Volume XXI, Number 207 7th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1375 ME Saturday, 9 November, 2013

THE MOST RELIABLE NEWSPAPER AROUND YOUNew Light of Myanmar

Super typhoon Haiyan slams into Philippines, at least three dead

Manila, 8 Nov—The strongest typhoon in the world this year and pos-sibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the Philippines on Friday, forcing more than a mil-lion people to flee, cutting power lines and blowing apart houses.

Haiyan, a category-5 super typhoon, scoured the northern tip of Cebu Province and headed west towards Boracay island, both of them tourist des-tinations, after lashing the central islands of Leyte and Samar with 275 kph (170 mph) wind gusts and 5-6 meter (15-19 ft) waves.

Three people were killed and seven injured, national disaster agency spokesman Rey Balido told a news briefing at the main army base in Manila. The death toll could rise as reports come in from stricken areas.

Power and communi-cations in the three large island provinces of Samar, Leyte and Bohol were al-most completely down but the government and tel-ephone service providers

nay Pyi Taw, 9 Nov—U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent messages of felicitations to His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia and His Excellency Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Independence Day of the Kingdom of Cambodia which falls on 9 November, 2013.

MNA

President U Thein Sein felicitates Cambodian

King, PM

promised to restore them within 24 hours.

Authorities warned that more than 12 million people were at risk, includ-ing residents of Cebu City, which has a population of about 2.5 million, and areas still reeling from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.2-mag-nitude quake last month.

“The super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph. This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall,” said Jeff Masters, director of meteor-ology at US.-based Weath-er Underground.

yangon, 8 Nov—Gov-ernor-General of the Com-monwealth of Australia Mrs. Quentin Bryce and her spouse and party left here by air this morning.

Governor-General of Commonwealth of Australia concludes visit

The Governor-General and her spouse were seen off at Yangon International Airport by Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe and wife Daw Khin

Thet Htay, Deputy Minis-ter for Culture Daw Sanda Khin, the Australian am-bassador to Myanmar and officials of the embassy.

MNA

UK spy chiefs emerge from shadows to blast

Edward Snowden

Kerry warns of violence if peace

talks fail

Page-3

Singapore Prime Minister’s Office web

page hackedPage-3

FDA seeks to ban trans fats in processed foods

due to health risksPage-5

nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham received a delegation led by Rabbi Abraham Cop-per from Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles of the United States at the hall of Presidential Palace at 5 pm today.

At the call, they dis-cussed matters related to peaceful coexistence be-tween all faiths and races and building of trust.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Rabbi Abraham Copper of Simon Wiesenthal Center

Present at the call to-gether with the Vice-Presi-dent were Deputy Ministers U Tin Oo Lwin and U Soe Win and departmental offi-cials.—MNA

Typhoons and cy-clones of that magnitude can blow apart storm shel-ters with the pressure they create, which can suck walls out and blow roofs off buildings.

“Power is off all across the island and the streets are deserted,” said: Lionel Dosdosa, an In-ternational Organization for Migration coordinator on Bohol island, the epi-center of an October 15 earthquake that killed 222 people and displaced hun-dreds of thousands, said power was off and streets were deserted.— Reuters

A mother takes refuge with her children as Typhoon Haiyan hits Cebu city, central Philippines

on 8 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives

Rabbi Abraham Copper from Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles of the United States.—mna

Governor-General of the Com-

monwealth of Australia

Mrs. Quentin Bryce being seen off at the airport by Yangon

Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe

and wife Daw Khin Thet

Htay. mna

INSIDE Page-3

Saturday, 9 November, 20132 New Light of MyanmarLOCAL NEWS

National Sports

Bogale, 8 Nov—A wild elephant caught in Bogale of Ayeyawady Re-gion was arranged to re-lease to North Zarmari el-ephant wildlife park. The truck to carry the elephant arrived at Jetty in Bogale on 4 November.

Releasing wild elephant to North Zarmari elephant wildlife park arranged

Capturing the wild elephant in Bogale made local residents interest-ing. Although it was difficult to catch the el-ephant and brought it to the truck, the vet and an elephant capture team could manage it well.

The elephant capture team carrying the nine and a half feet high wild el-ephant left Bogale.—Ky-emon-Htay Naing(Bogale)

Yangon, 8 Nov—All Bus Lines Supervisory Committee (Central) will make a surprise check on bus conductors’ wearing of uniforms during the SEA Games, according to an of-ficial from All Bus Lines Supervisory Committee (Central).

“We have already re-minded that they need to do everything with a sense

Surprise check on bus drivers, conductors during

27th SEA Games period

of national spirit and disci-pline during a big sporting event of the country,” he added.

Supervisors and offi-cials from Special Inspec-tion Team will look into running of all bus lines and take stern actions against those who fail to follow the rules, it is re-ported.

Kyemon-K Thein Swe

Yangon, 8 Nov—Three suspects were ar-rested for a burglary case in Pazundaung Township, here, on 5 November.

U Maung Kyaw, owner of the house in No. 7 Ward in Pazundaung Township, noticed that the backdoor remained open and the things were strewn on the floor. When he checked his property, he found that 27 items of jewelleries, K 10 million in cash and one cell-phone with SIM card had been stolen.

Suspects arrested with stolen items in Pazundaung Tsp

He opened a file at Pazundaung Myoma Po-lice Station. Acting on a tip-off, police seized the three suspects with stolen items—Hetin Linn from Thakayta Township, Kyaw San Oo (a) Pauk Sa from Dawbon Township and Soe Min Htwe from Zaungtu of Bago Region—near the Ocean bus-stop on Anaw-rahta Street in Ward (2) in Pazundaung Township. The case is under investigation.

Kyemon-Soe Win (MLA)

CrimeYangon, 8 Nov—

As part of preparation to achieve success in XXVII SEA Games, a Myanmar boxing team led by Chief Coach U Thin Maung Pe of Myanmar Boxing Fed-eration (MBF) left here for Kazakhstan on 5 Novem-ber morning.

Myanmar boxing team comprising eight

Myanmar boxers makes joint-training with Kazakhstan boxers

Lots were drawn for fixtures of football, Futsal, volleyball, Sepak Takraw, archery and Chinlone teams to be included in the 27th SEA Games at Wun-natheikdi Sports ground, here, yesterday.

Among the six teams in Men’s futsal tournament, host Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia are in Group (A) while Thailand, Laos and Vietnam are in Group (B). Myanmar, Vietnam, Thai-land, Indonesia and Malay-sia partake in the Women’s futsal round-robin tourna-ment.

While Thailand, Ma-laysia, Myanmar, Cam-bodia are in Group (A), Indonesia, Vietnam and Laos are in Group (B) of Men’s Volleyball Tourna-ment. Myanmar, Thailand,

Group fixtures of sports teams for 27th SEA Games

Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia will compete in Women’s Volleyball Tour-nament. Indonesia, Viet-nam, Brunei and Laos are in Group (A) of Sepak Takraw men’s doubles tournament while Myanmar, Singa-pore, the Philippines and Cambodia are in Group (B).

Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam are in Group (A) while Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia and Indonesia are in Group (B).

The above-mentioned tournaments will be held in Wunna Theikdi Sports ground.—Kyemon-Shine Htet Zaw

male boxers and five female boxers will make four-week joint-training with those of Kazakh-stan. They were seen off at Yan-gon International Air-port by U Tin Hlaing, MBF General Secretary and officials.

Kyemon-Tin Win Lay (Kyimyindine)

Photo shows a bus conductor serving his duty on a bus.

Three suspects seized with stolen items.

Before their depature, Myanmar boxing team were seen at Yangon International Airport.

The elephant capture team trying to release the nine and a half feet high wild elephant to North Zarmari elephant wildlife park.

Yedashe, 8 Nov—As the water level of Sittoung River in Yedashe Township of Bago Region receded, the river bank in Shwegazaung Village, 4th milesaway from Swa was eroded by water and houses were evacuated to safer places.

Due to rising the wa-ter level, nine houses were moved and two houses floated into the river, said U Maung Lay, a local resi-dent. He continued that the water level increased speed-

Sittoung Houses eroded by evacuated

ly. So he didn’t dare to live there because his house was nearby the river. He carried things as he could and go to Tamantaung in a rush at night-time. About 150 houses were located in the northern part of the re-taining walls and 14 hous-es were evacuated due to continued landslides of the bank of the river within a few days. “We have no place to live and can’t af-ford to buy any places. So we ask for permission to live in a safe places,” said U Bo Tu.

No sooner did the wa-ter level of the river sub-sided than the conditions on landslide of the bank reached 40 ft in width. The houses the landslide area could face more difficult situations.

Kyemon -Ko Lwin-Swa

naY PYi Taw, 8 Nov—The doctors, the members of Sasana Nuggaha Asso-ciation, town’s elders and enthusiasts discussed to open Myittasaya free clinic for student monks of Ma-hawithudayon Monastery, Ohntaw Monastery and Mingala Zaya Pali Tek-katho Monastery and needy

Free clinic to be opened soonpeople at Seindawn Super Store in Ywagauk Ward, Pyinmana Township, Nay Pyi Taw Council Area on 4 November.

Firstly, Patron of clin-ic organizing committee U Sein Maung extended greetings on the occasion. Then, those people partici-pated in the discussions and

donated K 3.33 million to the fund of the clinic.

The free clinic will be kept open at Mahawithu-dayon Monastery in Janu-ary, 2014. For further in-formation, dial 09 2300872, 09 5032129, 09 8301365 and 09 8303089.—Ko Gyi Kyaw

Saturday, 9 November, 2013 3New Light of MyanmarWORLD

Andrew Parker the head of M15, John Sawers the head of M16 and Iain Lobban GCHQ director (L-R) are seen attending an Intelligence and Security Committee

hearing at Parliament, in this still image taken from video in London on 7 Nov, 2013.—ReuteRs

UK spy chiefs emerge from shadows to blast Edward Snowden

London, 8 Nov — Britain’s intelligence chiefs used their first ever joint public appearance to complain that documents leaked by former US intel-ligence operative Edward Snowden had put secret operations at risk and were being “lapped up” by al-Qaeda. In an unprecedented evidence session before parliamentarians that local media likened to a scene from a James Bond film, the heads of Britain’s three main intelligence agencies said Snowden’s disclosures about mass surveillance had prompted them to consider being more open about what they do.

But they said parts of their work had to remain secret for national security reasons and that the data leaks, which detailed Brit-ain’s close cooperation with the US National Security Agency (NSA), had caused huge damage.” They’ve put our operations at risk,” John Sawers, the head of MI6, Britain’s foreign intel-ligence service, told a par-liamentary committee.”It’s clear that our adversaries are rubbing their hands with glee, al-Qaeda is lapping it up.” The robust nature of his comments underlined how angry intelligence chiefs are about Snowden and what they believe is

the irresponsible way some newspapers published his information despite warn-ings not to do so.

Civil liberties groups, parts of the media and law-makers from all parties have argued that Snowden’s dis-closures about the scale of government monitoring shows it needs to be reined in and security agencies put under greater oversight. Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency, told lawmakers that intelligence chiefs were “actively con-sidering” whether more information should now be shared with the public.

Reuters

Singapore Prime Minister’s Office web page hacked

Singapore, 8 Nov —The official website of the Prime Minister’s Office of Singapore was hacked late Thursday by apparent members of international hacker group Anonymous, the Infocomm Develop-ment Authority of Singa-pore said on Friday. The attack came after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong vowed to hunt down cul-prits who launched cyber-attacks on Singapore.

The Infocomm Devel-opment Authority said ear-ly Friday that “a subpage for search on the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) website was reported to be compromised” at 11:17 pm on Thursday. “A vulner-ability in that subpage was exploited to display pages from other sources. This

vulnerability is known as cross-site scripting,” it said.The subpage of the website once showed a mocking headline “It’s great to be Singaporean today” next to a Guy Fawkes mask, a sym-bol of anti-establishment de-fiance. The main website of the Prime Minister’s Office is still working, the author-ity said.

It added that it is work-ing to restore the page that has been compromised and that investigation is ongo-ing. Apparent members of Anonymous recently uploaded a video message threatening to attack the information infrastructure of the Singapore govern-ment, urging it to reconsider a regulatory framework that requires influential news portals to be licensed. The

websites of local daily Straits Times and a second-ary airport were hacked. Lee said on Wednesday that Singapore authorities will “spare no effort” to track down culprits who launch cyber-attacks even though they think they can hide behind the Internet’s veil of anonymity. “It is not a laughing matter. It’s not just anything goes, and you’re anonymous, there-fore there’s no responsibil-ity. You may think you are anonymous.

