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NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—U Khin Aung Myint, Speaker ofPyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw, met with thepersonnel from the Chinese state-owned media in Shenzeng,the People’s Republic of China on 22 September.

The Speaker answered questions raised by journalistsfrom Xinhua News Agency and China Radio Internationalfocusing on issues related to Myanmar-China culturalexchange, Myanmar’s political, economic and social reformsand good prospects and investment opportunities andrelations in the trade sector between Myanmar and Shenzengand all-round efforts to be made for the peacefuldevelopment in the China and ASEAN region.

After the press conference, the Myanmar delegation ledby the Speaker attended the peace and developmentceremony.

Afterwards, the delegation visited Shenzeng Museumwhere officials concerned conducted them around, showingthe rapid development of Shenzeng and main businesses inthe town.

In the afternoon, the delegation went to Shaoguan bytrain.

In the evening, Chairman of Shaoguan People’sCongress Mr Zheng Zhentao hosted a dinner in honour ofthe Myanmar delegation.

On 23 September, the Myanmar delegation visited aworld’s cultural heritage of Modern Agriculture Park inShaoguan. They also visited Guangdong Furan Agricultural

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker visitsShenzeng, Shaoguan, Guangzhou

Tech Co Ltd where they observed the plantations of tea andother oil crops, oil production and packaging.

In the evening, they left Shaoguan for Guangzhou by

train and enjoyed the night scene of Guangzhou in a boatin the Pearl River.

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TATKON, 25 Sept—Themobile clinic jointlyorganized by TatkonTownship Maternal andChild Welfare Association,Township Health Depart-ment and TownshipTraditional MedicineDepartment gives healthcare services to the localpeople.

Local people under care ofmobile clinic

On 23 September, theclinic provides health careservices to 39 expectantmothers, 22 childrenpatients, 15 older personsand 56 general patients andtransferred two childrenpatients and two expectantmothers to Tatkon TownshipPeople’s Hospital (100-bed).—Kyemon

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—During the past 24 hours,southwest monsoon has withdrawn from the northernMyanmar areas, the Department of Meteorology andHydrology announced.—MNA

Southwest monsoon haswithdrawn

Sharapova tested, Azarenkadynamite in Tokyo

TOKYO, 25 Sept —Maria Sharapova pushed the envelopeon winning ugly to squeak past British qualifier HeatherWatson 6-7 6-3 6-4 and reach the last 16 of the Pan PacificOpen on Tuesday.

The French Open champion’s performance borderedon the farcical at times with the second seed carelesslyfrittering away three set points to surrender the initiativebefore pulling off an escape act.

By contrast, world number one Victoria Azarenka took63 minutes, exactly a third of the time Sharapova spent oncourt, to crush Austrian Tamira Paszek 6-1 6-1 and book her

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spot in the third round of the $2.16 million Tokyo event. Li Na, last year’s Roland Garros winner, shrugged off

a nasty cough to beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova7-5 4-6 6-2.

Sharapova left herself with work to do after a string ofdouble-faults and horror misses gift-wrapped the first settiebreak to Watson 9-7.

The errors continued to mount but the Russian, hersquealing growing increasingly louder with the effort, didjust enough to restore parity by winning the second set.

A forehand miss gave Sharapova the break for 4-3 inthe decider and the twice Tokyo champion crawled over theline with a big forehand after three hours and nine minutes.

“I definitely felt rusty today,” said Sharapova, whoserved 14 double-faults and finished with 67 unforcederrors. “It’s one of those matches you’re just happy to getthrough.”

One of three Chinese players who made the trip to Tokyodespite a blazing political row between her country andJapan, Li’s experience told after a wobble in the second set.

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China announces formalhandover of first aircraft

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NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—Union Minister for Hotelsand Tourism U Htay Aungcalled on hotels in Nay PyiTaw to build at least twopresidential suites, stressingthe need for providing highstandard of hotel service toleaders of the foreigngovernments.

There should be at least21 presidential suites in totalin Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone,the Union minister said at themeeting with generalmanagers and responsibleofficials from the hotels in

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept— 6th Energy and Natural ResourcesJoint Implementation Committee Meeting between Myanmarand Korea took place at the conference hall of the EnergyMinistry here this morning. The meeting was attended byDeputy Minister U Htin Aung and officials from the EnergyMinistry, responsible persons of the Ministry of Mines andthe Ministry of Electric Power and a delegation led byDeputy Minister Mr Moon Jaedo of the Ministry ofKnowledge Economy from the Republic of Korea.

Deputy Minister U Htin Aung and Deputy Minister MrMoon Jaedo of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy delivered

Korea eyes to invest in Myanmar’s energy sectoraddresses.

Officials from Myanmar and Korea cordially discussedfor joint-venture in Shwe Natural Gas Project, worksiteproficiency training course for staff and cooperation fortechnical development in oil and gas tasks, furthercooperation of Korean companies in oil and gas projects ofMyanmar, cooperation for exploring natural resources,mines refinery for sustainable development in miningsector, hydropower generation, construction for naturalgas-fired hydropower plant.

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YANGON, 25 Sept—The International TheravadaBuddhist Missionary University Council held its 1/2012meeting at the university on Dhammapala Hill in MayangonTownship this afternoon, with an address by Rector of theUniversity Agga Maha Pandita Bhaddanta DrNandamalabhivamsa.

Chairman of the Council Union Minister for ReligiousAffairs Thura U Myint Maung supplicated on history of theuniversity, aims and a ccomplishment on religious affairs.

The master of ceremonies supplicated on the minutes ofthe meeting 1/2010. Deans of the university sought theapproval for graduates of PhD (Buddha Dhamma), MA(Buddha Dhamma) and those who passed the PhDqualification course for 2012-2013 academic year.

The registrar submitted the report on progress oftranslation from Tipitaka Pali-Myanmar Dictionary to Englishand achievements in research.

The pro-rector, the dean, the director-general ofDepartment for Promotion and Propagation of the Sasanaand faculty members of Yangon University and YangonUniversity of Foreign Languages supplicated on suggestionsfor the university. The Union minister gave concludingremarks.—MNA

ITBMU holds universitycouncil meeting

Hotels in Nay Pyi Taw urged to buildpresidential suites

Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone heldat the ministry here today.

It is found that hotels inNay Pyi Taw are givingpriorities to getting thecustomers according to themarket, not considering thestandard of their rooms, headded.

Some hoteliers failed toset up the rooms meetinginternational standardbecause of their lack ofexperiences for hotel serviceand shortages ofinvestment, he said.

The Union minister

called for setting up at leasttwo presidential suites atevery hotel in Nay Pyi Tawwith the aim of providing highstandard of service to leadersfrom foreign governmentswho will attend internationalsummits likes ASEANSummit Conference.

Hotels in the Hotel Zoneare urged to built apresidential suite each attheir hotel, to complete thework on October, 2013, andto open the presidentialsuites in January, 2014.

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extraction in Kachin State.In attempts to maintain the balance between the

economic development and environmental conservation,Initial Environment Examination (IEE), Environmental ImpactAssessment (EIA) and Social Impact Assessment (SIA)should be carried out, he added.

He also called on companies for taking Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR) to maintain the socio-economicdevelopment and environmental conservation.

The forum was attended by Chief Minister of KachinState U La John Ngan Hsai, state ministers, representativesof Kachin State Hluttaw, departmental officials, owners ofprivate forest plantation, saw mills, timber companies andresponsible personnel from NGO and INGOs.—MNA

MECF holds forum on development of forest sector,socio-economy of people in Kachin State

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept —A forum on development offorest sector and rapid development of socio-economy ofthe people in Kachin State was held at the Town Hall inMyitkyina, Kachin State, yesterday.

During the forum, Union Minister for EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry U Win Tun stressed the need fordevelopment of the socio-economy of the people in KachinState and prevalence of peace in Kachin State likes other

regions and states.In his address, he also said that the forum is aimed at

implementing the tasks which can help to get quick win andadopting the ways for laying good foundations for theprojects which will take time to be implemented for futuregovernments.

He also stressed the need for conservation watershedarea of the Ayeyawady River and to prevent the illegal timber

Gold chain theftfrom neck

YANGON, 25 Sept—On 18September, Daw Than ThanHtay, 52, Manager of HighWind Prawn Industry ofNyaungU 1st Street inShwepyitha 11/33 Ward sleptin the mosquito net near thewindow in the front room ofthe house.

At 3.10 am, a man tookoff one gold chain worth K732,000 from the neck of DawThan Than Htay and runaway. Shwepyitha PoliceStation opened a file undersection 380 of the criminallaw.—Kyemon

Hailstones drop inPyinOoLwin

PYINOOLWIN, 24 Sept—Strong winds and heavy rainshit PyinOoLwin at 2 pm on 24 September.

The strong winds fell down the trees on the road.Hailstones dropped on Mandalay-Lashio Road in Ward 4 ofPyinOoLwin.—Myanma Alin

Danu Leading BodyChairman’s Cup kicks offNAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—The Danu Self-Administered

Zone Leading Body Chairman’s Cup U-25 Men’s FootballTournament 2012 was kicked off at the sports ground inPindaya on 17 September afternoon.

Chairman of the Leading Committee U Htoo Ko Kodelivered an address and opened it.

In the debut, Myinkadoe Villate team hammered InlonVillage team 6-1. Altogether 34 ward and village teams aretaking part in the tournament.—MNA

30-year town plans for Bagan, NyaungU, NgazunMANDALAY, 25 Sept—

Bagan and NyaungU seeincreased population day byday. With the estimation onincreasing number ofpopulation within 30 years,the town plans and villageplans are being drawnaccording to the fourthregular session of the FirstMandalay Region Hluttaw.

At present situation,Bagan-NyaungU region is

located in the ArchaeologicalRegion. So, its geographicalcondition is not equal to thenatures of other regions. Theregion government will placeemphasis on betterment of theregion.

Likewise, towns andvillages in Mandalay Regionincluding Ngazun Townshipare also facing increasingnumber of population day byday. The region government

plans to upgrade them in linewith the 30-year long-termplan. In so doing, the townsand villages will befacilitated with roads, drains,markets, schools, hospitals,sports grounds andsystematic allotment of plotsfor local people. The regiongovernment arranges to drawtown plans and village plansfor Bagan, NyaungU andNgazun.—Kyemon

Land management multiplier course openedMANDALAY, 25 Sept—

The multiplier course forfarmland law and vacant,virgin and fallow landmanagement law and ruleswas opened at MandalayEducation College inMandalay on 24 September.

On the occasion,Deputy Commissioner U ZawTin Moe of MandalayDistrict General Admini-stration Department made anopening speech. Head ofRegion Settlement and Land

Records Department U AyeKo explained the purpose ofopening the training course.

Head of Upper MyanmarSLRD U Hlwan Moe and

Head of Mandalay DistrictSLRD U Myint Hlaingprovided lectures to 112trainees on 24 and 25September.—Myanma Alin

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Tables turn on Spain with pressure toseek bailout

BRUSSELS/MADRID, 25Sept—Spain once pushedhard for Ireland and Portugalto ask for bailouts from theirpartners in the euro becauseit was keen to shelter itselffrom an acceleratingsovereign debt crisis.

Now the tables are turnedand Madrid is holding backfrom applying for help, notleast because the Spanishgovernment knows all too wellwhat befell its Portuguese andIrish peers once they did seekhelp — voters dumped them.

Facing an important

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy leaves after aparliamentary session at the Spanish parliament in

Madrid on 12 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

regional election on 21October, Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy is in no rush toyield to nervous pleas, fromFrance, Italy and indeedIreland, that he request arescue deal that mightdampen investors’ concernsabout their own debt.

Dublin and Lisbonfought shy of EU and IMFhelp for long months in 2010-11, fuelling turmoil in the bondmarkets, in forlorn attemptsto avoid a humiliating loss ofsovereignty and lenders’demands that they draft

unpopular budgets. NowRajoy, in office for nine months,is doing the reverse of what hisSpanish predecessors urgedon others, and insisting Madridmay not need help — at anyrate not right now.

Part of the procrastinationis down to Rajoy’spersonality. The dourconservative Gallego fromrainy northwestern Spain builthis career on digging in hisheels and letting everyoneelse wear themselves out untilhe decides he’s ready to act.

People in Rajoy’shomeland, Galicia, arerenowned for beingnoncommittal and answeringa question with a question.Meet a Gallego on the stairs, aSpanish saying goes, and it’shard to tell whether he is goingup or coming down.

“Rajoy is resistant.That’s his life. He prefers totake a bad decision in threemonths to taking a good onetomorrow,” said a formergovernment official fromRajoy’s People’s Party.

Such is Rajoy’s poker-faced ambiguity that even

longtime associates cannottell when he will come off thefence. This month’s offer ofpotential support from theEuropean Central Bank haseased Spain’s borrowingcosts somewhat, giving Rajoya breathing space. Germany,whose voters dislike fundingbailouts, has also made clearthere should be no rush.

But tension remains, withthose leaders most concernedabout their own debt levelsfretting that Spanish delaycould unsettle markets andraise the risks they too mayneed some form of help.

“Spain was much infavour of moving quickly inthe case of Portugal, to cutcontagion,” said a senior eurozone official, recallingpressure from Madrid in themonths before Lisbon finallyapplied for a bailoutprogramme in April.

“It’s clear that countriessuch as France and Italy wouldlike to see a request from Spaincoming soon,” the officialsaid. “But Germany, forinstance, is clearly not inhurry.”—Reuters

1,000 Congolese flee to Ugandaover renewed fighting in

eastern DRCKAMPALA, 25 Sept—At

least 1,000 Congoleserefugees have fled intoUganda in the last two weeksfollowing renewed fighting ineastern Democratic Republicof Congo (DRC), local mediareported here on Monday.

The state owned NewVision daily reported that thenew wave of fighting betweenthe government forces andM23 rebels in DRC’s Rutshuruarea has forced another 1,000people to take refuge inUganda.

The rebels are reportedto have overrun Nyamirima,Buganza and Nyakakomatowns, all in Rutshuru area,after heavy fighting with thegovernment forces, forcingpeople to flee.

