the new light of myanmar 05-08-2009

Established 1914

Volume XVII, Number 111 Fullmoon Day of Wagaung 1371 ME Wednesday, 5 August, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development of other sectors of theeconomy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented eco-nomic system

* Development of the economy inviting partici-pation in terms of technical know-how andinvestments from sources inside the countryand abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economymust be kept in the hands of the State and thenational peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of theentire nation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of culturalheritage and national character

* Uplift of dynamism of patriotic spirit* Uplift of health, fitness and education stand-

ards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peace andtranquillity, prevalence of law and order

* National reconsolidation* Emergence of a new enduring State Consti-

tution* 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, 4 Aug—Lt-Gen Ko Ko of theMinistry of Defence, accompanied by Chairman ofAyeyawady Division Peace and Development CouncilCommander of South-West Command Maj-Gen KyawSwe and departmental officials, inspected progress inconstruction of Nyaungchaung Bridge Project inKangyidaunt Township on 1 August.

After that, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party asked afterthe patients at Labutta Township People’s Hospital

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry ofDefence inspects development

of Labutta Townshipand donated cash to them. They looked round in thecompound of the Hospital.

On arrival at the briefing hall of Rwaynadi floatingmarket construction site, Lt-Gen Ko Ko and partyinspected buying and selling at the market.

Lt-Gen Ko Ko and party viewed collectivefertilizer broadcasting ceremony held at the entrance tothe town near Kyaukhmaw village in Labutta Township.

(See page 8)

M y a n m a r ’ sagricultural sector hasmade dramatic progress,as testified by the factthat the nation’s paddyoutput has surged toabout 1600 million fromonly 630 million basketsin 1988.

The nation is nowin the process of beingtransformed efficientlyfrom conventional tomechanized farming.The majority ofagricultural farmersacross the nation usepower-tillers includingLeya-16 and Leya-22power-tillers producedby the AgriculturalMechanization Depart-ment.

In its bid to helpachieve the goal, theAgricultural Mechani-zation Departmentunder the Ministry ofAgriculture andIrrigation is expeditingtasks such as reclaimingvacant lands,introducing mecha-nized farming,providing services forenriching soils offarmlands and

Manufacturing power-tillers, part oftransformation into mechanized farming

Article: Mg Mg Htwe (MNA);Photos: Percy (MNA)

One-wheel power-tillers at No (1) Farm Machinery and Machine Tools Factory in 9th Mile, Yangon.

harvesting, distributingfarm machinery andmachine tools, doingresearch on farmmachinery anddisseminating methods ofusing farm machinery.

On our tour of No(1) Farm Machinery andMachine Tools Factory in

9th Mile, Yangon, FactoryManager U Sein Hla Myintconducted us round it,saying, “Our factorystarted to produce one-

wheel power-tillers at theend of 2008. Of thetargeted 150 units, wehave so far distributed 70units to states and

divisions includingYangon Division,Ayeyawady Division andBago Division. We haveset a target of 750 units for

this year. We will haveto boost productionaccording to thedemands.”

(See page 8)

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Wednesday, 5 August, 2009

Wednesday, 5 August, 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

Fullmoon Day ofWagaung, a day ofreligious significance

Today, the Fullmoon Day of Wagaung,is the Day of Metta Sutta in which message ofloving-kindness, compassion and goodwill aresent out to all sentient beings. The Buddhadelivered a sermon on Metta Sutta Paritta atJatavana Monastery in Savatthi on theFullmoon Day of Wagaung to 500 monks whowere residing in the countryside.

The Day of Metta Sutta is usually held onthe Fullmoon Day of Wagaung. The aim of theholding of Metta Akhardaw Day on theFulllmoon Day is that in the time of the GotamaBuddha altogether 500 monks asked themethods of Kamathana (meditation) from theBuddha and entered the rain retreat (BuddhistLent) at a forest. They were disturbed andthreatened by some deities in the forest sincethe latter could not stay in the trees due to thepower of the morality of the monks. Beingunable to continue their practice of meditationthey went back to Jatavana Monastery wherethe Buddha was residing during the BuddhistLent. The Buddha exhorted them to take themight of Metta (loving-kindness) together withthem and go back to the forest after deliveringMetta Sutta to them.

The month of Wagaung is the fifth of thetwelve months of Myanmar Calendar and it isin the rainy season. The designated flower ofthis month is Khatta (land lilies) and thetraditional monthly festival is the SaryetanPwe (the festival of charity by casting lots).

The Saryetan Pwe was taught at primaryschools as one of the twelve traditional monthlyfestivals of Myanmar and was deeplyentrenched in Myanmar society. And thefestival had been upheld in Myanmarliterature.

It can be said that with heavy rains themonth of Wagaung contributes a lot to farmerswho are extensively engaged in agricultureregardless of foul weather in the month ofWagaung.

At such a time, all the Budhists are urgedto do meritorious deeds and to avoid evil deedsthrough cultivating Metta, Karuna, Muditaand Upekkha to each other in order to lead apeaceful life.

Outstanding students of Pyawbwe Township honoured

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Aug—Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Khin Aung Myintdelivered an address at aceremony to presentprizes to outstandingstudents, schools thatpassed with high passrateand teachers at Pyawbweon 2 August.

It was attended bylocal station officer, theYamethin District PDCChairman, the PyawbweTownship PDCChairman, depar-tmentalofficials, teachers andstudents and theirparents.

The minister presented

the awards to threeschools with high passrate, the six-distinctionstudent and the five-

distinction student.And responsible

persons also presentedthe awards to the rest.

After that, a six-distinction winner spokewords of thanks.

MNA

Container yard, export/import activities inspected

YANGON, 4 Aug—Chairman of Committeefor Full Operation ofFreight HandlingMinister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swevisited Bo Aung Kyawwharf and inspectedexport and importactivities at Sule Jettythere yesterday. Afterhearing reports on worksbeing undertaken, theminister fulfilled therequirements.

MNA

Respects-paying ceremony held

YANGON, 4 Aug—A respects-paying cere-mony and get-together of1965-1969 students ofYangon University

majoring in Physics tomark the ruby jubilee tookplace at the InternationalBusiness Centre on PyiRoad here on 2 August.

Old students pre-sented gifts to the teachersand U Wa Tint presentedSayagyi Dr Maung MaungKha award.

After that, Dr. TinAung and Sayagyi U ThaHlaing deliveredaddresses. Then, DawKhaing Khaing Saw andU Tin Maung Than spokewords of thanks

NLM

Talk on Myanmar IToffshore development

YANGON, 4 Aug —Japanese technicianswill give talk on“Myanmar IT OffshoreDevelopment” jointlyorganized by MyanmarComputer Federationand the Embassy ofJapan at Myanmar Info-

Tech campus from 9.00am to 12.30 pm on 9Aug.

Any enthusiastsmay enroll at MCPoffice and contact ph-652307 and 707503 formore information.

NLM

All this needs to be known* Do not be frightened whenever

intimidated* Do not be bolstered whenever flattered* Do not be softened whenever appeased

MinisterMaj-Gen

Khin AungMyint

presentsaward to anoutstandingstudent ofPyawbweTownship.

MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Thein Swe inspects Bo Aung Kyaw Wharf.TRANSPORT

Respect-paying ceremony of 1965-1969 students of Yangon Universitymajoring in Physics in progress.—NLM

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Different US locations consideredfor Gitmo trials

India to build four more nuclear reactors

EU says Somali piratesrelease German ship

Chinese armed policemen of the coast guard mission participate in an anti-terrorism exercise on the beach near Taizhou city of east China’s Zhejiang

Province, on 3 Aug, 2009, aiming to improve their capability of fightingagainst terrorists.—INTERNET

Taleban fire rockets atAfghan capital; no deaths

KABUL, 4 Aug— Taleban militants fired at least ninerockets at the Afghan capital in a pre-dawn attack onTuesday, police said, injuring a child and causing somedamage in the biggest such attack in years.

The Taleban have vowed to disrupt the presidentialelection on 20 August and have called on Afghans toboycott the ballot, the second direct presidential pollsince the Islamists were toppled in 2001.

Senior police officer Sayed Ghafar said two rocketslanded in the Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic area, hometo various embassies as well as the NATO-led forceheadquarters in Afghanistan, while the rest landed else-where in Kabul.—Internet

German containercarrier “Hansa

Stavanger” whichSomali pirates hijackedon 5 April, 2009. Somalipirates on Monday freed

German cargo vesselHansa Stavanger, whichwas seized in April, after

receiving a ransompayment, a Kenyan

maritime official told.INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug —Staring at a January dead-line, the Obama adminis-tration is debating be-tween two dramaticallydifferent schemes forputting Guantanamo Baydetainees on trial: big-citycourtrooms in the nation’scapital, New York and Vir-ginia — or a one-of-a-kind superjail in the Mid-west. And the participants,working in tense but ami-cable secret meetings,know the final and politi-cally volatile decisionabout where to try detain-

ees will be made by Presi-dent Barack Obama, whoset the deadline for clos-ing the prison on the mili-tary base in Cuba to meeta campaign promise.

Dozens of Guan-tanamo Bay detaineecases have been referredto federal prosecutors forpossible criminal trials inthose Eastern Seaboardlocations, officials toldThe Associated Press onMonday, as the JusticeDepartment, Pentagonand national security offi-cials also weigh whether

to hold virtually allGuantanamo-related civil-ian and military trials at aMidwestern prison inMichigan or Kansas.

