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Volume XVII, Number 194 10th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Tuesday, 27 October, 2009

NAY PYI TAW, 26Oct—Chairman of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services SeniorGeneral Than Shwewelcomed back PrimeMinister General TheinSein who arrived backfrom Thailand afterattending 15th ASEANSummit and relatedsummits, at Nay Pyi TawAirport this morning.

Together with theSenior General were Vice-Chairman of the StatePeace and DevelopmentCouncil, DeputyCommander-in-Chief ofDefence Services,Commander-in-Chief(Army) Vice-SeniorGeneral Maung Aye,Member of the State Peaceand Development CouncilGeneral Thura ShweMann, Secretary-1 of theState Peace andDevelopment CouncilGeneral Thiha Thura TinAung Myint Oo, Memberof the State Peace andDevelopment Council Lt-Gen Tin Aye,Commander-in-Chief(Navy) Vice-Admiral

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes back Prime MinisterGeneral Thein Sein on PM’s return from Thailand

Nyan Tun, Commander-in-Chief (Air) Lt-GenMyat Hein, Lt-Gen MinAung Hlaing, Lt-GenMyint Hlaing and Lt-GenYe Myint of the Ministry

of Defence, Commanderof Nay Pyi Taw CommandMaj-Gen Wai Lwin,Minister for TransportMaj-Gen Thein Swe,Minister for Information

Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan,departmental heads,Ambassador of ThailandH.E. Mr Bansarn Bunnag,Military Attache' Col.Ekachai Harnpoonvittaya

Senior General Than Shwe welcomes back Prime Minister General Thein Sein who arrives back from Thailand afterattending 15th ASEAN Summit and related summits.—MNA

* Development of agriculture as the base and all-round devel-opment of other sectors of the economy as well

* Proper evolution of the market-oriented economic system* Development of the economy inviting participation in terms

of technical know-how and investments from sources insidethe country and abroad

* The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept inthe hands of the State and the national 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

standards of the entire nation

* Stability of the State, community peaceand tranquillity, prevalence of law andorder

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

stitution* Building of a new modern developed nation

in accord with the new State Constitution

Four economic objectives Four social objectivesFour political objectives

and officials.Minister for

National Planning andEconomic DevelopmentU Soe Tha, Minister forCulture Maj-Gen Khin

Aung Myint anddepartmental heads whoaccompanied the PrimeMinister arrived back hereon the same flight.

MNA

INSIDE

17th Myanmar Traditional

Cultural Performing Arts

Competitions continue

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Tuesday, 27 October, 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 17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Per-forming Arts Competitions, ongoing in Nay PyiTaw, are in their ninth day today.

Altogether 1853 contestants from the statesand divisions along with 2445 contestants for sub-ject-wise competitions are contending for the prizesin the 17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Per-forming Arts Competitions.

The competitions have been organized yearlyfor nearly two decades, and more and more compe-titions are prescribed subject-wise year by year,thus generating a variety of benefits such as furthermaintaining the characteristics and high social sta-tus of Myanmar national races, bringing about newgenerations capable of handing down and preserv-ing delicate Myanmar performing arts, and havingestablished a cultural society for the future ofMyanmar society.

Uggasena Drama, for instance, prescribedfor this year’s drama contest is an educative onereflecting the importance of education, the need ofexerting perseverance, hard work and diligence atany ages and times, and the importance of expand-ing the horizons and practising meditation ratherthan pursuing mundane goals and indulging one-self in sensual pleasures.

And so is Illisa Drama of Eka Nipata of the550 Jatakas prescribed for the marionette, whichdepicts the importance of preservation of fine tra-ditions of forefathers, doing meritorious deeds torealize kamma (deed, word and thought whichpredetermine one’s future) and results of kammas,refraining from evil deeds, words and thoughts forthe fruitful results in this life and next existences,and duties of children who deserve inheritance oftheir parents.

Therefore, Myanmar Traditional CulturalPerforming Arts Competitions portray lifestylesand attributes of Myanmar people such as mainte-nance of fine traditions of following the Teachingsof the Buddha, high status of Myanmar society withown monarchs, executive, judicial and legislativeprinciples, and warfare for national defence.

Traditional Cultural PerformingArts Competitions depictMyanmar lifestyle, attributes

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Oct—Chairman of AyeyawadyDivision Peace and Development Council Commanderof South-West Command Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe andMinister for Construction Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myintarrived at the briefing hall of bridge constructionspecial group-1 near Bo Myat Tun Bridge yesterday.

Superintending Engineer U Tint Lwin briefedthe commander and the minister on the site chosen for

Commander, minister inspect site chosen for new bridge

construction of a new bridge crossing Ayeyawadyriver and condition of approach bridges and DeputySuperintending Engineer on the bridge design.

After hearing the reports, the commander andthe minister inspected engineering works and the sitechosen for construction of the new bridge and gavenecessary instructions.

MNA

English Proficiency Course of Finance and Revenue commencesNAY PYI TAW, 26 Oct—

The opening of English Pro-ficiency Course No (1/2009) organized by theMinistry of Finance andRevenue was held at themeeting hall of the Minis-try here this morning, withan opening speech by Min-ister for Finance and Rev-enue Maj-Gen Hla Tun.

Also present on theoccasion were Deputy Min-ister for Finance and Rev-enue Col Hla Thein Swe,Governor of the CentralBank of Myanmar U ThanNyein, directors-general,managing directors, deputydirectors-general, manag-ers, officials from depart-

ments and enterprises un-der the ministry, lecturersand trainees.

The minister said in hisspeech, the ministry opensthe course in pursuit of the

fluency and proficiency inEnglish that plays an im-portant role for the staff ofthe ministry to make for-eign relations as the minis-try is striving for the eco-nomic development of the

state. The minister alsourged the staff to try theirbest to secure the profits forthe state and themselves.A total of 50 staff are at-tending the 16-weekcourse.—MNAFriendly football match between U-16 DPRK women’s football

team and selected Myanmar women’s football teamYANGON, 26 Oct—The

Myanmar Football Federa-tion’s president hosted din-ner to the under 16 wom-

en’s football team of Demo-cratic People’s Republic ofKorea at Chatrium hotel thisevening. The DPRK wom-

en’s football team will playagainst selected Myanmarwomen’s football team thatare under training to take

part in XXV SEA Games.The dinner was at-

tended by Chairman ofMyanmar Olympic Com-

mittee Minister for SportsBrig-Gen Thura AyeMyint, DPRK Ambassadorto Myanmar H.E Mr KimSok Chol, general secre-tary of MOC, Director-General U Thaung Htaik ofSports and Physical Edu-cation Department, Chair-person Daw Aye Aye ofCentral Work Committeeof Myanmar Women’sSports Federation, Presi-dent U Zaw Zaw of MFFand executives, officials,invited footballers and se-lected Myanmar women’sfootball team.

The minister deliveredan address and presentedgifts to the team leader of U-16 DPRK women’s foot-ball team. Chairperson DawAye Aye also gave themgifts. The minister and offi-cials later posed for photowith the invited footballteam. The selectedMyanmar women’s footballteam will play against U-16DPRK women’s footballteam at Thuwunna Stadiumat 4 p.m. on 27 (today) and30 October and football lov-ers may enjoy the matchesfree of charge.—MFF

Commander Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe and Minister Maj-Gen Khin Maung Myint inspect site chosenfor construction of a new bridge across Ayeyawady river.—MNA

Minister Maj-Gen Hla Tun addresses opening of Spoken EnglishCourse (1/2009).—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aye

Myint andofficials posefor a photo

together withU-16 DPRK

women’sfootball

team.—NLM

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Excursionists put up their tabernacles on the lawn, during a 2-day TabernacleFair, in the Zhuyuwan Scenery Resort of Yangzhou, east China’s JiangsuProvince, 24 Oct. 2009. People enjoy the outdoor activities ranging from

photographing, camping, riding, to rock-climbing etc, to relax their mood byenjoying the idyllic autumn scenery. — XINHUA

Four US troops die in Afghanchopper collision

Pesticides linked to suicidalthoughts

LONDON, 26 Oct — People with higher levels ofpesticide exposure are more likely to have suicidalthoughts, researchers in China and Britain found. DrRobert Stewart of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’sCollege London, who worked with the scientists fromTongde Hospital Zhejiang Province, said agriculturalpesticides commonly used in China areorganophosphates, in wide use in lower income coun-tries, but banned in many Western nations.

The survey was of a representative sample of 9,811rural residents in Zhejiang Province who had beenasked about the storage of pesticides at home and aboutwhether or not they had considered suicide within thetwo years before the interview.

The study, published in the World Health Organi-zation Bulletin, found that people who stored pesti-cides at home — ie those with more exposure — weremore likely to report recent suicidal thoughts. The sur-vey also said suicidal thoughts were associated withhow easily accessible these pesticides were in thehome, and that the geographic areas with highest homestorage of pesticides also had highest levels of sui-cidal thoughts in their populations.—Internet

Only clothing insuspected

suitcase bombsOCOEE, 26 Oct — Only

clothing was inside two sus-picious suitcases detonatedas a precaution after beingfound in a mall in Ocoee,Fla, authorities say.

The Orlando (Fla.) Sen-tinel reported the two aban-doned suitcases were deto-nated on Saturday by theOrange County sheriff’sbomb squad after Ocoeepolice suspected they mayhave been filled with ex-plosives. Ocoee police LtTed Silberstein said by us-ing a specialized robot,bomb squad membersmoved the suitcases fromoutside the mall’s food-court entrance to a safe lo-cation where they were de-stroyed. —Internet

Iraqis gather at thesite of a massive bomb

attack in Baghdad,Iraq on 25 Oct , 2009.