The refugees, mostlywomen and children, begantrickling into the East Africancountry through Ishashaborder post on 14 Sept, thepaper reported. The refugeeswere temporarily beingsheltered at Kihiihi PoliceStation awaiting to betransported to Nyakabandetransit centre in the westernUgandan district of Kisoro.

Jean Bosco Kamanzi, arefugee who is a teacher byprofession, on Saturday saidthat he had counted five dead

bodies of civilians as he fledtowards Ishasha.

“The situation hasbecome unbearable becausethere in nobody to care for thecivilians. The fighting forcesare only showing off theirsuperiority,” said Kamanzi.

Juuko Kasiita, Kanungudeputy Resident DistrictCommissioner, who issupervising the exercise ofreceiving refugees, said theyhave been registering about200 people every day exceptfor Friday when the numbershot higher.

“We have seen morerefugees coming in unlike inthe past when they wouldcome in groups of 10 or 20. Ourduty is to ensure that they areall registered,” said Kasiita.

Meanwhile, securityauthorities in Kanungu haveasked Ugandan citizens to stopcrossing into eastern DRC withimmediate effect, saying theirsecurity cannot be guaranteed.

Several people inButogota, Kihiihi in Kanunguand areas bordering DRChave been doing briskbusiness with theircounterparts across the borderwhile others have gardenswhich they till during the dayand return in the evening.

Xinhua

Venezuela’s Capriles edgestoward Chavez as vote nears

CARACAS, 25 Sept—Venezuelan oppositioncandidate Henrique Caprilesedged closer to PresidentHugo Chavez in an opinionpoll but remained 10percentage points behind thesocialist leader in the run-upto the 7 October election,according to two sources whohave seen the poll. RecentDatanalisis’ polls showsupport for Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor,growing in the waning daysof the campaign as hecontinues campaigningacross the country. Capriles’has vowed to create aBrazilian-style “modernleft” that balances freeenterprise with social welfare

Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate HenriqueCapriles (L) greets supporters during a campaign rally inLa Guaira outside Caracas on 24 Sept, 2012. —REUTERS

female fans trying to hug him.“Let me tell you,

someone who hasn’t donewhat they were supposed todo in 14 years is not going todo it in the next six years,”Capriles told supporters, whosang and danced to salsa inthe spirit of Venezuela’spolitical rallies, which oftenlook more like street parties.

White House said to plan executiveorder on cybersecurity

SAN FRANCISCO, 25Sept—The White House ispreparing to direct federalagencies to developvoluntary cybersecurityguidelines for owners ofpower, water and other criticalinfrastructure facilities,according to people who saidthey had seen recent drafts ofan executive order.

The prospective orderwould give the agencies 90days to propose newregulations and create a newcybersecurity council at theDepartment of HomelandSecurity with representativesfrom the Defence Department,Justice Department, Directorof National Intelligence andthe Department of Commerce,a former government cyber-security official told Reuters.

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“It tells those who havethe ability to regulate to goforth and do so,” said theperson, who is currentlyoutside the government andspoke on condition ofanonymity in order to preserveaccess to governmentofficials.

The draft executive orderincludes elements of what hadbeen the leading cybersecurityoverhaul bill in the Senate,which was defeated thissummer amid opposition fromindustries opposed toincreased regulation. SenateHomeland Security CommitteeChairman Joe Lieberman, anindependent and one of theprincipal authors of that bill,on Monday urged the WhiteHouse to issue such an order.

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Some 2,000 evacuated aswildfire hits east Spain

MADRID, 25 Sept—Around 2,000 people have had to beevacuated on Monday due to a wildfire that hit the AutonomousCommunity of Valencia in east Spain.

The fire, which broke out around 50 kilometres north-westof the city of Valencia has sent villagers of Chulilla, Gestalgar,Pedralba and Bugarra to be evacuated because of the threat ofthe advancing flames. Over 600 people are currently combatingthe fire, among them firemen and members of Spain’s EmergencyMilitary Unit (UME), with the help of a total of 31 planes andhelicopters.

However, fire-fighting has been made more difficult bystrong gusts of wind in the region, while the smoke and dusthas led to eight small roads being closed to the public. Authoritiesare optimistic that the arrival of cooler weather from the north-west will see a fall in temperatures and a reduction in wind-speeds, while there is also the possibility of some rain fallingin the afternoon.—Xinhua

A group of about 100Chavez supporters waited atthe end of the caravancarrying signs that said “Getout, thief” and throwing waterbottles at Capriles. Theconfrontation fizzledwithout incident, in contrastto recent skirmishes at ralliesthat have left several peoplewounded.—Reuters

Iran tests home-builtanti-aircraft system

DUBAI, 25 Sept—Iran successfully tested a domesticallymade anti-aircraft system, its English-language Press TV saidon Monday, the latest in a series of military exercises Teheranhas trumpeted in the face of hints that its nuclear sites could beattacked. “The mid-range system ... is capable of interceptingtargets at a range of 50 km (30 miles) and can fly at an altitudeof 75,000 feet (22,860 metres),” state-run Press TV’s websitesaid. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, BrigadierGeneral Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said at a military parade displayingthe weapons on Friday: “The system has been manufacturedwith the aim of confronting (hostile) US aircraft.”

“The Ra’d air defence system is the first completelyindigenous system of the Sepah (Revolutionary Guards),which has been designed and manufactured by committedIranian technicians in the struggle for self-sufficiency,”Hajizadeh was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

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programmes. Investors expecthim to end a five-yearnationalization crusade andreduce state intervention inthe economy.

Chavez, who has been inoffice for 14 years, says he willdeepen his oil-financedsocialism if he wins anothersix-year term. That wouldlikely feature continuedconfrontation with the privatesector and efforts to supportleftist allies in the region.

Capriles on Monday leda massive caravan in thesweltering state of Vargas,alongside the Caribbean Sea,waving to supporters fromatop a truck. He at timesnarrowly averted beingdragged to the ground by

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Huawei sees steady 30 percent revenue growthfrom consumer devices

SHENZHEN, 25 Sept—China’s Huawei TechnologiesCo Ltd, the world’s second-largest telecom equipmentmaker and No 6 handset maker,expects revenue from itsconsumer devices unit to growby about 30 percent next yearfrom the $9 billion forecast forthis year.

Huawei also plans tolaunch smartphones usingMicrosoft’s Windows 8operating system later thisyear or early next year, WanBiao, CEO of Huawei Device,said in an interview onMonday at the company’sheadquarters in the southern

city of Shenzhen.“We’re still in the mode

of investing actively for thenext 1-2 years, so it will be abig challenge to achieve highprofitability,” Wan said. “Weexpect our consumer devicesdivision’s revenues toincrease by 30 percent nextyear, with smartphonesgrowing at least 40 percent.”

Huawei, which hasdiversified into mobilephones, expects sales of itsconsumer devices —including mobiles, tablets anddata cards —to rise by arounda third this year from $6.8billion last year, a senior

executive said in May, addingthe business could hit salesof $30 billion in five years asthe unit matches the flagshiptelecoms gear business as arevenue driver.

The company has said itaims to ship more than 100million mobile phones thisyear, including 60 millionsmartphones to increase itsglobal market share.

Global smartphoneshipments will reach 1.7 billionin 2017, up from 450 millionlast year—of which around160 million were sold inemerging markets—Ovumsaid in a report on Monday.

Wan said Huawei wasconsidering developing itsown smartphone operatingsystem, but he gave notimeframe for this.

While its consumerproducts are widely accepted,Huawei’s telecomsequipment business has hitroadblocks in the UnitedStates and more recently, inAustralia, over securityissues.

In July, Huawei posted a22 percent drop in first-halfoperating profit, citing the“significant challenge” of theglobal economy and thetelecoms equipmentmarket.—Reuters

Wan Biao, CEO of Huawei Device, poses with a HuaweiMediaPad tablet device during an interview in the

southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on 24 Sept, 2012.China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world’s second-

largest telecom equipment maker and No 6 handsetmaker, expects revenue from its consumer devices unit togrow by about 30 percent next year from the $9 billion

forecast for this year.—REUTERS

Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocksGoogle

DUBAI, 25 Sept— Iranplans to switch its citizensonto a domestic Internetnetwork in what officials sayis a bid to improve cybersecurity but which manyIranians fear is the latest wayto control their access to theweb.

The announcement,made by a governmentdeputy minister on Sunday,came as state televisionannounced Google Inc’s(GOOG O) search engine andits email service would beblocked “within a few hours”.

“Google and Gmail willbe filtered throughout thecountry until further notice,”an official identified only byhis last name, Khoramabadi,said, without giving furtherdetails. The Iranian Students’News Agency (ISNA) saidGoogle ban was connected tothe anti-Islamic film postedon the company’s YouTubesite which has caused outragethroughout the Muslim world.

There was no officialconfirmation. Iran has one ofthe biggest Internet filters ofany country in the world,preventing normal Iraniansfrom accessing countless siteson the official grounds theyare offensive or criminal.Butmany Iranians believe theblock on sites such asFacebook and YouTube isdue to their use in anti-government protests after thedisputed re-election ofPresident Mahmoud

Ahamdinejad in 2009. Sitesexpressing views consideredanti-government are alsoroutinely blocked.

Iranians commonlyovercome the governmentfilter by using virtual privatenetwork (VPN) software thatmakes the computer appear asif it is based in another country.But officials have long spokenof creating an Iranian Internetsystem which would be largelyisolated from the World WideWeb.—Reuters

Echnicians monitor data flow in the control room of aninternet service provider in Teheran on 15 February

2011. REUTERS

iPhone 5 defines Apple success, Tim Cook-styleSAN FRANCISCO, 25

Sept— Tim Cook is no SteveJobs when it comes to leadingApple Inc (AAPL O). As thedebut of the new iPhone 5 justproved, that may not be a badthing.

The taller, thinner andlighter phone prompted a rushon Wall Street to raise pricetargets for Apple stock, butthe optimism was not becauseof a big technological advanceor design breakthrough; the“wow” factor that was thetrademark of the late Apple co-founder Jobs was decidedlyabsent.

Rather, it was the speedof the global launch thatastounded, validating the newCEO’s much-touted wizardryat the essential butunglamorous task ofmanaging a supply chain. “Weare positively surprisedregarding the pace of therollout, since we had expecteda bigger impact fromcomponent constraints,”Barclays analyst Ben Reitzessaid.

By next Friday, the iPhone5 will be in 31 countries, andwill be in 100 by the end of thecalendar year. That would be30 more than the rollout of thepredecessor phone, the 4S,over a similar period, Jeffries

analyst Peter Misekcalculated. That means Applehas worked out supplyconstraints and inked dealsnow with 240 carriers. It willget enough phones out thedoor in the next 10 days tohave a material effect onearnings.

“His skills fit the timeperiod and the flow ofproduct,” said RaymondMiles, professor emeritus atHaas School of Business,University of California,Berkeley, adding that Applemay be at a stage where itneeds “someone with aproduction vision.”

The iPhone launch offerssome other, subtler indicationsof how Apple is changing

under Cook. In public events,Jobs stood out in his blackturtleneck, an d performedcarefully crafted one-manstage shows. At the pressevent for the iPhone 5, Cookblended into a pack ofexecutives all sporting auniform of jeans and untuckedcasual dress shirt.

Indeed, one might say thatpractical, low-flash, but high-impact actions are emergingas the Cook trademark. He hasintroduced a dividend to payout part of the more than $100billion cash stockpile, raisedsalaries for a rabidly loyal butlow-paid workforce in theApple stories, and sped upproduct rollouts.

Reuters

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook takes the stage after theintroduction of the iPhone 5 during Apple Inc.’s iPhone

media event in San Francisco, California on 12 Sept,2012.— REUTERS

CAPE CANAVERAL,(Florida), 25 Sept—With aneye toward developing acommercial spaceport,Florida has asked NASA totransfer 150 acres of landnorth of the shuttle launchpads and the shuttle runwayto Space Florida, the state’saerospace developmentagency.

“Florida believes thatthe properties identified inthis request are excess to theneeds of the USgovernment,” LieutenantGovernor Jennifer Carroll,who is also chairwoman ofSpace Florida, wrote in letter

.Florida wants NASA land to developcommercial spaceport

to NASA chief CharlesBolden and Ray LaHood,secretary of Department ofTransportation, whichoversees commercial spacetransportation in the UnitedStates.The letter, dated on20 September, was postedon the state’s Sunburstpublic records website.

A week earlier, SpaceFlorida agreed to spend $2.3million for environmentalstudies, land surveys, titlesearches, appraisals andother activities to lay thegroundwork for CapeCanaveral Spaceport, aproposed state-owned

commercial complex thatwould be licensed by theFederal Aviation Admini-stration and operated like anairport.

“If we want to be satisfiedwith 10 to 12 governmentlaunches a year, I don’t haveto do anything,” Space Floridapresident and chief executiveFrank DiBello told Reuters.But he said those launcheswould likely end whencommercial sites elsewhere areable to offer affordable rates.“What has existed for decadeshas been good, but themarketplace has been largelygovernmental. —Reuters

Google shares hit record high, find favour onStreet

A securitypersonnel

answers a call atthe receptioncounter of the

Google office inthe southernIndian city of

Hyderabad on 6Feb, 2012.REUTERS

SAN FRANCISCO, 25Sept—Google Inc shares setan all-time high on Monday,with the Web giant’s reliableadvertising business back invogue among Wall Streetinvestors disenchanted withyounger social mediacompanies. The stock reached$748.90 in afternoon trading,inching past a previous recordset in November 2007 of$747.24. It traded below $300 in2009 during the globaleconomic crisis and remainedunder pressure in the ensuingyears as investors worried thatGoogle’s best years werebehind it.

The world’s No1 searchengine, which generated $38billion in revenue last year, nowlooks increasingly attractive

compared with a new crop ofsocial Web companies,analysts say. Facebook Inc,as well as once-hot companiesZynga Inc and Groupon Inc,came to the public marketsamid sky-high expectationsduring the past year, but havefallen out of favor on concernsabout their future businessprospects.

