the new light of myanmar 17-11-2009

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Volume XVII, Number 215 1st Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Tuesday, 17 November, 2009

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round development ofother sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economicsystem

* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms oftechnical know-how and investments from sources inside the coun-try and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the handsof the State and the national peoples

* Uplift of the morale and morality of the entirenation

* Uplift of national prestige and integrity andpreservation and safeguarding of cultural her-itage 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 Constitu-

tion* Building of a new modern developed nation in

accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov — Chairman of theState Peace and Development Council Senior Gen-eral Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaingvisited the Sacred Tooth Relic Chamber in Kandy,Sri Lanka, on 13 November and paid homage to thetooth relic of the Buddha.

They offered day meal to members of theSangha in Kandy and planted a mango tree to markthe goodwill visit.

The Myanmar goodwill delegation, accom-panied by Ambassador of Sri Lanka to MyanmarMr Newton Gunaratna and officials, went to theSacred Tooth Relic Chamber in Kandy at 9 am. Onway to the chamber, they were welcomed by schoolchildren waving miniature flags of the two coun-tries, and portraits of heads of State of the twocountries were erected along the road.

The goodwill delegation was conducted tothe chamber in a procession by the Sri Lankantraditional music and dancing troops at the en-trance to the chamber.

At the chamber, Senior General Than Shweand party were welcomed by Mr. Pradeep NilangaDela Diyawada, the custodian of the chamber, andofficials.

During the visit to the chamber, they paidhomage to the sacred tooth relic of the Buddha.

Afterwards, Senior General Than Shweand party attended a ceremony to open the MyanmarPavilion of the International Buddhist Museum.

Ambassador of Myanmar to Sri Lanka UOhn Thwin formally opened the Myanmar

Senior General Than Shwe, wife Daw Kyaing Kyaingpay homage to Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka

pavilion.Afterwards, Senior General Than Shwe

and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing donated a jade Buddha Image to Adviser of the Internationalreligion and culture to thepresident of Sri Lanka Rev. Dr BhaddantaBhodhagama Candima to be placed at the sacredTooth Relic Temple.

Senior General Than Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing donated cash to the funds of thechamber. Mr. Pradeep Nilanga Dela Diyawada, thecustodian of the chamber, received the donation.

After the visit, Senior General Than Shweand his delegation offered day meal to 54 membersof the Sangha led by Most Ven. UdugamaRathamapala Buddharakkitha of Asgiriya Gana.

First, the congregation led by SeniorGeneralThan Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing receivedthe Five Precepts from Ven. Niyanogoda SriVijithasiri of the Malwatta Gana and Members ofthe Sangha recited parittas.

Afterwards, Ven. Niyanogoda SriVijithasiri delivered a sermon. Senior General ThanShwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing also donatedthe eight prerequisites to Rev Sayadaws of Asgiriyaand Malwatta ganas. Members of the goodwilldelegation also donated robes and offertories to theMembers of the Sangha.

Senior General Than Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing planted a mango sapling in thecompound of the chamber to mark the goodwillvisit to Sri Lanka.—MNA

Sacred Tooth Relic is seen at Sacred Tooth

Relic Chamber in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attend opening of Myanmar Pavilion at International Buddhist Museumin Sri Lanka. —MNA

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2 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 17 November, 2009

Tuesday, 17 November, 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

The relations between the Union ofMyanamr and the Democratic Socialist Republicof Sri Lanka, based on the identity in practisingBuddhism, dates back over 1,000 years. Friendlynations historically and culturally, they estab-lished diplomatic relations 60 years ago.

Chairman of the State Peace and Devel-opment Council Senior General Than Shwe andwife Daw Kyaing Kyaing paid a goodwill visit tothe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lankaon 12 November at the invitation of President ofthe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri LankaMr. Mahinda Rajapaksa.

During the goodwill visit, Head of StateSenior General Than Shwe met President of theDemocratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka MrMahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s House inKandy on 12 November evening. At the meeting,Head of State Senior General Than Shwe saidthat the Union of Myanmar has been implement-ing the seven-step Road Map for democracy tran-sition, that the State Constitution has been ap-proved, that the elections will be held in 2010 andthat the remaining steps will be implementedaccordingly.

President of the Democratic Socialist Re-public of Sri Lanka Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa, inhis discussions, said that he thanked for detailedclarifications and that both countries would strivenot only for promotion of trade but also forfurther cementing friendly relations. He contin-ued to say that efforts were also being made toextend the private sectors of the two countries.

Nowadays, Asian countries are produc-ing the goods at home and cooperation amongthem will boost the economy of the region. AsMyanmar is the second largest producer of beansand pulses, the direct trade between the twocountries will bring more benefits to both.

Heads of State of the two countries ex-changed views on promotion of relationship be-tween the two countries, all-round developmentof trade and economy, promotion of Buddhism-based tourist industry, cooperation of the twocountries in the framework of BIMSTEC, andregional and international affairs.

The goodwill visit to the Democratic So-cialist Republic of Sri Lanka by Head of StateSenior General Than Shwe and wife Daw KyaingKyaing has shown that there is deep friendshipbetween the Union of Myanmar and the Demo-cratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and thatthere is a favourable environment for boostingcooperation in religious and cultural sectors.

Boost bilateral cooperationfor deeper friendship

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Chairman of RakhineState Peace and Development Council Commanderof Western Command Maj-Gen Thaung Aye lookedinto progress in building the rural-to-ruralroad in Longdon village tract in An township

Commander Maj-Gen Thaung Aye overseesAn region development

on 10 November.At village Post-Primary School, the com-

mander cordially met with local people and viewedpaddy harvest.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Deputy Minister forConstruction U Tint Swe, accompanied by officials ofPublic Works left Bagan along Bagan-Sintgu-Chaukroad at Magway border and arrived at Sintgu andinspected condition of Sintgu creek as well as Yawcreek bridge (Railway) construction project on 12November.

The superintending engineer of bridge con-struction project special group-7 presented reports tothe deputy minister on progress in building the bridge.

Next, the deputy minister met with depart-mental officials at district and township levels atMyaugmya district office and gave instructions ontimely completion of road, bridge and airport facilitiesto meet the set standard and special emphasis to beplaced on efficient use of construction materials andworksite safety measures.—MNA

Construction Dy Minister looks into worksof roads and bridges in Mandalay Div

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Chairman of Manda-lay City Development Committee Mayor Brig-GenPhone Zaw Han inspected preparations made for poul-try farming in Agriculture and Breeding Farm No 1,saplings of kitchen crops and progress of work in theintegrated farming.

Next, the mayor looked into factory and me-chanical division.—MNA

Mandalay Mayor inspectsfarm No 1 in

Yedaguntaung region ofPatheingyi

NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—The 18th anniver-sary respects paying cer-emony of Shwetaung Ba-sic Education High Schoolin Pyay District, Bago Di-vision (West) will be heldat the school on 28 No-vember.

Retired teachers

Respects payingceremony to be held

and old students have beeninvited to attend the cer-emony. Those wishing todonate cash and kind maycontact U Khin MaungThan (Awarat) oil mill andrice mill (Tel-053-55069)and U Khin Maung Lwin(Tel-053-55355).

MNA

YANGON, 16Nov—With the leadershipof the Ministry of Sports,organized by MyanmarHockey Federation, thesecond U-18 AsianHockey Tournament con-tinued at Theinbyu Artifi-

Singapore wins overMyanmar 4-0

cial Turf Hockey Pitch thisevening.

Singapore wonover Myanmar with 4-0 intoday’s event. India playsagainst Sri Lanka and Ja-pan against Korea tomor-row.—MHF

Singapore and Myanmar teams in action in U-18Asian Hockey Tournament at Theinbyu Artificial

Turf Hockey Pitch.—MHF

Deputy Minister for Construction U Tint Swe inspects Yaw creek bridge (Railway) constructionproject.—MNA

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Ubisoft employees work in Montreal. Security cameras in hallways,double locked doors and strict confidentiality clauses, Ubisoft employeesare working in a veritable bunker in downtown Montreal to create their

latest 3D video game.—INTERNET

The hands of Iraqi juvenile prisoners are seen dangling from the bars oftheir cell at the Al-Karkh Juvenile Correctional Center in Baghdad in

2004. British troops forced an Iraqi detainee to wear an orange jump suitand told him that he was to be executed at Guantanamo Bay camp,

according to allegations published in a newspaper.—INTERNET

Six Taleban militants, three Afghantroopers killed in E Afghanistan

Civilian killed, six injured inIraq’s Diyala violence

Roadside bombwounds two inN Afghanistan

KUNDUZ ( Afghanis-tan), 16 Nov — A road-side bomb struck a vehi-cle of a construction com-pany in Kunduz Provincenorth of Afghanistan,wounding two persons in-cluding director of thecompany, an official of thecompany said on Sunday.

