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Volume XIX, Number 353 2nd Waning of Tagu 1373 ME Sunday, 8 April, 2012

True patriotism * It is very important for every one of the

nation regardless of the place he lives tohave strong Union Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the truepatriotism all the nationalities will haveto safeguard.

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—Vice-President of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk Kham visited Palethwehybrid paddy plantations and seed nurseries in AlyinloVillage of Pyinmana Township, Aungchantha Village andTegyigon Village of Zabuthiri Township and Kyargu Villageof Dekkhinathiri Township in Nay Pyi Taw this morning.

At the briefing hall near 369-acre farmer educative highyield Palethwe hybrid paddy farm in Alyinlo Village ofPyinmana Township, the Vice-President met local farmersand heard reports on current sown acreage of Palethwehybrid rice plantations in eight townships of Nay Pyi Taw andcultivation target for the coming monsoon presented by NayPyi Taw Council Member U Myint Shwe, construction ofirrigation facilities, irrigation plan and preparation of irrigationwater for summer paddy cultivation by Director-General ofIrrigation Department U Kyaw Myint Hlaing, characteristicsof Palethwe hybrid rice plant and its agricultural viability byDirector-General of Agriculture Department U Kyaw Win.

Next, Director U Tin Ohn of Ayeya Hintha RiceCompany reported to the Vice-President on commercialviability and market prospects of hybrid paddy, andpurchasing plan at price of K 400,000 for 100 baskets of rice,Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaingon his ministry’s measures for agricultural development suchas seed production, research and development, cultivation ofhybrid paddy, sunflower and beans and pulses for researchpurpose, fulfillment of requirements and farmer educativeworks.

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham visits Palethwe hybridVice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham visits Palethwe hybridpaddy plantations, nurseries in Nay Pyi Tawpaddy plantations, nurseries in Nay Pyi Taw

Afterwards, region/state ministers for agriculture andlivestock breeding explained current cultivation of rice andrequirements for bumper harvest, assessed by Union MinisterU Myint Hlaing suggesting possible approaches.

Local farmers then reported to the Vice-President ontheir requirements for running farm. The Vice-President spokeon the occasion and cordially greeted them.

The Vice-President then viewed Philippine Palethwehybrid paddy, Vietnam hybrid paddy, Myanma Palethwehybrid paddy, samples of Myanma Palethwe hybrid paddyseeds, rice, cooked rice and rice plants displayed near the 369-acre Palethwe hybrid paddy farm and hybrid paddy plantation.

The Vice-President then proceeded to 288-acrePalethwe hybrid paddy plantation in Aungchantha Village ofZabuthiri Township where he met local farmers and heardreports on introduction of mechanized farming presented byDeputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Khin Zaw.

The Vice-President then viewed 100-acre Palethwepaddy plantations of four different hybrid strains at TegyigonVillage of Zabuthiri Township and cordially greeted farmers.

The Vice-President then visited 10-acre Chinese hybridpaddy plantations in Kyargu Village of Zabuthiri Townshipand heard reports on agricultural techniques, and seedproduction, proposed pilot farms, and paddy strains that aresuitable to climate and rainfall of Myanmar presented byChinese agriculturalist Mr Tao Zhi Chuan.

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Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham speaks to local farmers at 369-acre farmer educative high yieldPalethwe hybrid paddy plantation in Alyinlo Village of Pyinmana Township.—MNA

Vice-President

Dr SaiMauk

Kham at369-acrefarmer

educativehigh yieldPalethwe

hybridpaddy

plantationin AlyinloVillage ofPyinmanaTownship.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—Kalaw Township ForestDepartment held an educative talk and distributed high-performance stoves as part of Inlay Lake conservation,at Namohn Monastery in Kalaw Township on 31 March.

Present were Director of State Forest DepartmentU Win Zaw, Assistant Director U Than Zaw Oo of InlayLake Perpetuation and Watershed Area ConservationMulti-Purpose Project, Kalaw Township AdministratorU Nyi Nyi Aung and members of Kalaw Townshipenvironmental conservation committee menbers andvillagers from Myinmahti Village-tract.

Township Forest Department Staff OfficerU Aung Thu gave a talk on environmental conservationand personnel distributed high-performance stoves to300 households in Kyauktalon, Kyauksu and Namohnvillages.—MNA

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PERSPECTIVES

Say no to heart attackSunday, 8 April, 2012

According to the World HealthOrganization, cardiovascular disease is theleading cause of death globally and is projectedto remain so. It has no geographic, gender orsocial-economic boundaries, althoughgenetically, men have shown a higherpropensity of heart attacks than women.

Normally, your heart needs oxygen tofunction. Heart attacks occur when the coronaryartery that supplies the muscles of the heartwith oxygenated blood is suddenly blocked offby a blood clot. This blood clot can block theartery and shut off blood flow to the heartmuscle. When the heart muscle is starved foroxygen and nutrients, it is called ischaemia.Within minutes of ischaemia, the muscles of theheart will die, thus resulting in a heart attack.

Heart attacks are sudden and intense.Most heart attacks involve discomfort in thecentre of the chest that lasts for more than a fewminutes, or pain that goes away and come back.It can feel like uncomfortable compression,heaviness of the chest, or gripping chest pain.And its symptoms include pain or discomfort inone or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, orstomach, shortness of breadth with or withoutchest discomfort, breaking out in a cold sweat,nausea or lightheadedness.

The risk factors are smoking, high bloodpressure, physical inactivity, obesity andoverweight, diabetes, stress, alcohol, and dietand nutrition.

A healthy diet is one of the best weaponsto fight against heart attack. The food you eatcan affect other controllable risk factors likeblood pressure, diabetes and overweight.

With high blood pressure exists with otherfactors like obesity, smoking, alcohol anddiabetes, the risk of heaving a heart attackincreases exponentially.

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April — Union Minister for ElectricPower No 2 U Khin Maung Soe and Vice Chairman ofGeneral Electric Corporation Mr John G Rice and partydiscussed matters on running the natural gas power plantsat full capacity.

Also present at the meeting at the HeadOffice of

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April— TheBangladeshi delegation led by Chief of theAir Staff of the Bangladesh Air Force AirMarshal Shah Mohammad Ziaur Rahman,ndc, fawc, psc visited Defence ServicesAcademy, Defence Services TechnologicalAcademy, and National Kandawgyi Gardensin PyinOoLwin and Myanansankyaw GoldenPalace in Mandalay on 3 April.

On 4 and 5 April, they visited InlayLake.

The delegation on 6 April laid wreathsat the Memorial to Fallen Heroes and visitedat King Zafar Shah’s Tomb. On their departure,they were seen off by Brig-Gen Thit Lin Ohnfrom Mingaladon Station, Brig-Gen TheinNaing, officials concerned, the BangladeshiAmbassador to Myanmar and the militaryattaché at Yangon International Airport.

MNA

SHWEGU, 7 April—Anopening ceremony of an inter-village gravel road linkingShweku and Wekhu village inShwegu Township was held on 29March morning.

Township Administrator UNyi Nyi, Pyithu Hluttaw

YANGON, 7 April—The prize presentation forthe 9th Myanmar NationalSports CommitteeChairman’s Cup Men’sHockey League 2012, jointlyorganized by Ministry ofSports and Myanmar HockeyFederation, was held atTheinbyu Hockey Turf Pitchthis evening.

In the final match,Yangon Command teambeat Defence Services (Air)team 2-1.

At the prizepresentation ceremony,Police Lt-Col Maung Soepresented the third prize toDefence Services (Navy),Vice-President of MyanmarHockey Federation U ZawWin the second prize to No.11 LID, Vice-President U SawLu Lu Htaw the first prize toYangon Command andPresident U Htin Zaw Win,

NAY PYI TAW, 7April—Union Minister forDefence Lt-Gen Hla Minreceived a delegation ledby Lieutenant General NemSowath, the special envoyof Cambodian Deputy PrimeMinister and Minister ofDefence General Tea Banh,at his office, here, thismorning.

The guests presentedthe invitation card to theUnion Minister to attend the6th ASEAN DefenceMinisters’ Meeting-6th

ADMM and sharedexperiences of Cambodia inhosting the ASEAN DefenceMinisters’ Meeting andprocess of works.

MNA

Union Defence Minister receives Cambodian delegation

Union EP-2 Minister, GEC Vice Chairman hold talksover gas power plants

Yangon City Electricity Supply Board in Yangon on 5 Aprilwere Chairman of YESB U Aung Khaing, Vice Chairman UMaung Maung Latt, Chief Engineer of steam/gas powerplants department of Myanma Electric Power Enterprise USoe Hlaing and officials concerned.

MNA

Bangladeshi guests conclude visit

9th MNSP Chairman’s Cup Men’sHockey League concludes

the best player wards to therespective winners.

Director-General UThaung Htaik of Sports andPhysical EducationDepartment awarded thechampionship shield andduplicate shield to YangonCommand team.—NLM

Self-reliant gravel road inaugurated inShwegu

representative U Win Naing andwellwisher formally cut the ribbonto open the road.

On the occasion, thetownship administrator and thePyithu Hluttaw made speeches.The executive officer of TownshipDevelopment Affairs Committeereported on facts about the road.After that, a local spoke words ofthanks. The 450 feet long and 12feet wide gravel road was built at acost of K 25 million by wellwisherU Kalar (Pinyathu BrickIndustry).—Myanma Alin

Sports and PhysicalEducation Department

Director-General U ThaungHtaik presents

championship shield andreplica trophy to YangonCommand team. —NLM

Senior military officers see offBangladeshi Air Marshal Shah

Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, ndc,fawc, psc at Yangon International

Airport.—MNA

Union Minister for Defence Lt-Gen Hla Min receives Lieutenant GeneralNem Sowath, the special envoy of Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and

Minister of Defence General Tea Banh.—MNA

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Kunar has been at the centre of the Taleban’sinsurgency.— INTERNET

Suicide bomber kills Afghanistan peacecouncillor

KABUL, 7 April — Asuicide bomber has killed theinfluential head of a regionalpeace council in easternAfghanistan, securityofficials say. Maulvi HashemMunib was on his way homefrom Friday prayers in KunarProvince when he came underattack. President HamidKarzai condemned themurder, saying enemies ofAfghanistan had killed amessenger of peace.

Maulvi Munib was aformer commander of a majorAfghan mujahideen group,Hizb-i-Islami. The head ofthe government’s High PeaceCouncil in Kunar, he is saidto have persuaded insurgentsto lay down their arms andjoin the peace process. Kunaris a stronghold of the decade-long Taleban-led insurgencyagainst President Karzai’sgovernment and its Westernallies.

The president said: “The

terrorists are trying toundermine the role of elderswho are working for thegood of Afghanistan, butthey should realize that theycan never achieve their evilgoals by such heinous acts.”The national head of the HighPeace Council, ex-PresidentBurhanuddin Rabbani, wasassassinated last year by aman posing as a Talebanenvoy who hid a bomb in histurban.

On Thursday, Nazik

Mir, a prominent anti-Taleban commander in theprovince of Badakhshan, waskilled in a suspected Talebansuicide attack. Late onWednesday, gunmen inFarah Province killed eightpeople in an attack on acheckpoint manned by agovernment-sponsoredmilitia. Officials say all threeattacks show how theTaleban is targeting Afghanenemies as well as NATOforces.—Internet

Navy jet crashes into Virginia apartments,three unaccounted for

Firefighting foam covers the scene of a crash of an F/A-18D Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA)

106, in Virginia beach on 6 April, 2012. — INTERNET

Avalancheburies

100Pakistani

soldiers onglacier

ISLAMABAD, 7 April —An avalanche smashed into aPakistani army base on aHimalayan glacier along theIndian border on Saturday,burying around 100 soldiers,the military said. Helicopters,sniffer dogs and troops weredeployed to the remoteSiachen Glacier to rescuethose trapped, according to amilitary statement.

The avalanche hit a

battalion headquarters in theglacier’s Gayari sector at5:45 am, according to asecurity official who didn’tgive his name because he isnot an official spokesman.Siachen is on the northern tipof the divided Kashmir regionclaimed by both India andPakistan.

Both countries stationhundreds of troops there, whobrave viciously cold

temperatures, altitudesickness and high winds formonths at a time. Troops havebeen deployed at elevationsof up to 6,700 meters (22,000feet) and have skirmishedintermittently since 1984.The glacier is known as theworld’s highest battlefield.More soldiers have died fromthe harsh weather there thancombat.

Internet

Iranlawmaker:

Country canproducenuclearweapon

Iran: Navy rescues Chinese sailorsfrom pirates

TEHERAN, 7 April — Iran’s state TV says the country’s navy has rescued28 crew members of a Chinese ship hijacked by pirates. The Saturdaybroadcast says the Iranian Navy also detained nine Somali pirates in theoperation in the Arabian Sea in the north of the Indian Ocean.

The pirates attacked the ship Friday but they surrendered after IranianNavy sent warships to rescue the crew and free the ship. The freighter wascarrying iron and was heading to a port in southwestern Iran. Both the attackand the rescue operations were carried out in international waters. Iran hasclashed with pirates on several occasions in the past and freed ships capturedby them.

Internet

BELFAST, 7 April — Police said a“significant” bomb was found near the mainDublin-to-Belfast motorway on Friday, theanniversary of a peace deal that in 1998largely ended three decades of sectarianviolence in Northern Ireland.

The A1 between Newry and Dublin wasclosed briefly to allow a bomb disposal teamto clear a “viable device” that had thepotential to cause fatalities, a spokeswomanfor the Police Service of Northern Irelandsaid. A police source said investigatorsbelieved the attack may have been carriedout by dissident Irish nationalists opposedto the Good Friday Peace Agreement andmay have been intended to hit a passingpolice patrol.