“The markets have to

come to appreciate that Google’sbeen making money hand overfist all this time,” said BrianWieser, an analyst at PivotalResearch Group.

Google’s lucrative searchadvertising business, as well asits efforts expanding into displayand mobile advertising, havehelped the company maintainrobust revenue growth.

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World Health Organization says has foundnew SARS-like virus

LONDON, 25 Sept— Anew virus belonging to thesame family as the SARSvirus that killed 800 peoplein 2002 has been identifiedin Britain in a man who hadrecently been in SaudiArabia, the World HealthOrganization (WHO) said onSunday.

The United Nationshealth body, which issued astatement through its “globalalert and response” system,said tests on the patient, a 49-

The World Health Organization (WHO) headquartersare pictured in Geneva on 27 April, 2009.—REUTERS

year-old Qatari man,confirmed the presence of anew, or novel, coronavirus.

Coronaviruses are a largefamily of viruses whichincludes the common coldand SARS.

“Given that this is anovel coronavirus, WHO iscurrently in the process ofobtaining further informationto determine the public healthimplications,” the statementsaid.

SARS, or Severe Acute

Respiratory Syndrome,appeared in China in 2002and killed some 800 peopleglobally before beingbrought under control.

Peter Openshaw,director of the Centre forRespiratory Infection atImperial College London, saidat this stage the novel viruslooked unlikely to prove aconcern, and may well onlyhave been identified due tosophisticated testingtechniques.

“For now, I would bewatchful but not immediatelyconcerned,” he told Reuters.

The WHO said theQatari patient had firstpresented to doctors on 3September, 2012 withsymptoms of an acuterespiratory infection.

On 7 September, he wasadmitted to an intensive careunit in Doha, Qatar, and on

BioLineRxpatent

protectionextended forschizophrenia

drugTEL AVIV, 25 Sept—

Israeli biopharmaceuticaldevelopment firm BioLineRxreceived a new patent fromthe US Patent and TrademarkOffice for BL-1020, anexperimental schizophreniatreatment.

The patent will be validat least until 2031, extendingthe existing patent protectionof the product by nine years.

“There is now asignificantly longer periodof exclusivity to our leadproduct, which reflectssubstantial additionalprogress in its developmenttowards commercialization,”Kinneret Savitsky, chiefexecutive of BioLineRx,said on Monday.

“We believe that themarket potential for BL-1020has increased over the pastseveral months, as somelarger pharmaceuticalcompanies have reportedfailures during late-stageclinical trials or have reducedthe operations surroundingtheir schizophrenia therapiesdue to loss of patentprotection.”

Almost 1 percent of theworld’s population suffersfrom schizophrenia, Savitskysaid, adding that BL-1020has shown to significantlyimprove cognitive functionin schizophrenia patients.

The company isconducting a Phase II/III trialwith BL-1020’s cognitionenhancement as its primaryobjective. Results areexpected in the second halfof 2013.—Reuters

HealthHealth

11 September, he wastransferred to Britain by airambulance from Qatar.

“The Health ProtectionAgency of the UK conductedlaboratory testing and hasconfirmed the presence of anovel coronavirus,” theWHO said.

It said scientists at theHPA compared genesequences of the virus fromthe Qatari patient withsamples of virus sequenced

by Dutch scientists from lungtissue of a fatal case earlierthis year in a 60-year-oldSaudi national.

The two were almostidentical, it said.

Openshaw said the factthe two cases found so far areapparently unrelatedsuggests “that what has beenpicked up is just some rareevent that in past times mighthave been undiagnosed”.

Reuters

General Motors readies $10 billion creditNEW YORK, 25 Sept—

General Motors Co (GM N) isin market with $10 billion inrevolving credit facilities thatwill beef up liquidity andrefinance existing debt,sources told ThomsonReuters LPC.

JP Morgan is leading thedeal that has launched to 10senior lenders. The 10 seniorlenders are understood to bepart of the company’s existingbank group.

GM spokesman JimCain declined to comment.JP Morgan declined tocomment.

The company is askingits lenders for at least $8billion and as much as $10billion, split between a $5billion, five-year revolverand a $5 billion, three-yearrevolver, sources said. Thefinal amounts have yet to bedetermined since discussionsare said to be ongoing.

The company is

A view of the GeneralMotors headquarters at

the Renaissance Centre inDetroit, Michigan is seen

in this file photographtaken on 25 August, 2009.

REUTERS

Businesscurrently in active dialoguewith top-tier lenders. At thetop level, the company isasking lenders forcommitments of $600million apiece. The companyexpects to line up top-tiercommitments this week. Asecond tier of commitmentsof $350 million will beoffered to lenders during asecond round of syndicationto take place in the next threeweeks.

Individual com-mitments will be allocatedacross both the three-year andthe five-year credit facilities.

If the company drawsdown on the facilities, pricingis expected to be around250bp over Libor. Therevolvers are expected to pay37.5bp on an undrawn basis.

The company is offeringupfront fees between 30bpand 50bp, depending uponthe size of a bank’scommitment. The company

Survey shows britons’ inflationfears rise again

LONDON, 25 Sept—Britons’ worries about inflation grewthis month, though their view of their future finances was theleast pessimistic in 2-1/2 years, a survey showed on Monday.

The Markit Household Finance Index (HFI) dipped to38.4 in September from August’s 20-month high of 38.9,indicating that consumers’ finances worsened over the monthas the index was well below the 50 mark that would mark nochange.

The latest reading was still one of the highest in the pasttwo years, and households reported a reduced squeeze ontheir savings and cash available to spend, survey compilerMarkit said.

“September’s survey suggests that the gradual easing ofpressure on real incomes so far in 2012 continues to supporthousehold finances,” said Markit economist Tim Moore.

Forty percent of those surveyed anticipated a worseningin their finances in the next 12 months, while 29 percentexpected an improvement — making it the least downbeatfinancial outlook since March 2010.

“However, households appear to have become moreconcerned about the inflation outlook, with cost of livingexpectations rising sharply since August,” Moore said.

Around three-quarters of the survey respondents notedthat their costs of living had increased since August and themonth-on-month rise in the index measuring inflationperceptions was the greatest since January 2011.

Reuters

Apple sells over 5 mln iPhone 5, supplyconstraints loom

NEW YORK, 25 Sept—Apple Inc (AAPL O) sold over5 million iPhone 5smartphones in the three dayssince it hit stores, but sharessagged as the companystruggled to meet demand.While sales were solid, thecompany said on Monday ithad run out of its initialsupply and many pre-orderswere scheduled to go out inOctober.

Apple Chief ExecutiveTim Cook said the companyis “working hard to build

Apple’s iPhone 5 is seen on display at the Apple storein Manhasset, New York on 21 Sept, 2012.

REUTERS

Business

is also offering a flat fee inaddition to the upfront fee.

The financing willrefinance an existing facilityof $5 billion, other debt andprovide added liquidity.

Reuters

Business

enough iPhone 5s foreveryone.”

Expectations for newApple products were so high— some analysts forecastApple selling as many as 10million phone over theweekend — that Wall Streetwas not wowed by the latestnumbers. The stock was down1.7 percent at $688.64 inafternoon trade.

Given the demand,Apple, the world’s mostvaluable company, is beingclosely watched for any

supplier problems that mayslow down the smartphoneproduction.

“We believe that salescould have potentially beenmuch higher if not for supplyconstraints,” William Power,an analyst with Baird EquityResearch, wrote in a note.

Supply limitations arelikely to weigh on Apple asthe iPhone 5 is launched inanother 22 countries onFriday.

To complicate matters,Apple’s largest contract

manufacturer FoxconnTechnology closed a factoryin the northern Chinese cityof Taiyuan after a riot brokeout among 2,000 employees.Foxconn did not confirmwhich plants supply Apple,but an employee told Reutersthe Taiyuan plant is amongthose that assemble and makeparts for Apple’s iPhone 5.

Apple referred questionson the factory to Foxconn.The California company alsoassembles its devices atfactories run by PegatronCorp (4938.TW).—Reuters

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Clinton reassures Egypt’s Mursi on US assistanceNEW YORK, 25 Sept—

Secretary of State HillaryClinton reassured Egypt’snew Islamist president onMonday that the UnitedStates would forge aheadwith plans to expandeconomic assistance despiteanti-American protests thatcast new shadows over USengagement with the region.

Clinton met EgyptianPresident Mohamed Mursiin New York, where both areattending this week’s UNGeneral Assembly meeting,and reinforced the Obamaadministration’s continuedcommitment to provide bothmilitary and economic aidfor Cairo, a senior StateDepartment official said.

“What he heard from thesecretary is that she iscommitted to followingthrough on what she has saidwe will do,” the official saidfollowing the 45-minutemeeting.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets withEgyptian President Mohamed Mursi on the sidelines of

the United Nations General Assembly in New Yorkon 24 Sept, 2012. —REUTERS

Report shows most Mexicanprisons controlled by inmates

MEXICO CITY, 25 Sept—Six out of 10 Mexican prisonsare “self-governed” by prisongangs or drug cartels,according to a report issuedon Monday by the country’shuman rights commission.

Commission representa-tive Andres Aguirre said at anews conference thatMexico’s prisons also areplagued by overcrowding, ashortage of guards and corruptemployees who sometimeshelp with breakouts.

Aguirre said 60 percentof the country’s 430 prisonsor jails are controlled bycriminal elements. He addedthat the escape of 521 inmatesover 14 incidents since2010—often with the help ofcorrupt prison officials—constitutes a grave problemfor the country. Earlier thismonth, more than 130 inmates

Americans to spend more on Halloween thisyear: survey

WASHINGTON, 25 Sept —When the black cats, witchesand trick-or-treaters come outfor Halloween this year, arecord 170 million people inthe United States will dressup, celebrate, and spend upto $8 billion, according to aretail industry survey.

Seven in ten Americanswill take part in the festivities,and the average person willspend $79.82 on decorations,costumes and candy - up from$72.31 last year, accordingto the National RetailFederation’s 2012 Halloweenconsumer spending surveyconducted by research groupBIGinsight.

Halloween, observed on31 October, is the eighth-biggest selling season in theUnited States. It is far behindthe winter holidays whichrank as the No1 retail sellingseason.

Last year, retailers rakedin $471.5 billion during thewinter holidays, according toNRF. Halloween sales wereabout $6.9 billion, lower than

A autumn display of pumpkins and gourds adorns theWhite House lawn on Halloween on 31 Oct, 2011.

REUTERS

US officials said earlierthis month they were closeto a deal with Egypt’s newgovernment for $1 billion(616 million pounds) in debtrelief to help Cairo shore upits ailing economy in theaftermath of its pro-democracy uprising, whichousted autocratic PresidentHosni Mubarak.

The aid package hadlanguished during Egypt’s18 months of politicalturmoil and progressappeared to reflect a cautiouseasing of US suspicionsabout Mursi, who waselected in June.

Egypt was among thecountries swept by violentanti-American protests overan anti-Islam video made inCalifornia, and some USlawmakers have raisedquestions about the futureof US assistance to theregion, particularly givensharp budget constraints at

home.The senior official said

Clinton, who has personallylobbied lawmakers to keepUS aid to Egypt and otherArab countries on track,believed these concerns hadbeen laid to rest.

“Of course we

understand that there maybe (of Congress) who havequestioned (the aid), butthere is strong bipartisansupport for Egypt being ademocratic success becauseit’s in our national securityinterest that that occur,” theofficial said.—Reuters

holiday spending associatedwith Mother’s Day ($18.6billion) and the Super Bowl($11 billion).

Among peoplecelebrating Halloween thisyear, more than half willdecorate their home or yard,up from 49.5 percent last year,and 45.0 percent plan to dressin costume, also up from lastyear, according to thesurvey.

The study, which has amargin of error of plus orminus 1.0 percent, polled9,393 consumers from 5 to 11

September. More than one-third plan on throwing orattending a Halloween partyand 33.2 percent will takechildren trick-or-treating.

Despite the expectedincrease in Halloweenspending this year, one-fourth of US consumers saidthe state of the economy willaffect their Halloween plans.To compensate, many saidthey will spend less overall,while others plan to make acostume instead of buyingone, or will buy less candy.

Reuters

KABUL, 25 Sept—Afghan forces and theNATO-led coalition troopshave eliminated fivemilitants in operationslaunched in eastern Afghanprovinces within a 24-hourperiod, the coalition forcessaid in a statement onTuesday.

“Afghan and coalitionforces killed five insurgents,

Six killed in US drone strike in NW Pakistan

Five militants killed in eastern Afghanoperations

detained one, located twoweapons caches and clearedseven improvised explosivedevices (IEDs) duringoperations in easternAfghanistan throughout thepast 24 hours,” coalition’sRegional Command-East(RC-E) said in the statement.

The operations werelaunched in eastern Logar,Laghman, Ghazni, Khost,

Paktia and Nangarharprovinces. The operationsin RC-E are still ongoing,the statement added.

However, the Talebaninsurgent group, whichannounced the launching ofan annual spring offensivefrom 3 May against Afghanand NATO forces, has not tomake comments yet.

Xinhua

escaped from a prison near theUS border in Piedras Negras,Coahuila, one of numerousmass breakouts tied toorganized crime in the pastfew years. Initial reportsindicated the Piedras Negrasinmates escaped through a 23-foot-long undergroundtunnel, but it was later revealedthat they had merely walkedout the facility’s front doorwith the help of prison guards.

“A good number of(Mexico’s) prisons featuresimilar conditions to those atPiedras Negras,” Aguirre said.

Overcrowding of thecountry’s prisons and jails isanother problem facing thenational penal system. As ofJuly, Mexico’s overall prisonpopulation stood at 48,872inmates, or 25 percent abovethe system’s official capacity.

Reuters

Mexico

US

Obama detours from campaign trail to world stage

US President BarackObama waves from the

steps of Air Force One atAndrews Air Force Basenear Washington, on 24

Sept, 2012. Obama istravelling to New York for

the United NationsGeneral Assembly.

REUTERS

Pakistan

NEW YORK, 25 Sept—President Barack Obama willstep onto the world stage onTuesday just long enough toaddress simmering crisescentred on Iran, Syria and thebroader Muslim world, andhe will then jump quicklyback on the campaign trail.