“The Director of KataKhil Construction Com-pany, Dad Gul Dilawarand another sustained in-juries as a mine plantedby militants struck hiscar Saturday night,”Mohammad Usman toldXinhua.

Kata Khil Company isan Afghan firm and hasbeen involved in recon-struction activities in Af-ghanistan over the pastseveral years. Usman, however didnot point finger at any par-ticular groups or individu-als but accused the en-emies of peace a term usedagainst Taleban militantsof organizing the attack.

Xinhua

Bombing at police stationin Pakistan kills four

PESHAWAR, 16 Nov – A pickup truck laden withexplosives blew up in front of a police station innorthwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 4people in an area that has become the focal point formilitant retaliation against a recent army offensive.

The massive explosion caused a wide swath ofdestruction in the town of Badh Ber, severelydamaging the station and a nearby mosque and com-pletely destroying several houses and shops.

Suspected militants have killed more than 300civilians and security personnel in the last month inan attempt to weaken the country’s resolve to con-tinue the military operation in the tribal area of SouthWaziristan, where al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders arebelieved to be hiding.

“We have to continue this war against terroristsand have to keep our nerves,” said Mian IftikharHussain, the information minister for North WestFrontier Pro-vince where Badh Ber is located.

Police opened fire on the pickup truck as it ap-proached a checkpoint in front of the police station,but the driver was able to detonate his explosives,said Liaqat Ali Khan, the senior police chief in themain northwestern city of Peshawar.—Internet

Gunmen in army uniforms kill 12 Iraqi villagersBAGHDAD, 16 Nov — Gunmen wearing military uniforms shot dead 12 men in a

pre-dawn attack at a village near Baghdad on Monday, villagers and police said.The attack took place in the mainly Sunni village of Zauba, west of Baghdad,

which at the height of the fighting in Iraq was viewed as a hotbed of support forSunni militants. One of those killed was affiliated with the main Sunni Arab politi-cal party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, police said.

The violence kicked off by the 2003 US invasion has fallen off over the past 18months but attacks — including shootings and kidnappings — are still common.

Internet

BAQUBA (Iraq), 16 Nov— A civilian was killedand six people werewounded in separate at-tacks in Iraq’s volatileprovince of Diyala north-east of Baghdad, provin-cial police source saidSunday.

A roadside bombstruck a minibus early inthe day near the al-Nedavillage, some 150 kmnortheast of Baghdad,killing a passenger andwounding three others,one of them in criticalcondition, the source toldXinhua on condition of

anonymity.Iraqi security forces

searched the area and de-tained several suspectsfor interrogation, thesource said.

In a separate incident,three policemen werewounded when a road-side bomb exploded neartheir patrol in the town ofJedidat al-Shatt, near theprovincial capital city ofBaquba, some 65 kmnortheast of Baghdad,the source added.

The blast destroyed apolice vehicle and sev-eral nearby buildings and

civilian cars, he said. Meanwhile, Iraqi se-

curity forces detained 13suspected militants anddefused two roadsidebombs across the prov-ince during the day, thesource said.

Xinhua

The site of car bombing on a police station in Badh Ber, a town nearPeshawar, Pakistan on 16 Nov , 2009. —INTERNET

KHOST (Afghanistan),16 Nov — A gun battlebetween Afghan-Inter-national forces andTaleban fighters left sixinsurgents dead in theeastern Afghan provinceof Nuristan, provincialpolice chief said onSunday.

“Taleban attacked amilitary outpost of Af-ghan and the NATO-ledpeacekeeping troops inNurgraham district Sat-urday night, and troopsreturned fire, killing six

rebels including theircommander MullahAbdul Qadir on thespot,” MohammadQasim Payman toldXinhua.

Mullah Qadir was re-cently appointed as dis-trict chief in Nurgrahamby the Taleban outfit, headded. In a separateincident, three AfghanNational Army soldierswere killed and two otherswounded as their militarycamp came under heavyfire of militants in Ghazi

Abad district of Nuristan,according to a statementissued by the AfghanDefence Ministry on Sun-day.

The statement did notmention the exact timeof the attack, onlysaying “The attack tookplace in the last 24hours.”

Taleban militants,whose regime was top-pled by US-led coalitionforces in late 2001, haveyet to make comments.

Xinhua

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SINGAPORE , 16 Nov —President Dmitry Med-vedev on Monday madethe first ever official visitby a Russian leader toSingapore to forgestronger ties with the high-tech island as he seeks tomodernize Russia’seconomy.

The Russian delegationincludes business chiefssuch as Russia’s formerrichest man and owner ofaluminum giant UC Rusal

HONG KONG, 16 Nov—Cargo tonnage handled byHong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in October2009 increased by 1.3percent to 324,000 tons overthe same period last year, the first month that regis-tered growth since August 2008, the Airport Author-ity said on Sunday.

According to the statistics released on the day, pas-senger throughput and air traffic movements declined3.7 percent and 7.8 percent, compared to the samemonth last year, to 3.9 million and 23,945 respectively.

From January to October, the airport received some38.2 million passengers, moved 2.7 million tons ofcargo and handled 231,800 aircraft movements, rep-resenting yearly declines of 6.3 percent, 13.4 percentand 7.9 percent, respectively.—Xinhua

Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has made the first ever official visitby a Russian leader to Singapore.—INTERNET

A medical worker takes a break to shop online ata clinic in California. The Internet global super-

market is booming because people and businessesare looking for bargains and new outlets in bad

times, a new report says.—INTERNET

The world’s biggest and most expensive cruiseship, Oasis of the Seas, is docked at the STX

Finnish shipyard in Turku. Oasis of the Seas is16 decks high, or 65 metres (213 feet) above thewaterline, and measures 360 metres (1,180 feet)long and 47 metres (154 feet) wide.—INTERNET

Russia seeks inspirationfrom high-tech Singapore

Oleg Deripaska andAlexander Medvedev, thedeputy chairman ofGazprom, the world’s big-gest gas firm.

Russia — which joinedthe Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation (APEC) fo-rum in 1998 — has inrecent years sought tobolster its relationship withstates such as Singapore todiversify its trade base.

With Medvedev seek-ing to limit Russia’s dan-gerously high depend-ence on oil exports andtransform it into an inno-vative, high-techeconomy, relations with

Singapore have taken ona new importance.

Medvedev met lateSunday with SingaporePresident SR Nathan af-ter the country hosted theAPEC summit, tellinghim “that the system ofeconomic and technicaleducation in your coun-try is of great interest forus.”

The Russian presidentsaid agreements werereached at the talks onlong-term investment, fi-nancial projects and ex-change of technologies,Russian official media re-ported.—Internet

TOKYO, 16 Nov—Japa-nese gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) rises 4.8 percentin the July-Septemberquarter in real terms for thesecond consecutive quarterof expansion, confirmingeconomic recovery afterthe global financial crisis,the government said onMonday.

The economic risecomes after a 1.2 percentgrowth from the April-Junequarter, the Cabinet Officesaid in a preliminary report.In the latest quarter,consumer spending —which makes up about 60percent of Japanese GDP

XI’AN ,16 Nov—The 2009 Euro-Asia EconomicForum opened on Monday in Xi’an, northwest Chi-na’s Shaanxi Province, with a theme of “Working To-gether to Facilitate Economic Recovery”.

The two-day forum attracted about 930 delegatesfrom more than 60 countries and regions includingmembers and observers of the Shanghai CooperationOrganization (SCO) and the United Nations organi-zations.

Delegates from the world Top 500 companies alsoattended the forum.

They will discuss how to fight the global economicdownturn through the cooperation in finance, energy,customs and business as well as education, said ZhangDeguang, Secretary-General of the forum.

The biennial Euro-Asia Economic Forum waslaunched in Xi’an in2005.

The city was named the permanent venue of theforum in April 2007.

Xinhua

ROME , 16 Nov — Forthe third time in less thana decade, a UN food sum-mit will grapple with whatso far has been an elusivegoal — slashing thenumber of the world’shungry.One in six peopleon the planet is now hun-gry, UN officials say.

So far, helping theworld’s hungry haslargely entailed wealthynations sending food as-sistance rather than tech-nology, irrigation help,fertilizer or high-yieldseed that could assist lo-cal farmers, livestockherders and fishermen.Much of this food assist-ance is purchased fromthe wealthy nations’ ownfarmers. But the UN Foodand Agriculture Organi-zation, which is hostingthis week’s gathering atits Rome headquarters,says the best way to stophunger is to help theneedy help themselves.

