pect continued enthusiasm as we launch the PlaySta-tion 4 in Europe and Latin America on 29 November,” House said.

Sony Corp had previ-ously announced it had re-ceived more than 1 million

advance orders for the con-sole. Still, the initial sales figures are Sony’s first sal-vo in a battle brewing with Microsoft Corp’s Xbox One console, which goes on sale Nov 22. Sony is also hoping its console can help build a platform for recovery at the Japanese company’s mon-ey-losing consumer elec-tronics operations.

Sony is aiming to sell 5 million PS4 units by the end of its fiscal year that ends on 31 March. Robert W Baird & Co analyst Colin Sebas-tian has said he expects 2.5 million to 3 million PS4 shipments in the fourth quarter in North America. Both the PS4, priced at $399 in the United States, and the Xbox One, with a price tag of $499, offer im-proved graphics for realistic effects, processors that al-low faster game play and a slew of exclusive video games.—Reuters

An All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner plane, which flew from Sapporo in

Northern Japan, lands at Haneda airport in Tokyo on 26 May, 2013. — ReuteRs

ANA replaces 787 battery charger after fault warning

TokYo, 19 Nov — Ja-pan’s ANA Holdings Inc (9202.T), which operates the world’s biggest fleet of Boeing Co (BA.N) 787 Dreamliners, said it had to replace a main battery charger on one of the com-posite jets after mainte-nance crews detected a pos-sible fault.

The problem was dis-covered during regular maintenance of the air-craft on Saturday, with a replacement charger installed the next day, a company spokesman said. ANA, which operates 23 Dreamliners, sent the faulty charger to maker Thales SA (TCFP.PA) in France.

Boeing’s state-of-

the-art jet, has two large lithium-ion batteries that provide backup power to aircraft systems. The melt-down of two of those bat-teries, one on an ANA flight in Japan and one on a Japan Airlines (9201.T) jet in Boston, prompted avia-tion authorities to ground the 787 fleet for more than three months.

While minor faults are not uncommon with aircraft, aviation industry watchers nonetheless re-main sensitive to any new glitches with the 787, par-ticularly any related to the batteries.

After the earlier bat-tery incidents, Boeing re-designed the power pack

and charger system, adding insulation and a steel box to contain any further melt-downs and a specialized vent to eject any smoke out-

side the aircraft. Investiga-tors in the United States and Japan have yet to discover the root cause of the over-heating. — Reuters

Kinect. The acquisition of PrimeSense would be Ap-ple’s second purchase of an Israeli company. It bought flash storage chip maker Anobit in January 2012.

Reuters

IAC shines spotlight on video streaming service

Vimeonew York, 19 Nov —

As one of the media prop-erties tucked away within IAC/Interactive Corp’s vast group of online holdings, executives are putting the spotlight on Vimeo, break-ing out the number of us-ers and revenue for the first time. IAC revealed that Vimeo has an audience of more than 100 million unique users, 400,000 pay-ing subscribers and about $40 million in revenue over the past 12 months ending October.

“We have a number of assets that could live on their own,” said IAC Chief Executive Greg Blatt. “Vimeo, we believe, is an asset that will reach that status.” As a video web site, Vimeo competes with Google’s YouTube and oth-

er streaming video services though it is known for at-tracting a niche audience of creative professionals.

Founded in 2004 by a group of filmmakers under media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC, Vimeo has been grouped with company’s other media properties such as Ben Silverman’s Electus production studio.

Anyone can post con-tent to Vimeo’s platform or watch it for free, but the company charges $60 or $200 a year for more com-prehensive editing tools depending on the package. “We have begun to turn our attention to how do we build a business around the viewers,” said Kerry Train-or, Vimeo’s chief executive officer.

Reuters

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BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

Nokia shareholders expected to approve Microsoft deal

Helsinki, 19 Nov — Nokia shareholders are expected to approve the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft on Tuesday, with the deal’s financial benefits likely to outweigh resistance from a minority of investors up-set over the sale of a Finn-ish national icon. Nokia agreed in September to sell its devices and ser-vices business and license its patents to Microsoft for 5.44 billion euros ($7.36 billion) after failing to re-cover from a late start in smartphones.

The sale, which is ex-pected to close in the first quarter of next year after regulatory approvals, is set to boost Nokia’s net

cash position to nearly 8 billion euros from around 2 billion in the third quarter and allow it to return cash to shareholders, possibly through a special dividend. Without the loss-making handset business, the re-maining company will earn over 90 percent of sales from telecom equip-ment unit Nokia Services and Networks (NSN) and will also include a naviga-tion software business and a trove of patents.Since the Microsoft deal was an-nounced, Nokia shares have doubled, closing at 6.00 eu-ros on Monday.

Last year, they fell as far as 1.33 euros, a level not seen since 1994, on worries the mobile phone business

would burn through cash before it could ever catch up with rivals such as Sam-sung Electronics and Apple Inc. Billionaire and activist investor Daniel Loeb said in October that he had taken a position in Nokia and that he expects a “meaningful portion of the excess” cash from the Microsoft deal to be returned to investors.While approval from share-holders is considered a done deal, Tuesday’s meet-ing, which starts at 2:00 p.m. (1200 GMT) in Hel-sinki’s Ice Hall arena, will also be a chance for some shareholders to vent their dissatisfaction.

The sale of the mobile phones business, Finland’s biggest brand and at one

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer shakes hands with Nokia’s Chairman of the Board Risto Siilasmaa (R) during a Nokia news conference in Espoo


point worth 4 percent of national GDP, came as a shock to many Finns. The company’s success helped to transform Finland from a backwater economy in the shadow of the Soviet Un-

ion into a high-tech power-house. At Nokia’s last regu-lar shareholders’ meeting, many shareholders took to the microphone to ques-tion CEO Stephen Elop’s strategy, particularly his

2011 decision to adopt Mi-crosoft’s Windows Phone software over Nokia’s own Symbian or Google’s widely popular Android operating system.

Reuters

Gulf Arab carriers purchase 543 planes at

Dubai airshow

Dubai, 19 Nov — Gulf Arab carriers would pur-chase 543 planes for 219 billion US dollars on the first day of the 13th Dubai Airshow. The biggest or-der was placed by Dubai’s state-owned carrier Emir-ates Airline. This company plans to buy 150 Boeing 777X planes jetliners as well as 50 Airbus A380 Su-perjumbo aircraft for a total of 99 billion dollars. The Boeing order for 76 bil-lion dollars was the largest single order ever placed in global aviation history.

Emirates’ rival Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi said it will buy 86 Boeing planes, among them 30 787-10 Dreamliner aircraft, along with 87 Airbus air-craft.

The latter order in-

Ireland plans full return to int’l debt markets early next

yearDublin, 19 Nov — Ire-

land said on Sunday it plans a full return to international debt markets in early Janu-ary. State broadcaster RTE said the sale of Irish bonds to international investors next year would be the first sign of “business as usual” fol-lowing Ireland’s clean exit from the bailout programme. RTE quoted John Corrigan, chief executive of the Na-tional Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), as saying that Ireland had enough cash to fund itself until the middle of the first quarter of 2015.

Corrigan said interac-tion with the markets next year would focus on pre-funding for the rest of 2015. He said the NTMA is plan-ning a series of auctions for next year and would an-nounce details aimed at capi-tal markets early in January.

While Ireland raised 7.5 bil-lion euro through engage-ment with the bond markets this year, this interaction with the markets still only amounted to “opportunistic” engagement, Corrigan said.

Corrigan had previously expressed his preference for Ireland to have access to a precautionary credit line when it leaves the bailout, describing it then as “a good club to have in a bag.”

But he said that he now believes that investors were less concerned about Ireland having this in place and were “relaxed” about it. Ireland has decided that it will exit the EU-IMF assistance pro-gramme on 15 December, without the need to prear-range a new precautionary credit line from our EU and IMF partners.

Xinhua

A woman stands in front of an armed reconnaissance vehicle during the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United

Arab Emirates, on 17 Nov, 2013.Xinhua

Be cautious with antibiotics for kids: committeenew York, 19 Nov —

Pediatricians should care-fully evaluate kids with ear infections, runny noses and sore throats before giving them antibiotics, doctors said on Monday. Antibiot-ics will only help shorten kids’ sickness if their symptoms are caused by bacteria and not by a virus, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Commit-tee on Infectious Diseases noted. Still, studies show many children and adults are given the drugs for coughs and colds caused by viruses. That increases the risk of antibiotic resistance,

without doing patients any good.

“People tend to not rec-ognize how big of a prob-lem this is,” Dr Theoklis Zaoutis said. He is a mem-ber of the AAP committee and an infectious diseases specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

According to the Cen-tres for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 2 mil-lion Americans get infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year and 23,000 die as a result. Any antibiotic use — appropri-ate or not — contributes to

the risk of resistance.Antibiotics can also

come with side effects like diarrhea and rashes, which account for more than 150,000 doctor visits among kids each year. And they occasionally cause severe allergic reactions. Symptoms of bacterial and viral respiratory infections can overlap, the committee said.