The agreement largely ended more thanthree decades of violence between mainlyCatholic Irish nationalists opposed to Britishrule of Northern Ireland and predominantlyProtestant unionists who wanted it tocontinue. However, dissident nationalistsopposed to the deal still mount sporadic gunand bomb attacks.

Reuters

Bomb found byDublin-Belfast road

All 28 Chinese crew members aboard a China-linked cargo shiphijacked by Somali pirates were rescued on 6 April, 2012.— INTERNET

used to build atomic bombsbut it is not Teheran’s policyto go that route.

Moghadam made thecomment in an interviewwith the parliament’s newswebsite, icanair, late Friday.

His views do notrepresent the Iraniangovernment’s policy. It is

the first time that a prominentIranian politician has publiclystated that Iran has thetechnological capability toproduce a nuclear weapon.The US and its allies accuseIran of seeking to developnuclear weapons, a chargeTeheran denies.

Internet

TEHERAN, 7 April —Aprominent Iranian lawmakersays Iran has the knowledgeand scientific capability toproduce nuclear weaponsbut will never do so.Gholamreza MesbahiMoghadam says Iran caneasily produce the highlyenriched uranium that is

VIRGINIA BEACH, 7 April— A US Navy F/A-18Dfighter crashed into anapartment complex in Virginiasoon after takeoff on Friday,sending fireballs into the sky,damaging six buildings andinjuring at least sevenpeople.No deaths have beenreported, but three residentsof the Mayfair Mews complexfor the elderly wereunaccounted for, authoritiessaid. “We have physicallybeen in every structure, andwe have 95 percent completedthe search and rescue,”Virginia Beach Fire andRescue Battalion Chief TimRiley said.

All the injuries, includingthose to the F/A-18 crew, haveso far been described as minor,officials said. Both crewmembers ejected safely fromthe aircraft before it crashedinto the buildings in VirginiaBeach, and one pilot wasfound still strapped into hisejection seat.Four of theinjured were taken to ahospital for treatment.Authorities had said ninepeople were injured, but laterrevised the number to seven,

not including the pilots.TheF/A-18D “suffered acatastrophic mechanicalmalfunction” during a trainingflight, Navy Captain MarkWeisgerber said in astatement from the Pentagon.

Thick black clouds ofsmoke billowed into the air asfire reduced the apartmentbuildings to a blackened shell.The Mayfair Mews complexwas less than two miles fromNaval Air Station Oceana,where the F-18D was based.Crews searched for anyinjured residents in fivebuildings, several of which

have collapsed, Riley said.Three residents in onebuilding were unaccountedfor. Investigators will remainon the scene for three or fourmore days after the search iscomplete, Riley said. WitnessKelly McQuaid, who livesnear the apartment complex,said the jet was on fire beforeit crashed.

Reuters

WASHINGTON, 7 April—All residents of an apartmentcomplex for the elderly in Virginia that was destroyed when aUS Navy fighter jet crashed into it on Friday, have beenaccounted for, with only one resident still hospitalized withminor injuries, a rescue crew chief said on Saturday. The personnot yet discharged is in good condition though believed tohave broken bones, Virginia Beach Fire and Rescue BattalionChief Tim Riley. “Everyone has been accounted for” at theMayfair Mews complex in Virginia Beach, Riley told Reuters.“We are not actively looking for anyone.”

All residents safe after US Navy jetlevels Virginia apartments

Fire fighters survey the burnt-out wreckage of the tailof a Navy F/A-18D jet fighter which crashed into an

apartment complex in Virginia Beach on 6 April, 2012.REUTERS

The US Navy F/A-18 jet fighter suffered what a Pentagonofficial described as “a catastrophic mechanical malfunction”during a training flight before it crashed shortly after take-off,sending fireballs into the sky, damaging six buildings andinjuring seven people, including both crew members. Both crewmembers ejected and one was found still strapped into hisejection seat. Thick black clouds of smoke billowed into the airas fire reduced the apartment buildings to a blackened shell. TheMayfair Mews complex was less than two miles from Naval AirStation Oceana, where the F-18D was based. Crews had searchedinto the night for any injured residents in five of the buildings,several of which have collapsed.

Riley said officials are now attending to the needs of theup to 63 residents whose apartment units were destroyed,including finding long-term housing for them.—Reuters

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Top scientist quits anti-dopingbody over ‘muzzling’

LAUSANNE, 7 April — Aleading scientist says he isresigning from an expert bodyon biological passports insport because he is being“muzzled”. Dr MichaelAshenden accused the anti-doping movement of foster-ing a culture of “omerta” — aterm describing the pact ofsilence in the mafia. He saidthe imposition of a newconfidentiality clause in hiscontract was an attempt tosilence him. Since 2008 he hasbeen an independent reviewerof blood profiles in cycling.The governing bodies ofprofessional cycling andinternational athleticsextensively use the passport.

The Union CyclisteInternational (UCI), whichgoverns cycling, thanked DrAshenden for his contribu-tion to the sport but made no

direct comment on the circum-stances of his resignation. TheInternational Association ofAthletics Federations(IAAF), which overseesathletics, acknowledged thatDr Ashenden had declinedan offer to be part of theirexpert panel.

Dr Ashenden is regardedas one of the world’s foremostexperts on blood doping andthe athlete’s biologicalpassport. He has acted as anexpert witness in high profile

Two salmon-eating sea lions killed atBonneville Dam

PORTLAND, 7 April — AWashington state wildlifespokesman says two salmon-eating California sea lionshave been captured this weekat Bonneville Dam and killedby lethal injection. TheOregonian reports the deathsare the first this year after afederal judge ruled last monththe programme couldproceed. Washington Fishand Wildlife spokesman Craig

GENEVA, 7 April —Scientists say a Big Bangmachine, where high-energybeams of protons are sentcrashing into each other atincredible speeds, is now ableto operate at a record newenergy level, improving theprospect of scientificbreakthroughs.

Researchers at the

Scientists raise energy level at Big Bang machineEuropean Organization forNuclear Research, or CERN,say the $10 billion LargeHadron Collider in a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnelunder the Swiss-Frenchborder at Geneva has begunoperating at 8 trillion electronvolts, greater than anyprevious physics accelerator.

Steve Myers, a director

of accelerators andtechnology at CERN, said in astatement that two protonbeams were brought intocollision at a new world recordenergy level Thursday. Hesays it marks a new round ofdata collection through theremainder of the year, and“increased discoverypotential.”— Internet

cases, including those ofLance Armstrong and AlbertoContador. Both cycling andathletics have recentlyhanded over management ofthe biological passport to anewly created AthletePassport Management Unit(APMU), based at the SwissLaboratory for DopingAnalyses (LAD) in Lausanne.The APMU has issued newcontracts to its experts, withmuch tighter confidentialityclauses.— Internet

Bartlett says the sea lions werecaptured Tuesday.

The killings are limited toCalifornia sea lionsdocumented as targetingspring chinook or steelheadnear Bonneville, the first damthe returning fish encounteron their run up the ColumbiaRiver. The sea lions also must

return to the dam despitenonlethal hazing and bespotted nearby for at leastfive days, though the dayscan accumulate over severalyears. The Humane Societyof the United States has filedsuit in an effort to permanentlyend the sea lion killings.

Internet

The governing body ofprofessional cycling uses

the passportextensively.— INTERNET

Ex-Intel employee pleadsguilty to theft charges

SAN FRANCISCO, 7 April — A former Intel Corp employeewho allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worthhundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to fivecounts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Boston hadalleged that Biswamohan Pani, 36, downloaded some ofIntel’s “most valuable” design and manufacturing documentsin June 2008, in his final days as an engineer in a Massachusettsfacility.

Intel was not aware at the time of the alleged downloadsthat Pani had already sought a position and begun workingat Advanced Micro Devices, Intel’s largest rival in the chipindustry. Pani acted alone and there was no evidence that hewas instructed by AMD to carry out the theft - nor was AMDaware of his actions, prosecutors said. In court filings, Intelestimated the company secrets to be worth at least $200 millionto $400 million.

AMD fired Pani in 2008. “AMD was not accused ofwrongdoing, and the FBI has stated that there is no evidence

An Intel logo is seen at the company’s offices in PetahTikva, near Tel Aviv on 24 Oct, 2011. — INTERNET

that AMD had any involvement in or awareness of Mr Pani’salleged actions,” said Drew Prairie, a spokesman for AMD.Pani faces up to 20 years in prison on each count, and isscheduled to be sentenced on 8 August. A lawyer for Pani didnot immediately respond to a request for comment lateFriday.— Internet

NEW YORK, 7 April — Like many traditional dishes, greatsushi is as much about the skill of the chef as it is the qualityof the ingredients, and we all know by now that there’s noperson on the planet that can match the dexterity of a robot.Japanese company Suzumo feels the same way, and while itclaims to have created the very first sushi-making robot wayback in 1981, its newest automaton puts all others — andalmost all humans — to shame.

The new bots work as a team: One machine creates theall-important sushi rice mounds at a rate of 3,600 per hour,while the other takes the seaweed wrapping and raw fish andfolds it into the perfect roll. Working at its maximum rate, therobotic roller can craft approximately 300 medium-sized rollsper hour, which averages out to 10 rolls every two minutes.The current human world record sushi roller is JoakimLundblad, whose record stands at 12 rolls in two minutes.

Of course, while Lundblad put every ounce of energy intothat two-minute world record, the Suzumo bot can work at itsmaximum speed 24/7. If the two were put together head-to-head in a marathon sushi-rolling throwdown, the winnerwould likely be the one with a power plug on its backside.Check out the bots in action above, and try not to get toohungry.

Internet

LONDON, 7 April — Mobile game Draw Something hasbeen downloaded 50 million times in just 50 days, the game’sowner has said. Zynga, which bought the game’s developerOMGPOP last month, said they believed the figures made itthe “fastest growing” mobile game of all time. The simple gameinvolves players drawing pictures in order to guess words,much like board game Pictionary. At peak times, DrawSomething players create over 3,000 drawings per second.

Apple told the BBC that it did not disclose downloadfigures for specific titles, and therefore could not verifyZynga’s claim. However, Draw Something’s success hasseen it top the iPhone app charts, beating the highly-anticipatedsequel to Angry Birds, Angry Birds Space. In a statement,Zynga said: “We believe it’s not only the fastest growingoriginal mobile game of all time — 50 days to hit 50 milliondownloads - but one of the fastest growing web sensationsthat we’ve seen.”

The company said more than six billion drawings havebeen created on the app so far. In the game, players are givenwords to try to illustrate by drawing on a smartphone ortablet’s touchscreen. If the friend guesses correctly, coins areearned to purchase additional items, such as more colours,within the game. Security experts have warned that scammersare trying to capitalise on the game’s popularity by offeringfake prizes via social networks like Twitter.

Last month, Zynga, which owns other popular socialgames like Farmville, bought small New York-based developerOMGPOP for $180m (£113m; 137m euros). After news of thebuyout broke, OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter attractedcriticism after tweeting that a former employee - who did notwant to work with Zynga - was “selfish” and the “weakest oneon the whole team”. Mr Porter later apologized.— Internet

Sushi-making robots cancrank out tasty fish rolls 24

hours a day

Draw Something is ‘fastest growing’ mobile game

Players must guess words based on friends’ drawingscreated using touchscreens.— INTERNET

Final assembly of 1st A350 XWB underway inToulouse, France.This latest step in the A350 XWB’sprogress was achieved as Airbus started joining the19.7-meter-long central fuselage with the 21-meter-

long front fuselage.XINHUA

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This is a 27 March, 2012file photo of baby Andrei,eight months old, son of

Roma underage parents ashe is held by a nurse in theintensive care unit of theMarie Curie children’shospital, in Bucharest,

Romania.INTERNET

Green tea could cloud Olympic doping tests

Samsung estimates recordfirst quarter profit; beats

most bullish viewSEOUL, 7 April—

Samsung Electronics, theworld’s top technology firmby revenue, estimatedoperating profit nearlydoubled in January-Marchfrom a year ago, boosted bysales of its flagship Galaxysmartphones and its Notemini-tablet and phone.

The South Koreangroup, which out-sold globalsmartphone rivals last year,is set to consolidate its marketposition with new products,including a revampedGalaxy S, in the next fewmonths. Samsung, which willrelease its full quarterlyresults on 27 April, estimatedits January-March operating

An employee poses with Samsung Electronics’Galaxy phones at a store in Seoul on 14 March,

2012.— INTERNET

Tax evasion treaty signed by Switzerland andGermany

GENEVA, 7 April —Germany has signed a newtax evasion treaty withSwitzerland, but oppositionMPs are threatening to blockit. If approved, the deal couldbring Germany 10bn euros(£8.3bn, $13.1bn) next year,its finance ministry estimates.

The agreement is thelatest in a long-runningdispute about Germannationals who hide taxableincome in banks inneighbouring Switzerland. Itwas toughened afteropposition MPs objected, butmay still be voted down.

It is not clear how muchmoney Germans have banked

German politicianshave long complainedabout Switzerland’s

strict bankingsecrecy.— INTERNET

in Switzerland. The initialagreement was held up whenthe German parliament’supper house asked for stricterconditions to be imposed ontax evaders.

But although somechanges have been made, theleader of the centre-left SocialDemocrats (SPD), SigmarGabriel, predicted: “It willfail a second time becausethe SPD-led states will not goalong with it.” He said it lefttax evaders too much time tomove their assets to anothertax haven.

“The core problemremains unsolved - that taxcheaters will get away without

punishment.” Under the deal,Germans who have

undeclared assets inSwitzerland would not facepenalties. But they must makea one-off payment of between21% and 41% of their value.That is higher than the 19-34% range initially planned.

Switzerland’s secretivebanks have faced growingpressure internationally asgovernments try to recovertaxes in the wake of thefinancial crisis.