INTERNET

KABUL, 26 Oct — Twohelicopters collided onMonday in southern Af-ghanistan, killing fourAmerican troops and injur-ing two, the military said.Athird US helicopter crashedin a separate incident in thewest, leaving “some dead,”US military spokeswomanElizabeth Mathias said. She

did not have details onhow many or their nation-alities.

It was unclear whatcaused the collision in thesouth. US military spokes-man Col Wayne Shankssaid the military had ruledout hostile fire but he didnot have any other details.He said the injured hadbeen evacuated to hospi-tals inside Afghani-stan.The third helicopterwent down during an op-eration by Afghan and in-ternational forces inwhich a dozen militants

were killed, the militarysaid. It said the crash hap-pened in western Afghani-stan without giving amore precise location.

Mathias said hostile fireor other insurgent activitywas not believed to be thecause, but they werestill looking into allpossibilities.Troops fromthe US, other NATO coun-tries and Afghanistan wereon board the helicopter, shesaid, adding that a re-covery operation was underway.

Internet

Singapore to getfirst doses of

A/H1N1 vaccinein two weeks

SINGAPORE, 26 Oct —Singapore’s Ministry ofHealth will distribute theA/H1N1 vaccine whenthe first doses arrive intwo weeks, local mediareported on Monday. The ministry will begindistributing the vaccinesto polyclinics, privatehospitals and clinics oncethe first batches arrive.The ministry has startedgoing to the clinics andhospitals to check on howmany doses they need,local newspaper theStraits Times reported. The ministry has askeddoctors to compile thelists so that the vaccinecan be allocated effi-ciently, based on howmany each hospital andclinic needs for its pa-tients.—Xinhua

A US Army Chinook helicopter seen in operationin southern Afghanistan. Four US soldiers have

been killed in what NATO said was believed to be amid-air collision between two helicopters in the

region.—INTERNET

Arab League strongly condemnsBaghdad bombings

CAIRO, 26 Oct—Cairo-based Arab League(AL) strongly condemnedon Sunday the twin truckbombings in centralBaghdad which killedover 130 people and in-jured some 500 others.

In a statement sent toXinhua, AL chief AmrMoussa denounced thebombings describingthem as criminal actsclaiming the lives of inno-cent citizens, adding thatit is an attempt to

destabilize security ofIraq. Moussa reiteratedhis call for all Iraqi lead-ers to reunite so as to con-front terrorism and radi-calism and to avoid politi-cal and sectarian tensionswhich feed violence andimpede the politicalprocess.—Xinhua

SINGAPORE, 26 Oct —Asia is poised to be thelargest supplier of CertifiedEmissions Reductions(CERs) to the global carbonmarket, a senior Singaporeofficial said on Monday.

Singapore’s SeniorMinister of State for Tradeand Industry and EducationS Iswaran said that 70percent of CleanDevelopment Mechanism(CDM) projects locatedwithin the Asia-Pacific,with China and Indiaremaining the world’slargest suppliers of CERs,although the rest of Asia,including the ASEANcountries, also has immensepotential to explore CDMprojects.

He said while theCDM process may have itsshortcomings, the carbonand CDM markets havebeen successful on manycounts. They have helped

Singapore to exploit green opportunities inAsia-Pacific region

provide a sound economicbasis for carbon reductionswhile the European UnionEmission Trading Systemhas put carbon awarenesssquarely on the agenda ofthe boards of many majorcompanies. Adding thatclimate change is a long-

term global challenge, hesaid that there will be anenduring role for carbonmarkets to help the worldmeet this challenge, asSingapore gears up toparticipate actively in thisdynamic new sector.

Xinhua

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An aerial photo shows vessels anchored along the coast of Singapore wherekey industrial output during September fell 7.7 percent year on year as

declines were posted across every sector.—INTERNET

Production line work-ers assemble motorcy-

cles at a Honda factory.The Japanese auto firm

plans to invest morethan 100 million dollarsto increase its motorcy-

cle production inIndonesia in response

to growing demandthere.—INTERNET

CAIRO, 26 Oct — Adeadly collision betweentwo passenger trains inEgypt was caused by awater buffalo which hadwandered onto the track,officials said, according toSky News.

Eighteen people werekilled and 39 others werewounded in the crashwhich happened south-west of the capital Cairo.

The accident began af-ter the first train struck theanimal and then stopped.

The service was then

A dog dressed as Bat-man participates in theFamily Pet Festival in

Cali, department ofValle del Cauca, Colom-

bia, on 25 October,2009.—XINHUA

Water buffalo on tracks responsiblefor deadly Egypt train collision

hit from the back by a sec-ond train which was trav-elling at full speed.

The official death tollhas been lowered fromone which originally said25 people were killed and

55 injured, according toSky News. No foreignerswere reported among thecasualties after the acci-dent in the al Ayyat areaof Giza, 25 miles from thecapital.—Internet

SEOUL, 26 Oct — South Korea’s currency is likelyto continue to strengthen against the US dollar, aver-aging at 1,124 won to one US dollar in the first half of2010, a private survey showed on Monday.

According to a survey by the nation’s biggest busi-ness lobby group, the Federation of Korean Industries,the South Korean won is to further appreciate againstthe US dollar on the back of the weakening US cur-rency, South Korea’s current account surplus and netselling of local stocks by foreign investors.

The federation said a strong won is adding to wor-ries on the profitability and price competitiveness oflocal exporters.

Amid market concerns, the local currency averaged1,239.74 per the dollar during the July-Septemberperiod of this year, the federation said. — Xinhua

WASHINGTON, 26 Oct — The US Federal AviationAdministration says it may discipline two NorthwestAirlines pilots who were unreachable while overshoot-ing their destination. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brownsaid on Saturday her agency had sent “letters of in-vestigation” to Capt Timothy Cheney and First Of-ficer Richard Cole, alerting them the incident mayquickly lead to revocation or suspensions of their pi-lots’ licenses, The New York Times reported.

Cole has denied he was sleeping as NorthwestFlight 188 flew 150 miles past its Minneapolis-St PaulInternational Airport destination on Wednesdayevening. —Internet

ASHEVILLE, 26 Oct — A stretch of Interstate 40 inNorth Carolina could be blocked for months after itwas buried by a rock slide on Sunday, officials said.

The state Transportation Department said the mas-sive slide occurred about 2 am EDT in a steep gorgewest of Asheville in the western portion of the state,The Charlotte Observer reported.

No one was hurt by the slide, which initially wasestimated to be 50 feet deep and 100 feet long, a DOTspokesman said. The blockage means anyone travelingbetween North Carolina and Tennessee on I-40 willhave to take a detour. Officials were developing astrategy for removing rocks and dirt. They said itwas too soon to predict when the highway would reo-pen, the newspaper said. Twelve years ago, a rockslide not far from the site of on Sunday’s slide closedthe interstate for three months.—Internet

MUNICH, 26 Oct—Brain-training may helpblindsight patients, withblindness due by injury tothe brain region responsi-ble for vision, gain somevision, German research-ers said.

Study leader CasparSchwiedrzik of the MaxPlanck Institute for BrainResearch says the researchmay help blind-sight pa-tients — whose primaryvisual cortex has been

WILLIAMSBURG, 26 Oct — Students at the Collegeof William & Mary in Virginia have elected atransgender student their homecoming queen for thefirst time, a school official said. William & Mary Presi-dent Taylor Reveley said the homecoming victory byjunior Jessee Vasold is not a problem for the publicWilliamsburg school, which is the second-oldest col-lege in the United States and educated presidents Tho-mas Jefferson, James Monroe and John Tyler, TheNewport News (Va) Daily Press reported on Saturday.

“I knew Jessee before,” Reveley said. “(It’s) a lit-tle more publicity than normal for a homecomingqueen, but it’s just fine.” Vasold, whose age was notreported, admitted being “surprised” by the homecom-ing win.“I knew I was nominated, but I was just sur-prised, because there were a lot of other really goodcandidates on the ballot,” Vasold said. “I know all ofthe other girls, and they’re wonderful people, reallyfriendly. So I was surprised.” The Daily Press said theWilliam & Mary student does not identify with tradi-tional male or female gender roles, instead choosingto approach each day individually.“Normally, it reallyjust depends on the day, how I dress,” Vasold told theDaily Press. “I don’t identify as a woman. It reallyjust depends on the day and the occasion.”—Internet

S Korean won likely to furtherappreciate against US dollar

College’s homecoming queenis transgender

NC interstate closed by rock slide

FAA may suspend NWA pilots’ licenses

Brain training may helpblindsighted see

damaged through a strokeor trauma so they cannotconsciously see, althoughon some level their brainsprocess their visual envi-ronment — gain consciousawareness of what theirminds can see.

“Our study suggeststhat it might in principlebe possible for blindsightpatients to recover somevisual awareness, and thusour findings might open avenue for a new line of

research and potentialtreatments for patientswith acquired corticalblindness,” Schwiedrziksays in a statement.

