the new light of myanmar 03-09-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 140 Fullmoon Day of Tawthalin 1371 ME Thursday, 3 September, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-rounddevelopment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participa-tion in terms of technical know-how and invest-ments from sources inside the country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must bekept in the hands of the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity and pres-ervation and safeguarding of cultural heritageand national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education standards

of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace and tran-quillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Constitution* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives

Four social objectives

Four political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 2Sept—Lt-Gen Ko Ko ofthe Ministry of Defence,accompanied byChairman of RakhineState Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of WesternCommand Maj-GenThaung Aye and officials,on 27 August inspectedsanitation and beautifying

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defencecontinues inspection tour of Rakhine State

tasks at the jetties alongStrand Road in Kyaukpyuand docking of trawlers.

At the hall of thetownship, he met withdepartmental officials,social organizationmembers and local people.Lt-Gen Ko Ko heardreports on development ofthe township presented byan official and explained

regional developmentmatters.

Next, Lt-Gen Ko Kopresented exercisebooks, uniforms forsocial organizations andbooks and thecommander, cashassistance to officials.They looked intodevelopment of the urbanarea by car.

At the station hall,he met with servicemenand family members andpresented gifts to them.

At Zediya Village,Lt-Gen Ko Ko and partyvisited the cold storageof Asia Shwe Pazun Ltdand maintenance ofK y a u k y u - M i n b y i n -Yanbye Road.

(See page 7)

Aloes wood trees grown on avast scale in Kachin State

Byline: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Some 30-year-old aloes wood trees in Shwekhet Village, Myitkyina Township.

Kachin State is rich in gems and forest resources.So, it is a land of aloes wood as well as herbal plants,Machit tubers, Khantauk roots and ginseng roots ofwhich are very potent. In addition, Kachin State’s

aloes wood oil is the best and the most effective of itskind at the global level.

Our news crew from the Myanma Alin, under theleadership of Dr Kalya Lu of the Botanical Department

of Myitkyina University, recently paid a visit to NgwePyaw Aloes Wood Trees Farm in Kachin State that isworking hard to revive aloes wood tree that is on theverge of extinction. (See page 7)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Thursday, 3 September, 2009

Thursday, 3 September, 2009* Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views* Oppose those trying to jeopardize stability of the State and progress of the nation* Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State* Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

People’s DesirePERSPECTIVES

Strive for regional andnational development basedon peace and stability

The Union of Myanmar is a country wherea variety of national races reside throughthick and thin. Being a country that is mainlybased on essence of a society there prevailunity, loving-kindness and understanding inthe country.

The entire national races are well awareof the fact that national solidarity isindispensable for perpetuation of the Union.Lessons from the past history have stoodwitness to that. Based on the past experiences,the government is taking all necessarymeasures in all seriousness assessing the past,present and future conditions of the nation.

In an effort to build the nation into amodern, developed and discipline-flourishingone the government has been building a largenumber of roads and bridges throughout thenation. As a result, all the regions includingborder areas are now enjoying the fruits ofbetter transport. Meanwhile, major bridges,Union highways, new airports and jetties,which were just a dream in the past, haveemerged across the nation.

With the prevalence of peace and stability,the national brethren can travel from oneplace to another and trade in the region is infull swing.

Peace and stability plays a pivotal role inthe development of a region. Only when thereis peace and stability along with prevalenceof law and order in the region, will the socio-economic status of local people improve.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon the entirenational races to do their bit in the drive forthe emergence of a peaceful, modern anddeveloped nation with Union Spirit andnationalistic spirit.

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—The coordination meetingon cultivation of monsoon paddy in Mandalay Divisionwas held at the meeting hall of Mandalay DivisionPDC Office in Aungmyaythazan Township on 27August with an address by Chairman of MandalayDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof Central Command Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe.

On 28 August, the commander attended the seed

Commander attends monsoon paddy cultivation coord meeting

H & T Minister receives Ambassador of ROKNAY PYI TAW, 2

Sept—Minister for Hotelsand Tourism Maj-GenSoe Naing receivedAmbassador of theRepublic of Korea Mr.Park Key-Chong andparty at the ministry heretoday.

At the meeting,they discussed bilateralcooperation on boostingthe tourism sectorbetween the twocountries.—MNA

SWRR Minister inspects Central Depot

YANGON, 1 Sept—Secretary of NaturalDisaster Preparedness

mittee Minister for SocialWelfare, Relief andResettlement Maj-GenMaung Maung Swe thisafternoon inspected thestorage of aid donatedby home and abroad

Technology of CHIGO Air-Conditioner explained

Central Committee Chair-man of Reconstruction andRehabilitation Subcom-

wellwishers for NargisCyclone victims at theCentral Depot inMayangon Townshiphere and coordinatedessentials.

MNA

YANGON, 2 Sept—M.C.G Co Ltd, soleagent of CHIGO brandair-conditioners in

Myanmar, organized aceremony at TradersHotel on Sule PagodaRoad here yesterday

evening in which hightechnologies of Japanmade residential andcommercial air

conditioners wereexplained.

Vice RegionalGeneral Manager Mr

Xiaomemgwen of South-East Asia Area OverseaCommercial MarketingDepartment, ChiefEngineer Mr Hezhenbingof Gaungdong ChigoAirconditioning Co Ltdreplied to the queries ofthose present.

CHIGO air con-ditioners of M.C. GCompany market arequality ones with latestdesign and technology ofJapan. The company alsoprovides after sale

service—three yearwarranty with freeaccessories and repairservice in first one yearand free repair service inlast two years. CHIGOair conditioners areavailable at wholesalecentres in townships andHead Office at No.216.Ground Floor, 38th Street(Upper), Kyauk-tadaTownship, Yangon,Ph:373472, 705060, 09-5066939, 09-5176789.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Soe Naing receives Ambassador of ROK to MyanmarMr Park Key-Chong.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe inspects Central Depot in Mayangon Township.SOCIAL WELFARE

ChiefEngineer MrHezhenbing

ofGaungdong

ChigoAircondition-ing Co., Ltd

replies toquaries

raised bythose

present.MNA

broadcasting and rainy season tree planting ceremonyheld at Yankintaung in Patheingyi Township andsowed the seeds and grew the plants.

Next, the commander addressed coordinationmeeting on holding the 17th Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing Arts Competitions at the meetinghall of Mandalay Division PDC Office.

MNA

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File photo shows policemen and security guards inspect the site of atruck bomb attack targeted at the Iraqi Finance Ministry in Baghdad.

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Lal Mohammad, 40,whose part of nose andears were cut off by theTaleban on the Afghan

presidential andprovincial council

election day, receivestreatment in a hospitalin Kabul, Afghanistan,

on 31 Aug, 2009.INTERNET

An injured man is broughtto the general hospital inthe northeastern town of

Baquba, 60 kms fromBaghdad after a roadside

bomb exploded there last week.

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An Afghan boy harvests opium in a poppy field as US Marines patrol a villagein the Golestan district of Farah Province in this 5 May, 2009 file photo.

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Next phase in Afghanistanmay require more troopsWASHINGTON, 2 Sept—More troops and a new

strategy for using them are emerging as criticalcomponents to the 8-year-old effort by US and NATOforces to defeat the Taleban and secure Afghanistan.

Defence Secretary Robert Gates, acknowledgingbright spots but also “gloom and doom” in a new assessmentof the war, said on Monday the Obama administrationwould look closely at requests for resources.

Asking for more troops is not part of the classifiedassessment delivered by Gen Stanley McChrystal, thetop commander in Afghanistan, according to officials.However, he is expected to ask for more troops in aseparate request in a few weeks, two NATO officialstold The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.They were not authorized to speak publicly on thematter.—Internet

Bomb kills USservice memberin Afghanistan

KABUL, 2 Sept—An Americanservice member died on Tuesdayof wounds suffered in a bombingthe day before in southernAfghanistan, the US command said.

The death was the first for theUS in September and comes afterthe deadliest month of the eight-year Afghan war for Americantroops. At least 49 US troops diedin Afghanistan in August,according to a count by TheAssociated Press based on officialannouncements.—Internet

Iraq death toll hits 13-month high in August

Most Americans oppose more troopsfor Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, 2 Sept—A majority of Americansthink the country isn’twinning the war inAfghanistan , and an evenlarger majority opposessending more troops in aneffort to turn thingsaround, according to anew McClatchy / Ipsospoll.

The survey found that54 percent of Americansthink the US isn’t winningthe war, while 29 percent

think it is winning.Another 17 percentweren’t sure or had noopinion.

At the same time, 56percent oppose sendingany more combat troopsto Afghanistan , while 35percent support sendingmore troops. Another 9percent had no opinion orweren’t sure.

The skepticism aboutthe war and the oppositionto sending more troops

underscore the politicaldilemma that PresidentBarack Obama faces ashe heads to a Camp Davidretreat on Wednesdaywith a copy of a new reporton Afghanistan that urgesa new strategy for the warthere. Senior Pentagonofficials are expected torequest as many as 45,000additional Americantroops in a separate reportlater this month.

Internet

BAGHDAD, 2 Sept—Violent deaths in Iraq hita 13-month high inAugust, official figuresshowed on Tuesday,raising fresh concernsabout the country’sstability after agovernment admissionthat security is worsening.

Statistics compiled bythe defence, interior andhealth ministries showedthat 456 people — 393

civilians, 48 police and15 Iraqi soldiers — werekilled, the highest tollsince July last year when465 died in unrest.

There were also 1,592civilians, 129 police and20 soldiers wounded inAugust, according toTuesday’s figures. Augustalso saw 52 militantskilled and 540 arrested.The toll in August jumpedmarkedly from the 275

Iraqis who lost their livesin July, in the wake of amajor pullout of UScombat troops from urbancentres the previousmonth.