We will make that ex-tra effort to find out who you are,” he said.Lee ac-knowledged that no cyber security precautions are perfect, but the govern-ment is making efforts to boost the systems to reduce vulnerability. — Xinhua

US Secretary of State John Kerry

Kerry warns of violence if peace talks fail

amman, 8 Nov — US Secretary of State John Kerry said here on Thurs-day that talks between the Palestinians and Israelis have been difficult so far, warning that if they fail there will be violence in the region.

Speaking at a Press conference in Amman, Jordan, Kerry told report-ers there is no alternative

to peace between the Pal-estinians and the Israelis, stressing that the alternative to peace will be more con-flict in the region.” Pales-tinians and Israelis need to take peace talks seriously... In spite of obstacles, talks have been difficult but also productive,” said the US of-ficial, who is charged with mediating between the two sides.

On Syria, Kerry said the US administration was working closely with Rus-sia to end the crisis in the country. Kerry said he seeks to address

the crisis during the Geneva II conference, which will be held within the com-ing days, stressing that the situation in Syria has seri-ous consequences on the entire Middle East region. Jordanian Foreign Minis-ter Nasser Judeh, who met with Kerry on Thursday, said that commitment to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative will help ensure security for all including Israel.

The Jordanian official added the international community should expedite efforts to hold the Geneva II conference, calling for in-

creased aid to Jordan so it could more effectively

deal with the large number of Syrian refugees who fled their country into the Kingdom.

“ J o r d a n needs the inter-

national commu-nity’s support as

the burden of hosting Syrian refugees is im-

mense,” he said. —Xinhua

US envoy on N Korea human rights to visit S Korea

SeouL, 8 Nov — The United States plans to send its special envoy for North Korean human rights is-sues to South Korea later this month, Yonhap News Agency reported from Washington on Friday, cit-ing a diplomatic source. “Ambassador Robert King is scheduled to visit South Korea in the week starting on 18 November,” the source was quoted as saying.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows

the Japanese icebreaker Shirase passing under the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo

Bay on 8 Nov, 2013, shortly after its departure from Harumi Wharf for Antarctica on a mission to support the country’s

55th expedition team to be deployed there.Kyodo News

The State Depart-ment will soon make the announcement of his trip, which may also include stops in Beijing and Tokyo.

It would be King’s sec-ond visit to the region in less than three months. In late August, amid King’s visit to Northeast Asia, the State Department an-nounced his plan to visit North Korea to secure the freedom of Kenneth Bae, a

Korean-American Christian missionary arrested in No-vember 2012.

However, Pyongyang then abruptly withdrew the invitation. King’s im-pending visit to South Ko-rea has prompted specula-tion that he may again try to visit the North to secure Bae’s release on the oc-casion of Thanksgiving, which falls on 28 Novem-ber this year.

But the source said it remains unclear whether King will get an invita-tion from North Korea this time, the report said.

Bae was arrested after arriving as a tourist in the port city of Rason, near North Korea’s borders with Russia and China, and ac-cused of “hostile acts.” He was sentenced in April to 15 years of hard labour.

Kyodo News

KigaLi, 8 Nov—Rwan-da will deploy 140 police officers to reinforce the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, an official statement said on Thursday. The maid-en contingent, including 17 female police officers, will serve for one year in the West African nation.

In late April 2013, the UN Security Council ap-

Rwanda to send 140 peacekeepers to Maliproved a 12,600-strong UN mission in Mali to take over from an African-led mis-sion, authorizing the blue helmets “to use all necessary means” to carry out security-related stabilization tasks.

The UN mission’s core task is to support the politi-cal process in Mali in close coordination with the Af-rican Union and the Eco-

nomic Community of West African States.

Mali has been in politi-cal turmoil since a coup by extremists in early 2012.Rwandan senior military of-ficer Maj Gen Jean Bosco Kazura has been recently appointed as the force com-mander of the UN mission known as MINUSMA.

Xinhua

4 Saturday, 9 November, 2013

Science & TechnologyNew Light of Myanmar

Astronomers find first asteroid with six comet-like tails

Washington, 8 Nov — US and German astrono-mers said on Thursday they have found for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust in solar system’s asteroid belt. Unlike all other known asteroids, which appear simply as tiny points of light in space telescope, this asteroid, designated P/ 2013 P5, resembles a rotat-ing lawn sprinkler, accord-ing to astronomers who are puzzled over the space rock’s unusual appear-ance.” We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it,” lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles, said in a statement. “Even more amazing, its tail struc-tures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It’s hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid.”

P/2013 P5 has been ejecting dust periodically for at least five months. Astronomers said that it is possible the asteroid’s rotation rate increased to the point where its surface started flying apart and the tails are unlikely to be the result of an impact with

another asteroid because they have not seen a large quantity of dust blasted into space all at once. Scientists using the Pan-STARRS survey telescope in Hawaii announced their discovery of the asteroid on 27 Au-gust.

The multiple tails were discovered when Hubble was used to take a more de-tailed image on 10 Septem-ber. When Hubble looked at the asteroid again on 23 September, its appear-ance had totally changed. It looked as if the entire struc-ture had swung around. “We were completely knocked out,” Jewitt said.

Careful modeling by researchers in Germany showed that the tails could have been formed by a se-ries of impulsive dust- ejec-tion events. They calculated that dust-ejection events oc-curred on 15 April , 18 July , 24 July , 8 August, 26 Au-gust and 4 September and that radiation pressure from the Sun stretched the dust into streamers.

So far, only about 100 to 1,000 tons of dust, a small fraction of P/2013 P5’s main mass, has been lost, the researchers said.

Xinhua

Trove of Adobe user data found on Web after breach: security firm

neW York, 8 Nov —A computer security firm has uncovered data it says be-longs to some 152 million Adobe Systems Inc user accounts, suggesting that a breach reported a month ago is far bigger than Adobe has so far disclosed and is one of the largest on record. LastPass, a pass-word security firm, said on Thursday that it has found email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from Adobe user accounts on an underground website frequented by cyber crimi-nals.

Adobe said last week

that attackers had stolen data on more than 38 mil-lion customer accounts, on top of the theft of informa-tion on nearly 3 million accounts that it disclosed nearly a month earlier. The maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software con-firmed that LastPass had found records stolen from its data center, but down-played the significance of the security firm’s findings. While the new findings from LastPass indicate that the Adobe breach is far big-ger than previously known, company spokeswoman Heather Edell said it was not accurate to say 152 mil-

lion customer accounts had been compromised because the database attacked was a backup system about to be decommissioned. She said

the records include some 25 million records containing invalid email addresses, 18 million with invalid pass-words.—Reuters

Adobe company logos are seen in this picture illustration taken in Vienna on 9 July, 2013.—ReuteRs

South Koreans cram for dream jobs at Samsungseoul, 8 Nov — In a

cram school in the South Korean port city of Busan, 70 college students packed into a classroom, chanting “We can do it!” as they studied for an exam they hope will guarantee them a job for life with Samsung Group. The promise of Samsung, whose sprawl-ing business empire spans consumer electronics to ships, offers not only a good salary and benefits but also holds the key to a good marriage in this Asian

A Samsung outdoor advertisement sits atop an office building in Seoul, on 5 April, 2013.—ReuteRs

country where Confucian traditions run deep.

The twice-a-year recruit-ment rounds by the “chae-bol”, conglomerates such as Samsung and Hyundai, have spawned a cottage industry worth millions of dollars as young Koreans do what they have done from the age of 5 — cram to get ahead. “I came here at 10 this morning and will be preparing for the inter-view until 8 pm,” said 25-year-old Shin Seong-hwan, whose father is a Samsung employee near Busan.—Reuters

Scientists say new dinosaur found in Utah is relative of T. rex

neW York, 8 Nov — Scientists in Utah say they have discovered Ty-rannosaurus rex’s “great-uncle,” a massive predator with a thick skull and large teeth dubbed the “king of gore.” Bones of the 24-foot (7.3-meter) -long dinosaur, slightly smaller than T rex and older by about 10 mil-lion years, were unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, and an announcement of the species discovery was published in the scientific journal Plos One. Scien-tists hope the find will help them better understand the ecosystem where the preda-tor roamed. Discovered by workers for the Federal Bu-reau of Land Management in eastern Utah in 2009, scientists named the ani-mal Lythronax argestes, or “king of gore,” for its large teeth and apparent domi-nance as a predator.

“Discovering the Ly-thronax pushes back the

The skeleton of a Lythronax argestes is seen in this handout image from the Natural History Museum of

Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.—ReuteRs

evolution of the group that gives rise to T rex, which is something we didn’t un-derstand before,” said Mark Loewen, a geologist at the University of Utah, who led the dig for the new dino-saur. “Lythronax is like the great-uncle of T rex.” Pale-ontologists have thought that members of the group with characteristics like T rex — large bodies, tiny arms, thick skulls and for-

ward facing eyes — dated as far back as 70 million years, but the Lythronax shows signs of being at least 80 million years old. Like its relative, the Lyth-ronax is believed to have been the top predator of its time, roaming a stretch of land from Mexico to Alas-ka, including parts of Utah, during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous pe-riod.—Reuters

Cambodia records 973 critically endangered white-shoulder ibis

Phnom Penh, 8 Nov — Cambodia has recorded some 973 white-shoulder ibis in its wild, making the country the stronghold for this critically endangered species, the conservation-ists group said on Thursday. BirdLife International and its partners including Cam-bodian Forestry Adminis-tration, People Resources and Conservation Founda-tion, Wildlife Conservation Society and Worldwide Fund for Nature, imple-mented a coordinated sur-vey of 59 white-shouldered ibis roosts at sites across Cambodia.

The consortium launched four monthly cen-suses of this species over the wet season and the Sep-tember counts produced a staggering 973 individuals, the group said in a press re-lease. “These results once again confirm that Cam-bodia is the stronghold for the white-shouldered ibis and that it contains the most globally significant popula-tion of this critically endan-

gered species,” the release said. It added that the result followed nearly a decade’s conservation work by in-ternational and local NGOs and government agencies. “Conservation actions, such as nest protection to improve chick survival, may have contributed to this increasing number but the population increases observed are mainly due to increased survey effort and better knowledge of roost locations,” it said.

Many of the roost loca-tions are either outside of protected areas or in threat-ened protected areas and the future of this species is far from certain, said Hugh Wright, an expert on this species from the Univer-sity of Cambridge. “Many of these birds are at risk of losing their habitat from imminent changes in land use and currently more than 79 percent of the birds were censused on roosts outside the boundaries of legally protected areas,” he said.The counts have identified

western Siem Pang Pro-posed Protected Forest as the most important site for this species globally, with 451 individuals — equal to 41 percent of the global population — followed by Lomphat Wildlife Sanctu-ary with 298 individuals.

However, both of these sites are threatened by Eco-nomic Land Concessions which will destroy key nesting and foraging habi-tats for this species, he said.Other key sites in the na-tional census include Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctu-ary in Preah Vihear prov-ince, Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province and the Mekong Flooded Forest in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces.

With a global popula-tion of only between 1,114 and 1,249 birds, Cambodia could hold as much as 97 percent of the world’s white- shouldered ibises and the country is of vital importance for the species’conservation, the press release said.

Xinhua

Saturday, 9 November, 2013 5

BUSINESS & HEALTHNew Light of Myanmar

FDA seeks to ban trans fats in processed foods due to health risks

Boston/Washington, 8 Nov — The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed ban-ning artificial trans fats in processed food ranging from cookies to frozen piz-za, citing the risk of heart disease.

Partially hydrogenated oils, the primary dietary source of the fats, have been shown to raise “bad”

cholesterol. Reducing the use of trans fats could pre-vent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths from heart disease a year, the FDA said.” While consumption of potentially harmful arti-ficial trans fat has declined over the last two decades in the United States, cur-rent intake remains a significant public health concern,” FDA Commis-

sioner Margaret Hamburg said. Public health advo-cates welcomed the move.”

Artificial trans fat is a uniquely powerful promoter of heart disease, and today’s announcement will hasten its eventual disappearance from the food supply,” said Michael Jacobson, execu-tive director of the advocacy group Centre for Science in the Public Interest.