The study, publishedin the Association for Re-search in Vision andOpathalmology’s Journalof Vision, says the brainis continuously adaptingand can be trained to seeconsciously what previ-ously was consciouslyunseen.—Internet

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Two young men take a bride with the shoulder pole during a folk show oflocal villagers of Miao ethnic group, as local villagers of Miao ethnic group

gather for a song and dance rendezvous in celebration of this autumn bumperharvest as a result of seasonable weather with gentle breeze and timely

rainfalls, in Basha Village, Congjiang County, southwest China’s GuizhouProvince, on 24 Oct, 2009. —XINHUA

WHO urges governments to fight A/H1N1 flu

Somalia court gives pirates jail terms

A fire destroyed a slum area in the eastern Indiancity of Siliguri, on 25 Oct, 2009. More than one thou-sand people evacuated after a fire swept through theslum area and the cause of the fire is still unknown, a fire official said on Sunday. —XINHUA

MOGADISHU, 26 Oct—Acourt in the northeasternSomali region of Puntlandon Sunday sentenced 12men to various prisonterms after being con-victed of piracy activitiesoff the Somali piracy-in-fested coast.

The judge of the court offirst instance in Bossaso,the commercial hub ofPuntland, gave eight of the12 men the prison sen-tence of eight years each,with the possibility of an

appeal against the ruling.The eight men were

handed over to the localauthorities by the Egyptiangovernment after theywere overpowered by thecrew of an Egyptian fish-ing boat they have beenholding hostage for nearlyfour months off the region.

Two of the pirates werereportedly killed in thestruggle in mid Augustwhile the rest were takento Egypt by the crewaboard the boat that was

seized last May.The court also sentenced

three years in jail each ofthe four men accused of anattempted piracy after theywere allegedly caught withweapons around thecoastal Mareero villageoutside Bossaso and plan-ning to carry outseajacking. Judge SheikhMohamed Abdi Aware,who presided over the tri-als, said the men couldlodge an appeal against thecourt ruling.—Xinhua

Pumpkin-shape deco-rations are seen in theshop window in NewYork on 25 Oct, 2009,to greet the upcoming

Halloween.XINHUA

More Malaysianssuffer heart disease

KUALA LUMPUR, 26Oct—More Malaysiansare suffering from heartdisease which has arousedworries of the country’shealth authorities.

The Malaysian HealthMinistry expects thenumber of new cases ofheart disease to reachabout 38,000 each year,with a larger proportion ofyoung people, the NewStraits Times reported onMonday, quoting thecountry’s health ministerLiow Tiong Lai.

The number of newheart attacks is much clos-ing to that of cancer,which is about 40,000every year, said Liow.

He noted that about16.5 percent of the deathsin government hospitalslast year was caused byheart disease.

Xinhua

KATHMANDU, 26 Oct—With the view to devel-oping a strategic actionplan for the protection oftigers, the Nepali govern-ment is organizing a four-day global tiger work-shop from on Tuesday.

The Kathmandu Glo-bal Tiger Workshop2009 will be attended bymore than 200 partici-pants, including policy-makers, scientists andconservationists fromvarious countries, with atheme of “Saving tigersis our test; if we pass,we get to keep theplanet, “the workshopwill be inaugurated by

All Items from Xinhua News Agency

HAVANA, 26 Oct—Di-rector-General of theWorld Health Organiza-tion (WHO) MargaretChan on Sunday called ongovernments to devisemeasures to fight the A/H1N1 flu outbreak that hashit 195 nations.

“The WHO considersthat all governmentsshould create a packet ofmeasures to face the A/H1N1 flu virus,” she said

in a speech where shepraised Cuba’s “goodwork” in flu preventionand control.

Cuba is situated in theWestern Hemisphereheavily stricken by A/H1N1 flu. Strict quaran-tine has been carried out atCuba’s border checkpointsincluding airports. Sus-pected patients and theirclose contacts are subjectto a 40-day isolation for

observation.The Cuban govern-

ment’s achievements in es-tablishing a medical careinsurance system also “in-terest us a lot,” Chan said.

Xinhua

RIO DE JANEIRO, 26 Oct—At least 10 people werekilled and 26 others injuredwhen a bus in which theywere traveling hit a goodstruck in southeastern Brazilstate of Minas Gerais earlyon Sunday morning, policesaid. The crash took placearound 3 am local time at220 km of Federal HighwayBR-116 within the jurisdic-tion of the town of Catuji,some 540 km from statecapital Belo Horizonte.

Xinhua

Nepal to host Global TigerWorkshop

Prime Minister MadhavKumar Nepal, Englishdaily The Rising Nepalreported on Monday.“The workshop wouldintroduce new ideas tostart the process of cre-ating a platform for sus-tained worldwide coop-eration to save wild ti-gers,” the newspapercited Deepak Bohara,Minister for Forest andSoil Conservation, assaying.

Xinhua

Ten die, afterbus hits truck

DHAKA, 26 Oct—Bang-ladesh signed with Rus-sia a protocol deal on co-operation in the field ofpeaceful usage of atomicenergy, as the SouthAsian country plans toinstall a nuclear powerplant to tackle cripplingelectricity shortages. Ac-cording to a message re-leased on Sunday, the co-operation instrument wassigned in the Russiancapital Moscow on 21Oct, during the visit of anine-member Bangla-desh delegation headedby State Minister for Sci-ence and Information andCommunication Techno-logy Yeafes Osman,private news agencyUNB reported.

Bangladesh, Russia signprotocol on peaceful usage of

nuclear energyThe Bangladesh delega-

tion visited Russia on 18-22 Oct for spot inspectionsof Russia’s nuclear sitespreceding the deal signing,following a series of talksbetween the two sides.

The delegation soughtsupport from the Russia inestablishing nuclearpower plant and the Rus-sian side assured of ex-tending possible assist-ance to Bangladesh in theregard.

According to the proto-col, a joint working groupbetween Bangladesh andRussia will be formed andits composition andschedule of work will bedefined in the workingprocess, the message said.

Xinhua

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NEWS ALBUM

DNA trips up thirstyburglar

A thirsty burglar fell victim tohis habit of capping successful break-ins with a drink, as police traced himvia DNA left on glasses and cans atthe crime scenes, according to anofficial

The man, identified only by hissurname Chen, committed a number ofburglaries in residential areas from 2006to 2008, a spokesman for the capitalcity’s district court said.

On one occasion he drank from awine glass, and on another from a can,leaving saliva from which his DNAcould be extracted, according to thespokesman.

The thefts of items such a laptopsand flat-panel TVs led the court tosentence Chen to one year and 10months in jail, he said.

Australian burglar betrayed by leech

Blood taken from a leech found at anAustralian crime scene was used tocatch an armed robber eight yearsafter his crime, in what officials

claimed to be a forensic world first.

Blood taken from a leech found at anAustralian crime scene was used tocatch an armed robber eight years afterhis crime, in what officials claimed tobe a forensic world first.

The engorged bloodsucker wasfound beside a safe at the ransackedhome of an elderly woman in Tasmania,Australia’s southernmost state,following a 2001 break-in.

“It was the only evidence we found,and as there was no evidence of anyleech bites from the victim or the policepresent we thought it was a good chanceto have come from one of the offenders,”said Detective Inspector Mick Johnston.

Police took a sample of the blood forDNA profiling, and when the robberwas DNA tested over drug offences inlate 2008 Johnston said they found amatch.

“It is the oddest way of convictinganyone I have ever been involvedin,” Johnston told the Hobart

Mercury newspaper.“I have not been able to find any

similar cases anywhere in the world —nothing like this at all.”

The bitten burglar, Peter AlecCannon, 54, pleaded guilty to the robberywhich netted 550 dollars (510 US). Hewill be sentenced on Friday in theLaunceston Supreme Court.

Air Canada jet divertedover beer theft

There was no fire, engine woeor medical emergency when an AirCanada Jazz flight made an unscheduledstop in western Canada the pilotdiverted the jet over a beer theft, policesaid.

Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceConstable Steve Holmes told AFP thata passenger had stolen beer from abeverage cart and tried to flush theempty cans down the 50-seat jet’s toiletto dispose of the evidence.

The flight from Vancouver to FortMcMurray, Alberta was diverted toKelowna, British Columbia, andpolice arrested the 23-year-old sudsthief.

The man faces charges of causinga disturbance on an aircraft, Holmessaid.

Train drags German mooner half naked along tracksA German man mooning at railway

staff in a departing train got his trouserscaught in a carriage door and ended upbeing dragged half naked along theplatform, out of the station and onto thetracks.

The 22-year-old journalism studentshoved his backside against the window

of a low-slung double-decker train whenstaff forced him off in Lauenbrueck fortravelling without a ticket, a spokesmanfor police in the northern city of Bremensaid.

“It’s a miracle he wasn’t badly hurt,”the spokesman said. “This sort of thingcan end up killing you.”

Painted faces adorn pumpkins atSmolak Farms in North Andover,

Mass.

OSLO , 26 Oct —Palms flourished in theArctic during a brief swel-tering period about 50million years ago, accord-ing to a study that hints atbig gaps in scientific un-derstanding of modern cli-mate change. The Arctic“would have looked verysimilar to the vegetationwe now see in Florida,”Appy Sluijs of UtrechtUniversity in the Nether-lands said. Evidence ofpalms has never been

SAO PAULO , 26 Oct — Brazilian police have moved10 men seen as leading drug traffickers from a jail inRio de Janeiro to a high security prison in another partof the country. The move comes as Rio police hunt formembers of drug gangs who shot down a police heli-copter last Saturday, killing three officers.