The weeks leading upto the 30 June withdrawalof American forces fromIraq’s cities, towns andvillages also saw a spikein violence, with 437people dying thatmonth.—Internet

NATO Invasion of US and allies kills,injures Iraqi people

BAGHDAD, 2 Sept—There has been daily casualties in Iraq since the US andits allies have invaded the country.

Casualties of Iraqi peopleThe total number of casualties as from the day they invaded the country to 2

September reached 698,481 and the total number of serious injured peoplereached 1,258,854, according to the news on the internet.

No. Subject Number1. Death toll of Iraqi people 698,4812. The total number of seriously injured people 1,258,854

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Casualties of Afghan people in invasion ofNATO troops led by US

KABUL, 2 Sept—The NATO troops led by the US have invaded Afghanistanand they are there for a long time.

A number of Afghan people are killed and injured due to invasion of theNATO troops led by the US.

Casualties of Afghan peopleAccording to the Internet news, a total of 31,694 Afghan people were killed

and 37,320 injured seriously as from the day when the NATO troops led by theUS invaded Afghanistan to 2 September.

No. Subject Number1. Number of Afghan people killed 31,6942. Seriously injured Afghan people 37,320

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Elementary school children visit a truck which has a room imitating thesituation after the earthquake at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on 1

Sept, 2009. People across Japan, including rescue crews, participated indisaster drills on the disaster prevention day, which marks the anniversary of

the deadly 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.—XINHUA

Dengue patients take a rest inside San Lazaro hospital in Manilaon 2 September, 2009. The rapid growth of crowded cities has helped spread

and increase the transmission of dengue around the world, health experts saidon Tuesday, warning up to 3 billion people were already at risk.—INTERNET

TEHERAN, 2 Sept—Iran’s top nuclear negotia-tor offered an opening onTuesday for possiblecompromise with theWest, saying the Islamicregime is ready to holdtalks with world powersover its nuclear pro-gramme. But Iranian law-makers also sent a mes-sage of defiance to theworld community — dis-playing strong support forPresident MahmoudAhmadinejad’s nomineefor defence minister eventhough he is wanted by

A wildfire burns near homes during the Station Fire in La Crescenta, Calif,on 1 Sept, 2009.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 2 Sept—Firefighters reported pro-gress on Tuesday againsta gigantic blaze on theedge of Los Angeles thatmight be just a preview ofeven greater dangersahead. The peak SouthernCalifornia fire seasonhasn’t even started yet.

Nuclear negotiator: Iranready for talks with West

Argentina for the bomb-ing of a Jewish commu-nity centre in 1994 thatkilled 85 people. Someparliament members cried“Death to Israel” as theprospective defence min-ister, Gen Ahmad Vahidi,addressed the chamber onthe eve of a vote for all ofAhmadinejad’s selectionsfor his 21-seat cabinet.

The embattled presi-dent faces another key testin Wednesday’s expectedvote. Many lawmakers —including some formerconservative allies —

have questioned thecaliber of his picks for thegovernment posts, whichinclude the first womennamed for possible Cabi-net seats since the 1979Islamic Revolution.

The rejection of severalprominent nominees bythe parliament would beanother setback forAhmadinejad, who hasfaced increasingly politicalisolation for his unwaver-ing support of the hard-linecrackdown on protestersafter his disputed on 12June election.—Internet

BRUSSELS, 2 Sept— The European Union urged USlawmakers on Tuesday to ensure the United Statesmakes deep cuts in carbon emissions as part of nego-tiations to reach a new global climate change accord.

Sweden’s Environment Minister Andreas Carlgrensaid the 27-nation bloc, as well as the United Statesand other developed countries, “should deliver” onpromises to cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050, from1990 levels.

“It’s the real substance of credibility that will bejudged,” Carlgren told reporters after talks with law-makers at the European Parliament.—Internet

CARACAS, 2 Sept— Ven-ezuelan President HugoChavez announced the sec-ond South America-AfricaSummit (SAAS) would beheld on 26 and 27 Sept onVenezuela’s Margarita Is-land, the Presidency re-ported on Tuesday.

He made the an-nouncement at the AfricanUnion (AU) Special Sum-mit, according to informa-tion reaching here fromTripoli, Libya, whereChavez is visiting.

During the SAASsummit, Chavez willpresent several proposalsto strengthen coordinationbetween the memberstates of the Union ofSouth American Nationsand African countries.

Xinhua

2nd SouthAmerica-AfricaSummit to be

held inVenezuela

Huge wildfire portends bad Calif fire seasonThe worst fires typi-

cally flare up in the fall,when ferocious Santa Anawinds can drive fires outof wilderness areas andinto suburbs. As a result,Southern California couldbe in for a long wildfireseason.

“When you see a fire

burning like this, with noSanta Ana winds, weknow that with the winds,it would be so muchworse, so much more in-tense,” said Los AngelesCounty fire Capt MarkWhaling.—Internet

MANILA, 2 Sept— ThePhilippine president of-fered her country’s help intraining the Somali coastguard, saying on Tuesdayshe fears another surge inpirate attacks off Somaliathat have targeted shipswith hundreds of Filipinocrew.

President GloriaMacapagal Arroyo, whowas attending the AfricanUnion summit in Libya,expressed fear that pirateattacks will pick up as theEast African monsoonwas about to end.

EU presses US on climate change

SINGAPORE, 2 Sept— Preparations are well underwayas Singapore gears up to host the Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation (APEC) Leaders Week Meetings from 8to 15 Nov, the meetings’ organizing committee said onTuesday. Members of the 11 government agencies ofthe 2009 APEC Organizing Committee are putting theirplans into place, in the areas of meeting venues, ac-commodation, transportation, security, medical, mediacoverage and hospitality arrangements.

“APEC 2009 is a collective effort by the public,private and people sectors of Singapore,” said KohLin-Net, Deputy Secretary/Trade, Ministry of Tradeand Industry and Chair of the APEC Singapore 2009Organizing Committee.—Xinhua

Singapore gears up to hostAPEC leaders week meetings

Philippines offers training for Somali coast guard“This is one issue

where it is crucial for Af-rica to work together tobring peace and order inthe affected areas off thecoast of Somalia,” shesaid in a speech to Fili-pino workers in Libya, acopy of which was re-leased in Manila.

The Philippines sup-plies about 30 percent ofthe world’s 1.2 millionmerchant sailors, and 42Filipino seafarers remainin the hands of Somali pi-rates. Another 347 havebeen freed by pirates

since 2006, according tothe Department of For-eign Affairs.

In her meeting withSomali President SheikSharif Sheik Ahmed onthe sidelines of the sum-mit, Arroyo said the Phili-ppines has expertise inhuman resources develop-ment and offered to helptrain Somalia’s coastguard and government of-ficials. She said the build-ing of strong institutionswas one way to help So-malia fight piracy.

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Pupils dressed in ancient student clothes go to classroom under the leading of ateacher during a traditional enrolling ceremony held at Ziyang Elementary

School in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 1 Sept, 2009. —XINHUA

Economists expect bettereconomy data for SingaporeSINGAPORE, 2 Sept—Pri-

vate sector economists inSingapore said that thecountry’s economy islikely to do better than theinitial estimate, local me-dia reported on Wednes-day. According to a surveyby the Monetary Author-ity of Singapore (MAS),economists project thatthe country’s gross do-mestic product (GDP) will

shrink 3.6 percent thisyear, local TV broadcasterChannel News Asia re-ported.

The government had es-timated that the economicgrowth forecast for 2009will be at minus 6.0 tominus 4.0 percent.

The improvement insentiment comes on theback of more positive fig-ures from the manufactur-

ing sector, which is ex-pected to see a full yearcontraction of 7.1 percent,compared to a 14 percentcontraction projected inthe previous survey.

Economists also saidthey expect Singapore’sGDP to contract by 3 per-cent in the third quarter,compared to the earlierprojection of a 6.6 percentdecline.—Xinhua

Putin, Tymoshenko agree on gas,aircraft making amid diplomatic spat

WEC calls for global ruleson energy trade

LONDON, 2 Sept—Clearer international rules gov-erning energy trade and investment are needed, theWorld Energy Council said in London on Monday.

The World Energy Council (WEC) published a newreport, named Trade and Investment Rules for Energy,offering a critical analysis of rules of energy trade.

In the 42-page report, the WEC expressed concernover trade in energy and energy services, which werecritical to economic development and internationalsecurity.

But the restrictions and border tariffs were a grow-ing problem as governments tried to cut the produc-tion of greenhouse gases and coped with the effects ofslower economic growth, according to the report.

Xinhua

Brazil, India, S Africa to boost trade ties via agreementsBRASILIA, 2 Sept—Brazil, India and South Africa announced their plans on Tues-

day to boost trilateral trade ties via negotiations aimed at reaching agreements toincrease trade flow to 25 billion US dollars by 2015.

The three countries now have an annual trilateral trade flow of10 billion dollars.The announcement was made jointly by Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso

Amorim, Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna and South African Foreign Minis-ter Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who were attending the 6th India, Brazil and SouthAfrica (IBSA) Ministerial Commission meeting.—Xinhua

Foreign companies can stillinvest in Brazil’s pre-salt reserves

RIO DE JANEIRO, 2 Sept—The new regulations forexploring Brazil’s pre-salt layer oil and gas reserveswill not exclude foreign companies’ participation, thehead of the country’s oil and gas giant said on Tues-day. The new exploration model presented on Mon-day makes Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil andgas giant, the operator of all pre-salt blocks.

According to Jose Sergio Gabrielli, the company’sCEO, the future bidding processes will be as transpar-ent as they are now, and foreign companies will befree to participate in the exploration of Brazil’s exten-sive pre-salt reserves.