In a speech at the UnitedNations exactly six weeksbefore the US election,Obama will seek to reassureAmerican voters as well asworld leaders that they cancount on him to handle thelatest global challenges,even as Republicanchallenger Mitt Romneyseizes the chance to pan hisforeign policy.

Obama will talk toughwith nuclear-defiant Iran,take Syrian President Basharal-Assad to task for efforts to

crush an 18-month uprisingand reflect on a recenteruption of violent anti-American protests in Muslimcountries, aides say.

But he is not expected tooffer any new solutions toproblems that have cast acloud over this week’s high-level gathering at the UNGeneral Assembly and nowthreaten to chip away at aforeign policy record his aideshoped would be immune toRepublican attack.

With campaign pressuresbuilding in a close race,Obama’s final turn on theworld stage before facingvoters has left little doubtabout his immediatepriorities.

He skipped thecustomary one-on-onemeetings with foreign

counterparts but went aheadwith the taping of a campaign-style appearance on thepopular television talk show“The View” - a tradeoff thatdrew Republican criticism.

Obama planned to be inand out of New York in 24hours, one of the briefestpresidential visits to theannual UN session in recentmemory, and he will be off tothe election battlegroundstate of Ohio on Wednesday.

Despite Obama’s latestinternational woes,administration officials areheartened by Romney’s ownrecent foreign-policystumbles and doubt thepresident’s critics will gaintraction in a campaign thatremains focused mainly onthe US economy.

Reuters

ISLAMABAD, 24 Sept — Atleast six people were killedin a US drone strike onMonday night in Pakistan’snorthwest tribal region ofNorth Waziristan, localmedia reported.

TV channel Ary quotedunidentified governmentsources as saying that a USdrone fired two missiles at ahouse suspected of being a

militant hideout in the MirAli area of North Waziristanat about 9:00 pm local timeMonday. The target house islocated in the Haider Khelvillage some 5 kilometressoutheast of Mir Ali, amilitant stronghold nearPakistan-Afghan border.

Identities of the slainpeople are not known at thismoment.

Monday’s US dronestrike is the 30th of its kind inPakistan in 2012. So far thisyear, at least 219 people havereportedly been killed in suchstrikes.

The latest US dronestrike came when PakistaniPresident Asif Ali Zardari isscheduled to address the UNGeneral Assembly in NewYork on Tuesday.—Xinhua

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US corn and soybean supplies seen ateight-year low

CHICAGO, 25 Sept—UScorn stocks fell to the lowestlevel in eight years at the endof the 2011/12 season (Sept-Aug) even as the early harvestof this year’s crop pumpedmore than 1 billion bushelsof the grain into the supplypipeline, analysts polled byReuters said.

The 17 analysts survey-ed expected the US Depart-ment of Agriculture’s quar-terly stocks report on Fridayto show stocks as of 1September— also the endingstocks for the 2011/12marketing year — at 1.113

billion bushels.The tally would be

down 15 million bushels froma year ago and the lowestsupply of corn on that date ineight years, since 958 millionbushels in 2003/04. In its 12September supply/demandreport, USDA pegged 2011/12 ending stocks at 1.181billion.

The worst drought in halfa century devastated thisyear’s corn and soybeancrops, rallying prices to all-time highs this summer,although prices have eased10 to 12 percent since.

But the early harvest ofthis year’s corn crop has raisedquestions over how much ofthose supplies were used inthe 2011/12 season, whenold-crop supplies wereconsidered to be tight andprices were high. “The quickmaturity and fast harvest Ithink brought over 1.0 billionbushels to market before theend of the crop year and that’sgoing to complicate things,”said Shawn McCambridge,analyst for Jefferies Bache,whose stocks estimate of1.261 billion bushels was thehighest of the 17 analysts’.

Drought-damaged ears of corn in varying degrees ofdevelopment are seen on a farm near Georgetown,

Illinois on 24 July, 2012.—REUTERS

The estimates rangedfrom 887 million to 1.261billion bushels. ExecutiveVice President Roy Hucka-bay of the Linn Group had

the lowest estimate at 887million, and said he was notaccounting for any of the earlyharvested corn harvested.

Reuters

France confirmsdeath of four

nationalclimbers, twostill missingPARIS, 25 Sept—France

confirmed on Monday thedeath of four French climbersafter an avalanche hit the baseof Manaslu Mountain inNepal on Sunday.

“At this stage, theprovisional toll reported fourFrench nationals died. Two(others) were still beingsought,” said HeleneConway-Mouret, minister incharge of French Nationalsabroad. Three other Frenchclimbers were hospitalizedand expected to return homelater in the day, she added.

Search and rescueoperations were suspendedon Monday as “there is nohope to find the missingpeople,” ChristianTrommsdorf, vice presidentof the National Union ofMountain Guides was quotedby Europe 1 radio as saying.

At least nine peopleincluding foreign climberswere killed while seven otherswere still missing when theywere hit by a wall of snow inthe Manaslu Mountain.

About 18 other touristswere injured in the avalanche,most of them from Germanyand France, reports said.

Xinhua

Canada, Britain agree to share space atdiplomatic missions

counterpart William Hague,both sides will explore “furtherco-location and enhancedcollaboration on consularservices and assistance.”

“We are not moving tomerge all of our embassiesand consulates in the world,”said Baird, adding thatCanada and Britain wouldalso not share ambassadorsas part of the agreement.

“Each country willcontinue to have completeindependence on policy,”said Baird. This allowsCanada “to focus on smartdiplomacy without spendinglarge amounts of taxpayers’dollars on bricks and mortar.”

He said the documentallows Canada to pursue “a

Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird (L) speaksduring a news conference with Britain’s Foreign

Secretary William Hague (R) on Parliament Hill inOttawa on 24 Sept, 2012. Canada and Britain agreed toshare space in each other’s embassies around the world,

John Baird announced here on Monday.—XINHUA

OTTAWA, 25 Sept—Canada and Britain agreed toshare space in each other’sembassies around the world,Canadian Foreign AffairsMinister John Baird

announced here Monday.Under the Memorandum

of Under-standing forEnhancing Mutual Supportat Missions Abroad, signedby Baird and his British

small number of administra-tive arrangements where wecan co-locate” with Britain,such as giving Britishdiplomats an office at theCanadian embassy in Haitiwhere Britain has nopresence and allowing aCanadian diplomat to workat the British embassy inMyanmar, where Canadaplans to soon open amission.

Hague explained that thediplomatic partnership is“about speed, flexibility andpracticality,” and is “notabout diplomats working fortwo countries at the sametime.”

However, Monday’sbilateral agreement did not

indicate which embassies,consulates or highcommissions would jointlyfly the Canadian Maple Leafand British Union Jack flags.

Prior to the joint newsconference, Baird told theHouse of Commons duringthe daily question periodthat Britain shares embassyspace with Canada in Mali,and that Canada has similarsharing arrangements withAustralia. “Canada willcontinue to pursue a strong,principled, value-based,independent Canadianforeign policy,” said Bairdin response to a questionfrom Official OppositionLeader Thomas Mulcair.

Xinhua

Man killed, at least 20 homes lost in brush fireeast of San Diego

SAN DIEGO, 25 Sept—California firefighters battledto contain a brush fire onMonday that has damaged ordestroyed at least 30 homes,forced dozens of othersevacuated and claimed onelife east of San Diego near theUS-Mexico border. The bodyof an unidentified man wasfound on Monday in thecharred rubble of a house afterauthorities said they weresearching for an 82-year-oldman who resides in the areaand was reported missing.

The California Depart-ment of Forestry and FireProtection declined toimmediately confirm that themissing man turned up as afatality.

But a neighbour whospoke to Reuters bytelephone, Bob Gookin, saidsheriff’s deputies have beeninside the scorched ruins ofthe missing man’s home, andhe believes they had found abody. “His truck is prettydistinctive and it’s parked outfront,” Gookin said. “It’s the

house down from us, next tothe Boot Hill Ranch.”

The so-called ShockeyFire erupted near the CampoIndian Reservation insoutheastern San DiegoCounty at midday on Sundayand has scorched at least 2,000acres of dry brush, authoritiessaid.

By Monday afternoon,crews had managed to carvecontainment lines around 10percent of the fire’s perimeter,CalFire incident managerRick Vogt said.

The origin of the fire wasunder investigation, butBlanca Mercado, aspokeswoman for theCalifornia Department ofForestry and Fire Protection,said officials are looking intothe possibility that the blazestarted in Mexico.

Property losses fromSunday in the fire zone, about50 miles east of San Diego, areestimated at more than 20houses and 15 other buildingsdestroyed, with about 10 otherdwellings damaged, Mercado

said. The overall area issparsely populated withclusters of homes and ranchesscattered throughout.

Mercado said on Sundayevacuation orders remain ineffect and fire managers wereexpecting hot, dry Santa Anawinds from the desert to gustup to 25 miles per hour later inthe day. Gookin, who breedsClydesdale horses with hiswife on their property, said hereturned to his ranch after aclose call with the flames.

“The fire went right pastus,” he said. “We drove ourgolf cart up and watched itcome up over a ridge to thewest. ... It went down throughthe church camp across theroad and burned up the houseon Boot Hill Ranch and thenon down the road.”

As of Monday, 18 firecrews consisting of nearly 400personnel were assigned tothe blaze, along with sixairplane tankers, six water-dropping helicopters and fivebulldozers, Mercado said.

Reuters

Gaza fuel crisis grows as smuggling from Egyptdeclines

Explosion ignites factory fire in Australia’sQueensland

GAZA, 25 Sept—The fuelsmuggled to the Hamas-ruledGaza Strip through tunnelswith Egypt have declinedwithin the last five days to 70percent, leading the fuel crisisin the coastal enclave todeteriorate, officials saidonMonday.

Mohamed al-Abadela,spokesman of the GasStations Association in theGaza Strip, told Xinhua thatthe amount of fuel used forcars and electric generatorsdropped from 600,000 litersto 200, 000 liters per day.

“The percentage of fuelthat enters the Gaza Stripthrough the tunnels is only30 percent of the Gaza Strip’sneeds,” said al- Abadela,

adding that “this is due tostrict Egyptian securitymeasures and closing downdozens of tunnels.”

The Egyptian securityforces carried out intensivesecurity measures and shutdown hundreds of smugglingtunnels that were dugunderneath the borderlinebetween Gaza and Egyptfollowing an armed attack on5 Aug that killed 16 Egyptiansoldiers in Sinai.

Al-Abadela said hisassociation started to delivershares of fuel to all gas stationsin the Gaza Strip followingthe same programme ofdelivery adopted in theprevious crises.

He added that members

of the association and fueldealers are holding dailycontacts with the Egyptianside, asking them to allowthe sufficient amounts of fuelto avoid the crisis.

He also called on boththe Palestinian NationalAuthority (PNA) in the WestBank and Hamas authoritiesin the Gaza Strip to resolvethe crisis. Meanwhile, AhmedAbu al-Amreen, spokesmanof the Palestinian EnergyCorporation, which belongsto Hamas in the Gaza Strip,revealed that the Gaza Stripon Monday bought 600,000liters of industrial diesel fromIsrael for the first time in twomonths to operate Gaza’sonly power station.—Xinhua

BRISBANE, 25 Sept—Firefighters are currently working to bring a large blaze undercontrol at an asphalt plant in Narangba, north of Brisbane, Australia’s Queensland Fire andRescue Service (QFRS) said on Tuesday. An explosion at the plant sparked the fire at around12:20 pm on Tuesday (local time).

The blaze has completely engulfed bitumen tanker, the QFRS said. Paramedics are onstandby at the scene but all people at the plant have been accounted for.—Xinhua

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Wednesday, 26 September, 2012

Since the elected government has takenoffice in March 2011, the Republic of the Unionof Myanmar has been in the reform process.The first year saw the political reform, and theby-election was held on 1 April 2012 for politicalall-inclusiveness. Accordingly, politicalstakeholders are now in the parliaments at alllevels, and the country is gaining more andmore political unity and stability.

All hands are in harmony and union amendingthe existing laws and enacting new laws as andwhen necessary for national development.Moreover, we all witness the governmentsigning peace agreements with ethnic armedgroups.

The President has been seeking advicefrom independent bodies such as the PoliticalAdvisory Council and the Economic AdvisoryCouncil formed with experts within the country,and finding best solutions through talks andnegotiations. We have also adopted the people-centred economic development in the secondyear.

Currently, Myanmar is in the process ofdevising and delivering political and economicreforms. So, the country has now becomefavorable to international order. As the countrycan improve relations with many world countriesincluding the US, economic sanctions againstMyanmar were eased to a certain degree, andthe country is receiving international investmentand aids offers.

The important thing here is we should alsoform a pilot agency like the Ministry of InternalTrade and Industry-MITI of Japan or theEconomic Planning Board-EPB of South Koreathat steered the development drive of thosecountries.

We also need systematic foreign aidmanagement mechanism in channelinginternational assistance proportionately toregions that really need help and sectors ensurelong-term benefits for the public.

All in all, Myanmar will become a developed,glorious and prosperous country in the world ifwe all work hard in establishing thecharacteristics and the driving forces that givebirth to a democratic state.

Driving forces behind ademocratic state

NATIONAL

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—The Fourth Regular Sessionof the First Kachin StateHluttaw continued for thefifth day at the State HluttawHall yesterday afternoon,attended by Chief Ministerof Kachin State U La JohnNgan Hsai, Kachin StateHluttaw Speaker U RawamJone and 47 Hluttawrepresentatives.

At the session, ninequestions were answered,the budget of Kachin State

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—The Fourth Regular sessionof the first Rakhine StateHluttaw was held for the firstday at Hluttaw Hall ofRakhine State Govern-ment’s Office at 10 amyesterday.

It was attended byRakhine State ChiefMinister U Hla Maung Tin,Speaker of State Hluttaw UHtein Lin and the DeputySpeaker, the Chief Justiceof the State High Court, theState Auditor-General, the

First day session Rakhine StateHluttaw commences

Kachin State Hluttaw continues itsfifth day session

That’s how Isurvive

Thadingyut’sunruly Fireworks! Ditto!