A week of gang violence in the city’s shanty townshas left 40 people dead. The authorities reportedly be-lieve orders for attacks are coming from gang leaderswho have already been jailed. It is commonplace forgang leaders in Brazil to continue to direct criminalactivity from inside jail using mobile phones.

It seems the authorities hope that by moving theprisoners, it will help to bring the latest outbreak ofviolence in the city under control. The ten men weremoved amid tight security from a jail in the west ofRio de Janeiro to a maximum security prison in thestate of Mato Grosso do Sul where, initially at least,they will be held in isolation.—Internet

PESHAWAR, 26 Oct —Pakistani aircraft attackedTaleban in the SouthWaziristan region on Sun-day a day after the armysaid it had captured a stra-tegic town on an approachto the militants’ main basearea. Separately, gunmenon a motorcycle shot deadthe minister of educationin the provincial govern-ment in Baluchistan, agas-rich southwestern

Palm trees ‘flourished’ in Arcticfound so far north before.

The scientists, sam-pling sediments on a ridgeon the seabed that wasabout 500km from theNorth Pole 53.5 millionyears ago, found pollensof ancient palms as wellas of conifers, oaks, pe-cans and other trees.” Thepresence of palm pollenimplies that coldest monthmean temperatures overthe Arctic land masseswere no less than 8C, thescientists, based in the

Netherlands and Ger-many, wrote in the journalNature Geoscience.

That contradictedcomputer model simul-ations - also used to pre-dict future temperatures -that suggested winter tem-peratures were belowfreezing even in the unex-plained hothouse periodthat lasted between 50,000and 200,000 years in theEocene epoch. Palms arequickly killed by frost.

Internet

Rio police transfer ‘drug barons’

Pakistan forces bomb Talebanin South Waziristan

province where separatistrebels have been waginga low-level insurgency fordecades.

A separatist groupclaimed responsibility.

The army assault in theethnic Pashtun tribal re-

gion of South Waziristanon the Afghan border isseen as a test of the gov-ernment’s determinationto tackle Islamists respon-sible for a string of attacksagainst government andother targets.—Internet

Poisonous spiderdemands courting

TORONTO, 26 Oct — Poisonous redback male spi-ders who perform a courtship of less than 100 min-utes risk being killed by the female, Canadian research-ers said.

Lactrodectus hasselti, a spider native to Australia,is a member of the black widow family, in which fe-males are larger than males.

Dominant males risked death if they courted thefemale for less than 100 minutes though weaker maleswho performed no courtship ritual were able to slipby and mate with the female on the full courtship ef-forts of the first male, researchers at the University ofToronto found.

“One of the surprising outcomes from the study isthat females are unable or unwilling to discriminatethe sources of courtship,” said Jeffrey Stoltz, a doc-toral candidate at the university, said in a release onFriday.

“This has provided the opportunity for intrudingmales to exploit the reproductive efforts of rivals andthereby circumvent female choice.”

Internet

1 in 5 kids get littlevitamin D, study says

CHICAGO, 26 Oct —At least one in five US chil-dren aged 1 to 11 don’t get enough vitamin D and couldbe at risk for a variety of health problems includingweak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.By a looser measure, almost 90 percent of black chil-dren that age and 80 percent of Hispanic kids could bevitamin D deficient — “astounding numbers” thatshould serve as a call to action, said Dr JonathanMansbach, lead author of the new analysis and a re-searcher at Harvard Medical School and Children’sHospital in Boston.

The findings add to mounting evidence about vita-min D deficiency in children, teens and adults, a con-cern because of recent studies suggesting the vitaminmight help prevent serious diseases, including infec-tions, diabetes and even some cancers.—Internet

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YANGON, 26 Oct—President of the Union ofMyanmar Federation ofChambers of Commerceand Industry U WinMyint, General SecretaryDr Maung Maung Lay,

UMFCCI President receives Philippine Ambassador

Joint-Secretary Dr MyoThet met Philippine Am-bassador to Myanmar MsMaria Hellen M.Barberat the head office of thefederation thismorning.They friendly

discussed promotion ofbilateral trade, technol-ogy transfer, holdingtrade fairs, cooperation incommerce and industrysectors and joint venturefor foodstuff.—MNA

Yangon Div competes in Illisa Dvicitta marionette contestNAY PYI TAW, 26

Oct—The Illisa Dvicittamarionette contest of the17th Myanmar TraditionalCultural Performing ArtsCompetitions com-menced at No 7 TransitCentre, here, tonight.

Among the audiencewere Lt-Gen Ohn Myintof the Ministry of Defenceand wife Daw Nu Nu Swe,Minister for ElectricPower No 1 Col Zaw Min,Minister for Labour UAung Kyi, Deputy Min-ister for Industry-2 Lt-Col Khin Maung Kyaw,Deputy Minister for So-cial Welfare, Relief andResettlement Brig-Gen

Kyaw Myint, heads of de-partment, the secretary ofleading committee fororganizing the competi-tions, the secretary of

Lt-Gen Ohn Myint of the Ministry ofDefence and wife Daw Nu Nu Swe enjoyperformance of Yangon Division in Illisa

Dvicitta marionette contest.—MNA

work committee andmembers, subcommit-tees, central panal ofjudges and judges fromstates and divisions, par-

ticipants and enthusiasts.Yangon Division par-

ticipated in the IllisaDvicitta marionette con-test.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26Oct—Minister for Indus-try-1 U Aung Thaung vis-ited Myanmar Pharmaceu-ticals Factory (Sagaing) inTwintaung of BudalinTownship, Sagaing Divi-sion on 23 October.

Industry-1 Minister visits MPF (Budalin)

Minister U Aung Thaung inspects Twintaung lake.—MNA

The minister inspectedproduction of spirulina andcalled for systematic pres-ervation of Twintaung lakeand achievement of produc-tion target.

Next, the minister vis-ited Dyeing Factory

(Monywa) of MyanmaTextiles Industry andMyinnmu cotton purchasecentre. The minister alsoinspected high yieldNgwechi-6 cotton field inSagaing cotton farm andginning mill. —MNA

President of UMFCCI U Win Myint meets Ambassador of the Republicof Philippines Ms. Maria Hellen M. Barber.—MNA

YANGON, 26 Oct —Minister for Livestock andFisheries Brig-GenMaung Maung Thein in-spected facilities ofShwehlay sluice gate inKayan Township, here, on

Minister meets local people of Kayan24 October.

The minister met withcommunity elders, andvillagers there and at-tended to the require-ments. The minister alsovisited station hospital of

Kamamat model villageand met with communityelders, members of boardof trustees of basic educa-tion schools and localsfrom villages in Kamamatvillage-tract.—MNA

Minister Brig-Gen Maung Maung Thein meets local people ofKamamat village-tract, Kayan Township.—MNA

YANGON, 26 Oct—Pain Relief Medicine So-ciety of Myanmar Medi-cal Association held talkon “Modern Techniquesfor Pain Relief Treatment”at the hall (A) of MMA onThein Phyu Road inMingala TaungnyuntTownship this morning,with an opening speech ofChairman of MMA Pro-

Talk on pain relief medicine heldfessor Dr Kyaw MyintNaing.

Chairman of PRMSProfessor Dr Tin Myintand Professor TroelsS.Jensen of ImmediatePast President of IASPextended greetings.

The presenters readout the papers on the de-velopment of the pain re-lief medicine, different

types of pain, and tech-niques and medicines foreach pain and answeredthe questions raised by theattendees.

Discussions and pa-per reading sections willbe held and medicinecompanies will stage tenexhibitions along withthe talk that last up to 27Oct.—MNA

YANGON, 26 Oct —Myanmar ComputerFederation and the As-sociation for OverseasTechnical Scholarship(AOTS) will conduct, thetraining programme oninstructors for ITEE inMyanmar (MMITEE)

MMITEE training programme to openwith 25 trainees for twoweeks starting 16 No-vember at the e-learningcentre of MCF atMyanmar Info-TechBuilding in Hline Town-ship, Yangon.

Those aged between23 and 50 with at least

three years experience inIT or programming lan-guage can apply for thetraining programme notlater than 29 October. Fordetailed information,contact MCF (Ph:652307).

MNA

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Prime Minister of Thailand Mr AbhisitVejjajiva greets Prime Minister

General Thein Sein.—MNA

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends 15th ASEAN Summit at Royal Dusit GrandBallroom.—MNA

Prime Minister…

(from page 16)Present at the meeting were heads of State/

Government of ASEAN countries, ASEAN Secre-tary-General Dr Surin Pitsuwan, ASEAN MPs, andrepresentatives.

Chairperson of ASEAN MPs and Vice-Chair-person of Vietnamese National Parliament MadameTong Thi Phong presented work progress of ASEANParliament, and follow-up programmes.

The heads of State/Government of ASEANcountries exchanged their views in a cordial way.

Next, the Prime Minister attended the meetingof heads of State/Government of ASEAN countries,and ASEAN youth representatives at Napalai Ball-room (A) of the Dusit Thani Hotel at 11 am.

The ASEAN SG discussed matters on workthat ought to be done by ASEAN youth group.

ASEAN youth representatives presented workprogress and made suggestions.

The heads of State/Government of ASEANcountries frankly compared their notes.

Fourth year students Maung Kyaw Min Lattand Ma Zin Myat Myat Lwin from Sagaing Educa-tion University represented Myanmar at the ASEANyouth get-together.