Due to the scarceness of future oil reserves, increas-ing governmental control of the sector can now be seenas a worldwide trend, said Gabrielli.—Xinhua

Chinese oil company inks deal withQatar to explore offshore block

KUWAIT CITY, 2 Sept—A subsidiary of China NationalOffshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) inked an agree-ment with Qatar Petroleum to explore an offshore blockof the Gulf country, the Qatar News Agency reportedon Tuesday. The report said the total term of the agree-ment is for 25 years with an initial five-year explora-tion period when three wells are to be dug up at BlockBC with an estimated cost of 100 million US dollars.

The subsidiary, the CNOOC Middle East, is com-mitted to conduct seismic data acquisition, processingand drilling of exploration wells under the terms of theagreement, a press release from the oil giant said. BlockBC (pre-Khuff) is located on an oil-rich area east of thecountry which is estimated to have huge explorationpotential. “The Block BC exploration accord is one ofa series of Exploration and Production Sharing Agree-ments (EPSA) that Qatar Petroleum has signed withinternational oil companies to explore and developQatar’s oil and gas resources,” said Abdullah bin Hamadal-Attiya, Qatari deputy prime minister and minister ofenergy and industry, after signing of the deal. —Xinhua

Decorated ships are sent out to tour the harbor during a sacrifice ceremony inTanmen Harbor in Qionghai City of south China’s Hainan Province,

on 1 Sept, 2009. A sacrifice ceremony for the sea was held here on Tuesday toimpetrate good weather and harvest for the local fishermen. —XINHUA

MOSCOW, 2 Sept—Rus-sian Prime MinisterVladimir Putin and hisUkrainian counterpartYulia Tymoshenko heldtalks on Tuesday amid anew diplomatic row overa Russian Black Sea Fleetlighthouse.

During the meeting, thetwo leaders agreed thatUkraine will only pay forgas it actually consumes,rather than what it has or-dered from Russia.

They also discussed thepossibility to restore theirjoint aircraft projects thatboth sides have suspendedfunding. The meeting oc-curred on Tuesday after-noon in the northern Polishcity of Sopot, on the side-lines of activities markingthe 70th anniversary of thestart of the European warsin World War II.

After talks with Putin,Tymoshenko told reportersthat Kiev and Moscow

have almost overcometheir differences over natu-ral gas supplies, and Kievwill only pay for gas it ac-tually consumes, ratherthan what it has ordered asstipulated in the gas con-tracts. “In my view, we canalready say that we haveremoved all of the gasproblems,” said theUkrainian premier, asquoted by Russia’s RIANovosti news agency. “It isvery important that ournext meeting will takeplace in October, as wehave planned,” she said ascited by the Itar-Tass newsagency.—Xinhua

Visitors attend theFifth Northeast Asia

Investment and TradeExpo in Changchun,capital of northeast

China’s Jilin Province,on 1 Sept, 2009.

XINHUA

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NEWS ALBUMAncient burial site discovered in northern Greece

Remains of two large ancient silvervessels found in Aigai, northernGreece, are seen in this undatedhandout image provided by the

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Archaeologists said Friday theyhave unearthed a lavish burial site atthe seat of the ancient Macedoniankings in northern Greece, heighteninga 2,300-year-old mystery of murder andpolitical intrigue.

NH man snares rare, cobalt-blue lobsterAt first, New Hampshire lobsterman Bill Marconi thought he had caught a

shiny blue beer can in his trap. It turns out it was a rare, cobalt-blue lobster. The52-year-old lobsterman was out hauling 400 traps with his son on Wednesdaywhen he snared the 1 1/2-pound lobster in between his dock and the Isle of Shoals,about six miles off the coast.

New England Aquarium Research Director Mike Tlusty told Foster’s DailyDemocrat only one in 5 million lobsters are blue.

Tlusty said blue lobsters are different in that they are better at processingastaxanthin, an antioxidant with a red pigment derived from algae.

The substance bonds with proteins in the lobster’s shell, resulting in the bluepigment.

Marconi donated his lobster to the Seacoast Science Center.

Twenty-five shell beads excavated inMorocco suggest people were wearingand possibly trading jewelry 80,000years ago, archaeologists said.

The beads found at four sites inMorocco are similar to beads foundpreviously in Algeria, Israel and SouthAfrica, the European Science Founda-tion reported on Friday.

The Moroccan shells have holes drilledthrough the center and some have signs ofpigmentation and prolonged wear, saidFrancesco d’Errico, a director at the FrenchNational Center for Scientific Research.“Either people went to sea and collectedthem, or more likely marine shell beadshelped create and maintain exchangenetworks between coastal and inlandpeoples,” d’Errico said.

New marine life foundin mile-long cave

A crustacean with poisonous fangsand no eyes has been discovered in anunderwater cave in the Canary Islands,researchers in Texas said.

Tom Iliffe, a marine biologist atTexas A&M, Galveston, discovered thecrustacean, and worms smaller than agrain of rice, in a mile-long underwatercave in Lanzarote, the university saidin a release on Friday.

An African Lion yawns next to alioness in the Maasai Mara,

approximately 400 kilometressouthwest of Nairobi, in 2006.

The find in the ruins of Aigai came afew metres (yards) from last year’sremarkable discovery of what could be thebones of Alexander the Great’s murderedteenage son, according to one expert.

Archaeologists are puzzled becauseboth sets of remains were buried undervery unusual circumstances: Althoughcemeteries existed near the site, thebones were taken from an unknown firstresting place and re-interred, against allancient convention, in the heart of thecity.

Excavator Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli said in an interview that thebones found this week were inside oneof two large silver vessels unearthed inthe ancient city’s marketplace, close tothe theater where Alexander’s father,King Philip II, was murdered in 336 BC.

Ancient beads discoveredin Morocco

This high-speed train is about tomake the trip by sea from the

German island of Ruegen to Russiaon board the ferry “Vilnius”. It’s thefifth of a total of eight Velaro RUS

trains being supplied by the Germancompany Siemens under a contract

worth 276 million euros($397 million).

A police expert carries debris following an

explosion outside the Athens stock exchange

on 2 September, 2009. A bomb in a car exploded

outside the stock exchange on Wednesday,

slightly wounding one woman, damaging the

building and setting eight vehicles ablaze, Greek

police said.

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ATHENS, 2 Sept—Greek police say a bombhas exploded outside theAthens Stock Exchange,lightly injuring a passer-by, and at second blastoccured at a governmentbuilding in the northerncity of Thessaloniki.

The stock exchange

WELLINGTON, 2 Sept— An Air New Zealand pas-senger plane flying from Auckland to Christchurchmade an emergency landing in Wellington on Wednes-day afternoon following reports of smoke in the cabin.

Flight NZ535, carrying 95 passengers, landed safelyabout 4:00 pm local time after the pilot called foremergency services to be on hand at the airport, Ra-dio New Zealand reported on Wednesday.

The Fire Service said fire fighters were put onstand-by at 3:25 pm and the plane landed 10 minuteslater without incident.

An Air New Zealand spokeswoman said smoke wassmelt in the cabin, so the plane was diverted.

Passengers disembarked and have been told otherarrangements are being made to get them toChristchurch, and engineers are inspecting the Boeing737.

The Wellington Airport said the pilot stood theemergency down after landing safely.

Xinhua

RIO DE JANEIRO, 2 Sept—The deforestation rate inBrazil’s Amazon rainforest region in July went up by44 percent from June and 157 percent compared withJune 2008, a Brazilian institute announced on Tues-day.

According to the National Institute of Space Re-search, the deforested area, which is 836.5 square km,equals half the size of Sao Paulo, the largest city inSouth America.

Para state in the north of the country registered thehighest deforestation in July with 577 square km, al-most 70 percent of the total deforested area.

During the January-July period of this year, the ac-cumulated deforestation area reached 1,958 square km,down 60 percent from the same period in 2008.

Xinhua

BEIJING, 2 Sept—China will showcase fivenew types of domesticallydesigned missiles at the 1Oct National Day parade,a leading missile expertfrom the Second ArtilleryForce, revealed on Tues-day.

A number of advancedweapons of air and seaforces will also be on dis-play, other sources said.

Five types of missiles,including nuclear inter-continental ballistic mis-siles, conventional cruise

Bomb explodes at Athens bourse,one woman hurt

blast early Wednesdayblew out windows at thebourse and a neighbour-ing car dealership, anddamaged parked cars andtrees, police said.

The explosion followeda warning call to an Ath-ens newspaper.

No group has claimedresponsibility for the attack.

A second bomb ex-ploded outside a minis-try building in Thessa-loniki, causing minordamage and no injury,police said.

Internet

Plane forced to make emergencylanding in Wellington

Deforestation in Brazil’s AmazonRainforest up 157% in July

Five types of missiles to debut on National Daymissiles and medium-range and short-rangeconventional missiles,will be displayed for thefirst time at the highly an-ticipated military parade,said the expert, whoasked to remain anony-mous and has beenclosely following thepreparations of the strate-gic force of the People’sLiberation Army (PLA).

“These missiles aredomestically designedand manufactured andhave never been offi-

cially reported before,”he said, adding that theybelong to a second gen-eration of missiles thathave already been dis-tributed to the militaryand are ready for opera-tion.

He declined to dis-close the model numbersof the missiles, citingstate-secrecy reasons.

Xinhua

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Aloes wood trees grown on a vast scale in Kachin StateByline: Myint Maung Soe; Photos: Myo Min Thein (Mayangon)

Aloes wood saplings seen before they are grown in the ground.

U Lun Zaung, analoes wood tree

farmer in 8th MileVillage.

U Laha Khaung Lwan, an aloes wood treefarmer in 8th Mile Village.

Some aloes wood from which oil has been extracted.

(from page 1)The farm is located

by Myitkyina-Sumprabum Road, eightmiles from Myitkyina.We interviewedresponsible persons ULun Zaung and U LahaKhaung Lwan and in-charge U Lun Zei of thefarm. The farm runs as acommunity forest underthe Ministry of Forestry.