The FDA’s proposal is not the first public effort to ban trans fats. New York City banned the use of trans fats in restaurants, includ-ing their use for deep-fry-ing foods, and many restau-rants and fast food chains, including McDonald’s Corp, have eliminated their use. Some European coun-tries have also taken steps. Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland regulate the sale of many foods containing trans fats.

Products that still con-tain trans fats include some varieties of crackers, refrig-erated dough, coffee cream-ers and ready-to-use frost-ing, among others. Some products will be harder to reformulate than others, FDA officials said.” We know that technically this is not an insoluble problem,” Hamburg told reporters on a conference call, adding that the use of trans fats has declined dramatically since 2006, when the agency re-quired that trans fat levels be disclosed on package la-bels.—Reuters

A girl helps herself to a buffet at a fast food restaurant in Harlem in New York on 16 Dec, 2009. — ReuteRs

Honda’s Fit becomes Japan’s best-selling car in October

tokyo, 8 Nov — Hon-da Motor Co’s Fit compact car became the best-selling car in Japan in October for the first time in two and half years thanks to the popu-larity of its fuel-efficient hybrid version after it was fully updated in Septem-ber, industry bodies said on Thursday.

The hybrid model of the Fit, which is Japan’s most fuel-efficient car in its class apart from plug-in hy-brids, sold 23,281 units, up 149.8 percent from a year earlier, as supply caught up with swelling orders after production initially lagged behind, said the Japan Au-tomobile Dealers Associa-tion and the Japan Mini Ve-hicles Association.

Toyota Motor Corp’s Prius hybrid came second

Honda Motor Co shows reporters a plant to assemble its Fit and other compact cars in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture,

near Tokyo, on 7 Nov, 2013. — Kyodo News

US probes electrical steel products from five foreign

countriesWashington, 8 Nov

— The US Commerce De-partment announced on Thursday that it initiated trade probes into imports of electrical steel products from five foreign countries. The products under investi-gation are cold-rolled and flat- rolled alloy steel prod-ucts used in electric power industry, whose technical name is non-oriented elec-trical steel, the department said in a statement. The in-vestigations are in response to a request from AK Steel Corporation, a steel pro-ducer based in the US state of Ohio.

It alleged that those electrical steel products from countries including Germany, Japan, the Re-public of Korea, China and Sweden were sold below the fair value of the prod-ucts in the US market at dumping margins ranging from 16 percent to 407.52 percent, and those from China and the Republic of Korea received improper government subsidies. The

department launched the anti-dumping duty inves-tigations against the prod-ucts from the above men-tioned five countries and countervailing duty inquir-ies against products from China and the Republic of Korea.

The International Trade Commission (ITC), the US trade authority, was scheduled to make its pre-liminary inquiry determina-tion around 6 December. The probes will continue if the ITC determines that the imports of electrical steel products from the five countries materially injure or threaten the domestic industry of the States. The Commerce Department will then make its determination of improper dumping or subsidies early next year.The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has kept urging Washington to abide by its commitment against pro-tectionism and help main-tain a free, open and just international trade environ-ment. — Xinhua

Disney beats Street on higher theme park spending, toy sales

with 20,886 units, up 15.3 percent, followed by an-other Toyota hybrid mod-el, the Aqua, with 19,984 units, down 17.4 percent. The Aqua had been the best-selling car for three months until September.

Honda’s N Box min-icar came fourth with

17,600 units, down 3.3 percent, followed by two other minicars — Suzuki Motor Corp’s Spacia and Daihatsu Motor Co’s Mira.Minivehicles, with engines up to 660 cc, filled six slots in the top-10 list, supported by their lower maintenance costs.—Kyodo News

Los angeLes, 8 Nov — Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) reported a 12 gain in profit that beat Wall Street expec-tations, lifted by higher vis-itor spending at US theme parks, increased consumer product sales and its sum-mer animated movie hit “Monsters University.” The media company on Thurs-day posted diluted earnings per share of 77 cents for the quarter ended in Septem-ber, edging the 76 cents av-erage estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reu-ters I/B/E/S. Net income for the quarter rose to $1.4 billion, a 12 percent gain a year earlier.

Shares of Disney, which have gained nearly

35 percent this year, slipped 1.8 percent in after-hours trading to $65.94, down from their earlier $67.15 close on the New York Stock Exchange. Inves-tors reacted negatively to a prediction from Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo, on a post-earnings conference call, that capital expenditures will increase by $1 billion over 2013, said Needham & Co ana-lyst Laura Martin. Most of those funds will go toward increased investment in the Shanghai Disney Resort scheduled to open in late 2015, Rasulo said.

“The company had been saying that the capital expenditures were going

down,” said Martin, who rates Disney stock a “hold.” “Markets look ahead,” he added. For the just-ended quarter, operating income at Disney’s cable network unit, which includes its powerhouse ESPN sports channel, decreased by 7 percent to $1.3 billion in the quarter, the company said, citing the timing of some ESPN affiliate fee revenue. Despite taking an undisclosed writedown for its summer flop “The Lone Ranger,” Disney’s movie studio reported a 35 percent rise in earnings during the quarter, boosted by Pixar prequel “Monsters Univer-sity.” The film generated $743 million in worldwide ticket sales, according to the site Box Office Mojo.

Reuters

A rainbow is seen behind a fountain featuring Mickey Mouse at the entrance of Hong Kong Disneyland

on 13 July, 2012. — ReuteRs

Preterm children face greater risk of retinal detachment later in life

Washington, 8 Nov — Children born extremely prematurely face up to a 19 times greater risk of retinal detachment later in life than peers born at term, a study in the US journal Ophthal-mology said on Thursday.In the first large population-based, long-term investi-

gation of the association between preterm birth and later retinal detachment, researchers determined that birth before 32 weeks is associated with increased risks of retinal detachment in childhood, adolescence and young adult life.

The findings indicate

the need for ophthalmo-logic follow-up in children and adults born extremely and very prematurely, the researchers said. The re-searchers used Swedish na-tionwide population regis-tries of more than 3 million births from 1973 to 2008 to identify subjects born pre-

maturely, who were then separated into two groups: those born between 1973 and 1986, at which point a national retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screen-ing programme was estab-lished, and those born be-tween 1987 and 2008.

Xinhua

Saturday, 9 November, 2013 6

W O R L DNew Light of Myanmar

US President Barack Obama

Obama apologizes for Americans losing insurance due to Obamacare

Washington, 8 Nov — US President Barack Obama on Thursday said sorry to Americans who are losing their current health insurance plans as a result of the president’s signature health care overhaul that is aimed at expanding the country’s health care cover-age.

“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on as-surances they got from me,” Obama said in an in-terview with NBC News. “We’ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we

can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this,” he said.

The Obama admin-istration has been under fire following reports that some Americans, who buy insurance on their own, have received cancellation notices from insurers or are at risk of being forced off their current plans that do not meet the new stand-ards of the Affordable Care Act, often dubbed as Obamacare.

Obama has repeated his assurances that “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your

health plan” with the im-plementation of the Af-fordable Care Act, the country’s largest health care reform in decades.

Obama’s comments also came as the federal government’s health care team has been working around-the-clock to fix the online health care market-place plagued with techni-cal problems since its de-but on 1 October.

US Health and Hu-man Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made her apology last week before lawmakers for the technical problems of the HealthCare.gov, an online

marketplace for affordable insurance plans.

The online market-place serves as the cen-terpiece of the Affordable Care and aims at getting millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans

enrolled for health care coverage. But after its de-but on 1 October, the web-site has witnessed high-profile failures and almost out of service during the first two weeks.

Xinhua

Pakistani Taleban

elects Mullah

Fazlullah as new leader

islamabad, 8 Nov — The Pakistani Taleban on Thursday named Mul-lah Fazlullah as their new leader, almost a week af-ter former Taleban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal area.

Asmatullah Shaheen, who has been leading the Taleban since Mehsud’s death last Friday, held a telephone Press confer-ence telling reporters that a 17-member advisory coun-cil of the Tehreek Tale-ban Pakistan had elected Fazlullah, also known as “Mullah Radio” for his firebrand speeches on clan-destine radio in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, to lead the group.

Fazlullah was the driv-ing force in the establish-ment of an Islamic system in North Swat and led an insurgency there from 2007 to 2009. He fled to Afghani-stan in 2009 following an army operation, but was present in Waziristan for Thursday’s election, ac-cording to Shaheen.

Sheikh Khalid Haqqani has been appointed deputy leader. Following the ad-visory council meeting, the Taleban said Mehsud’s death will be avenged in Prime Minister Nawaz Sha-rif’s home province of Pun-jab and no peace talks will be held with the govern-ment, despite recent efforts by Islamabad to start nego-tiations.

Kyodo News

Swiss scientists confirm abnormal presence of polonium in samples of

Arafat’s body

Patrice Mangin (back, C), director of the University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva (CURML), speaks during the Press conference held in Lausanne,

Switzerland, on 7 Nov, 2013. Swiss scientists who analyzed samples from the corpse of Yasser Arafat on

Thursday confirmed the abnormal presence of radioactive polonium, but poisoning remains

a hypothesis, not a certainty. — Xinhua

lausanne, 8 Nov — Swiss scientists who ana-lyzed samples from the corpse of Yasser Arafat on Thursday confirmed the ab-normal presence of radioac-tive polonium, but poison-ing remains a hypothesis,

not a certainty.At the Press confer-

ence which was held on Thursday afternoon and after their test report was hand over on Tuesday to representatives of the late Palestinian leader’s widow

Suha Arafat and the Pales-tinian National Authority, Patrice Mangin, director of the University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva (CURML), told reporters that the investiga-tions can not exclude that the polonium is the cause of the death of Arafat, but the results can not conclude that Arafat was poisoned.

Mangin noted that sev-eral factors such as the long delay between Arafat’s death and the start of inves-tigations made analysis dif-ficult, having said that they had to work on samples partially destroyed. Arafat died at a French military hospital in 2004 from an undisclosed or unknown condition. No autopsy was performed at the death of Yasser Arafat, and no clear medical information on the cause of death has been re-leased. —Xinhua

Traders work in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on 7 Nov, 2013. Social net-

work giant Twitter Inc began trading under the symbol “TWTR” on the New York Stock Exchange and closed

at 44.9 dollars on Thursday. Xinhua

World powers to consider sanction relief for Iran: White House

Washington, 8 Nov — The six world pow-ers negotiating with Iran would consider offering limited sanction relief if Iran takes concrete steps to halt its nuclear activi-ties, the White House said on Thursday.

The six countries, namely the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, would consider “limited, targeted and re-versible relief” that does not affect their core sanc-tions architecture in ex-change for concrete, verifi-able measures to address their concerns about Iran’s nuclear project, said White House spokesman Jay Car-ney at a daily briefing.

“That core sanctions architecture would be maintained until there is a final, comprehensive, verifiable agreement that resolves the international

community’s concerns,” said Carney, who also warned that if Iran does not live up to its commit-ments, relief would be terminated, and the world powers would ratchet up the pressure even further by adding new sanctions.

Delegates of the six world powers, known as the P5+1 group, started another round of nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva, Switzer-land, on Thursday.

In the two-day talks, the world powers are ex-pected to seek a “ first step” deal with Iran on solving the nuclear problem, though both sides say an agreement is far from certain.In the previous round of talks, held on 15-16 October, Iran proposed a plan as a basis for negotiation but details of the proposal were not disclosed.

Xinhua

UN advisory group sparks debate on Security Council reform

neW York, 8 Nov —The president of the UN General Assembly’s newly appointed advisory board to address Security Council reform sparked off a range of reactions on Thursday during the annual debate on the contentious issue that has plagued member states for decades. The main point of contention is how dif-ferent camps, who diverge on how to restructure the powerful 15 member coun-cil, interpret the group’s objective. General Assem-

bly President John Ashe explained in remarks how efforts to “reinvigorate” the hotly contested debate resulted in forming the new six member group “to as-sist me in identifying ways by which the process could move forward.”