The three-day summit

Hong Kong air cargo volumesees first growth in 15 months

UN summit to highlight needfor agricultural aid

is being held at a time“when the internationalcommunity recognizes ithas neglected agriculturefor many years,” theRome-based agency saidon Sunday. —Internet

Japanese GDP rises real4.8% in 3rd quarter

— increased a real 0.7percent from the April-Julyperiod.

Corporate capitalspending rose 1.6 percentwhile public investment fell1.2 percent.

Domestic demand,made up of these compo-nents among others, sentGDP up 0.8 percentagepoint from the previousthree months. Demandfrom overseas drove GDPup 0.4 point. GDP is thetotal value of goods andservices produced domes-tically. Real GDP figuresare adjusted for price andseasonal variations.

Despite the GDPgrowth in real terms, nomi-nal GDP fell an annualized0.3 percent in the reportingperiod, which correspondsto a 0.1 percent contractionfrom the previous quar-ter.—Xinhua

Euro-Asia EconomicForum opens in NW China,

tackling financial crisis

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China approves border developmentzone to boost cooperation in NE Asia

Internet GovernanceForum kicks off in EgyptSHARM EL-SHEIKH, 16 Nov—The fourth version of the

Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a multi-stakeholderdialogue on public policy related to Internet governanceissues, kicked off Sunday in Egypt’s Red Sea resort ofSharm el-Sheikh.

The UN-sponsored annual forum was attended bysome 1,500 delegates from 100 countries, who are di-vided into 80 workshops.

Internet security, cloud computing, IPv6, social net-works, openness and privacy are among the hottest top-ics of the four-day event, whose overall title is “Internetgovernance — creating opportunities for all”.

“The overall theme for our forum is timely and ap-propriate,” said Ambassador Sha Zukang, the UN Un-der-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs,at the opening ceremony, adding that “the voice of de-veloping world must be heard.”

Stressing the urgent need of managing critical re-sources for Internet development and increasing the pen-etration of the tool, he said “democratic Internet govern-ance is a means of achieving development for all.”

For his part, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazifsaid in a keynote speech that Egypt has benefited fromthe Internet in recent years.

For Egypt, “ICT (Information and CommunicationsTechnology) has become a vital sector as important asSuez Canal and tourism,” Nazif said. According to Nazif,Egypt registered a growth rate of 4.3 percent in the 2008-2009 fiscal year that ended in June, despite the globalfinancial crisis, thanks to the double-digit growth of ICTsector in this period.—Xinhua

Israeli president startsvisit to Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, 16 Nov— Israeli President ShimonPeres arrived in Argentina, home to Latin America’sbiggest Jewish community, on Sunday for a two-day visit.

He was met at the airport by Argentine ForeignMinister Jorge Taiana and was scheduled to meetArgentine President Cristina Kirchner on Monday.

Peres’ visit came as the Palestinian authority saidit would request UN recognition of an independentPalestine state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Israel has warned the Palestinians against takingsuch “unilateral action.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwarned on Sunday at a peace forum in Jerusalemthat his country would respond with its own unilateralmoves to any unilateral steps by the Palestinians.

Xinhua

Cambodian AIDS orphanshave good plans for future

Turkey, Egyptto jointly holdnaval exercise ANKARA, 16 Nov—Tur-

key’s General Staff saidon Sunday Turkish andEgyptian naval forces willconduct a military exer-cise in the eastern Medi-terranean Sea next week,the semi-official Anatolianews agency reported.

The Friendship Sea-2009 Turkish-EgyptBilateral Military Exer-cise, due from 16 to 21Nov, aims to boost coop-eration between the twocountries’ naval forces,the agency said, citing aGeneral Staff statement.

Xinhua

CHANGCHUN, 16 Nov—The Chinese governmenthas approved a border de-velopment zone in theTumen River Delta to boostthe cross-border coopera-tion in the northeast Asianregion, the provincial gov-ernment of Jilin announcedon Monday.

The information office ofthe government said thepilot zone covering 73,000square km involved the cit-ies of Changchun and Jilinas well as the Tumen River

area. Han Changbin, gov-ernor of Jilin, said the Chan-gchun-Jilin-Tumen-pilotzone was China’s first bor-der development zone. It isexpected to push forwardcross-border cooperation inthe Tumen River Delta. Thedelta, a 516-kilometer-longriver straddling the bordersof China, Russia and theDemocratic People’s Re-public of Korea(DPRK),was set up as aneconomic developmentzone in 1991 by the United

Nations Development Pro-gramme (UNDP).

In 1995, five countries —China, Russia, the Demo-cratic People’s Republic ofKorea (DPRK), the Repub-lic of Korea (ROK) andMongolia— ratified theagreement on theEstablishment of theCooperation Commissionfor the Tumen River Eco-nomic Development Area.Japan participated in theprogramme as an observer.

Xinhua

Ambassador Sha Zukang (2nd L), the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs,and Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif (2nd R)attend the fourth version of the Internet Govern-ance Forum (IGF) in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on 15 Nov 2009. —XINHUA

A girl presents a crea-tion during the Jakarta

Fashion Week inIndonesia’s capital, on

15 Nov, 2009. —XINHUA

HK to issue special stamps for East Asian GamesHONG KONG, 16 Nov—Hong Kong Post Monday announced that a set of

stamps based on the theme of “Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games” wouldbe released for sale with associated philatelic products on 5 Dec.

The 5th East Asian Games, slated to open on 5 Dec, 2009, will be the firstmajor international sports Games hosted by Hong Kong.

The stamps are to commemorate this event as an exciting milestone in HongKong’s sporting history, said Hong Kong Post Monday on the localgovernment website.—Xinhua

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

PHNOM PENH, 16 Nov—They are a hidden popula-tion, living with HIV/AIDSat a very young age. Whatwe do know is that they arevery vulnerable. It is this stateof being hidden that putsAIDS orphans at special riskduring their lifetime.

But those living with HIVin Cambodia are lucky.They live in the NationalBorey for Infants and Chil-dren, a state-run orphanagelocated in the suburb of thecapital city Phnom Penh,which is supported by thegovernment and humanitar-ian agencies.

“The centre accommo-dates more than 100 or-phans, among them 27 areliving with HIV, and Sei Lais one of them,” Sani, ateacher at the centre, toldXinhua while pointing at theboy who was orphaned atan early age when hisparents died of AIDS.

Sei La is a typical Khmerboy with brown skin. Helooks happy and healthy. Hesaid he had just returnedfrom school. “How old areyou, Sei La? Do you knowChina?” we asked.

“I am 15 years old now. Iknow China, it’s a big coun-try with a lot of people,” SeiLa answered with a shysmile. “I am happy here. Ihave friends here and theteachers treat us likemothers. I study in theKhmer language school inthe morning, and in the af-ternoon I go to Englishschool,” he continued.

Xinhua

Two workers walk

away after inspecting

the top of the

external tank on the

space shuttle Atlantis

at the Kennedy

Space Center in

Cape Canaveral,

Fla.

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment Council ofthe Union of MyanmarSenior General Than

Senior General Than Shwe and wife visitAnuratthapura Archaeological Region in Sri Lanka

Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing and party,accompanied by SriLankan Minister ofCulture Mr MahindaYapa Abeywardena and

wife, Sri LankanAmbassador to MyanmarMr Newton Gunaratn andwife, left Kandy in amotorcade forAnuratthapura Archaeo-

logical Region in theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka on14 November morning.

The Senior Generaland entourage arrived atAnuratthapura Archaeo-logical Region in theafternoon. Together withthe governor of NorthCentral Province, and theChief Minister of NorthCentral Province and wife,the Senior General andparty visited Maha CetiMonastery and paidhomage to Ven.Pallengama Hemarathana.

Senior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing offered ajade Buddha image, eight

visited Maha Ceti, andoffered flowers and lightsto the Buddha image keptin the prayer hall on theplatform of the pagoda.

The Senior Generaland wife offered flowers,lights, joss sticks andShwekya robes to theBuddha image.

At 3.55 pm, theSenior General and partyvisited Maha BodhiMonastery and paidreverence to PresidingMonk Ven. PallegamaSiriniwasa.

The presiding monksaid prayers.

The Senior Generaland wife offered a jadeBuddha image, eight

Senior General ThanShwe and Daw KyaingKyaing.

Next, the SeniorGeneral and party visitedMaha Bodhi Tree andoffered flowers to it.

The Senior Generaland wife offeredShwekya robes and paidhomage to it.

The Senior Generaland party posed for adocumentary photo withthe presiding monk.