Chairman U LunZaung of the communityforest said, “We runNgwe Pyaw Aloes WoodFarm as a communityforest in Kachin State torevive aloes wood treethat is classed as anendangered species. Wecollected seeds from afew houses in the villagethat grow aloes wood

trees and sowed them inApril 2008. We began togrow the saplings in June2009. Now, we havegrown over 12 acres ofsaplings. We are gearingup to extend the farm to a500-acre one.”

As to nurturing thesaplings, Vice-Chairmanof the community forestU Laha Khaung Lwansaid, “We collected aloeswood seeds from thehouses with aloes woodtrees that are very scarcearound Myitkyina inKachin State. We soakedthe seeds and sowed themin rows.

When the seedlingsare at the age of 15 days,we plant them in plasticbags with soil. And whenthe saplings are eightmonths to one year old,we grow them in theground. Last year, wenurtured 100,000 saplingsand we distributed youngplants at the price of 500kyats each. We plan tonurture 100,000 saplings

next year.”Dr Kalya Lu said,

“We can plant 500saplings in an acre of landwith a 10 feet spacebetween two saplings andbetween two rows. We cangrow 800 saplings in an

acre if the space betweentwo saplings and two rowsis six feet. They grow wellin laterite soil. We canextract aloes wood whenthey are five years old.We put microbes intoyoung plants when theyare three years old. Aloeswood is priced at up to20,000 US dollars for onekilo in the internationalmarket.”

Aloes wood oil is usedin curing hypertension,heart attack and AIDS andcompounding many types

of medicines. Theproduced aloes wood oilgoes to Arab and Westerncountries.

We observed old aloeswood trees in ShwesetVillage in Myitkyina. Analoes wood tree has astraight trunk and it can beas tall as more than 50feet. The older an aloeswood tree, the darker itstrunk and the higher rate itproduces oil.

In a mature aloeswood tree, parts rich in oilare taken with the use of achisel. Then, they aregrinded and the pastes aresoaked in water to produceoil. Aloes wood oil is veryexpensive. A small bottle

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry ofDefence continues inspection…

(from page 1)On 28 August, Lt-Gen Ko Ko met with

departmental officials and members of socialorganizations at the hall in Yanbye. He explainedregional development and presented uniforms forsocial organizations, exercise books and books tothem.

Next, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party visited YanbyeTownship People’s Hospital and presented gifts topatients.

Later, Lt-Gen Ko Ko inspected sanitation andbeautifying tasks at the jetty of Dawrahta Port.

MNA

of aloes wood oil fetchesover 600,000 kyats.Mankhein Ward inMyitkyina runs an aloeswood oil refinery.

Local farmers will beable to make substantialprofits and enjoy

economic growth if theygrow aloes wood trees ona commercial scalearound Kachin State.

*****Translation: MS

Myanma Alin:27-8-2009

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry of Defence inspects cold storage of Asia Shwe Pazun Ltd inZediya Village in Kyaukpyu Township.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 2Sept—Minister for Agri-culture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo inspectedprogress in implementingMyogyi multi-purposedam project near Myogyi

A & I Minister inspects dam project tasksvillage in Ywangan town-ship in Shan State (South)being built by IrrigationDepartment andKengkham dam projectnear Kengkham village inYaksawk township on 29

August.Myogyi dam is 258

feet in height and 2461feet in length and 57.42percent of constructiontasks has been covered sofar.

Next, the ministerlooked into progress in sup-plying water from Myogyidam and weeding atLonkyaw Ngwechi-6Cons staple cotton farmand met with students andteachers at University ofAgriculture. Next,he over-saw lecture halls and hos-tels.

Afterwards, the minis-ter inspected cotton re-search and plant pro-pagation farm of MyanmaIndustrial Crops Develop-ment Enterprise.

The minister laterlooked into coffee planta-tions of Agriculture andGeneral Economic Enter-prise Cooperative SocietyLtd near Nyaungkon vil-lage in PyinOoLwin town-ship in the evening.

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NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept— Twenty-five culpritsin Chinshwehaw got twoyears in jail with hard la-bour for theft yesterday.

Chinshwehaw Town-ship Court heard the law-suit against them for theftfiled by ChinshwehawPolice Station and sen-tenced them yesterday.

The police fromChinshwehaw PoliceStation arrested the 25culprits with seizures intheir hands in the ward-2in Chinshwehaw on 30August and filed againstthem under the Section380. The police seized12 China-made motorcy-cles, 27 packages of

Myintha MyoU YDC holds prize-giving ceremony

Energy Minister receivesROK Ambassador

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—Minister for EnergyBrig-Gen Lun Thi received Ambassador of the Repub-lic of Korea to the Union of Myanmar Mr. Park Key-Chong and party at the Ministry of Energy, here, thismorning.

They cordially discussed matters related to theenergy sector between the two countries.

Also present at the call were managing direc-tors, deputy director-general and officials of enter-prises and departments under the ministry.

MNA

Health Minister inspects healthcare tasks in Mandalay Division

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept – Minister for Health DrKyaw Myint inspected construction of 25-bedPhyaukseikpin Station Hospital in Kyaukse District inMandalay Division on 28 August and gave necessaryinstructions.

The minister visited outpatient ward of trachomaand avoidable blindness prevention special region (5)of the training school for eye care in Singaing Town-ship and met with the regional in-charge doctor andstaff at the hall of the school.

Next, the minister comforted patients who hadundergone eye surgeries.

On 29 August, the minister and Chairman ofMandalay City Development Committee Mayor Brig-Gen Phone Zaw Han inspected sanitation work beingcarried out by the Ministry of Health in cooperationwith MCDC to mark Sanitation Week at Yanmyolonward in Chanayethazan Township and selling of food-stuff at Mingala Market. —MNA

YANGON, 2 Sept – Theprize presentation cer-emony for 2008-09 ofMyintha MyoU YouthDevelopment Centre washeld at the centre in SouthOkkalapa Township here

on 30 August with an ad-dress by Deputy Director-General U Aung TunKhaing of Social WelfareDepartment under the Min-istry of Social Welfare,Relief and Resettlement.

First, an official ofthe centre explained pur-pose of holding the cer-emony. Then the deputydirector-general and offi-cials presented prizes to out-standing students. – MNA

25 men in Chinshwehaw get two-yearjail sentence with labour

goods, two sacks of rice,one bicycle and 21-inchTV.

The culprits are ThanKyaw Lin, son of UGyapan, Hein Soe Oo, sonof U Soe and Ko Latt, sonof U Win Myint inChinshwehaw, San Tint,son of U Kyaw Shin, SeinWin, son of U San Twan,Naw Tun, son of U HlaShwe and Aung Nyo, sonof U Aik Nyin in Kunlon,Kyar Myint, son of U KhinChein, Lauk Swe, son of ULauk Ae, Aik Hpa, son ofU Ae Maung, Nyi Kaw,son of U Paw Yu San,Yaung Chauk Yon, son ofU Chauk Lauk Tar, LonHpu, son of U Lon Chone,

Aik Yu, son of U AikMaung and Ar Le, son of UPaw Lu in Model Villagein Kunlon, Hsaung Man,son of U San Hpu, MyoWin, sone of U Maung Soe,and Ohn Kyaw, son of UAung Khant in NamhuVillage in Kunlon, TokePaw, son of U Tin Htwe,Yi Lauk Yin, son of U YiLauk Yi, Aung Lwin Soe,son of U Ohn Maung, AikKham, son of U SanHsaung, Thein Than Oo,son of U Bo Sein and NyiKat, son of U Si Hson inPhaungseik Village inKunlon and Maung Thant,son of U Tar in GwaygonVillage in Yesagyo.

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Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thireceives ROK Ambassador to Myanmar Mr

Park Key-Chong.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo

inspects Myogyidam project.

MNA

Minister Dr Kyaw Myintinspects sanitation tasks at Yanmyolonward in Chanayethazan Township.—MNA

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NAY PTI TAW, 2Sept—Chairman of MonState Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander of South-East Command Maj-GenThet Naing Win andMinister for Mines Brig-Gen Ohn Myint on 29August met personnel inMawlamyine of Mon Stateand gave instructions on

Commander and minister superviseregional development tasks

regional developmenttasks.

Next, the Ministerattended the blooddonation ceremonyorganized by socialorganizations atMawlamyine People’sHospital and attended tothe needs.

The Minister thenattended the ceremony to

present prizes todistinction-winners of2008-2009 academic yearmatriculation examinationin Kyauktan village.

The Minister also metresponsible persons andcommunity elders of thevillage and inspected thevillage’s Basic EducationPost Primary School.

MNA

Sports Ministry emerges champion in3rd Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry

Men’s Football Tournament

NAY PYI TAW, 2 SeptA total of 26 persons werearrested and action wastaken against them fortheft from 27 August to 1September in LaukkaiTownship, Shan State(North).

While dischargingpatrol duty, officials ofPaukkai Police Sttaionarrested Li Kyin Shan, sonof U Ki Kyin Kyon and LiLauk Fa, son of U Li LawFa of Mankyu Village,Yan Lauk Se, son of UYan Lauk Kyon of NatiVillage, Law Lauk Chein,son of U Law Lauk Kyanof Tapemain Village andAung Khant, son of UAung Hsan of Holi Villagebringing along with 60assorted clothes at LaukkaiMarket at 8 pm on 27August.

The authority teamarrested Aik Yi, son of UAik Lin of Hopan, KyuLauk Haik, son of Kyu Tar

Action taken against 26 personsunder theft case in Laukkai

Sein and Li Ek (a) Li LaukEi, son of U Li Sut Hu ofMankyu Village bringingalong with burglingequipment at the marketin Laukkai at 11 pm on thesame day.

At 11.55 pm on 29August, the authoritiesarrested Law Lauk Wu,son of U Law Tar Lon ofMankyu Village, HsinShaung, son of U Li Sitand Maw Sit, son of UMaw Kyein Kwam Lonof Konhsan Villagetogether with three bagsof rice and three bottles ofedible oil at the market inLaukkai.