So pediatricians should use strict criteria to decide when antibiotics are war-ranted. For ear infections, toddlers who have severe pain and infections in both ears are most likely to bene-

fit from the drugs, the AAP said. But in most cases, symptoms will go away on their own — so a wait-and-see approach is an option for older kids who are not in a lot of pain.

Antibiotics for runny noses and coughs should be used when symptoms are severe, have been around for a long time or are get-ting worse. When kids have a sore throat, pediatricians should test only those who have certain symptoms — such as swollen lymph nodes or tonsils and a fever — for strep throat.

Reuters

cluded 50 A350 wide- body planes for long-haul flights. Qatar Airways, the state-owned carrier in the gas-rich emirate, said it would order 54 Boeing 777-9X for 18.9 billion dollars. The Doha-based carrier said the 777 has been the backbone of the carrier’s fleet. Also, Qatar Airways opted to buy five Airbus A330-200F freighter planes.

FlyDubai, the low-cost-carrier which is part of Emirates Group, an-nounced to buy 111 Boe-ing 737 planes and 738s for 8.8 billion dollars. With the first day of the biennial airshow alone, the Dubai Airshow 2013 topped the entire last airshow in 2011 which closed with an order book of 63.3 billion dollars.

Xinhua

Israeli study finds better cure for brain damageJerusalem, 19 Nov

— Israeli researchers have found that high levels of oxygen in a pressurized at-mosphere can significantly improve chronic brain dam-age.

The study, carried out by Tel Aviv University and the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin, showed that patients who sustained brain injuries from 20 years ago improved their cogni-tive and physical responses after the treatment.

Doctors worldwide treat brain injuries with physical rehabilitation, but its effects have been limited partly because the window of opportunity to repair the brain damage after the in-jury is short. According to the Israeli researchers who worked on the study, the advantage of using hyper-baric oxygen, high levels

of oxygen in a pressurized cabin, is that the oxygen reaches deeper into the brain tissues, reviving dor-mant nerve cells and reacti-vating blood vessels.

Researchers were also positive that the study, pub-lished recently in Public Library of Science’s jour-nal PLOS One, will help treat other diseases linked to brain injury and aging, such as dementia and Alz-heimer’s.

“Maybe in the future we’ll be able to give anti-aging treatment that will strengthen the functioning of the brain and preserve it for the rest of one’s life,” Eshel Ben Jacob, a profes-sor from the Tel Aviv Uni-versity’s School of Phys-ics and Astronomy and the Sagol School for Brain Science, told the Jerusalem Post daily.—Xinhua


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Mandela remains stable but critical: South Africa government

Pretoria, 19 Nov—Nelson Mandela remains in a stable but critical condi-tion more than two months after hospital doctors treat-ing him for a lung infec-tion let him return home to convalesce, the South Af-rican government said on Monday. The former South African president was still “quite ill” and unable speak because of tubes in his mouth to clear fluid from his lungs, ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told the Sunday Independent newspaper.

“The bedroom there is like an ICU ward,” the newspaper quoted her as saying. The anti-apartheid leader spent 87 days in a Pretoria hospital before re-turning to his Johannesburg family home in September.

He was receiving round-the-clock treatment from 22 doctors and used

facial gestures to communi-cate, Madikizela-Mandela told the newspaper. Medics were hopeful he would re-cover his voice, she added.

The 95-year-old made his last public appearance waving to fans from the back of a golf cart before the Soccer World Cup final in Johannesburg in 2010.

In April state broad-caster aired a clip of the

thin and frail statesman be-ing visited by President Ja-cob Zuma and top officials from the African National Congress.

Mandela was elected South Africa’s first black president in multi-racial elections in 1994 that ended white minority rule.

His imprisonment in-cluded 18 years on the no-torious Robben Island penal

colony, when he and other prisoners were forced to work in a limestone quarry and he first suffered the lung infections that were to dog him for years. “The health of the former President re-mains much the same ... Which is stable but criti-cal” the government said in a statement. He continued to respond to treatment, it added.—Reuters

Australia supports White Ribbon campaign to reduce

violence against womenCanberra, 19 Nov

— The Australian govern-ment will provide 1 million AU dollars (about 0.94 million US dollars) to the White Ribbon campaign to help reduce violence against women, particu-larly in culturally and lin-guistically diverse com-munities, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced on Tuesday.

White Ribbon is the world’s largest male-led movement to end men’s violence against women. White Ribbon Day cele-brates the culmination of the annual campaign and global recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. As such, men and women are en-couraged to wear a sym-bolic white ribbon on 25 November.

According to a state-ment, the Abbott govern-ment is committed to do-ing all it can to stop any

form of violence against women. The figures of the statement showed that one in three Australian women over the age of 15 has re-ported experiencing physi-cal or sexual violence at some point in their lives.

Abbott confirmed that the 1 million AU dol-lars funding announced on Tuesday will expand the activities of the White Rib-bon campaign with a par-ticular focus on new and emerging culturally and linguistically diverse com-munities across Australia.

And he also said this commitment builds on government’s plans to en-sure the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Children 2010-2022 is implemented.

“I am proud to be one of nearly 2,200 White Rib-bon Ambassadors across Australia working to create a cultural shift that leads to the end of violence against women,” he said.—Xinhua

Japan, EU to agree on early conclusion of free trade talks

tokyo, 19 Nov — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet with European Council Presi-dent Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Bar-roso on Tuesday in Tokyo, where they are expected to agree on boosting coopera-tion toward concluding free trade talks at an early date.

The annual sum-mit between Japan and the European Union was initially slated for March but postponed due to the

financial crisis in Cyprus. Japan and the 28-country bloc launched free trade negotiations in March and have held talks three times since April. Japan is eager to conclude a deal as soon as possible as the Euro-pean Union already has a free trade accord with South Korea.

Japan will also need to accelerate the talks as the regional bloc has said it could terminate the negotia-tions if there is no progress in the area of nontariff bar-

riers within the first year of talks. At the summit, the two sides will also agree to enhance their coopera-tion in the area of natural resources, with an eye to securing stable supplies of liquefied natural gas, ac-cording to a Japanese For-eign Ministry official.

Among other topics on the agenda will be se-curity issues, including the nuclear standoff with Iran, and global environmental issues, the official added.

Kyodo News

Police hunt gunman in Paris after newspaper, bank shootings

Paris, 19 Nov — Police were hunting a lone gunman on the loose in Paris on Mon-day after he opened fire with a shotgun at the offices of a left-wing newspaper and a major bank before hijack-ing a car to take him to the Champs-Elysees avenue.

The assailant burst into the office of the Liberation daily in central Paris, shoot-ing and seriously wounding a photographer’s assistant be-fore fleeing, police and staff at the newspaper said.

About 90 minutes later, he fired at least three shots into the lobby of the subur-ban headquarters of Societe Generale in the La Defence business district 10 km (6 miles) west of the centre, the prosecutor said. A window

Photographers take pictures in front

of a poster of anti-apartheid leader and

former president Nelson Mandela dur-

ing a news confer-ence with the cast of the biographical film

‘’Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’’ at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, on 2

Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

US to keep Patriot missiles in Turkey for

up to another yearnew york, 19 Nov—

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel told the Turkish for-eign minister on Monday the United States would keep its two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey for up to another year, the Pentagon said.

The expected decision follows backing last week by NATO allies for the ex-tension, which helps bolster Turkish air defenses as Syr-ia’s civil war rages.

“The United States has decided to continue its contribution of two Pa-triot batteries under NATO command and control for up to one additional year,

in response to Turkey’s re-quest,” the Defence Depart-ment said in statement after Hagel met with Ahmet Da-vutoglu at the Pentagon.

Turkey has been one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fiercest critics and shells fired from Syrian ter-ritory frequently land inside Turkey, drawing a response in kind from the Turkish military.

Like the United States, Germany and the Nether-lands also deployed Patriot defence missiles to Turkey at the start of this year. In those two countries, parlia-mentary approval is needed for an extension.—Reuters

Patriot missile installation is pictured at a positions near the city of Kahramanmaras, on 23 Feb, 2013.

ReuteRs

Cuba to hold

national military drill

Havana, 19 Nov — Cuba is preparing to hold a national military exercise from Tuesday to Friday, state media reported on Monday.

The so-called Bastion military exercise was first conducted in 1980 by then Cuban leader Fidel Castro to test the nation’s defence preparedness.

The exercise “is not to threaten anybody or to boast military might,” offi-cial daily Granma said.

Participants in the drill include Cuba’s Revolu-tionary Armed Forces, the Interior Ministry and Com-munist Party organizations, among others, the paper said.

The exercise was sus-pended in 1989 and re-sumed in 2004.

Xinhua

was shattered but none of the dozen or so workers stand-ing nearby was hit. President Francois Hollande, speaking from Jerusalem, said he had asked his interior minister to use all possible means to find the gunman, “who tried to kill and could still do so”.

“Freedom of the press is being targeted,” Hollande told French media from Is-rael. A police helicopter hovered over the Champs-Elysees area where the gun-man had vanished into the crowd, having hijacked a car and forced the driver to drop him there.