The administrationcould decide that ratherthan bring the detainees totrial in a number of cities,it will instead bring pros-ecutors and judges withterrorism experience toone site in the Midwest fortrial, which would poseother serious logisticalhurdles. Or they could set-tle on a combination of theplans.—Internet

NEW DELHI, 4 Aug —India will soon build fourmore 700-MW capacitynuclear reactors, the coun-try’s Atomic EnergyCommission (AEC)announced on Monday.

“We are lookingforward to launching new700 megawatt powerreactors. The governmenthas already given inprincipal approval forfour 700-megawatt units.

So we want to quickly getthe approval and start theconstruction,” AECChairman Anil Kakodkarsaid in Chennai, southernIndia.

The decision to buildfour more nuclear reactorsto meet the growingdemand of nuclear powerin the country came in thewake of the United States,Russia and EuropeanUnion nations have

expressed their willing-ness to sell nucleartechnologies, materialsand services to India.

During the US Secre-tary of State HillaryClinton’s visit to Indialast month, the twocountries have reportedagreed upon two sites tobuild nuclear reactorswith US nuclear technol-ogy.

Internet

Three US soldiers killedin E Afghanistan

BEIJING, 4 Aug—Another three American soldiersof the NATO-led International Security AssistanceForce (ISAF) were killed in east Afghanistan on Sun-day, according to an alliance press release.

It added that “Their patrol was first struck by anImprovised Explosive Device (IED) and then attackedby militants with small arms fire.”

Casualties in the NATO-led multinational peace-keeping mission have been on the rise in the pastseveral months. Three US and one French soldier losttheir lives in Taleban-linked violence on Saturday,bringing the international force death toll to over 75for July.

The deadly month has seen the highest number ofcasualties for international troops since 2001, with 43Americans killed.

Internet

BERLIN, 4 Aug—A Eu-ropean Union navalspokesman says Somalipirates have released aGerman vessel after a ran-som was paid.

British Royal NavyCmdr John Harbour saysthe ship, which had beenheld nearly four months,was released after the ran-som was paid aroundlunchtime.

He said by telephoneon Monday evening: “TheHansa Stavanger was re-

leased within the last twohours by the pirates wholeft the ship.”

“She put to sea on herown steam and she is con-tinuing out to sea under theprotection of Europeannaval force units.” He wasreached at the headquar-ters of the EU’s anti-piracymission in Northwood,near London.

He says EU forces hadnot yet boarded the vesselbut that “the positive newsis we have not heard of anycasualties.”

He had no further de-tails.—Internet

40 killed in Zimbabwe bus crashHARARE, 4 Aug—Zimbabwe state radio says a

crowded bus slammed into a truck on a stretch of high-way notorious for accidents, killing 40 people andinjuring another 30.

Monday’s radio report said the bus swerved to avoidanother stationary truck on the southbound highway80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Harare on Sunday.

The crash was close to the site of the accident in whichSusan Tsvangirai, wife of Prime Minister MorganTsvangirai, died in March. In May, 30 people died in abus crash on the same stretch of highway.—Internet

An Afghan boy looks at the broken window of hishouse after a rocket hit in Kabul, Afghanistan, on4 Aug, 2009. Five rockets slammed into Kabul atdaybreak Tuesday, one of them falling near the

US Embassy in a rare attack on the Afghancapital less than three weeks before presidentialelections, police and residents said.—INTERNET

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Panasonic digital cameras. The Japanese high-tech giant announced a bigfirst-quarter loss, blaming weak sales of televisions, digital cameras and other

electronic goods during the recession.—INTERNET

Passengers wait for leaving Haikou harbor to Guangdong Province inHaikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province, on 4 Aug, 2009. Tropical

storm Goni, formed in the Pacific near Hainan on Monday, is forecast tostrike China.—XINHUA

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) labourers at work in New Delhi inJune. Authorities in Delhi have admitted the city’s residents are “rude, impa-

tient and arrogant” and vowed to tackle anti-social behaviour before theCommonwealth Games open in the Indian capital next year.—INTERNET

MANILA, 4 Aug— Pilipino Telephone Corporation(Piltel), the mobile phone unit of telecommunicationsgiant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company(PLDT), posted a core net income of 6.3 billion pesos(about 131 million US dollars), up 23 percent on year,in the first half of the year, the company reported onTuesday.

Net income improved by 34 percent to 7 billionpesos (about 145million US dollars).

Expanding subscriber base and increased revenuesboosted Piltel’s earnings in the first six months of theyear, Piltel officials said in a disclosure submitted onTuesday to the Philippine Stock Exchange.

Piltel remains a strong cellular phone brand inthe Philippines,with its subscriber base expanding by2.28 million to 16.6 million. Service revenues grew 5percent to 8.6 billion pesos (about 180 million USdollars) in the first half of 2009.

Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, andAmortization (EBITDA) increased by 3 percent to 7.7billion pesos (about 160 million US dollars). Piltel’stotal expenses increased by 14 percent to 1.2 billionpesos (about 25 million US dollars).

Internet

JAKARTA, 4 Aug—Indo-nesian government-runpower firm PLN has is-sued US Dollar-nomi-nated bonds worth 750million US dollars, andplanned to issue anotherbonds worth 1.5 trillionrupiah (151.6 million USdollars) in the fourth quar-ter this year, PLN Direc-tor Rudiantara said hereon Tuesday.

“The 10-year servicetenure bond was quicklybought by investors to anoverbooked value of 8.6billion dollars with mostof the buyers were fromAsian countries,” theDetik.com quoted Rudi-antara as saying.

He said that the bonds,that were issued on Mon-day, offer a yield of 8.125percent. PLN appointedUBS AG and BarclaysCapital to handle the saleof the bonds in interna-tional market.—Internet

HANOI, 4 Aug—Viet-nam raked in 9.08 billionUS dollars from export ofagro-forestry-fisheryproducts in the first sevenmonths of this year, down5.23 percent year-on-year,said a report of Vietnam’sMinistry of Agricultureand Rural Developmenton Tuesday.

Falling prices of agri-cultural products in theinternational market tookits toll on Vietnam’s agri-cultural export value, saidthe report.

Of the categories, ag-

CANBERRA, 4 Aug—Overseas tourist arrivalsto Australia have fallen5.1 percent in June, ac-cording to new figuresreleased by the AustralianBureau of Statistics onTuesday.

It reported that theshort-term visitor arrivalsin the month dropped 5.1

ZURICH, 4 Aug—Swiss banking giant UBS on Tues-day said it lost 1.4 billion Swiss francs (916 millioneuros, 1.32 billion dollars) during the second quarter,as it issued a “cautious” outlook for the comingmonths.

Market conditions improved during the period butthe overall economic environment in most areas wherethe bank was operating remained recessionary, saidUBS. “Sustainable recovery is not yet visible,” itadded.—Internet

Indonesian powerfirm issues 750 m

USD worthof bonds

Tourist arrivals in Australia decrease5% in June

percent, to 442,500, com-pared to the previousmonth. This followedmonthly decreases of 0.2percent for April and 1.7percent for May.

The figures were buff-ered by a steep rise intourists from Malaysiaand Indonesia.

Malaysian visitors

were up in trend terms by45.5 percent over the 12months from June 2008and Indonesian visitorsrose 12.6 percent over thesame period. However,Japanese visitors dropped29.5 percent over the yearto June, while South Ko-rean visitors dipped 20.3percent. —Internet

Vietnam’s export turnover of agro-forestry-fisheryproducts down in 1st 7 months

ricultural products post aturnover of 5.02 billionUS dollars, down 5.32percent year-on-year,aquatic products of 2.16billion US dollars, down9.49 percent, and key for-estry products of 1.43 bil-lion US dollars, down17.44 percent.

However, the ministrysaid that export of a ma-jority of Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery products

saw a year-on-year in-crease in volume in thisperiod.

Export products suchas coffee and rubber haverecorded an increase involume but a decrease invalue. Coffee exportreached 802,000 tons, up19.1 percent in volume.Rubber export volumewas 331,000 tons, up 4.7percent.

Internet

UBS posts billion dollar lossesfor Q2

Philippine telecom giant’s mobileunit income up 23% in H1

Malaysia introduces special economic zoneKUALA LUMPUR, 4

A u g — M a l a y s i aTuesday introduced aSpecial Economic Zone(SEZ) to boost economicgrowth for its eastcoastal region, localmedia reported.

The SEZ was aimedto attract 90 billionringgit (25.7 billion U.S.dollars) to an areacovering two eastcoastal states ofTerengganu and Pahang,said Malaysian PrimeMinister Najib Tun

Razak when he launchedthe zone in Pekan, hishometown in the PahangState.

The area measuring25 kilometers by 140kilometers wouldcreate220,000 jobs by2020, he said.

He said that SEZ hasspecial incentives forinvestors, including aten-year tax exemption,100 percent investmenttax allowance, andexemptions from importand export duties.

Najib added that SEZwould attract moreinvestments to the EastCoast Economic Region(ECER).

ECER was launchedin 2007 by former PrimeMinister AbdullahAhmad Badawi and itwas aimed to develop theeast coastal area coveringfour Malaysian states ofKelantan, Terengganuand Pahang,as well asMersing, a northerndistrict of the Johor State.

Internet

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19,553 anti-governmentguerrillas disarmed in ColombiaBOGOTA, 4 Aug—The

Colombian governmentsaid on Monday that asmany as 19,553 anti-gov-ernment guerrillas havebeen disarmed from 7Aug, 2002, until the endof last month.

Furthermore, 1,636guerrillas were disarmedin the first seven monthsof this year, and 265 moreguerrillas surrendered inJuly, according to a gov-

ernment report.Among the guerrillas

who laid down theirweapons in July, 232 werefrom the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colom-bia (FARC) and 33 fromthe National LiberationArmy (ELN). The numberof rebels included 21 mi-nors and 58 women.