Fu Fan, son of U LiKyar Mu of KyinsansheinVillage, Kaik Chan, sonof U Fa Yin ofHawsitawhaw Village, ArLi, son of U Lauk Ann,Aik Khan, son of U ArMann, Aik Aye, son of UYan Sa, Wen Nway, sonof U Tar Nway, Aik Sein,

son of U Aik Tar, Gwi Ru,son of U Lar San Kyu, AikYein, son of U Tar Shan,Aik Lwin, son of U KwiSein, Ar Lan, son of U KwiKaw and Twin Saunt, sonof U Lar Shan of MankyuVillage were arrested atsugarcane plantationtogether with 32household items nearCement Plant in ToncheniWard of Laukkai at 12.15pm on 31 August.

In other incident,the authorities arrested LiYaung Su (a) Li LaungSan, Kyan Chi Fu (a)Kyan Shaung Fu andLauk Chan of ManlisuVillage with onerefrigerator and one TVon a vehicle at thejunction of the market inLaukkai at 12.30 pm on 1September.

Arrangements arebeing made to takedeterrent action againstthe 26 persons.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 2Sept—The final match ofthe 3rd Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Men's FootballTournament took place atNo. 1 Nay Pyi Taw SportsGround, here, thisafternoon.

Among the spectatorswere Chairman ofMyanmar OlympicCommittee Minister forSports Brig-Gen ThuraAye Myint, Minister forCommunications, Postsand Telegraphs Brig-GenThein Zaw, Minister forReligious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Myint Maung,deputy ministers,departmental officials,staff and family members.

In the final match,Sports Ministry emergedchampion with a 1-0 winover Communications,Posts and TelegraphsMinistry.

Member of CivilService Selection andTraining Board U Soe Oopresented the third prizeto Ministry of Industry-1team, CSSTB member UKyaw Aung, the secondprize to CPT Ministryteam and Deputy Ministerfor Science andTechnology U Kyaw Soe,the first prize to SportsMinistry team.

Deputy Minister forFinance and Revenue ColHla Thein Swe gave the

best player awards inrespective places and thebest player for thetournament to thewinner, Minister Brig-Gen Thura MyintMaung, K 200,000 to thefairplay award winningSports Ministry team andK 400,000 to fourth prizewinning ConstructionMinistry.

Minister Brig-GenThein Zaw presented cashto third, second and firstprize wining teams.

Minister Brig-GenThura Aye Myintpresented championshipshield and duplicate shieldto Sports Ministry.

MNA

Tobacco Kills

Minister for Sports Brig-Gen Thura Aye Myint presents championshipshield and duplicate shield to Sports Ministry which emerges championin 3rd Nay Pyi Taw Inter-Ministry Men's Football Tournament.—MNA

U Tin Maung Myint presents prizes to a special prize winner of

TEO’s Trophy under-13 men football tournament held at No.9 BEHS in

Aungmyaythazan Township, Mandalay Division, on 22 August.—NLM

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Tawthalin, the sixth month of Myanmar LunarCalendar falls in September. Kanya (Virgo) is itsastrological name and its zodiacal sign is maiden.Yanma (Chukrasia Tubularis) is the designatedflower of this month. Puba Badarabite, an asterismof two stars resembling the front legs of a couchshines astride with the moon in this month.

Given a normal climatic condition, the stormsubsides and the wind calms down, leaving allaquatic bodies in the country smooth like aspread-out mat. Hence Myanmar saying aboutthis month “In Tawthalin, water in the river isjust a smooth spread-out mat”. Because themonsoon has given heavy rain, all rivers andlakes are brimful inviting water sports andactivities. Land and water assets of the countryhas blessed its peoples with a thriving amphibiousenvironment and thus hydric civilizations grewup along the coasts and rivers and lakes inland.

Boat, the earliest and most convenient waterconveyance till today has been used by Myanmarpeoples for traveling, transportation, trading,fishing and fighting war as well as for sports. Nowonder that regatta (boat races) has become oneof twelve Myanmar traditional monthly festivals.The origin of this festival is shrouded with legendsand historical events. Myanmar kings claimedthat they were descendants of Adicca Vamsa (theSolar Race) and so they were entitled to performroyal ploughing ceremony in June when themonsoon sets in and to hold Regatta Festival inSeptember when the monsoon begins to recede.Legend has it that Sakka Deva, the Thunder godholds boat festival in the Sacred River Mandakiniin his Kingdom Tavatimsa. Following thisprecedent, Myanmar kings held annually regattafestival in Tawthalin.

In Myanmar chronicles and literature thereare detail records of regatta festivals. There are36 different kinds of ceremonial barges and boats,30 different types of war boats, 20 differenttypes of racing boats, with 37 different modes ofrowing oars, accompanied with 37 different boatsongs and boat music. There are also pictorialrecords of regatta festivals such as mural paintingsin the temples and parabikes or foldingparchments and old books with colourfulillustrations. Except war boats, all barges, boatsand racing canoes have each a legend or historyto it and they are beautifully carved and decoratedwith figures of auspicious animals, birds, fishand symbols. The largest and the highest in rankwas Pyi Gyi Mon, a ceremonial royal barge builton two big boats combined. On both sides of thebarge are carved a hundred figures (50 or each ofVassal kings who paid tribute to Myanmar kings.On the bow are two figures of Sakka Devastanding between them, pouring lustral water outof conch shells to bring the blessings of peaceand presenting. The king sits in state in the

Traditional Regatta Festivalof Tawthalin

Dr Khin Maung Nyuntpalace like gilt pavillion constructed on thespacious deck.

On the inauguration day of the regatta festivalat the astrologically auspicious time, Pyi Gyi Monroyal barge bearing the king came out on theriver, preceded by three boats: Thakadan, ThoneLu Taukpa and Thone Lu Puzaw carrying Buddhastatues from the palace shrine. A retinue ofceremonial barges and boats carrying royal familiescourtiers, vassal kings and high ranking officersfollowed behind them were flotillas of war boatsand racing boats with boat songs and music beingsung and played cheering crowds on both bankswatched with awe and marvel the proceedings ofroyal regatta inauguration ceremony “Yey KhinTaw (Display of Royal Floatillas on Water) amagnificent and spectacular event not to miss.

Myanmar chronicles record that there are fourmain forces in Myanmar army—infantry, cavalry,elephantry and chariotry in true tradition ofBuddha’s jataka stories. But they also mentionthat when Myanmar kings marched whether forwar, or inspection tour or for pilgrimage theymarched with “Yey-ar” (water strength) and kyi-ar (land strength) which means land forces andwater forces (fleets of war boats). River and seabattles of Bama, Mon and Rakhine kings had beenrecorded in chronicles and literatures. In foreignaccounts especially Portuguese and Dutch armadesof Rakhine kings and flotillas of war canoes ofMon and Bama kings were mentioned.

King Alaung Sithu of Bagan, a traveller king,who during his sojourn in Dawei, a seaport townon the Taninthayi Coast, recruited and formedtwo regiments “Myauk Dawei and Taung Dawei”because he found Daweithas good seafarers andfighters. King Rajadarit (1385-1423 AD) QueenShin Saw Pu (1453-1478 AD) and King BanyaDala (1747-1757 AD) retained strong fleets ofwater crafts for peaceful and military purposes.King Bayint Naung (1551-1581 AD) enlarged hisarmed forces by building war boats equipped withmodern weapons he bought from Portuguestfreebooters. In 1576 he sent military assistance toKing Dhammapala of Lankadipa (Sri Lanka) atthe latter’s request. Five warships with arms,ammunitions and food ration and 2500 select seamen under the commander Sanda Suriya andSecond Commander Raja Bannya were sent to SriLanka. Later in that year with his magnificentfleets King Bayint Naung marched to the seaportPathein to welcome and receive the sacred ToothRelic and royal gifts presented to him by SriLanka King. In 1566 King Bayint Naung heldgrand ceremonies with the display of his fleets ofwar ships and war canoes and performance ofroyal regatta.

Rakhine Kingdoms on the West sea coastwere retained and defended by strong armadasbuilt in the reigns of King Min ben (1531-1553

AD), King Min Yazagyi (1593-1612 AD), KingMin Rhamaung (1612-1622 AD) and King SandaThudhamma (1652-1684 AD). The period 1550-1666 AD was the peak of Rakhine naval power.

In Nyaungyan Period, King Anaukpetlun(1605-1628 AD) built land and water forces fordefence. In 1613 AD, he marched with theseforces to the then seaport town Than Hlyin tobreak up the Portuguese strongholds under thecommand of a Portuguese adventurer Philip deBrito. Later Myanmar kings who built navalstrength for defence and display were KingAlaung Paya (1752-1760 AD), King Bodawpaya(1782-1819 AD), King Bagyidaw (1819-1837AD) and his brother King Thayawaddy (1837-1846 AD). Bagyidaw held a special royal regattain honour of the Chinese embassy that arrived in1823 AD. This event was recorded in TayokeThan Yauk Mawgun (Chronicle of that historicevent in verses) composed by a court poetLaureate Nawade II. King Thayawaddy displayedthe grand pageant of his war fleets when hemarched to Dagon (Yangon) in 1841 AD via theAyeyawaddy River. So regatta festival was thedisplay of king’s naval strength and exercise aswell as the occasion for recruiting new blood forwar flotillas.

Even the last two Myanmar kings Mindon(1853-1878 AD) and Thibaw (1878-1885 AD)did their best to defend their kingdoms againstthe imminent naval attack by the British invadersby modernizing the war fleets and building alongthe Ayeyawady River fortresses such as MinHla, Asikhan, and Thabyetan which can still beseen. The last regatta festival and boat racesheld in the region of King Thibaw were recordedin the Konbaungset Maha Yazawin Taw Gyi(The Great Royal Chronicle of the KonbaungDynasty).