The Senior Generaland entourage were seenoff at AnuratthapuraArchaeological RegionAirport by the governorof North CentralProvince, and the Chief

requisites and alms to themonk.

Next, they offeredrobes and alms tomembers of the Sangha.

The Senior General

requisites and alms to thepresiding monk.

Presiding Monk Ven.Pallegama Siriniwasapresented a Bodhi saplingand a Buddha image to

Minister of North CentralProvince and official.

They arrived atColombo at 5.50 pm, and atTaj Samudra ColomboHotel in Colombo.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing offer flowers and lights to the reclining Buddha Image at Maha Ceti Pagoda. — MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing pay homage to Maha Bodhi Tree in Sri Lanka.—MNA

Maha Ceti Pagoda in Anuratthapura Archaeological Region in Sri Lanka. — MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—Minister for Reli-gious Affairs Brig-GenThura Myint Maung, amember of the Myanmargoodwill delegation ledby Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing, donatedrobes, provisions and of-fertories to members ofthe Sangha at WinayaLinkara Rama MyanmarMonastery in Kandy, SriLanka, on 13 November.

During the visit tothe monastery, the reli-gious minister presentedrobes, provisions and of-fertories donated by Sen-ior General Than Shwe

Minister donates robes,

provisions to Buddhist monks

at Myanmar monastery in

Kandy, Sri Lanka

and wife Daw KyaingKyaing to Rev. SayadawBhaddanta Acinna of themonastery and fiveMyanmar Buddhistmonks studying at SriLanka International Bud-dhist University.

The minister alsovisited the constructionsite of new building in thecompound of the monas-tery.

On 13 November,Minister Brig-Gen ThuraMyint Maung attended aceremony to signMemoradum of Under-standing between the Sa-cred Shwedagon Pagodaof the Union of Myanmarand the Temple of the Sa-cred Tooth Relic of the

Democratic Socialist Re-public of Sri Lanka at theMyanmar Chamber ofthe International Bud-dhist Museum. Ambassa-dor of Myanmar to SriLanka U Ohn Thwin andMr Pradeep Nilanga DelaDiyawada of the SacredTooth Relic Templesigned the MoU.

MNA

Minister Brig-GenThura Myint Maungpresents offertoriesto a Member of theSangha at Winaya

Linkara RamaMyanmar

Monastery inKandy, Sri Lanka.

MNA

Chamber of Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy,Sri Lanka.

MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife

Daw Kyaing Kyaing receive the Five Pre-

cepts from a Sayadaw at the ceremony to

offer ‘soon’ to Members of the Sangha in

Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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Myanmar Ambassador U Ohn Thwin and Mr Paradeep Nilanga DelaDiyawada sign MoU between Shwedagon Pagoda of the Union ofMyanmar and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Sri Lanka.—MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—The goodwilldelegation headed byChairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil of the Union ofMyanmar Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing leftColombo for Nay PyiTaw by special aircrafton 15 November morningafter paying a goodwillvisit to the DemocraticSocialist Republic of SriLanka at the invitation ofPresident Mr MahindaRajapaksa.

Before departurefrom Colombo, respectswere paid to Chairman ofthe State Peace andDevelopment CouncilSenior General ThanShwe and wife Daw

Senior General Than Shwe gives guidance to Myanmar embassy staffKyaing Kyaing byAmbassador of the Unionof Myanmar to theDemocratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka UOhn Thwin, wife DawSan San Nwe, embassystaff and their families at8 am in the lounge of TajSamudra Colombo Hotel.

Then, SeniorGeneral Than Shwe gavea detailed clarificationabout the measures beingtaken for all-rounddevelopment, includingthe political, economic,transport, agriculture,industry, energy andelectric power sectors.

Afterwards, theSenior General gaveguidance that the embassystaff were to strive forstrengthening mutual

friendship, promotion ofbilateral trade andincreased bilateralcooperation in theinternational arena andoffered gifts to theambassador and wife.

Senior GeneralThan Shwe and thegoodwill delegationarrived at the speciallounge of BandaranaikeInternational Airport at10 am to leave Colombofor Nay Pyi Taw.

At the airport,Senior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing cordiallygreeted Prime Ministerof the DemocraticSocialist Republic of SriLanka Mr Ratanasiri

W i c k r e m a n a y a k e ,Minister of ForeignAffairs Mr RohithaBogollagama, Ministerof Culture Hon. MrMahinda YapaAbeywardana and wife,Sri Lakan Ambassador toMyanmar Mr NewtonGunaratn and wife, high-ranking officials,Myanmar Ambassador toSri Lanka U Ohn Thwinand wife and embassystaff and families.

The goodwilldelegation headed bySenior General ThanShwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing arrivedback at Nay Pyi Taw inthe evening.

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—A luncheon washosted to Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilSenior General ThanShwe of the Union ofMyanmar and wife DawKyaing Kyaing by North

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing attend luncheonhosted by North Central Province Governor and Chief Minister

Central ProvinceGovernor Mr Karu-narathne Diulgane andNorth Central ProvinceChief Minister Mr BertyPremalal Dissanayake atthe Chief Minister’sResidance inA n u r a t t h a p u r a

Archaeological Region on14 November afternoon.

The NorthCentral ProvinceGovernor, the NorthCentral Province ChiefMinister and officialswelcomed Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing on theirarrival at the ChiefMinister’s Residance inA n u r a t t h a p u r aArchaeological Region at1.15 pm.

(See page 9)

Myanmar Ambassador and embassy staff pay respects to Senior General Than Shwe and wifeDaw Kyaing Kyaing. —MNA

Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw

Kyaing Kyaing and North Central Province

Chief Minister of Anuratthapura

Archaeological Region and wife exchange

gifts.—MNA

Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Mr RatanasiriWickremanayake cordially greets Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing at

the special lounge of Bandaranaike International Airport. —MNA

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NAY PYI TAW, 16Nov—Central ProvinceGovernor Mr TikiriKobbekaduwa of Demo-cratic Socialist Republicof Sri Lanka and ChiefMinister of Central Prov-ince hosted a dinner inhonour of Chairman of theState Peace and Develop-ment Council of the Un-ion of Myanmar SeniorGeneral Than Shwe andwife Daw Kyaing Kyaingat Earl’s Regency Hotelin Kandy, Sri Lanka, on13 November evening.

On arrival atEarl’s Regency Hotel at7.45 pm, Senior GeneralThan Shwe and wife were

Central Province Governor, ChiefMinister of Central Province of

Sri Lanka host dinner in honour ofSenior General Than Shwe and wife

welcomed and greeted bythe Central Province Gov-ernor and Chief Ministerof Central Province.

Together with theSenior General and wifeat the dinner were mem-ber of the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thura ShweMann and wife, Secretary-1 of the State Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo and wife,SPDC member Lt-GenTin Aye, senior militaryofficers of the Ministry ofDefence and their wives,ministers, deputy minis-ters, the Myanmar Am-

bassador to Sri Lanka andwife and departmentalheads. Together with theCentral Province Gover-nor and Chief Minister ofCentral Province MrSarath Ekanayake wereMinister of Foreign Af-fairs Mr RohithaBogollagama, Minister ofCulture Mr Mahinda YapaAbeywardera, KandyMayor Mr LB Aluvihare,Sri Lankan Ambassador toMyanmar Mr NewtonGunaratna, Custodian ofSacred Tooth Relic Tem-ple Mr Paradeep NilangaDela Diyawada and offi-cials.

MNA

(from page 8)Present at the luncheon together with Senior

General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing wereMember of the SPDC General Thura Shwe Mann andwife, Secretary-1 of the SPDC General Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo and wife, Member of the SPDC Lt-GenTin Aye, senior military officers and their wives, ministers,deputy ministers, the Myanmar Ambassador toDemocratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and wife anddepartmental heads, and together with North CentralProvince Governor Mr Karunarathne Dialgane and wifeand North Central Province Chief Minister Mr BertyPremalal Dissanayake and wife were Minister of Cultureof Sri Lanka Mr Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena and wifeand Sri Lankan Ambassador to Myanmar Mr NewtonGunaratna and wife.

After the luncheon, Senior General Than Shweand wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing together with Governor MrKarunarathne Dialgane, Chief Minister Mr Berty PremalalDissanayake and their wives posed for a documentaryphoto.

Next, Senior General Than Shwe and wife DawKyaing Kyaing exchanged gifts with Governor MrKarunarathne Dialgane, Chief Minister Mr Berty PremalalDissanayake and their wives.