Internet

JJB Sports shares boosted by US investment

LONDON , 7 April — Shares in JJB Sports have risen morethan 10% after the retailer announced a £30m investmentpackage, which will see US retailer Dick’s Sporting Goodstake a stake in the firm. The initial £20m investment fromDick’s will purchase ordinary shares and convertible loannotes. Existing shareholders will invest £10m. It came asWigan-based JJB said pre-tax losses for the year to 29 January2012 narrowed to £101.1m from £181.4m. JJB shares closedup 4.6% on Thursday.

JJB said it had been an “extremely challenging”period.— INTERNET

The UK retailer is in the process of a restructuringprogramme that includes closing 43 of its stores. Revenuesfor the year fell 21.7% to £284.2m. JJB said the year had been“extremely challenging” and said that sales had continuedto fall since the end of its financial year. Like-for-like salesfor the nine weeks to 1 April 2012 were down 5.7%, while thecompany’s net debt had risen to £20.6m from £11.3m at theend of January.

JJB said that the investment from Dick’s gave it theopportunity to draw on the US firm’s experience in the sportsretail market. On conversion of its purchased loan notes,Dick’s will become a controlling shareholder. JJB said atleast one representative from Dick’s was expected to join theboard. The other £10m investment comes from four existingshareholders, including the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation. Dick’s also has the right to buy a further £20mof convertible loan notes next year.

As part of the refinancing package, JJB said that supplierAdidas would provide security for a two-stage loan of up to£15m to fund store refits and that Bank of Scotland wouldextend existing loan facilities until May 2015. JJB said ithopes to accelerate its store refit programme in time for thissummer’s European football championships and the LondonOlympics.—Internet

profit at a record 5.8 trillionwon ($5.15 billion) versus aconsensus forecast of 5.0trillion won from analystssurveyed by ThomsonReuters I/B/E/S. It estimatedsales at 45 trillion won.

Samsung shares haverisen by a quarter so far thisyear, and hit a life high of1.351 million won ($1,200)on Wednesday. Over the sameperiod, shares in smartphonerival Apple have soared bymore than half, taking theCalifornia-based firm’svalue to above $582 billion -more than three times that ofSamsung. ($1 = 1127.2750Korean won)

Reuters

Planning pregnancy may cut birth defectsNEW YORK, 7 April —

Women who’d like to becomepregnant — especially thosewho are taking medicationsfor chronic conditions — mayneed to add something to theirto-do list: Plan, plan, plan.That’s because somemedications are known to causebirth defects. Avoiding allmedications during pregnancyis not always possible,however, and sometimes nottaking a prescribed medicationcould be harmful, too.

“The best thing forwomen to do, all women, is toplan their pregnancy,” said DrDiane Ashton, deputy medicaldirector for the March of

Resistance spread‘compromising’ fight against

malariaLONDON, 7 April—

Scientists have found newevidence that resistance tothe front-line treatments formalaria is increasing. Theyhave confirmed that resistantstrains of the malaria parasiteon the border betweenThailand and Myanmar, 500miles (800km) away fromprevious sites. Researcherssay that the rise of resistancemeans the effort to eliminatemalaria is “seriouslycompromised”. The detailshave been published in TheLancet medical journal.

For many years now themost effective drugs against

Malaria is spread by mosquitoes.— INTERNET

malaria have been derivedfrom the Chinese plant,Artemisia annua. It is alsoknown as sweet wormwood.In 2009 researchers found thatthe most deadly species ofmalaria parasites, spread bymosquitoes, were becomingmore resistant to these drugsin parts of western Cambodia.This new data confirms thatthese Plasmodium falciparumparasites that are infectingpatients more than 500 milesaway on the border betweenThailand and Myanmar aregrowing steadily moreresistant.

InternetLONDON, 7 April —Olympic doping officials areconsidering whether to tweaktheir tests after a recent Britishstudy showed green tea mighthide testosterone from thestandard test used to spot it.The study was a test in a labdish so scientists aren’t sure ifthe effects will be the same inpeople. But some experts saythe results are intriguing

enough that Olympic testingcould be updated to includethat possibility. “It’sinteresting that something ascommon as tea could have asignificant influence on thesteroid profile,” said OlivierRabin, scientific director of theWorld Anti-Doping Agency,or WADA. He said otherfoods and beverages, such asalcohol, are also known to

muddle test results.“We may need to adjust

our steroid (test) to allow us toexclude whether a test ismodified by food or training ordisease, before we can saythat it’s doping,” Rabin said.He said they might have toraise their normal thresholdfor what is a considered a legalamount of testosterone toallow for any such

interference. In the study,researchers added green andwhite tea extracts — orcatechins — to testosteroneand tested whether the enzymethat usually detectstestosterone in the body couldstill identify it. Tea seemed toreduce the testosteroneconcentration by up to 30percent and appeared to workbest when testosterone wasonly slightly higher thannormal.—Internet

Dimes. “Women should speakwith their physician about theirplans to become pregnant. Ifthey have a condition thatrequires medication, that’s anideal time to switch tomedications that have less risk,if necessary. And, it gives timefor the condition to bestabilized.” About 120,000babies born each year in theUnited States — or about oneof every 33 — are born with abirth defect, somethingabnormal that occurs in a baby’sdevelopment, according to theUS Centres for Disease Controland Prevention. Some are morecosmetic than dangerous, suchas an extra toe, but others are

serious and include heartdefects and spina bifida. Birthdefects are the leading causeof death in babies youngerthan 1 year, according to theNational Birth DefectsPrevention Network.

Most birth defectshappen in the early stages ofpregnancy, often before awoman even knows she’spregnant, according to theCDC. —Internet

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Mazda to recallmore than

62,000 vehiclesin China

Concerns grow over children using tablet computers. INTERNET

Weather Service to test more graphictornado warnings

WASHINGTON, 7 April—The National WeatherService on Monday plans tobegin a new initiative inKansas and Missouridesigned to make people inTornado Alley sit up and takenotice when potentiallydevastating twisters areheaded their way. Under thenew system, tornadowarnings will be accompaniedby stark language like, “massdevastation is highly likely,making the areaunrecognizable to survivors,”according to the NationalWeather Service. Or even:“This storm is not

The Technogym Recline Personal, an Internet-connected bike, will be on show at the Australia Fitness

& Health Expo.— INTERNET

survivable.” “We call this‘impact-based warning,” DanHawblitzel, a NationalWeather Service meteoro-logist in Pleasant Hill,Missouri, said on Sunday.

“The idea is to betterconvey the impact that a stormis likely to have on acommunity.” CurrentNational Weather Servicetornado warnings generallycover portions of countiesand urge people in the storm’spath to take action. “There isquite a lot of over-warninggoing on; it’s kind of the car-alarm syndrome,” said ColGalyean, a meteorologist with

The Weather Channel.“People who live in areaswhere tornadoes happenfrequently, like Joplin,Missouri, for example, are kindof becoming desensitized tothe warnings.”

A tornado slammed intoJoplin last May, killing 161people in the southwesternMissouri City and causingextensive damage. The newwarnings will be tested in thetwo states through November30. After that, a panel of socialscientists and meteorologistswill examine the responsesand determine whether thesystem should be used

BEIJING, 7 April—Mazda Motor and its jointventure partners in China willrecall more than 62,000vehicles from Sunday to fixproblems with anti-lockbraking systems that couldcause false warnings, China’squality regulator said.

The three-party jointventure with Ford Motor andChongqing ChanganAutomobile will recall 58,949Mondeo sedans and 3,496 S-Max vehicles and replaceproblematic parts, China’sGeneral Administration ofQuality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantinesaid on its website.

The move comes on theheels of Mazda recalling16,857 vehicles in September2010 because of a similarproblem. Joint ventureexecutives could not bereached for comment onSunday.

MNA/Reuters

Champion ZhangJing (C), runner-upSong Kexin (L) andsecond runner-upLi Jiayi greet the

audience at the 7th

China SuperModel Contest inBeijing, capital ofChina, on 1 April,2012. Zhang Jing

is from northChina’s Inner

MongoliaAutonomous

Region. Both SongKexin and Li Jiayiare from Beijing.

XINHUA

nationwide, Hawblitzel said.Messages such as, “Completedestruction of entireneighborhoods is likely” mayget more people posting onsocial networking sites andtaking instant action,Hawblitzel said.

Galyean and Hawblitzelsay the more detailedwarnings are largely madepossible because of a newtype of Doppler radar calleddual polarization, which canmeasure both the horizontaland vertical properties of astorm system and can tellforecasters whether debris isbeing picked up by the storm,a sure sign of a destructivesystem. “Right now it’s toughto tell if a storm is actuallycausing damage,” Galyeansaid. —Reuters

Texas residents sift through rubble fromtornadoes

FORNEY, 7 April — As atwister bore down on herneighbourhood, SherryEnochs grabbed the threeyoung children in her homeand hid in her bathtub. Thewinds swirled and snatchedaway two of the children. Herhome collapsed around her.Miraculously, no one wasseriously hurt. Enochs, 53,stood Wednesday amid thewreckage of what was onceher home in the North TexasCity of Forney, among thehardest hit by a series oftornadoes that barreledthrough one of the nation’s

largest metropolitan areas aday earlier. No one wasreported dead, and of the morethan 20 injured, only ahandful were seriously hurt.

“If you really thinkabout it, the fact thateverybody who woke up inForney yesterday is alivetoday in Forney, that’s a realblessing,” Mayor DarrenRozell said. The NationalWeather Service isinvestigating the damagecaused by the tornadoes,which appeared to flattensome homes and graze othersnext door. The twisters

jumped from place to place,passing many heavilypopulated areas overheadand perhaps limiting whatcould have been a moredamaging, deadly storm.Most of Dallas was spared thefull wrath of the storms.

While tornadoes canstrike major cities, having twomajor systems strike a singlemetropolitan area is highlyunusual, meteorologist JesseMoore said. The Texastwisters would have donemore damage had they stayedon the ground for more of thestorms’ path.—Internet

French academic Descoings found deadin New York hotel

NEW YORK, 7 April —The head of one of France’smost prestigious academicinstitutions has been founddead in a New York hotelroom, police say. The nakedbody of Richard Descoings,53, director of the ParisInstitute of Political Studies,was discovered at theMichelangelo hotel inManhattan. His laptop andmobile phone were found ona third-floor ledge. A policespokesperson has said that asyet there is no evidence acrime has been committed.Police investigators areawaiting a medical report todetermine the likely cause ofdeath.

Mr Descoings had beenthe director of the SciencesPo institute, one of France’selite “grandes ecoles”, since1996. Colleagues raised thealarm on Tuesday morningwhen he failed to appear at aUN-sponsored conference ofuniversity heads he had

Police saythey are

awaiting amedicalreport onthe death. INTERNET

travelled to New York toattend. The policespokesman, Paul Browne,told the AFP news agencythat there was “no sign oftrauma”. He said thedisorderly state of MrDescoings’ room at the timeof the discovery was the resultof attempts by medical staffto resuscitate him.

Deputy CommissionerBrowne told the Associated

Press that the mobile phoneand laptop probably hadbeen thrown out of thewindow and had landed onthe lower ledge. RichardDescoings was known forcarrying out a programme offar-reaching reform atSciences Po, which educatesmuch of the French political,media and administrativeelite.

Internet

Israeli chefs target every last crumb for PassoverTEL AVIV, 7 April — The

Jewish springtime holidayPassover is known as a festivalof freedom, but its hallmarkis a litany of dietaryrestrictions centered on noteating leavened bread for aweek.

The rules are soelaborate that chefs who wantto observe the ritual law mustprepare weeks before,removing every last crumb,

buying up new sets of kitchenutensils and planning menuswithout bread or wheat flour.

At Liliyot, one of TelAviv’s most prestigiouskosher restaurants, chef NoamDekkers oversaw his staff onWednesday, their last regularday in the kitchen before theannual Passover scrubdown— a process he calls“logistical mayhem.” Theholiday begins on Friday at

sundown.At the end of the day,

Dekkers’ cooks threw awayleftovers like choppedvegetables and fish.

Then, they stored plasticcutting boards and boxes,locked grains away andscrubbed all steel cookingware.

The following morning,city rabbis oversaw the finalsterilization, when the

restaurant staff blowtorchedgrease off the grills anddunked all the metal and glasscooking utensils intocauldrons of boiling water.As of Thursday night, Liliyotwas kosher for Passover.

“Tel Aviv is a secularcity,” said Dekkers, anonobservant Jewish Israeli.“But quite a big part of thecommunity keeps the Jewishreligious traditions,especially of the holidays.”

Reuters

A general view of the ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture andthe Olympic Stadium is seen in this picture taken

on 3 April, 2012 in the Olympic Park in London, theUnited Kingdom.—XINHUA

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Yenwe Dam in Kyaukdaga Township, Bago Region.

Dams supplying irrigation water, drinking water,enhancing agricultural sector in Bago Region

Baida Diversion Weir in DaikU Township, Bago Region.

Yenwe Dam* Yenwe Dam is built on Yenwe Creek near Myochaung Village in

Kyaukdaga Township.* It is 1050 ft long and 251 ft high. The dam is an earthen type.

Zaungtu Dam* It can prevent floods in its environs in Bago Township.* It benefits over 36000 acres of farmland.

Translation: AMS

Baida Diversion Weir* The diversion weir is located in DaikU Township, Bago Region. It is

an reinforced concrete type.* It is 20.5 ft high, 250 ft wide and 98 ft long.* The main canal of the dam is 15 miles long with four tributary canals

which are 57 miles long in total.* The dam can prevent floods over Pyuntaza plain and Yangon-

Mandalay Road and rail roads in rainy season.* The dam can benefit 46700 acres of farmland.