A Paris prosecutor re-leased two photographs said to show the suspect from sur-veillance footage and urged the public to call in any tips

to a hotline.One man wearing dif-

ferent outfits is suspected to have fired shots at the bank and the newspaper, hijacked a car and threatened people with a gun on Friday at a 24-hour news channel, BFMTV, said Paris prosecutor Fran-cois Molins.—Reuters

Still image from video taken from surveillance footage shows a suspect gunman (L), on 18 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

7Wednesday, 20 November, 2013New Light of MyanmarL O C A L N E W S

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—CB Bank held its donation ceremony of sports gear to officials for successfully holding the XXVII SEA Games at Royal Nay Pyi Taw Hotel, here, yesterday morning.

A f t e r m a k i n g clarification on purpose of donations in which arrangements of Trolley for Social Zone, sports ground and Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw airports, ATM and Money Exchange for convenience of athletes who will come from other countries are also included, CB Bank Chairman U Khin Maung Aye presented K 600 million to Union Minister for Sports U Tint San. The Union Minister made a speech at the ceremony. He presented a certificate of honour to the Chairman of CB Bank.—MNA

CB Bank donates cash for XXVII SEA Games

Union Energy Minister inspects gas pipeline

maintenance and control stations

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Union Minister for Energy U Zeyar Aung visited South East Asia oil and gas pipeline maintenance station in Kyaukse on 16 November. The Union minister instructed officials to coordinate with relevant ministries and local government for the cases relating to the people along the pipeline although the company could technically carry out maintenance and security for the pipeline.

The cha i rman o f SEAP presented facts about the pipeline, security measures, environment and conservation undertakings for the people along the

pipeline. The Union minister proceeded to gas pipeline control station in Mandalay and inspected control measures along the pipeline at main control station.

He then went to the site chosen for construction of training center in the area of Yadanarbon Myothit Project in PyinOoLwin Township and called for soonest launch of the training school.

On 17 November, the Union minister arrived at the gas compressing station in Nawnghkio where he heard report on work progress of the control station presented by the officials.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Defence Services, Myanmar Police Force and Customs Department seized 96.333 kilos of opium in 47 cases, 142.3608 kilos of heroin in 169 cases, 4.144 kilos of opium oil in eight cases, 0.946 kilo of low-grade opium in 17 cases, 1.9782 kilos of marijuana in five

Action taken against 603 persons in drug-related cases in October 2013

cases, 966,393 stimulant tablets in 152 cases, 0.0101 kilo of stimulant powder in one case, 1.0606 kilo of opium speciosa in three cases, 119.8145 kilos of pseudo-ephedrine tablets in four cases, 10 capsules of tramadol, 0.06 litre of opium liquid in one case, 40.0045 kilos of Ice

in five cases, 8775 kilos of Caffeine in three cases, 52540 tablets of Alprazolam, other two cases and 14 cases of failure to register in October 2013.

Action was taken against 603 persons—499 men and 104 women—in 431 cases under the law.

MNA

Anti-Narcotic Drives

R Piyarelal League cricket tournament continues

yaNgoN, 19 Nov—R Piyarelal League cricket tournament and Ariston (knockout) tournament are held yearly for development of cricket sport in Myanmar.

T h e R P i y a r e l a l League cricket tournament continued at Punhlaing C r i c k e t G r o u n d i n Hlinethaya Township on 17 November.

Among the spectators w e r e V i c e - P r e s i d e n t o f M y a n m a r C r i c k e t Federation U Maung Maung and executives, guests and sports fans.

Yangon United Cricket (YUCC) beat Ayeyawady Cricket (AYWCC). Mathew Rocbuck of Ayeyawady Cricket AYWCC secured the man of the match award in the first match.

In the second match, EOPCC cricket victoried

over Myanmar Indian MICC cricket. Khalid of EOPCC won the man of the match award.

The Vice-President o f Myanmar Cr i cke t Federation presented man of the match awards to the respective players.

The cricket matches will be held in two places on 24 November morning.

Academy ACC cricket and EOPCC cricket will meet at Shwe Pin Lone Cricket Oval in Dagon Myothit (North) Township of Yangon.

Another one match between Motion Picture Organization Cricket team and Ayeyawady Cricket AYWCC will be held at Punhlaing Cricket Ground in Hlinethaya Township of Yangon Region.

NLM

Hot air balloon engulfs houseMeikTila, 19 Nov—A

hot air balloon fell on a house of Daw Mya Than, 68, of KanU Village in

Nyaungzauk Villate-tract, six miles northeast to Meiktila on 16 November afternoon.

The house was reduced to ashes. The local people put out the fire and it did not engulf other houses.

The hut worth K 50,000

was destoyed in the fire.C o m m a n d e r o f

Meiktila Township Police Force Police Major Maung S h w e a n d m e m b e r s inspected and providd K 20,000 to fire victim Daw Mya Than.

U Tin Hlaing (Meiktila)

Heroin worth over K 34 million seized in Mongyai Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—

Members of No 101 Anti-Drug Squad (Nay Pyi Taw) and No 23 Anti-Drug Squad (Tangyan) together with witnesses checked a van of Pan Taing bus line heading for Tangyan from Lashio at Hopa junction of Mongyai Township on 15 November morning.

They seized 1.726 kilos of heroin worth K 345.2 million from 99 soap boxes from Shauk Hwa, 48 of Ward 7 in Lashio.

Mongyai Myoma Police Station opened a file of lawsuit against Shauk Hua under the law.

Min Min Latt (Mann Tekkatho)

Stimulant tablets seized in Maubin


Nay Pyi Taw , 19 Nov—A combined team comprising policemen from Maubin Township Police Station, the Township Administrator and members together with witnesses raided the house of U Win Thein on the 8th street between Min Street and Aungzeya Street in Ward 5 of Maubin at 9 pm on 14 November.

They saw Myo Myo, 30

and two others from Ward 5 and Zaw Min Htwe (a) Ange Lay, 31, son of U Win Thein, who came out from the latrine beside the house.

The combined team searched there and seized 170 stimulant tablets worth K 1.02 million.

Maubin Police Station opened a file of lawsuit against them under the law.—Min Min Latt (Mann Tekkatho)

Thai NGO arrives at Kengtung Anti-Human Trafficking Office

keNgTuNg, 19 Nov—A 33-member Focus NGO from Thailand led by Ms Phensiri Pansiri arrived at Anti-Human Trafficking Office in Kengtung of Shan State (East) on 13 November.

Police Major Soe Tint of the office explained tasks of the squad and participation in tasks of the region and reviewed the central committee’s report.

MMAL-Maung Maung Naing (IPRD)

Union Minister U Tint Hsan accepts K 600 million from CB Bank Chairman U Khin Maung Aye.—mna

Union Minister U Zeyar Aung inspects tasks of gas pipeline control station.mna

National Sports

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Wednesday, 20 November, 2013

Untimely rainRain should be in the raining season. Rain

in the raining season is very advantageous to human beings, especially farmers as rice needs a lot of water for it to grow well. Trees, crops and seasonal and flowery plants also need rain-water to be able to thrive well and so do living beings to survive.

Untimely rain begets only adverse effects. It could not bring benefits like rain in the rain-ing season as it used to batter paddy plantations and winter crops as well as trade activities. It very often causes great damage and loss to farming. That’s why untimely rain is a disaster with negative impacts and it will surely bite at a time when most of farmers are in their harvest.

Harvest is at worst in some regions steam-ing from untimely rain. Given the adverse-effects of untimely rain, it should come as no surprise that the authorities concerned in co-operation with farmers took concrete steps in advance to prevent potential damage and loss, drawing lessons from the past. With the threat of global climate change, untimely rain will be one of several challenges that farmers will face.

There can be a string of lessons for us in the aftermath of untimely rains. One of the lessons is that any mission is to be completed in time. Those from developed countries usually keep a timetable for effective implementation of what they are engaged. We should admire and try to copy them so that we can be dedicated enough to stay the course.

We human beings are obliged to undertake economic, education, social and trade activities on a daily basis. And the most important thing is that whatever we do we are to complete it in time, doing away with acting out of expediency.

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann held a talk with Mon-golian President Mr Tsakh-iagiin Elbegdorj at Zabuthi-ri Hall of Hluttaw Complex, here, this morning.

They focused on po-litical reform process of Myanmar, experiences of Mongolia in political, eco-

Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker meets Mongolian President

nomic and administrative reforms, promotion of bi-lateral relations and coop-eration, and matters related to strengthening of friendly relations and cooperation between parliaments be-tween the two countries.

Also present at the call were chairmen and officials of Pyithu Hluttaw Commit-tees.—MNA

Prime Minister of Pakistan pays tribute to tomb of King Zafar Shah in Yangon

yaNgoN, 19 Nov—A delegation led by Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr Muhammad Nawaz Sharif stopped for a while at Yan-gon International Airport in his return trip after paying a visit to Thailand. They were welcomed by Region Minister for Security and Border Affairs Col Tin Win and wife, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Acting Pakistani Ambassa-dor to Myanmar Mr Adnan Majit and party at Yangon International Airport.