Heads of State/Government of ASEAN countries pose for documentary photo together at theCeremony to Inaugurate ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.—MNA

Together with heads of State/Government, thePrime Minister attended the ceremony to approveCha Am-Hua Hin Declaration on Inauguration of theASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on HumanRight held at the same venue.

Next, the Prime Minister attended the cer-emony to inaugurate of ASEAN IntergovernmentalCommission on Human Rights.

Thai Foreign Minister H.E. Mr Kasit Piromya

touched on the commission.ASEAN Alternate Chairman Thai Prime Min-

ister Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva made a speech.Before the Head of State/Government of

ASEAN countries, the Thai Prime Minister presentedthe document on the declaration to alternate chairmanof the commission Thai representative Dr SripraphaPetcharamesree (Thailand).

(See page 9)

Informal Meeting with Representatives from ASEAN Youths in progress.—MNA

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Prime Minister General Thein Sein together with Heads of State/Government of ASEAN countries view display of water colour paintingsdepicting ASEAN Community at Royal Dusit Grand Hall.—MNA

Prime Minister…(from page 8)

The Heads of State/Government of ASEANcountries posed for documentary photos, whichbrought the opening ceremony to a close.

The Prime Minister, Heads of State/Govern-ment of ASEAN countries, and leaders of ASEANeconomic consulting council attended the workingluncheon at Napalai Ballroom (B) of the Dusit ThaniHotel at 1 pm.

Next, the Prime Minister, together with Heads ofState/Government of ASEAN countries, observed theworks displayed at ASEAN community water-colourpainting show at Royal Dusit Grand Hall.

MNA

Fourth Year students of Sagaing Education

University Maung Kyaw Min Latt and Ma

Zin Myat Myat Lwin seen at informal meet-

ing with representatives from ASEAN

Youths.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Oct—Minister for Rail Trans-portation Maj-Gen Aung Min presented cash assist-ance to the Bago Division troupe participating in the17th Myanmar Traditional Cultural Performing ArtsCompetitions at the assembly hall of Forest ResearchDepartment here this afternoon. Leader of the troupe UOhn Myint accepted the cash.

MNA

Rail TransportationMinister presents cash

to Bago troupe

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min presents cashassistance to Bago Division troupe.

MNA

ResidentCoordinatorof UN Agen-

cies MrBishow B.Parajuli

greets For-eign MinisterU Nyan Winat a recep-

tion to markthe 64th

Anniversaryof founding

of the UnitedNations on26, October

2009.MNA

YANGON, 26 Oct—Chairman of Myanmar Ol-ympic Committee Minister for Sports Brig-Gen ThuraAye Myint enjoyed Myanmar-Thai TraditionalLethway Challenge Fight II held at the NationalIndoor Stadium-1 (Thuwunna) yesterday.

After the boxing matches, Vice-President DrKhin Maung Tun of Myanmar Traditional SportsFederation awarded prizes to boxers.—MNA

Minister enjoys Myanmar-ThaiTraditional LethwayChallenge Fight II

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10 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 27 October, 2009

Prime Minister General Thein Sein being welcomed at Hua Hin Airport of Hua Hin by ThaiMinister for Interior Mr Chawarat Charnveerakul.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Oct—Taunggyi TazaungdineFestival for 1371 ME wasopened in the hot-air bal-loon releasing field inTaunggyi yesterday. Theopening ceremony was at-tended by Chairman ofShan State Peace and De-velopment Council Com-mander of Eastern Com-mand Maj-Gen Yar Pyae.

After traditional cul-tural dances were per-formed, the commanderformally opened theTazaungdine Festival.

Taunggyi TazaungdineFestival opens

Next, Seinnaban hot-airballoons were released asa gesture of hailing the fes-tival and the opening cer-emony ended.

The commander andofficials attended the open-ing of Tazaungdine Festi-val commemorativebooths. The commanderand the secretary of ShanState PDC opened thebooths by cutting a ribbon.Later, the commanderviewed the hot-air balloonreleasing competition.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26 Oct— Prime Minister of theUnion of Myanmar Gen-eral Thein Sein attended aworking dinner of leadersof ASEAN nations atDusit Thani Hotel in HuaHin, Thailand, on 23 Oc-tober.

It was attended byKing of BruneiDarussalam Sultan HajiHassanal Bolkiah, PrimeMinister of CambodiaSamdech Hun Sen, Lao-tian Prime Minister MrBouasone Bouphavanh,

Prime Minister attends working dinnerof ASEAN leaders in Hua Hin

Singaporean Prime Min-ister Mr Lee HsienLoong, Prime Minister ofThailand Mr. AbhisitVejjajiva, Prime Minis-ter of Vietnam Mr.Nguyen Tan Dung andleaders, heads and offi-cials from governmentsof ASEAN nations,ASEAN Secretary-Gen-eral Dr. Surin Pitsuwanand high ranking offi-cials.

During the dinner, theASEAN Secretary-Gen-eral exchanged views on

tasks of the ASEAN Sec-retariat and appointmentof employees and pre-sented his annual reportwith the leaders ofASEAN nations.

Afterwards, leadersand heads of governmentsof ASEAN nations dis-cussed matters related toencouraging informationand communicationthrough water, land andair route, effective prepar-edness for disasters, pre-vention and combatingterrorism andinclusiveness of privatesectors.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26Oct—At the invitation ofPrime Minister of Thai-land Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva,Prime Minister of the Un-ion of Myanmar GeneralThein Sein, accompaniedby Minister for ForeignAffairs U Nyan Win,Deputy Chief Justice UTun Tun Oo, Director-General of the Govern-ment Office Col ThantShin, Director-General UKyaw Kyaw of the Proto-col Department of theMOFA and departmentalheads, left Nay Pyi Tawfor Thailand to attend 15th

PM arrives Hua Hin to attend 15thASEAN Summit and related summits

ASEAN Summit, 12thASEAN-China Summit,12th ASEAN-Japan Sum-mit, 12th ASEAN-KoreaSummit, 12th ASEAN+3Summit, 7th ASEAN-In-dia Summit and 4th EastAsia Summit to be held inHua Hin of Thailand, on22 October morning andarrived at Hua Hin Air-port in Hua Hin of Thai-land at 1:20 pm local time.

First, Myanmar Am-bassador to Thailand UAung Thein greeted thePrime Minister.

Next, Minister for In-terior Mr Chawarat

Charnveerakul welcomedthe Prime Minister andpresented a flower gar-land.

Governor of Pra-joubkirikan Province MrVeera Sriwatanatrakuland wife, officials, Mili-tary Attache’ Col WinMaung and staff ofMyanmar embassy and theoffice of military attache’greeted the Prime Minis-ter.

The Prime Ministerand party then left the air-port for Springfield @ SeaHotel in Hua Hin.

MNA

Commander Maj-Gen Yar Pyae opensTazaungdine Festival of Taunggyi.—MNA

Industry-2 Minister visits No.2Tyre and Rubber Products

Factory Project (Bilin)NAY PYI TAW, 26 Oct—Minister for Industry-2

Vice-Admiral Soe Thein visited Mayangon rubberplantation in Bilin of Mon State on 24 October.

The minister then inspected No.2 Tyre andRubber Products Factory Project (Bilin) and urgedthose attending courses for production of the factoryto learn diligently from foreign technicians.

The minister then inspected installation of fac-tory equipment.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 26Oct—The 17th MyanmarTraditional Cultural Per-forming Arts Competi-tions continued for ninthday on a grand scale atdesignated places, here,today.

Among the audiencewere Minister for RailTransportation Maj-GenAung Min, Deputy At-torney-Generals U Myint

Naing, U Tun Tun Oo,member of Civil Serviceand Selection and Train-ing Board U Soe Oo, of-ficials of the organiza-tion committee and sub-committees, members ofpanel of judges (central)and those from states anddivisions, participantsand supervisors, andthose who cherish theMyanmar traditional cul-

tural arts.At the assembly hall

of University of Agricul-ture, nine participantscompeted in basic edu-cation level (aged be-tween 5 and 10) boys’Maha Gita contest andeight participants in ama-teur level (first class)women’s Maha Gita con-test.

(See page 11)U Kaung Thant’s troupe particiapte in men’s orchestra contest at

amateur level (First Class).—MNA

17th Performing Arts Competitions continue for ninth day

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17th Performing ArtsCompetitions…

Minister Maj-Gen Aung Min enjoys performance of contestants in 17thMyanmar Traditional Cultural Performing Arts Competitions.—MNA

U Chan Tha of Mon State participating in harp contest ofamateur level (First Class).

MNA

Ma Myat Pwint Phyu of MandalayDivision competes in women’s

donmin contest (Higher EducationLevel).— MNA

(from page 10)A total of six con-

testants took part in nar-ration contest(Kwetseik) under thetitle of Temiya Drama atthe convocation hall ofUniversity of VeterinaryScience.

At the lecture hall ofUniversity of Agricul-ture, altogether eightpersons participated inbasic education level(aged between 5 and 10)

girls’ harp contest andfour persons in men’sharp contest at basic edu-cation level (aged be-tween 15 and 20). Threecontestants also com-peted in amateur level(first class) men’s harpcontest and four personsin amateur level (firstclass) women’s harpcontest.

Leader of the panelof judges U Myint Sein(dala) and members su-

pervised the competitionof two contestants in thebasic education level(aged 5-10) boy’sdonmin contest, twocontestants in the basiceducation level (aged 5-10) girl’s donmin contestand three contestants inthe amateur level (firstclass) women’s donmincontest at the assemblyhall of Agricultural Re-search Department. Inthe afternoon, four con-testants competed in thehigher education levelmen’s donmin contest,three contestants in the

higher education levelwomen’s donmin contestand two contestants inthe amateur level (sec-ond) women’s donmincontest.