Archive: Maung Nyein AyeZaungtu Dam in Bago Township, Bago Region.

NEWARK, 7 April — Two daily servings ofsoy might reduce the frequency and severityof hot flashes by up to 26 percent comparedwith a placebo, US researchers found. Studyco-author Melissa Melby, a medicalanthropology professor at the University ofDelaware, reviewed 19 previous studies thatexamined more than 1,200 women.Theeffectiveness of soy in alleviating hot flasheshas been inconclusive — some studiessuggested soy to be beneficial and otherssuggested is was not — but much of thediscrepancy was due to small sample sizes

Soy may alleviate menopause hot flashesand inconsistent methodology, Melby said.”When you combine them all, we’ve found theoverall effect is still positive,” Melby said ina statement. The study published inMenopause: The Journal of the NorthAmerican Menopause Association foundingesting at least 54 milligrams of soyisoflavones daily — about two glasses (16ounce) of soy milk or 7 ounces of tofu — forsix weeks to a year reduces menopause hotflash frequency by 20.6 percent and severityby 26 percent, compared to a placebo.

Internet

Women can’t rewind ‘biological clock’NEW HAVEN, 7 April — Despite

advances in reproductive techniques manywomen in their 40s do not know theirchances of having a child is low, US fertilityexperts said. Dr Pasquale Patrizio, professorat Yale School of Medicine and director ofthe Yale Fertility Center, and colleaguessaid more women are coming to the fertilityclinic at age 43 or older expectingpregnancy can be instantly achieved —and they’re disappointed to learn that itcan’t be done easily.

“There is an alarming misconception

about fertility among women,” Patrizio said ina statement. “We are really seeing more andmore patients ‘upset’ after failing in havingtheir own biological child after age 43 so wehad to report on this.

Their typical reaction is, ‘what do youmean you cannot help me? I am healthy, Iexercise, and I cannot have my own baby?’”

The growing popularity of assistedreproductive technologies has given womenthe impression female fertility may bemanipulated at any stage in life, Patriziosaid.— Internet

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NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—Union Minister for Agricultureand Irrigation U Myint Hlaing attended a work coordinationmeeting of heads of Region and State Settlement and LandRecords Departments held at the ministry here on 5 Aprilafternoon.

At the meeting he gave instructions on implementationof the tasks in accord with the law by thoroughly studyingthe prescribed rules, laws and procedures, making efforts forwinning the public trust and reliance and working together

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—Governor of the Central Bankof Myanmar U Than Nyein of the Ministry of Finance andRevenue received Joint General Manager Mr Takeshi Ohashiand party of Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd at his office, here,yesterday morning.

They discussed cooperation of Mizuho CorporateBank in banking services of Myanmar.—MNA

World Health Day marked

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—Jointly organized by theMinistry of Health and World Health Organization, WorldHealth Day was marked at the ministry here this morningwith an address by Deputy Minister for Health Dr WinMyint.

Present on the occasion were Deputy Health MinisterDr Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin, Deputy Education MinisterU Aye Kyu, departmental heads from various ministries,members of social organizations, representatives from WHOand UNICEF, guests and personnel from the health ministry.

First, Deputy Minister Dr Win Myint delivered aspeech. Next, WHO Resident Representative Dr H SBTennakoon read the message sent by WHO SoutheastAsian Regional Director Dr Sam Lee Plianbangchang.

After the ceremony, Deputy Minister Dr Win Myintand guests viewed World Health Day-2012 commemorativebooths.— MNA

Union A&I Minister attends meeting of heads of Region/StateSLRDs

CBM Governor receivesJoint General Manager ofMizuho Corporate Bank

Vice-President Dr Sai MaukKham… (from page 1)

The Vice-President then presented Chineseagriculturalists with gifts and viewed 19-day old and 22-dayold hybrid paddy plantations.

Speaking on the occasion, the Vice-President said thatas an agricultural country, Myanmar is trying for successfulcultivation of paddy as well as other crops. In doing so,coordinative measures are being taken with the Ministry ofAgriculture and Irrigation to acquire necessary techniques.He next invited open questions for any requirements stressingthe need for efforts of the farmers while departments arefulfilling requirements. Only then, will the agricultural sectorimprove as expected. Moreover, research and developmentare essential for every nation. It is necessary to develop thesector not only in the Nay Pyi Taw area but also in the wholenation. Success will surely be achieved if agricultural tasksmeet the input requirements such as quality strains andfertilizers. Carrying out such tasks needs capital so it will bedifficult for a single farmer to do that by himself, noted the Vice-President. The State on its part will be able to render allassistance only if it is economically strong and it may causea barrier. This is why the private contribution is also necessary,said the Vice-President.

He went on to say that although there is not muchdifference of cultivation acreage between Myanmar andneighbours, there is difference in export volume. Therefore,the State, experts and farmers need to conduct study afterconsidering and reviewing. The State is carrying out eightrural development tasks and paying emphasis on micro-creditservices as well as the improvement of agricultural and meatand fish sectors.

The Vice-President added that looking to the developedcountries, they are found to have been focusing on industrialdevelopment and engaging in agricultural tasks with the useof modern machinery. For Myanmar which relies on agriculturefor fulfilling people’s basic needs, it is to introduce mechanizedfarming in order to improve the agricultural sector. If the nationcan develop the industrial sector while engaging in agriculturalwork, its economy will develop as well. Technology andcapital are necessary to change the conventional farming intomechanized farming. Only if national economy develops, will

the State be able to render assistance in such sectors aseducation and health for the wellbeing of the entire nationalpeople.

The Vice-President continued that farmers are to workhard accepting advice of experts to be successful in theiragricultural business. Regarding the agricultural loans, farmersneed to pay their debts regularly so that additional loans can

Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham cordially greets locals at briefing hall near 288-acre Palethwehybrid paddy farm in Aungchantha Village.—MNA

Deputy Health Minister Dr Win Myint speakingat the celebration of World Health Day.—MNA

WHO Resident Representative Dr. H. SB.Tennakoon reading message sent by WHO

Southeast Asian Regional Director Dr Sam LeePlianbangchang.—MNA

be disbursed for next years. As the technique to grow Palethwehybrid paddy strains is the best for the time being, that strainshould be grown nationwide, noted the Vice-President. Later,he spoke of the need for technicians to develop methods thatcan benefit in the long run, for the private sector to try to acquireall necessary agricultural inputs and for all people to worktogether for national development.—MNA

with a sense of unity.Next, Deputy Ministers U Ohn Than and U Khin Zaw

explained forming of teams to prescribe rules and proceduresand implementation of the tasks by the staff in accord withthe rules and laws.

Then, Director-General U Myint Swe of the Settlementand Land Records Department gave a supplementary report.Later, the Union Minister left an instruction on disseminationof land law to the villages across the nation.— MNA

Lacquerware College (Bagan)confers diploma certificate on

studentsNAY PYI TAW, 7 April—

Union Minister forCooperatives and forLivestock and Fisheries UOhn Myint delivered anaddress at the ceremony toconfer diploma certificates onthe students of LacquerwareCollege (Bagan) of Ministryof Cooperatives in Baganancient cultural regionyesterday morning.

After that, the Unionminister presented prizes tooutstanding students.

Next, he viewed works ofthe students, lacquerwaresale room and the 400-500

years old lacquerwares keptat the lacquerware museum.

The Union Ministerlooked into production ofMyanma lacquerwares andcotton wares at Amatalacquerware workshop andsale room.

In the afternoon, theUnion Minister met localpeople of villages in NyaungUTownship and explainedincreasing of incomes ofhouseholds engaging inlacquerware industry andbreeding of chicken, goat andcow through cooperativemethod.—MNA

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Nowadays, the State is undertaking aseries of activities to promote sports andgames so that the standard of sports in thecountry will gradually reach the worldlevel in accordance with the motto“Myanmar Sports—the World toConquer”. Among the many different kindsof sports, hockey is being given a placereceiving encouragement from thegovernment, for success in sports is a sourceof national pride.

Now is a time when people are to takepart in sports as a national concern. Allsports federations and those responsible indifferent events of sports must make fieldtours right down to the grassroots levels,hunt for talented athletes and train themwell so that they will become outstandingones. In this context, the Myanmar HockeyFederation was reconstituted with the motto“ To promote hockey in the entire countryright down to village level”.

In the past, games similar to modernfield hockey were played in many parts ofthe world. The Arabs used curved sticksand a ball fashioned from palm fibres andesparto and the Indians of North and SouthAmerica used bone stick and a deerskinball in a team contest within a goal area.

According to an old manuscript, acrooked-stick game was played in Englandas early as 1175, and the 13th centurystained glass windows of Canterbury andGloucester cathedrals show figures ofyouths holding curved sticks or hitting aball with them. In the 17th century, theIndians of Chile used crooked sticks to

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drive a ball through a goal in a game calledcineca, probably an adoption of chueca, apopular game that was brought to the newworld.

Modern field hockey, however, evolvedin the British Isles early in the 19th century,the first organized club, Blackheath, beingestablished in 1840. The style of playundoubtedly developed from the stick andball games as hurley, played in Ireland;shinty, in Scotland; and bandy, in Wales.The name was derived from the French wordhoquet (shepherd’s crook).

In the 19th century, English schools andclubs such as Blackheath, Mosely andWinbledon produced most of the playersand competitions; and in 1875 the Men’sHockey Association of London publishedrevised regulations, which reduced the sizeof the ground and goal posts and number ofplayers in a team.

About this time the British Army wasintroducing the game to the Commonwealthcountries, and Indian later adopted the gameas its national sports.

In 1900, men’s group in England,Ireland and Wales united to form theInternational Hockey Board. When the Scotsjoined in 1942, the rules become uniformthroughout the British Isles. In 1948 theFederation Internationale de Hockey formedin Paris in 1924 became a constituent bodyof the board. All the FIH member countriesrecognized the authority of the board.

Untill 1887, hockey was playedexclusively by men and was regarded toorough and dangerous for women. But in that

year English women adopted the game andorganized the first women’s club in EastMoseley. In 1895 the English LadiesHockey Association, subsequently calledthe All-England Women’s HockeyAssociation, was founded and proceeded topopularize the game for women throughoutthe world. A Women’s Hockey Federationestablished in 1927 included a membershipof 35 countries by the early 1970s.

Field hockey is a major sport in theBritish Isles, where the modern game wasdeveloped. And it was widely played incontinental Europe and in mostCommonwealth countries, especiallyIndian, Pakistan and Australia. As hockeyhas been a permanent part of the OlympicGames since 1928, it spread to all parts of theworld and it is now one of the events ofSummer Olympics held once in every fouryears. It is also included in the Asian Gamesand SES Games.

Myanmar National Sports Committee Chairman’s Hockey Tournamentbeing held at Theinbyu Hockey Pitch.

Hockey was played in the countryduring the pre-war days and there weremany teams in Pyin-Oo-Lwin. The gamewas revived in the country in 1951. It wasplayed at the BA Grounds in Yangon. Later,it was played at the Theinbyu Grounds alsoknown as the Theinbyu Hockey Pitch.There were men’s teams as well as women’steams and the some of the tournamentswere the Open Knockout Tourney, HockeyLeague Tourney, the Knockout Tourney,etc.

Now that the State is givingencouragements to all events of sportsincluding hockey with a view to ensuringachievements in sports as the 27th SEAGames which is a decisive factor forMyanmar athletes is drawing near. And Iam sure that more and more athletes willcome to take part in hockey as it is alsoone of the sports events of the 27th SEAGames to be held in Myanmar in 2013.

MEASLESVACCINATED: The

age-wise measlesvaccination campaign2012 was launched at

the administrative officein 1/Htupayon ward ofThakayta Township ofYangon Region on 22

March morning.Township

Administrator U HsanMin and Head ofTownship Health

Department Dr NaingMyat Kyaw view

vaccination of measlesto children.—KYEMON

New library put into service in KyaukmeKYAUKME, 7 April—A

ceremony to openDhammasami Library washeld at Namlan MyoleMonastery in HsipawTownship of KyaukmeDistrict on 21 March,unveiled by Sayadaw DrDhammasami.

Sayadaw DrDhammasami handed overK 2.7 million for the library,wellwishers K 560,000 and

books to the librarysupervisory committee.

After that, thedepartments, members ofreligious and socialorganizations and localpeople paid homage toProfessor of InternationalTheravada BuddhistMissionary UniversitySecretary-General ofInternational Association ofBuddhist University and

Association of TheravadaBuddhist University OxfordBuddha Vihara MonasterySayadaw Bhaddanta DrDhammasami offered AggaMaha SaddhammaJotikadhaja title by theGovernment of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar,and Namlan MyoleMonastery of HsipawBhaddanta Ñanobhasa.

Myanma Alin

Philippines Ambassador meetsUMFCCI President

YANGON, 7A p r i l —Ambassador ofthe Republic ofthe Philippinesto the Republicof the Union ofMyanmar MsMaria HellenBarber metPresident UWin Aung and

discussed signing the MoUon economic cooperationbetween the UMFCCI andPhilippine Chambers ofCommerce and Industry, visitof the Philippineentrepreneurs to Myanmar,promotion of Philippine-

Myanmar trade, holding ofeconomic forums betweenentrepreneurs of Philippinesand Myanmar andobservation at agro-basedvalue-added products in acordial manner.

UMFCCI

Antiphonal chant teams to enjoyMandalay Maha Thingyan Festival

MANDALAY, 7 April—Inthe Traditional MahaThingyan Festival 1373 ME,Mandalay moats will bepacked with four decoratedpavilions, 31 water throwingpavilions and one localdecorated pavilion, totalling36. Moreover, there will beseven decorated floatsrepresenting the district andSilver Swan Myoma.