After signing the visitor’s book, Senior GeneralThan Shwe left the North Central Province Chief Minister’sResidance.—MNA

Senior General Than Shwe …

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—PrimeMinister General Thein Sein of theUnion of Myanmar arriving in Singa-pore met with staff and their families ofMyanmar Embassy to Singapore andgave necessary instructions to them at 7pm yesterday.

Myanmar Ambassador U WinMyint and wife and staff families wel-comed Prime Minister General TheinSein, accompanied by Minister for Sci-ence and Technology U Thaung, Min-ister for National Planning and Eco-nomic Development U Soe Tha , DeputyMinister for Foreign Affairs U MaungMyint and departmental heads upontheir arrival at the embassy.

PM General Thein Sein meets familiesof Myanmar Embassy in Singapore

Next, the Myanmar ambassadorand wife, embassy staff and their familiespaid their respects to the Prime Ministerin line with Myanmar traditional cus-toms.

Afterwards, the Prime Ministermade clarification on prevailing condi-tions in economic and social fields andprogress of international relation. In ad-dition, he gave instructions to embassystaff to provide assistance to Myanmarswho are working in Singapore and pre-sented gifts to them.

Next, the Myanmar ambassadorhosted dinner to the Prime Minister andparty.

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Senior General ThanShwe and Daw KyaingKyaing plant a mango

sapling in the com-pound of Sacred Tooth

Relic Temple. (News on page 1)

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Central Province Governor Mr Tikiri Kobbekaduwa of Sri Lanka and the Chief Minister host adinner in honour of Senior General Than Shwe and wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing.

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein presents gifts to staff and familiesof Myanmar Embassy.

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NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Prime Minister of the Unionof Myanmar General Thein Sein attended the 1st ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singa-pore, the Republic of Singapore at 3.20 pm yesterday.

Also present at the meeting were King of BruneiDarussalam Sultan Haji Hassanul Bolkiah MuizzaddinWaddaulah, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech HunSen, Indonesian President Dr H Susilo BambangYudhoyono, Laotian Prime Minister Mr BouasoneBouphavanh, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Sri MohdNajib Bin Tun Hj Abd Razak, Philippine President Mad-ame Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singaporean Prime Min-ister Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Thai Prime Minister MrAbhisit Vejjajiva, Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr NguyenTan Dung, US President Barak Obama, and ASEANSecretary-General Dr Surin Pitsuwan.

On arrival at the hotel at 3 pm, the Heads of State/Government from ASEAN countries, the US president,and the US Secretary of State were welcomed by theSingaporean Prime Minister.

Before the meeting, they posed for a group photo.At the meeting, Singaporean Prime Minister Mr Lee

Hsien Loong extended greetings.Alternate Chairman of ASEAN Thai Prime Minister

Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva delivered an introductory speech.ASEAN-US Dialogue Coordinator Philippine Presi-

dent Madame Gloria Macapagal Arroyo delivered aspeech. The Heads of State/Government from ASEAN

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends1st ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting

countries, the US president, and the US Secretary of Stateheld talks about matters on ASEAN-US mutual interest.The meeting ended at 5.30 pm.

After the meeting, Prime Minister General TheinSein and party left the Shangri-La Hotel and arrived backat the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—Prime Minister of theUnion of Myanmar General Thein Sein, accompaniedby Minister for Science and Technology U Thaung,Minister for National Planning and Economic Devel-opment U Soe Tha, Deputy Minister for Foreign Af-fairs U Maung Myint and departmental heads, leftMyanmar by air on 14 November to attend the FirstASEAN-US Leaders Meeting to be held in Singapore,the Republic of Singapore and arrived at Changi Inter-national Airport at 9.15 pm.

Prime Minister General Thein Seinarrives in Singapore

The Prime Minister and party were welcomedat the airport by Singaporean Transport Minister MrRaymond Lin Siang Keat and officials, MyanmarAmbassador to Singapore U Win Myint and officialsof the embassy.

Then, the Prime Minister and party went toMandarin Oriental Hotel where they would stay. Thestaff of Myanmar Embassy to Singapore welcomedand presented bouquets to the Prime Minister andparty.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein beinggreeted by Singaporean Transport Minister

Mr Raymond Lin Siang Keat and officials atChangi International Airport.

MNA

Heads of State/Government pose for a groupphoto before the 1st ASEAN-US Leaders

Meeting.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends the 1st ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting at the Shangri-LaHotel in Singapore, the Republic of Singapore.

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Rolls-Royce wins two bil-lion dollars in orders

LONDON, 16 Nov – British plane engine makerRolls-Royce said Monday it had secured ordersworth two billion dollars (1.33 billion euros) fromAir China and Ethiopian Airlines.

Air China is spending 1.5 billion dollars for Trent700 engines for its 20 A330 long-haul jets.

Ethiopian Airlines is spending 480 million dol-lars on Trent XWB for Airbus A350 planes on or-der, the company said.

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Assailant shoots childthrough door

Clash along Saudi-Yemenborder kills two

Sex infections stillgrowing in US, says CDCWASHINGTON, 16 Nov—American squeamishness

about talking about sex has helped keep commonsexually transmitted infections far too common, es-pecially among vulnerable teens, US researchers re-ported on Monday.

Latest statistics on chlamydia, gonorrhea andsyphilis show the three highly treatable infectionscontinue to spread in the United States.

“Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unaccept-ably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after al-most being eliminated,” said John Douglas, directorof the division of sexually transmitted diseases atthe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We have among the highest rates of STDs ofany developed country in the world,” Douglas addedin a telephone interview.—Internet

Gas poisoning kills fivein NW Turkey

ANKARA, 16 Nov—Five people were found deadfrom carbon monoxide poisoning in northwest Turkey’sIstanbul city Sunday, Turkish media reported.

A woman, her daughter and three grandchildrenwere found dead Sunday morning in their house inUmraniye district of Istanbul, the private NTV channelreported. The deaths were caused by gas from the coal-burning stove, which was used for heating in the win-ter, the TV channel said.—Xinhua

A combination picture shows Lee Soo-hyun (L), 16,and Cho Hye-won, 16, posing before and after theydress up as a character from the Japanese anima-tion ‘Chobits’ (top), at the monthly Seoul Comic World event in Seoul on 15 Nov, 2009.—XINHUA

A womanin cos-

tume talkson hermobilephone

during themonthly

SeoulComicWorld

event inSeoul on15 Nov,2009.

XINHUA

A technician checks a Rolls Royce jet engine atJakarta airport. British plane engine maker

Rolls-Royce has said it had secured orders worthtwo billion dollars (1.33 billion euros) from Air

China and Ethiopian Airlines.—INTERNET

WASHINGTON, 16 Nov —A 9-year-old child waskilled inside his Washing-ton apartment when an as-sailant fired a bulletthrough the front door,authorities said.

The boy and his familyhurried into their home toescape a robbery attempt,The Washington Postreported on Sunday. Theassailant fired just before10 pm EST Saturday,striking the child.

Police arrived before

paramedics and at-tempted, but failed, to re-vive the fatally woundedboy, the Post said.

Three people werequestioned but no arrestshave been announced.

Jim Graham, a mem-ber of the WashingtonCity Council, visited thescene.

“Here’s a boy in thesafety of his own home,”but he was killed any-way, Graham said.

Internet

NAY PYI TAW, 16 Nov—After attending the 1st

ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting at Singapore, theRepublic of Singapore, Prime Minister of the Union ofMyanmar General Thein Sein, accompanied byMinister for Science and Technology U Thaung,Minister for National Planning and Economic

Prime Minister General Thein Sein arrives back Nay Pyi TawDevelopment U Soe Tha, Deputy Minister for ForeignAffairs U Maung Myint, and departmental heads, leftthe Mandarin Oriental Hotel in a motorcade andarrived at Changi International Airport at 7 am today.

He said goodbye to the Singaporean Minister ofHuman Resource Development, Head of the Protocol

Department Lim Cheng Ho, Myanmar Ambassadorto Singapore U Win Myint and embassy staff, whosaw him off at the airport.

The Prime Minister and entourage arrived back atNay Pyi Taw via Yangon.

MNA

RIYADH, 16 Nov — TwoSaudi soldiers were killedand five were wounded ina rebel attack at the Saudi-Yemen border, the Pan-Arab daily Asharq AlAwsat reported.

The London-basednewspaper said medicalsources in Jizan’s Samtahhospital near the border re-ported receiving the bod-ies of two soldiers and ad-mitting five wounded, in-cluding one with seriousinjuries. Five soldiers andfour civilians have beenkilled since Nov 3. Saudinaval forces are increasingefforts to contain the rebels,Al Hayat reported. TheSaudi navy is patrollingYemen’s northwest RedSea coast and has seizedfive ships ferrying rebelinfiltrators, the report said.