Kyaw Phyo Lwin

Bang! Bang!

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—Ministry of EnvironmentalConservation and Forestryis taking constant legalactions against illegal logextractors with the help ofthe public.

Four trucks loaded withillegal timber were seizedby an 11-member team ofMandalay Region ForestDepartment in a surprisecheck in ChanmyathaziTownship in MandalayDistrict on 19 September.

Illegal logs seized, owners to beprosecuted

(from page 1)On 24 September, they visited the 600-meter-high

Guangzhou Tower and Chan ethnic tribe village museum.In the afternoon, Chairman of the Standing Committee

of Guangdong Province People’s Congress Mr OuGuangyuan called on Speaker U Khin Aung Myint.

During the meeting, they cordially discussed matterson establishing relations between Guangdong and

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw Speakervisits Shenzeng, Shaoguan, Guangzhou

parliaments of Myanmar and cooperation in culturalexchange, mining and tourism sectors and economic andtrade issues.

Afterwards, the Myanmar delegation attended a dinnerhosted by Mr Ou Guangyuan.

Afterwards, they went to Baiyun International Airportin Guangzhou and left for Myanmar.

MNA

Tobacco Kills

Legal actions will betaken against the ownersof the logs who arebeing chased by theauthorities.

A similar team raided anillegal sawmill in OktwinTownship of Bago Regionthe next day and seizedillegal woods but the ownermanaged to escape from thescene. Authorities are in thechase of the owner toprosecute.

MNA

for the 2013-2014 fiscal year,approval for expenditure ofMyanmar CorrectionalDepartment of Kachin Stateexceeding the estimatedaccounts in 2011-2012,scrutiny report of Hluttawlegislative committeesubmitted to the Hluttaw, abill and two proposalsdiscussed and two newproposals submitted.

The Hluttaw came to anend at 5.05 pm.

MNA

PyidaungsuHluttaw and

AmyothaHluttawSpeakerU Khin

Aung Myintmeeting

withChairman

of theStanding

Committeeof

GuangdongProvincePeople’sCongress

Mr OuGuangyuanand party at

TonfengHotel.

MNA

U Than Aung and family residing in Mingalastreet, Sawbwagyigon, Insein Township

donated K 500,000 to Hninzigon Home forthe Aged through Vice-Chairman

U Aung Than recently.NLM

State Ministers and therepresentatives of StateHluttaw.

At first, Rakhine StateChief Minister U HlaMaung Tin delivered anaddress. At the session, sixquestions were answered,the plan to demand thesupplementary budget for2012-2013 fiscal yearsubmitted and one proposalsubmitted.

The session endedat 4 pm.

MNA

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NATIONALNews in Brief

YESB concludes on-jobtechnician course

On-job basic technician training course 2/2012 ofYangon City Electricity Supply Board (Head Office)concluded at its training school in Ahlon Township on 24September afternoon. Altogether 59 trainees attended thetwo-week course.

Cultural symposium 1-3 OctoberMinistry of Culture and Foundation for International

Human Resource Development (FIHRD) of Thailand willjointly organize the Symposium on Cultural Conservationin Myanmar Cultural Heritage Site and Culture as theTourism Related at Asia Plaza in Yangon from 1 to 3October. A total of 50 participants from ministries andorganizations are invited to attend the symposium.

Bags of rice distributed to PutaoThe Chief Minister of Kachin State inspected loading

of bags of rice onboard F-28 of Myanma Airways to be sentto local people and departmental personnel of Putao on 22September. The Kachin State Minister for Social Affairsand the State Attorney-General inspected distribution ofrice to local people in Airport Ward in Putao.

Fingerlings released into AyeyawadyRiver

Kachin State Fisheries Department and Jade LandMyanmar Co Ltd jointly organized the releasing offingerlings into Ayeyawady River at the jetty at thecorner of Strand Road and Yongyi Road in Myitkyina.The state authorities and departmental officials released200,000 fingerlings into the river.

Farmland law, land managementlaw multiplier course opened

The multiplier course for farmland law and vacant,fallow and virgin land management law was held atZabuthiri Township General Administration Departmenton 24 September morning. The course was provided tillon 25 September.

Mon State MCWSC opens ten houseleader course

Mon State Maternal and Child Welfare SupervisoryCommittee organized the 10-house leader course at thehall of Mawlamyine Township MCWA on 24 September.Altogether 30 trainees from Mawlamyine and Thatondistricts attended the two-day course.

YANGON, 25 Sept—”Public broadcasting performs acrucial role in ensuring the public’s right to receive a widediversity of independent and non-partisan information andideas. It also serves as a meeting place where all citizens arewelcomed and considered equals and where social issuesare discussed. It has probably been the greatest of theinstruments of social democracy to be accessible to all andmeant for all,” said Union Minister for Information U AungKyi at the Conference on Public Service Media at Inya LakeHotel, here, at 9 am yesterday.

The Union Minister went on to say that it also helps tocreate a greater sense of national identity, foster democraticand other important social values, provide qualityeducational and informational programming, and serve theneeds of minority and other specialized interest groups.

Recent abolishment in media censorship and relaxationon internet rules ensure that the government’s policies arein line with democracy practices. These processes areaimed to promote the accountability and transparency ofthe government which will eventually increase the publictrust towards the government. The President of the Republicof the Union of Myanmar has laid down “People-centeredstrategy” for the democratic reforms in every arena. And as

Public service broadcasting expected to emerge soonmedia reform is more favourable and effective when it is partand parcel of a broader democratic governance reform, hehoped that public service broadcasting will become a partof democracy promotion asset in Myanmar soon.

Chairman Harlad Bockman of Democratic Voice ofBurma presided over the first session of the conference andresource persons read the paper under the title PublicService Journalism. In the second session of the conferencechaired by Director Gayathry Venkiteswaran of SEAPA, theresource persons read the paper under the title PublicService Broadcasting in Theory and Practice. U Soe Thein(Maung Wun Tha-Writer/Journalist) presided over the thirdsession and resource persons read the paper under the titlePSB in Myanmar. They replied to questions and discussionsof the attendees.

Also present on the occasion were Deputy Minister forInformation U Ye Htut, Pyithu Hluttaw and AmyothaHluttaw representatives, representatives from politicalparties, responsible persons from DVB, Swedish RadioMedia Development Office, International Media Support(IMS), Myanmar journalist associations and Ministry ofInformation.

The conference concluded today.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—Union Minister forEducation Dr Mya Aye metwith BEHS headmasters whogot doctoral degree atauditorium of the ministryhere this noon. At themeeting, the Union ministerurged them to emphasize forpromotion on basiceducation quality, tomaintain dignity of teachersand to turn out newgeneration for the State.

Deputy Minister forEducation U Aye Kyuexplained expansion offormation in basic educationsector, Director-General UBo Win of Education,Planning and TrainingDepartment and officials the

Union Education Minister meets BEHS headmasterswho got doctoral degree

needs for expansioneducation tasks.

The meeting was alsoattended by Deputy

Ministers for Education UBa Shwe and Dr Myo Myint,directors-general, deputydirectors-general, officials

from departments and BEHSheadmasters who gotdoctoral degree.

MNA

MMA to conduct hospitalmanagement course

Under the CME programme, Hospital ManagementSociety of Myanmar Medical Association will conductthe four-day hospital management course as of 20 Octoberand another batch of course as of 3 November. Thecourses will be provided from 12 noon to 4 m daily. Thecourse will be opened at Public Health University inLanmadaw Township.

Kayah State honoursoutstanding farmers

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—Kayah State Chief MinisterU Khin Maung Oo praised farmers for their hard work toyield 200 baskets of Palethwe hybrid paddy per acre,adhering 14 Good Agricultural Practices adopted byMinistry of Agriculture and Irrigation at the ceremony heldat Loikaw Irrigation Department yesterday.

He said enthusiasm and resourcefulnesscontributed to the success, calling for extension of the highyield paddy fields.

The chief minister and State Agriculture andLivestock Breeding Minister U Po Rel Yan Aung awardedoutstanding farmers. The average yield of Palethwe paddyfields in the state is 171.11 acres.

MNA

Maize dryer and millingfactory opened in Kyaukme

KYAUKME, 25 Sept—Hteiktan Maize SeedTrading Co Ltd launchedthe 100-ton maize dryer andmilling factory in MwedawVillage of KyaukmeTownship, Shan State(North), at 10 am on 23September.

Thanks to the factory,the local maize growers canearn income early. Today,maize seeds may be sold at K350 per viss.

Shan national race

farmers from Naungpein,Pintein, Sakhantha, Lonwe,Kywegon, Khonohn andKhomone villages sold12,000 baskets of maizeseeds by light truck to thefactory recently.

It was reported that thecompany will distributehigh yield TP hybrid maizeto the local farmers.

Kyemon

Union Minister for Education Dr Mya Aye meets doctoral degree holderheadmasters of Basic Education High Schools.—MNA

District News

Development of technologydiscussed

YAMETHIN, 25 Sept—The second workshop ofTechnological University for development of technologyin Yamethin District was held at the hall of District GeneralAdministration Department at 1 pm on 22 September.

Deputy Commissioner U Kyaw Kyaw Tun of DistrictGeneral Administration Department made a speech.Principal Dr Aung Ko of Technological University and fourdeans explained the purpose of giving training. It wasattended by Pyithu Hluttaw and Region Hluttaw

representatives of Yamethin and Pyawbwe Townships,departmental personnel, industrialists and local people.

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One dead, several injured inItaly’s train accident

ROME, 25 Sept—One person was killed and at least fourothers were injured as a train ran over a truck in southern Italyon Monday.

According to local reports, a “Eurostar” high-speed traintravelling from Italy’s capital Rome to Lecce in the southcrashed against a truck at a level crossing and derailed.

The train driver reportedly died from the impact, whilefour passengers were injured. First investigations said thetruck had crossed the level crossing while it was pulling down,and remained stuck on tracks while the train was arriving.Train traffic on the railway line was briefly interrupted.

Xinhua

Family of Arizona grandfather shot dead bypolice files suit

PHOENIX, 25 Sept—Thefamily of an Arizona man whowas shot dead while holdinghis 7-month-old grandson bya police officer responsiblefor five other fatal shootingson Monday filed a wrongfuldeath lawsuit against aPhoenix valley city.

The suit alleging policemisconduct was filed againstthe City of Scottsdale onbehalf of the survivingdaughter and father of JohnLoxas, 50, who was killed witha single rifle shot to the headin February by city officerJames Peters.

Police said they werecalled to Loxas’ home afterneighbours said hethreatened them with a gun.Officers confronted Loxaswith the baby cradled in hisarms at his front door andPeters fired without warningas Loxas stooped to possibly

Breathing European airshortens lives

BRUSSELS, 25 Sept— Airpollution is shortening lives byalmost two years in parts of theEuropean Union, the EuropeanEnvironmental Agency (EEA)said, strengthening the casefor a tightening of emissionsrestrictions in the bloc.

Legislation had managedto cut the amount of some toxinsbelched out by exhaust fumesand chimneys across Europe,an EEA report published onMonday said.

But there were stilldangerous levels ofmicroscopic particles, knownas particulate matter and linkedto diseases such as lung cancerand cardiovascular problems,it added.

On average, air pollutionwas reducing human livesacross the region by roughlyeight months, the report said. Italso quoted separate EuropeanCommission-funded researchshowing that a reduction inparticulates levels could extendlife expectancy by 22 months insome areas.

The report did not spellout where those areas were,but it said that Poland and other

A view of ILVA steel plants in Taranto, Italyon 4 Aug, 2012.—REUTERS

industrial regions of easternEurope had particularly highlevels or particulate pollution.

Alone among Britishcities, London also exceededdaily EU limits for particulatematter. Speaking after thelaunch of the report, EUEnvironment CommissionerJanez Potocnik said that areview of EU air quality lawsnext year needed to bring EUlimits on pollution levels closerto the stricter World HealthOrganization (WHO)recommendations on safelevels of pollutants.

“This (the report) is a reallyserious warning about theimportance to our quality of lifeand health,” Potocnik toldReuters.

Apart from the impact onhealth, EEA Executive DirectorJacqueline McGlade said thatthe pollution cost the bloc 1trillion euros a year in healthcareand dealing with the widerimpact on ecosystems.

“European Union policyhas reduced emissions of manypollutants over the last decade,but we can go further,” shesaid.—Reuters

Vietnam jails three bloggers in crackdown ondissent

Six killed in building collapse inwestern India

NEW DELHI, 25 Sept— At least six people were killed and16 others still trapped under debris in a building collapse in thewestern Indian city of Pune in the state of Maharashtra onMonday, a senior police official said.

“The mishap happened at 2:00 pm (local time) when theSomnath building in the Dhankavli area of the city caved in.Police and fire brigade teams have been trying to rescue thosestill trapped in the collapse,” he said, on condition ofanonymity. While two people died on the spot, four otherssuccumbed to their injuries on way to hospital, he said, addingthat the death toll may go up. A probe has been ordered intothe incident, the official added.—Xinhua

HANOI, 25 Sept—AVietnamese court sentencedthree high-profile bloggersto jail terms ranging from fourto 12 years on Monday, in thelatest crackdown on dissentas booming Internet usagethreatens to undermine theCommunist government’sauthority.

Bloggers in Vietnam,which has one of the world’sfastest growing Internetpopulations, have grownbolder in criticising thegovernment over issuesranging from land rights tocorruption, and China’sgrowing regional influence.

That comes as Vietnam’seconomy, not long ago a starof Southeast Asia, faces aslowdown in the wake of debtscandals at its huge stateenterprises that haveundermined investorconfidence and exposed

divisions in the Communistleadership.

The government hasresponded to the growingdissent with a crackdown thathas earned it the title of“Enemy of the Internet” frommedia freedom groupReporters Without Borders,which says only China andIran jail more journalists.

Nguyen Van Hai, whocriticised governmentpolicies under his bloggingname Dieu Cay, was jailed for12 years for “anti-statepropaganda”, according to alawyer for the bloggers whoattended the brief trial insouthern Ho Chi Minh Cityon Monday.