In a letter to all 193 member states in late Oc-tober, he explained how the “purpose (of the group) is to produce a basis for the start of the intergovern-mental negotiations that re-flects the ideas put forward

in the negotiations so far, and also identifies available options.”Also in that let-ter he re-appointed Afghan Ambasador Zahir Tanin, as the chair of the intergov-ernmental negotiations, a position which he will now hold for six years in a row. Speaking on behalf of the Group of Four — which includes permanent seat as-pirants, Japan, Brazil, India and Germany — Japan’s Ambassador Motohide Yo-shikawa welcomed Ashe’s new move to include the

ambassadors of Belgium, Brazil, Liechtenstein, Pap-ua New Guinea, San Ma-rino and Sierra Leone as his advisors.” We, the G-4, firmly believe that the work of the advisory group will enable the intergovernmen-tal negotiations to move to text-based negotiations,” he said.

Yoshikawa also re-ferred to the G-4 group’s willingness to take part in “collective actions” to search for “common ground.” —Kyodo News

7Saturday, 9 November, 2013New Light of MyanmarL O C A L N E W S

Ya n g o n, 8 Nov—M y a n m a r - T h a i W o r k Coordination Meeting on

Myanmar, Thailand see Implementation of Dawei SEZ and its related projects

Implementation of Dawei Special Economic Zone and its related projects was held

here this morning. Myanmar side led by Union Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security U Maung Myint and Thai delegation led by Thai Minister of Energy Mr. Pong Sak Ruktapongpisal attended the meeting.

At the meeting, both sides discussed matters on framework agreement signed by Myanma Port Authority and Italian-Thai Co, implementation of procedures that include

in initial procedures of Dawei SEZ and follow-up programmes.

The meeting was also attended by Chairman of Dawei SEZ Management Committee Deputy Minister for Trasport U Han Sein, Financial Subcommittee Chairman Deputy Minister for Finance Dr Maung Maung Thein and Chairman of Rules and Regulations Drawing Subcommittee Vice-Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar U Set Aung. The meeting runs till yesterday.

MNA

The group fixtures of the men’s and women’s football events of XXVII SEA Games were set at Wunna Theikdhi Stadium in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.

Myanmar U-23 men’s team is included in the same group of Thailand and Indonesia and Myanmar w o m e n ’ s t e a m a n d Vietnamese team are in the same group.

In the women’s event, the group (A) comprises host Myanmar, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia and the group (B), Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and Timor-Leste.

Due to group fixtures, Myanmar hopes for sailing to the quarterfinal but it needs to pour out all-out efforts to win over Vietnam for taking the first position of the group. As such, Myanmar

Myanmar men’s team to meet Cambodia on 7 Dec

can evade Thai team in the semifinal. The women’s football tournament will take place in Mandalay where Myanmar will play against the Philippines on 10 December.

In the men’s football event, group (a) comprises d e f e n d i n g c h a m p i o n Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Singapore and Brunei and the group (b), host Myanmar, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Thailand and Cambodia. To be able to cruise into the quarterfinals, Myanmar

needs to secure good results in the matches with Timor-Leste and Cambodia and try hard to overcome powerful Thailand and Indonesia. The group (B) matches will be held in Youth Training Centre (Yangon) and the group (A) matches at Zeyathiri Stadium in Nay Pyi Taw.

The group matches will kick off on 2 December. On 7 December, Myanmar will meet with Cambodia in the debut.

Kyemon-Chit Ko Ko

Fixtures of Myanmar U-23 men’s team7-12-2013 Myanmar vs. Cambodia9-12-2013 Myanmar vs. Timor-Leste14-12-2013 Myanmar vs. Thailand16-1-2013 Myanmar vs. IndonesiaFixtures of Myanmar women’s team10-12-2013 Myanmar vs. the Philippines13-12-2013 Myanmar vs. Indonesia15-12-2013 Myanmar vs. Vietnam

Relief camps in Toungoo to taken down

Toungoo, 8 Nov—A total of 33 relief camps were opened in Toungoo due to flooding in some wards and villages of the township as of 29 October.

At 7 am on 5 November, the flood victims returned home, so the relief camps were broken.

Ward 8 administrator U Khin Latt who managed transportation of flood victims to homes said, “We shared foods donated by

wellwishers to the flood victims for their cooking at home. All the artisian wells have been cleaned for prevention of cholera. Water tanks have been chlorinated. We have made many arrangements for their homes.”

There remains 22 basic education schools to be reopened out of 119 in Toungoo District.

MMAL-Thura (Toungoo)

Furniture warehouse engulfed fire in Dagon (East)Yangon, 8 Nov—A

fire broke out at Pwint Oo warehouse of furniture at No 135 at the corner of Patinwun U Shwe Bin and Twin-thintaikwun U Tun Nyo Roads in Ward 113 of Dagon Myothit (East) Township on 6 November morning.

The fire started from sparks of electric shocks on the mattress in the warehouse.

Firefighters used 57 fire trucks, five management v e h i c l e s , t h r e e f i r e extinguishing vehicles and eight supporting vehicles in putting out the fire. The fire was totally put out at 9.15 am. A total of 335 members of Fire Services Department and 140 auxiliary fire brigade participated in the

Pollination of Yezin Palethwe hybrid paddy plantation being carried out on one acre of farmland of Daw Nan Kee in Phayagyi field in Tikyit Village-tract

of Naungtaya Sub-Township in Shan State on 5 November.MMAL-Township ipRD

Paddy strain provided to farmers Yangon, 8 Nov—

Thai-Myanmar friendship association of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thai Embassy to Myanmar, CP Co and Plantoy Co donated over K 40 million to Myittawadi Parahita House of Ward 16 in Hline

Township.Chairman of Thai-

M y a n m a r f r i e n d s h i p association Mr Bandhit So t ipa i a i l t and Tha i Ambassador Mr Pisanu presented donations to Chairman of the supervisory committee of the house U

Hla Tun.T h e c h a i r m a n o f

the association offered Kathina robes at Myittawadi H i n t h a d a P a r a h i t a Monastery. Officials opened the playground for the children.

MMAL-Mee Mee (Hline)

Primary level student skill contest in third week of November

MandalaY, 8 Nov—The first primary level newspaper reading skill contest will be held in the third week of November.

The contest is aimed at enabling the students to have good practice of reading and developing their talents.

Primary students are to take out the question forms f rom Zar t iman

reading association as of 5 November.

Those wishing to take part in the contest are to contact Zartiman Youth Reading Association, No 212, West Thiri Mingala Ward, Aungmyethazan Township of Mandalay, Tel: 09-444035825.

MMAL-Tin Maung (Mandalay)

Flood victims meeting with friends on their ways back home in Toungoo.

FireStaff of Township Development Affairs Committee and Township Fire Services Department exercise fire drill at Myoma Market in Nyaunglebin on 4

November.

Servicemen

putting

out fire at

furniture

warehouse

in Dagon

Myothit

(East)

Township.

putting out of fire. Cpl Thant Zin Aung of Dagon Myothit (East) Township Auxiliary Fire Brigade was injured in the fire and rushed to Thingangyun General Hospital.

The police station opened a file of lawsuit against U Khin Zaw, manager of the factory, under the law.

I n t h e f i r e , t h e warehouse lost property

worth K 100 million, said an official of the Fire Services Department.

MMAL-Tin Win Lay (Kyimyindine)

Saturday, 9 November, 20138 New Light of MyanmarN A T I O N A L

Saturday, 9 November, 2013

Street kidsEither at bus stops, eateries on crowded

streets or at stations in Yangon, you can see street kids, whose age range from four to twelve or thirteen, begging money or foods. Some peo-ple would give them money without second thought at their request but does it help?

Usually, street kids have a home in slum ar-eas or shanty towns, but the appalling financial hardship of their families compels them to live in the streets all day, doing what they can to earn money, often begging. But not every street kid is a beggar; some older children work as a scavenger to feed themselves or help support their families.

In some cases, homeless and/or abandoned children are fostered and exploited by the mind-er, who himself has grown on the streets, firstly begging and then doing odd-jobs. Fortunately, the fact that child beggars here have complete body parts indicates that Myanmar does not have gangs that kidnap children and force them to be beggars.

Meanwhile, many missing-child advertise-ments in newspapers earlier this year suggested a worrying sign for safety of children. Some media outlets tried to present investigative re-port on the cases of missing children, which then faded away amid more important politi-cal issues. Whether they run away or being kid-napped or being trafficked or have been found back is unclear.

Street kids, being on the fringes of the soci-ety, are largely excluded from government-pro-vided education and social safety net. There is a free compulsory primary education system in place, but it is clear that many school-age chil-dren including street kids do not have access to it.

Giving them a few pennies may alleviate some suffering for a day in the life of a street kid, but what about when those pennies are spent? Again, people view child beggars as part of organized groups, headed by criminals and thus face a moral dilemma over whether to give some money to them for fear that it would in-directly encourage those driving child-begging business. These destitute kids deserve a long-term solution that tackles the root-cause of the problem.

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U Khin Aung Myint re-ceived a delegation led by

Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker receives EU Ambassador to Myanmar

European Ambassador to Myanmar Mr. Roland Kob-ia at Amyotha Hluttaw Hall of the Hluttaw Complex, here, this morning.

Also present at the call were Amyotha Hlut-taw Deputy Speaker Hlut-taw Rights Committee Chairman U Mya Nyein, Bill Committee Chairman U Zaw Myint Pe, Interna-tional Inter-Parliamentary Friendship and Coopera-tion Committee Chairman U Khin Maung Yi and of-ficials of the Hluttaw Of-fice.

MNA

yaNgoN, 8 Nov—Opening ceremony of 2nd Myanmar Int’l Textile &

2nd Myanmar Int’l Textile & Garment Industry Exhibition opened

Garment Industry Exhibi-tion took place at Myanmar Convention Center (MCC)

in Mayangon Township here this morning, with an address by Yangon Region

Union Ministers U Myint Hlaing and U Win Myint seen at 2nd Myanmar Int’l Textile & Garment Industry Exhibition.—mna

yaNgoN, 8 Nov—Gov-ernor of New South Wales of Commonwealth of Aus-tralia Ms. Marie Bashir and party attended the signing of Letter of Intent between University of Public Health (Yangon) and University of Sydney on Myoma Kyaung Street, here, this morning.

At the ceremony, Rec-tor Dr Nay Soe Maung of University of Public Health made a speech.

Then, Professor Bruce Robinson of Sydney Medi-cal School of University of Sydney explained historical background of the universi-ty and linking with interna-tional universities.

Professor Dr Nay Soe Maung and Professor Bruce Robinson signed the Letter of Intent and formal-ly opened National Insti-tute of Maternal and Child Health.

Governor of New South Wales concludes Myanmar visit

Afterwards, the visit-ing Governor and party looked round the institute and attended the workshop titled “Infectious Diseases Control and Maternal and Child Health”.

Next, they went to Commonwealth War Cem-

etery in Sangyoung Town-ship where they laid wreath in front of tombs of service-men from Australia and paid tribute to them. They signed the visitors’ book before looking round the war cemetery.

Governor Ms. Marie

Bashir and party left Yan-gon for Australia this even-ing and they were seen off at Yangon International Airport by the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Australian Embassy.

MNA

Chief Minister U Myint Swe.

Later, Union Minister for Agriculture and Irriga-tion U Myint Hlaing, Union Minister for Commerce U Win Myint, Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe, the UMFCCI Vice-President and the manag-ing director from Yorkers Trade & Marketing Ser-vice Co., Ltd cut the rib-bon to open the exhibition and then looked round the showrooms.

A total of 300 booths from 120 companies at home and abroad are par-ticipating in the exhibition that goes on till 11 Novem-ber.

MNA

The signing of Letter of Intent in progress in the presence of Governor of New South Wales of Commonwealth of Australia Ms. Marie Bashir.—mna

Amyotha Hluttaw

Speaker U Khin

Aung Myint shakes

hands with European

Ambassador to

Myanmar Mr. Roland

Kobia.

mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—The 3rd ASEAN Sergeant Major Annual Meeting-2013 (3rd AS-MAM 2013) was held at Shwe San Eein Hotel in PyinOoLwin this morning.

Patron of the commit-tee for holding the meeting Lt-Gen Myint Soe extend-ed greetings.

Chairman of work committee for holding the 3rd ASEAN Sergent Ma-

3rd ASMAM 2013 kicks off

jor Annual Meeting Lt-Col Maung Maung Han ex-plained the matters on hold-ing the meeting and work activities.