Iran and the UnitedState have become more

publicly involved in theconflict. A report in TheNational cites remarks byIranian Foreign MinisterManouchehr Mottaki criti-cizing recent Saudi attackson rebel positions and of-fering to “help restore se-curity” in Yemen as evi-dence to Arab leaders ofclaims of Iran’s expan-sionist foreign policygoals.

The United Statesreached a military coop-eration agreementYemeni Chief of GeneralStaff Ahmad Ali, AlAshwal said, aimed at end-ing sea piracy off Yemen’scoast. The training and se-curity exchange agree-ment was reached aftertwo days of talks inYemen’s capital Sana’a,Yemen’s official Sabanews agency reported.

Internet

Venezuela’s president goescloud bombing to ease drought

CARACAS, 16 Nov—Venezuela’s president HugoChavez has said he will join a team of Cuban scien-tists on flights to “bomb clouds” to create rain amida severe drought that has aroused public anger dueto water and electricity rationing.

Chavez, who has asked Venezuelans to take three-minute showers to save water, said the Cubans hadarrived in Venezuela and were preparing to fly spe-cially equipped aircraft above the Orinoco river.

“I’m going in a plane; any cloud that crosses me,I’ll zap it so that it rains,” Chavez said at a ceremonylate on Saturday with family members of five Cu-bans convicted of spying in the United States.

Many countries have programmes aimed at alter-ing weather patterns, commonly known as cloudseeding, although the effectiveness of such tech-niques is disputed.

Firing silver iodine at clouds is one commonmethod. China uses rockets loaded with the chemi-cal to spur rainfall in arid regions. Chavez did notsay what technology the Cubans will use.—Internet

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CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV PHUONG MAI STAR VOY NO ( )Consignees of cargo carried on MV PHUONG

MAI STAR VOY NO ( ) are here by notified that thevessels will be arriving on 16.11.2009 and cargo willbe discharged into the premises of M.I.P where it willlie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subjectto the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.

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

No claims against this vessel will be admittedafter the Claims Day.

SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENTMYANMA PORT AUTHORITYAGENT FOR: M/S PHOUNG MAI

TRANSAPORT TRADING SERVICESJOINSTOCIS CO., LTD

Phone No: 256916/256919/256921

Italy arrests mafia boss, on runfor 15 years

Owners display their rabbit in fancy dress anddark goggles during a rabbit fashion contest at

the Rabbit Festa in Yokohama city in Kanagawaprefecture, suburban Tokyo. —XINHUA

PALERMO, 16 Nov—Ital-ian police arrested a topSicilian mafia boss onSunday who had been afugitive for more than 15years, dealing what a min-ister said was a majorblow to the crime syndi-cate. DomenicoRaccuglia, considered themost prominent memberof the Cosa Nostra afterthe most wanted fugitive,Matteo Messina Denaro,

has been convicted in ab-sentia to three life sen-tences for murder andother Mafia crimes.

Interior MinisterRoberto Maroni saidRaccuglia’s arrest was“one of the strongestblows inflicted on Mafiaorganisations in recentyears because he was, ef-fectively, the number twoof Cosa Nostra.”

Police said Raccuglia

had been seized in a housenear Trapani, in the west-ern tip of Sicily, and hasbeen taken to the island’scapital, Palermo. He wasconsidered the head ofimportant Mafia clans op-erating in and betweenthe two cities. Althoughhis wife was kept underpolice surveillance, hemanaged to father a sec-ond child while he was onthe run.—Internet

Hawaii’s famed white sandy beaches are shrinking

UNESCO aidsSyria to build sixnew educational

centresDAMASCUS, 16 Nov—

The United Nations Edu-cational, Scientific andCultural Organization(UNESCO) and Syriasigned on Sunday anagreement on establish-ing six educational cen-ters in the eastern region,the official SANA newsagency reported.

The agreement aims ateliminating illiteracy, pro-viding vocational trainingfor grown-ups andachieving development inRaqqa, Deir Ezzor andRaqqa governorates in theeast of Syria.

The agreement grantsscholarships worthy of120,000 US dollars forthose involved in theproject and stipulates thatthe Syrian governmentwill fulfill the require-ments of the project, pro-viding necessary staff,tools, sites and so on, ac-cording to the report.

Internet

Ever more Mexicanchildren learn Chinese

MEXICO CITY, 16 Nov—Ever more Mexicanchildren are learning Chinese as the third language,after most Mexicans’ mother tongue Spanish andEnglish, pushed by parents who believe it will bethe language of the future.

Some senior Mexicans often say something “estaen Chino” (is in Chinese), meaning that it is hardto understand. But things are different nowadays— more and more Mexicans are able to understand,even write the “mysterious oriental language.”

Abel Martinez, an eight-year-old boy, studiesat Huaxia Chinese Culture Institute (ICCH), say-ing that he began to learn Chinese atage four andthat he liked Chinese martial arts.

During a recent interview with Xinhua, Abelwrote many Chinese words with good handwrit-ing. His sister, Samantha Martinez, a girl with beau-tiful eyes, also studies Chinese with her brother.

Supported by native Chinese teachers, manyMexican children cannot only learn the languageand calligraphy, but also China’s history and cus-toms in an enjoyable way. They also take part incompetitions and festivals associated with Chinesetraditional culture.

The original idea of the ICCH, which works withChina’s embassy in Mexico, was to teach overseasChinese children, but now 90 percent of the stu-dents are Mexicans, from all age groups.

A fever for the Chinese culture—covering finearts, foods, martial arts and its language—began adecade ago in Mexico.—Xinhua

KAILUA, 16 Nov—JennBoneza remembers whenthe white sandy beachnear the boat ramp in herhometown was wideenough for people to buildsand castles. “It really usedto be a beautiful beach,”said the 35-year-oldmother of two. “And nowwhen you look at it, it’sgone.” What’s happeningto portions of the beach inKailua — a sunny coastal

suburb of Honolulu wherePresident Barack Obamaspent his last two familyvacations in the islands —is being repeated aroundthe Hawaiian Islands.

Geologists say morethan 70 percent ofKauai’s beaches are erod-ing while Oahu has lost aquarter of its sandy shore-line. They warn the prob-lem is only likely to getsignificantly worse in

coming decades as globalwarming causes sea lev-els to rise more rapidly.“It will probably haveoccurred to a scale that wewill have only been ableto save a few places andmaintain beaches, and therest are kind of a write-off,” said Dolan Eversole,a coastal geologist withthe University of Hawaii’sSea Grant programme.

Internet

Photo taken on 15 Nov, 2009 shows a panorama of Fuxi Village with lots ofancient architectures that date to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Fuchuan YaoAutonomous County, southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Fuxi village is one of dozens of ancient townships on the Xiaohe Road, connect

ing the Yangtze River in central China and Pearl River delta area.—XINHUA

Thinking of loved ones helps reduce painLOS ANGELES, 16 Nov — The mere

thought of loved ones can help reducepain, a new study suggests.

This underscores the importance ofsocial relationships and staying sociallyconnected, according to the study con-ducted by researchers at the Universityof California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

In the study, the researchers asked25 women whether simply looking at aphotograph of their loved ones can re-duce pain.

The participants had boyfriends withwhom they had been in a good rela-tionship for more than six months.

The women received moderatelypainful heat stimuli to their forearms

while they went through a number ofdifferent conditions. In one set of con-ditions, they viewed photographs of theirboyfriend, a stranger and a chair.

“When the women were just look-ing at pictures of their partner, they ac-tually reported less pain to the heatstimuli than when they were looking atpictures of an object or pictures of astranger,” said study co-author NaomiEisenberger, assistant professor of psy-chology and director of UCLA’s Socialand Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.“Thus, the mere reminder of one’s part-ner through a simple photograph wascapable of reducing pain.”

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NEWS ALBUM

South African palaeontologist AdamYates announces the discovery of anew species of dinosaur during a

news conference in Johannesburg.Yates, a palaeontologist at Johan-nesburg’s Wits University, said the

seven-metre-long Aardonyx Celestaeoccupied a “very significant position

in the family tree of dinosaurs”.

Baskets of golf balls at a driving range.A man who dived by night into waterhazards at dozens of South Koreangolf courses to collect lost balls has been arrested for theft, police.

Deer breaks $500 meat store window Sweden returns 22 human skulls to Hawaii

Climate change killingsea turtles

Climate change threatens the ex-tinction of leatherback sea turtles thathave called the Pacific Ocean homefor 150 million years, scientists said.

Warmer temperatures and risingseas are further reducing turtlepopulations already devastated bybeach development, net fishing andrestaurants that consider turtle eggsa delicacy.