The delegation visited downtown Yangon in a mo-torcade and paid tributes to the tomb of King Zafar Shah. They left in the after-noon.—MNA

Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr Muhammad Nawaz Sharif pays tributes to the tomb of King Zafar Shah.—mna

Public announcement for remonstration

1. The Federal Union Party (FUP) headquartered at No. 15 (6th floor) in Hlaing River Road in Kam-ayut Township in Yangon Region, on 19-11-2013 submitted applications to register as a political party under the Article 5 of Political Parties Registration Law. In its application, it is mentioned that the party will use its name, flag and seal described hereunder.

2. It is hereby announced in accord with Political Par-ties Registration Rules 14 (d) that if there is anyone who wants to remonstrate about the name, flag and seal of the party, they may remonstrate with the Un-ion Election Commission with firm evidence within seven days from the day of the announcement.

Union Election Commission

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov — “The National Races Protection Law is being drawn by the parliament for ensuring national unity and reconciliation after passing the law to protect the rights and to improve the inter-est of farmers,” Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann said in meeting with local people at Myitta Hall in Gangaw of Magway Region yesterday.

Thanks to the 2008 Constitution, Myanmar saw smooth transition and trans-fer of rights and powers of the people to the people’s government while some na-tions in the globe are expe-riencing conflicts between the people and authorities regarding the power, he added.

Works to review, revise Constitution underway without harming democratic transition momentum

He continued that works are underway to re-view and revise the Con-stitution, without harming peace and stability and de-velopment, national unity and reconciliation, the rule of law, peace process and momentum of the country’s democratization. He invited suggestions of those who considered the Constitution should be revised, saying that the respective Hluttaws are striving for the sake of the nation and its citizens.

He called on the people to express their needs as the parliament mainly respon-sible for making laws is passing the laws serving the interest of the people.

Next, officials and townselders reported on requirements for the de-velopment of the township

and Magway Region Chief Minister U Phone Maw Shwe and departmental of-ficials coordinated matters.

In his concluding speech, the Speaker called for strict adherence to civil service rules and regula-tions and urged the staff to have a sense of account-

ability and responsibility in discharging duties. Fairness and politeness are needed in dealing with the people, he stressed.

He stressed the need of cooperation between the parliamentarians and mem-bers of the development committees for the sake of ordinary people.

In meeting with lo-cal people at BEHS No (1) in Mindat Township, the Speaker invited the voices of local people, saying that Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Union Government will im-plement the tasks that can-not be realized by the state government.

After hearing reports on regional development tasks, the Speaker said that pragmatic approaches are to be taken to translate the failed tasks to a success. He called for collaborative efforts of the parliamentari-ans, the government and the people for the development of their own states.

MNA

Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann cordially greets those present at the meeting.—mna

Seal of the Federal Union Party (FUP)

Flag of the Federal Union Party (FUP)

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Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker meets Mongolian President and party

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Speaker of Amyo-tha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint received a delegation led by President of Mongo-lia Mr Tsakhiagiin Elbeg-dorj at Hluttaw Complex, here, at 10 am today. They had a cordial discussion on closer cooperation in regional and international arenas. Also present at the call were Deputy Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Mya Nyein, chairmen of the committees, secretaries, members and officials from Hluttaw Office.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov— The Union Election Com-mission has been scrutinizing and passing the applica-tions for registration as a political party. Federal Union Party applied for registration as a political party to the UEC today.—MNA

Federal Union Party applies for registration as

political party

(from page 1) of Economic Affairs Mrs. Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, the directors-general of the ministries, officials concerned from Myanmar Investment Com-mission and the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Indus-try, the Swiss Ambassador to Myanmar and officials concerned.

Union Minister Dr Kan Zaw said in his open-ing speech that the meeting intends to set potential ar-eas in promoting economic cooperation between My-anmar and Switzerland under the MoU on econ-omy, investment, labour and trade sectors. In the past, Myanmar had a mo-nopoly on economy but at present it is practising people-centered approach. Myanmar-EU Task Force Joint Statement could be released. The today meet-ing produces fruitful results in promoting economic co-operation between the two

First Round of ...countries.

Next, Secretary of State of Economic Affairs Mrs. Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch gave a pledge of support to sustainable eco-nomic development of My-anmar.

Both sides frankly discussed grant of work permit, marketing plan, smooth commodity flow, investment and trade frame-work, procurement, in-tellectual property right, infrastructures, tourism industry, banking system,

Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung

Myint receives President of Mongolia Mr Tsakh-iagiin Elbegdorj at Hlut-

taw Complex.—mna

Pyinmana dwellers eager for boxing developmentPyiNmaNa, 18 Nov—

A discussion on develop-ment of boxing was held at Honey Plain Restau-rant in Mingala Ward of Pyinmana, Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, yesterday afternoon.

The attendes to the discussion recounted, “Pyinmana has been turn-

ing out many excellent box-ers for the nation for many years. At about 1957-58, U Ye Thiha, selected boxer of Defence Services (Army, Navy and Air) established Ye Thiha boxing club. In

1959-60, U Kyaw Myint Lay, the boxer champion of SEAP Games, set up Shwekyar (Golden Tiger) boxing club. In later years, U Chit Tin, U Phone Myint (a) U Ni Lon and so on had

uplifted the prestige of the town. They were famous boxers not only in the na-tion but in Asia.”

Pyinmana Township will re-set up a boxing team so as to turn out out-standing new generation boxers on whom the State can rely, said responsible persons and members of the club.

The discussion was attended by Amyotha Hluttaw representative U Hmat Gyi of Pyinmana Township Constituency, the head of Township Sports and Physical Edu-cation Department, town’s elders, media persons, members of former boxing clubs namely Yanaung (2), Bright Star, Hero, Taung-tha, Mingala, Construc-tion, Yauksain, Forward, Shwe Paunglaung, Si-bin and Ywagauk (2) and guests.

By: Ko Myo (Shwepaukkan); Photo: Zaw Tun Win (Pyinmana)

Chairperson of Pyithu Hluttaw Rule of Law and

Tranquility Committee meets Mongolian President

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Chairperson of Pyithu Hluttaw Rule of Law and Tranquility Committee Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

met Mongolian President Mr Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj at Committee Hall-12 of Hluttaw Complex, here, at 11 am today.—MNA

yaNgoN, 19 Nov—In response to a tip-off, police and combined forces raided the SKY Guesthouse at No.3/4 in Inner Padan Vil-lage in Hlinethaya Town-ship in Yangon Region around 11.15 on 13 Novem-ber and arrested Tin Maung (a) Khaing Nay Min, 34, son of U Soe San Win, with red-handed making bombs with gunpowder and related materials at room No. B-15.

Further investigation led to the arrest of the ac-complice Thein Nyunt, 31, son of U Thein Kyaw Aung, at noon and Bo Bo (a) Bo Bo Tun, 28, son of U Thein

Attempted bombing averted Tun, at 01.00 on 16 No-vember. The investigation revealed that Tin Maung (a) Khaing Nay Min at-tended a course on mine planting course at border beginning 3rd July 2013. He received two ready-to-use white color hand-made mines, one packet of gun-powder and lead colour gunpowder. The three were prepared to blow off reli-gious buildings.

Police are after the accomplices as there are hidden perpetrators and some above-the-ground as-sociations tied to attempted bombing.—MNA

labour rights, social ac-countability and sustainable economic development.

After that, Deputy Minister Dr Daw Khin San Yi and Secretary of State

of Economic Affairs Mrs. Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch signed the meeting minute and exchanged the notes.

MNA

First round of economic dialogue between Myanmar and Switzerland in progress.—mna

A discussion on development of boxing in progress.

yaNgoN, 19 Nov— DK World Co Ltd of the Repub-lic of Korea donated 30 sets of 3 View Motor Car Black Box (Phonex 300) each of which is worth USD 320 to Yangon Region Govern-ment on 17 November.

Thirty sets of 3 view motor car black box (phonex 300) donated

Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe ex-pressed words of thanks.

CEO Mr. Park Chung Ho of DK World Co Ltd ex-plained about purpose of the donation.

MNA

(from page 16)and operating hotels and tourism industries.

The project that will be implemented by the Ministry of Industry and

Agreement inked...

United Nation Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in cooperation with related ministries and organizations is aimed at introducing clean technolo-gies to goods and services industries in Myanmar.

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Pyinmana, 19 Nov—A total of 35 older persons are staying at Pyinmana Bud-dhist Home for the Aged in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area.

A ceremony to donate cash to the fund for construci-ton of the patient hall was held at the residence of Daw Ma Ma Lay of Yanaung Ward 1 in Pyinmana on 12 November morning.