At the assembly hallof Forest Research De-partment, Leader of thepanel of judges UMaung Hmi and mem-ber judged the participa-tion of four contestantsin the basic educationlevel (aged 5-10) boy’smandolin contest, sixcontestants in the basiceducation level (aged 5-

10) girl’s mandolin con-test and three contes-tants in the higher edu-cation level men’s man-dolin contest.

Leader of the panelof judges U Sein Sa Tinand members supervisedthe competition of threetroupes in the highereducation level (aged15-20) Myanmar orches-tra troupe contest andseven troupes in theamateur level (firstclass) Myanmar orches-tral troupe contest.

MNA

Tourists view a 2.3-meter-high sculpture, consisted of 1,300 apples, in Beijing,capital of China, on 25 Oct, 2009. An apple show activity of the 6th BeijingChangping Apple Cultural Festival was held in Beijing on Sunday.—INTERNET

China to improve int’l co-op on taxpolicies: finance minister

BEIJING, 26 Oct—China wouldstrengthen international coordination ontax policies, said Chinese FinanceMinister Xie Xuren at the ThirdInternational Tax Dialogue (ITD)Global Conference which opened inBeijing on Monday.

Xie said the Chinese governmentwould “actively engage in tax policydialogues and practical coordinationwith relevant countries, regions andinternational organizations.”

He said China understood the imp-ortance of tax as a key macroeconomicinstrument. “Over the past year of globalfinancial recession, China has launchedstructural tax reductions which helped

the economy to recover,” he said.The International Monetary Fund

(IMF) deputy managing directorTakatoshi Kato said it was time toconsider what role should tax policiesplay in financial improvement.

“International cooperation andcoordination will be critical,” he said.

Secretary General of theOrganization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Angel Gurria said tax played a crucialrole in aligning financial regulationsand incentives across the financial sectorto ensure appropriate supervision andrisk management.

Xinhua

HHS’ Sebelius: Ample flu vaccinewill be available

WASHINGTON, 26Oct—Health and HumanServices SecretaryKathleen Sebelius said onMonday the swine fluvaccine “is coming outthe door as fast as itcomes off the productionline.”

But at the same time,

she acknowledged delaysin getting a sufficientsupply for all thosedemanding it.

“We were relying onthe manufacturers to giveus their numbers and assoon as we got numberswe put them out to thepublic. It does appear

now that those numberswere overly rosy,”Sebelius said in oneinterview. “We do have avaccine that works,” shesaid. Sebelius said theimmune response isworking faster thanofficials anticipated.

Internet

SEOUL, 26 Oct—The Internet is set toundergo one of the biggest changes in itsfour-decade history with the expectedapproval this week of international domainnames — or addresses — that can bewritten in languages other than English,an official said on Monday.

The Internet Corporation for AssignedNames and Numbers, or ICANN — thenon-profit group that oversees domainnames — is holding a meeting this weekin Seoul. Domain names are the monikersbehind every Web site, e-mail address and

Internet set for change with non-English addressesTwitter post, such as “.com” and othersuffixes.

One of the key issues to be taken upby ICANN’s board at this week’s gatheringis whether to allow for the first time entireInternet addresses to be in scripts that arenot based on Latin letters. That couldpotentially open up the Web to more peoplearound the world as addresses could be incharacters as diverse as Arabic, Korean,Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic — inwhich Russian is written.

Internet

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12 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Tuesday, 27 October, 2009

CLAIMS DAY NOTICEMV MCP VILLACH VOY NO (006)Consignees of cargo carried on MV MCP VILLACH

VOY NO (006) are here by notified that the vessels willbe arriving on 27.10.2009 and cargo will be dischargedinto the premises of A.W.P.T where it will lie at theconsignee’s risk and expenses and subject to the byelawsand 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 INTERASIA LINESPhone No: 256908/378316/376797

INVITATIONThe Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia invites allqualified contractors to submit their best proposal forelectrical work at the Indonesian Embassy Office andsend it to the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia.

For further information, please contact Mr. GopoksonT. Situmorang and Mr. Irwan Djauhari at IndonesianEmbassy Office (telp. nos.:01-254465, 254469 or facs.no. : 01-254468).

Interested contractors may come to the Embassy duringoffice hours (09.00am-04.00pm) from 27 October to2 November 2009.

The proposals are to be submitted by 5 November 2009.Late bids will not be accepted.

Yangon, 26 October 2009

H1N1 likely behind risinghand gel sales

NEW YORK, 26 Oct—Rising sales of hand sanitizerin the United States likely stem from people’s con-cerns about the H1N1 virus, an official with a marketresearch firm says. Panjiva Chief Executive OfficerJosh Green said with nearly 6,614,000 pounds of handsanitizer being shipped in the third quarter alone thisyear, the most likely explanation for the increase isfear about H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, CNNreported on Friday.

The third-quarter total estimated by the research firmmarks a drastic increase from the nearly 2,205,000pounds shipped in 2008’s third quarter. A spokesmanfor Johnson & Johnson, which makes the hand sani-tizer Purell, supported Green’s theory.”Due to the in-fluenza A (H1N1) virus outbreak this past spring andresurgence this fall, Johnson & Johnson ConsumerCompanies Inc. has experienced heavy demand onsupplies of Purell,” spokesman Marc Boston said in astatement.—Internet

Governor escapes attackin E Afghanistan

KABUL, 26 Oct—Gul AgaSherzai, governor ofNangarhar Province in eastAfghanistan escapedunhurt on Monday morningas two suicide bombers at-tempted to kill him, hisspokesman Ahmad ZiaAbdulzai said. “Two suicidebombers entered a hotel in

provincial capital Jalalabadwhere governor Sherzaiwas inside and one of themopened fire butsecurity personnel returnedfire and killed the attackerand arrested his accom-plice,” Abdulzai toldXinhua. He did not providemore information. Amongefficient government func-tionaries, Sherzai has con-siderably ensured securityand brought poppy cultiva-tion to zero in the provinceunder his control.— Xinhua

A sales promoter dressedas the cartoon characterfrom the famous cartoonseries “Pleasant Goat and

Big Big Wolf” receivescandies from a staff

member of an exhibitorduring the Sweets China2009 and China Confec-tionery Culture Festivalin Shanghai, east China,

on 23 Oct , 2009.XINHUA

Kidnapper shot deadafter wounding a

mother and takingher daughter hostage

CHONGQING, 26 Oct —A man who wounded amother with a knife andabducted her daughter onMonday morning wasshot dead by the police inChongqing Municipality,said the local police.

Both the mother and thedaughter had been hospi-talized. The mother suf-fered multiple woundsand is in a critical condi-tion; the daughter was ina state of near collapseafter being taken hostagefor more than two hours,said sources with theChongqing MunicipalPublic Security Bureau.

The young manwounded the woman witha knife at around 8 am andkidnapped her daughter toJingkou Town, ShapingbaDistrict.

Police shot the guy af-ter over two-hour negotia-tion failed, and freed thehostage at around 10: 45am, police said.

Police is investigatingthe identity of the kidnap-per and the motive of thecrime.— Xinhua

RI city ‘Bead It’ to Guinness Record

Couple marry, then runendurance race

CLERMONT, 26 Oct—A 38-year-old woman say shemarried her fiance in Clermont, Fla., moments beforethey started their new life together by running atriathlon. Danelle Weidman said during her relation-ship with Kent Fawcett, 43, the couple have taken partin 50 long-distance races, but none more importantthan Saturday’s Great Floridian Triathlon, the Orlando(Fla.) Sentinel reported on Sunday.

“We think it’s a great way to start our life together,”the flight attendant said. “Do what you love, love whatyou do and do it with who you love.”After saying “Ido” to one another Saturday, Weidman and Fawcetttried to swim 2.4 miles, bicycle 112 miles and run a26-mile marathon. Pain forced Fawcett to withdrawnearly eight miles before the end of his run, but hiswife completed the endurance race.

“You really find out who someone is after you spendseven hours together biking or running 50 miles,”Weidman told the Sentinel of the experience of par-ticipating alongside a loved one. “We’ve seen the good,the bad, the ugly and sweaty reality of each other. Icouldn’t love him more.”—Internet

An electric socket forcharging the battery of a

myCar, the first HongKong Kong-made

electric vehicle, is seenat its side during its

official launch ceremonyin Hong Kong on 23

Oct, 2009.—INTERNET

Local trainees from Sino-Austrian martial artassociation perform during the Chinese CulturalFestival in Vienna, Austria, on 23 Oct, 2009. The3-day festival opened here on Friday.—XINHUA

EAST PROVIDENCE, 26 Oct—A RhodeIsland education group beat the Guin-ness world record for making the long-est strand of beads, the effort’s organ-izer said. The strand of red and whitebeads measuring 1,349.9 feet was dis-played at the East Providence, RI, an-nual Townie Pride Parade, The Provi-dence Journal reported on Saturday.

When the news was announced at theparade the record had been broken,Michael Jackson’s song, “Beat It,” wasplaying in the background, the newspa-per reported. The effort to break the

record was sponsored by the East Provi-dence Education Foundation, whichraises money to benefit city school pro-grams that are typically not financed inschool budgets, the newspaper said.