Colombian guerrillagroups, led by the FARCand the ELN, have been

fighting governmenttroops for more than 40years.

The Colombian govern-ment has promised thatthe former guerilla fight-ers would be treated prop-erly.

Colombian PresidentAlvaro Uribe, who tookoffice in August 2002,made the demobilizationof guerrillas in Colombiaa priority.—Xinhua

A man visits the “Kuhane Rapa Nui in the Pacific Islands” at the Central ofCultura of the Palacio of Moneda in Chile on 3 Aug, 2009. The show displays

over 300 pieces of art from Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands and Rapa Nui, inPolynesia, New Guinea and Fiji Islands in Melanesia, as well as New Zealand

and Australia, among other enclaves in the South Pacific.—XINHUA

PE class sending more kids toemergency rooms in US

BEIJING, 4 Aug— The number of students who endup in emergency rooms because of physical educa-tion class injuries have increased significantly in theUS since the late 1990s, according a new study asquoted by media reports on Tuesday.

For the study, published in Pediatrics, researchersanalyzed data from the National Electronic InjurySurveillance Study of the US Consumer ProductSafety Commission. They found that the annualnumber of PE injuries increased 150 percent from1997 to 2007.

Boys and girls tended to have different types of in-juries. Boys were more likely to sustain head injuries,or sustain a fracture or cuts, during group activities.Girls were more likely to have sprains or strains to thelower extremities. Most of these injuries occurred dur-ing individual activities.

Other findings from the study shows that there werean estimated 405,305 injuries in PE classes that re-sulted in emergency room visits during the 11-yearstudy period (1997-2007).

Xinhua

US flight hit by turbulence, 26 injured

Mexican authorities arrest leading drug smuggler

Belgian prisoner who escaped in helicopter capturedBRUSSELS, 4 Aug—One of the three men that escaped from a Belgian prison in a

dramatic helicopter break-out on 23 July is back in custody, reported VRT news onMonday. Abdelhaq Melloul-Khayari was detained by police in the Brussels mu-nicipality of Sint-Jans Molenbeek on Monday. He has been returned to Brugeswhere he will be questioned by an examining magistrate.

Melloul-Khayari is considered to be the most dangerous of the three men thatescaped from the Bruges prison, 90 km west of Brussels. The 41 year old wasserving a lengthy sentence for numerous bank robberies. A few years ago, he man-aged to escape from Verviers Prison in Liege Province.—Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug—A US airplane was hit byturbulence and made anemergency landing in Mi-ami, Florida, early onMonday, leaving 26 in-jured.

According to the Fed-eral Aviation Administra-tion (FAA), the Continen-tal Airlines night flightfrom Brazil to Texas wasstruck by the turbulencearound 4:30 am (0830GMT) about halfway be-tween Puerto Rico andGrand Turk island, northof the Dominican Repub-lic.

The Boeing 767, with168 people on board, wasdiverted and safely landedat the Miami InternationalAirport one hour later,

said the authorities.Miami-Dade Fire Res-

cue officials told reportersthat four people were se-riously injured and 22 oth-ers were in stable condi-tion with bumps and

bruises, and those whowere uninjured remainedon the plane.

The cause and damageof the incidence was stillunder investigation, saidthe FAA. —Xinhua

Photo taken byPhotographer

Marco Fuller showsthe remnant of this

once-enormousvolcano is bubbling,

boiling and brim-ming over.

XINHUA

One killed, two missing in Gaza tunnel collapse

Equestrians attend a horse racing during the Nadam fair in north China’sInner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on 2 Aug, 2009. Nadam, meaning

entertainment and playing in Mongolian language, is a traditional entertain-ment and games festival of the Mongolian ethnic group.—XINHUA

GAZA, 4 Aug—One Palestinian was killed and three others went missing as asmuggling tunnel under the border between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt col-lapsed on Monday evening, medics and witnesses said.

Chief of Gaza emergency and ambulance service Mo’aweya Hassanein toldreporters that a Palestinian rescue team pulled out the body of a 22-year-old Pales-tinian that was stuck in a tunnel under the border that suddenly collapsed.

“Rescue teams and medical crews are still searching for three others who wentmissing under the collapsed tunnel,” said Hassanein.

Xinhua

All items from Xinhua News Agency

MEXICO CITY, 4 Aug—Mexican federal policehave arrested a leading dis-tributor of the illegal drugdextro methamphetamine,the Public Security Officesaid in a statement on Mon-day. The drug smugglerwas arrested at a partywhere another 32 peoplewere also seized for linksto an organized crime gang.

The statement said thatMiguel Angel Beraza Villa

was in charge of routes thatsmuggled the drug, alsoknown as meth, ice orcrank, into San Diego, Cali-fornia, and El Paso, Texas.

The arrest took place inApatingan, a town in thewestern Mexican provinceof Michoacan. The federalgovernment has been car-rying out a campaignagainst the ring there sincea late June arrest triggeredseveral attacks that killed

23 police officers in lessthan seven days.

In response, authoritiesdeployed 3,300 federalpolice and soldiers toMichoacan. The local gov-ernment deployed 200 of-ficers to the party, as wellas two Black Hawk heli-copters and armored vehi-cles. The operation seized13,000 US dollars in cash,11 luxury vehicles and 30cellular phones. —Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

A nurse checks the heartbeat of newly

born conjoined twins at a hospital in

Manila, capital of the Philippines.

The conjoined twins were born and

have been under observation at the

hospital.

Underweight team told to eat at least 15 eggs a day

The Gran Telescopio Canarias mayhelp scientists better understand the

origins of the universe.

Baby with two headsborn in Philippines

A baby girl with two heads and onebody was born in a Manila hospital.

Doctors at the Fabella hospital toldreporters that the baby, weighted almost6 pounds at birth, was stable but mightnot have good chances to survive asthey share only one heart.

The conjoined twins were namedonly as Baby A and Baby B. The fa-ther, a tricycle driver, asked for prayersand financial help when reportersreached the hospital bed. Doctors saidthe baby needs to be placed under neo-natal intensive care unit and will betransferred to the Philippine HeartCenter for treatments to sustain thefragile life.

But an operation to separate the con-joined twins is a stretch of the hospitalcapabilities in the country. Another in-fant born with two heads died in Indo-nesia on Tuesday due to organ failure.It lived only five days.

India’s unfancied rugby sevens sidemust bulk up if they hope to make animpact at next year’s CommonwealthGames, eating seven meals and at least15 eggs a day, the country’s SouthAfrican coach said.

“I have told them (his players) theymust eat at least 15 eggs a day, six forbreakfast and the remaining nine anytime, any how, during the day,” thecountry’s South African coach NormanLaker told the Telegraph newspaper .

“The players have three meals a dayand that’s not enough. In South Africa,elite rugby players have seven meals aday.”

India is rated a lowly 83rd out of the95 teams in the International RugbyBoard rankings which are currently

headed by South Africa.“Indian players weigh 72-77 kg on

an average whereas the internationalplayers weigh between 88 and 100 kg.That is the weight difference you haveto make up,” Laker said ahead of theteam’s departure to South Africa for atraining stint.

India is hosting the CommonwealthGames in October 2010.

Tiger escapes magic act,ends up on Vegas streets

Police in Las Vegas say a tamedtiger that escaped from a magic acthas been captured.

Police say the residents in thecity’s northwest section reportedseeing the tiger wandering theirstreets.

Police Lt Les Lane says the catbelongs to Fernando’s Brothersmagic act. He says the cat got loose,but “they got it back into custody.”

The cat was found in a resident’sbackyard.

Animal Control and Metro Policeare investigating the incident.

LIMA, 4 Aug—An earthquake of magnitude 5shook on Monday the city of Pisco in Ica department,south of Peruvian capital Lima, causing fear amonglocal inhabitants.

According to the Geophysics Institute of Peru theearthquake struck at 3:10 pm (2010 GMT), and itsepicenter was 32 km southeast to Pisco with a depthof 50 km. The earthquake was also felt in a radius of100 km, without immediate reports of any damagesor casualties.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug—Health officials said theyhad found cases ofTamiflu-resistant swineflu along the US borderwith Mexico, as India andSouth Africa announcedtheir first deaths from theA(H1N1) virus.

“We have foundresistance to Tamiflu on

Treatment resistant swineflu detected in US

Medical face masks, antiviral medication Tamifluboxes and no rinse hydro-alcoholic antiseptic gels.

INTERNET

Moderate earthquake hitseastern Indonesia

JAKARTA, 4 Aug—A moderate earthquake withmagnitude of 5.1 rocked eastern parts Indonesia onTuesday, but no report of damage or casualties,according to the country’s Meteorology andGeophysics Agency.

The quake struck at 08:10 Jakarta time (2310GMT on Monday) with epicenter at 54 km northwestManokwari of Papua and at 10 km in depth, theagency said. Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hitzone so called the Pacific Ring of Fire, where twocontinental plates stretching thatcause often triggersseismic and volcanic movements. —Internet

Major earthquake hits Gulfof California

BEIJING, 4 Aug— An earthquake measuring 7.1on the Richter Scale jolted the Gulf of California offMexico coast at 1:59 am on Tuesday (Beijing Time),according to China’s national seismological network.

The epicenter was located at 29.3 degrees northlatitude and 112.9 degrees west longitude, with adepth of about 10 km, the network said.—Internet

Magnitude 5 earthquakeshakes southern Peru

PITTSBURGH, 4 Aug —Humans evolved fromorangutans, not chim-panzees, a University ofPittsburgh anthropologistsays, creating a furor inthe chimp camp.