Just 32 leatherbacks were seendigging nests last year on a beach atLeatherback Sea Turtle NationalPark, Playa Grande, Costa Rica,where the park’s turtle museum wasabandoned three years ago and nowis surrounded by weeds.

“We do not promote this as a turtletourism destination anymorebecause we realize there are far toofew turtles to please,” AlvaroFonseca, a park ranger, told The NewYork Times in a story published.

Moving eggs to hatcheries and ar-tificially cooling nests with shade orirrigation may only help temporarilysince sea turtles feed on reefs, whichare dying in warmer, more acidicseas, wildlife experts said.

Signs that warndrivers about deerwandering intothe roadwayshave mysteriouslyshown up with reddots placed ontheir noses just intime for Christ-mas, in Town andCountry, a west-ern suburb of StLouis County,Missouri, on 16 Dec, 2000.

Police in Illi-nois said surveil-lance video re-corded a deerbreaking a meatshop’s $500 plateglass window.

B a r t o n v i l l ePolice Chief BrianFengel said no onewas injured onThursday morningwhen the deershattered the win-dow of Echo

Valley Meats andran off, the Peoria(Ill) Journal re-ported Friday.

“I know it’s rutseason for deer,”Fengel said.“We’ve had a lot ofdeer accidents anda lot of deerrunning around.”

Dave Alwan,owner of EchoValley Meats, saiddeer meat is

among the prod-ucts processed athis store.

“We’re sogood, they’re justdying to get in,”Alwan said.

With a solemnceremony in Stock-holm’s antiquitiesmuseum, Swedenmarked the returnof 22 skulls lootedfrom a native Ha-waiian communitymore than a cen-tury ago.

The symbolicceremony on Sat-urday — attendedby guests from Ha-waii and the Nordiccountries’ own in-digenous Samipopulation — waspart of Sweden’sincreased efforts toreturn indigenousremains collectedby scientists acrossthe world.

The Swedishgovernment in2005 ordered itsmuseums to searchthrough their col-lections, and hassince returnedmore than 20 hu-man remains,mainly to Australia.

The Hawaiianskulls had been re-turned privatelyearlier Saturday sothat the Hawaiiandelegates couldperform a ritualaccording to tradi-tional customs.

Museum direc-tor Lars Amreussaid he hoped thereturn would help“fulfill the spiritualcircle” of thosewhose graves hadbeen violated bythe Swedish scien-tists.

“We know thatthey were col-lected, although bytoday’s standards:they were looted,”Amreus said.Greeting Amreus atthe ceremony withthe traditionalnose-to-nose — orbreath-of-life —greeting “Ha,” Ha-waiian delegationhead William Ailathanked the Nordiccountry for help-ing to recover theremains of their an-cestors.

Xinhuanet staff are busy preparing for the online broadcast of US PresidentObama’s dialogue with Chinese youth in Shanghai, on 15 Nov, 2009. The

dialogue, scheduled on 16 Nov, 2009 in Shanghai, will be broadcast live onlineby Xinhuanet, the online news service of the Xinhua News Agency.—XINHUA

SHANGHAI, 16 Nov —Bilateral cooperation be-tween the United Statesand China enables bothcountries to be moreprosperous and more se-cure, US President BarackObama said here on Mon-day in a speech to a groupof Chinese youngsters.

“Today we have apositive, constructive andcomprehensive relation-

Chavez ‘won’t accept mediation’in tensions with Colombia

CARACAS, 16 Nov — President Hugo Chavez sayshe won’t accept international mediation efforts aimedat easing tensions between Venezuela and Colombia.

Long-standing tensions between the South Ameri-can neighbors have worsened in recent months overColombia’s agreement to give the United States mili-tary more access to its bases — a deal that Chavezsees as a threat to Venezuela.

US and Colombian officials say the agreement isnecessary to help fight drug trafficking and rebels whobenefit from the illegal trade.

Chavez claims the deal could allow the US sol-diers to launch a military offensive against Venezu-ela. Brazil offered last week to help mediate betweenCaracas and Bogota.Chavez said Sunday, “We don’taccept mediation.”—Internet

ROME, 16 Nov — World leaders and officials gath-ered in Rome Monday for a three-day summit onfood security, aiming to relieve over 1 billion peoplein the world from hunger.

“The silent hunger crisis, affecting one sixth ofall of humanity, poses a serious risk for world peaceand security. We urgently need to forge a broadconsensus on the total and rapid eradication of hun-ger in the world,” Jacques Diouf, Director-Generalof the United Nations Food and Agriculture Orga-nization (FAO), said on the eve of the summit.

The Rome-based FAO, which organized theevent, warned the global food insecurity situationhas worsened and continues to represent a seriousthreat for humanity. With food prices remainingstubbornly high in developing countries, the num-ber of people suffering from hunger has been grow-ing relentlessly in recent years, while the global eco-nomic crisis is aggravating the situation by affect-ing jobs and deepening poverty.—Xinhua

DOHA, 16 Nov—The total population of the sixmembers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)is expected to increase by one-third to 53 millionby 2020, a report said here on Sunday.

The rising population coupled with relative lowage of youth would pose a big challenge to the sixGulf states, the report entitled “The GCC in 2020:The Gulf and its People” said.

The structure of workforce is undergoingchanges, with an increasing number of educatedwomen eager to start careers, said the report, re-leased by the Economist Intelligence Unit and spon-sored by Qatari Finance Center Authority.

However, the dependence on expatriate laborsis likely to continue in the long term, as the con-struction of high-rising buildings and infrastructurerequires large amount of staff.—Internet

Cooperation leads US, China to pros-perity, security

ship that opens the doorto partnership on the keyglobal issues of our time:economic recovery, deve-lopment of clean energy,stopping the spread ofnuclear weapons and thesurge of climate change,the promotion of peaceand security in Asia andaround the globe,”Obama said.

The president made thespeech at the ShanghaiScience and TechnologyMuseum, as part of his

four-day state visit toChina.

“We have seen what ispossible when we buildon our mutual interestsand engage on the basisof mutual respect,”Obama said. The successof that engagement de-pends on understanding,on sustaining an open dia-logue and learning aboutone another and from oneanother, the presidentsaid.

Xinhua

World leaders, officials meet tofight against hunger

Total population ofsix Gulf countries to reach

53 mln by 2020

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Maradona bannedtwo months

GENEVA, 16 Nov—Argentina coach DiegoMaradona was banned for two months and finedmore than 24,000 US dollars by FIFA on Sundayfor a foul-mouthed rant last month.

Maradona was sanctioned after his outburst inan interview following his team beat Uruguay 1-0to secure their berth in the 2010 South Africa WorldCup in the last game of an 18-match SouthAmerican qualifying campaign.

“The FIFA disciplinary committee...decidedtoday to impose a two-month ban on taking part inany football related activity and a 25,000 CHF(about 24,630 dollars) fine on the head coach ofArgentina Diego Maradona,” a FIFA statement said.

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA said theban would start immediately and run until 15 Jan.

Maradona was appointed Argentina coach 13months ago.

Xinhua

Argentina’s national

soccer coach Diego

Maradona reacts

during their friendly

soccer match against

Spain at the Vicente

Calderon stadium in

Madrid, on 14 Nov,

2009.—XINHUA

At long last, Michelle Wiegets 1st LPGA Tour win

GUADALAJARA, 16 Nov—Michelle Wie, LPGA Tourchampion.Imagine that.

Wie ended her long wait by tapping in a birdieputt Sunday at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational, andher first tour title may finally quiet the skeptics whosecond-guessed her career decisions and questionedthe fuss over a player without a pro victory.

“Wohttp://wwwww ...... never thought this wouldfeel THIS great!!!!” Wie posted on her Twitteraccount.The 20-year-old closed with a 3-under 69for a two-stroke victory over Paula Creamer. Wiefinished it off in style, hitting a greenside bunkershot within a foot on the final hole.

When it was over, it was time for a celebrationthat was a decade in the making. Wie pulled the ballfrom the 18th hole, looked up to the sky, let out abig sigh of relief, bounced up and down and pumpedher right fist.

After all the near misses, after all the expectations,she was a winner.”It’s definitely off my back,” Wiesaid. “I think that hopefully life will be a lot better,but I still have a lot of work to do.”—Internet

Michelle Wie,from the United

States, holdsher trophy after

winning theLorena Ochoa

InvitationalLPGA golf

tournament inGuadalajara,Mexico, on 15

Nov, 2009.INTERNET

Serbian Novak Djokovic celebrates with his trophyat the end of his Paris Masters ATP tournament

final tennis match against French Gael Monfils atthe “Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy” in Paris.