K 5 million funded to Pyinmana Home for the Aged

Under the patronage of parents U An Kyo-Daw Mone, Daw Ma Ma Lay (retired, education minis-try), (Daw Htay Htay) and Daw Aye Aye donated K 6 million to the home through Chairman of the Home for the Aged U Kyaw Shin and Vice-Chairman U Thein Lwin.—Kyemon-District IPRD

n y a u n g l e b i n , 1 9 Nov—Under the aegis of parents, Dr Maung Maung Kyi-Daw Khin San Win and family of Nyaunglebin from

Medicines, medical equipment donated to Nyanunglebin

Hospital

Bago Region of Pan Cherry Hotel, PyinOoLwin, donat-ed medicines and medical equipment to Nyaunglebin Township People’s Hospital

on 17 November morning.Dr Khin Zaw, Head of

Township Health Depart-ment made a speech. On behalf of the wellwishers, Executives of Nyaunglebin Township Association (Yan-gon) Police Captain (Rtd) Maung Maung Thet and U Kyaw Lwin explained the purpose of donations and presented medicines and medical equipment.

Medical Super-inten-dent Dr Khin Zaw spoke words of thanks.

It was also attended by Commander of Township Police Force Police Major Tin Aung, Chairman of the Township War Veterans Organization U Hla Shwe and officials.—Nay Lin (Nyaunglebin)

Communal Kathina, rice offering held in KyaiktoKyaiKto, 19 Nov—The 64th communal Kathina robe offering and rice of-fering ceremony was held at Megawun Monastery in Kyaikto on 17 November.

Over 700 members of the Sangha from 53 monas-teries led by the chairman of Township Sangha Nayaka Committee Lethar Monas-tery Sayadaw were invited to Megawun Monastery.

MP of Pyithu Hluttaw, Township Administrator and wellwishers donated alms and rice to members of the Sangha.

Servicemen from No 44 LID, staff of depart-ments, social and religious associations and local peo-ple offered rice to members

of the Sangha.In the afternoon, the

offered 1600 Kathina robes and alms to 700 members of the Sangha at Sasana Beikman of the township.

Mingala Monastery Sayadaw Bhaddanta Tissa delivered a sermon, and the congregation shared merits gained.

At the donation cer-

emony, 64 Padethabin of Kathina robes worth K 20 million were shared to 53 monasteries.

Maung Maung Nyein Chan

Respects paid to retired workers of Inland Freight-handling

myawady, 19 Nov—Myawady Township In-land Freight-handling Com-mit-tee held the first cere-mony to pay respects to the retired workers at its office on 17 November.

D e p u t y H e a d o f Myawady Township In-land Freight-handling Com-mit-tee U Ko Ko San and workers presented gifts to retired workers.—Tun Tun Oo (Myawady Border Town)

Talks on menace of narcotic drugs given in Myawady

na y Py i ta w , 19 Nov—A ceremony to dis-seminate knowledge about menace of narcotic drugs and abuse of drug and pre-vention against trafficking in persons was held at Dhammadaya Monastery in Tadagyo Village of Thin-gan-nyinaung Village-tract in Myawady Township on 12 November.

Police Major Aung Si of No 23 Anti-Drug Squad

(Myawady) gave talks on disadvantages of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and Police Captain Tin Tun Aung of Anti-Trafficking Squad (Myawady) prevention against trafficking in per-sons.

It was attended by 50 persons of villages. Later, they distributed pamphlets to them.

NLM

Stimulant tablets, opium speciosa seized in Myeik

nay Pyi taw, 19 Nov—Members of Myeik District Police Force of Taninthayi Region together with wit-nesses, acting on tip-off, raided the house of Han Lin Aung (a) Aung Lin, 33, in


Kyaungnge Ward of Alek-yun Region in Myeik on 11 November.

They seized 997 stimu-lant tablets and 30 grams of opium speciosa.

Myeik Myoma Police Station opened a file of law-suit against Han Lin Aung (a) Han Lin under Sections 15/19(a)/20(a)/21 of Nar-cotic Drugs and Psychotic Substances Law.—Min Min Latt (Mann Tekkatho)

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Two motobikes collision leaves one dead, two injuries

na y Py i ta w , 19 Nov—Members of Taung-dwingyi Myoma police station inspected the scene to inspect traffic accident at mile post 289/1 on Taungdwingyi-Pyay Road in Taungdwingyi on 12 November.

A motorcycle driven by Thiha Aung, 21 of Nyaungbinhla Village of the township together with Pyae Phyo Kyaw on the back seat of same venue and another one by Pyae Phyo Kyaw, 19 of the same vil-

lage headed on in collision .In the accident, Thiha

Aung sustained injuries at mouth, head and hand, and Kyaw Ko Ko at forehead, head and leg and thight.

Pyae Phyo Kyaw was injured at nose, head and leg and died on the spot.

Taungdwingyi Myoma Police Station opened files of lawsuit against reckless drivers Thiha Aung and Pyae Phyo Kyaw under Sections 304(a)/338 of Criminal Law.

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Bomb discarding site at Aungpan

StationaungPan, 19 Nov—No

7 company (Aungpan) under control of No 2 Branch of Railways Police Corps (Nay Pyi Taw) of Railway Police Corps has built one bomb discarding site with the use opf sand bags and 10 tyres in front of No 1 platoon vegeta-ble farm for people to be free from danger of local people.

Ko Ko Yupa

Wednesday, 20 November, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarRegional

Chinese State Coun-cillor Yang

Jiechi (L, front)

meets with South

Korean For-eign Min-ister Yun Byung-se

(R,front) in Seoul, South Korea, on 18 Nov, 2013.

Xinhua

229 kg of heroin seized at Taipei airport

Taipei, 19 Nov — Cus-toms authorities seized 229 kilograms of heroin at Taoyuan International Air-port on Sunday, local media reported on Monday.

Authorities were quot-ed as saying that the drugs arrived at the main Taipei international airport on a flight from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City in the early hours on Sunday.

The heroin was report-edly coated with chocolate and stashed in audio equip-ment packages.

Taipei authorities ar-rested a former employee of a cargo company who went to the airport to collect the cargo.

Taipei antinarcotics agents have been investigat-ing the smuggling scheme since autumn last year.

The amount of heroin seized, worth about 7 bil-lion Taipei dollars (about US$2.4 billion) if sold on the streets, is the single largest drug bust on the self-ruled island since 1993.

A total of seven Tai-wanese people have report-edly been arrested in con-nection with the case.

Smuggling heroin is punishable by death in Tai-pei.—Kyodo News

More than 10 injured, cinema roof collapses after mini tornado hits Sydney shopping centre

Sydney, 19 Nov — More than 10 people have been injured after a mini tornado hit a shopping cent-er, library and train station in Sydney’s north, local media reported on Monday.

Emergency services were called to the Westfield shopping centre in Hornsby just before 3:00 pm local time on Monday following reports that the roof of the

Five Chinese tourists killed in bus accident in Indonesia

JakarTa, 19 Nov — A bus carrying 13 tourists from China’s Henan Prov-ince plunged into a ravine in Bali, Indonesia on Monday, killing five of them, a hospi-tal official said.

Dudut Rustiadi, head of forensic department of Sanglah hospital in Bali, said that he has already re-ceived four bodies of the Chinese tourists.

The fifth tourist body was still on the way to Sanglah hospital from BIMC Kuta hospital, he was quoted by Republika.co.id online as saying.

“We have received six

bodies, four of them Chi-nese tourists. We have iden-tified them,” said Dudut.

He said that all of the four Chinese tourists were male aged 50s. The bus driver and tour guide, both Indonesians, were also killed after the bus fell into the 20-metre-deep ravine.

The accident took place when the bus was heading to the Uluwatu temple from the Suluban beach. Earlier an official from the Con-sulate General of China in Surabaya in East Java con-firmed the accident left five people dead, including three Chinese tourists.—Xinhua

Rescuers try to evacuate victim at the accident site in Bali, Indonesia, on 18 Nov, 2013. A bus carrying 13 Chinese

tourists plunged into a ravine near Uluwatu, Bali, killing three of tourists, the Consulate General Office of PRC in

Surabaya of East Java confirmed.—Xinhua

Voting begins in Nepal’s second constituent assembly election

kaThmandu, 19 Nov — Voting began in Nepal on Tuesday morning to elect a second constituent assembly, on which hinges the future of this tiny Hima-layan nation that has been in political turmoil for 17 years since the start of an armed insurgency in 1996.

Around 12 million vot-ers are eligible to cast two votes — a first-past-the-post vote that will elect 240 legislators and a propor-tional vote for the party of their choice.

Under the proportional system that considers the whole country as a single constituency, 335 seats will be divided among parties based on the percentage of votes they get.

Twenty-six more leg-islators in the 601-member assembly will be nominated by a new government.

The assembly will have a four-year term, Elec-tion Commission spokes-man Bir Bahadur Rai told Kyodo News.

The assembly that will also function as parliament will be primarily asked to finalize a new constitution left incomplete by a previ-ous assembly, which was elected in 2008 and dis-solved in May last year following a months-long deadlock over the basis — ethnic, geographic or economic — to be used to federate the country. Dif-ferences over the basis for federalism still persist.

All major political par-ties — Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Nepali Congress and Com-munist Party of Nepal (Uni-fied Marxist Leninist) — have pledged to finalize the constitution within the first

year of the assembly’s life.But many doubt the

country’s fractious parties can overcome their differ-ences.

The vote is taking place amid disruption threats and violence by radical Maoists who broke away from the UCPN (M) last year and have called a vote boycott.