Fellow bloggers TaPhong Tan and Phan ThanhHai got 10 years and fouryears respectively, said thelawyer, Ha Huy Son. All threewere founding members of

the Free Journalists Club, awebsite set up for bloggers topost their writing.

“These harsh sentencesagainst bloggers areabsolutely outrageous, andshow the depth of the Vietnamgovernment’s intolerance ofviews that oppose its own,”said Phil Robertson, Asiadeputy director for HumanRights Watch.

“Today’s sentencesshow how deep-seated theVietnam governmentcrackdown on basic humanrights really is.”

US Secretary of StateHillary Clinton said she raisedconcerns over human rightsand the three bloggers duringa visit to Vietnam in July, butWashington and Europe havestopped short of sanctioningthe country over itsworsening rights record.

Reuters

Giant panda cub that died at US zoo had abnormal liver

Children pose for aphoto with a panda

statue at the NationalZoo in Washington on

24 Sept, 2012. OnSunday, the week-old

panda cub born to MeiXiang died at the zoo.The death of the baby

panda could be linked toan abnormal liver, the

zoo’s chief veterinariansaid on Monday.

REUTERS

WASHINGTON, 25 Sept—The death of a six-day-oldgiant panda cub at theNational Zoo in Washington—an agonizing blow towildlife conservation efforts—could be linked to anabnormal liver, the zoo’s chiefveterinarian said on Monday.

A day after the zoo’s stafffailed to revive the cub withlifesaving measures, includingCPR, the initial results of anexamination showed thepanda was likely a femalewhose body displayed noobvious signs of trauma orinfection.

“Her coat was beautiful.

It was in very good condition,”veterinarian Suzan Murraysaid at a press conference.

The cub was born on 16September but had not yetbeen given a name, in linewith a Chinese tradition thatpandas are not named for 100days. The arrival was cause forcelebration among zooofficials and wildlifeconservationists given thedaunting odds for theendangered speciesreproducing in captivity.

Fewer than 1,600 giantpandas are known to exist inthe wild, and about 300 live inzoos and wildlife centres

around the world. Breeding isa critical challenge. One in fivecubs born in captivity die intheir first year of life, theNational Zoo said on itswebsite. Preliminary results ofan examination of the cub showthe tiny animal had adiscolored liver, which washardened in some areas,Murray said. “This can suggestthere was a liver component tothe death,” Murray said.

Another unusual finding,according to Murray, was fluidin the cub’s abdomen, normalfor adult pandas but odd for ajuvenile. Pathologists wereanalyzing the fluids, Murray

said. “The amount appearsmoderate to increased for sucha small cub,” she said, addingthat further testing wasnecessary to confirm a causeof death. The body of the cubweighed about 3.5 ounces(100 grams).

Zoo officials said theywere concerned about thereaction of the cub’s mother,Mei Xiang, who had givenbirth after years of failed effortsat conception, including five“pseudo pregnancies” inwhich her hormone levels andbehavior indicated she wascarrying a cub when she wasnot.—Reuters

go back inside the house.“My father was literally

ripped from my son’s arms bya bullet from a man who usedhis badge of authority as anexcuse for his poor judgmentand target practice,”Alexandria Loxas, his 23-year-old daughter, told a reportersat a news conference.

The lawsuit, which seeksunspecified damages, alsoalleges that the departmentfailed to properly review theshooting by Peters, who hasshot seven people in the lineof duty since November 2002,six of them fatally.

Peters was cleared of anywrongdoing in the previousshootings and received adepartment Medal of Valor inone of the incidents involvinga hostage situation.

A Scottsdale policespokesman said Peters hasretired from the police

department and that the 14February shooting incidentin still under investigation.

Officer Dave Pubins saidthe department has beenadvised that no criminalcharges will be filed inconnection with the incident.He declined to commentdirectly on the suit.

“We urge thecommunity to allow this verycomplex process to takeplace,” Pubins said. “Whenthe entire process is complete,the results will be madepublic.”

The lawsuit, filed in USDistrict Court in Phoenix bythe American Civil LibertiesUnion of Arizona and theChicago-based firm of Loevy& Loevy, claims that Petershas a “long history ofexcessive use of force againstcivilians.”

Reuters

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China announces formal handover of first aircraftcarrier

China’s first aircraft carrier, which was renovatedfrom an old aircraft carrier that China bought fromUkraine in 1998, is seen docked at Dalian Port, in

Dalian, Liaoning province in this on 22 Sept, 2012 filephoto. China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning,

officially entered naval ranks on 25 Sept , 2012 thecountry’s Ministry of Defence announced, in a move that

it said would help project maritime power and defendChinese territory.— REUTERS

BEIJING, 25 Sept—China’s first aircraft carrierofficially entered service onTuesday and the DefenceMinistry said it would helpproject maritime power anddefend Chinese territory.

The handover of thevessel comes as China andJapan are embroiled in adispute over islands theyboth claim and China isconcerned over renewed USmilitary interest in Asia.

The carrier, called theLiaoning, was originallypurchased from Ukraine andhas undergone extensiverenovation in the Chineseport of Dalian.

“The entry into the ranksof this aircraft carrier will raisethe level of modernization ofChina’s overall navaloperational forces,” theministry said on its website(www.mod.gov.cn).

The Liaoning will help“effectively protect nationalsovereignty, security and

development interests”, itsaid. However, militaryexperts expect the carrier,named after the northeastprovince of which Dalian iscapital, to have a limitedoperational role and to beused mainly for training. It is,

nonetheless, a point of pridefor a major navy that hasnever had a carrier in its fleet.

“When all the majorpowers, and even some smalland medium-sized countries,own aircraft carriers, it isnatural that China should

have its own aircraft carrier,”Rear Admiral Yang Yi wrotein a commentary in the ChinaDaily on Tuesday.

“China has vast sea areasand huge maritime rights andinterests that it needs toprotect, and China’s growingoverseas interests require astrong navy to providesecurity guarantees,” saidYang, a former director of theInstitute for Strategic Studiesat the People’s LiberationArmy National DefenceUniversity.

The Liaoning willmainly engage in scientificresearch and training, Yangsaid, while adding it wouldalso help China assert itsmilitary power.

“China is tough-minded and will absolutelysafeguard its sovereigntyand national dignity,” Yangsaid. “We stand for peace,but we are not afraid of anythreats or intimidation.”

Reuters

Villagers cross a flooded road at Lachi Bishnupurvillage in the northeastern Indian state of Assam

on 22 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

GUWAHATI, 25 Sept —Floods and landslidescaused by relentless rain innortheast India have killedat least 33 people anddisplaced more than a millionover the past week, officialssaid on Monday.

At least 21 people werekilled in landslides andanother eight were missing inthe mountainous state ofSikkim, said state governmentspokesman AS Tobgay. InAssam, still recovering fromdeadly floods that hit the tea-growing state in July, eightpeople were killed and 20 weremissing, police said.

Floods displaced nearlyone million in that state alone,and many were nowsheltering in camps or besideroads, which tend to be builtabove the land they passthrough, a senior official inAssam’s disaster manage-ment authority said.

PHNOM PENH, 25 Sept —Lightning strikes had killed91 Cambodian people in thefirst eight months of this year,down 37 percent comparedwith 146 deaths at the sameperiod last year, a seniordisaster official said onTuesday.

Keo Vy, chief of theCabinet of the NationalCommittee for DisasterManagement, said that 19 out

Lightning kills 91 Cambodians in eight months,down 37 pct

Rescuers pave a way for resue work next to a coal minepit of Qusheng Coal Mining Co in Baiyin, northwestChina’s Gansu Province, on 25 Sept, 2012.—XINHUA

13 dead, 7 trapped in coalmine accident in NW China

LANZHOU, 25 Sept — Thirteen miners were confirmed deadand seven remained trapped after a locomotive that transportedthem to ground slipped down a pit in northwest China’s GansuProvince early on Tuesday morning, the provincialadministration of work safety said. The locomotive with 34workers aboard its two carriages slipped down and overturned150 metres further at 0:25 am when a steel wire powering thevehicle up a 28-degree 704-metre-long slope broke 80 metresaway from the entrance of a colliery pit in the city of Baiyin,the agency said in a new update.

A total of 27 workers at the Qusheng Coal Mining Co havebeen taken out of the pit, but 13 of them were dead, it said. Therescue operation is still underway. The coal mine, which beganoperation in 2003, has a designed annual production capacityof 90,000 tonnes. —Xinhua

Floods, landslides displace 1million in India; 33 dead

of the dead persons werefemale and most of them livedin rural areas.

In addition, the lightingstrikes had injured 69 othersand killed 32 heads of cattle,he said.

The decrease in death tollthis year is thanks to thegovernment’s efforts ineducating people about howto keep themselves safe fromlightning strikes, he said.

“Also, rural peoplethemselves are very carefuland stay in their houses whenthere are heavy rains andlightning,” he said.

Lightning happensevery year in Cambodia,especially in rainy season,which begins from Maythrough October.

In 2011, lightning strikeskilled 165 people and injured139 others.—Xinhua

Four people were buriedand killed in mudslides in thestate of Arunachal Pradesh,police said.

The military and federaldisaster response teamshave launched operations tomove people to higherground by helicopter or inrubber boats. Nearly 100shelters have been openedto accommodate thedisplaced.

In July, at least 110people were killed and morethan 400,000 people were lefthomeless in Assam duringfloods which Prime MinisterManmohan Singh said wereamong the worst in recenttimes.

Over the past 60 years,successive governmentshave built levees along mostof the Brahmaputra, which isAssam’s main river and isfed by Himalayan snow meltand some of the world’s

heaviest rainfall.But experts say the

embankments are not onlypoorly maintained but are adiscredited form of floodmanagement.

Floods have inundatedthree national parks in

Assam including KazirangaNational Park, where two-thirds of the world’s GreatOne-horned Rhinoceroseslive. Some animals have beenforced out of the park tonearby hills.

Reuters

WELLINGTON, 25 Sept —More than 1.2 millionpeople have signed up totake part in New Zealand’sfirst earthquake “shakeout”to test disaster readiness.

New Zealand has atotal population of around4.4 million.

Almost 2000 schoolsand nearly as manybusinesses will join thegovernment-organizednationwide event whichwarns people what to do ifa quake strikes.

The first shake-out isat 9:26 am local time onWednesday.

The message is todrop to your knees, coveryour head and neck andget under a sturdy tableand hold on to the shelterduring an earthquake.

Signs publicizing the

Ten hurt in train derailment in Japan due tomudslide

TOKYO, 25 Sept — Tenpeople were hurt after acommuter train from Tokyoran into a pile of mud thatcovered the tracks after heavyrain in Kanagawa midnighton Monday, local media saidon Tuesday.

The three front cars of theeight-carriage train werederailed on the Keikyu mainline. The police said ninepassengers sustained minor

to serious injuries, Kyodoreported. The 24-year-olddriver of the train witharound 700 passengers onboard also sustained minorinjuries, the report said.

According to theJapan MeteorologicalAgency, around 100millimetres of rain wasrecorded in one hour to11:00 pm on Monday inthe Yokosuka area,

Kanagawa Prefecture, which ispart of the Tokyo Greater Area.A local weather observatory hadissued heavy rain, flood andlandslide warnings.

Keikyu Corp suspendedoperations on part of its lines onTuesday. The Land,Infrastructure, Transport andTourism Ministry has sentinvestigators to the site, wherethe police are also inspecting fordetails of the accident.—Xinhua

New Zealand prepares forbig quake test nationwide

event have been up onmotorways throughout thecountry.

Vince Cholewa, publicinformation manager at theMinistry of Civil Defence andEmergency Management,urged everyone in NewZealand to take part in theexercise.

“This is the firstnationwide shake-out event wehave organized and theresponse has been over-whelming. People need to knowwhat to do if an earthquake hitsand this gets you thinkingabout the aftermath as well,”he said in a media statement onTuesday.

“The three steps are verysimple and it’s great that asmany people as possible takepart and know what to do if thishappens,” he added.

Xinhua

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Indonesia’s car demand to rise275 pct by 2025

JAKARTA, 25 Sept—Domestic demand forautomobiles in Indonesia isgoing to increasedramatically by 275 percentby 2025, driven by rising percapita incomes, robusteconomic growth andurbanization, a consultinggroup was quoted as sayingon Tuesday.

The ratio of local carowners would jumpsignificantly from 80 to 300units per 1,000 people by2025, an increase of 275percent, boosted particularlyby increased consumerpurchasing power, saidMasaki Honda, the principalconsultant for automotiveand transportation at Frost& Sullivan Asia Pacific.

“Indonesia’s grossdomestic product (GDP),which was 700 billion USdollar in 2010, is expected toreach 4.6 trillion US dollar by2025, making it the world’s10th largest economy. By thattime, the GDP per capita willbe 17,000 US dollar, up fromaround 3,000 US dollar atpresent,” Honda was quotedby the Jakarta Post as sayinghere.

Fang Li (R), Consul General of the People’s Republicof China in Toronto, and Stephen Woodworth, memberof the Parliament of Canada, watch photos during the“Xinhua Gallery” photo exhibition at the museum inKitchener, Ontario, Canada, on 23 Sept, 2012. The

photo exhibition displaying over 20 pictures featuringChinese folk custom art offers Canadian an

opportunity to experience the diversity of Chineseculture. —XINHUA

The consultant said thatbasic cars would be moreaffordable by 2025, pushingoriginal equipmentmanufacturers to expandproduction capacity to meethigher demand.

According to Honda,another trend that wouldinfluence car demand by2025 was urbanization, whichwill create more megacities,or cities with populations ofaround 8 million; mega-regions, with populations ofaround 15 million; and mega-corridors, with more than 25million inhabitants.

Xinhua

An aircraft is operated by remote control during ademonstration in Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu

Province, on 23 Sept, 2012. China’s State OceanicAdministration verified and accepted a pilot

programme of using pilotless aircraft for marinesurveillance in Lianyungang on Sunday. The programwill be carried out in the hope of upgrading the state’s

ability on marine surveillance.—XINHUA

Mexican president-elect promotes trade tieswith Peru

LIMA, 25 Sept— Visiting Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday toldPeruvian business leaders here his government plans to promote trade and investment tieswith Peru. Addressing a group of 180 members of Peru’s National Confederation of PrivateBusiness, Pena Nieto noted trade and investment ties between the two countries are healthy,but could be expanded.