When Myanmar became British colony, royalregatta festival of Tawthalin was held no more,though boat races were held at local levels. From1990 to 1996, regatta festival was held annually inTawthalin in Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon, to reviveMyanmar traditional cultural festival and topreserve national cultural heritage. The historicevent of King Thayawaddy’s naval expeditionfrom his capital Amarapura to Dagon (Yangon) inTawthalin 1841 was re-enacted magnificently onthe inauguration day and two to three days of boatraces followed it. The happy results of theseevents were Myanmar people especially younggenerations became aware of and learnt knowledgeof traditional monthly festivals; history, literature,music, songs and dances pertaining to regattafestival and boat races were collected andcompiled, and Myanmar water sports were revived.Nowadays, in the regional water sportscompetitions especially boat races, Myanmar teamswin many golds and silvers.

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BEIJING, 2 Sept(Xinhua) — TheChinese mainland confirmed 224 newcases of the A/H1N1 influenza in the 48hours ending 3 p.m. Wednesday,bringing total infections to 3,981, theMinistry of Health said.

Among the newly confirmed case,199 were “imported cases” and theremaining 25 were infected on theChinese mainland, said the ministry.

Nearly 3,400 of the infected haverecovered, the ministry said, adding thatno fatal case has so far been reported.

Recent cases of group infection havealso highlighted the rising risk of an A/H1N1 flu pandemic in China. OnSunday, a senior high school in centralChina’s Henan Province reported 80confirmed flu cases, and reported 29

BEIJING, 2 Sept—China’s State Council, theCabinet, announcedWednesday a plan to pushforward a pay for meritpay system in health unitsand other public-sectororganizations to stimulateworkers’ enthusiasm.

Attendees at a StateCouncil executive meeting,chaired by Premier WenJiabao, agreed theperformance-based salary,a major part of the reformon income distributionsystem in public-sectororganizations, would be ofgreat significance inincreasing staff initiativeand improving publicservice levels.

The pay for meritsystem was first begun inprimary and high schoolsfrom Jan. 1, 2009.

Xinhua

LONDON, 2 Sept—British energy giant BP hasmade a “giant” oildiscovery in the Gulf ofMexico after drilling oneof the industry’s deepest-ever wells, it saidWednesday, in a furtherboost for crude supplies.

“BP announced todaya giant oil discovery at itsTiber Prospect (well) inthe deepwater Gulf ofMexico,” the companysaid in a statement. “TheTiber well was drilled to atotal depth ofapproximately 35,055 feet(10,685 metres) making itone of the deepest wellsever drilled BP’s discoverycomes as the industry thisweek marks 150 yearssince crude was first drilledand days after Scottishgroup Cairn Energy beganpumping out oil in India as

Chinese mainland A/H1N1 flu casesrise to nearly 4,000

new confirmed cases Tuesday. while ajunior high school in northwestern GansuProvince reported 26 cases.

So far, vaccines for the A/H1N1 fluvirus produced by two Chinesepharmaceutical companies, Sinovac andHualan Biological Engineering Inc.,have passed expert evaluation organizedby the State Food and DrugAdministration (SFDA).

Both companies are hopeful ofgetting production licenses for theirdrugs this week, if given the green lightsby the SFDA.

Health Minister Chen Zhu said inAugust that China would be able toproduce enough A/H1N1 flu vaccinefor 65 million people by the end of theyear.—Internet

Call it "OnStar(r) for everyone else." The first-evervehicle Bluetooth hands-free kit that includes freeemergency dispatch and roadside assistance serviceis being introduced today by Madison Heights, Mich.-based Guidepoint Systems. The new GuidepointConnect uses Bluetooth technology to link drivers toGuidepoint's 24/7/365 response centers. It can alsobe integrated with Guidepoint's GPS tracking unit to

provide location-based services.—INTERNET

Angeles National Forest Monte Cristal Ranger Station is destroyed during dayseven of the Station Fire in California 0n 1 September, 2009. Firefighters took

advantage of a turn in the weather on Tuesday to gain ground against theenormous wildfire burning for a week above Los Angeles, saying they now

hoped to drive the flames away from historic Mount Wilson, a keytelecommunications site.—INTERNET

V-MODA Faze Headset for Apple(R) iPod(R) andiPhone available exclusively at Best Buy.—INTERNET

A satellite image of theGulf of Mexico. Britishenergy giant BP said ithad made a "giant" oildiscovery in the Gulf ofMexico after drilling oneof the industry's deepest-ever wells.—INTERNET

NEW YORK, 2 sept —Obese mothers havechildren who are likely tobe obese, but a new studyconcludes that weight-loss surgery can break thecycle.

Researchers foundthat women who hadweight-loss surgerybefore becoming pregnanthad children who were

HARARE, 2 Sept—Zimbabwe has formallywithdrawn from any legal proceedings involving theSADC Tribunal until the establishment of the court isratified by at least two-thirds of the bloc’s membershipas per the requirements of rules and proceduresgoverning the regional grouping, the government hassaid. In a letter dated Aug. 7, 2009 which was deliveredto the registrar of the Tribunal on Aug. 10, Justice andLegal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa said thecourt did not exist by law and as such Zimbabwewould not appear before it anymore, and neither wouldthe government be bound by any decisions alreadymade or future ones emanating from there.

This followed a meeting of SADC Justice Ministersand Attorneys-General in South Africa from July 27 toAug. 3 that proved the Protocol on the Tribunal andrules of providing for the composition and powersgoverning the court had not yet been ratified by two-thirds of SADC members.—Xinhua

China topromotewages for

merit systemin public

sector

BP unveils ‘giant’ oil discovery in Gulf of Mexicoexploration in the NorthSea dwindles.

The discovery is largerthan BP’s Kaskidadiscovery in the samegeological area three yearsago, which containsaround three billion barrels

of oil. Peter Hutton, ananalyst at NCB Oils, saidBP’s announcement wouldbe seen as “confirmationof BP’s strong focus onGulf of Mexico”exploration.

Internet

Weight-Loss Surgery BreaksFamilies’ ‘Obesity Cycle’

less likely to be heavywhen compared withsiblings who were bornbefore the weight-losssurgery.

The study findingsshow the importance ofthe intrauterine env-ironment, which seems totrump even genes and theenvironment in which thechild is raised.

Results of the studywill be published in theNovember issue of theJournal of ClinicalEndocrinology &Metabolism.

Obesity is on the riseand can lead to insulinresistance, cardiovasculardisease and pregnancycomplications. It is a majorcontributor to causes ofdeath in industrializednations.—Internet

Zimbabwe pulls out of SADCTribunal

CorrigendumPlease read “MTBF

Vice-President andexecutive leave forDPRK” in the headlineand the DemocraticPeople’s Republic ofKorea in the firstparagraph of the newsstory on page 9 of the 1st

September issue of thisdaily. Error is regretted.

Ed

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MINISTRY OF INFORMATIONMYANMA RADIO AND

TELEVISIONINVITATION TO TENDER

1. Sealed Tenders are invited for Myanma Radio andTelevision of Ministry of Information for supply of thefollowing—Inscription Quantity33 KV Line (4 miles) -1 Lot33/11 KV, 2.5 MVA -1 Lotsub power stations2. Tender closing date will be at 16:30 hrs on 15September, 2009.3. Please contact 534886 for further information.4. Tender documents can be obtained at the below-mentioned address.

Procurement CommitteeMinistry of Information

Myanma Motion Picture EnterpriseNo.28, Kokkine Yeiktha Street,

Bahan Township, Yangon

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

No claims against this vessel will be admitted afterthe Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITY

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AGENT FOR: M/S OCEAN MARITIMEPhone No: 256916/256919/256921

INVITATION TO TENDERTENDER NO (1) (ADM:) AMD (2009-2010)

1. Sealed Tender are invited by Agricultural Mechanization Department,Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigration, for the supply of the following stores(in Myanmar Kyats.)

Sr. No Description Quantity

1. MAZADA (X-2000, E-2000, T-2000) Spare Parts 30 Items2. TE (11/21), HINO RANGER (KM-300,4D)Spare Parts 39 Items3. NISSAN CONDOR Spare Parts 13 Items4. (8'x4') M.S SHEET, BATTERY, TYRE, TUBE & FLAT 8 Items

2. Tender Closing date : 18-9-2009, 16:00 hrs3. Tender documents are available at Equipment & Stores Branch of Agri-cultural Mechanization Department (Head Office), AMD Bayintnaung Road, InseinTownship, Yangon, during office hours from (3-9-2009). Only Tendes Purchasedfrom AMD will be accepted.4. For more details, Contact; 01-682209, 01-682593

Director GeneralAgricultural Mechanization Department

Service outage hits “majority” of Gmail users

French-made submarine arrivesin Malaysia on Thursday

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Sept—A submarine made inFrance would arrive at Port Klang of Malaysia onThursday, a local newspaperreported on Wednesday.

The submarine was built by the French military ship-yard, Direction des Constructions Navales Servicesin partnership with the Spanish shipyard Navatia, saidThe New Straits Times. The submarine would dock atthe Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) basein Port Klangand the Malaysian King, together with some top offi-cials of the Malaysian government, would be presentto welcomethe submarine at the port. The diesel-pow-ered submarine would then leave Port Klang on Fri-day and it would dock again at the RMN Lumut basein Perak State on Saturday.—Internet

Astronauts remove ammoniatank from space station

WASHINGTON, 2 Sept—Two astronauts conducted aspace walk on Tuesday and removed an old liquidammonia tank from the International Space Station(ISS), NASA said. According to NASA TV, the ISS’sExpedition 20 Flight Engineer Nicole Stott and USshuttle Discovery’s Mission Specialist Danny Olivasexit the ISS’s decompression chamber to begin theirspace walk at 17:49 EDT (2149 GMT).