Patti Streit, a board member of the EastProvidence Education Foundation andthe event’s organizer, said the city hashad problems with police and firefighterlayoffs, teacher disputes and budget is-sue, and the beading was “a fun, posi-tive (moment) in the midst of all the nega-tivity.”

Internet

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People lay Pumpkin lanterns, or Jack-o’-lanterns,on the water in Central Park of New York, US,on 25 Oct, 2009. People took part in the annual

Pumpkin Sail on Sunday.INTERNET

Hot-air balloons printing with Beijing Opera FacialMasks are seen during the opening ceremony of

The China International Air Sports Fiesta held inXueye Tourist Area in Laiwu City, east China’s

Shandong Province, on 24 Oct , 2009. — XINHUA

Pot, schizophrenia onlyslightly linked

BRISTOL, 26 Oct —British researchers sayfocusing on a relationshipbetween marijuana useand risk of schizophreniamay be misguided. Thestudy, published in thejournal Addiction, callsinto question last year’sreclassifying of marijuanafrom a class C to a classB drug by British offi-cials, concerned, in part,about marijuana raisingschizophrenia risk inyoung people.

Researchers at the Uni-versity of Bristol and theLondon School of Hy-giene and Tropical Medi-cine analyzed numbers ofusers, the risk of develop-ing schizophrenia and therisk of marijuana use caus-ing schizophrenia andfound it would be neces-sary to stop 2,800 youngmen who are heavy mari-juana users or in youngwomen, 5,000 heavy us-ers, to prevent a single caseof schizophrenia.

Among light marijuanausers, those numbers riseto more than 10,000young men and nearly30,000 young women toprevent one case ofschizophrenia.” Our re-search cannot resolve thequestion whether mari-juana causes schizophre-nia, but does show thatmany people need to giveup marijuana in order tohave an impact on thenumber of people withschizophrenia,” MattHickman of Bristol saysin a statement. “The likelyimpact of re-classifyingcannabis in the UK onschizophrenia or psycho-sis incidence is very un-certain.”—Internet

Don’t throw out pumpkingoodness

DALLAS, 26 Oct — AUS dietitian advises eat-ing, rather than throwingout, the meat and seeds ofa carved pumpkin.LonaSandon, a registered dieti-tian at the Universityof Texas SouthwesternMedical Centre in Dallas,said the pumpkin is agreat source of vitaminsA and C as well as potas-sium.

The seeds, Sandonsays, are high in fiber, vi-tamin B-12 and polyun-saturated fatty acids —the so-called good fats.

Oven roasted, the seedsare ideal as snacks or as atopping for salads.”

The flesh of pumpkinand the seeds are abun-dant in many essential nu-trients,” Sandon says in astatement. “Pumpkins arelow in fat, calories and areloaded with vitamins.”

Sandon recommendsusing fresh pumpkin forbaking. Pick the smaller,blemish—and bruise-freepumpkins — the smallerpumpkins have softer andtastier meat.

Internet

Scientists struggle for mercury answersment say mercury levelsin many rivers and lakeshave yet to be measured.

With extensive wet-lands, waterways andmore than 7,000 lakes,Florida remains a vul-nerable target of the poi-sonous metal, expertssay. How mercury is ab-sorbed into the tissue orflesh of livings things inthese watery environ-ments in well-docu-mented but concrete de-tails still elude the re-searchers, the Orlando(Fla.) Sentinel reportedon Sunday.Researchers

are trying to determineexactly where the mer-cury comes from andwhy the state’s environ-ments, particularly theEverglades, respond theway they do to themetal, the newspapersaid.

“Each water body hasits own characteristics,”Ted Lange, a longtimemercury researcher atthe state Fish and Wild-life Conservation Com-mission laboratory, said.

Health warningsbased on precise mer-cury levels can be madeonly for a small numberof Florida’s rivers andlakes, researchers cau-tion. For locations thathaven’t been examined,mercury levels could beanything from almostzero to off the scale,they said.

Internet

Vietnam confirms fourmore deaths of

A/H1N1 influenza HANOI, 26 Oct — Vietnam confirmed four more

deaths of A/H1N1 influenza, bringing the country’stotal number of flu deaths to 31, said a report on thewebsite of the Ministry of Health on Monday.

The first case is a 25-year-old woman from thecentral province of Phu Yen, said the ministry. Shewas four months pregnant.

The patient was admitted to the provincial generalhospital on 19 Oct with fever, coughing and diffi-culty in breathing. She was treated with Tamiflu drugbut her health conditions kept deteriorating.

The woman died on 20 Oct . Her sample was testedpositive with the A/H1N1 virus.

The second case was a 48-year-old woman fromthe highland province of Gia Lai. The patient had ahistory of blood disease. — Xinhua

Bullet wounds oftenlead to severe internal

bleeding.—INTERNET

Antibody ‘fixes internal bleeds’OKLAHOMA, 26 Oct —

Scientists say they havediscovered an antibodythat could minimise themajor internal bleedingseen in traumas like bul-let wounds and carcrashes.

The team at Okla-homa MedicalResearch Foundation(OMRF) has discoveredthat a protein called his-tone is responsible formuch of the damage.

They say they havefound a specific type ofantibody that can blockthe ability of histone tocause damage.

They say it could leadto new ways to treat dis-eases and se r iousinjuries.Writing in thejournal, Nature Medi-c ine , the OMRF re-searchers found thatwhen mice had a badblood stream infection(sepsis) , their blood

contained high levelsof histones.

They checked this inprimates and humans andfound the same result.The histone protein nor-mally sits in the nucleusof a cell, packed aroundthe strands of DNA. Itregulates the DNA, caus-ing it to fold and form thecharacteristic double he-lix.

When the cell is dam-aged by injury or dis-ease, the histone is re-leased into the bloodsystem where it beginsto ki l l the l in ing ofblood vessels, causing

International performers dance during a parade at the Olympic Park inBeijing, capital of China, on on 23 Oct, 2009. The 11th Beijing International

Tourism Festival opening here on Friday brought together about 3000performers from 71 countries and regions, as well as 18 disctricts and

counties of Beijing.— XINHUA

ORLANDO, 26 Oct —Scientists studying howmercury pollution af-fects Florida’s environ-

damage, the OMRF re-searchers said.

This, they believe, re-sults in uncontrolled in-ternal bleeding and fluidbuild-up in the tissues,which are life threaten-ing.—Internet

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S P O R T S

LIVERPOOL, 26 Oct —Sir Alex Ferguson warnedManchester United’s Premier League rivals that hisside’s 2-0 defeat at Liverpool will only strengthen theirdetermination to retain the title.United cut a strangelysubdued look as second half goals from FernandoTorres and David Ngog at Anfield on Sunday con-demned the champions to their first defeat in 12matches.

Ferguson was forced to admit United had been out-played and out-fought. But the United manager be-lieves the frustration of a result which allowed Chel-sea to move two points ahead of them at the top of thetable is certain to prove the catalyst for a powerfulwinning run.

While any defeat against the team United hate themost will always stick in Ferguson’s throat, the Scotknows his side were beaten twice by Rafa Benitez’smen last season and still ended the campaign as cham-pions. They bounced back from a 4-1 defeat to theReds at Old Trafford in March by surging to the finishline in the title race and Ferguson expects more of thesame this time.“We will always react. That is the im-portant thing about our club,” Ferguson said.

Internet

MANCHESTER, 26 Oct —Fulham manager RoyHodgson was delighted byhis side’s resilience afterthey came from two goalsdown against ManchesterCity to draw 2-2 here atEastlands.

Mark Hughes’s sidethrew away a two-goal ad-vantage, handed to them byJoleon Lescott and MartinPetrov as impressive fin-ishes from Damien Duffand Clint Dempsey helpedthe visitors gain a remark-able point in an enthrallingencounter Premier Leagueon Sunday.

All the action and talk-ing points were condensedinto one 20 minute spellafter the break when firstlyBobby Zamora missed astaggeringly simple chancebefore City took their twogoal lead - and then imme-diately squandered it.

Diomany Kamara hadworked his way into thebox to find Dempsey andalthough Shay Given didwell to save his shot, theball bobbled free to

SCOTTSDALE, 26 Oct —Troy Matteson blew achance to win theFrys.com Open in regula-tion by bogeying the 17thand 18th holes.

Playing the same holesin reverse order in a three-way playoff, Matteson re-covered from his late col-lapse.

He birdied the secondextra hole to beat JamieLovemark and RickieFowler on Sunday atGrayhawk Golf Club forhis second PGA Tour vic-tory.

“I just can’t believethat it’s ended up likethis,” said Matteson, whowon $900,000. “I know Istumbled going down thestretch, but I’m still besidemyself.”

After all three playersparred the first playoffhole, Matteson hit his ap-proach within 3 feet on the464-yard, par-4 17th hole.

With shadows stretch-ing onto the green, herolled in the putt towin.That capped an in-credible three-day stretch

Manchester United

manager Sir Alex

Ferguson.

INTERNET

Ferguson expects United tobounce back

Fulham fight delights Hodgson

Fulham’s Englishmanager Roy

Hodgson.INTERNET

Troy Matteson.

INTERNET

Matteson wins Frys.comOpen in playoff

LONDON, 26 Oct –Arsene Wenger admittedhis Arsenal side cannotafford to continue to letopponents off the hookafter conceding a two-goal lead against second-bottom West Ham in a 2-2 draw here at UptonPark.The Gunners wereset to close the gap on sec-ond-placed English cham-pions Manchester Unitedto just one point after

MACAU, 26 Oct — Former worldnumber one Pete Sampras beat long-time rival Andre Agassi at an exhibitionmatch in Macau Sunday, the first timethat the retired American championshave faced off in seven years.