Fossil evidence showsstriking anatomicalsimilarities betweenhumans and orangs,including enamel molars,similar hairlines andshoulder blades, and eventhe ability to smile withlips closed, Jeffrey HSchwartz and JohnGrehan, director ofscience at the BuffaloMuseum, say in theJournal of Biogeography.

Even our skulls and

Humans came from orangs, not chimpseyebrow bone structuremore closely resemble theorangutan’s than thechimp’s or gorilla’sdramatically ridged eye-brows, they say.

Indeed, humans share28 anatomical characteri-stics with orangutans —whose hair is typicallyreddish-brown, instead ofthe brown or black hairtypical of other great apes— compared with twowith chimps and 11 withgorillas, Schwartz andGrehan say.

But defenders of thechimp theory producedgenome evidence indi-cating chimps have a morethan 98 percent genetic

similarity with humans.This compares with a

97 percent similarity withthe gorilla and only 96similarity with theorangutan genome, theysay. “As far as I know —and I know Jeff well, andwe are friends — he andJohn Grehan are the onlytwo scientists on the wholeplanet who subscribe tothis red-ape hypothesis,”Todd Disotell, ananthropologist with NewYork University’s Centerfor the Study of HumanOrigins, told the Pitts-burgh Post-Gazette. “Ithink he is utterly,factually wrong.”

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the border.We have observed

some cases, few to be sure,in El Paso and close toMcAllen, Texas,” saidMaria Teresa Cerqueira,head of the Pan-AmericanHealth Organizationoffice in La Jolla,California.

Cases of A(H1N1) thatwere resistant to the anti-viral medicine have nowbeen found in the UnitedStates, Canada, Denmark,Hong Kong and Japan.

Experts had gatheredin La Jolla on Mondayto discuss the responseto the outbreak, andwarned that resistantstrains were l ikelyemerging because ofoveruse of antivirals likeTamiflu.

“In the United StatesTamiflu is sold with aprescription, but inMexico and Canada it issold freely and taken atthe first sneeze. Then,when it is really needed, itdoesn’t work,” saidCerqueira.

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Flight grounded by coffee maker aromaThe electrical smell that caused a

Southwest Airlines Co flight to makean unexpected landing was caused by acoffee maker in the back of the aircraft,

a company spokesman said.The coffee maker was in the back

galley of the Boeing 737 plane. Theaircraft was examined and put backinto service , said Southwest spokesmanChris Mainz.

“Anything that might have touchedthe burner might have caused theelectrical smell,” Mainz said. He addedthat the problem was “fairly unusual,”although it was not the first time it hashappened.

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Wagaung, the 5th month of Myanmar calen-dar, has its literal meaning “the mid month of Bud-dhist Lent”, the peak of monsoon. Non-stop rain fillsup and spills over all water bodies causing floods.Paddy planters are doing their job in full swingregardless of foul weather. Ground lilies (Crinumamoenum) of all varieties spring up with blooms ofcolourful hues and fragrance everywhere in the coun-try, deserving the status of the designated flower ofthis month, in Myanmar tradition. With the zodiacalsign of lion, this month is astrologically named Simha(Leo). Due to overcast sky, heavenly bodies are notvisible. But astrologers say that in daytime, the sunand asterism Hpou Sha and at night the moon andasterism Tharawun appear astride.

“Sayetan Pwe” is the traditional monthly fes-tival of Wagaung. Freely translated into English, it isthe festival of charity by casting lots. Sayetans are lotsto draw to choose recipient monk of food, religiousgift or alms in a religious offering. This custom ofcasting lots in religious charity originates in thelifetime of Gotama Buddha.

While Lord Buddha was residing in WeiluwunVihara at the capital Yazagyoe, there was the time ofscarcity of food. Buddhist devotees could no longerprovide alms food for all monks of the Vihara. Somewanted to select ten to twenty monks to offer food.Some wanted to provide food only on sabbath days.Some preferred to cast lots to decide recipient monks.Finally they referred the matter to Lord Buddha whoexpounded seven different modes of offering food tomonks. They are as follows:-

1. Sangha-bhat which is the food offered to allmonks.

2. Uddesa-bhat which is the food offered particu-larly to one or two monks.

3. Nimantana-bhat which is the food offered to theinvited monks.

4. Salaka-bhat which is the food offered to themonks chosen by casting lots.

5. Pakkhika-bhat which is the food offered to themonks on the waxing and waning moon days.

6. Uposathika-bhat which is the food offered to themonks on the Sabbath day and

7. Patipadika-bath which is the food offered to the

The festival of charity by lot casting in WagaungDr Khin Maung Nyunt

monks on the day after the Sabbath day.Lord Buddha then said that He approved all of

them. Since that time, offering of food to the monks bycasting lots became a common practice among theBuddhists.

With the permission and at the direction of LordBuddha, the monks chose one monk from amongthemselves and appointed him “Bhattuddesaka” themonk who was in charge of alloting food offered bydonors. This monk must have special qualificationssuch as good health, activeness, managerial skill, free-dom from biases and prejudices, being able to keepcorrect list of allotted and unalotted monks. The first“Bhattuddesaka” was Maha Thera Ashin Datba. Hedischarged the duty of alloting Uddesa-bhat, Nimanta-bhat and Salaka-bhat, with fairness and correctness.

The lots are either wooden or bamboo slats,strips or palm pei leaves on which names and addressesof the donors of food are scribed. They are put into abasket which is shaken upside down many times sothat the lots are shuffled up. Monks queue up accordingto their serial numbers or the seniority of their or-dained years to draw the lot. Then, they go to thehouses as directed by their lots to partake of the foodoffered there. Originally, there was no rule fixingmonth, venue and date for casting lot. Myanmar Kingschose Wagaung as the month for performing thisreligious function because monks observing Lent vowsand residing together in the same monastery mighthave difficulty in receiving enough food in Wagaung.Originally, casting lots was to provide food to monks.But, later all four basic needs of monks (Satupyitsaya— food, robe, shelter and medicine) are also, some-times, donated by casting lots.

The earliest evidence of food offering to themonks by lots casting is found in the stone inscriptionsat old Bagan. In lines 22 and 23 of Saw Hla Win pagodainscriptions of A.D. 1268, 1290 and 1291, there wasmention of Sayetan (casting lots). King Thihathu (A.D.1298-1312) of Pinya dynasty built a big wooden mon-astery and offered it to a monk named Hsu Twin PyitSayadaw as he was tested proved a learned monk ofhigh education. But, the Sayadaw advised the king todonate the monastery by casting lots. From that timebegan the festival of charity by casting lots.

Later, in the reign of King Tha Lun (A.D. 1629-48) of Nyaung Yan dynasty, most venerable monkShwe Umin Sayadaw of Pakhan Gyi translated twoPali treatises — Culava pali nisaya and Culava paliAthakatha nisaya — into Myanmar. In them, hetranslated two Pali words “Salaka” and “Bhatta” as“Sayey Tan” and “Hswan”, two Myanmar words.Salaka means wooden or bamboo sticks on whichletters are scribed and bhatta means “hswan”, foodfor monks.

Myanmar literature of later periods made ref-erences to the charity by casting lots festival. Thisfestival is sung in many forms of classical songs.Eminent poets and playwrights such as U Yar, Lu UMin, Hpo Thudaw U Min, Mei Kway, U Hpyey and UPonnya mention this festival in their verses and plays.On page 229 of one Myanmar chronicle entitled“Konbaungset Maha Yazawun Tawgyi” Volume 2,the holding of the casting lots festival at the palace ofKing Bagyidaw (A.D. 1819-37) was recorded asfollows:-

“On the 8th waning moon day of Wagaung,village monks and forest monks were invited to thepalace. Eight priestly utensils and other offertorieswere arranged on two hundred and sixty padaythapins(wooden frames in the design of a tree). Their majes-ties the king and chief queen donated them to theinvited monks and they poured libation water. Theirmajesties next offered Salakabhat Sayeytan hswan(food for monks) to the monks.”

In all Myanmar religious functions, a festivemood is created by the gathering of lay devoteesdressed in their finery, and dainty damsels carryingoffertories on their heads, followed by parties ofmerry-maker youths who joyously sing, dance andplay folk music of dho bat, ozi and byaw which befitthe occasion.

The full moon day of Wagaung is designated asthe Day of Metta Sutta, one of the Suttas in BuddhaParitta. By chanting or reciting Metta Sutta, you sendout to all sentient beings messages of your loving-kindness, compassion and goodwill. All who receiveyour good messages, reciprocate the same to you.You are immune from all dangers. You have noenemies, you have only friends.

YANGON, 4 Aug—TheMyanmar Fishery Federa-tion, the Ministry of Live-stock and Fisheries andthe Myanmar FisheriesEntrepreneurs Associa-tion held a workshop onfindings on fish produc-tion and quality fish spe-cies at the federation on

Workshop on quality fish species heldBayintnaung Road inInsein Township here yes-terday.

Patron of the federa-tion Minister for Livestockand Fisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein de-livered an introductoryspeech.

MFF President U Htay

Myint and MFEA Chair-man U Than Lwin pre-sented progress in localfish breeding and market-ing; General Secretary UWin Kyaing, on local andforeign findings on fishbreeding, and Dr AungNaing Oo of the FisheriesDepartment, quality fishspecies. The presenters re-plied to the queries raisedby the attendees. The min-ister gave concluding re-marks.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Maung Maung Theindelivers an address at the workshop.