WO-I (Translator) Win Hlaing discussed My-anmar’s affairs. Warrant Officer Ahmad Bin Haji ABDUL Kadir from Brunei shared past experience on holding the meeting. Those attendees asked what they want to know.—Myawady

9Saturday, 9 November, 2013New Light of MyanmarN A T I O N A L

Nay Pyi Taw, 9 Nov—On the occasion of the 60th

Anniversary of the Inde-pendence Day of the King-dom of Cambodia which falls on 9 November, 2013, U Wunna Maung Lwin, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of

Union Foreign Affairs Minister felicitates Dy Prime Minister and

FM International Cooperation Cambodia

the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felic-itations to His Excellency Mr Hor Namhong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minis-ter of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambo-dia.—MNA

(from page 16) phases based on location and financial status.

As first phase, three TV transmission stations in Nay Pyi Taw Pyinmana, Yan-gon and Sagaing Regions will go digital before the SEA Games. Digitization of twenty-five big stations will be carried out as second and third phases, which can cover 65 percent of coun-try’s total population.

More than 300,000…

(from page 16)an assessment of the current situation of the ministry in-stead of increasing the price to cover its losses from sell-ing electricity to the people.

During the meeting to-day, ministries concerned clarified the Joint Public Accounts Committee’s 7/2013 report on findings, objections and actions which have been taken by the Office of the Union Auditor-General over the expenditure of the budget for the first six months of the 2012-13 FY.

Regarding the report, Deputy Minister for En-vironmental Conserva-tion and Forestry Dr Daw Thet Thet Zin said the min-istry has been working in accordance with the rules and regulations for paying back its remaining debts of K 14.641 million and USD 0.784 million to the State.

Ministry of Environ-mental Conservation and Forestry’s debt to the State stands at K 3181.959 mil-lion and USD 1.392 million up to 30 September, 2012 and it has already paid off K 3167.318 million and USD 0.608 million to the State up to 31 October 3013.

Deputy Ministers from Ministry of Electric Pow-er, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Min-istry of Construction and Ministry of Science and

Electric Power Ministry to…Technology clarified the debts of the respective min-istries and plans for paying off their debts to the State.

Regarding the settle-ment of the issues, Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann ex-pressed his view that a commission and a com-mittee should be formed to solve the debt issue of the ministries as the issue was related to existing laws, suggesting to amend them.

U Win Than of Thabaung Constituency sub-mitted a proposal urging the Union Government to take part in settling the gold debt issue between Minis-try of Mines and contrac-tors as the issue of gold debts owed by contractors mentioned in the report of the Office of the Union Au-ditor-General for the first six months of the 2012-13 FY was not account fail-ures.

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw put the proposal on record.

U Aung Thein Lin of South Okkalapa Constitu-ency submitted a proposal urging the Union Govern-ment to urgently take ac-tions against complaints after the report 1, 2 and 3 of the land grabbing inves-tigation commission was submitted to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and other reports to the administrative bod-ies concerned.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—“Enhancing the unity be-tween ASEAN Armies could help further cement amity between the ASE-AN countries, contribute towards the emergence of the 2015 ASEAN Commu-nity,” said Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung

C-in-C attends 14th ACAMM

The MTRV invited a tender for purchase of DVB-T2 Set-Top-Box (Free-to-Air) and the Quality Inspec-tion Team inspected the quality of Set-Top-Boxes of 51 companies from 3 to 8 July this year. The Procure-ment Committee comprising the Information Deputy Min-isters, departmental heads, officials and engineers met short listed companies on 17 October. The Ministry

carried out the tender pro-cess carefully so as to have transparency. The Minis-try selected Kaung Thant Kyaw Company out of the short-listed companies and will purchase 335,000 set-top boxes to the ministry at a rate of 14.7 USD per one set-top-box. Altogether 304,944 out of 335,000 sets will be distributed to the people free of charge. Nation-wide digitization will be carried out system-atically 31 December, 2020.

MNA

Hlaing at 14th ASEAN Chiefs of Army Multilater-al Meeting (14th ACAMM) at Sedona Hotel in Manda-lay this morning.

The army plays a piv-otal role in implementing the ASEAN Political-Secu-rity Community. Sustaina-ble economic development concepts should be taken

into consideration for es-tablishment of the ASEAN Economic Community as security and economy are interrelated, he added.

It was also attended by Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Ser-vices Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win, chiefs

of Army from ASEAN countries, senior military officers from Myanmar and officials. Command-er-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla hosted a breakfast to those pre-sent.

Myawady

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U

Wunna Maung Lwin being welcomed by Cambodian Ambas-

sador to Myanmar Mr. Sieng Bunvuth and

wife at the reception to mark 60th Anniversary of the Independence

Day of the Kingdom of Cambodia at Sedona

Hotel on 8 Novem-ber.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov— Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing addressed the 14th ASEAN Chiefs of Army Multilateral meeting (14th ACAMM) at Amarapura Hall of Sedona Hotel in Mandalay this morning.

It was also attended by Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win, and Chiefs of Army from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and officials concerned.

The Senior General and the Vice-Senior General presented gifts for 14th

ACAMM to those present.

14th ACAMM held in Mandalay

The Vice-Senior General led the discussions on “Enhancing ASEAN Armies Unity Towards the 2015 ASEAN Community” and those present followed in alphabetical order.

Chairman of the Committee for holding 14th

ASEAN Chiefs of Army Multilateral meeting Maj-

Gen Zarni Win reviewed the discussions.

Then, they signed the 14th ACAMM Joint Statement.

At 1 pm, the Vice-Senior General separately held meetings with the Chiefs of Army of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Singapore, the Philippines,

Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia at the same venue.

Likewise, bilateral meetings between the Chiefs of Army were held.

In the evening, the Chiefs of Army and their wives enjoyed the beautiful sunset view from the Mandalay Hill.

Myawady

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Vice-Senior General Soe Win pose for documentary photo with Chiefs of Army from ASEAN countries.—mna

14th ASEAN Chiefs of Army Multilateral meeting (14th ACAMM) in progress at Amarapura Hall of Sedona Hotel in Mandalay.—mna

Saturday, 9 November, 2013

L O C A L N E W S10 New Light of Myanmar

Taunggyi Tazaungdine FestivalAs a large number of visitors at home and abroad will enjoy Taunggyi Tazaingdine festival, hotels and lodgings in Taunggyi have been filled with reservations, according to the pilgrimage agencies.

Festival.Ko Kyaw Kyaw of

Mandalay who prepared to go to Taunggyi Tazaung-dine Festival recounted his experience to take reserva-tion at a hotel in Taunggyi. He said, “This year, I am eager to visit Taunggyi Tazaungdine Festival. I have no experience to enjoy Taunggyi Hot-air Baloon Festival. Those who had visited the festival told me that it was so happy in hot-air baloon festival. Thanks to their advices, I have taken reservation at a hotel one month ago. I have paid charge for room. Even so did, I paid three folds of charge for the room than the ordinary price.”

Tour agencies man-age transport of pilgrims and visitors to Taunggyi Tazaungdine Festival and arrange accommodation for the visitors at monasteries and Dhammayons in addi-tion to hotels and lodgings.

“As the festival is crowded with people , the accommodation is one of the difficulties for visitors. Moreover, they will face difficulty in foods . Res taurants

are full with consumers. The visitors may face hardships on lack of seats and late arrival at res-taurants,” said a local of Taunggyi.

Releasing hot-air bal-loon in Taunggyi is a world famous activity. It abso-lutely attracts the tourists.

It was reported that the hot-air balloon releasing ceremony will be held from 10 to 18 November this year.

Mathoe robe weaving contest, day and night releasing hot-air balloon contest will be organized as of 11 November. On 16 November, the whole township will offer Kathi-na robes to members of the Sangha and on 17 November, they will en-joy the lighting festival. In addition, the Taung-gyi Tazaungdine Festival comprises photo contest with the participation of photographers from vari-ous regions of the nation.

Kyemon-002

TraditionalFestival

Taunggyi Dazaung-dine Festival is densely crowded with visitors year-ly. The visitors stay at the

residences of relatives and friends due to the fact that the hotels and lodgings are full with visitors. During

the festival period, the charge of hotel rooms and lodgings are three to five folds higher than the nor-

mal prices, said a tourism agency that gives service of transporting the visitors to Taunggyi Dazaungdine

Kawthoung District GAD celebrates anniversary ceremony

Kawthoung, 8 Nov—Kawthoung District General Administration Department held the annual ceremony at the township GAD office yesterday morning.

Officials offered alms to members of the Sangha.

Deputy Commissioner of the district U Kyaw Swa Tun explaied the depart-ment’s history.

Next, officials awarded outstanding staff for 2012-2013 fiscal year.—Kyemon-Kyaw Soe (Kawthoung)

Health care provided to villages in Pakokku Tsp

PaKoKKu, 8 Nov—As part of efforts to take care of rural people, Health Foundation of Magway Region Government and Austral ia-based GAIN (Global Aid Network) jointly gave free health care services to 550 pa-tients of Magyithonbin, Thambo, Thitpalwaygon, Gyobyan, Htanaung and Nyaunggon villages at Kanthayama monastery in Thanbo Village in Pakok-ku Township of Magway Region on 7 November.

Chief Minis te r of Magway Region U Phone Maw Shwe and officials viewed free medical treat-ment being provided to the local patients and attended to the needs.

The medical team on 6 November opened a clinic at Shinmagan Village of Pakokku Township and gave free medical treat-ment to the local people.

They have many plans to provide free health care services to the people in Middle Sapay Village on 8 November, Magyigan Vil-lage of Myaing Township on 10 November, West

Nyaungdwin Village on 11 November, Nipashaydaw Village of Yezagyo Town-ship on 12 November and Thitgyidaw Village on 13 November.—Kyemon-Tin Tun Oo

Dream comes true for extension of asphalt road to Mohnyin Degree College

Mohnyin, 8 Nov—MP of Pyith Hluttaw U Kyaw Soe Lay, MP of Amyotha Hluttaw U Sai Tin Aung of Mohnyin Township and de-partmental officials inspect-ed repaving of asphalt on Okkyin Bridge in Mohnyin yesterday morning.

Junior Engineer U My-int Swe explained progress of works.

They viewed works for straightening the road in Ok-kyin and South Nakha Wards and extension of bridges on the road leading to Mohnyin Degree College.

“Now, the dream came true. The town has been fa-cilitated with Okkyin Creek Bridge and local roads have been repaved. So, we the Shan nationals are so hap-py,” said a town’s elder U Sai Thein Maung of Okkyin ward in Mohnyin.

U Kyaw Tun Naing, boarding entrepreneur of Ywathitgon Ward said, “I welcome expansion of the asphalt roads in Mohnyin Thanks to extension ofthe roads, it is sure for declining the traffic accidents.”

Mohnyin Township Development Affairs Com-mittee is implementing the project of expanding the asplant road to Mohnyin Degree College to three feet each on both sides as 18 feet wide facility in 2013-2014

fiscal year.The asphalt road will be

paved in the third quarter of the fiscal year, according to the Township Development Affairs Committee.

Kyemon-K Hsai Naw (Phakant)

Staff Affairs

Construction

Chief Minister of Magway Region U Phone Maw Shwe and officials seen with schoolchildren.

Hot-air Balloon releasing festival of Taunggyi Tazaungdine Festival densely crowded with visitors in Taunggyi.

Saturday, 9 November, 2013 11New Light of MyanmarRegional

Senior diplomats of Japan, China and South Korea meet to discuss ways to promote cooperative ties in Seoul on 7 Nov,

2013.—Kyodo News

S Korea, Japan, China to make joint effort for

trilateral summitSeoul, 8 Nov — South

Korea, Japan and China agreed on Thursday to make efforts to arrange a trilateral summit at a time their relations remain frosty over contrasting percep-tions of wartime history and territorial disputes. The agreement was reached at a meeting in Seoul of senior diplomats from the three countries, according to a statement released by South Korea’s Foreign Ministry. But the three nations failed to agree on when to hold such a summit.

“At today’s meeting, participants recognized the importance of a summit

among the three countries and agreed to make joint ef-forts toward that end,” the statement said. South Kore-an Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Kyung Soo, Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama and China’s Vice Foreign Min-ister Liu Zhenmin headed their respective delegations to the meeting.