The duo spent their Monday night inside the Questairlock at a lower air pressure to force nitrogen out theirbloodstream. This prevents astronauts from getting de-compression sickness during a space walk.—Internet

BEIJING, 2 Sept—Gmail,Google’s popular free e-mail service, failed formore than an hour onTuesday in many places,affecting a “majority” ofits millions of email users.

The outage affected “amajority” of Gmail users,the company said, andlasted about an hour and45 minutes until the prob-lem was fixed.

Worldwide users ap-

peared to be affected, withpeople from England,Italy, Singapore and SouthAfrica reporting problemson the company’s supportsite.

The free version ofGmail is the world’s thirdmost-popular email pro-gram with some 149 mil-lion users worldwide inJune, ranking behind thefree email services offeredby Microsoft Corp and

Yahoo Inc, according todata from comScore Inc.

The disruption came asGoogle attempts to com-pete with Microsoft Corp.and IBM to expand itsservice among businessusers, who are likely to beless tolerant of long out-ages. Gmail already com-petes with Microsoft’sHotmail and Yahoo’sWeb-based e-mail.

Xinhua

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Schwarzenegger warns against possibleoutbreak of H1N1 flu virus

Hurricane Jimena swirls pastsouthern Baja resorts

A girl shows her skillful playing of the Chinese lute in mellifluous melodyher just learned in the summer vacation, as pupils enthusiastically presenttheir versatile talents and skills in hand-making, painting, calligraphy, etc,which they learned and improved as a result of less home works and more

social practices during the summer holidays, in the very first day of the newsemester, at the Junshan Road Elementary School, in Zaozhuang, east

China’s Shandong Province, 1 Sept, 2009. —XINHUA

Pollution linked to elderlyheart problems

LOS ANGELES, 2 Sept— California GovernorArnold Schwarzeneggersaid on Tuesday that theH1N1 flu virus has thepotential to sickenmillions of Californiansin the months ahead, withas many as one in fourCalifornians getting illwith the H1N1flu.

Since it was firstdetected last spring, thevirus has continued to

spread through thesummer, taking the livesof more than 100Californians, the governorsaid in a statement.

Schwarzenegger calledon Californians to do theirpart by taking steps toslow the spread of thevirus and prepare for theupcoming flu season.

“Each of us should betaking action now toprevent and prepare for

the spread of H1N1,” saidS c h w a r z e n e g g e r .“Businesses need to beprepared that employeeswill not be in the officeand parents need to planfor kids to be home fromschool. Everyone must dotheir part to limit thespread of the H1N1 virus.”

According toSchwarzenegger, statepublic health andemergency responseofficials have beenplanning for the furtherescalation of the diseaseand the rollout of avaccination program.

Xinhua

Alcohol affects circadianrhythms

Breast cancer chemotherapydisrupts sleep

Orion spacecraft passes design milestone

NEWHAVEN, 2 Sept—Exposure to carbonmonoxide is associatedwith an increased risk ofhospitalization for theelderly with heartproblems, US researchersfound.

The nationwide studyof 126 urban communitiesstudy, published inCirculation: Journal of theAmerican HeartAssociation, found that anincrease in carbonmonoxide of 1 part permillion in the maximum

daily one-hour exposureis associated with a 0.96percent increase in the riskof hospitalization fromcardiovascular diseaseamong people age 65 andolder.

However, this linkholds true even whencarbon monoxide levelsare less than 1 part permillion — well below theEnvironmental ProtectionAgency’s NationalAmbient Air QualityStandard of 35 parts permillion.—Internet

KENT, OHIO, 2 Sept —Chronic alcohol con-sumption blunts the abilityof the body’s biologicalclock to synchronize dailyactivities to light, USresearchers said.

Christina L Ruby,Allison J Brager, Marc A.DePaul and J David Glass,all of Kent State

University, and RebeccaA. Prosser of theUniversity of Tennessee,said disruption of thecircadian rhythmsdramatically increases therisks of developingcancer, heart disease anddepression.

The researchers dividedhamsters into three groups,differing only in what theydrank. The control groupreceived water only, asecond group receivedwater containing 10percent alcohol and the lastthird received watercontaining 20 percentalcohol.

If given a choice,hamsters prefer alcohol,the researchers said.

Internet

SAN DIEGO, 2 Sept —Repeated chemotherapytreatments can result inprogressively worse andmore enduring sleep-wakeactivity rhythms impair-ments, US researcherssaid.

Principal investigatorSonia Ancoli-Israel of theUniversity of CaliforniaSan Diego said the findingswere not surprisingbecause sleep disturbancesare common in cancerpatients and 30 percent to50 percent report insomniasymptoms.

Although most variablesreturned to baseline levelsin the second and thirdweeks of the first cycle ofchemotherapy, circadian— 24-hour cycles —

impairments weremaintained.

“Results of this studysuggest that our biologicalclocks are affected bychemotherapy,” Ancoli-Israel said in a statement.

“Our biological clock,or circadian rhythm helpkeep our bodies in syncwith the environment.”

During chemotherapy,the biological clock getsout of sync, especially afterthe first cycle of treatment,but the clock seems toregulate itself after onlyone cycle. However, withrepeated administration ofchemotherapy, it becomesmore difficult for thebiological clock toreadjust,” the studysaid.—Internet

HOUSTON, 2 Sept— TheUS space agency says it hascompleted the preliminarydesign review of its next crewexploration vehicle — theOrion spacecraft.

The space agency saidOrion is being designed tocarry astronauts to theInternational Space Stationand other destinations andthe preliminary designreview is one of a series ofprocedures that occur beforehardware manufacturing can

begin.Officials said the review

assessed the overall systemis safe and reliable for flightand meets all NASAmission requirements tosupport three types ofmissions — flights to theInternational Space Station,week-long missions to themoon and missions to themoon for up to 210 days.

“This is the successfulculmination of all of thedesign trade studies and

activities to date,” said MarkGeyer, manager of the OrionProject Office at NASA’sJohnson Space Center inHouston.

“As a project, a programand an agency, we arereviewing the designmaturity, strategy andplans for NASA’s nexthuman spacecraft andagreeing that this is thearchitecture we are goingto build.”

Internet

Waves crash at the Marsol hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on 1 Sept, 2009.Heavy winds, battering waves and bands of intense rain pummeled residentsand tourists in this vacation resort as Hurricane Jimena, one of the largest

hurricanes this year, neared the coast on Tuesday.—INTERNET

LOS CABOS , 2 Sept—Hurricane Jimena brushedpassed the resort towns atthe southern tip of the BajaCalifornia, lashing themwith driving rain and windsas its fierce core bore downon a stretch of desertcoastline to the north.

Despite the pummelingby the fringes of theCategory 3 hurricane, theMexican peninsula’sbiggest resort, Los Cabos,appeared to be escapingmajor damage beyondpower outages and mud-choked roads.

Dozens of people

evacuated from the LosCongrejos shantytownhuddled in darkened roomsat a school after electricityfailed during the storm.Trying to calm squallingbabies and ignore hungerfrom having little food, theevacuees waited for dawn,and a chance to look atwhat the hurricane did totheir homes made of plasticsheeting, wood and tarpaper.

“Instead of giving out afew sheets of roofing everyyear, they should give usmaterials to build realhouses — wood, or even

bricks,” said PaulinoHernandez, an out-of-work mason who soughthaven at the school.

“Every year it’s thesame thing: They(officials) give out a fewsheets of roofing, and thenext year it has to bereplaced” when a hurricanecomes.

Authorities reported noinjuries or major damagesin Los Cabos, butexpressed concern aboutwhat might happen whenthe hurricane made landfallfarther up the coast.

Internet

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S P O R T S

Milner rejects Croat kicking allegations

England winger James Milner

Ranieri returns to Romato replace Spalletti

Claudio Ranieri

China captain Zheng closeto joining Celtic

China captainZheng Zhi

Villa sign West Ham defender Collins

Everton’s James Vaughan (right)vies with West Ham United’s James

Collins, 2006. Aston Villa signedWales defender Collins.—INTERNET

BIRMINGHAM, 2 Sept—Aston Villasigned Wales defender James Collinsfrom West Ham on Tuesday.

“Villa have signed James Collinsfrom West Ham United on a four-yearcontract,” a statement on the club’swebsite confirmed.

It is reported that Villa paid aroundfive million pounds for Collins, who hadalso attracted interest from Stoke.

Collins, 26, has been named inVilla’s squad for Tuesday’s homereserve game against his former clubWest Ham.

Internet

Ballack relishesLiverpool’s spluttering start

Michael Ballack

Johnny Heitinga

Murray, Djokovic offto winning starts at US Open

NEW YORK, 2 Sept—The men’s singles formbookcontinued to be largely respected at the US Open withsecond seed Andy Murray and fourth seed NovakDjokovic both cruising into the second round.

There were straight-sets wins too for seventh seedJo-Wilfried Tsonga, 10th seed Fernando Verdasco, 11thseed Fernando Gonzalez and 17th seed ThomasBerdych, as, for once, most of the day’s drama wasbeing played out in the women’s tournament.

Murray, losing finalist here last year to RogerFederer, was below his best, especially on serve, butstill was a class above Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis, win-ning 7-5, 6-3, 7-5 in the featured night match on theArthur Ashe Stadium court.

But he was left knowing that he will have to moveup a gear or two if he is to win six more games andbecome the first Briton since Fred Perry in 1936 towin a Grand Slam tournament.