At the MandalayMayor’s Maha ThingyanPandal, Myanmarpyi TheinTan, Khin Maung Htoo, Than

Myat Soe, Mandalay TheinZaw, Ye Lay, Chit Thu Wai, LHseng Xi and Yadana Maiwill entertain the people tothe accompaniment of MetalZone Band of Yangon.

At Alpine pavilion, ZarNi, Sai Sai Kham Hlaing,Khant Sithu, Phyu Phyu KyawThein, Tun Eindra Bo, WaingSu Khaing Thein, Yadana andKhaing Thin Kyi will performentertainments to the

accompaniment of The TreeBand.

At Nanmyothu Pavilion,film and music stars andMandalay’s famouscomedians U Chit Saya, UHtin Paw, Thabye, Ja Aye, UMyat Tha, U Paw Sein, U DiPa, Monywa Tet Toe, Pa PaLay and U Lu Maung will gowound the city by singingantiphonal chants by car.

Kyemon

CEC member Dr Thin NweWin of the Republic of theUnion of MyanmarFederation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industry atthe office of the federation at1.30 pm on 22 March.

At the call, they

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Training courses conclude at VocationalTraining School

PUTAO, 7 April—Thebasic domestic sciencecourse No. 21 and theadvanced tailoring courseNo. 15 concluded atWomen’s VocationalTraining School in Putao ofPutao District in KachinState on 23 March morning.

At the ceremony,Deputy Commissioner U

Hlaing Tun of District GeneralAdministration Departmentmade a speech.

Afterwards, DeputyCommissioner U Hlaing Tunpresented prize to anoutstanding trainee in theadvanced tailoring course.

Next, TownshipAdministrator U Lin ThuMaung of Putao Township

gave prizes to the trainees inthe basic domestic sciencecourse.

Chairperson of PutaoTownship Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw MyatMon The presenteddisciplinary award to thetrainee; and Principal of thetraining school Daw KhinMar Yin gave completioncertificates to the trainees.

VTS

BOOKS DONATED: A ceremony to donate books toMawlamyine Township Information and Public

Relations Department on 26 March. Vice-Chairman ofInsein Township Writers and Journalists Association UBo Kyi (Dr Bo Thanmani) and party present books toStaff Officer Daw Hla Hla Oo of Mawlamyine DistrictIPRD and Head of Township IPRD Daw Thida Aye.

TOWNSHIP WJA

Reserved seats on highwaybuses for service personnel

during Maha Thingyan periodYANGON, 7 April—Seats

will be reserved on highwaybuses and express buses forservice personnel for theirconvenient traveling duringthe days of Maha Thingyanfestival, according to theofficials of the AungmingalaHighway Bus Terminal.

“Directives have beenissued to bus lines to takeeight seats reservation forservice personnelcompulsorily if the personnelbuy the seats for emergenttraveling. Although therewill be least number ofhighway buses on their runsduring the days of MahaThingyan festival, reservedseats are to be left forpersonnel before and duringthe days of Maha Thingyanfestival,” he said.

He further explained, “Itis arranged for emergenttraveling of servicepersonnel. If any personneldo not buy the tickets, theseats will be sold to thepassengers.”

“The highway buses willrun up to 11 April regularly.Moreover, warnings havebeen issued to the bus linesnot to raise the price oftickets.”

The highway bus linesexpected that as the numberof highway bus lines haveincreased this year and raisethe runs of their plies, thepassengers would not facedifficulties in purchasing bustickets during this year’sMaha Thingyan festivalperiod.

Khin Lay Myint Aung

DISTRICT NEWS

CASH DONATED: A ceremony to donate cashassistance to the aged of above-80 years old was held in

conjunction with the talks about women’s healthknowledge at Kandaw Mingala Hall in Meiktila on 22March. Patron of Mandalay Region WAO and MCWSCDaw Myat Ngwe presents K 500,000 each to Township

MCWA and MCWA.—MYANMA ALIN

Dead whale floats in sea nearPalaw Township

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—According to theinformation that a deadwhale with the measurementof 40 feet long and 15 feetdiameter floated in the sea inP y i n b u g y i - P y i n b u n g eregion of Palaw Township inTaninthayi Region, Head ofTaninthayi Region FisheriesDepartment Dr Nyunt Waitogether with Head of Palaw

Township FisheriesDepartment U Tun Thaninspected the whale on 19March.

They undertookmeasuring the dead body ofwhale, moved it to away notto cause hazard to theenvirons and villages, buriedit to take skeletons andprevent the environmentalpollution.—Myanma Alin

Twantay Township gets new rural library

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April—Pyinnya Alin Library was putinto service in Alanok Villageof Htawtho Village-tract inTwantay Township ofYangon South District on 23March.

In front of the library,the opening ceremony washeld. Major Than Kyaw ofthe local station, TownshipAdministrator U Than Zaw

Han, Head of TownshipInformation and PublicRelations Department U ThetOo and Chairman of thelibrary committee U Soe Wincut the ribbon to open thefacility.

Next, the book donationceremony followed.Myanmar LibrariesFoundation donated 200copies of books and

publications, TownshipWomen’s AffairsOrganization K 10,000, andU Aung Soe K 50,000 andone radio to the library.

Wellwisher U MyaThaung-Daw Khin Htay Yiwho donated the land plotfor the library handed overdocuments related to thelibrary plot to officials.

Myanma Alin

Insein Township WJA donatesbooks

YANGON, 7 April—Thebook donations of InseinTownship Writers andJournalists Association toKyaikto Township

Information and PublicRelations Department washeld at the Dhammayon ofKinpunchaung in KyaiktoTownship on 25 March.

Vice-Chairman ofInsein Township Writers andJournalists Association U BoKyi (Dr Bo Thanmani-Taungdwingyi), Secretary USoe Win Maung (Shwe TaikSoe) and Auditor U WinMyint (Maung Maung WinMyint-Hmukhin) donatedbooks.

Staff Officer Daw KhinSaw Lin of District IPRD andHead of Township IPRD DawAye Myo Myo San acceptedthe book donation.

Township WJA

Cash assistance for rice,uniform provided in Htantabin

YANGON, 7 April—Aceremony to provide rice forservice personnel and cashassistance for uniforms washeld at the office of TownshipGeneral AdministrationDepartment in HtantabinTownship of Yangon Region

on 3 April.At the ceremony,

Township Administrator UNgwe Doe presented K 1.52million for the staff membersto Office SuperintendentDaw Khin Khin Win.

Myanma Alin

Myanmar Libraries Foundation is giving encouragementto broadening the horizon of the people and developing self-reliant libraries across the nation.

Those wishing to donate cash and books to the librariesmay contact Myanmar Libraries Foundation at No. 228 onTheinbyu Street in Botahtaung Township, Yangon, Tel: 01-371342, 01-201936 and 01-398756.

MLF invites donations of cash,books

TownshipAdministrator U Ngwe

Doe of HtantabinTownship presents bags

of rice and cashassistance for uniforms

to staff membersthrough Office

Superintendent DawKhin Khin Win.

CSC ISSUED: DagonMyothit (North) Township

Immigration andNational Registration

Department madecitizenship scrutiny cards

for eligible citizens inimplementing Moe Pwint-2 Plan. On 3 March, Headof Township Immigrationand National RegistrationDepartment U Myo Myinthands over cards to Ward45 Administrator U Tin

Tun Wai.KYEMON

Prevention against animaldisease talked

HOPIN, 7 April—A talkon bio-security andprevention against animaldiseases was given in TatwinVillage of Hopin Sub-Township of MohnyinDistrict in Kachin State on25 March afternoon.

The talk was attended

by livestock breedingentrepreneurs of the state.

Head of Hopin Sub-Township LivestockBreeding and VeterinaryDepartment Dr Zaw MyintNaing explained bio-security and animaldiseases.—Myanma Alin

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News International Chairman James Murdoch speaks toparliamentarians in London in this 10 Nov, 2011 file

photo.— INTERNET

James Murdoch quits as BSkyB chairmanLONDON, 7 April —

James Murdoch resigned aschairman of BSkyB onTuesday to prevent his linksto a tabloid phone-hackingscandal from underminingthe pay TV group, whichhas so far escaped the worstof the damage convulsingits controlling shareholderNews Corp.

In a bitter blow toMurdoch, until last yearseen as heir apparent to hisfather Rupert’s mediaempire, James said he wouldstep down from the Britishpay-TV company where he

made his name as a talentedexecutive in his own right.

“I am aware that myrole as Chairman couldbecome a lightning rod forBSkyB and I believe thatmy resignation will help toensure that there is nofa lse conf la t ion wi thevents at a separateorganization,” Murdochsaid.

The 39-year-old is aprevious chairman of NewsInternational, News Corp’sBritish newspaper arm thatpublished the News of theWorld tabloid at the heart

of the scandal. News of theWorld was shut down lastyear. “As attentioncontinues to be paid to pastevents at NewsInternational, I amdetermined that the interestsof BSkyB should not beundermined by mattersoutside the scope of thiscompany,” Murdoch wrotein a letter to the BSkyB board.

Internet

Police and fireman remove an injured person from thesite of a crane collapse where construction is going on

for the 7 line subway extension on 3 April, 2012, in NewYork. Fire officials say a crane collapse at a Manhattan

construction site has injured two people.INTERNET

Grounded New Zealand shipRena’s owners charged

WELLINGTON, 7 April— The owners of a shipwhich ran aground off NewZealand spilling hundredsof tonnes of fuel oil arebeing charged withdischarging harmfulsubstances. The Rena ranaground on a reef nearTauranga on 5 October2011, causing what has

The Rena broke in two inJanuary, three monthsafter it ran aground.

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been called the country’sworst environmentaldisaster.

Maritime officials filedthe charge against DainaShipping, a subsidiary ofGreek shipping giantCostamare. The chargecarries a maximum fine ofNZ$600,000 ($489,000,£308,000). The companyfaces additional fines ofNZ$10,000 for each day theoffence continues.

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Tree saveswoman fromout-of-control

truckHOUSTON, 7 April — A

truck driver was killed but a95-year-old Houston womanwas unharmed Thursdaywhen an 18-wheeler crashedinto a tree she planted in heryard 40 years ago. The driverof the truck lost control of thevehicle when he had a heartattack. Paramedics took theman, whose name was notreported, to the hospitalwhere he was pronounceddead.

Alice Wright said sheslept through the truckcrashing into her yard,stopping just short of herbedroom, but credits the LiveOak tree she planted therewith saving her life, KHOU-TV, Houston, reported. “Myneighbour across the streetcalled me and said, ‘Are youall right,’ and I said, ‘What’sthe matter,’ and she said, ‘Oh,Mrs. Wright you don’t knowthat truck is in your yard andcould have come in yourhouse?’

“I’m just so thankful tothe good Lord it was there, tostop that truck, I tell ya,”Wright said. Wright toldKHOU she got the tree in theearly 1960s when she inCleveland, Texas. “Me andmy niece went out there anddug them — she got one andI got one — they were littlebitty saplings then,” shesaid.— Internet

Mexican gang member sentenced to life in US prison for murders

AUSTIN, 7 April — A senior member of a Mexican drugcartel was sentenced to life in prison in a US court onThursday after authorities implicated him in more than1,500 murders, including the 2010 execution of a US

Federal police escort drug suspect Jose Antonio AcostaHernandez, “El Diego”, as he is presented to the media

during a news conference at the federal policeheadquarters in Mexico City on 31 July, 2011.— INTERNET

consulate employee in northern Mexico. Jose Antonio AcostaHernandez, 34, pleaded guilty to 11 counts that includedmurder, conspiracy to kill people in a foreign country andvarious racketeering, money laundering and drug charges.

US District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas,sentenced Hernandez to seven concurrent life terms and threeadditional consecutive life terms. “The defendant directed orparticipated in over 1,500 murders since 2008,” accord-ing tothe plea agreement with Hernandez, who was extradit-ed fromMexico in March.

Hernandez was in charge of the armed enforcement wingof the Juarez Drug Cartel, which had formed an alliance withthe Barrio Azteca drug gang that operated in Texas andMexico to control the Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico drugtrafficking, prosecutors said in the court papers.

Ciudad Juarez has served as a major route for smugglingnarcotics into the United States. He ordered his men to killmembers of a rival gang at a January 2010 birthday party inCiudad Juarez that killed 16 and ordered a car bombing thatkilled four individuals including two Mexican police officers,the plea said.

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PARIS, 7 April — Fire crews have beenrushed to a nuclear reactor in northern Franceafter an escape of smoke but the energycompany EDF says the site is secure. Ten fireengines were sent to the Penly site near Dieppe,where the reactor was shut down after the alarmwas raised at 12:20 (11:20 GMT). Nobody washurt, the firm said, and the incident had “noconsequences for the environment”.

Two small fires had broken out but werelater extinguished, the firm said. The fires were

Fire at Penly nuclear reactor in northern Francecaused by hot oil leaking from a pump inside thereactor building, an EDF spokeswoman said,quoted by Reuters news agency. The Penlyplant has two pressurised water reactors, cooledby water from the English Channel. Franceobtains 75% of its electricity from nuclear powerand the industry’s future has become a politicalissue. A release of smoke automatically shutdown the No 2 reactor, according to the EDF.Emergency services tackled the two fires at13:15, it said on its website.—Internet

SINGAPORE, 7 April—Singapore PrimeMinister Lee Hsien Loong is donating 350,000Singapore dollars (280,000 US dollars) to set upthree new awards to promote communitybonding, social services and the arts, heannounced on Thursday.

“I hope that these donations and awardswill encourage charities and volunteers tocontinue their excellent work to make Singaporea better home for all,’’ Lee said in a statement.The Prime Minister announced in 2007following the ministerial salary adjustmentsthat he would donate the increase in his salaryto charity in the next five years. This year is thefifth year of his donations.