In recent years, Peru has become Mexico’s second largest investment destination in LatinAmerica, with trade flow between the two growing by more than 500 percent, according to PenaNieto. “If these favorable conditions continue in Peru, larger investments can be attained andtrade exchange will grow,” said Pena Nieto, adding Mexican private investment in Peru hasreached 14 billion US dollars in the past few years.

Peru’s business community is interested in improving conditions for bilateral trade andinvestment, and concerned about the effects of organized crime and drug trafficking in bothcountries.—Xinhua

China Library opens at Tanzania’s National Central LibraryDAR ES SALAAM, 25 Sept— Chinese government donated

computers and publications concerning China at the openingceremony of China Library at Tanzania’s National CentralLibrary on Monday, in an effort to deepen Tanzanian people’sunderstanding of the Asian giant.

Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania Lu Youqing said at theceremony that culture exchanges continue to increase withthe expansion of bilateral cooperation in recent years, andChinese government has always supported the developmentof culture and education in Tanzania and offered help withinits capacity.

“Books are the carriers of knowledge and steppingstones to human progress. Moreover, books are envoys ofculture exchange and links of friendship,” Lu said, adding thathe hopes the China Library could become a new window forTanzanian people to learn about China and a new bridge ofdeepening traditional friendship between China and Tanzania.

Chinese government donated 20 computers, 1000 paper

publications and videos and 100,000 digital publications toChina Library, which was co-established by China’s StateCouncil Information Office and Tanzania’s National CentralLibrary. Covering Chinese politics, economy, culture, history,art, science, etc, the donated publications offer a integratedimage of China to Tanzanian people.

The extensive cooperation between Tanzania and Chinain social, economic, political and cultural areas has benefitedthe two countries’ people, and China’s generous donation isthe best example of the good relationship, said CelestineGesimba, Permanent Secretary of Tanzania’s Ministry ofEducation and Vocational Training.

China Library would open to the public as soon aspossible, he added.

The opening ceremony and books donation were part ofa series of cultural exchange events called “Experience Chinaat Tanzania”, which has been going on in Tanzania since lastmonth.—Xinhua

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ENTERTAINMENTObama offers himself up as “eye candy”

on “The View”NEW YORK, 25 Sept— President Barack Obama on

Monday sought to woo women voters at a taping ofthe daytime talk show “The View,” by flirting with hiswife and bearing gifts for the hosts, but he could notescape tough questions on the economy that havedominated the election.

When host and veteran journalist Barbara Walterskidded Michelle Obama about bringing the presidentas her “date,” Obama quipped, “I’ve been told I’m justeye candy here.”

The appearance, which will air on Tuesday on theABC television network, marks the first time theObamas have appeared together on the one-hourshow, which features four female hosts, includingHollywood icon Whoopi Goldberg, and is popularwith middle-income women voters.

The taping in New York was squeezed in beforeObama’s obligations at the United Nations GeneralAssembly’s annual meeting, where he is delivering aTuesday morning speech.

During the show, the Obamas joked about theirupcoming anniversary and presented the hosts withWhite House cloth napkins, golf balls, candy andbottles of Obama’s home-brewed beer. The couple’s20th anniversary will fall on the day of the firstpresidential debate, on 3 October.

“Our first wedding anniversary, I totally forgot,”Michelle dead-panned.

The president jokingly responded: “Cold.”Obama and his Republican opponent, Mitt

US President Barack Obama and first ladyMichelle Obama take part in a taping of the ‘’TheView’’ chat show at ABC’s studios in New York on

24 Sept, 2012. The show will air on 25 Sept.REUTERS

Romney, are both fighting hard for the women’s vote.In 2008, middle-class women were key to

Obama’s presidential win, and Obama has worked toget them to the polls again. His campaign this summerrenewed its focus on social issues such as birth control,women’s health and reproductive rights.—Reuters

Schwarzenegger memoir includes“failures” over love child

LOS ANGELES, 25 Sept— ArnoldSchwarzenegger says his estrangedwife has not read his upcomingmemoir in which he discusses thesecret child he fathered with a familyhousekeeper.

But in a TV interview withCBS programme “60 Minutes,” theaction star turned politician said hewas determined to write a book thatincluded what he called his“failures” as well as his successfuland multi-faceted career.

Schwarzenegger’s book“Total Recall: My UnbelievablyTrue Life Story,” is to be publishedon 1October.

Publisher Simon & Schusterhas said the former Californiagovernor began writing it beforethe May 2011 scandal over the sonhe fathered years earlier with hishousekeeper while married to MariaShriver.

The revelations led the coupleto start divorce proceedings endingtheir 25-year marriage, and brought

media ridicule for the “Terminator”star.

In an interview with “60Minutes,” to be broadcast in full on30 September, journalist LesleyStahl asked Schwarzenegger, 65, ifShriver knew he was writing aboutthe affair in his book.

“I think that Maria is, you know,wishing me well with everythingthat I do,” he replied, in an excerptshown on Monday on breakfast show“CBS This Morning.”

While admitting that Shriverhad not read the memoir,Schwarzenegger continued, “Sheknows that it’s about my whole lifeand that I would not write a bookand kind of leave out that part andmake people feel like, ‘Well, wait aminute. Are we just getting a bookabout his success stories and nottalk about his failures?’ And that’snot the book I wanted to write. Iwanted to write about the bookabout me. Here’s my life.”

Reuters

Former CaliforniaGovernor Arnold

Schwarzenegger makesopening remarks during

the University of SouthernCalifornia’s

Schwarzenegger Institutefor State and Global

Policy inauguralSymposium in Los

Angeles, California on 24Sept, 2012.

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Bollywood’s Aishwarya Rai Bachchan named UN HIV/AIDS envoy

Rai, who gave birth to her first child in November, will workwith the UN programme on HIV/AIDS, known as UNAIDS,advocating the “Global plan towards the elimination of new HIVinfections among children and keeping their mothers alive.”

“Spreading awareness on health issues, especially related towomen and children, has always been a priority for me,” Rai saidin a statement. “And now, as a new mother, I can personally relateto this —the joys and concerns of every mother and the hopes thatwe have for our children.”

The plan Rai will be promoting focuses on 22 countries,including India, which account for more than 90 percent of newHIV infections among children. Of those, 21 are in sub-Saharan

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.REUTERS

UNITED NATIONS, 25 Sept—The United Nationsappointed Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchana goodwill ambassador on Monday, with a mission tohelp stop new HIV infections in children and promoteincreased access to anti-retroviral treatment.

Africa, where the estimated number of children newlyinfected by HIV fell by 25 percent between 2009 and2011, UNAIDS said.

Rai, who often features on “most beautiful” listsand is married to actor Abhishek Bachchan, won theMiss World crown in 1994. She went on to build asuccessful Bollywood career with hits such as “HumDil De Chuke Sanam” and “Devdas.”

She has also worked in Hollywood films such as“The Pink Panther 2” and is a regular at the Cannes filmfestival.—Reuters

Actress Bonnie Franklin diagnosedwith pancreatic cancer

LOS ANGELES, 25 Sept—Actress Bonnie Franklin, who starred as theharried single mother of two teenage girls on the 1970s and ’80s televisioncomedy “One Day at a Time,” is being treated for pancreatic cancer, herfamily said in a statement on Monday.

Franklin, 68, a petite redhead, is best known for her role as divorcee AnnRomano on the show, which debuted in December 1975 and ran for nineseasons on CBS. It co-starred Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips asher two head-strong daughters.

The show followed their day-to-day lives as she and the girls made anew start in an Indianapolis apartment, befriended by the buildingsuperintendent, Schneider, who becomes virtually part of their family.

Franklin previously earned a Theatre World Award and a Tonynomination for her work in the 1970 Broadway musical “Applause.” Shewas nominated for an Emmy in 1982 for her performance on “One Day ata Time.” The brief statement from her family, circulated by CBS, said wasbeing treated for pancreatic cancer and was “continuing her normalschedule during this time.” “She and her family remain extremely positiveand thank everyone for their support and concern,” the statement said,concluding with a request that her privacy be respected.

Franklin earlier this year appeared on the daytime drama “The Youngand the Restless” and last year made a guest appearance on the on TV Landcable channel’s sitcom “Hot in Cleveland,” co-starring Bertinelli.—Reuters

Chris Brown tests positive formarijuana while on probation

LOS ANGELES, 25 Sept— R&Bsinger Chris Brown has testedpositive for marijuana, leading aLos Angeles judge on Monday toset a November hearing to decidewhether he violated his probationstemming from a 2009 assault onthen-girlfriend Rihanna.

According to a probation reportpresented in court, Brown testedpositive in June in Virginia, wherehe is fulfilling his communityservice, Los Angeles Superior CourtJudge Patricia Schnegg said. Brown,who is midway through a five-yearprobation sentence, produced amedical marijuana card after thepositive test, Schnegg said.

say impacts a lot of people.”Brown’s lawyer, Mark Geragos,

said his client had “completed all ofhis community service.”

Brown, who won a Grammyaward earlier this year, was sentencedto five years of probation and sixmonths of community service afterpleading guilty to criminal assaultfor beating Rihanna on the eve of theGrammy awards in 2009.—Reuters

Schnegg said mandatory drugtesting was not a condition ofBrown’s probation. But shescheduled a 1 November hearing todecide whether he had violated hisprobation on that and other matters,including travel restrictions andfulfillment of his community service.

Schnegg gave Brown, 23, awarning in court, reminding himthat he was a role model.

“You are not an ordinary personwho can sit in your living room anddo whatever you want to do,”Schnegg told the “Turn Up theMusic” singer. “More importantly,a lot of people look up to you, a lotof kids. What you do and what you

ChrisBrown

performsat the

2012 BETAwards in

LosAngeles

on 1 July,2012.

REUTERS

Actors Bonnie Franklin (L to R), Pat Harrington Jr,Mackenzie Phillips and Glenn Scarpelli arrive for the

10th Annual TV Land Awards at the Lexington AvenueArmory in New York on 14 April , 2012.—REUTERS

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SPORTSHodgson disappointed withTerry retirement decision

Chelsea’s JohnTerry reacts

during a teamtraining session

at StamfordBridge in

London on 18Sept, 2012.

REUTERS

LONDON, 25 Sept—England manager Roy Hodgson hasreluctantly accepted John Terry’s retirement frominternationals but said he was disappointed in the defender’sdecision.

Terry, who is due before a Football Association tribunalon Monday facing a charge of racially abusing Queens ParkRangers defender Anton Ferdinand, announced on Sundayhe was quitting international soccer.

The former England captain, capped 78 times in aninternational career stretching back to 2003, said the impendingcase against him had made his position in the national teamuntenable as he was cleared in the criminal trial over the affair.

“I’d like to thank John Terry for his commitment to theEngland team since I became manager,” Hodgson said in anFA statement.

“I am of course disappointed to lose a player of John’sinternational experience and exceptional ability.

“I have enjoyed a good relationship with John during my

time as England manager and I reluctantly accept his decision.“I can also confirm that he had the courtesy to call me prior

to announcing his retirement from the England team. I’d liketo wish John well for the future with Chelsea.”

If found guilty by the FA of abusing Ferdinand, Terrycould face a lengthy ban similar to the eight-game suspensionserved by Liverpool’s Luis Suarez last season for raciallyabusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra.—Reuters

Real labour to 2-0 win at lowlyRayo Vallecano

MADRID, 25 Sept— Real Madrid got back to winningways in La Liga but were far from convincing in a laboured2-0 victory at lowly city rivals Rayo Vallecano on Monday.

Karim Benzema finished off a swift breakaway in the 13thminute and Xabi Alonso had to clear a Rayo effort off the linebefore Cristiano Ronaldo netted from the penalty spot 20minutes from time.

The victory, only their second success in five games thisseason, lifted Jose Mourinho’s side to seventh on sevenpoints, eight behind leaders Barcelona, who were 2-0 winnersat home to Granada on Saturday.

Real have already lost twice in La Liga — at Getafe andSevilla — the same number of defeats the champions sufferedin the whole of last season, while arch rivals Barca have wonall five of their games.

Monday’s match had been due to be played on Sundaynight but was postponed because of alleged sabotage to thelighting at Rayo’s Vallecas stadium.—Reuters

Real Madrid’sCristiano Ronaldo

scores a penaltykick against RayoVallecano duringtheir Spanish First

Division soccermatch at Teresa

Rivero stadium inMadrid on 24 Sept,

2012. —REUTERS

Walcott wants to stay at Arsenal as contract talks continueLONDON, 25 Sept—

England international TheoWalcott expressed his desireto stay at Arsenal on Mondayalthough he said he washappy to let contractnegotiations with the northLondon club run their course.

The 23-year-old hasbeen the subject of intensespeculation about his futureas he and club officials havebeen unable to agree on anextension to his current dealwhich ends next year.

British media reportshave said money was thecontentious issue withWalcott valuing himselfsignificantly higher than theclub did. “I’ve never said Iwanted to go. I’ve always saidI wanted to be an Arsenalplayer,” Walcott told Reutersat an English Football

an encouraging start.The high-profile

departures of Robin van Persieand Alex Song and a numberof new signings in keypositions could havedestablised Arsene Wenger’ssquad but they have beenplaying well.

A thumping 6-1 win overSouthampton was followedby a 2-1 victory at Frenchchampions Montpellier inthe Champions League andArsenal drew 1-1 at PremierLeague championsManchester City on Sunday.

“We’ve had two verypositive away matchesagainst top teams,” Walcottsaid. “I think we could’ve donebetter against Man City aswell but you’ve got to takethat. We’re only going to getbetter.”—Reuters

Arsenal’s Theo Walcott shootsand scores against Southampton

during their English PremierLeague soccer match at the

Emirates Stadium in London on15 Sept, 2012.—REUTERS

Association (FA) “Just Play”event north of London.