The breakaway Com-munist Party of Nepal-Maoist that called a now-unsuccessful transportation strike aimed at disrupting the vote has perpetrated a series of gasoline bomb at-tacks in the recent past on vehicles defying the strike.

One man has died from one of the attacks, while dozens of people have been burned. In view of security threats, the government has taken unprecedented secu-rity measures.

Kyodo News

Toyota Motor Corp. gives a sneak preview in Tokyo on

18 Nov, 2013, of the Lexus RC coupe to

be exhibited at the upcoming Tokyo Motor

Show.Kyodo news

cinema had collapsed in rough weather.

The shopping cen-tre has been evacuated for safety reason and Fire and Rescue New South Wales (FRNSW) crew searched the building.

The FRNSW has con-firmed that no one was trapped under the collapsed ceiling following a thor-ough search.

The first arriving crews reported storm dam-age and several people with injuries from broken glass and debris, the FRN-SW said.

According to local media reports, six patients were treated at the shopping centre for minor injuries, including a 50-year-old woman who was hit in the face by glass.

Paramedics are treating six other patients after the storm hit the Hornsby li-brary and train station near the shopping centre.

Xinhua

New Zealand steps up typhoon relief funding for Philippines

WellingTon, 19 Nov — The New Zealand government on Tuesday pledged another 2.975 mil-lion NZ dollars (2.47 mil-lion US dollars) in relief funding for the Philippines, bringing its total aid fund-ing for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan to 5.12 million NZ dollars.

Foreign Affairs Min-ister Murray McCully said the assistance package in-cluded direct funding for emergency supplies, such as food, water contain-

ers, tarpaulins, generators, kitchen sets and chainsaws.

The package also in-cluded a further 750,000 NZ dollars in dollar-for-dollar funding for New Zealand non-government organizations working on the ground, bringing that total to 1.5 million NZ dol-lars.

“Further funding is be-ing provided to the Inter-national Committee of the Red Cross and World Food Programme to help pur-chase and distribute emer-

gency supplies,” McCully said in a statement.

“More than 10 million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan, with an estimated 4 million dis-placed and in need of emer-gency food and shelter. The death toll is reportedly close to 4,000.” McCully said the additional funding was in addition to the airlift and logistical support being provided by a New Zea-land Defence Force Hercu-les C-130 operating in the Philippines.—Xinhua

India test fires advanced version of BrahMos missile

neW delhi, 19 Nov — The Indian Army Mon-day successfully test-fired an advanced version of the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which penetrated and de-stroyed a hardened target in the Pokhran firing range in the west Indian state of Rajasthan.

“The missile, after launch, followed the prede-termined trajectory and suc-cessfully pierced the desig-

nated concrete structure at bull’s eye owing to sheer velocity of the missile,” of-ficials told the media.

Brahmos is a superson-ic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land. It is a joint venture between Re-public of India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Russian Federation’s NPO Mashinostroeyenia.

Xinhua


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A strange building shaped like rocket found in Nanning, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

of China, on 18 Nov, 2013.— Xinhua

23 foreigners arrested in security swoop in Kenya’s port city Mombasa

MoMbasa, 19 Nov—Kenyan authorities said on Monday they are interrogat-ing 23 foreigners arrested in an operation launched in the coastal city of Mombasa to deal with terror threats.

the head of the immi-gration department coastal region, James Nyatigo, said the crackdown was carried out by police officers and immigration officials in the indian ocean port cities of Mombasa and Malindi.

Nyatigo said the for-eigners sneaked into the east african country through the Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi a few weeks ago.

“Our officers had in-

formation that the foreign-ers had arrived in Mom-basa posing as tourists to do business when they laid an ambush and arrested them without working permits,” said Nyatigoh.

the immigration of-ficial said they will be ar-raigned in court and de-ported to their respective countries of origin.

the move came after the Kenya government re-voked 104 individuals of citizenship issued in the past five years.

Ministry of interior secretary Joseph ole lenku said the group corruptly acquired registration docu-ments.

those affected in-cluded 95 Indians, five pakistanis, a sri lankan, a tanzanian, a ugandan and a somali.

“the government is reviewing citizenship documents issued to foreigners with the intention of flush-ing out foreigners with il-legally acquired citizenship documents some of who have turned out to be crimi-nals,” lenku said last week.

he stressed that the process of digitizing all se-curity registries will elimi-nate fraud and corruption.

in october, the government sacked 15 senior and mid-level immigration officers fol-

lowing the westgate terror attack the previous month. the attack left at least 67 people dead and 175 others wounded in the capital city Nairobi.—Xinhua

Israel’s Leviathan postpones oil drilling

JerusaleM, 19 Nov— the oil drilling at israel’s newly found gas and oil field Leviathan has been postponed to at least six months later, Israel’s fi-nancial newspaper Calcal-ist reported on Monday.

the ultra deepwater drill was supposed to begin in February and to reach a depth of 7 km. according to estimates released on July by leviathan’s ma-jor partner Noble energy, some 210 million barrels could be found in these strata.

however, Calcalist said the drilling had to be postponed as the required equipment was to arrive later than planned.

last year, a drilling

operation in the leviathan field was halted due to the lack of proper equipment, Calcalist reported.

Noble energy said in a statement: “we remain committed to the develop-ment of the Leviathan field and continue to work hard to advance the project.”

leviathan, which is offshore from central is-rael, is owned by texas-based Noble energy (39.6 percent), israeli Delek group ( about 45 percent), and ratio oil exploration (15 percent.)

it contains an estimat-ed 530 billion cubic metres of gas and is considered the biggest deepwater gas find of the century worldwide.

Xinhua

Farmers help villager Peng Qiugen harvest

rice on the roof of Peng’s house which had

been converted into a rice field at Qilin Village

of Shaoxing City, east China’s Zhejiang

Province, on 18 Nov, 2013. Peng several years

ago transformed the roof of his house into a farmland, in which rice, watermelons and vegetables have been harvested in different

seasons.—Xinhua


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‘Thor’ reigns over US, Canada box office for

second weekLos AngeLes, 19 Nov

— Superhero sequel “Thor: The Dark World” ham-mered out another victory in its second weekend at US and Canadian box offices, overcoming a strong per-formance from Christmas-themed romantic comedy “The Best Man Holiday.”

“Thor,” from Walt Dis-ney Co’s Marvel Studios, hauled in $38.4 million in ticket sales from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates. “Best Man Holiday” earned $30.6 million to take the No 2 spot. Senior-citizen, buddy comedy “Last Vegas” fin-ished third with $8.9 mil-lion.

Elsewhere, “Catching Fire,” the highly anticipat-ed “Hunger Games” sequel starring Jennifer Lawrence, opened big in Brazil with $6.3 million. The movie is to open in the United States,

Canada and dozens of other countries on Friday.”Best Man Holiday,” a sequel to 1999 film “The Best Man,” exceeded the forecasts of box office analysts, who had predicted a debut at around $24 million at US and Canadian theaters. The installment brings back nine stars from the origi-nal film, including Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard and Morris Chestnut, for a reunion that tests marriages and friendships. The movie cost $17 million to make, according to the Box Office Mojo website.

“No one ever would have expected this kind of number,” said Nikki Rocco, president for domestic dis-tribution at Universal Pic-tures, noting that the studio was expecting an opening weekend total “somewhere in the high teens.”

Reuters

Mirren wins London theatre award for Queen Elizabeth II portrayal

London, 19 Nov — Hel-en Mirren was named best actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in “The Audience” at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday while the best ac-tor award was split between Rory Kinnear and Adrian Lester as the leads in “Oth-ello”. The award for best play on the London stage went to Lucy Kirkwood for “Chimerica”, an exploration of the relationship between the United States and China as seen through the eyes of an American photojournalist trying to track down a young protester who faced down a tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

A revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along”, a flop on Broadway in 1981, was named best musical while Richard Eyre won best di-rector for a revival of Ib-sen’s “Ghosts”. “People come from around the world to see plays in London,” Mayor Boris Johnson said as he made his way into the awards banquet at the Sa-voy Hotel. “It’s the place where the theatre really got going in the 16th century.” Mirren, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Steven Frears’s

British actress Helen Mirren poses on the

red carpet as she arrives at an event

celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong

on 17 Oct, 2013.ReuteRs

movie “The Queen”, said she feels such awards are being given to the queen as much as to her. “The Audi-ence” shows her meeting with prime ministers over many decades, and required that she portray a woman in her 20s as well as an octo-genarian. “I’ve always felt playing her majesty that it’s actually her majesty who’s winning the award and not me,” Mirren told Reuters. “I did feel very much doing a play that the response to the play was as much a response to that person, that extraordi-nary woman, as it was to my performance. But I should be very proud,” she said, speaking before the official announcement was made. Kinnear and Lester said that portraying Othello and Iago in the production of Shake-speare’s play at the National Theatre had been a chal-lenge, both personally and in terms of seeing how the play could be interpreted for new audiences.