This year, Lee is giving to a range of

Singapore PM donates $280,000 to setup three awards

community, grassroots, youth, arts and welfareorganizations and also donating the 350,000Singapore dollars to establish the awards. Hewill be donating 200,000 Singapore dollars(160,000 US dollars) towards a CommunityInitiatives Fund to sponsor projects initiatedby the People’s Association towards the goalof a more inclusive and united community.

Another 100,000 Singapore dollars (80,000US dollars) will go to a Prime Minister’s SocialService Award to encourage people to choosesocial service careers. The other 50,000Singapore dollars (40,000 US dollars) will go toa Prime Minister’s Valedictorian Award for thetop student in each graduating cohort from theSchool of the Arts.—MNA/Xinhua

KUALA LUMPUR, 7 April—Malaysian police on Thursday busted a football bettingsyndicate and arrested 144 foreigners in an upscale residential resort in Kajang, 30 kilometressouth of Kuala Lumpur.

Police raided six bungalows the syndicate had rented as betting dens following a tip-off,Selangor state police chief Hisan Hamzah told a Press conference. The suspects were said tobe taking bets for the European Champions League using laptops and telephones during theraid.

The syndicate was also involved in illegal onling gambling and Internet scams and hadraked in billions of ringit in bets and stakes over the past month.

Police seized 35,800 ringit (11,674.5 US dollars) in cash, 241 telephones, 43 laptops and48 modems in the raid.—MNA/Xinhua

Malaysian police bust football bettingsyndicate

WASHINGTON, 7 April— President Barack Obama onThursday called out his likely opponent for the White Houseby name for the second time this week and said he ‘‘cannotwait’’ for the chance to pit his vision for America against theRepublicans in this year’s election.

In remarks that underscore the president’s shift into fullgeneral election-fighting mode, Obama acknowledged MittRomney was the front-runner to win the Republican nominationto face him on 6 November, and said he relished the upcomingcontest.

‘We are going to have a big and important debate in thiscountry, and I cannot wait,’’ the Democrat told supporters ata fundraising event in Washington. This is going to be a bigdebate and it’s going to be a fun debate. It’s always good tohave the truth on your side,” he said.

The president had barely mentioned the formerMassachusetts governor by name for months but has doneso twice this week. Romney moved closer to clinching theRepublican presidential nomination on Tuesday when hewon three primary contests.

Obama fiercely attacked Republican budget plans earlierthis week. On Thursday he again warned supporters the planwould gut many popular social programmes, adding that itwas ‘a budget that Governor Romney, who is the front runneron the Republican side, has embraced….the budget wasmarvelous, he said.—MNA/Reuters

With sights set on Romney,Obama says eager for

campaign

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MYANMA PORT AUTHORITYHOLIDAY NOTICE

As the wharves, warehouses and chellan offices ofYangon Port will be closed on the 11th April 2012 to20th April 2012 (New Year Public Holiday) GoodsShipped or delivered on payment will be received asHoliday Fees.

Which country has the most expensive postal charges?

The price of postage is going up sharply in the UK, but itstill won’t be the most expensive place in the world topost a letter, or not quite. Which countries earn that

dubious honour?— INTERNET

LONDON, 7 April — Theprice of postage is going upsharply in the UK, but it stillwon’t be the most expensiveplace in the world to post aletter, or not quite. Whichcountries earn that dubioushonour? The price of a Britishfirst-class stamp is going upby about a third at the end ofthe month, from 46p to 60p,and the price of a second-class stamp will rise almost40%, from 36p to 50p. But theRoyal Mail says its “prices areamongst the best value inEurope”. Is this true? Itdepends how you look at it.The Royal Mail points out theUK will remain the cheapestplace in Europe to post acertain type of letter — a heavyletter, weighing between 50g(1.76oz) and 100g (3.53oz), ifyou post it second class.

And that’s if you adjustthe price to take into accountthe fact that money goesfurther in some countries where

goods and services aregenerally cheap, than it doesin others. Goods and servicesare relatively expensive in theUK, so the 50p price tag lookscheaper after the adjustment.But what if you post a standardletter — just one or two sheetsof paper — first class? ThenUK prices are not among thebest value in Europe. In fact,the UK is among the top 10most expensive countries,

though its precise position inthe top 10 depends on howyou do the sums.If you convertthe local price into dollars, theUK is the fifth most expensivein Europe. The 60p it will sooncost for a first class stamp is$0.96, behind Finland,Switzerland, Denmark and, infirst place, Norway— where acomparable stamp costs $1.67(9.5 Kroner).

If you adjust for the

relative purchasing power ofthe different countries, the UKis in seventh place amongEuropean countries. Ahead ofit are Denmark in sixth place,Norway in fifth, then Poland,Latvia, Slovakia and, in thetop spot, Bulgaria. Posting aletter in Bulgaria only costs0.85 Lev ($0.68) but to mostBulgarians, that’s a lot. Whenthe Royal Mail does thesecalculations, using slightlydifferent purchasing powercalculat-ions, it places the UKin ninth position. That’sEurope’s 10 most expensivecountries to post a letter.What about the world’s?Inthe BBC’s survey of 65countries around the world,Norway’s $1.67 postage stillcomes out on top. The postoffice there, Posten Norge,told the BBC its prices reflectcompetition from newtechnology, such as email,and the country’s geography.

Internet

FA Porsche, designer of iconic911 sports car, dies

STUTTGART, 7 April —The designer of the iconicPorsche 911 sports car,Ferdinand AlexanderPorsche, has died at the ageof 76. FA Porsche firstdesigned the model in theearly 1960s. The 911 firstappeared in 1963, and theelegance and simplicity of itsshape quickly made it aclassic. It is now in its seventhversion, and was recentlyvoted one of the best cars ofthe twentieth century. Hisgrandfather, FerdinandPorsche, designed theVolkswagen Beetle. FAPorsche was in charge of thefamily firm’s designdepartment when heconceived the 911 as a

replacement for its first model,the 356.

While it has undergonemany technological changessince its inception, the 911 isrecognizably still the samecar today. FA Porsche becamethe chairman of Porsche AGin 1990, and served in that roleuntil 1993, helping to securethe company’s future aftersales fell in the late 1980s. Thecompany says FA Porschedied on Thursday in theAustrian city of Salzburg, butit has not revealed how hedied. He will be buried inAustria, and a memorialservice will be held inStuttgart, the city of his birth,and where the company isbased.— Internet

North Sea gas leak plug‘achievable’

ABERDEEN, 7 April —Aplan to plug a leaking NorthSea platform well is“achievable,” inspectors saidFriday following a visit to awell head that is spewing acloud of potentially explosivegas. A team of experts spentfour hours Thursday visitingthe Elgin platform, which isoperated by French energygiant Total. It was the first timethe wellhead had beeninspected since the platform’s238 crew were evacuated on25 March when the leak wasdetected.

“We achieved our goals.Everything went as we wouldhave hoped and the plannedwell intervention isachievable,” Texas-basedoutside experts Wild WellControl said after visiting theplatform alongside staff fromthe rig who are familiar with itsconstruction. The firm said

Now in itsseventh

version, the911 is still

recognizablyFA

Porsche’sdesign.

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there were certainly no surpriseobstacles to launching theiroperation. Specialists willrevisit the platform in thecoming days to developdetailed plans for pumping theproblem G4 well head full of“heavy mud” at high pressureso as to seal it.

In a statement, Total saidthe team found no gas on thethe processing platform andthe 90-metre (year) bridge tothe well head platform wasalso free of gas.The structuralcondition of that platform, G4and the surrounding rig wereunchanged since theevacuation, as were safetysituations.”The visualinspection confirmed that theleak is coming from the G4 wellhead at Well Head Platformdeck level. In parallel, a remoteoperated vehicle surveyconfirmed no underwater gasleak,” Total said.— Internet

Frenchenergy giantTotal’s Elgin

rig, 150miles (240kms) off

Aberdeen inthe North

Sea.INTERNET

‘No attacks’ launched fromAfghanistan after 2014

Afghan soil will not be used to launch attacks againstany country after foreign troops withdraw, the war-tornnation’s foreign minister, pictured here in March 2012,told Al-Jazeera in an interview, excerpts of which were

received by AFP on Friday.— INTERNET

KABUL, 7 April — Afghansoil will not be used to launchattacks against any countryafter foreign troops withdraw,the war-torn nation’s foreignminister told Al-Jazeera in aninterview, excerpts of whichwere received by AFP onFriday. “Afghan soil will notbe used against any countryin the region,” Zalmai Rassoulsaid, when asked if the UnitedStates would be allowed tocontinue drone attacks on

Pakistan after all foreigncombat troops withdraw fromAfghanistan by the end of2014.

“The presence of theremaining forces inAfghanistan is for training,equipping and securingAfghanistan’s security. It hasbeen mentioned, it is going tobe mentioned, that this forceis not for use against anyneighbours in the region,”Rassoul told the Doha-basedtelevision channel. The USdrone war on Islamist militantsin Pakistan is one of the majorsticking points inWashington’s relations withIslamabad, which reachedtheir lowest point last yearwhen airstrikes killed 24Pakistani soldiers inNovember, six months after acovert US raid killed Osamabin Laden.

Pakistan responded byshutting its Afghan border toNATO supplies and evictingUS personnel from an air basereportedly used as a hub byUS drones.

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Owner gives up Californiamarijuana school after raidLOS ANGELES, 7 April—

The founder of a US centrethat offers courses on growingand dispensing marijuanasays he will step aside fromschool days after a police raid.Richard Lee, 49, who runsOaksterdam University, saidhe was concerned aboutfacing serious federal drugcharges. He has campaignedfor the legalisation ofmarijuana, by supportingballot measures and raising$1.5m (£945,000) to back a2010 state legalisation plan.

Authorities have notexplained why they raided thecentre. Monday’s raid sawofficers from federal tax anddrug agencies confiscatedmarijuana, computers and filesrelating to Mr Lee’s business.

Oaksterdam University hasbeen called the “Princetonof Pot” and the “Harvard

of Hemp”— INTERNET

Mr Lee, a paraplegic who usesa wheelchair, was not arrested.“It was something we’vealways feared, but we’vealways known it’s a part ofthe politics of this issue,” MrLee told the Los AngelesTimes. Mr Lee has said thatnow he will only continue withhis advocacy work and willstop running the educationcentre. Mr Lee told the LosAngeles Times that eventhough he will step aside, thecentre will continue to run.“I’ve been doing this for along time. Over 20 years... Ikind of feel like I’ve done mytime. It’s time for others totake over.” The centre hasrun some classes since theraid. Mr Lee said his decisionto step aside was not part ofa deal with the authorities.

Courses at OaksterdamUniversity include horti-culture, business and the legalintricacies of running amarijuana dispensary. Theschool does not distribute thedrug. The use of marijuana forsome medical purposes isallowed in California.

Internet

Big lottery winners often prize anonymityRED BUD, 7 April — The

tiny Illinois farm town of RedBud is the kind of place withfew strangers and few secrets.Yet the community of 3,700has a lingering mystery on itshands: Who bought thewinning Mega Millionslottery ticket, and why hasn’tthe winner of the worldrecord$656 million jackpot comeforward? Though secrecysurrounds the ticket sold atthe MotoMart conveniencestore, lottery officials note it’snot unusual for winners to lay

low — and those who advisethem say it’s just plain smart.

It’s exactly what theKansas winner of the March30 Mega Millions drawingdecided to do.

Kansas Lottery DirectorDennis Wilson said theperson came to the agency’sTopeka head-quarters onFriday morning with anattorney and some financialadvisers. Wilson said theperson does not want to beidentified, even by gender —something Kansas law

allows. “They obviouslydon’t need the publicity,”Wilson said. “They’re notused to the publicity of wherethey’re from, where they live.”

A third winning ticketwas sold in Maryland, andquestions fester about awoman claiming to have it.For all of its promise, instantriches come with a price,starting with the immediatebarrage of calls from relativesand distant friends eager for ahandout.

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A snake that swallowed a golf ball in Low Country South Carolina has a new lease on lifethanks to surgery and a new career in environmental education.

A couple spotted the yellow rat snake trying to cross a road in Beaufort, The Island Packetreported. In the snake’s first big break, David Gorzynski and Kim Gundler, who operateBeaufort Kayak Tours, are trained master naturalists.

Dr Mark Guilloud, a veterinarian who showed up to return a kayak, agreed to perform thesurgery.

The procedure took 10 minutes once the snake was anesthetized and was followed byan anxious period when the patient stopped breathing.

Guilloud said he has removed “golf balls, hard balls, socks, blankets, Bert and Ernie —all the kids’ toys” from dogs but the operation was his first on a snake.

The snake is believed to have eaten the ball, a Titleist, while foraging in a chicken coop.The balls are sometimes used to encourage hens.

The Nature Centre at the Lowcountry Institute has given the snake a home. The stitchesare scheduled for removal in two weeks, and Tony Mills said the snake will then be used tohelp educate the public on the benefits provided by rodent-eating rat snakes.

Vet removes golf ball from rat snake

Officials at a German animal shelter said a cat wasreunited with his owner after spending 16 years living in thewoods.

Bernhard Schoettel said his 19-year-old son, Kilian,found the cat while walking in the woods near Munich andbrought it home, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

“My son immediately noticed that the animal was quiteold,” Schoettel said. “He felt sorry for it because it no longerhad any front teeth. The tom was very trusting. We fed himfor a few days and discovered that he was tattooed, so wetook him to the animal sanctuary over the weekend.”

Officials at the animal shelter said they were able to tracethe cat’s identification tattoo to owner Monika Moser, whosaid the feline went missing 16 years ago. The shelter saidthe cat’s survival was unusual and he is now suffering fromliver and thyroid problems.