Djokovic won 6-2, 5-7, 7-6.—INTERNET

Ligament damage sidelinesArsenal star Van Persie

LONDON, 16 Nov – Arsenal’s Premier Leaguetitle hopes suffered a setback on Sunday after starstriker Robin van Persie damaged ankle ligamentsduring the Netherlands’ 0-0 friendly draw withItaly.

The 26-year-old was stretched off the pitch afterbeing tackled by Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini14 minutes into Saturday’s game at Pescara andnow faces a spell on the sidelines.

He told Dutch TV station NOS that he could missaround six weeks of action.”Van Persie has a par-tially ruptured ligament,” a Dutch Football Asso-ciation (KNVB) official told the BBC on Sunday.

“It’s a serious injury. It’s impossible to put anexact time-frame on it because some players healmore quickly than others. It’s not a short-terminjury.”Earlier, Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk saidhe believed the player had torn ligaments.

Internet

Tottenham say goal-keeper Carlo Cudicini,pictured in September2009, is expected tomake a full recovery

after surgery oninjuries he suffered inan horrific motorbike

crash.—INTERNET

Crash victim Cudicini tomake full recovery, say Spurs

Netherlands’ forward Robin van Persie is treatedby medics after a tackle during a FIFA World Cup

2010 friendly match against Italy at Adriaticostadium in Pescara on 14 November.—INTERNET

Djokovic edges Monfils towin Paris thriller

PARIS, 16 Nov—Novak Djokovic of Serbia securedback-to-back ATP titles on Sunday by edging pastbattling Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (7/3) ina thrilling Paris Masters final.

The win was the first for Djokovic in the MastersSeries this year following four runner-up finishes andit will send him into the season-ending ATP Tour WorldFinals in London from November 22-29 as the favourite for many.

But it remains to be seen just how much his effortshere this week, and throughout the year, have takenout of him after he completed a tour-leading 94th matchof the season.—Internet

LONDON, 16 Nov—Tottenham say goal-keeper Carlo Cudicini isexpected to make a full re-covery after surgery oninjuries he suffered in anhorrific motorbikecrash.The 36-year-oldItalian hit a car on Thurs-day while driving througheast London, fracturinghis wrist and damaginghis pelvis.

The former Chelseastar was operated on at aprivate hospital on Fridayand his north London clubbelieve he is on course fora full recovery from an ac-cident initially described as“life-changing” by ambu-lance staff.

Tottenham assistantmanager Kevin Bond saidon Sunday: “It’s going to

take some time, he will beon crutches for a period oftime and no doubt he’ll bein hospital for a good fewdays yet,” Bond told SkySports News.—Internet

Biedermann seals secondworld record in Berlin

BERLIN, 16 Nov — German swimmer PaulBiedermann earned his second world record at the shortcourse World Cup on Sunday in Berlin.

The 23-year-old Biedermann finished in oneminute and 39.37 seconds to improve his own 2008record in 200m freestyle, slashing off 1.46 seconds.

With the mark, he became the first swimmer to staybeyond the 100- second-mark.

American star Phelps, who won eight gold medalsat the Beijing Olympics, resigned the duel over 200-meter freestyle against Bidermann.

Phelps had no chances over 200-meter medleyagainst South African swimmer Darian Townsend, whoswam the world record in one minute and 51.55 sec-onds.

Townsend cut the record 1/100 seconds under theold mark set by American Ryan Lochte in April 2008.

The second day of the meeting produced again aflurry of world records.

Chinese swimmer Liu Zige equalized her old recordover 200-meter butterfly in two minutes and 00.78seconds. She was 1.72 seconds faster than last Wednes-day in Stockholm.

Xinhua

China wins 3,000m relayat short track speedskating

World Cup WASHINGTON, 16 Nov — China edged their arch-

rivals South Korea to take the women’s 3,000meters relay title with a time of 4 minutes and 10.785seconds at the short track World Cup speedskatingfinal in Marquette, US on Sunday.

South Korea took second with just 0.001 sec-ond behind China, followed by Canada with a timeof 4:10.825. — Xinhua

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr. M.S.T.During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershowers have beenscattered in Kachin State, isolated in Chin State andMandalay Division and weather has been generally fair inthe remaining States and Divisions. Night temperatureswere (3°C) to (4°C) above November average temperaturesin Shan, Rakhine and Mon States, upper Sagaing andAyeyawady Divisions, (5°C) above November averagetemperatures in Kachin State and Mandalay Division andabout November average temperatures in the remainingareas. The noteworthy amount of rainfall recorded werePutao and Machanbaw (0.28) inch each and PyinOoLwin(0.20) inch.

Maximum temperature on 15-11-2009 was 97°F.Minimum temperature on 16-11-2009 was 69°F. Relativehumidity at (09:30) hours MST on 16 -11-2009 was 79%.Total sun shine hours on 15-11-2009 was (9.7) hours approx.

Rainfall on 16-11-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,Kaba-Aye and Central Yangon. Total rainfall since 1-1-2009 was (111.06) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09) inchesat Kaba-Aye and (129.41) inches at Central Yangon.Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (4) mphfrom Southeast at (18:30) hours MST on 15-11-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy inthe Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay and generally fairelsewhere in the Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 17th November 2009:Light rain or thundershowers are likely to be isolated inKachin and Chin States, Sagaing, Mandalay and TaninthayiDivisions and weather will be generally fair in the remainingareas. Degree of certainty is (60%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight in Myanmar waters.Outlook for subsequent two days: Slight decrease of

night temperatures in the Eastern Myanmar areas.Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for

17-11-2009: Partly cloudy.Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for

17-11-2009: Partly cloudy.Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for

17-11-2009: Partly cloudy.

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Residents visit a museum in Buenos Aires,capital of Argentina, on the night of 14 Nov,2009. More than 150 museums or cultural

exhibitions were opened to the public for freeduring the annual “Night of Museums” in

Buenos Aires. The cultural activity will finish at2:00 AM on 15 Nov.—XINHUA

Explosion in healthcentre kills mother andinfant in W Afghanistan

KABUL, 16 Nov—Ina terrible act a motherand her infant were killedas an explosive devicewent off inside a clinicin Herat Province westof Afghanistan, a localnewspaper reported onMonday.

“The gruesomeincident occurred inGulran district onSaturday night when theexplosive device plantedby militants inside astove exploded, killinga mother and her newlyborn child,” Arman-e-Millie quoted Minister

for Public Health SyedMohammad AminFatimi as saying.

Three more personsincluding a nurse wereinjured, the newspaperfurther said.

Meantime, a localofficial Ghulam FarooqMajroh said that a handgrenade apparently wasplanted inside the stoveand when the nursewanted to burn woodinside the stove in orderto warm the roomsuddenly it explodedand causing the tragedy.

Xinhua

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1st Waxing of Nadaw 1371 ME Tuesday, 17 November, 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 amongthe people

■ RFA, DVB-generating publicoutrage

■ 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, 16Nov—Chairman of theState Peace and Devel-opment Council Com-mander-in-Chief ofDefence Services Sen-ior General Than Shwewelcomed back PrimeMinister General TheinSein who arrived backfrom Singapore afterparticipating in the firstASEAN-US LeadersMeeting in Singapore,at Nay Pyi Taw Airporthere today.

The Prime Min-ister was also wel-comed back by Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and Develop-ment Council DeputyCommander-in-Chiefof Defence ServicesCommander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-Senior

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes backPrime Minister General Thein Sein

General Maung Aye,Member of the StatePeace and Develop-ment Council GeneralThura Shwe Mann,Secretary-1 of the StatePeace and Develop-ment Council GeneralThiha Thura Tin AungMyint Oo, Member ofthe State Peace andDevelopment CouncilLt-Gen Tin Aye, Com-m a n d e r - i n - C h i e f(Navy) Vice-AdmiralNyan Tun, Com-mander-in-Chief (Air)Lt-Gen Myat Hein,senior military officersof the Ministry of De-fence, Commander ofNay Pyi Taw Com-mand Maj-Gen WaiLwin, Minister for For-eign Affairs U NyanWin, Minister for

Transport Maj-GenThein Swe, Ministerfor Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, de-partmental heads, Am-bassador of Singaporeto Myanmar Mr.Robert Chua HianKong and officials.

Members of theMyanmar delegationled by Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein- Minister for Scienceand Technology UThaung, Minister forNational Planning andEconomic Develop-ment U Soe Tha,Deputy Minister forForeign Affairs UMaung Myint and de-partmental heads—also arrived back on thesame flight.

MNA

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Than Shwe welcomes back

Prime Minister General Thein Sein at Nay Pyi Taw Airport.—MNA

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