“It was important that we got on with each other because we’re spending an awfully long time ruining each other’s lives,” Kinnear said. Lester said he thought the production had managed to connect with a whole new generation of theatrego-

ers. “It breathed fresh life into a play that people may have found dated,” he said. London Evening Standard editor Sarah Sands, one of the judges, said, “The high level of theatrical daring and creativity seen on the Lon-don stage this year made our choices tougher than ever to

“The Light Princess”.— The Evening Stand-

ard Theatre Icon Award went to Maggie Smith for her contribution to the world stage.

— David Walliams took home the new Award for Comedy for his perfor-mance as Bottom in “A Mid-

make. “We, like the rest of the world, have been dazzled by the talent on show.”

In other awards:— American actor Seth

Numrich took the Milton Shulman Award for Outstand-ing Newcomer for his portray-al of a small-town gigolo in Tennessee Williams’s “Sweet Bird of Youth”.

— Rachel De-lahay won the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Play-wright for her drama about immigration and multicultural London, “Routes”.

— Rosalie Craig won a new award for Best Musi-cal Performance as the star of

summer Night’s Dream”.— Actor and director

Kevin Spacey, artistic di-rector of the Old Vic since 2003, was given the Editor’s Award for his contribution to British Theatre.

— Andrew Lloyd-Web-ber received the Lebedev Special Award for his con-tribution to musical theatre.

— Actress/writer Cush Jumbo won the Emerging Talent Award for her one-woman play about Josephine Baker, “Josephine and I”.

— The Beyond Thea-tre award was given to the BBC’s 2013 Proms season.

Reuters

Lady Gaga arrives for the Glamour Magazine Women of the Year event in New York, on 11 Nov, 2013.

ReuteRs

Lady Gaga tops British album chart with

“ARTPOP”London, 19 Nov —

Lady Gaga scored her third British number one album on Sunday with “ART-POP”, knocking US rapper Eminem off the top spot, the Official Charts Company said. Lady Gaga, known for her extravagant cos-tumes and estimated to have earned $80 million in the past year, also entered the singles chart at number nine with “Do What U Want” — a collaboration with US art-ist R Kelly.

Eminem hung on to sec-ond place in the album chart, holding off new entries from Canadian singer Celine Dion and British pop group Little Mix which charted in third and fourth place re-spectively.Seventeen-year-

old Dutch DJ Martin Garrix claimed the week’s best-selling single with his dance club hit Animals, making him the second-youngest artist to occupy the number one berth this year.

British singer Lily Al-len returned to the music scene after a long absence, charting at number two with her version of the Keane song “Somewhere only we know”, which is featured in a department store Christ-mas advertising campaign.The advert, which has been viewed nearly 7 million times on YouTube since it was released on November 8, also helped propel the British band’s original 2004 version back into the charts at number 29.—Reuters


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Recuperating Snedeker withdraws from Tiger’s eventLos AngeLes, 19

Nov — American world number nine Brandt Sned-eker has pulled out of next month’s Northwestern Mutual World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Cali-fornia as he continues to recover from a leg injury.

Though Snedeker is “ahead of schedule in his rehabilitation pro-gramme,” the 32-year-old did not want to push his re-turn to competition with a busy early 2014 campaign fast approaching, the golf-er’s management company said on Monday.Snedeker, a six-times winner on the PGA Tour, plans to defend his title at the AT&T Peb-

ble Beach National Pro-Am which will be held in Cali-fornia from 6-9 February.

In recent years, he has made a habit of playing in at least five events on the PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing during January and February. Snedeker bruised his left tibia and strained the anterior cruciate liga-ment in his left knee when he fell off a Segway during a corporate outing in China earlier this month, after the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

Those injuries initially forced him to withdraw from the 7-10 November Australian PGA Champi-onship, and then the 5-8 December Northwestern

Brandt Snedeker of the US hits from a sand trap on the second hole during third round play in the 2013 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on 13 April, 2013.—ReuteRs

Mutual World Challenge which is hosted by world number one Tiger Woods.

No replacement has yet been announced for Sned-eker in the 18-man field at

Sherwood Country Club where Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell will

defend the title he won by three shots last year.

Reuters

Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant dives for a loose ball during their NBA game against the Chicago Bulls in Los Angeles, on 10 March, 2013.—ReuteRs

Erratic Lakers eagerly await return of ace closer Bryant

Los AngeLes, 19 Nov — While the Los Ange-les Lakers have made a better start to this season than many had expected in the absence of Kobe Bry-ant, there is no question that their 15-time All-Star shooting guard has been sorely missed.

The Lakers have lurched between a few surprising wins, most no-tably against the Los An-geles Clippers and Houston Rockets, and several disap-pointing losses, where they suffered due to the lack of a dominating presence in the final quarter.

Bryant is widely re-garded as one of the great-est closers in the game and his teammates are eagerly awaiting the return of the ‘Black Mamba,’ who has been sidelined since mid-April with a torn left Achil-les’ tendon. “He’s so intel-ligent that he helps guys get

in the right spots and makes the game a lot easier not only for myself but for the whole team,” backup shoot-ing guard Jodie Meeks told reporters.

“He’s been in the league for almost 20 years, he knows it all inside and out. He’s the alpha dog. He tells everybody where to go, gets everyone in the right spots and gives eve-ryone confidence.” Bry-ant was given full medical clearance to resume all bas-ketball activities over the weekend and the 35-year-old certainly gave his team-mates a welcome boost when he joined them on Saturday for several prac-tice drills.

However, Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni has urged caution, and does not want to see his star player rushed back into action. “Everybody’s excited and I’m sure he’s excited, but

(it’s) a little bit premature right now,” D’Antoni told reporters on Sunday about Bryant’s participation in 5-on-0 drills and half-court work.

“You’re dealing with, ‘Is he sore today? Is there a setback tomorrow?’ That’s the first step and there’s a lot of steps to be taken. We need to be cautious.”

Reuters

Formula One still chasing American dream

Austin, (Texas), 19 Nov — A year after making a splashy return to the Unit-ed States, Formula One’s American dream has yet to come true with the glamour sport unable to captivate a market it has long coveted. While motor racing fans across the globe planned their Sunday around the US Grand Prix, for Americans it was just another event on an action-packed day of National Football League (NFL) games and NAS-CAR.

The Circuit of the Americas carved out of the south Texas scrubland, one of the most popular stops on the calendar for paddock regulars and praised by driv-ers, teams and spectators alike, was supposed to pro-vide the launching pad for a new era for F1 in the US but has so far failed to take off. When Formula One returned to the United States in 2012 after a five-year hiatus F1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone stood in the pad-dock and enthusiastically outlined a coast-to-coast vi-

sion for the sport in America with races in Austin, New Jersey and Los Angeles.

A year later, talk of a race in Los Angeles has disappeared while the elfin Ecclestone breezed through the Austin paddock on the weekend avoiding questions about a New Jersey race that is struggling to get off the ground.”We can always do more,” said McLaren team principal Martin Whit-marsh, noting that the US is a major market for many F1 sponsors especially car makers such as Ferrari and Mercedes. “This is such an important market that I think

we have to treat it as a new market.

“I know there have been lots of races in the States before but we have never cracked the States in the way we should have done and I think the opportunity is there and all of the stake-holders, the commercial rights holders, the teams, the promoters all of us should be working together and harder to make sure we demonstrate to the great US public what a fantastic sport Formula One is.”I think it is reasonable to say we are not doing enough.”

Reuters

McLaren Group Limited CEO Martin Whitmarsh attends a joint news conference with Honda Motor Co’s

President and Chief Executive Officer Takanobu Ito (not in picture) in Tokyo on 16 May, 2013.—ReuteRs

Orlando to be awarded Major League Soccer expansion team

orLAndo, (Florida), 19 Nov — Major League Soccer plans to award a new franchise to Orlando on Tuesday, a source told Reuters, setting up a po-tential future rivalry with Miami where David Beck-ham recently scouted loca-tions for his own team.The Orlando City Soccer Club, which has been working to

finalize an agreement with MLS, plans to make an an-nouncement on Tuesday, a club official said.

“We can’t officially comment yet, but we’re obviously having a very, very, very, very, very, very big announcement tomor-row night,” Chris Jones, spokesman for Orlando City Soccer, told Reuters.

“It’s probably a badly kept secret.”MLS had no official comment on Monday. Last month, city and county of-ficials approved funding for an 18,000-seat, $81 mil-lion professional stadium in Orlando’s fast-developing downtown entertainment district, which is also home to Amway Arena, the are-na of the NBA’s Orlando

Magic.Since 2010, Orlando

City Soccer has fielded the Orlando City Lions, which competes in the USL Pro-fessional Division. The team, two-time champi-ons, averaged almost 9,000 spectators a game and played in the 65,000-seat Citrus Bowl stadium.

Reuters

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Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani (2nd R) and team mates celebrate after defeating Jordan in their World Cup qualifying playoff first leg soccer match at Amman International

stadium on 13 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

Maracanazo 1950 repeat is the spur for Uruguay

Montevideo, 19 Nov — Uruguay are 5-0 up go-ing into the second leg of their World Cup playoff against Jordan at the Cen-tenario on Wednesday and already dreaming of achiev-ing another ‘Maracanazo’ at the finals in Brazil nextyear. Before kickoff the hosts will honour 86-year-old Alcides Ghiggia who scored the winning goal and is the sole survivor of the 2-1 upset victory over Bra-zil that gave Uruguay their second world title in the 1950finalattheMaracana.