Moser, who lives about 2 miles from where the cat wasfound, was reunited with the animal, the shelter said.

Lost cat found after 16 years

LOS ANGELES, 7 April—Australian actress NicoleKidman is in talks to play the late Grace Kelly, the screenlegend who married the prince of Monaco, in a film by Frenchdirector Olivier Dahan, Variety reported on Thursday.

The report said Kidman, 44, is in negotiations to playKelly in “Grace of Monaco,” which Pierre-Ange Le Pogamis producing with writer Arash Amel.

The entertainment daily said “nearly every top actressin Hollywood” is seeking the role and that no deal has beensigned yet.

The screenplay by Amel is not a biopic but centers onthe period from December 1961 to November 1962.

At the time Kelly, an Oscar winner and mother of two,had already spent six years as a princess and was called uponto save Monaco from an escalating crisis with France overthe tiny monarchy’s status as a tax haven.

Kidman won an Academy Award for her portrayal ofauthor Virginia Woolf in “The Hours” (2002).

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Australian actress NicoleKidman, is in talks to

play the late Grace Kelly,the screen legend whomarried the prince ofMonaco, in a film by

French director OlivierDahan, Variety

reported on Thursday.INTERNET

Nicole Kidman in talks onGrace Kelly role

NEW YORK, 7 April—Oprah Winfrey says creatingher new cable network hasturned out to be a steep climb.

“I’m climbingKilimanjaro,” she toldadvertisers Thursday at apresentation for OWN: TheOprah Winfrey Network. Shequickly explained that herKilimanjaro is at the offices ofOWN.

“You know that song,‘The Time of My Life’? I’vehad the climb of my life,” shecracked.

The network hasstruggled to build an audiencesince its launch in January2011. It recently announcedsevere staff layoffs and amanagement shakeup with

Oprah calls her new cable venture a toughclimb

In this 14 April, 2011publicity image originally

released by OWN, TVpersonality and mediamogul Oprah Winfreypresents at the OWN:

Oprah Winfrey Networkportion of the Discovery

Communications Upfrontat Jazz at Lincoln Centrein New York.—INTERNET

Discovery CommunicationsInc., the company that’sbankrolled it with $300 million-plus.

But Winfrey struck ahopeful note in her briefremarks, even as she allowedshe’s still nowhere near thechannel’s summit of success.

“With our restructuringand right-sizing and gettinginto the sauce of what needsto happen every day, I feellike I can at least now see thesummit,” she said.—Internet

CHICAGO, 7 April—Jennifer Hudson takes centrestage in a questionnaire thatpotential jurors are beingasked to fill out to determineif they will be allowed todecide whether or not a man isguilty in the slayings of thesinger’s mother, brother andnephew. Nine of the 66questions released to TheAssociated Press and othermedia outlets Friday dealt withHudson’s career in movies,television and as an author.

Prospective jurors wereasked if they have everwatched “American Idol,” thetelevision show that broughtHudson to fame, or if theysaw “Dreamgirls,” the motionpicture for which she won anAcademy Award. They alsowere asked if they’d ever seenher perform or read her book,“I Got This: How I Changedmy Ways and Lost WhatWeighed Me Down.”

In what is apparently areference to Hudson’s workas a spokeswoman for WeightWatchers, one question read:“Do you belong to anyorganization for whichJennifer Hudson is aspokesperson?”—Internet

Potential jurorsin Hudson case

asked aboutsinger

LOS ANGELES, 7 April—Authorities say actressAmanda Bynes has beenarrested on suspicion ofdriving under the influenceafter she grazed a sheriff’spatrol car.

The 26-year-old actresswas arrested around 3 amFriday in West Hollywood.

The Los AngelesCounty sheriff’s departmentsays that Bynes attempted topass a patrol car making aright turn when she hit it.Deputies who arrested her

Actress Amanda Bynesarrested on suspicion of DUI

Amanda Bynes arrives atthe MTV Video MusicAwards in New York.

Bynes was arrested earlyon 6 April, 2012, onsuspicion of drunken

driving after allegedlyhitting a sheriff’s

patrol car.INTERNET

suspect she was drunk at thetime.

Bynes is being held on$5,000 bail. Her publicist,Melissa Raubvogel, did notimmediately return a call andan email from The AssociatedPress.

The actress appeared inthe 2010 film “Easy A” andthe Nickelodeon series“What I Like About You.”

Deputies say there waspaint damage to both cars,but no one was injured.

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LOS ANGELES, 7 April—US reality television star JesseJames says he thinks he is inan “awesome place” two yearsafter actress Sandra Bullockdivorced him for cheating on

Jesse James: I’m in an‘awesome place’

her. “Everyone can saywhatever they want about meand call me whatever, butguess what? I’m stillstanding,” James told E! Newswhile promoting “Jesse James:Outlaw Garage,” hisDiscovery Channel specialpremiering on Monday.

James, who lives inAustin, Texas, returned totelevision by competing onDiscovery’s “AmericanChopper: The Build-Off” inDecember. “Outlaw” followsthe former “Monster Garage”and “Celebrity Apprentice”star and his team at the AustinSpeed Shop as they rebuild a1932 Ford Roadster.

He said he hopes it willbecome a series. “I think I’m ina pretty awesome place in life,”James told E! “In light ofeverything that’s happened, I

think I came out of it a betterdad and a better person whileliving and working in a placethat’s like heaven to me.”

As for his new show, hesaid: “There’s a little bit ofpersonal life [in ‘Outlaw’] withthe kids and kind of explainingwhere I am now. I hate thewords ‘reality TV’ because Ithink this is a refreshingchange because none of it isscripted — there’s no made-up drama.” James was marriedto Bullock for five years. Newsof his extramarital affairsbroke shortly after she wonan Oscar for her work in “TheBlind Side.”—Internet

Nutriphase animalcarnival 2012: dance

with pet dogs: A womanand her dog attend the

Nutriphase animalcarnival 2012 in

Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, on 6 April, 2012.The 4-day carnival was

held to promoteresponsible pet care and

ownership.

Bloody! African python swallows antelope.

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Jennifer Hudson.

Authorities in Floridasaid a family has beenreunited with their Yorkshireterrier after he was stolenfrom their home along withsome valuable items.

The Palm Beach CountySheriff’s Office said the 4-year-old dog, Max, was takenThursday from the home ofJim Riger, who lives just west

Deputies: Burglars used stolen Yorkieof Boca Raton, and wasreunited with the family laterin the day after deputiesarrested Rickardo Stephensand a juvenile, the SouthFlorida Sun Sentinelreported Friday. Deputiessaid the suspects werearrested with a carload ofproperty, which includedcomputers, jewelry, iPhones,iPads, an Xbox, DVDs and

video games taken from theRiger home on Thursday anda previous burglary 28 March.

Investigators said thesuspects were using the dogto find out if people werehome at houses they choseas targets for their burglaries.They said Stephens and thejuvenile would knock on thedoor and tell anyone whoanswered that they found thedog and were trying to findthe owners.

Jesse James.

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Swans undone by Cisse strikesNewcastle forward grabs two more goals to

boost club’s top-four hopesLONDON, 7 April —

Swansea City 0-2 NewcastleUnited. Newcastle United’sfairytale season continued inthe Barclays Premier Leagueas they won at Swansea tomove to within two points ofArsenal in third place. TheMagpies got off to the perfectstart when Yohan Cabayethreaded a pass through forPapiss Cisse to take a touchand roll the ball past Michel

Vorm.Swansea dominated

possession but could not finda breakthrough, with GylfiSigurdsson stinging thepalms of Tim Krul and JoeAllen forcing a save too. ButCisse doubled the lead with asecond glorious finish fromanother clever Cabaye passand the Magpies held on tocollect another crucial threepoints.— Internet

Wayne Routledge and Swansea could not find a waythrough against Newcastle on Friday.— INTERNET

Man City manager admits defeat at Arsenal and victoryfor Man United could decide title

LONDON, 7 April —Manchester City managerRoberto Mancini admits thatdefeat at Arsenal on Sundaycould end his side’s hopes ofwinning the Barclays PremierLeague title. Defeat for Cityat the Emirates Stadium andvictory for ManchesterUnited at home to QueensPark Rangers would leaveUnited eight points clear atthe top of the table. Asked ifthe title race would be over ifthat happened, Mancini said:“If we lose against Arsenaland if they beat QPR, yes.”

Mancini, however, is stillhopeful that his side canmount a fightback in the finalseven matches of the seasondespite seeing their

commanding lead over Unitedslip away.”Why not? It’spossible. If they win all theirgames, congratulations, theydeserve to win the title. “Butseven games to the end, Ithink that everything canhappen,” said Mancini,whose side will hostManchester United at theEtihad Stadium on Monday30th April. “It’s important thatwe win our games and afterwe will see what happens.Also because we will play aderby, which will be threepoints. I think that in six gamesthey can lose other points.”

City could welcome backstriker Sergio Aguero frominjury for the trip to Arsenal,who have won seven of their

David Silva scored the winner when Manchester Citybeat Arsenal in December.— INTERNET

last eight League matches.The Gunners saw theirwinning run come to an endlast Saturday when they lost2-1 at Queens Park Rangers.They have already suffered

two 1-0 defeats to City so farthis season—in the CarlingCup quarter-final at theEmirates in November and theLeague match at the Etihad inDecember.— Internet

Aussie Stosur sinks Venus atWTA Charleston tennis

CHARLESTON, 7 April —Australia’s Samantha Stosurbooked her semi-final spot atthe WTA Charleston claycourt event with a pair ofthree-set wins, ruining theprospect of an all-Williamsclash. Stosur, who turned 28last Friday, ousted worldnumber 87 Venus Williamswith a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win in thequarter-finals to set up a semi-final showdown againstSerena Williams.

Stosur, of the GoldCoast, was leading GalinaVoskoboeva 4-2 in the firstset Thursday when the matchwas halted because of rain.First up Friday on centercourt, No 2 seed Stosurfinished off Voskoboevawith a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 third-roundwin. She was back on courtless than two hours later toface Venus.

“I don’t think it was the

Couples shares Masters lead;Woods falls 8 behind

AUGUSTA, 7 April — Allsigns pointed to this being aMasters for the ages. Thiswasn’t what anyone had inmind — 52-year-old FredCouples, silver hair and stillcool as ever, drawing theloudest cheers Friday on hisway to becoming the oldestplayer atop the leaderboardgoing into the weekend atAugusta National.

“Very shocking, and itwas a great day,” Couples saidafter a 5-under 67, which gavehim a share of the lead withJason Dufner.

“There was a lot goingon there, and for me to be a partof it, it’s really amazing.” Thebuzz going into the Masterswas built around all the bestplayers on top of their games,and that element was verymuch in place. Rory McIlroycharged up the leaderboard.Lee Westwood is right there.So is Sergio Garcia and evenPhil Mickelson. Missing fromthe mix — another surprise —was club-kicking Tiger

Fred Couples celebrates after finishing the second roundthe Masters golf tournament on the 18th on 6 April,

2012, in Augusta, Ga.— INTERNET

Woods.Just two weeks after

Woods won Bay Hill by fiveshots and became an instantfavorite for a fifth green jacket,he couldn’t make a putt andthen hit only two greens onthe back nine. He keptdropping the club out of hishands in disgust, and it reacheda boiling point on the par-316th when he turned andkicked his 9-iron some 15 yards.Woods didn’t make a birdieafter the third hole and shot 75,his highest score at Augustasince 2004.

Internet

Mueller calls for calm as Bayernhunt Borussia in BundesligaAUGSBURG, 7 April —

Having reached theChampions League semi-finals, Bayern Munich turntheir attention back to theGerman league and resurgentAugsburg as they look toattack Borussia Dortmund’sthree-point lead. After beatingOlympic Marseille 2-0 inTuesday’s ChampionsLeague quarter-final for a 4-0aggregate score, Bayern arechasing a historic treble ofEuropean, German Cup andBundesliga titles and have wonall of their last eight games.

After trimming Dort-mund’s lead from five to threepoints last weekend, theGerman league could well bedecided by next Wednes-day’s showdown at Bo-russia’s Signal Iduna Parkbetween Bayern andDortmund. But midfielderThomas Mueller says the

Augsburg’s goalkeeper Simon Jentzsch (R) saves the ballduring their German first division Bundesliga match vsBorussia Dortmund, in Augsburg, southern Germany,on 10 March. Augsburg play Bayern Munich next, at

Allianz Arena.— INTERNET

end of the world to get outthere and play this morning,”Stosur said. “Today was verydifferent than what we’vebeen playing in, so it wasgood to get used to theconditions. I would havepreferred not to play two threeset matches, but never-theless, I’m happy to bethrough.”

Serena reached the semi-finals on Friday when injury-cursed Sabine Lisicki quit theirlast-eight clash in floods oftears. The American fifth seedwas 5-1 ahead in the first setwhen Lisicki — whose careerwent into a tailspin in 2010when an injury left her barelyable to walk — retired afterfalling and hurting her ankle.Stosur posted her first careerwin over Venus after losingfour straight — all in straightsets, including three onclay.— Internet

Australia’s Samantha Stosur, booked her semi-final spotat the WTA Charleston clay court event with a pair ofthree-set wins, ruining the prospect of an all-Williams

clash.— INTERNET

Spain up 2-0 on Austria in Davis Cup quartersCASTELLON, 7 April —

Defending champion Spainhas taken a 2-0 lead overAustria in the Davis Cupquarterfinals lead after easyvictories by Nicolas Almagroand David Ferrer. Almagro,ranked No 12, opened thebest-of-five series Friday bybeating Jurgen Melzer 6-2,6-2, 6-4 on an outdoor clay

court. Ferrer, ranked No 5,followed by defeating 139th-ranked Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-1, 6-3, 6-1.