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Lt-Gen Ko Ko of Ministry ofDefence inspects…

(from page 1)On arrival at the briefing hall of new town plan

project of Labutta, Lt-Gen Ko Ko heard the reportspresented by departmental officials on construction ofoffices and houses. After hearing the reports, Lt-GenKo Ko urged them to meet standards and to completeon schedule and looked round construction of officesand buildings.

At the briefing hall of 200-bed hospitalconstruction project, Lt-Gen Ko Ko left necessaryinstructions after hearing the reports presented byresponsible persons on sector-wise.

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(from page 1)Regarding the

advantages of themachinery, he explained,“It costs less. It consumesless fuel. It is made ofhigh quality iron. It isportable. And it can beused at any types of soil.We learn that it meets thecustomer satisfaction.”

A one-wheelpower-tiller has a 5/6 hpengine. A farmer canplough 0.25 acre an hourif it is equipped withploughshares, and 0.5acre if it is equipped withharrows. It consumesonly 0.5 gallon of fuelan hour. A unit is pricedat only 570,000 kyats,less than the price of apair of draught cattle.The department sellsone-wheel power-tillersby installment tofarmers.

The factorymanager said, “Farmerscan get power-tillers in

Manufacturing power-tillers,part of transformation…

Two workers making gear boxes of power-tillers at No (3) Farm Machinery andMachine Tools Factory in Kyaikkalot,

Mingaladon township.

Workers at work in No (4) Farm Machinery and Machine ToolsFactory in Kyaikkalot, Mingaladon township.

Factory Manager USein Hla Myint of No(1) Farm Machineryand Machine Tools

Factory in 9th Mile,Yangon.

A local ploughing paddy fields at Phayagon Village-tract in ThanlyinTownship.

cash both in our factoryand in offices of heads ofstate and divisionAgricultural Mechaniza-tion Departments and intractor stations. Infirst installment, a farmerhas to pay 300,000 kyats,and one year after that,he has to pay 270,000kyats in the secondinstallment. If withoutan engine, he has to

pay 220,000 kyats in thefirst installment, and200,000 kyats in thesecond installment. Wecharge no interest on thepayments.”

We also visitedNos (3) and (4) FarmMachinery and MachineTools Factories inKyaikkalot, MingaladonTownship.

We conductedinterviews with somefarmers at PhayagonVillage-tract in ThanlyinTownship, Yangon South

District. Farmer U KyiAung said, “I have 20 acresof paddy fields. I have usedfarm machinery since1996. I began to use one-wheel power-tiller thismonsoon season. I boughtit at 9th Mile factory.Previously, I used draughtcattle to plough my fields,and it was very difficultfor me to plough an acrein a day. Now, I use thispower-tiller and I canplough three acres a day.It consumes only one

bottle of diesel an hour.We work nine hours a dayand it consumes only oneand a half gallons ofdiesel. I use two units, soI can plough six acres aday. So, using power-tillers saves a lot of timeand labour.

“We complete ourwork in a short time. One-wheel power-tillers workvery well. It is easy todismantle and fit ittogether. It takes amechanic only about anhour to repair a break-down power tiller. Tractorsare far more effective, butwe have to do a lot of extra

work if we use a tractor.So, we choose power-tiller. A power-tiller iswell enough to plough20 acres of paddy fields.Now, I completeploughing fields earlierthan I did previously. Itcosts about 15,000 kyatsif I plough an acre offield with draught cattle.Using a power-tillersaves half of theexpenses. So, I wouldsay farmers can makegreater profits if they usepower-tillers.”

*****Translation: MSKyemon: 4-8-2009

Farmer U Kyi Aung in an interview.

Lt-Gen Ko Ko of the Ministry of Defence views selling and buying at Rwaynadi floatingmarket in Labutta.—MNA

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Information Minister meets with staff under ministry, attends

stake-driving ceremony for Nanpantet village self-reliant library

NAY PYI TAW, 4

Aug—Minister for

Information Brig-Gen

Kyaw Hsan went on an

inspection tour of the

self-reliant village

library being built by

Yadana Tun Company

Iimited in Taunglaylone

Village in Nyaungshwe

Township in Shan State

(South) yesterday

morning and attended to

the needs.

Next, the minister

attended the ceremony to

drive stakes for

sprinkled scented water

on them.

The minister and

officials concerned later

donated cash and

publications to the self-

reliant library. Next, the

minister explained

development tasks being

carried out by the

government, aims and

benefits of establishing

rural self-reliant libraries

and tasks to be carried

out for perpetual

existence of already-

built libraries and then

cordially greeted those

present.

At the office of

Taunggyi IPRD on 2

August, the minister

inspected wall posters,

YANGON, 4 Aug—The

police of Hlinethaya

Police Station on patrol

arrested a man for

attempting to rob a taxi

driver by cutting his throat

with a blade on 20 July.

The taxi driven by Ko

Thant Zin living in

Tamway Township

stopped and waited for

passengers at the top of

Pagoda Street, No 6 Ward

of Hlinethaya Township.

At that time, a young man

Man arrested for attempted robbery

came to the taxi driver

and hired it for K 2,000 to

Shwepyitha Bridge. The

taxi driver was forced to

stop by the man near

Tezamuni Pagoda under

the bridge and the youth

held arms around the taxi

driver and cut the latter’s

throat with the blade.

Defending against the

blade attacks, the driver

with bruises and cuts in

his hand shouted for help

but the man opened the

door of the car and ran

away.

Policemen of

Hlinethaya Police Station

making patrol near

Tezamuni Pagoda were in

pursuit of attempted

robber named Zar Ni Ko

and arrested him

immediately. In order not

to cause similar cases,

Yangon Division Police

Force is giving talks on

crime prevention.

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YANGON, 4 Aug—The National

League for Democracy (Headquarters)

kept in touch with the US and British

embassies and is living up to their

instructions. The people are criticizing

such acts of the NLD and keeping a

watchful eye on them.

Those from US and British Embassies visited

NLD (Headquarters) 30 times in JulyThose from the US and British

embassies visited the NLD

(Headquarters) on West Shwegondine

Street here 30 times in July 2009. During

their visits, they met with CEC members

of the party and gave small and large

envelopes and parcels to them.—MNA

YANGON, 4 Aug—President of the

Civil Service Selection and Training

Board U Kyaw Thu met students from

two-year MA BEd course Nos 9 and

10, four-year Bed course Nos 41, 42

and 43, two-year BEd bridge course

Nos 5 and 6, one-year BEd course No

19, and one-year junior assistant

CSSTB President meets UDNR studentsteachers training course No 19 at the

University for Development of

National Races yesterday morning.

Also present on the occasion were

CSSTB member U Soe Oo, Rector U

Zaw Min Thein, the pro-rector and

deans.

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Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan meets with staff at the office of Taunggyi IPRD.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan cordially greets local people.—MNA

Shwethuta self-reliant

library in Nanpantet

Village, Wetphyuye

Village-tract in Kalaw

Township of Shan State

(South).

Afterwards, the

minister, Deputy

Commander of Eastern

Command Brig-Gen Chit

Oo, Col Bo Ni of Kalaw

Station and Director-

General U Ye Htut of

Information and Public

Relations Department

took respective positions

and drove the stakes and

journals, and

documentary photos on

display and met with staff.

Next, Head of Shan State

(South) IPRD Daw May

May Ni briefed the

minister on functions of

the department.

In meeting with the

staff, the minister instructed

those present to constantly

practice to be energetic and

competent media persons

because the staff are

discharging media duties.

He also urged them to

cooperating in the tasks for

perpetual existence of rural

self-reliant libraries aiming

at establishing rural self-

reliant libraries in order to

broaden the horizons of

the people.— MNA

Deputy

Minister

Col Nyan

Tun Aung

formally

opens

Htanzin-

Htangwa-

Pechet

Road

Section.

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Deputy Transport Minister attends road opening ceremonyNAY PYI TAW, 4 Aug

— Deputy Minister for

Transport Col Nyan Tun

Aung attended the opening

ceremony of 10-mile

Htanzin-Htangwa-Pechet-

Wetlu gravel road between

Natogyi Township and

Ngarzun Township on 30

July morning.

The deputy minister,

Deputy Director-General

of Development Affairs

Department U Soe Tint

and responsible person of

Thawtawin Construction

Co U Aung Myint

formally opened Htanzin-

Htangwa-Pechet road

section.

The deputy minister

addressed the opening

ceremony of Pechet-

Thintee-Wetlu road. The

deputy minister, the

deputy director-general

and responsible person of

Thawtawin Construction

Co formally opened the

road. —MNA

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Myaukyama Irrigation System in Monywa DistrictArticle: Kaw Sein; Photos: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

YANGON, 4 Aug —Gusto Computer TrainingCentre will open its pro-gramming fundamentalcourse on 12 August.

It will teach the basicconcepts and process,ways of thinking and tech-niques for all program-ming languages and pro-

Programming fundamental course to be opened

YANGON, 4 AUG—Un-der the arrangement ofMyanmar Hoteliers’ As-sociation and with spon-sorship of Bay View BeachResort from NgapaliBeach, Banking expert U

Talks on Introduction to RiskManagement on 6 Aug

gramme techniques. Af-ter the course, trainees willimprove problem solvingskills and creative think-ing skills and utilize thebasic programming tech-niques.

JAVA and C# lan-guage will be learned atthe course to understand

the programming. Those interested may

contact the training cen-tre, No 11 onShwetaungdan Street inLanmadaw Township (ph;222052 and 095144885).The course will last three-months.