Sampras, 38, lost the first set 3-6 butrallied to take the second 6-3 and thenfinished off the 39-year-old Agassi in10-8 tie-breaker at The Venetian hotelin the southern Chinese gambling en-clave.

The pair, who played against eachother 34 times in their professional ca-reers, last met at the 2002 US Open.

Sampras won the match to grab arecord 14 Grand Slam titles — later sur-passed by Swiss Roger Federer.

Internet

MADRID, 26 Oct — FCBarcelona beat Zaragoza6-1 in the Camp Nou sta-dium to move three pointsclear of Real Madrid at thetop of the Spanish PrimeraLiga table. Barcelona led3-0 by half time thanks totwo goals from midfielderSeydou Keita and athumping free kick fromstriker Zlatan Ibrahi-movich.

LIVERPOOL, 26 Oct— Rafa Benitez believes Liver-pool’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United will pro-vide the impetus to get his side’s spluttering title chal-lenge back on track.

Benitez’s team ended a run of four successive de-feats in emphatic fashion as second half goals fromFernando Torres and David Ngog breathed new lifeinto a campaign that was in danger of spiralling out ofcontrol. The Reds are still six points behind PremierLeague leaders Chelsea but that gap looks far lessdaunting than the 10-point divide that would have stoodbetween them and United if the champions had wonat Anfield on Sunday.

Most importantly, the win over their bitter rivalseases the pressure on Benitez, who, as Liverpool’s re-sults went from bad to worse over the last month, hadcome under greater scrutiny that at any time duringhis five-year reign. Instead of presiding over Liver-pool’s worst spell for 56 years - his fate if United hadwon —Benitez can now justifiably talk of a brighterfuture.

Internet

for the 29-year-oldMatteson.

After shooting a 2-over72 on Thursday, hethought he might beheaded for the airport be-fore the weekend.

Internet

Manchester United triumphour turning point

FC Barcelona beats Zaragoza 6-1 to movethree points clear in Spain

Barcelona’s Seydu Keita(15) celebrates a goalwith his teammates

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (topR), Xavi Hernandez (C)and Andres Iniesta (8)

during their Spanish firstdivision soccer matchagainst Zaragoza at

Camp Nou stadium inBarcelona

on 25 Oct, 2009.XINHUA

Ibrahimovich and LeoMessi added further goalsand Keita finished off hishat trick in the secondhalf.

Jorge Lopez scored forZaragoza, but his side hadno answer to a Barcelona

11 that looked to be backto its best after a shockmidweek ChampionsLeague defeat to RubinKazan. Valencia won 3-0away to Almeria to climbinto fourth place.

Xinhua

Arsenal’s Wenger worriedover wasteful draw

Arsenal’s managerArsene Wenger.

Robin van Persie andWilliam Gallas fired thevisitors into a first-halflead in this all-Londonclash.

But West Ham ralliedto claim a draw thanks tosecond-half goals fromCarlton Cole and Aless-andro Diamanti and, hav-ing seen his side concedea late equaliser in theChampions League clashwith AZ Alkmaar lastweek, the Frenchman ad-mitted his side have workto do.”We were in controlbut as long as you don’tscore the third goal thegame is not won,” saidArsenal manager Wen-ger.—Internet

Sampras beats Agassi in Macau showdown

Pete Sampras (left) consoles AndreAgassi after the final of the US Open

in 2002. Sampras beat long-timerival Agassi at an exhibition match

in Macau, the first time that theretired American champions have

faced off in seven years.—INTERNET

Zamora who somehowblasted over when he hadthe goal at his mercy.

But Hodgson waskeener to discuss the posi-tives of the result, despiteadmitting Zamora’s errorwill grab the headlines.

Internet

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Summary of observations recorded at 09:30 hr.M.S.T. During the past 24 hours, rain or thundershower

have been Scattered in Taninthayi Division, isolated in

Kayin And Mon States, Magway, Yangon and Ayeyawady

Divisions and partly cloudy in the remaining States and

Division.The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were

Thaton (1.22) inches, Kawthoung (0.63)inch, Central

Yangon and Pathein (0.27)inch each.

Maximum temperature on 25-10-2009 was 94°F.

Minimum temperature on 26-10-2009 was 71°F. Relative

humidity at (09:30) hours MST on 26-10-2009 was 92%.

Total sun shine hours on 25-10-2009 was (5.6) hours approx.

Rainfall on 26-10-2009 was (Nil) at Mingaladon,

Kaba-Aye and (0.25) inch at Central Yangon. Total rainfall

since 1-1-2009 was (110.90) inches at Mingaladon, (122.09)

inches at Kaba-Aye and (129.06) inches at Central Yangon.

Maximum wind speed at Yangon (Kaba-Aye) was (5) mph

from South at (21:30) hours MST on 25-10-2009.

Bay inference: Weather is partly cloudy in the Andaman

Sea and Bay of Bengal.

Forecast valid until evening of 27thOctober 2009:Rain or thundershower will be scattered in Mon State,

Ayeyarwady, Yangon and Taninthayi Divisions, isolated

in Kayin State, Bago Division and weather will be partly

cloudy in the remaining States and Divisions. Degree of

certainty is (80%).

State of the sea: Seas will be slight in Myanmar waters.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Continuation of

Light rain or thundershowers in the Southern Myanmar

areas.

Forecast for Nay Pyi Taw and neighbouring area for27-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.

Degree of certainty is (60%).

Forecast for Yangon and neighbouring area for27-10-2009: Isolated rain or thundershowers. Degree of

certainty is (80%).

Forecast for Mandalay and neighbouring area for27-10-2009: Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers.

Degree of certainty is (60%).

WEATHERMonday, 26th October, 2009

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INAN, East China, 26 Oct—China’s Bai Xue waslike a “superwoman” on Monday night. The marathonwinner of the Berlin World Championships stormed towin the women’s 10,000m with overwhelmingadvantage at the 11th Chinese National Games. The20-year-old Bai, who overtook the tiring front-runnershalfway, ran alone unchallenged in the last six laps.

She kept the steady and swift pace, made no slow-down, enhanced her leading advantages by even onelap before the second group of runners, crossing theline first in 31 minutes and 17.62 seconds.

Zhou Chunxiu, silver winner in Osaka 2007 andbronze medalist in last year’s Olympics, failed to finishin the top 20. Zhu Yingying of Jiangsu finished secondin 31:44.28, and Jia Chaofeng of Gansu stood third in31:45.67. In August’s Berlin championships, Bai becamethe youngest ever women’s world champion inmarathon. She was the first Chinese to win a marathonrace in the world championships. She also put an endto Chinese women’s 10-year-old gold drought at theworlds.—Xinhua

Bai Xue from Locomotive Sports Association kissesher gold medal after the awarding ceremony forthe women’s 10,000m final of athletics at the 11th

Chinese National Games in Jinan, capital of eastChina’s Shandong Province, 26 Oct, 2009. Bai

Xue claimed the title with 31:17.62.—INTERNET

World marathon championBai Xue breezes to 10,000mvictory at National Games

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10th Waxing of Tazaungmon 1371 ME Tuesday, 27 October, 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, 26 Oct—Prime Minister of theUnion of Myanmar General Thein Sein attended theopening of the 15th ASEAN Summit and relatedmeetings at the Royal Dusit Grand Ballroom in HuaHin, Thailand, on 23 October.

It was attended by Laotian Prime Minister MrBouasone Bouphavanh, Singaporean Prime MinisterMr Lee Hsien Loong, Thai Prime Minister Mr AbhisitVejjajiva, Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr Nguyen TanDung, heads of State/Government of ASEAN coun-tries, ASEAN Secretary-General Dr Surin Pitsuwan,high-ranking officials, ASEAN MPs, representativesto the conference, ASEAN youth representatives, rep-resentatives of ASEAN social organizations, mem-

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attendsopening of 15th ASEAN Summit, related meetings

bers of ASEAN Economic Consulting Council, anddistinguished guests.

On arrival at Royal Dusit Grand Ballroom,where the summit would be held, the heads of State/Government including the Myanmar Prime Ministerreceived a warm welcome from the Prime Minister ofthe host country.

The ASEAN Anthem was played with the ac-companiment of an orchestra.

Next, the heads of State/Government, theASEAN SG, and guests enjoyed Thai traditional RamaDrama presented by the Thai Fine Arts Department,and the video of ASEAN historical background.

ASEAN alternate chairman Thai Prime Minis-

ter Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva in his introductory speechdealt with progress of ASEAN, arrangements to ad-dress global financial crisis, preventive measuresagainst A (H1N1) flu, preparedness against climatechanges, preliminary project for Asian food reservefor food security, and need of founding a free trade areathat covers the whole east Asia, and an ASEAN com-munity.

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attended themeeting of heads of State/Government of ASEANcountries, ASEAN MPs, and representatives at NapalaiBallroom (A) Main Building of the Dusit Thani Hotelat 10:30 am.

(See page 8)

Prime Minister General Thein Sein attends meeting of heads of State/Government of ASEAN countries, ASEAN MPs, and representatives atNapalai Ballroom (A) Main Building of the Dusit Thani Hotel in Hua Hin .—MNA

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