Spain, five-time DavisCup champions, can captureits 23rd straight home victoryby winning Saturday’sdoubles. Marcel Granollersand Marc Lopez will faceAlexander Peya and Oliver

Marach. The winner of thisseries will advance toSeptember’s semifinalsagainst France or the UnitedStates.— Internet

Several Arsenal playersperform ballet for a car ad

InternationalSports

LONDON, 7 April — Arsenal have a reputation for theirgraceful and classy style of play and that apparently translatesrather well to ballet. In an ad for French (and thus ArseneWenger approved) car maker Citroen, Wojciech Szczesny,Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alex Song and Bacary Sagna werepaired off with ballerinas from the English National Ballet andput through their paces. Some highlights: Alex Song’s “Whatam I doing right now?” look at 30 seconds in, Oxlade-Chamberlain taking a peek under a tutu at 41 seconds andSzczesny’s jump at 1:10. It would’ve been so much better ifit involved Andrei Arshavin, though.— Internet

focus must be on Augsburgunder the old adage ‘one gameat a time’ and the Germany starsays only big performanceswill carry Munich through withBayern second in the table.

“We have to keep ourfeet on the ground,” warnedMueller. “We’ve fought ourway back into the title race andwe can be pleased about that.“It’s good we have winsbehind us, but trends don’tmake you champions. “It’seasy to work out what we haveto do in the run-in, but as weknow ourselves, doing it isn’teasy at all.”

While Bayern are playingdown any treble talk —understandable withchampions Barcelona in theother Champions Leaguesemi-final — Bayern’schairman says the Bavariansare serious in their bid to claimall three titles.— Internet

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(8-4-12 09:30 am ~9-4-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV

(8-4-2012) (Sunday)

Focus Myanmar TV Programme

NewsAuspicious andTraditional ThingyanNewsThe more you see, themore you learn(Episode-1)NewsHand Down ArtsHeritageNewsMI People’sCelebrities “MyanmarStyle or WesternStyle”NewsYangon Expo &Car ShowNewsMusic GalleryNewsfortune of HumanCorrelated with AstroScienceMyanmar Movie“Servant of Love”

7:00 am 1. Metta Bhavana By

Mingun Sayadaw-Uppatasanti Paritta

7:50 am 2. Nice and Sweet Song8:20 am 3. Dance of Thingyan

Festival11:00 am 4. Martial Song11:35 am 5. How it’s Works12:00 pm6 . Myanmar Video2:10 pm7. International News4:25 pm8. Dance Of National

Races4:35 pm9. Dance of Thingyan

Festival5:00 pm10. Songs For

Upholding NationalSpirit

5:05 pm11. Dance of Thingyan

Festival6:20 pm12. Cartoon Series7:00 pm13. TV Drama Series8:00 pm14. News15. Cartoon Series16. New Melody

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

Weather forecast for 8th April, 2012Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas

CSC ISSUED: Head of Tamway Township Immigrationand National Registration Department U Sein Win andstaff, ByaingyeOhsin Ward administrator U Soe Myint

and party supervise issuance of citizenship scrutiny cardsto eligible citizens in the ward on 28 March in line with

Moe Pwint-2 Plan.—MYANMA ALIN

Correct data, sown acreageinspected in Mawlamyinegyun

MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 7April—With a view toensuring correct data for landplots and sown acreage,Assistant Director U TheinZaw of Labutta DistrictSettlement and LandRecords Department andparty met with Head ofTownship SLRD U Han MyoWin and staff at the townshipoffice in MawlamyinegyunTownship on 21 March

morning.The assistant director

inspected progress of works.The assistant director

and party went to TechaungVillage-tract of the townshipand inspected undertakingsof correct data and sownacreage. Head of TownshipSLRD U Han Myo Winreported on work process andits progress.

Myanma Alin

Answer for Yesterday’sCrossword Puzzle

Tottenham felt aggrievedthat Phil Bardsley andMichael Turner got awaywith handballs in the box,the first from a goalboundEmmanuel Adebayor header.

Rafael van der Vaart hadtwo half chances for thevisitors, who have lost someof their verve since managerHarry Redknapp was madethe bookmakers’ favouritefor the vacant England job.

In-form NewcastleUnited, who won 2-0 atSwansea City on Friday togo fifth, are three pointsbehind Spurs while Chelseaare also pushing for thirdand host Wigan Athleticlater.

E i g h t h - p l a c e dSunderland, flying sincemanager Martin O’Neill tookover in December, had theirown penalty shout when theball clipped Scott Parker onthe arm but the referee wasagain unmoved.—Internet

Spurs held to goalless drawat Sunderland

LONDON, 7 April—Tottenham Hotspur suffereda potential blip in their pursuitof third spot in the PremierLeague after a dire 0-0 drawat Sunderland on Saturday.

The point put Spurs intothe last automaticChampions League spot butArsenal can move back intothird with a draw at home tosecond-placed ManchesterCity on Sunday.

Both sides struggled tocreate any clearcutopportunities but

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Other ResultsBolton 0 - 3 FulhamChelsea 2 - 1 WiganLiverapool 1 - 1 A VillaNorwich 2 - 2 EvertonWBA 3 - 0 BlackburnStoke 2 - 1 Wolves

Sr. No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Likelihood of scattered rain or thundershowers Percent

1 Kachin 26/79 18/64 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

2 Kayah 31/88 16/61 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

3 Kayin 35/95 22/72 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

4 Chin 24/75 10/50 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

5 Upper Sagaing 28/82 17/83 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

6 Lower Sagaing 39/102 19/66 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

7 Taninthayi 35/95 22/72 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

8 Bago 36/97 24/75 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

9 Magway 39/102 22/72 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

10 Mandalay 39/102 21/70 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

11 Mon 35/95 24/75 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

12 Yangon 36/97 24/75 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

13 Rakhine 33/91 25/77 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

14 Southern Shan 26/79 14/57 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

15 Northern Shan 31/88 15/59 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

16 Eastern Shan 34/93 17/63 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

17 Ayeyawady 36/97 26/77 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 37/99 20/68 Isolated to scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 36/97 24/75 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 37/102 21/70 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, weather has been partly cloudy in Ayeyawady Region and Rakhine State, rain or thundershowers has been isolated in Yangon Region, Chin and Kayin States, scattered in Lower Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway, Bago and Taninthayi Regions, Shan, Kayah and Mon States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with isolated heavy falls in Lower Sagaing Regions.Day temperatures were (3°C) above April average temperatures Chin States, (5°C) below April average temperatures in Kachin State and about April average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant day temperatures were Chauk and Minbu (41°C) each. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana) and Nay Pyi Taw (Lawe) (0.59) inch each, Pyay (1.93)inahes,Katha and Seikthar(1.77) inches each, Minkin (1.73) inches, Minesat (1.42) inches, Myeik (1.30) inches, Kyeikmayaw(1.14) inches, Kanbalu and Bawlakhe (1.06) inches each and Kalay (0.79) .

Bay Inference Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy in the Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay and partly cloudy eleswhere in

the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squall with modente to rough Seas are likely at time off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed in

squall may reach(30) to (35). Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Scattered rain or thundershowers in the Upper Myanmar areas.

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Sunday, 8 April, 20122nd Waning of Tagu 1373 ME

YANGON, 7 April—With the aim ofchoosing tentatively selected players andnurturing new generation swimmers for theXXVII SEA Games, the Myanmar SwimmingFederation will hold the record settingswimming contests at the National SwimmingPool on U Wisara Road, here, on 24, 25 and 26April.

The contests will include the U-13 juniornew generation, U 13-24 senior men’s andwomen’s contests.

Record setting swimming contests24-26 April

The contests will include 50, 100, 200, 400,800 and 1500 metres age-wise free style event,50, 100 and 200 metres backstroke, breaststrokeand butterfly events and 200 and 400 metressingles’ four-style event.

Those wishing to take part in the contestmay enlist the federation (National SwimmingPool), not later than 12 noon on 23 April. Forfurther information, dial 378550, 09-73054044and 09-43114947.

MNA

Dailies to be in circulation alternativelyon New Year holidays

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April — The MyanmaAlin daily, the Kyemon daily and the NewLight of Myanmar daily published by theNews and Periodicals Enterprise of theMinistry of Information will be incirculation alternatively during theMyanmar New Year holidays.

The Myanma Alin and the New Lightof Myanmar will be in circulation on 11, 12,

13, 14 and 15 April while the Kyemon dailystops its circulation on those days.

The Kyemon daily will be in circulationon 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 April while the MyanmaAlin daily and the New Light of Myanmardaily stop their circulation on those days.

Starting from 21 April, all dailies willbe in regular circulation.

MNA

YANGON, 7 April—The basic summer bowling sportcourse 2012 concluded at the hall of Right Track Bowling onU Ba Kyaw Road in Tamway Township, here, yesterdaymorning.

At first, the trainees demonstrated their skills.Officials presented completion certificates to the

trainees.—MNA

Basic summer bowling sportcourse concludes

Man who handed over hisantiques rewarded

Noteworthy amounts ofrainfall (7-4-2012)

Nay Pyi Taw (Pyinmana) (0.59) inchNay Pyi Taw (Lewe) (0.59) inchPyay (1.93) inchesKatha (1.77) inchesSeiktha (1.77) inchesMingin (1.73) inchesMonghsat (1.42) inchesMyeik (1.30) inchesKyaikmaraw (1.14) inchesKanbalu (1.06) inchesBawlake (1.06) inchesKalay (0.79) inch

NAY PYI TAW, 7 April —U Myint Aung living inInywagyi Village,Taungdwingyi Township,Magway Region, handedover a bronze lion scale and31 pieces of colourfuljewellery to theArchaeology, NationalMuseum and LibraryDepartment (Nay Pyi Taw).

According to the studyof the objects by an ancientobject assessment board, it

has been found that thebronze lion scale is the workof Hanthawady Period whilethe 31 pieces of colourfuljewellery are the works of PyuPeriod. So, owner U MyintAung was rewarded K 87300on 20 March.

The department iscollecting ancient culturalobjects and rewarding thosewho hand over those objectswith handsome cash awards

MNA

Dams supplying irrigation water,drinking water, enhancing

agricultural sector in Bago RegionPAGE 7

Dramatic late Mata winner keeps Blues inChampions League hunt aftercontroversial Ivanovic opener

Juan Mata (10)grabs an injurytime winner for

Chelsea athome toWigan.

INTERNET

LONDON, 7 April—JuanMata scored a stoppage-timewinner to sink strugglingWigan and strengthenChelsea’s hopes of a top-four finish.

Branislav Ivanovic wasin an offside position whenhe put Chelsea ahead incontroversial circumstancesafter a floated pass by RaulMeireles.

Mohamed Diameappeared to have earned thevisitors a priceless point whenhe netted from the edge of thearea.

But Chelsea securedvictory through Mata afterfellow Spaniard FernandoTorres hit the post.

It was tough on theLatics, who remain anchoredin the relegation zone, but

manager Roberto Martinezwill be confident his side canstill escape the drop if theycan produce this level ofperformance in their remainingsix games.

While Wigan provedthey were no pushoversduring a battling first-halfperformance, Chelseaappeared to be suffering aChampions League hangover

following their quarter-finalvictory over Benfica.

They were sluggishbefore Maynor Figueroa’s38th-minute clearance off theline frustrated Didier Drogbaon his return, one of sevenchanges to the side thatplayed in midweek.

Michael Essien wasbooked for a cynical foul onVictor Moses before Drogbawent close with a low shotfrom the edge of the areawhich flashed narrowly wideof the Wigan post.

Then in the dyingmoments of the first half, Al-Habsi clawed away Drogba’sgoal-bound header fromclose range after the IvoryCoast striker had connectedwith Florent Malouda’steasing cross.

Internet

Use of common pesticide, imidacloprid,linked to bee colony collapse

WASHINGTON, 7 April—The likely culprit in sharpworldwide declines inhoneybee colonies since2006 is imidacloprid, one ofthe most widely usedpesticides, according to anew study from HarvardSchool of Public Health(HSPH). The authors, led by

below what is normallypresent in the environment.”Pinpoin-ting the cause of theproblem is crucial becausebees— beyond producinghoney — are prime pollinatorsof roughly one-third of thecrop species in the US,including fruits, vegetables,nuts, and livestock feed suchas alfalfa and clover. Massiveloss of honeybees could resultin billions of dollars inagricultural losses, expertsestimate. Lu and his co-authors hypothesized thatthe uptick in CCD resultedfrom the presence ofimidacloprid, a neonicotinoidintroduced in the early 1990s.Bees can be exposed in twoways: through nectar fromplants or through high-fructose corn syrupbeekeepers use to feed theirbees. Over a 23-week period,they monitored bees in fourdifferent bee yards; each yardhad four hives treated withdifferent levels ofimidacloprid and one controlhive. After 12 weeks ofimidacloprid dosing, all thebees were alive. But after 23weeks, 15 out of 16 of theimidacloprid-treated hives —94% — had died. Thoseexposed to the highest levelsof the pesticide died first.

Internet

Alex Lu write that the newresearch provides “convin-cing evidence” of the linkbetween imidacloprid and thephenomenon known asColony Collapse Disorder(CCD), in which adult beesabandon their hives.

“The significance of beesto agriculture cannot beunderestimated,” says Lu.“And it apparently doesn’ttake much of the pesticide toaffect the bees. Our experimentincluded pesticide amounts

Honeybee on knapweed.The likely culprit in sharpworldwide declines inhoneybee colonies since2006 is imidacloprid, oneof the most widely usedpesticides.

Bronze lion scale and 31 pieces of colourful jewelleryhanded over to Archaeology, National Museum and Library Department (Nay Pyi Taw).—MNA

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