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Wint Kyaw will give talkson Introduction to RiskManagement at Asia PlazaHotel at the corner ofBogyoke Aung San streetand Seikkanthar street inKyauktada Township here

on 6 August. Executives,members and interestedpersons may attend thetalks. It is also known thattalks will be held on Thurs-day of the first week ofevery month.—MNA

(from page 16)of Construction-4 of theIrrigation Department,we went to the projectsite accompanied byStaff Officer U ThanHlaing. We saw the maincanal and distributariesand canals built system-atically.

At the briefing hall,Staff Officer U AungNaing of Myaukyama Ir-rigation System Projectexplained that the project

was launched in 2008-2009; that the IrrigationDepartment of the Minis-try of Agriculture and Ir-rigation was exploitingwater and land sources,adhering to the directivesthe government had givenfor economic develop-ment of the nation; andthat as part of the drive,they were implementingthe project to benefit 7500acres in addition to the12,000 acres of farmlands

in the irrigated area ofMyaukyama Dam.

Myaukyama DamProject was constructed in

flow into it annually. So,the water surplus flows outof the dam through thesluice gate and the sup-

porting sluice gate, thuscalling for a supportingdam to store the spilledwater. The dam storesabout 93,300 acre feet ofwater spilled fromMyaukyama Dam, so anew irrigation system waslaunched to supply waterto 7500 more acres offarmlands.

He said that on com-

1998 and supplied suffi-cient irrigation water to12,000 acres of lands. In2007, Myaukyama Sup-porting Dam was con-structed across theMyaukyama Creek, aboutsix miles upstreamMyaukyama Dam.

The maximum waterstorage capacity ofMyaukyama Dam is14,057 acre feet, and about130,000 acre feet of water

pletion the main canalwould be 13.25 miles long,and the distributaries,43.72 miles long in total,with 128 irritation struc-tures; that up to that time,the work for clearing wildplants had been completedby 43.36 per cent, build-ing the main canal, by24.14 per cent, construc-tion of the approach road,

by 38.19 per cent,groundwork for the maincanal, by 47.59 per cent,construction of the mainstructure, by 37.50 percent; and that the projectwould be completed centper cent by 2010-2011.

Upon completion,the project will be ableto benefit some 7500acres of arable lands in

Pale and Yinmabintownships in MonywaDistrict, Sagaing Divi-sion. So, the project willhelp improve the socio-economic life and the liv-ing standard of local peo-ple, and contribute to-wards the greening of theregions.

Translation: MSMyanma Alin: 3-8-2009

The intake structure of Myaukyama IrrigationSystem designed to irrigate 7500 acres of farm-

lands.

Staff Officer U Aung Naing, Construction-4,Irrigation Department.

Monsoon paddy fields in Tamarbingwa Village, Yinmabin Township, which are irrigated byMyaukyama Dam.

The intake structure of distributary (2) underconstruction.

The drainage structure of the main canal isunder construction.

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Chinese girls learn to play clay whistles from a local craftsman during a folkart festival in Yanggu county in east China’s Shandong Province, on 4 Aug,

2009. —INTERNET

MIAMI, 4 Aug—Tropical Storm Enrique is heading west-northwest in thePacific while a tropical depression is expected to strengthen and become anothertropical storm.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Enrique’s maximum sustainedwinds are near 40 mph.

The storm is centered about 725 miles south-southwest of the southern tip ofMexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Farther west, a tropical depression is moving west-northwest with maximumsustained winds near 35 mph. The depression is expected to become a tropicalstorm later Tuesday. It’s centered about 1,175 miles southwest of Baja California.

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A Bangkok Airways plane is seen after it skiddedoff the runway while attempting to land during

heavy rains on Samui island, Surat Thaniprovince in southern Thailand on Tuesday, 4

Aug, 2009. —INTERNET

BEIJING, 4 Aug—Forty years after theiconic’60s musical bash,Academy Award-winning director AngLee brings the spirit ofWoodstock to theatersin his new fi lm—“Taking Woodstock.”

James Schamus’screenplay for the filmis derived from a book

VILNIUS, 4 Aug—FiveLithuania crew membershave been taken hostagefrom a cargo ship off thecoast of Nigeria, the Balticstate’s foreign ministry saidTuesday.

The ministry said in astatement that according toavailable information noneof the crew of theL i t h u a n i a n - f l a g g e drefrigerator vessel Saturnashad been injured in theattack by unidentifiedperpetrators.

The current location ofthe hostages was unknown,the ministry said.

The Saturnas belongs

US personal income falls in June,consumer spending rises

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug—The personal income of theUnited States fell in June,but consumer spendingincreased for the secondconsecutive month,according to a reportreleased Tuesday by theCommerce Department.

The Bureau ofEconomic Analysis, theCommerce Department’smajor data provider says

that consumers boostedtheir spending by 0.4percent, slightly ahead ofanalysts’ estimates,following a spendingincrease of 0.1 percent inMay.

The report sayspersonal income fell 1.3percent after rising by thesame rate in May, whenincomes were boosted byone-time payments from

the Obama adm-inistration’s stimuluspackage. Economistsformerly estimatedpersonal incomes, the fuelfor future spending, to fall1 percent in June.

Consumer spending isclosely watched because itaccounts for about 70percent of total USeconomic activity.

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Ang Lee brings new film “Taking Woodstock”

Plane hits control tower at Thaiairport, one killed

BANGKOK, 4 Aug—Apassenger plane skiddedoff the runway and crashedinto a building afterlanding on the Thai resortisland of Samui onTuesday, killing the chiefpilot and injuring at leastseven people includingforeign tourists.

The Bangkok Airwaysflight landed in stormyweather and hit the airport’sold air traffic control tower,

Two Russian tourists feed a seal which has finishedstaging performances inside an open pool in a localzoo in Harbin, capital of northeast China’sHeilongjiang Province, on 4 August, 2009.—INTERNET

by Elliot Tiber whoseefforts to save his Jewishimmigrant family’sdying motel in upstateNew York did a lot tolaunch 1969’sWoodstock Music andArts Festival.

Elliot is a young gayman who unwittinglysets wheels in motionthat swiftly overwhelmhim. Comedy performerand wri ter DemetriMartin plays Elliot. Thefilm is his first in aleading role.

“ T a k i n gWoodstock” is a low-wattage film about ahigh-wattage event. Leedelivers an entertaininglight comedy aboutElliot’s journey and

struggles.Lee says that the

1960s for him presentan “innocence” that hewas keen to capture.

Director Ang Leesaid, “I think to capturethat spirit I think I wantto take that, follow hislead, by thinking of it asa center of the universe,which is vague,somewhere far away,has to be light. And Iwant to see this humansoup, set in a ball. Thatrepresents the universe.I t’s just such afascinat ing idea; Ithought the best way todescribe Woodstock, atleast from my point ofview.”

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Lithuanian ship crew takenhostage off Nigeria

Tropical Storm Enrique moves across the Pacific

which had been convertedinto a fire station, saidKanikka Kemawutanond,director-general of theDepartment of CivilAviation. The co-pilot andsix tourists were hurt.

“The heavy damagewas at the front of theplane where the pilot was.It looks like he sufferedfrom the impact,” policeMaj. Col. Sayan Sartsrisaid.—Internet

A Chinese fisherman carries his catch of crabs

onshore after returning from the East China Sea

to the waterfront near Wenling city in east

China’s Zhejiang Province, on 4 Aug, 2009.

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to Lithuania’s LimarkoShipping Company.

“The ship has not beendamaged, it has not beenpirated,” companypresident VytautasLygnugaris was quoted assaying by the Lithuanian-based Baltic News Service.

“The attack is ‘fresh’— it occurred eight or ninehours ago—so I don’t wantto make any furthercomments because wedon’t have any more preciseinformation,” Lygnugarissaid.The ship had a totalcrew of 14, all of themLithuanian citizens.

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV SINAR BIMA VOY NO (036N)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV SINAR BIMAVOY NO (036N) are here by notified that the vesselswill be arriving on 5.8.2009 and cargo will be dis-charged into the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

AGENT FOR: M/S SAMUDERA SHIPPINGLINES

Phone No: 256908/378316/376797

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PACIFIC BANGLU VOY NO (001)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV PACIFICBANGLU VOY NO (001) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 5.8.2009 and cargo will bedischarged into the premises of M.I.T.T where it will lieat the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject to thebyelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.




AGENT FOR: NEOFIELD SHIPPING CO., LTDKOREA

Phone No: 256924/ 256914

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV KMA II VOY NO (907)

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South Africa confirmsfirst H1N1 flu death

JOHANNESBURG, 4 Aug—South Africa has confirmedthe country’s first death from H1N1 influenza, agen-cies quoted a health department official from WesternCape as reporting on Monday.

The reports said a 22-year-old male student fromUniversity of Stellenbosch died on July 28th after suf-fering flu symptoms. The case became South Africa’sfirst confirmed death related to the H1N1 virus.

The student first went to the campus clinic on July20 with flu like symptoms. When he did not improvehe went to a general practitioner.

Internet

India reports itsfirst A/H1N1 flu

deathNEW DELHI, 4 Aug—In-

dia recorded its first deathof flu A/H1N1 after a 14-year-old girl died of thedisease on Monday, localmedia reported.

The girl, a student, diedin a hospital in west In-dia’s Pune city, accordingto a report by private Indo-Asian News Service.

She was admitted to thehospital on 27 July andconfirmed to have beeninfected with the flu virusthree days later. She hadbeen on ventilator in In-tensive Care Unit beforeshe died, said the report.

No further report aboutthe death case is immedi-ately available.

India has recorded morethan 500 cumulative casesof flu A/H1N1infectionso far.