The gathering of the three countries’ high-rank-ing foreign ministry offi-cials came amid tensions over the Japanese-adminis-tered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

China has said it will not hold a summit or other

high-level talks with Ja-pan unless Tokyo recog-nizes there is a “territorial dispute” between the two countries over an uninhab-ited cluster of islets in the East China Sea that are known as Diaoyu in China and the Senkakus in Japan. South Korea’s ties with Ja-pan have become frostier over their interpretations of wartime history and a dis-pute over the sovereignty

of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan known as Dokdo to South Koreans and as Takeshima to the Japanese. At Thurs-day’s meeting, “the three countries agreed the trilat-eral cooperative system is an important framework of cooperation needed to preserve peace, stability and common prosperity in Northeast Asia,” the state-ment said.—Kyodo News

China’s panda breeding hits record in 2013

Chengdu, 8 Nov — A total of 49 panda cubs were born in China this year, with 42 surviving, mark-ing a record for giant panda breeding in the country, ac-cording to experts at an in-ternational panda protection conference on Thursday in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The number of captive-bred pandas in

China this year has doubled the number from last year, said Zhang Hemin, director of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, at the ongoing International Symposium on Giant Panda Conserva-tion Conference, which is scheduled to be held in Chengdu City from 7 to 12 November .

According to a report released in November 2012 by the Committee of Gi-ant Panda Breeding Tech-niques, 28 giant panda cubs

were born in 2012, and 20 of them have survived. With the development of breeding technology, the number of captive-bred giant pandas around the world has risen to 376 in 2013 from 341 last year, an increase of 10.3 percent, ac-cording to Zhang.

China will gradually increase the number of

captive-bred pandas and continue research on releas-ing them to the wild, Zhang said.

The conference, spon-sored by the State Forestry Administration, has attract-ed about 200 representa-tives from over a dozen countries’ zoos, govern-ment departments, embas-sies in China, and China’s panda protection organiza-tions to discuss issues con-cerning giant panda protec-tion.

Xinhua

A girl takes a look at the works printed by a 3D printer in a 3D printing experiencing store in Shenyang,

capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, on 7 Nov, 2013. — XiNhua

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse

and friends wave to visitors at

Tokyo DisneySea Park in

Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on 7 Nov , 2013

at the start the same day of an

event to celebrate the Christmas

season. Kyodo News

Architects call on gov’t to scale back new Tokyo

stadium planTokyo, 8 Nov — A

group of around 100 people led by architect Fumihiko Maki filed a petition on Thursday with the govern-ment to review and scale back the planned New National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The initiative, co-sponsored by art critic Shuji Takashina, political scientist Takashi Mikuriya, anthropologist Shinichi Nakazawa and others, takes issue with the design potentially spoiling the landscape in Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu Gaien area, a major urban green space in Japan.

“Given a total floor space double to triple the past main Olympics venues such as London and Ath-ens, we are also concerned about its costs for safety, maintenance and manage-ment,” says the petition presented to the sports min-istry and the Tokyo metro-politan government. The group, consisting chiefly

of architects, called on the authorities to modify the stadium’s scale to one that would be appropriate for an aging society experiencing a declining population and urged the government to fully explain about the pro-ject to the nation.

The group also request-ed that stadium capacity be reduced from the planned 80,000 permanent seats to a combination of around 50,000 permanent seats and temporary seating. The government plans to reno-vate the existing National Stadium into an all-weather facility with a retractable roof. The new stadium was designed by a British-Iraqi architect chosen through an international competition.It will be built on a 113,000 square meter site, about 1.6 times larger than the cur-rent site, and will have a total floor space of 290,000 sq. meters, about 5.6 times larger than the existing sta-dium.— Kyodo News

Thai premier urges protesters to disperse,

amnesty bill off agendaBangkok, 8 Nov —

Thai Prime Minister Yin-gluck Shinawatra urged anti-amnesty bill protesters to disperse on Thursday, saying that the amnesty and related bills have been withdrawn. In a second special televised speech in a week, Yingluck said the amnesty bill and also other related bills were withdrawn from the House of Representatives on Thurs-day.

“I want to urge the pro-testers to end the rally...I don’t want the rallies to keep continuing since it could af-fect our economy, tourism as well as confidence from foreign investors,” she said. The premier reiterated the bill was aimed at helping people who suffered after the 2006 coup that toppled her brother as prime minister and charged the “distortion” that the government wanted to help those who faced cor-ruption charges was not true.

Yingluck also insisted the government would not use military force to crack down on groups of people gathered at several places to protest the bill. “I assure the government will not use violence against people, we wish to have peace in our country...the rallies would be taken care of by police, not soldiers,” she said. On Thursday, lawmakers voted to withdraw six drafts of am-nesty and reconciliation bills from the agenda, 310 to one, while the Senate postponed its schedule for discussion on the amnesty bill. From March to May 2010, 91 peo-ple, including protesters and soldiers, were killed during “Redshirt” antigovernment protests in central Bangkok by people who were mostly supporters of Thaksin Shi-nawatra who was toppled as prime minister in a bloodless military coup in 2006.

Kyodo News

Leader of notorious extortion group in

Philippines arrestedManila, 8 Nov —The

leader of a notorious extor-tion group in the southern Philippines that authorities believe had initial links with the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islami-yah has been arrested, po-lice said on Thursday.

Jabide Abdul of the Al-Khobar group, which authorities say has been responsible for several extortion-related bomb-ings since 2006 in parts of Mindanao island, was arrested on Tuesday in Mindanao’s Sultan Kudarat, police said in a statement, adding 31 peo-ple were killed and 145 were injured in the attacks.

National police chief Alan Purisima said the ar-rest of Abdul — who had a 3.3 million peso (about $76,750) bounty on his head due to multiple mur-ders and attempted murders

— is a “significant devel-opment in the continuing campaign against organized crime and terrorism.”

Many of the Al-Kho-bar group’s attacks were on bus companies in Mindanao who refused to give in to the group’s threats of blow-ing up buses unless they would pay money.

The police said, “The group was allegedly cre-ated in support of Jemaah Islamiyah and foreign mili-tant Jihadists groups,” with the particular mission of “concentrating on explo-sive component use and extortion schemes across the Cotabato province (in Mindanao).”

“The group eventually transformed into a kidnap-for-ransom gang, and much later, into the extortion group that it is today,” the police added.

Kyodo News

Saturday, 9 November, 201312

advertisement & GeneraLNew Light of Myanmar

the republic of the union of myanmarministry of energy

myanma oil and gas enterpriseinvitation for open tender

(11/2013) Open tenders are invited for supply of the following respective items in United States Dollar/Myanmar Kyats. Sr.No Tender No Description Qty Remark (1) IFB-083(2013-2014) Spare for CAT-D333C Lighting (11) Items US$ Set Engine (2) IFB-084(2013-2014) Spare for Main Air Compressor, Oxygen (10) Items US$ Generator and Oxygen Compressor (3) IFB-085(2013-2014) Roller Chains and Sprockets (18) Items US$ (4) IFB-086(2013-2014) 2 7/8"x6.5 lb/ft J55 EUE Tubing (5000)Mtr US$ (5) IFB-087(2013-2014) Bearings and Seals for PZ- 7 Rig (6) Items US$ Pume Ex NAT 55/1 Drilling Rig (6) IFB-088(2013-2014) Hydraulic Cathead and Hydraulic Cylinder (5) Items US$ (7) IFB-089(2013-2014) Skid Mounted Single Pump Cementing (1) Unit US$ Unit (With Engine Driven (8) IFB-090(2013-2014) Welding Machine (400AMP) Mobile (3) Units US$ Type Diesel Engine Driven (9) IFB-091(2013-2014) Portable Welding Machine & Accessories (4) Units US$ (200 AMP DC) (10) IFB-092(2013-2014) BOP Control Accumulator Unit (1) Set US$ (11) IFB-093(2013-2014) 6x8 R Mixing Pump (3) Sets US$ (12) IFB-094(2013-2014) Stirred Fluid Loss Cell (Model-7120) (1) Set US$ (13) DMP/L-040 (2013-2014) Hydraulic Oil Light (Hol) (270)Drums Kyat (14) DMP/L-041 (2013-2014) Gear Oil (PGO-140 EP) (Gl-5) (300)Drums Kyat (15) DMP/L-042 (2013-2014) 5 KW Diesel Engine Driven Generating (2) Items Kyat Set (3) Sets & 5HP 3 Phase Induction Motor (1) No (16) DMP/L-043 (2013-2014) Telephone Cable (3) Items & Cordless (1) Lot Kyat Telephone -Tender Closing Date & Time - 2-12-2013, 16:30 Hrs.TenderDocumentshallbeavailableduringofficehourscommencingfrom4th November, 2013 at the Finance Department, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, No(44) Complex, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise Ph: +95 67-411097/411206

claims day noticemv green lotus voy no (-)Consignees of cargo carried on MV green

lotus VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the ves-sel will be arriving on 9.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of h.p.t where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelaws and conditions of the port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from the Vessel.

no claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shipping agency department myanma port authority

agent for: m/s rk shipping & trading pte ltd

phone no: 256924/256914

claims day noticemv gunkul 1 voy no (-)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV gunkul 1 VOY NO (-) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 9.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of s.p.w(5) where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byel-aws and conditions of the port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from the Vessel.

no claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shipping agency department myanma port authority

agent for: m/s kulantee co ltd. phone no: 256916/256919/256921

claims day noticemv bbc asia voy no ( )

Consignees of cargo carried on MV bbC asia VOY NO ( ) are hereby notified that the vessel will be arriving on 9.11.2013 and cargo will be discharged into the premises of M.i.t.t where it will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byel-aws and conditions of the port of Yangon.

Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo from the Vessel.

no claims against this vessel will be admitted after the Claims Day.

shipping agency department myanma port authority

agent for: m/s bbc chartering phone no: 256916/256919/256921

British royal couple, Prince Charles (2nd R, front) and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles (2nd L, front), to-gether with Lieutenant General Manvender Singh (1st R, front) and his wife (1st L, front) are seen at Indian

Military Academy in Dehradun, India, on 7 Nov, 2013. The British royal couple, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles, arrived in Dehradun, north-

ern India Wednesday to start a nine-day tour of India, reported Press Trust of India.

Xinhua

Japan to be “partner country” at India International Trade Fair

New Delhi, 8 nov — india said on thursday that Japan will be the “partner country” at this year’s in-dia international trade Fair to be held for two weeks from 14 november in the capital new Delhi.

around 260 interna-tional participants, includ-ing 28 leading Japanese companies, are expected to take part in the fair to

showcase their products.the Japanese pavilion will exhibit a wide range of goods from handicrafts to it equipment, according to shigemaro Yasui, chairman of the Japan india indus-try promotion association, who added, “This is the first time Japan will be the part-ner country in the iitF.”

india trade promotion organization chairperson

rita Menon said that Japan has not only been given “partner country” status at the fair but will also receive a “special” location at iitF 2013. Japan is currently also promoting Japanese cuisine in india, with food-related events taking place until February in new Del-hi and in Mumbai as part of the “oishii Japan” festi-val.—Kyodo News

OPEC’s share on world oil market on the wane

VieNNa, 8 nov — the share of the organization of petroleum exporting Coun-tries (opeC) in the world oil market would decline by almost 8 percent through to the year of 2018 due to the rise of the shale energy, a publication by the organiza-tion declared on Friday.

It is the first time for opeC, with the headquar-ters in Vienna, austria, to make such an acknowl-edgment about shale en-ergy’s growing impact in the world oil map, said the world oil outlook, an an-nual report of the group.

the report said that opeC sees less demand of its crude in the next five years, and the demand for crude of the group, which produces about 40 percent of the world’s oil output, will fall by 1.1 million

barrels a day to 29.2 million barrels a day between 2013 and 2018.

oil production from shale formations in the us and Canada is estimated to climb to 4.9 million barrels a day in 2018, compared with the estimate of 1.7 million barrels a day in last year’s report.

opeC, however, doesn’t seem to worry about the pressure from shale oil, as it estimates the output of the shale is expected to decline after the year 2020, citing challenges including a rapid output decline from wells, the environmental concerns and rising costs.apart from shale, growing non-opeC crude supplies would also serve as a factor to the organization’s weak-ened impact in the world oil map. — Xinhua

Saturday, 9 November, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT13New Light of Myanmar

Demi Moore is reportedly in high spirits now

Demi Moore back home after “soul searching” pilgrimage to India

Los AngeLes, 8 Nov—After a ‘soul searching’ pilgrimage to India, actress Demi Moore is back here with her guru, Hargopal Kaur Khalsa.