Internet

British 2nd-seed AndyMurray returns a shot

to Latvia’s ErnestsGulbis during the firstround of the US Open

at the USTA Billie JeanKing National Tennis

Center in New York, on1 September.—INTERNET

Sharapova returns to USOpen with easy victory

Maria Sharapova ofRussia celebrates

winning a point in thefirst set against

Tsvetana Pironkova ofBulgaria during theirmatch at the US Opentennis tournament inNew York, on 1 Sept,

2009.—XINHUA

Everton land Heitinga, Spurssign Kranjcar on deadline day

ROME, 2 Sept—ClaudioRanieri has agreed to be-come the new coach ofRoma, his lawyer an-nounced on Tuesday,hours after LucianoSpalletti left his job asmanager of the Serie Aheavyweights.

“There’s an agreementand tomorrow (Wednes-day) there’ll be a signa-ture,” Ranieri’s lawyerMattia Grassani told Ital-

ian news agency Ansa.“The contract will be

for two years.”Ranieri, 57, was sacked

as coach of Roma’s rivalsJuventus two games priorto the end of last seasonafter a sequence ofunderwhelming results.

The former Napoli,Fiorentina, Valencia,Atletico Madrid and Chel-sea coach agreed to jointhe ‘Giallorossi’ after ameeting on Tuesday morn-ing with club presidentRosella Sensi.

The move to the StadioOlimpico represents a re-turn to Ranieri’s roots.

Internet

WATFORD, 2 Sept—England wingerJames Milner has ruled out conspiracytheories that Croatia midfielder LukaModric was deliberately injured aheadof a crucial World Cup qualifier at Wem-bley next week.

Croatia FA chiefs are frustrated that

key midfielder Modric broke a leg in atackle with Birmingham’s Lee Bowyerjust 10 days before a match against Eng-land that could decide the World Cupfate of both teams. They already havebitter memories of how key strikerEduardo also suffered a broken leg play-ing against the same opposition for Ar-senal in February 2008 and Croatia FAsupremo Vlatko Markovic on Tuesdaysaid: “First Eduardo, now Luka Modric.This is horrible. I can only ask myself ifit was really an accident.

“I’m close to thinking it was done tous deliberately before the Englandmatch. I couldn’t believe my eyes whenI saw what happened to Luka. He is ir-replaceable.”—Internet

LONDON, 2 Sept—Everton signed Dutch defenderJohnny Heitinga from Atletico Madrid for six millionpounds (6.8 million euros) just before the transfer win-

dow shut on Tuesday.Heitinga agreed a five-

year contract with the Pre-mier League club and themove was announced inthe final hour before the1600GMT deadline.

The 25-year-old fol-lows French defenderSylvain Distin toGoodison Park as Toffeesboss David Moyesstrengthens his back-fourafter Joleon Lescott’smove to Manchester City.

Atletico could eventu-ally receive seven millionpounds (7.8 millioneuros) for the Holland in-ternational due to clausesin the terms of the deal.

Internet

LONDON, 2 Sept—Chel-sea midfielder MichaelBallack admits Liver-pool’s spluttering start hasgiven his side added be-lief they can win the Pre-mier League this season.

The Reds are expectedto be major challengersfor Manchester United’stitle but Rafa Benitez’steam have already losttwo of their opening fourgames.

While Liverpool havestruggled, Chelsea surgedto the top of the table withfour wins out of four un-der new coach CarloAncelotti.

“It was a surprise thatLiverpool lost twice in thefirst three games and itgives us extra motiva-tion,” Ballack said.

“All we can do is wingames. We have to focuson ourselves and if weplay the best we can wecan win the league.”

Ballack, who hasscored two goals so farthis season, believes a rareclose-season without anyinternational action hasleft him refreshed and inpeak form.

“It was a good pre-sea-son,” he said. “The finishto last season with GuusHiddink, the team lookedwell and played goodfootball and that is whatwe have done at the be-ginning of this season.

Internet

GLASGOW, 2 Sept—China captain Zheng Zhi isclose to joining Celtic, ac-cording to the Scottishclub’s manager TonyMowbray. Zheng is a freeagent after his contract atLeague One Charlton ex-pired at the end of last sea-son and has reportedly beenoffered a two-year contractat Parkhead.

The move can be com-pleted outside the transferwindow, which closed at1600GMT on Tuesday, aslong as Celtic can secure awork permit for the 29-year-old. Hoops boss TonyMowbray, who tried to signZheng while he was WestBrom boss, said: “Zheng

Zhi is a player I havetracked for some time.

“He is a highly-regardedplayer and was a thorn inour side when he playedagainst us at WestBromwich Albion.

“I am delighted that hemay join us. He will signifi-cantly add to the squad withhis quality and the fact thathe can play in a number ofpositions.—Internet

NEW YORK, 2 Sept—Maria Sharapova simplycouldn’t bear the thoughtof a US Open taking placewithout her.

So while sidelined witha torn shoulder a year ago,she refused to follow thetournament on TV. Basi-cally pretended it wasn’teven happening.

On Tuesday night,Sharapova was rightwhere she likes to be: onthe Grand Slam stageand in the spotlight. The2006 US Open championreturned to the tourna-ment with an impressive6-3, 6-0 victory overTsvetana Pironkova ofBulgaria.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin upper Sagaing Division, rain or thurdershowers havebeen isolated in Kayah State, scattered in Shan and KayinStates, Magway and Bago Divisions, fairly widespread inKachin State, lower Sagaing and Mandalay and YangonDivisions and widespread in the remaining areas withisolated heavyfall in Mandalay Division. The noteworthyamounts of rainfall recorded were Nay Pyi Taw (Yezin)(0.71) inch, Nay Pyi Taw (1.02) inches, Dawei (2.17) inches,Mawlamyine and Ye (2.12) inches each, Kyaukpataung(1.95) inches, Pyapon (1.22) inches and Aunglan (0.35)inch.

Maximum temperature on 1-9-2009 was 85°F.Minimum temperature on 2-9-2009 was 68°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 2-9-2009 was 88%.Total sun shine hours on 1-9-2009 was (0.8) hours approx.

Rainfall on 2-9-2009 was Tr at Mingaladon, (0.28)inch at Kaba-Aye and Nil at Central Yangon. Total rainfallsince 1-1-2009 was (86.38) inches at Mingaladon, (98.15)inches at Kaba-Aye and (102.95) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (6) mphfrom West at (23:30) hours MST on 1-9-2009.

Bay inference: Monsoon is moderate to strong in theAndaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 3rd September 2009:Rain or thundershowers will be isolated in Kayah State,scattered in Chin, and Shan States, Sagaing, Mandalay andMagway Divisions, fairly widespread in Kachin, KayinStates and Bago Division and widespread in the remainingStates and Divisions. Degree of certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Occasional squalls with moderate torough seas are likely Gulf of Mottama, Deltaic, off andalong Rakhine Coast. Surface wind speed in squalls mayreach (35)mph. Seas will be moderate elsewhere in Myanmarwaters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation ofthundey conditions in the Northern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for3-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for3-9-2009: One or two rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for3-9-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree ofcertainty is (80%).

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photo taken 30 August, 2009.—INTERNET

LOME, 2 Sept—Togo and Japan have signed anagreement of a grant worth 600 million Japanese yen(6.5 million U.S. dollars) for economic structuraladjustment and debt relief, according to the TogoleseMinistry of Finance.

The deal was signed by Togolese Finance MinisterAdji Oteth Ayassor and the Japanese ambassador toTogo, Okamura Yoshifumi on Tuesday. The Japanesediplomat said the grant will allow the Togolesegovernment to buy products such as petroleum,construction materials and agricultural imports inorder to stimulate economic activities in the country.Okamura said this agreement will have a doubleeconomic effect since the government of Togo, at thetime of selling products and other materials, will havethe money to compensate the sellers. This money willhelp to realize several economic and social projects.

“The cooperation between Togo and Japan hasalways been active and fruitful,” Ayassor said, inreference to agriculture, cattle breeding and fishing,water, education, professional training and the healthsector.—Xinhua

Togo, Japan sign $6.5 mlnagreement on economic promotion

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Fullmoon Day of Tawthalin 1371 ME Thursday, 3 September, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

★ Anarchy begets anarchy, not democracy★ Riots beget riots, not democracy★ Democracy can be introduced only through constitution

People’s Desire ■ VOA, BBC - sowing hatred among thepeople

■ RFA, DVB - generating public outrage■ Do not allow ourselves to be swayed■ By broadcasts designed to cause

troubles

■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest

and violence

NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—Stability and peace have beenback to normal in Kokang Region, Shan State (North),since 29 August. Up to 6 pm today, 7848 of the inhabit-ants, who had fled to the neighbouring country, had

Earthquake reportNAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—A strong earthquake of

intensity 7.4 Richter Scale with its epicenter outsideMyanmar (Indonesia) about 1900 miles southeast ofKaba Aye seismological observatory was recorded at14 hr 27 min 49 sec M.S.T today.

MNA

One more foundinfected with New

Influenza A (H1N1)Number of patients with

the virus reaches 32NAY PYI TAW, 2 Sept—An eight-year-old

child was transferred to the Yangon Children’sHospital through Township Health Department yes-terday. National Health Laboratory confirmed thatthe child had been infected with New Influenza A(H1N1) after the serum of the child was sent to themedical institution to test for the virus.

Four family members who came into contactwith the patient are being kept under home quaran-tine. Authorities concerned are taking active sur-veillance against 39 students of the same class intheir respective places. Up to 1 September, Myanmarhas seen 32 persons infected with the virus, 25 ofthem have been discharged from the hospitals, andthe remaining seven are being given special treat-ment by specialists.

The National Health Laboratory detected219 flu-suspected persons and 32 were found tohave been infected with the virus.

MNA

Stability, peace bounce back inKokang Region, Shan State (North)

returned to Laukkai via Yanlonkyaing and Chinshwehawborder checkpoints.

Now, the administrative machinery has returned tonormal in Kokang Region in Shan State (North).—MNA

Locals who have fled to the neighbouring country return to Laukkai.MNA

3-9-09 NL 7/30/18, 1:49 PM16

the new light of myanmar 03-09-2009

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