The latest cases involvetwo students and a 26-year-old who had returnedfrom Germany. They arereceiving treatment in anisolation ward in hospital,according to media re-ports.

Internet

Pneumonic plague kills 3rdman in NW China provinceXINING, 4 Aug—Pneumonic plague claimed a third

victim in northwest China’s Qinghai Province onMonday, local health authorities said.

The victim was a man named Danzhi, 64, from thetown of Ziketan, in Xinghai county in the Hainan Ti-betan Autonomous Prefecture.

The outbreak, which began 30 July and has causeda further nine people in the town to become ill, hasalready killed a 32-year-old herdsman and one of hisneighbors, a 37-year-old man.

Of the nine patients in quarantined, one is in a seri-ous condition and another has developed symptomsof coughing and chest pain. Most of the affected towns-people are relatives of the first dead man.

Internet

The pneu-monic

plague isthe mostvirulentform of

plague. Forthose who

are un-treated, thedeath rate is60 percentand manydie within24 hours. INTERNET

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Vitamin D deficiency may increaseheart risk factors in kids

Chinese medics inspect a “patient” of influenzaA/H1N1 during a drill for the flu prevention inXiuning County of Huangshan, in east China’s

Anhui Province, on 2 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

Vehicles drive past a flooded street after a heavy summer rain hit Jinan,capital city of east China’s Shandong Province, on 3 Aug, 2009.—INTERNET

A man creates an AIDS awareness ribbon. Hundredsof protesters took to the street in Mozambique’scapital to protest health ministry policies that they sayare jeopardizing HIV care in one of the world’s worst affected countries.—INTERNET

LOS ANGELES, 4 Aug—Vitamin D deficiency isassociated with anincreased incidence of riskfactors for cardiovascularproblems such as heartattack and stroke in kids,two new studies find.

The two studies,published in the 3 Augonline edition of Pediatrics,used US data from the2001-2004 National Healthand Nutrition ExaminationSurvey.

There was a clearassociation with

cardiovascular risk factors.The 25 percent ofyoungsters with the lowestlevels of vitamin D were2.36 times more likely tohave high blood pressure,54 percent more likely tohave low HDL cholesterollevels, 2.54 times morelikely to have elevated bloodsugar levels and 3.88 timesmore likely to havemetabolic syndrome, aconstellation of risk factorsincluding obesity, highblood fats and high bloodpressure, the two studies

show. While previousstudies have linked vitaminD deficiency to increasedrisk in American adults,“few studies have looked atwhether vitamin D can beassociated with increasedcardiovascular disease inchildren,” said Jared P Reis,who began his study whileat Johns HopkinsUniversity. He is now anepidemiologist in thedivision of cardiovascularsciences of the US NationalHeart, Lung, and BloodInstitute.—Internet

Austrian scientists crack groundmechanism of skin cancer

US study shows exercise benefitsleukemia patients

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug— One of the most bothersome symptoms of leukemia isextreme fatigue, and asking these patients to exercise doesn’t sound like a way tohelp them feel better. A new study released Monday from the University of NorthCarolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill indicates that exercise may be a great way to do justthat, combating the debilitating fatigue that these patients experience.

In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, a team of researchers from the Department ofExercise and Sport Science and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centerhave shown that physical activity can significantly improve symptoms of fatigueand depression, increase cardiovascular endurance and maintain quality of life foradult patients undergoing treatment for leukemia.

A total of 10 patients undergoing treatment participated in the EQUAL (Exerciseand Quality of Life in Leukemia/ Lymphoma Patients) study. Each patient wasprovided with specially-treated exercise equipment to minimize the risk ofinfection. They participated in an individualized exercise session while in thehospital for the 3-5 weeks of the induction phase of leukemia treatment.—Internet

Mental illness can beavoided in youth

TAMPA, 4 Aug— Inter-vention programs inschools, communitiesand healthcare settingscan reduce risk formental illness in youngadults, a US researchersaid.

Mary E Evans of theCollege of Nursing at theUniversity of SouthFlorida & Institute ofMedicine assessed a re-cently released govern-ment report on preventingmental disorders amongyoung people and saidspecific risk andprotective factors havebeen identified for manymental disorders.

The article, published inthe Journal of Child andAdolescent PsychiatricNursing, said a number ofinterventions have beendeveloped to providetraining in parenting skillsto prevent the developmentof aggressive and anti-social behavior.

In addition, somepreventive interventionshave targeted specificdisorders such as depres-sion and schizophrenia.Cognitive behavioraltreatment for high-riskadolescents has loweredthe rate of major depres-sive symptoms, Evanssaid.—Internet VIENNA, 4 Aug— A research group

led by Manuela Baccarini, scientist ofthe Centre for Molecular Biology of theUniversity of Vienna, has found theground mechanism of skin cancer suchas the melanoma, providing newpossibilities for skin cancer treatment,said a study released on Monday.

According to the study, the scientistshave cracked the “proto-oncogene,” atransmission channel for the “Ras” signal.Their studies suggest that skin cancer iscaused by the “Raf-1” protein that prevents

cells differentiating into skin cells.“Ras” is a kind of protein, which is

like a regulator under normalcircumstances, regulating many signaltransmission process in the cells. Butwhen this protein is interfered, it willhelp to canceration, leading to skincancers like melanoma. Differentiationor external influence is the cause for theinterference in “Ras.”

The unrestricted increase of skincells, or proliferation, is the premise ofskin cancer. —Internet

Women benefit morethan men from exercise

CHAPEL HILL, 4 Aug— Women, particularlyAfrican-American women, experience greatercardiovascular benefits than men as a result ofexercise, US researchers found.

The study, published in the Journal of Lipid Research, said the long-term study ofmore than 8,700 middle-aged men and womenprovides race- and gender-specific data onthe cholesterol effects of physical activity —with women experiencing greater benefits thanmen.

Internet

US scientistsreport original

source ofmalaria

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug—Researchers haveidentified what they believeis the original source ofmalignant malaria: aparasite found inchimpanzees in equatorialAfrica, University ofCalifornia Irvine (UCI)said in a press release onMonday.

UCI’s biologistFrancisco Ayala andcolleagues think the deadlyparasite was transmitted to humans fromchimpanzees perhaps asrecently as 5,000 years ago— and possibly through asingle mosquito, geneticanalyses indicate. Thestudy appears onlineMonday in the Proceedingsof the National Academyof Sciences.

This discovery could aidthe development of avaccine for malaria, whichsickens about 500 millionpeople and kills about 1.5million each year.

Internet

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S P O R T S

Sharapova starts quickly atLos Angeles tennis

Maria Sharapova ofRussia hits a backhand

to Jarmilla Groth ofSlovakia in the LAWomen’s Tennis

Championships at theHome Depot Center in

Carson, California.INTERNET

Roddick ready to return after Wimbledon heartbreak

Andy Roddick of the US is seenduring the award ceremony after the

men’s final at Wimbledon in July2009.—INTERNET

Healthy Hewitt confidentabout US Open chances

Lleyton Hewitt ofAustralia

Terry won’t demandbig-money signings

LONDON, 4 Aug—Chelsea captain John Terry insistshe won’t use his influence at Stamford Bridge topressure new boss Carlo Ancelotti into making big-money buys.

Recent reports suggested Terry demandedassurances that Chelsea were still committed to signinghigh-profile players before he decided to spurnManchester City’s advances last month.

The England defender was persuaded to stay aftertalks with Blues owner Roman Abramovich, afterwhich Terry spoke of his relationship with the Russianin glowing terms.

But Terry was was quick to play down talk that hewas pressing Abramovich and Ancelotti to sign thelikes of AC Milan midfielder Andrea Pirlo.

“I want to clear something up. I’m a player and it’sthe manager and board who make those decisions,”Terry told the Daily Mirror. “The only thing I spokeabout with the club was it was important people likeDidier Drogba and Ashley Cole, whose contracts areup now, stay with us.—Internet

No Vieira as Domenech stunsRibery with call-up

PARIS, 4 Aug—France coach Raymond Domenechhas sprung a surprise by naming Bayern Munichmidfielder Franck Ribery in his 22-man squad for theWorld Cup qualifier with the Faroe Isles in Torshavnon 12 August.

Ribery is still recovering from a knee unjury and,having last trained on 12 July, indicated recently hewas not yet match fit.

Domenech said that since Ribery could play forBayern in their German Bundesliga opener next week,he would have no qualms about using the midfielderfor “a brief spell”. “Franck said he would not be matchfit for a full match but I’ve since spoken to him bytelephone,” said Domenech.

“He is back training with Bayern, and he could playagainst Hoffenheim (on 8 August) and so he could beuseful for us even if it’s just for a brief spell.

Internet

Kalinic snubs Portsmouth ashe signs for Blackburn

Croatian internationalstriker Nikola Kalinic

Mokoena ready for WCupafter Portsmouth switch

Aaron Mokoena

Villa agree feefor Leeds

starlet DelphBIRMINGHAM, 4 Aug—

Aston Villa are close tosigning teenage starFabian Delph from Leedsafter agreeing a transferfee for the EnglandUnder-21 midfielder.

Villa revealed onMonday that they hadcome to an agreementwith Leeds which allowsthem to open talks withDelph over a move toVilla Park.

“Aston Villa canconfirm that a fee has beenagreed with Leeds Unitedfor Fabian Delph,” astatement on Villa’swebsite read. “Villa havebeen given permission tospeak to the player.”

Internet

ZAGREB, 4 Aug—Croatian internationalstriker Nikola Kalinic signedfor English Premier Leagueclub Blackburn Rovers onMonday for 7.5millioneuros from Hajduk Split, the

selling club announced onits website.