The 50-year-old suf-fered a public meltdown after her split from husband

and actor Ashton Kutcher.Now Moore, who is

set to divorce Kutcher, is in high spirits as she led the Kundalini yoga teacher out of the airport here, daily-mail.co.uk reports.

She was wearing black ensemble with ankle boots

Renee Zellweger gained weight for the movie series Bridget Jones’s Diary

Renee Zellweger: Eating disorder reports are

disappointingMuMbAi, 8 Nov—Ac-

tress Renee Zellweger doesn’t like hearing reports about her fluctuating body weight and food habits.

The 44-year-old gained nearly 28 pounds when she starred in the Bridget Jones’s Diary, a movie se-ries based on the books of Helen Fielding, but she quickly dropped the weight once filming was finished by following a strict diet and exercise regime.

When she was snapped at a New York fashion event earlier this month, her slim figure sparked ru-

mours that she is struggling with her weight, but Zell-weger insists her trim body is down to hard work in the gym, reports contactmusic.com.

“When you read re-ports that you are starving or that you are anorexic it’s very unfair and disappoint-ing. It’s not very pleasant to read reports which say you’ve gone too far or this or that. I have a lifestyle that involves keeping my sanity by going to the gym,” she told Britain’s Daily Express newspaper.

PTI

Sarah Jessica Parker joins TwitterLos AngeLes, 8 Nov—

Actress Sarah Jessica Park-er is the latest celebrity to join microblogging website Twitter.

The 48-year-old posted her first tweet on Tuesday and so far has 460,246 fol-lowers.

In her first message, she promoted her new doc-

umentary series about the New York City Ballet, re-ports femalefirst.co.uk.

“Very first tweet. Proud to share my new se-ries ‘City.Ballet’. on AOL On. NYC ballet dancers -

extraordinary!”The Sex and the City

star opted for an extreme close-up shot of one of her eyes as her profile picture on the website.

PTI

Sarah Jessica Parker has

460,246 followers and

counting.

Sandra Bullock: George

Clooney is not everyone’s cup

of teaLos AngeLes, 8 Nov—

Actress Sandra Bullock is adamant she doesn’t have a crush on Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney, insisting, “he’s not every-one’s cup of tea.”

The 49-year-old has been close friends with Clooney for 20 years but she has confessed she never falls for him, reports con-tactmusic.com.

She also declares there are other women who would also turn down the Ocean’s Eleven actor de-spite his dashing looks.

Bullock, who worked with Clooney in new movie Gravity, tells morning TV show Daybreak,”We’ve known each other for so long, sexy is gone. Not that he’s not sexy because he is very, very handsome. If you like that kind of dashing, charming, smart, talented, successful kind of thing. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea.”—PTI

Sandra Bullock worked with George Clooney in Gravity

Lady Gaga to sing in outer space in 2015?new York, 8 Nov—

Pop sensation Lady Gaga has reportedly signed up to perform one song in space as part of the Zero G Colo-ny high-tech musical festi-val in 2015.

The mysterious fes-tival will take place over three days at New Mexico’s Spaceport America.

The 27-year-old Ap-plause hitmaker perfor-mance is said to be planned for the third day of the con-cert series at dawn, reported

Lady Gaga will perform as part of Zero G Colony high-tech musical festival

in 2015.PTI

the New York Daily News.“She has to do a month

of vocal training because of the atmosphere. Gaga has taken out a ridiculous life insurance policy!,” a source said.

The event will mark the first time that a pop artiste has performed in space.

Gaga, who will be boarding Richard Bran-son’s ‘Virgin Galactic’ ship, is not the only pop star with plans to explore the fi-nal frontier.—PTI

‘Glee,’ Bullock and Perry lead People’s Choice nominees

Los AngeLes, 8 Nov—Television musical series “Glee” on Tuesday led the nominees for the annual fan-voted People’s Choice Awards, while actress San-dra Bullock and pop sing-ers Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake each scored five nominations.

Fox’s “Glee” picked up eight nominations for the only Hollywood awards show covering film, music and television that is voted on solely by the public.

The People’s Choice Awards ceremony, set for January 8 in Los Angeles, kicks off the Hollywood awards season, which cul-minates with the coveted Academy Awards, or Os-cars, on March 2. The Peo-ple’s Choice winners are chosen by fans, who can vote online across 58 cat-egories spanning film, TV and music starting Thurs-day through 5 December.

“Glee” scored nomi-nations for best network

TV comedy, while its stars Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch and Lea Michele each won nomi-nations in the comedy act-ing categories. Fan recog-nition for “Glee” comes four months after series star Cory Monteith died from a heroin and alcohol overdose in Vancouver, causing a delay in produc-tion. “Glee” bid farewell to Monteith and his character in a somber episode last month.—Reuters

The cast of television series ‘’Glee’’ accepts the Choice TV Show: Comedy Award at the Teen Choice Awards at the Gibson amphitheatre in Universal City, California in

this on 11 August, 2013 file photo.—ReuTeRs

and a warm wrap-around cardigan. Her teacher was dressed in white, includ-ing a white turban wrapped snugly around her head.

They were spotted ear-lier this week at McLeod Ganj in Dharamsala, re-portedly studying with the Dalai Lama.

PTI

Saturday, 9 November, 2013

SPORTS14 New Light of Myanmar

England keep faith with Hart, call up Saints trio

London, 8 Nov — Eng-land manager Roy Hodgson backed goalkeeper Joe Hart to regain top form but will take the opportunity to look at understudies Fraser For-ster or John Ruddy in this month’s friendlies against Chile and Germany.

Hart, dropped by Man-chester City after a series of mistakes, will start one of the World Cup warm-ups

at Wembley stadium, with England hosting Chile on November 15 and Germany four days later.

Hodgson called up un-capped Southampton striker Jay Rodriguez for the first time, one of three Saints players in the 28-man squad along with fellow frontman Rickie Lambert, who has scored twice in three inter-nationals, and winger Adam

Lallana.Hart has been left out of

Manchester City’s last two matches but Hodgson said he would only be worried by the situation if the 26-year-old was still out of the team and not playing regularly by next March or April.

“It is November. He made a mistake or possibly two mistakes. As a result of those mistakes the (Man-

chester City manager) Ma-nuel Pellegrini has made his decision,” Hodgson said on Thursday.

“I would be a lot more concerned if Joe Hart never got his place back and if in the spring of next year when I have to select the 23 play-ers he was a constant reserve. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

“But he is such a good goalkeeper he will get back in the team.”

Hodgson said prepara-tions for next year’s finals started now, and there was no time to celebrate getting there.

“We’re looking for-ward to Brazil. We only have three games before I name the squad so this preparation period is very important. It is preparation, not celebration.

“It does temper my thinking because I am trying to achieve a balance of play-ers who have not played so many games giving players a chance to show what they can do and keeping together a group of players that need

to play together.”Southampton’s excel-

lent start to the Premier League season has been re-flected with the inclusion of Rodriguez and Lallana, while defender Luke Shaw and James Ward-Prowse were named in the Under-21 squad.

Former Under-21 player Nathaniel Clyne, South-ampton’s right-back, is also on Hodgson’s radar and the manager explained: “You have to give an awful lot of credit to Southampton be-cause of course in the past they have provided some very important players to the Premier League, not least Gareth Bale, the world’s most expensive player.

“It proves the value of a good academy system and perhaps more young English players will come through at other clubs.”

Rodriguez, has been capped once for the Under-21s and midfielder Lallana has figured at U-18, U-19 and Under-21 level.

Liverpool’s Jordan

Henderson, whose style was criticised in Alex Fergu-son’s recent autobiography, returns to the squad as does his Anfield team mate Glen Johnson who has been miss-ing because of injury.

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, who is nursing yet another ankle injury, is in the squad but was being monitored on a daily basis.

Squad:Goalkeepers: Joe Hart,

Fraser Forster, John RuddyDefenders: Leighton

Baines, Gary Cahill, Ash-ley Cole, Kieran Gibbs, Phil Jagielka, Glen Johnson, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Kyle Walker

Midfielders: Ross Bar-kley, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Adam Lallana, Frank Lampard, James Milner, Andros Townsend, Jack Wilshere

Forwards: Jermain De-foe, Rickie Lambert, Jay Rodriguez, Wayne Rooney, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck

Reuters

Manchester City’s Joe Hart (R) makes a save as team mate Costel Pantilimon looks on, during a training session at the club’s Carrington training complex in Manches-

ter, northern England on 4 Nov, 2013.— ReuteRs

Woods is like gold dust to Turkish organizers

AntALyA, 8 Nov — Tiger Woods is worth his weight in gold to the inau-gural $7 million Turkish Airlines Open and to sport in the country in general, the president of the national golf federation said on Thursday.

Businessman Ahmet Agaoglu is a huge fan of the world’s number one golfer and said he cannot speak highly enough of Woods’s contribution this week.

“I’ve been involved in sport one way and another

for nearly 42 years and I describe Tiger as the best athlete of all time,” Agaoglu told Reuters in an interview during the opening round of the European Tour event being staged in the city of Antalya.

“You may not agree with me but that’s my per-sonal opinion. Whatever you pay for an athlete like Tiger it is not much considering what he brings, and believe me, he is not asking for much.”

Agaoglu would not dis-close figures but media re-ports suggest 14-times major champion Woods is being paid an appearance fee of $3 million.—Reuters

McNeill leads fog-hit McGladrey Classic after birdie bingeed incomplete first round of the McGladrey Classic on the Seaside layout at Sea Is-land, Georgia on Thursday.

McNeill was eight un-der par through 16 holes when darkness halted play following a morning fog de-lay, leaving him one clear of compatriots Briny Baird and Brian Gay, who both fired seven-under rounds of 63 in the morning wave.

Former US Open cham-pion Webb Simpson was joined by Kevin Kisner, Kevin Chappell and Noh Seung-yul in the clubhouse

Tiger Woods of the US plays a shot on the fourth hole

during the first round of the

inaugural Turk-ish Airlines Open in the

south west city of Antalya on 7

Nov, 2013.ReuteRs

George McNeill

Ivory Coast call up Diomande for World Cup playoff

yAmoussoukro, 8 Nov — Ivory Coast named un-capped Ismael Diomande as midfield cover for this month’s World Cup playoff against Senegal as Serey Die and Cheick Tiote are suspended for the match on 16 November.

at home last month where Die and Tiote added to their collection of yellow cards, also recalled Abdul Razak, recently sold by Manchester City to An-zhi Makhachkala, CSKA Moscow striker Seydou Doumbia and Norwegian

Rizespor), Kolo Toure (Liverpool), Didier Zokora (Trabzonspor)

Midfielders: Ismael Di-omande (St Etienne), Jean-Jacques Gosso Gosso (Gen-clerbirligi), Max Gradel (St Etienne), Abdul Razak (Anzhi Makhachkala) Ro-maric (Bastia), Yaya Toure (Manchester City)

Forwards: Mathis Bol-ly (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Wilfried Bony (Swansea City), Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow), Didier Drogba (Galatasaray), Ger-vinho (AS Roma), Salomon Kalou (Lille), Giovanni Sio (VfL Wolfsburg), Lacina Traore (Anzhi Makhachka-la).—Reuters

Paris St Germain’s Maxwell (R) challenges Saint Etienne’s Ismael Diomande during their French Ligue

1 soccer match at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on 2 May, 2012.—ReuteRs

The 21-year-old has just broken into the St Etienne first team and is in line for a first cap in the second leg in Casablanca, which will decide a place at next year’s finals in Brazil.

Coach Sabri Lamouchi has tinkered only lightly with a 25-man squad, an-nounced by the Ivorian football federation on Thursday.

The Ivorians, who lead 3-1 from the first leg

born Mathis Bolly.Squad:Goalkeepers: Bou-

bacar Barry (Lokeren), Ab-doul Karim Cisse (Africa Sports), Sylvain Gbohouo (Sewe Sport)

Defenders: Jean Akpa Akpro, Serge Aurier (both Toulouse), Arthur Boka (VfB Stuttgart), Benja-min Brou Angoua (Va-lenciennes), Soulemanye Bamba (Trabzonspor), Vi-era Diarrassouba (Caykur

ChArLotte, (North Car-olina), 8 Nov — American George McNeill rode eight

birdies, including a stretch of five in a row, to grab a one-shot lead late in a fog-affect-

with rounds of 65 for a share of fourth place along with Robert Garrigus who was five-under through 13 holes.