“I’ve never beeninfluenced by the money, it’snever been about that. I’mnot that sort of person at all.It’s always been a footballdecision for me. If it was aboutthe money, I would’ve gonein the summer.

“Hopefully, somethingcan be sorted...we’re just

waiting for the club to comeback to us and go from there.Hopefully, I can get back inthat team and start playingagain.”

Walcott said he wantedto play as a striker instead ofthe wide role he has usuallyoccupied for Arsenal but hehas been sitting mainly onthe substitutes’ bench thisseason as the team have made

Chelsea face Monterrey orAsian champs in Club World

CupZURICH, 25 Sept—European champions Chelsea will face

either Monterrey of Mexico or the winners of the AsianChampions League in the semi-finals of the Club World Cupfollowing draw for the tournament on Monday.

Chelsea received a bye in the first round of the competition,to be held in Japan from 6-16 December, and will enter at thesemi-final stage on 13 December.

The Asian champions will be decided in early November.The champions of the Japanese J-League, which ends on

December 1, will open the tournament against New Zealand’sAuckland City at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama.

With eight games remaining in the J-League, SanfrecceHiroshima lead Vegalta Sendai by two points and formerAsian champions Urawa Reds are a further three points back.

The winners of that first match will then play the Africanchampions, who will be decided on 10 November with thevictors going on to face Brazil’s Copa Libertadores championsCorinthians in the last four on 12 December.—Reuters

The third-

fourth

place

match and

the final

are both in

Yokohama

REUTERS

Li beats sniffles to advance in TokyoTOKYO, 25 Sept— Former French Open champion Li Na

shrugged off a nasty cough to beat Russia’s AnastasiaPavlyuchenkova 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 and reach the last 16 of the PanPacific Open on Tuesday.

One of three Chinese players who made the trip to Tokyodespite a blazing political row between her country and Japan,Li’s experience told after a wobble in the second set.

“Obviously I’m still not 100 percent,” Li told Reuters.“Just trying to stay healthy and taking (cough) medicineevery morning and every night.”

However, 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova wasbundled out in the first upset of the $2.16 million tournament,suffering a 6-4, 6-4 defeat by Croatia’s Petra Martic.

Li’s appearance in Tokyo was a relief for organizers afterChina withdrew its badminton players from the Japan Openearlier this month amid escalating tensions over disputedislands in the East China Sea.

Playing on an outside court, last year’s Roland Garroswinner lacked sharpness after a whirlwind book-signing tourin China following the release of her autobiography.

But the 30-year-old Li saved her best for the big points,putting the match away by smashing a cross-court backhandinto the corner after two hours, 37 minutes.

“I practiced on every court because you never knowwhere they are going to put you,” said Li. “It was very windyin the morning but I felt fine.”

Fourth seed Kvitova frittered away several opportunitiesagainst her 72nd-ranked opponent, who closed out the matchwith a fierce serve which almost knocked the Czech over.

“That was the biggest win of my career so far,” Martic toldReuters. “The last five or six days have been really weird. I’veplayed bad in practice and just couldn’t do anything.

“I just decided to enjoy the tournament and see what

Li Na

happens, not put any pressure on myself,” added the 21-year-old, who reached the fourth found of this year’s French Open.

“I played great today. I played at a very high level so Ihope that continues.”

Martic next faces Russia’s Nadia Petrova after the 17th

seed beat Romania’s Simona Halep 7-6, 6-0.World number one Victoria Azarenka and twice Pan

Pacific champion Maria Sharapova were among the top-ranked players also playing later on Tuesday.

Nine of the world’s top 10 women are appearing in theWTA premier five event, US Open champion Serena Williamsthe only player absent.

Germany’s Angelique Kerber made short work ofJapanese wildcard Ayumi Morita, the fifth seed comfortablywinning 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round.

Sixth seed Sara Errani of Italy beat Sweden’s JohannaLarsson 6-3, 7-6 and next faces Frenchwoman Marion Bartoliafter the ninth seed’s 6-2, 7-5 win over German Julia Goerges.

Reuters

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* News* Launching Ceremony of

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Traffic jam cleared aroundYadanabon Diamond PlazaMANDALAY, 25 Sept—Road users are informed not to

stop their vehicles on Yadanabon Diamond Plaza on 78th

street between 33rd and 34th streets and 77th street between33rd and 34th streets in Chanayethazan Township of Mandalayand to stop their vehicles at the designated place. Thewarning latter describes discipline brokers will be punishedwith K 5000 fine.

Those who collect fee for wheel tax were allotted to33rd, 34th and 77th streets. Those shopping at the plaza facetraffic jam in front of Yadanabon Diamond Plaza.—Kyemon

FA reject Terry claim offorcing his retirement

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last four days on Monday, facing charges of racially abusingQueens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand last Octoberdespite being acquitted in the law courts in July.

FA general secretary Alex Horne dismissed Terry’sobjections to the hearing, saying that the governing body wasnot responsible for the player’s decision to retire.

“It’s a personal decision. I don’t see how we have madeit untenable, they are two very separate processes,” Hornetold the British media on Monday.

“It’s something that happened in a match - it shouldn’tbe taking a year to resolve but we feel we are reaching aconclusion on that.

“That’s a very different process from our Englandprocedures; they sit in different compartments and I couldseparate the two in my mind, but it doesn’t look like he could.”

If found guilty of racially abusing Ferdinand, Terry couldface a lengthy ban similar to the eight-match one served byLiverpool’s Luis Suarez last season.

London-born Terry, capped 78 times since his debut in2003 including appearances in two World Cups, has spent hisentire career with Chelsea since joining the Europeanchampions as a 14-year-old.—Reuters

John Terry

LONDON, 25 Sept—The English Football Association(FA) have rejected Chelsea defender John Terry’s claims thatan investigation into his alleged racial abuse of an opponentduring a Premier League match last year had forced him toretire from England duty.

The 31-year-old former national captain brought hisEngland career to an abrupt end on Sunday, saying hisposition in the national team had become “untenable” due tothe FA’s impending case against him.

The Chelsea skipper stood before an FA tribunal set to

MEXICOCITY, 25 Sept—The Mexican Navy announcedMonday the detention of 35 police officers in eastern Mexicofor alleged involvement with the Zetas drug cartel.

The Navy said in a statement that 19 were captured inVeracruz state capital of Xalapa and 16 in neighboring SanLuis Potosi state, among whom were four women.

“All of them were police officers in the Ministry of PublicSecurity of Veracruz and allegedly collaborated with thecriminal organization of Los Zetas,” said the statement.

The captured were brought to Mexico City before thepublic prosecutor under the Office of Special Investigationsinto Organized Crimes.

Veracruz has been one of the main states that suffereddrug-related violence and witnessed the killings of 35 peoplelast September.

The Zetas, a gang formed in the 1990s by deserters ofspecial military forces, is seen as one of the most powerfuldrug trafficking groups in Mexico.

The Mexican government has deployed thousands oftroops and police forces in a bid to curb violence betweenZetas and rival groups since launching “Safe VeracruzOperation” last October.—Xinhua

35 Mexican police officers arrestedover drug cartel links

Volunteers take a portion from the world’s biggestvegetable salad after a Guinness World Record attempt

in Bucharest, Romania, Sept 23, 2012. The salad is madeof 4 tonnes each of green salad and cucumbers, 2 tonneseach of sweet peppers, onions and carrots, 400 kg olives,

400 liters of olive oil and 400 kg of salt.—XINHUA

Int’l conference onRussian Sakhalin oil andgas projects kicks off

VLADIVOSTOK, 25 Sept—Over 400participants of an international conferenceare discussing the prospect of RussianSakhalin oil and gas projects, RIA Novostinews agency reported Tuesday.

Held in southern Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk cityof Russia on Sept. 24-27, the “Sakhalin Oil andGas 2012” is the 16th annual conference for oiland gas professionals either active orinterested in energy projects of the RussianFar East. The managers of oil and gascompanies will present the latest informationon the Sakhalin shelf projects, as well as onthe shelf of Magadan, Kamchatka,Chayandinskoye field and others.

The first nine similar conferences wereheld in London, popular with Westernbusinessmen. The forum has been held in theRussian Far Eastern Sakhalin Island since2006.

The Sakhalin region has the fourth largestoil reserves in Russia, with main consumerscoming from Asia-Pacific countries, includingJapan, China, South Korea, and the UnitedStates. The international projects beingimplemented on the regional shelf includeSakhalin 1 and Sakhalin 2.—Xinhua

Czech begins to construct high-techinstitute

PRAGUE, 25 Sept—The Czech Republic Monday officially began toconstruct the main buildings of the Central European Institute of Technology(CEITEC) with the total costs of 5.246 billion crowns (about 264million USdollars).

The buildings will emerge on the campus of Masaryk University and BrnoUniversity of Technology in the city of Brno.

Along with Masaryk University and VUT, the project has been joined byBrno-based Mendel University, University of Veterinary and PharmaceuticalSciences Brno, the Veterinary Research Institute and the Institute of Physicsof Materials.

Although the CEITEC infrastructure is only in the making, some researchteams are already working in the laboratories of Brno universities. In the pastmonths, the researchers reached success in the development of ultra firmvarnish that can replace natural enamel.

In all, the planned laboratory area is 25,000 square metres and there willbe up to 1,000 jobs for scientists. The research programs focus onnanotechnologies, advanced materials, structural biology, molecular medicineand brain research.

The researchers want to overcome the boundaries of natural sciences andtechnical fields, said Jaroslav Koca, one of the scientific directors. He said theresults will contribute to improvement in the quality of life and human health.The CEITEC scientists are planning cooperation with commercial andapplication spheres.

Czech Education Minister Petr Fiala said CEITEC was an example of aproject that was not being established from scratch. It follows up the work ofscientific teams that have already scored some good results. This project wasone of the biggest investments in scientific infrastructure in the CzechRepublic.—Xinhua

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YANGON, 25 Sept—Japanese government hasprovided Myanmar withanti-malaria drugs,mosquito nets, pesticidesand fumigation equipmentworth of US$ 3.4 million asof 2008.

The aids weredistributed to Rakhine Stateand Magway and BagoRegions.

The report of anti-malaria fight up to 2011 washanded over to the Japanesegovernment at the ceremonyheld at Chatrium Hotel herethis morning.

Union Minister forHealth Dr Pe Thet Khinacknowledged the “muchcontributive cooperation”between Myanmar andJapanese governments inhealth sector.

Japanese aids for anti-malaria combat “much contributive”

Minister Counsellor/Deputy Chief of Mission MrIchiro Maruyama ofJapanese Embassy, onbehalf of the Japanese

Ambassador to Myanmar,delivered an address.Deputy Director-GeneralDr Saw Lwin of HealthDepartment explained

“Achievement of MalariaControl ProgrammeSupporter by Japan GrantAid”.

MNA

YANGON, 25 Sept—Myanma TourismService of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourismopens information counters across the nationfor ensuring smooth and convenienttravelling of local and foreign tourists.

Package tours are sold to the foreignersand the local package tours to the localtravelers for vacations.

The local visitors in individuals orgroups or students from basic education

Myanma Tourism Service arranges packagetours for tourists

schools may contact Myanma TourismService for their trips.

For detail information, contact may bemade to Myanma Tourism Service (YangonBranch), No. 118, Maha Bandoola ParkStreet, Kyauktada Township, Tel: 01-252859, 371286, 374281 and the head office(Nay Pyi Taw Office No 33), Tel: 067-406097, 067-406169 and 067-406105.

Kyemon

BERLIN, 25 Sept—Germany coach JoachimLoew remains the bestchoice to lead the teamdespite their Euro 2012semi-final exit that extendedtheir 16-year run without atrophy, German footballassociation boss WolfgangNiersbach said on Tuesday.

Loew, who took overafter the 2006 World Cup,has steered the team to aEuro 2008 final spot and lastfour appearances at the 2010World Cup and this year’sEuros.

Following their 2-1semi-final loss to Italy inJune, Loew has been undergrowing criticism for failingto deliver a trophy. Hiscontract runs to the 2014

Loew still “ideal” coach for Germany-federation boss

NAY PYI TAW, 25 Sept—President ofMyanmar Football Federation U Zaw Zawwill award K 15 million to Myanmarwomen’s football team that secured secondprize in the AFF Women’s Championship.

In the championship, Myanmarwomen’s football team lost to a 3-4 resultunder victory of host Vietnamese team.

With respects to their plays, Presidentof MFF U Zaw Zaw said, “My playersdefended the rivals for over 120 minutesshowing off their brilliant efforts. In thepenalty decision, they lost to the rivals.Trying hard to win over strong Thai team in

MFF President grants cash award for secondprize winner Myanmar Women’s Team

the semifinal, Myanmar encounteredagainst host Vietnam in the final. I praisedthe whole team for its concerted efforts.”

MFF plans for both men’s and women’sfootball teams to have victories in the future.

At present, the Myanmar women’s teamwill be trained for securing champion in thecoming SEA Games 2013. The salaries ofthe players were raised to K 500,000 from K300,000, said U Zaw Zaw. The second prizewinning Myanmar selected women’s teamarrived back in Yangon on 23 Septemberevening.

KyemonWorld Cup in Brazil.

Germany’s opening twoWorld Cup qualifying winshave also been less thanimpressive.

“Joachim Loew iscompetent, straightforward,serious. He is and remainsfor the DFB the idealnational team coach,”Niersbach told the WAZnewspaper group.

“We should also notforget that we are second inthe world rankings and itcannot be that after everyEuro 15 coaches are firedand only one stays on.”

Among those critical ofLoew’s work has beenBayern Munich presidentUli Hoeness, who said thecoach should be tougher

with his players.“It is wise for the DFB to

stick with continuity,” saidNiersbach. “Only Denmark’sMorten Olsen has beenlonger in his job than Loewin Europe. All other teamshave changed coaches manytimes.

“I ask with whatsuccess? By the way Spainhad to wait 44 years foranother title before winning(Euro) 2008.”

Reuters

Union Minister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khinspeaks at ceremony to hand over the report on

accomplishment of malaria control project.MNA

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