The 21-year-old hadbeen a target forBlackburn’s rivalsPortsmoth but optedinstead to reject theirovertures as Hajdukaccepted a club record fee.

“I can at last focus onfootball,” said Kalinic,who was first capped inMay 2008 having been atHajduk since 2007.

“I want to begin trainingwith my new team as soonas possible and get into topform,” added Kalinic, whoscored 38 goals in theCroatian league.—Internet

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug—Former world number oneLleyton Hewitt made atriumphant return tohardcourts, exciting theAustralian veteran abouthis US Open chances aftermissing it last year

because of left hip surgery.Hewitt dispatched US

wild card Donald Young7-5, 6-2 in a first-roundmatch at the 1.4 million-dollar ATP WashingtonClassic, his first matchsince taking AndyRoddick to five sets lastmonth in a quarter-finalon Wimbledon grass.

“For the rest of the yearthat’s going to give me alot of confidence,” saidHewitt. “I was close togetting to the semis atWimbledon. I wasprobably only a point frombeating Roddick.

“Hopefully for the USOpen that will give me alot of confidence for fivesets on the hardcourts.”

Internet

LO S AN G E L E S , 4Aug—Unseeded MariaSharapova easi lydefeated Jarmila Grothof Slovakia 6-0, 6-4 inthe first round of the700,000 dollar WTALos Angeles TennisChampionship.

Sharapova, whosebest finish in this eventwas two semi-finalberths, advances to playthird seeded VictoriaAzarenka in the secondround.

Still trying to recoverfrom major shouldersurgery, Sharapova wasone of four Russians toadvance on Monday onthe hardcourts located inthe south central LAsuburb of Carson.

Sharapova reachedthe quarterfinals lastweek in Stanford.

Internet

WASHINGTON, 4 Aug—Andy Roddickdeclared himself mentally and physicallyready for his return to competition aftera month off following his heartbreakingloss to Roger Federer in the Wimbledonfinal.

The fifth-ranked US star will be backon the court Wednesday after a first-round bye at the 1.4 million-dollar ATPWashington Classic, having foundperspective about the Swiss star’s historicmarathon five-set victory.

“Heartbreaking for me, but at the same

time not a lot of people get a chance toplay for that title. That was not lost onme,” Roddick said Monday.

“Was it the greatest loss I’ve had as faras afterward?... Yeah, that hurt. But atthe same time it’s still a pretty goodexistence to play matches like that.

Internet

PORTSMOUTH, 4 Aug—Aaron Mokoena hasrevealed he was forced toquit Blackburn and joinPremier League rivalsPortsmouth to preserve hisdream of captaining SouthAfrica at the 2010 WorldCup.

Mokoena will have thehonour of leading out theBafana Bafana when thecompetition is played on

African soil for the firsttime next year.

The former Ajaxmidfielder feared stayingat Ewood Park would puthis place in Joel Santana’sline-up in jeopardy afterstarting only nine leaguegames last season.

Mokoena, who hassigned a three-yearcontract with Portsmouth,said: “South Africastaging the World Cup isa dream come true but itstarts now with Pompey.

“I need to do thebusiness with the team andmove onto the nationalteam.

Internet

MADRID, 4Aug—Liverpoolis nearing anagreement tosell Spaininternat ionalmidfielder XabiAlonso to RealMadrid, theEnglish club’sm a n a g i n gdirector Christian Purslow confirmed on Monday.

Purslow met with Real Madrid representatives anddiscuss the question Sunday when he went with Liverpoolto Barcelona in a friendly against Espanyol.

However, he insisted that the meeting did not mean thetransfer saga, which has been dragging on for severalweeks, would be resolved in the near future.

“This meeting has only served to put our positions onthe table. We need to continue talking,” he told Spanishsports paper Diario AS.

The main problem seem to be Real Madrid’sunwillingness to meet Liverpool’s valuation of Alonso,a Spain international and a key part of the team thatfinished last season second in the English PremierLeague.—Internet

Real Madrid closes in onLiverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr MST:During the past 24 hours, weather has been partly cloudyin lower Sagaing Division, rain have been isolated in Chinand Kayah States, upper Sagaing, Mandalay and MagwayDivisions, fairly widespread in Kachin, Shan, Rakhine andKayin States, Bago Division and widespread in theremaining States and Divisions with locally heavyfallKachin and Mon States, isolated heavyfall in AyeyawadyDivision. The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recordedwere Nay Pyi Taw (0.04) inch, Machanbaw(5.39) inches,Bilin (3.54) inches, Pyarpon (3.51)inches, Kyeikkhame(3.31) inches,Putao (3.23) inches, Ye (2.68) inches,Yangon(Central) (2.48) inches and Taungdwingyi (0.12) inch.

Maximum temperature on 3-8-2009 was 84°F.Minimum temperature on 4-8-2009 was 70°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 4-8-2009 was 79%.Total sun shine hours on 3-8-2009 was Nil.

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Bay inference: Monsoon is strong in the Andaman Seaand Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 5th August 2009: Rainwill be isolated in Kayah State, lower Sagaing and MagwayDivisions, scattered in Chin State and Mandalay Division,fairly widespread in Rakhine, Kayin and Shan States, upperSagaing Division and widespread in the remaining Statesand Divisions with likelihood of isolated heavyfall inKachin State and Taninthayi Division. Degree of certaintyis (80%).

State of the sea: Squalls with moderate to rough seasare likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surfacewind speed in squalls may reach (35-40) mph.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Increase of rain inthe Eastern Myanmar areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for5-8-2009: Isolated rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for5-8-2009: One or two rain. Degree of certainty is (80%).

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Lampard backs England todeliver in South Africa

LONDON, 4 Aug—Frank Lampard believesEngland are finallyready to deliver at theWorld Cup thanks toFabio Capello.

After failing toqualify for Euro 2008,England are firmly oncourse for next year’sWorld Cup in SouthAfrica.Capello’s teamhave won all seven oftheir Group Six matchesand Lampard admits thetransformation is down to the England coach’sability to make his players believe in themselves.

“In terms of England, I’ve never experienced atime when I have gone into matches feeling asconfident as I do now,”Chelsea midfielder Lampardtold the Sun.“The contrast with before is stark.Before, we felt we would probably lose or droppoints and it gives you a really good sensationgoing into the season to feel so optimistic about thechallenges ahead with club and country.

“I’m wary of falling into the trap where peopleask if you can win it, you say you can, and thenexpectations rise.“Of course we can win it, though.We are playing as well as we have done for a longtime and there is a real confidence and togethernessabout the group.”

England’s only previous World Cup successcame in 1966 and they haven’t even reached thesemi-finals since 1990.But Lampard expectsEngland to be a much tougher proposition foropponents now Capello has helped them develop amore ruthless streak.—Internet

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Fullmoon Day of Wagaung 1371 ME Wednesday, 5 August, 2009

★ Only with stability and peace will the nation develop

★ Only with stability and peace will democratization process be successful

People’s Desire■ We favour peace and stability■ We favour development■ We oppose unrest and violence■ Wipe out those inciting unrest and violence

Shwegyin Riverwater level to fall

below danger levelNAY PYI TAW, 4 Aug — According to the

12.30 hr M.S.T observation today, the water level

of Shwegyin River at Shwegyin is 716 cm and it

has exceeded by 16 cm (about 0.5 foot) above its

danger level. It may fall below its danger level

(700 cm) during the next 48 hours commencing

noon today.

MNA

Eighth patient infected with A (H1N1)discharged from hospital

Remaining five on the mendNo more infected patient in sight

NAY PYI TAW, 4 Aug—News was issued yesterday that seven out of 13patients infected with A (H1N1) have fully recovered from their illness and theyhave been discharged from the hospital and remaining six—two at WaibargiSpecialist Hospital and two at Yangon General Hospital, one at Yangon EastHospital and one at Insein General Hospital have also been on the mend.

Today, the eighth female patient, aged 23, has already recovered from herillness and she has been discharged from the hospital. Surveillance measuresagainst those who came into contact with the patient were halted. Now there areonly five patients being treated—two at Waibargi Specialist Hospital, two atYangon General Hospital and one at Insein General Hospital. They are kept inseparate rooms of the hospitals and they have been now on the mend. The Ministryof Health continues screening flu-suspected persons and no more infected personshave been found.—MNA

Whales sings with ‘more than one voice’COPENHAGEN, 3 Aug

—It wasn’t that manyyears ago that thebowhead whale was writ-ten off as extinct in the

waters around Greenlandand especially in DiskoBay in northwest Green-land where University ofCopenhagen has its Arc-

tic Field Station.But now the situation

has changed and adultbowhead whales, whichcan grow up to 18 metreslong and weigh 100 tons,have returned to the bay.This is probably becauseglobal warming hasopened up the NorthwestPassage, making it ice freeat certain times of the yearfor the first time in125,000 years. This givesbowhead whales from thenorthern Pacific a chanceto reach Disko Bay andmate with the small localpopulation.—InternetBowhead whale.

Myaukyama Irrigation System in Monywa DistrictArticle: Kyaw Sein; Photos: Aung Than (Mingala Taungnyunt)

The direct conduit and head regulator under construction at Myaukyama Irrigation System Project in Pale Township, Monywa District.

With smooth trans-port, Monywa in upperMyanmar enjoys com-mercial growth. Ournews crew from theMyanma Alin got toMonywa at midnight on21 July. The followingmorning, we visitedMyaukyama IrrigationSystem Project being un-dertaken by the Irriga-tion Department in PaleTownship, Monywa Dis-trict.

Under the arrange-ments made by AssistantDirector U Zaw Min Naing

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