McNeill, who has never broken 63 on the PGA Tour, will have a chance to post a new low early on Friday when play resumes and put himself on track for a shot at a third career win.

Coming off a 2013 sea-son where he failed to post a top-10 for the first time in his seven-year career, the 38-year-old Florida native blasted into contention with a birdie blitz.—Reuters

R/489 Printed and published by the New Light of Myanmar press in Nay Pyi Taw, the News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information.

Saturday, 9 November, 2013 15

GENERALNew Light of Myanmar

9-11-13 09:30 am ~10-11-13 09:30 am) MST

MYANMAR INTERNATIONAL

* Local News* Great Shwedagon-The

Religious Insignias of pagodas in Myanmar

* World News* Myanmar Movie

Review: Uneasy* The Romantic Nights at

the City of Flowers* Will you feed the

pigeons* Youth of The Future

(Episode-12) Young with Colour (Toe Wai)

* In the Studio: Pyi Soe (or) Hay Thin

* Local News* A Day Out With Sarah

(Episode-6)* World News* Wholesale Fish* Local News* Snow Flakes...Scenic

Confluence...To Kachin State

* World News* Art Student: Theatrical

Art* Local News* Me N My Travel

(Wonderful Pagoda On The Mount Akauk)

* World News* Sweet Delicacy of

Pathein* Local News* Mon Traditional

Wedding* World News* Myanmar Movie

Review “The White Castle of Ramance”

* The Rising Glory Of Myanmar Arts

* Myanmar Masterclass Class “Contemparary Art”

(9-11-2013, Saturday)6:00 am1. Paritta By Hilly

Region Missionary Sayadaw

6:30 am2. Physical Exercises6:40 am3. Nice & Sweet Song6:50 am4. Documentary7:00 am5. News7:20 am6. Business News7:40 am7. Hyper Sports8:00 am8. News8:25 am9. India Drama Series9:00 am10. News/International

News9:25 am11. Documentary

(Trveller)9:50 am12. Documentary10:00 am13. News10:15 am14. Teleplay (Health)10:35 am15. Shwe Yin Chone Than11:10 am16. Song Variety11:25 am17. Game for Children12:00 pm18. News/International

News/Weather Report12:25 pm19. Round Up of The

Week’s TV Local News

1:25 pm20. Round Up of The

Week’s Hluttaw News3:00 pm21. News3:15 pm22. Hyper Sports4:00 pm23. News4:15 pm24. Business News4:35 pm25. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)

-Third Year (Chemistry)

5:00 pm26. News5:15 pm27. Documentary (SEA

Games)6:00 pm28. News6:20 pm29. Documentary (SEA

Games)7:00 pm30. News7:15 pm31. Teleplay8:00 pm32. News8:50 pm33. Hit Songs of Stars9:00 pm34. News35. Myanmar Series36. Gitdagale

Phwintbaohn

MYANMAR TVThree arrested for kidnapping 12-year-old girl in Tokyo

Tokyo, 8 Nov — To-kyo police have arrested three men for allegedly kidnapping a junior high school girl in Ota Ward on Wednesday evening and asking for a ransom of 20 million yen from her fam-ily. The 12-year-old girl was safely taken into police custody after she was found roughly three hours later in a car with two of the sus-pects that was pulled over in a neighbouring city by a police officer who did not know about the kidnapping but was looking out for cars with stolen number plates.

The Metropolitan Po-lice Department identified the men as Ryunosuke Taba, 23, and Genki Miyagi, 24, both unemployed and from Okinawa Prefecture, and Hiroaki Hata, a 43-year-old company employee from Saitama Prefecture. The police suspect that Miyagi and Hata forced the victim

Photo shows an area in Fuchu, western Tokyo, on 7 Nov, 2013, where a kidnapped junior high school girl was rescued by the police earlier in the day. The police

arrested three men on suspicion of kidnapping her for a ransom of 20 million yen. —Kyodo News

to get into their car on a street in Tokyo’s Ota Ward at around 5 pm and Taba called the girl’s home us-ing a pay phone around 6:50 pm demanding 20 million yen in ransom. Miyagi and Hata have admitted to the charges while Taba has said he did not know about the ransom demand, according

to the police. The police said the three men got to know each other through the In-ternet and do not know the girl as they said they picked her up randomly. The girl’s mother, who responded to the ransom request over the phone, called the police around 7:05 pm, the police said.—Kyodo News

Prices of 1,000 items in Rakuten mall may have been misleading

Tokyo, 8 Nov — On-line shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc said on Thurs-day that prices on about 1,000 items offered in its marketplace in connection with bargain sales com-memorating the Rakuten Eagles professional baseball team’s winning of the Japan Series title may have been

misleading.The company said

price indications by more than 20 stores in the past bargain sales, including the latest one conducted between Sunday night and early Thursday, were prob-lematic and that it temporar-ily closed those stores in the online shopping mall. For

example, a store in Hokkai-do claimed in the Rakuten mall that 10 cream puffs produced by a Kyoto com-pany are normally priced at 12,000 yen and sold the item at 2,600 yen, indicat-ing it is 77 percent off the regular price, according to sources familiar with the matter.—Kyodo News

Webber in no mood to slow down after Formula One

Sydney, 8 Nov—Mark Webber has no in-tention of coasting when he calls time on his 12-year career in Formula One at the end of the sea-son and is determined to put Porsche back on top of the podium at Le Mans sooner rather than later.

The 37-year-old Aus-tralian revealed in June he had signed a multi-year deal to race for the Ger-man marque in the World Endurance Championship, the centrepiece of which is the 24-hour endurance classic in France.

And while Webber said he would miss For-mula One — although not perhaps his Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel —

Red Bull Formula One driver Mark Webber of Australia waves after taking pole position during the qualifying session of the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix

at the Yas Marina circuit on Yas Island, on 2 Nov, 2013.

ReuteRs

his competitiveness nature will not allow him to slow down.

“I’ve got those memo-ries. They’re great and I re-ally enjoy having those,” he told Australia’s Channel 10 TV.

“But to look at the next chapter, I can’t put my feet out of bed each morning with no super purpose - I still need to do something. I can’t turn racing off and just finish.”

Webber has twice been entered to race Le Mans but failed to complete a lap. His engine failed in 1998 and in 1999 his Mercedes flipped into the air twice in practice and the team withdrew for safety reasons.

Porsche’s record at the

Circuit de la Sarthe is much better with 16 wins, includ-ing seven in a row from 1981 to 1987.

Audi have dominated since the turn of the cen-tury, though, and Webber’s new team will have their work cut out on their return to the top class next year.

“I am looking forward to this embryonic stage to them returning to the race in which they have been so successful in the past,” Webber said.

“They’ve got the re-cord for the most wins at Le Mans and I am looking forward to working with them in the future and keep-ing my adrenaline ticking over.”

To add a Le Mans suc-

cess to his twin triumphs in one of motorsport’s other great races, the Monaco Grand Prix, would be some achievement, he thought.

“I love that circuit, I love driving at night to the limit,” he added.

“It’s human nature to want more, obviously I want to win Le Mans, to put that with the Monaco ... that would be nice.

“Whether one is enough there, maybe I want to grab a few. But of course you’ve got to get the first one done, which won’t be easy. “So that’s the first goal, to win Le Mans, win that outright down the road. And then we’ll go from there. Still enjoy the race”

Reuters

7th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1375 ME Saturday, 9 November, 2013 New Light of Myanmar

31 days to XXVII SEA Games

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—The Russian Society of Friendship and Cooperation with Republic of the Union of Myanmar (SFCRUM) headed by President Mr. Mikhail A. DMITRIEV will pay a visit to Myanmar to meet governmental of-ficials, parliamentarians as well as representatives of the Myanmar civil socie-ties.

The Russia-Myanmar Friendship Society is the successor of the “Soviet So-ciety of Cultural Ties with Burma” established in Janu-ary 1962. Its first president was a prominent architect Victor Andreyev who de-signed the Inya Lake Ho-tel in Yangon. In addition to individual members, a member of leading institu-

President of SFCRUM of Russia to pay visit to Myanmar

tions, including the Insti-tute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Asia and Africa Countries of the Moscow State University, the Depart-ment of Oriental Languages of the Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg) State Uni-versity joined the Society. It had been engaged in organ-izing exhibitions, support-ing publications, arranging meetings of researchers in the field of Myanmar stud-ies, providing lectures for different audience and host-ing bilateral cultural events.

Since 1998 the SF-CRUM has been acting as a civil society organization aimed at promoting bilat-eral ties based on traditions of long-standing friend-ship between the peoples

of Russia and Myanmar. Today the society is co-ordinating activities of a growing number of Russian institutions and companies which are building partner-ships with their Myanmar counterparts. As in the past, Society's priority remains enhancing people-to-people contacts between the two states.

Today the SFCRUM is headed by Lt-Gen (Retd) Mikhail A. DMITRIEV. In 1970 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2004-2012, he was Deputy Minister of Defence, Director of the Federal Service of Foreign Military and Technical Co-operation.—NLM

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—A press conference on My-anma Radio and Televi-sion’s shift to digital from analogue and preparations for SEA Games took place at the Ministry of Informa-

More than 300,000 set-top-boxes to be distributed free of charge

tion here this morning.MRTV Director-Gen-

eral U Tint Swe explained the facts about the press meet, director U Win Kyi, digitalization process and Deputy Chief Engineer U

Hlaing Moe, preparations for the SEA Games. Later, Director-General U Tint Swe replied to the queries raised by the media.

DVB-T2 Digital sys-tem can transmit at least 15

or 16 channels only from one 8 MHz Bandwidth and one transmitter. Since 15 October this year, the MRTV has started transmit-ting MRTV, MITV, Farmer Channel, Hluttaw Channel and National Races Chan-nel through DVB-T2 Digi-tal system.

Live or delay sport events of the XXVII SEA Games will be transmitted through three free-to-air channels in addition to the above channels. The digiti-zation process includes five

(See page 9)

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—The Pre-SEA Games Chin-lone Test match took place at Wunna Theikdhi Indoor Stadium this morning.

Secretary of Myanmar Chinlone Federation U Ye Aung and Chief Umpire

Myanmar hopes for gold medal in Chinlone sport

U Ko Ko Aung assessed the participation of play-ers from selected Myanmar team and selected (B) team, Upper and Lower Myan-mar Chinlone men’s and women’s teams in the test match.

As Chinlone event is a Myanmar traditional sport, Myanmar hopes to win gold medals in the SEA Games, said the Myanmar Chinlone coach.

Kyaw Thura (Nay Pyi Taw)

Press conference on Myanma Radio and Television’s shift to digital from analogue and preparations for SEA Games in progress.—mna

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—An Indonesian delegation led by Mr. Eko Indrajit Wir Jo No Putro observed preparations being made by Myanmar for hosting the 27th SEA Games at Wunna Theikdhi Sports Ground, here, yesterday morning.

At the meeting hall of Wunna Theikdhi Sports Ground, Deputy Minister for Sports U Zaw Win ex-plained to them about un-dertakings by the commit-tees for successfully holding

Indonesian guests observe preparations for 27th SEA Games

the 27th SEA Games, pro-gress of constructing sports grounds and gymnasiums, and plans for holding sports tournaments in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Mandalay and Ngwesaung Beach.

Next, the delegation looked round the sports ground where opening and concluding ceremonies of the SEA Games would be held. And they enjoyed Chinlone matches of the Pre-SEA Games Chinlone Test Match-2013.—MNA

Nay Pyi Taw, 8 Nov—The Ministry of Electric Power will bring the issue of household electricity rates increase to the Union Government in order to re-view its new rates so that it

Electric Power Ministry to review household electricity ratescan be satisfied by the peo-ple.

In his clarification of the issue to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw today, Deputy Minister for Electric Power U Aung Than Oo said the ministry would

report the issue to Pyidaung-su Hluttaw after reviewing it.

Regarding the rates increase, U Aye Mauk, Secretary of Planning and Financial Development Committee, submitted an

urgent proposal calling on the Union Government for reviewing the Ministry of Electric Power’s announce-ment that November’s household electricity rates will increase by about two

folds for every unit used over 100 kilowatt hours as the hike has caused trou-bles for the people and for putting forward the issue to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw af-ter reviewing it.

He also suggested the Union Government to in-

crease rates for the 200 to 300 units instead of 100 units and to reduce the rate increase for above 200 units.

U Aye Mauk also sug-gested that the ministry should review and carry out

(See page 9)