“What happened in that World Cup left a big mark on the Brazilian people,” Paris St Germain striker Edinson Cavani told a news conference on Monday.

“Uruguay have earned their respect,” said Cavani who scored abrilliantfifthgoalwith a venomous free kick in last week’s first leg inAmman. The Uruguayans suffered a form slump in 2012 that jeopardised their qualification chances butwere desperate to make it to Brazil, given the rivalry with their northern neigh-bours and the memory of the ‘Maracanazo’.

Cavani’s side, semi-finalists at the2010WorldCup in South Africa, do not want to show any lack of re-spect to their playoff oppo-nents despite the one-sided nature of last week’s match. The Interior Ministry have urged the sellout crowd of 45,000 at the Centenario,

the stadium where Uruguay won their first World Cupin 1930, not to whistle or boo the Jordanian national anthem before kickoff.

“Uruguay took a sub-stantial step towards quali-fying for Brazil 2014 and they did so without humili-ating their rivals even if the loaded scoreline appears to suggest the opposite,” the ministry said in a statement at the weekend.

“The thousands of Jor-danians who watched the match enjoyed the light blues’s game. A packed sta-dium dreaming of another result ended up applauding our team, showing that re-spect is ... as valuable as the dream of playing at a World Cup.” —Reuters

Media reports work on the site of a train collision in Dahshur near Cairo, Egypt, on 18 Nov, 2013. At least

27 people were killed and 32 others injured when a freight train crashed into a mini-bus and a truck near

the Egyptian capital of Cairo in the early hours of Monday, the head of the Ambulance Authority said.

Xinhua

Slovenia’s population to

shrink constantly after 2020

LjubLjana, 19 Nov— Slovenia’s population will drop to some 1.82 mil-lion by 2060 after the total number of in-habitants in the country reaches its peak in 2021, according to projections by the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD).

By January 2012, Slovenia had a population of 2,055,496, which is 0.3 percent more than that of the previous year. However, it will face a period of constant population decline after 2020.

By 2060, Slovenia’s population should decrease by 240,000 people.

The government think-tank IMAD attributed the constant decrease to the growth of natural death, sub-replace-ment fertility and limited immigration. Despite the population drop, life expec-tancy is expected to rise to 79 for men and 85 for women by 2025.—Xinhua

Ukraine, Russia reach compromise over gas

paymentKiev, 19 Nov — Ukraine and

Russia have reached a compromise over the payment for natural gas imports, Ukrainian Energy Minis-ter Eduard Stavytsky said here on Monday.

“We have settled the gas pay-ment issues,” Stavytsky told report-ers, without giving details.

Ukraine plans to pay off the debt before the end of this year, added Stavytsky, whose country owes Russia nearly 1 billion US dollars for gas deliveries.

Ukraine imports 45 million to 90 million cubic meters of fuel from Russia per day, according to the minister.

A consensus was reached on Friday between Ukrainian Prime

Minister Mykola Azarov and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Med-vedev, on insuring gas supplies from Russia to Europe via Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government confirmed Friday on its websitethat it would do everything needed to make sure supplies to Europe were not disrupted.

Late last month, Russian state natural gas company Gazprom ex-pressed its concern over Ukraine’s failure to pay the overdue gas bill for August and threatened to intro-duce advance payment for its fu-ture supplies.

Then Ukraine warned on Wednesday that it could stop im-porting natural gas from Russia be-fore the end of this year.—Xinhua

3nd Waning of Tazaungmon 1375 ME Wednesday, 20 November, 2013 New Light of Myanmar

20 days to XXVII SEA Games

Myawady, 19 Nov—Under the arrangement of government to government programme, Thai govern-ment donated sports equip-ment for XXVII SEA Games

Thai government donates sports equipment worth over 44 million bath to SPED

to Myanmar government near the Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot of Thailand today.

The Tak Province Ad-ministrator Mr Suria Prasat-buntiya of Thailand handed

sports gear worth 44,495,540 baht to Deputy Director-General U Myat Thwin of Sports and Physical Educa-tion Department of Myan-mar.

Also present on the oc-casion were Deputy Director U Aye Lwin of Kayin State Sports and Physical Educa-tion Department, Deputy Commissioner of Myawady District U Tint Wai Thon, Deputy Director of Myawady District Immigration and Na-tional Registration Depart-ment U Aung Win Thein, the Head of Township Customs Department and officials.

Tun Tun Oo (Myawady Border Town)

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Commande r - in -Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received a delega-tion led by Russia-Myan-mar Military Technological Cooperation Joint Chair-man Mr Alexander Vasil-lievich Fomin at Zeyathiri

Myanmar, Russia to promote cooperation in military technology

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—Vice-President U Nyan Tun received a Swiss delegation led by Swiss State Secretary for Economic Affairs Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch at the Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace, here, at 4 pm today.

Also present at the call together with the Vice-Pres-ident were Deputy Ministers U Thant Kyaw and Dr Daw Khin San Yi. They focused on exchange of information about economic develop-ment, investment, labour and trade sectors and rec-ognizing potential areas for promotion of bilateral eco-nomic cooperation between the two countries.—MNA

Vice-President U Nyan Tun receives Swiss State Secretary for

Economic Affairs Hall, here, this morning.They discussed ce-

menting friendly relations between two armed forces of Russia and Myanmar, promotion of cooperation in military technology be-tween the two countries, and further strengthening relations between the two

armed forces.Also present at the call

were Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Ser-vices Vice-Senior General Soe Win, senior military officers of the Commander-in-Chief Office, the Russian Ambassador and officials.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov — In accord with the peo-ple-centred approach, My-anmar Economic Bank of the Ministry of Finance is in the process of reform in various areas including e-pension service. Under the e-pension system, retirees can take their pensions out with the use of smart cards at nearby banks during of-fice hour, not need to go to the bank twice a month. Moreover, those who are unable to come to the bank in person, their pensions can be taken out through

Retirees urged to take out smart cards

smart cards and necessary documents.

There are 600,458 retirees in Myanmar and 404,012 of 471,365 who are applying for e-pension smart cards have been al-lowed to use smart cards. But, 98056 retirees still re-main to take out their cards as only 305,956 were given smart cards. So, the re-maining retirees are urged to contact the respective branches of Myanmar Eco-nomic Bank as soon as pos-sible.

MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—According to the observations at (12:30) hrs MST today, under the influ-ence of the depression over

Depression not moving towards Myanmar coastsNay Pyi Taw, 19

Nov—According to the observations at (17:30) hrs MST today, the depres-sion over West Central Bay of Bengal is centered at about (346) miles North-east of Chennai (India), (250) miles Southeast of

Visakhapatnam (India) and (430) miles West-North-west of Cocogyun (Myan-mar). It is forecast to move West-Northwest wards.

Under the influence of the depression, occasional squalls with rough seas will be experienced off and

along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (40) m.p.h.

The present stage of the depression is coded yellow stage and it is not moving towards Myanmar coasts.

Trawlers, vessels and ships are advised to advert possible danger by cy-clone.—MNA

Rain or thundershowers be scattered around Myanmar

the Central Bay of Bengal, rain or thundershowers are likely to be isolated to scat-tered in Mandalay, Bago, Yangon, Ayeyawady and

Taninthayi Regions, Shan, Rakhine, Kayah, Kayin and Mon States within next (48) hrs commencing noon today, announced the Me-teorology and Hydrology Department.

MNA

yaNgoN, 19 Nov—Myanmar national golf team arrived back here yesterday after taking part in Asia-Pacific Amateur Golf Team Championship 2013 (Nomura Cup) held at Santiburi Golf Club in Thailand from 14 to 17 No-vember.

A total of 100 amateur golfers from 26 counties

Myanmar golf team back home

participated in the golf tour-nament. The 13th ranked Myanmar team led by Gen-eral Secretary U Aung Hla Han of Myanmar Golf Fed-eration got 879 strokes in four rounds team event.

Australian team stood first with 828 strokes, fol-lowed by Korean and Thai-land teams.

NLM

Vice-President U Nyan Tun shakes

hands with Swiss State Secretary for Economic Affairs Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 19 Nov—A ceremony to sign an agreement for Pi-lot Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) Project took place in con-junction with a workshop at the Ministry of Industry, here, this afternoon.

First, Deputy Minis-ter for Industry U Thein Aung, Mr. Chin-Pen Chua of UNIDO and Marie-Ga-brielle Ineichen-Fleisch of State Secretariat for Eco-nomic Affairs of Switzer-

Agreement inked for Pilot Resource Efficient and Cleaner

Production (RECP) Projectland (SECO) made opening addresses. Next, the signing ceremony and the work-shop followed.

The SECO-funded pro-ject will provide assistance to SMEs manufacturing confectionaries and textile

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Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Russia-Myanmar Military Technological Cooperation Joint Chairman Mr Alexander Vasillievich

Fomin at Zeyathiri Hall.—mna